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from RayFowler.org:

"Determining the date for Passover: The Jewish calendar year begins in late September or early October with the celebration of Rosh Hashana. Unlike our calendar which is based on the solar year, the Jewish calendar uses twelve lunar months of 29 to 30 days in length. The new moon marks the beginning of each month with the full moon occurring halfway through the month. The seventh month in a normal Jewish calendar year is the month of Nisan (also called Abib in the Old Testament). Passover is celebrated on the 14th day of Nisan at the time of the full moon.

"Determining the date for Easter (*Western Church): Easter is observed on the first Sunday following the full moon that comes on or after the vernal equinox (March 21). Thus Easter can take place as early as March 22 but no later than April 25. This full moon is normally the full moon which takes place on the 14th day of Nisan. Thus in most years Easter is celebrated on the Sunday following Passover.

"Why don’t Easter and Passover always fall together on the calendar? Every two or three years the Jewish calendar requires the adjustment of a leap year. During a Jewish leap year an additional month of 29 days is inserted before the month of Nisan. The additional month is needed because the Jewish calendar year has less days than the solar year and begins to slip out of gear with the seasons. The extra month thus realigns the Jewish calendar year with the seasons of the solar year. This is important because the Jewish holidays are closely related to the seasons. For example, the Torah commands that Passover be celebrated in the spring. Every so often the Jewish leap year will push Passover so far into April that a second full moon following the vernal equinox would appear before the Sunday following Passover. This happens anytime the Sunday following Passover falls later than April 25th on our calendar. On those rare occasions Easter is celebrated the month before Passover rather than the Sunday following Passover...."

http://www.rayfowler.org/writings/articles/determining-the-dates-for-easter-and-passover/#sthash.eI6eftxT.dpuf

So, is that what happened this Easter?

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Abib/Nissan is the 1st month of the Biblical religious calendar and the 7th of the civil calendar. In Exodus 12, we are told that this will be the beginning of months to you.

Rosh Hashannah also called Feast of Trumpets is understood to be the beginning of the year, while Abib/Nissan is considered to be the beginning of months.  It always falls on a new moon. 

The Biblical feasts such as Passover have nothing to do with Easter. Easter was never part of the customs or celebrations of the Messiah, his followers or others of the book.. Let me take that back. There were times when Israel strayed and went after other gods. Often they got caught up in the worship of Baal and Asheroth. Asheroth, the Assyrian counterpart to Baal is the same as the Babylonian Ishtar. Ultimately this was brought in and made part of Christianity like many other customs. 

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1 hour ago, Paradigm said:

Abib/Nissan is the 1st month of the Biblical religious calendar and the 7th of the civil calendar. In Exodus 12, we are told that this will be the beginning of months to you.

Rosh Hashannah also called Feast of Trumpets is understood to be the beginning of the year, while Abib/Nissan is considered to be the beginning of months.  It always falls on a new moon. 

The Biblical feasts such as Passover have nothing to do with Easter. Easter was never part of the customs or celebrations of the Messiah, his followers or others of the book...

But after the Christ's crucifixion, our Easter has everything to do with your Passover.

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35 minutes ago, OldSchool2 said:

But after the Christ's crucifixion, our Easter has everything to do with your Passover.

Had Israel wholeheartedly turned to Christ -- WHO IS OUR PASSOVER -- Passover would no longer be celebrated.  Not recognizing Christ as the final and ultimate Passover Lamb is a serious error -- indeed a sin.

Clearly "Easter" is derived from Ishtar (the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess, but the New Testament teaches us to remember the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ on the Lord's Day. 

Why the Lord's Day?  because that is the day on which Christ chose to rise from the dead (the first day of the week) and that is the day on which He poured out the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

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49 minutes ago, Ezra said:

Had Israel wholeheartedly turned to Christ -- WHO IS OUR PASSOVER -- Passover would no longer be celebrated.  Not recognizing Christ as the final and ultimate Passover Lamb is a serious error -- indeed a sin.

