Echoes of Israel (Part 8) Pagan Holidays; Sunna, Ishtar, Oestra, Easter 4/18/25 - Zoom Bible Study

* to uh continue uh with the uh echoes of Israel. However, we're going to segue a little bit into current events and we're going to try to make it all work together tonight. I'll be sharing my screen with you in just a moment. And we're going to have a great study tonight. For anyone that wants truth, you're going to hear it tonight. * I hope you're ready for it. I hope you can handle it because it uh it's a truth that will change how you see things, how you understand things, how you how you grasp things. And so, uh, we're going to start in the book of Deuteronomy tonight. And, uh, going back to ancient Israel as they were making their way through the promised land or to the promised land, uh, they were given a command by Yahweh. * And we're going to start with that command tonight. Now, the reason we're studying ancient Israel is because we are endtime Israel. And the Bible tells us that everything that happened to ancient Israel was for our instruction so that we don't make the same mistakes that they made. And so tonight, we're going to look at one of the greatest mistakes that they made. * Actually, I'm going to prove to you tonight that this mistake is what brought their destruction. We're going to turn to Deuteronomy 12 verse 29 through verse 32. And uh I don't know Elder Morgan's whereabouts, so I'm going to call on Elder King and Elder Jan to read for me tonight. Uh we'll go back and forth. Elder Jan, we're starting in Deuteronomy chapter 12, verse 29 through verse 32. * I want everybody to turn there tonight. I'd like for you to highlight this verse in your Bible. Underline it. And don't ever forget it. And don't believe anything I teach you tonight. Read it for yourself. What you're about to read is ancient Israel received from Yahweh instructions and these are for our learning. Go right ahead. * Unmute Elder King. Elder King. Elder King. There you go. I see you. I just don't hear you. I forgot to check the Okay. I don't know what's going on. Uh, she's unmuted. We just can't hear her. Uh, all right. So, try to figure out what's going on, Elder King, and I'll let Elder Jan take over this verse here. * Elder Jan Meadows, please read for me tonight. All right. Verse 29. When Yah your Elohim shall cut off the nations from before you, whether you whether thou goest to possess them, and you succeeded them, and dwelt in their land, take heed to thyself, that thou be not snared by following them. After that they be destroyed from before you, and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, "How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise. * Thou shalt not do so unto Yah your Elohim. For every abomination to Yah, which he hates, have they done unto their gods. For even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. What things soever I command you, observe to do it. You shall not add there to nor diminish from it. This is a command to ancient Israel. * The command is simple. You are not them. You are not them. You are a separated and a holy people. He said, 'When you come into the land of other people, the first thing they're going to try to do is to get you to worship their gods, to keep their customs, their traditions. He said, "Those are not your traditions. Those are not your customs. * " He said, "Israel has their own celebrations, Passover, unleven bread, Shàuote, uh, feast of trumpets, atonement, tabernacles, and the last great day." He said, "Those are your celebrations. When you come among other people, love them. Be kind to them. Don't be rude. Don't be ugly. And do not be deceived. Do not get involved with what they're doing. Because notice what Yahweh said. * They're going to convince you that they're only doing it for the children. Notice what Yahweh said. He said, "It's all going to be about the children." They throw their own children into the fire. In other words, everything they're going to convince you is for the good of the children. And that they're not throwing him in the fire to hurt them, but by giving one child, it's saving all the other children. * In other words, all of their holidays will be wrapped around the children. And he said, "You make sure that you don't wind up throwing your children to the fire just because they're throwing theirs and telling you that's a good thing." This is an echo from Israel. Saints, your forefathers are crying out to you tonight. listen to the command because we did not listen and don't be brought into the temptation of serving their gods by keeping their traditions. * That's an echo of ancient Israel. And I want to say to everyone watching me tonight, we are now in what the church calls Holy Week. It is the most dangerous week of the year besides Christmas. And the reason is it's all a trap and it's all a lie. I do not have to repeat this, but I will for the sake of those that are brand new. * Tonight, the church world is celebrating what? Good Friday. In two days from now, not even two days, because a new day starts when the sun goes down. In a day and a half, they will celebrate Sunday morning Easter resurrection. Now, that in itself is a lie because we know that Yesua, Jesus, said he would be in the grave three days and three nights. * He said, "If I'm not in the grave," they wanted proof. They said, "How do we know you're the real deal? How do we know you are the Messiah?" And he said these words, "I'll give you one sign that I am the Son of God." Just like Jonah was in the belly of the well three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the belly of the earth three days and three nights. * My friend, today is Good Friday. If Yeshua died today, as they teach, they put him in the grave. If you'll go read the story right at sunset right now. All right. Well, if we count night number one, that's right now. The He said, "I'll be in there three nights." This would be night number one. One second. I'll be in there one night. * Three nights. This is night number one. Tomorrow night, Saturday night would be night number two. Sunday night would be night number three. Monday would be day number three. The problem is they say he got up on Sunday morning. The whole thing is a lie. Everything we were taught in politics and religion was all inherited lies. * It's not that our fathers meant to lie to us. The prophet Jeremiah said they inherited these lies. But the Bible said there would be a generation of people at the end time that would turn the inheritance back in to the fathers and say, "No, my heart has been turned to the original fathers rather than my fathers." And that's where we are tonight. * I said that's where we are tonight. There is a people whose hearts are being returned to the truth and we're going to walk in that truth. So tonight, I want to start you on a journey and preach to you and teach you the truth about Easter and the resurrection. To do that, I'm going to draw your attention to