A short-ish word:

On easter

WHAT I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I DIDN’T KNOW, ABOUT passover

(based on conversations I have had with professing christians)

 

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We began this journey with YHWH sending a man to Israel with a promise to deliver them from bondage. That man was Moses. He challenged the powers that be, working powerful miracles with which Almighty God established Himself as Lord & King, mightier than any of the so-called gods of the Egyptian pantheon. They were systematically defeated, stripped & judged. The Lord demonstrated His sovereign power over life & death meticulously. ‘When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.’ (Hosea 11:1). This being the case, it’s only fitting that we finish this journey with YHWH sending a Saviour to Israel with a promise to deliver them from bondage. That Saviour was Jesus Christ. He challenged the powers that be, working powerful miracles with which Almighty God established Him as Lord & King, mightier than any of the so-called princes & the god of this world. They were systematically defeated, stripped & judged. The Lord demonstrated His sovereign power over life & death meticulously. ‘And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.’ (Matthew 2:15). John says, ‘And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.’ (1^st John 3:5). He is The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). He is typified in Exodus, but in The Gospel, He is the substance. Buckle up. This is quite a thing.

Let’s put something to bed before we go any further. Several of you who have been reading through this series have asked why The KJV uses the word Easter in Acts 12:4. In short, I don’t know. The Greek word translated there is ‘pascha’ (derived from the Hebrew ‘pesach’), which is otherwise rendered Passover. It only occurs once & therefore I can’t see that a case can be built from that for Easter & Passover being synonymous.

In the first century, Jewish believers would have referred to The Feast as Passover & it would have been kept faithfully, having its fulfilment in The Lord Jesus Christ. As it stands now, what is called Easter today bears little or no resemblance to The Feast. The whole aim & object of our worship at this time has to be Jesus Christ & Christ alone. Easter & Passover are not the same & although some may kid themselves that they share Christ in common, I assure you that they do not.

As I have said previously, I would dare to venture that our actual beliefs are clearly revealed in our doctrines & in our practices. These in turn must be obtained from Scripture. Wherever there is deviation, there is also dilemma. Paul says, ‘For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.’ (1^st Corinthians 11:18-19). Notice that Paul says these things as he is about to give instructions concerning The Lord’s Supper. Who are the heretics & who are the approved that Paul identifies? He tells Timothy, ‘Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.’ (2^nd Timothy 2:15). When did heresy & division set in & plant the seeds of Easter within The Church at large?

‘The Council of Nicea in 325 AD established Sunday as the fixed date for Easter…One of the purposes of the Council of Nicea in 325 was to settle that date. Constantine did not want Easter to be celebrated on the Jewish Passover. He said it was a Christian "duty to have nothing in common with the murderers of our Lord"...The Council of Nicea accordingly required the feast of the resurrection to be celebrated on a Sunday and never on the day of the Jewish Passover. Easter was to be on the Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring equinox.’.

Christianity.com. Compiled quotes adapted from an earlier Christian History Institute story by Diane Severance, Ph.D. Chinews. "Today in History, March 22." "Easter." The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church,  edited by F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone. Oxford, 1997. Gibson, George M. The Story of the Christian Year. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1945 (emphasis added)

As well as the obvious racist anti-Jewish rhetoric, it is clear that the Gentile Church wanted to distinguish itself. Did no one mention the admonition of Paul to The Church in Rome? ‘Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.’ (Romans 11:18). What flowed into the vacuum created by the Council’s decisions? Ask their theologians. I believe they were named Tom, Dick & Harry. Also, bear in mind The Venerable Bede’s observation concerning the renaming of Paschal Month; ‘.. calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance.’. We covered this in our second offering in this series.

The earliest believers kept The Feast. The Apostles kept The Feast. The Lord Jesus kept The Feast. Surely we would have been told if there was indeed a ‘..Christian duty to have nothing in common with the murderers of our Lord..’. The murderers of Our Lord has to include Gentiles. Surely? They must have missed that. Over time, the systematic inclusion & sanitisation of any & all things that took The Church’s fancy, were woven into the fabric of its doctrine & practise. This includes Easter. The Church at large has drifted off course & has contented itself to rebrand ungodly themes instead of revealing Gospel truths. For true believers, Christ is our Passover, not our Easter. He laid the foundation. He established the parameters. He set the table.

Instead of drawing on the biblical types & shadows that have been given to us, we have turned to heathen elements & justified drawing our examples from there. This is why Easter is associated with eggs, chicks & rabbits in the world; because it’s associated with the same things in The Church. Stop a stranger in the street & ask them what they think of when they hear the word Easter. Then ask them what they think of when they hear the word Passover. Answers on a postcard please. Easter is not Passover.

