Vol. 5 No. 11 Apr. 09,2006

Unholy Week

Written By Christopher Mentzer

Several years ago when I worked for a local television station in Ohio, I convinced the station manager to put me in charge of selecting movies to broadcast on our channel. This decision came after having to watch the same movie 3 Sundays in a row in the very same time slot.

So with little coaxing I was given the job. After doing it for a few months, I got into creating theme weeks. Selecting movies each night that followed the same subject like War, Horror or Science Fiction. One week during the spring I decided to do a “Tribute To The Devil” week. I had the first two Omen movies, a slasher film called “Alice Sweet Alice” and some movie about a motor cross group who stumbled upon a Satanic Cult.

When it came time to select the movies for that following Sunday, I looked at the calendar and saw that it was Easter. To my horror, I realized I just scheduled Satan movies for “Holy Week”! Although I decided not to change the selections, I “redeemed” myself by picking more “appropriate” films for Sunday.

Holy Week is the supposed last week of Christ’s life. Palm Sunday, being the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem where people lay palm branches in the road, then Maundy Thursday, celebrating The Last Supper and finally Good Friday, which acknowledges the Crucifixion of Christ.

The point of this is, there really isn’t any such Holy Week, even though the denominational churches will tell you it’s so. You will not find any actual dates in the scriptures which signify when Christ lived his last few days here on Earth. Much like the celebration of Christmas as the birth of Jesus, there is no Bible proof of such dates or celebrations.

To celebrate this occasions then would be going beyond that which is written (1 Cor. 4: 6). It is also considered adding to the Bible. This is warned against in Rev. 22: 18, “I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book.”

These “holidays” that the denominational churches recognize are man-made, designed to help people stay focused on what Christ had done for us when He went to the cross. My opinion is if you need such a holiday to remember such a historical and spiritual moment in the history of the world, you had better reconsider your spiritual condition.

We are commanded in the scriptures to remember the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ when we partake of the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor. 11: 23-26). How often is this done: Yearly? Quarterly? Monthly? No. It’s weekly! Here’s the verse, “And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread…” (Acts 20: 7) Every first day comes once a week and that shouldn’t be too hard to remember. And you would think that if Easter were an important holiday, it would be easy to remember just like Christmas every December 25^th. But it’s not! Here’s the formula as stated from a Catholic website:

Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox (the day when the sun’s ecliptic or apparent path in the sky crosses the equator, thus making days and nights of equal length). This usually occurs on March 21, which means the date of Easter can range between March 22 and April 25 depending on the lunar cycle. (Dennis Bratcher, http://www.cresourcei.org/cyeaster.html)

What we have here is a religious holiday based on a pagan formula. What did Jesus say about this? No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matt. 6: 24) Holy Week is indeed “Unholy” because it was devised by men (Matt. 15: 7-9).