I Corinthians 5:7
Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,
The Passover or what we are now by “tradition” calling easter is I think misunderstood by many of us as we celebrate. Easter Sunday is one of the most attended church services of the year, yet the very theme of the easter celebration is very different from what the Passover celebration was and should be all about. The focus of easter today is celebrating the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is what we should celebrate every moment of every day. The easter celebration was adopted in what is known as ‘The Nicene Council’ in 325 AD. There is much controversy about the Council of Nicaea. The Nicene Council is the first so-called organized church doctrinal meeting. Roman Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the official state religion, convened this council of bishops. The council ordered that the observation of Passover will now be called easter. Instead of the celebrating the Levitical Passover (Wednesday-Saturday), which is what was commanded in the old testament, we are now to call it easter and start this new celebration on Friday and ending on Sunday, which oddly enough coincides with the vernal equinox, or the aligning of the planets. The Lord was on the cross through the Passover and rose before dawn on Saturday, which was the Sabbath. This change is similar to Christmas being celebrated during the winter solstice another of Romes mixing of pagan and Christian ideals. Most scholars agree that Jesus wasn’t born in winter, and there are very early pagan traditions predating Christ that have to do with the winter solstice (planets aligning) and bringing trees into your house. (See Jeremiah 10:3-4) I’ll let you investigate these things for yourselves. The creation of ‘easter’ is just one of many things that happened at this meeting some 300 years after Christ. There is much controversy to this day about the motives of Constantine. Was his adoption of Christianity just a political move, or was he truly converted from his well-documented pagan beliefs to faith in Christ? The pagan worship of the sun and other heavenly bodies go all the way back to Egypt, and the fact that the Passover was changed to coincide with the planets aligning is more than a coincidence in my mind.
The Passover celebration should be our celebrating being delivered from the slavery of sin and deliverance from the uncertainty of a godless world. Just as the Israelites celebrated being delivered from the bondage of slavery and pagan Egypt. The Holy communion is what the Lord at the last supper commanded us to do in remembrance of Him, and it was on the eve of the Passover that the Lord said this. They were celebrating the Passover! The apostle Paul tells us that Christ IS our Passover
1 Corinthians 5:7
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.
We live in a crazy world of religion stew. With contradictory preaching on every other TV channel, and with books a million spewing all sorts of doctrine, we must do what the apostle Paul told Timothy:
2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
We must search the scriptures and rightly divide the Word of truth, not calling the traditions of men doctrine. Ask the Lord for understanding, through prayer and our daily intake of the Word of God. Our prayers are for you always, that the Lord would give you a heart to seek Him (Ezekiel 36:24-29)…Happy Passover!!!!
Max and Tammy
The Passover or what we are now by “tradition” calling easter is I think misunderstood by many of us as we celebrate. Easter Sunday is one of the most attended church services of the year, yet the very theme of the easter celebration is very different from what the Passover celebration was and should be all about. The focus of easter today is celebrating the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is what we should celebrate every moment of every day. The easter celebration was adopted in what is known as ‘The Nicene Council’ in 325 AD. There is much controversy about the Council of Nicaea. The Nicene Council is the first so-called organized church doctrinal meeting. Roman Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the official state religion, convened this council of bishops. The council ordered that the observation of Passover will now be called easter. Instead of the celebrating the Levitical Passover (Wednesday-Saturday), which is what was commanded in the old testament, we are now to call it easter and start this new celebration on Friday and ending on Sunday, which oddly enough coincides with the vernal equinox, or the aligning of the planets. The Lord was on the cross through the Passover and rose before dawn on Saturday, which was the Sabbath. This change is similar to Christmas being celebrated during the winter solstice another of Romes mixing of pagan and Christian ideals. Most scholars agree that Jesus wasn’t born in winter, and there are very early pagan traditions predating Christ that have to do with the winter solstice (planets aligning) and bringing trees into your house. (See Jeremiah 10:3-4) I’ll let you investigate these things for yourselves. The creation of ‘easter’ is just one of many things that happened at this meeting some 300 years after Christ. There is much controversy to this day about the motives of Constantine. Was his adoption of Christianity just a political move, or was he truly converted from his well-documented pagan beliefs to faith in Christ? The pagan worship of the sun and other heavenly bodies go all the way back to Egypt, and the fact that the Passover was changed to coincide with the planets aligning is more than a coincidence in my mind.
The Passover celebration should be our celebrating being delivered from the slavery of sin and deliverance from the uncertainty of a godless world. Just as the Israelites celebrated being delivered from the bondage of slavery and pagan Egypt. The Holy communion is what the Lord at the last supper commanded us to do in remembrance of Him, and it was on the eve of the Passover that the Lord said this. They were celebrating the Passover! The apostle Paul tells us that Christ IS our Passover
1 Corinthians 5:7
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.
We live in a crazy world of religion stew. With contradictory preaching on every other TV channel, and with books a million spewing all sorts of doctrine, we must do what the apostle Paul told Timothy:
2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
We must search the scriptures and rightly divide the Word of truth, not calling the traditions of men doctrine. Ask the Lord for understanding, through prayer and our daily intake of the Word of God. Our prayers are for you always, that the Lord would give you a heart to seek Him (Ezekiel 36:24-29)…Happy Passover!!!!
Max and Tammy
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