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I really didn’t want to come back to this thread.
It bothered me so much last night that I even dreamed of a funeral and some motorcycles around it for some reason ... seriously.

So I pinged you because I seen you once before, long ago, explain the 3 day/ 3 night, and I felt someone needed help. I wasn’t even debating that subject but I got included anyways.

So, where should I begin? I’ll start with the days.
When I first to come to know the Lord, a lot of things didn’t make sense to me. Especially the idea of a Friday crucifixion and a resurrection Sunday. It just didn’t add up. So I tried to back it up and I came to Wednesday. It made sense.

Wednesday sundown to Thursday sundown was the 1st day.
Thursday sundown to Friday sundown was the 2nd day.
Friday sundown to Saturday sundown was the 3rd day.
All equaling: 3 days + 3 nights and sometime during that 3rd night He resurrected. His tomb was empty already when they came in the morning. What time it happened at on Saturday night I don’t know, and I guess at this point in my life, it doesn’t bother me anymore because I get it now. There is no Friday crucifixion living in my puny little head any longer.

The next thing I need to address is easter.
I never understood that either + I did a lot of digging too.
So many mythological tales, and pagan gods and fertility goddesses that I came across really shocked me. I asked myself what does this have to do with the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour.

I found things like Nimrod, Semiramis, Astarte, Eostre, Ishtar, Ostara, Ashtoreth, and there was even Tammuz who was the son/husband/lover who got killed by a wild boar during the winter and he resurrects each spring.

There was even a story about an egg that fell from heaven into the Euphrates. I guess that’s where the easter egg was born from and the bunny is included too for it’s fertile efforts of lovemaking.

All these pantheons of Assyrian, Babylonian, Canaanite, and Phonecian “sun gods and moon goddesses” figure into this grand scheme with their same similarities of fertility rites of death, and resurrection in the springtime. There’s even sexual orgies and such too.

So then I looked in Scripture, and sure enough, I find women baking cakes to the “queen of heaven”, and the women weeping for “Tammuz”. Some peeps even had their backs to the Lords temple and were worshiping the Eastern Sunrise = the east star = easter.

The Lord was some kind of mad over all that garbage being done and even sent some peeps to deal with them too after He had one of His Angels go around with an inkwell to mark those who were innocent of it all. It woke me up big time and I’m like wow, why do they teach this then in Christianity as if it’s alright? Because it sure ain’t alright.

Here are the passages that speak about some of those things:

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the “queen of heaven”, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the east.

That above verse in Ezekiel 8:16 really got me.
Because the sun is a star, and they worship this east-star. It also reminded me of all those easter sunrise services I kept hearing about at some churches.

Now I guess that leaves me with Passover.
I knew somehow it was in the spring.
I also knew it had nothing to do with a pagan easter.
But what I didn’t know was, when does it take place?

You see our calculation of time is all screwed up.
So many different peeps going by so many different methods and calendars. Even the islamic calendar is still in the year 1400 or something, if I remember correctly.

Some even base their special events according to the moon, or the sun, or what season their crops grow and such.

I think it was said too, that even our western calendar lost a few days when it was instituted, and even the Jewish calendar has to do some balancing out too at certain times.

Well I didn’t want to follow a moon or lunar calendar.
I don’t see myself as a child of the night or darkness.
I see myself as a child of the day or light.
So, I use a sun or solar calendar.

That brings us back to Passover again.
Some say you need to go by the Jewish Passover date.
But I don’t follow a Jewish lunar calendar.
I follow a Christian solar calendar and a Christian Passover.

The vernal or spring equinox is when the day and night are equal in time, and since I’m stuck in the middle of time here, what better way to square it up then on the first day of spring when the day and night are equal.

That would put me right at the center of a equal day in both day and night. How that would relate to pagan I don’t know, because the sun, the moon, and stars are given for signs, times and seasons. Does that make me wrong? I don’t know either, but I’m sure the Lord will sift and sort me out one way or another.

I know by reckoning it that way with 15 days added to it put it at April 4, 2014 this year, and that would run sundown Thursday April 3 to sundown Friday April 4th.

That easter Sunday that some others follow isn’t even close to the Christian Passover this year because easter Sunday is on April 20th, 2014, and the Jewish Passover is on April 15th, 2014.

Also, another reason I don’t follow a Jewish calendar of days reckoning, and I’m not sure if anyone noticed this, but did you happen to see the month of Tammuz in the Jewish calendar? Well that freaks me out because of what I read in Ezekiel 8:14.

But I don’t discriminate unfairly because even the western solar calendar freaks me out with all the days of the week named after mythological gods/goddesses/planets.

It’s like I’m stuck between times here, and its all been corrupted one way or another. I don’t like being stuck. I like to be sure of what I follow so I won’t get lost on the way.

So here I sit, doing my best to be pleasing to the Lord, trying to sort out times + times and then some, and all I can say is, “Lord, you know my heart, and you know my mind, lead me, guide me, and give me the strength to endure”.

That’s all I can say about it all. I pleaded my case.
I love the Lord. I don’t want to be a disappointment.
I don’t want to mislead others either, and that’s why I tell all of my peeps, “don’t follow me, follow the Lord”.

If you made it this far in my lengthy response, thank you for hearing me out, and I still have a lot to learn, because the Lord isn’t done yet in His shaping and molding me of where He wants me to be, and not where the world thinks I should be.

I’ve barely scraped the surface of it all, and if you want to know how I truly feel about all these “Holidays”, there is a post I made a year or so ago in the archives of my profile and it will give you even more insight as to why I approach these things the way I do.

Take care my friend, and keep the Light on, so we don’t all get lost, in the dark side of this world, that we have come to known.