01 April, 2013

Are You Going After Ashtoreth?

This is courtesy of Candy over at Joyful Christian Homemaking.




Is it okay for Christians to celebrate the holidays of the pagans, or as the Bible refers to them - "the heathen?" Let's see:

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain. -Jeremiah 10:2-3a

Christians are not supposed to follow the heathen traditions and customs. When they do so, they only add to the darkness - Abstain from all appearance of evil. -1 Thessalonians 5:22

Christians are supposed to be in the light - The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. - Romans 13:12

Are you in the light? Or, are you following heathen traditions, but claiming to follow the Lord? The wisest man started going after Ashtoreth. Are you duped, too?

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. -1 Kings 11:15

Ashtoreth is the deity name for Semaramis, Nimrod's wife. Nimrod was the founder of Babylon, and of the Mystery Babylon religion, which sprang from the deification of he and his wife.

See my article The Fallen Ones for details on this.

Ashtoreth is known under many different names in different cultures. A few are Ashtoreth/Astarte/Ishtar, and in English, her name is EASTER.

To celebrate Ishtar Sunday, they would have a sunrise service. During this service, they would impregnate virgins on the altar. Meanwhile, they would take the 3-month old babies from the previous year's impregnations, and murder them on the altar as a sacrifice. They would then take an egg - a strong symbol of fertility, and dip it in the dead infant's blood, which would color the egg.

Ashtoreth/Semiramis' son/husband supposedly died from being killed by a wild boar. Now we know where the tradition of Easter Ham came from.

They believe also that when Semiramis/Ashtoreth/Astarte/Ishtar/Easter died, she was cast back out of the heavens in a giant egg. When she broke forth from that egg, she supposedly saw a bird, and turned it into an egg-laying rabbit.

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. -Jeremiah 10:2

This is not Resurrection Sunday, nor is it the Jewish Passover. This is a pagan holiday that predates the resurrection and Christianity by many years. This is Easter Sunday/Ishtar Sunday.

Jesus tells us that we are supposed to partake of unleavened bread and wine (perhaps lightly fermented, or just grape juice) in remembrance of Him, to symbolically show His death, until His second coming.

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. -1 Corinthians 11:24-26

The Bible doesn't tell us to celebrate Christ's resurrection or birth, but it does say to remember the Lord via the communion, until He comes back. We remember Christ via the Lord's Supper, not via pagan traditions which were given Christian names.

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. -1 Kings 11:15

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain. -Jeremiah 10:2-3a

Having recently finished Acts, I noticed that Easter was mentioned in chapter 12:4. However it wasn't the passover they were celebrating but the goddess worship. A more in depth article can be read about it here.