 Passover. Happy, happy Easter. I'm so excited to have our friend David Zublik back on Esoteric Atlanta today for a fun episode to talk about the times we're in, the holidays we're celebrating, and everything else under the sun. So welcome, David, back to Esoteric Atlanta. I am so excited to be here and a blessed Easter to you and Todd and your entire family. Same to you as well. So today, guys, we're going to take a little bit of a break from what we've normally been doing with David just to talk about this Easter holiday we have coming up. As you guys know, normally I will go and break down some of the traditional holidays that we have because we know a lot of the holidays we celebrate have been infiltrated or there's been some manipulation from the original holiday. And so you guys kind of like hearing those stories so the more you know, the more the wiser you are, the better decisions you can make. And today we're going to do the same thing with Easter. Now from my studies, Easter does not seem to be as problematic, trying to figure out what I can say on YouTube, of a holiday as some of the other holidays that we've spoken about. Now there is a twist to Easter that I'm going to cover on Monday that does get into some of the problems coming from the other side of this chess game we're all involved with right now. But some of the other more open, more stuff we know about this, the pagan origins do not seem to be as sinister as some of the other stuff that we've looked at in the past. But what we're going to do, we want to have some fun at first. So my first question to David to explain to any of our listeners, because I know we have listeners from all over the world that come from different cultures, for Christians, what is Easter? Well, Easter is when we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He sacrificed his life so that we would be forgiven of our sins. And he went through this as a human being. He came to earth in the form of a man and lived the life of a man. And then he preached about love and the fellowship of man and about his Holy Father, God. And he tried to convert as many Jewish people as possible and convinced them that he was the fulfillment of the prophecy that his father had made to them through the covenant, that there would be a Savior. They did not accept him as their Savior. They still do not, for the most part, to this day, they consider him to be a great prophet at this time. But they still do not consider him to be the Savior that they've been waiting for. As a result, they conspired with the Romans to have him, because they wanted him to be a king in the sense of an earthly king. And his kingdom was not of this earth, so they wouldn't accept him. And therefore they turned him in. And the Romans really did not want to execute Christ, but the Jews demanded it. And he was executed on what we call Good Friday. He was crucified. He died. He was buried in a tomb. And then three days later, as he had prophesied, he rose from the dead. And that's what we celebrate on Easter Sunday as Christians. Yeah, and what we talked about on David's show too, for those who are not following along on David's platform, the Dark Outpost, there is a link down in the description box below. And as I tell you guys all the time on this channel, as David knows, we're very limited. We have boundaries on what we can actually say on this platform. But the beautiful thing about David's platform is we can say whatever we want to say. And we're not censored, so we can tell the full story. And some of the Gospels that we've gone over, the missing Gospel on David's channel, I literally can't say some of the stuff on this platform, but it can on David. So make sure you join us because we have been talking a lot, especially when we're going over the book of the Holy Twelve, the resurrection story and how Jesus' teachings, the crux of his teachings really became very important because he came from the dead, he was resurrected. That kind of the miracle of that kind of gave weight to his teaching too. And that is this should be probably the most important holiday that Christians celebrate. Most people in the secular world probably would consider that to be Christmas because in the secular world that is a bigger holiday, but Easter is should be literally the most important holiday for this faith. So my next question is, so this past week is considered a Holy Week. Can you explain to our viewers why the whole week would be considered a Holy Week? Well, one week prior to Jesus' resurrection, he entered Jerusalem and was actually being welcomed. He was being treated as if he were a king and within a matter of five days, everything changed. He was betrayed by one of his own disciples, Judas. He was turned into the Romans for 30 pieces of silver. Jesus was arrested. He was tried by first Herod, who really didn't want to try Jesus for anything. In fact, he tried to palm the trial off on Pontius Pilate saying, well, this is really your district. So he sent him over there and Pontius Pilate washed his hands of the whole thing. He said, I have the power to crucify you. And Jesus actually told him, you don't have any power except that the power that my father gave you. And which means that the power to fulfill the scriptures that I must die and three days later rise from the dead. Pilate then sent him back to Herod and eventually Pilate had to give in to the will of the people and crucified Jesus. They demanded that he be crucified and that another person in his place named Barabbas be released because they had a holiday during Passover where one person could be released. It was a who was sentenced to die or life in prison or whatever. That prisoner was Barabbas. Jesus was tortured and crucified. This is the holiest time of the year because the fulfillment of the scriptures in which Jesus dies and rises from the dead to prove that he is the risen Christ, to prove that he is the Son of God, and that our sins are forgiven because of his sacrifice, not the sacrifice of human beings, not the sacrifice of animals, but that he is the Pascal and the sacrifice. This is the most holy time of the year. Yes. Yeah. It's actually we spoke about this. Again, one of the good things about going through these banned books is that for me, it gives me a new perspective on stories I've grown up with my whole life. And I think a lot of people are grandfathered into these stories. So sometimes the impact of all the other characters involved in the stories kind of go over people's head. But we talked about, I have a lot of empathy for Pontius Pilate. I actually feel bad for the guy because he really was distraught over what was happening and he did not, and you see Jesus kind of absolved him of the role that he actually had a really important role God had given him. But Pontius Pilate was almost horrified by the fact that he was going to have to do this. So you do kind of feel empathy for him and putting your, and it is kind of, there is kind of a comedy of errors of him and here. I just kind of pushing the ball back and forth to each other because it was, as a human being, you can actually empathize and understand like you're stuck between a rock and a hard place in that situation. So yes, that is, that is the holy week. And again, this is supposed to be our most important week. Now my third question is since you grew up Catholic, but are now part of a Protestant church, since a Lutheran church, what are the differences you see in the two practices with Easter? And I