Tiffany Jager
@Radical_4JesusĀ Ā·Ā 3:51
Why my family & I have taken a strong stance against celebrating Easter
My heart is to simply share information in hopes that you will seek father on it and do as scripture calls us to do. And that's to test all things and hold fast to what is true. Amen. So, today I'd like to discuss the origins of what we have been calling Easter. And like most holidays, this one is steeped in much paganism. We can thank the roman emperor Constantine for that
Rooster Collins
@RoosterCollinsĀ Ā·Ā 4:59
Despite my best intentions as a 21st century parent, my children are still spoiled by all of their family members at Christmas time. And I as a parent have to then compromise myself by making my children throw away toys that they don't play with. But then we'll ask for months later and the devil wins again. I found a brilliant solution to the Santa Claus thing. If anybody wants it, they can take it. I wrote an entire thing about it
This is really interesting. I have to say that I. I've never come across this particular perspective from a believer. I'm curious, does this mean that you also do not celebrate good Friday or Christmas? Or do you celebrate the birth of Christ, the death and resurrection of Christ at different times? Yeah, I'd love to hear
Tiffany Jager
@Radical_4JesusĀ Ā·Ā 2:55
But I can tip over some pretty sacred cows by saying that Christ wasn't born on December 25 and history points to him being born around the fall time. But again, that's probably a different discussion for another time. But since we don't have a specific date, I do see the value in celebrating Christmas. But for the last eight years, my family and I have chosen to not put up an actual Christmas tree. I know, shocker
Tiffany Jager
@Radical_4JesusĀ Ā·Ā 0:50
Well, I was basically saying we don't celebrate the pagan holiday of Easter with the bunny rabbits and the egg hunts and whatnot, because, again, it takes away from the cross. So I hope that helps answer your question. Thank you for continuing the conversation. Have a good night
Rooster Collins
@RoosterCollinsĀ Ā·Ā 3:47
But, yeah, I would love to know more about your ministry. What denomination are you, technically? So are you guys Adventists? Do you celebrate on Saturdays? I need to know all the details, but if you guys have anything online, I'd love to check out your story. If you have an instagram, see your family, how it's going. I'd love to hear your husband's testimony. You should
Tiffany Jager
@Radical_4JesusĀ Ā·Ā 4:59
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Tiffany Jager
@Radical_4JesusĀ Ā·Ā 2:05
When I say we observe them, we don't necessarily do all the things that devout Jews or even messianic Jews do. I do homeschool my kids. So we do a study on it every year, talk about it. We might do a project on it, but it's a lot of, like, reflection and, you know, reading it in the Bible and so on and so forth. But we do. We have and we do when the Lord allows us to observe Passover
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77Ā Ā·Ā 3:10
And so for me, while I'm going to, of course, go to church and do the thing that, you know, churches do have, resurrection Sunday service, Easter service, whatever they want to call it, we're gonna do that, of course. And of course, we're gonna sing celebratory praises unto our God for the risen king. But, yeah, all the Easter stuff. No, our church doesn't do any Easter e things
Tiffany Jager
@Radical_4JesusĀ Ā·Ā 3:21
Hey, Tanya, thank you for your response. And, yes, amen. And amen. Every day we celebrate the risen king and the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Absolutely. And, you know, I love to hear that your church doesn't partake in the Easter related activities. In my experience, that is very rare
Tiffany Jager
@Radical_4JesusĀ Ā·Ā 3:14
You know, but I think, like most people don't know the pagan roots or the babylonian culture that is mixed in with Easter, that they probably don't know about this. So I just thought, since we're talking about it, I really wanted to comment on your slow cast, but again, didn't want to be disrespectful, so I'd love to hear your thoughts on this
Rooster Collins
@RoosterCollinsĀ Ā·Ā 4:57
And I love your testimony about growing in your faith through the hebrew tradition, which is what I'm currently doing, you know, learning about the Shemitah cycles, fruits, all that. And I appreciate denomination thing is weird to me. I identify as a christian, but even that upsets people because they're like, what did you do during the crusades? What did you do? That's the weird thing to me, is that the catholic thing?
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77Ā Ā·Ā 1:19
Hey, Tiffany, thank you so much for your response regarding sunrise service. And you were totally okay to put it on the original post. I don't mind at all. And thank you. Yes, I am familiar with that scripture in ezekiel eight. And I did not make, you know, the connection between that and sunrise service as they were worshiping a false God. But yeah, there could be some correlation there. You know, sunrise service is a tradition