Hello Carol and Oldsage...and everyone else. Raining here in Bako. We've had an unusual amount of rain this year and I'm loving it!!

Simply put, yes the Sabbath is Saturday.

Hey thanks for the welcomes, sno and tazz. Bako is known for races and for being the armpit of CA. LOL. Hey, can anything good come from Bako? Oh yeah.....ME!!

Morning everyone!! I'm new to the site and just found the boards. May I join you? It looks like you are all friends and having fun. AND I love having fun!!

Funny you should ask about Easter. Here's some background. Easter is the name of the pagan goddess of fertility. The story goes that she came to earth in a giant egg, landed in a river, burst out of the egg with egg laying rabbits. The coloring of eggs came from the pagan tradition of dying eggs in the blood of sacrificed infants. It's really a gruesome tradition that started Easter. THEN along came Constantine who hated the Jews. The Jews were celebrating Passover about the same time of the year that this pagan tradition was being celebrated. Constantine decreed that NO Jewish traditions were allowed. So, to humor the gentile believers, he allowed them to share the pagan Easter holiday and say it was for their God. The sunrise service is to honor "Easter's" husband who was the Sun God. The story goes on and on and only those who really really wanna know the truth behind tradition will keep reading.

Our Messiah was not crucified on "good Friday" and did not raise from the dead on Easter Sunday. According to the Word He was crucified in the middle of the week and arose on the Sabbath because He is the Lord of the Sabbath. The Bible states that there is one sign for a wicked and adulterous generation...the sign of Jonah. 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb. Count em...you can't get 3 days and 3 nights between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

In saying all of that...I wonder how the Creator of the Universe feels about us totally messing up on something as special as honoring the Messiah's Resurrection?????