your screen tonight. A study of Easter. * I am the resurrection. The picture on your left I took off of Wikah magazine, which is witchcraft. They have a magazine called Wikah. And this picture came off of that magazine. They are preparing to celebrate Easter. And they are the originators of Easter. The witches called and they want their Easter back. * They want Christianity to give them their Easter back. Well, I decided to do that. I gave it back to them. Amen. And this is what the queen of I is Easter, Ishtar. That's how they portray her. This is all of her symbols. She is the goddess of fertility and all of those fertile eggs, a woman's fertility. Uh, the hair. * I'm going to tell you what the hair means tonight, but I want you to look at the picture on the left and compare it to the words, the title of tonight's lesson. I am the resurrection. And I want you to tell me what that picture on the left has to do with the words of Yeshua. I am the resurrection. Let me take you on a little journey tonight. * if I may, and we're going to uh go on this journey together, and hopefully we'll wind up at a place called truth. Amen. Now, I need you to help me and tell me what you see on your screen. I'm trying to want to make sure I'm sharing they're sharing the right screen with you. Do you see the slides? Yes or no? Yes. Okay. Thank you. * Thank you. Tonight, I want you to journey back with me into history to the year 25 BC, about 21 years before Christ was born. I want to pull back the curtain of time tonight with you and I want to show you what was taking place in that year among the pagan population of Europe, the Germanic people. * Now, when I say Germanic, that means Germany. Europe. We're going tonight to look and see. As you can see on your slides, this is a picture of what was happening 21 years before Christ was born. It's called the night of fire and prayer. As you look at that picture, it was a night uh oh, my screen sharing is paused. I don't know why. * Give me one second. We'll try again. It was a night of great joy and excitement throughout the towns and the villages of Germany because a very special event is about to take place. The particular event which takes place every year at this same season, spring or the equinox. I want you to remember this and listen to me carefully. * Pagans love the equinoxes. Okay? All of their celebrations are centered around the equinoxes. very important that you keep that in mind because it's pivotal as we move forward in understanding about the about these equinoxes. All right. Now, now as we look at this night, it is Saturday evening, March the 21st in the village of Rha. * It's a very special Saturday known as sonoon abendon aband. It's an old Germanic word. It translate to sun evening or the evening before Sunday which is what? Saturday night. This event took place on Saturday night. sonoon abund s u n u n sonoon comes from the Greek word for sun that's what the word sonoon there is from but it is the feminine suna suna not sununa it comes from the Germanic sun goddess there is a son god and there is a goddess. * In all of paganism, the focus is always on the goddess and the god. In this case, the son and the son. In most languages besides English, Latin, Spanish, an A on the end of a word makes it feminine, whereas an O makes it masculine. Here we have Sana and the evening is san Aend. The word abend is German for evening. The village is a town called Rha. * It is a real town in Saxony, Germany, right there along the Elb River. And it was an area where a lot of ancient tribes was steeped in witchcraft and paganism. Now, the picture you see on your screen, everyone is leaving their home. They're gathering outside of the town and everyone is bringing something with them. They're bringing wood. * Everyone that has strength is collecting an armful of wood from the surrounding forest. And as we look at that picture, they are placing the wood around an oak tree and setting the whole tree on fire. A huge bonfire begins to burn. Everyone begins to circle around the fire and soon the whole sky is lit up all over Rissa, Germany. * As they look in the distance, they see fires all over the countryside is lighting up the night sky. Now, they're not there to burn wood. They are there to worship the sun goddess Sana. Something is happening as they begin to kneel, begin to pray. Why are they praying to Sana? Well, they've just come through a harsh winter. * And now they are praying for Sana, the goddess of the dawn is one of her nicknames. and they're begging her to bring a final end to the cold winter and to bring back spring days. After some time, the prayer ends. Sacrifices are offered up to Sana, the goddess of the spring. And then following the offering of the sacrifices, the people slowly return to their habitations and retire for the night. * But this celebration is not over. No, they gather at night and then just before dawn they wake up and they continue their celebration early the next morning on Sunday. By the way, you can Google anything I teach you. The next morning on Sunday, the day of the sun, the venerable day of the son, God, and Sana, his bride, everybody begins to stir. * They want to get out there before Sana and sun rises. They leave their homes. They meet again as a body out in the open. And which way do they turn their faces? Would someone like to answer that or should I tell you? East. They turned toward the east towards the rising sun. They begin to offer up prayers and worship to the goddess Sana and they are praising her for consorting with the sun god, the sunrise service. Amen. * And they are praising Sana and son for consorting together. And this will bring them the first day of spring. Does anybody know what this first day of spring is called? The equinox. Now it is evident that this day, the first Sunday after the equinox, when they had the equinox, it's right after the equinox that they have suna abden, which is the Saturday evening uh ritual. It must happen. * It must happen on the first Sunday after the equinox. Now, I'm showing you the ancient celebration that has to take place on the first Sunday after the equinox. Have you ever wondered why all of the other holidays are static? Christmas is always on December the 25th. Halloween always on what the third Thursday or something of October. That those are static. * Uh New Year's Eve always January the 1st. But have you ever noticed that Easter moves every year? Why is Easter not static? Why does it change back and forth every year? Well, I just showed you why. Because this celebration must take place the first Sunday after the spring equinox. It's very important that you keep that in your mind because that alone is all the evidence you need of where Easter comes from because it moves. It's variant. * That is the only pagan holiday that moves. All the rest of them are static. That one has to follow the equinox. That's why at First Harvest Ministries, we don't base our new year off the equinox. That's why we don't do it because this is pure paganism. And it's important that we understand what's really going on in this celebration that the whole Christian church will run out to in two days to celebrate. * It's a celebration of death, not life. It is a celebration of lies. And we're going to prove that to you the further we go. Now, what happens on this first Sunday after the spring equinox, after they worship the sunrise? Well, it's a day of celebration. Going to be a lot of fun that day. It's going to look a lot like this. * Going to be a whole lot of fun on that day. One of the games is to find colored eggs which have been hidden in the grass around trees and other hiding places. These games are a great delight and they are for the children. Now what color are these eggs? The official Easter egg color is red and gold representing what? Red and gold the rays of the sun. * Okay. These red and golden eggs were to represent the birthing of the son and Sana herself. Some of the eggs are given as a sacrifice to Sana while the other eggs are given as gifts to one another. Now this is done to symbolize the germinating life of early spring produced through the blessing of the goddess Sana. But it's not just eggs that day. * There's a special sacred bread that is always cooked at this celebration and it's offered to the queen of heaven which is Sana the goddess and this bread was always called bone. B O N. B was the Greek word. We pronounce it bun. You can go to the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics and find everything I'm telling you to be the truth. * Now, today we call these crossbuds. They all began there in the worship of the goddess Sana. Now, I want to leave Germany. Uh I want to leave 25 AD. And now I want to take you much further down the timeline. I want to take you on this timeline to uh Germany, but it's farther much farther down the line. And by this time, Germany that has been celebrating Sana begins to have immigrants come into Germany. * And guess where these immigrants are from? Persia and Assyria. They come to the German continent and begin to settle among the Germanic people. Now Persia, think about that for a minute. Think about Persia. Who took over Babylon? remember the Mes and the Persians, right? So, who are these Persians that are moving to Germany? They're Babylonians. * Very important that you see the connection to Babylon. And when these people come from Babylon to Germany, they are surprised to find that both cultures have been celebrating the same holidays as the other. Let me show that to you. Whenever they get there, the eastern people, the people from the east, which is Assyrians, Persians, which are Babylonians, lo and behold, they were also worshiping the goddess of the spring. * And their date of celebration was nearly the same. It was too associated with the equinox, the beginning of spring. In fact, they were shocked to find out they also were using eggs in their celebration. Now, there was a difference. The Babylonian people, they had much deeper spiritualism than the Germanic people because Babylon is confusion, right? Babylon comes from a religion of confusion. * In Babylon, the Babylonians and the Persians believed in an old fable that went back all the way uh uh to Samaria. It went all the way back to Nimrod and Sumemerus, his wife. They had followed and had this tradition for many years that Nimrod when he died, he went to heaven and became the what? Does anybody know? The son god. The son god. Amen. * Now he became known as Rah R A. Many years later that was changed to Baal so forth and so on. But the pagan god has always been the son god. Now they believe that when he died that he would produce a son on earth by coming and impregnating with his son raise a woman on earth. She would be a virgin. * She would be one of the priestesses of Ishtar. And on that same morning, the first Sunday after the spring equinox, they would bring one of their priestesses, lay her on the altar, open her, and the sun would rise and and this son God would magically put his seed in her without sexual culation. and magically she would have an incarnation and then nine months later on December the 25th she would give birth to the son of God. * Well, that story sounds familiar, doesn't it, Elder? It's all paganism and it's all Babylonian. And there's a few people coming out of Babylon. Now, according to the ancient story, they pronounced her name Aarte. That's the Babylonian form of Ishtar. And the egg supposedly would come back down to earth and the egg became the symbol of the goddess Ishtar later pronounced Easter. * Now what I'm telling you comes from the book by Woodro called the Babylon mystery religion page 152 and 153 and the two Babylons by Hislop both very respected historians they will tell you where these stories came from. It is all sexual. Listen to me and listen well. Every pagan holiday is sexual. It's all about fertility, having little god men, half gods, half men, incarnation where the son magically makes a virgin pregnant and this virgin has a half man, half god. * Is anybody awake out there tonight? or am I boring you to death? I hope not. Okay, we listened. Amen. I pray I pray I'm not boring you tonight. Very interesting. This is the roots of what the entire house of God will celebrate in two days except for a certain people. Let's continue our lesson tonight. Now what I want to show you is when these Babylonian people came to Germany, Europe and met with the Sana worshippers, the name Ishtar, the Germans pronounced it Ostra. * They simply combined Sana and Ishtar and merged her into the spring goddess Ostra or Easter. Now, I went and asked AI because I don't want to teach anything wrong. I asked about Easter, and here's what AI came back with. They said, "The modern English Easter, it evolved from an old Germanic word from Germany, Ostra. * " And if you look up Ostra, you'll find that it's a connection to Sana. And that the co the combination of the two gave us Ishtar as it is now pronounced and understood. Now the p the Persian people the Babylonians learned about this old fable of an egg and its wondrous size and that became the lasting symbol of Easter. The only difference in the German people and the Babylonian people was the name of the goddess. * Now the German people could not pronounce the name correctly, Ostra. They pronounced it Easter. And if you go to Webster's dictionary and look up Easter, it tells you it's the original name of a goddess and her festival. I hope you I I hope you go to Webster. It's all you got to do. Don't go to Von. Forget Von. Forget First Harvest. * Go to Webster. And it tells you, I'm reading it. I'm I'm I'm looking at it with my own ears. The original name of Easter was a goddess and her festival. Then go to the Encyclopedia Americana and look up Easter. Listen to what it says. It was derived from the name of an Anglosaxon which is German goddess of spring ostra. * These two