Yes, Messiah is our Passover. Therefore we keep the feast as Paul says.

1 Corinthians 5:7-8  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Messiah our Passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

However, Israel individual or collectively accepting the Messiah does not determine the length of time the feast is to be kept. For it is written that it is to be done for ever. 

Exodus 12:14  And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

 

51 minutes ago, Ezra said:

Clearly "Easter" is derived from Ishtar (the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess, but the New Testament teaches us to remember the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ on the Lord's Day. 

Yes, Easter is derived from Ishtar the goddess. but there is no but...

The NT does not teach us to do anything on the Lord's day. Although the phrase "Day of the LORD" appears a number of places in scripture. As far as I know, the only time that the term "Lords day" appears is here:

Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

The Lord's day is not Sunday and there is nothing in scripture stating that. The Sabbath is still the eternal sign. 

Exodus 31:17  It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

We are told how to show the Messiah's death.

1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.

We must understand though that 1 Corinthians 11:26 is speaking of Passover. This is what Y'shua was doing when he said "As often as you do this, do it in remembrance of me." The gospels in a number of places tell us why Y'shua and his disciples were assembled that night. 

 

1 hour ago, Ezra said:

Why the Lord's Day?  because that is the day on which Christ chose to rise from the dead (the first day of the week) and that is the day on which He poured out the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

 

There is no scriptural passage telling us to keep Easter. I have already addressed "Lord's day." Y'shua died, was buried and rose on Biblical feasts. He was born on a feast, began his minsitry on a feast and will return on a feast. Pentecost is merely the Greek name for Shavuot (Feast of Weeks). Yes, the Spirit was also poured out on a biblical feast. 

The disciples did not begin celebrating pagan festivals and customs after the resurrection. They continued to keep the Sabbath, festivals, etc as we see in a number of places. They were adamantly against practices of paganism. I'm not condemning anyone about any of these things. I use to keep easter and the rest of it too until I found out the truth about these things.  I was shocked as I really began to pour through the scriptures and study a little history. There is a passage in the KJV that could throw some people. The word "easter" does appear once in that translation. However, if you check to see what the Greek word was we see that it paschal which is the same as pesach (Passover). 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Ezra said:

...

Clearly "Easter" is derived from Ishtar (the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess, but the New Testament teaches us to remember the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ on the Lord's Day....

Christians "appropriated" both of the pagan holidays for Ishtar and Sol Invictus -- now Christmas.

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48 minutes ago, Paradigm said:

The Lord's day is not Sunday and there is nothing in scripture stating that. The Sabbath is still the eternal sign. 

How easily can Scripture be dismissed?  Christians should call the first day of the week "the Lord's Day" (not Sunday, which is a pagan word = the day of the sun). The apostolic churches met on the first day of the week (and you can look that up for yourself).  As to the sabbath days, once again the teaching in the New Testament is that they are but SHADOWS.  The reality is Christ.  

But today, we have more and more people ignoring the New Testament teachings and creating their own hybrid religion.  If Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us that brings the Passover observances to an end. 

Why do you think God Himself tore the veil between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies on the day Christ was crucified if He did not expect Israel to believe on the Lamb of God, who was also the final Passover Lamb?

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8 minutes ago, Ezra said:

How easily can Scripture be dismissed?  Christians should call the first day of the week "the Lord's Day" (not Sunday, which is a pagan word = the day of the sun). The apostolic churches met on the first day of the week (and you can look that up for yourself).  As to the sabbath days, once again the teaching in the New Testament is that they are but SHADOWS.  The reality is Christ.  

But today, we have more and more people ignoring the New Testament teachings and creating their own hybrid religion.  If Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us that brings the Passover observances to an end. 

