Easter, Aries, and the Equinox: Prophecy vs. Pagan Magic

Was Jesus Really Crucified on “Good Friday”?

For centuries Christians have been told that Jesus was crucified on “Good Friday” and rose Sunday morning. But the Bible itself never says He was crucified on a Friday. In fact, the timeline given in Scripture makes that impossible.

Jesus Himself gave the sign of His Messiahship: “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). That is 72 full hours. But if Jesus was buried late Friday and rose Sunday morning, you cannot count three days and three nights. At best, you only get about a day and a half. That would make Him fail His own prophecy; which is unthinkable if He is truly the Messiah.

The Gospels are specific. He died at about the ninth hour; around 3 PM (Matthew 27:45–50; Mark 15:34–37; Luke 23:44–46). Because the next day was a “High Sabbath”; not the weekly Sabbath, but the first day of Unleavened Bread; His body had to be buried before sundown (John 19:31, 42). That places His burial just before 6 PM on the 14th of Nisan, the Passover.

Counting forward 72 hours brings us to the same time on Saturday evening, Nisan 17. That is when Christ rose. When the women came to the tomb “very early … the first day of the week” (Mark 16:2), while it was still dark (John 20:1), the angel told them: “He is not here: for He is risen” (Matthew 28:6). He had already risen before they arrived.

So where does “Friday” come from? The confusion comes from not distinguishing between the High Sabbath of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15) and the regular weekly Sabbath (Saturday). That week there were two Sabbaths. Jesus was crucified on Wednesday, buried before sundown, and rose Saturday evening ; exactly three days and three nights later. The “Good Friday” tradition ignores the High Sabbath and collapses the timeline into one Sabbath only, forcing the crucifixion onto Friday.

There is no verse that says He was crucified on Friday. None. The Friday tradition is a later invention.

And then there is the symbolism. Friday is named after Venus; Veneris dies, “the day of Venus.” In Mesopotamian religion, Venus was Ishtar, the “Queen of Heaven” condemned by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17–19). Ishtar was the goddess of love, war, and magic, and her festivals were tied to death and rebirth myths. By calling the crucifixion day “Friday,” the Church inadvertently aligned the death of Christ with the day of Venus/Ishtar; the very goddess who epitomized the sorceries Scripture warns against (Revelation 18:23).

So not only does the Bible never say He was crucified on Friday; the Scriptures actually forbid such a distortion, because it would deny His 72-hour prophecy. And the choice of Friday ties the most holy event of Christianity to the planetary day of Ishtar, the pagan “queen of heaven” Venus Genetrix/Venus Victrix.

Ishtar was invoked as an intercessor for prayers, and Venus was seen as a go-between because of her place in the planetary heavens.

Was the Crucifixion on Wednesday or Friday? A Historical Case

The New Testament itself gives a clear anchor for the timing of Christ’s crucifixion. John states plainly that Jesus was executed on the “day of preparation” before a High Sabbath: “because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken” (John 19:31). This was not the ordinary weekly Sabbath, but the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which Leviticus 23 commands as a festival “sabbath” regardless of the day of the week. That year, the fourteenth of Nisan fell on a Wednesday. Jesus was slain as the Passover Lamb, buried before sundown, and the High Sabbath began on Thursday the fifteenth.

This is precisely how the earliest Christians of Asia Minor understood it. They were called Quartodecimans because they observed the Pascha on the fourteenth day of Nisan; the very date of the crucifixion. Polycarp of Smyrna, who had been a disciple of John himself, travelled to Rome in the mid-second century and insisted on keeping the feast “according to the custom which he had received from John the disciple of our Lord” (Eusebius, Church History 5.24). For Polycarp and the churches of Asia, the commemoration of Christ’s death was not tied to a day of the week but to the biblical date of Nisan 14, the same date on which He was crucified “before the great sabbath.”