goddesses Sana and Ishtar becomes one goddess to the European people called Easter. And by the way, that's what the whole church is going to celebrate in a day and a half is what everybody knows was a goddess vegetable to a false god. I mean, it's as plain as the ear on your face. Hallelujah. Now, it evolved It evolved past Germany and past Babylon and it came into Wikah which is witchcraft and this is their creation of Ishtar. * Now there is a hypocritical moment here that I want to point out. All of your friends that are Christians tell you that the reason they don't celebrate the Sabbath day is because Yeshua fulfilled the Sabbath and they don't have to keep it anymore. Well, I always ask them, "So, he also fulfilled the resurrection and yet you still keep Easter every year? bunch of hypocrites. * You can't have it both ways, children. If you're gonna keep Easter, he fulfilled that. And you So, it's a hypocritical moment. And the truth is they don't believe what they're saying. It's it's a total copout. Now, Wikah witchcraft is some of the biggest celebrators of Easter. And I want to say tonight the word apostolic means like the apostles. * I call myself apostolic. The purest that the church ever was was during the apostolic era. The first hundred years of the church. That was her purest moment. So I have to ask you tonight, if we are apostolic, what did the apostles celebrate? Passover or Easter? Passover. Passover. Passover. Passover. Passover. So Passover. * You're either apostolic or you're not. You cannot be apostolic if you're not celebrating what the apostles celebrated. So the next question that comes to us is why Easter? Have you ever wondered what colored eggs have to do with the death or the resurrection of Yeshua or Easter rabbits or hot cross buns? From a child, most of us have been led to believe that Easter signified the resurrection of Christ. * I've come to tell you, the church did not celebrate Easter for the first 300 years of the apostolic era. But starting at 3:25 AD, the whole church world has observed Easter Sunday as the day that Jesus rose from the dead. But did Yahweh ever command us to celebrate Easter? The simple answer to that is no, he did not. * Yet millions of Christians are deceived into observing this form of heathen idolatry under the delusion that they are obeying some ordinance. I mean people start shopping months in advance to not forget Easter. It's like it is written somewhere. It's like it is written in stone somewhere. You must celebrate Easter. Where did it come from? Why is it so ingratiated in us? How and why did Christians accept this hellish tradition of the spring goddess? I'll show you how it happened and it's very simple when you come to understand. There is no biblical command * for Easter. The early Christians never celebrated Easter. As a matter of fact, the historian Socrates Scholasticus, if you've ever wondered where the word Scholastica came from, it's from this man. He wrote, "Neither the apostles nor the Gospels have anywhere imposed Easter." The Encyclopedia Bratannica, the first Christians continued to observe Passover in a new spirit of commemoration which those festivals had foreshadowed. * Your own encyclopedia tells you the apostles celebrated Passover and never Easter. The early church would have spit at the celebration of Easter. The true church, the original church would have would have turned you out of the church for celebrating Ishtar and Sana and joining into those things. Today, Babylon welcomes it into their church because it comes from Babylon. * Amen. Amen. Or take away from it. Amen. Elder. Amen. Peter, the Apostle Peter never went to an Easter sunrise service. And you claimed to be apostolic. The Apostle Paul never went to an Easter sunrise service. Do you know when Paul died, he had never even heard of an Easter? Did you know that? As far as in the church, no apostle ever commanded it. * No prophet ever prophesied it. No angel was ever sent from heaven to declare it. So I beg you to answer the question tonight. What is it that that's this unwritten rule in our hearts? Don't let's all get ready for Easter. I'll tell you where it comes from. Revelations 12 and9. Satan has deceived the whole world. * But I know a group that he hasn't deceived because we saw a light in the evening time. Hallelujah. And heard a voice. Come out of her, my people. None of these traditions, none of these practices carry over from the Old Testament, from the Torah. No scripture has ever referred to Easter. Nowhere. Jesus never instituted it. So my question to you tonight is, why should sons of Yahweh that are walking in the spirit ever walk into an Easter celebration? Well, we shouldn't. Hallelujah. * Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Aside these sins that so eas were separated, set apart. Amen. and elders. I ask you tonight, many of you in here claim to be manifested sons of Yahweh. You claim to be sons of God, walking in the spirit. I've come to tell the whole world, if you didn't walk to the Passover table, you're not walking in the spirit. Oh no. * If you walked down and chased an Easter egg, you're not walking in the spirit, honey. You're walking after the flesh. That's right. Amen. Hallelujah, pastor. Amen. Thank you, elders. Preach it, pastor. The next question tonight is, how did this happen? How did we go from a pure church to a convoluted church? Let's talk about it. * It's called the great falling away. How many of you know that in the Christian churches, they're still waiting for the great falling away? If you go hear a prophecy teacher, they think the great falling away is going to happen right before the Lord returns. But they couldn't be further from the truth. Let's go read about it. * Matthew 24 verse 11 through verse 12. Elder King, if you're able to read now, you're welcome to. Matthew 24 11-12. I'm going to show you how the change began. Okay, I don't hear her. All right, Elder Jan, go right ahead. Matthew 24 11-12 and then 1 Timothy 4 and1. Um, okay. Matthew 24 11-12. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. * And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. Now lawlessness when it abounds, the love of truth grows cold. You cannot be deceived if you love truth. But according to Yeshua, there would be many that will be deceived. It's not because they're bad people, but they just don't love truth. And why do they not love truth? Because of lawlessness. * Because they go to a church that teaches them lawlessness. It teaches them the law is done away with. Uh someone told me on Facebook today that the old covenant was abolished. That that's what these churches teach. And therefore, you can be deceived because if you don't love the law, you will love the lie. You can't have it both ways. * Let's read 1 Timothy chapter 4 and verse one. Now the spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. Now people read that verse in the latter times and they think that's speaking just about the end of our time. No, no, no. The latter times is the last 2,000 years. * Remember there are seven day or six days rather that Yahweh will deal with mankind 6,000 years. The last two days is days number five and six which is where the last 2,000 years in those latter times these last two days some will depart from the faith. How will they do it? They will give heed not to evil spirits but seducing spirits. * They would never go and worship a false god. Only an evil spirit would make them do that. But a seducing spirit would convince them they're not worshiping a false god even. Amen. Verse two, pastor. All right, let's read verse two then. Go right ahead, Elder. Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron. Why? From the lies. * You don't you don't even no longer know it's a lie. Somebody could tell you Jesus said he was going to be in the grave three days and three nights. Friday to Sunday is a day and a half. And you're like, "Uh-huh. Let's get our Easter clothes on." You don't care. Your conscience is seared. Truth doesn't matter to you. You have no value in truth. * I want to read what Paul wrote in 2 Thessalonians, Elder Jan, chapter 2, verse 1 through verse three. 2 Thessalonians 2 1-3. And I want everybody to read this in your Bible. Okay? Now, brethren, concerning the coming of uh our Lord Yeshua Hamashiach and our gathering together to him, we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Yeshua had come. * Verse three. Verse three. Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of predition. Now, until there's a falling away from the apostolic era, until everything that was no longer is, until there's no longer Passover, Pentecost, Shabuote, until that all falls away across the board, across the whole church, then Yesua a cannot return or will not return. * Now, what's funny is we preach about a restoration in the last day, but there cannot be a restoration of truth unless there is first a falling away from truth. The falling away does not happen before the coming of the Lord. The restoration h Oh, hallelujah. glory. The restoration happens before the coming of the Lord. * The falling away happened uh 1700 years ago. That is when the man of sin, the son of predition, entered into the temple of the Lord, the third temple, set himself up as a man. God diverted people away from Yahweh and the Jewish Messiah brought them a Greek Roman white man messiah with pretty skin and pretty hair affeminate set this man this Easter god in the temple that's when the falling away happened children amen pastor amen that is the falling away. * And I'll prove it to you in verse number seven. Let's read verse 7. And this is 30 years after the church began on the day of Pentecost. 30 years later is when the falling away began. Read. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. Now, I taught on that. * I'm not going to teach on that tonight. You can go watch my video on uh he that letth will let. I believe the name of that one is uh uh left behind, something like that. Nevertheless, I want to focus on the the antichrist is called the what? The lawless one, the son of predition. Now, take all these scriptures we've just read and accumulate them together, and you're going to begin to see that Paul said that the mystery of lawlessness, this so-called Antichrist, this mysterious figure that the whole world is still * waiting on, came 1700 years ago, and you missed it. The Antichrist is the son of lawlessness. He is sitting on the throne in Mount Zion. He's been there for 1700 years. The Bible said calling himself God. Oh, I wish I could I wish I had time to break that down. But I don't have but 15 minutes left. * I hadn't even started tonight. I got 15 minutes left and I haven't even started. This mystery of iniquity, of lawlessness, began working 30 years after the church was born through a man by the name of Simon Magus, the sorcerer that wanted the Holy Ghost without the law. Oh yes, I've got a sermon somewhere called the source. * No, the magician and the Messiah. This man began the work of lawlessness and then it continued through Marcion. I've taught on that before. I'm not going there tonight. But Paul said that mystery of iniquity was already working in Paul's day. many among those believers at Jerusalem. Now, I want you to listen. I want, you know, uh, Elder Jan, there was a time that I I was amazed how people could sit under my ministry, hear the truth, see it, know it, and still turn away. * And sometimes I'd get to feeling sorry for myself until I realized the people that turned away 30 years after the church was born, they said under the ministry of Paul and Peter and John. Then I had to quit feeling sorry for myself. Hallelujah. because they were in Jerusalem, Ephesus, Corinth, Antioch, and they begin to apostasize and turn from the truth of Christ. * Divisions begin to spring up. That's why it breaks my heart when I see people in this ministry always talking about the ones that have left. As if that's something that didn't happen in the early apostolic church. There was divisions and heresies and my God, they were trying to kill the prophets back then. The mystery of iniquity was working inside those churches that John the Apostle wrote letters to. * It was already falling apart. That blow that blows my mind. The men that were witnesses of the resurrection. The men that had signs and wonders could not keep the members of the church from apostasizing. I want you to hear me, children. Hear these echoes from Israel. Satan is better at this game than you are. And there's only one way. * And what I'm about to say is going to go to the wind. Some of you not even going to hear it, but I'm gonna say it anyway. The only way, the only way you can beat Satan is you cannot listen to the snake. You cannot allow his venom in your ear gate. That's the only way. Amen. Amen. Amen, pastor. Hallelujah. Amen, pastor. Amen. * If you let him in your eargate, you will lose. There's people that are not here tonight. It I would never have dreamed. Never in a million years. But you see, when that serpent goes to hissing, if you don't shut it down, I promise you, you will lose. You cannot beat a seductive spirit unless you o you know the word and you obey the word. * I I spoke to someone yesterday that's heard me teach for five years and they were telling me how that someone hurt them and they you know someone did them wrong and the first question I asked it seems so primary have you gone to that sister well no I don't like conflict and I'm like my god my god why do I even why do I even bother I mean does people I mean Why? Why? Why? Shoot me already. * I mean, it's like I've taught this five years and nobody I'm like, if so, if people would just listen to me, if you would just forget, call me a call. Call me whatever you want to call me, but but just call me. How about that? How about that? Just call me. Why? Keep that out of your ears. Follow my teachings. * Follow my teachings. Don't