CHAPTER SIX:
WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER HOLIDAYS? ARE YOU GOING TO TELL ME THAT THEY ARE OCCULT TOO?!
When
talking about Halloween, I have frequently been asked this question - “What
about the other holidays? Are you going to tell me that they are occult too?”
People tend to ask this question when they do not want to give up Halloween
celebrations. They try to justify celebrating Halloween by saying they would
have to give up ALL the holidays, because they all have occult aspects to them.
To be honest, there are two other holidays celebrated here in America (and some
other countries as well) that are also very occult, that are celebrated in honor of
our Messiah, yet have absolutely NOTHING to do with Him. They were instituted in
an attempt to REPLACE some of Yahuwah’s Feast Days or Holy Days that He
COMMANDS His people to keep! And born-again believers ARE HIS PEOPLE. And there
are some other popular holidays that are not done in honor of our Messiah, but
are from the occult and I don’t recommend celebrating those either.
In this chapter I will talk about some of the other holidays, including those two, and their origins. In Halloween, the Jack-o-lanterns, witches, ghosts, goblins, zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc., are not good things that the devil has perverted. They are totally perverted in themselves. They represent evil and nothing else. Skulls (part of our anatomy), bats, cats, and things like that are creations of Yahuwah that the devil uses to pervert. They are not evil in themselves. They are only evil when they are used for or associated with evil. For example, incense, a creation of man, is an item that is often considered occult because it is used in satanism and witchcraft. But originally the Israelites used it at their altars in their worship of Yahuwah. The devil perverted the use of it by having his followers use it to worship him. This does not make incense an occult item.
2
Kings 22:17
“Because
they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that
they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my
wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.”
It is not wrong to
burn incense; it is wrong to burn it ‘to other gods’. However, it’s wise to
check the label and if it’s made by a company with a pagan name on it, it’s
best not to use that brand.
Many people believe that unicorns are of the occult, yet the Bible talks about them as a creation of Yahuwah. Their horns were exalted: Psalms 92:10 “But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.” They had great strength: Numbers 23:22 “Yahuwah brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.” They had a strong will: Job 39:9-10 “Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?” Some believe the Bible is talking about a rhinoceros or hippopotamus because these animals have one horn, but I really cannot imagine either of these huge animals ‘skipping like a calf’. Psalms 29:6 “He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.” I do not believe that unicorns are evil, but many people associate them with evil by writing magical stories about them, painting pictures of them with fairies and associating them with New Age beliefs. I would not have pictures of them in this kind of association, or stories that associate them with magic.
Rainbows are the sign of Yahuwah’s covenant with us that He will not flood the earth again, and they are not evil. But when New Agers use them to symbolize their occult beliefs, or homosexuals use them to symbolize homosexuality, those rainbow pictures are occult or abominable.
Fire breathing dragons were animals Yahuwah created. Archeologists have found skeletons of them. They have an extra area in their skulls where the chemical that produced fire was stored. The Bible talks about this dragon (the leviathan), as it does unicorns, and makes comparisons with it in Job 41, mentions it again in Psalms 74:14 and 104:26. Then it mentions it again while referring to the devil in Isaiah 27:1 “In that day Yahuwah with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.” Does that mean that dragons are evil? No creature that Yahuwah created is evil in itself. He created snakes and they are not evil (although they can be very dangerous). The devil is also compared to a snake in Genesis, but that doesn’t make snakes ‘evil’. However, the dragons that we see statues and pictures of now days are usually a combination of several different creatures, as were the idol gods of the Egyptians. They are usually used in occult and New Age beliefs, and especially in oriental occult religions. In that context, these dragons are evil, as unicorns, snakes, black cats, bats, goats, etc., used in occult or New Age context are also evil.
Here is a good article on the dragons, and the Scriptures that mention them, Leviathan, and here is an article about a dragon skull they've found recently - Rare dragon skull unearthed near Ipswich.
Pumpkins
are not occult items until we carve faces in them. Then they represent the
unsettled dead spirit, the power of the head or skull, etc. With the principle
in mind concerning incense, unicorns, dragons, rainbows and pumpkins, I will
explain some of the other holidays that are popular in America.
CHRISTMAS:
Christmas
is the holiday most people use to celebrate the birth of our blessed Savior
Yahushuwa, whom they mistakenly call ‘Jesus Christ’. It is not necessary to
celebrate His birth, as there is no commandment to do this, but there are no Scriptures that condemn celebrating His birth or anyone else's. If we are going to
celebrate birthdays, His is certainly the most important one that ever was!
The
word ‘Christmas’ came from ‘Christes Maesse’, which means ‘Christ’s Mass’. Let
me start out with this ‘should be known’ fact – The Messiah doesn’t need a
mass! A mass is what the Catholics do for dead people that they believe are in
purgatory (there is no such place), that they think is a holding place, and that if they pray for the people
there they can get their sins pardoned and get them into Heaven. There may be a
‘holding place’ for sinners to stay until the judgment, but once they die and
go there, it is too late for them to be saved. The priests even take a ‘fee’
from families of the dead, to pray for their dead loved ones. Not only is there
no such place as this, but if there was, our Messiah is not there in need of a
‘mass’! He’s on His throne in Heaven!
The story of our Messiah’s birth is in Luke, chapters one and two, and Matthew 2:1-23. It is a fact that Yahushuwa the Messiah was not born on December twenty-fifth. He was not even born in December! So where do you suppose we got this date from? We got it from the worship of demons! They took the day that is the supposed birthday of many pagan gods and MIXED it with ‘Christianity’ to appease both the pagans and the Christians. Mixing Biblical traditions with devil worshiping (or pagan) traditions to try to appease both sides is so dangerous. This is like the mixing of oil and water. “Christ’s birthday was picked to honor the Roman Saturnalia, which was a licentious orgy representing free sex, not prostitution.” (Dictionary of Mythology Folklore and Symbols, Jobes, 1961, Vol. 1, p. 332.)
Feast
of Trumpets is on the first day of the seventh month (called Tishri) on the
Hebrew calendar (which is NOT the same as our 7th month of July). He
was born in 3 B.C. (King Herod died in 2 B.C. – there is proof of that and it
has to do with the eclipses in history.) Our calendar is different than the Hebrew calendar, so His birthday
does not fall on the same day for us every year. It is always on the Feast of
Trumpets, which is the day that has to do with announcing a king and believers
are commanded to blow a trumpet on that day (He is our King.) In 3 B.C.
Trumpets fell on our September 11th. In 2017, it fell on September
23rd. This year it will be on a different day for us. The Feast of
Trumpets is determined by what evening the sliver of the New Moon is seen in
Jerusalem, so we will not know ahead of time, but we can know the approximate
day.
Many
of our calendars show when the New Moon is supposed to be – the problem is,
they are often off by a day or two, so what James and I go by is when we get
the report from certain trusted people in Jerusalem that the New Moon has been
sighted. We can also watch for it here in America, but ultimately we go by the
sighting in Jerusalem. This is how you can celebrate His birthday on the
correct day instead of a day that pagans gave us.
Yahushuwa doesn’t share His glory with other gods! How would you like it if everyone decided to change your birthday and celebrate it with or without you on a demon worshipping day whether you liked it or not, and even do demon worshipping traditions on that day, in honor of you!? Think about it. If it didn’t matter to Him, there wouldn’t be so many Scriptures about how we are told to celebrate HIS feast days, and how He hates OUR feast days! Believers are actually COMMANDED to celebrate Yahuwah’s feast days. Many call them ‘Jewish holidays’ but they are not just for the Jews. I’ll go into that more in another chapter, but for now, trust me and read on.
Here is a blog, and then a video, with a story that is really helpful in showing why it is wrong to celebrate our Messiah's birthday on the day of pagan gods’ birthdays:
Are You Cheating on Your Spouse by Celebrating Christmas, by Maria Merola Wold
Are You Cheating on Your Bridegroom by Celebrating Christmas, by Maria Merola Wold
Here are some ‘common’ known reasons
the Messiah couldn’t have been born in December. The shepherds in Bethlehem
were feeding their flocks at night in the fields. Although the December days
could get warm, the nights were cold and piercing. The shepherds did not watch
their flocks in the fields after the end of October. The commentator Maimonides
said “These lie in the pastures, which are in the villages, all the days of the
cold and heat, and do not go into the cities until the rains descend.”112
The first rains fell sometime between early September and early November, and
Yahushuwa was born before this happened. Also, John the Baptist is believed to
have been born in March. Yahushuwa was born six months later.
Luke
1:35-38
“And
the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and
the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing
which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of Yahuwah. And, behold,
thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son (John the Baptist) in her
old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. For with
Yahuwah nothing shall be impossible. And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of
Yahuwah; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.”
Yahushuwa
was born right after Augustus Caesar declared the new tax law. Mary and Joseph
had to go to Bethlehem for the taxes, and Yahushuwa was born the night they
arrived there. This alone puts His birth in August or September. Joseph Mede
says:
“At
the birth of Christ every woman and child was to go to be taxed at the city
whereto they belonged, whither some had long journeys; but the middle of winter
was not fitting for such a business, especially for women with child, and
children to travel in. Therefore, Christ could not be born in the depth of
winter. Again, at the time of Christ’s birth, the shepherds lay abroad watching
with their flocks in the night time; but this was not likely to be in the
middle of winter. And if any should think the winter wind was not so extreme in
these parts, let him remember the words of Christ in the gospel, ‘Pray that
your flight be not in the winter.’ If the winter was so bad a time to flee in,
it seems no fit time for shepherds to lie in the fields in, and women and children
to travel in.”113
Now for the uncommonly known reasons
for His birth to be on September 11th, 3 B.C., Feast of Trumpets
(Yom Teruah) – people have a way to go back on a digital online calendar and
look at different things in different years, and putting it simple, the
constellation in Revelation 12 was lined up on September 11th in 3
B.C., and that was also the Feast of Trumpets. The Scriptures I’m talking about
describes the birth of our Messiah and is also prophetic about future events.
