WEBVTT 00:07.320 --> 00:09.040 Are you ready to get into God's Word? 00:10.000 --> 00:11.160 Amen, let's do so. 00:11.260 --> 00:16.620 Open your Bibles with me to Deuteronomy chapter 12 and we're going to begin with 00:16.620 --> 00:18.480 verse 29 in just a moment. 00:18.580 --> 00:22.200 We're going to lay a foundation for this message and I just want to say on the 00:22.200 --> 00:26.440 outset that this message may be a bit challenging for some of us, especially 00:26.440 --> 00:29.040 those of us that were raised up in Christian tradition. 00:29.960 --> 00:32.040 This may challenge our tradition a bit. 00:32.360 --> 00:37.400 I'm going to be talking about the truth about Easter, the truth about Easter and 00:37.400 --> 00:40.860 we're going to start with Deuteronomy chapter 12 and verse 29 laying a 00:40.860 --> 00:41.740 foundation in Scripture. 00:42.620 --> 00:47.820 It says, "...when Yahweh your Elohim does cut off from before you the nations which 00:47.820 --> 00:53.480 you go to dispossess and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, guard 00:53.480 --> 00:55.340 yourself," Everybody say, guard yourself. 00:56.660 --> 01:02.500 "...guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them." To follow whom? 01:03.100 --> 01:08.840 To follow the people that you dispossessed from the nations when you went in to take 01:08.840 --> 01:10.520 the land, all right? 01:10.920 --> 01:16.440 "...guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are 01:16.440 --> 01:22.900 destroyed from before you and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones." In 01:22.900 --> 01:26.520 other words, don't ask about their gods. 01:27.340 --> 01:32.940 Yahweh says, I don't want you to inquire about their mighty ones, about their gods. 01:33.060 --> 01:40.020 "...saying, how did these nations serve their mighty ones?" In other words, 01:40.080 --> 01:47.240 being inquisitive about how the nations that you dispossessed served their mighty 01:47.240 --> 01:48.720 ones, their gods. 01:49.480 --> 01:55.600 And it goes on to say, "...and let me do so too." In other words, I want to serve 01:55.600 --> 01:59.500 Yahweh the way the nations served their gods. 01:59.800 --> 02:01.140 God said don't do that. 02:01.820 --> 02:03.740 Now this is a Torah commandment. 02:03.820 --> 02:10.360 God says, don't serve me the way the nations served their gods. 02:10.640 --> 02:11.460 Look at verse 31. 02:11.680 --> 02:17.400 "...do not do so to Yahweh your Elohim." In other words, don't adopt the 02:17.400 --> 02:23.220 traditions, don't adopt the customs, don't adopt the pagan ways, don't worship 02:23.220 --> 02:26.880 me according to the ways of the nations. 02:27.240 --> 02:28.160 Can you say amen? 02:29.100 --> 02:35.740 Goes on to say, "...for every abomination which Yahweh hates they have done to their 02:35.740 --> 02:37.720 mighty ones." Their gods. 02:38.120 --> 02:44.440 So every abomination that Yahweh hates the nations have done in the service of their 02:44.440 --> 02:49.000 gods, that's why Yahweh says don't worship me in that way. 02:49.680 --> 02:51.780 I don't want to be worshipped in that way. 02:52.620 --> 02:57.080 "...for they even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty 02:57.080 --> 03:02.980 ones." Now for those of you that say that this Torah commandment in Deuteronomy 03:02.980 --> 03:08.060 chapter 12 doesn't apply to us today because the Torah has been abolished, 03:08.180 --> 03:12.460 let's take a look at what Yeshua said about the Torah and the prophets. 03:12.620 --> 03:16.920 Go with me to Matthew chapter 5 beginning with verse 17. 03:17.040 --> 03:22.320 Yeshua said, "...do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the prophets," 03:22.320 --> 03:27.380 Okay the Torah commandment that I just read in Deuteronomy 12, all right? 03:27.440 --> 03:31.380 Yeshua is saying, don't think I came to abolish that commandment. 03:32.040 --> 03:37.820 I did not come to destroy but to complete, to exalt it to its deeper spiritual 03:37.820 --> 03:38.480 application. 03:39.300 --> 03:45.580 Verse 18, "...for truly I say to you till the heaven and the earth pass away one jot 03:45.580 --> 03:51.300 or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done or till all be 03:51.300 --> 03:53.820 accomplished or completed," And that hasn't happened yet. 03:54.660 --> 03:59.560 Verse 19, "...whoever then breaks one of the least of these commands," What 03:59.560 --> 04:00.040 commands? 04:00.140 --> 04:01.040 The Torah commands. 04:01.160 --> 04:06.920 "...and teaches men so shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens but 04:06.920 --> 04:14.640 whoever does and teaches them he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens." 04:14.640 --> 04:21.920 So if any one of us today teach that YAHWEH said do not inquire of the nations 04:21.920 --> 04:28.240 how they worship their gods and worship me, this is YAHWEH speaking, in that way, 04:28.340 --> 04:31.540 if we teach that then Yeshua said we're great in the kingdom. 04:32.420 --> 04:33.360 Can you say amen? 04:34.600 --> 04:37.500 All right, go with me to Jeremiah chapter 10 and verse 2. 04:38.460 --> 04:39.980 Notice what else the bible says. 04:40.140 --> 04:46.340 Thus says YAHWEH, do not learn the way of the Gentiles, everybody say, do not learn 04:46.340 --> 04:47.500 the way of the Gentiles. 04:48.900 --> 04:55.700 "...and do not be awed by the signs of the heavens," In other words, the sun or the 04:55.700 --> 05:00.200 moon, the pagans worshipped the signs of the heaven. 05:01.060 --> 05:04.620 "...for the Gentiles are awed by them," They worship them. 05:05.120 --> 05:11.940 "...for the prescribed customs of these peoples are worthless," Everybody say 05:11.940 --> 05:12.380 worthless. 05:13.360 --> 05:18.360 So God is saying the prescribed customs, the traditions, the customs of the nations 05:18.360 --> 05:21.660 are worthless and so don't learn them. 05:22.360 --> 05:28.020 And then Jeremiah chapter 16 and verse 19 says, "...O YAHWEH, my strength and my 05:28.020 --> 05:33.400 stronghold and my refuge in the day of distress the Gentiles shall come to you 05:33.400 --> 05:36.800 from the ends of the earth and say," What are they going to say? 05:37.100 --> 05:43.140 "...our fathers have inherited only falsehood," That means only lies. 05:43.960 --> 05:46.420 "...futility," That means vanities. 