Is Easter and Christmas even mentioned anywhere in the Holy Scriptures, the Christian Bible of today? So where did this two celebrations come from and when?
Can you show me where in the Christian Bible it is when JESUS CHRIST told HIS disciples before HE ascended into Heaven, 'Now that I have died and paid the penalty for sin on man's behalf, you no longer need to keep GOD's ordained feast of the Old Covenant but from now on you shall keep Easter and Christmas instead. And the New Covenant made in MY Blood which I instituted on the Passover and instructed you to commemorate as the New Covenant Passover, well you can forget about that because it was all just for show, everything that I taught and commanded in MY three and half years with you, are from now on totally irrelevant, you just go do anything you want and I will back it up'.
Can you show me where in the Christian Bible it is when JESUS CHRIST told HIS disciples before HE ascended into Heaven, 'Now that I have died and paid the penalty for sin on man's behalf, you no longer need to keep GOD's ordained feast of the Old Covenant but from now on you shall keep Easter and Christmas instead. And the New Covenant made in MY Blood which I instituted on the Passover and instructed you to commemorate as the New Covenant Passover, well you can forget about that because it was all just for show, everything that I taught and commanded in MY three and half years with you, are from now on totally irrelevant, you just go do anything you want and I will back it up'.
JESUS was with them a good many weeks before Pentecost (aka Feast of First Fruits), before ascending to HIS FATHER. HE definitely had plenty of time to institute the so called “Christian Passover” and to change the Sabbath from Saturday to Catholic Sunday. But HE didn't. The whole of the New Testament testified to the fact that JESUS kept all of the Feast and the original Sabbath and so did all HIS Apostles including Paul. Read the New Testament records, search for the words Sabbath, Passover, Pentecost, Unleavened Bread, Feast and Last Great Day (John 7:37). Why aren't “Christianity” today following the traditions of the Apostles and that which were established by JESUS CHRIST? Why aren't Christianity today obeying the Words of the Holy Scriptures (Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4), the Scripture of Truth (Daniel 10:21)?
JESUS specifically instituted and commanded HIS disciples before HE died, to commemorate HIS death (Luke 22:19). When HE rose from death HE had plenty of time and opportunity to inform them to commemorate HIS resurrection but HE didn't.
Many years after that, Paul was also called to the ministry to be an Apostle to the Gentiles. For the full records of Paul's calling and conversion to his being separated to preach to the gentiles read the following chapters in the book of Acts: Chapter 2 to Chapter 41.
JESUS CHRIST, HIMSELF directly commanded Paul to observed the Passover. Paul who was not with the original first twelve Apostles when JESUS instituted the New Testament Passover, received a direct commandment from JESUS CHRIST, yes direct from GOD's Throne in Heaven, to commemorate the Passover, for Paul wrote:
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
1 Corinthians 11:23 - 25
Read it again Paul actually wrote ‘For I received from the Lord.’ That meant he received the commandment to commemorate the Passover directly from JESUS CHRIST. And that commandment was to commemorate JESUS CHRIST's death, ‘proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes,’ and not HIS resurrection. Can anything be made clearer? The commemoration of the Passover is to proclaim ‘the Lord’s death till He comes’ and not to proclaim “the LORD's resurrection because HE is risen, HE is risen, HE is risen.”
The Passover was commanded to Paul an Apostle to the Gentiles many years after JESUS had died on that same Passover day that was commanded to the Israelites to be commemorated on the same date and time annually. This was many years after the New Testament Church of GOD was founded on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1 – 4) soon after JESUS ascended to GOD having given charges, instructions and commandments to HIS disciples (Mathew 28:19 – 20; John 21:15 – 17; Acts 1:1 – 5). JESUS commanded Paul to commemorate the Passover or LORD'S Supper. HE did not command or authorized the changing of the commemoration of the Passover which is the New and Final and Everlasting Covenant from the day HE died to the day He was resurrected (which incidentally was on Saturday evening at twilight before the sun set ending Saturday (Matthew 12:40; Matthew 27:46 – 50; Luke 23:50 – 56) and not Sunday morning contrary to the lies of the Christmas religion).
