Easter Traced Back to Ancient Babylon

 Easter started in Ancient Babylon

"Easter is steeped in the Mysteries of ancient
Babylon – an evil and idolatrous system invented
by and promoted by Satan – the father of lies!
Ishtar – the Babylonian goddess – is the one for
whom Easter is named.  Ishtar is but another name
for Semiramis – the wife of Nimrod.   Semiramis and
Nimrod instituted the building of the tower of Babel
and are the co-founders of all the counterfeit
religions that have ever existed."
-- The Easter Connection
   By  J. R. Terrier

"Babylonian legend says that each year a huge egg
would fall from heaven and would land in the area
around the Euphrates River.  In her yearly re-birth,
Ishtar would break out of this egg and if any of
those celebrating this occasion happened to find
her egg, Ishtar would bestow a special blessing
on that person."
-- The Easter Connection
   By  J. R. Terrier

"The name Easter actually comes from Ishtar
/Eostre who was worshipped as the moon goddess,
the goddess of spring and fertility, and the
Queen of Heaven.From Babylon."
-- The Easter Connection
   By  J. R. Terrier

The Pagan Origins of Easter

The Name "Easter" amd the symbols (egg and rabbit)
are dead giveaways that Easter was adopted from the
pagans.

Christ initiated a "night-time" ceremony of his death,
as the only observance to celebrate.  The "Sunrise"
resurrection was never part of his or the Apostle's
Teachings.

But the Spring-time goddess known  as "Easter" was
a pagan celebration of the earth's resurrection from the
darkness of winter.  That is what was adopted by the
Apostate members of Christendom.

She was a goddess of  "fertility" and was represented by
the pagans with rabbits and eggs - the emblems of
fertility and reproduction.  

The  "Easter" goddess was known by different names in
different countries - but each of those names still resembles
what we call today, "Easter".

"Easter - She was the goddess of love, fertility,
and maternity for the Phonicians, Canaanites,
Aramaeans, South Arabs, and even the Egyptians.
Her name was Ishtar in Babylonia and Assyria..."
-World Book Encyclopedia,
   Vol. 1, page 782.

"There in ancient Babylon were born the false
beliefs that have wormed their way into almost
every religion. People today, calling themselves
Christians, keep the Babylonian festivals of the
Solstice of Easter, which is the festival of Ishtar
(the ancient fertility goddess of Babylon)."
- Nimrod and False Religion;
Adapted from Chapters 5 of The Bible Story
Volume 1 by Basil Wolverton
Published by Ambassador College Press.

"Babylon was, at that time, the center of the
civilized world; and thus Paganism...had many
opportunities to send forth its debased and
counterfeit false religion to all the ends of
the earth."
- Hislop, A., The Two Babylons,
Loiseaux Brothers, Neptune, N.J. pg 99.



"The consort of "EOSTRE" - was none other than
a hare (rabbit) - that great animal symbol of
fertility."
-The Origin and History of the Easter Bunny
    by Allen Butler

"Historians have traced the origin of the
word 'Easter' - to the Scandinavian word
'Ostra' and the Germanic 'Ostern' or 'Eastre'.
Both of these derive from the names of
mythological goddesses of spring and fertility,
for whom festivals were held at the time of
the Spring Equinox."
-Delving deep into Easter
TeacherNet's editorial team

"The term 'Easter' is NOT of Christian origin.
It is another form of 'Astarte', one of the
titles of the Chaldean (Babylonian) goddess...
The pagan festival of 'Easter'...was introduced
into the apostate Western religion, as part
of the attempt to adapt pagan festivals to
Christianity."
- Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary
    of Old and New Testament Words
          (1985, p. 192, "Easter").

The rabbit and the egg have nothing to do with
Christ or his teachings.  They are fertility symbols
that are an insult to Our Saviour and Messiah.


"Modern-day pagans continue to celebrate
the coming of spring. Some pagans carry out
rituals at this time, such as holding egg
races and egg hunts."
-Delving deep into Easter
TeacherNet's editorial team

"The consort of Eostre - was none other than
a hare (rabbit) - that great animal symbol of
fertility."
-The Origin and History of the Easter Bunny
   by Allen Butler

"The celebration of Ishtar (Easter) included
coloring eggs, an ancient symbol of fertility.
The ancients even hid eggs for children to find.
Rabbits, known for their prolific reproduction,
also became part of the pagan celebration."
-- Resurrection Sunday and
  the Babylonian Connection;
    By Errol Hale

"In the ancient world, the rabbit has long been
a symbol of fertility.  The rabbit is known for
its reproductive powers, in fact, even today, we
talk of couples who have many children as
"multiplying like rabbits". Because rabbits
are known to reproduce often.  In fact our own
lucky rabbit's foot goes back to this ancient
tradition.  The rabbits foot - being a phallic
symbol with supposed magical powers related
to reproduction."
-The Origin and History of the Easter Bunny
   by Allen Butler

"Modern symbols of Easter, such as the egg
and the bunny, have their origins in paganism.
Rabbits were the most potent symbol of fertility
and the egg, the start of all life, was often
thought to have magical powers."
-Delving deep into Easter
TeacherNet's editorial team

"Easter" was not only goddess of dawn
but also goddess of spring with all its
fertility-symbols and fertility-rites....
which included eggs and rabbits."
-The Final Reformation    
  by C.J. Koster

The Easter Snake

The Snake is still around.  Just as he tempted Eve in the
Garden of Eden - so too, he is tempting the world of
mankind still....  He stays behind the scenes and uses
colorful, seemingly harmless distractions to induce us to
stray away from the purity that God requires from us.