05:46.660 --> 05:52.860 "...and there is no value in them," In other words, speaking of their worthless 05:52.860 --> 05:56.700 idolatries and pagan traditions and practices. 05:56.700 --> 06:01.040 So the Gentiles are going to come and they're going to say, we inherited lies 06:01.040 --> 06:06.780 from our fathers, we inherited idolatries, we inherited pagan traditions and 06:06.780 --> 06:11.980 practices that are worth less, that have no value, that's going to be the 06:11.980 --> 06:13.860 confession of the Gentiles. 06:14.620 --> 06:20.400 So with that being our foundation let's take a look at where the name Easter comes 06:20.400 --> 06:21.400 from, all right? 06:21.800 --> 06:27.800 So many ecclesiastical and secular scholars and historians agree that the 06:27.800 --> 06:32.900 name Easter and the traditions surrounding it have their roots in ancient 06:32.900 --> 06:35.760 polytheistic or pagan religions. 06:36.140 --> 06:39.720 Let me give you a few quotes just to substantiate what I just said. 06:39.760 --> 06:44.940 This is the New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, volume five, page six. 06:45.040 --> 06:51.120 It says, "...since be the venerable the origin of the term for the feast of 06:51.120 --> 06:55.560 Christ's resurrection," This is talking about the term the Catholics use, 06:55.700 --> 06:56.100 Easter. 06:56.740 --> 06:58.700 Remember this is a Catholic encyclopedia. 06:59.640 --> 07:05.860 "...this term has been popularly considered to be from the Anglo-Saxon word 07:05.860 --> 07:09.620 estre, a goddess of spring. 07:10.000 --> 07:18.100 The old high German plural for dawn, spelled e-o-s-t-a-r-u-n, whence has come 07:18.100 --> 07:24.480 the German Ostern and our English Easter." So even the Catholics say that the word 07:24.480 --> 07:28.140 Easter has its origins in paganism. 07:28.980 --> 07:29.260 All right. 07:29.840 --> 07:37.080 Albert Henry Newman writes in a manual of church history, page 299, "...the fact 07:37.080 --> 07:43.120 that vernal or spring festivals were general among pagan peoples no doubt had 07:43.120 --> 07:48.100 much to do with the form assumed by the Eastern festival in the Christian 07:48.100 --> 07:53.220 churches." The English term Easter is of pagan origin. 07:54.120 --> 07:56.460 And then let's look at Ethel L. 07:56.680 --> 08:05.400 Erlen, she writes in Festivals, Holy Days, and Saint Days, page 73. 08:05.840 --> 08:11.220 "...on this greatest of Christian festivals several survivals occur of 08:11.220 --> 08:14.040 ancient heathen ceremonies. 08:14.440 --> 08:17.880 To begin with, the name itself is not Christian but pagan. 08:18.600 --> 08:25.720 Ostara was the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring." Now it's important to note that 08:25.720 --> 08:33.040 the name Easter is never once used in the original text of the Scripture nor is it 08:33.040 --> 08:38.060 ever associated biblically with the death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua 08:38.060 --> 08:38.600 Messiah. 08:39.060 --> 08:45.620 So you'll not see the word Easter anywhere in the Hebrew text or anywhere in the 08:45.620 --> 08:47.080 Greek text, all right? 08:47.100 --> 08:52.340 It was never once used in the original text of the Scriptures nor is it ever 08:52.340 --> 08:56.860 biblically associated with the death, burial, and resurrection of our Messiah. 08:57.000 --> 09:03.080 You won't find it in the context of the bible, that word Easter being associated 09:03.080 --> 09:06.920 with the death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua Messiah. 09:06.920 --> 09:13.180 The word Easter is used only one time in the King James translation of the bible 09:13.180 --> 09:14.320 into English. 09:14.320 --> 09:17.760 I'm going to show you that, this is Acts chapter 12 and verse 1. 09:18.480 --> 09:19.800 Acts chapter 12 and verse 1. 09:19.800 --> 09:24.360 "...Now about that time Herod the King stretched forth his hands to vex certain 09:24.360 --> 09:29.440 of the church and he killed James the brother of John with the sword and because 09:29.440 --> 09:33.920 he saw it pleased the Jews he proceeded further to take Peter also. 09:34.380 --> 09:38.560 Then were the days of unleavened bread," Now that ought to give us a hint, 09:39.540 --> 09:45.720 this was happening during the season of unleavened bread and this is a reference 09:45.720 --> 09:52.460 to the unleavened bread commanded in the bible in Leviticus 23 and it goes on to 09:52.460 --> 09:57.800 say, "...and when he had apprehended him he put him in prison and delivered him to 09:57.800 --> 10:04.900 four quaternions of soldiers to keep him intending after Easter," There it is. 10:06.000 --> 10:12.580 "...intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people," But I thought this 10:12.580 --> 10:17.880 was during the season of the feast of unleavened bread, so wouldn't that be 10:17.880 --> 10:19.280 Pesach or Passover? 10:19.800 --> 10:22.080 How did Easter get in there? 10:23.120 --> 10:28.580 So now it's important to realize that the King James Version is a relatively modern 10:28.580 --> 10:31.780 translation of the bible into the English language. 10:32.800 --> 10:37.140 The tradition of Easter celebrated on the first Sunday after the vernal or spring 10:37.140 --> 10:41.500 equinox had already been firmly established in the church at the time of 10:41.500 --> 10:43.580 the translation of the King James Bible. 10:44.480 --> 10:49.080 Remember, the Roman church divorced itself of its Hebraic root in the early 10:49.080 --> 10:54.240 centuries, so when the translators of the King James Version were looking for a word 10:54.240 --> 11:00.780 that would represent Pascha, which is the Greek word for Passover, derived from the 11:00.780 --> 11:05.320 Hebrew word Pesach, they chose instead the word Easter. 11:06.060 --> 11:09.960 It appears they didn't want anything Hebrew or Jewish to be represented in the 11:09.960 --> 11:15.180 text, instead they supported the Roman way of placing a biblical theme over an 11:15.180 --> 11:17.740 already existing pagan holiday. 