Easter symbols

Eggs and chicks symbolize new life. Eggs have been a symbol of spring since ancient times. An egg also is a symbol of the rock tomb out of which Christ emerged when he arose again. The chick, hatching out of the egg, symbolizes new life or re-birth. 

The rabbit, or hare, was a symbol of abundant new life in ancient times, and reminds us of spring and new life.

Rabbits and eggs are symbols of fertility.  Humanity suffers under the curse of sin and death, separated from the Fatherhood of God through the knowledge Adam subjected himself to when he obeyed the counsel of Satan (the system of sin).  Satan provided an "alternative knowledge" for humanity, in order to acculturate them under his parenting, which is why Jesus referred to him as the "father of lies."  Symbols of fertility keep humanity referenced to the system of sin, with a false hope of advancing and prospering in life, to take control of their destiny and walk in autonomy from God.  "Live life without limits", "have the 'God-kind' of faith and make impossibilities your possibilities" are modern gospels of that give humans hope to "be fertile" in their imagination, which is Satan's system, whereby he inspires the soul to resource the flesh (instead of God's power through Christ) for productivity in faith.  Rabbits and eggs are but the tip of the iceberg in how Satan appeal's to the imprint within the human soul to achieve a likeness of God apart from the covenant of Jesus Christ, apart from the regenerative work of the Spirit upon the soul.  Naturally, as Satan has moved his "seat" (Rev 2,3) into the Church, to acculturate Christians with false gospels, false hopes and false promises, he brings symbolisms that speak to the human need and drive to survive, to entice Christians to walk by the rhythm of the flesh over the rhythm of the Spirit.  All the apostles confirmed this in their epistles and warned those whom they trained in truth to "beware" of seducing spirits and teachings that appeal to "itching ears."

Those who have their hearts circumcised by the Spirit with truth and have their senses trained in righteousness do not fall victim to these philosophies, fables or vain imaginations.

 Praise God for the day of deliverance in Christ, the Great Transition of the Church back to her first love, Jesus Christ and the original blueprint for faith, that the Church once again may walk in the fullness of Christ through the simplicity of Christ.

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Apostle JoAnne Cremer
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The very name "Easter" is of pagan origin. Says an early eighteenth-century Catholic scholar, a Benedictine monk, in a work that may well be said to have been the forerunner of the modern Bible dictionary:

"Easter is a word of Saxon origin; and imports a goddess of the Saxons, or rather, of the East, Estera, in honor of whom sacrifices being annually offered about the passover time of the year (spring), the name became attached by association of ideas to the Christian festival of the resurrection which happened at the time of passover; hence we say Easter-Day or Easter Sunday, but very improperly; as we by no means refer to the festival then kept to the goddess of the ancient Saxons."

To the same effect testify other authorities, from the eighth-century English historian Bede to the lastest encyclopedias. Concerning the Easter bunny, this same religious authority states: "The Easter Rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.

The answer is simple rabbits and chickens (eggs) mulitply rapidly. Christians are to spread the Good News, and tend His field mulitpling in accordance with his command.  This is the real reason rabbits and chicken (eggs) are associated with Easter.  The day, we as servants of the Lord should remember his command for us to make more Christians.

Easter is named for the goddess Ishtar.

Eggs: The ancient Druids bore an egg, as the sacred emblem of their order. In the Dionysiaca, or mysteries of Bacchus, as celebrated in Athens, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. The Hindu fables celebrate their mundane egg as of a golden color. The people of Japan make their sacred egg to have been brazen. In China, at this hour, dyed or painted eggs are used on sacred festivals, even as in this country. In ancient times eggs were used in the religious rites of the Egyptians and the Greeks, and were hung up for mystic purposes in their temples. From Egypt these sacred eggs can be distinctly traced to the banks of the Euphrates. The classic poets are full of the fable of the mystic egg of the Babylonians; and thus its tale is told by Hyginus, the Egyptian, the learned keeper of the Palatine library at Rome, in the time of Augustus, who was skilled in all the wisdom of his native country: "An egg of wondrous size is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank, where the doves having settled upon it, and hatched it, out came Venus, who afterwards was called the Syrian Goddess"--that is, Astarte. Hence the egg became one of the symbols of Astarte or Easter; and accordingly, in Cyprus, one of the chosen seats of the worship of Venus, or Astarte, the egg of wondrous size was represented on a grand scale.

The article below explains the origins of Ishtar in detail:

The Two Babylons: Easter