Matthew 28:1 (kjv), In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Now again I say, it's not worth arguing over; but if you're going to argue your point, you will have to deny the veracity of the king james version of the Bible. And that version is responsible for more people being saved than any other version.
Now you tell me how celebrating Christian holidays on days that were once pagan holidays is following satan. It is nitpicking to say the least.
God is a God of grace, what day I do certain things on has no bearing on the state of my heart: a date in the week or year is something that is superficial to say the least. I am not worshipping the pagan aspect in any of it but the Christian. If I were to worship the pagan in it I can see where there would be a problem. But I don't. Therefore it is the same as in meat sacrificed to idols, in 1 Corinthians 10:25-33. If no one mentions that the meat was sacrificed to an idol, I can eat to my heart's content; but if someone mentions that it is, I am not to eat for the sake of the conscience of the other, not my own conscience.
Matthew 23:3-4 comes to mind. So from now on I will not celebrate Easter on the prescribed day for the sake of your conscience, even though to me Easter is not about the day it is celebrated on but about the resurrection of our Lord. Therefore, you have effectively stopped me from celebrating the resurrection simply because it is traditionally celebrated on a day that helped to turn the Roman Empire from pagan to Christian through the monopoly on the holiday that it presented. Oh well, I guess the devil won that time! he surely doesn't want people to exalt the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead!
Deuteronomy 12:29
When YHWH thy Elohim shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
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Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and
that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do
likewise.
You can not serve YHWH, the way that the pagans served their gods
That means, do not incorporate their Traditions, on how the nations worship their gods, Then say that you are doing it for HIM. (What Someone believes in their heart, does not exempt them from Truth) No matter how many others are doing it.
Esteeming their days, the times they have set-apart to worship their gods.
Decorating a tree to worship their gods.
Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
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They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Those that Worship Elohim, Must do so in Spirit and Truth
He does not accept worship that mixes the Holy and the Profane.
That's an Abomination to Him
The puritans tried not to allow the pagan traditions of the RCC to take root in America, one of the things they were escaping by getting out of the places they were coming from.
The Puritans of New England then passed a series of laws making any observance of christmas illegal, thus banning christmas celebrations for part of the 17th century. A Massachusetts law of 1659 punished offenders with a hefty five shilling fine.
and
Was Criminally Illegal Until 1907
easter is far worse of an abomination, on so many levels.
YESHUA said to Keep the Passover in Remembrance of Him -
The DAY that is decided on when easter OY VEY shall occur each year HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with when The Passover occurs that year, which determines the date of FirstFruits/ The Resurrection Day on YHWH's Calendar.
It is kept according to the tradition of ishtar, who commanded that a swine be sacrificed, and eaten, because a swine killed tammuz on that sunday. And has been kept since ancient times, Before YESHUA rose from the dead - kept on the first sunday after the vernal equinox usually.
YHWH threw the northern kingdom out of His Land for worshipping her. 1 Kings 11:5
Now YESHUA approves of calling the day of His resurrection after her?
and that christians favorite thing to eat on that day is a pig?
Unbelievable how many have ZERO discernment.
Unless you are going to quit following the days of the pagans for Him, and not me, you will never get it.
putting the names of other gods in His face. Deuteronomy 31:18
