Different Satans and Devils in the Bible

DIFFERENT SATANS AND DEVILS

Part 1

“Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light”

(2 Cor. 11:14).

What does it mean that “Satan is transformed into an angel of light”?

Light = revelation of God.  Light shines in darkness (John 1:5). This the “truth”. The word of God. Jesus Christ is the LIGHT (John 1:4; 8:12). He is the light of the Heavenly city (Rev. 21:23).

Satan transforms himself as an angel of light, as a fake angel of light. For the truth is Jesus Christ is the LIGHT and his messengers are angels or messengers of Jesus the light.

2 Cor. 11: 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.  14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.  15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Paul was talking about “false apostles” - counterfeit apostles, fake apostles. We know that “apostles” means “messengers” [those who bring the message]. And it is similar with the word “angel” which means “messenger”. Compare it with “Satan” and “his angels” (Rev. 12:9); “the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41); “Satan” and “his ministers” ( 2 Cor. 11:14,15).

What Satan is Not.

The word “Satan” here does not mean a “supernatural being” who was once perfect in beauty archangel “Lucifer” and then rebelled against God and cast out of heaven with his rebellious angels who became Satan and devils. No! Such teaching of “Satan” is a myth or a “cunningly devised fable” that came from pagan mythologies.

What Satan Means.

Satan means “enemy” and whenever it is used as a name such as this name “Satan” it pertains to a person, a group of people, a system or “every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God” (2 Cor. 10:5). Depending on the context, Satan may mean the lust of the flesh, the apostate “Jewish high priest” , the apostate “Judaism” or “Jews religion” , the apostate “Jewish nation” and the Roman Empire. It may also be a personification of law, sin and death.

The Enemies of the Cross of Christ.

Here in 2 Corinthians “Satan” and “his ministers” were the “enemies of the cross of Christ (Phil. 3:18) whose God is their belly, who mind earthly things, who teach false doctrines, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple (Rom. 16:17,18), who “bewitched” believers to not believe in the truth (Gal. 3:1), teaching “Jewish fables and commandments of men, that turn from the truth” (Titus 1:14). Titus called them “alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies” (Titus 1:12).  Peter called them “false teachers” (2 Pet. 2:1), “as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption” (2 Pet. 2:12). These are similar to the serpent in the garden of Eden who was more subtil than any beast of the field (Gen. 3:1) who beguiled Eve through his subtilty (2 Cor. 11:3) “For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts” (2 Timothy 3:6).

These enemies [Satan] of the cross of Christ were identified by Paul as “the Jews: who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.” (1 Thes. 2:15-16).

The Jewish Priesthood and the Sanhedrin.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Paul exhorted the saints that they wrestle not against flesh and blood. It means the warfare is not physical, but it is spiritual.  That they wrestle against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. And Satan was the leader of these rulers. He was called by Paul as “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Eph. 2:2).

The warfare, as I said was “spiritual” and not “physical”. The enemies were described as in “high places” [high position].  Spiritual wickedness in “high places”. And they were led by “the prince of the power of the air”. His realm of influence was “the air”. Where is the air? Is it somewhere up there in the atmosphere? It may be. Yes. When the Bible uses the word “air”, it was used to describe the birds and fowls of the air that fly there up there in the sky or higher level over the ground. The idea is that “Satan” was compared to the birds in the air who are up there flying. So some Bible believers have come up to the conclusion that Satan is a prince or ruler over the air. And that he and his angels are having their sphere of influence in the outer space and in the atmosphere over this planet. So they came up with the idea of U.F.O’s as Satan and his angels riding there ready to wage war against God and his people on earth. That’s why they believe that when the Church of Jesus Christ gets “raptured”, they will cast down Satan and his angels from the air and he will come down to earth with his wrath.

But that’s not really what the Bible wants us to understand about Satan and his angels. The air is a literal air which means “some exalted place over the ground” and it is the same with “high places”. They were not literally ruling in the air, but it simply means that Satan and his in angels were “ruling” and in “high position of authority”. They were called “principalities” and “powers”. Paul used the words “principalities and powers” in Titus 3:1 talking about the rulers of their governments during their time. They are equivalent to the present presidents and prime ministers of the countries, the governors, the mayors, the Supreme Court, the senators, congressmen and all government officials. If the “principalities” and “powers” were the immortal super enemy called Satan and his demons, why would Paul tell Titus to be “subject” to them?