Not only is the label on the jar different; so are the contents. So I have to ask brethren; do you even know what you’re consuming?

Well, it has been said, at the time of Christ the different Jewish sects kept The Feast in alternative ways. This is true. Aren’t we just doing the same thing? No. It is important to point out the fact that none of these sects drew any inference or influence from the unbelieving world around them, in order to repurpose its symbolism & Judaise it in the way that The Church has blatantly christianised the ungodly. These very same elements vehemently deny the exclusivity of Christ & His Gospel. Can you see what has happened?

The True Lamb of God gave us His memorial. What have we The Church done with it? Paul says, ‘Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.’ (2^nd Timothy 1:8-10). Through. The. Gospel.

Easter & its elements reveal new life. Passover & its elements reveal eternal life. They are not the same. Remember, the Israelites were actually demonstrating Messiah’s death, until He came. Just as we The Church do, when we receive communion. In Passover, we are looking back as well as looking forward to The Marriage Supper of The Lamb (Matthew 26:29, Revelation 19:9).

When The Lord shared Passover with His disciples before He suffered (Luke 22:15), He made it clear that the Seder represented Him, tying Him to the Mosaic Exodus. He announces a New Covenant in the language of a wedding proposal. Remember His words. This is my body, given for you. This is my blood, shed for you. These are His solemn vows & as a Gentile, this is what makes Passover the sweetest of the sweet. The cream in the biscuit.

This is also why I do not want The Feast to be diluted or polluted, because it reveals the heart of the salvation offered to us by The Son of God & He paid the entire bride price with His own blood.

‘When viewed through the lens of ancient Jewish wedding customs and from the perspective of a Jewish believer in Jesus, this event takes on a deeper significance: it becomes a betrothal ceremony. In Jewish tradition, betrothal (kiddushin) was a legally binding covenant, often sealed by the sharing of a cup of wine between the groom and bride. This analysis argues that Jesus’ actions at the Last Supper mirror this ritual, positioning him as the Bridegroom who pledges himself to his disciples, representing the Church, his Bride, within a covenantal framework based on the template of the Mosaic Marriage Covenant… Betrothal, in Jewish law, is the first stage of the marriage process, whereby a man and a woman become legally committed to each other.  This covenant was formalized through a ceremonial act, often involving the groom offering a cup of wine to the bride. Her acceptance, by drinking from the cup, signified her consent to the betrothal… This act established a binding promise, with the groom departing to prepare a home, returning later for the wedding feast.’.

Messianic Bible, “Ancient Jewish Wedding Customs and Yeshua’s Second Coming,”. Chabad.org, “The Four Cups of Wine,”. (emphasis added)

I put it to you that The Church at large does not know Who or what it’s missing, most especially since it has willingly removed & replaced crucial representative elements of the covenant from its language, liturgy & litany. In this context, these actions would be considered adulterous & unfaithful. Why? Because that’s exactly what they are!

There are no covenantal elements in The Equinox, so why has The Church deliberately embraced things that are so diametrically opposed to the truth? Because The Church at large has absolutely no idea what The Exodus means & probably doesn’t care. Pagan men introduced these pagan things. Beyond that, many have no idea what The Gospel means either. Perhaps this is one of the reasons Paul admonishes individuals to examine themselves before taking part in communion (1^st Corinthians 11:28).

²⁰ For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's (1^st Corinthians 6:20). 

²³ Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men (1^st Corinthians 7:23). 

² For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ (2^nd Corinthians 11:2).

The Church would do well to carefully consider its course. Religionists, atheists & agnostics alike have already been laughing, pointing fingers & levelling the accusation that we are no different to or better than them. YHWH smashed the Egyptian pantheon of false gods for this very reason. So why has The Church been having an affair with them?

⁷ But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel (Exodus 11:7).

