Easter
The
wine of Babylon
Some people had
asked about easter, basically because when you study the bible, you
start to realize that many teachings and festivities they taught you
at church, are not supported by the bible.
For that reason,
I decided to write some articles about this.
Before we go any
deeper into easter and its details, let me touch a little on the
subtitle of this article: "The wine of Babylon", because
that is exactly what we are talking about.
In the bible, the
wine of Babylon represents false teachings. Jesus is the true vine
and out of Him flows true wine, true teachings. But out of Babylon
only comes false teachings which are given to the whole world.
Jeremiah51:7
Babylon hath been
a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the
nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Revelations
14:8
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the
wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Before
I go over easter and its details, let me mention that everything I
write I quote from history. Everything comes from known sources, so
I'm not making this up nor repeating what some crazy conspiracy
theory guy said, all the links are going to be at the bottom of the
page for your further reading. I will just paraphrase very briefly
each aspect of easter. Having said that, let's see how biblical
easter is.
Easter:
Well,
let's start with the name, "easter". The word easter comes
from the name "Ishtar", also known as Astarte, Ashtoreth,
Cybele, Rhea, Demeter, Ceres, Aphrodite, Isis, Venus, Diana, and
Freya, “the moon goddess”, “the queen of heaven”. The name
varies but the original name is Semiramis,
who was the wife of Nimrod,
grandson of Noah, mentioned in the bible. Remember that Nimrod was
the king of Babylon also known as Ninus, later known as “Baal”,
“the sun god” and when they started to build the tower of Babel,
God confused the languages, thus all these different names. Babylon
is where every false teaching originated.
People have
worshiped them since bible times, as mention in:
1
Samuel 12:10
"Then they cried to the LORD again and confessed, 'We have
sinned by turning away from the LORD and worshiping the images of
Baal and Ashtoreth.
Judges
2:13 They
abandoned the LORD to serve the god
Baal and the goddess Astarte.
Acts
19:35 ...what
man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a
worshipper of the great goddess
Diana...
World
Encyclopedia | 2005
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Semiramis.aspx#2
Semiramis
In Assyrian mythology, a queen and goddess, wife of Ninus, founder of
Nineveh. Daughter of a fish goddess and the god of wisdom, Semiramis
was reared by doves. After the death of Ninus she ruled alone,
founded the city of Babylon.
The
Babylonian legend
While
Nimrod was alive he became a mighty man and was worshiped as a god on
earth as mention in:
Genesis
10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even
as Nimrod
the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,
and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
After
Nimrod dies, Semiramis claimed that Nimrod had ascended to the sun
and was now to be called "Baal", the sun god.
Semiramis became
the “Ishtar” the moon goddess, she further claimed that she came
down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates
River.
Ishtar soon
became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal
that caused her to conceive.
The son that she
brought forth was named Tammuz, the son of the sun god.
The day came when
Tammuz was killed by a wild pig.
Queen Ishtar told
the people that Tammuz had resurrected and ascended to his father,
Baal.
She also
proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow and weeping each year
prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz as mention in the
bible as abomination:
Ezekiel 8:13
He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and
thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 14
Then
he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was
toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Worshippers were
to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make
the sign of the "T of Tammuz” (Tau) on their foreheads made
of ashes, since ashes in the bible is a symbol for sorrow and
grieving.
They also ate
sacred cakes with the marking of a "T" (Tau) or cross on
the top as mention in the bible:
Jeremiah
7:18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead their
dough, to make cakes to the queen
of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may
provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah
44:19
And when we burned incense to the queen
of heaven,
and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to
worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
Every year, on
the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox,
a celebration was made commemorating Tammuz resurrection.
It was Ishtar's
Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs, since they are a
part of the fertility rituals, they are symbols of fertility.
Semiramis,
(Nimrod’s mother and wige), became known in other cultures as
“Magna Mater,” the “Great Mother,” and she was worshipped as
Mother Earth. The Sun “mated” with the Earth each spring, and the
“Rites of Spring” symbolized by the “May Pole” and “Easter”
came 9 moons (months) before December 25th on the “birth” of
Tammuz, the winter Sun.
Easter
eggs
A sacred symbol
of rebirth and fertility among the Babylonians, Druids, Egyptians and
other pagan cultures. Dyed eggs were used as sacred offerings during
the pagan Easter season and were also used as symbols of the Goddess
Oestre or Ishtar in various cultures. (Encyclopedia
Britannica, Babylon Mystery Religion)
The
“Ishtar Eggs” were died in the blood of babies sacrificed to
Tammuz with the “cross of Tammuz” emblazoned on them as the
children would “hunt” the eggs in the likeness of Tammuz and
Nimrod the mighty hunters.
Easter
bunny or hare
The rabbit is
well known as a sexual symbol of fertility. In various parts of the
world, religions which developed from Babel also associate the rabbit
with periodicity, both human and lunar.
A pagan symbol of
fertility and new life. (Handbook of
Christian Feasts and
Customs) Bede, the eight century
English monk and scholar related that the Tutonic goddess of spring
and fertility, Eastre, had the hare as her symbol. (The
American Book of Days,
ed. by Jane Hatch, 1978, p. 302)
The
Easter Rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a
nest or in the garden. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always
been an emblem of fertility -Simrock,
Mythologie, 551 –Catholic Encyclopedia
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05224d.htm
)
So that's
basically what easter is and where it comes from. As you can see, it
has nothing to do with our savior Yeshua the messiah, but has
everything to do with pagan gods.
Ask yourself the question, What do bunnies and eggs have to do with Jesus?
Are these beliefs based on the bible or paganism?
Ask yourself the question, What do bunnies and eggs have to do with Jesus?
Are these beliefs based on the bible or paganism?
You can find this
information in different places online, books or encyclopedias. If
you do your own research you'll find out. Here are some links that
mention this also:
The pagan roots
of Easter
What Does the
Easter Bunny Have To Do With Easter?
Where did
“Easter” get its name? Where did the concept of an Easter egg and
bunny originate?
Happy Easter,
Which is Not Named After Ishtar, Okay?
An Easter Story:
Pagan origins of Easter
Even a witch's
web site says this about easter:
You
Call It Easter, We Call It Ostara
I
will say no more. The information is presented to you. You have
looked at it and are smart enough to come to your own conclusions.
What would you do with this information? Remember what the bible says
in:
James
4:17
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it
not, to him it is sin.
Can
you celebrate “easter” in the name of Jesus again? It is up to
you.
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