11:19.740 --> 11:22.540 Easter and Passover are not the same. 11:23.000 --> 11:24.120 Everybody say that with me. 11:24.440 --> 11:27.500 Easter and Passover are not the same. 11:28.180 --> 11:32.580 Easter is always the first Sunday after the vernal equinox and according to the 11:32.580 --> 11:37.220 bible, Passover is always the 14th day of the biblical month of Abib. 11:37.920 --> 11:43.200 These dates can be as much as a month apart as they are this year. 11:44.360 --> 11:49.460 So let's take a look at the New King James Version which has corrected the original 11:49.460 --> 11:50.520 poor translation. 11:51.160 --> 11:53.620 So Acts chapter 12 and verse 4. 11:54.260 --> 12:00.140 So when He had arrested him He put him in prison and delivered him to four squads of 12:00.140 --> 12:05.240 soldiers to keep him intending to bring him before the people, what does it say? 12:05.940 --> 12:07.740 After Passover. 12:08.360 --> 12:14.720 Again, the Greek word is Pascha from the Hebrew word Pesach and can only have one 12:14.720 --> 12:18.620 meaning and that meaning is Passover, all right? 12:18.860 --> 12:23.620 In reality, the King James Version translators inserted the name of a pagan 12:23.620 --> 12:29.500 holiday in the place of one of Elohim's holy days and the English-speaking 12:29.500 --> 12:34.280 Christian church has confused the pagan celebration of Easter and its many 12:34.280 --> 12:39.600 unbiblical traditions with the holy day of Pesach or Passover for centuries. 12:41.040 --> 12:45.760 So instead of endorsing the pagan celebration of Easter, Acts 12 for 12:45.760 --> 12:51.100 properly translated proves the fact that the body of Messiah was still observing 12:51.100 --> 12:56.840 the biblical holy day of Passover 10 years after the death of the Messiah. 12:58.660 --> 13:04.420 As we've seen many reference books tell us the name Easter is derived from the name 13:04.420 --> 13:10.040 of the Teutonic Goddess of Spring, although this relationship does exist in 13:10.040 --> 13:15.980 reality the possible origin of the name and the goddess could go as far back as 13:15.980 --> 13:16.960 the Tower of Babel. 13:17.420 --> 13:22.740 The bible tells us that after the flood Noah had a great-grandson named Nimrod, 13:22.880 --> 13:24.660 so let's look at that passage of scripture. 13:24.860 --> 13:30.660 This is Genesis chapter 10 beginning with verse 1 and this is the genealogy of the 13:30.660 --> 13:34.360 sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Jopheth. 13:35.220 --> 13:38.920 These are the three sons who were with Noah on the ark. 13:39.400 --> 13:43.180 It goes on to say, "...and sons were born to them after the flood," Then look at 13:43.180 --> 13:43.800 verse 6. 13:43.960 --> 13:51.160 "...and the sons of Ham were Cush and Mitsrayim and Put and Kena'an." Verse 8. 13:51.420 --> 13:53.960 "...and Cush brought forth Nimrod. 13:54.420 --> 14:02.460 He, Nimrod, began to be a mighty one on the earth, he was a mighty hunter before 14:02.460 --> 14:02.980 YAHWEH. 14:03.140 --> 14:08.720 Therefore it is said, like Nimrod the mighty hunter before YAHWEH." Look at 14:08.720 --> 14:09.200 verse 10. 14:09.360 --> 14:12.800 "...and the beginning of his reign," So we know he was a king. 14:13.400 --> 14:19.240 "...was Babel and Eric and Akkad and Kalneh in the land of Shinar. 14:20.000 --> 14:26.540 From that land he went to Asher and built Nineveh and Rehoboth, Ere and Kelah and 14:26.540 --> 14:33.980 Rezin between Nineveh and Kelah the great city." So Jewish sources tell us that 14:33.980 --> 14:39.080 Nimrod was a tyrant who led the people in rebellion against the Almighty. 14:39.440 --> 14:44.940 Some authors believe that not only was he a hunter of animals but he was a hunter of 14:44.940 --> 14:45.980 the souls of men. 14:46.620 --> 14:52.440 They say he was a warrior who conquered people, built great cities, and enticed 14:52.440 --> 14:56.960 people to turn away from the true worship of the Almighty God. 14:57.580 --> 15:02.820 Some say it was Nimrod, or those he inspired, who built the Tower of Babel as 15:02.820 --> 15:07.300 a temple of occult worship in defiance to the Almighty. 15:08.200 --> 15:12.640 Other structures similar to the Tower of Babel were dedicated to pagan deities. 15:12.740 --> 15:13.560 Let's take a look at that. 15:13.680 --> 15:16.680 Genesis chapter 11 and verse 1. 15:17.200 --> 15:22.900 And all the earth had one language and one speech and it came to be as they set out 15:22.900 --> 15:27.600 from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there 15:27.600 --> 15:33.620 and they said to each other, come let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly and 15:33.620 --> 15:38.120 they had brick for stone and they had asphalt for mortar and they said, 15:38.420 --> 15:42.580 come let us build ourselves, notice it says build ourselves, they weren't 15:42.580 --> 15:47.940 building for God, they were building for themselves, a city and a tower whose top 15:47.940 --> 15:55.180 is in the heavens and make a name for ourselves lest we be scattered over all 15:55.180 --> 15:56.040 the face of the earth. 15:56.140 --> 16:00.980 Verse 5, then YAHWEH came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men 16:00.980 --> 16:06.760 had built and YAHWEH said, look they are one people and they all have one language 16:06.760 --> 16:12.540 and this is what they began to do and now they are not going to be withheld from 16:12.540 --> 16:17.580 doing whatever they plan to do, come let us go there and confuse their 16:17.580 --> 16:22.360 language so that they do not understand one another's speech and YAHWEH scattered 16:22.360 --> 16:27.920 them from there over the face of all the earth and they left off building the city 16:27.920 --> 16:33.260 and that is why its name was called Babel because there YAHWEH confused the language 16:33.260 --> 16:38.680 of all the earth and from there YAHWEH scattered them over the face of all the 16:38.680 --> 16:38.960 earth. 16:38.960 --> 16:43.840 So it's obvious that YAHWEH was not pleased with what they were doing and we 16:43.840 --> 16:50.180 can gather from Scripture that Nimrod had aspirations to become a great emperor and 16:50.180 --> 16:55.340 build cities but legend says, and I want to stress to you that this is only legend, 16:55.340 --> 17:01.960 legend says that Nimrod had a wife named Semiramis who had much greater 17:01.960 --> 17:07.880 aspirations, she wanted to become a goddess and as the story goes when Nimrod 17:07.880 --> 17:13.360 eventually died his wife, the queen, deified Nimrod as the sun-god. 17:13.820 --> 17:18.540 In various cultures the sun-god later became known as Baal, the great giver of 17:18.540 --> 17:23.840 life, the god of fire, Moloch, Mithra, Apollo, and by various other 17:23.840 --> 17:24.360 names. 