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 "KILL THE BUNNY"

 

KILL THE EASTER BUNNY

The Lord is after your Easter bunny. Will you

let him kill it? God wants to bless His people

with a deep understanding of His Holy Word. Will

we let God show us life through death? In this

case by letting the cross of Christ kill our

Easter Bunny? For as Hosea 4:6-8 says:

"...my people are destroyed from lack of

knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge,

I also reject you as priests...The more the

priests increased, the more they sinned against

me; they exchanged their Glory for something

disgraceful."

It has now been several years since God had us

start sending out tracts on Easter or First

Fruits. They were sent especially to the

"priests", but they continue to refuse to change

Easter back to First Fruits. They continue to

hold onto and defend Easter bunnies, colored eggs

and gathering sweets for self. How the church

seems to love the "disgraceful" Easter Bunny over

the "Glory" of First Fruits. Those who read this

tract, let the Holy Spirit move you to call your

church to repentance! How many blessings the

church is missing because it will not rid itself

of earthly traditions. In some cases those

churches are being destroyed because the priests

are rejecting knowledge and covering over this

whole issue with "whitewash", (Ezekiel 13).

EASTER IS A SIN BEFORE GOD

That cute little bunny is a sin before the eyes

of God. That chocolate bunny that grandma brings

is an abomination toward God. Hiding Easter eggs

is a vile and corrupt tradition in God's mind.

For we read of the sin of human traditions and

customs in 1 Kings 12. First notice that

satan,in order to keep men from worshiping the

pure Word of the Lord, will instigate an

alternative festival, that is, a different way to

worship God.

"Jeroboam thought to himself, 'The kingdom will

likely revert to the house of David. If these

people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of

the Lord in Jerusalem, they will give their

allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of

Judah. They will kill me and return to King

Rehoboam.'" 1 Kings 12:26-27

The spiritual lesson in all this is:

1. Satan knows that men might worship God in

Truth and Spirit, for Rehoboam of the house

of Judah was the only one who remained

faithful to the word of the Lord, (1 Kings

12:20).

2. He is fearful that if they do that then they

will "kill" him. Satan too is terrified that

if we live the Word we will kill him.

In order to keep people from worshipping God in

the way God intends it to be done satan has

instituted new ways of worshiping God that look

just as good as God's ways. This is exactly what

Jeroboam did. For we can take warning from God

by reading, 1 Kings 12:32:

"Jeroboam instituted a festival on the fiftieth

day of the eight month, like the festival held in

Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar."

Just like today, Easter, which the priests

support and preach about, looks like the

resurrection of Jesus. But it is not the

festival of the Lord! Easter with all of it's

terminology and doings must be taken out to the

city dump and burned. We are after your Easter

bunny. We have a holy sword called the Word of

God and we will not quit until it is dead. That

cute bunny has to go if you are going to be

blessed by staying in step with the Holy Spirit.

You priests, if you are not going to be false

prophets, must repent, and teach and demand what

is in accordance with the Word of God.

God gave ample warning to Jeroboam, but he

refused to repent. God is giving the church

ample warning also, and if we do not repent it

will be written about us the same thing that was

written about Jerohoam and his church:

"This was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that

led to its downfall and to its destruction from

the face of the earth." 1 Kings 13:34

THE LORD'S PURPOSE

The purpose of this tract is to show you the

difference between what is "clean" and "unclean".

What God desires, what man has brought about and

what the church has supported because they keep

refusing the Holy Spirit. The Lord's purpose is

to increase your joy in the Lord that comes from

the Holy Spirit.

Let the priests of God repent, with great zeal,

of the "violence" they have done to God's Word by

accepting the customs of the world. And even

justifying pagan holidays with God's Holy Word.

"Her priests do violence to my law and profane my

holy things; they do not distinguish between the

holy and the common; they teach there is no

difference between the unclean and the clean..."

Ezekiel 22:26

FIRST FRUITS

The following is a section from Zola Levitt's

book, The Seven Feasts of Israel. Most of you

know Zola is a Jew who loves our Lord. Of course

Jesus was and is his Lord first, (Romans 1:16).

We do well to ask the Holy Spirit to make alive

in our hearts his teaching about the Word.