ask this question, A, because I only know, really know the Protestant faith, I grew up Presbyterian. My niece and nephew are being raised Catholic. But I get that question a lot from viewers. I have that grew up like Hindu, you know, or in another faith were there like, what's the big difference between the two? And so there's lots of differences, but I feel like Easter is celebrated differently between the two faiths. Can you explain the differences? Well, I do know that, and I've only been a member of a Protestant church, the Lutheran church, which is very close to Catholicism. In fact, it was the initial breaking off from the Roman Catholic Church that Martin Luther began. So the really, when it comes to Easter, there are not a lot of major differences in the way the Lutherans celebrate Easter than there are from Catholicism. When I was researching the question that you asked me earlier this week about this, I was thinking about it and I was thinking, Jesus, I really, I don't know. I know I can give you major differences between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism with regard to a lot of the dogma. But when it comes to Easter, it's pretty close, at least in, I don't know if the Baptists or the Presbyterians do it differently, but Lutherans really celebrate pretty much the same day. The only thing that the Lutherans add that I really enjoy being a member of that church right now is that we do something called Mondi Thursday, which is we have a dinner in which we eat the same herbs that the people were eating at that time and the same type of dinner that they had on Holy Thursday when Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with his apostles. The Catholic Church doesn't really do anything with that where you can actually have fellowship with your fellow Christians, but that's the one difference in terms of we sing the same hymns on Easter Sunday, everything else is the same. We celebrate Good Friday and maybe you can elaborate on some other differences that I'm not aware of with regard to a different denomination. Lutheran is very close. Yeah, I saw the thing about the Thursday evening. We did not, when I was, at least, so somebody's watching from the church, I grew up and you do it now. We didn't do that in the 80s and the 90s when I was growing up in the First Presbyterian Church. We didn't do the Thursday meal, but I saw that when I was looking into some practices that are around this holiday, I did see that some, some denominations do recognize that because that was the Passover Supper, the Last Supper that Jesus had with his disciples before he was arrested. And so there does seem to be an importance on this, this last dinner to celebrate as a congregation, but we didn't do that in my church growing up at all. We would do like, there would be a recognition of Palm Sunday. I remember having palms as a kid in church and sometimes a kid's church would come up and do stuff with the palms. And I saw pictures from a friend I went to high school with her church. She grew up Baptist and her kids had palms last Sunday. So I, I recognize they probably still do that. But from the Sunday services of Easter, now of course as a little child, we would always get up in the morning when we have the Easter Bunny, which we'll get into later on in the, when we start talking about the origins of that, but we would do the Easter Bunny, which when I was a kid, it was just like chocolate in your basket. Now I think the Easter Bunny is more like Santa Claus or what I see, but things are very different when I was a child. And then we do Easter egg hunts. And, but the church service as a child, I remember it being very similar to normal Sunday church services. And in the Protestant churches, they would do like a lecture or a, you know, a verse and then there would be singing and praying and then you would go about about your day. But I don't remember this, the service being as intense as the Christmas service was. It did some sort of an emphasis on, on the Christmas service. So let me go, we, and we can also talk about different doctrinal stuff because I'm going to get, I'm going to go into the next question here. So many Protestants don't celebrate Lent. Will you explain Lent to people and how that relates to the Easter? Well, I mean, everything in, in the Bible seems to use a time period of 40 days and 40 nights. Jesus wandered in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. He was tempted by the devil who offered him all kinds of kingdoms if, and, and, and if Jesus would worship him instead of, you know, his father. And Jesus said, you know, I'm not going to do that. I'm speaking colloquially. I'm not using the exact terms of basically said, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. And I will not, I will not participate in that. And, and eventually the devil went away. But Lent is a period of 40 days beginning in, with Ash Wednesday and culminating on Easter Sunday, where, where Christians reflect on, on Jesus' ministry, the passion that he went through, his death and resurrection. And in Roman Catholicism, what they do is they, they, they either do something positive, make a commitment to do something positive for those 40 days, or they withhold something from themselves for 40 days. Some people, if it's children, they'll with, with, forego sweets for candy, that sort of thing. Even adults will do that. Or they, they'll give up some habit, something that they enjoy for that 40 days as a form of sacrifice to show that they want to associate themselves with Jesus Christ and what he went through on a much smaller level. I choose to do both during, I celebrate Lent by giving something up and doing something positive if I can during, during that period. Now, Lent culminates in Easter Sunday on Catholicism. The Catholic Church has a couple of things where they admonish their parishioners not to eat meat on Fridays during the Lenten season. Now, the reason for that is because at the time that this was imposed, meat was considered a luxury. All right. It was considered something really good. Everybody was able to afford fish, seafood and that sort of thing at the time. So meat was considered a luxury. So the Roman Catholic Church imposed this thing were on Ash Wednesday and then every Friday through Lent, up to and including Good Friday, you did not eat meat. What happened was eventually meat, fish became just as expensive as meat, if not even more so these days. So you're really not giving anything up. The Catholic Church still has that as kind of like a something that they do, but it's really not, it's really not a sacrifice anymore, but it was meant to give something up because it was considered really special, but it's not. So there's a lot of Catholic, I don't really follow that. I mean, I still eat meat because I don't consider that sacrificing anything. So that's the big difference with the Catholic Church, and I don't know, to be perfectly honest with you, I know the Lutheran Church also celebrates Lent, they talk about it, but I don't know if other denominations of Christianity put any emphasis on those 40 days leading up to Easter or not. But to me, that is the one thing about the Catholic Church, and I have a lot of problems with them, but that's the one thing that I do like is you're really celebrating and sacrificing during that period and kind of going through what Christ went through. Right. I think the Episcopalians celebrate it, but I don't, we didn't. Yeah. Well, on Ash Wednesday, in