{"id":1104,"date":"2016-04-15T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shop.soundsofthetrumpet.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2016-04-13T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T21:31:24","slug":"passover-and-easter-why-are-the-dates-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"PASSOVER AND EASTER \u2013 WHY ARE THE DATES DIFFERENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Passover\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s keep it simple.<\/p>\n

The Biblical\/Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar based on the moon revolving around the earth. \u00a0Every time there is a new moon, this marks the beginning of a new month. This new moon is called \u201cRosh Hodesh\u201d meaning head of the month. The Feast days are based on the Jewish calendar. God set the Hebrew month of Nisan as the first month of the year on the Biblical calendar (Exodus 12:2). Passover is always in the middle of the month of Nissan when the moon is full. The Greco-Roman Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar that originally came from Egypt and was passed on to the modern world from Rome. It is based on the movement of the earth around the sun.<\/p>\n

As the Jewish message of Jesus spread to surrounding nations, Jesus was accepted by the Gentiles who unfortunately were anti-Semitic. This obviously presented the emerging Gentile church with a problem. Jesus was a Jew, His teachings were from the Torah, and all His early followers were Jews, including the apostle Paul who was faithful to the Torah and did not start a new religion that would later be called Christianity. <\/em><\/p>\n

But the Gentiles embracing Jesus did not want their Christian faith to be connected to the Jews so they changed the date to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from Passover week to a different date already familiar to the Greco-Roman world. This date was based on the Spring Equinox which occurs on March 21 on the Greco-Roman Gregorian calendar. Passover was changed to Easter and the date for Easter was to be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21. This decree was enforced with the sword by the Roman Emperor Constantine at the Council of Nicaea which met in 325 AD.<\/p>\n

Here is the blasphemous statement Constantine wrote to all the church bishops:<\/p>\n

It was declared to be particularly unworthy for this, the holiest of all festivals, to follow the custom of the Jews, who had soiled their hand the most fearful of crimes, and whose minds were blinded. In rejecting their custom, we may transmit to our descendants the legitimate mode of celebrating Easter \u2026 We ought not, therefore, to have anything in common with the Jews for the Savior has shown us another way \u2026 we desire dearest brethren, to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews.<\/em><\/p>\n

This horrific statement from Constantine established anti-Semitism as official church policy for European Christianity. For more details, please order Dr. Booker\u2019s book, How the Cross Became a Sword<\/em> at www.rbooker.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am grateful for everyone who celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. God bless one and all. But in these times when God is so clearly awakening believers to the Biblical Hebraic roots of Christianity, and since He is returning as a Jew not as a Christian, shouldn\u2019t we all ask ourselves the following question, \u201cWould I rather celebrate our Lord\u2019s resurrection on the correct time given in the Bible or \u201canother way\u201d chosen by a quasi-Christian pagan emperor sun worshipper who hated God\u2019s chosen people, persecuted them without mercy and separated Christianity from its Jewish roots?\u201d Even Pope Francis said \u201cIt is time for Christians to rediscover their Jewish roots.\u201d<\/em> Incidentally, these are Feasts of the Lord not Feasts of the Jews and are to be celebrated by all of God\u2019s people for all time.<\/p>\n

What is the Spring Equinox?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the earth revolves around the\u00a0sun, in the spring, the sun is exactly above the\u00a0equator on March 21. This is called the Spring Equinox because the word equinox means \u201cequal night.” That is the length of day and\u00a0night is nearly\u00a0equal in all parts of the world during the equinox. The March\u00a0Equinox\u00a0is the day when the Northern Hemisphere starts to\u00a0tilt\u00a0toward the sun, which means\u00a0longer and sunnier days. The March\u00a0Equinox\u00a0is called the\u00a0Vernal Equinox because it signals the beginning of\u00a0spring\u00a0(vernal means new like the\u00a0spring). For obvious reasons, ancient people celebrated the\u00a0vernal equinox as a pagan festival (Ishtar) of new life. Eastern Orthodox Christians follow a different calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s keep it simple. The Biblical\/Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar based on the moon revolving around the earth. \u00a0Every time there is a new moon, this marks the beginning of a new month. This new moon is called \u201cRosh Hodesh\u201d meaning head of the month. The Feast days are based on the Jewish calendar. … Continue reading PASSOVER AND EASTER \u2013 WHY ARE THE DATES DIFFERENT?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}