Paul writes in Philippians 1: [20] According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
[21] For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."A guy told me once that it sounded like Paul had a suicide complex. He said he thought Paul got it in Acts 14," says Richard Jordan.
"In Acts 14, Paul goes into a town, he preaches, they don't like him, they drag him outside and stone him and leave him for dead. If you stone somebody and you leave them for dead, the probability is you check for a pulse and they're dead.
"The next verse says, 'But he rose up and went back into the same city and preached again and left the next day and went to preach somewhere else.'
"Up until that point in Acts 14, every time Paul had been in a city and they rejected him . . . in Acts 13 he shook the dust off his feet and went to the next city. The next city to reject him, he departed.
"Now the dude dies, he's resurrected and goes right back into the place where they killed him. You say, 'What's that about?' Then, in the next few verses, he goes back to the other places where they tried to kill him. It's like he had a suicide complex: 'I died, it went pretty good, let's go try and do it again.'
"In II Corinthians 12, Paul says, 'I knew a man 14 years ago.' That book was written in Acts 20 and if you backtrack to Acts 14, you find the period is about 14 years.
He said in chapter 12, [2] I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
[3] And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)[4] How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
"Was he dead? I don't know. Seems like he was; maybe he wasn't. But he said what happened to him is he got caught up into the third heaven and saw things that were so wonderful, so magnificent, so inexplicable that he couldn't 'speak' them. He said, 'I can't tell you about it; I don't have the capacity.'
"It's like he's saying, 'Hey, man, to die is gain. It don't scare me because I get to go back up there and see Christ magnified in a way that I can't explain to you now.'
"Now, I don't think Paul had a suicide complex, but that's not a bad idea, understanding that to die is gain, and why he would think that way.
"What Paul's doing there, it's more than a suicide complex. Look at Philippians 1: 8-9: [8] For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
[9] And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;"Easter offerings are derived from the tradition where the priests and priestesses would bring offerings to the pagan temples for Easter," according to an article online. "They brought freshly-cut Spring flowers and candies to place on the altar of the idol they worshipped.
"Another popular Easter offering were freshly made or purchased clothes! The priests would wear their best clothes, while the Vestal Virgins would wear newly-made white dresses. They would also wear headgear, like bonnets, while many would adorn themselves in garlands of Spring flowers. They would carry wicker baskets filled with foods and candies to offer to the pagan gods and goddesses.
"Easter Sunrise Services were originated by the priest serving the Babylonian Ishtar to symbolically hasten the reincarnation of Ishtar/Easter."
"After Nimrod died, Semiramis created the legend that he was really her Divine Son born to her in a Virgin Birth. She is considered to be the co-founder of all occult religions, along with Nimrod."
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“You see the word ‘east’ in that name Easter? The Anglo-Saxon name for the pagan goddess was Eostre, and that got brought into the English language. The Eostre is ‘the rising,’ and the sun comes up in the east,” explains Richard Jordan.
“Malachi 4, looking toward the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ when He comes to set up His kingdom on the earth, says:
[1] For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
[2] But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
"The S-U-N of righteousness, that’s His name. When the sun comes up, that’s the morning. The ‘east’ is the idea of the rising of the sun and that tells you the people who are worshipping the sun—you get reminded about them when you say ‘east.’ It’s also connected with the date of Easter.
“You ever wonder why the date of Easter changes all the time? It’s a moveable date because the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. decided that Easter would be celebrated the first Sunday following the full moon after the vernal equinox.
“It has to do with worshipping the sun and the moon; it has nothing to do with the Bible. It’s part of the vain religious system that gets caught in everything.”
In describing German pagan traditions, Jacob Grimm, one of the two Brothers Grimm, once wrote, “Bonfires were lit at Easter and water drawn on the Easter morning is, like that at Christmas, holy and healing - here also heathen notions seem to have grafted themselves on great Christian festivals. Maidens clothed in white, who at Easter, at the season of returning spring, show themselves in clefts of the rock and on mountains, are suggestive of the ancient goddess.”
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