The answer is because whenever Paul was using the words “principalities and powers”, he was talking about “people who are in high positions of authority”.  Paul was talking about their “rulers” and “leaders” in their government and religion. Who were the ruling bodies in their time as a nation?  They were the merging powers of the Sanhedrin and the Priesthood. Religious leadership was a very powerful. Saul of Tarsus [who later became Paul the apostle] was granted the license to arrest and kill by the high priest (Acts 9:1,2). The high priest was a very powerful religious and political icon during their time as the Pope and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church are today.

So the “spiritual wickedness” or “wicked spirits” in high places spoken by Paul were the “religious leaders” of Judaism with the high priest(s) as Satan, the prince. They are “Satan and his angels”.

But isn’t the warfare not against flesh and blood? Yes, indeed. It simply means, it is not physical wrestling, but wrestling spiritually with these rulers. Paul said “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ”. These rulers were in high places of authority waging war against God through their “doctrines”. These doctrines or “thoughts” were “exalting” themselves against “THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD” and rebelling against God’s authority. That’s why the warfare is not carnal or physical, but spiritual. It is the “BATTLE OF THE MIND”. It is the “BATTLE OF KNOWLEDGE”. And the weapon Paul was using was “mighty through God” to the PULLING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS, CASTING DOWN “IMAGINATIONS”. And this weapon is “THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, THE WORD OF GOD” with the whole ARMOUR of God as described by Paul in Eph. 6:11-18. Paul suffered a lot from this “Satan” and “his angels” and all the church of God. 

John the Beloved used an imagery of the great red dragon and a serpent. This serpent was not the serpent of Genesis 3. Others

believe that the serpent of Revelation is the same as the serpent of Genesis, thus creating an immortal fallen angel called Satan. But that is not true. Remember, John was using codes, symbols, figures and numbers. Yes, both serpents were “enemies” but they are not one. Jesus called the Pharisees and Scribes [religious leaders] of Israel as “serpents” and “generation of vipers” (Matt. 23:29,33). Of course they were not literal serpents but they were “serpent-like” just like the serpent of Genesis who was “subtil” and “wise”. So in Revelation 12, John the Beloved uses the imagery of a serpent for Satan. He used these descriptions:  “the great dragon…that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world” (Rev. 12:9). He was “in heaven” which means that he was in a “high position”. He was cast out from heaven into the earth. He was humiliated. He was demoted from high position into the “dust”. Jesus said that “whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased” (Luke 14:11). Satan in his high position was exalting himself against the knowledge of God. And so God abased him and his angels. Do you know who was this “Satan”?

The dragon was deceiving the whole world. And it was not the globe or planet earth (for there is no such thing as globe or planet earth) but the whole world of Judaism. How was he deceiving that world? By his false teachings against Christ.

He was the accuser of the brethren who was accusing before God day and night. Who had access to God through the temple and who can accuse the brethren before God day and night? It was the high priest of Judaism.

This “Satan” and “his angels” were all defeated and destroyed by Christ (Col. 2:15; Heb. 2:14; Rev. 20:10). According to Paul in the context of doctrine and false teachers, “And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.” (Rom. 16:20).

Every High Thing That Exalted Itself.

Now, that the Satan(s) described by the Bible was/were already judged and destroyed by God, is/are there still “Satan(s)” today?

We are not in the same situation as Paul and the church in the first century having warfare against “the apostate Jewish Satan government” and “apostate Jewish nation”.  Yes, that kind of Satan was already destroyed. But the battle still continues. it is not against that defeated Satan. Law was abolished. Sin was put away. Death was abolished. Judaism was put to an end. The temple of Jerusalem, the Jewish “heaven on earth” was destroyed already by God.

But Paul states in 2 Cor. 10:5 that our warfare is against “every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God”.  That is a “knowledge” battle. Battle of doctrines. There are still “religions” of this world and “doctrines” of men around that are in opposition to the knowledge of God.  They are “thoughts” and “doctrines” of men in “high places” [high positions] in religious empires.

The problem is in the hearts of men. In their hearts, men are in rebellion against God. For what can be more wicked than the heart of man?

Jeremiah 17: 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

                          

Satan, God’s Obedient Servant.

Now does it mean that Satan can only mean “the high priest”, false religious teachers and “personification of law, sin and death”?  Can’t Satan be a “spirit” or an “angel”?

