Happy Firstfruits!
Did the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) really rise from the dead on Easter morning?
Every year churches around the world meet for sunrise service on Easter morning to mark the exact time of the resurrection of the Man of Truth from the dead. This is often done outdoors facing the east to observe the sun rising. When the sun rises there is usually some sort of celebratory singing to mark the moment that Easter has begun. People greet each other with "Happy Easter!".
For this event people wear their Easter outfits. These are usually new clothes that were bought for this event and can be worn later throughout the year. Among men and young boys the Easter outfits are typically suits or something similar. Among the adult women the Easter outfits are usually dresses in Spring colors and decorated with emblems of Spring like Spring foliage. Sometimes the adult women and older girls would wear white hats decorated with emblems of Spring or similarly decorated Easter Bonnets. Younger girls, especially before puberty, typically wear a long white Easter Dress with a ribbon in the middle, usually green, that is tied as a bow in the back. The ribbon is traditionally pastel green although it sometimes another pastel color to represent Spring flowers.
People then typically eat breakfast together. The menus vary from congregation to congregation but eggs are usually at the center of the meal along with little white Easter cakes about the size of a doughnut.
Then they go into the main sanctuary of the church building. The sanctuary is decorated with living Spring foliage like Easter Lilies. There is usually a sermon about the resurrection. All of the songs are usually about the resurrection.
After the main service, many congregations meet together for Easter dinner. Easter dinner typically features ham and hard boiled eggs. There are also usually large white Easter cakes that may also feature various decorations of eggs, Spring foliage and rabbits.
Usually before dinner is eaten children are given their Easter Baskets and Easter gifts. The Easter Baskets are usually made of wicker and lined with grass (plastic grass in the US). The Easter Baskets are usually loaded with things like chocolate rabbits and candies of various sorts in the shape of eggs or baby birds. Often the Easter gifts are also somehow associated with Spring like toy gardening sets or a baby rabbit, chick or duck for example. As the children get older the Easter gifts often become more expensive and are usually something geared towards getting the children ready for the day when they will leave their parents house to start their own families. After receiving their Easter Baskets and Easter gifts the children (and sometimes adults) proceed to playing the Easter Game.
The Easter Game is a game featuring Easter Eggs and the Easter Bunny. Easter Eggs are hard boiled eggs that were colored and decorated the night before. Decorations have traditionally featured symbols of Spring and fertility. Fertility is normally represented by things like rabbits, chicks and baby ducks. The Easter Eggs are given to someone who that plays the part of the Easter Bunny. The Easter Bunny then hides the Easter Eggs.
The children then search for the hidden Easter Eggs and place them in their Easter Baskets. On the first round of playing the Easter Game there are often prizes awarded after all of the Easter Eggs have been found. Typically the prizes are for things like being the first to find an Easter Egg, finding the most Easter Eggs and finding certain special prize Easter Eggs. After the first round, someone else, usually whoever found the most Easter Eggs, plays the part of the Easter Bunny. This can continue for many rounds even though there are not usually prizes after the first round.
Alternatively, sometimes there is an Easter Egg Roll instead of the Easter Game. In this case, the Easter Bunny is only played by one person once and the Easter Eggs are just spread across the grass with most of them in plain sight. The children line up and when the Easter Bunny says "Go" the children all run to gather as many Easter Eggs as possible. When it is over similar prizes to those of the first round of the Easter Game are awarded. The most famous Easter Egg Roll is probably the one done on the White House lawn each year where the President of the United States is the one who says "Go" and awards the prizes.
So overall Easter is a fun day. Many times during the day you will hear people saying "Happy Easter!" to each other as they enjoy the festivities. The participants are often full of joy as they are doing all of these things to celebrate the resurrection of the Man of Truth. If the Man of Truth overcoming the death, the grave and Hell so people could come into the House of Truth is not worth celebrating, then nothing is worth celebrating. Who can blame the Children of Truth (someone who obeys The Father of Truth because they love Him) for wanting to celebrate that?
The problem is not with celebrating the resurrection of the Man of Truth but rather with the customs and traditions used to celebrate the resurrection of the Man of Truth.
First of all Easter is the end of the so-called "Holy Week" instituted by the False Church of Rome. Holy week begins on the Sunday before Easter and is called "Palms Sunday". Palms Sunday commemorates the triumphant entry of the Man of Truth in Jerusalem a week before his resurrection when people laid palm leaves for him to ride over on the donkey he had borrowed. Later comes Maundy Thursday, to commemorate the Last Supper when the Man of Truth was betrayed. Then comes Good Friday to commemorate the Man of Truth being crucified. Then comes Black Sabbath, when people are forbidden to congregate together and all rituals cease, except those that concern dying, to commemorate the Man of Truth lying in the grave. Finally comes Easter Sunday that commemorates the resurrection of the Man of Truth from the grave.
The first problem with Holy Week is the entire timing of the series of event. The Man of Truth did not eat the Last Supper on Thursday, the die on Friday, lay in the grave on Saturday and then rise from the dead on Sunday morning. The Man of Truth plainly said that he would be in the grave for three whole nights and three whole days (Matthew 12:40). Friday day, Friday night, Saturday day, Saturday night with the Man of Truth rising from the grave at sunrise on Sunday only gives two days and two nights for the Man of Truth to be in the grave even if you count all day Friday. (Even though he was only in the grave for a few minutes of Friday day.) Even if you count Sunday day because he supposedly rose at sunrise when the day begins you still end up an entire night short of three days and three nights for the Man of Truth to be in the grave. If the Man of Truth rose from the grave at sunrise on Sunday then he had to die before sunset on Wednesday to give three whole days and three whole nights in the grave. The actual timing of events given in the Book of Truth (the Bible) from the time of the Last Supper until the resurrection and what the Man of Truth did while his body was in the grave made for Four Busy Days.
Even the False Church of Rome knows this because "Spy Wednesday" that commemorates the anointing of the feet of the Man of Truth and the betrayal by Judas (Yahudah aka Judah) Iscariot acknowledges this. It is celebrated by slowly dimming out all of the lights, creating a crash to symbolize the death of the Man of Truth and then a rumbling is produced to symbolize the earthquake that occurred when the Man of Truth died. So the chronology of the events commemorated by Holy Week is actually: The Triumphant Entry (Palms Sunday), the betrayal and death of the Man of Truth (Spy Wednesday), The Last Supper (Maundy Thursday), the crucifixion of the Man of Truth (Good Friday), the Man of Truth laying in the grave (Black Sabbath), and finally the Man of Truth rising from the grave (Easter Sunday). Not only does this contradict the Book of Truth it also does not even make any sense. That is probably why Spy Wednesday has fallen out of observation in many places.