the Catholic Church, they take the palms from Palm Sunday from the previous year, okay, and they burn them, and they take the ashes, and they put a cross on the forehead of parishioners who go to church on that day, and that's to identify that you are a Catholic, that's to identify that you are a Christian, and you celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And when you are given the ashes on your forehead by a priest, it is said, remember that thou art dust, and unto dust you shall return, meaning the ashes represent the dust, meaning that your life is not your body. As we've talked about on another broadcast on my show, the body is a vessel which houses your soul. Your life is your soul. It is eternal. Jesus has given us eternal life. Our physical body perishes, but the soul goes on forever. And this is just a reminder that your bodily life is going to come to an end at some day. But like Jesus, like there is in Christ, if you believe in Him, you too will live forever. You will rise. And that's what Ash Wednesday is all about. Thank you. I didn't know that they did that with the palms. I learned that. Thank you for explaining that. I thought I knew the answer to most of these questions I sent to you, but I had no idea that that's where the ash came from, was from the palms from the year before. Growing up down here in the South, I think we've talked about this. For people who are not from the United States of America, you can see, especially on the East Coast, you can see where different nationalities settled when they were coming into this new world. And where I am from in the Southeast, it's mostly like English descent. My grandmother was actually a Lutheran. She was in German descent. So most people here are Protestant. I only knew like one or two Catholics. And so it was always really cool on Ash Wednesday when I would see my Catholic friends leave school to go do the service and come back with the ash on their forehead. And it would usually stay on for a couple of days. You could tell their mom had tried to wash, yeah, right, right, right. Most Catholics today wash them off not too long after they get them. If they go to Ash Wednesday services, only because, you know, it's a little embarrassing, but some people keep them on all day long. Yeah, I can imagine for professionals, though, if you've got to be like a lawyer, you have to go into court an hour after. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And I just pulled the questions up on my iPhone. So hopefully the sound will get better, the playback. But so the next question was if I asked if you enjoyed Lynn, and you just answered that. And I will say, I like how you said that because, you know, it's so funny. We've both talked about all churches now, in my opinion, there's corruption in any organization in all religions. And it's, I think it's super important that as people are able to have discernment, where we can see the value still amongst the corruption. And we've said that I've said that you've said that we talked about the corruption of the church is not it's not the parishioners we're talking about at all. So and so I can understand that that that 40 days of almost being looking inside of yourself and being through a challenge and being able to kind of come that come to Jesus moment, where you're able to kind of on a very small scale understand the pain and suffering of Jesus. One other quick thing about Holy Week, I noticed that we call the services that Catholics call them masses. And on every mass during the week of Holy Week, beginning with Palm Sunday, they read the passion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from the last supper to his death, not the resurrection, it ends with him dying on the cross saying it is finished. And they'll do it from each so that they get each one of the Gospels in from each from some Sundays like Matthew Monday is marked Tuesday is Luke Wednesday is John Thursday's Holy Thursday they don't they don't read that the Passion on Thursday, but then they'll read it again on Friday they'll pick one of the four and they will do it on on on Good Friday again. And they usually act it out by having either us doing a play, you know, in front of the audience, or they will have the the the priest act as Jesus and the parishioners ask act as the Jews and we actually say crucify him and we actually we go through the entire passion that way. But each of the Gospels has read it during Holy Week at each of the services if you attend all of the services on Holy Week which we call masses. That's pretty impactful and for guys, for people who are watching that did not grow up in a Christian faith, there are plays called the Passion of the Christ where they do they do that in Protestant churches as well not in that order but if you guys are not familiar with that Mel Gibson did a movie a few years back the passions of the Christ so you can actually it was actually a pretty graphic um it was right of what so so if you kind of want to see what that looks like if you're a visual learner or you learn through movies then Mel Gibson's the passions of the Christ he has he has that but you will see people reenacting that in a lot of in a lot of churches. So we go on we know that the Last Supper what as referred to it is that's what we call in the Christian faith we call as we spoken about the Last Supper was the Passover dinner for Jesus and his followers. Do you think as Christians now we do some obviously some churches do kind of do the Passover celebration as you're saying on that Thursday night but do you think there should also be a celebration of Passover along with the resurrection as Christians? Yes I you know we are a Judeo-Christian people and and the the bible for us consists of the Torah which is the Old Testament and the Gospels the four Gospels and of course as you and I have discussed in our program uh the the missing or lost Gospels should also be read we've we read the Gospel of the Holy Twelve uh you did and you the research that you did on that was outstanding and and there's a lot more than that included in the bible but the Old Testament um is very important because it it sets the stage for why God the Father sent his son to earth he had established a covenant with his people that he would send a Savior to save them from their sins because otherwise if he didn't do that then he would probably have to destroy them like he did the first time with with a flood and then he said he would never do it by flood again and he really didn't want to do it again at all so he sent his son to save us but that that entire uh the the the study of Passover the study of the of the Jews being held captive in Egypt by the Pharaoh and and and God leading them out of the desert and to the promised land that's all very important and yes I think I think Christians celebrate that as much as they celebrate the resurrection of Jesus absolutely you know um in the gospel the holy church 12 there Jesus is constantly telling people because they keep like pushing the the mosaic law Moses's law and Jesus and Jesus keeps saying but a one greater than Moses is here now like I'm I'm going to change some things it's still we're going to change some stuff because one greater is here and there's a couple of times in the gospel of the Holy 12 where they are they kind of the the um the Pharisees kind of mock him saying like you know you're not even as old as Abraham was or you're you're just this young buck who do you think you are and he keeps