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Kill the Easter Bunny .
Here comes Peter Cottontailhopping down the bunny trail
Hippity-hoppity, easter's on itsway.
These words do not come from aspiritual hymn that the Holy
Spirit inspired the church tosing on Easter Sunday.
Nor does God look with anyamount of pleasure at our
chocolate bunnies and coloredeggs.
(00:22):
God only accepts religion thatkeeps us from the pollution of
the world.
Religion that God, our Father,accepts as pure and faultless is
this to look after orphans andwidows in their distress and to
keep oneself from being pollutedby the world.
James 1.27.
We have forgotten that God doesnot desire for the church to
(00:44):
learn the ways of otherreligions.
The true church of Jesustotally destroys all other
religions, customs and ways ofworship and replaces them with
the good news of God.
Time and time again, god woulddestroy, judge and reject His
people because they adopted thecustoms of other nations.
They mixed their idols with theworship of him, just as we
(01:08):
combine today and Easter Bunnywith the resurrection of Jesus.
They did not destroy thepeoples as the Lord had
commanded them, but they mingledwith the nations and adopted
their customs Psalms 106, 34 and35.
The church, publishing houses,ministries and pastor after
(01:28):
pastor embrace Easter as if itwere, god's holiday, but as
Nelson's Bible Dictionaryinforms us, easter was
originally a pagan festivalhonoring Eostre, a Teutonic
goddess of light and spring.
The only appearance of the wordEaster, king James Version, is
a mistranslation of Pacha, theGreek word for Passover, acts
(01:51):
12.4.
This brings us to our mainpoint.
Jesus rose from the dead afterthe Passover, not on Easter Day.
Easter originates from theAnglo-Saxon name of a Teutonic
goddess of spring and fertility,honored on the day of the
vernal equinox spring.
Contrary to what we want tocelebrate and believe, christ
(02:13):
did not resurrect on Eastermorning.
Traditions such as the Easterrabbit, symbol of fertility, and
colored Easter eggs come fromthis pagan worship First Fruits.
Jesus rose from the dead on theday of first fruits Passed down
from Old Testament times.
This Jewish holy day givesChristians not something to obey
(02:36):
as law, but something torejoice in.
In other words, jesus rose fromthe dead and offered God a
first fruit sacrifice.
Jesus first risen from the deadand offered God a first fruit
sacrifice.
Jesus, first risen from thedead, offered God a first fruit
of the resurrection that wouldoccur at the end, as this
scripture demonstrates.
The tombs broke open and thebodies of many holy people who
(02:57):
had died, were raised to life.
They came out of the tombs andafter Jesus' resurrection they
went into the holy city andappeared to many people.
Matthew 27, 52 and 53.
The Feast of Unleavened Breadproceeds the day prior to First
Fruits A very important pointbecause unleavened bread
(03:18):
symbolizes in Scripture anoffering without the yeast of
sin.
When we combine colored eggs,chocolate bunnies, fun and games
with God's holy days, we add inthe yeast of sin, and it is
impossible for those in Christto carry their cross and feed
their flesh at the same time.
The cross demands the killingof all the flesh and sin.
(03:40):
Christians must be a peoplecrucified to the world.
In other words, christianscannot drink the cup of demons
and the cup of God at the sametime.
Why the church thinks it isstronger than the Lord is
amazing.
You cannot drink the cup of theLord and the cup of demons too.
You cannot have a part in boththe Lord's table and the table
(04:02):
of demons.
Are we trying to arouse theLord's jealousy?
Are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians, 10, 21 and 22.
The cross does not work out acompromise with the world,
especially in the matters ofworship, to teach children to
search for hidden Easter eggs,eat chocolate bunnies and
(04:22):
marshmallow chickens in the nameof Jesus only serves to
blaspheme the holy name of God.
This especially becomes clearwhen we read in the New
Testament that we should be apeople separate from the world,
especially in matters of worship.
Therefore, come out from themand be separate, says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing and Iwill receive you.