This highlights the bigger problem that Holy week is the end of the Lenten season that began on Fat Tuesday about seven weeks earlier. The entire Holy week has the same things wrong with it as Ash Wednesday.
However, Easter has its own set of additional problems. It not only has traditions that came from the False Church of Rome but also traditions that came from the Druids like those that polluted Celtic Christianity until its original form was completely obscured by these practices.
The problems start with the word "Easter" itself. "Easter" is the English name of the fertility goddess that the Druids worshiped. Easter originally did not float around like it does now but occurred on the Spring equinox which is currently on March 20th most years. In fact, groups that are reviving the religion of the Druids today, like the Wiccans, still call their festival for observing the Spring equinox "Easter" after the fertility goddess. The German name was "Eostre" and can be traced back to the same Greek word that the female hormone "Estrogen" got its name from.
In the lore of the Druids, "Easter" would arrive every year being pulled by hares (rabbits) and young babies with dragon fly wings. When "Easter" arrived she was always accompanied by other symbols of fertility like mating birds and storks (who supposedly brought babies to people). "Easter" was always dressed in a brand new long white dress denoting that she had once again became a virgin. The dress of "Easter" was had a ribbon in the middle, usually green to symbolize Spring, that was tied as a bow in the back.
"Easter" was not only the fertility goddess but was also known as the goddess of the sunrise. "Easter" would always arrive at the sunrise on the day of the Spring equinox. Those involved in the religion of the Druids, that covered most of western Europe at times, would have a sun rise service facing the east to welcome "Easter". They would dress in new clothes in the colors of Spring. The married women would wear decorative head wear called "Easter" Hats or "Easter" Bonnets. The virgin girls would wear white "Easter" dresses with a ribbon in the middle, usually green, that was tied as a bow in the back. When the sun rose the Druids and their worshipers would greet each other with "Happy Easter!". Then they would gather to listen to a message about "Easter" and to sing songs of praise to "Easter".
"Easter" was also known as "the Queen of Heaven". The arrival of "Easter" was honored by throwing a banquet for "the Queen of Heaven". The banquet featured roasted swine, hard boiled eggs and little white cakes called "Easter" Cakes. The "Easter" Cakes were usually decorated with symbols of Spring and fertility. The symbols of fertility were usually eggs, baby birds and especially rabbits.
The celebration was held outside when the weather permitted but if the weather did not permit then the celebration was moved inside to a large meeting room. When it was moved inside people would bring living Spring foliage in little buckets or pots as decorations for their meeting room.
The festival proceeded by people playing the "Easter" Game. The "Easter" Game consisted of someone playing the part of the "Easter" Bunny (rabbit). The "Easter" Bunny would hide "Easter" Eggs. Then the children would look for the "Easter" Eggs and place them in their wicker "Easter" Baskets that were lined with green grass. When all of the "Easter" Eggs were found then prizes would be awarded for things like being the first to find an "Easter" Egg, finding the most "Easter" Eggs and finding special prize "Easter" Eggs. The "Easter" Game was often repeated but prizes were usually only given the first time it was played.
All through the festival people would greet each other with "Happy Easter!" as they enjoyed the festivities.
Over the centuries, the Children of Truth in the lands of the Druids would face terrible persecution at times for not participating in the rites of "Easter". When the False Church of Rome came in it did with "Easter" what it had done with other similar idolatrous holidays that had been celebrated before its arrival. The False Church of Rome "Christianized" the Druid holiday of "Easter". The former worshipers of the religion of the Druids who came under their control were allowed to keep most of the traditions of "Easter" worship and even continue to call the holiday "Easter". They only had to agree to make a few modifications.
The date would be changed to the Sunday following the "Pascal" full moon. The "Pascal" full moon was the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox so the new "Christianized" Easter would still have the timing of its celebration tied to the Spring Equinox. This would put the new "Christianized" Easter on the same day that the rest of the False Church of Rome was observing the resurrection of the Man of Truth as the last day of Holy Week.
(The Spring Equinox was fixed as March 21st even though many years it falls a day later or a day sooner. The "Pascal" full moon is calculated rather than observed and is off from the actual full moon most years. The lunar cycle averages a little over twenty-nine and a half days so the "Pascal" full moon has about a thirty day date range and the following Sunday can be as much a week later. This is why Easter bounces around year after year inside a time span that is about a month in duration.)
Secondly, the theme would no longer be the arrival of the fertility goddess "Easter" whose name the "Christianized" Easter still bore but rather the resurrection of the Man of Truth. They could keep on proclaiming the name of the fertility goddess of the Druids by greeting each other with "Happy Easter!" but the summon and songs would be about the resurrection. They could even pay homage to "Easter" in their songs of worship and in their summons as long as it was about the Man of Truth being resurrected on "Easter" morning. They could keep on playing the "Easter" Game by saying that the "Easter" Eggs represented the resurrection of the Man of Truth instead of fertility.
Third, the False Church of Rome had a few traditions of their own to add that complemented the traditions that came from the Druids celebration of "Easter" in many ways. For example, the False Church of Rome already had a tradition of placing red colored eggs on the altar during its celebration of the resurrection of the Man of Truth. So it did not seem unreasonable to have "Easter" Eggs dyed as well.
However, neither the Druids nor the False Church of Rome were the originator of these practices.
The fertility goddess of the Druids named "Easter" was called by other names in other places long before the Celts and Gauls moved into western Europe. The worship of this fertility goddess started not long after the Flood. The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) gave the commandment to Noah (Noach) and his sons to multiply and fill the Earth with people (Genesis 9:1-7). It was Nimrod (Nimrud), the son of Cush (Kush), the son of Noah, who was the first to rebel against the Father of Truth after the flood (Genesis 10:8-9). [The phrase "mighty hunter before the Lord" is more literally "mighty hunter in the face of YHVH". We still use the expression "in your face" to show opposition to what someone is doing. He was effective (mighty) in being a hunter of souls by creating his own religion system in the face of the Father of Truth that took men away from worshiping Him.] Nimrod then began having walled cities built to house those who joined his religion starting with Babel (Babylon) and then went out from there into other nations like Assyria (Genesis 10:10-12). The religion of Babylon was that of people worshiping living things like animals, various images along with the sun, moon and stars in the heavens (space outside of the atmosphere) (Deuteronomy 4:16-19). The religion of Babylon that Nimrod started was for those who did not want to worship the Father of Truth but wanted to worshiping the creation rather than the Creator (Romans 1:21-25).
