Greetings in
the matchless name of Jesus,
Just a quick
reminder that believers in South Florida are
kindly asked to help spread the truth by
handing out tracts at the "Air and Sea Show" on
May 2, 2003. Here are the guidelines with maps
and here is the tract
- 8” x 11” -
flyer like style. You can make your own in
similar fashion with the same or different
content. There are some changes to the
guidelines since last week. Here are the actual
addresses to copy and paste if the links above
don't work:
Guidelines -- http://www.threeq.com/publishers/airshow.doc
Tract -- http://www.threeq.com/pdf/airshow.pdf
EASTER
Two of the most
popular letters thus far have been on Holidays;
that is, the one on Christmas and Valentines.
Therefore, it just might be that these topics
are of interest to many. In these two
newsletters it was stressed why believers should
avoid being caught up in the festivities of the
season and "be ye separated, saith the Lord."
This letter is no different and the facts
below will hopefully aid in doing
this. It is from
the book "Heathen Holidays." I don't know the
author or their Chrisitan affiliation, but what
is presented here is research and you don't have
to be inspired to find research.
"The name of
this festival, itself, shows its heathen origin.
"Easter" is derived from Eastre, or Eostre, the
Anglo-Saxon Goddess of spring and dawn. There
also is some historical connection existing
between the words "Easter" and "East," where the
sun rises. The festival of Eostre was celebrated
on the day of the Vernal Equinox (spring).
Traditions associated with the festival of the
Teutonic fertility Goddess survive in the Easter
rabbit and colored eggs.
Spring is the
season of new life and revival, when, from
ancient times, the pagan peoples of Europe and
Asia held their spring festivals, re-enacting
ancient regeneration myths and performing
magical and religious ceremonies to make the
crops grow and prosper.
From "The
American Book of Days," by George William
Douglas we read: "As the festival of Eostre was
a celebration of the renewal of life in the
spring it was easy to make it a celebration of
the resurrection from the dead of Jesus. There
is no doubt that the Church (of Rome) in its
early days adopted the old pagan customs and
gave a "Christian" meaning to them.
From "Easter:
its Story and Meaning," by Alan W. Watts is
found: "The story of Easter is not simply a
Christian story. Not only is the very name
"Easter" the name of an ancient and
non-Christian deity; the season itself has also,
from time immemorial, been the occasion of rites
and observances having to do with the mystery of
death and resurrection among peoples differing
widely in race and religion."
From "Easter
and its customs," by Christina Hole is found:
"Vernal Mysteries (spring heathen rites) like
those of Tammuz, and Osiris and Adonis
flourished in the Mediterranean world and
farther north and east there were others. Some
of their rites and symbols were carried forward
into Easter customs. Many of them have survived
into our own day, unchanged yet subtly altered
in their new surroundings to bear a "Christian"
significance."
TAMMUZ
AND THE VERNAL MYSTERIES
The rites
connected with the death and resurrection of the
gods Tammuz, Osiris, and Adonis are the
Forerunners of the "Christian" Easter; they are
the first East services.
Let us look in
the Word of God in Ezekiel 8:13-16
(13) He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again,
and thou
shalt
see greater abominations that they do.
(14) Then he brought
me to the door of the gate of the Lord's
house which was
toward the north; and behold, there sat
women WEEPING
FOR
TAMMUZ (15) Then said he unto me,
Hast thou seen this, O
son of man? Turn thee yet again, and
thou shalt see greater
abominations than
these (16) And he brought me into the inner
court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at
the door of the temple
of the Lord, between the porch and the
alter, were about five
and twenty men, with their backs toward the
temple of the Lord,
and their faces toward the EAST; and they
WORSHIPPED
THE SUN toward the EAST.
Here the people
of God, Israel, had back-slid into idolatry.
Tammuz was a Babylonian god. Like Christ Mass
and New Year's, Easter, too, began in Babylon.
Let us look
into the Mythologies of the death and
resurrection gods, such as Tammuz from "Easter:
its Story and Meaning."
"Wife and beloved of Tammuz
was the goddess Inanna, or
Ishtar,
in whose person is represented she whom we now
call
Mother
Nature of Mother Earth -- she who, when
refreshed with
the
spring rains, with the water from heaven, brings
forth
the
fruits of life. We are told that when
Tammuz died, Inanna
was
so stricken with grief that she followed him to
the
underworld,
to the realm of Eresh-Kigal, Queen of the Dead,
a "land
from
which there is no returning, a house of
darkness, where
dust
lies on door and bolt." In her absence the
earth was
deprived
of its fertility; crops would not grow; animals
would not
mate;
life was in danger of coming to an
end.
