Page 15 - No Apologies

No one should mistake the eating of swine’s flesh for a symbol of the birth, or of the
death and resurrection of the Messiah. Swine were declared unclean in the Law of Moses.
The Messiah is figured as the Lamb of God slain for the sins of the world. On Passover,
Yahweh instructed His people to eat lamb, but the church today celebrates Easter by eating
ham. (It seems oddly prophetic that all these things began by Ham uncovering the
nakedness of his father.)
I mentioned previously, that Easter NEVER falls on the same day as Passover. The
Roman Catholic Church made certain of this. The date of Easter is based upon the phase of
the moon, and the position of the sun. It falls on a SUNday, the day the Roman Emperors
set aside for the worship of the sun. Baal is figured as the sun god, and Tammuz is
supposedly Nimrod reborn. Those who worshiped the sun, and the deities associated with
it, made certain that their high days of worship fell on the day of the week devoted to the
sun. Yahweh warned the Israelites against worshiping the heavenly bodies, or associating
them with deities to be honored.

Deuteronomy 4:19
"And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the
stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them...”

The date of Christmas, like Easter is determined by the position of the sun, being
observed at the winter solstice as the sun passes through the shortest day of the year (the
day of least sunlight) and begins to ascend once more to rule the heavens. The Bible does
not state specifically when Christ was born, but many Bible scholars have concluded that
it was most likely during the time of the fall feast established by Yahweh, which is
commonly called the Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot. I find much merit in this view. What
is certain is that the early church did not hold any celebration during the winter solstice, but
the pagan worshipers throughout the Roman Empire had been doing so for centuries.
(Some might argue that the Jews celebrated Hanukkah around the time of the winter
solstice, but neither Christ, nor the apostles gave commandment to the church to observe
this date; Neither is Hanukkah among the feast days (moedim) established by Yahweh in
the Old Testament.)
The Emperor Constantine was a sun worshiper. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.,
he presided over a gathering of hundreds of bishops from the Roman church. This council
established dictates by which the church should operate. The council codified the practice
of SUNday worship, and forbade worship on the Jewish Sabbath. It also established
formulas for determining when Easter should be observed, forbidding the use of any Jewish
influence in the matter. Constantine and the Roman Catholic Church adopted idolatrous
practices and beliefs while rejecting the appointed times (moedim) that Yahweh had
delivered through the hands of His holy prophets. Referring to the date of Easter
celebrations, the Council of Nicaea stated:

"At the council we also considered the issue of our holiest day, Easter, and it was
determined by common consent that everyone, everywhere should celebrate it on
one and the same day. For what can be more appropriate, or what more solemn, than
that this feast from which we have received the hope of immortality, should be kept
by all without variation, using the same order and a clear arrangement? And in the
first place, it seemed very unworthy for us to keep this most sacred feast following