Text Box: Sunrise Services:  Attending church service before daybreak on Easter Sunday morning is for worship of the rising sun being that Jesus did not resurrect on Easter Sunday morning.  The pagan sun worshippers assembled, facing the east, anticipating the rising of the sun in honor of the sun god.

Text Box: Bunny Rabbits/Hares:  “...hares instead of, or combined with, eggs are given as presents at Easter.  This is a survival of the connexion of the hare in Teutonic myths with Eostre or Ostara,   the Goddess of Dawn and Spring.  ‘Catching the Hare’ was              a custom at the festival of the Easter Goddess, Eostre, as the hare was her emblem….”  6             

Text Box: Easter Sunday Is Pagan!

Text Box: Easter’s origin is in paganism.  The word Easter appearing in Acts 12:4, “...is chiefly noticeable as an example of the want of consistency in the translators.  In the earlier English versions [of the Bible] Easter had been frequently used as the translation of pascha.  At the last revision Passover was substituted in all passages but this.”  7       “...the death and resurrection of Jesus was  placed as near as possible to the spring equinox, while in accordance with Babylonian-Mithraic custom it was put after the full moon. (The  name Easter comes from Eostre (Ostara)…goddess of  (spring…).  The Christians at first observed the Jewish Sabbath as a holy day, but they later changed their weekly meeting to Sunday to spite the Jews and to please the Mithraists, the first day of the week having been the sun god’s day in both Egyptian and Mithraic lore.”  4  

Text Box: Hot Cross Buns:  “...customary to eat on Good Friday….This is a following on the pagan custom of the Greeks, who offered to their gods and to the moon, cakes with ‘horns,’ which were said never to grow mouldy.  The round bun represented the full moon, and the ’cross’ symbolized the four quarters.”  1

Text Box: Ham:  “...is an English tradition ex-pressing, of all things, bigotry toward Jews.”  5

Text Box: Easter Lilies:  “…there was a legend that after Christ rose from the tomb, wherever He trod, the place was marked by lilies which sprang up and blossomed in His footsteps.”  1

Text Box: New Clothes:  Indicates a share in the new life of Christ.  “It is still considered lucky to wear something new on Easter Day…. This custom obviously had origin with the old Pagan festivals which celebrated the dawn of new life and the renewal of the earth’s garments.”  1

Text Box: Eggs:  “Eggs have become closely associated with Easter, and are regarded as a symbol of resurrection.  For they hold the seeds of life, and represent the revival of fertility upon the earth...the egg as a life emblem is much older than Christianity.” 3

Text Box: Friday Crucifixion And Sunday Resurrection:  Jesus said He would be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights (Math 12:40).  Genesis established a day as being from sundown to sundown or from one time period of between the light of one day to the next (24-hour period).  If Jesus died on Friday, He would have resurrected on Monday and not Sunday—two days later.  He could not have died on a Friday, but did indeed die on a Wednesday before Passover feast began,  and was resurrected sometime on Saturday (Sabbath), the third day from His crucifixion. When Mary went back to the tomb early Sunday, He was already gone.  Friday crucifixion is a hellish lie and is the  gates of hell attempting to prevail against the True Church of Jesus Christ.  

Text Box: Lent:  Jesus’ forty days of fasting was not intended to be an example that His Church should fast forty days.  “The forty days’ abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess…. Among the Pagans this Lent seems to have been an indispensable preliminary to the great annual festival in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Tammuz….” 2