17:25.000 --> 17:31.360 According again to legend, when Semiramis became pregnant out of wedlock she claimed 17:31.360 --> 17:36.780 that Nimrod, her sun-god husband, had impregnated her by the rays of the 17:36.780 --> 17:37.100 sun. 17:37.860 --> 17:44.740 The child that she gave birth to was a son named Tammuz and claimed that Tammuz was 17:44.740 --> 17:49.360 none other than Nimrod reborn or the sun-god incarnate. 17:50.280 --> 17:56.580 Semiramis, also known as Ishtar or Easter, claimed that her son was supernaturally 17:56.580 --> 17:59.040 conceived by no human father. 17:59.680 --> 18:04.380 By saying that Tammuz was the sun-god incarnate she was able to present herself 18:04.380 --> 18:06.480 as the mother of God. 18:07.140 --> 18:13.620 You see how Satan has perverted the true gospel story by using legends to fabricate 18:13.620 --> 18:15.920 a twisted version of his own. 18:17.260 --> 18:22.440 In the old fables of the mystery cults Tammuz was worshipped with various rites 18:22.440 --> 18:23.220 in the spring. 18:23.840 --> 18:28.080 According to the legends, after he was slain by a wild boar he went into the 18:28.080 --> 18:33.960 underworld but through the weeping of his mother he mystically revived in the 18:33.960 --> 18:36.760 budding forth of the vegetation each spring. 18:38.140 --> 18:43.300 Each year a spring festival dramatically represented this supposed resurrection 18:43.300 --> 18:44.720 from the underworld. 18:45.120 --> 18:52.280 So let's go to Ezekiel chapter 8 starting with verse 13 and we'll see that Tammuz is 18:52.280 --> 18:53.960 mentioned in the scripture. 18:55.260 --> 19:02.020 Ezekiel 8 13, and he Elohim said to me, you are to see still greater abominations 19:02.920 --> 19:04.280 which they are doing. 19:04.900 --> 19:09.080 So whatever they're doing, Yahweh is calling them abominations. 19:09.580 --> 19:15.020 And he brought me to the door of the north gate of the house of Yahweh and I saw 19:15.020 --> 19:18.960 women sitting there weeping for Tammuz. 19:20.020 --> 19:24.980 Is it possible they were reenacting this supposed resurrection of Tammuz by weeping 19:24.980 --> 19:25.420 for him? 19:26.680 --> 19:30.160 Then he said to me, have you seen this O son of man? 19:30.740 --> 19:35.740 You are to see still greater abominations than these. 19:36.140 --> 19:41.560 So obviously weeping for Tammuz in the house of the Almighty was an abomination 19:41.560 --> 19:44.760 but Yahweh says, hang on, I'm going to show you something that's even worse. 19:46.940 --> 19:51.860 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh and there at the door 19:51.860 --> 19:58.440 of the temple of Yahweh between the porch and the altar were about 25 men with their 19:58.440 --> 20:03.780 backs toward the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east and they were 20:03.780 --> 20:07.680 bowing themselves eastward to the sun. 20:08.620 --> 20:10.040 So what were they doing? 20:10.520 --> 20:14.100 They were worshiping the sun in the temple. 20:15.340 --> 20:21.040 The sun rises in the east and these 25 men had gathered to worship Tammuz at sunrise 20:21.040 --> 20:21.980 in the temple. 20:22.840 --> 20:29.200 So could this activity be evidence of the origins of Easter sunrise service in 20:29.200 --> 20:29.660 Christianity? 20:30.520 --> 20:33.800 Well notice how Yahweh responded to this. 20:34.060 --> 20:35.120 Verse 17. 20:35.220 --> 20:38.140 And he said to me, have you seen O son of man? 20:38.760 --> 20:46.060 Is it a small matter to the house of Yehudah to do these abominations which 20:46.060 --> 20:47.020 they have done here? 20:47.980 --> 20:54.160 Crying for Tammuz, worshiping the sun at sunrise, for they have filled the land 20:54.160 --> 20:58.740 with violence, that most likely is a reference to child sacrifices, 20:59.540 --> 21:06.000 and turn back to provoke me and see they are putting the branch to my nose. 21:06.880 --> 21:11.840 Therefore I shall indeed deal in wrath, all right, so he's angry. 21:12.140 --> 21:20.720 My eyes shall not pardon nor would I spare and they cry in my ears with a loud voice 21:20.720 --> 21:24.520 but I shall not hear them. 21:25.300 --> 21:32.620 So again, saints, what the Ruach HaQodesh has been saying to us in this journey of 21:32.620 --> 21:40.020 over a year is that we have to test everything, we have to test every 21:40.020 --> 21:45.740 tradition, we have to make sure that what we're doing is rooted and grounded in 21:45.740 --> 21:49.280 Scripture and if it is not, we need to stop doing it. 21:51.100 --> 21:52.080 Can you say a good amen? 21:53.660 --> 21:58.640 We need to realize that almost every profane and idolatrous practice originated 21:58.640 --> 22:01.000 with sun-god worship. 22:01.800 --> 22:05.600 As the people scattered across the earth with their different languages they used 22:05.600 --> 22:07.900 different names for the sun-god deities. 22:08.600 --> 22:13.680 In other lands and cultures, the mother goddess was called Ishtar, sounds like 22:13.680 --> 22:14.620 Easter, doesn't it? 22:14.700 --> 22:18.100 Astarte, Ostera, and Easter. 22:18.840 --> 22:24.400 Other names included the wife of Baal, Ashtoreth, and the queen of heaven. 22:25.060 --> 22:29.540 The mother goddess was frequently worshiped as a sort of mother nature, 22:29.620 --> 22:30.560 you've heard that before, right? 22:30.600 --> 22:31.160 Mother nature. 22:33.940 --> 22:39.860 And she was known as the goddess of spring and the goddess of fertility and the 22:39.860 --> 22:45.320 goddess of sex and orgies and temple prostitution were often used in the 22:45.320 --> 22:47.500 worship of Ishtar or Easter. 22:48.840 --> 22:54.780 So let's ask a question that you might have wondered about for a lot of years, 22:55.500 --> 22:59.720 where in the world did Easter bunnies come from? 23:04.430 --> 23:11.690 Christian people, sincere people all over the world say they celebrate the 23:11.690 --> 23:18.730 resurrection of our Lord Messiah Yeshua and they do it with Easter bunnies, 23:18.770 --> 23:22.770 so where in the world did that tradition come from? 23:23.930 --> 23:31.110 Well, one Babylonian myth states that a giant egg fell out of the heavens and 23:31.110 --> 23:37.310 landed in the Euphrates River, the fish rolled the egg to the shore and 23:37.310 --> 23:44.750 the dove sat on it and hatched it and out came the goddess Easter who, in a sign of 23:44.750 --> 23:48.770 her divinity, turned a bird into an egg-laying rabbit. 