Revelation
12:1-11
(RNV- Renewed Name Version) “And there appeared a great wonder in the sky. A
woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars. And being in child she cried out with the pains of birth
and in torment to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in the sky
and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven
crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew a third of the stars of the sky and
threw them into the earth and the dragon stood before the woman that was ready
give birth in order to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she bore a
male Child who was to rule all nations in a staff of iron and her child was
caught up to Yahuwah and His throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness
where she has a place prepared from Yahuwah that they should feed her there a
thousand two hundred sixty days. And there was war in the sky. Miyka'el and his
messengers fought against the dragon. And the dragon and his messengers fought
and did not prevail, neither was their place found anymore in the sky. And the
great dragon was thrown out, that old serpent called Diablos and the satan,
that deceives the whole world. He was thrown into the earth and his messengers
were thrown out with him. And I heard a loud voice in the sky saying, "Now
salvation and strength and the kingdom of our Eloah and the power of His
Anointed have come, because the accuser of our brothers that accused them
before our Eloah day and night is struck down." And they overcame him
through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their testimony and they
did not unconditionally love their lives unto death.”
The woman in this constellation is
Virgo, the sun is by her torso like it clothes her, the moon is below her feet,
there are twelve stars around her head, the red dragon is actually a
constellation that is positioned between her legs, and it actually looks like a
red dragon, even though the verse represents satan attacking this woman’s
offspring. There is a lot to this, and others have written about it better than
I would, unless I repeated them word for word, so I’ll give the name of the
webpage where you can learn more if you want to. In the meantime, here is the
red dragon constellation that NASA photographed.
If you want to read a book that gives the details of this September 11th thing, you can get this book for free online – “The Star of Bethlehem: The Star that Astonished the World” by Ernest L. Martin, Ph.D. – go here to get it. And here is a Youtube video showing the planetary alignment:
and here is a webpage that explains in great
detail why Yahushuwa was born on Feast of Trumpets and not on December 25th:
“When Was the Messiah of Yisra’el Born & Why Does it Matter?" by Maria Merola Wold
This minister is one of few people you can
trust to present accurate information with a sincere heart and lots of
research.
There are so many
Sabbath keeping ministers out there trying to promote their own agenda which is
not Scriptural, with ‘some’ good information and then a lot of garbage mixed
in, that I have to be very careful when I refer you to someone for information.
I’m talking about people who believe the earth is flat and by golly you’re not
saved if you don’t agree, people who think it’s okay for a man to have multiple
wives and even mistresses, people who think demons got loose from some portal
and physically changed the words in our Bibles (Mandella Affect), people who
think if you’re not living by an ancient calendar (that they supposedly have)
then you aren’t keeping the correct feast days and Sabbaths, people who think
Paul is evil and who don’t trust the New Testament (instead of learning how to
interpret it in context), people who took the last one even further and
denounced Yahushuwa as their Messiah and went into strict Judaism, people who
think the Sabbath is not really on Saturday, people who insist you are
worshipping devils if you ever use the words God or Lord (even though they are
just descriptive words), people who think you are not really born-again if in
innocence you use the name Jesus because you don't know it has an abominable meaning, people who teach that we don’t really ‘have’
to obey Yahuwah’s commandments but that it’s just a matter of preference (even
though Yahushuwa Himself says we must obey them), people who say you're going to hell if you DO obey them, and oh my gosh, I could go on
and on and on! I don’t want you to get caught in their maze!
The gospel is really
pretty simple – just trust Yahuwah and obey! But you can trust the woman who
owns this website for some good and non-confusing information! She’s a good
teacher and digs real deep for her facts, yet explains it in a way you should
be able to understand. I encourage you to read all of her articles if you have
a hunger for learning about the true nature of our Messiah and the Heavenly
Father. Back to Christmas…
Christmas was celebrated at different times before the third century. Sometimes they celebrated it in the spring. But December twenty-fifth was a day used by people all over the world as the day to celebrate the birth of the demon gods they served. It was called ‘Yule’ day long before Yahushuwa was born. Yule is the Chaldee name for a little child or infant.
A solar festival that honored King Saturn, the sun god, began on December seventeenth and lasted five days. This was called ‘Saturnalia’. This was a time of partying, drunkenness, revelry and all kinds of sin, including human sacrifices and gladiator battles which produced more human sacrifices to Saturn when one of the fighters were killed. Slaves were allowed to be master over their owners, and took liberties with them for these five days, and the slave owners would provide festive meals for their slaves. This drunken festival of Babylon was where the wassailing bowl came from, and modern-day Christmas parties where the bosses provide holiday meals for their employees. The practice of giving Christmas greeting cards and gifts came from the practice of people giving written verses and gifts to others at Saturnalia. They also sang in the streets which turned into modern-day Christmas caroling. Saturnalia was combined with Christmas in about the fourth century.
When people decided to honor Yahushuwa’s birth, they picked this day because it was already associated with the births of different pagan gods, and man always did like to combine pagan and Christian worship. They mixed them so people could carry on their old traditions while supposedly serving their God. Others celebrated twelve days of Christmas with feasts, parties, hunting and gambling.
Below are some pagan gods that almost all of them were said to be ‘born’ on the Winter Solstice, December 25th, and many of them have stories VERY similar to our true Messiah’s story, such as born of a virgin, called a savior, performed miracles, healed sick people, taught on the streets, crucified on a Friday (many times in the same manner as our Messiah, but our Messiah was crucified on a Wednesday), resurrected on the Spring Equinox, March 25th, and many many more similarities to the story of ‘Jesus Christ’, and THAT is one way to know they are all false Messiahs made up by satan (who USED to be in Heaven with Yahuwah, before he rebelled and tried to be God) and who knew how the TRUE Messiah was going to be, therefore was able to make up all these similar stories for the false gods to confuse us with.
Some people use these ‘false gods’ stories to say that the Christian Messiah is just another one of them and part of mythology, and not real, but the REAL Messiah was born on the Feast of Trumpets, September 11th in 3 B.C., not in December, died on the Passover at thirty-three years old, not on ‘Good Friday’, and rose from the dead just as Feast of Firstfruits was about to begin at sunset on Saturday, the Sabbath, and the tomb was found empty ON Feast of Firstfruits during the night (after sunset) on Sunday, not Easter Sunday, and not the Spring Equinox! That is how to tell the real Messiah from all the fake Messiahs.
Any so-called Messiah
who was born on a pagan holiday is a false Messiah. Yahuwah’s Feast days ALL
point to Him, and they are NEVER on pagan days. I will devote a chapter to
explaining Yahuwah’s Feast days and why we, and not just the Jews, are to
celebrate them. But this is all a very important reason to REFUSE to celebrate
the birth of the true Messiah, Yahushuwa (not Jesus) in December! Below is the list of pagan deities:
Adad and Marduk of Assyria;
Alcides of Thebes;
Apollo, Hercules, and Zeus of Greece;
Attis, the Son of God of Phrygia;
Baal (Bel) and Taut of Phoenicia;
Bali of Afghanistan;
Beddru of Japan;
Bremrillaham of the Druids;
Buddha Sakia and Indra of India and Tibet;
Cadmus of Greece;
Chu Chulainn of Ireland;
Crite of Chaldea;
Dahzbog of the Slavs;
Deva Tat, Codom, and Sammonocadam of Siam;
Dionysus or Bacchus, the Son of God of Greece;
Divine Teacher of Plato;
Fohi, Ieo, Lao-Kium, Chiang-Ti, and Tien of China;
Gentaut and Quetzalcoatl of Mexico;
Hesus or Eros;
Hil and Feta of Mandaites;
Holy One of Xaca;
Ischy of Formosa;
Ixion and Quirnus of Rome;
Jao of Nepal;
Jupiter, Jove (pronounced yah whey), and Quirinius of Rome;
Krishna (Christ), the Son of God of India;
Mikado of the Sintoos;
Mithra of Persia, India, and Rome.
Mohammed or Mahomet of Arabia,
Odin, Balder, and Frey of Scandinavia;
Osiris and Horus of Egypt;
Prometheus of the Caucasus;
Salivahana of southern India and Bermuda;
Thor, son of Odin, of Gauls;
Universal Monarch of the Sibyls;
Wittoba of Bilingonese;
Xamobds of Thrace;
Zoar of the Bonzes;
Zoroaster of Persia
(The list above came from the book
“Children of the Matrix” by David Icke. I do not recommend Icke as a
source of information because I think he’s a bit strange, but I wanted this
list.)
Christmas
day was made an official holiday by Pope Julius I in 340 AD. In 529 AD, the
Emperor Justinian made it a civic holiday. It was outlawed in the United States
until the 1800’s because of its occult nature, by the states and many mainline
Christian religions (Methodists, Baptists, etc.)
SANTA CLAUS: Many people have heard the story of Saint Nicholas. He was a bishop who lived in Asia Minor in the fourth century, who gave candy to children and gifts to poor people. Christian mothers often tell the story of this man to their children to explain to them who Santa Claus is. However, he is not the only one whom Santa represents, and the part of his story that does relate to Santa Claus has been distorted so severely that people worship Saint Nicholas as a god. Let's expose the real Santa Claus!
