The Truth About The Easter or Ishtar Fertility Ritual For Christians

I see the word “Easter” all over my timeline, can someone tell me who “Easter” is? I looked in my Bible and I didn’t see the word “Easter” anywhere in my Bible. Does your Bible have the word Easter in it? Maybe we have different Bibles. Where did Christians get the word Easter if this word is not in our Bible?

With a little research you will find that the word “Easter” is not just a word, but Easter is a person’s name. Easter is the English translation of the name “Ishtar” and Ishtar was the Babylonian goddess of fertility, which is where the image of rabbits (which were known to be sexually hyperactive and reproduce a lot) and the image of eggs (evidence of reproduction even though rabbits do not lay eggs) are derived from.

For some reason, people think that as long as they mix Jesus into something, then everything will be fine. But what does the Bible say about combining Jesus with worldly things?

2 Corinthians 6:15 – “What similarities are there between Christ and Belial? What is the common part of believers with unbelievers?”

So I ask: What similarities are there between Christ and Easter?

Can someone explain?

2 Corinthians 6:16 “What does the temple of GOD have to do with idols? Because we are the temple of GOD who live according to these words of GOD:”

Isn’t Easter a Babylonian Idol? You can google images of Easter/Ishtar statues and see images of goddesses worshiped by pagans, images that some people still worship today.

So how do we take these unbiblical Easter/Ishtar words and combine them with the Jesus of the Bible? Did Jesus give us a date to celebrate his resurrection? Did you know that the Apostle Paul warned Christians in the Galatian church not to make certain days special. And not observing certain months or seasons as special months and seasons. The Apostle Paul warned Christians against doing this and said that he feared that his efforts on their behalf would be in vain because of this.

Let’s Read:
Galatians 4:9-11 – “But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.”

The Bible says we are in this World but not of this world. Therefore, we do not consider times and dates in this world to be anything special. If we celebrate the day as something special, we observe worldly things and thus unite ourselves with this world.

Did Jesus die on Friday? And was he resurrected on Sunday? The Bible says Jesus was in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

Matthew 12:40 – “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

So if you count 3 days and 3 nights from Friday, what day do you get? Sunday or Monday? So how could this be Friday? And what makes a Friday good?

The Bible says no one is good except GOD alone.

Mark 10:18 – “So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.”

When you research the origins of Easter, egg coloring, bunnies, and more, you’ll discover some very dark and twisted things done by pagan cultures in the past. Eastern eggs were originally colored with blood, not cats, and Easter Sunday was once a perverted and very sexy holiday for pagans. This day was not chosen by chance, it coincided with the time of pagan fertility celebrations. Because Easter/Ishtar is the goodness of fertility

In Conclusion:

I do not write these things to condemn or judge anyone, I write this to encourage the body of Christ to be careful about taking a worldly mentality in observing days, times, months, and seasons to commemorate special celebrations like the people of this world do it. As Paul stated in Galatians 4:9-11.

In Romans 14:4-6, the Bible states that whoever commemorates that day, he commemorates it to GOD. If you choose to make today about GOD, let it be about GOD. My main point of contention here is the use of the name of the goddess Easter/Ishtar. If it’s about the resurrection of Jesus Christ for you, then why do you name a pagan god and Jesus on the same day? If today is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ then why are you hanging pictures of bunnies and boiling colored eggs? What do eggs, bunnies, and Easter/Ishtar have to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Let us not mix and combine these worldly elements with the things of GOD.

That’s all for today friends,

GOD bless you all who are in Christ Jesus.

Eddie Fews

Yes, “Good Persons” Also Go To Hell

Thinking You’re A Good Person Can Lead You To Hell…

I was having a conversation with a man recently who told me that he doesn’t believe in any religion, he just believes in being a good person. He said he believes that as long as he lives his life being a good person he will go to heaven when he dies. He said every religion believes they are right and says the other religions are wrong and he doesn’t want to choose and so he keeps away from religion.

I also find it interesting when people say this because what they don’t realize they are saying is they want to be the GOD of themselves. They want to be their own judge and they want to be the one to determine where they will spend eternity. They don’t realize that entry into the gates of Heaven isn’t contingent on their own standards of good and bad, but rather on the standard of GOD.

So I asked this man “Who’s standard of good and bad are you basing are you using to measure whether or not you should go to Heaven? Are you using God’s standards or have you invented your own standard and decided that GOD let you into heaven based on the standard that you created in your mind?