The first city he built, Babylon, was built when all people still spoke the same language so that they would not be scattered across the Earth as the Father of Truth had commanded (Genesis 11:1-4). [The tower was more accurately for reaching up to observe the heavens (sun, moon, and stars) that were central to the religion of Nimrod that began in Babylon.] So when the Father of Truth confused their languages to restrain them from doing every evil thing that they could think of and to cause them to be scattered across the Earth as He had commanded then people took the religion of Babylon with them but the names of the gods were now different names in each language (Genesis 11:5-9).
Another name for "Easter" is also "Ashtareth" in the language of the Phoenicians that the Sidonians came to speak over time (1 Kings 11:5). The "Easter" of the Druids in English is the same as the "Asherah" of the Canaanites that was the center of the Babylonian sun god worship that they had inherited from Babylon (2 Kings 17:16). "Easter" the fertility goddess was also known as "The Queen of Heaven" among those who practiced the religion of Babylon (Jeremiah 44:25).
"Easter" was known as "Esther" among the Persians which is the name that Mordecai the Jew had called Hadassah the Jew to hide her identity as a Jew (Esther 2:7-10). (This was all part of the trap that the Father of Truth had prepared to expose and destroy the enemies of the Jews as explained in For Such A Time As This.)
Of course, the details of the story of "Easter" changed as diverse groups moved across the globe over the centuries. Still they maintained certain elements of the original story. In the original story an egg of wondrous size (carried by storks in some versions) fell from the heavens into the Euphrates River at sunrise on the day of the Spring Equinox. Fish then rolled this egg to the banks of the Euphrates River and the naked virgin "Easter" came out of the egg. "Easter" then pointed at a bird and turned it into an egg laying rabbit. This egg laying rabbit was known as the "Easter" rabbit (bunny).
This event allegedly happened on a Friday and for this reason fish were eaten on Friday as remains the practice by the False Church of Rome to this day. It is probably also why Muslims continued to observe Friday as a weekly holy day like Arabs had for thousands of years before Mohammed. This is the original Good Friday.
Nimrod probably picked Friday because it is the sixth day of the week when man was created (Genesis 1:27-31). The religion of Babylon that Nimrod used to hunt souls exalts man above the Father of Truth so it exalts the day of the creation of man over the Sabbath that He gave as a weekly holy day.
Afterwards Nimrod built Babylon on the banks of the Euphrates River where "Easter" supposedly came out of the "Easter" Egg. (Later the story tells of the Lamenter, who could only be Shem in reality, that killed Nimrod by speaking a prophecy. In the imagery of Babylon, horns represent power, so the Lamenter is pictured as a boar because the horns of a boar are the tusks in its mouth. The boar kills Nimrod by tusking his ankles. So the death of Nimrod is avenged each year by people killing and eating swine at the celebration of "Easter".)
The original story of the "Easter" Egg is also the source of adding a roasted egg to Seder plates by the Rabbis when they were in Babylon that continues to this day.
Now you might be wondering if this where the word "Easter" came from then why is it in some translations of the Book of Truth as a holiday that the Children of Truth observed. The word "Easter" only appears in one place in the Book of Truth in some translations (Acts 12:4). If we just take a peek under the covers then we will find that the Greek word that was translated as "Easter" is "Pascha". "Pascha" literally means "Passover" as it is translated everywhere else in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament). The reason that the translators translated "Pascha" as "Easter" in this one place is because the "Christianized" Easter is called "Pascha" everywhere else where the False Church of Rome has had sway except for the lands where the religion of the Druids had been practiced. The translators of this particular passage were apparently ignorant of the fact that the Apostles of Truth actually observed Passover (Pesach) instead of Easter.
Still you might be wondering if it matters that the Children of Truth have been ignorantly proclaiming the name of the Druid goddess of fertility and practicing the rites of worshiping the Druid goddess of fertility when celebrating the resurrection of the Man of Truth. Does it really matter to the Father of Truth how His Children celebrate the resurrection of the Man of Truth?
He wants His children to have nothing to do with anything that came from Babylonian sun god worship, including "Easter" (Asherah), so that they can belong to Him alone (Deuteronomy 7:5-6). He wants His children to destroy the practices of Babylonian sun god worship, including those of "Easter" (Asherah), and not to include those practices in worshiping Him (Deuteronomy 12:2-4). He does not want His Children using the same practices of idol worship that He hates, like the practices of worshiping "Easter", when they worship Him instead of the practices that He has laid out in the Book of Truth (Deuteronomy 12:30-32). It was for carrying out the practices of "Easter" (Asherah) that the Jews in the Promised Land were thrust out of their inheritance from the Father of Truth (1 Kings 14:15).
The Father of Truth does not want His Children proclaiming the name of other gods like "Easter" with expression like "Happy Easter!" or singing of "Easter" in their worship songs or even using "Easter" in their sermons about the resurrection of the Man of Truth (Exodus 23:13). He has commanded His Children to destroy everything associated with "Easter" (Asherah) and to not eat "Easter" (Asherah) dinner (Exodus 34:13-16). He does not want His Children going to outdoor parks to roast and eat the flesh of swine (ham) as part of their worship (Isaiah 65:3-5). He does not want His Children to make and eat "Easter" (The Queen of Heaven) cakes to celebrate the resurrection of His Son (Jeremiah 7:17-19). He calls services conducted from the places meant for His Children to gather to worship Him that consist of the worshipers facing the east to celebrate when the sun rises, like those done in celebrating "Easter", the thing that He hates the most (Ezekiel 8:15-17)!
If this was true for those who did not have a circumcised heart then how much more so it must grieve the Father of Truth when those whose hearts He has circumcised do these things (Deuteronomy 30:6). He has given the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) to the Children of Truth so they could worship Him in the way that He commanded (Ezekiel 11:18-20). The Children of Truth were made clean and given the Spirit of Truth so they could worship Him in the way He commanded (Ezekiel 36:25-27). The Spirit of Truth will lead the Children of Truth to worship Him in truth according to the commandments of the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) that He gave to the Jews (John 4:22-24). The Father of Truth is still calling the Children of Truth to come out from including the practices of idol worship, like the practices of "Easter", in their worship of Him and to worship Him in only the way that He truly desires (2 Corinthians 6:15-18).