During his life he did some kind things. Before he became a bishop, he was wealthy. He found out about a father of three daughters who did not have enough money to give them dowries and who was afraid no suitable young men would marry them. The man was about to sell his oldest daughter into slavery so she would not have to starve. Nicholas tossed a bag filled with gold into their open window one night and hurried home so they would not know who did it. The father was very grateful and arranged a marriage for his daughter. The same thing happened with his next oldest daughter, because he was still poor, and Nicholas threw another bag of gold through the window. When it came time for his third daughter to be married, he did not make plans to sell her, although he was still poor. He waited in the shadows to see if the stranger would throw another bag of gold through his window, and caught Nicholas one night and thanked him. Nicholas made him promise not to tell anyone, so he kept it a secret until he was on his deathbed. This kind act of Nicholas helped earn him the title of a saint.
He was born in Asia Minor, now Turkey, in about 280 AD. Nicholas means ‘hero of the people’ in Greek. But it also is a well-known name for the devil. His parents taught him to think of others before himself. They died of a plague when he was about twelve. Nicholas gave much of his inheritance to charity and devoted himself to studying religion. He became a Catholic priest at age nineteen, and soon afterwards he became a bishop. This tall, thin man was known for his kindness and many joined the Catholic church because of him.
In
303 AD, when Roman emperor Diocletian ordered all citizens of the Roman Empire
to worship him as god, the Christians refused. Many were imprisoned and
tortured, including Bishop Nicholas. He lived in a small cell for more than
five years, but remained faithful to God, and encouraged the others to do so
also. When Constantine began to rule he ‘acted’ (actually, he was evil, and
that is why I said ‘acted’) more sympathetic than Diocletian. He released the
Christian prisoners in 313 (however, he murdered believers who kept the
Biblical Sabbath and Feast days of our Messiah, so no, he was not a ‘good’
man!) From then on, Nicholas served as Bishop of Myra. He converted many people
to Catholicism before he died on December sixth, in about 343 AD.
According
to history (or myth), Nicholas experienced an episode of being carried away
supernaturally to another location, like Phillip did in Acts 8:39-40. A
ship was damaged and sinking in a storm, and the crew prayed to Bishop Nicholas
because they heard he had miraculous powers. Then they supposedly looked up and
saw him fly down through the clouds in his red bishop’s robes and land on the
ship’s deck, and the storm stopped. He prayed with them to thank God for the
miracle, helped them push the ship off the rocks and flew up into the sky as he
had arrived. Later, the captain and crew went to his church and asked him how
he did that. He told them that from an early age he has been able to see people
in danger, hear their cries for help and go help them. He said it was God’s
will and did not take personal credit for it. Nicholas encouraged them all to
devote their lives to God.
After he died, his remains were stored in a shrine built for him. People called him a saint, and they came to this shrine to pray to him to ask for his help. There is a story about a fisherman’s son named Basil who was kidnaped one December sixth by Arab pirates. They made him the cupbearer for their ruler. A year later his parents went to Nicholas’ shrine and prayed for their son. That evening their son appeared in their courtyard wearing Arab clothes and holding a silver cup. He said he was serving a meal when he was suddenly raised into the sky by Saint Nicholas. Nicholas said he was returning him home because his parents prayed so hard for him that morning. Through this he became known as the protector of children. There is no proof that these stories really happened, and I don’t believe they did. Although Nicholas did do some good deeds, he was actually an evil man. I’ll explain shortly.
People believed so much in the supernatural things Saint Nicholas supposedly did, that they began setting out empty shoes and stockings on December sixth, Saint Nicholas Day, after he died. They believed he rode around town on a donkey or beautiful white horse, wearing a red and white robe and carrying a staff. Our Messiah is described in Revelation 19 as coming on a white horse with a sharp sword, and the anti-messiah is described on a white horse with a bow, to conquer in Revelation 6:2. So is Nicholas patterned after one of these? Keep reading!
Dutch
children put wooden clogs filled with straw for the donkey and an apple for
Black Peter, Nicholas’ assistant, on the fireplace hearth. So far this sounds
like an exaggerated myth about Bishop Nicholas after his death, but it gets
very ugly. Now we are getting to the other origins of Santa Claus, and the
demonic hearth gods.
These people were not honoring the dead Saint Nicholas. They believed his spirit roamed around after his death, rewarding good children and punishing ‘bad’ children. Yahuwah does not send angels to punish bad children, nor does he send spirits of dead people to roam around or punish anyone.
They believed Nicholas defeated the devil and made him his servant, Black Peter, or Krampus. He was a horned creature with fiery red eyes, a long red tongue and soot on his face.
He was believed to follow the ghost of Nicholas carrying a sack or trunk of presents for the good children, and birch rods for spankings for the bad ones. He is even said to eat bad children.
He climbed down chimneys to deliver the gifts. Here are some pictures of Krampus that are actually used as Christmas cards for children in Germany and other countries:
Wow! There are some sick people out there – they actually give these cards to children! Here is a video about Santa that you won't want to miss. I put some comments into it because I believe he got some information wrong. Otherwise I would have just linked you to the original video.
Most believers do not know about the demonic fire or hearth gods that our modern-day Santa represents more accurately than he represents the man known as Bishop Nicholas. The only part about Santa that seems to come from Bishop Nicholas when he was alive is the gift giving and kindness to children, and as a ghost with his 'black Peter' he certainly shouldn't be considered 'kind to children'. He wore a red bishop coat, but it did not look like our modern Santa outfit as much as the hearth god’s outfits did. The red suit and pointed cap lined with white fur, coming down through the fireplace, making his list and knowing if children are naughty or nice, the reindeer who have the ability to levitate, elves, the ability to travel the entire world in one night, leaving snacks for him on Christmas Eve, etc., all come from demon worship.
In
the different countries there are many different ‘gift givers’ or hearth gods
(demons). They all have different characteristics, yet all are similar.
Americans call him ‘Santa Claus’. The British and French call him ‘Father
Christmas’, and the Dutch call him ‘St. Nicholas’, or ‘Sinter Claes’. The
Germans call him ‘Christkindl’. The Swedish call him ‘Jultomten’. They also
honor the woman ‘Saint Lucia’, who they say brings gifts and reveals the future.
The Norse god of the Scandinavian countries is ‘Odin’. Norwegians call their
gift giver ‘Jule-nissen’. In India it is ‘Agni’, and in China it is ‘Tsao
Wang’. In Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Argentina and Brazil,
there are three gift givers, the ‘Three Wise Men’, who they claim bring gifts
on January fifth. Italians call the female gift giver ‘Befana’ and the Russians
call her ‘Baboushka’. Polish children believe their gifts come from the stars.
Hungarians say the angels bring them.
Father Christmas came in the 1500’s. During
the Reformation, Martin Luther challenged the worshiping of saints and many
people stopped worshiping Saint Nicholas. Instead of giving up the worship of
idols, they began worshiping Father Christmas, and moved the day from December
fifth to December twenty-fourth. He came from the Roman god Saturn. The
Saturnalia feast was given in honor of him. King Saturn was a demon idol.
Father Christmas was pictured wearing a scarlet robe lined with fur. He wore a
crown of mistletoe, holly or ivy and he symbolized holiday feasting,
drunkenness and revelry.
Christkindl’s name
(Christ Child) was later simplified to ‘Kriss Kringle’. People believed the
‘Christ’ child himself delivered gifts by traveling on a pure white donkey.
This is ridiculous, because Yahushuwa had grown up, been crucified and rose
from the dead. He was not a child anymore. On Christmas Eve, German children
left out plates and bread baskets for the gift giver to fill with cookies, nuts
and candy, and they left bundles of straw for the donkey. They believed
Christkindl left food, hats, scarves, mittens and toys. Sometimes he left birch
rods to remind the children to be good.
The
Norse god called ‘Odin’ was believed to have wandered among his people during
the Yule season to reward or punish those who deserved it. He had a gray beard
and wore a blue cloak with a wide-brimmed hat which he pulled over one eye. The
Druids honored him by tying apples and other things to tree branches. The oak
tree was their sacred tree, so they probably tied these to oak tree branches.
People still worship the devil under the name Odin, as well as Thor, Sif and other Norse gods. They are called the Odin Brotherhood, and are a polytheistic secret society who believe that the worship of just one god is absurd. To be initiated, a new member must cut themselves three times with a dagger and devote their blood to the gods. Faith is considered a poison that paralyzes the mind, so they seek knowledge instead of faith. They believe they can realize their ‘divinity’ by becoming strong and self-reliant. They do not believe in sin or repentance. If one dies, their soul cannot enter the ‘White-Kingdom’, one of three ‘other-worlds’, unless it exits through a gaping wound, so they believe it is best to die a violent death. And they do not believe in hell.
Jule-nissen
wears red, has long white whiskers, and is said to live in a manger in a stable
during the year. He is only visible at Christmas.
‘Agni’
was the god of the altar fire, and represented the trinity of life. This
idol demon god was believed to be the mediator between people and their gods,
like Yahushuwa is our mediator between us and Yahuwah. This is a demon in
place of Yahushuwa! He was red and white and had two faces. One face was
probably to see the old year pass, and the other to see the new year come, like
with the two-faced January fire god. Vedic hymns show that Agni was present in
each home to guard, reward and punish the families according to what they
deserved. People who worshiped fire and sun gods expressed appreciation to the
all-seeing eye or Heavenly Eye. Modern New Age believers still do. There is a
symbol of a big eye at the top of a pyramid, on our one-dollar bills, which
represents this, and is also the main symbol of the satanic group called the
Illuminati. This god supposedly watched everyone and they had better be good or
he would punish them. For thousands of years the hearth god has played this
role.
