If Satan said "I will be like the most high", then is he?

I remember asking a college professor at Bob Jones University this question, "If Satan said he is going to be like God, then how do we know who he (Satan) is?" And the professor said that it was just a "threat" and that God would never let Satan be like Him.

So I was 18 years old then. And of course, I totally believed what the professor said. I have gone through my life believing that Satan could not be like Jehovah. That God would never allow that to happen. What I did not know at the age of 18 is that college professors do not have the answers. The truly sad thing is that I thought they did.

Amazing how what a teacher, professor, preacher says that we buy into. We believe it because "they" said it. We don't take the time to do our own study or research. We believe them because we assume that they have studied and researched and that they know what they are talking about. But most of them do not. They simply form their ideas from what they were taught. Very few individuals actually research and when they do....they certainly don't try to find a different idea, they simply try to confirm what they already believe.

From the title of this blog, I think it's obvious that I was born a questioner. I started my career with Social Security where I interviewed people applying for retirement and disability benefits. So I spent my 8 hours in the office questioning people. I'm sure I upset numerous people with all my questions. I didn't limit it to just the questions on the application in front of me! I tended to go "outside the box" and ask questions based upon previous answers given to me.

Here's an example: women will spend their entire lives making themselves younger than they actually are in order to impress a man or someone else. Sometimes as much as 10 years younger. But when it comes to retirement age, they want to make themselves older in order to get benefits sooner. In the 1970s, many of these women did not have birth certificates, so they would give me a school record, a marriage certificate, their children's birth certificates and each piece of evidence had a different age/date of birth on it. And I had to evaluate this evidence, determine to the best of my ability what their actual date of birth was, and either approve or deny their eligibility to receive retirement benefits. Almost always, I used the oldest evidence available. The age on a person's grade school report card is much more accurate than the age on their child's birth certificate because their report card was probably issued 15 to 20 years earlier than their son or daughter's birth. However, their parent could have lied in order to get them into school at a very young age, or simply might not have remembered the real date of birth....but still, based on all the evidence, I most often took the oldest evidence as the most reliable.

But that's my point. How many of us take the evidence that is presented to us, analyze it, ask questions about it, verify the authenticity of it.....before we make a decision about it? Simple little things. How many of us go back to the earliest evidence and question the changes made to it since then?

My original birth certificate was lost years ago, but I have a copy of the one recorded in the state of Indiana. "Jennifer Lynn Moore." My baptismal certificate, of which I have the original, shows my name as Jennifer Lynne Moore. One letter off. Does it matter? Which is the oldest piece of information? What did my parents really desire as my name? Did the pastor who wrote out the baptismal certificate make a mistake by adding the "e" in my middle name? Did the hospital official make a mistake by leaving it off? I asked mom and she simply doesn't remember. And no, it doesn't really matter to me.....but does it matter when it comes to Jehovah Jesus Messiah, scripture translations.....and to Satan? Certainly!!!

Is 14:14. If Satan said that he would make himself to be like the most high. How has he done that? What name is he using that you and I might recognize him as the "most high"? Has he changed his name by one letter.....by a full word? Is he an imposter that we do not fully recognize?

If you were going to make yourself be like someone else.....how would you do it? Dress like them? Act like them? Talk like them? There are a lot of famous people in Hollywood that other people try to act just like. Doubles. Imposters. People who make themselves look just like them. How do we tell them apart? Sometimes - it's pretty hard to do. I once saw a Barbra Streisand impersonator and truly could not tell the difference in her looks, or her voice....until the impersonator took off the wig and showed that "she" was a man!

So, if Satan was going to make himself like Jesus....could we tell them apart? Could we do it without a whole lot of study, research, investigation, questioning?

And what if you accept Jesus as your personal savior....and you are really accepting Satan because he is the great imposter?

WOW!!!