saying but but I existed before Abraham and in the book we're doing coming up this week on a dark outpost which we really are could be very censored on on this platform so you guys should really join us on dark outpost for that because we can talk about everything we're going to get into Jesus's existence before before the fall of man and so you're going to see more of his of this decision that was made and and that the magnitude of the love coming from from our the the god that we worship um that that decision had was not made in haste it had been made a long time ago and so it brings more power to the gospel of the holy 12 where Jesus is kind of like you know I might look like a 30 year old man to you but I'm actually older than all of you I I fear it is is part of what created you you know so um so yes one of the quick thing in the Old Testament any if anyone has watched the movie The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston and I recommend all Christians watch it and most of them do I don't know if they still do it or not but um ABC television used to every uh near Easter time they would during Passover they would play the movie The Ten Commandments it's a very long movie but it's a wonderful motion picture and the the way things used to be if if something was written down okay if something was written it had to be fulfilled you you'll see several times during the movie The Ten Commandments where the pharaoh will say so let it be written so let it be done which means if it was written down they had to fulfill it okay and so what Jesus was telling people is I am fulfilling what was written it was prophesied it was written down I am fulfilling this this this prophecy because I have to this is the word of God God said he would send his son it was written down in the law Moses gave the law I am the fulfillment of what Moses talked about now we're gonna we're gonna take all those ten commandments we're gonna say if you follow two love God with all your heart soul mind and the love of your neighbor is yourself if you do those things there's no way you're not going to be able to follow those other commandments because that's the basis for everything it wasn't that he was dismissing the Old Testament he was saying I'm simplifying it for you okay the basis of everything we do is love is love if you love me and you love your fellow man you're gonna be okay and that was basically it you know it's funny I was just uh before we got on I've been deep in research for the next gospel we're gonna cover and I really I really I'm such a nerd I enjoy research so much I'm not a nerd you're fantastic I love your shows I mean you're just oh next life I want to come back as a Gnostic scholar because these people get to go to Egypt they get to look at all this stuff I'm like this is a really cool profession but I just learned so the word we know that the word noses is like inner knowledge but the Greek that's a Greek word idio EIDO is outer knowledge or intellectual knowledge and this one particular um professor whom I really enjoyed her election her um her lectures we're gonna talk about her her stuff on David's show on Tuesday but idio is the intellectual understanding so it's like if you look at the gospels both banned and canonized you can see there's two different forms of knowledge there's idio and noses and the idio is very much what we see in like the Old Testament like you have the Ten Commandments it's very exterior I see this I do that but then when Jesus comes that whole simplification of the law of love that law of love is something that's noses it's an inner understanding of how to to you know I've heard people say a lot like if um if you need religion to understand right versus wrong then religion's not what you need it's morals you know like like you it's a deeper understanding of what love is and that's what Jesus came in part of his teaching was understanding this fulfillment of this this prophecy that shows us this compassionate loving light this divine god that we are all a part of and so I really love that you said that because that does fall into what we're going to be talking about on Tuesday because there's that noses versus idio and noses so okay so next question let's see I'll put on my phone here um so the Passover story is taught in churches as because it's from the book of Exodus that's the leaving of Egypt um it's part of our canonized bible as well as obviously the mosaic a bible or the Torah um however as we've talked about Constantine made the celebration of Passover illegal for Christians in the Roman Empire in the fourth century do you think that this lessens the impact the Passover has on the Christian faith and Passover in the parting of the Red Sea because guys the Passover story isn't just the angel passing over the houses it was him actually parting the Red Sea um but do you think that this is making a boomerang today because in certain communities as in number 17 communities they talk about a Red Sea moment um because only God can do that there's certain miracles that only God can do and the Red Sea was one of them so do you think that this Red Sea is going to make a boomerang and do you have think that that the impact of the Red Sea making it possibly making a boomerang with the Sue Ask Now situation I've already seen some news coming out of Canada that we have not gotten here in the United States yet um do you think this has anything to do with Constantine trying to block that celebration or the impact of that story way back when I hope that makes sense it does I I will some I thought I was thinking about this and I really believe that what we're seeing over and over again and I hate to to uh refer to a comedy movie to to make my point here but it's like Groundhog Day the movie Groundhog Day okay we are constantly seeing the fulfillment of the scriptures over and over and over again the Old Testament and the new I think we're we're getting a parting of the Red Sea moment right now and I think what's happening is is that you and the parting represents to me evil from good okay uh which for so long has been intermingled and combined we've been we've been accepting evil uh and and and horrific things going on in society and that sort of thing and turning away from God and I think people are now seeing a point where they're going to separate they're going to say no this is wrong and this is right and this is what we're going to do we're going to part that that that sea and we're going to separate the good from the bad the wheat from the chaff you know those that those that are going to be on Jesus's right side those that are going to be on his left side I think everything is represented by the parting of that sea and what we have to do is once things are parted and we can see clearly the difference between good and evil we can walk straight through to our Father Jesus Christ and I do believe there are forces trying to prevent us from getting to that fulfillment I think that the knowledge is trying to this day is is trying to be withheld from us and I believe that what you're going to see all these things are calling cancel culture right now Bryce is going to culminate in them attempting to cancel Christianity eventually they are going to try to literally ban the bible remove it from people's homes and say you know what this is racist this is evil this is wrong and they're going to try to make Jesus Christ and Christianity an evil form of bigotry and we have to be able to see through that we have to