The Chinese were very serious about their hearth spirit named ‘Tsao Wang’. They kept their houses squeaky clean when the old spirit was expected to be there, to help placate him. If they were afraid he would say bad things about them in heaven they smeared syrup on the lips of his picture to seal them, when he was due to make his yearly trip to heaven to report to the gods on all the people. This trip was said to happen at Christmas time. He returns at Christmas with favors according to whether the people were bad or good. This demon named Tsao Wang wore a red jacket and pointed red cap. Dolls that represent this god were set in niches by the fireplace or on the mantle (and still are!) Do these Father Christmas dolls look familiar to you? You see them with the Christmas decorations in many retail stores:
People
whispered (and still do) their secrets and concerns to the spirit in the
chimney or oven, or to the doll, so the ‘friend’ would intercede for them in
heaven. The fireplace is the natural entrance and exit of this spirit because
he is a fire god.
Catholic Bishop Nicholas became Santa. Now you’re wondering “what did he do that was so evil?” Now, as far as St. Nicholas not actually being a ‘good’ man – did you happen to notice the Catholic ‘fish’ hat he is wearing in many of the pictures?
The pope wears these too. Perhaps you have noticed that and not known what it stands for. Remember when I talked about a merman being ‘Dagon’, the pagan man/fish god mentioned in the Bible? The pope wears the same hat at times that the priests of Dagon wore, and so did St. Nicholas.
It has to do with worshipping the fish god Dagon (they used to wear real parts of large fishes), who is Nimrod after he died and became a ‘deity’, who’s birthday was said to be on December 25th, and who is a demonic pagan god. Nimrod (Dagon) was originally a real man, Noah’s great grandson, is the one who married his mother, Semiramis, who was believed to reincarnate into the Spring Goddess, Eostre (Easter) and together they sacrificed babies to Molech on December 25th and March 25th (during Easter time). Sound like a nice guy?
Genesis10:9 “He was
a mighty hunter before Yahuwah: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty
hunter before Yahuwah.” Sounds like a positive description of him? One wise
person looked up the Hebrew word for ‘before’ in this verse and it was not a
positive description. He hunted PEOPLE, sacrificing babies to Molech ‘before’
(blatantly right in front of) Yahuwah – in other words, he had no shame and did
this evil stuff to mock Yahuwah.
“According to Egyptian mythology, when the judges found Osiris (Nimrod) guilty of corrupting the religion of Adam and cut up his body, they threw the parts into the Nile. It was said that a fish ate one of these chunks and became transformed. Later, Isis (Semiramis) was fishing along the river bank when she fished up a half-man, half-fish. This sea creature was Dagon, the reincarnated Nimrod. And Dagon is the representation of Nimrod (of ancient Babylon) resurrecting out of the ocean depths as a half-man, half-fish. Dagon is the diminutive of dag, and signifies... fish...The Babylonians believed that a being, part man and part fish, emerged from the Erythraean Sea, and appeared in Babylonia in the early days of its history Representations of this fish-god have been found among the sculptures of Nineveh. The Philistine Dagon was of a similar character.” (“Manners and Customs of the Bible” by James Freeman.)
The present pope even mentioned changing the Ten Commandments to make them more user friendly. They believe they have the right to make these changes because they believe the Pope is the vicar of Christ and can do as he pleases. In fact, this new video above just came out this month (it's presently November 14, 2022 as I edit this part):
The Pope or his buddy (which we believe is Trump as the Little Horn in Daniel or the main anti-messiah) will soon set up a ‘throne’ in Jerusalem, commit an abomination of desolation such as proclaim himself to be God and/or sacrifice a pig at the altar. This is when the 3 ½ year tribulation will begin in the near future (I believe in the Spring of 2025).
The Vatican is a hell hole where child sacrifices take place, secretly, as they worship satan and not Yahuwah. Most people do not know this, but Islam was created by the Catholics/Vatican! When the Vatican takes over Jerusalem the Pope will convince the Christians, Jews and Muslims to live together peacefully. Then he will reveal his true identity, an anti-Messiah, and the tribulation begins.
Judges 16:23: “Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them
together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice;
for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
1st Samuel 5:2-7: “When the Philistines took the ark
of Yahuwah, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. And
when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon
his face to the earth before the ark of Yahuwah. And they took Dagon, and set
him in his place again. And when they arose early on the morrow morning,
behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of Yahuwah;
and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the
threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him. Therefore neither the
priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold
of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day. But the hand of Yahuwah was heavy upon them
of Ashdod , and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and
the coasts thereof. And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said,
The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us, for his hand is sore upon
us, and upon Dagon our god.”
And the dumb morons got rid of the Ark of Yahuwah instead of getting rid of their demon pagan idol Dagon!
The Jewish people are Yahuwah’s
‘chosen people’. They have often rebelled against His laws and statutes, as you
read about in the beginning of this book, but He promises in His word that they
will return to Him and He will forgive them and He will be their God and they
will be His people. When we get born-again, we are grafted in to one of the
tribes of Jews. You also read about that earlier. Therefore, we also become His
people, even if we are not Jews by birth, and we are to obey His laws and
statutes just as the Jews are, because we are one of them. When Yahushuwa died
on the cross for our sins, he did it voluntarily. It was planned for a long
time before it happened. He is God, Yahuwah, in the form of a human, and chose
to do this for His beloved people who have strayed away from Him.
However, Saint Nicholas, being a senior
bishop in the Catholic church, made this statement that Jews are “children of
the devil that killed our Lord Jesus.” The Jewish
Pharisees (the hypocrites, not the Jews who recognized that He was the Messiah
and followed Him) ordered the crucifixion of Yahushua, and it was the Roman
soldiers who killed Him. They are where the Roman Catholics come from, the
great harlot church that the Bible talks about. The Catholic church has
murdered somewhere between 50 to 100 million people throughout history, more
than any other group or religion. "And in her was found the blood of
prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." (Rev
18:24 KJV)
The Council of
Nicea, which Nicholas was a part of, made this rule “Those who openly or
secretly keep the Sabbath and follow other practices
in the manner of the Jews are not to be received into communion, nor into
prayer, nor into the church....” And the Council of Laodicea said “It is not
permitted to receive festivals which are by Jews, nor to hold a festival
together with them. Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but
must work on that day...but if any be found to be Judaizers let them be
anathema from Christ.” Constantine reigned from 306–337 AD and Sylvester 1 was
the Pope during much of this time period. Sylvester said “If every
Sunday is to be observed joyfully by the Christians on account of the
resurrection, then every Sabbath on account of the burial is to be execration
(loathing or cursing) of the Jews”
For a really good series explaining about the 7th Day Sabbath, watch this video series: THE SEVENTH DAY PART 1 OF 11, ENGLISH VERSION
Constantine became self-appointed Bishop of
the Catholic Church and in 321 AD he created the first law regarding the
sun-god worship day (Sunday), forcing it on everyone whether they agreed with
it or not. “On the venerable day of the sun let the magistrate and people
residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country
however, persons engaged in agricultural work may freely and lawfully continue
their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable
for grain growing or for vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment
for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost.”
Then in 325 AD, Pope Sylvester made Sunday the official “Lord’s Day”, even though the Bible says Yahushua is the Lord of the Sabbath, which shows us that the 7th day Sabbath is actually the ‘Lord’s Day”. And in 338 AD, Constantine’s court bishop Eusebius wrote “All things whatsoever that it was the duty to do on the Sabbath (the seventh day of the week) we (Constantine, Eusebius, and other bishops) have transferred to the Lord’s Day (the first day of the week) as more appropriately belonging to it.”
So there it is. Constantine and the Pope and their cohorts, including St.
Nicholas, decided that they have authority to change the word of Yahuwah, to
change dates and times, to change the commandments to
their liking, and force these changes on everyone else. So if Santa Claus was
really a take-off of St. Nicholas, he represents a Jew hater and a man who
believed in changing Yahuwah’s commandments and punishing anyone who chose to
obey the Scriptures instead of the Catholic church leaders. Kind of sounds like
this Scripture about the anti-Messiah is talking about someone with the same
spirit: "And he shall speak great
words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and
think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until
a time and times and the dividing of time." (3 1/2 years) Daniel 7:25.
They made these rules even though the Bible says that keeping Yahuwah’s Sabbaths holy is the main sign showing the world that we are His people, and ‘throughout your generations’ means that it never ends. Exodus 31:13 “Speak you also unto the children of Yisra’el, saying, Verily my sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahuwah that does sanctify you. Above all, keep my sabbaths”
So, if Sabbath keeping is the sign that we are
Yah’s people, like ‘God’s seal’, then those who forbid the Sabbath are of the
anti-christ, NOT part of Yahuwah’s people! The Bible says that those who don’t
keep the Sabbath day holy will be cut off from Yahuwah’s people, and are worthy
of death, yet the Catholics punished and even killed
people who did keep it, and St. Nicholas was a part of this as a Catholic
Bishop. And they made these rules even though the Messiah kept the Sabbaths and
festivals, and never did away with them, they were kept after He was crucified,
and Scriptures teach that they will be kept in the Millenium and when the New
Jerusalem comes to earth for us to spend eternity in (Heaven).
On Christmas day, during Saturnalia
celebrated on December 25th, it was the custom to do a ritual
sacrificing of a Jew. Nicholas was in agreement with this. He was not a ‘good’
man. He was an evil man who participated in worship of pagan demon gods and who
hated Yahuwah’s beloved people, the Jews, and supported torturing and murdering Jews every December 25th.
Yes,
they killed Christians for these things, they didn’t just evict them from the
‘church’, even burned them at the stake – basically did the same to them as
they did to witches (not that I support burning ANYONE at a stake) for obeying
Yahuwah’s commandments in the Bible rather than obeying the leaders of the
Catholic church! Queen Isabella, in the Inquisition, even had Christians hunted
down in far-away lands and had them murdered for keeping the 7th day
Sabbath. This whole attitude was perfectly fine with St. Nicholas (who has a
name that is used for satan), as he was at the council meetings and signed the
documents!
During Saturnalia in the fourth century,
while Nicholas was partially in charge, people were allowed to rape, murder,
sacrifice humans including children and babies, have orgies, sing carols in the
streets naked, etc, and were not punished for breaking any laws during this
festival. The Roman courts were closed and the people could do as they pleased.
They believed the sun god and the god of the dead had a battle every winter and
this weakened the sun god, causing the
colder weather and shorter days. Since the shortest day of the year is in
December, the sun god worshippers gave sacrifices to these pagan gods to
empower the sun to shine longer making the days longer again. Each Roman
community chose someone they considered an enemy of
the Roman people, often a Jew, and after indulging that person in lots of food
throughout the week, they’d brutally murder that person on December 25th,
claiming to be destroying the forces of darkness.
Most of the pagan gods of the world are said to have been born on December 25th, and many are depicted by a virgin mother with a baby god who came to save the world. In an attempt to ‘convert’ pagans to ‘christiantiy’, the Pope declared December 25th as the birthday of our savior, whom they deliberately renamed ‘Jesus’. He thought if he allowed the pagans to continue their festivals as ‘Christmas’, all would be content. So, the early Christmases included drunkenness, fornication, caroling in the streets naked, etc., and today's Christmases include all but the singing in the streets naked.
So, St. Nicholas was not an
innocent cute roly poly Santa Claus type of person that many people think he
is. He was a part of this changing the holy days of Yahuwah to pagan holidays
of satan, and in agreement with the punishment of those who opposed the
Catholic church, plus in agreement with the murder of Jews and the killing of
children and babies.
Please do not lie to your children and tell them there is a Santa Claus who rides in the sky in a sleigh or a St Nicholas who was a loving kind man that gave gifts to children. Yes he gave gifts to some children, but the other part is a lie. The Bible says it is a sin to lie. Those who willfully sin end up in the Lake of Fire. Santa is portrayed as one who sees you when you are sleeping, knows if you have been bad or good.... Only Yahuwah can do that.... or sometimes demons. Children should not be taught to think there is one who is omnipotent (unlimited and with universal power) except Yahuwah.
The
story of Santa is a lie and is not for born-again believers’ kids. Santa is
part of America’s Christmas tradition and many people do not want to give him
up nor do they want to give Christmas up and keep the Biblical Feast days that
our Creator commands us to keep! The Bible has something to say about our
traditions that go against Yahuwah’s Word.
Mark
7:7-9
“Howbeit
in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For
laying aside the commandment of Yahuwah, ye hold the tradition of men, as the
washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said
unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of Yahuwah, that ye may keep
your own tradition.”
Yahuwah’s
commandments instruct us to celebrate Yahuwah’s Feast days, and Yom Teruah
(Feast of Trumpets) is the one that is our Messiah’s birthday. There are no
commandments to celebrate His birthday, but there are none saying not to either.
Let’s just get the right day.
Mark
7:13
“Making
the Word of Yahuwah of none effect through your tradition, which ye have
delivered: and many such like things do ye.”
Yahuwah does not want us to lay aside His commandments so we can keep our traditions! If our traditions go against His Word, we are to give them up.
In Egypt they used palm trees. This had to do with the pagan messiah Baal-Tamar. In Rome they used fir trees. They decorated them with offerings to the fire or solar gods. In other places they used pine trees. Elves and fairies were believed to live in the forest among the trees (and still are by many New Age believers). In modern times people often hang elves and fairies on their trees. Remember, fairies represent sexual demons that rape and molest people. You should not use these for decorations in your home or anywhere else.
There
is Scripture that refer to the people cutting down evergreen trees, nailing
them to their floors so they will not fall down, and decorating them with
silver and gold. Yahuwah tells us in Jeremiah
10:2 not to learn their ways.
Jeremiah
10:2-5
says
“Thus saith Yahuwah, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at
the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of
the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the
hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold; they
fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as
the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.
Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to
do good.”
It says they cannot do evil nor good. The worship of them is done in vain. That is like if someone cut a tulip from their garden and brought it in to worship as a god. That would be quite stupid. The tulip is not a god and they would be worshiping it in vain. The tulip could not harm anyone. It is just a flower that Yahuwah created for our enjoyment and there is nothing wrong with bringing it into our homes to appreciate its beauty. People used to worship peaches, and they were symbols of immortality. They did this in vain also. Peaches are delicious fruits that Yahuwah made for our consumption. There is nothing wrong with bringing them into our homes and devouring them! Even if we decorate them by putting them in a pretty bowl with a ribbon around it so they look nice, they are still just tulips and peaches, and are not evil.
So
are evergreen trees, even if we decorate them with good things, like ribbons or
little fake birds and nests or lights (I’m talking about a year-round type of
thing, not doing this for Christmas). So are pumpkins. If we worship things, they can do us no harm, but if
they have demons in them, the demons can harm us. And we harm ourselves by
worshiping idols because when we do we separate ourselves from Yahuwah. But if
we decorate the evergreen tree with Christmas decorations and/or use it to
celebrate Christmas, or we carve faces in the pumpkins and/or use them to
celebrate Halloween, then we are not walking in obedience to our Maker, and THAT defiles us.
Creations
of Yahuwah, often called works of nature, do not attract demons unless we
attach them to familiar occult items. If they did, we would have to walk around
suspicious of everything that exists, because almost every creation of Yahuwah
has been used in demon worship at some time in history. That is superstition.
We could not have any food, because people offered meats, grains, fruits and
vegetables to idols. We would have to forget about having pets or livestock
because cats, dogs, birds, horses, cows, goats, etc., were used in witchcraft
and satanism. All plants, water, air and earth would have to be banned, because
they are worshiped in witchcraft. At this point we would be dead meat! Even
people would be off limits, because satanists believe people are gods, and
worship themselves. Therefore, we could not exist! So I am not telling you to
never bring any type of evergreen tree into your home. It is the celebration of
Christmas and using the tree in a pagan way that is the problem. Some people
like to grow little pine trees or palm trees in their homes year-round, and
wrap little lights around them because it’s pretty, and I do not believe this
is wrong, because evergreen trees are not evil. Even Yahuwah had His people
use them at times. 1 Kings, chapter six, talks about Solomon building the house
of Yahuwah:
1
Kings 6:11-14
“And
the word of Yahuwah came to Solomon, saying, Concerning this house which thou
art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments,
and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with
thee, which I spake unto David thy father: And I will dwell among the children
of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel. So Solomon built the house,
and finished it.”
He decorated it with
carvings of palm trees laden with gold, among other things. A palm tree is
considered one of the ‘evergreen’ trees.
1
Kings 6:29-30
“And
he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of
cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without. And the floor of
the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.”
1
Kings 6:32
“The
two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims
and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and
spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.”
1
Kings 6:35
“And
he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered
them with gold fitted upon the carved work.”
The idea of having trees, carvings of trees or things carved out of trees decorated with gold was all right with Yahuwah, when it was done to glorify Yahuwah and not the devil. The problem was that when they cut down the trees and decorated them, they were doing it in association with a demonic pagan holiday. Christmas is a demonic pagan holiday, and so was the worship of Nimrod and others. Growing a palm tree or fir tree, etc., in your home, as long as you are not doing it to celebrate a pagan holiday or to honor a pagan god is not going to be a problem with Yahuwah. Christmas trees ARE a problem with Yahuwah! Well, I hope you take this information to heart, rather than ignore it like most people do, and start celebrating the Messiah’s birth on the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah), because even though the Bible doesn’t say to do it to honor His birth, the Bible says to celebrate that holy day because it’s a commandment of Yahuwah. You don’t have to add in the celebration of Yahushuwa’s birthday, but if you want to, that’s the right time to do it.
And if you want a celebration in the winter, there is always Hanukkah! There is no commandment to celebrate it, but there is no reason not to. Yahushuwa was ‘conceived’ on Hanukkah, and it is the festival of lights, and He is the light of the world. There is an account in the Bible of Him attending it also. It’s called the Feast of Dedication, and is in remembrance of when the Maccabees defeated an anti-christ who took over Jerusalem and the temple in the Bible days. It lasts eight days, and you can give gifts for the eight days if you want to. That may excite the children. There are some that say it is wrong to celebrate it, but we believe they are straining at gnats. It is a good civil holiday even though not a Biblical holy day, and if you are using it as a replacement for Christmas – so what?! It is a good replacement, just don’t celebrate His birth at that time, but you certainly could celebrate His conception at that time.
GIFT GIVING at Christmas may have began in the occult worship of the ‘man of the branch’ or the good things that the hearth gods supposedly brought, as I mentioned earlier. Here is a quote from csmonitor.com with information on the origins of the gift giving:
CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS came from putting out shoes and stockings for the Christmas gift givers, such as St. Nicholas, to leave presents in.
MISTLETOE was a plant that the
Druids considered sacred. They were very careful to cut it from the oak tree in
a special way, with a golden sickle. It could not touch the ground, and that is
the reason people hang it in modern times. They hung it over doorways just like
people do now days because they believed it brought the home protection,
happiness and healing. They believed it was a divine branch that came out of
the sacred oak tree, and represented their messiah (not Yahushuwa), like the
Christmas tree that came out of the Yule log. They called this messiah ‘the Man
of the Branch’. The white berries stood for the radiance that came from heaven.