He responded by saying he believes everyone has the same moral standards: “Don’t murder, don’t steal, be kind, etc.”

However, the standard of GOD is much higher than the standards of this world. The Bible says anyone who hates their brother or sister in their heart is already a murderer in the eyes of GOD.

1 John 3:15
“Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.”

Therefore the standard of this man was that as long as he didn’t physically kill someone he wasn’t a murderer, but that’s man’s standard, and not God’s standard. According to GOD’s standard, if this man held a grudge against his brother in his heart, he would be standing on trial for murder before the judgment seat of GOD. According to this man as long as he didn’t physically steal from another person he wouldn’t be considered a thief, but in the eyes of GOD if you have ever coveted something that belonged to someone else or if you were ever jealous of what someone else had you would be considered a thief in the eyes of God. According to man’s standards as long as you don’t sleep with another man’s wife you are not an adulterer, However according to the standard of GOD if you look lustfully at the photos of the wife of another man— even on Facebook you are already guilty of adultery in your heart by the standard of GOD.

Matthew 5:28 “But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

(By the way, women who post provocative photos will also be held accountable, but let’s continue…)

The Bible says GOD looks at our hearts, so if you’ve done a thing within your heart, you’re already guilty of that thing according to God’s standards(1 Samuel 16:7). The Bible actually says in Romans 3:10-12 that none of us have lived up to the standard of GOD and therefore none of us on our own are qualified to enter the Kingdom of GOD.

Romans 3:10-12 “As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”

So when you evaluate yourself and judge your own goodness whose standard are you using to judge yourself? Your own standard or the standard of GOD?

The Bible says in Proverbs 16:2 “All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the spirits.”

Every person outside of Christ thinks they’re a good person because they create their own standards and judge themselves based on their own rules. I’ve never met a person that said “I am just a bad person, I am no good, I am a thief, murderer, and I’m just terrible”. In fact, any person who says those things about themselves are a lot closer to receiving salvation than a man who thinks he’s a good person because the man who can see his own faults realizes that he needs a savior. He realizes that he needs Jesus to save him from his wicked ways.

However, if you ask the majority of people they will tell you that they think they are a good person. And this is why a man can’t be his own judge. Unless you build your own heaven you don’t get to determine how you enter inside a kingdom that you did not build. You must submit yourself to the King of that kingdom so you can enter the King’s Kingdom. Just as anyone who comes into your house on earth must respect your house rules or they must leave your home.

In Closing:

The Bible says that the wages of sin is death and that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of GOD(Romans 3:23). Therefore GOD sent his Son into the earth to become a man and suffer death for ALL man so that man would not have to suffer death for own his sins. So that all who put their faith in Jesus would not perish as they rightfully deserve, but rather they would receive eternal life.

We don’t enter Heaven by meeting our own criteria, we enter into the Kingdom of Heaven through faith in GOD’s promise. Because of our past sins, all of us are already disqualified if entry into Heaven was determined by our own efforts. We must put our faith in Jesus and receive the righteousness of Jesus so that we can be pure before GOD. Upon receiving this righteousness we must walk in Holiness and be blameless, however prior to receiving the righteousness of Jesus by putting our faith in him none of our good deeds will erase our past of sin that still must be judged on the day of Judgement. But when we put our faith in Jesus our past slate is cleansed, GOD says he will not remember our sins anymore, and we can now start anew and walk in Holiness.

However, those who reject Jesus must stand trial before the throne of GOD on the judgment and answer for everything they have ever done in their life. The Bible says even every idle word that we speak will be judged on that day(Matthew 12:36).

So what are you going to do? Will stand trial before GOD and have your life measured by God’s standards or will you put your faith in Jesus and meet God’s standards by receiving the Holiness of Jesus? The Holiness of the Jesus who met the standard of GOD. When you put your faith in Jesus you receive HIS holiness and you’re turned from a sinner into a saint, and thus you meet the standard of GOD. Now you only must continue to walk in holiness, following the ways and teachings of Jesus, and endure until the end and you will be saved. Which will you choose?

GOD bless you all who are in Christ Jesus.