I did not say that Satan cannot be an “angel” or a “spirit”. But what I said is that Satan is not an immortal or ethereal spirit that is against God or is a little lower than God, the personal eternal enemy of God and men (as taught us by tradition).  We have seen in various accounts of “Satan” and “devil” in the Bible that one kind of a Satan and devil which the Bible also calls “the devil” and/or “satan” is a servant or messenger sent by God to fulfill his purposes.

Look at the account of “Satan” in Job. The Satan in Job is a creature that has an access with God and consults God, having been given a job to put Job in trials. Is that Satan God’s enemy? No. But he was called a Satan or an adversary of Job. If God uses a person to test you in a hard way, you may have hated this person and consider him as your enemy. But let us remember the Bible’s wisdom that says

Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

That Satan in Job may be used by God to test Job, to “sharpen” him. And we see the results in Job’s life at the end of the book.

In the presenting of the sons of God before the Lord, a being called Satan was present with them. And the Lord asked him. (The sons of God may be “the righteous people” doing their services to the Lord in worship gathering or the “angels of God” in a heavenly gathering. Bible teachers differ on their opinions about it.)

Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Satan’s reply to the Lord’s question of “Where have you been recently?” may sound like this: “I just came recently from around the world tour from walking up and down in it”. So it seems that only an angel of the Lord can do this adventurous act of walking up and down in the earth. It seems going up to heaven and going down to earth. A mere man can’t do it.

This Satan was under the Lord’s command and never was doing a thing outside of God’s will. What Satan did to Job was God’s approval.

Job 1:12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

The tragedies that happened to Job and his family cannot be done by a mere man. Only an angel or a spirit sent by God can do them.

Satan under God’s approval smote Job with sore boils:

Job 2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

If we follow Job’s story until the end of the book, after this incident, Satan was no more mentioned. And there was no record that Satan was punished by God at the end of the book. Why? because that Satan was not God’s enemy but God’s servant sent to Job to be Job’s adversary to test Job’s faith in God.

The Evil Angels, Members of God’s Host

That’s how I want you to understand that one kind of Satan in the Bible is God’s servant or messenger, as members of the heavenly court. Read these verses to show what I mean.

2 Chronicles 18: 18 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.

 19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

 20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?

 21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

 22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.

In that scene, the Lord was sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. It seems like what we can see in kingdom movies – the king with his council, the ministers and rulers, department heads on his right and left discussing matters.

That’s the same with the heavenly kingdom. God was sitting on his throne with his ministers on the right and left. The HOST of heaven are his ANGELS.

Psalms 148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

God was discussing matters with his host. An angel suggested to God, “I will go out and become a lying spirit in all the mouth of Ahab’s prophets”.  That’s what happened. An angel of the host of heaven got out and became a lying spirit in the prophets of Ahab.

Psalms 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

God was responsible in sending angels to fulfill his purposes, whether these things look evil in the eyes of men. God was using angels even to kill and destroy peoples. (2 Chronicles 32:21)

Therefore these “angels” or “spirits” are God’s servants or ministers even labeled “evil angels”. But they were just doing the king’s orders.

Hebrews 1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

These “evil angels”, the angel who presented himself to be a “lying spirit” and the Satan of Job are God’s ministers sent to fulfill his purposes. They are not God’s enemies but his servants, but may be enemies or Satans to certain men to whom God sent them.

This kind of Satan is very different from the Satan figure devised by religion.  The Satan in Job is God’s servant.  The Satan of religion is a monster ruling in the darkness of the underworld. It looks like the Hades god of the underworld of the Greeks who was against Zeus the chief of the Olympian gods, a.k.a. the God of heaven.

God Himself Played The Role Of Satan.

2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

1 Chronicles 21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

Look at these verses. Who stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel?   Read very carefully.  2 Samuel says it was the Lord. 1 Chronicles says it was Satan. How?  It may be confusing. And those who don’t believe in the Bible call these as one of the contradictions in Scriptures. But they just said it because of the traditional belief that God cannot be Satan.

Remember that Satan means “adversary” or “enemy”.  So here in these event, the Lord became an enemy against Israel. So Satan here was the Lord himself!

That’s why I’m telling you that there are many “Satan” in the Bible and not only one. Even the Lord himself became a Satan. It is not true that there is only one Satan who was an archangel Lucifer who became a Satan – a fallen angel and now became God’s personal enemy. That is not true!

The Serpent of Genesis 3 was not Satan.

The serpent in Genesis 3 is neither the Lucifer of Isaiah 14 nor the Satan in Job. Lucifer was not an angel but he was the King of Babylon during the time Isaiah was prophesying. That was just a human king of Babylon and not an angel, or a spirit.