They also thought it helped women get pregnant if they were having trouble, so married people kept mistletoe in their homes for this purpose. If a Phoenician woman was sterile for a long time, she was encouraged to have a one-time sexual relation with a stranger. She went to the temple of the goddess Mylitta, goddess of love and fertility, and sat under mistletoe until the stranger (a male temple prostitute) saw her and greeted her with a kiss. He then took her into an alcove and had sex with her. A fee was charged for this and the money was used to keep up the temple. This is the wicked origin for kissing under the mistletoe.
It was also used to spark romance, as a love potion in witchcraft. It was customary to greet each other under it as a sign of friendship. Lovers, if they kissed under it, were believed to be protected from harm by the goddess of love and marriage. Now days people kiss other people’s spouses at parties if they are under the mistletoe. This is wrong! I do not hang mistletoe in my home at any time because I do not want to encourage people to kiss someone else’s spouse and because I do not like the witchcraft and prostitution uses of it, but mistletoe is a creation of Yahuwah and is not evil. Hanging it over doorways puts it in the evil association because people still believe they should kiss someone who is standing under it.
HOLLY was a symbol of eternal life to the Druids, because it remains green all year. Romans believed it strengthened their dwellings. People attached holly to their bedposts to ward off nightmares, like dream catchers. It is an occult practice. It was also used to keep evil spirits away, and as a male fertility help (Ivy was used for female fertility). The pointed leaves reminded Christians of the thorns in Yahushuwa’s crown, and the red berries reminded them of His blood. Since it is a plant created by Yahuwah, it is all right to bring it into our homes as long as we aren’t celebrating Christmas or using it for occult reasons. Holly plants make good decorations. Any natural thing that had a pagan use can be okay to use as long as we don’t use it as the pagans do. Displaying it to appreciate its natural beauty or qualities is fine. Just because pagans used holly, does not mean believers cannot use it also. Yahuwah created it and it is not evil. It is what we do with it that matters.
POINSETTIA plants came from Mexico. Mexicans called the plant ‘flower of the blessed night’. It was named after Dr. Joel Roberts Poinsett, who brought the plant to the United States in 1828. Its starlike shape reminds people of the star of Bethlehem, but it doesn’t bloom at the right time of the year to use for that reason. There is nothing wrong with having poinsettia plants. Yahuwah created them and they are beautiful. They brighten up the room and cheer us up, but we should not celebrate Christmas with them because we should not celebrate it at all!
WREATH refers to anything twisted, especially a circular band of flowers on a person’s head.
Yahushuwa’s crown of thorns was a wreath. The flower ring around the base of a centerpiece candle is a wreath.
Because it is a never-ending circle, it is also used to represent eternal life and permanent relationships.
The wedding ring represents the permanent relationship we have with a spouse.
At Christmas time people used to put wreaths made of evergreen boughs on their doors so something green was on the door. They did this at other times of the year as well. Below are some springtime wreaths. They believed if they put them on the doors or windows, the fairies would bless their homes. We can make wreaths to symbolize the never-ending circle of Yahuwah’s love to us and from us, or just for pretty decorations. I do not like to hang them on my door or window because of the ancient beliefs about them inviting fairies (demons) into the home.
WASSAILING came from fertility ceremonies held in apple orchards in the winters, where they became intoxicated on the fermented juice made from the fruit of apples as they drank to the health of the trees. They threw part of their drinks, and also stones, through the tree branches. They also shot bullets through the trees. This was supposed to drive out evil spirits and cause the trees to produce good crops of apples.
Wassail
comes from two Old English words, ‘waes hael’, which mean ‘good health’. In the
fourteenth century the wassail bowl was an alcoholic drink that consisted of
mulled ale, eggs, curdled cream, nutmeg, cloves and ginger, with floating
roasted apples. They served it in large wooden bowls. Young men went from house
to house carrying wassail bowls and singing carols, for food or tokens.
Now people serve eggnog in punch bowls. The carolers go from door to door singing Christmas songs, without the bowl containing the alcoholic beverage. Many people ‘spike’ the eggnog though, by mixing alcohol into it. There’s nothing wrong with drinking either of these drinks. The fertility ceremony is pagan. And doing any of this for Christmas celebration is pagan. Just drinking punch or eggnog is fine.
16 For by fire and by his sword will Yahuwah plead with all flesh: and the slain of Yahuwah shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith Yahuwah.
In 1650 the Puritans in Massachusetts outlawed Christmas because of its association with pagan rituals. They even made it illegal to make ‘figgy pudding’! This is true legalism. Figgy pudding is not evil, neither are roast turkeys, evergreen trees, wholesome parties, nor feasts.
CANDY CANES were made by a man who wanted to make a candy that represented Yahushuwa. A candy cane supposedly represents a shepherd’s staff. Yahushuwa is our Good Shepherd. The white stripe represents Yahushuwa because He was pure and without sin. The thick red lines represent His blood that He shed for us when He died on the cross. And the thin red lines represent the stripes He received on His back when He was beaten. Candy canes are not evil and whether you think of the above things when you eat one or not, they are good treats, and if made with real peppermint they can help sooth a stomach.
CHRISTMAS PARTIES AND
REVELRY:
People
today, including some of those who claim to be in relationship with ‘Jesus’,
still do some of the drunken parties and revelry. Christmas season is full of
parties, drunkenness, perversion and revelry. There are office parties where
they carry on the tradition of the servant ruling over the master, and the
employees take liberties with their bosses. At some of these parties the
secretaries and workers seduce their bosses and supervisors, and slip off into
vacant rooms with them to have sex. They are dressed in sexy Christmas party
outfits and often drunk.
More suicides happen at Christmas time than any other time of year (except maybe Easter time). This is due to severe depression of many people during the holidays. All of this is due to the ‘holiday spirit’, or demons. They really play on people’s emotions to convince them of how lonely they are, or how broke they are, etc. This holiday spirit is topped off with New Year’s Eve parties which I will talk about separately.
Below is an anti-Christmas card I made with a good message on it. I used to love decorating for Christmas, especially the tree, and the picture on this card is the last Christmas tree I had before I gave it up.
EASTER:
Easter actually has NOTHING to do
with the death and resurrection of our Messiah. The Passover does. He died on
the Passover (as our Passover Lamb), which was on a Wednesday in that year, He
was in the grave for three days and three nights, as it says in the book of
Jonah.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8 “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Yahushuwa our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and t truth.”
John 1:29 “The next day John saw Yahushuwa coming toward him and said, "Behold! The Lamb of Yahuwah who takes away the sin of the world!”
Jonah 1:17 “Now Yahuwah had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”
Matthew 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.”
Three days and three
nights is seventy-two hours. He did NOT die on a ‘good Friday’ and then raise
from the dead on Sunday morning, a day and a half later! Simple math! He rose
from the dead as the first day of the week was beginning (early Sunday morning,
which on the Hebrew calendar begins at sunset Saturday), and which is called
the Feast of Firstfruits (as He was the firstfruits to raise from the dead).
1 Corinthians 15:20 (RNV) “But now the Anointed is risen
from the dead and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”
Feast of Firstfruits is always on a Sunday during Passover week, regardless of when Passover begins. Celebrating Passover is one of the commandments of Yahuwah. Celebrating Easter is forbidden, because it’s a pagan holiday. You need to study out the Feast days of Yahuwah and do them instead of pagan holidays. You say “Oh no! It’s too complicated!” No it’s not. It’s just new to you. You have done the wrong holidays all of your life so it’s time to make a change and start obeying Yahuwah and doing His commanded holy days instead of manmade pagan holidays. It’s not hard. We don’t have to do the sacrifices part of them, nor go to ‘the temple’, so they are not complicated at all.
Yahushuwa instructs us to keep the Passover in remembrance of Him. This is NOT communion as the Catholics taught us. 1 Corinthians 11:25 “After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.” And we are instructed by Paul to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which starts the day after Passover and lasts a week, and is considered part of the Passover. 1 Corinthians 5:7 “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
There
is an Egyptian story that says a huge egg fell out of heaven and landed in the
Euphrates River. It was rolled to the bank by fish, sat on by doves and
hatched, and Ishtar, the reincarnation of Semiramis, was born from it. They
changed her name to Astarte (she actually has many names as I’ve already
mentioned), the Syrian fertility goddess, one of the names that Easter came
from. Eggs are also symbols of fertility.
Another story is that the egg represents the ark that saved Noah’s family during the great flood, as the egg saves the baby chick until it hatches. As the fathers of the whole world were inside the ark (the rest of mankind was drowned), the egg contained the elements of the new world inside it. As the ark floated, the egg floated until it came to shore and the dove hatched it. The dove in this story represents the dove that brought Noah the first twig of greenery after the flood subsided.
I think this is just a sugar-coated story that makes it seem Biblical, and some use eggs on Passover because of this, but this is not okay. It’s just incorporating the pagan ritual into a Passover activity, and the Passover instructions in the Bible do not say to do this. It amazes me how the people took these two beliefs of Easter demonic pagan worship and the worship of Yahuwah, and tried to make them into one. Yet the Roman church consecrated the egg of Astarte as a symbol of the resurrection of Yahushuwa. Pope Paul V even had them pray at Easter:
“Bless,
O Lord, we beseech Thee, this thy creature of eggs, that it may become a
wholesome sustenance unto thy servants, eating it in remembrance of our Lord
Jesus Christ…”114
Coloring the eggs comes from the pagan goddess requiring the people to sacrifice babies and use their blood to color eggs with red blood, in honor of her. The pagans put colored eggs in the fields to promote fertility of the crops, and they were hidden in the nests of rabbits (another fertility symbol) so the ‘evil spirits’ would not find them.
From all these different pagan beliefs we got our tradition of coloring Easter eggs, hiding them, hunting for them and eating them on Easter Sunday. If your children do Easter egg hunts they are participating in a pagan ritual.