This practice continued for over a century. Polycrates, bishop of Ephesus, wrote near the end of the second century that he and the bishops of Asia would not abandon the tradition of John and Philip: “we observe the exact day; neither adding, nor taking away. For in Asia also great lights have fallen asleep, who shall rise again on the day of the Lord’s coming, when He shall come with glory from heaven, and shall seek out all the saints. Among these are Philip… and John, who rested upon the bosom of the Lord… all these observed the fourteenth day of the Passover according to the Gospel” (Eusebius, Church History 5.24). The testimony is striking: the churches directly descended from the apostle John fixed the Passion on Nisan 14, not on a movable Friday.

In Rome, however, a different pattern began to develop. By the late second century, the Roman church had abandoned Nisan 14 and insisted that the feast be observed instead on the Sunday after the full moon of the equinox, in order to mark the resurrection on the “Lord’s Day.” This move effectively rewrote the chronology: if Sunday became the resurrection feast, then Friday had to become the day of crucifixion. Bishop Victor of Rome even attempted to excommunicate the Quartodecimans of Asia for keeping Nisan 14, though Irenaeus protested and reminded him that the practice came from the apostles themselves (Eusebius, Church History 5.24).

By the beginning of the fourth century, the Friday–Sunday scheme was firmly embedded in the church’s liturgy. Peter of Alexandria, martyred in 311, testifies that Christians fasted on both Wednesday and Friday: Wednesday, he says, because of Judas’s betrayal, and Friday “because on it He Himself suffered for us” (Canonical Epistle, canon 15). Yet in Peter’s explanation we can see the shift laid bare. The earliest memory of Wednesday — the true day of the crucifixion before the High Sabbath, as John records; has been downgraded to nothing more than the day of betrayal. Friday, on the other hand, has been promoted and invested with the weight of the Passion. But notice what Peter does not do: he never appeals to Scripture. He provides no Gospel evidence for a Friday crucifixion, only the inherited custom of his day. His words therefore witness not to the apostolic tradition, but to the later Roman revision, where Wednesday was stripped of its original meaning and Friday was rebranded as the day of the cross.

At the Council of Nicaea in 325, the Roman system was formalized. Easter would henceforth always be celebrated on the Sunday after the first full moon following the equinox, severing the last link with Nisan 14 and binding the commemoration of Christ’s death and resurrection to the solar calendar. From then on, the Friday crucifixion and Sunday resurrection scheme dominated the Christian world.

Yet the historical record is clear. The Gospel of John distinguishes between the High Sabbath of the feast and the weekly Sabbath. The Quartodecimans of Asia, tracing their tradition directly to John, kept the Passion on the fourteenth day of Nisan. Only later, as Rome shifted to a solar-based calendar, did the Friday–Sunday pattern emerge. Even Peter of Alexandria, while reflecting the new custom, inadvertently preserves the older memory by linking Wednesday with the decisive events of that week.

From the very beginning, the resurrection of Christ was altered under Roman authority. Time and again, popes and bishops enforced these changes with threats of excommunication, and those who dared to hold to Scripture were branded heretics, silenced, or even burned at the stake. The question must be asked: what could drive men who claimed to be “holy”; even to stand in God’s place on earth; to so fiercely defend Sunday, the day of the Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun, and to fix Easter (Ishtar by another name, the Queen of Heaven) to the spring equinox? What was so essential about this change?

The answer is not found in Scripture but in Rome’s later decree. Centuries after Christ, the Roman Church abandoned the Hebrew reckoning and fixed Easter according to the computus: the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. This formula ensures Easter always falls with the Sun in Aries, the Ram.

Daniel saw the ram in his vision of world empires (Daniel 8:3–7). But in pagan tradition, Aries was not the Passover ram of God’s covenant people;It was the solar ram, emblem of Baal Hammon, equated with Saturn, and linked to Dagan/Dagon. Saturn himself was often represented in antiquity as the goat-fish — the hybrid creature we still see preserved in the zodiac as Capricorn. The goat marked his horned, chthonic power, while the fish symbolized the abyss, the depths of chaos and death. In Daniel’s vision of empires (Daniel 7 and 8), the horned beasts and the sea-beasts mirror precisely these pagan images of empire rising from the abyss under Saturn’s dominion. The sea-beasts in particular are not neutral symbols but manifestations of the abyss; the underworld, the deep from which chaos powers emerge. Just as Revelation 13 describes the beast that rises from the sea, so Daniel’s beasts foreshadow empires animated by the same abyssal forces, the rule of Saturn, Dagan, and the goat-fish god of the pit.

