Should Christians celebrate Easter? A level-headed biblical examination  

I needed this explanation. Thank You!! God Bless!

I LOVE the Easter displays.....the represent Joy, Spring, life renewed, FUN...I present the choristers at our church a basket filled with expensive Easter chocolates just to see the smiles on the young (and older) choristers' faces.....Christianity is a religion of JOY...let the most important day in the Christian Calendar be JOYFUL!!!!

Amen 🙏🏼 I celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ ❤

The issue i see with Easter is the same i see with Christmas and Halloween. The way non Christians celebrate it is identical to the way Christians celebrate it. Therefore the church looks just like the world. Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits do so much more to show what MESSIAH actually did.

CHOCOLATE in the shape of an Easter Bunny always tastes better! I dont know why but it does!

Passover = Blood Covering your sins, so death will pass you by..it is finished.. Resurrection (Easter) = Death has been defeated and left in the grave and New Life is possible in Jesus

One thing that used is the idea that we should not worship God the way we want but he way He wants and has outlined. Like Saul is an example of this because he starting doing things including sacrifices himself instead of God’s anointed and in the manner God established. So with that in mind, we know God established the feasts but did He establish Easter and Christmas? Just starting to watch this video now but saw some of the comments and this has been a question that has been weighing on my mind- hoping to find answers here.

Jeremiah 7:18 Jeremiah 44 :25 God warns of not mixing what is Holy with the unholy Deutronomy 12: 30&31

He rose on the day of the Wave Sheaf offering(Lev. 23:9-13, 1Cor. 15:20) or the 8th day on the morrow AFTER THE SABBATH or 7th day the firstborn of a new creation

Traditions of men make void the word of God. Let that sink in.

This is where we part ways on easter. It doesn’t matter how you justify what you believe. What are you teaching the children ? You have no power as to how they think of about it. And they will teach your grandchildren there by perpetuating the secular culture that is connected to it. We have drifted farther and farther from the Lord with the culture that goes along with this .

In Old Testament Judaism, the first fruits was on the first of the week (Leviticus 23:10-11). But in New Testament Christianity, our resurrected Lord Jesus Christ is the first fruits (1 Corinthians 15:20-23). Amen.

Ever since Rob said Easter derives from Esther I've been chewing on it. Purim is this weekend, which of course features Esther. But the tradition of mishloach manot isn't so different from filling an easter basket with sweet goodies. Eggs are hidden in bread at easter and on Purim. Purim is close to easter. I wonder if the traditions at Purim were incorporated and changed over time during easter celebration? Lambs are also featured at easter. Just my observations. There may be nothing at all to this but I find the similarities striking. And the claim that easter is pagan with a goddess cannot be traced earlier than the 1800's from Grimm. This tale has spread but nobody has a source that such a goddess was ever worshiped. It seems to have sprung from fairy tales. Then used as a weapon against celebrating Christ's resurrection.

Must-see ministry! Thank you very much for yet another excellent video, Sir!

Thank you for the video Professor Solberg. I believe that the younger generation will not be prepared for such a time as this (when our saviour comes). If we allow these of pagan signs and mix it with the things of God we will also allow them to think that "other things" are okay. If we continue on this path our children and grandchildren will be lost to the world.

In Zimbabwe it’s called Pasika or Phasika

I would love for you to do a teaching about how Easter/Resurrection Day always falls on First Fruits except for the years that Adar II has been added. The resurrection was shadowed in first fruits…. It would be cool for you to teach on this. That’s why they picked the date they did to celebrate. If you just celebrate Passover then you are celebrating the resurrection on a random day because it floats. If you look at First Fruits, some years it actually is the Sunday 3 days after Passover. Jesus came to fulfill first fruits just as he fulfilled Passover.

I have a thought on the pagan roots of the cherubim. Seems to me that God may have allowed these symbols, not because He was just okay with it, but because those pagan symbols likely came from the images and story of the Garden of Eden. That is where the cherubim were first seen by man. Thoughts? BTW - You do a great job. You make these topics easy to understand. Thanks for your content. I am learning a lot from your channel.

Amen brother!.. He is risen, have a blessed Resurrection/Easter Sunday..

Excellent work Professor Rob! Thanks for your scholarship!