There is
really nothing wrong with colored eggs as a form of artwork, but why not color
them another time of year just for the fun of it, and celebrate the
resurrection of Yahushuwa during the Passover on the Feast of Firstfruits, when
He really did rise again?
Mark
9:25-29
“When
Yahushuwa saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul
spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of
him, and enter no more into him. And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and
came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
But Yahushuwa took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. And when
he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we
cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by
prayer and fasting.”
The fasting which
takes place because of the observance of Lent comes from pagan worship.
Believers should celebrate the resurrection of Yahushuwa during Passover week,
on the Feast of Firstfruits, and ‘feast’ not ‘fast’ (because the Bible has no
commandment to fast during this time.)
Ezekiel
8:14-18
deals with the practice of Lent:
“Then
he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahuwah’s house which was toward the
north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Then said he
unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt
see greater abominations than these. And he brought me into the
inner court of Yahuwah’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of Yahuwah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with
their backs toward the temple of Yahuwah, and their faces toward the east; and
they worshipped the sun toward the east. Then he said unto me, Hast
thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that
they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the
land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put
the branch to their nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine
eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears
with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.”
HOT CROSS BUNS are made for Good
Friday, the day most people think that Yahushuwa died, but they were used to
worship Eastre fifteen-hundred years before Yahushuwa. They were offered to the
gods, and were called ‘Boun’, and are where we got our word ‘bun’.
Jeremiah 7:17-21 talks about the hot
cross buns and pagan worship:
Jeremiah 44:19-23 “And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not Yahuwah remember them, and came it not into his mind? So that Yahuwah could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against Yahuwah, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahuwah, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day”
Jeremiah 44:27-29 “Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. And this shall be a sign unto you, saith Yahuwah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:”
The white EASTER LILY symbolizes purity. Its cup is V-shaped and stands for the cup of life. There is nothing evil about an Easter Lily except its name.
Easter
is another time of year when demonic powers are high, as I said Christmas is.
Satanists celebrate the Black Mass or Black Sabbath on Easter. The devil hates
Yahushuwa so much and hates the fact that He died for our sins and triumphed
over him. Because of this, he has people, usually men, sacrificed every Easter
in a way similar to the way Yahushuwa was. The men represent ‘Jesus’, and the
devil tells the followers he has triumphed over Jesus.
Babies
are also a favorite sacrifice on Easter. Detective Jack Frazier said:
“We’ve
been getting a lot of information about occult holidays. We think we’ve discovered
a correlation between Easter week and occult related crime. From Palm Sunday to
Easter Sunday is the week for killing babies. We watch for kidnappings and that
sort of thing. The patients we’re dealing with have told us that babies are
killed during those days. One person says she has seen six babies killed during
that time period. Before we say something like this it has been verified with a
minimum of five separate people who don’t know each other, who have never
spoken to each other. Minimum five people. Some of these people have to be
sedated during Easter. It’s a bad, bad week for many of them.”115
Easter
Sunday is NOT something that believers should celebrate, but is a time when
believers should be remembering the innocent ones who are sacrificed, and
praying for their deliverance, and praying for the deliverance of those in the
occult. Sometimes people get so wrapped up in their own lives and celebrations
that they forget to intercede for those who suffer at the hands of the evil one
during the very moments they are laughing and singing!
NEW YEAR:
New Year's eve, December thirty-first, is a holiday known for rowdy partying and revelry. There is nothing wrong with celebrating the coming of the new year, but we should do it appropriately. In ancient times they, too, made lots of noise, and hollered and cheered when midnight came, as an attempt to send out the old year’s evils and bring in a good beginning to the new year. Going to New Year's Eve parties and getting high on drugs or alcohol is not ‘Christlike’ as they call it (or Messiah-like).
Romans 13:12-14 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Yahushuwa the Messiah, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.”
When I was a teenager I was not living for Yahuwah, nor did I know how to or that I should seek to, and my goal for this was to get drunk and party. Many teenagers look for a member of the opposite sex to spend the night with. I well remember the times my best friend’s mother became drunk on grasshoppers (a green alcoholic drink). She sat in front of the toilet the next day vomiting up what she swore were little green grasshoppers that were jumping out of the toilet! New Years day is known for hangovers. Now days we celebrate it at home as we thank Yahuwah for the blessings of the old year and ask him to bless the new one.
But this holiday also came from pagans:
ST. PATRICK’S DAY:
St.
Patrick’s Day, held on March seventeenth, is the day to honor the Christian man
named Saint Patrick, who was born in Britain in about 380 AD. Patrick was
raised in a Christian family until he was kidnaped at age sixteen, and taken to
Ireland to be a slave shepherd. After six years of praying, he escaped slavery.
The voice of an angel named Victor spoke to him and said “Soon you will go to
your own country. See, your ship is ready.” Yahuwah guided him as he walked
two-hundred miles, and he reached the sea. There was a ship there, and he went
back to Britain.
He
studied religion in France and became a priest, and later a bishop. This is
sounding too much like the story of St. Nicholas, who was evil. But what I’ve
read on St. Patrick so far was good. He was born a hundred years after St.
Nicholas. The same angel, Victor, showed him a vision in which he saw messages
from the Irish people and heard their voices asking him to return. They said
“Come walk among us once more.”116 Then he returned to Ireland to
tell the people about ‘Jesus’.
The Druids, who ruled the Irish people, predicted that a stranger would come who would end their way of life. They tried to kill Bishop Patrick many times. Once they chained him in iron for fourteen days. Another time they put poison in his drink. It turned to ice and he tossed it from his cup. He told them about ‘Jesus’ and converted many Druid priests into Catholic priests. The Catholics were no piece of cake, in fact throughout history they have been very evil, but the Druids were satan worshippers. Maybe this was a step up at that time. He built churches and schools in Ireland.
Patrick used three-leafed clovers, called shamrocks, to explain the concept of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit being one God. Seventy-thousand people were apparently born-again in thirty years because of his ministry. I have also heard that he was a Sabbath keeper. I don’t know how that worked, since he was a bishop, and the Catholics murdered Sabbath keepers a hundred years earlier.
He
is known for supposedly driving all the snakes out of Ireland. It is said that
they followed him to the sea and swam away. A friend borrowed his cloak once,
and it protected him from being burned in a large fire.
On 3/17/471, Patrick died, and later the Catholic church made him a saint. People pray to him to thank him for miracles. They believe he watches over them, and is the one who decides if they can get into Heaven when they die. Once again, a good man who supposedly worked miracles by the power of Yahuwah was made into an idol after his death. We are supposed to pray to Yahuwah, not saints. And Yahushuwa is the one who decides who can enter Heaven, according to whether their name is in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
The Irish carried short oak clubs that came from the forest, with green ribbons tied around them. They came from the Shillelagh, an old oak forest. They believed the sprig of the Shillelagh would bring them good luck. This "good luck" idea is superstition and occult, and we should avoid it. Oak Clubs, 4-leaf clovers, horse-shoes, rabbit's feet, and other things do not bring us good luck! Carrying oak clubs comes from the Druids worshiping under the ‘sacred oak trees’.
The tradition about kissing the Blarney stone for good luck is occult. "Kissing Ireland's Blarney Stone, a tradition that's been around for several centuries, is said to give a person the gift of eloquence and persuasiveness. The iconic stone is set in a wall of Blarney Castle, constructed in 1446 by Dermot McCarthy, king of Munster, on the site of a demolished 13th century castle." - (from History.com) "The Blarney Stone (Irish: Cloch na Blarnan) is a block of Carboniferous limestone built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, Blarney, about 8 kilometres (5 miles) from Cork, Ireland. According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of the gab (great eloquence or skill at flattery). The stone was set into a tower of the castle in 1446. The castle is a popular tourist site in Ireland, attracting visitors from all over the world to kiss the stone and tour the castle and its gardens." (from en.wikipedia.org)
We should not include the occult things if we choose to remember this man. Some people drink green beer and party in the bars on this day. We don't party nor hang out at bars, and we don't dress sleazy and get drunk! We sometimes eat some corned beef and cabbage and talk about the history of him occasionally, but don't 'celebrate' him. We just like corned beef and cabbage and this day reminds us of it so we make it sometimes.
ST. VALENTINE DAY:
I used to think the day honors the Roman priest Saint Valentine, who was considered a good man. Marriage was outlawed during his time and he secretly married some couples. The men were to go out to war and some of them wanted to marry their fiancés before they went, so that is why he secretly married them, and then let them spend a night together in the church. Those who didn’t know he had married them thought he was allowing fornication to go on in the church and he got in trouble for that. He was beheaded on February fourteenth, in about 270 AD. Valentine's Day is associated with romance because of this priest.