23:52.060 --> 23:53.580 Happy Easter to you. 24:02.100 --> 24:08.000 There's a lot of mythology surrounding the origins of the traditions that surround 24:08.000 --> 24:13.240 the Easter holiday, however, the fact remains that the Easter bunny, 24:13.960 --> 24:20.220 an egg-laying rabbit, has absolutely nothing to do with the resurrection of our 24:20.220 --> 24:22.060 Lord and Savior Yeshua Messiah. 24:27.140 --> 24:32.480 Again, according to Scripture, we are forbidden to worship Elohim with 24:32.480 --> 24:37.660 the same practices, customs, and traditions the pagans use to worship their 24:37.660 --> 24:40.580 gods, it's an abomination to the Almighty. 24:42.260 --> 24:45.120 So where did colored Easter eggs come from? 24:46.860 --> 24:51.000 There's a lot of churches that after they get through talking about resurrection are 24:51.000 --> 24:55.100 going to go right out in the yard and they're going to have massive Easter egg 24:55.100 --> 25:02.220 hunts and they're going to talk about how the Easter bunny came and visited and we 25:02.220 --> 25:04.820 need to know where colored eggs came from. 25:05.700 --> 25:12.040 The egg was a sacred symbol among the Babylonians, they would give painted eggs 25:12.040 --> 25:15.940 to one another as gifts during the spring fertility festival. 25:17.000 --> 25:22.000 The idea of a mystic egg spread from Babylon to many parts of the world. 25:22.960 --> 25:28.100 In Rome, the mystic egg was used in processions in honor of the mother goddess 25:28.100 --> 25:28.580 Roman. 25:29.480 --> 25:34.500 The egg was part of the sacred ceremonies of the Mysteries of Bacchus. 25:35.600 --> 25:39.600 The Druids used the egg as their sacred emblem. 25:40.520 --> 25:46.600 In northern Europe, China, and Japan, the eggs were colored for their sacred 25:46.600 --> 25:47.120 festivals. 25:47.600 --> 25:51.220 All right, so this is very disturbing, this next account. 25:51.760 --> 25:57.360 Some accounts say that on the first Sunday after the vernal equinox, that's Easter 25:57.360 --> 26:02.980 Sunday, the priest of Tammuz would impregnate virgins on the altar of Tammuz. 26:03.520 --> 26:07.780 The following year, they would sacrifice the three-month-old infants and dye Easter 26:07.780 --> 26:11.080 eggs in the blood of the infant sacrifices. 26:11.800 --> 26:16.360 Still today, one of the most popular colors for Easter eggs is blood red. 26:19.590 --> 26:22.150 Where did the practice of Lent come from? 26:23.950 --> 26:26.010 People say, well what are you giving up for Lent? 26:26.370 --> 26:28.290 My answer is, I'm giving up Lent. 26:39.120 --> 26:44.620 Since there's no instruction to observe Lent in the we must ask where this 26:44.620 --> 26:46.620 religious observance came from. 26:47.120 --> 26:53.760 Legend says that Tammuz became a great hunter like his supposed father Nimrod and 26:53.760 --> 26:58.240 at the age of 40 he was gored to death by a wild boar. 26:59.160 --> 27:03.480 In preparation for the spring fertility festival, worshipers of Tammuz would 27:03.480 --> 27:09.840 abstain from pleasure a day for each of his 40 years of life in hopes of enjoying 27:09.840 --> 27:13.440 the pleasures of Tammuz in the afterlife. 27:13.560 --> 27:14.940 So 40 years, 40 days. 27:16.520 --> 27:22.940 John Lancer in his book, Sabean Researches, page 111 and 112 says, 27:23.080 --> 27:28.980 a 40-day abstinence period was anciently observed in honor of the pagan god Osiris, 27:29.520 --> 27:34.700 Odonis, and Tammuz, and these are all just different names of the sun god. 27:35.780 --> 27:38.240 So where does Easter ham come from? 27:43.930 --> 27:46.070 Christians are going to gather around the table and they're going to say, 27:46.150 --> 27:52.630 Lord bless this Easter ham that you told us not to eat as we celebrate this high 27:52.630 --> 27:55.130 pagan day that you told us not to celebrate. 28:00.480 --> 28:05.920 Easter ham, well as mentioned earlier, a legend says that Tammuz was gored to 28:05.920 --> 28:11.480 death by a wild boar, so pagan tradition states that every year during Easter the 28:11.480 --> 28:16.780 worshippers of Tammuz would slay a wild boar and eat it in honor of their sun god 28:16.780 --> 28:17.380 Tammuz. 28:19.780 --> 28:26.360 Now some of you may know what hot cross buns are, when I first started researching 28:26.360 --> 28:30.540 I wasn't familiar with that, that was one tradition that we never did in our home 28:30.540 --> 28:31.920 but some of you may know what that is. 28:32.700 --> 28:39.320 We read in Jeremiah chapter 7 verse 16, and you do not pray for this people nor 28:39.320 --> 28:45.980 lift up a cry or prayer for them nor make intercession to me for I do not hear you. 28:46.020 --> 28:49.600 So this is Yahweh saying to Jeremiah, don't even pray for these people, 28:49.760 --> 28:58.340 I am so upset, I am so angry with these people that as prophet I don't even want 28:58.340 --> 29:02.020 you to lift up a prayer for these people, I'm not going to hear you. 29:02.280 --> 29:08.100 Verse 17, do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Yehudah and in the 29:08.100 --> 29:09.320 streets of Yerushalayim? 29:09.660 --> 29:14.240 The children are gathering wood, the fathers are lighting the fire, 29:14.880 --> 29:20.080 and the women are kneading their dough to make cakes for the sovereignness of the 29:20.080 --> 29:22.480 heavens, the queen of heaven. 29:22.940 --> 29:29.740 So they're baking pastries, special pastries, in honor of the queen of heaven 29:29.740 --> 29:34.840 and then they pour out drink offerings to other mighty ones to provoke me, 29:34.840 --> 29:35.580 Yahweh says. 29:36.300 --> 29:41.480 By making these special pastries which we see during Easter time, people make 29:41.480 --> 29:47.820 special pastries and offer them to the queen of heaven, God says, you're 29:47.820 --> 29:49.140 provoking me to anger. 29:50.600 --> 29:50.840 Amen? 29:51.280 --> 29:56.640 So the pastries made specifically for the celebration of Easter have their origin in 29:56.640 --> 29:57.160 paganism. 