Satan is behind all False worship that involves gods
and goddesses that oppose the sanctity of Christ.

"How much of this new system of religion
came by direct communication with Satan himself
we do not know, but there is abundant evidence
that all forms of paganism have come originally
from the ancient Baby­lonian region.  The essential
identity of the various gods and goddess of Rome,
Greece, India, Egypt, and other nations with
the original pantheon of the Babylonians is
well established." 
- Dr. Henry Morris
Institute of Creation Research 

 "In ancient days Satan seemed to make Babylon
the capital of his evil operation.  From this
headquarters was started false religion."
-(Revelation Illustrated and Made Plain
    page 224) - by Tim LaHaye

"the Tower of Babel was actually the worship
of Satan in the form of fire, the sun and the
serpent.  However, Satan worship could not be
done openly because of the many who still
believed in the true God of Noah.  So a
mystery religion began at Babel where Satan
could be worshipped in secret."
- Alexander Hislop,
The Two Babylons, 1959 - pgs 5, 24
(Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers

“when the teachers of the Babylonian mystery
religions later moved from Pergamum to Rome,
they were influential in paganizing Christianity.”
-(Bible Knowledge Commentary, Revelation).
Through an Ancient Looking Glass;
DAVID HULME; publisher
and Middle East scholar

"The Christianization of Pagan holidays
began about the fourth century A.D. when
the Roman Emperor Constantine incorporated
the Pagan holidays and festivals into the
church ritual... This is the Adversary's
clever deception - Paganism dressed up in
Christian clothes! It's still nothing more
than Paganism, but the Christian churches
have wholeheartedly embraced this deception."
--Christmas: Is it "Christian" or Pagan?
Lorraine Day, M.D.
Internationally acclaimed surgeon
and best-selling author

"the Roman Empire assimilated the gods of the
countries over which it ruled. Since Babylon
was the source of this paganism, we can easily
see how Rome's early religion was a form of
Babylonish worship."
-Source --Satan's Counterfeit Christianity
 By Roderick C. Meredith

Christendom embraces a huge deception called "Easter".
The Name itself bears the deception brazenly in the open.
What does the name of an old pagan fertility goddess
have to do with Christ ?  Absolutely nothing.

And then we have the emblems of a rabbit and, of
course - the colored eggs.  Another blatantly rude
reminder of how Christendom has strayed from the
original teachings of Christ.

"From the middle of the second century
a change began to take place in the outward
circumstances of Christianity. The church
marched through the open door into the Roman
state...furnishing herself with everything
that could be taken over from the world which
she now adopted. With the aid of its pagan
philosophy she created her new Christian
theology and she contrived to even borrow
some from its pagan religious worship."
-Montanism, Harnack
the Encyclopedia Britannica,
vol. xvi., pp. 774, 775

"They replaced the nighttime Passover
service - that was a commemoration of
Christ' death - with the pagan Easter
Resurrection.  Not only had the date
and time been changed but the whole
meaning of the festival was changed. "
-- J.L. Hurlbut
Story of the Christian Church, pg. 79

The Name - "Easter"

When adopting the "Easter" Holiday from the pagans,
they didn't even bother to change her name.  How
insulting to Christ.   Imagine a pagan fertility goddess,
having her name glued to the holiday that is supposed
to be an honor to the Jewish Messiah.   It is too horrible
to even consider - and yet that is what Christendom
did to its supposed leader.  It is blasphemy and sacrilege
at it's most horrendous.

Consider the history and the facts

"Easter" was not only goddess of dawn
but also goddess of spring with all its
fertility-symbols and fertility-rites....
which included eggs and rabbits."
-The Final Reformation    
  by C.J. Koster

"the pagan festival of 'Easter' was introduced
into the apostate Western religion, as part of
the attempt to adapt pagan festivals to
Christianity..."
- Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary
    of Old and New Testament Words
          (1985, p. 192, "Easter")

"Does the name Ishtar sound like Easter ? 
Well it should.  It is the same.
The celebration of Ishtar included coloring
eggs, an ancient symbol of fertility.
The ancients even hid eggs for their children
to find. Also, rabbits, known for their
prolific reproduction, were part of the
pagan celebration."
-- Resurrection Sunday
and the Babylonian Connection;
By Errol Hale

"Easter - She was the goddess of love,
fertility, and maternity for the Phonicians,
Canaanites, Aramaeans, South Arabs,
and even the Egyptians. Her name was
Ishtar in Babylonia and Assyria..."
-World Book, Vol. 1, 782.