be able to take a look at the evil that is there and the good that is there and say I'm following my path and I think we're seeing that and I think the the attempt to to make the church I mean make the government our god and take away our religious beliefs is is happening right now I believe that but we will survive this we will not yeah fall victim to this in the end and just for those who are interested um who like history the pharaoh who was the pharaoh at that time of moses was ramsies the second yes actually go in and look at all this stuff um if you like to see the historical background on that and it's funny there was a song we used to sing in church and I went and looked it up you could have been playing it um it was like pharaoh pharaoh oh we got to go you know we would sing it in vacation bible school about uh moses and moses um was born for those who don't know he was born and they were going to kill all the sons um because pharaoh was nervous about this this idea of these these boys and they put him in a basket his the woman who raised him who was what pharaoh's daughter he was raised within the the realms of the elite as we would say today not for a long time not knowing who he actually was right um and so I actually when I was when I was reviewing that story to do the easter story because it comes along with easter our celebration I actually thought about people like jesse because god sometimes puts people into these situations where they can see fully and then come out the other side and how special that is to so for those who don't know jesse is a guest with david as well and she sees things she sees she experienced things that we haven't and and that's that's kind of the story of moses as well so um the last sufferer was also the beginning of what we call communion communion is very different in Protestant churches as Catholic churches we do communion very differently um can you explain the difference in which do you prefer yeah here is the big difference and and and this is where there is a real parting um um Protestants take a look at the what we call the host which is a piece of the a bread or um a way for that sort of thing and and a the in Protestant churches the the pastor whoever's doing the service will give communion to the congregants and it represents the body and and then they drink wine or if you're if you don't want to drink alcohol you can drink juice that's what they may offer that representing the blood of jesus christ that's supposed to represent his body and blood which which jesus said to his disciples at the last supper this is my body which will be given up for a lot of people by the way a lot of people think that that he says given up for all he actually said given up for many which means he knew that there were some people that will will never believe so right we can get into that but nonetheless the difference is that the catholic church believes that when the priest consecrates that host before passing it out to the people that it actually becomes the body and blood of jesus christ where Protestant churches don't they say it's a representation of but they're not saying it's literally being converted to the body and blood of jesus christ that's the biggest difference and that was a huge um for those her history buffs that was huge that transcend dental i can't remember the name of it but that was a huge um issue back in 500 years ago people really got into fist fights and burned people the stakes over this of of does this bread this cracker this grape juice turn into actual body and and blood when the person takes it um which i don't even think we really think about anymore it's not really an issue people talk about that much anymore um but i know with Protestants too and i i've witnessed so in the Protestant church or at least the church i grew up in you cannot take communion until you had been um officially as as a as a as a as like a 12 13 year old you'll go to like these classes where you get confirmed to the church i think the Catholics have like a counterpart to that where they take like first communion but you're a little bit older i believe in the Protestant churches um but we and in the Presbyterian church the the preacher did not give us communion we gave ourselves communion so the deacons would pass the plate down the aisle and your glass that we use grape juice and you would have your cracker and your grape juice and you would give yourself communion yes and they do that now in the catholic church as well for many years for many years the priest actually put the the host on you you're not allowed to touch it that changed that changed so now now they the Catholic church does the same thing you can take the weight for yourself and they hand it to you but they put it in your hand and then you can put it in your mouth so we they do that too in Catholic churches now i always kind of thought when i when i knew that difference growing up between the Catholics and the Protestants i always kind of thought i wonder if the Protestant did that is like giving the middle finger to the pope because part of the Protestant uh reformation was like we don't need a pope you know so um so i don't know and we don't do to Catholics still do they do communion every service or once a week how often did Catholic Catholics can take communion at every every service every mass uh i know that they don't they don't do that in every Protestant service i don't they don't it's it's it's now Catholics don't have to take communion at every service they can you can elect not to go up and get it but it's offered at every mass however you're supposed to to go to what we call what they call confession at the Catholic church or reconciliation where you confess your sins before you can take that Protestant churches don't do that they don't have confession if you have if you're if you have committed a sin or you want to ask forgiveness of Jesus you ask it of him directly which is what i believe i don't believe we need somebody some intermediary telling you your sins are forgiven and the Catholics based on the fact that Jesus told his disciples if anything that you forgive will be forgiven by my father however that didn't necessarily mean that people couldn't ask God for forgiveness themselves right right absolutely no i agree with you that's um there are many things that i really appreciate about the Catholic faith because if you are a Gentile from like European heritage then you had ancestors at one point that were Catholic because that was the only religion Christian religion for a very long time um and one of the biggest things about the Protestant faith was people started learning how to read and they started realizing that there had been corruption in the in the church and that some of the stuff that they were saying didn't wasn't in the actual bible and that whole idea of independently having a relationship with God um is is one of the pillars of the of the Protestant uh all the Protestant fates now i will say we're going to talk about this on david show on Tuesday now a lot of practices we do in the churches that are different from each other at the end of the day as far as as as your salvation don't really matter because the whole the main faith of Catholic Protestant whatever the main faith is this is the same you know i see i see Catholic people getting upset that Protestants are gonna burn in hell and Protestants get upset that Catholics are gonna burn in hell and it's ridiculous because like no you all believe