29:58.040 --> 30:04.220 So as believers, should we celebrate Easter or the feast of Passover? 30:06.640 --> 30:14.000 We've already shown you that Easter is in the bible only one time in one verse in 30:14.000 --> 30:21.360 the King James Version and we've shown you how the New King James Version then comes 30:21.360 --> 30:23.240 back and corrects that poor translation. 30:24.220 --> 30:24.480 Amen? 30:24.920 --> 30:26.380 It was never supposed to be there. 30:26.800 --> 30:33.920 Passover is the word that should have always been there and our bible tells us 30:33.920 --> 30:41.900 that in Leviticus 23 we are to observe the holidays or the holy days of Yahweh and 30:41.900 --> 30:43.420 Passover, of course, is one of those. 30:43.800 --> 30:49.580 So it's undeniably clear that believers are to keep the Passover, not Easter. 30:50.840 --> 30:56.720 Notice this from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 8, 30:57.240 --> 30:58.180 page 828. 30:58.540 --> 31:01.360 It says this, this is the Encyclopedia Britannica. 31:01.480 --> 31:07.280 There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New 31:07.280 --> 31:11.400 Testament or in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. 31:12.040 --> 31:16.400 The first Christians continued to observe the Jewish festivals. 31:16.600 --> 31:21.000 Now again, this is just a writer in the Encyclopedia Britannica because I would 31:21.000 --> 31:26.620 add that Yahweh, when He gives them to us in Leviticus 23, doesn't call them Jewish 31:26.620 --> 31:30.800 festivals, He calls them the feasts of Yahweh, they're my feasts. 31:31.140 --> 31:31.280 Amen? 31:33.340 --> 31:40.300 Though in a new spirit as commemorations of events which those festivals had 31:40.300 --> 31:48.720 foreshadowed, thus the Passover with a new conception added to it of Christ as the 31:48.720 --> 31:52.480 true Paschal Lamb continued to be observed. 31:52.880 --> 31:59.880 So the Encyclopedia Britannica says that the early family of faith, the early body 31:59.880 --> 32:07.440 of Messiah, continued to observe the Passover recognizing that Yeshua was the 32:07.440 --> 32:10.140 Passover Lamb, amen? 32:11.500 --> 32:15.340 The original apostles, including Paul and the early New Testament believers, 32:15.340 --> 32:17.580 did not observe Easter. 32:19.080 --> 32:21.200 All right, I want you to allow that to sink in. 32:21.380 --> 32:26.220 They observed the feasts of Passover which includes the days of unleavened bread. 32:27.260 --> 32:30.640 So let me bear that out, go with me to 1st Corinthians chapter 5. 32:32.300 --> 32:37.480 Now this is the Brit Hanashah or what you might call the New Testament and notice 32:37.480 --> 32:39.020 what it charges us to keep. 32:40.060 --> 32:45.080 1st Corinthians chapter 5 starting with verse 7, it says, therefore cleanse out 32:45.080 --> 32:45.960 the old leaven. 32:46.560 --> 32:54.100 Now this is Paul talking to the body of Messiah in Corinth and he's using the 32:54.100 --> 32:58.800 foundation of the understanding of Passover and the feasts of unleavened 32:58.800 --> 33:04.860 bread that time when they were to remove all the leaven out of their homes. 33:05.400 --> 33:11.600 Of course, leaven represents sin and so Paul is using a very common terminology. 33:12.160 --> 33:18.260 Therefore cleanse out the old leaven so that you are a new lump as you are 33:18.260 --> 33:25.680 unleavened for also, here it is, Messiah our Easter Lamb, is that what it 33:25.680 --> 33:26.040 says? 33:30.090 --> 33:31.390 Messiah our what? 33:32.130 --> 33:35.770 Passover was offered for us. 33:35.910 --> 33:37.010 Messiah our what? 33:37.450 --> 33:41.150 Passover was offered for us. 33:41.230 --> 33:43.310 Now this is in your New Testament. 33:45.470 --> 33:51.330 For Messiah our Passover was offered for us, so then let us observe the festival. 33:52.650 --> 33:53.910 What festival? 33:55.630 --> 33:58.370 The ancient pagan festival of Easter? 33:58.370 --> 33:59.270 No. 34:00.750 --> 34:04.090 Let us observe the Passover and unleavened bread. 34:05.250 --> 34:10.270 Let us observe the festival not with old leaven, get the leaven out of your home, 34:10.530 --> 34:15.650 nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness and get the sin out of your life. 34:16.690 --> 34:17.610 You see what he's saying? 34:19.090 --> 34:22.450 Observe the Passover not with the old leaven, get the leaven out of your home, 34:22.830 --> 34:31.530 nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, get the sin out of your life, 34:32.070 --> 34:37.530 but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 34:38.330 --> 34:38.850 Amen. 34:38.950 --> 34:45.270 So this is a charge directly from what you might call the New Testament to observe 34:45.270 --> 34:51.010 the feast of Passover and then look at 1st Corinthians chapter 11 verse 23. 34:52.910 --> 34:57.790 Again, the Apostle Paul is writing, for I received from the Master, 34:58.270 --> 35:06.370 Master Yeshua Messiah, that which I also delivered to you that the Master Yeshua in 35:06.370 --> 35:09.930 the night in which He was delivered up took bread. 35:10.050 --> 35:11.510 So He was delivered up when? 35:12.270 --> 35:14.590 During the Passover season, was He not? 35:15.930 --> 35:16.850 All right. 35:17.710 --> 35:22.850 In the night in which He was delivered up, took bread, look at verse 24. 35:22.970 --> 35:32.830 And having given thanks, He broke it and said, take eat, this is my body which is 35:32.830 --> 35:36.450 broken for you, do this in remembrance of me. 35:37.030 --> 35:41.050 So again, Yeshua was saying, I am the Passover Lamb. 35:43.470 --> 35:51.030 When you take the bread of the Passover, you are eating of me, you are eating of 35:51.030 --> 35:55.470 the Passover Lamb, you are eating of Messiah, our Passover. 35:56.310 --> 35:58.790 When you eat it, remember me. 36:00.430 --> 36:05.110 In other words, it's not just about the Lamb in Egypt, that was a type, 36:05.790 --> 36:11.550 a shadow and a picture of Messiah who would give His life up on the cross as the 36:11.550 --> 36:13.670 true Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. 36:14.190 --> 36:19.690 And so Yeshua was simply saying, when you eat this Passover, remember I'm 36:19.690 --> 36:20.410 the Passover. 36:23.210 --> 36:23.730 Hallelujah. 