Because Satan said that he would make himself to be like Jehovah G*d, I started putting together a table to compare the two systems. Keep in mind that when Jesus Messiah was here on earth, there was no written "New Testament", that He was a Jewish man, and that He would have practiced the Torah - Old Testament law. It is only over time that a "new" system was created by merging into it pagan practices. You truly need to study the evolution of religion since 70AD to fully understand this. I now see 2 distinct systems - here is my comparison:

God’s stage/players	Satan’s stage/players
Jehovah Jesus Messiah	Lord Jesus Christ
The Most High	make myself like the most high
Jews, Messianic	mostly Gentiles
Hebrew/Greek	King James and other translations
Passover – biblical	Easter - pagan
Sukkot – biblical	Christmas - pagan
Magen (shield of) David	Cross
Synagogue/Temple	Church
Meet, greet and escort to Israel	Pre-trib Rapture
The one true God	god
Lunar Hebrew calendar	Solar secular calendar
Days of the week are numbered	Days of the week are named
Months revolve around the moon	Months revolve around the sun
New day starts at sunset	New day starts at sunrise
Sabbath is day seven	Sunday is day one
Passover – once a year	Communion – monthly or weekly
Messiah born at Sukkot	Christ born at Christmas
Gifts to Israel	Tithe to church
Israel is the Bride	The church is the bride
Rosh Hashanah	New Year’s Day
Rabbi	Magi/Wise Men
Cherish	Love
Teacher/shepherd	Preacher/Pastor
Tribulation started in 70AD	tribulation in the future
Holocaust = Jacob’s trouble	Jacob’s trouble is future
Mazzaroth	Zodiac
Jerusalem	Tel Aviv
Jews are the chosen people	Anti-Semitic
Israel is the kingdom	Heaven
Preparing a tabernacle	Mansions and streets of gold
Grave	Hell
7th world power Roman Catholism	1st church was Roman Catholics
8th world power – Islam	Islam removed Israel from maps

Now, don't get me wrong. Jews do not believe that the Messiah was born at Sukkot. These are simply the differences that I see between the 2 systems when you use the original Greek and Hebrew texts.

I am sure there are more comparisons and as I come to think of them I will go back and edit this list. But I think you can start to see how similar the 2 "systems" are. Amazing, isn't it? That after 2000 years, the adversary has made himself to seem like god. And while I know that most everyone who attends a "christian" church today will completely deny the remote possibility that their preacher is a false minister, scripture does warn us of this.

What if this is how it really is? No doubt, there are those among my family and friends who will deny that they are on the adversary's stage. I'm simply asking, "what if?" What if there are two stages. What if this "war" has been going on for the last 2000 years between Jehovah and the adversary? What if Satan truly is working this very day to make himself seem like the most high? If there are only 2 stages with no other options, then which stage are you on? At the very least, I hope you will think about it and not be like me - trusting that a college professor had the answer. And my prayer is that my children will come to know the true Jehovah, not the false christ.

If you know that Jesus died on Passover....

and that he rose at sunset on Saturday, why do you celebrate Easter Sunday morning services?????

If we can prove without a shadow of a doubt (well, if you really believe the Bible) that Jesus was conceived during Hanukkah and was born at Sukkot (early Fall), why do you celebrate Christmas as His birth?

If you never knew before and only followed the teachings of your "church" - that's one thing. But if you KNOW now.....and you STILL celebrate Christmas and Easter.....why?

Here's another one of those childhood questions I always had. "If you know something is wrong....and you do it anyway...can G-d forgive you? And if you keep doing it over and over and over.....while you KNOW it is wrong....will He keep forgiving you over and over and over?

I seriously doubt it!

So, the question today.....if you know Jehovah Jesus Messiah was born in the fall and you celebrate Christmas, and you know that He died at Passover and you celebrate Easter, are you STILL a sinner?

And if you are STILL a sinner, how can you claim that you are saved? How can you claim to be a "Christian"?

But an even greater question perhaps.....if you are celebrating holidays that are based on paganism, that are filled with pagan rituals, that have literally nothing to do with the birth, death or resurrection of Jesus....aren't you a pagan? How can you be a "Christian" if you are a pagan? And if you are a "Christian", how can you continue to follow paganism?

Trust me - it is more than difficult to leave behind a pagan ritual when it's all you have ever known your entire life. When it's what made you happiest as a child, as a mom. When it's what brings back some of the most joyous memories in your life.

On the other hand - giving up these things that are tied to paganism has brought a different, greater joy to my soul than I could ever imagine!

It did not happen overnight. It took nearly 5 years in transition. I used to decorate 3 Christmas trees with 1500 Hallmark ornaments and host huge parties every year. I sang in the Living Christmas Tree in San Diego for 3 years. Most of my friends cannot understand why or how I could give it all up.