the same you're following this the same Jesus they're they're not different Jesus you're following the same it's just opinions on how the ritual of faith is exteriorly practiced and we're actually going to again talk about that on Tuesday with with what we're going to study on Tuesday so um before we get into the pagan side of Easter which we're going to get into what do you have any Easter memories that stick out in your mind that are your favorite well one of the things that i really enjoyed about Easter growing up as a kid is that you did it was very important you um you dressed up to go to to go to church in fact you dressed up every Sunday but but especially on Easter i mean seeing people really uh you know dressing their best to go to church waking up in in the morning and looking for the Easter basket all the stuff that you know all the kids do we enjoy that but we also knew that it represented the the resurrected Christ that we were never it was never considered a secular holiday for us uh the secular part of it the Easter bunny the candy that was that was an extension of that was basically like saying we are rejoicing we are celebrating Jesus and all of the things that you gave up for lent or all of the things that you with health from yourself now you can have and and uh the resurrection represents the beginning of life against spring time everything coming back to life and uh so that that i just i mean my biggest memory is my grandmother always made a big deal out of Easter we had a big Easter dinner every Easter Sunday and she would always give us the biggest Easter Easter baskets and one time she i don't know where she got this thing i've never seen anything like this since but she got a two foot tall chocolate Easter bunny for me two feet tall it took me forever to eat that thing but it was delicious but but that and we also i also used to we also used to have and they still have them which are chocolate crosses oh you can actually have a cross yeah it was actually a chocolate cross and of course we would have uh for Easter dinner we would have butter that was uh like a it was like a lamb it was made in the form a form of a lamb to Jesus was the pascal lamb and by the way Jesus believes he was the only sacrifice right he was the one we don't we don't sacrifice that's one of the reasons i think that the Protestant churches uh got away from the whole thing about communion being the actual body and blood of christ because if you accept that that that is actually the body and blood of christ and i'm i'm not knocking any catholics because i grew up catholic but it's kind of like a form of cannibalism right you think you're then eating body and blood and i think it's saying no we're not eating we're we are we are honoring your blood which you shed on the cross for us but that's we're not actually eating a human being here i i this is my opinion my opinion in high school now i grew up you know i i always say my generation was like the last generation to have a proper childhood because we didn't have the internet we didn't have cell phones i know we played outside our parents didn't know we were all the time and i remember being in high school probably a freshman in high school and i was a very small private school and i remember a kid in my class like we were i think we were about to go on spring breakers i it was around the eastern time of year and he looked up and it was like it just occurred to him he's like you guys ever considered that the christian faith is a faith of cannibalism because it was like he had this like moment i'm like holy crap we're eating whatever they think you know catholics think we're eating actual body parts so i kind of laugh when you say that um you know uh one of the spiritual teachers i followed said it's you can tell somebody is very spiritual spiritually evolved when they can laugh at themselves yes it is healthy for for christians to be able to kind of laugh at themselves sometimes absolutely absolutely yeah um you know it's so funny i am growing up down here in georgia this time of year the eastern time of year is always when it starts getting really really really hot and um you know we're we're we're in the sunbelt we're the bible belt the sunbelt it's super hot down here now when i grew up going to church as well just like you i don't think it's this way anymore but we had to dress up every sunday like every sunday we had to wear pantyhose tights we had to wear our sunday school clothes my mother would uh put pin curlers in our hair on saturday night so that our hair was nice for church for sunday school and church on sunday now i i like i said i don't think it's like that anymore and i kind of you know if i had children and was was taking the church every sunday i would want them to have that that level of respect um for the for that because every men weren't coat and ties but on easter sunday it would be so freaking hot and we would have to wear these tight tight tight stockings these thick like usually they're white stockings and we'd have to wear hats on easter sunday and i remember as easter as far as like the memories of easter now the meaning of easter again it's the most important holiday for christians but my memories easter was always my least favorite holiday because i would be stuck in this hot dress these tights in this hat my sister would too and after church we would always go and you know usually the church would have like a easter egg hunt and my parents you know we didn't have iphones back then it was a camera so we would have to keep our hat on keep our stockings on in the hot georgia summer and i always just have just these like i have a little ptsd from that now i don't think it's like that anymore i think little girls can wear like sun dresses now yeah but back then if you if you are younger and you were watching this look for pictures from like the 70s 80s and 90s easter pictures of kids and these hats and stockings and um and if you were down here in georgia you were probably miserable oh yeah wow so that's that's always my memory of of easter as well it's just being so hot so um all right so now we're gonna get a little bit into the pagan roots of easter because there's always some we're gonna talk about it a little bit so we know that when people die they're given a time of death we know that you know there's a day and a time that people die however with good friday the day of jesus execution to easter sunday the date changes every year the reason for this is very esoteric and the dark cult again the dark cult has nothing to do with jesus well it does because jesus was fighting against the dark cult but their celebrations and our celebrations are supposed to be different although they have been merged through history um so we're gonna we're gonna discuss some of the aspects of the roots of easter uh burst the story of passover good friday and the regs or resurrection three days later so for those who don't know easter is held on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox so this our equinox the spring equinox is known as the vernal equinox and this happens to be our legitimate our real new year now i'm i have a whole video i've done on this on from monday's show where we're going to get into why they changed it to january but what i'll say for this show is that in the new and excuse me in the old testament in exodus and deuteronomy there is a law that these the restart i'm trying to remember how it's worded the restarting of the months so the start