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The day of preparation Nissan 14 started at sunset the evening of the Last Supper. The Lamb had not been sacrificed yet and would be sacrificed the next afternoon at the same time that YAHshua was on the cross being sacrficed.
YAHshua did not eat Lamb with His diciples at the last supper. They ate unleavened bread in accordance for with first day of the feast. The Lamb was killed on Nissan 14 and Passover started at sunset as YAHshua was put in the tomb. They ate the passover Lamb that night when Nissan 15 started at sunset.
Scripture tells us the rulers and priests would not go in to talk to Pilate to condemn YAHshua because they did not want to defile themselves so they could eat the Passover after sunset on the day of preparation when YAHshua was crucified. John 18:28.
YAHshua was killed on Wednesday Nissan 14 and placed in the tomb around sunset that day of preparation for the Passover which started at sunset which is Nissan 15.
YAHshua was in the tomb for the three full days and nights of Thursday, Friday and Saturday which included 2 Sabbaths that week. Thursday was the Passover High or Special Sabbath and Saturday was the weekly Sabbath. The women likely prepared the spices for His burial during Friday between the 2 Sabbaths because they would have been resting the other 2 days in observance of Sabbaths. They also would have eaten the Passover Lamb on Thursday after YAHshua was entombed.
YAHshua was raised at night Psalms tells us which means that after Sunset Saturday He was raised at some point. When the women went to the tomb early Sunday morning while it was still dark He had already been raised by YAH His Father.
ishtar, astarte, asherah, isis, libertas, diana etc are all the same female goddess worshipped by different cultures and nations. it is the same goddess as lady liberty today who is also worshipped the same way as then with sexual immorallity and child sacrifice. killing children by abortion is modern day child sacrifice to lady liberty or whatever goddess name you want to call it. moloch is the government which condemned children to death specifically using the word "liberty" from the constitution to condemn infants to child sacrifice to lady liberty.
the same goddess was the fertility goddess which also has to do with offering first born children just as most children killed by abortion now are the firstborn. easter symbols have to do with fertility and the worship of that goddess. it is pagan idolatry that is condemned throughout the body of Scripture and greatest offence to Creator YAH.
All of this can be proven from Scripture and history. Believers should completely disassociate themselves from all these idolatrous practices and believe the Scriptures.
The day of preparation Nissan 14 started at sunset the evening of the Last Supper. The Lamb had not been sacrificed yet and would be sacrificed the next afternoon at the same time that YAHshua was on the cross being sacrficed.
YAHshua did not eat Lamb with His diciples at the last supper. They ate unleavened bread in accordance for with first day of the feast. The Lamb was killed on Nissan 14 and Passover started at sunset as YAHshua was put in the tomb. They ate the passover Lamb that night when Nissan 15 started at sunset.
Scripture tells us the rulers and priests would not go in to talk to Pilate to condemn YAHshua because they did not want to defile themselves so they could eat the Passover after sunset on the day of preparation when YAHshua was crucified. John 18:28.
YAHshua was killed on Wednesday Nissan 14 and placed in the tomb around sunset that day of preparation for the Passover which started at sunset which is Nissan 15.
YAHshua was in the tomb for the three full days and nights of Thursday, Friday and Saturday which included 2 Sabbaths that week. Thursday was the Passover High or Special Sabbath and Saturday was the weekly Sabbath. The women likely prepared the spices for His burial during Friday between the 2 Sabbaths because they would have been resting the other 2 days in observance of Sabbaths. They also would have eaten the Passover Lamb on Thursday after YAHshua was entombed.
YAHshua was raised at night Psalms tells us which means that after Sunset Saturday He was raised at some point. When the women went to the tomb early Sunday morning while it was still dark He had already been raised by YAH His Father.
ishtar, astarte, asherah, isis, libertas, diana etc are all the same female goddess worshipped by different cultures and nations. it is the same goddess as lady liberty today who is also worshipped the same way as then with sexual immorallity and child sacrifice. killing children by abortion is modern day child sacrifice to lady liberty or whatever goddess name you want to call it. moloch is the government which condemned children to death specifically using the word "liberty" from the constitution to condemn infants to child sacrifice to lady liberty.
the same goddess was the fertility goddess which also has to do with offering first born children just as most children killed by abortion now are the firstborn. easter symbols have to do with fertility and the worship of that goddess. it is pagan idolatry that is condemned throughout the body of Scripture and greatest offence to Creator YAH.
All of this can be proven from Scripture and history. Believers should completely disassociate themselves from all these idolatrous practices and believe the Scriptures.
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Anything that has to do with Wiccans is not going to be historically accurate. Wiccans are not re-constructionist pagans so they pretty much just make things up. There are re-constructionist Anglo-Saxon pagan groups and they don't celebrate any such holiday. For example this is a complete list of Anglo-Saxon deities.
Woden
God of wisdom, knowledge, battle , victory, poetry and prophecy. Equivalent to the Norse Odin.