(04:45):
2 Corinthians 6.17.
First Fruits is one of the mostexciting days God gave us.
Jesus rose from the dead, yetthe church defiles it with food
and fun, treating the blood ofJesus in a contemptible way,
repeated yearly by Christians.
It reflects the golden calfworship that Moses so thoroughly
(05:06):
judged Israel for celebrating.
Notice that Moses' brotherAaron fashioned a golden calf,
just as we fashion a hoppingbunny today, and then he
announced a festival to the Lord.
There is no difference betweenthe two concepts, except the
church of today should act wiser, because we can read in the
(05:27):
Bible about Israel's golden calfidol worship.
He took what they handed himand made it into an idol, cast
in the shape of a calf,fashioning it with a tool.
Then they said these are yourgods, o Israel, who brought you
up out of Egypt.
When Aaron saw this, he builtan altar in front of the calf
and announced Tomorrow therewill be a festival to the Lord.
(05:48):
Exodus 32, 4 and 5 ViolentPreachers.
How literally astonishing thatwith all the Bible, schools,
colleges, commentaries andministries, the Christian
community cannot even set onesimple fact straight Easter is a
pagan holiday and First Fruitsis a Christian one.
(06:09):
This ignorance occurs onlybecause our flesh still loves
the party atmosphere of theworld.
We love the world with its funtimes of Easter, egg hunts,
cheesy songs and, of course,food.
Our hearts remain hard towardthe Word of God and we would
rather express spiritual truthswith worldly words than the way
(06:29):
God commands.
We should speak and worship.
1 Corinthians 2.13.
Violence rages from the pulpitsof today.
Preacher after preacher ripsand shreds the Bible, tearing it
to pieces to justify anythingas coming from the Lord.
The most worldly of movies aremade to seem as if they reflect
Jesus.
Books written about findingJesus, fashioned in the latest
(06:54):
fad and entertainment of theworld, fill the Christian stores
.
The real violence in the landis the fact that there is no
difference between the holy andthe common in the church.
The church is so cold it cannottell the difference between a
bunny and a risen Christ,between the word Easter and
first fruits between the worldand worship and firstfruits
(07:20):
between the world and worship.
Her priests do violence to mylaw and profane my holy things.
They do not distinguish betweenthe holy and the common.
They teach that there is nodifference between the unclean
and the clean and they shuttheir eyes to the keeping of my
Sabbaths, so that I am profanedamong them.
Ezekiel 22 26.
This profaning of God's wordand holy things certainly sells
(07:41):
the merchandise and draws thecrowds, but God will destroy
churches that hold Easter egghunts.
This violence against God knowsno limits.
A recent children's book in theChristian market depicts a
picture on its first pages of agrouchy, unloving Christian
telling others that the EasterBunny is wrong.
A church stands in thebackground while puzzled
(08:04):
Christian adults scowl andchildren leave in fear and
dismay.
The book continues expoundingon whitewash to combine the
Easter Bunny with theresurrection of Jesus.
If such a justification ispossible, then Christians might
as well smoke pot during church.
After all, god gave us themarijuana plant and it can help
(08:25):
everyone to relax and feel morefreedom in Christ.
This book ends with thechildren's father eating a
chocolate bunny and stating andsince God made both bunnies and
food.
I think I'll have a little bitetoo.
Can you hear the echoes ofAaron and the golden calf?
Yes, aaron agreed.
And since God made both cowsand food, I think I'll have a
(08:46):
little bite too.
And he did Think of how Satanmocks Peter the great apostle
with the song.
Here comes Peter Cottontailhopping down the bunny trail.
Children hear this song andthen hear hymns of the cross
Kill the Easter Bunny.
(09:20):
Let us zealously kill the EasterBunny and replace it with the
wisdom and purity of God.
Let us grow in the knowledge ofthe Lord, full of wisdom about
the Passover, the Feast ofUnleavened Bread and the first
fruit of the resurrection ofJesus Christ, our Savior.
