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Well if you study the traditions of the Babylonians in their sun god and fertility worship, they did worship:
1) The stump of the evergreen tree
2) The evergreen tree itself
3) The idols carved out of the trees
So... yes Jeremiah 10 does apply
Regarding Easter, the KJV wasn't exactly wrong as the Romans did celebrate the fertility festival of Ishtar/Eostre/Easter during that time of year. However, it was very closely timed with Passover, hence the syncretism done to merge them together.
Lent was never mentioned in the bible, and was commemorated by the 40 days of fasting and weeping for the fallen Tammuz, killed by a wild boar (hence Easter ham). Neither does it coincide with the death and resurrection of Christ. Christ did die on Passover (14th Nisan) and rose three days later. This we are pretty sure about.
Regarding the OT feasts, we do not observe them by the letter as we are not required to. However, we are called to understand the prophetic nature of the feasts as they apply to Christ's ministry for His first and second coming. As we know, the spring feasts and summer feast were fulfilled to the day. The Fall feasts have yet to be fulfilled. We understand why God instituted them and how they now apply spiritually in Christ. In essence, a spiritual observance and keeping the feasts in Christ just as we keep the Ritual and Ceremonial Law spiritually and not to the letter.
1) The stump of the evergreen tree
2) The evergreen tree itself
3) The idols carved out of the trees
So... yes Jeremiah 10 does apply
Regarding Easter, the KJV wasn't exactly wrong as the Romans did celebrate the fertility festival of Ishtar/Eostre/Easter during that time of year. However, it was very closely timed with Passover, hence the syncretism done to merge them together.
Lent was never mentioned in the bible, and was commemorated by the 40 days of fasting and weeping for the fallen Tammuz, killed by a wild boar (hence Easter ham). Neither does it coincide with the death and resurrection of Christ. Christ did die on Passover (14th Nisan) and rose three days later. This we are pretty sure about.
Regarding the OT feasts, we do not observe them by the letter as we are not required to. However, we are called to understand the prophetic nature of the feasts as they apply to Christ's ministry for His first and second coming. As we know, the spring feasts and summer feast were fulfilled to the day. The Fall feasts have yet to be fulfilled. We understand why God instituted them and how they now apply spiritually in Christ. In essence, a spiritual observance and keeping the feasts in Christ just as we keep the Ritual and Ceremonial Law spiritually and not to the letter.
The same Greek word pascha was translated 28 times as Passover, and once as Easter.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/act/12/4/t_conc_1030004
What justified their use of the English word Easter in that one case, but in the other 28 cases they used Passover?