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)

 

-three-

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

copyright © by david Samuel Parkins mmxxvi all rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the author, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is presented & without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser