Easter: Past, Present, and Future

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This upcoming Sunday will be Easter Sunday. Christians will celebrate the holiday as the day commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, there are some Easter traditions that do not seem to have a lot of biblical connections. For instance, kids paint eggs, take part in egg hunts, and are told tales about the Easter Bunny. Some Christians are so turned off by these non-religious traditions associated with Easter that they shun these traditions and replace the term “Easter” with the term “Resurrection Sunday”.

In this post I’ll try to provide you an idea of the historical origins of Easter and provide an overview of how Easter may be celebrated in the future under the reign of Antichrist.


The Past & Present
Unfortunately, Easter is a holiday that appears to have pagan roots. Some claim that Easter’s origins began with the pagan holiday “Eastre” (Eostre) which was celebrated around the time of the Jewish Passover. Eastre was a holiday where pagans honored the goddess of fertility Eastre, whose “earthly symbol was the rabbit”.[1]

Meanwhile, others trace Easter’s origins all the way back to Ancient Babylon. In fact, some argue that Easter’s name is derived from the name of the Babylonian goddess that the holiday that a strong link to: Ishtar. The holiday was celebrated “Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox”.[2] The holiday commemorated “the resurrection of one of their (Babylonians) gods that they called ‘Tammuz’, who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess (Ishtar/Semiramis) and the sun-god (Baal/Nimrod)”.[3] The ancient Babylonians traditionally celebrated this holiday by using items that are associated with Easter today, such as eggs and rabbits.[4] You can read more about the apparent origins of some other Easter customs at the following links:


Note: Though I link to these websites it does not mean I fully endorse every single thing written on these websites. I post these links here in case they have educational value to you, but it’s up to you to decide whether to believe what is written in these articles and in these websites.

Easter apparently became “Christianized” as the Gospel spread throughout Europe.[5] Although Easter possesses some lingering connections to the past (eggs, rabbits, etc), it is a holiday that I feel is mainly known today for its religious connotation, which again is a commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  • Some would disagree with me and say there is too much emphasis on commercialization, the Easter bunny, and Easter eggs. I totally see where these people come from and agree that these items should be deemphasized or even eliminated from Easter.

To be fair, not everyone believes that Easter’s roots are pagan. Anthony McRoy argues that Easter’s origins can be traced back to Christian Passover celebrations back in the second century AD.


  • The one issue I’d have with McRoy’s explanation is that he does not account for why painting eggs, egg hunts, and rabbits are associated with the modern day Easter.


The Future:
Daniel 7:25 tells us that Antichrist will alter how people will live their lives:

  • Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Thus, it should not be a surprise that the forces of evil are planning to reorient the calendar so that there are three major annual celebrations when Antichrist fuses the world’s major religions together to create the one world, New Age Religion (Mystery Babylon the Great of Revelation 17). One of these three major holidays will be Easter (which will join Wesak and the Festival of Goodwill).


If Easter of the future is celebrated this way it will revert back to its apparently non-Christian roots. However, perhaps the main purpose why the forces of evil want to maintain Easter is to not get people to recognize the Ascended Masters or to get people to believe they've been resurrected spiritually, but to make people less suspicious that they are dealing with Antichrist as he maintains a holiday that is central to Christianity (albeit in a heavily-diluted form).


Before I close I want to make it clear that I am not saying that people should not celebrate Easter. People should celebrate Easter if they mainly focus on celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I just wanted to give some perspective on Easter and to warn people that Easter one day is not going to be the holiday that is today.


References
[1] What Are the Origins of Easter? http://www.gotquestions.org/easter-origins.html 29 Mar. 2010. Last Accessed 29 Mar. 2010.
[2] Meyer, David. The Pagan Origin of Easter. 29 Dec. 2008. Last Accessed 21. Jun. 2009. http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract1.html
[3]Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] “Is the Modern Celebration of Easter Pagan?”. 6 Jun. 2007. Last Accessed 29 Mar. 2010. http://www.raptureready.com/faq/faq104.html
[6] “FAQ Initiation”. 15 Oct. 2005. Last Accessed 21. Jun. 2009. http://www.share-international.org/archives/AgelessWisdom/faq_initiation.htm.
[7] Bailey, Alice. The Externalization of the Hierarchy. New York: Lucis Trust Publishing Co. 1957. Pg 421
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