"O my child!"
at his vanishing aways she lifts up a lament;
"My Damu!" at his vanishing away she lifts up a
lament; "My enchanter and priest!" at his
vanishing away she lifts up a lament, At the
shining cedar, rooted in a spacious place, In
Eanna, above and below, she lifts up a lament.
This ancient
text is called "The Lament of the Flutes for
Tammuz." He had gone away to the underworld, and
this was why there was winter. "The Lament of
the Flutes for Tammuz" describes the grief which
moved Ea, god of water and wisdom, to send a
heavenly messenger to the underworld to rescue
the goddess whose absence was removing life from
the earth. Assenting reluctantly to his supreme
will, Eresh-Kigal allowed the messenger to
sprinkle Inanna and Tammuz with water of life--a
potion which gave them power to return into the
light of the sun for six months of the year. But
for the other six months, Tammuz must again
return to the land of death, whither Inanna
would again pursue him, and once more with her
lamentations move Ea to give the water of life
so that year after year the miracle of
resurrection and spring would recur."
In the course
of centuries, the story and the yearly rites
connected with the death and resurrection of
Tammuz moved westward to Phoenicia and Syria on
the extreme east of the Mediterranean. In Greece
the two names are Adonis and Aphrodite.
The myth
underwent some changes in passing from Sumeria
to Syria.
A Greek myth
tells of Demeter, like Inanna, the goddess of
the earth, and her daughter, Kore (Persephone).
The girl was abducted by Pluto, the ruler of the
underworld, and her absence brought about a
famine on earth through the failure of the
crops. Pluto was therefore moved to restored
Kore to her mother, but because she had eaten a
pomegranate in the underworld she was bound to
return to Pluto for as many months of each year
as there were seeds of the pomegranate caught in
her mouth. In joy at her annual return, the
earth (Demeter) brings forth her fruits and
flowers.
Adonis (Greek
god) was the child of Myrrha, the myrtle tree.
(It seems that almost all the gods of death and
resurrection are associated with a tree.) When
the infant Adonis was born, Aphrodite was so
charmed with his beauty that she adopted him and
concealed him in a chest, which she gave for
safekeeping to Persephone--the counterpart of
Eresh-Kigal, the Babylonian Queen of the Dead.
In the underworld Persephone opened the chest,
and was herself so enchanged with the babe that
she decided to keep him. This led to a dispute
between Aphrodite and Persephone, between love
and death, in which Zeus (taking the place of
the Babylonian Ea) had to intervene. Zeus
decreed that for four months of the year Adonis
should belong to Aphrodite, for four to
Persephone, and for the remaining four he should
do as he wished--Adonis chose to spend them with
Aphrodite.
When he had
grown to young manhood, Adonis roused the envy
of Artemis, the forest goddess of the hunt, or
according to another account, or Ares, the god
of war. Thus, while he was out hunting, Artemis
slew Adonis with an arrow--the arrows of Artemis
being the cause to which sudden death was
generally ascribed--or in the version, he was
gored by Ares in the form of a wild boar. He
died, and where the earth had received his
blood, Aphrodite sprinkled the ground with
nectar, so that the blood turned into anemones
and other flowers of the field. But the grief of
Aphrodite was so piteous that the gods of the
underworld allowed Adonis to return to her every
spring for six months of the year.
In Asia Minor
the Phrygians believed that their omnipotent
deity went to sleep at the time of the winter
solstice and they performed ceremonies with
music and dancing at the spring equinox to
awaken him.
Of the same
essential pattern is the great Egyptian myth of
Osiris. The common elements in all these stories
are so apparent that one may think of them as a
single drama performed again and again by
different actors.
It would be
tedious to describe in detail all that has been
handed down to us about the various rites of
Tammuz, Adonis, Kire, and many others. Their
rites had many basic elements in common. Their
universal theme--the drama of death and
resurrection--makes them the forerunners of the
"Christian" Easter, and thus the first easter
services. Many of the customs and ceremonies of
the "Christian" Easter resemble these former
rites, for instance, the present day "Sun Rise
Services." Easter descended from pagan sun
worship. Catholic Doctrine simply paralleled the
pagan death and resurrection myths of the gods
with the story of Christ's crucifixion and
Ascension. Christ now rises from the dead with
the ascending sun at the time of the Vernal
Equinox when plant life and all forms of
vegetation appear again on the Earth, and is
celebrated with the same customs as that of the
Heathen rites namely, rabbits, chickens, and
colored eggs!
