When Is Passover Celebrated For The Christian?

[donnay]

When Is Passover Celebrated For The Christian?

MARCH 30, 2018 / WORLD EVENTS AND THE BIBLE

Passover begins at sundown on April 3rd this year.


Last year, we created a Passover calendar that specifically marks the first 15 days of Abib which is the Hebrew month that Passover was to be celebrated. We highly encourage you to reference that calander so you can have a better understanding of the days and how they are counted.

The Christian should understand, we do not use blood on this day, Jesus Christ was the Lamb that was slain for us. It was Christ who became our Passover Lamb, (1 Corinthians 5:7).

On Passover, we will honor and remember Jesus Christ by taking Communion as He has instructed us, (1 Corinthians 11:23-26). We will provide a post on April 3rd to celebrate that great sacrifice by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

If you would like to learn more about Passover and what it means for the Christian, we encourage you to read our Bible study titled, “Passover: Why We Should Be Celebrating It As Christians“.

http://worldeventsandthebible.com/2...d:+blogspot/gRCh+(World+Events+and+the+Bible)

 

[navy-vet]

I thought Passover was a Jewish holiday. Well before Jesus appeared on the scene, when us gentiles were pretty much screwed. A story about Moses, when the Israelite's were in bondage in Egypt and the Pharaoh's "heart was hardened"? The last act (plague) of God, the killing of each first son of every family, except those who had a mark in lambs blood over their doors. Hence those homes were "passed over" by death and their sons spared.

 

[navy-vet]

Easter, on the other hand, is a Christian holiday.

 

[fisharmor]

Also, the Jewish calculation of Passover changed not long after Christianity started to spread, and it became possible for Passover to be celebrated in Winter. So the Churches decided early on that Passover is explicitly not to be respected when calculating when Easter will be.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Easter, on the other hand, is a Christian holiday.

Traditionally, Christians call the Resurrection Feast "Pascha". (Пасха in Russian) The word literally means "passover" in Greek. "Easter" is the same feast, but Latinized by the Roman Church and the Protestants kept the tradition. You Westerners also use a different calendar than the Christian East does, so most years we celebrate Pascha a week later than y'all celebrate Easter (like this year).

Pascha (Greek: Πάσχα), also called Easter, is the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord. Pascha is a transliteration of the Greek word, which is itself a transliteration of the Aramaic pascha, from the Hebrew pesach meaning Passover. A minority of English-speaking Orthodox prefer the English word "Pasch."

Pascha normally falls either one or five weeks later than the feast as observed by Christians who follow the Gregorian calendar. However, occasionally the two observances coincide, and on occasion they can be four weeks apart. The reason for the difference is that, though the two calendars use the same underlying formula to determine the festival, they compute from different starting points. The older Julian calendar's solar calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian's and its lunar calendar is four to five days behind the Gregorian's. The Pascha date this year: April 8, 2018, next year: April 28, 2019, and April 19, 2020, the year after that.

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Pascha

 

[donnay]

Easter, on the other hand, is a Christian holiday.

Easter is a Pagan Holiday and as a Christian I do not partake in the Pagan festivities. Jesus became our Passover when he died on the cross.

The info is all laid out right here: http://worldeventsandthebible.com/2013/03/passover-why-we-should-be-celebrating.html

It's a good read with lots of insight.

 

[wizardwatson]

It ended today at sunset by the hebrew calendar and per the bible.
http://www.cogwriter.com/passover_on_the_fourteenth_or_fifteenth.htm

 

[donnay]

Have you ever asked yourself the following questions: “Are the traditions of Easter Biblical? Why is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ called Easter? Are Easter rabbits and eggs mentioned in the Bible?“

It will shock most Christians to discover that none of the traditions of Easter are Biblical. As a matter of fact, Easter is the name of a heathen god and found in the Bible only one time in the book of Acts (in the KJV Bible). Unfortunately, this word was placed in scripture by error, the word Easter is a mistranslation. Meaning it is not in the original manuscripts! The correct word is “Pascha” in the manuscripts, meaning Passover.

Read more: http://worldeventsandthebible.com/2013/03/the-ignorance-of-easter-how-does-god.html

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Easter is a Pagan Holiday and as a Christian I do not partake in the Pagan festivities. Jesus became our Passover when he died on the cross.

The info is all laid out right here: http://worldeventsandthebible.com/2013/03/passover-why-we-should-be-celebrating.html

It's a good read with lots of insight.

The 15th of Abib (our April 4th this year 2013) is our High Holy Day, Passover Day. This is how we remember and honor our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. By partaking of the unleavened bread, the wine and remembering >what each one symbolizes<.

It should be noted that reducing the bread and wine to mere symbols is a post-schism invention and terrible error. Prior to the Reformation, Christians believed the Elements to be the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ.

 

[Superfluous Man]

Easter is a Pagan Holiday and as a Christian I do not partake in the Pagan festivities. Jesus became our Passover when he died on the cross.