 

 

 

 

 

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A short-ish word:

On easter

WHAT I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I DIDN’T KNOW, ABOUT passover

(based on conversations I have had with professing christians)

 

-four-

 

At the time of this writing, March 2026, Passover & Easter are almost upon us. I’m sure that whatever side of the argument you land on, there will be ardent arrangements afoot in your homes & in your church fellowships. But what about the preparation of our hearts? That is all but forgotten about. We often miss the solemn weight of The Feast & its rich theology, in favour of the watered down & half-hearted, poor excuse for teaching within The Church at large. After that, it’s quickly back to business as usual. Well, I suppose that if we don’t understand it, we can just ignore it, right? When we easily hop, skip & jump our way through these days, without giving a second thought to what The Lord is actually trying to show us, we do Him & ourselves a great disservice. Am I saying that we need to pop down to our local farmer & purchase a lamb, smear its blood on our door lintels & hold barbecues? No, not at all. Neither am I suggesting that we hold Passover meals in our homes or church services. I’m saying that we have to come to understand what these things mean & when we do, we’ll see that we need nothing else. In the new birth, we leave everything represented by Egypt behind. But many of us want to take a little bit of Egypt with us. Brethren, we do not need to do that. Why? Because YHWH smashed the Egyptian pantheon for that very reason.

To state that Jesus died for our sins has become little more than a cliché & yet it is a statement of truth that is at the heart of The Gospel. Why have these truths been ignored, side-stepped & even replaced? Paul says, ‘For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.’ (1^st Corinthians 2:2). This is not only the act of The Lord Jesus being nailed to the cross, but rather, the entire range of His death, burial & resurrection. We see this quite clearly in The Scriptures.

What we haven’t seen is the biblical connection between the very first Mosaic Passover in Exodus & the finished work of The Lord Jesus Christ. Why not? Because a portion of our leadership is lazy, isn’t called, or they are in disobedience. They cannot or will not teach The Church these deeper truths. It’s a lot easier to light candles, eat chocolate & stroke bunnies, isn’t it? I said it! It’s true! Go figure!

Passover is not only the night of the death of the firstborn. That is where it begins. The Lord says, ‘Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.’ (Exodus 19:4). Jeremiah says, ‘Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.’ (Jeremiah 31:31-32).

What do we see in The Passover? There is the demonstration of God’s Divine power. This creates living witnesses! There is the sacrifice of the lamb & the shedding of its blood. This brought salvation & deliverance out of slavery to the Egyptians.

This is where The Church at large will usually pull over & park, smugly self-satisfied.

What do we see in The Gospel? There is the demonstration of Messiah’s Divine power. This creates living witnesses! There is the sacrifice of The Lamb of God & the shedding of His blood. This brings salvation & deliverance out of slavery to our enemy.

Don’t we see the New Covenant Doctrines of Substitution & Identification in the Exodus narrative? The lamb died in Israel’s place so that they could walk free.

⁶ For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. ⁸ But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:6-8).

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: ¹⁵ And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again…²¹ For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2^nd Corinthians 5:14-15 & 21).

¹⁸ For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit (1^st Peter 3:18).

What about the New Testament Doctrine of Justification by faith? Israel were instructed to take the blood of the lamb & strike it on the doorposts of their houses. They were to go inside & not come out. YHWH saw the blood & passed over their homes. Thank God for the blood!

²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: ²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; ²⁴ Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; ²⁶ To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus (Romans 3:21-26).

¹ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: ² By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God… ⁹ Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. ¹⁰ For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. (Romans 5:1-2 & 9-10). 

¹⁸ Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; ¹⁹ But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (1^st Peter 1:18-19).

²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. ²⁸ Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them (Hebrews 11:27-28). 

What about the New Covenant Doctrine of Translation from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God? Israel left Egypt’s domain at night & were led through the Red Sea, emerging on the other side in the morning.

⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: ¹⁰ Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy (1^st Peter 2:9-10). 

¹² Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: ¹³ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: ¹⁴ In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:12-14).

8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light (Ephesians 5:8).

What about the New Testament Doctrine of Sanctification from the world? Israel had to eat unleavened bread for seven days after Passover. Sanctification begins immediately, post salvation.

⁷ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: ⁸ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (1^st Corinthians 5:7-8). 

⁷ For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness (1^st Thessalonians 4:7).

¹⁴ As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: ¹⁵ But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation (1^st Peter 1:14-15).

These truths are all right there before us in the text, so why has The Church circumnavigated what is there, in favour of something that is not? The Church at large has abided this audacious infiltration. The Church at large has allowed this foul pollution. The Church at large has accepted this cheap imitation. Moses led Israel out of Egypt & our leadership has led us right back.

If it’s sweet, if it’s shiny, if it’s cute & if it’s cuddly; give it to The Gentile Church; they will swallow anything!

As I sit here writing this, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are those who cannot understand (as someone emailed recently) ‘What even actually is the problem? Do these things even matter, really?’. The problem is huge & yes, these things really do matter because the devil is quite literally in the details. Take a good hard look at what Christ & His finished work are being compared & reduced to. YHWH smashed the Egyptian pantheon for this very reason. There was no blurring of any lines at Passover. However, some within The Church have opted for Easter instead. We have missed the fact that Passover is The Lord’s magnum opus & chief polemic against every false way. Make your choice believer; pagan religion or paschal reality?