The problem became that once I knew and understood and could prove to myself that Christmas has zero ties to Jesus and is 100% pagan - I simply walked away from it.

The next question to ponder....how did we ever get "religion" so messed up? Why do Christians celebrate so many pagan holidays? Who makes these decisions? Who leads the "church" down this path? I just don't think that Jehovan G-d is out there directing this "path" the church has taken.

Just a few things to think about for the moment:

Rev 12:9....the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who decieves the whole world......

Isaiah 14:12-15, satan said:

I will ascend to heaven
I will raise my throne above the stars of G-d
I will sit entrhoned on the mount of assembly on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds
I WILL MAKE MYSELF LIKE THE MOST HIGH

So the question becomes.....HOW is (or did) Satan make himself to be like G-d?

Maybe think of it as a constant war that's been going on for about 6000 years now. G-d on one side, Satan on the other side trying to make himself appear to be like G-d. If he is doing that....then how do we know who the real G-d is?

And what if Satan is using the church with all of it's pagan holidays and pagan rituals throughout the world to make himself "like the most high".

If you are like me, at first thought - that's impossible.

On the other hand.....if you know that Easter is a pagan holiday and Jesus did not rise from the grave on Easter Sunday morning -

and you know that Christmas is a pagan holiday and Jesus was born in the fall of the year during Sukkot -

could it be that the "church" really is Satan's playground? And that this is how he has made himself look "like the most high"?

I sort of think it starts to explain why no one in Sunday School could ever answer any of my childhood questions!

And now you can start to see why I don't attend church, or celebrate Christmas or Easter.

If our calendar didn't exist when Jesus died, then when did he die?

Think about it! If our calendar didn't exist when Jesus was here on earth. When did he die? When was he buried? When did he rise from the grave? And why do I even care?

Well, for one, I remember when I was a kid being so utterly confused by scripture and how it was "explained" to me by preachers and Sunday School teachers. For example:

Matt 12:40, For as Jonas 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

Jesus was supposed to be in the grave 3 days and 3 nights. So if he died on Good Friday and rose on Easter Sunday....no matter how I did the math, I never got 3 days and 3 nights.

Friday - day 1 starts

Friday night -- night 1

Saturday - night 1 ends, day 2 starts

Saturday night, Night 2

Sunday morning, night 2 ends, day 3 begins.

So if He rose on Sunday morning.......

where did night 3 go? See the problem I had???

If we did not have a Gregorian calendar and only a Hebrew calendar, then we have to consider these facts:

Hebrew days end at sunset. The next day begins one minute after sunset.

The sabbath begins 1 minute after sunset on Friday and ends at sunset on Saturday.

The word "dawn" doesn't need to mean daybreak, first light. It can mean a new day, something new, so it could easily mean a new day that begins at sunset, the dawn of a new day. On a Hebrew calendar, each new day begins 1 minute after sunset. Hmmmm....dawn is dusk!!!

What if in the time of Jesus, 3 days and 3 nights meant 72 hours exactly? Literally?

John 19:31. The Jews therefore, 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) besoughtPilate that theirlegs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

So the next thing we need to know is that a sabbath day that is a high (holy) day can be any day of the week. It does not have to be on a Friday night to Saturday night time frame. Because it is a "high day" it can be any day of the week.

Thus we know that the day that Jesus died, that evening one minute after sunset, a sabbath that was a high (holy) day was beginning.

We also know that the day following Passover is known to be a High Holy Day Sabbath - an annual High Sabbath, not a routine, weekly Saturday sabbath. It is the first day of the 7 day long Feast of Unleavened Bread. Passover is not a high holy day. The day after it is.

If Passover is on Thursday (Wednesday dust to Thursday dusk)

And a High Holy Day Sabbath is on Friday (Thurs dusk to Friday dusk)

And a routine weekly Sabbath is on Saturday (Friday dust to Saturday dusk)

Take a look at

Matthew 28: 1 Inside the tail-end of a Saturday Sabbath, at the going doewn (dusk) of the sun, as time changed from the final moment of an old week, onward to the first moment of an entirely new week, at sunset, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary walking toward the tomb to look at the sepulchre at the very beginning of a Hebrew's Sunday.