Why do you think God Himself tore the veil between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies on the day Christ was crucified if He did not expect Israel to believe on the Lamb of God, who was also the final Passover Lamb?

for your information, remember who was the ones , getting the army of the Romans to execute and crucify our lord and savior, for it was the leaders  or so -called leaders of the jewish laws, the Pharisees, they held the operation of the temple and they were the responsible party to the death and cross of Jesus , now if you want to follow the jewish laws, and see that they have poisoned the scriptures and perverted the holy and righteous God, for there own pride and power of being so holy them selves , then they are found not able to enter in to the kingdom of  God, and so that brings us to if they cannot enter , and they are the leaders and teachers of the law,  then who can ?

 we have pharisees today , in and out of the churches , to prove points that hold no water, we are to read the scriptures , we are to follow the scriptures and we are not to look upon God in mercy and say , oh God thank you that I am not like this sinner here next to me, ?

we find that the new testament is of the days of Jesus and what He teached, and we acknowledge  that, but it is also known that Jesus is God of the old testament , the tanakh or the torah , and so how do we violate , when we simply follow what is instructed of old, and is for our benefit today ?

in worship and spirit and in truth , we follow what God says , but many are quick to dis-miss the love of God for His people the sacrifice, and so that becomes a blind spot when others do not agree , it is convincing your own mind to believe what you cannot forgive, of others , and we are to forgive one another in brotherly , and sisterly love, not condemning one another , for something , some do not even have a clue of ?

 we are not saved by how smart we are , we are saved by faith to believe in what God and the son has provided for us,  SO NO MAN CAN BOAST , period,

 blessings and peace,  thank you ....

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6 minutes ago, SINNERSAVED said:

for your information, remember who was the ones , getting the army of the Romans to execute and crucify our lord and savior, for it was the leaders... 

This post of yours has absolutely nothing to do with the subject under discussion, nor with my post. Completely off topic.  Take a moment to digest what I have posted, and go back to the New Testament for corroboration.

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39 minutes ago, Ezra said:

How easily can Scripture be dismissed?

That's what I would like to know as well. That is why I posted so much of it. I don't recall you posting any scriptures.

39 minutes ago, Ezra said:

  Christians should call the first day of the week "the Lord's Day" (not Sunday, which is a pagan word = the day of the sun). 

Where does scripture say that we should call the first day of the week "the Lord's Day?" I already quoted the only verse where that phrase appears.

39 minutes ago, Ezra said:

The apostolic churches met on the first day of the week (and you can look that up for yourself).  

Yes, at times they did meet on the first day of the week. They also continued to keep the Sabbath. In Scripture the day begins in the evening and ends in the evening. If you notice it was on the first day of the week and Paul spoke until late and a guy fell. The Sabbath begins on what what is now called Friday at sundown. It ends Saturday evening. So in modern vernacular Sabbath ends on Saturday after sundown which begins the first day of the week. They were gathered on the first day of the week (Saturday evening) to close out the Sabbath at the Havdolah service. They were not changing anything or doing some new practice. You will see multiple passages of Paul preaching at the local synagogues on Sabbath. 

Hebrews 4:7-11

Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

39 minutes ago, Ezra said:

 As to the sabbath days, once again the teaching in the New Testament is that they are but SHADOWS.  The reality is Christ.  

 

They still "are" a shadow of things to come.

Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

 

39 minutes ago, Ezra said:

But today, we have more and more people ignoring the New Testament teachings and creating their own hybrid religion.  

Modern day Christianity is the hybrid. A mixture of paganism and traditions of men mostly. That's why the beliefs and practices cannot be substantiated using the scriptures. 

39 minutes ago, Ezra said:

 If Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us that brings the Passover observances to an end. 

Why do you think God Himself tore the veil between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies on the day Christ was crucified if He did not expect Israel to believe on the Lamb of God, who was also the final Passover Lamb?

I have already quoted scripture where Paul tells us to keep Passover and that YHVH says that it is to be done forever. We cannot lean into our own understanding but must to what is written as the authority of what is true. 

 
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