Baal Hammon — the Solar Ram, horned lord of fire and the pit, crowned in the light of the equinox sun.

Dagan, the grain and underworld deity, embodied this same abyssal power. His priests wore the distinctive fish-mitre ; a tall, split headdress shaped like the opened mouth of a fish. This was not mere ornament but a living emblem of the god they served: lord of the waters of chaos, lord of the pit. To tie Christ’s resurrection to the spring equinox is not to honor the true Lamb of God; it is to map Him onto the ancient cult of the ram, with its cycle of solar death and rebirth.

And here is the hypocrisy laid bare: how can the Roman Church claim to be Christian when the most fundamental belief of Christianity is the resurrection of Christ on the very day and hour He said; yet Rome refuses to keep that day? Instead of guarding Nisan 14–17 as Scripture records, the Roman popes fixed Good Friday to dies Veneris, the Day of Venus; Ishtar, the Queen of Heaven; and Easter to the equinox, ensuring that the Sun is always in Aries, the ram of Baal Hammon. This was no accident, but a deliberate system codified with urgency by pope Gregory in the reform of the calendar, to guarantee that “Easter” would remain aligned with the equinox and the solar ram.

The temple of Dagon lies in ruins, as when Samson bowed with all his might and pulled it down upon the Philistines — ‘So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life’ (Judges 16:30).

If the Roman Church were truly Christian, it would follow Christ’s own words and the eyewitness testimony of the Gospels. Instead, it chose to bend the resurrection to pagan astrology and planetary deities, cloaking sorcery in the name of Christ. And when faithful men and women clung to the Gospel; keeping the true days as handed down from the apostles; they were branded as “heretics,” excommunicated, hunted, and burned at the stake. What could be more unholy than this violence in the name of “holy men”? What could more clearly reveal that apostolic succession, as Rome boasts, is no succession of the apostles at all but of Babylon; the harlot who intoxicates the nations with her sorceries (Revelation 17–18)?

This is why the blood of the martyrs testifies against Rome. The so-called Church of Christ built its power not on the day Christ truly rose, but on the day of Venus and the sign of Aries, the ram of Baal. That is not Christianity; it is a counterfeit, baptized in paganism and enforced by fire and sword.

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The Waldensians were hunted for keeping to Scripture. Jan Hus was burned at the stake in 1415 for rejecting Rome’s corrupt feasts. William Tyndale was strangled and burned in 1536 for translating the Bible into English so people could read Christ’s words for themselves.

All were branded “heretics,” but their only crime was to obey God’s Word rather than Rome’s calendar. Their deaths expose what the so-called “Church of Christ” truly defended: not the resurrection as Christ foretold, but Easter fixed to the equinox, with the sun in Aries and Ishtar enthroned as queen.

The occult meaning of the equinox makes the Roman choice even clearer. Aleister Crowley, in The Equinox, wrote: “The Equinox is the moment of balance, when night equals day; it is the pivot of the Sun’s course, and for the Magician the time when the forces of Nature may be most easily directed.” He added: “At the Equinox the Sun enters Aries, the Ram, the sign of spring and of creative fire; the sacrifice of the Ram is the mystery of resurrection, the death that leads to life.” For Crowley, the equinox was the hinge of magic: “the establishment of the balance of nature, by which the Adept bends the Astral Light to his Will.” At this point Pan is invoked: “Pan, the All, is invoked at the Equinox, for he is the raw force of Nature, the frenzy and the ecstasy through which the Magician makes his contact with the balance of the seasons.”