Easter - "In Babylonia Ishtar was the goddess
of erotic love and fertility.  Her chief seat
of worship was Uruk (Erech), where prostitution
was practiced in her name and she was served with
immoral rites by bands of men and women."
- The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia,
  1979, Volume 1, pages 319-320

Easter -"Ishtar was goddess of physical love (sex).
She was patron of the temple prostitutes.
Throughout Mesopotamian and Babylonian history
she was worshiped under various names in many cities..."
-Collier's Encyclopedia,
 1980, Volume 15, page 748

Easter - "the goddess of sensual love, maternity
and fertility.  Licentious - debased sexual worship
was conducted in honor of her."
- Unger's Bible Dictionary ;
    ( pages 412-413 )

Easter -"She and her colleagues specialized in sex...
and her shrines were temples of legalized vice and
prostitution.   Her degraded cult offered...sordid
depths, as lust and murder were glamorized in
Babylonian and Canaanite religion."
- (W. F. Albright,
Archaeology and the Religion of Israel,
Baltimore, John Hopkins Press,
   1942, pages 68-94).

"As at Christmas, so also at Easter,
popular customs reflect many ancient pagan
survivals...connected with fertility rites.."
- The Encyclopaedia Britannica
(15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol. IV, p. 605,
  "Church Year").

"Saint Augustine...simply re-dressed paganism
with Christian nomenclature. Thus ancient pagan
Babylonian religion had replaced apostolic
teaching and practice."
- Augustine's Poisoned Chalice
    by Peter Nathan

"There is NO trace of an "Easter" celebration
in the New Testament. The Jewish Christians in
the early church continued to celebrate the
Passover, regarding Christ as the true paschal lamb."
-(International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia,
  Electronic Database Copyright(c)1996)

“On that day of judgment,”says the Lord,“
I will punish...all those following
pagan customs."
(Zephaniah 1:8) (NLT)-BibleGateway

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EASTER  REPLACED  PASSOVER

EASTER  REPLACED  PASSOVER

"They replaced the nighttime Passover
service - that was a commemoration of
Christ' death - with the pagan Easter
Resurrection.  Not only had the date
and time been changed but the whole
meaning of the festival was changed. "
-- J.L. Hurlbut
Story of the Christian Church, pg. 79

"Easter - *Ôstara) was a goddess in Germanic
paganism whose Germanic month has given its
name to the festival of Easter. Ôstarmânoth
is attested as the month-name equivalent to
'April' that was decreed by Charlemagne,
but as a goddess Eostre is attested only
by Bede in his 8th century work De temporum
ratione. Bede states that Ēosturmōnaþ
was the equivalent to the month of April,
and that feasts held in Eostre's honor...
replaced the "Paschal" observance of
Passover."
-- Einhard, Life of Charlemagne, §29.

"Some scholars have debated whether or not
Eostre is an invention of Bede's, and
theories Einhard, connecting Eostre with records of
Germanic Easter customs (including hares
rabbits and eggs)."
-- Einhard, Life of Charlemagne, §29.

"Easter is a date on the Wiccan Wheel
of the Year (Ostara, 21 March).[18}
--Hubbard (2007:175).

"In some forms of Germanic Neopaganism,
Eostre is venerated. Regarding this veneration,
Carole M. Cusack comments that, among adherents,
Eostre is "associated with the coming of spring and
the dawn, and her festival is celebrated at
the spring equinox. Because she brings
renewal, rebirth from the death of winter,
some Heathens associate Eostre with Idunn,
 keeper of the apples of youth in
Scandinavian mythology".[20]
-- Cusack (2008:354—355
Cusack, Carole M. (2008).
"The Return of the Goddess: Mythology,
Witchcraft and Feminist Spirituality"
as published in Pizza, Murphy.
Lewis, James R. (Editors).
Handbook of Contemporary Paganism.
Brill Publishers. ISBN ‪9004163735

THE  PAGAN  RABBIT 

"Eostre is connected with hares
rabbits and eggs)."
-- Einhard, Life of Charlemagne, §29.

"The name Easter derived from the Saxon
Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). The ancient Saxons
in Northern Europe worshiped the Goddess
Oestre at the time of the Spring Equinox.
The Goddess Easter represents the sunrise,
spring-time and fertility."
--"Eostre" from The Goddess Oracle
by Marashinsky and Janto

Pagan Anglo-Saxons made offerings of colored
eggs to her at the Vernal Equinox. They
placed them at graves especially,
probably as a charm of rebirth.
(Egyptians and Greeks were also known
to place eggs at gravesites)."
--"Eostre" from The Goddess Oracle
by Marashinsky and Janto

"Only later did the Christians pilfer
the name for themselves and graft their
religion onto a pagan celebration."
--The Rite of Spring
How the Christians stole the Easter holiday,
by Jim Walker

The name “Easter” has its roots in ancient
polytheistic religions (paganism). On this,
 all scholars agree. This name is never used
 in the original Scriptures, nor is it
 ever associated biblically with the
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Ancient origin

Most reference books say that the name
“Easter” derived from the Eastre,
the Teutonic goddess of Spring.
Although this relationship exists,
in reality, the origin of the name
and the goddess are far more ancient -
going all the way back to the Tower
of Babel. The origin begins not long
after the biblical Flood.

