The name Easter actually comes from Ishtar / Easter who was worshiped
as the moon goddess, the goddess of spring and fertility, and the
Queen of Heaven. She is known by so many other names in other countries
and cultures that she is often referred to as the goddess of one
thousand names.
(John 8:44, II Corinthians 11:14, 1 Peter 5:8)
Ishtar – the Babylonian goddess – is the one for whom Easter is named.
Ishtar is but another name for Semiramis – the wife of Nimrod. This
post-Flood festival was part of the false religion Mystery Babylon and
was started by Nimrod and his wife Semiramis (also known as Ishtar).
They
not only instituted the building of the Tower of Babel, they also
established themselves as god and goddess to be worshiped by the people
of Babylon. They are the co-founders of all the counterfeit religions
that have ever existed.
Nimrod was worshiped as the Sun God. He
was worshiped in numerous cultures and countries under a variety of
names: Samas, Attis, Uti, Merodach/Marduk, Ninus, Bel/Baal, Moloch,
Tammuz – the list is virtually endless. [He was also known as Dumuzi by
the Sumerians and as RA by the Egyptians. [and Apollo by the Greeks]
Millions of people are unknowingly worshiping and praying to this pagan goddess today. What is her present-day name?
The
Babylonians celebrated the day of Ishtar / Easter as the return of the
goddess of Spring – the re-birth or reincarnation of Nature and the
goddess of Nature. Babylonian legend says that each year a huge egg
would fall from heaven and would land in the area around the Euphrates
River.
In her yearly re-birth, Ishtar would break out of this egg
and if any of those celebrating this occasion happened to find her egg,
Ishtar would bestow a special blessing on that person. This is the
origin of our modern-day tradition of Easter eggs and baskets and Easter
egg hunts.
Other pagan rites that were connected with this
celebration and which are part of our modern Easter tradition are Easter
offerings to the Queen of Heaven (consisting of freshly cut flowers,
hot buns decorated with crosses, and star-shaped cakes); new clothes to
celebrate this festival (The pagan priests wore new clothes or robes
and the Vestal Virgins wore new white dresses or robes and bonnets on
their heads.); and sunrise services (to symbolically hasten the yearly
arrival of Ishtar’s egg from heaven – the re-incarnation of the spring
goddess).
Every year, the priests of Ishtar would impregnate young
virgins on an altar dedicated to herself and her husband*. The children
were born on Christmas (!!!), and the next year they were sacrificed in
the Easter’s Sunday at the sunrise service. The priests would take
Ishtar’s eggs and dye them in the blood of the sacrificed children.
By the way, this evening is the observance of Pesach, or Passover, if you go by the sighted moon calendar as I do. Tomorrow is the first day of Unleavened Bread.
Yeshua was raised the evening of the Seventh Day of the week (since He
was crucified on a Wednesday, count three days and three nights), the
following sunday was Yom HaBikkurim, or First Fruits. Yeshua was the
first of the First Fruits, and as the High Priest according to the order
of Melchizedek, He presented the First Fruits (Matt. 27:52-53, Rev. 4:4, 10; 5:8; 11:16;
and 19:4) before the Throne of Yehovah on Yom HaBikkurim which always
follows the weekly Sabbath after Pesach, which is a sunday.
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