The serpent of Genesis 3 is not the serpent of Revelation 12. They are two different creatures.  It is not true that the serpent of Genesis 3 was Satan or indwelt by Satan. They are just speculations. The serpent was merely a “beast” that was more subtil than any beast of the field that God made (Gen. 3:1; 1:25). The serpent was neither an angel or Satan. In a way, he can be a “Satan” or enemy to Adam and Eve but not to God.  The serpent was a responsible, thinking and talking being and therefore not an animal (snake). The word “beast” is sometimes used for “men” or to describe men. (See Titus 1:12 and 2 Peter 2:12). That serpent was an upright creature, and not a snake, an animal. He did have a casual ordinary conversation with Eve and with his natural craftiness and subtilty he beguiled Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.  None in the text provoked him or possessed him. He did it out of his nature.

I am not saying that there was no Satan that became the enemy of God’s people. There was and there were many Satans and not just one being. And that Satan is not an immortal, ethereal, supernatural god who is as powerful  or little less powerful than God.

God is the Only Immortal and Eternal Spirit.

You see there is no such thing as “immortal ethereal Satan” portrayed by religion and tradition. The teaching that there is an immortal spirit who is very powerful and more powerful than men and little less powerful than God is a myth. This belief is “dualism” believing in two gods: (1) the god of goodness [God] and (2) the god of evil [satan]. Just like the Greek mythology: (1) the good god, the god of heaven, Zeus and (2) the evil god, he god of the underworld, Hades.  That’s not what the Scriptures teach. The Scriptures teach rather:

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Yes, that’s it. THE LORD is the one doing “ALL THESE THINGS” –

(1)  he forms THE LIGHT and makes PEACE.

(2)  he  creates DARKNESS and creates EVIL.

GOD is the ONLY IMMORTAL, OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT and OMNIPRESENT ONE.

So when the text says, Satan is transformed into an angel of light, as the context is in teaching and bringing of messages, Satan here was the leadership of this false teachers. The false doctrines of the false teachers were thought and received by people as “truth” and “light”. And they thought that these “teachers” were “messengers [angels] of light. Paul was using a code calling the enemies of the gospel by the name Satan. Even the apostle John in Revelation was using codes, symbols, figures and numbers. All these have meanings. It is the custom of Bible writers from the beginning. Every code, number, symbol and figure used is significant.  When Paul told the Thessalonians about the Wicked, the man of sin, he told them “you know what I’m talking about. You know who that one is”. Read 2 Thes. 2:5-6. He simply used a “codename” and by mentioning that codename  without mentioning the real name or identity of that person, group of people or system, the audience understood what he was talking about. In Revelation 11:8, John also used a code for a place, the great city: he called it as “Sodom” and “Egypt”. We know it was not the literal place called Sodom and Egypt. He described it as “where also our Lord was crucified”. So his audience or the original readers of his book understood clearly what he was talking about by using “codes”. He used the codes “dragon”, “serpent”, “beast”, “angels”, “spirits”, “Babylon”, “Alpha”, “Omega”, “trumpets”, “thunders”, “lightnings”, “earthquakes”, and many more. All these have meanings. They were codes. And our job is to unlock the codes by comparing Scriptures, and words and phrases, and by “counting” numbers. In Rev. 13:18 John said that to understand who or what the beast was, “count the number of the beast”. And he gave the clue: the number of a man.  You see, they are codes and not literal things. Mysteries that must be unlocked.

How about the Satan and devil that tempted Jesus?

Well, we can explore this subject in more depth and see more of these next time.

- To be continued –

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Easter Sunday? Happy Easter!

Easter Sunday? Happy Easter!

Today the whole Christendom is celebrating Easter Sunday. I mean the Roman Catholics, the Protestants, the Evangelicals, the Baptists, the Methodists, the Episcopalians, the Foursquare, the Pentecostals, the ... whatever Church it may be. Even those "Protestants" who hate the Roman church are celebrating Easter "Sunday" together with them that they hate, following their examples.

The Biblical calendar does not line up with the calendar used by the Roman Church, and also does not line up with the calendar used by Jews and Messianics who follow the moon. This day the 27th of March 2016 is not the "day of resurrection". Why force the resurrection day to be Sunday and the death of Christ to be Friday, and the Sabbath between them to be Saturday? The Bible does not teach that.