Ingui
The god of sacral kingship, virility and prosperity, sunshine and fair weather. Equivalent to the Norse Freyr
Thor/Thunar
The god of thunder, lightning storms, strength, the protection of mankind, hallowing, and fertility.
Frige
Goddess of love and fertility (of both men and crops). Equivalent to the Norse Frigg
Welund
God of the forge, similar to the Roman Vulcan and the Greek Hephaestus
Tiw
God of war and bloodshed similar to the Roman Mars and Greek Ares
Seaxneat
God of the sword, the Anglo-Saxons carried a short sword type blade called the Seax that was named for him.
And there you go no Eostre. Scholars to this day doubt there was ever an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn since we have no attestation to the worship of the goddess (Outside of what is given to us by the Venerable Bede), and the lack of an equivalent goddess among other Germanic peoples.
Also thanks once again to Rachel for compiling these frequently repeated falsehoods and giving answers to them all in one place.
Woden
God of wisdom, knowledge, battle , victory, poetry and prophecy. Equivalent to the Norse Odin.
Ingui
The god of sacral kingship, virility and prosperity, sunshine and fair weather. Equivalent to the Norse Freyr
Thor/Thunar
The god of thunder, lightning storms, strength, the protection of mankind, hallowing, and fertility.
Frige
Goddess of love and fertility (of both men and crops). Equivalent to the Norse Frigg
Welund
God of the forge, similar to the Roman Vulcan and the Greek Hephaestus
Tiw
God of war and bloodshed similar to the Roman Mars and Greek Ares
Seaxneat
God of the sword, the Anglo-Saxons carried a short sword type blade called the Seax that was named for him.
And there you go no Eostre. Scholars to this day doubt there was ever an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn since we have no attestation to the worship of the goddess (Outside of what is given to us by the Venerable Bede), and the lack of an equivalent goddess among other Germanic peoples.
Also thanks once again to Rachel for compiling these frequently repeated falsehoods and giving answers to them all in one place.
R
maybe i didn't make this clear in my essay...
the annual passover sabbaths were -always- without exception -always- on the day after the seder...the 15th of nisan...and the seventh day of the feast...the 21st of nisan...
we know that jesus died on the 15th of nisan because he had held the passover seder the night before according to matthew 26:17-19...mark 14:12-16...and luke 22:7-13,15... and if the 15th of nisan when jesus died was a day of preparation...then the 16th of nisan was a sabbath...
like i showed before...it is -impossible- for the annual sabbaths of the passover feast to fall on the 16th of nisan...they were fixed on the 15th and 21st...
the -only- sabbath that could have possibly taken place on the 16th of nisan was the weekly saturday sabbath...and if the 16th of nisan was saturday...then the 15th of nisan when jesus died was a friday...
this weekly sabbath was considered a 'high sabbath' because its observance would have been altered slightly during the feast...
the annual passover sabbaths were -always- without exception -always- on the day after the seder...the 15th of nisan...and the seventh day of the feast...the 21st of nisan...
we know that jesus died on the 15th of nisan because he had held the passover seder the night before according to matthew 26:17-19...mark 14:12-16...and luke 22:7-13,15... and if the 15th of nisan when jesus died was a day of preparation...then the 16th of nisan was a sabbath...
like i showed before...it is -impossible- for the annual sabbaths of the passover feast to fall on the 16th of nisan...they were fixed on the 15th and 21st...
the -only- sabbath that could have possibly taken place on the 16th of nisan was the weekly saturday sabbath...and if the 16th of nisan was saturday...then the 15th of nisan when jesus died was a friday...
this weekly sabbath was considered a 'high sabbath' because its observance would have been altered slightly during the feast...
R
passover takes place in the month of abib which means 'spring'...it was the month of the spring equinox... jesus died and rose again during the passover feast...so of course easter is going to happen close to the spring equinox...
if you insinuate that there is something sinister about easter falling near the spring equinox...you are accusing God who set the date for the passover...not the pagans...
the deception here is in the slandering spirit that falsely accuses everything christians do of having pagan roots...
if you insinuate that there is something sinister about easter falling near the spring equinox...you are accusing God who set the date for the passover...not the pagans...
the deception here is in the slandering spirit that falsely accuses everything christians do of having pagan roots...
R
wiccans and neopagans basically had to -invent- lots of their own beliefs and practices in the early 20th century because most of the old pagan religions of europe were all but forgotten... they got their notions about eostre from bede just like everyone else did...and i already showed how bede was misinformed...
i already showed how the name of easter is totally unrelated to the babylonian goddess ishtar or the nonexistent 'eostre'...repeating your old debunked misinformation over again doesn't make it true...
the word estrogen...which was originally written as 'oestrogen'...comes from the greek word 'oistros' which refers to sexual desire... medical science has always derived its technical terminology from greek...and not from the names of imaginary germanic deities...
bede is the only historical source who actually mentions eostre...and he doesn't even tell how the date was set for the supposed feast of eostre... anyone claiming to know the specific date when a feast to eostre was celebrated is making thing up...