THE  EASTER  EGG

This woodcut above was found in Ancient Babylon,
Where "Easter" has its roots - in the Fertility
Rites of the very first Fertility goddess -
Semiramis - the mother and wife of Nimrod.

"The idea of a mystic egg spread from
Babylon to many parts of the world.[12]
--James G. Frazer, The Golden Bough,
Vol. 12, 3rd Edition (1907-15,
reissued 1935-36 and 1955);
Maria Leach, editor,
Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary
of Folklore, Mythology and Legend,
Vol. 1 (1949). [up]
--

"In Rome, the mystic egg preceded
processions in honor of the Roman
Mother GODDESS.. The egg was part of the
sacred ceremonies of the Mysteries of Bacchus.
The Druids used the egg as their sacred
emblem. In Northern Europe, China and Japan
the eggs were colored for their sacred
festivals.[13}
--James G. Frazer, The Golden Bough,
Vol. 12, 3rd Edition (1907-15,
reissued 1935-36 and 1955);
Maria Leach, editor, pg 155.
Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary
of Folklore, Mythology and Legend,
Vol. 1 (1949). [up] --

"The egg was a sacred symbol among
the Babylonians. They believed an old
fable about an egg of wondrous size which
was supposed to have fallen from heaven
into the Euphrates River. From this marvelous
 egg - according to the ancient story -
the Goddess Astarte (Easter) [Semiramis],
was hatched. And so the egg came to symbolize
the Goddess Easter.”[11]
-- Ralph Woodrow,
Babylon Mystery Religion; p152,153
(Riverside, California:
Ralph Woodrow Evangelistic Assn., 1966)

"Modern symbols of Easter, such as the egg
and the bunny, have their origins in paganism.
Rabbits were the most potent symbol of fertility
and the egg, the start of all life, was often
thought to have magical powers."
-Delving deep into Easter
TeacherNet's editorial team

"Basically, almost every vile, profane
and idolatrous practice you can think of
originated at Babel with Queen Semiramis,
the Mother Goddess and Nimrod. As the people
scattered from Babel with their different
languages, they, of course, used different
names for Nimrod (Tammuz) and Semiramis.
Some called the Mother Goddess “ISHTAR”
(originally pronounced “Easter”).[9]
-  pg  152 -- Ralph Woodrow,
Babylon Mystery Religion;
(Riverside, California:
Ralph Woodrow Evangelistic Assn., 1966)

'In other lands, she was called Eostre,
Astarte, Ostera, and Eastre. Other names
for Semiramis, the Mother Goddess include:
Wife of Baal, Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth,
and Queen of Heaven.[10]''
--10.The names Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth,
and Queen of Heaven where used for Semiramis
by the Israelites and the ungodly peoples
around them, see Judges 2:13, Jeremiah 44:17-19,
etc. Other names for Semiramis include
Astarte (Cyprus), Diana (Ephesus and
throughout Asia Minor), Cybele (Asia Minor),
Isis (Egypt), Aphrodite, Ceres (Greece),
Venus or Fortuna (Romans), Shingmoo (China),
Disa (Scandanavia), Nutria (Etruscans),
Virgo-Paritura (Druids), Isi or Indrani or
Devaki (India). 

"The Mother goddess was frequently worshipped
as the goddess of fertility - and as a sort
of Mother Nature and goddess of Spring
and sexual love and birth. She was also
worshipped as a mediator between god and man.
Sexual orgies and temple prostitutes were
often used in her worship and in attempting
to gain her favor."

"The rabbit is well known as a sexual symbol
of fertility. In various parts of the world,
religions which developed from Babel also
associate the rabbit with fertility rites."

The egg was also a symbol of fertility;
 Semiramis (Easter) was the goddess of
Fertility. The Easter egg is a symbol
of the pagan Mother Goddess, and it even
bears one of her names.

"the pagan festival of 'Easter' was introduced
into the apostate Western religion, as part of
the attempt to adapt pagan festivals to
Christianity..."
- Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary
    of Old and New Testament Words
          (1985, p. 192, "Easter")

"Does the name Ishtar sound like Easter ? 
Well it should.  It is the same.
The celebration of Ishtar included coloring
eggs, an ancient symbol of fertility.
The ancients even hid eggs for their children
to find. Also, rabbits, known for their
prolific reproduction, were part of the
pagan celebration."
-- Resurrection Sunday
and the Babylonian Connection;
By Errol Hale

"Easter - She was the goddess of love,
fertility, and maternity for the Phonicians,
Canaanites, Aramaeans, South Arabs,
and even the Egyptians. Her name was
Ishtar in Babylonia and Assyria..."
-World Book, Vol. 1, 782.

