CHARLO, New Brunswick, February 25, 2024 – As born-again believers and members of God’s Church, we’re to celebrate Passover according to how and when Jesus directed us to celebrate it. This directive is non-negotiable.

However, it appears that the papal powers-that-be didn’t get that memo. In their pride-borne confusion, the pope and his yes-men woke up one day and decided they’d had enough of Passover and were going to replace it with Easter. This happened back in the early 4^th century and it’s been that way ever since. Easter is calculated according to the first day of spring (specifically, the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring), while Passover always falls on the evening following the 14^th of Abib and is always on a full moon.

In other words, Jesus directed us to commemorate his sacrifice in the evening hours following the 14^th of Abib, which is the start of the 15^th of Abib. This should be the date of our annual commemoration of Jesus’ sacrifice – the evening hours at the start of the 15^th of Abib – and it should never be dependent on when spring does or does not begin or what day of the week it is. It should never be dictated by doctrines of men for reasons that do not glorify God.

It should never have been changed to Easter.

Again, the Passover is always in the evening following the 14^th of Abib (the month also known as Aviv or Nisan) and is always on a full moon. During the daylight hours of the 14^th of Abib, the Passover lamb is slaughtered, and that evening it’s eaten. Because each new day in the Hebrew calendar starts in the evening hours, the evening when the Passover is eaten is the start of the 15^th of Abib. So, Jesus, the sacrificial lamb of God, instituted his directives for the Passover meal on the 15^th of Abib, telling us to eat bread as as a symbol of his body and to drink wine as a symbol of his blood on that day and during that meal, in memory of him and in obedience to God’s command to celebrate the Passover in perpetuity.

I mention these details and dates because they’re important for us as members of God’s Church. Easter is a made-up holiday (“first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring”) devised by a group of men who were not born-again and therefore not guided by God’s Holy Spirit, whereas Passover is writ in stone by the hand of God himself. If the men who changed Passover to Easter had been born-again, they would never have deigned to mess with the date that Jesus directed us to commemorate him on. It would never have occurred to them to do that, let alone to teach others to do it and to threaten, punish, or even kill those who resisted the change. If they truly had the fear of the Lord in them, they would never have done any of those things.

I fear the Lord. Knowing that God, through Moses, commanded his people (that would be us) to mark the Passover on a certain date in perpetuity, and that Jesus later directed his followers (that again would be us) to commemorate the Passover on that same date in the way he showed them, I cannot in good conscience celebrate Easter. Sure, I’ll eat whatever cream-filled chocolate eggs roll my way (just try and stop me! lol), but I’ll keep the Lord’s Passover on the day that God commanded and in the way that Jesus directed.

Just try and stop me.