That's not true. Easter is just another name for Passover (or Pascha in Greek, as was pointed out above). The name "Easter" comes from the Germanic name of the month in which it would fall in an older calendar.

 

[donnay]

Well I will be taking communion on Tuesday.


1 Corinthians 11:24 - (KJV)
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.

1 Corinthians 11:25 - (KJV)
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.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

That's not true. Easter is just another name for Passover (or Pascha in Greek, as was pointed out above). It comes from the Germanic name of the month in which it would fall in an older calendar.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Superfluous Man again.

Kurwa.

 

[Swordsmyth]

That's not true. Easter is just another name for Passover (or Pascha in Greek, as was pointed out above). The name "Easter" comes from the Germanic name of the month in which it would fall in an older calendar.

Kurwa.

The month was named after the goddess Ishtar, a sex goddess, Easter was the festival of Ishtar.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Have you ever asked yourself the following questions: “Are the traditions of Easter Biblical? Why is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ called Easter? Are Easter rabbits and eggs mentioned in the Bible?“

It will shock most Christians to discover that none of the traditions of Easter are Biblical. As a matter of fact, Easter is the name of a heathen god and found in the Bible only one time in the book of Acts (in the KJV Bible). Unfortunately, this word was placed in scripture by error, the word Easter is a mistranslation. Meaning it is not in the original manuscripts! The correct word is “Pascha” in the manuscripts, meaning Passover.

Read more: http://worldeventsandthebible.com/2013/03/the-ignorance-of-easter-how-does-god.html

The use of Easter in the Bible was accurate, it was referring to the Roman festival as a time reference not endorsing it.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I thought Passover was a Jewish holiday. Well before Jesus appeared on the scene, when us gentiles were pretty much screwed. A story about Moses, when the Israelite's were in bondage in Egypt and the Pharaoh's "heart was hardened"? The last act (plague) of God, the killing of each first son of every family, except those who had a mark in lambs blood over their doors. Hence those homes were "passed over" by death and their sons spared.

There's a lot of literature describing Christ as the Paschal Lamb, including St Paul.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover lamb is sacrificed for us

 

[heavenlyboy34]

The month was named after the goddess Ishtar, a sex goddess, Easter was the festival of Ishtar.

LOLOL. You're a Zeitgeister, amirite?

 

[Swordsmyth]

LOLOL. You're a Zeitgeister, amirite?

Nope, I don't even know what that means.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Nope, I don't even know what that means.

"Zeitgeist" was a popular film some years ago that popularized the ridiculous lie that the gospel narrative was plagiarized from pagan mythology. Including your false claim about the etymology of "Easter".

 

[donnay]

That's not true. Easter is just another name for Passover (or Pascha in Greek, as was pointed out above). It comes from the Germanic name of the month in which it would fall in an older calendar.

Easter
(Acts 12:4) In the earlier English versions Easter has been frequently used as the translation of
pascha (passover). In the Authorized Version Passover was substituted in all passages but this; and
in the new Revision Passover is used here. [Passover]

http://ntslibrary.com/PDF Books/Smith's Bible Dictionary.pdf

Easter = Ishtar

Easter (n.)
Old English Easterdæg, from Eastre (Northumbrian Eostre), from Proto-Germanic *austron-, "dawn," also the name of a goddess of fertility and spring, perhaps originally of sunrise, whose feast was celebrated at the spring equinox, from *aust- "east, toward the sunrise" (compare east), from PIE root *aus- (1) "to shine," especially of the dawn.

Bede says Anglo-Saxon Christians adopted her name and many of the celebratory practices for their Mass of Christ's resurrection. Almost all neighboring languages use a variant of Latin Pascha to name this holiday (see paschal). Easter egg attested by 1825, earlier pace egg (1610s). Easter bunny attested by 1904 in children's lessons; Easter rabbit is by 1888; the paganish customs of Easter seem to have grown popular c. 1900; before that they were limited to German immigrants.

If the children have no garden, they make nests in the wood-shed, barn, or house. They gather colored flowers for the rabbit to eat, that it may lay colored eggs. If there be a garden, the eggs are hidden singly in the green grass, box-wood, or elsewhere. On Easter Sunday morning they whistle for the rabbit, and the children imagine that they see him jump the fence. After church, on Easter Sunday morning, they hunt the eggs, and in the afternoon the boys go out in the meadows and crack eggs or play with them like marbles. Or sometimes children are invited to a neighbor's to hunt eggs. [Phebe Earle Gibbons, "Pennsylvania Dutch," Philadelphia 1882]

https://www.etymonline.com/word/easter

 

[Swordsmyth]

"Zeitgeist" was a popular film some years ago that popularized the ridiculous lie that the gospel narrative was plagiarized from pagan mythology. Including your false claim about the etymology of "Easter".

That is a ridiculous lie but the etymology is correct.
The cult of Ishtar was common throughout the Mediterranean world, Esther was renamed after Ishtar by the king, her original name was Hadassah.