One day a man watched his wife prepare a roast for dinner, and as he observed her, she cut the ends off the roast, even though there was plenty of room in the roasting pan.
“Why do you cut the ends off the roast?”, he queried.
With a shrug of her shoulders, she responded,” Hmmm, that’s a good question!
This is the way my mom makes it…”
Having had their curiosity aroused, they decided to ask her mom the same question, to which she responded,
“Hmmm that is a great question…that’s the way my mother makes it, so let’s ask her!”
So off to visit the living matriarch of the family they went, and so they asked the burning question:
“Nana, so why do you cut the ends of the roast when you are preparing it?”
She answered: “Well, simple…it wouldn’t fit in my pan!”
“Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”
He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men…”
Mark 7:5-9a
I was talking to my bride this morning, and since Pesach (aka Passover) and Resurrection Day (usually referred to as “Easter”) are around the corner the topic regarding the false traditions of major Christian holidays- Easter, Halloween, and Christmas – came up as it always does. Information and truth abound and regarding Easter most Christians clearly know that those cute little easter bunnies and the easter eggs are glaringly pagan, as is the term- “EASTER”- yet they continue to walk in these pagan observances, bringing false traditions of men into their families, into the lives of their children and grandchildren.
If this is you, I ask you, without any condemnation, but with love:
WHY ARE YOU OBSERVING PAGAN RITUALS?
If your answer is because it’s “fun” or “cute” these are not really a valid answers here.
We are talking about the act of remembrance of the Messiah’s resurrection after paying for all the sins of “the sons of Adam” –ALL OF US–with His life, conquering death once and for all…The idea that it is cute, fun for the kids and harmless is incongruous with what the Messiah Yeshua tells the people, and what the Lord Himself warned the children of Israel against. He (Adonai) warned them not to marry themselves to foreign cultures, religions, and their pagan traditions, but the “Church” has suffered this very same fate…their holidays, the calendar, even the names of the days of the week-all pagan.
Beloved, pagan symbols are contact points to demonic entities and realms…trash these idols and slam those doors of false traditions, replace them with God-filled observances and traditions instead.