YAH is TRUTH

Spring is the best season of the year for many people. Warm sunny days, the earth springing forth with new life. Flowers, budding trees, baby animals—all seem to joyfully announce that the long cold winter is over. No other Springtime custom encapsulates these celebrations of new life quite like Easter. From baby animals, to Easter eggs and Easter egg hunts, to sunrise Sunday services, and more, Easter is a beloved tradition to many people. Easter Sunday is the highlight of the Roman Catholic liturgical year, when the resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated.

According to their Catechism:

“Easter is not simply one feast among others, but the “Feast of feasts,” the “Solemnity of solemnities,” just as the Eucharist is the “Sacrament of sacraments” (the Great Sacrament). St. Athanasius calls Easter “the Great Sunday” and the Eastern Churches call Holy Week “the Great Week.” The mystery of the Resurrection, in which Christ crushed death . . .” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part 2, Sec. 1, Chapter 2, Article 1, #1169).

The origins of Easter, however, reveal that it flows directly from ancient paganism. Shortly after the flood, Nimrod reestablished idolatry in the earth. After his death, Nimrod was promoted as the original sun god. His widow, Semiramis, was called the “queen of heaven.” Various cultures continued the idolatry of these original pagans under different names. To the Egyptians, Semiramis was Isis. To the Babylonians, she was Beltis, consort to the god, Bel. To the Cannaanites she was Astarte. The Assyrians called her Ishtar. 

The worship of these goddesses involved occult fertility practices such as orgies and human sacrifices. These degrading rites were practiced even by the Israelites when in apostasy. YAHUAH clearly denounced any Israelite involvement in these pagan celebrations.

“Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger” (Jeremiah 7:17-18, NKJV).

“And He said to me, ‘Turn again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing.’ So He brought me to the door of the north gate of . . . [YAHUAH’s] house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz” (Ezekiel 8:13-14, NKJV).

Modern Easter has no basis in the pure religion of Heaven. All of its traditions are pagan.

• Rabbits and dyed Easter eggs symbolize fertility.
• Hot cross buns were the “cakes” offered to the queen of heaven.
• The forty days of weeping for Tammuz are now the 40 days of Lent leading up to Easter.
• Sunrise services were performed by pagan priests to honor the sun god.

Celebration of Easter does not honor the death and resurrection of the Saviour YAHUSHA HaMashiach. Participation in pagan practices honors Satan. No amount of renaming it by Christian names can purify Easter of its pagan origins.

Easter is much more than a pagan imposter pretending to be Christian. Lurking behind the pretty facade, Easter is a cover-up for the greatest fraud of all time: a calendar change which hides the true day of the resurrection and the true seventh-day Sabbath. As the years passed and the first so-called christians died, paganism began to corrupt the once-pure faith. The Church in Rome, greedy of ever greater power, sought ways to increase her influence.

“To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skilful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity – now far sunk in idolatry – in this as in so many other things, to shake hands. . . . This change of the calendar in regard to Easter was attended with momentous consequences. It brought into the Church the grossest corruption and the rankest superstition . . .” (Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, pp. 105-106).

This change of calendar also changed the day of worship. This is admitted by Roman Catholics who point to it as the sign of their authority. 

“Sunday . . . is purely a creation of the Catholic Church” (American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883).

“They [the Protestants] deem it their duty to keep the Sunday holy. Why? Because the Catholic Church tells them to do so. They have no other reason . . . The author of the Sunday law . . . is the Catholic Church” (Ecclesiastical Review, February 1914).

One Catholic bishop went so far as to state:

“It was the Catholic Church which made the law obliging us to keep Sunday holy. The church made this law long after the Bible was written. Hence said law is not in the Bible. The Cath[olic] Church abolished not only the Sabbath, but all the other Jewish festivals” (T. Enright, Bishop of St. Alphonsus Church, St. Louis, Missouri, June, 1905, emphasis supplied).

The Jewish festival which was outlawed in favor of Easter was Passover. All early so-called Christians kept the feasts of YAHUAH as outlined in Leviticus 23. Paganized Christians still wanted to celebrate Easter while apostolic Christians, still clinging to a pure faith, observed Passover.

“Since the second century A.D. there had been a divergence of opinion about the date for celebrating the paschal (Easter) anniversary of the Lord’s passion (death, burial and resurrection). The most ancient practice appears to have been to observe the fourteenth (the Passover date), fifteenth, and sixteenth days of the month regardless of the day of the [Julian] week these dates might fall on from year to year. The bishops of Rome, desirous of enhancing the observance of Sunday as a church festival, ruled that the annual celebration should always be held on the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday following the fourteenth day of the lunar month. . . . This controversy lasted almost two centuries, until [the Emperor] Constantine intervened in behalf of the Roman bishops and outlawed the other group” (Robert L. Odom, Sunday in Roman Paganism, p. 188, emphasis supplied). This is why your easter Sunday is after Passover, Abib 14, which we honored on Tuesday, April 4^th at sundown to sunrise the following day.

