Worship

                                                               Contributed by Ed Moore

Do you sponsor Easter egg hunts for the children? The original celebrants of this feast dyed the eggs red in the blood of sacrificed children. This is where the colored egg tradition began. Do you have an Easter sun rise service? This was called an abomination in Eze. Chapt. 8. Many people look forward to “Hot Cross Buns” on Easter. Where did this tradition start? It is mentioned in Jer. 7:18 , where the women made cakes to the pagan Queen of Heaven.

Do you celebrate Christmas? Are you aware the savior was not born on this date, but is the traditional birth date of Dies Sol Invictus, the sun god Mithras, the sun of righteousness? (Ency. Britannica). When Constantine merged paganism with Christianity, he declared December 25 to be the birth date of the Messiah. The Romans readily accepted this date as they were already worshippers of a god born on that date. The only thing that changed for them was the name of this god. They must have loved the name pronounced “Ee Sous or Ee Zeus”.

Since Yahusha was not born on December 25, then whose birthday is
being celebrated? Answer: The Satanic sun god, who was also known as god incarnate,mediator between god and man, a false Messiah.

Do you bring an evergreen tree into your church or home and decorate it with silver and golden ornaments? Have you considered Yahuah’s warning in Jeremiah chapter 10 against doing this?

Jer. 10:1 Hear ye the word which Yahuah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith Yahuah, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

(Signs in the heavens have always played a large role in Pagan religions. The sun, planets, stars, summer and winter solstice, Constantine’s cross in the sky vision, comets, etc. have all been important in paganism.)

3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that
it move not.

Yahuah literally hates the pagan rituals of Babylon that Christian holidays are based on:

Amos 5
21 “I hate, I despise your feast days (pagan feasts such as Christmas and Easter), And I do not savor your sacred assemblies (on Sunday). 22 Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings (through pagan rituals), I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings. 23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments (as you sing praises and worship Hesus Horus Krishna the Antichrist). 24 But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream (as Yahuah will cast out all those who break The Law of Yahuah from His Kingdom).

Does it matter that these were originally pagan festivals? Are we allowed to create our own feasts to Yahuah? Do you think it matters to the Him? The answer is a resounding YES! Look at the following:

Deu 12:29 “When יהוה your Elohim does cut off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deu 12:30 guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their mighty ones?
Deu 12:31 “Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim, for every abomination which יהוה hates they have done to their mighty ones, for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones

"You shall not worship Yahuah your Elohim in that way." Do not worship Yahuah in that way, the way of the heathen! Don't take heathen customs and try to honor Him with it. He is not honored by them. Do not add to His commandments and do not take away from His commandments.

Exo. 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up,make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to Yahuah.

They were going to worship Yahuah through the golden calf. You see, they didn’t think this was idol worship; “it didn’t mean that to them”. How often do we hear this today? “It doesn’t mean that to us!” Easter doesn’t mean to me what it meant to the pagans, we celebrate the resurrection of “Jesus” on this day. It doesn’t matter that Yahusha had already risen toward the end of the Sabbath, not Sunday morning at sunrise. He was already long gone by then. But, this is the same logic that was used by Israel back then. Aaron even lied to Moses to try to justify his deed. He said that the people gave him gold, which he cast into the fire and out popped this calf. (Exo. 32:24). Do we not lie to ourselves today to justify our practices?

What was Yahuah’s response?
Exo. 32:9 And Yahuah said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is astiffnecked people:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Does this sound like it didn’t matter to Yahuah? He wanted to wipe them out and start allover with another chosen people through Moses. The word says Yahuah changes not!

Hos 4:6 “My people have perished for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being priest for Me. Since you have forgotten the Torah of your Elohim, I also forget your children.