About Me
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Hi dear friend, how are you? My name is Michael Grant and am from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I am a 43 year old male. I enjoy making new friends, penpals, email pals, surfing the net, Messenger, emailing, watching Messianic video / Television. I am Gentile Messianic.
I feel have been inspired to move on to deeper maturity in YHWH, to go forward and leave past things behind, so if you want to know about my views on the faith delivered to the saints, Messianic Judaism, Israel, Yisrael, Yeshua, Yeshua Ha Mashiach, Moshiach, Torah, Brit Chadashah, YHWH, Adonai, Hashem, Ruach HaKodesh, Mikveh, Tanakh, Ketuvim Netzarim, Shabbat - sabbath, Sukkot - Feast of Tabernacles, Pesach - Passover - Feast of Unleavened Bread, Sfirat Haomer - Feast of First Fruits, Shavuot - Latter First Fruits, Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement, Rosh Hashanah - New Year / Feast of Trumpets ... etc the go here now http://phoenixix.angelcities.com
Best Regards Michael Grant
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Interests
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Messianic Judaism, making friends, friendship networks, blogging, messengers, email
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Favorite Music
listen to my Messianic Jewish playlist at http://www.myspace.com/danielmgrant Messianic Jewish Music. Joel Chernoff, Haddash, Steve and Sue McConnell, Aviad Cohen, Jonathan Settel, Ted Pearce, Marty Goetz, Sasanna Galer, Elisheva Shomron, Philip Stanley Klein, Phil Plotnek, Fern Bachelor, B'racha, Echad, Heart For Israel Worship Vol 1, Heart for Israel Worship Vol. 2, Barry and Batya Segal, Kathy Shooster, Garment Of Praise, The Road to Jerusalem, Yaacov Reuven, Gregory Silverman, Keren-Or Hirsch, Aviyah, Songs To Adonai, Song of Songs, Adonai (various artists), Carol Cantrell, Rosalind Hershkovitz, Elohim - Experience Worship From The Heart Of Israel, Sue Samuel, Billy Whitman, Mishkan Praise 2000 (produced by David Hargis of MBI Radio), Gloria Vande Kamp, Messianic Scripture Songs, Eitan Masuri, CHASSIDIC and SABBATH Songs, http://musicfromisrael.com, Michael Nissim, Jewish Wedding Hits, Steve Schneider, Songs from Isaiah - Comfort O Comfort My People, As a Thousand Years, Your Favorite Psalms Sung in Hebrew and English, "Zamru Lo" - Praise Live From Jerusalem, Messianic Praise and Worship from Israel - The Soundtrack, The Promised Land, Jerusalem the Fair, Unto Him Who Loves Us, High and Lifted Up, Messianic Worship in Israel, Messianic Praise in Israel, Messianic Songs in English from Israel, Messianic Scripture Songs from Israel, Messianic Scripture Songs From Israel Vol.2, Praise from the Land (VOL1), Songs Inspired by the Messiah
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Favorite Movies
Jews & Christians - A Journey of Faith, Who Is Jesus?, The Passover Connection - Messiah's Last Seder, The Prophecy of Elijah's Mantle, Dance for Joy, The Exodus Revealed - Search for the Red Sea Crossing, Who Really Killed Jesus? - A debate between Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Dr. Michael Brown, Relentless - The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East, Shofar, The Ancient Jewish Wedding ....and the Return of Messiah for His Bride, The Promise - God's Covenant with Israel and His Blessing for the Nations
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Favorite TV Shows
Jewish Jewels, inspiredfaith.org, Sky Angel Television, Zola Levitt Ministries, Yaakov Rice, Dr. Charles Stalsworth, Jimmy Gibson, Jewish Voice
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Favorite Books
They Loved the Torah: What Yeshua's First Followers Really Thought About the Law by David Friedman, Jesus the Jewish Theologian by Brad Young, The Parables: Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation (Hardcover) by Brad H. Young, Paul the Jewish Theologian: A Pharisee among Christians, Jews, and Gentiles by Brad Young, The Mystery of Romans by Mark D. Nanos, The Irony of Galatians by Mark D. Nanos, Postmissionary Messianic Judaism: Redefining Christian Engagement with the Jewish People by Mark S. Kinzer, Our Hands are Stained with Blood by Michael L. Brown, Your People shall be My People by Don Finto, Growing to Maturity - A Messianic Jewish Guide by Dan Juster, Creation to Completion by Russell Resnik, Praying Like the Jew, Jesus by Timothy P. Jones EdD, God's Promise and the Future of Israel by Don Finto, The Gospel according to Moses What My Jewish Friends taught me about Jesus by Athol Dickson, The Bible, the Supernatural, and the Jews by McCandessh Phillips, Living Emblems by John D. Garr. Ph.D, The Right to Kill the Lamb, Yeshua: The Remembrance, The Talit: Garment of Glory, Yesha'yahu: The Messianic Isaiah, The Constantine Conspiracy, Messianic Jewish Survival Guide http://www.messianicjewish.net/webstore.html, http://www.messianic.com
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Favorite Quote
A rose called by any other name is still a rose and smells as sweet.
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Journal
What does the term Easter itself mean?
It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean Babylonian origin on its very forehead. The popular observances that still attend the period of it's celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to it's Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday and the dyed eggs of Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now. The "buns" known too by that identical name, were used in the worship of the Queen of Heaven, the goddess of Easter. The prophet Jeremiah takes notice of this kind of offering when he says:
Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
From where comes the eggs?
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.
From where comes the "Easter Bunny"?
That a rabbit, or more accurately a hare, became a holiday symbol can be traced to the origin of the word "Easter". According to the Venerable Bede, the English historian who lived from 672 to 735, "the goddess Eastre" was worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons through her earthly symbol, the hare." - Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things pg 55
Easter is another example of a Christianized pagan festival. For hundreds of years before the Messiah was crucified the pagans had a festival which basically celebrated the "Queen of Heaven." This spring equinox festival was known by different names in different cultures (Eastre / Ishtar / Astarte), but the same traditions associated with it are pagan customs. YHWH (God) commands us not to worship Him with pagan customs.
Deut. 12:30-31 says, "enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise."
You can choose the broad way (the way the world / crowd goes) that leadeth to destruction ... (Matt 7:13) The pagan bunny fertility symbol - Ishtar / Eostre to Easter - spring fertility goddess worship rites. Or you can choose the narrow way (of truth that few people find), which leads to life eternal (Matt. 7:14) - Leviticus 23 eternal feast days and Sabbaths Obey Elohim's (God's) eternal holy days (Lev. 23) for all Israel (including grafted in believers in Yeshua / Jesus) (Rom. 3:31; 11:17, Eph. 2:12-13) Check a good encyclopedia on Easter / Eastre / Ishtar.
Shalom Michael Grant tags: Easter, Eastre, Ishtar, Astarte, Eostre, Osiris, Isis, Attis, cupid, baal, baalism, Nimrod, pagan, paganism, fertility, Chaldean, Babylonian, Good Friday, Sunday, crusifixion, Rome, Egypt, Greece, holidays, feast days, Yeshua, Jesus, HaMoshiach, Messiah, God, Elohim, YHWH
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