of the new year would always come after the passover celebration now when we look at this time of year this is what's interesting from nature we're coming out of the dead of winter into the rebirth of spring now again down here in georgia we don't really experience that much of a shift because our winters are always versus where david lives he actually gets the winter and so i think all who go through really go through seasons of winter where they come into spring there is a huge energy shift and it takes a lot more energy for a life like if you think of a birth a child it takes nine months for a life to come to really come into the world on its own outside of its of course we believe life starts a conception but for it to actually leave the mother's womb it takes nine months whereas death can happen in one second and so energy to create life takes more energy a lot of people get really tired around this time of year it's because everything is restarting itself so there is actual evidence in the old testament where god tells us that this is the start of our new year now this year that means that 2021 or whatever our real date is because who even knows what the real date is anymore was happened on march on the east coast the eastern standard time which is both david and myself was 8 46 p.m march 20th was the start the actual start of 2021 that also happens to be baren trump's birthday which i found very interesting seeing that that family is a huge part of our timeline right now and so just guys keep that in mind as we go through some of these pagan origins now again our ancestors so humanities ancestors the ancestors we've kind of lost touch with they really had to understand nature because they could not you know we and we have to understand nature too but we're kind of spoiled in the sense that when we know a hurricane's coming we can evacuate when we know when tornadoes are coming we of course nature does take us by surprise a lot but we we don't i don't think that we have a full comprehension of how east or how um nature really affected our ancestors and so a lot of these easter practices where we get the word easter from kind of come from pagan roots of our ancient ancestors around this time of year they had acknowledged that they were coming out of the dead of winter into spring where life could start again so we have iostra i hope i'm saying that right e os t r a this was an angla saxon goddess of germanic and from germanic and northern european so she was the goddess of spring infertility and she was actually spoken about by saint bed a b d e the venerable in the eighth century he was a monk had you ever heard heard of this i am not i am not well he said that is where easter came from she also can be spelled ostara o s t a r a same as yostra um and that was the wheel of life too she was the pagan goddess um and the month of april what was called by our ancestors was called the ostar manna which is where we get the month april which literally means the month of easter now it's interesting if you look at the hebrew and the old testament it it means east it means april as well or pass over april this is still celebrated by wikens to this day um i'm not going to pretend to know a whole lot about the wikin religion because i don't but i do know that wikens still celebrate this goddess now as far i couldn't find anything nefarious as far as um what we know a lot of them get up to in these holidays uh other people might know but i couldn't find anything like that so that this is to celebrate it anywhere between uh the veneral equinox equinox or easter day and that starts through march 19 or 20 of the 21st and it's opposite obviously in the southern hemisphere it celebrates the rebirth of life or of light that defeats the dark um old enough to be this goddess is old enough to be fertile but not old enough to be the mother she is in the fertile stage of life um she had celebrations later on in the year of her becoming impregnated as a mother which i would be very curious to know what the dark side does to celebrate that um i'm sure we can guess though she honor her with eggs easter eggs and flowers to represent her beauty and rabbits to represent her fertility so for the pagans eggs flowers and rabbits were her symbols what do we use on easter eggs flowers right that's true it's it's fascinating um but and a lot of conservative christian denominations have now kind of eliminated the word easter from the holiday and they call it resurrection sunday now they don't really they don't use easter because they want to disassociate themselves from the pagan aspects of it i really don't have a problem with it's just like it's just like christians something and we're you're probably going to hear from people i'm going to hear from people i don't have a problem with halloween because i i don't think we're not celebrating the the the sacrifice of people we're not celebrating the druids and and what they did with all the things that we've talked about it's it's we're letting people enjoy life as as long as you understand the real meaning of the holiday that you're celebrating in this particular case the the passion death and the resurrection of jesus the risen christ if you want to enjoy some of the the pagan aspects along with it i don't have a problem with that i really don't i agree i absolutely agree with you too and i know there are a lot of uh fundamentalist evangelicals that absolutely have huge issues with it but my thing i guess somebody asked me if i was if i would consider myself a gnostic christian and i said well in some ways we that's how the faith started anyway and and the facts that know is gnosis like i know who i know who i am i know who my god is i'm not going to be out there like hurting people that's not my faith but i don't think that god has a problem with me bringing a chocolate bunny to my niece and my nephew no i'm doing it out of a place of love exactly should be allowed to be children and it's with the halloween thing too i am when i'm not researching i really enjoy watching like who done it's i used to i used to watch murder she wrote in matlock with my grandmother growing up and so i have a love of who done and uh so i there's a show from england uh mid summer murders it's optional and there was a lie one of the episodes took place over halloween and uh the main character is a detective and they had all these kids at their house for halloween party and the last part of the scene you know he just solved some murder and and he was like you know people take this this dark stuff so seriously and the wife looks at all these kids running around and she goes well yeah the difference between the adults and the kids is that the kids know this is pretend right right we're just here pretending and i think that that's the same thing with halloween and easter two yeah i you know i got i got some um i can't say the word because my dog will hear but t r e a t's i got some t r e a keys for my dog tomorrow from the easter you know what that's awesome that's fantastic we do stand to pause for our dog on christmas so great that's great we do too the same thing it's all in fun it's not you know i have a funny feeling that that that i sometimes think that jesus and for those who are real conservative and those you know those real strict christians who don't believe in any of this i have a funny feeling that jesus is somewhere sitting back doing one of these things and you probably kid me and laughing you know i mean come on people