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Passover vs. Easter
(Copyright 04-19-2025) by Gary C. Miller (Pocahontas, Arkansas) WHICH ONE DO YOU OBSERVE? AND WHY? ONE IS SCRIPTURAL AND ONE IS PAGAN The Messiah and His Disciples kept One.Pagans kept the Other.The Bible commands One be Observed. Pagans kept the Other.The True Church observed One. Pagans kept the Other.One is the Gateway to Eternal Life. The Pagans kept the Other. WHICH ONE IS WHICH? DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?Messiah: “…I will keep the Passover…with my Disciples.” (Matt. 26:18) “…This do in remembrance of Me…” (Lk. 22:19) Disciples: Polycarp of Smyrna [Rev. 2:8-11) always observed the Passover with John, the disciple of Yahshua, and the rest […]
Rethinking Easter
(Copyright) by Wayne Schatzle (West Chester, Ohio) Supposedly the holiest time of the year is the Easter season. It is interesting that the very word Easter, in fact has nothing to do with Christ at all. It is a name of a pagan fertility goddess of the spring, also called Astarte, or Ishtar. Actually, God instructed His people to not even have the names of other gods on their lips {Joshua 23}. Even the various trappings of colored eggs and rabbits are additional tokens of fertility and reproduction, which we ignorantly teach to our unsuspecting children. But doesn’t it all point […]
Are Easter Celebrations OK?
by Royce Mitchell, Jr. (Manvel, Texas) We are rapidly approaching that time of the year known to many as “Easter” but to those of us in the Church as Passover season. Many professing Christians believe that God is pleased with the keeping of Easter. Indeed, some of us in the Church see no harm in keeping it. But is that really what God expects from His people? And a better question might be “Do we care enough about what God thinks to conform our acts of worship to His will?” To answer these questions, we must first learn exactly where the Easter traditions […]
Christmas, Easter, Halloween & Other Non-Biblical Holidays
by B. L. Cocherell (Nevada) Easter, Halloween, Christmas, and the national Thanksgiving holiday in the United States are among the most commonly observed religious and secular observances which many people believe are a part of the Christian God’s worship system; however, basic research into the origin of these observances shows these observances to be unacceptable to God the Father and Jesus Christ. Anyone who wishes to worship the true God and his Son correctly should understand the seriousness of celebrating these religious and secular observances, because their origin and practice involved fertility rites, sexual licentiousness, and the worship of false gods […]