just listen to them. Follow them. I'm teaching you Christ and him crucified. I'm only teaching you the word. This is not Shane Vaughn's word. I'm just the voice of the word. Amen. Amen. We hear your word. Are people listening, pastor, and following? Thank you, Father. Listening. Thank you, Father, for the work that you do. * Oh, because because brothers and sisters, this this man of sin is going to get into your mind any way he can. By the year 125 AD, the majority in most churches, the vast majority in most churches, I want you to hear what I'm about to tell you. AD 125. Do you know that's only about six, no about 90 years after Christ died. * The majority of the churches were returning to their old pagan holidays and practices while professing to be Christians. And a smaller and smaller number of the churches that remained truly yielded to truth became smaller and smaller and smaller. I'll prove it to you. Galatians chapter 4 verse 8 through verse 11. Paul is going to speak and I'm going to read these verses because I really want you to hear what I'm fixing to read to you. Turn and read it in your Bible. * Everybody, in this case, I'm reading out of the Amplified Bible, but I'm only doing it for a certain reason. Genesis Galatians 4:8-11. Paul says at this previous but at that previous time when you had not come to be acquainted with and understand and know the true God which is Yahweh. You were in bondage to Ishtar and Rah and Baal and Tamuz and Sana to gods that by their very nature are not gods at all. Gods that really don't exist. * Now, however, that you have become acquainted with truth and you know the true God Yahweh, or rather to be known of Yahweh, how can you turn back again to those weak holidays, those beggarly practices, and those worthless elementary things, all those old practices whose slaves you once more want to become. * Now, pastor, how do you know this is talking about celebrating Easter and Christmas? How do you know that's what Paul's talking about? Oh, because of the next verse. You observe particular days. He's talking about holidays and months and season, equinoxes and years. He said, "I'm alarmed about you, lest I have labored among you and over you to no purpose and in vain. * " Did you hear me a while ago when I lost it? And I said, "Just shoot." That's what Paul was saying. Paul was saying, Paul Paul said them exact same words. He said, 'I have labored over you. I've tried to show you the value of this one true God, Yahweh, and this one narrow way. He said, "I've labored in Have I labored in vain?" He said, "It feels like I have. * I know how it feels." Brothers and sisters, when Paul wrote the mystery of iniquity, he referred to these pagan mysteries, these doctrines of devils or false gods which corrupted the whole church producing something called mystery Babylon the great that mighty harlot church system which is with us to this very today in the form of something called Christianity. * Amen. Christianity, pastor, Christianity. Amen. Yes. This spirit, this anti- Yahweh spirit crept into the church. And I'm going to show you how it happened. And the Apostle Paul said, "Now, those of you that are still saying you love Christ, but you're returning to pagan gods." That's what Paul said. * He said, "I'm heartbroken. You know the one true way now, but you want to go and keep a day that was celebrating the goddess Ishtar and her eggs and her rabbits and still claiming you're a Christian." He said, "That's called Christianity. And Yahweh's people want nothing to do with it. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Nothing. Nothing at all to do with it. * Let's continue our lesson. In 3:25 AD, something happened. A man by the name of Constantine took control of the church. This was early in the 4th century. 3:25 AD, the entire Christian church became pagan and they began excommunicating people from that church. Do you know who it was? They excommunicated Sabbathke keepers. * Sabbath keeper and people that were still Judaizing, keeping Passover, keeping Shabboat rather than these new pagan holidays, they started excommunicating those people, calling them heretics. And as they begin to lose the anointing of the Holy Spirit like the apostles had and they moved into apostasy, they had to find a way to add members to the church. * They couldn't add them the way the apostles did it. The apostles did it by the power of the Holy Ghost, the power of truth, the way we have built first harvest. We've not built First Harvest with pagan holidays. We built it on truth. And that's what the apostles did. And the people came flocking. But you see, amen. * That early church couldn't do it that way. So they had to find a way to keep growing because after all, you can only get money in the mailbox if you're growing. So, how do we make the church more attractive to all the pagans here in Germany? Let's just meet them halfway. You see, all of the Roman Empire was pagan. * Listen to what I'm telling you. Constantine was the Roman emperor. He couldn't care less about God, Jesus, or truth. All he cared about was what? the unity of his what? Empire. And what is one thing that will divide people quicker than politics? Religion. So Constantine didn't want his kingdom divided. He had two groups of people in his kingdom. * What? The Christians and the pagans. There was a lot more pagans than Christians because the pagans had been there for decades and generations. Witchcraft, the D uh the Druids, so forth and so on. So, if we want to get a bigger church, we're going to have to meet with the pagans. We're going to have to meet them halfway. * take their ceremonies, their customs, Christianize them and incorporate them into the Christian church and then all the pagans will become members. As a result, the pagans took over the church. They came in droves and the church allowed them as long as they joined the church to keep their holidays. * The church was aware that pagans were celebrating a spring festival. So what did they do? They gave to the pagans a Christian dress up. Now the new members were asked don't worship Ishtar or Sana but worship the son of God Yesua Jesus not Yesua Jesus but we will allow you to keep all the eggs and the bunny rabbits and we'll do it on the first Sunday after the equinox. We We'll do it to appease you. * For the children. For the children. Always. For the children. Look what this historian said. This historian, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, his name is Aringus. A R I N G Hu. Here's what he said. He said that the church of that day found it necessary in the conversion of the pagans to dissemble and wink at many things and to yield to the times. * Now you might think, "Nah, I don't believe that." All right. The same church, are they not doing the same thing today? Are they not yielding to gay marriage at one time they never would have done that? Is anybody with me? Are they not yielding now? Are they not yielding to birth