“The point of contention appeared deceptively simple: Passover versus Easter. The issues at stake, however, were immense. The only way to determine when Passover occurs is to use the Biblical luni-solar calendar . . . ” (eLaine Vornholt & L. L. Vornholt-Jones, Calendar Fraud, p. 49).

“These contentions had agitated the churches of Asia since the time of the Roman bishop Victor, who had persecuted the churches of Asia for following the ’14th-day heresy’ as they called it, in reference to the Passover. . . . The future Easter observance was to be rendered independent of Jewish calculation” (Grace Amadon, Report of Committee, Part V, Sec. B., p. 17). Victor, by way of Constantine, destroyed the Seven churches that YAHUSHA is writing to in Revelations because they kept the original Passover and Unleavened Bread celebrations, and not Easter.

Here is the real significance of Easter. Sunday is kept as a day of worship because of Easter Sunday! It is claimed that the Saviour was resurrected then. Consequently, it is assumed that the day before Easter Sunday, Saturday, is the seventh-day Sabbath.

Jews today worship on Saturday, rather than the Biblical seventh-day Sabbath. However, jewish scholars admit that the calendar in use for worship today is not the same as was used in Bible times: 

The Jews point to the extreme persecution following the Council of Nicea’s decision to set aside Jewish time calculation as the reason for why they no longer use the Biblical calendar.

“Declaring the new month . . . can only be done by the Sanhedrin. In the time of Hillel II [4th century C.E.], . . . the Romans prohibited this practice” (“The Jewish Calendar; Changing the Calendar,” www.torah.org).

Jewish scholars understand that Christianity stepped free of its Biblical roots when the pagan Easter was substituted for the true Passover. 

“At the Council of Nice [Nicæa] the last thread was snapped which connected Christianity to its parent stock. The festival of Easter had up till now been celebrated for the most part at the same time as the Jewish Passover, and indeed upon the days calculated and fixed by the Synhedrion [Sanhedrin] in Judæa for its celebration; but in future its observance was to be rendered altogether independent of the Jewish calendar. [Emperor Constantine stated], ‘For it is unbecoming beyond measure that on this holiest of festivals we should follow the customs of the Jews. Henceforward let us have nothing in common with this odious people; our Saviour has shown us another path. It would indeed be absurd if the Jews were able to boast that we are not in a position to celebrate the Passover without the aid of their rules ([time] calculations)’” (Heinrich Graetz, History of the Jews, The Jewish Publication Society of America, Vol. II, pp. 563-564, emphasis supplied).

The truth is, Easter is a fraud. It is not the day upon which YAHUSHA HaMashiach arose from the grave nor is Saturday the seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible. Easter is and has always been a pagan holiday celebrating fertility. It was substituted for YAHUAH’s Passover at the Council of Nicæa in the fourth century when the Church of Rome decided to set aside Hebrew calculation of time.

Now, in this last generation, TRUTH is to be restored. All who wish to express their gratitude for the Sacrifice made by YAHUSHA HaMashiach will commemorate it on the day upon which He died: Passover. This can only be calculated by the original calendar of Creation. Any other observance gives honor to Satan, the one who has set himself up in opposition to Heaven. We encourage you to research Easter for yourself.

Today you can choose which day represents your beliefs – Passover or Easter. 
You can choose to which power you wish to give honor and worship: the YAHUAH through YAHUSHA, or His enemy, Satan.

You can choose on which day, calculated by which calendar, you offer that worship. 

The choice is yours.

Yet, how do YAHUAH and YAHUSHA feel about your celebration of pagan holidays? Let us observe in their words and the words of the RUACH HaQadesh, whom are both of YAHUAH…

Directly from YAHUAH: 

“For I am YAHUAH, I change not; therefore ye sons of Yasharal (Jacob) are not consumed” Malachi 3:6.

“What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it” Deuteronomy 12:32.

“Speak thou also unto the children of Yasharal, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am YAHUAH that doth sanctify you” Exodus 31:13.

“And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of YAHUAH. And in the fifteenth day of this month is the Feast: seven days shall Unleavened Bread be eaten” Numbers 28:16-17.

“When YAHUAH thy ALUAH shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto YAHUAH thy ALUAH: for every abomination to YAHUAH, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods” Deuteronomy 12:29-32.