I really appreciate you and what you are doing! Sehr gut!

Glory to God!

I wonder if people who have issues with other holidays realize Jesus celebrated Hanukkah and Hanukkah is very similar to an older pagan holiday diwali to honor some goddess which is a festival of lights that lasts several days, time of prayer and triumph light over darkness/good over evil and gift giving ect.. It's almost like intent matters Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. And One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.

Are we replacing the good news by Easter

there is a biblical feast for the resurrection, its first fruits. no need for easter to fill in the blank. also I like your videos :) Blessings

I would disagree that you have to be knowingly worshiping. The biggest deception satan pulls on people is that he doesn’t exist. So many people unknowingly worship Satan thinking it’s something else and is fine until they realize they have put that thing on a pedestal above God.

lol... Had ur hands full trying to justify this one, Rob!! Passover from Egypt is a biblical pic of Christ bringing us from sin & Christ was crucified on Passover just as he was resurected on Feast of 1st Fruits. Paul said, "Let us kee the feast", talking about Passover!!

If Easter is all about Christ's resurrection, then why is it called Easter in English? Does the word Easter mean or relate to resurrection? Specifically the resurrection of Jesus? Why was it not always called Resurrection Day or something like that from the beginning?

Blessed celebration of the resurrection of our ADONAI, YESHUA H'MACHIACH! Great commentary Rob and I'm humbled that you took on some of my theories. Good job brother!

If Jesus died and was resurrected from the dead and it is celebrated tomorrow on Easter Sunday, why in the Bible does it record that Jesus died after the Passover which is next month on April 22 (Mar 14:1)? So should I follow religion or should I follow what is in Scripture? God gives instructions on how the Hebrew calendar works so we know every year when Passover is on Nissan 14.

Bunnies and eggs have always represented spring to me. It wasn’t until someone said they were pagan ritual images that their image for me was tarnished. I don’t think it’s honoring God to tear down his creation…I think it sounds more like the scheme of the evil one to tarnish the beauty of the Resurrection…that did happen in Spring…

When one understands that the Jewish calendar is a false moon God worshiping calendar, AND that the biblical day truly begins at sun rise, one can see the deceptions. 1. Biblical Passover is the 14. For the Jews it moves on the day of the week due to false calendar. 2. On the biblical true calendar Passover is on Tuesday. 3. False Jews calendar has the feast of unleven bread starting at sunset after Passover ends and for them the 12 hour-ish gap is the "day of preparation". Hence why when the women followed to see where Christ was placed (before sunset) they returned and rested according to the Sabbath, BECAUSE for the true Biblical calendar the 1st day of unleven bread is a Sabbath and it started at sunrise after Passover. 3. Christ in the grave: Wed, Thur and Friday nights are 3 nights, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are 3 days. 4. Christ rose before the 1st day of the week. The word "morning" back then means the time from dark till dawn. So when the accounts say the "morning of the 1st day of the week" this means it was technically still biblical Saturday. And at that point the grave was empty. Though I highly agree, I learned this from RU-vid channel "the God Culture". I highly recommend them. The Roman Catholic Church has twisted things to decieve us all. They are the continuation of the Synagogue of Satan that the Pharisees were. No the people, but the leaders and inner circle. Research research research. Open your eyes and learn. Yah Bless!

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Jesus told us in Luke 22 to remember Him when we celebrate Passover. You elevate the traditions of men over the commands of Jesus

Easter are we adding to the Bible

Thank You for this teaching. I am definitely going to listen to this again with my mind and my Bible open .

Good debunkery, thank you! One of the best I've seen, actually ✝️

His argument is flawed. It's irrelevant what the meaning of the easter symbols is to a person. God commanded to not worship him the way the pagans worship their gods (Deut.12:4, 31, Jer.10:1-5). This is God's will clearly spelled out. If you worship him with pagan symbols, no matter your intent, then you are rebelling against God's. Jesus warned against such false worship (Matthew 7:21-23). Worshipping God in your own way and not in his way (God's holy days) will bring Jesus' rebuke. Prof. Solberg is treading ion dangerous ground (Matt.5:19). He is a modern day Elymas (Acts.13:6-12).