control where at one time they would never have done? Are they not yielding to the times transgenderism? Now let why? Why? Why? We've got to keep people in the church. * Pastor, may I ask a question? Yes. Were weren't they just totally usurping Israel as Israel was the original body of Absolutely. They took over Israel. That's why Israel's identity has been lost for 1700 years because they were forced to stop keeping Sabbath. The Roman Catholic Church forbade. * Now for the first few years they allowed them to keep. Then they brought down the Sunday law. They forbade Sabbathke keeping. They forbade Passover. And the church was it fell away. The church literally fell away. But now something else happened that I want to make you aware of. Charlemagne was crowned emperor in 800 AD. He what did he do? He conquered the German people, the tribes that were living in the east. He conquered them. * And what did he do? He forced these Germans to be baptized with all others in his kingdom. At first, the pagans refused, but Charlemagne threatened to kill them all unless they became Christians. In one day, 700,000 pagans were baptized into the Christian church. Now, the church would call that revival. I call it revulsion. * To have 700,000 new people getting baptized. No, you have 700,000 pagans getting wet. Wow. And if they didn't, they was going to have their heads cut off. And these people, now let let me tell you how I know this is true. I want you to listen to me. I live I was born and raised in New Orleans. There is a religion in New Orleans known as voodoo. * The high priestess in New Orleans was Marie Lavo. Marie Lavo practiced voodoo. Yes. Drank chicken blood. Cut chicken's heads off the whole whole nine yards. But guess what? Guess what church she was a member of? The Catholic Church. She was Catholic because Catholics allowed her to keep her customs from voodoo and still be Catholic. And you wonder what happened to the church, ladies and gentlemen. * Those 700,000 pagans that got converted, they went on to become priests. They went on to become leaders of the church, bringing all of their practices with them into the church. And this was that great falling away. This is where the church fell away. So important that we understand that. Now what did the church do? We we rebranded. * We just rebranded is all we did with Christian meaning. We we rebranded Ishtar to Easter. We took heathen practices and gave them Christian names. That's all we did. We took the resurrection festival, named it Easter, and soon all of Europe was hunting for Easter eggs under the name of Christ, eating hot cross buns on resurrection day. * In this process, the Easter rabbit became part of the resurrection story. The Encyclopedia Bratannica says, "The Easter egg, like the Easter rabbit, came to Christianity from paganism." The rabbit is associated with the moon in Egypt and Babylon. I'm going to tell you what the word hair h a r e means, which is the rabbit. It means open. O P E N and period. * New life can't happen without those two words in the young man and the young woman. Like I said, the whole thing is about sexuality, the fertility and the renewal of life. And therefore, the hair became linked to that priestess that would open up that was had just gotten her. Amen. And the son, it's all disgustingly connected. * Disgustingly so. If only the church understood it. through forced conversions. Everyone was forced to become that. There's your Easter hair, your hot cross buns, your sunrise service that all Christians are running out to in just a few hours. Now, I want to look at this next one, and I want you to read it with me. I want to look at what Yahweh thinks about a sunrise service. * Many of the pagans continue to do this under Christianity's banner under Sana and Ishtar. But let's read Ezekiel chapter 8 verse 15, Elder Jan through verse 18, and let's see if this is really no big deal at all, an Easter sunrise service. Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, oh son of man? Turn again. You will see greater abominations than these. * " So he brought me into the inner court of Yah's house. And there at the door of the temple of Yah between the porch and the altar were about 25 men with their backs toward the temple of Yah and their faces toward the east. And they were worshiping the sun toward the east. And he said to me, "Have you seen this, oh son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and then they have returned to provoke me to anger. Indeed, they put the branch * to their nose. Therefore, I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them. He told Ezekiel, "I'm going to destroy Jerusalem because of an Easter sunrise service." And in AD.70, he did. Amen, pastor. He said, "Look, Ezekiel, this is not pagans. * This is a people called by my name or these are a people that have known truth. They have known Yahweh and they're allowing a mixture of sun worship to enter into the third temple and this is an abomination to me." And he said they put the hook in their own nose. He said I do not allow mixture among my people. * Now I allow it in the Christian church, but I don't allow it in the house of Israel. I don't allow it among men that are supposed to be priests unto me because that's who these 25 men were. Priest unto Yahweh. Amen, pastor. Amen. It's the very thing that Christians will do this Sunday morning. Deceived. Deceived. Deceived. We won't, pastor. We thank you. * Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen, Elder. Well, pastor, I understand all that. But now it honors Jesus. But Yahweh gave you an echo from Israel. Don't learn their ways. Don't imitate pagan ways. Abomination remains abomination. Easter is simply rebellion rebranded. You were commanded by Christ, the son of Yahweh, to keep Passover until he returns. And you listen to me. * And a day from now, the entire so-called church will rebel against the commandment to keep Passover. And they will ignore his command and run to a false god and bow down and worship a rising sun in and total rebellion. They wouldn't keep the Passover if you paid them to do it. And their churches will be filled on Sunday. * Not even be able to get a parking space. They'll be nowhere. There'll be every person will come out of the woodworks to be in that church to show their face for the pagan god that they worship because they don't absolutely brothers and sisters we are I'm going to say it as loud as I can. We are a blessed people. * We have seen a light in the evening time. Hallelujah. We have been called into the restoration. We've been called out of the great falling away and we're falling unto. We're not falling away. We're falling unto towards. Now, I want to try my best to to to bring this to a close tonight. And I I want to try to show you why Easter is satanic. * It is a plan of Satan to destroy the truth of the resurrection. And I know that's a bold statement, but I plan to prove it to you right now. Why it is