In fact, in most places outside of the lands where the religion of the Druids had been practiced people eat lamb instead of ham when they are celebrating what they call "Passover" to commemorate the resurrection of the Man of Truth. Since the Great Schism occurred, the Western (Latin) division and the Eastern (Greek) division of the False Church of Rome do not even observe their commemoration of the resurrection of the Man of Truth on the same day most years. The Latin division of the False Church of Rome uses tables calculated long ago to determine when the "Paschal" full moon occurs to determine the timing of Holy Week. The Greek division of the False Church of Rome always observes their commemoration of the resurrection of the Man of Truth on the Sunday after the Passover that occurs on the Rabbinic calendar that commemorates the deliverance of Israel from Egyptian bondage.
Not only that but when I lived in Greece the Greeks would even commemorate the resurrection of the Man of Truth by roasting a lamb whole and eating all of it on that day because they said this is what the Apostles of Truth told them to do. This is exactly what the Father of Truth told the children of Israel to do to commemorate their deliverance from Egyptian bondage (Exodus 12:3-10).
The Greeks do this because the Apostles of Truth knew that the Man of Truth died at the time of Passover as plainly stated in their own writings (Matthew 26:2). The Man of Truth died on the day of Passover when the lambs were slain (John 19:14).
The day after (Sunday) the Sabbath (Saturday) that came after Passover was the feast of Firstfruits (Bikkurim) when the first of the sheave of barely was offered before the rest could be harvested (Leviticus 23:5-15).
The Man of Truth rose from the dead about the time when nautical twilight ends, which is when light first appears about an hour before sunrise, on the first day of the week (Sunday) (Matthew 28:1-3). The women went to better take care of his dead body about an hour BEFORE sunrise, when it was still dark, on the first day of the week (Sunday) but the Man of Truth had already risen (John 20:1-3).
At this time "Easter" was still being celebrated on the Spring equinox and did not even occur on a Sunday most years. The earliest that the barley can be ripe enough to be offered for First Fruits is at least eleven days after the Spring Equinox and even more than a forty days later at the latest. (An extra month is added to the Biblical calendar if the barley is not in the "aviv" state of ripeness when the new moon of the next month appears after the twelfth month of the Biblical calendar is over.) In fact, on the year the Man of Truth rose from the grave, First Fruits began at sunset of the twenty-eighth of April, making the date of the Resurrection to be the twenty-ninth of April, which is four days after the latest occurrence of "Easter" on the modern calendar. (The only year that there were three days and three nights between the day when the Passover Lambs were slain and First Fruits that always fell on the first day of the week (Sunday) between the years 24 AD to 44 AD was 31 AD. First Fruits began at close to its latest possible date in 31 AD. This is further verified by other information in the Gospels that makes it possible to know when was Jesus born as well.)
The fact is that the Man of Truth did not rise from the grave on Easter morning. The Man of Truth rose from the grave at the first flicker of light near the middle of First Fruits. That is why the Man of Truth is called the Firstfruits of those who will be resurrected from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:20).
It is evident that even the False Church of Rome knew in the beginning that the practices of celebrating "Easter" were not from the Father of Truth. These practices of celebrating "Easter" has an origin that is even older than the False Church of Rome or the Druids or even Nimrod. These practices are built upon lies, lies and more lies. All lies, like the lie of using the practices of "Easter" to celebrate the resurrection of the Man of Truth, came from the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil) (John 8:44).
You may have been performing all of these idolatrous rituals that celebrate "Easter" out of ignorance that the Father of Truth has graciously overlooked but now that you know the truth about these practices the Father of Truth is commanding you to do so no more (Acts 17:29-31)!!!
The Children of Truth should not give any place in their lives for anything that is from the Father of Lies (Ephesians 4:27). The Children of Truth are supposed to be living according to the light of His Word and doing what is acceptable to Their Father (Ephesians 5:8-10). They are have nothing to do with the darkness of things that come from the Father of Lies, like the celebration of "Easter", but instead reprove these practices so others can come into the light as well (Ephesians 5:11-12). The Children of Truth should teach nothing except the Word of Truth instead of continuing a fable about a woman that came out a giant egg that fell form the sky and then turned a bird into an egg laying rabbit (1 Timothy 1:3-4). The Children of Truth should do everything they can to always be walking in truth.
It is much better and closer to the truth for the Children of Truth to greet each other with "Happy Resurrection Sunday" when they celebrate the day that the Man of Truth rose from the dead since he did indeed rise from the dead on Sunday, the first day of the week. Still the Man of Truth did not rise from the dead on the first day of any week, but on the first day of the week after Passover that is called "First Fruits". Still not even that is nowhere near as good as greeting each other with "Happy Firstfruits!" as they should actually be celebrating the resurrection of the Man of Truth in the way that His Father intended on the day of First Fruits.
Even though it's a Jewish thing to be following the Man of Truth that does not mean that First Fruits is just for the Jewish Children of Truth. It's not just a Jewish thing to celebrate First Fruits as the day when the Man of Truth rose from the dead. The Greatest Play Ever that is played out in the Feasts of Truth told the story of the death, burial and resurrection of the Man of Truth long before it ever happened. It is by observing Passover that the Children of Truth commemorate the death of the Lamb that Their Father provided. It is by keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread that the Children of Truth remember that the death of the Man of Truth made removing the leaven of sin possible. It is by celebrating the raising of the First Fruits that they celebrate the raising of the Man of Truth from the dead.
The Children of Truth just need to remember that since the Temple is not standing and most of them are not Jewish nor living in Israel that they are playing with broken toys when they celebrate the Feasts of Truth. So there is room for diversity in exactly how each congregation or individual celebrates the resurrection of the Man of Truth as long as they do not include idolatrous customs like those used to celebrate "Easter". Let the Spirit of Truth lead them in their celebration of the resurrection of Man of Truth in a way that is fitting for their congregation including greeting each other with "Happy Firstfruits!"
Of course, you really have nothing to celebrate until you come into the House of Truth. You can only come into the House of Truth by surrendering total control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that He was resurrected by the Father of Truth (Romans 10:9). For those who come into the House of Truth the resurrection of the Man of Truth is greatest cause of celebration there ever will be but for those who reject His kingship over their lives the resurrection of the Man of Truth is greatest cause of mourning there will ever be (2 Corinthians 2:14-16).
Come into the House of Truth.