It is false teaching to say Easter and Christmas are okay to celebrate... We should not taint Yahwehs commands with our personal feelings. Both are pagan. Yahweh clearly was not for the Israelites worshipping a golden calf even though they "felt like" it was giving praise to Yahweh. The argument of heart condition and "what it means to us" completely falls flat and is not sensible theologically... That completely contradicts Yahweh, Christ, the prophets and the Apostles. None of them would celebrate such things that have pagan roots. Imagine saying these things to the Prophet Elijah... To the Apostle Paul... Man DOES NOT dictate what is right and wrong. Yahweh does. And Yahweh commands we have NO PART in ANY form of Pagan worship. These holidays are an abomintion to the Most High.

Can you just imagine a Passover that has a pagan version? No! Such does not exist. I wonder why. Seriously, how is it that Easter has two versions. Think about it. Something just does not add up. Maybe we are trying to force a Christian word (it isn't at all Jewish) on a pagan feast or a pagan word/event on a Christian event. I am thinking about it too and so should you.

A very informative video about Easter. Its still amazing how so many people still believe that Easter comes from Paganism. I recently watched a video from Tim O'Neill from History For Atheists website interviewing Dr Andrew Henry of Religion for Breakfast talking about Easter. It was very fascinating

The King James Bible is the only bible in Acts 12v4 that uses the word Easter which is a mistranslation. Word is Passover which is corrected in later versions. What were believers doing before Constantine and the Roman Catholic church got hold of the Faith. Jude 3, the Faith that was Once delivered to Saints. Be you ye Separate. Be set apart, pagan crap Easter-Istar.

Christ Saïd célèbre his death which was thé day of thé passover why do you have to add this célébration in thé bible this is man made The pagans célèbre Easter 15000 before Christ Thé bible said Christ spend 3 days and 3 nights in thé grave good friday and sunday IS not 3 days and 3 nights Preach thé bible and let peoples make their own choice Woe les false doctrines WE all Will bé Judged God never change brother WE worship him in spirit truth and not in thé flesh thanks for sharing

I was a drug dealing professional musician with a song on the radio and video on television. I ended up addicted insane and homeless. In 2014 God answered my cry. In 2018 God began to really work on me. I went to my fist Bible study at the SDA “church” I studied my way out the door. I experienced the very public very radical New Birth and my town saw this radical change. From opening the Bible in 2018 and devouring His living Word..to being a Chaplain today!!🤯😭🥳📖 I’ll share my perspective. I’m not a “usual case” as I’ve said my New Birth was radical and public. I spend a lot of time tasting the various “flavours” as in an ice cream shop. From my first experience in a SDA church to witnessing to JW’s Mormons..Muslims..Eastern Orthodox..Roman Catholics..Rabbinic Jews..NAR signs and wonder folks..Oneness Pentacostals. In my experience it seems most churches aren’t Biblically sound. God tells us broad is the way that leads to destruction..narrow is the path that leads to eternal life. I saw a post on Facebook and a local church was promoting Easter. Now to me we are to be separate from the world..a peculiar people set apart. Each day is the same to me personally..TODAY TODAY if you will hear HIS VOICE!!! The local church spends more time making the world comfortable..making itself more appealing..transforming itself into the worlds image..so that instead of sound hermeneutics..exegesis..eschatology we get “it’s Easter!!! Oh goodie!!!” Now is that a bad thing?! That’s between you and God. If we spent as much time defending the Bible and Jesus as we do defending Christmas Halloween and Easter where would we be? I love this channel it’s been a great blessing to me. I use it as a valuable tool in my tool box. Thank you Rob Solberg. Blessings to each of you!!!!

Matt 28:1 is curious. The words sabbath, toward and dawn seem to indicate this is still sabbath. End of sabbath has been translated by some as late on sabbath. Toward the first day of the week but hadn't arrived yet. And then this dawn word only used 2 times and in KJV translated in Lk 23:54 drew on. So could this verse actually be saying "Late on the sabbath as it drew on towards the first day of the week.... Just curious to me how translators translate. Scripture does say Christ died at 3 PM so a literal 3 days and 3 nights would be 3 PM sabbath afternoon. I know crazy but curious according to word definitions

Can you please talk about fasting and lent, etc. Wanted some ideas on how to fast for easter and good friday but i can only find catholic practices. Should I fast 40 hours 40 days?

so why do we use eggs and bunnies as the symbols?

thank you for this video. Great to remember that "worship" is in the heart of the worshipper. There are many scoffers and "accusers of the brethren" out there. We need to worship God in Spirit and in truth. Let no man tell us how to worship, but be led by the truth of God's word and God's Spirit.

