Mark 7:13 (KJV)

making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Matthew 10:26 (KJV)

Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

Deuteronomy 11:16 (KJV)

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Mark 7:9 (KJV)

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

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2 Timothy 3:16 (KJV)

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Revelation 3:19 (KJV)

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.



If you've taken the time to read the page on Firstfruits, the reason why we choose not to celebrate Easter is probably apparent. We know that Jesus rose again on the first day of the week after the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Passover. This day was actually another one of God's biblical feasts known as the day of Firstfruits. The bible clearly states that Jesus is the firstfruits of God's harvest. The first one to be resurrected from the dead. God had already named resurrection day years before Jesus and nothing in the new testament suggests that He changed the name. So why does every one call it Easter?

Just like all the other holidays we have chosen not to celebrate, or in this case celebrate it in the same way, is because it has it's roots in paganism. Easter is named after the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility (sound familiar). Her name was Eostre, or Eostrae, which in English would be Easter. A catholic saint named Bede wrote that the pagan festival of Eosturmonath, or Eostre Month, which celebrated the spring goddess Easter and the spring eqonox  had become assimilated into the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Christ. 

And if naming this holy day after a pagan goddess isn't bad enough, the traditional way Easter is celebrated is pagan too. The painted eggs were used as a symbol of fertility. The Easter bunny comes from the myth of the goddess Easter hatching a bunny from an egg. Nothing in the way Easter is celebrated has any biblical roots. So we choose not to celebrate God's holidays as the pagans do, and so we don't celebrate Easter. We celebrate the Feast of Firstfruits because Jesus is the firstfruits and the fulfillment of this feast. 

Isiah 5

12.And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. 

13.Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 

14.Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.