The etymology of English Easter is from Old English Eastre a dawn-goddess of fertility whose festival was celebrated at the vernal equinox. This etymology of Easter can be found in any good dictionary.
If you are interested in God’s thoughts about easter you can search English “groves” in the bible. Biblical English “groves” and “grove” were translated from Hebrew proper feminine noun 842 ‘asherah which was 40 times translated into English “groves” or “grove” best exemplified in “For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger” “And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass” “And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves” “And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree”.
Hebrew proper feminine noun 842 ‘asherah is in fact the Phoenician goddess of fertility Asherah. Astarte is the Babylonian and Canaanite goddess of fertility, as Eastre is the old English goddess of fertility. There are as many different names of spring goddesses of fertility as there are different world languages.
English “Easter” appears once in the bible and was intentionally mistranslated from Greek noun 3957 pascha which was 28 times correctly translated into English “passover”; including John 13:1 “Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end” and 1Corinthians 5:7 “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us”. English “for” in 1Corinthians 5:7 was translated from Greek preposition 5228 huper meaning over [in the genitive] as a grammatical subject is over their grammatical objects. Jesus Christ is, has always been and will always be our Passover in order to be everyone’s sole grammatical subject. Do you think the Spirit of God needs or wants human beings to displace God as grammatical subject? What does the bible say? “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”. The two verses preceding 1 Timothy 2:5 say: “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour” “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth”. God’s will is my will because God is my only spiritual grammatical subject.
Greek preposition 5228 huper was also translated into English “for” in “This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you” “This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me” “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world” “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” “And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God” “Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God”. God came to earth in the embodiment of Jesus Christ and “gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” to be every grammatical object’s only grammatical subject. English “due” in 1Timothy 2:6 above was translated from Greek adjective 2398 idios describing one’s own. In this context, describing one’s own time. The finite number of God’s “election” God said “I have reserved to myself” “come unto the knowledge of the truth” during this earth age “the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded” “the rest” “come unto the knowledge of the truth” during the “thousand years” “Lord’s day” “day of the Lord Jesus” “be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day”. The finite number of God’s “election” “they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years”.
The Old Testament passover lamb is simply a precursor to the New Testament “Lamb of God” “our passover”. God explains in the 12th chapter of Exodus and throughout the bible, that all are instructed to memorialize forever the “sacrifice of the LORD’S passover” “For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us”. God gave us explicit scripture noting that Jesus became our Passover and our Sabbath and gave us specific instructions regarding when to memorialize the “sacrifice of the LORD’S passover”. To the best of my knowledge none of the world’s 4,351 religions follow God’s instructions because Pope Gregory XIII, introduced in October 1582, a calendar designed to correlate easter with the spring fertility festival that memorialized the pagan birth of Rome. Today the Gregorian calendar hangs on people’s walls and resides in their phones and computers to rationalize a pope’s easter. Easter bunnies and eggs have everything to do with pagan religion and nothing to do with the “sacrifice of the LORD’S passover”. A few people will continue to memorialize the “sacrifice of the LORD’S passover” “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even” subsequent to “shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever”. For thousands of years the Jewish new year commenced at the vernal equinox. People can still do exactly as God instructed because his instructions remain clear, concise, and eternal. Vernal equinox in 2020 was March 19th at 10:49 PM CDT. When Jesus walked the earth each new day commenced “at even” being sundown, so to memorialize the “sacrifice of the LORD’S passover” “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even” being after sundown Wednesday April first. Take a little unleavened bread representing His body and a little red wine representing His blood and contemplate the “sacrifice of the LORD’S passover”; then contemplate serving Him as your only spiritual grammatical subject, 7,000 of whom God will say “I have reserved to myself” during this earth age and “the rest” “come unto the knowledge of the truth” during the “thousand years” “Lord’s day” “day of the Lord Jesus” after which God can say “I have reserved to myself” every human being ever born.
Italicized words within quotation marks, Strong’s concordance numbers preceding Hebrew and Greek words or Bible chapter and verse in this document can be copied and pasted into any King James Bible with Strong’s concordance such as http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html
Please copy and paste as recommended, whereby God and the “Word” can be your grammatical subject. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. God’s “Word” is not often reflected in modern English.
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