Easter - "In Babylonia Ishtar was the goddess
of erotic love and fertility.  Her chief seat
of worship was Uruk (Erech), where prostitution
was practiced in her name and she was served with
immoral rites by bands of men and women."
- The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia,
  1979, Volume 1, pages 319-320

Easter -"Ishtar was goddess of physical love (sex).
She was patron of the temple prostitutes.
Throughout Mesopotamian and Babylonian history
she was worshiped under various names in many cities..."
-Collier's Encyclopedia,
 1980, Volume 15, page 748

Easter - "the goddess of sensual love, maternity
and fertility.  Licentious - debased sexual worship
was conducted in honor of her."
- Unger's Bible Dictionary ;
    ( pages 412-413 )

Easter -"She and her colleagues specialized in sex...
and her shrines were temples of legalized vice and
prostitution.   Her degraded cult offered...sordid
depths, as lust and murder were glamorized in
Babylonian and Canaanite religion."
- (W. F. Albright,
Archaeology and the Religion of Israel,
Baltimore, John Hopkins Press,
   1942, pages 68-94).

"As at Christmas, so also at Easter,
popular customs reflect many ancient pagan
survivals...connected with fertility rites.."
- The Encyclopaedia Britannica
(15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol. IV, p. 605,
  "Church Year").

"Saint Augustine...simply re-dressed paganism
with Christian nomenclature. Thus ancient pagan
Babylonian religion had replaced apostolic
teaching and practice."
- Augustine's Poisoned Chalice
    by Peter Nathan

"There is NO trace of an "Easter" celebration
in the New Testament. The Jewish Christians in
the early church continued to celebrate the
Passover, regarding Christ as the true paschal lamb."
-(International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia,
  Electronic Database Copyright(c)1996)

“On that day of judgment,”says the Lord,“
I will punish...all those following
pagan customs."
(Zephaniah 1:8) (NLT)-BibleGateway

.......

..

 The Pagan Origins of Easter

The Pagan Origins of Easter

The Pagan Origins of Easter

The Name "Easter" and the symbols (egg and rabbit)
are dead giveaways that Easter was adopted from the
pagans.

Christ initiated a "night-time" ceremony of his death,
as the only observance to celebrate.  The "Sunrise"
resurrection was never part of his or the Apostle's
Teachings.

But the Spring-time goddess known  as "Easter" was
a pagan celebration of the earth's resurrection from the
darkness of winter.  That is what was adopted by the
Apostate members of Christendom.

She was a goddess of  "fertility" and was represented by
the pagans with rabbits and eggs - the emblems of
fertility and reproduction.  

The  "Easter" goddess was known by different names in
different countries - but each of those names still resembles
what we call today, "Easter".


"The consort of "EOSTRE" - was none other than
a hare (rabbit) - that great animal symbol of
fertility."
-The Origin and History of the Easter Bunny
    by Allen Butler

"Historians have traced the origin of the
word 'Easter' - to the Scandinavian word
'Ostra' and the Germanic 'Ostern' or 'Eastre'.
Both of these derive from the names of
mythological goddesses of spring and fertility,
for whom festivals were held at the time of
the Spring Equinox."
-Delving deep into Easter
TeacherNet's editorial team

"The term 'Easter' is NOT of Christian origin.
It is another form of 'Astarte', one of the
titles of the Chaldean (Babylonian) goddess...
The pagan festival of 'Easter'...was introduced
into the apostate Western religion, as part
of the attempt to adapt pagan festivals to
Christianity."
- Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary
    of Old and New Testament Words
          (1985, p. 192, "Easter").

The rabbit and the egg have nothing to do with
Christ or his teachings.  They are fertility symbols
that are an insult to Our Saviour and Messiah.


"Modern-day pagans continue to celebrate
the coming of spring. Some pagans carry out
rituals at this time, such as holding egg
races and egg hunts."
-Delving deep into Easter
TeacherNet's editorial team

"The consort of Eostre - was none other than
a hare (rabbit) - that great animal symbol of
fertility."
-The Origin and History of the Easter Bunny
   by Allen Butler

"The celebration of Ishtar (Easter) included
coloring eggs, an ancient symbol of fertility.
The ancients even hid eggs for children to find.
Rabbits, known for their prolific reproduction,
also became part of the pagan celebration."
-- Resurrection Sunday and
  the Babylonian Connection;
    By Errol Hale

"In the ancient world, the rabbit has long been
a symbol of fertility.  The rabbit is known for
its reproductive powers, in fact, even today, we
talk of couples who have many children as
"multiplying like rabbits". Because rabbits
are known to reproduce often.  In fact our own
lucky rabbit's foot goes back to this ancient
tradition.  The rabbits foot - being a phallic
symbol with supposed magical powers related
to reproduction."
-The Origin and History of the Easter Bunny
   by Allen Butler