⁷ But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. (Exodus 11:7).

Where is that difference today? This is not simply a case of saying tomayto, tomahto or potayto, potahto. There are ungodly elements taking their place in what is meant to be Christian worship & as soon as that happens, we are no longer venerating YHWH. It is as subtle as Eden’s serpent. It is beyond me that anyone who professes a faith in Christ & what He has accomplished, should wilfully embrace some of the very things that His death, burial & resurrection have delivered them from. YHWH smashed the Egyptian pantheon for this very reason. Do not allow those elements back, despite their disguises. Keep The Feast that truly celebrates The Lord Jesus Christ, in the way that Scripture prescribes. There is no need to incorporate anything else. Israel celebrated Passover as a memorial to what God had done. Jesus told us how to keep The Feast in remembrance of Him. Paul reiterates this truth in his first epistle to Corinth. Sadly, some are unwilling to teach & others are unwilling to learn. Both prefer the status quo. Whatever has been acquiesced to thus far, has a deep root system. It will take a miracle to remove it. However, I know Someone who can do just that.

 

 

 

 

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A short-ish word:

On easter

WHAT I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I DIDN’T KNOW, ABOUT passover

(based on conversations I have had with professing christians)

 

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Well, some among you may be surprised to hear that what I’ve written so far has met with opposition from certain quarters. All of this has transpired before I’ve even finished the series. James says, ‘Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.’ (James 1:19-21). This being the case, I have to warn you that this piece in particular will be a hard swallow for some. Why? Because of a guilt by disassociation within The Church at large. As I stated in my opening salvo, my thoughts & feelings concerning easter are much the same as they are about christmas; highly westernised; under scrutinised; overtly secularised; commercially popularised. The Lord has been undermined. He cannot be deleted from His supreme position, so the spotlight has instead been moved away from Him. This is a grevious sin against The One Whose death, burial & resurrection underpin The Feast. The Church ought to champion Passover. Instead, it has advocated for something else. something much less. Brethren, you & I will be in grave danger if we continue to embrace the ism instead of The I Am.

In our last meeting we were looking at the significance of eggs in Egyptian belief & rites. It’s quite a thing. We will continue to ferret through this theme & also address the issue of the easter bunny. As stated previously, after a little research, it turns out that we can look a little closer to home for some answers. In the meantime, let’s hop back to Egypt.

‘In ancient Egypt hares were very important. The god Osiris was sometimes portrayed with the head of a hare. The great river Nile which gave life to everyone through its annual floods and subsequent fertility was supposed to emanate from a mummified hare…So in a sense the hare could be taken to mean the source of the life force itself…Osiris was therefore often depicted in the shape of a hare before being torn to pieces and thrown into the Nile to ensure the seasonal cycle of renewal. So the hare, the Nile, fertility and agriculture were one and the same. Osiris was also the God of the afterlife, underworld and the dead. Osiris was also God of Transition, Resurrection and Regeneration. He was linked to agriculture and the grain harvest in the same way that the seed of grain germinates and dies and then grain rises again and becomes an ear of wheat. Significantly Osiris holds a crook and a flail. Sheep and corn. The death of the god is celebrated at planting time and the resurrection at harvest. Osiris was also husband of Isis. Sometimes he was called Un nefer and wore the head of a hare as a mask and was sacrificed to the Nile each year to facilitate flooding which in turn led to an increase in soil fertility, irrigation and high grain yields. The hare was venerated for its swiftness and keen senses. There was also another goddess called Wenet the hare goddess who was Guardian of the underworld. She was taken into the cult of Horus and Ra. Egyptian mythology is complex but the hare plays a significant role within it, the downstream effects of which continued in the Middle East for two thousand years or more till the arrival of Christianity…It can be past, present and future; Vitality, Rebirth and Resurrection.’.

© James Crowden 2026. All rights reserved (emphasis added).

It’s also interesting to note that the Hare is also connected to Hermopolis, fertility, prosperity, renewal & often considered to be a representation of Ra. YHWH smashed the Egyptian pantheon for a reason. Let’s fast forward to 16^th century Europe & see what Protestants had to say for themselves. The following observation is an interesting one.

‘In Alsace and neighbouring regions, these eggs are called rabbit eggs because of the myth told to fool simple people and children that the easter bunny was going around laying eggs and hiding them in the herb gardens. So the children look for them more enthusiastically, to the delight of smiling adults.’.