So awesome ! 🎉

So, if worship is defined only by what we set our minds on and not by the traditions we actually keep, how do you reconcile that with Aaron telling the people that what they were celebrating with the golden calf was actually YHVH? Also, God repeatedly tells us to NOT mingle elements of other religions into His worship (syncretism). You seem to ignore that and cherry pick a specific incident of God giving a command "only for thr nation of Israel" and making it a universal application. that God instructed us to

Easter is not in the Bible. Passover is when the Messiah Died and rose again.

The ancient veneration of the woman as the Eve and chalice. Pick a culture or language; Ashtarte. Astarte. Eostre. Eastre. Ostara. Asteron. Asherah. Ashtoreth. Astraea. Astra. Ishtar. Astoroth. Asteria. EASTER.

Why no mention of First Fruits?

The Most High gave us His holy times in Leviticus 23, I'm good on trying to "add to the word" and manufacture our own holy times.

Funny how you didn't mention the controversy between Polycarp and the Emperor of Rome. And also Constantine's reasoning for separating from Passover. It wasn't just due to having all Christians celebrating on the same day. At the core it was to not have anything in common with the Jews. His quotes are appalling. Dr Michael Brown disagrees with you. He thinks we should go back to the Hebrew calendar for the celebration of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus.

Robert Solberg, I will be responding to this video, but can you answer the following questions, given that many of your followers avoid answering them? Where in the Scriptures did God declare Yeshua as God? Where in the Scriptures did Yeshua claim to be God? If God never declares Yeshua as God, and if Yeshua never claims to be God, why are they calling him God?

The secular traditions have and can be realigned to it's Christian tradition. Things like the egg hunts where supposed to be a action to remember the disciples looking for Jesus's body. The eggs where to remember the trinity.

Why did Catholic Church need to create a holiday to celbrate His resurrection when we already had Feast of First Fruits (which is ordained and holy by Yahuah himself)? Just as the Pharasees made a mockery of Torah by adding all their leven, so to did the Catholic church by merging pagan traditions. Christ kept the feasts and Sabath, as did his apostles, as did the early church. There are many primary and secondary sources thats state. You basically argue "so what" if the pagan symbols are present on Easter, it isnt what we are celebrating, while ignoring scripture that says its an abomination to Yahuah to mix profane with holy things. Its like telling your wife you are going to celebrate your ex-wifes anniversary... celebrating His worst enemy. His people keep doing it over and over, and I'm sure there was someone like you carrying the same justification message, "its not a bad thing, its actually good."

The focus of the Resurrection of Jesus should be three days and three nights after the Passover sacrifice of Jesus the Lamb of GOD. That is the point. 72 hours. After three days = 72 hours or more. On the third day = 48 to 72 hours. In three days = now to 72 hours. Three days and three nights = 72 hours. hours settles all the wordings.

I agree with the worship and celebration theory everything makes sense

The thought of an Easter ham! Just strange

Why you should not Easter

I have a question. You say you can't inadvertently worship something, and you also indicate it's the intent of what you're doing that is what's important. I don't necessarily disagree, but how do elxlain Israel' worship of the Golden Calf. Their intent was to worship YAHAVAH . It was wrong, and it was called idolitry, but the Calf was clearly meant to represent or stand for YAHAVA.

We are not commanded to celebrate Easter, it is a commandment of man. Matthew 15:8-9 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men Christians are deceived believing and worshipping that Jesus died Friday night and rose Sunday morning. This is a false narrative of the real Jesus because Friday night to Sunday morning is a total of 2 nights and 1 day, and Jesus says out of his mouth that he will be in the grave 3 days and 3 nights. Matthew 12:39-40 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40. For as Jonas was three days three nights in the whales belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Brothers and sisters easter is a pagan holiday commanded by the Catholic Church which celebrates another Jesus that was in the grave 2 nights and 1 day. Do not be deceived, open up the Bible and read for yourselves, do not put your salvation in another mans hand. Like Paul says we have to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. Follow the Bible, not man. If you find yourself struggling to understand the Bible, pray to God for understanding.

