Isayah
1:14—
Your
new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates! They are a trouble
to Me! I am weary of bearing them!
All the earth is defiled by the breaking of the Law, Do Not Follow The Way Of The Gods. The inhabitants of the earth are defiled because they have forsaken the way of our Father Yahweh and have turned to the way of the Gods.
We see examples of following the ways of the Gods (and breaking this Law of Yahweh) in the keeping of all modern holidays and traditions.
Strange Stories and Amazing Facts, by the Readers Digest Association, page 283, tells us:
Although Christianity has swept the world in a relatively short time, as the histories of great religions go, the early missionaries faced an uphill task. The Pagans were reluctant to give up their false gods and ancient practices.
So the missionaries, unable to convert them easily to an entirely new code of worship, did the next best thing. They took the pagan festivals as they were and gradually grafted the observances of the new faith onto these festivals, and the rites and customs surrounding them.
Christianity only incorporated pagan Godworship into its beliefs. This Godworship is totally against Yahweh's Laws. The people of the world today, in their ignorance, actually celebrate festivals in honor of the Gods of this world and Satan the Devil. The Laws of Yahweh are broken as the way of the Gods is followed.
~ Easter ~
Every year, after the harsh winter months are over and the earth is turning green with the new growth of Spring, there is a pagan ceremony which is still celebrated. This day was set apart by the ancient people as the special day for the worship of the Goddess of the Dawn. This pagan rite, still set today according to the vernal equinox, is more familiarly known to this deceived world as Easter.
Reading from Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, F.E. Compton & Co., Chicago, IL, 1948, Volume 4, page 140, we find that Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and was named after the ancient Anglo Saxon Goddess of Spring.
EASTER. The greatest festival of the Christian church commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is a movable feast, that is, it is not always held on the same date. The church council of Nicea (a.d. 325) decided that Easter should be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox (March 21). Easter can come as early as March 22 or as late as April 25.
The name Easter comes from the ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, Eostre or Ostara, in whose honor an annual spring festival was held. Some of our Easter customs have come from this and other pre-Christian spring festivals. Others come from the Passover feast of the Jews, observed in memory of their deliverance from Egypt (see Passover). The word "paschal", meaning "pertaining to Easter", like the French word for Easter, Pâques, comes through the Latin from the Hebrew name of the Passover.
It is no secret that Easter originated with the worship of a pagan Goddess.
Reading about this spring festival from Funk & Wagnall's Standard Reference Encyclopedia, 1962, Volume 8, page 2940, we learn:
Although Easter is a Christian festival, it embodies traditions of an ancient time antedating the rise of Christianity. The origin of its name is lost in the dim past; some scholars believe it probably is derived from Eastre, Anglo-Saxon name of a Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility, to whom was dedicated Eastre monath, corresponding to April. Her festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox, and traditions associated with the festival survive in the familiar Easter bunny, symbol of the fertile rabbit, and in the equally familiar colored Easter eggs originally painted with gay hues to represent the sunlight of spring.
The Layman's Bible Encyclopedia, by William C. Martin, The Southwestern Company, Nashville, TN, 1964, page 209, gives these facts about Easter.
EASTER, an annual celebration observed by much of the Christian church, commemorating Christ's resurrection. Modern observance of Easter represents a convergence of three traditions: (1) The Hebrew Passover, celebrated during Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew lunar calendar; (2) The Christian commemoration of the 'crucifixion' and resurrection of 'Jesus', which took place at the feast of the Passover; and (3) The Norse Ostara or Eostra (from which the name, "Easter'' is derived), a pagan festival of spring which fell at the vernal equinox, March 21. Prominent symbols in this celebration of the resurrection of nature after the winter were rabbits, signifying fecundity, and eggs, colored like the rays of the "returning sun'' and the northern lights, or "aurora borealis.''
The way of the Gods is followed when such holidays are observed. These holidays are not written about in the Holy Scriptures. Yahweh says He hates any festival in honor of the Gods.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates! They are a trouble to Me! I am weary of bearing them!
This Law is broken throughout the world today as holidays are kept and symbols are worshipped instead of following the way of our Father Yahweh.
Throughout the world today, all religions celebrate customs that originated in Godworship. Only the House of Yahweh, reestablished in these Last Days, does not give any honor or reverence to the Gods. We do not walk in or follow after the way of the Gods.
The
Peaceful Solution, Volume 5
By
Yisrayl Hawkins