lighten up i'm jesus wanted people to enjoy life too right and it does say the bible says does say what the devil will use for bad god will make for good that's right that they tried to merge all these hallowed days together to harvest our energy from celebrating for their nefarious purposes but if you know where your energy they can't control what happens inside of you they can't control where your heart lies they can't control that and and uh you know jesus said love they got with all their heart and love each other as i loved you he didn't say if you practice halloween even though they didn't know how right you know and if you do those things you're going to be okay that's the big point that people need to get get through their heads you're going to be okay yeah nothing some of my favorite memories growing up as a kid is on halloween i my best friend growing up i still remember one of her costumes which was fantastic she came because we got to wear our costumes to school in halloween she dressed up as pipi longstocking and i don't know if young people know who that is look at her mother put a um a dry cleaner hanger over her hair and braided her hair over the dry the hanger and yes yes her mother probably used two whole bottles of aqua net hair spray just to get it to stay but but you know those are great memories and and the memories of this is what creates your life this is what gives you quality of your life and that at any time i believe anytime you're with your family and your friends and you're there out of love and fellowship god is present so even if your kids are in the backyard hunting easter eggs that comes from a pagan fertility goddess if it's god's still present there so um and it's funny because another easter goddess is ishtar and that's is i ishtar right uh neneva which is a town spoken about in the bible she was worshiped in a town called neneva and um assyrian and she was a again a fertile a fertile uh goddess uh and she was the mythology of understanding the world she has spoken about in some of the missing gospels of the old testament that we are going to be covering at some point we haven't gotten to the old testament gospels yet but um and i have the name that she was called there so some of this stuff dates even back to the old jewish tradition so i'm sure that jesus himself even had some sort of childhood celebrations around these oh of course they did yeah you know they i don't know if they had they didn't have chocolate back then but i'm sure they had you know something that gave children joy that they would they would give a give out these certain celebrations and so we're going into that when we get into um into the old testament where we're going to see some of this heritage coming out that um you know it's i've heard a therapist say once before i'm not a therapist so i i'm just totally paraphrasing that people who view the world in black and white or everything's either black or white um that's a very unhealthy way of looking at the world correct that the balanced person a grounded person a healthy person is able to see things in shades of gray and is able to be a little bit more balanced in there in their um view of certain things in my mind the only thing that's black and white is god in the devil that's it you know everything else kind of falls in between that and so yeah it's it's all about your intention it's all about why you're doing certain things and give your kids chocolate you know a lot of them have fun that's memories that they're gonna have when they are absolutely absolutely they as long as they understand it and i grew up celebrating we got the easter bunny we had egg hunts but i always knew what easter was as well you know so with the true meaning but same with same with celebration of christmas um so so that's that's that's the pagan mythology of easter again on monday's show i'm going to be talking about the original new year in spring and why the kina nights flipped it which that gets a little bit nefarious with january which we can review on tuesday if you want to but um but that will be monday on my show and again i'm going to put all of david's links down in the description box below again david tell everybody again where they can find you yes i am i for those of you who are not dark outpost inner circle members you can catch part of my show on bit shoot or rumble i do like the first uh anywhere between a half hour and an hour and a half of the show for everybody to watch for free and bit shoot and rumble it's called dark outpost and then we have the what we call the inner circle which is the second half of the show that's only available to members and that's a dark outpost dot tv and it's only thirty dollars a year to subscribe and it's really worth it because we have great people like brice on the program and we can talk about things that you can't talk about i mean brice is limited to a certain extent on youtube to what you can talk about but on my show we can talk about everything and we really enjoy it and we love to have you there with us all i love coming i'm going to tell you guys again this this tuesday we're going to be covering the apocryphon of john and i have been in very very deep research and there is a lot about the history of this gospel the mythology in this gospel that i absolutely cannot talk about on my platform so any cliff notes versions you get from my platform is just not going to be what you're going to get from david show because on david show we can talk about everything so i do really hope if you guys can join us in the dark outpost so that you can get the full story and again it's nice because we can both talk about it it's not just me you're hearing but you're hearing another perspective as well and one thing this whole journey has taught us is that nothing should be we should we should all hear all we should hear we should be able to hear everything not a controlled narrative so please follow the link down below if you have not already and david thank you so much for coming on the channel the pleasure was mine as always anytime anytime love to do it we'll go back to the regular questions you sent in but since you all wanted an easter episode i thought it'd be fun to do it with david since david and i are usually the ones that uncover all the craziest shenanigans of the world so a lot of people don't you guys don't know this but we're in constant communication with we either tell are telling each other jokes and we're sending each other links to things did you hear about this did you hear about that so it's a lot of fun so i have to tell you before you go you sent me a video of a tiktok of when bidenville fell down the stairs yes i sent that to so many of my friends and i got so many responses of people just cracking up so again it is always great to have a good so it's a few more about the i gotta send you i'm gonna send you another one i don't know if you saw there's a new one out now where uh he's going up the stairs and the stairs disappear and he just falls into a hole so i'm gonna send that one to you can pass that one to your friends too i will for sure for sure for sure we have to laugh right what else can we do god is told i've got to know anyway so and even though i know your show is going to air after Easter let me wish you and Todd and your entire family a very blessed Easter you too please we love you all and you're the best all right you too David happy Easter and happy Easter to everybody watching we will see you soon bye guys bye bye