Rather many years after all that had happened, JESUS directly commanded the Apostle Paul to commemorate HIS death at the same annual Passover day during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. JESUS reconfirmed HIS commandments to keep the Passover to commemorate HIS death Paul directly from GOD's throne in Heaven. That was what the Apostle Paul wrote in his epistle. Wasn't this what is plainly and literally recorded? Who had all of mainstream Christianity so completely duped and deceived until they cannot even understand the simple and clear records of the Holy Scriptures?
JESUS CHRIST did not commanded Paul, “But since now I am resurrected let us forget about all that death stuff and focus on my resurrection because I am risen, I am alive, celebrate my resurrection. Don't be ashamed of my gospel, don't leave me hanging on the cross or buried in the grave, celebrate my resurrection, I am risen, I am risen.”
All those who preached such deceptive twisting of the Words of the ALMIGHTY GOD are the evil agents of the great murderer and adversary Satan twisting the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST to deny mankind the salvation that is offered through the Blood and Death of JESUS CHRIST in the New Everlasting Covenant with GOD.
The New Covenant is in the keeping and observing (not the breaking by changing it to another time or another day or manner) of the commemoration of the Passover (Matthew 26:28; Mark 14:27; Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 9:15; 12:24) exactly as JESUS CHRIST had ordained, instituted and commanded it to be observed (Hebrews 5:9). That is what the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST testified to! That is what the Scriptures of Truth testified to! That is what the Christian Bible of today testified to! Why had “Christianity” not believed the Gospel but believed the lies of the Antichrists instead?
Satan failed to have JESUS murdered as a BABY (Matthew 2:13 – 18) and he failed to disqualify CHRIST as the MEDIATOR (and MESSENGER) of the New Covenant (Hebrews 12:24) WHO died as the sacrificial the LAMB of GOD (John 1:29) that takes away the sins of the world. JESUS died to pay the death penalty incurred by mankind because all have sinned in breaking the laws and commandments of GOD (1 Corinthians 7:19). Satan then engineered through his agent the Churches of Antichrists, which the Christian Scriptures recorded as MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, to deny mankind the SALVATION that comes from entering into to honor and keep the New Covenant.
Voiding The Grace Of GOD.
The changing of the of the Passover which commemorate CHRIST's death to that of Easter, claimed as commemorating HIS resurrection, is tantamount to BREAKING and therefore VOIDING the NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT (1 Corinthians 11:25; Hebrew 13:20; Isaiah 24:5) which is in CHRIST'S blood that HE shed to pay for the sins of all mankind. That is why, it was and still is, so important to Satan and his agents, the Churches of the Antichrists that the world does not commemorate CHRIST's death according to the commandment of GOD and the clear records of Holy Scriptures. If you break the New and Everlasting Covenant with GOD there is no longer a sacrifice for sin for you, you are no longer under grace but Eternal Judgment (Hebrew 10:26 - 27).
Exactly as Satan twisted the Holy Scriptures to try to tempt JESUS CHRIST to sin (Matthew 4:5 - 7; Luke 4:9 - 12) in trying to disqualify CHRIST from being the SAVIOR and REDEEMER of mankind. Likewise so also his agents, the Churches of the Antichrist, yes the Christmas religion orchestrated the deception through the Council of Nicaea and all their other councils that they may deny all mankind the Grace and redemption that come through the Everlasting Covenant instituted in JESUS CHRIST's blood. As Satan had failed to disqualify CHRIST (Matthew 4:1 – 11) from HIS role as the MESSENGER of the Covenant (Malachi 3:1) so he does his next best effort which is to deny mankind the salvation that comes from obeying the Gospel (2 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 Peter 4:17; Hebrews 5:9).
Whoever it was who changed the annual commemoration of the Passover to Easter Sunday, it was definitely not JESUS CHRIST or GOD the FATHER or any of GOD's Apostles or elders but rather Satan acting through his disciples in the Churches of the Antichrist.
If you are one of those Christians who like the Bereans praised for their nobility in the book of Acts, you would know where the Easter celebration came from. For the sake of all the rest who are not so noble we will discuss the Council of Nicaea.
To be sure the changing of the commemoration of Passover did not start at the Council of Nicaea. Man's historical records said it started around 190 AD.
The controversy men had with their GOD and MAKER started at the Garden of Eden and had continued on since. By the fourth generation from Noah after the flood, GOD had allowed man to go his own way, raising up a man called Abraham a few generations later to obey HIM. Through Abraham GOD started a nation that made a covenant with HIM to obey HIM and be HIS special nation on earth whereas all the rest of mankind GOD had allowed to go after the imagination of their corrupt hearts to establish their social, political and religious order (Acts 14:16).