"Modern symbols of Easter, such as the egg
and the bunny, have their origins in paganism.
Rabbits were the most potent symbol of fertility
and the egg, the start of all life, was often
thought to have magical powers."
-Delving deep into Easter
TeacherNet's editorial team

"Easter" was not only goddess of dawn
but also goddess of spring with all its
fertility-symbols and fertility-rites....
which included eggs and rabbits."
-The Final Reformation    
  by C.J. Koster

The Easter Snake

The Snake is still around.  Just as he tempted Eve in the
Garden of Eden - so too, he is tempting the world of
mankind still....  He stays behind the scenes and uses
colorful, seemingly harmless distractions to induce us to
stray away from the purity that God requires from us.

Satan is behind all False worship that involves gods
and goddesses that oppose the sanctity of Christ.

"How much of this new system of religion
came by direct communication with Satan himself
we do not know, but there is abundant evidence
that all forms of paganism have come originally
from the ancient Baby­lonian region.  The essential
identity of the various gods and goddess of Rome,
Greece, India, Egypt, and other nations with
the original pantheon of the Babylonians is
well established." 
- Dr. Henry Morris
Institute of Creation Research 

 "In ancient days Satan seemed to make Babylon
the capital of his evil operation.  From this
headquarters was started false religion."
-(Revelation Illustrated and Made Plain
    page 224) - by Tim LaHaye

"the Tower of Babel was actually the worship
of Satan in the form of fire, the sun and the
serpent.  However, Satan worship could not be
done openly because of the many who still
believed in the true God of Noah.  So a
mystery religion began at Babel where Satan
could be worshipped in secret."
- Alexander Hislop,
The Two Babylons, 1959 - pgs 5, 24
(Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers

“when the teachers of the Babylonian mystery
religions later moved from Pergamum to Rome,
they were influential in paganizing Christianity.”
-(Bible Knowledge Commentary, Revelation).
Through an Ancient Looking Glass;
DAVID HULME; publisher
and Middle East scholar

"The Christianization of Pagan holidays
began about the fourth century A.D. when
the Roman Emperor Constantine incorporated
the Pagan holidays and festivals into the
church ritual... This is the Adversary's
clever deception - Paganism dressed up in
Christian clothes! It's still nothing more
than Paganism, but the Christian churches
have wholeheartedly embraced this deception."
--Christmas: Is it "Christian" or Pagan?
Lorraine Day, M.D.
Internationally acclaimed surgeon
and best-selling author

"the Roman Empire assimilated the gods of the
countries over which it ruled. Since Babylon
was the source of this paganism, we can easily
see how Rome's early religion was a form of
Babylonish worship."
-Source --Satan's Counterfeit Christianity
 By Roderick C. Meredith

Christendom embraces a huge deception called "Easter".
The Name itself bears the deception brazenly in the open.
What does the name of an old pagan fertility goddess
have to do with Christ ?  Absolutely nothing.

And then we have the emblems of a rabbit and, of
course - the colored eggs.  Another blatantly rude
reminder of how Christendom has strayed from the
original teachings of Christ.

"From the middle of the second century
a change began to take place in the outward
circumstances of Christianity. The church
marched through the open door into the Roman
state...furnishing herself with everything
that could be taken over from the world which
she now adopted. With the aid of its pagan
philosophy she created her new Christian
theology and she contrived to even borrow
some from its pagan religious worship."
-Montanism, Harnack
the Encyclopedia Britannica,
vol. xvi., pp. 774, 775

"They replaced the nighttime Passover
service - that was a commemoration of
Christ' death - with the pagan Easter
Resurrection.  Not only had the date
and time been changed but the whole
meaning of the festival was changed. "
-- J.L. Hurlbut
Story of the Christian Church, pg. 79

The Name - "Easter"

When adopting the "Easter" Holiday from the pagans,
they didn't even bother to change her name.  How
insulting to Christ.   Imagine a pagan fertility goddess,
having her name glued to the holiday that is supposed
to be an honor to the Jewish Messiah.   It is too horrible
to even consider - and yet that is what Christendom
did to its supposed leader.  It is blasphemy and sacrilege
at it's most horrendous.

Consider the history and the facts

"Easter" was not only goddess of dawn
but also goddess of spring with all its
fertility-symbols and fertility-rites....
which included eggs and rabbits."
-The Final Reformation    
  by C.J. Koster

"the pagan festival of 'Easter' was introduced
into the apostate Western religion, as part of
the attempt to adapt pagan festivals to
Christianity..."
- Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary
    of Old and New Testament Words
          (1985, p. 192, "Easter")

"Does the name Ishtar sound like Easter ? 
Well it should.  It is the same.
The celebration of Ishtar included coloring
eggs, an ancient symbol of fertility.
The ancients even hid eggs for their children
to find. Also, rabbits, known for their
prolific reproduction, were part of the
pagan celebration."
-- Resurrection Sunday
and the Babylonian Connection;
By Errol Hale

"Easter - She was the goddess of love,
fertility, and maternity for the Phonicians,
Canaanites, Aramaeans, South Arabs,
and even the Egyptians. Her name was
Ishtar in Babylonia and Assyria..."
-World Book, Vol. 1, 782.