Goat-god Pan

The Bible does not treat satyrs as harmless myths but as real demonic powers. In Hebrew they are called śe‘îrîm; “hairy ones,” or goat-demons. Leviticus 17:7 warns Israel not to sacrifice to them, for they are false gods. Isaiah foresaw them haunting desolate places: “satyrs shall dance there” (Isaiah 13:21) and “the satyr shall cry to his fellow” (Isaiah 34:14). These goat-demons are the same current later worshiped as Pan, Baphomet, and the horned gods of sorcery. Scripture shows that behind the idols of the nations stand the satyrs; unclean spirits who lure mankind into false sacrifice and magical deception.

But instead,

The Roman Church fixed Easter precisely where occultists themselves identify the greatest magical power: the balance of night and day, the bending of astral light, the Ram’s sacrificial fire, and the wild force of Pan. In later esoteric tradition, Pan was fused with Baphomet, the goat-headed idol described by Éliphas Lévi and adopted by Crowley as a magical emblem. From the ram to the goat, from Baal to Dagon, from Pan to Baphomet, the current is the same — the attempt to control nature’s balance through ritual sacrifice at the equinox.

The Bible warned against such substitution. Daniel foresaw the ram and goat as empires exalting themselves against God’s people. Peter said false teachers would “through covetousness… with feigned words make merchandise of you” (2 Peter 2:3). John, in Revelation, saw Babylon and declared: “for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived” (Revelation 18:23). To shift Christ’s resurrection from its true time on Nisan 17 to a Sunday tied to Aries and the equinox is to replace God’s appointed times with a counterfeit rooted in sorcery.

Christ does not need the stars to validate His resurrection. He fulfilled prophecy down to the hour: crucified on Wednesday, Nisan 14, at 3 PM; buried before 6 PM; risen three days and three nights later on Saturday evening, Nisan 17. The empty tomb on Sunday morning proved He was already risen. Easter, as Rome fixed it, is another feast entirely: a hybrid of the biblical Christ with Baal Hammon, the solar Ram, Pan, Baphomet, and the sorceries of the equinox.

Luke 11:35:

“Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.”

Hosea 4:6:

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge"

Revelation 6:12:

“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.”

Sackcloth in the ancient world was a coarse, dark cloth woven from goat’s hair ; specifically from the black-haired goats of the region (often called Cilician goats).

 Revelation 18:4:

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”

Proverbs 23:31–32 – “Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.”

The very sign of the goddess of magic; the so-called Queen of Heaven whom Jeremiah denounced (Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17–19) ; is none other than the pentagram. Why? Because the planet Venus, sacred to Ishtar/Astarte, traces a perfect five-pointed star in the heavens every eight years. This “Venus cycle” was revered in Babylon and later by Rome as the seal of the goddess: the emblem of love, fertility, death, and magical power.

Thus the pentagram is not merely a geometric figure but a planetary sigil, the mark of Venus herself. It is the astral brand of the Queen of Heaven, the very one Scripture warns against. Occultists ever since have adopted it as the sign of magic, because it encodes the motions of Venus, the goddess of sorcery.

So why is the pentagram on the Adderbury Church; Oxfordshire?

Why exactly do we worship on Sundays? Christ didn’t rise on a Sunday; He rose at the close of the Sabbath, exactly as He prophesied. And He Himself declared that He is Lord of the Sabbath (Saturday) (Mark 2:28), not Lord of the Sun’s day.

Let’s be honest: it looks a lot less like the day Christ ordained, and a lot more like the day Rome ordained; the dies solis, the day of the unconquered Sun.

And yet we’re told this is “Christianity.” Does anyone else get the feeling we’ve been sold something? Peter already warned us that false teachers would “through covetousness… make merchandise of you” (2 Peter 2:3). It’s almost as if Christ Himself has never been invited to the party; just replaced by the same old solar cult, dressed up in church clothes.

Baal Hammon/Dagan; the horned solar ram-god of the pit, joined with his consort Ishtar, the Queen of Heaven — her star, the pentagram, the ancient seal of sorcery traced by the planet Venus.