Maybe we should refer to God's word instead of Webster's dictionary?

Defending biblical roots of Christianity can you please do a video on the exodus project this is a Jewish RU-vidr, who believes he is helping those who have a deconstruct it from Christianity into finding the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and he loves to use Bible verses against us on how we claim that these verses are about the messiah Jesus Christ, but he uses them to argue that these are not talking about the messiah, but talking about something else, so I would basically like you to do some videos on his Isaiah, chapter 53 videos

Could you address clarity on the Name of God. So much Confusion now. I just use Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit. What or who is Yahweh? Jehovah? More. Also what is the difference between Biblical Ancient Hebrew and Modern Hebrew? Did Jesus Christ speak Aramaic? What is Jesus Christ real name or do we have the right name? The online world is getting very confusing.

Which calendar do you use to determine Easter? Gregrorian calender (Pope Gregory) or Julian calender ( Julius caesar)? My understanding is that it is not Easter yet until 4th, May 2024. Some western Christians celebrated it on 31st, March 2024. Jehovah Witnesses had their Memorial of Jesus one week earlier of 31/3/2024.

9:56 ⚠️ Exodus‬ ‭32‬:‭4‬ “meaning… in eye of beholder ⚠️ “he received the gold from their hand & fashioned it with a graving tool & made a golden calf… they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 😳 they beheld the calves as YHVH & were dead wrong ☠️

The date of Easter is determined from astronomical phenomena, using a system that was decided by the early Christian Church, after much wrangling. The problems arose from the fact that the Christians followed the Roman calendar, which is based on the solar year, but Easter is intimately connected with the Jewish festival of Passover (the Last Supper was in fact a Passover Seder)and the Jewish calendar is based in the lunar month. The Seder happens on the fourteenth night of the moon of Nisan, and can fall on any day of the week, but it so happened that in the year of the Crucifixion it fell just before a Sabbath, and while some early Christians followed the Jewish calendar and celebrated Easter on the fourteenth of Nisan whatever day it fell on, others felt that it should be celebrated on the nearest Sabbath (whichever day they were using as the Sabbath, which is another story). The former (Quartodecimans) were eventually declared heretical and the Council of Nicea in 325 standardised Easter Sunday as the first Sunday after the first fourteenth-of-the-moon after the vernal equinox. However even this did not immediately produce standard practice as there were differences of interpretation (e.g. over whether you count a fourteenth that falls exactly on the equinox, or wait for the next one) and different communities of Christians were reluctant to abandon their local traditions. In the British Isles, the Welsh and Irish churches stuck for a long time to their own tradition, which predated the English invasions, and this caused problems when the English kingdoms were evangelised both from Iona (Irish Easter) in the North and Canterbury (Roman Easter) in the south. Matters came to a head in Northumbria in the 660s, when the King was observing Easter at a different time from his Kentish wife, and after the Synod of Whitby in 664 the English kingdoms followed the Roman Easter, though the Celtic Chruch continued in their own tradition for somewhat longe

Isthar=Easter, hahaha you crack me up! Let's go with Pääsiäinen=Nisaba, Nunbarshegunu, Nee-sah-bah...ok, well I give up, somebody give this is a shot..? :)

I find the resistance of Easter and Xmas traditions followers EXTREMELY SAD AND DISAPPOINTING. The feasts are ABSOLUTELY BEYOND BEAUTIFUL!!! Christians couldn’t be bothered EVEN LEARNING the PROFOUND DEPTHS in BOTH THE OLD AND NEW COVENANTS AND FESTIVALS!!! There’s NO COMPARISON!!! The TEACHINGS ARE PHENOMENAL!!! They would rather deal with TRADITIONS OF MAN, TREES, GIFTS, FASHION, parties decorations and senseless social gatherings. NOT EVER READING OR ATTENDING YAHUSHA’s feasts OR CALLING HIM BY HIS REAL HEBREW NAME and acknowledging His ethnicity and culture and appearance, is very important. Easter and Xmas or Christmas ARE DECEPTIONS OF SATAN!!! And respect for HIS HISTORY AND HOLY DAYS get written off. No, NOTHING IS REQUIRED…….. But what PEARLS COULD YOU HOLD…….. We SUFFER from blindness desperately!!! That’s WHY WE NEED THEM !!!❤

I really like how you destroyed that begging of the question that belligerents employ by separating the cultural stuff that may be ok for christians to do from what we actually believe. Therefore easter could not have come from any of the pagan cultures since the ancillary things we may or may not do on the day have nothing to do with the real worship of the resurrection. Bravo.