COLORED
EGGS
The Easter egg
takes us back to some of the oldest known
civilizations on earth where the symbol of an
egg played an important part in mythical
accounts of the creation of the world. According
to this tale heaven and earth were formed from
the two halves of a mysterious World-Egg. The
Easter egg is associated with this World-Egg,
the original germ from which all life proceeds,
and whose shell is the firmament. So there is a
heathen connection between the egg and the ideas
or feelings of birth, new life, and creation.
Easter eggs do
have a very long ancestry. In their modern
chocolate or cardboard form they date only from
the later years of the last century, but giving
real eggs, colored or gilded at Easter and also
at the pre-Christian spring celebrations are
infinitely older.
Long before the
Christian era, eggs were regarded as symbols of
continuing life and resurrection. The ancient
Persians and Greeks exchanged them at their
spring festivals when all things in nature
revived after the winter. To the early pagans
converted to "Christianity" under Emperor
Constantine's rule, eggs seemed the obvious
symbols of the Lord's resurrection and were
therefore considered "holy" and appropriate
gifts at Easter time. Pope Paul V appointed a
prayer in which the eggs were "blessed." The
eggs could then be eaten in thankfulness to God
on account of the resurrection of the Lord. The
custom of coloring eggs at Easter continued from
paganism with only a change of dedication. These
eggs are often red. Scarlet eggs were given in
the spring by pagan peoples centuries before the
birth of Christ. It is probably the favorite
color because, like the egg itself, it is an
emblem of life.
THE
EASTER RABBIT
The hare is the
true Easter beast, not the rabbit. He was sacred
to the Spring-Goddess, Eostre. Hares were
sacrificed to her. The hare was an emblem of
fertility, renewal, and return of spring to the
heathen. The egg, in modern American folklore,
is the production of the rabbit or the hare. The
story is that this hare was once a bird whom
Eostre changed into a four-footed creature.
HOT-CROSS
BUNS
Eating
hot-cross buns is one of the Good Friday customs
that has taken root in America. They are pagan
in origin, for the Anglo-Saxon savages consumed
cakes as part of the jollity that attended the
welcoming of spring. Early missionaries from
Rome despaired of breaking them of the habit,
and got around the difficulty by blessing the
cakes, drawing a cross upon them. But the cross was a pagan symbol
long before the crucifixion. Bread and cakes
were sometimes marked with it in pre-Christian
times. Two small loaves each with a cross on
them were discovered under the ruins of
Herculaneum, a city overwhelmed by volcanic ash
in A.D. 79. It is probable that the crosses here
had a pagan meaning like those which appeared on
cakes associated with the worship of Diana.
There are other
pagan customs associated with Easter, but we
have discussed the most common ones." -
END
SATAN’S
PLOT
Those who read
the Christmas and Valentines message would readily
see why pagan festivities were cloaked under
popular Christianity. Reason being, the pagan
festivities of these popular holidays are now
being known because satan has already woven
these occult festivities within 'Christian'
traditions, unknowingly. So allowing it to be
unmasked, internationally, would only drop the
Christian values from it and the festivities
would continue, as it was when it was openly
occult. In this world, which is becoming a
melting pot for culture and religion, no one
will even notice or bother to give consideration
whether or not it's Christian or not, after so
many generations of it. No one is going to give
up their traditions (bunnies, colored eggs,
etc), even though they will find out that Christ
nor God had nothing to do with it; or apart of
it.
Satan would have then used a good
name to preserve his occult practice until the
dawn of the New Age and religious tolerance
delusion. Reason being, he cannot beat
Christianity, so he has to tolerate it and
pervert it from within to try and achieve his
goal. Here is a quote about one of the top
members of satan's army, which confirms this
strategy:
"Weishaupt [founder of the
luciferian society- illuminati], a professor of
ingolstadt, heartily hated the Jesuits, and
formed his league of illuminati with the express
intention 'of using for good ends the means
which the Jesuit order had employed for bad'"
(The power and Secret of the Jesuit -1930-Fillip
Miller).
Because
of these three letters on Christmas,
Valentines and now Easter we really need to know
what is a real Holiday. This tract might help,
CLICK HERE.
Grace be unto
you,
Oneil.
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