On that same night, I will passthrough Egypt and strike down
(09:41):
every firstborn, both men andanimals, and I will bring
judgment on all the gods ofEgypt.
I am the Lord.
The blood will be a sign foryou on the houses where you are,
and when I see the blood, Iwill pass over you.
No destructive plague willtouch you when I strike Egypt.
This is a day you are tocommemorate For the generations
(10:02):
to come.
You shall celebrate it as afestival to the Lord, a lasting
ordinance.
For seven days you are to eatbread made without yeast.
On the first day.
Remove the yeast from yourhouses, for whoever eats
anything with yeast in it fromthe first day through the
seventh must be cut off fromIsrael.
On the first day, hold a sacredassembly, and another one on
(10:24):
the seventh day.
Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for
everyone to eat.
That is all you may do.
Celebrate the feast ofunleavened bread, because it was
on this very day that I broughtyour divisions out of Egypt.
Celebrate this day as a lastingordinance for the generations
to come.
Exodus 12, 12-17.
(10:46):
Let us surpass Moses, whom Godcommanded to build the
tabernacle exactly according tohis plan, and will they serve at
a sanctuary that is a copy andshadow of what is in heaven.
This is why Moses was warnedwhen he was about to build the
tabernacle.
See to it that you makeeverything according to the
pattern shown you on themountain.
(11:08):
Hebrews 8.5.
Jesus, not a bunny, providesthe exact representation of his
being.
Let us love God enough todisplay and worship the majesty
of heaven in complete holiness.
Let us do so in the richest oflove, for we lose nothing in
giving up the idols of the world.
(11:29):
After all, when we enter heaven, we shall see the radiant face
of the Son of God, not a bunnyrabbit.
The Son is the radiance ofGod's glory and the exact
representation of His being,sustaining all things by His
powerful word.
After he had providedpurification for sins, he sat
(11:49):
down at the right hand of theMajesty in heaven.
Hebrews 1.3.
The Consider Podcast Examiningtoday's wisdom, folly and
madness.
Wwwconsiderinfo.
Kill the Easter Bunny .
Here comes Peter Cottontailhopping down the bunny trail
Hippity-hoppity, easter's on itsway.
These words do not come from aspiritual hymn that the Holy
Spirit inspired the church tosing on Easter Sunday.
Nor does God look with anyamount of pleasure at our
chocolate bunnies and coloredeggs.
(00:22):
God only accepts religion thatkeeps us from the pollution of
the world.
Religion that God, our Father,accepts as pure and faultless is
this to look after orphans andwidows in their distress and to
keep oneself from being pollutedby the world.
James 1.27.
We have forgotten that God doesnot desire for the church to
(00:44):
learn the ways of otherreligions.
The true church of Jesustotally destroys all other
religions, customs and ways ofworship and replaces them with
the good news of God.
Time and time again, god woulddestroy, judge and reject His
people because they adopted thecustoms of other nations.
They mixed their idols with theworship of him, just as we
(01:08):
combine today and Easter Bunnywith the resurrection of Jesus.
They did not destroy thepeoples as the Lord had
commanded them, but they mingledwith the nations and adopted
their customs Psalms 106, 34 and35.
The church, publishing houses,ministries and pastor after
(01:28):
pastor embrace Easter as if itwere, god's holiday, but as
Nelson's Bible Dictionaryinforms us, easter was
originally a pagan festivalhonoring Eostre, a Teutonic
goddess of light and spring.
The only appearance of the wordEaster, king James Version, is
a mistranslation of Pacha, theGreek word for Passover, acts
(01:51):
12.4.
This brings us to our mainpoint.
Jesus rose from the dead afterthe Passover, not on Easter Day.
Easter originates from theAnglo-Saxon name of a Teutonic
goddess of spring and fertility,honored on the day of the
vernal equinox spring.
Contrary to what we want tocelebrate and believe, christ
(02:13):
did not resurrect on Eastermorning.
Traditions such as the Easterrabbit, symbol of fertility, and
colored Easter eggs come fromthis pagan worship First Fruits.