Every year churches around the world meet for sunrise service on Easter morning to mark the exact time of the resurrection of the Man of Truth from the dead. This is often done outdoors facing the east to observe the sun rising. When the sun rises there is usually some sort of celebratory singing to mark the moment that Easter has begun. People greet each other with "Happy Easter!".
For this event people wear their Easter outfits. These are usually new clothes that were bought for this event and can be worn later throughout the year. Among men and young boys the Easter outfits are typically suits or something similar. Among the adult women the Easter outfits are usually dresses in Spring colors and decorated with emblems of Spring like Spring foliage. Sometimes the adult women and older girls would wear white hats decorated with emblems of Spring or similarly decorated Easter Bonnets. Younger girls, especially before puberty, typically wear a long white Easter Dress with a ribbon in the middle, usually green, that is tied as a bow in the back. The ribbon is traditionally pastel green although it sometimes another pastel color to represent Spring flowers.
People then typically eat breakfast together. The menus vary from congregation to congregation but eggs are usually at the center of the meal along with little white Easter cakes about the size of a doughnut.
Then they go into the main sanctuary of the church building. The sanctuary is decorated with living Spring foliage like Easter Lilies. There is usually a sermon about the resurrection. All of the songs are usually about the resurrection.
After the main service, many congregations meet together for Easter dinner. Easter dinner typically features ham and hard boiled eggs. There are also usually large white Easter cakes that may also feature various decorations of eggs, Spring foliage and rabbits.
Usually before dinner is eaten children are given their Easter Baskets and Easter gifts. The Easter Baskets are usually made of wicker and lined with grass (plastic grass in the US). The Easter Baskets are usually loaded with things like chocolate rabbits and candies of various sorts in the shape of eggs or baby birds. Often the Easter gifts are also somehow associated with Spring like toy gardening sets or a baby rabbit, chick or duck for example. As the children get older the Easter gifts often become more expensive and are usually something geared towards getting the children ready for the day when they will leave their parents house to start their own families. After receiving their Easter Baskets and Easter gifts the children (and sometimes adults) proceed to playing the Easter Game.
The Easter Game is a game featuring Easter Eggs and the Easter Bunny. Easter Eggs are hard boiled eggs that were colored and decorated the night before. Decorations have traditionally featured symbols of Spring and fertility. Fertility is normally represented by things like rabbits, chicks and baby ducks. The Easter Eggs are given to someone who that plays the part of the Easter Bunny. The Easter Bunny then hides the Easter Eggs.
The children then search for the hidden Easter Eggs and place them in their Easter Baskets. On the first round of playing the Easter Game there are often prizes awarded after all of the Easter Eggs have been found. Typically the prizes are for things like being the first to find an Easter Egg, finding the most Easter Eggs and finding certain special prize Easter Eggs. After the first round, someone else, usually whoever found the most Easter Eggs, plays the part of the Easter Bunny. This can continue for many rounds even though there are not usually prizes after the first round.
Alternatively, sometimes there is an Easter Egg Roll instead of the Easter Game. In this case, the Easter Bunny is only played by one person once and the Easter Eggs are just spread across the grass with most of them in plain sight. The children line up and when the Easter Bunny says "Go" the children all run to gather as many Easter Eggs as possible. When it is over similar prizes to those of the first round of the Easter Game are awarded. The most famous Easter Egg Roll is probably the one done on the White House lawn each year where the President of the United States is the one who says "Go" and awards the prizes.
So overall Easter is a fun day. Many times during the day you will hear people saying "Happy Easter!" to each other as they enjoy the festivities. The participants are often full of joy as they are doing all of these things to celebrate the resurrection of the Man of Truth. If the Man of Truth overcoming the death, the grave and Hell so people could come into the House of Truth is not worth celebrating, then nothing is worth celebrating. Who can blame the Children of Truth (someone who obeys The Father of Truth because they love Him) for wanting to celebrate that?
The problem is not with celebrating the resurrection of the Man of Truth but rather with the customs and traditions used to celebrate the resurrection of the Man of Truth.
First of all Easter is the end of the so-called "Holy Week" instituted by the False Church of Rome. Holy week begins on the Sunday before Easter and is called "Palms Sunday". Palms Sunday commemorates the triumphant entry of the Man of Truth in Jerusalem a week before his resurrection when people laid palm leaves for him to ride over on the donkey he had borrowed. Later comes Maundy Thursday, to commemorate the Last Supper when the Man of Truth was betrayed. Then comes Good Friday to commemorate the Man of Truth being crucified. Then comes Black Sabbath, when people are forbidden to congregate together and all rituals cease, except those that concern dying, to commemorate the Man of Truth lying in the grave. Finally comes Easter Sunday that commemorates the resurrection of the Man of Truth from the grave.
The first problem with Holy Week is the entire timing of the series of event. The Man of Truth did not eat the Last Supper on Thursday, the die on Friday, lay in the grave on Saturday and then rise from the dead on Sunday morning. The Man of Truth plainly said that he would be in the grave for three whole nights and three whole days (Matthew 12:40). Friday day, Friday night, Saturday day, Saturday night with the Man of Truth rising from the grave at sunrise on Sunday only gives two days and two nights for the Man of Truth to be in the grave even if you count all day Friday. (Even though he was only in the grave for a few minutes of Friday day.) Even if you count Sunday day because he supposedly rose at sunrise when the day begins you still end up an entire night short of three days and three nights for the Man of Truth to be in the grave. If the Man of Truth rose from the grave at sunrise on Sunday then he had to die before sunset on Wednesday to give three whole days and three whole nights in the grave. The actual timing of events given in the Book of Truth (the Bible) from the time of the Last Supper until the resurrection and what the Man of Truth did while his body was in the grave made for Four Busy Days.
Even the False Church of Rome knows this because "Spy Wednesday" that commemorates the anointing of the feet of the Man of Truth and the betrayal by Judas (Yahudah aka Judah) Iscariot acknowledges this. It is celebrated by slowly dimming out all of the lights, creating a crash to symbolize the death of the Man of Truth and then a rumbling is produced to symbolize the earthquake that occurred when the Man of Truth died. So the chronology of the events commemorated by Holy Week is actually: The Triumphant Entry (Palms Sunday), the betrayal and death of the Man of Truth (Spy Wednesday), The Last Supper (Maundy Thursday), the crucifixion of the Man of Truth (Good Friday), the Man of Truth laying in the grave (Black Sabbath), and finally the Man of Truth rising from the grave (Easter Sunday). Not only does this contradict the Book of Truth it also does not even make any sense. That is probably why Spy Wednesday has fallen out of observation in many places.
