Heretical Palm & Easter Sundays

The teaching of traditional religion about the day the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified is fictitious and purely unbiblical. The humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ did not die that particular Friday. Let us consider the following truths:

On that week, from 6:00 PM Tuesday to 6:00 PM Wednesday was the Feast of the Passover. The Passover lamb was slain (1 Corinthians 5:7) and the memorial meal was eaten on Tuesday night, [not on traditional Thursday], the eve and the preparation for the actual Passover which fell on Wednesday [not on traditional Friday].

The Jews measure their days from sundown to sundown [from 6:00 PM to 6:00 PM], not from midnight to midnight [12:00 MN to 12:00 MN]. Gregorian calendar and system of counting hours were not yet in use during the crucifixion of Christ. However, even with the use of Gregorian system, the number of days of Christ in the tomb would be short of 3 days and 3 nights as recorded by the Scripture.

The Jews celebrated the Passover once a year every Wednesday of the Jewish month of NISIN (April), which is the last week of the 50 holy days celebration of Jewish religion. Gregorian calendar was not yet in use then.

That particular Wednesday was also the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread described in John 19:31, designed also as the preparation day for the rest of the week (Exodus 12:11, Leviticus 23:6-7) That particular Thursday and Friday was designated as Jewish holy days as no worship or killing days, which they cannot violate by having somebody hanged and killed on a cross.

The Lord Jesus Christ was in the tomb for three days and three nights (72 hours) based on the veracity of the Scripture (Matthew 12:40, 1 Corinthians 15:4).

If Jesus Christ was crucified and buried before 6:00 PM of Friday and was resurrected on early Sunday morning- then He was dead and buried in the tomb for only one and half (1 1/2) days and not three days and three nights as declared by the Word of God. The Word of God is the Truth and the basis of all truth.

The Word of God cannot lie. The Bible is the Truth not the teaching of self-righteous men who invented foolish church doctrines. We also reject the teaching about Resurrection on Sunday because He rose from death not on Sunday early morning. Jesus Christ did not die on Friday and He did not rise from the grave on Sunday, (please refer to page 5 of this booklet).

The objective of this article is to set free those who have been enslaved by religious practices, rituals and dogmas. The writer challenges the readers to search the Scripture for the truth.

We have to reject the traditional views and teaching of holy week because of its erroneous and fictitious nature.

We reject the teaching of traditional Good Friday because Jesus Christ was crucified during the Passover as the Lamb of God.

Jesus Christ rose from the grave before 6:00 PM of Saturday because 6:01 PM was already Sunday. He was in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights. If Christ was buried on Friday and resurrected on Sunday. In that case, He was in the tomb for only one and half (1 1/2) days.

When it comes to spiritual truth, the Bible is always the authority not the church dogmatic teachings. Those who invented the traditional holy week were false prophets and false teachers.

Jesus Christ and His disciples went to Bethany six (6) days before the Passover (John 12:1-11).

On the next day, five (5) days before the Passover, Jesus Christ and His disciples entered Jerusalem (John 12:12). If the Passover was celebrated on the first Wednesday of April, therefore, Jesus Christ and His disciples entered Jerusalem on Saturday (not Sunday). The issue of date and time were clearly defined by the Scripture so as not mislead people. The Bible is accurate in its historical documentation and detail information, while religions resolve to invention of facts and data. Religion invents, creates, and fabricates anything that will support their teachings, but people must examine, evaluate, make an careful study of their claims. There are three reasons why Palm Sunday is blasphemous:

1. THERE WAS NO PALM SUNDAY SINCE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ENTERED JERUSALEM ON SATURDAY AND NOT ON SUNDAY.

The Lord Jesus led the apostles in celebrating the Passover meal on the eve of Passover. They ate the Passover meal before 6:00 PM of Tuesday since 6:01 PM is already Wednesday. Tuesday 6:00 PM was the eve of the Passover.

For reference, take note that in Luke 23:44, 12:00 NN is sixth hour and 3:00 PM is ninth hour. Also, 5:00 PM is the eleventh hour. There was no Good Friday because Jesus Christ was hanged and dead on the cross on Wednesday. There was no Ash Wednesday in the Bible. No writer of the Scriptures ever mentioned it.

There was no Black Saturday in the Bible. No writer of the Scripture ever mentioned anything about it. God did not die. It was the humanity of Christ that was slain. His perfect humanity died physically and spiritually. His Deity cannot die.

The early Church did not celebrate Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Black Saturday and Easter Sunday. The Bible mandated the believers to celebrate only two symbolic rituals: namely the Lord*s Supper and Water Baptism by Immersion.

Satan is the master of deception and two of his favorite schemes are seclusion of believers and substitution in the area of truth, teachings, and practices. He secludes the genuine believer from the truth or he secludes the truth from the believers. He hides them behind the bushes of lies and deception. Religion is the best machinery of the devil for doctrinal deception. Satan is happy for any religious teaching as long as it is not the truth of the Bible.

He brings something that looks like the genuine or truth and replaces it. Satan wanted to displace all the truths in the hearts of believers with something that exactly look alike of the truth. Denominational or church doctrines are nothing but a look alike of the Biblical truth.

2. THERE WAS NO PALM SUNDAY BECAUSE THOSE WHO WELCOME THE LORD JESUS TO JERUSALEM WERE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED

What many people call Palm Sunday is actually a future celebration which will bring in the Millennial reign of Christ, the 1,000 year period when the Lord Jesus Christ will literally reign here on earth! The sign for the Church-age is the Cross; it is the Cross we are to celebrate, not the crown. To celebrate the crown (Palm Sunday) now is to overlook the Cross; therefore, celebrating this event today is actually blasphemous, as it puts the crown before the Cross.