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of YAHUAH thy ALUAH: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days YAHUAH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore YAHUAH barukh the sabbath day, and hallowed it” Exodus 20:8-11.

“Thus saith YAHUAH, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? [HE is addressing our lack of humility and gratitude. For we can do nothing for HIM, yet HE has done on earth and much in heaven is for us; we are puffed up (leavened) acting as if we do not need HIM, that HE is not our GOD because we do not honor HIS ways, but the traditions of men we do.] For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith YAHUAH: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he barukh an idol. [HE does not accept our sacrifices as they are vain (empty, not for HIM, bears no fruit). We are too into pagan celebrations and traditions of men. We do not even fear HIS Word, or we would keep HIS ways.] Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. [HE delights in us keeping HIS ways, HIS commandments, and not the pagan/heathen ways and traditions]. Hear the word of YAHUAH, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let YAHUAH be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed” Isaiah 66:1-5. 

Those who do not keep HIS ways which are never changing, never ending, never done away with will be ashamed (destroyed). Those of us who do will be in HIS joy. All Praises be to YAHUAH!! People have/will hate and cast us out because we keep the Word of TRUTH (HIS Namesake); you are set apart, hated, and cast out by men for the Glory of YAHUAH to be seen when YAHUSHA returns. Barukh be YAHUSHA HaMashiach! What Glorious and Terrible Day that will be.

“And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.Thus saith YAHUAH; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from YAHUAH [by keeping traditions of men]. Barukh is the man that trusteth in YAHUAH, and whose hope YAHUAH is. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?I YAHUAH search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings” Jeremiah 17:4-5, 7, 9-10.

YAHUSHA:

“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:17-20). Because the pharisees changed the righteous way of YAHUAH into pagan holidays and traditions of men. The scribes also changed truth into lies.

“Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of YAHUAH, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of YAHUAH, that ye may keep your own tradition.” “Making the word of YAHUAH of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered [handed down]: and many such like things do ye” Mark 7:7-9, 13.

“But HE answered and said unto them, Why do ye transgress the Commandment of YAHUAH by your traditions?” Matthew 15:3.

“And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but YAHUAH knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of YAHUAH” Luke 16:15.

“But HE answered and said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of YAHUAH” Matthew 4:4.

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the True Worshippers shall worship the Abba [Father] in Ruach [Spirit] and in TRUTH: for the Abba seeketh such to worship HIM. YAHUAH is a RUACH: and they that worship HIM MUST Worship HIM in Ruach and in TRUTH” John 4:23-24.

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, YAHUAH shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, YAHUAH shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book” Revelation 22:18-19. 

Your knowledge MUST exceed that of the pharisees who are giving you the pagan holidays to keep. Otherwise, as YAHUAH and YAHUSHA says, you will be written out of the Book of Life for such abominations.

The RUACH HaQadesh (Holy Spirit):

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after HaMashiach” Colossians 2:8.

“YAHUSHA HaMashiach is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” Hebrews 13:8.

“Howbeit then, when ye knew not YAHUAH, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known YAHUAH, or rather are known of YAHUAH, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements [weak and worthless elementary principles of the world], whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain” (Galatians 4:8-11). Because this is a hard-headed people, not turning from the traditions of men to keep YAHUAH’s, Paul felt his preaching was for nothing.

“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of YAHUAH, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of YAHUAH, and the faith of YAHUSHA. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Barukh are the dead which die in YAHUSHA from henceforth: Yea, saith the Ruach, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them” Revelation 14:9-14. 

YAHUAH marked HIS people; those that keep HIS Word, HIS commandments, are the set apart people as we do not do as the majority by keeping the traditions of men. Take YAHUAH’s Mark, deny the mark of the beast, leave the beast feasts, and come to YAHUAH’s Feasts. The RUACH says then “that they may Rest in Peace from your labor.” Are you not tired of laboring in/of/for this world? Labor for YAHUAH, give good fruit, do according to HIS Will. YAHUSHA said, “the hour is here for the TRUE Worshipers to Worship YAHUAH.” Keeping these pagan holidays has nothing whatsoever to do with the Father or the Son; in fact, is in contrary of. Where in scripture are we told to honor anything called easter or anything like it? Why does the date change year to year? Because it is in honor of sun and fertility gods. 

“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even YAHUSHA our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” 1 Corinthians 5:6-8. Keep YAHUAH’s feast.

All Honor, Praise, Power, Glory, and Salvation be to YAHUAH our Abba!! Barukh be YAHUSHA our HaMashiach!!

-A.M., a Watchman