Easter is a day that is honered by nearly all of contemporary
Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus
Christ.
The holiday often involves a church service at sunrise, a feast
which includes an "Easter Ham", decorated eggs and stories about
rabbits.
Those who love truth learn to ask questions, and many questions
must be asked regarding the holiday of Easter.
Is it truly the day when Jesus arose from the dead? Where did all
of the strange customs come from, which have nothing to do with the
resurrection of our Saviour?
The purpose of this tract is to help answer those questions, and to
help those who seek truth to draw their own conclusions.
The first thing we must understand is that professing Christians
were not the only ones who celebrated a festival called
"Easter."
"Ishtar", which is pronounced "Easter" was a day that commemorated
the resurrection of one of their gods that they called "Tammuz",
who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess
and the sun-god.
In those ancient times, there was a man named Nimrod, who was the
grandson of one of Noah's son named Ham.
Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis.Cush
and Semiramis then had a son named him "Nimrod."
After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and
became a powerful King.
The Bible tells of of this man, Nimrod, in Genesis 10:8-10 as
follows: "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the
earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is
said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the
beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,and
Calneh, in the land of Shinar."
Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semiramis, his wife and
mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon.
Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in
pieces and sent to various parts of his kingdom.
Semiramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that
could not be found.
That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semiramis claimed
that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the
people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now
to be called "Baal", the sun god.
Queen Semiramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on earth
in the form of a flame, whether candle or lamp, when used in
worship.
Semiramis was creating a mystery religion, and with the help of
Satan, she set herself up as a goddess.
Semiramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived.
She taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day
cycle and ovulated when full.
She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant
moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River.
This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after
the spring equinox.
Semiramis became known as "Ishtar" which is pronounced "Easter",
and her moon egg became known as "Ishtar's" egg."
Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the
sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.
The son that she brought forth was named Tammuz.
Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became
sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be
the son of the sun-god, Baal. Tammuz, like his supposed father,
became a hunter.
The day came when Tammuz was killed by a wild pig.
Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his
father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the
worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and
Spirit.
Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the "Mother of God and Queen of
Heaven", continued to build her mystery religion.
The queen told the worshippers that when Tammuz was killed by the
wild pig, some of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree,
and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. This made the
evergreen tree sacred by the blood of Tammuz.
She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year
prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz.
During this time, no meat was to be eaten.
Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and
Tammuz, and to make the sign of the "T" in front of their hearts as
they worshipped.
They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "T" or cross on
the top.
Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the
spring equinox, a celebration was made.
It was Ishtar's Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and
eggs.
Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig,
that a pig must be eaten on that Sunday.
By now, the readers of this tract should have made the connection
that paganism has infiltrated the contemporary "Christian"
churches, and further study indicates that this paganism came in by
way of the Roman Catholic System.
The truth is that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with the
resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We also know that Easter can be as much as three weeks away from
the Passover, because the pagan holiday is always set as the first
Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Some have wondered why the word "Easter" is in the the King James
Bible.
It is because Acts, chapter 12, tells us that it was the evil King
Herod, who was planning to celebrate Easter, and not the
Christians.
The true Passover and pagan Easter sometimes coincide, but in some
years, they are a great distance apart.
