Save Christians from E*aster

Note: the N^әtzarim are based in Ra·anana, Israel and are the only followers of historical Ribi Yehoshua as Mashiakh recognized as legitimate and in good standing in the same religious community as Ribi Yehoshua and his original N^әtzarim followers, the Pharisaic = Orthodox Jewish community in Israel.

Few Christians have bothered to notice the contradiction between the (correct) prophecy that the Mashiakh would remain in the earth a full three days and three nights ( The Netzarim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matityahu (NHM) 12.40) and the (mistaken) Christian tradition (based on ignorance of Judaism) that Ribi Y^әhoshua was buried as evening approached on the sixth day of the week and, to appeal to the pagan Roman sun-worshippers, resurrected at dawn on their Sun(g*od)day. Count 'em, that's only half the prophesied time! You should know there's a problem!!! Christian theologians avoid this contradiction by ignoring or perverting the prophecy, counting "partial days" and employing other machinations to evade the conundrum. The only solid and correct solution, sealed up for the last 2,000 years, is found in an intimate knowledge of the Judaism lived and practiced by Ribi Y^әhoshua and his original, N^әtzarim, Jewish followers and revealed only to the N^әtzarim in the messianic era. This undeniably, provably, correct revelation is explained in The Netzarim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matityahu (NHM) note 28.1.1.

Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia notes ("E*aster"): "According to the Venerable Bede, the name E*aster is derived from the pagan spring festival of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, and many folk customs associated with E*aster (for example, E*aster eggs) are of pagan origin." Other encyclopedias also note that long before Christ, this was the spring festival for this g*od-dess idol under its various translated names: E*sotera / I*shtar / A*starte / A*shtoreth.

Encarta 95 Encyclopedia ("E*aster") describes:

"Pre-Christian Tradition
E*aster, a Christian festival, embodies many pre-Christian traditions. The origin of its name is unknown. Scholars, however, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8^th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe it probably comes from E*astre, the Anglo-Saxon name of a Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility, to whom was dedicated a month corresponding to April. Her festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox; traditions associated with the festival survive in the E*aster rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored E*aster eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in E*aster-egg rolling contests or given as gifts."

The tradition of painting E*aster eggs is called pysanky. "Among Ukrainians there is a belief that the fate of the world depends upon pysanky. As long as egg decorating continues, the world will exist. Should the custom cease, evil in the guise of an ancient, vicious monster chained to a huge cliff will encompass the world and destroy it. Each year the monster's servants encircle the globe, keeping a record of the number of pysanky made. Should there be too few, the monster's chains loosen, and evil flows through the world. If there are many, the monster's chains hold taut, allowing love to conquer evil." (www.pysanka.com).

The late Oxford scholar of history, James Parkes, as well as Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Geza Vermes, and many other eminent historians have elucidated the polar opposite natures of 1^st century N^әtzarim Jews and 4^th century gentile Christians and the New Testament. Similarly, these scholars have documented the intractably contradictory natures of Judaic Pesakh and the antithetical pagan fertility festival for E*sotera (A*shtoreth, E*aster). Ignoring all of this, Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia (loc. cit.) blunders in suggesting that the "Early Christians observed E*aster on the same day as Passover."

To its credit, however, Grolier's notes that "In the 2^nd century [C.E.], the Christian celebration was transferred to the Sunday [sun g*od day] following the 14-15 Nisan, if that day fell on a weekday" (loc. sit.). However, this wasn't yet "E*aster."

It widely and indisputably documented that wasn't until 325 C.E. that the Church Council of Nicaea decided that it should be celebrated on the first Sun(g*od)day after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox (03.21). Thus, the "First E*aster" was in 325 C.E.!!!

In other words, only after these native Roman gentile pagans had wrested control from the N^әtzarim Jews in 135 C.E. were they able to syncretize their pagan festival into their own native Roman (and gentile) pagan belief system — honoring pagan g*oddesses. Below, you will see further documentation that the pantheon of pagan g*ods worshipped by these idolatrous Roman gentiles also included Z*eus, J*upiter and the sun-g*od, M*ithra — after whom they named the first day of the week.

They syncretized their pagan fertility festival for the g*od-dess E*sotera, displacing Jewish Pesakh, only after 135 C.E. when the Roman gentiles had wrested control from the original followers of Yehoshua. Until 135 C.E., the N^әtzarim were headed by the 15^th paqid, Yehudah, who was forcibly ousted by the first gentile Roman "bishop," Marcus, in 135 C.E. in their paganized city of Aelia C*apitolina, built overtop the ruins of Y^әrushâlayim.

The paganization of Yerushalayim into Aelia C*apitolina, dedicated to Z*eus and sun worship, is complemented by the "coincidental gentilization" of the N^әtzarim by gentiles who commenced to syncretize pagan worship!!!

All major encyclopedias corroborate, and our books document, that even the earliest Christian Church historians recorded that not just E*aster, but all of today's major Christian holidays, were adopted into Christianity only several centuries after the death of Yehoshua, only by gentiles who were native Roman pagans; and only after 135 CE after the Roman gentiles forcibly wrested control from the N^әtzarim, at the same time they paganized Yerushalayim into "Aelia C*apitolina" — dedicated to Z*eus and sun-worship (and, by the way, included renaming the land wrested from the Jews, calling it for the first time "Palestine").

The change from Shabat to Sun- (G*od-) day didn't occur with "E*aster." In fact, historical records show that the change from Shabat to Sun- (G*od-) day didn't occur until the 5^th century, centuries after the death of Yehoshua and centuries after Roman gentiles wrested control from the original followers of Yehoshua in 135 CE in their paganized city of Aelia C*apitolina built overtop the ruins of Y^әrushalayim.

"Do not do like the practice of the land... in which you dwelled, and do not do like the practice of the land... to which I bring you, and do not walk in their traditions. Do My mishpatim and watchguard My khuqim to walk in them." (va-Yiqra 18.3).