36:26.870 --> 36:32.270 And having given thanks, He broke it and said, take eat, this is my body which is 36:32.270 --> 36:35.550 broken for you, do this in remembrance of me. 36:35.650 --> 36:36.230 Verse 25. 36:36.330 --> 36:43.270 In the same way, also the cup after supper saying, this cup, which cup? 36:44.510 --> 36:46.270 The cup of the Passover. 36:47.190 --> 36:55.830 This cup is the renewed covenant in my blood as often as you drink it, 36:56.530 --> 36:59.150 do this in remembrance of me. 36:59.650 --> 37:02.890 So how often were they going to drink the Passover cup? 37:04.870 --> 37:12.250 Once a year at Passover and when you do it, Yeshua is saying to us, remember me. 37:13.350 --> 37:13.630 Amen. 37:13.950 --> 37:14.970 Look at verse 26. 37:15.110 --> 37:19.610 For as often as you eat this bread, the Passover bread, unleavened bread, 37:19.850 --> 37:26.670 and drink this cup, the Passover cup, you proclaim the death of the Master, 37:27.360 --> 37:34.070 the death of the Passover Lamb, you proclaim it until He comes. 37:34.910 --> 37:41.190 So how long are we as the body of Messiah supposed to observe the Passover and eat 37:41.190 --> 37:43.110 the bread and drink the cup? 37:44.650 --> 37:49.790 Until He comes, until He comes. 37:52.370 --> 37:56.510 This doesn't say anything about celebrating Easter until He comes back. 37:57.270 --> 38:04.010 This says we are to celebrate Yeshua as the Passover Lamb who willingly laid down 38:04.010 --> 38:10.250 His life on the execution stake and took our sins upon Himself, paying the ultimate 38:10.250 --> 38:10.830 price. 38:11.050 --> 38:17.570 His body was broken, His blood was poured out, and every year at Passover time you 38:17.570 --> 38:23.870 should come together and you should eat the bread and you should drink of the cup 38:23.870 --> 38:29.410 and you should remember the sacrifice of Yeshua that He died for you and do it 38:29.410 --> 38:31.310 every year until He comes back. 38:40.110 --> 38:44.950 You know, the bible tells us that we're to come out from among them and be separate, 38:45.750 --> 38:53.470 that we're not to touch what is unclean, God said, I'll receive you, I'll be a god 38:53.470 --> 38:55.890 to you and you'll be my sons and daughter. 38:57.850 --> 39:03.930 The Christian religion has touched a lot of what's unclean, there are a lot of 39:03.930 --> 39:12.450 pagan traditions that the Roman bishops in the early centuries embraced and we could 39:12.450 --> 39:16.490 say today in this passage that I shared earlier that the Gentiles will come before 39:16.490 --> 39:24.150 the Almighty and say, what we've inherited from our fathers are lies, they're 39:24.150 --> 39:28.190 vanities, amen, they're worthless. 39:29.570 --> 39:36.670 And so, in these last days I sense in my spirit the Holy Spirit wooing whosoever 39:36.670 --> 39:42.090 will because if you love your tradition you're going to go after your tradition, 39:42.470 --> 39:46.730 if you love your tradition you're not going to be willing to hear me talk like 39:46.730 --> 39:50.310 this, you're going to go find an environment that will cater to your 39:50.310 --> 39:55.370 tradition and to your flesh and make you happy in the moment but one day you will 39:55.370 --> 39:59.850 stand before the Almighty and you will give an account of whether you loved His 39:59.850 --> 40:03.610 truth more than the traditions that were given to you. 40:08.110 --> 40:12.490 The bible says in the book of Revelation talking about the Laodicean church, 40:12.630 --> 40:17.290 the sin of the Laodicean church, and many bible scholars believe that that 40:17.290 --> 40:24.550 church represents the church of the last days, the sin of the Laodicean church was 40:24.550 --> 40:25.350 a mixture. 40:26.890 --> 40:32.390 Yeshua didn't say, I want you to be red hot only, He said, I would that you were 40:32.390 --> 40:44.150 hot or cold but because you're a mixture, because you're lukewarm, you nauseate me. 40:44.930 --> 40:46.210 Isn't that what He said? 40:47.230 --> 40:49.290 You make me want to throw up. 40:51.110 --> 40:57.650 Why do you think it says in in the Torah that you're not to mix threads in a 40:57.650 --> 40:57.910 garment? 40:58.410 --> 41:02.250 Why do you think it says in the Torah that you're not to sow two different types of 41:02.250 --> 41:02.950 seed in a field? 41:03.550 --> 41:07.370 Why do you think it says in the Torah that you're not to plow with an ox and a donkey 41:07.370 --> 41:07.890 together? 41:09.270 --> 41:13.830 It's teaching you that holy means set apart, not mixed up. 41:16.030 --> 41:19.990 And the Christian religion is very mixed up. 41:21.370 --> 41:26.910 I am not speaking from the perspective of someone who has not known the Christian 41:26.910 --> 41:27.370 religion. 41:28.170 --> 41:34.110 I was born in it, I lived in it, I preached in it, and when I preached in 41:34.110 --> 41:38.350 it, I preached with all sincerity based on the truth that I understood at the time. 41:39.710 --> 41:45.250 But the ruach ha'qodesh, if you're willing, will lead you in all truth. 41:49.970 --> 41:55.610 And the question for us all is what are we going to do with transformative truth? 41:56.390 --> 41:59.090 What are you going to do with transformative truth? 41:59.310 --> 42:01.570 Are you going to stay in your comfort zone? 42:01.830 --> 42:04.210 Are you going to hang out with the large crowd? 42:04.330 --> 42:09.150 Because broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many who are on 42:09.150 --> 42:11.530 that path but narrow and difficult. 42:11.930 --> 42:15.790 When you start preaching truth not everybody's going to love you. 42:17.890 --> 42:23.130 If you want to live godly in this life people will persecute you and you don't 42:23.130 --> 42:26.870 have to be an ugly person to get persecuted, all you have to do is stand 42:26.870 --> 42:27.610 for truth. 42:28.370 --> 42:33.370 If you stand for truth you will be persecuted, if you speak the truth you 42:33.370 --> 42:34.370 will be persecuted. 42:34.370 --> 42:39.010 And the scribes and the pharisees said to Yeshua, why don't you toe the religious 42:39.010 --> 42:39.670 line? 42:42.590 --> 42:46.410 He said, you love your tradition so much you're willing to break the commandments 42:46.410 --> 42:53.550 of the Almighty to keep your traditions and they crucified Him for speaking the 42:53.550 --> 42:54.590 truth of His Father. 