This highlights the bigger problem that Holy week is the end of the Lenten season that began on Fat Tuesday about seven weeks earlier. The entire Holy week has the same things wrong with it as Ash Wednesday.
However, Easter has its own set of additional problems. It not only has traditions that came from the False Church of Rome but also traditions that came from the Druids like those that polluted Celtic Christianity until its original form was completely obscured by these practices.
The problems start with the word "Easter" itself. "Easter" is the English name of the fertility goddess that the Druids worshiped. Easter originally did not float around like it does now but occurred on the Spring equinox which is currently on March 20th most years. In fact, groups that are reviving the religion of the Druids today, like the Wiccans, still call their festival for observing the Spring equinox "Easter" after the fertility goddess. The German name was "Eostre" and can be traced back to the same Greek word that the female hormone "Estrogen" got its name from.
In the lore of the Druids, "Easter" would arrive every year being pulled by hares (rabbits) and young babies with dragon fly wings. When "Easter" arrived she was always accompanied by other symbols of fertility like mating birds and storks (who supposedly brought babies to people). "Easter" was always dressed in a brand new long white dress denoting that she had once again became a virgin. The dress of "Easter" was had a ribbon in the middle, usually green to symbolize Spring, that was tied as a bow in the back.
"Easter" was not only the fertility goddess but was also known as the goddess of the sunrise. "Easter" would always arrive at the sunrise on the day of the Spring equinox. Those involved in the religion of the Druids, that covered most of western Europe at times, would have a sun rise service facing the east to welcome "Easter". They would dress in new clothes in the colors of Spring. The married women would wear decorative head wear called "Easter" Hats or "Easter" Bonnets. The virgin girls would wear white "Easter" dresses with a ribbon in the middle, usually green, that was tied as a bow in the back. When the sun rose the Druids and their worshipers would greet each other with "Happy Easter!". Then they would gather to listen to a message about "Easter" and to sing songs of praise to "Easter".
"Easter" was also known as "the Queen of Heaven". The arrival of "Easter" was honored by throwing a banquet for "the Queen of Heaven". The banquet featured roasted swine, hard boiled eggs and little white cakes called "Easter" Cakes. The "Easter" Cakes were usually decorated with symbols of Spring and fertility. The symbols of fertility were usually eggs, baby birds and especially rabbits.
The celebration was held outside when the weather permitted but if the weather did not permit then the celebration was moved inside to a large meeting room. When it was moved inside people would bring living Spring foliage in little buckets or pots as decorations for their meeting room.
The festival proceeded by people playing the "Easter" Game. The "Easter" Game consisted of someone playing the part of the "Easter" Bunny (rabbit). The "Easter" Bunny would hide "Easter" Eggs. Then the children would look for the "Easter" Eggs and place them in their wicker "Easter" Baskets that were lined with green grass. When all of the "Easter" Eggs were found then prizes would be awarded for things like being the first to find an "Easter" Egg, finding the most "Easter" Eggs and finding special prize "Easter" Eggs. The "Easter" Game was often repeated but prizes were usually only given the first time it was played.
All through the festival people would greet each other with "Happy Easter!" as they enjoyed the festivities.
Over the centuries, the Children of Truth in the lands of the Druids would face terrible persecution at times for not participating in the rites of "Easter". When the False Church of Rome came in it did with "Easter" what it had done with other similar idolatrous holidays that had been celebrated before its arrival. The False Church of Rome "Christianized" the Druid holiday of "Easter". The former worshipers of the religion of the Druids who came under their control were allowed to keep most of the traditions of "Easter" worship and even continue to call the holiday "Easter". They only had to agree to make a few modifications.
The date would be changed to the Sunday following the "Pascal" full moon. The "Pascal" full moon was the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox so the new "Christianized" Easter would still have the timing of its celebration tied to the Spring Equinox. This would put the new "Christianized" Easter on the same day that the rest of the False Church of Rome was observing the resurrection of the Man of Truth as the last day of Holy Week.
(The Spring Equinox was fixed as March 21st even though many years it falls a day later or a day sooner. The "Pascal" full moon is calculated rather than observed and is off from the actual full moon most years. The lunar cycle averages a little over twenty-nine and a half days so the "Pascal" full moon has about a thirty day date range and the following Sunday can be as much a week later. This is why Easter bounces around year after year inside a time span that is about a month in duration.)
Secondly, the theme would no longer be the arrival of the fertility goddess "Easter" whose name the "Christianized" Easter still bore but rather the resurrection of the Man of Truth. They could keep on proclaiming the name of the fertility goddess of the Druids by greeting each other with "Happy Easter!" but the summon and songs would be about the resurrection. They could even pay homage to "Easter" in their songs of worship and in their summons as long as it was about the Man of Truth being resurrected on "Easter" morning. They could keep on playing the "Easter" Game by saying that the "Easter" Eggs represented the resurrection of the Man of Truth instead of fertility.
Third, the False Church of Rome had a few traditions of their own to add that complemented the traditions that came from the Druids celebration of "Easter" in many ways. For example, the False Church of Rome already had a tradition of placing red colored eggs on the altar during its celebration of the resurrection of the Man of Truth. So it did not seem unreasonable to have "Easter" Eggs dyed as well.
However, neither the Druids nor the False Church of Rome were the originator of these practices.
The fertility goddess of the Druids named "Easter" was called by other names in other places long before the Celts and Gauls moved into western Europe. The worship of this fertility goddess started not long after the Flood. The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) gave the commandment to Noah (Noach) and his sons to multiply and fill the Earth with people (Genesis 9:1-7). It was Nimrod (Nimrud), the son of Cush (Kush), the son of Noah, who was the first to rebel against the Father of Truth after the flood (Genesis 10:8-9). [The phrase "mighty hunter before the Lord" is more literally "mighty hunter in the face of YHVH". We still use the expression "in your face" to show opposition to what someone is doing. He was effective (mighty) in being a hunter of souls by creating his own religion system in the face of the Father of Truth that took men away from worshiping Him.] Nimrod then began having walled cities built to house those who joined his religion starting with Babel (Babylon) and then went out from there into other nations like Assyria (Genesis 10:10-12). The religion of Babylon was that of people worshiping living things like animals, various images along with the sun, moon and stars in the heavens (space outside of the atmosphere) (Deuteronomy 4:16-19). The religion of Babylon that Nimrod started was for those who did not want to worship the Father of Truth but wanted to worshiping the creation rather than the Creator (Romans 1:21-25).