the supposed association between hares and the already dubious eostre comes from an equally dubious connection between eostre and the norse love goddess freyja...who was actually associated with cats...not hares...
like i said before eostre is only mentioned by bede and nobody else...bede does not even tell what eostre's supposed symbols were...so anyone claiming that something is a symbol of eostre is just taking wild guesses...
i already showed how the name of easter is totally unrelated to the babylonian goddess ishtar or the nonexistent 'eostre'...repeating your old debunked misinformation over again doesn't make it true...
the word estrogen...which was originally written as 'oestrogen'...comes from the greek word 'oistros' which refers to sexual desire... medical science has always derived its technical terminology from greek...and not from the names of imaginary germanic deities...
bede is the only historical source who actually mentions eostre...and he doesn't even tell how the date was set for the supposed feast of eostre... anyone claiming to know the specific date when a feast to eostre was celebrated is making thing up...
the supposed association between hares and the already dubious eostre comes from an equally dubious connection between eostre and the norse love goddess freyja...who was actually associated with cats...not hares...
like i said before eostre is only mentioned by bede and nobody else...bede does not even tell what eostre's supposed symbols were...so anyone claiming that something is a symbol of eostre is just taking wild guesses...
R
passover lambs were slaughtered at twilight according to exodus...so your claim that the passover lambs were slaughtered in the afternoon at the same time jesus was on the cross does not line up with scripture...
the feast began with the passover seder...unleavened bread was eaten as the feast continued for the next seven days... the jews wanted to keep from defiling themselves for the rest of the feast...
all of this other stuff has already been addressed...
the feast began with the passover seder...unleavened bread was eaten as the feast continued for the next seven days... the jews wanted to keep from defiling themselves for the rest of the feast...
all of this other stuff has already been addressed...
R
here is biblical proof that partial days were counted as actual days...
in acts 10 there is a torah observant centurion named cornelius living in caesarea...one day at 3:00 PM cornelius has a vision according to acts 10:3...
next in acts 10:9 we are told that peter was praying around noon in joppa the following day when he also had a vision...that would be twenty-one hours after cornelius' vision...a full twenty-four hours would have passed by 3:00 PM that day...
acts 10:23 tells us that the -next- day peter left joppa to visit cornelius...by 3:00 PM on that day a full forty-eight hours would have passed...
finally acts 10:24 tells us that peter arrived at cornelius' house the next day after he left...according to acts 10:30 it was already 3:00 PM when peter arrived and met with cornelius... 3:00 PM on that day would have been seventy-two hours from the original vision...
seventy-two hours would have been exactly 'three days and three nights' according to the modern western method of counting days that you have been insisting on...
but how did cornelius count the days? in acts 10:30 cornelius said he had his vision 'four days ago'
so here we have a torah observant gentile telling a jewish christian that something that happened seventy-two hours before had happened 'four days ago'...and neither of them were confused by this timekeeping convention...
cornelius and peter clearly counted the remaining three hours before evening on the day cornelius had his vision as one day...the day of peter's vision made two days...the day of peter's departure from joppa made three days...and the day of peter's arrival at cornelius' house made four days...
similarly the remaining few hours after jesus died on friday was counted as one day...all of saturday made two days...and the twelve predawn hours of sunday before jesus rose made three days...
so about thirty-eight hours is counted as three days in the gospels...just like seventy-two hours is counted as four days in acts...
we have to read the bible as they would have read it back then...not as modern western readers timing things with stopwatches...
in acts 10 there is a torah observant centurion named cornelius living in caesarea...one day at 3:00 PM cornelius has a vision according to acts 10:3...
next in acts 10:9 we are told that peter was praying around noon in joppa the following day when he also had a vision...that would be twenty-one hours after cornelius' vision...a full twenty-four hours would have passed by 3:00 PM that day...
acts 10:23 tells us that the -next- day peter left joppa to visit cornelius...by 3:00 PM on that day a full forty-eight hours would have passed...
finally acts 10:24 tells us that peter arrived at cornelius' house the next day after he left...according to acts 10:30 it was already 3:00 PM when peter arrived and met with cornelius... 3:00 PM on that day would have been seventy-two hours from the original vision...
seventy-two hours would have been exactly 'three days and three nights' according to the modern western method of counting days that you have been insisting on...
but how did cornelius count the days? in acts 10:30 cornelius said he had his vision 'four days ago'
so here we have a torah observant gentile telling a jewish christian that something that happened seventy-two hours before had happened 'four days ago'...and neither of them were confused by this timekeeping convention...
cornelius and peter clearly counted the remaining three hours before evening on the day cornelius had his vision as one day...the day of peter's vision made two days...the day of peter's departure from joppa made three days...and the day of peter's arrival at cornelius' house made four days...
similarly the remaining few hours after jesus died on friday was counted as one day...all of saturday made two days...and the twelve predawn hours of sunday before jesus rose made three days...
so about thirty-eight hours is counted as three days in the gospels...just like seventy-two hours is counted as four days in acts...
we have to read the bible as they would have read it back then...not as modern western readers timing things with stopwatches...
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