Seasons of the LORD*: The seasons, literally appointed times, described in the Glossary are the Scriptural seasons that Y’shua, and all the New Testament authors, celebrated. The Fall Season is based on Repentance. There is not one word in the New Testament suggesting the Church should stop honoring these holy days. The Church started drifting away from its Jewish Roots in the second century. Then in the fourth century at the Council of Nicea, the Church made those changes official, confirming Easter instead of Passover. Easter was the celebration of the fertility goddess Ishtar in Syria and Babylon. Christmas substituted for the Roman winter solstice celebration of the Roman god Saturn. These times of the Lord—Seasons—are listed in Leviticus 23, with the first being the Sabbath. (See Hebraic Thinking in Jewish Roots. See Seasons of the LORD* in Glossary.)