"The third feast is held on the Sunday following

Unleavened Bread: 'Speak to the Israelites and

say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going

to give to you and your reap its harvest, bring

to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you

harvest. He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord

so it will be accepted on your behalf; the

priest is the wave it on the day after the

Sabbath.' Leviticus 23:10-11

God wanted a special feast during which the

Israelites would acknowledge the fertility of the

fine land He gave them. They were to bring the

early crops of their spring planting, (First

Fruits), to the priest at the Temple to the be

waved before the Lord on their behalf.

This was to be done "on the day after the

Sabbath", or Sunday. Since the feast of

Unleavened Bread was seven days long, one of

those days would be Sunday and that Sunday would

be the First Fruits each year.

We have come to call this "Easter" after the

Babylonian goddess, Ishtar, the pagan goddess of

fertility. We even continue to worship the

objects of fertility: the rabbit, the egg, new

costumes, etc. But the celebration was to be over

God's replanting of the earth in the spring.

We miss a very important biblical truth by not

using the term "First Fruits" as the name of this

feast, because "first" implies a second, a third,

and so on, and that is the real meaning of the

feast. We do not merely celebrate the

resurrection of the Lord on First Fruits, on

which it indeed occurred, but more so, the

resurrection of the entire Church! We shall all

be resurrected and go to heaven, just as the Lord

did, 'Every man in his own order'. The apostle

Paul presented this brilliantly:

"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall

all be alive. But every man in his own order:

Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are

in Christ at his coming." 1 Corinthians 15:23

Paul makes very clear the real point of the

feast. The resurrection of the Lord Himself is

happy news indeed, and worthy of a celebration,

but we are not so surprised by it. After all,

the Lord could raise the dead Himself; He walked

on water. He is God's Son. The real miracle is

that each of us ordinary, mortal sinners will

experience this resurrection!

We apparently all have a number and will go in

that order. Jesus Christ's number was one; He

was the first fruits - the first man permanently

resurrected. Your father has a lower number than

you, and your grandfather a lower then he, if you

were saved in that order. But in any case, we

shall all go! Obviously, ' The dead in Christ

shall rise first', 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17,

since they have a lower number.

How simple it all is if we understand these

feasts. Jesus of course, celebrated the Sunday

of the week of His crucifixion by rising from the

dead. It was not some other day He chose but the

very day of First Fruits, of course, just as He

performed on Passover and Unleavened Bread, each

with the appropriate action. Jesus even

presented the His proper First Fruits offering to

the Father. Graves were opened and dead people

rose and were seen after His resurrection in

Jerusalem, (Matthew 27:53). The Lord, not unlike

a Jewish planter, gratefully showed the Father

the early crops of what will be a magnificent

harvest later on." -Zola Levitt

YOUR RESPONSE TOWARD GOD

When I was a child I played with childish things,

(1 Corinthians 13:11). That is, Easter bunnies,

eggs, jelly beans, chocolate bunnies and songs

about Easter. You know, "here comes Peter

cotton tail, hopping down the bunny

trail...hippity hop...Easter's on its way." By

the way do you see any Apostle's names in that

song?

Why is it that man always takes the gospel of

self-sacrifice and turns ever celebration into a

gathering for self? With all the gathering of

food, eggs, toys and merriment, one cannot tell

Jesus said "deny self" and be a "living

sacrifice" unto God! When was the last time you

ever saw a "wave offering" at First Fruits

time?How many even know what a "wave offering" is

and how it points to Jesus Christ.

As we grow up in the Lord, we put aside childish

things of the past and press on toward maturity

in the Lord. We can't help but be blessed! How

few teachers offer the flock the greater joy of

celebrating First Fruits. Every child in the

church should have a rich understanding of what

the Feasts of God are, for all the things God

point to are "inexpressible joy". Many will say,

"What harm does it do to call it Easter and to

have Easter bunnies?. We don't do it unto the

pagan goddess of fertility, Ishtar. We do it in

the name of Jesus". This statement declares to

the world our willing rebellion and distaste

toward God's Word. The church should be a source

of rich knowledge concerning the feasts of God.

Instead, ignorance and worldliness rob many of

the joy of God's Spirit. Let it be so no more!!

Amen!

"Dear children, keep yourselves from idols."

1 John 5:21

"Nevertheless, I have a few things against you:

You have people there who hold to the teaching of

Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites

to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols..."

Revelation 2:14

Are we by the preachers of God being duped into

eating food sacrificed to idols; Easter baskets,

eggs, beans, sugar bunnies, chocolate eggs, etc.

The answer is a sad "yes". Let it happen no

more! We just killed your Easter bunny with the

Word of God, live in the ways of the world no

more!

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