The first city he built, Babylon, was built when all people still spoke the same language so that they would not be scattered across the Earth as the Father of Truth had commanded (Genesis 11:1-4). [The tower was more accurately for reaching up to observe the heavens (sun, moon, and stars) that were central to the religion of Nimrod that began in Babylon.] So when the Father of Truth confused their languages to restrain them from doing every evil thing that they could think of and to cause them to be scattered across the Earth as He had commanded then people took the religion of Babylon with them but the names of the gods were now different names in each language (Genesis 11:5-9).
Another name for "Easter" is also "Ashtareth" in the language of the Phoenicians that the Sidonians came to speak over time (1 Kings 11:5). The "Easter" of the Druids in English is the same as the "Asherah" of the Canaanites that was the center of the Babylonian sun god worship that they had inherited from Babylon (2 Kings 17:16). "Easter" the fertility goddess was also known as "The Queen of Heaven" among those who practiced the religion of Babylon (Jeremiah 44:25).
"Easter" was known as "Esther" among the Persians which is the name that Mordecai the Jew had called Hadassah the Jew to hide her identity as a Jew (Esther 2:7-10). (This was all part of the trap that the Father of Truth had prepared to expose and destroy the enemies of the Jews as explained in For Such A Time As This.)
Of course, the details of the story of "Easter" changed as diverse groups moved across the globe over the centuries. Still they maintained certain elements of the original story. In the original story an egg of wondrous size (carried by storks in some versions) fell from the heavens into the Euphrates River at sunrise on the day of the Spring Equinox. Fish then rolled this egg to the banks of the Euphrates River and the naked virgin "Easter" came out of the egg. "Easter" then pointed at a bird and turned it into an egg laying rabbit. This egg laying rabbit was known as the "Easter" rabbit (bunny).
This event allegedly happened on a Friday and for this reason fish were eaten on Friday as remains the practice by the False Church of Rome to this day. It is probably also why Muslims continued to observe Friday as a weekly holy day like Arabs had for thousands of years before Mohammed. This is the original Good Friday.
Nimrod probably picked Friday because it is the sixth day of the week when man was created (Genesis 1:27-31). The religion of Babylon that Nimrod used to hunt souls exalts man above the Father of Truth so it exalts the day of the creation of man over the Sabbath that He gave as a weekly holy day.
Afterwards Nimrod built Babylon on the banks of the Euphrates River where "Easter" supposedly came out of the "Easter" Egg. (Later the story tells of the Lamenter, who could only be Shem in reality, that killed Nimrod by speaking a prophecy. In the imagery of Babylon, horns represent power, so the Lamenter is pictured as a boar because the horns of a boar are the tusks in its mouth. The boar kills Nimrod by tusking his ankles. So the death of Nimrod is avenged each year by people killing and eating swine at the celebration of "Easter".)
The original story of the "Easter" Egg is also the source of adding a roasted egg to Seder plates by the Rabbis when they were in Babylon that continues to this day.
Now you might be wondering if this where the word "Easter" came from then why is it in some translations of the Book of Truth as a holiday that the Children of Truth observed. The word "Easter" only appears in one place in the Book of Truth in some translations (Acts 12:4). If we just take a peek under the covers then we will find that the Greek word that was translated as "Easter" is "Pascha". "Pascha" literally means "Passover" as it is translated everywhere else in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament). The reason that the translators translated "Pascha" as "Easter" in this one place is because the "Christianized" Easter is called "Pascha" everywhere else where the False Church of Rome has had sway except for the lands where the religion of the Druids had been practiced. The translators of this particular passage were apparently ignorant of the fact that the Apostles of Truth actually observed Passover (Pesach) instead of Easter.
Still you might be wondering if it matters that the Children of Truth have been ignorantly proclaiming the name of the Druid goddess of fertility and practicing the rites of worshiping the Druid goddess of fertility when celebrating the resurrection of the Man of Truth. Does it really matter to the Father of Truth how His Children celebrate the resurrection of the Man of Truth?
He wants His children to have nothing to do with anything that came from Babylonian sun god worship, including "Easter" (Asherah), so that they can belong to Him alone (Deuteronomy 7:5-6). He wants His children to destroy the practices of Babylonian sun god worship, including those of "Easter" (Asherah), and not to include those practices in worshiping Him (Deuteronomy 12:2-4). He does not want His Children using the same practices of idol worship that He hates, like the practices of worshiping "Easter", when they worship Him instead of the practices that He has laid out in the Book of Truth (Deuteronomy 12:30-32). It was for carrying out the practices of "Easter" (Asherah) that the Jews in the Promised Land were thrust out of their inheritance from the Father of Truth (1 Kings 14:15).
The Father of Truth does not want His Children proclaiming the name of other gods like "Easter" with expression like "Happy Easter!" or singing of "Easter" in their worship songs or even using "Easter" in their sermons about the resurrection of the Man of Truth (Exodus 23:13). He has commanded His Children to destroy everything associated with "Easter" (Asherah) and to not eat "Easter" (Asherah) dinner (Exodus 34:13-16). He does not want His Children going to outdoor parks to roast and eat the flesh of swine (ham) as part of their worship (Isaiah 65:3-5). He does not want His Children to make and eat "Easter" (The Queen of Heaven) cakes to celebrate the resurrection of His Son (Jeremiah 7:17-19). He calls services conducted from the places meant for His Children to gather to worship Him that consist of the worshipers facing the east to celebrate when the sun rises, like those done in celebrating "Easter", the thing that He hates the most (Ezekiel 8:15-17)!
If this was true for those who did not have a circumcised heart then how much more so it must grieve the Father of Truth when those whose hearts He has circumcised do these things (Deuteronomy 30:6). He has given the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) to the Children of Truth so they could worship Him in the way that He commanded (Ezekiel 11:18-20). The Children of Truth were made clean and given the Spirit of Truth so they could worship Him in the way He commanded (Ezekiel 36:25-27). The Spirit of Truth will lead the Children of Truth to worship Him in truth according to the commandments of the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) that He gave to the Jews (John 4:22-24). The Father of Truth is still calling the Children of Truth to come out from including the practices of idol worship, like the practices of "Easter", in their worship of Him and to worship Him in only the way that He truly desires (2 Corinthians 6:15-18).