But the ancient nation of Israel that descended from Jacob, the grandson of Abraham too like Adam failed to obey GOD. For the most part of these two ancient nations' history they went into idol worship and paganism (Psalm 106:6 - 47). After the period of the Judges when kings ruled over Israel and Judah, the persecution and murder of GOD's Saints and Prophets started when these were sent to correct the Israelite to turn them from their sins.
In accordance with GOD's master-plan for mankind, at the fulfilment of the time GOD sent HIS SON who too was tortured and murdered by the Jews. These were very Jews who claimed they were the children and the people of ALMIGHTY CREATOR GOD. And just as their fathers murdered the Prophets that GOD sent to them, they murdered the MESSIAH WHO came to redeemed them from their bondage to sin and death.
Very soon after the founding of the New Testament Church of GOD (as opposed to the Old Testament Church which was the nation of Israel at the time of Joshua the son of Nun), false disciples began to join the Church of GOD. The books of the New Testament from Acts to Revelation recorded all these as a testimony for us today.
Many of these were disciples of the Babylonian Mystery religion (Acts 8:9 - 13) that was started by Nimrod. Yes they traced back a very long time in the history of man, not long after the flood that killed of all the wicked and perverse population of that age. Go check online using any good search engine for the origin of Easter.
The Council of Nicaea was called by a pagan Emperor who was identified in the very Holy Bible as the fourth Beast power according to the prophecy of the Prophet Daniel. The council composed of bishops not of the Church of GOD but the Churches of the Antichrist, the Church of the Babylonian mystery religion in its new guise.
Bishops do not make decision on doctrines in all the congregations of GOD. They are overseers or in another word, administrators overseeing to the physical needs and administering the physical and fiscal affairs of the Church of GOD so that the Apostles, Prophets, evangelists, Pastors and teachers could focus on doing the work of JESUS CHRIST and GOD, which is preaching the Gospel message and nurturing the Saints with Spiritual food (Titus 1:5). Bishops are ranked just above a deacon. Read the ordination order of the Church of GOD in the Holy Scriptures,
And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:28
Apostles and prophets are appointed directly by GOD (John 6:70, 15:16; Galatians 1:1) as are the clear records of the Holy Scriptures even from the very beginning. Bishops and deacons were appointed by the teachers or pastors (1 Timothy 3:1 - 13; Titus 1:5 - 9 ) as were the clear instruction of the Apostle Paul to Timothy, an evangelist (2 Timothy 4:5). Further even Apostles and Prophets do not have the authority to change the commandments of GOD. JESUS CHRIST kept HIS FATHER's commandments (John 14:31; 15:10; Matthew 5:17) not change them or do away with them (Matthew 5:17). Apostles and Prophets are messengers (same word as angels), to teach GOD's way in GOD's Church and relay GOD's directives and messages to HIS Elect. They are servants and not masters (Matthew 10:24; Luke 12:47; 16:3l; John 13:6). The lord of the Christmas religion would have you believed that GOD had abdicated and given all authority to him, to change and do away with whatever he so pleases.
Anyone who has read the Bible, the whole Bible, sufficiently thoroughly would have easily and clearly understood this! How is it the whole world of "Christendom" is so easily and completely deceived to believe that the Council of Nicaea called by a pagan Roman Emperor clearly identified by the Holy Scriptures as the first instance of the fourth Beast Kingdom and subsequent councils to be anything that carried the authority of the true Church of the True GOD, the Church that obeys GOD (Acts 5:29) and keeps GOD's commandments (John 15:10; 1 Corinthians 7:19; 1 John 5:2 - 3; Revelation 22:14) and seeks to do GOD's will (John 9:31; 7:17; Matthew 7:21).
