Thanks for the chart and I do have a Companion Bible but have yet to study it thoroughly. I’m a new student at it all, and a wonderful Pastor named Arnold Murray and his son Dennis, taught me so much in understanding these things thru their internet website Shepherds Chapel.
Pastor Arnold just recently passed away though in February, and I was very sad, but I know he’s in a even better place now, and his son will carry on the teachings just as well.
I even tried to honor the Christian Passover this year again by myself in my home, but I think I miscalculated the date by one day Wednesday night. I feel it should have been last night, Thursday at sundown instead of Wednesday. But I’m sure the Lord knows the intent of my heart. I even had it marked on the calendar correctly. I guess I’m out of sorts these days.
Some even tell me the Passover isn’t until the 15th of April, and I’m like, but that’s the Jewish Passover, and they go by a lunar calendar, and we go by a solar year. So I count 15 days from the spring equinox and on the evening of the 14th day would start the Christian Passover because Christ Jesus/Yahushua ha Mashiach is our Passover Lamb, and that’s why Thursday April 3rd at sundown till Friday April 4th at sundown would be our Passover.
But, I don’t see or hear many Christians around me discussing these things to make it all more clearer for us to understand.
Another thing I don’t understand is why is “easter” honored and not Passover? It doesn’t make sense to me at all as a Christian to associate easter with our Lord and Saviour. I just don’t get it, and I can’t understand why others don’t either. I guess that’s why I feel like such a outcast in this world because I don’t go along with all the programs anymore ... sighs and shakes my head and knows His Word is true, because we are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Christians don’t celebrate Passover because it was a type and shadow pointing towards Christ. Celebrating it would be denying Jesus Christ was born, died and rose from the dead.
We Christians worship every Sunday to remember Jesus rose from the dead on that day.
Yeah, me too, big time. I still am. Studied with him off and on for 20 years. He was a good ol' boy! A Marine veteran of the Chosin Reservoir Campaign, gentleman farmer and a pastor with many thousands of hours of teaching, took no pay, never begged or used schemes to enrich himself, his capacity to serve his fellow man knew no bounds.
Lots of people are going to miss him for a long time.
Another thing I don’t understand is why is “easter” honored and not Passover?
The word "Easter" is used but once in the KJV Bible in the book of Acts 12:4. Translated into English from the same word that's translated "Passover" in other places, therefore, to call it a mistranslation as most do makes little sense.
I have a copy of the original 1611 KJV and in the forward the translators warned that, although they did their very best, they caution the reader of possible errors of translation.
However, and I don't know how they did it, if you read Acts 12:3,4, the word Easter seems to be exactly right in the context of what is being discussed, (going to do a little cut and paste here):
Now let us look at Acts 12:3,4: "And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) 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."
Verse 3 shows that Peter was arrested during the days of unleavened bread (April 15-2 1). The Bible says: "Then were the days of unleavened bread." The passover (April 14th) had already come and gone. Herod could not possibly have been referring to the passover in his statement concerning Easter. The next Passover was a year away! But the pagan holiday of Easter was just a few days away. Remember! Herod was a pagan Roman who worshipped the "queen of heaven". He was NOT a Jew. He had no reason to keep the Jewish passover. Some might argue that he wanted to wait until after the passover for fear of upsetting the Jews. There are two grievous faults in this line of thinking.
First, Peter was no longer considered a Jew. He had repudiated Judaism. The Jews would have no reason to be upset by Herod's actions.
Second, he could not have been waiting until after the passover because he thought the Jews would not kill a man during a religious holiday. They had killed Jesus during passover (Matthew 26:17-19,47). They were also excited about Herod's murder of James. Anyone knows that a mob possesses the courage to do violent acts during religious festivities, not after.
In further considering Herod's position as a Roman, we must remember that the Herods were well known for celebrating (Matthew 14:6-11). In fact, in Matthew chapter 14 we see that a Herod was even willing to kill a man of God during one of his celebrations.
It is elementary to see that Herod, in Acts 12, had arrested Peter during the days of unleavened bread, after the passover. The days of unleavened bread would end on the 21st of April. Shortly after that would come Herod's celebration of pagan Easter. Herod had not killed Peter during the days of unleavened bread simply because he wanted to wait until Easter. Since it is plain that both the Jews (Matthew 26:17- 47) and the Romans (Matthew 14:6-11) would kill during a religious celebration, Herod's opinion seemed that he was not going to let the Jews "have all the fun ". He would wait until his own pagan festival and see to it that Peter died in the excitement.
Thus we see that it was God's providence which had the Spirit-filled translators of our Bible (King James) to CORRECTLY translate "pascha" as "Easter". It most certainly did not refer to the Jewish passover. In fact, to change it to "passover" would confuse the reader and make the truth of the situation unclear.
Source for this insertion is HERE.
It is well known that "Easter" is a pagan festival and should have nothing to do with Christianity. I fully understand that most Christians celebrate Easter with the best of intentions, even the ones that know its origin. The same tortured logic is how some can find three days and three nights between late Friday and very early Sunday. The fact that it's on a different day every year is kind of like Roosevelt saying that December 7th, 1941 is a day that will live in infamy but depending on the phases of the moon some years we will commemorate it in November and some years closer to New Years Day. Makes no sense to me.
So, at long last and for what it's worth, I give you my answer to your question:
"Traditions of man make void the word of God."
To counter this:
"Study to show thyself approved."
Which may be the whole point of all of this, and it sounds like you are studying hard.
To which I bet Pastor Murray would say, "You're in good shape!"