Resurrection Sunday? Good Friday? Passover? Pentecost?
Resurrection Sunday was the original peak holiday for Christians. It wasn't Christ's birth like it is now. Read earliest Christian writings, that's clear immediately. Today Resurrection Sunday / Easter is just an afterthought for most.
I'm glad you pick up on the influences of pagan holidays on current holidays. I'm glad you pick up on how paganism has warped genuine Christianity. Many Christians think these holidays are okay b/c they've been 'Christianized' & the original meanings have been lost to the mob. I don't think we s/ condemn Christiians for celebrating Christianized holidays, but I don't think these 'Christian' holidays are quite as Christian as they think either.
Yeah, true, the holidays sure are not as Christian as many believe. Quite the opposite in fact. The official narrative is a lie, and God is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). As for ‘Good Friday’ and ‘resurrection Sunday’, it doesn’t add up.
“For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
—Matthew 12:40
The scriptures say that Jesus was buried as the sabbath evening approached (Mark 15:42). His tomb was found empty as the first day of the week approached (Matthew 28:1-6). There’s no way possible to get 3 days and 3 nights from Friday to Sunday even by counting only parts of days as many in the modern religious system and the religious scholars
do to justify the tradition.
“The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.”
—John 19:31
So the sabbath mentioned in that verse was a ‘high sabbath’ day, one of the 7 annual festival days which likely did not coincide with the weekly sabbath, since Jesus Himself said 3 days, 3 nights in the heart of the earth. The Friday to Sunday tradition is a lie. Either that or Jesus was mistaken, but Jesus never was mistaken. The odds are that there are 2 sabbaths involved, the high sabbath (annual festival) referenced in John 19:31, and the weekly sabbath day is what is mentioned in Matthew 28:1. That would allow for the 3 days and 3 nights Jesus said in Matthew 12:40.
Easter being on a different day each year makes 100% sense. After all, the true origin of the Holiday has nothing to do with Christ’s death, burial, & resurrection, but pagan fertility god worship (hence the rabbit and eggs which are fertility symbolism) & solar god worship (hence how the date is determined). Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. The vernal equinox is when the sun is exactly above the equator, day (sun) and night (moon) are equal length at that time. That’s about all I can say on that haha. Interesting symbolism here though:
Queen of Heaven
The ‘church fathers’ (so-called)
‘jesus’ the luxurious European shampoo model version with those soft, delicate hands that look like they never saw a day of carpentry work ever LOL.
Constantine the not-so-great who ruled on how Easter was to be calculated, also with the sun crown symbolism.
Monstrance (sunburst)
“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to
make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.”
—Jeremiah 7:18
Hot cross buns, famous Easter tradition. The pagan goddess associated with spring vernal equinox, renewal, and fertility, Eostre aka Ostara, also known in other cultures as Astarte, Ishtar, Ashtoreth, Asherah, or Semiramis..all serve the same function within ancient pagan religions and are associated with the title of ‘Queen of Heaven’.
As for Easter sunrise service, well the scriptures never mention Jesus resurrecting at sunrise, the scriptures do mention this though:
“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. 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. 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 altar, 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.”
—Ezekiel 8:14-16
Interesting. Sounds like easter to me. Spring, death & new life. All that said, is it really any wonder why so many people’s prayers aren’t answered the way they want, why the church (so-called) is in such a sorry, sorry state with virtually no difference between it and the world? So much abuse..spiritual, financial, emotional, mental, sexual, even child abuse within the church (so-called)? I agree with you though it isn’t our place to actually condemn anyone, particularly those outside the church out in the world who don’t claim to know Christ. The battle is not against flesh and blood, but spiritual.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.“
—Ephesians 6:12