The Council of Nicaea was a counterfeit of the 'Council of Jerusalem' in the book of Acts. In the first place there was no Council of Jerusalem. In the time of Apostles, the Church of GOD was headquartered in Jerusalem even though the Gospel message was carried to the far reaches of the Roman Empire. Paul, because of the contention by false disciples (2 Peter 2:1; 2 Corinthians 11:13; Galatians 2:4; Revelation 2:2) that the gentiles had to be circumcised (Acts 15:1 - 2), went together with some leaders of local congregations to Jerusalem where the headquarter of the Church of GOD was at that time, to consult with the known 'pillars' of the Church for their judgment (Galatians 2:1 - 10). This fact is clearly recorded in the book of Acts and the Epistles of Paul. Who had you drunk with the wine of her fornications that you cannot discern this simple and clearly written account?
Who forwarded the idea that there ever was a Council of Jerusalem? The very disciples of the Antichrist Church that convened the Council of Nicaea to justify their councils and their synods as authentic Christian's.
The Council of Nicaea and those that followed were not the gathering of the Church of GOD but the Church of the Babylonian Mystery religion! The Council of Nicaea was effectively a smoke screen to declare JESUS CHRIST a heretic, through declaring what GOD had ordained (Exodus 12:1 - 11) and JESUS CHRIST had instituted as the New Everlasting Covenant (Luke 22:7, 13 - 20;) in HIS death (1 Corinthians 11:26) made through HIS blood (Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 11:26; Hebrews 13:20) and commanded to commemorated HIS death (1 Corinthians 11:26) which all HIS Apostles including the Apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 11:23 - 26) taught, kept and commemorated to be heresy. Who would do such a thing except the very agents of Satan acting to do the evil bidding of their God (John 14:30; 2 Corinthians 4:4)?
The controversy men had with their GOD and MAKER started at the Garden of Eden and had continued on since. By the fourth generation from Noah after the flood, GOD had allowed man to go his own way, raising up a man called Abraham a few generations later to obey HIM. Through Abraham GOD started a nation that made a covenant with HIM to obey HIM and be HIS special nation on earth whereas all the rest of mankind GOD had allowed to go after the imagination of their corrupt hearts to establish their social, political and religious order (Acts 14:16).
But the ancient nation of Israel that descended from Jacob, the grandson of Abraham too like Adam failed to obey GOD. For the most part of these two ancient nations' history they went into idol worship and paganism (Psalm 106:6 - 47). After the period of the Judges when kings ruled over Israel and Judah, the persecution and murder of GOD's Saints and Prophets started when these were sent to correct the Israelite to turn them from their sins.
In accordance with GOD's master-plan for mankind, at the fulfilment of the time GOD sent HIS SON who too was tortured and murdered by the Jews. These were very Jews who claimed they were the children and the people of ALMIGHTY CREATOR GOD. And just as their fathers murdered the Prophets that GOD sent to them, they murdered the MESSIAH WHO came to redeemed them from their bondage to sin and death.
Very soon after the founding of the New Testament Church of GOD (as opposed to the Old Testament Church which was the nation of Israel at the time of Joshua the son of Nun), false disciples began to join the Church of GOD. The books of the New Testament from Acts to Revelation recorded all these as a testimony for us today.
Many of these were disciples of the Babylonian Mystery religion (Acts 8:9 - 13) that was started by Nimrod. Yes they traced back a very long time in the history of man, not long after the flood that killed of all the wicked and perverse population of that age. Go check online using any good search engine for the origin of Easter.
The Council of Nicaea was called by a pagan Emperor who was identified in the very Holy Bible as the fourth Beast power according to the prophecy of the Prophet Daniel. The council composed of bishops not of the Church of GOD but the Churches of the Antichrist, the Church of the Babylonian mystery religion in its new guise.
Bishops do not make decision on doctrines in all the congregations of GOD. They are overseers or in another word, administrators overseeing to the physical needs and administering the physical and fiscal affairs of the Church of GOD so that the Apostles, Prophets, evangelists, Pastors and teachers could focus on doing the work of JESUS CHRIST and GOD, which is preaching the Gospel message and nurturing the Saints with Spiritual food (Titus 1:5). Bishops are ranked just above a deacon. Read the ordination order of the Church of GOD in the Holy Scriptures,
And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:28
Apostles and prophets are appointed directly by GOD (John 6:70, 15:16; Galatians 1:1) as are the clear records of the Holy Scriptures even from the very beginning. Bishops and deacons were appointed by the teachers or pastors (1 Timothy 3:1 - 13; Titus 1:5 - 9 ) as were the clear instruction of the Apostle Paul to Timothy, an evangelist (2 Timothy 4:5). Further even Apostles and Prophets do not have the authority to change the commandments of GOD. JESUS CHRIST kept HIS FATHER's commandments (John 14:31; 15:10; Matthew 5:17) not change them or do away with them (Matthew 5:17). Apostles and Prophets are messengers (same word as angels), to teach GOD's way in GOD's Church and relay GOD's directives and messages to HIS Elect. They are servants and not masters (Matthew 10:24; Luke 12:47; 16:3l; John 13:6). The lord of the Christmas religion would have you believed that GOD had abdicated and given all authority to him, to change and do away with whatever he so pleases.