Today is only the 7th day of the month of Abib that began on March 21, after the Spring Equinox of March 20. The real Passover date (the night before Jesus died) is on the 14th of Abib (first month) and that is on April 3, Sunday. April 4 Monday, Jesus death. The first day of Unleavened bread. Jesus was in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights. (Abib 16,17,18). The 18th of Abib is the weekly Sabbath (this year it is Thursday! Lol!) And the day that Jesus rose again - the 19th of Abib (this year it is April 8, Friday!). So it is not Easter Sunday!

Easter Sunday, Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, Easter sunrise services, etc. are not according to the Bible. Yes, there is the word "Easter" in the Bible and it is mentioned only once.

Acts 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.

2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)

4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

The word "Easter" was mentioned there and it is only once and in the KJB. This Easter was connected to the days of unleavened bread.

In Exodus 12:18 it was said: In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

The 14th day of the month Abib they shall eat unleavened bread until the 21st day. (8 days).

In Leviticus 23:

5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.

6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

The 14th day is the Lord's Passover.

The 15th day to 21st are the 7 days of Unleavened bread.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread and Passover are used interchangeably and are synonymous.

Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

Luke 22: 1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

1 Corinthians 5: 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Here Paul talked about Passover and Unleavened Bread as the same thing.

In the case of Acts 12, when Peter was in prison, they were the days of Unleavened Bread which was held for 8 days - from the 14th to the 21st day of Abib/Nisan (the first month). Unleavened bread was mentioned in Acts 12:3 and then in 12:4 was Easter. Is Easter an alien word and not connected to Unleavened Bread? Why did Luke mention it? Because that word Easter is the same word as Passover and/or Unleavened bread.

There are King James Bible Onlyists who argue that Luke was not talking about the Passover but about a “pagan” Easter because as they say Herod was a “pagan”. But it doesn’t make sense.

Verse 3 says that “because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)”. Herod wanted to please the Jews and the Jews have their Passover week that time. The Easter Luke was talking about is the Passover and not any pagan feast.

You may say that Luke did not say that because you may say that only the translators of the KJB used that word. But no! Why would they use a word not related to the event?

In Acts 12:4 that "intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people" means "intending after the days of Unleavened bread...."

The word Easter is not a pagan word, and it is not connected to the goddess Ishtar. They may sound alike but they are different. Easter may Esther but Easter is not Esther. Ishtar may sound Esther but Ishtar is not Esther!

The word Easter is πασχα in Greek, the same word as Passover. But why Easter is the word used in Acts 12:4?

We don't deny that the word Easter is also connected to pagan worship for many do pagan practices during their Easter Sunday holiday such as Easter eggs and bunnies, in honor of the goddess of fertility and spring. But the Biblical Easter is not that.

The word "Easter" in the KJB is not a mistranslation. It is the right word. Easter is an anglo-saxon word for Passover.

According to Adam Clarke:

"The term Easter, inserted here by our translators, they borrowed from the ancient Anglo-Saxon service-books, or from the version of the Gospels, which always translates the to pasca of the Greek by this term;

e. g., Matt. xxvi. 2: Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover. -- (Anglo-Saxon) Wite ye that aefter twam dagum beoth Eastro.

Matt. xvi. 19: And they made ready the passover. -- (Anglo- Saxon) And hig gegearwodon hym Easter thenunga (i.e. the paschal supper.)

Prefixed to Matt. xxviii. 1, are these words: -- (Anglo-Saxon) This part to be read on Easter even.

And, before Matt. xxviii. 8, these words: (Anglo-Saxon) Mark xiv. 12: And the first day of unleavened bread when they killed the passover. -- (Anglo-Saxon) And tham forman daegeazimorum, tha hi Eastron offrodon.

So the word “Easter” means Passover, and since it was in the Acts of the apostles written by Luke, it has now a new meaning because that was the time Jesus was already risen and glorified. The Passover of the church of God, the body of Christ is not the same as the Jewish Passover. The church of God believes that Jesus Christ is their Passover and it centered on Jesus Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. That is Christ’s victory over sin and death and his redemption by his blood.


The 8 days feast of unleavened bread or Passover has three feasts that typifies Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. They are Passover (Death), Unleavened Bread (Burial) and Firstfruits (Resurrection of Christ). Then fifty (50) days after Firstfruits is the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost (Man’s resurrection in Christ). All those feasts were already fulfilled by Christ in his coming.

Passover – Christ’s sacrificial death to redeem man from death.