The political -religious crowd that welcomes the Lord Jesus to Jerusalem was simply ignorant of the fact that the Cross must come before the crown. The “Palm Sunday crowd” gathered together for political power, not for the purpose of worshipping their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The palm waving crowd was not believers but they wanted to make Jesus Christ their political king.

3. THERE WAS NO PALM SUNDAY BECAUSE THE “TRUE PALM SUNDAY” IS YET FUTURE IN MILLENNIAL KINGDOM

The majority of Christians today do not understand this because they do not understand dispensations. Therefore, in their blind excitement they have fallen into the trap of John 4:22,

The branch of the palm tree is the sign of Messiahship in Jeremiah 23:5-6; Zechariah 3:8, 6:12-13; Isaiah 11:1, and it is to be used as a form of worship in beginning of the Millennial reign.

1^ST: Friday: (6 days before Passover) - Jesus Christ & His disciples went to Bethany (John 12:1-11)

2^ND: Saturday: (5 days before Passover) – The Lord Jesus Christ & His disciples entered Jerusalem (John 12:12). It should be called "Palm Saturday" not Palm Sunday.

5^TH: Tuesday: (Passover meal) – The Lord Jesus Christ washed the disciple’s feet (John 13:1)

6^TH: Wednesday: (Passover) The Lord Jesus Christ Prayed, was arrested, faced six illegal trials, crucified, died, and burial before 6:00 PM (Leviticus 23:5)

8^TH: Friday: Holy Day - No work was permitted - crucifying and killing someone on that day was a total impossibility. Doing any form of work was punishable by stoning to death.

9^TH: Saturday: Regular Sabbath (Leviticus 23:3). The traditional teaching that God was death on this particular day is blasphemous. It was the humanity of Christ that died not the deity. Deity cannot die, it cannot suffer pain and agony of the Cross.

10^TH: Sunday: First Fruits - The Lord Jesus Christ rose from the grave right after 6:00 PM or at the very first hour of the day. Note that their day began at 6:00 PM not 12:00 MN. Gregorian Calendar was not yet in used by the time of the Lord's crucifixion.

Important Note: THE JEWS MEASURE THEIR DAYS FROM SUNDOWN TO SUNDOWN: (6:00 PM TO 6:00 PM) NOT FROM MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT (12:00 MN TO 12:00 MN).

The traditional belief that the Lord Jesus was crucified on Friday is a big lie invented by pagan and adapted by reversionistic theologians and pastors. If the body of the Lord was buried on Friday and resurrected on Sunday, He was buried for one and half night - one and half day.

The body of the Lord Jesus Christ was in the tomb for three days and three nights (72 hours) based on the veracity of the Scripture (Matthew 12:40, 1 Corinthians 15:4).

The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient goddess and god. Easter was named after Eostre or Eastre. She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility was known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos.[i] Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. Some were:

An alternative explanation has been suggested. The name given by the Frankish church to Jesus' resurrection festival included the Latin word "alba" which means "white." (This was a reference to the white robes that were worn during the festival.) "Alba" also has a second meaning: "sunrise." When the name of the festival was translated into German, the "sunrise" meaning was selected in error. This became "ostern" in German. Ostern has been proposed as the origin of the word "Easter".

There are two popular beliefs about the origin of the English word "Sunday." It is derived from the name of the Scandinavian sun Goddess Sunna (Sunne, Frau Sonne). It is derived from "Sol," the Roman God of the Sun." Their phrase "Dies Solis" means "day of the Sun."

Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a fictional consort who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. He was Attis, who was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period March-22 to March-25. "About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill, associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (formerly known as Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus).

He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection. Wherever pseudo-Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians "used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation.

Wiccans and other modern-day Neopagans continue to celebrate the Spring Equinox as one of their 8 yearly Sabbats (holy days of celebration). Near the Mediterranean, this is a time of sprouting of the summer's crop; farther north, it is the time for seeding. Their rituals at the Spring Equinox are related primarily to the fertility of the crops and to the balance of the day and night times. Where Wiccans can safely celebrate the Sabbat out of doors without threat of religious persecution, they often incorporate a bonfire into their rituals, jumping over the dying embers is believed to assure fertility of people and crops. ." [ii]

Good Friday is observed in remembrance of Jesus' execution by the occupying Roman army, and his burial in a cave-tomb. Easter Sunday is the date when a group of his female followers first noticed the empty tomb, and concluded that he had been resurrected.

The timing of the Christian celebration of Easter is linked to the Jewish celebration of the Passover. Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were observed by the ancient Israelites early in each new year. (The Jewish people followed the Persian/Babylonian calendar and started each year with the Spring Equinox circa MAR-21). "Equinox" means "equal night;" on that date of the year, the night and day are approximately equal. The name "Passover" was derived from the actions of the angel of death as described in the book of Exodus.

The angel "passed over" the homes of the Jews which were marked with the blood obtained from a ritual animal sacrifice. The same angel exterminated the first born(s) of every family whose doorway was not marked, where first-born sons as well as the first-born of domesticated animals perished.

Liberal theologians trace Passover to an ancient pre-Israelite Pagan ritual practiced by wandering Semitic shepherds. The Feast of Unleavened Bread was originally a traditional Canaanite agricultural harvest which was adopted by the Israelites. It marked the start of the barley harvest; barley was the first crop to ripen. Because they occurred at about the same time each year, the two celebrations became merged into a two day observance. The Passover became associated with the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.

[i] Larry Boemler "Asherah and Easter," Biblical Archaeology Review, Vol. 18, Number 3, 1992-May/June

[ii] J Farrar & S. Farrar, "Eight Sabbats for Witches," Phoenix, Custer, WA, (1988).