These symbols of angels on the ark , I think, like the arrangement of the tabernacle- was more of a decoration- for beauty.

Making excuses for it😂

we celebrate easter, Christ Resurection,, kids finding eggs and candy.. how silly..its a wonderful fun day and Holy Week

Pay attention to the distortion. Rob, I will not be addressing all the deceiving points you are making, but I will address your blasphemous statement that God, in sovereignty, designed the ark of the Covenant after Egyptian Palanquin. First, in your lack of understanding of who God is, if you had read the scriptures when God allowed Moses to view the heavenly tabernacles and all that was contained in the presences of God, where the Messiah would become the High Priest, you would have understood that God made sure that Moses would get it correct when designing the patterns for it on earth. So, the image that Moses received was not from Egypt, as you have been taught at your theologian school. Are you telling the believers that a foreign language came before the Hebrew language? Ask yourself this silly question: When was the first time you heard about Cherubim in scripture? Did foreigners use the word Cherubim first, or did God use it in the garden after Adam's sin? Boy, if I were you, I would get my money back from the school you attended.

Okay, but at 17:32, it talks about some folks say Jesus wasn't celebrating..... well, some folks would be arguing right, as the scripture shows below. The passage doesn't say he was celebrating. At 18:11, the video assumes he is not just hanging out with the people who are there celebrating. But that is exactly what he is doing. That is what Jesus did. He hung out in the temple and taught people from the multitude to the leaders. This is the passage where, when he said he and the father were one, they went to stone him. It was hardly a celebration. Or if he was celebrating by proclaiming that he and the fagher were one, then christians should be celebrating it as he did, and proclaiming Jesus and the father are one. It cannot be argued that Jesus was celebrating. That is just an assumption. Scripture doesn't back up that assumption. It can still be argued that extra celebrations are allowed. But the assumption that Jesus celebrated it only makes the argument weak because the claim is easily shown by scripture to be in doubt. I would also warn against using the fact that if adding celebrations were not allowed, why didn't Jesus condemn the celebration if he were in the temple, as support. Jesus did not condemn a lot of things. He never condemned the high priest for not observing the feast of atonement correctly as outlined in Leviticus 16. So that support is another thing to weaken the argument. It can also be put in doubt very easily. Those two assumptions are not needed to make a case for Easter. When discussing with people who believe Easter is not appropriate, those same people will more than likely accept that Purim and Hanukkah are acceptable celebrations, whether they observe them or not. If they do believe that Purim and Hanukkahare fine, then nothing is needed to defend Easter. Because the other two were created in celebration to their God for redeeming them from those who wish to destroy God's people. Easter is to celebrate the world's redemption by God redeeming his people through his son from those who wish to destroy God's people. Argument ended. Of course the ways that celebration can still be argued until the cows come home, and then some. But the scripture never says Jesus was their because he was celebrating the holiday. The video stops at verse 23, but I included verse 24 to show he actually was just hanging with the people who were there (whether or not any of the others were there for the celebration). John 10:22-24 KJV - And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