Unleavened bread - God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt. Christ’s sinlessness. Christ’s burial, no decay. Our deliverance from leaven (sin/wickedness.)

Firstfruits. The resurrection of Christ.

Notice that Jesus Christ fulfilled these three (Spring) feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread and Firstfruits through his death, burial and resurrection (1 Cor. 15:3,4).

Pentecost/ Feast of Weeks. Fifty (50) days after Firstfruits (Easter). The resurrection of man in Christ.

The last three feasts (the Fall Feasts) of Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles WERE fulfilled at Christ’s Second coming (70 A.D.)

Feast of Trumpets. Christ’s coming and Man’s deliverance from the day of wrath. The resurrection of the dead. The destruction of Jerusalem. The Feast of Trumpets was the day Jesus Christ was born. And it is the same day he came back again to Jerusalem to destroy the apostate Jewish nation. This is both the day of God’s wrath and the day of redemption.

Day of Atonement. Christ’s sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins happened at the cross but as High Priest his sacrifice was accepted by God at his appearing in the presence of God for us. Redemption was finished at his appearing the second time (Heb. 9:28).

Feast of Tabernacles. Christ’s indwelling presence in the church, his body, his habitation. The new heavens and the new earth (Rev. 21,22). His indwelling presence in every believer even after those events.

Easter is just one of the dates we celebrate in commemoration of the fulfilled acts of the Lord Jesus Christ for us. Our Easter/ Passover celebrations are not limited in certain dates in our calendar. I don’t celebrate the Easter of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Protestant Churches. The Easter I know is based on the Biblical calendar that is based on the beginning of the Biblical month Abib on Spring. So it does not line up with the Roman Church. The Roman Church celebrates Easter on the 27^th of March, Good Friday on 25^th of March. The other Christians follow them. Jewish people and Messianics have also different dates and they follow the moon. They begin the month following the sight of the new moon after the Spring Equinox.  The New moon will be on April 7, so the month may begin April 8. Their Passover will be on April 22 up to April 30 (evening).

The Roman Church and the Jews don’t have the same dates. But we don’t follow the moon. Our Passover is on April 3 and it is on the 14^th of Abib. The first day of the first month follows right after the Spring Equinox. Yes, the day and not night. The day begins at the “day” light, on “sun dawn” not on “sundown”. It does not even begin at 12:00 midnight.

Easter Sunday is not Biblical for the Bible does not say that Jesus rose on the day of Sunday! Sunday is not the first day of the week. And Saturday is not the seventh day of the week. This belief that Saturday is the Sabbath or seventh day and Sunday is the first day of the week is the reason why others can’t believe in the 3 full days and 3 full nights burial of Jesus Christ. So they consent with the Roman Church’s Friday Death, Saturday in the grave and Sunday Resurrection. What’s so special with Sunday? Still others cannot move on. There are those who said that Jesus Christ was in the grave for 3 full days and 3 full nights, that he did not die on Friday but on Wednesday. They say that he was in the grave on Thursday to Saturday and rose again on Sunday!  Oh my, what is so special with Sunday? Why can’t they leave their Sunday doctrine?  Also I know some people who believe in the 3 days and 3 nights of Jesus in the grave but they say that Jesus rose again on Saturday afternoon! What is so special about Saturday that they cannot leave their Saturday doctrine? They force the events to happen on certain days such as Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

If Jesus died on Monday, he would be in the grave on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and rise on Friday. If he died on Sunday, he would rise on Thursday. If he died on Tuesday, he would die on Saturday. Well, the name of the day doesn’t matter. What matters is that he died on Abib 15 and rose again on Abib 19. We don’t know exactly what was the name of the day during that year Jesus died. We are not even sure of the year. It may be 29 A.D., 30 A.D., 31 A.D., 32 A.D., 33 A.D. or 34 A.D. Many have calculated (even me) but the question is how are we sure that these calculations are accurate? Can we rely on the online time calculators? I also made my own calculation and I have two versions – one the 30 A.D. version and the other the 33 A.D. version. I don’t know, I am not sure how accurate are my calculations. I simply did it first for fun and second out of curiosity. But really these studies are rewarding. I have not yet gotten the clearest explanation but things are doing fine.

Well, it is not the day or the certain dates that are essential although we must have the correct dates. The most important thing is that our Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled all these things. He finished his works and now we have complete redemption and are “complete in him”!

Colossians 2: 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;

 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

                                     

Happy Easter (Passover) but it is not today.

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