Easter - "In Babylonia Ishtar was the goddess
of erotic love and fertility.  Her chief seat
of worship was Uruk (Erech), where prostitution
was practiced in her name and she was served with
immoral rites by bands of men and women."
- The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia,
  1979, Volume 1, pages 319-320

Easter -"Ishtar was goddess of physical love (sex).
She was patron of the temple prostitutes.
Throughout Mesopotamian and Babylonian history
she was worshiped under various names in many cities..."
-Collier's Encyclopedia,
 1980, Volume 15, page 748

Easter - "the goddess of sensual love, maternity
and fertility.  Licentious - debased sexual worship
was conducted in honor of her."
- Unger's Bible Dictionary ;
    ( pages 412-413 )

Easter -"She and her colleagues specialized in sex...
and her shrines were temples of legalized vice and
prostitution.   Her degraded cult offered...sordid
depths, as lust and murder were glamorized in
Babylonian and Canaanite religion."
- (W. F. Albright,
Archaeology and the Religion of Israel,
Baltimore, John Hopkins Press,
   1942, pages 68-94).

"As at Christmas, so also at Easter,
popular customs reflect many ancient pagan
survivals...connected with fertility rites.."
- The Encyclopaedia Britannica
(15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol. IV, p. 605,
  "Church Year").

"Saint Augustine...simply re-dressed paganism
with Christian nomenclature. Thus ancient pagan
Babylonian religion had replaced apostolic
teaching and practice."
- Augustine's Poisoned Chalice
    by Peter Nathan

"There is NO trace of an "Easter" celebration
in the New Testament. The Jewish Christians in
the early church continued to celebrate the
Passover, regarding Christ as the true paschal lamb."
-(International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia,
  Electronic Database Copyright(c)1996)

“On that day of judgment,”says the Lord,“
I will punish...all those following
pagan customs."
(Zephaniah 1:8) (NLT)-BibleGateway

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"Modern symbols of Easter, such as the egg
and the bunny, have their origins in paganism.
Rabbits were the most potent symbol of fertility
and the egg, the start of all life, was often
thought to have magical powers."
-Delving deep into Easter
TeacherNet's editorial team

"Easter" was not only goddess of dawn
but also goddess of spring with all its
fertility-symbols and fertility-rites....
which included eggs and rabbits."
-The Final Reformation    
  by C.J. Koster

"How much of this new system of religion
came by direct communication with Satan himself
we do not know, but there is abundant evidence
that all forms of paganism have come originally
from the ancient Baby­lonian region.  The essential
identity of the various gods and goddess of Rome,
Greece, India, Egypt, and other nations with
the original pantheon of the Babylonians is
well established." 
- Dr. Henry Morris
Institute of Creation Research 

“when the teachers of the Babylonian mystery
religions later moved from Pergamum to Rome,
they were influential in paganizing Christianity.”
-(Bible Knowledge Commentary, Revelation).
Through an Ancient Looking Glass;
DAVID HULME; publisher
and Middle East scholar

"The Christianization of Pagan holidays
began about the fourth century A.D. when
the Roman Emperor Constantine incorporated
the Pagan holidays and festivals into the
church ritual... This is the Adversary's
clever deception - Paganism dressed up in
Christian clothes! It's still nothing more
than Paganism, but the Christian churches
have wholeheartedly embraced this deception."
--Christmas: Is it "Christian" or Pagan?
Lorraine Day, M.D.
Internationally acclaimed surgeon
and best-selling author

"the Roman Empire assimilated the gods of the
countries over which it ruled. Since Babylon
was the source of this paganism, we can easily
see how Rome's early religion was a form of
Babylonish worship."
-Source --Satan's Counterfeit Christianity
 By Roderick C. Meredith

Christendom embraces a huge deception called "Easter".
The Name itself bears the deception brazenly in the open.
What does the name of an old pagan fertility goddess
have to do with Christ ?  Absolutely nothing.

And then we have the emblems of a rabbit and, of
course - the colored eggs.  Another blatantly rude
reminder of how Christendom has strayed from the
original teachings of Christ.

