{"id":450,"date":"2009-03-31T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/archives\/450"},"modified":"2009-03-31T06:07:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:07:11","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;WHAT&#8217;S IN A NAME?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Proverbs 4:19-22<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font color=\"#c40000\">&#8220;The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble. My son, give attention to My words; Incline your ear to My sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.&#8221;<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are rapidly approaching the celebration of the resurrection of our Lord. In our church we call it <strong>Resurrection Sunday<\/strong>. Unfortunately most people call it Easter. Why on earth would I make a statement like that? Let me tell you why.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;pascha&#8221; mistranslated &#8220;Easter&#8221; in Acts 12:4, AV, denotes the Passover (RV). The phrase &#8220;after the Passover&#8221; signifies after the whole festival was at an end. The term &#8220;Easter&#8221; is not of Christian origin. It is another form of Astarte, one of the titles of the Chaldean goddess, the queen of heaven.<\/p>\n<p>The pagan festival of &#8220;Easter&#8221; was quite distinct and was introduced into the apostate Western religion, as part of the attempt to adapt pagan festivals to Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>What is the significance of the Easter Bunny? Both the Easter egg and the Easter bunny symbolize fertility and new life. Celebrating fertility is very much a pagan tradition. It is obvious why the egg symbolizes fertility, and if you remember the expression &#8220;they breed like rabbits&#8221;, then you will also see why the bunny rabbit symbolizes fertility &#8212; rabbits breed prolifically.<\/p>\n<p>How sad that we have followed a tradition with a name associated with a pagan goddess that led God\u2019s people away from the true God and into idolatry. I urge you to join with me and others in two weeks, on April 12th as we celebrate <strong>RESURRECTION DAY! HE IS RISEN!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 4:19-22 &#8220;The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble. My son, give attention to My words; Incline your ear to My sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}