De Ovis Pascalibus. Georg Franck von Frankenau (emphasis added).

This egg laying creature was known as the osterhase (ooster-haza); the easter hare. According to history & legend, this tradition gained prominence in the 1500s & was later taken to Pennsylvania by either German or Dutch immigrants in the 18^th century. Because Hares were very rare at that time, the more abundant rabbit got the job. Yay for employment rights!

‘The legend says that a poor woman hid eggs for her children to find. After they found the eggs, they saw a hare jumping away. The children believed the hare had left the eggs…Children made nests where the Easter hare could lay its eggs, and this is why we have Easter baskets, though now they are filled with colourful, plastic grass…The symbol of an egg and a rabbit have represented life and rebirth for many centuries. It’s believed that decorating eggs for Easter goes back to the 13th century when eggs were dyed red to represent the blood of Christ’s crucifixion. In addition, the egg represented the tomb of Jesus. Eggs were also once forbidden to be eaten during the Lenten season and would be consumed on “Fat Tuesday” prior to the start of Lent.’.

© Daniel Ganninger2025 (emphasis added).

Once again, we have attempts to tie ungodly & unbiblical elements to The Feast. Why don’t we all just go out, get bloody mary cocktails & encourage all of our children to drink them? The tomato juice can represent the blood of Jesus. The alcohol can represent the wine mixed with vinegar Christ was offered on the cross. The celery stick can represent the soldier’s spear. The tabasco & lemon juice can represent the biting bitterness of The Lord’s crucifixion. It all makes logical sense. Where’s the harm in it? Afterall, it’s just a bit of fun for the kids, isn’t it?

Would we do that? No. Why? Because the concept is as dangerous as it is ridiculous, no matter how the elements involved can be twisted to suit whatever surreptitious purpose we desire.

Why then has The Church at large so willingly coopted & cooperated with such a blatant & guilty disassociation from its true root? It has winked at devilish ignorance, instead of commanding men everywhere to repent. Paul says, ‘For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.’ (Ephesians 5:8-11). Why hasn’t The Church done this? YHWH smashed the Egyptian pantheon for a reason.

¹¹ O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. ¹² Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. ¹³ Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. ¹⁴ Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? ¹⁶ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ¹⁷ Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, ¹⁸ And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty (2^nd Corinthians 6:11-18). 

It is for these & many other reasons that I personally believe Easter & Passover to be mutually exclusive. They are not the same feast. Easter is the worship of the season. Passover is the worship of The Saviour. The Church at large has very foolishly swapped The Exodus for The Equinox & we ain’t even done yet!

In The Feast we have three massive events. We have Christ’s sacrificial death. We have The Saviours prophetic burial. We have The Lord’s glorious resurrection. Passover is brutal, brooding & brilliant. Paul says, ‘But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.’ (1^st Corinthians 2:7-8). The enemy’s nose was put out of joint spectacularly when Jesus uttered those words, it is finished. With His blood shed, He breathed His last & gave up the ghost.

Like the Passover lamb, not one of His bones was broken (John 19:36), which is in itself a miracle, given the severe beating He received. On that cross, He endured the wrath of God against sin in our place.

²¹ For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.’ (2^nd Corinthians 5:21).

²¹ And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled ²² In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight (Colossians 1:21-22).

¹³ And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; ¹⁴ Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; (Colossians 2:13-14). 

¹⁰ By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Hebrews 10:10). 

²⁴ Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed (1^st Peter 2:24).

¹⁸ For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit (1^st Peter 3:18).

² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world (1^st John 2:2).

Easter bears none of these truths. Its themes contain no spotless lamb of God; no shed blood; no judgement; no cross; no conclusion; no repentance; no salvation; no justification; no bodily resurrection. It pays lip service to The Exodus, while paying homage to The Equinox. It cheapens the grace won for us at Calvary by The Lord Jesus Christ & compares His accomplishments to weak & beggarly elements like chicks, eggs, rabbits & hares. Passover & Easter are not the same.

If The Church at large wants to celebrate easter, they can go ahead. But they ought to have the decency to admit that they have simply christianised beliefs & practices that were summarily judged by God. YHWH smashed the Egyptian pantheon for a reason. But in true Gentile fashion, The Church has blindly allowed the gods of Egypt to saunter back & take pride of place during the most solemn & sacred days on the Christian calendar. Cheers guys. Personally, I choose The Paschal Lamb. Personally, I choose The Lord Jesus Christ. Personally, I choose Passover. Selah.

 

 

 

 

 

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