Another holiday...

Well, here we are again, at another holiday. One that Christians should not be celebrating.


First and most importantly because it is a pagan holiday. I know most people say that they celebrate it because of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, but did anyone stop to realize that we are not commanded to celebrate any "holidays", except for the ones that are commanded by God in the Bible?

Exodus 12:12-14

12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 12:17

And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.


With a lot of research, I have learned that the physical church incorporated pagan holidays to attract pagans to go to church, but twisted them a little to make them seem "Christian". Churches embraced this deception and still do today for the same results. In the end it is all about the money.

Second, it takes away from the holy feasts that God did command us to keep, Passover, First Fruits, and Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Here is a chapter in the Bible that directly talks about God being furious, that people were celebrating Easter, instead of Passover and Unleavened Bread.

I have added my comments after the verses that I felt needed explanation.

Jeremiah 7

1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

2Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

3Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

4Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

- Physical churches are not the temples of God, our bodies are.

5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

6If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

7Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

- Physical churches will lie to your face.

9Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

10And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

- Jesus is our church. Physical churches are only there for a feeling of socialization. Many people who attend churches are blasphemers and hypocrites.

11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

-Physical churches that claim to teach God's word are nothing but robbers. Stealing money to go into their own pockets and/ or pay off huge debts run up by the "officials" of the physical churches.

12But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

13And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

-God is speaking of opening the ears and eyes, which he repeatedly says over and over throughout the Bible, but you must be walking with him daily, getting to know him first before he starts revealing things to you.

14Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

- If we do not change our ways, we will not be allowed into heaven.

16Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

- God will not hear you and form a relationship with you if you do not keep God's laws.

17Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

18The 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.

-This verse is specifically talking about the people celebrating Easter. The "queen of heaven" 's name is Ishtar (pronounced Easter) / Ashtoreth / Astarte (she is mentioned in 1 Kings 11:5). The greek goddess' story has everything to do with eggs, sunrise worship (yes, I'm talking about how churches have a sunrise service), and even hot cross buns.

19Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

- Until God opens your eyes and ears, you are ignorant to what he wants, and you follow sin, which makes God angry. You have to ask God to give you wisdom to open your eyes and ears to be able to start doing what God wants. Everything in the Bible is not physical/mental, it is spiritual, which is why you cannot try to find meanings (you will become confused, which is why there are so many physical churches out there), unless you are personally walking with God.

20Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

- God is furious at the people, since they are worshipping idols and gods.

21Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

22For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

23But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

- Do as God asks and he will be pleased.

24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

- Notice that God is talking about not hearing again.

27Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

28But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

29Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

- Cutting your hair is a sin if you are a woman. God gave it as a glory to him. (1 Corinthians 11:15)

30For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

31And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

- I believe this verse is talking about cremation. (I know it's off topic, but still...) It is also referring to the fact that people would sacrifice their children to their gods, which is absolutely a direct sin against God, since children are blessings given to us.

32Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

33And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

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By the way, the holy days we are supposed to be remembering are (the months are according to the Hebrew calendar)

Passover (Nisan 14)

Unleavened Bread (Nisan 14 - 21)

First Fruits (Nisan 17)

Pentecost (You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath)

Trumpets (Tishri 1)

Day of Atonement (Tishri 10)

Feast of Tabernacles (Tishri 15)



If someone says that the feasts were given up when Christ died on the cross, they would be wrong, because these feasts were not the Moses Law, they were given to people by God. They are God's holy days.

Leviticus 23:44

And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

**I have not yet researched the biblical months in depth, since I am still trying to wrap my brain around all that I am being shown while reading the Bible daily.