Eddie Fews

When I Finally Had An Encounter With GOD

When I was a child I remember going to church and watching people worship GOD and sing songs, but I did not understand why people were worshiping. I was also taught to sing and worship but I did not understand why. To me, it seemed like Singing and worshiping was almost like a cultural formality. It didn’t make a lot of sense to me, and I didn’t fully connect with it emotionally at the time. As a teenager, I connected better with more secular songs that I could relate to because those songs spoke about my life experience. Before, I couldn’t relate to worship songs, I only sang the worship songs because my church and parents taught me to. It appeared to me that singing was just something people did so that they could go to Heaven when they died.

I did not understand these things for most of my life, because at that time I still had not had an encounter with GOD for myself. I thought if I sang enough songs, prayed enough prayers, and read enough of the Bible then eventually maybe I would have an encounter with GOD. I thought I could “earn” my encounter with GOD…However, it didn’t happen like that.

I didn’t experience GOD until I was truly ready to surrender my entire life to do the will of GOD. I didn’t experience GOD until I gave up all my ambitions, my hopes, my dreams, my future plans, and my personal desires. I didn’t experience GOD until I was willing to forsake all that I had. I didn’t experience GOD until I could say from my heart “Not my will, Not my plan. Your will GOD. Your plan for my life.”

The day I experienced GOD was the day I took my life planner journal and set it on fire, because I wanted God’s plan. The day I experienced GOD was the day I walked away from my 6 figure career because it didn’t please GOD. The day I experienced GOD was the day GOD revealed to me that I wasn’t a good person like I thought, but that I was a sinner worthy of death. The day I experienced GOD was the day I cried in deep anguish in repentance because my sins were revealed to me.

That day I vomited for almost two hours all over my bedroom floor all the poison and evil that sin had built up in my body. That day I begged GOD to have mercy on my soul because I was afraid. That day evil spirits that caused me to be Prideful, Greedy, Selfishly Ambitious, Lustful, Arrogant, and more all came out of my body while I lay on the ground vomiting. That day I understood everything I thought about myself was all a lie. That day for the first time in my life I understood the reason people sing and worship GOD.

Have you ever seen a group of men watching a soccer game, and the moment their favorite team scores a goal all the men jump up at the same time and scream? Did they plan to jump up and scream at the same time or did it just happen naturally? What about when a singer with a beautiful voice sings a ballad and at the end people cry and give applause? Do all the people plan to clap and cry at the same time or did it just happen naturally? What about a comedy show, do all the people plan to laugh at the same time or does it just happen?

Why is this? Because when in the presence of an amazing talent or ability people lose control and collectively all respond the same way. Without even thinking or trying people react and respond. They laugh, shout, cry, jump, and roar all in unison without a plan or agreement.

Therefore if the abilities and feats of human beings make people jump, scream and shout without a second thought, what would happen if you were in the presence of the Almighty GOD? The Bible calls GOD the King of Glory and his glory is such an amazing thing to behold that even the Angels use two of their wings to cover their faces.

I’ve seen women and men crying, hyperventilating, and fainting when meeting their favorite Pop star. Could you imagine if you met GOD? If a human being that you share a likeness with could a person cry and faint what would the presence of GOD do to you?

When you encounter the presence of GOD worship is not a conscious choice. Worship is the only natural response and reaction to beholding something so glorious. We can’t even look at the sun without squinting, and that’s the work of GOD’s hands.. Could imagine GOD?

I haven’t seen the fullness of GOD’s glory with my eyes, the Bible says no man can see GOD and live(Exodus 33:20), however, when I was born again the revelation of the glory and goodness of GOD was revealed in my heart. And when that happened I feel down naturally just like anyone would and I cried and I sang, and I worshiped.

Therefore in closing: If you were to combine all the most beautiful sunsets, the brightest stars, the most beautiful voices, and everything you have ever found exciting into one moment it wouldn’t come close to a fraction of the Glory of GOD. We don’t worship GOD because we want to go to Heaven, we worship GOD for the same reasons sports fans scream when their team scores a goal. Worship is the only reaction possible when you encounter the presence of GOD. It’s not a conscious choice or a thought, it’s a natural reaction to beholding something so amazing, so wonderful, and so glorious.

If you are reading this today, pray that the revelation of God’s goodness, love, and glory will be revealed in your heart. And when that prayer is answered you’ll lose all control and fall down and worship.

That’s all for today friends.

God bless you all who are in Christ Jesus.

Eddie Fews