"From the middle of the second century
a change began to take place in the outward
circumstances of Christianity. The church
marched through the open door into the Roman
state...furnishing herself with everything
that could be taken over from the world which
she now adopted. With the aid of its pagan
philosophy she created her new Christian
theology and she contrived to even borrow
some from its pagan religious worship."
-Montanism, Harnack
the Encyclopedia Britannica,
vol. xvi., pp. 774, 775

"They replaced the nighttime Passover
service - that was a commemoration of
Christ' death - with the pagan Easter
Resurrection.  Not only had the date
and time been changed but the whole
meaning of the festival was changed. "
-- J.L. Hurlbut
Story of the Christian Church, pg. 79

The Name - "Easter"

When adopting the "Easter" Holiday from the pagans,
they didn't even bother to change her name.  How
insulting to Christ.   Imagine a pagan fertility goddess,
having her name glued to the holiday that is supposed
to be an honor to the Jewish Messiah.   It is too horrible
to even consider - and yet that is what Christendom
did to its supposed leader.  It is blasphemy and sacrilege
at it's most horrendous.

Consider the history and the facts

"Easter" was not only goddess of dawn
but also goddess of spring with all its
fertility-symbols and fertility-rites....
which included eggs and rabbits."
-The Final Reformation    
  by C.J. Koster

"the pagan festival of 'Easter' was introduced
into the apostate Western religion, as part of
the attempt to adapt pagan festivals to
Christianity..."
- Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary
    of Old and New Testament Words
          (1985, p. 192, "Easter")

"Does the name Ishtar sound like Easter ? 
Well it should.  It is the same.
The celebration of Ishtar included coloring
eggs, an ancient symbol of fertility.
The ancients even hid eggs for their children
to find. Also, rabbits, known for their
prolific reproduction, were part of the
pagan celebration."
-- Resurrection Sunday
and the Babylonian Connection;
By Errol Hale

"Easter - She was the goddess of love,
fertility, and maternity for the Phonicians,
Canaanites, Aramaeans, South Arabs,
and even the Egyptians. Her name was
Ishtar in Babylonia and Assyria..."
-World Book, Vol. 1, 782.

Easter - "In Babylonia Ishtar was the goddess
of erotic love and fertility.  Her chief seat
of worship was Uruk (Erech), where prostitution
was practiced in her name and she was served with
immoral rites by bands of men and women."
- The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia,
  1979, Volume 1, pages 319-320

Easter -"Ishtar was goddess of physical love (sex).
She was patron of the temple prostitutes.
Throughout Mesopotamian and Babylonian history
she was worshiped under various names in many cities..."
-Collier's Encyclopedia,
 1980, Volume 15, page 748

Easter - "the goddess of sensual love, maternity
and fertility.  Licentious - debased sexual worship
was conducted in honor of her."
- Unger's Bible Dictionary ;
    ( pages 412-413 )

Easter -"She and her colleagues specialized in sex...
and her shrines were temples of legalized vice and
prostitution.   Her degraded cult offered...sordid
depths, as lust and murder were glamorized in
Babylonian and Canaanite religion."
- (W. F. Albright,
Archaeology and the Religion of Israel,
Baltimore, John Hopkins Press,
   1942, pages 68-94).

"As at Christmas, so also at Easter,
popular customs reflect many ancient pagan
survivals...connected with fertility rites.."
- The Encyclopaedia Britannica
(15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol. IV, p. 605,
  "Church Year").

"Saint Augustine...simply re-dressed paganism
with Christian nomenclature. Thus ancient pagan
Babylonian religion had replaced apostolic
teaching and practice."
- Augustine's Poisoned Chalice
    by Peter Nathan

"There is NO trace of an "Easter" celebration
in the New Testament. The Jewish Christians in
the early church continued to celebrate the
Passover, regarding Christ as the true paschal lamb."
-(International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia,
  Electronic Database Copyright(c)1996)

“On that day of judgment,”says the Lord,“
I will punish...all those following
pagan customs."
(Zephaniah 1:8) (NLT)-BibleGateway

"EASTER" and "Babylon The Great"
(click-here)

Christ - Our "Passover" Lamb
(click-here)



The Memorial of Christ's Death
As Requested by Christ
Instead of pagan "Easter"
(click-here)

Do This in Remembrance of Him
(click-here)



Christ - The "Mediator"
(click-here)



Instead of "Easter"
Do What Christ Really Wants
"A Memorial" of His Death
(click-here)



Trading Christ's Passover
For an "Easter" Sunrise-Service
(click-here)

"EASTER" and "Babylon The Great"
(click-here)

A Rabbit -- The Consort
of the goddess - "Easter" (click-here)

Jumping in Bed - With Paganism
The Great Apostasy Started with Rome
The Corruption of Christianity
(click-here)

Salvation Requires "Obedience" (click-here) to read more

The Great Religious Apostasy
was Foretold (click-here)

Where Did the Name "EASTER"
Come From ?   (click-here)

Are You Under The Influence
of "Babylon The Great" ?
(click-here) for answers

Christmas and "Babylon The Great"
(click-here) to read more

Christendom Has Adopted
The False Teachings of Ancient Babylon
(click-here)

Constantine Corrupted Christianity
How ?  Why ?  and   When ?
(click-here)  

Who Really is The Cult ?
(click-here)

Babylon The Great
Get Out of Her - My People !
(click-here)