Anyone who has read the Bible, the whole Bible, sufficiently thoroughly would have easily and clearly understood this! How is it the whole world of "Christendom" is so easily and completely deceived to believe that the Council of Nicaea called by a pagan Roman Emperor clearly identified by the Holy Scriptures as the first instance of the fourth Beast Kingdom and subsequent councils to be anything that carried the authority of the true Church of the True GOD, the Church that obeys GOD (Acts 5:29) and keeps GOD's commandments (John 15:10; 1 Corinthians 7:19; 1 John 5:2 - 3; Revelation 22:14) and seeks to do GOD's will (John 9:31; 7:17; Matthew 7:21).
The Council of Nicaea was a counterfeit of the 'Council of Jerusalem' in the book of Acts. In the first place there was no Council of Jerusalem. In the time of Apostles, the Church of GOD was headquartered in Jerusalem even though the Gospel message was carried to the far reaches of the Roman Empire. Paul, because of the contention by false disciples (2 Peter 2:1; 2 Corinthians 11:13; Galatians 2:4; Revelation 2:2) that the gentiles had to be circumcised (Acts 15:1 - 2), went together with some leaders of local congregations to Jerusalem where the headquarter of the Church of GOD was at that time, to consult with the known 'pillars' of the Church for their judgment (Galatians 2:1 - 10). This fact is clearly recorded in the book of Acts and the Epistles of Paul. Who had you drunk with the wine of her fornications that you cannot discern this simple and clearly written account?
Who forwarded the idea that there ever was a Council of Jerusalem? The very disciples of the Antichrist Church that convened the Council of Nicaea to justify their councils and their synods as authentic Christian's.
The Council of Nicaea and those that followed were not the gathering of the Church of GOD but the Church of the Babylonian Mystery religion! The Council of Nicaea was effectively a smoke screen to declare JESUS CHRIST a heretic, through declaring what GOD had ordained (Exodus 12:1 - 11) and JESUS CHRIST had instituted as the New Everlasting Covenant (Luke 22:7, 13 - 20;) in HIS death (1 Corinthians 11:26) made through HIS blood (Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 11:26; Hebrews 13:20) and commanded to commemorated HIS death (1 Corinthians 11:26) which all HIS Apostles including the Apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 11:23 - 26) taught, kept and commemorated to be heresy. Who would do such a thing except the very agents of Satan acting to do the evil bidding of their God (John 14:30; 2 Corinthians 4:4)?
Today almost the whole world celebrates Christmas (Revelation 17:2, 15; 18:3, 7). All of "Christendom" in the world today believe they are the disciples and followers of JESUS CHRIST when nothing can be further from the truth.
What is the basis of your faith, the teaching of some men who claimed exclusivity to GOD or the very Word of GOD, in the Holy Scriptures?
You decide!
Because not long from now under the leadership of a miracle performing false prophet supporting a powerful political and military leader, these disciples of the Church of the Antichrist, the very Church that convened and met at the Council of Nicaea, Council of Constantinople and all other councils, will begin the imprisonment, torture and murder of people like me, people who keep the commandments of GOD and the New and Everlasting Covenant with JESUS CHRIST and GOD. These all are written here many years before it happen so that when it does you may know the truth of what is written here. I have told you all these before it all come to pass so that when it does you will believe (John 14:29).
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1.Words in italic reference titles or proper names where this applies, otherwise these are personal notes to select people who are familiar with them.
2. I have intentionally left out scriptural references (mostly) as anyone who wants to prove or disprove what is written here should read the Bible extensively (yes from cover to cover at least three or more times).
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6. The word or term 'man' is used throughout as a reference to man specifically as well as to all mankind (male and female) according to the context in the same way as the Bible used the term.
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