Jesus did not celebrate Chanukah. The text does not tell us he was there celebrating, or to celebrate. Read it: John 10:22And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. 23And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 25Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. 26But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. Jesus was not there to celebrate, but to throw cold water over the whole thing. To the people who no doubt were there celebrating he said "ye are not of my sheep" And they proceeded to take him, with intent... You claim Easter is somewhat subjective, and can be good, as long as the person views it as good, culture changes, meanings change, symbols change... But God doesn't change. What God judged as repugnant, vile, disgusting, idolatry, spiritual adultery does not change. Connecting Jesus to all of that only makes it worse. God hates it, has always hated it, will always hate it. Paganism has always been a snare to "his people" He has given us countless warnings about this, We are all without excuse! Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. So God gave us a list of Feasts that we are to celebrate, and for what reason do you think it's any different from any other list given that we are not to add or take away from??? He did rebuke them "ye are not of my sheep" You are inserting assumptions into the text, because it doesn't say he wasn't celebrating, that means he was??? You wouldn't let me get away with that, what makes it ok for you? I guess bunnies and eggs came from nowhere? Nope it's all Babylonian sungod worship. One of the biggest false statements is that Ishtar/Semiramis/Isis/etc.etc.etc. they are all the same, 70 languages, same story from before the confusion of languages at the tower. Do a quick search, mountains of evidence, false, false, false statement! Ok then what's the etymology of Easter? The NOAD reports the following note, about the etymology of the word. Old English ēastre; of Germanic origin and related to German Ostern and east. According to Bede, the word is derived from Ēastre, the name of a goddess associated with spring. Scared chickens? If you simply obey his commands you don't need to worry about any of this. Exodus 20:4Thou shalt not make unto thee Exodus 25:8And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. Do you see the difference, or do you want to maintain your schizophrenic God? Based on paganism, do you think Moses was a fraud? Do you think God didn't show him the "pattern" in heaven? Do you think cherubim are not real. Pagans made all this up? Don't you think Satan has seen the heavenly throne, he was the "covering cherub" before iniquity was found in him. Don't you think Satan and the fallen angels set out to subvert the human race, and accepted worship from them in the place of God? God took pagan elements??? God and his throne were around a lot longer than all the pagan religions combined times infinity! NO, God has all the glory already. Satan can use anything he wants to divert that glory away from God, corrupting Gods people. First Fruits was always, only on the first day of the week. The fact they had a council and made a determination only proves that they are now doing something different. First Fruits is the resurrection, Remember when Jesus said to Mary: John 20:17Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. You need to study carefully the Feasts of the LORD. They are already all about Jesus. People just mess it all up. It proves corruption. Pentecost/Shavout is and always was/will be on a Sunday, and is/was/always will be a Sabbath.

It was the 3 days and nights in the grave issue that took my husband away from me and his family…2017…he never came back to us, and became legalistic to the point of driving everyone away and then he became abusive…the devil will try anything to capture your attention away from Jesus..

Are you saying it is ok to mix the Holy with the profane?

How do we know Jesus died on friday ? Passover was on friday in 30ad and 33ad but not in32ad

12:15 So then "These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.” - Why are they wrong if they wanted to honor God? Wouldn't the Idol be a great way to "celebrate" God, their intention is not to celebrate other gods but YHWH? #makeitmakesense

The question is whether we would stand before Him and celebrate with eggs and bunnies or celebrate solely His love act on our and the world's behalf to unite us to our Heavenly Father, our Creator, our God. It's not about 'us' but about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and honoring Him. When we look like the world, we will act like the world...it's much easier to go with the crowd than against it. Nothing about following Jesus Christ is easy when you're surrounded by darkness. Be ye separate...

Solberg. I just finished your debate about Shabbat with David. You said " that the Jews were trying to kill him because he was making himself equal to God and he was transgressing the sabbath because he was working" Then you say in thd debate, you don't think Jesus undermined or sinned or transgressed the sabbath. Which is it? I can give you the timestamps of these two statements if you need them

Hyper syncretism. Marrying heavenly rabbit that lay chicken eggs with the lamb of God that was slain for the sins of humanity. Hell No! Do it yourself!

You used Ephesians 2: 8&9 and forgot about verse 10, For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. When this is left out it is easy to twist verses 8 and 9 into something they are not saying.

Thanks for Your thoughts. What do You think of the 3 words I brought up

RL, you are ignoring the fact that FIRSTFRUITS is the celebration for the resurrection! There was already a day established to celebrate it! But it was too Jewish for Constantine. The Scriptures say "Christ our Firstfruits."

I've learned to view the resurrection sunday as a 'fulfillment' of sheaf offering (korban omer) what used to be on the first day in the end of the passover week. (day after sabbath, Leviticus 23:9).

You make too much sense.

its a Gentile holiday.

Thank you for all the research and explanations you presented. I have a question - when and why did this celebration begin to be called 'Easter Sunday' by Christians?