satanic. First of all, why did Yahweh not ordain the Easter celebration of the resurrection of Jesus? Why did he not do it? Because beloved friend, he already has one. * It's called Shàuote. I know. I want you to hear what I'm telling you. Yahweh set up a 49 day celebration for the resurrection. Hallelujah. Glory to God. When I tell you Easter is satanic and it's rebellion rebranded, Yahweh loves the resurrection. But he loves it so much that he set up a celebration for 49 days of a resurrection. * Amen. Amen. And it's not blended with paganism in any shape, form, or fashion. It's counterfeit. According to the word of Yahweh, and I'm fixing to prove this point. I'm fixing to drive this point home to you. According to the word of Yahweh, the twel apostles were quote unquote witnesses of the resurrection. * And none of them ever celebrated it. Not with Easter anyway. After Yesua went to heaven, Peter stood up in the midst of the apostles and he said, and I quote, "It is written in the book of Psalms that Judas habitation be desolate, let no man dwell therein, and his bishopric let another take." Wherefore of these men which have come, listen, which have companyed with us all the time that the Lord went in and out from among us, beginning at the baptism of John. * You see, even the apostles didn't consider Christ ministry to begin until the baptism of John. That's why sin sinlessness only matters beginning with the baptism of John. They said, "Unto that same day that he was taken from us, must one be ordained to be a witness of the resurrection." They're getting ready to appoint a new apostle and that he had to have one qualification. * He had to have been a witness of the resurrection. And we know that story. Mias that story is in Acts chapter 1 20- 26. Matias was chosen as a witness of the resurrection. Now I want to show you the Lord did not say to these disciples, now boys, you make sure you arrange a beautiful, impressive, welladvertised Easter sunrise service, every equinox to be a witness to my resurrection. * What did he say? He said in Acts 1:8, "But you will receive power after the Holy Ghost comes on you to be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, and all the uttermost parts of the earth." He said, "You shall be witnesses because my resurrection life will move inside of you. and I am the resurrection, but you shall become the resurrection. * You don't need an Easter sunrise service. You are the resurrection because the resurrection lives in you. Hallelujah. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory. The people that are in this room tonight obeying the the word of Yahweh, you are the resurrection. You are literally obeying Yah's word. That's proof that the resurrection lives in you. * There will be many celebrating an Easter resurrection in two days that knows nothing about the resurrection. The resurrection is the infilling of the Holy Ghost. It is a life of obedience to the holy days and the Sabbath day. I'm glad tonight the resurrection is inside of me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. * And I'm going to show you now why Easter is satanic. Why Satan took the true resurrection story and claimed it for Satanism. I want you to hear me well. Everyone that gathers tomorrow or the next day to celebrate Easter, they will gather to celebrate the resurrection of one man. But you see beloved shaveote, it's not about the resurrection of one man. * It's about the resurrection of the first harvest. It's about I'll show you what it's about if you look at your screen. That's what the resurrection is about. It was never about celebrating the resurrection of Christ. It was 50 days to celebrate the resurrection of more than one son. * You see, that's the trap of Satan to celebrate one man's resurrection. beast is the enemy of the plan of God. It was designed to destroy, shackle out the finished of the first fruit, the finished of the many resurrected sons of Yahweh. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise Yahweh. Hallelujah. Praise God. * Beloved, bless his holy name. Look at that picture. We're in the middle of that celebration right now. We're on day number six or seven right now. You see, I know of people. Don't you ever don't you ever let a Christianity person tell you y'all don't celebrate the resurrection. You poor little child. You honey, not only do we celebrate it, we celebrate it for 50 days, but not of one son. * We celebrate the resurrection of the first and the last. All of the many of the whole of our resurrection resurrection. My God have mercy. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Sometimes I feel like I preach to the wind. I hope to God somebody's hearing me tonight. We hear you, pastor. Hallelujah. We are the resurrected sons of the Jubilee celebration for the resurrection. Amen, pastor. * Now, if I were Satan and Yahweh had a resurrection festival that would give hope to the very people that's going to take my throne, I think I might join up with the Ishtar people and celebrate one man that's in heaven that may or may not ever come back. some fairy tale. But but but but but and and get people to focus on that instead of 50 days of another group of sons uh that had the resurrection in them already. * And every day they're being resurrected. Yesterday their joy was being resurrected. The day before that kindness was being resurrected. the day before that patience. Uh, oh my God, there's a resurrection. The church knows nothing about. You are the children of resurrection. You are the witnesses of resurrection. * You are the resurrection. Amen. Hallelujah. One of them. Amen. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Hallelujah. Don't talk to me about resurrection Sunday. Let me talk to you about resurrection day one, two, three, four, week two, week three, week four. Baby, we we celebrate resurrection more than anybody. * We do it for three whole months almost. Why? Because we are the resurrection. We've already been resurrected. We are being resurrected. We are carrying the witness of the resurrection. No, we may not go out and chase your red egg. And no, we may not worship your Ishtar goddess, but don't you dare insult our intelligence by saying, "Y'all don't worship the resurrection. * " Oh, you pitiful child. You don't know nothing about the resurrection, darling. Your church has messed you up so bad. You're celebrating one son. But these apostles, they went around. They didn't have to celebrate the resurrection. Oh, no. No, they didn't have to celebrate it. * They simply let the power of it work through their lives and they were witnesses of the resurrection. There's so much more, but my time is gone. Yahweh bless you and keep you saints. We love you tonight. Thank you for joining me. Good night everybody. Love you. Thank you pastor for a wonderful message. Thank you pastor. Shal shalom everyone. Shalom. Shalom. Thank you. * Shabbat shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. What?