Jesus rose from the dead on theday of first fruits Passed down
from Old Testament times.
This Jewish holy day givesChristians not something to obey
(02:36):
as law, but something torejoice in.
In other words, jesus rose fromthe dead and offered God a
first fruit sacrifice.
Jesus first risen from the deadand offered God a first fruit
sacrifice.
Jesus, first risen from thedead, offered God a first fruit
of the resurrection that wouldoccur at the end, as this
scripture demonstrates.
The tombs broke open and thebodies of many holy people who
(02:57):
had died, were raised to life.
They came out of the tombs andafter Jesus' resurrection they
went into the holy city andappeared to many people.
Matthew 27, 52 and 53.
The Feast of Unleavened Breadproceeds the day prior to First
Fruits A very important pointbecause unleavened bread
(03:18):
symbolizes in Scripture anoffering without the yeast of
sin.
When we combine colored eggs,chocolate bunnies, fun and games
with God's holy days, we add inthe yeast of sin, and it is
impossible for those in Christto carry their cross and feed
their flesh at the same time.
The cross demands the killingof all the flesh and sin.
(03:40):
Christians must be a peoplecrucified to the world.
In other words, christianscannot drink the cup of demons
and the cup of God at the sametime.
Why the church thinks it isstronger than the Lord is
amazing.
You cannot drink the cup of theLord and the cup of demons too.
You cannot have a part in boththe Lord's table and the table
(04:02):
of demons.
Are we trying to arouse theLord's jealousy?
Are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians, 10, 21 and 22.
The cross does not work out acompromise with the world,
especially in the matters ofworship, to teach children to
search for hidden Easter eggs,eat chocolate bunnies and
(04:22):
marshmallow chickens in the nameof Jesus only serves to
blaspheme the holy name of God.
This especially becomes clearwhen we read in the New
Testament that we should be apeople separate from the world,
especially in matters of worship.
Therefore, come out from themand be separate, says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing and Iwill receive you.
(04:45):
2 Corinthians 6.17.
First Fruits is one of the mostexciting days God gave us.
Jesus rose from the dead, yetthe church defiles it with food
and fun, treating the blood ofJesus in a contemptible way,
repeated yearly by Christians.
It reflects the golden calfworship that Moses so thoroughly
(05:06):
judged Israel for celebrating.
Notice that Moses' brotherAaron fashioned a golden calf,
just as we fashion a hoppingbunny today, and then he
announced a festival to the Lord.
There is no difference betweenthe two concepts, except the
church of today should act wiser, because we can read in the
(05:27):
Bible about Israel's golden calfidol worship.
He took what they handed himand made it into an idol, cast
in the shape of a calf,fashioning it with a tool.
Then they said these are yourgods, o Israel, who brought you
up out of Egypt.
When Aaron saw this, he builtan altar in front of the calf
and announced Tomorrow therewill be a festival to the Lord.
(05:48):
Exodus 32, 4 and 5 ViolentPreachers.
How literally astonishing thatwith all the Bible, schools,
colleges, commentaries andministries, the Christian
community cannot even set onesimple fact straight Easter is a
pagan holiday and First Fruitsis a Christian one.
(06:09):
This ignorance occurs onlybecause our flesh still loves
the party atmosphere of theworld.
We love the world with its funtimes of Easter, egg hunts,
cheesy songs and, of course,food.
Our hearts remain hard towardthe Word of God and we would
rather express spiritual truthswith worldly words than the way
(06:29):
God commands.
We should speak and worship.
1 Corinthians 2.13.
Violence rages from the pulpitsof today.
Preacher after preacher ripsand shreds the Bible, tearing it
to pieces to justify anythingas coming from the Lord.
The most worldly of movies aremade to seem as if they reflect
Jesus.
Books written about findingJesus, fashioned in the latest
(06:54):
fad and entertainment of theworld, fill the Christian stores
.
The real violence in the landis the fact that there is no
difference between the holy andthe common in the church.