2. and there was a great earthquake: for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door of the tomb and sat upon the stone.

that translation is from the Literal Expanded Version (LEV) which is a little more descriptive for these verses. But even if you read it in the King James and understand that the dawn of a new week would begin for the Hebrew calendar on Saturday evening at dusk......

Let's try this:

In the Hebrew year 3791, Passover was on the 14th day of the Hebrew 1st month, on a Wednesday, so it started on Tuesday, one minute after dusk and went til Wed. evening at dusk. (this is our year CE 31.)

I'm inserting a calendar that I put together here, just click on it to enlarge it:

Jesus had the "Last Supper" after dusk on Tuesday night. This was on Passover. So it really was a Sedar, His last Sedar.

Death occurred in the morning on Wednesday (still Passover).

Burial was completed at sunset, at the very end of the Hebrew calendar's Wednesday. One minute after dusk, the High Holy Day began. Thursday, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Death in the grave began here. (from one minute after sunset on our Wednesday to sunset on our Thursday.)

All of Hebrew's Friday (from one minute after sunset on our Thursday to sunset on our Friday)

All of Hebrew's Saturday (from one minute after sunset on our Friday until sunset on our Saturday).

3 days. 72 hours.

The resurrection was at one minute after sunset our Saturday which would be the first moment of a Hebrew Sunday. The dawn (beginning) of a new week, the dawn of a new day.

The Feast of First Fruits is the Sunday following Passover. (Note, this is the day that you add 50 days to and come up with the date of Pentecost.)

Jesus rose on the first moment on the Feast of First Fruits.

Passover would have been on April 24, 31 (Wednesday) the day that Jesus Christ was crucified.

He would have risen at sunset on Saturday, April 27, 31 if you want our calendar dates.

So much for my attendance at all those Sunday morning sunrise services!

One more thing to consider. The Feast of Passover is a 7 day feast which commemorates the night when (in Egypt) each Israelite family killed a selected lamb, painted it's blood on the intel and door-posts of their dwellings, roasted the lamb, prepared to depart Egypt before eating, ate the lamb in haste with bitter herbs and unleavened bread, were protected from death of their first born males by the lamb's blood and actually began the journey to depart from Egypt very early the next morning (still Passover day)

It would make sense that Jesus died on Passover. He is the lamb who's blood was shed for us. He IS Passover.

And it makes beautiful sense that he rose on the Feast of First Fruits.

If Jesus was born in BCE4 and was 30 when he was baptized (CE28), he would have been 33 1/2 by early Spring, CE 31.

On a bit of a side note, Easter has been around about 5000 years. And in the year CE31, it occurred 25 days BEFORE Passover!!! A tad difficult to rise from the dead before you die!

I remember asking where in the Bible it talked about "Good Friday" or used the term "Easter". You know, I was a child. They just blew me off!

Today, I understand that the concept of Good Friday is a myth and actually has no basis in Biblical fact. Easter is a pagan, heathen, springtime fertility festival. That's why they are NOT mentioned in scripture. Whether you agree with that or not, I don't see how you get an early morning Sunday sunrise out of this verse:

Matt 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

That verse clearly states "end of sabbath" which would be at dusk.

Because I am studying the Hebrew calendar, because I am studying Hebrew life, traditions, holidays, values, and because I am looking at the original Greek and Hebrew scriptures - it is all making sense and falling into place.

But I also pray every single day that Jehovah Yeshua Messiah will soften my heart, open my mind, and allow me to understand. It is because so many of my friends continue to ask me about my beliefs that I am writing these blogs. In the hopes that you, too, will understand.

I do not celebrate Easter as it has nothing to do with the death and resurrection of Jesus. The Easter bunny does not come here. There are no eggs hidden anywhere.

I do, however, keep Passover. And I will continue to keep it every year.

I do not celebrate Christmas. There is no tree in my house, no gifts. Santa doesn't come down my chimney and there are no holly and berries here.

I honor Hanukkah - the Feast of Dedication

and I will keep the Feast of Tabernacles this year.

As I come to understand more and more.....and have more of those childhood questions answered, I come to love the Messiah as I never have before. My heart literally sings with joy.

So there's still that question........

why do we no longer use a Hebrew calendar? Just who is it that does not want us to know the truth? Who is it that is trying to confuse us. I know. And I'll be writing about that one day soon.