Thankfully, every generation has the chosen few who follow the Faith once delivered, and who faithfully remember the important holy days and dates GOD has given and commanded us to keep and celebrate in spirit and in truth. Soon the whole world will trash their idolatrous Roman/Babylonian/Egyptian traditions for God's biblical festivals when Christ returns and reigns supreme in Jerusalem!
“We…therefore observe the genuine day [Passover]; neither adding thereto nor taking therefrom. For in Asia great lights have fallen asleep, which shall rise again in the day of the Lord’s appearing, in which he will come with glory from heaven, and will raise up all the saints; Philip, one of the twelve apostles [Author’s note: This was “the other” Philip, as the original apostle Philip died in 54 AD.]…Moreover, John, who rested upon the bosom of our Lord…also Polycarp…All these observed the fourteenth day of the Passover according to the gospel, deviating in no respect, but following the rule of faith” (Ecclesiastical History, “Eusebius,” bk. 5, ch. 24, sec. 2, 3, 6).
The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, highlights the accounts involving Polycarp and Polycrates’ opposition to the increasing errors of the Roman bishops and growing infiltration of paganism into professing Christian beliefs.
“There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The first Christians continued to observe the Jewish festivals, though in a new spirit, as commemorations of events which those festivals had foreshadowed. Thus the Passover, with a new conception added to it of Christ as the true Paschal Lamb and the first fruits from the dead, continued to be observed… Generally speaking, the Western churches kept Easter on the first day of the week, while the Eastern churches followed the Jewish rule, and kept Easter [Pascha, or Passover] on the fourteenth day…At that time the Syrians [Nazarenes] and Antiochenes (Quartodecimani) were the solitary champions of the observance of the fourteenth day.
“The few who afterwards separated themselves from the [the majority were wrong and refused to repent] unity of the [Roman] church, and continued to keep the fourteenth day, were named Quartodecimani, and the dispute itself is known as the Quarto-deciman controversy” (Article: “Easter,” vol. 8, pp. 828-829).
Polcarp and Polycrates, both faithfully observed the PASSOVER just like Jesus and the early Church at the right time, annually, both Jews, Israelites and Gentiles, and the chosen few of the Sabbath-keeping Church of God follow their holy example while the rest, the vast majority, fell for the creeping paganism of the Roman wolves in sheep's clothing.
Both the Bible and history serve as two witnesses against pagan Easter and for holy Passover.
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