Easter Sunday, sunrise services, Easter egg hunt, bunny rabbits, all are advertised in order to observe Easter.  What do they all have in common with our Lord’s resurrection?  Does a rabbit have a symbol in regarding to Jesus?  Where did they all originate?  Are they all considered holy to our Lord?  How can something so holy, pure, and important have rabbit, eggs, and ham involved?  Are we actually honoring our Lord on Easter Sunday morning when we go to sunrise services?  Let’s go to our Bible and see what God thinks about these services.

     Chances are you never stopped to ask yourself is Easter Holy or a tool of Satan?  You have been taught since childhood to accept Easter as the chief of the Christian Holidays, and you have supposed it is part of the true Christian religion to observe Lent, Holy Week, Good Friday, buy Hot Cross Buns at the bakery, to have colored Easter Eggs, and dress up and go to Church for Easter Sunrise Services.

    What is the meaning of the name Easter?  You have been led to suppose the word means “Resurrection of Christ.”  For 1600 years the Western World has been taught that Christ rose from the dead on Sunday morning.  But that is merely one of the fables the apostle Paul warned readers of the New Testament to expect (2 Timothy 4:4).  The Resurrection did not occur on Sunday!

    The name Easter, which is merely the slightly changed English spelling of the name of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian goddess Ishtar, coming to us from old Teutonic mythology where it is known as Ostern.  The Phoenician name of this goddess was Astarte.  She was the consort of Baal, the Sun God, whose worship is denounced by the Almighty in the Bible as the most abominable of all pagan idolatry.

    The idea that Christ arose from the dead on the first day of the week was not taught in the second century and not until the Apostasy from the true faith began to develop into the Papacy; and then everything possible was done by a Paganized cult, going under the name of Christianity, to get as far away from Jewish practices as possible.

    The very first canonical action taken by any one of the early Church Councils was in the middle of the fourth century and introduced the element of opposition to Judaism.  The following is a copy of the 29th Canon of the Council of Ladicea, A.D. 364:  “Christians ought not to Judaize, and to rest on the Sabbath; but preferring the Lord’s Day, should rest if possible as Christians.  Wherefore if they shall be found to Judaize, let them be accursed from Christ,” Bishop Hefele.

    The proof of Christ’s Resurrection on the Sabbath, and not Sunday is so complete that one only makes himself appear foolish to oppose it, and shows a disposition on the part of those who reject the evidence to follow Roman Catholic traditions rather than the Word of God.

    Pagan philosophers, claiming to be converted to Christ, became Christian Bishops and Teachers, and brought with them many Pagan rites, Festivals, and Holy Days.  These converted pagans hated the Jews and everything Jewish; so they tried to get as far away as possible from everything Jewish, even substituting pagan festivals for the Holy Days and Seasons of the Jews.

    They were simply accepted and Christened by a Paganized Church, (Papacy), and when the Reformation caused a breaking away from that system, they retained many of these Pagan institutions, such as Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, with its rabbits and eggs, and other institutions and rites, as well as the observance of Sunday, the wild solar holiday of all Pagan times.