42:55.490 --> 42:58.610 And don't think for a second that if you walk in the truth there won't be some 42:58.610 --> 43:01.110 people on this planet that want to crucify you. 43:05.080 --> 43:11.720 Narrow and difficult is the way that leads to life and there are few who find it. 43:11.840 --> 43:12.000 Why? 43:12.220 --> 43:18.440 Because there are few who love truth more than the traditions that they've received 43:18.440 --> 43:19.260 from their fathers. 43:24.570 --> 43:28.130 He said, because you're mixed up, you nauseate me. 43:29.470 --> 43:31.010 I don't want to be mixed up. 43:34.370 --> 43:37.270 We have the truth right here in the scriptures. 43:38.370 --> 43:44.850 If we're willing to search it out the Holy Spirit will reveal the truth to us and we 43:44.850 --> 43:47.830 will begin to walk in the ways of Yeshua. 43:49.610 --> 43:52.410 Your root is a Hebrew root, not a Roman root. 43:52.670 --> 44:00.850 And if you dare to do the research you will discover how much paganism has been 44:00.850 --> 44:03.630 adopted by the Roman church. 44:03.630 --> 44:06.290 You say, well I'm not a Roman Catholic. 44:06.710 --> 44:12.010 Let's see, there's Roman Catholic, there's Protestant, there's evangelical, 44:13.330 --> 44:18.270 there's non-denominational Spirit-filled, trace it all the way back, it all has the 44:18.270 --> 44:18.890 same root. 44:22.340 --> 44:27.480 If you don't believe it, then discover what most people are celebrating today. 44:28.820 --> 44:31.920 They're going to talk about the resurrection and they're going to go right 44:31.920 --> 44:40.800 out and have their Easter hunt and they decorate their houses with bunnies and 44:40.800 --> 44:42.780 they're probably going to sit down and have an Easter ham. 44:45.440 --> 44:56.480 There's nothing more offensive to a Jewish person than people eating ham and so 44:56.480 --> 45:03.040 wouldn't that be just like the Romans to say, well we're going to eat ham on Easter 45:04.520 --> 45:07.180 as a slight to the Jewish people. 45:09.620 --> 45:12.000 I don't know about you, but I'm ready to walk in the truth. 45:21.260 --> 45:27.800 He who says that he abides in Yeshua, now why does the scripture say that? 45:27.960 --> 45:30.380 Because there's a lot of people who are nothing but talk. 45:32.160 --> 45:34.400 I said that with a smile on my face this morning. 45:36.140 --> 45:39.640 They talk a religious game, they're all about religion. 45:41.300 --> 45:50.320 He who says that they abide in Yeshua must also walk just as He walked. 45:52.580 --> 45:55.340 People say, well what's going on over at Triumph Family? 45:55.460 --> 45:57.680 What is Pastor Gary teaching you guys? 45:57.780 --> 46:02.380 I've heard all kinds of wild things, tradition-busting things. 46:03.360 --> 46:06.880 Just say, He's teaching us to walk in the ways of Yeshua. 46:06.880 --> 46:07.700 Amen. 46:15.530 --> 46:20.270 So we met on this Sunday, this Sunday belongs to Yahweh. 46:21.470 --> 46:23.730 We spoke the truth about Easter. 46:24.930 --> 46:26.690 You say, well I'm not sure I believe you. 46:26.770 --> 46:27.990 Well do the research yourself. 46:29.550 --> 46:36.490 If I've done nothing but inspire you to go home and study your bible, what a novel 46:36.490 --> 46:42.980 idea then I'm successful, amen? 46:43.200 --> 46:44.460 If I could get you reading your bible. 46:45.280 --> 46:46.000 Praise the Lord. 46:46.860 --> 46:54.060 But we're here to worship our God for His goodness and we're thanking Him that He's 46:54.060 --> 47:00.140 giving us a wonderful holy day, a wonderful season that we can keep that's 47:00.140 --> 47:07.700 all about Yeshua and that is Passover, our Passover lamb, unleavened bread. 47:08.380 --> 47:20.360 He took our sin, we were leavened, He was unleavened, He became leavened so 47:20.360 --> 47:23.000 that we might become unleavened. 47:24.800 --> 47:31.480 He took our sin that we might become the righteousness of God in Yeshua Messiah, 47:31.660 --> 47:31.860 amen? 47:32.360 --> 47:35.800 And then first fruits, you want to know when we're going to celebrate the 47:35.800 --> 47:36.260 resurrection? 47:37.060 --> 47:41.640 We're going to celebrate the resurrection when the Almighty celebrates the 47:41.640 --> 47:47.300 resurrection on the feast of first fruits because the scripture tells us that Yeshua 47:47.300 --> 47:55.500 was the first born from the dead and He presented Himself before the Almighty on 47:55.500 --> 47:57.480 the feast of first fruits, amen? 47:57.860 --> 48:02.740 So let's not muddy the water, let's not get it all confused, let's not adopt a 48:02.740 --> 48:08.740 bunch of pagan traditions and pagan ways and pagan customs and say we're the people 48:08.740 --> 48:09.540 of the Almighty. 48:11.600 --> 48:15.940 Let's walk in His ways, let's walk in His truth, amen? 48:17.700 --> 48:22.220 When Yeshua comes back we want Him to receive us unto Himself, why? 48:22.700 --> 48:25.920 Because we walked in His ways. 48:26.540 --> 48:27.380 Can you say amen? 48:28.060 --> 48:28.580 Hallelujah. 48:28.640 --> 48:29.420 Let's pray together. 48:29.540 --> 48:34.580 Father, we love You so much, we're so thankful for the truth and even though, 48:34.820 --> 48:38.400 Lord, this might have been somewhat challenging for some of us, we thank You, 48:38.920 --> 48:41.280 Lord, that the truth is what makes us free. 48:42.240 --> 48:47.020 We realize sometimes the truth makes us uncomfortable but ultimately it makes us 48:47.020 --> 48:52.540 free and so today I ask Lord that You bless every truth seeker in this house. 48:53.200 --> 49:00.340 I thank You, Father, that the Spirit of truth is leading us all into the truth of 49:00.340 --> 49:07.500 God and I thank You for the courage to be able to forsake what we have been given, 49:07.700 --> 49:12.840 what we have inherited from our fathers that are lies and are vanities and are 49:12.840 --> 49:18.180 worthless things and embrace fully the truth of the Almighty God. 49:18.540 --> 49:20.000 We want to walk in that truth. 49:20.140 --> 49:25.100 Father, we thank You for today in the precious and wonderful name of our 49:25.100 --> 49:29.620 Passover Lamb, Yeshua our Messiah. 49:30.180 --> 49:34.720 And everyone said amen and amen. 49:34.820 --> 49:36.340 Oh clap your hands all you people. 49:36.620 --> 49:36.940 Come on.