| Easter Item / Custom | The Biblical Instruction | The Conflict |
| The Easter Ham | “And the swine… he is unclean to you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat.” (Leviticus 11:7-8) | Consuming the very thing God labeled “an abomination” to celebrate a holy event. |
| The Name “Easter” | “Make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.” (Exodus 23:13) | Using the name of the goddess Eostre/Ishtar to identify the Resurrection. |
| Sunrise Services | “And he brought me into the inner court… and, behold… about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord… worshipped the sun toward the east.” (Ezekiel 8:16) | Ezekiel identifies “facing the east” at sunrise to worship as a “greater abomination.” |
| Lent (40 Days) | “Then he brought me to the door… and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.” (Ezekiel 8:14) | Historical research links the 40 days of weeping/fasting to the myth of Tammuz, not the Bible. |
| Fertility Symbols (Eggs/Rabbits) | “Learn not the way of the heathen… for the customs of the people are vain.” (Jeremiah 10:2-3) | Integrating pagan symbols of “increase” and “fertility” into the worship of the Holy One. |
| Good Friday Timeline | “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40) | A Friday-to-Sunday timeline is mathematically impossible to fulfill the “Sign of Jonas.” |
The most glaring of these is arguably the Easter Ham. There is a heavy irony in celebrating the “Lamb of God” by consuming the swine—an animal that the scriptures categorize as unclean. To the Hebrew mind and the early followers of the Way, placing a pig on a celebratory table would have been viewed as a desecration, similar to Antiochus Epiphanes sacrificing a sow on the altar in Jerusalem.
Furthermore, the “Sunrise Service” is often defended as a tribute to the women arriving at the tomb “early, while it was yet dark.” However, the prophet Ezekiel is shown a vision of men facing the East at sunrise as the peak of spiritual apostasy.
When we stack these traditions up, we aren’t just looking at “harmless” fun; we are looking at a systematic replacement of the Passover (which God commanded to be kept forever) with a collection of customs that were originally designed to honor the “Queen of Heaven.”