In fact, in most places outside of the lands where the religion of the Druids had been practiced people eat lamb instead of ham when they are celebrating what they call "Passover" to commemorate the resurrection of the Man of Truth. Since the Great Schism occurred, the Western (Latin) division and the Eastern (Greek) division of the False Church of Rome do not even observe their commemoration of the resurrection of the Man of Truth on the same day most years. The Latin division of the False Church of Rome uses tables calculated long ago to determine when the "Paschal" full moon occurs to determine the timing of Holy Week. The Greek division of the False Church of Rome always observes their commemoration of the resurrection of the Man of Truth on the Sunday after the Passover that occurs on the Rabbinic calendar that commemorates the deliverance of Israel from Egyptian bondage.
Not only that but when I lived in Greece the Greeks would even commemorate the resurrection of the Man of Truth by roasting a lamb whole and eating all of it on that day because they said this is what the Apostles of Truth told them to do. This is exactly what the Father of Truth told the children of Israel to do to commemorate their deliverance from Egyptian bondage (Exodus 12:3-10).
The Greeks do this because the Apostles of Truth knew that the Man of Truth died at the time of Passover as plainly stated in their own writings (Matthew 26:2). The Man of Truth died on the day of Passover when the lambs were slain (John 19:14).
The day after (Sunday) the Sabbath (Saturday) that came after Passover was the feast of Firstfruits (Bikkurim) when the first of the sheave of barely was offered before the rest could be harvested (Leviticus 23:5-15).
The Man of Truth rose from the dead about the time when nautical twilight ends, which is when light first appears about an hour before sunrise, on the first day of the week (Sunday) (Matthew 28:1-3). The women went to better take care of his dead body about an hour BEFORE sunrise, when it was still dark, on the first day of the week (Sunday) but the Man of Truth had already risen (John 20:1-3).
At this time "Easter" was still being celebrated on the Spring equinox and did not even occur on a Sunday most years. The earliest that the barley can be ripe enough to be offered for First Fruits is at least eleven days after the Spring Equinox and even more than a forty days later at the latest. (An extra month is added to the Biblical calendar if the barley is not in the "aviv" state of ripeness when the new moon of the next month appears after the twelfth month of the Biblical calendar is over.) In fact, on the year the Man of Truth rose from the grave, First Fruits began at sunset of the twenty-eighth of April, making the date of the Resurrection to be the twenty-ninth of April, which is four days after the latest occurrence of "Easter" on the modern calendar. (The only year that there were three days and three nights between the day when the Passover Lambs were slain and First Fruits that always fell on the first day of the week (Sunday) between the years 24 AD to 44 AD was 31 AD. First Fruits began at close to its latest possible date in 31 AD. This is further verified by other information in the Gospels that makes it possible to know when was Jesus born as well.)
The fact is that the Man of Truth did not rise from the grave on Easter morning. The Man of Truth rose from the grave at the first flicker of light near the middle of First Fruits. That is why the Man of Truth is called the Firstfruits of those who will be resurrected from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:20).
It is evident that even the False Church of Rome knew in the beginning that the practices of celebrating "Easter" were not from the Father of Truth. These practices of celebrating "Easter" has an origin that is even older than the False Church of Rome or the Druids or even Nimrod. These practices are built upon lies, lies and more lies. All lies, like the lie of using the practices of "Easter" to celebrate the resurrection of the Man of Truth, came from the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil) (John 8:44).
You may have been performing all of these idolatrous rituals that celebrate "Easter" out of ignorance that the Father of Truth has graciously overlooked but now that you know the truth about these practices the Father of Truth is commanding you to do so no more (Acts 17:29-31)!!!
The Children of Truth should not give any place in their lives for anything that is from the Father of Lies (Ephesians 4:27). The Children of Truth are supposed to be living according to the light of His Word and doing what is acceptable to Their Father (Ephesians 5:8-10). They are have nothing to do with the darkness of things that come from the Father of Lies, like the celebration of "Easter", but instead reprove these practices so others can come into the light as well (Ephesians 5:11-12). The Children of Truth should teach nothing except the Word of Truth instead of continuing a fable about a woman that came out a giant egg that fell form the sky and then turned a bird into an egg laying rabbit (1 Timothy 1:3-4). The Children of Truth should do everything they can to always be walking in truth.
It is much better and closer to the truth for the Children of Truth to greet each other with "Happy Resurrection Sunday" when they celebrate the day that the Man of Truth rose from the dead since he did indeed rise from the dead on Sunday, the first day of the week. Still the Man of Truth did not rise from the dead on the first day of any week, but on the first day of the week after Passover that is called "First Fruits". Still not even that is nowhere near as good as greeting each other with "Happy Firstfruits!" as they should actually be celebrating the resurrection of the Man of Truth in the way that His Father intended on the day of First Fruits.
Even though it's a Jewish thing to be following the Man of Truth that does not mean that First Fruits is just for the Jewish Children of Truth. It's not just a Jewish thing to celebrate First Fruits as the day when the Man of Truth rose from the dead. The Greatest Play Ever that is played out in the Feasts of Truth told the story of the death, burial and resurrection of the Man of Truth long before it ever happened. It is by observing Passover that the Children of Truth commemorate the death of the Lamb that Their Father provided. It is by keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread that the Children of Truth remember that the death of the Man of Truth made removing the leaven of sin possible. It is by celebrating the raising of the First Fruits that they celebrate the raising of the Man of Truth from the dead.
The Children of Truth just need to remember that since the Temple is not standing and most of them are not Jewish nor living in Israel that they are playing with broken toys when they celebrate the Feasts of Truth. So there is room for diversity in exactly how each congregation or individual celebrates the resurrection of the Man of Truth as long as they do not include idolatrous customs like those used to celebrate "Easter". Let the Spirit of Truth lead them in their celebration of the resurrection of Man of Truth in a way that is fitting for their congregation including greeting each other with "Happy Firstfruits!"
Of course, you really have nothing to celebrate until you come into the House of Truth. You can only come into the House of Truth by surrendering total control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that He was resurrected by the Father of Truth (Romans 10:9). For those who come into the House of Truth the resurrection of the Man of Truth is greatest cause of celebration there ever will be but for those who reject His kingship over their lives the resurrection of the Man of Truth is greatest cause of mourning there will ever be (2 Corinthians 2:14-16).
Come into the House of Truth.
Labels: Bikkurim, Druids, Easter, Easter Bunny, Easter Eggs, False Church Of Rome, First Fruits, History, Resurrection
posted by The House Of Truth @ March 30, 2015
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