The church is so cold it cannottell the difference between a
bunny and a risen Christ,between the word Easter and
first fruits between the worldand worship and firstfruits
(07:20):
between the world and worship.
Her priests do violence to mylaw and profane my holy things.
They do not distinguish betweenthe holy and the common.
They teach that there is nodifference between the unclean
and the clean and they shuttheir eyes to the keeping of my
Sabbaths, so that I am profanedamong them.
Ezekiel 22 26.
This profaning of God's wordand holy things certainly sells
(07:41):
the merchandise and draws thecrowds, but God will destroy
churches that hold Easter egghunts.
This violence against God knowsno limits.
A recent children's book in theChristian market depicts a
picture on its first pages of agrouchy, unloving Christian
telling others that the EasterBunny is wrong.
A church stands in thebackground while puzzled
(08:04):
Christian adults scowl andchildren leave in fear and
dismay.
The book continues expoundingon whitewash to combine the
Easter Bunny with theresurrection of Jesus.
If such a justification ispossible, then Christians might
as well smoke pot during church.
After all, god gave us themarijuana plant and it can help
(08:25):
everyone to relax and feel morefreedom in Christ.
This book ends with thechildren's father eating a
chocolate bunny and stating andsince God made both bunnies and
food.
I think I'll have a little bitetoo.
Can you hear the echoes ofAaron and the golden calf?
Yes, aaron agreed.
And since God made both cowsand food, I think I'll have a
(08:46):
little bite too.
And he did Think of how Satanmocks Peter the great apostle
with the song.
Here comes Peter Cottontailhopping down the bunny trail.
Children hear this song andthen hear hymns of the cross
Kill the Easter Bunny.
(09:20):
Let us zealously kill the EasterBunny and replace it with the
wisdom and purity of God.
Let us grow in the knowledge ofthe Lord, full of wisdom about
the Passover, the Feast ofUnleavened Bread and the first
fruit of the resurrection ofJesus Christ, our Savior.
On that same night, I will passthrough Egypt and strike down
(09:41):
every firstborn, both men andanimals, and I will bring
judgment on all the gods ofEgypt.
I am the Lord.
The blood will be a sign foryou on the houses where you are,
and when I see the blood, Iwill pass over you.
No destructive plague willtouch you when I strike Egypt.
This is a day you are tocommemorate For the generations
(10:02):
to come.
You shall celebrate it as afestival to the Lord, a lasting
ordinance.
For seven days you are to eatbread made without yeast.
On the first day.
Remove the yeast from yourhouses, for whoever eats
anything with yeast in it fromthe first day through the
seventh must be cut off fromIsrael.
On the first day, hold a sacredassembly, and another one on
(10:24):
the seventh day.
Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for
everyone to eat.
That is all you may do.
Celebrate the feast ofunleavened bread, because it was
on this very day that I broughtyour divisions out of Egypt.
Celebrate this day as a lastingordinance for the generations
to come.
Exodus 12, 12-17.
(10:46):
Let us surpass Moses, whom Godcommanded to build the
tabernacle exactly according tohis plan, and will they serve at
a sanctuary that is a copy andshadow of what is in heaven.
This is why Moses was warnedwhen he was about to build the
tabernacle.
See to it that you makeeverything according to the
pattern shown you on themountain.
(11:08):
Hebrews 8.5.
Jesus, not a bunny, providesthe exact representation of his
being.
Let us love God enough todisplay and worship the majesty
of heaven in complete holiness.
Let us do so in the richest oflove, for we lose nothing in
giving up the idols of the world.
(11:29):
After all, when we enter heaven, we shall see the radiant face
of the Son of God, not a bunnyrabbit.
The Son is the radiance ofGod's glory and the exact
representation of His being,sustaining all things by His
powerful word.
After he had providedpurification for sins, he sat
(11:49):
down at the right hand of theMajesty in heaven.
Hebrews 1.3.
The Consider Podcast Examiningtoday's wisdom, folly and
madness.
Wwwconsiderinfo.
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