Focus on Yahweh and what's in his Word! I think that's best!

So you go by the strict definitions on things like worship and idolatry? I've known many people that make money an idol and even worship it, yet have never bent the knee or said prayers to it. Does that not count? To me, idolatry is putting something above God and His Word. His Word says not to worship Him in the manner that the gentiles worship their gods. His Word shows us examples of what we do with christmas and easter. At the base of Mount Sinai, they said lets make a golden calf; for tommow is a feast to Yahweh. They were trying to worship God with Egyptian cultural symbols. Look at the worthless shepherd, Jeroboam. 1 Kings 12:25-33 [25]Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel. [26]And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: [27]If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. [28]Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. [29]And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. [30]And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. [31]And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. [32]And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. [33]So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense. Pay close attention to verses 32-33. Have we not devised christmas and easter from our own hearts? Rob says that there isn't a celebration of the Resurrection in the Bible, but I strongly disagree. Jesus was crucified on Passover, and rose on Firstfruits. If we love Him, why would we not celebrate these things in His Ways? Being forgiven doesn't give license. Being cleansed doesn't mean you can roll in the mud and not get dirty. God is longsuffering and patient, but He does have limits. There are some who will hear Him deny them. Rob, you are in error. God did not counterfeit the Ark from pagan "gods". Moses patterned the Tabernacle and everything in it after what he saw in Heaven. Which came first? Heaven, or Mesopotamia? Who is counterfeiting who? It doesn't matter about where we saw these things in archeology. Were there other gods before Yah? Why do you fight so hard to not keep His Ways, and try to make every other way acceptable in His eyes? You are doing what is right in your own eyes, and teaching others your ways.

One of the issues is that despite the catholic church using ishtar images and worship to celebrate the resurrection, it was not the true church they mentioned in the panorian of eohisius that came from the disciples in yerusalem (nazarines). Also the easter worshippers who participated in the fertility rituals of ishtar did not need to worship easter to participate in the prostitution and infant sacrifice. These are enjoyed by pagans regardless of their faith. A witch wearing a moon and purple stone explained that these are the astrological signs of the month of easter, and the moon is easter. According to the council of nicea, the pagan (wiccan) calendar determines the date of ishtar worship and that is the date of ishtar worship, rather than the date after passover according to the Bible. There is not a valid defense for Easter worship according to the astrological solar pagan calendar prior to the crucifixion in 2024. If you believe that easter was originally called passover, that would mean the resurrection was celebrated on passover without bunnies and eggs and tammuz ham. Respectfully if you say that ishtar is not easter and they do not share the same rituals, it leads me to believe that you have been studying roman Catholic Church fables instead of historical facts. When you said that christians do not need to avoid pagan things, you became much more transparent with your beliefs. The whole duty of man is to fear yehovah and keep his laws. This statement about not avoiding paganism is evidence of evil intentions. Fornication with paganism is biblically forbidden. This is not being holy and set apart, but conforming to the world, as you said many people in the world participate in easter worship. ru-vid.comQh8JXU4mgsc?feature=share

We are not called upon to celebrate Easter because we are supposed to appreciate and honor the resurrection everyday with how we live our lives and treat others. I would implore you to read Deuteronomy 12: 29-32 and Colossians 2:8 (although I would suggest reading all of chapter two for full context) Yahweh asked us to stay away from symbols because our faith should be shown through our daily actions. Celebrating as an act of worship with symbols that clearly are pagan rooted, like rabbits for fertility, goes against everything God and Jesus talk about and ask of us multiple times throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament. He specifically tells us to not do as the gentiles do many many times. Remember what happened when the Israelites celebrated and worshiped a gold calf in the Exodus. 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 2 Timothy 3;16-17 I believe there are reasons God NEVER used symbols through the Bible to represent his good works. We so easily pervert symbols and fall into worshipping the wrong things

So, by your own words, easter is a replacement for pesach. That in most languages, the word for Easter is a form of פסח

Kim you are not a authority on the word for Passover in greek is pascha it never mentions easter except kjv in acts 12:4 was a mistake. if you want to go n celebrate little bunnies an easter eggs you go right ahead that's tell me a lot of your spiritual commitment. I stick with Resurrection of Christ