I’m going to quote a few paragraphs from Valentine’s Day & Nimrod: The Original Cupid By Maria Merola Wold, to help you understand what Valentine’s Day is all about, and then I’m giving a few more quotes from others to further explain it. Maria says:“Pictured to the left is an artist’s depiction of the original “Saint Valentine” of “Saturnia,” which was later on renamed as the city of “Rome.” According to Babylonian history, Nimrod was being pursued by a bounty hunt of men who were commissioned by Shem (the son of Noah) to find him and kill him for his many crimes against children. According to the book of Yasher (Jasher), it was Esau (the twin brother of Jacob) who ultimately killed Nimrod. Nimrod's demise is accurately described in Isaiah 14:12 where he is said to be “cut down to the ground,” just like a tree. Nimrod’s other alias is “Ba’al,” the god of the sun and the tree. This prophecy is about Satan himself who was once a “covering cherub” at the throne in heaven (see Ezekiel 28). After his rebellion towards the Most High, he was cast out of heaven and he masqueraded as the serpent in the Garden of Eden. But he also masqueraded as the “King of Tryus.” Tyrus was an ancient Phonecian city on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterranean Sea which today is called Lebanon. Nimrod’s crimes were many, but the most heinous of his crimes was the sacrificing of infants on the altar to Moloch (aka Satan). When Nimrod fled from his pursuers, he hid himself in the Mountains of Nembrod also called the Mountains of Nimrod. Today, these very same mountains are called the “Apennine Mountains” and they are located in Rome, Italy. These are the same mountains which surround the Vatican, otherwise known as “The Seven Hills of Rome.”” (end of quote from Maria’s blog)
Lupercalia:
St. Valentine's Day can be traced back to Lupercalia, the Roman "festival of sexual license." This purification and fertility festival that seems to have been uniquely Roman. "...there is no other Indo-European equivalent in Vedic, Scandinavian, Irish, or Indo-Iranian traditions." Its origin has been lost to us, although it might have been associated with protection from wolves (lupus in Latin). Even the Pagan Romans in the 1st century BCE had forgotten its source. - "Lupercalia She-Wolf," at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos607.htm
A group of male Pagan priests, called Luperci, had only a single function: to conduct the Lupercalia festival annually on FEB-15. Cicero described them as: "A certain wild association of Lupercalian brothers, both plainly pastoral and savage, whose rustic alliance was formed before civilization and laws..." (Cael. 26) The celebration was held in the Lupercal cave on the Palantine Hill in Rome. Here, it was believed, Romulus and Remus had been sheltered and fed by a she-wolf before they founded Rome. Two naked young priests, assisted by Vestal Virgins, would sacrifice a dog and a goat. The dog was probably a substitue for a wolf. (Some sources say that more than one goat was sacrificed. Blood from the animals was spread on the two priests' foreheads and wiped off with some wool dipped in milk. The priests then clothed themselves with loincloths made from the skin of the goat. They ran about the city, scourging women with februa (Latin for "means of purification"). These were strips of skin taken from the sacrificed goat. The Romans believed that this flogging would purify them, and assure their future fertility and easy childbirth. Feasts and parties were later celebrated throughout the city.
Juno Februata:
The church was opposed to this display of open eroticism and sensuality. They tried various ways of changing the festival. One method was to replace the women's names with those of saints and short sermons. The young women and men were expected to emulate the life of the saint whose name was on the billet that they had drawn. However, it was soon apparent that the public preferred the old ways. "By the fourteenth century they reverted back to the use of girl's names. In the sixteenth century they once again tried to have saintly valentines but it was as unsuccessful as the first attempt."" (end of quote from religioustolerance.org)
Cupid
is identified with his father, the mighty hunter, so he is shown with a bow and
arrow. Poets described him as shooting people in the heart to make them fall in
love. This is a form of witchcraft.
He was considered the woman’s seed, the woman being Venus (or Astarte, Eastre, the Easter goddess). They are represented by pictures of the Madonna and the child. Some pictures of Madonna are not pictures of Mary and Yahushuwa, as many believe. They are pictures of this spring goddess and her son Cupid. The Roman Madonna is the same goddess as the Babylonian Madonna. She is a demon goddess and her child is a demon god.
"Cupid in Roman mythology was the same god as Amor or Eros in ancient Greece. He was a minor god, the son of Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. "Eros seems to have been responsible for impregnating a number of goddesses and mortals. The ancient Greeks believed Eros was the force 'love,' a force they believe was behind all creation." He is portrayed today as a cute, chubby, cherub with bow and arrow, ready to shoot people and infect them with pangs of love. He is often associated with Valentine's Day."(from Consultants on Religious Tolerance)It
would be wise to drop Valentine's Day and send your sweetheart cards and treats
on other days. The heart used in this context is all right because it
symbolizes romantic love which ‘comes from the heart of man’. The persea fruit was shaped like a human
heart, not the heart as we know it. Yahuwah created heart shaped flowers
(Bleeding Hearts) and so that shape does not belong to the pagans. Yahushuwa is
the God of our hearts, not Cupid.
APRIL 1st: ALL FOOLS' DAY
The Roman festival of Hilaria is believed to be a predecessor to this
day, and was yet another holiday that featured sacrifices to pagan gods and
goddesses.
"In honor of [the Greek goddess] Venus, a feast of deception was celebrated in the spring. April 1 was her special day, and that is the reason why she was also called ‘Aprilis.’ The name of the Indian goddess of love, ‘Maja,’ has the meaning of ‘deception.'” (from eternalgod.org)
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, by James Hastings, points out:
“The origin of the practice is obscure… it was widely prevalent at the close of the 16th century. It seems difficult, therefore, to accept the theory that it was due to the transference of New Year’s Day from the First of April to the First of January… The similarity of the fooling in India and the Celtic lands of Western Europe, taken together with affinities in religion and folklore… points to a common origin in very early times… The First of April was kept in ancient Rome as the Feast of Venus and Fortuna Virilis… It is to some Celtic form of this worship of Venus on the First of April that the origin of All Fools’ Day must be traced… All Fools’ Day may therefore be the relic of a Spring Festival of Llew [a Sun-god of Celtic mythology].”
"Even though the roots of April Fool’s Day may not be known precisely, the evidence strongly indicates that it is of pagan origin and that it was even celebrated as part of pagan worship services. We are told, however, in Jeremiah 10:2-3, that we are not to learn the ways of the Gentiles, as they are useless and in vain. In addition, God condemns foolish jesting in Ephesians 5:4, where we read, in the Authorized Version, that neither “foolish talking, nor jesting” should be named among us.
We are admonished in God’s Word not to behave like “fools.” Proverbs 10:23 reads, in the AV: “It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.”
An additional warning against participating in April Fool’s Day celebrations and activities can be found in Proverbs 26:18-19: “Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, ‘I was only joking!'”" (from eternalgod.org)
MAY DAY:
April showers bring May flowers. May Day, held on May first, is not considered a Christian holiday, but many Christians practice its traditions without knowing what they are participating in. Since May Day is another of the most important holidays to pagans, satanists and witches, I want to mention it briefly.
It was called Beltane in honor of Bel (Baal). This day was very similar to Halloween. The Druids lit Beltane bonfires to chase away witches and demons in the air, and performed human and animal sacrifices as offerings to Baal. People all over the world celebrated it. They had different names for the same holiday in honor of the same demon god.
May Pole dances are still popular today. The Druids, Phoenicians and Romans danced around the pole in worship to the tree where demons (who they thought were kind) resided. It was done to drive away evil spirits that they believed brought the cold as well as sickness and barrenness, and it was also a fertility dance. The May Pole was a life and fertility symbol. They wanted ‘Mother Gaia’ to be fruitful and prosper them.
Wreaths were made out of flowers and green boughs to put on each cottage door by groups of carolers on the morning of May Day as well as at Christmas time. They believed the house would be blessed by good fairies if something green was on the door. They even put bowls of milk outside for the fairies to drink, and when the sun evaporated it or animals drank it, they believed the fairies drank it!
The bonfires were previously called “bailfires” referencing fires for the god Moloch, aka Ba’al. So, in essence we could call them “Ba’alfires.” Again, we see the sacrifice of children to this occult god Ba’al being played out in different forms.
The pagans believe in the sexual union of the god and goddess at May Day (Beltaine) and the importance of observing it meant couples could not compete with the gods and would delay their weddings until June.
Independence Day is meant to observe the publication of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain in 1776. I've heard there are some occult origins behind it, but it's an American holiday to celebrate the event in 1776 and it seems to me to be pretty benign. We don't celebrate it just because we don't desire to.
THANKSGIVING:
Our
Thanksgiving day is observed to thank Yahuwah for all of the blessings He has
given us. We should be thankful all year, but this is the day we observe it. It
is done in remembrance of when the Indians supposedly fed the starving pilgrims, and they
learned to help each other, but this story is distorted when they teach the public school children about it.
Many
days of thanksgiving are observed by the pagans. Halloween is one of them, when
they thank their gods for the harvest, and Easter, when they thank them for the
springtime. But our Thanksgiving is not an occult holiday. It is, however, not
as innocent as it seems.
My husband and I (and sometimes family members) do celebrate Thanksgiving Day with a big meal of turkey, potatoes, vegetables, dinner rolls, eggnog and some wine and music, but we usually end up talking about how cruel the Indians were treated and we ‘remember them’ more than we ‘remember the pilgrims’.
CONCLUSION
So
many people participate in occult activities and do not even realize it. In
fact, most people participate in the occult. If you are one of these people
your attitude is probably one of repentance. If you had understood these things
you would not have done them. Since no one taught you, you blindly followed the
crowd and became caught in the snare. Many also do not realize that born-again
believers are expected to obey Yahuwah’s commandments. And so they go through
their lives living in Biblical lawlessness, yet if they were finally told the
truth, and showed the Scriptures to prove it, they would repent, right? And
start obeying the commandments? Wrong! Most people turn on us like rabid dogs
when we tell them this. They don’t WANT to give up Halloween, Christmas, or
Easter and bi-golly NO ONE is going to make them! I hope you are not one of
those. If you have a humble and teachable heart, you can learn much from the
things in this book. It can give you a whole new reason to dig into your Bible
and study it.
I mentioned the story in 2 Kings about Josiah, in another chapter. He did not know that he and his people were worshiping false gods and making Yahuwah angry. When they found the book of the law, read it, and King Josiah found out they were breaking Yahuwah’s law, he tore his clothing and wept, because he was sorry and repentant. He had the groves where they worshiped idols destroyed, and their artifacts also. Yahuwah was merciful to him because he was humble and sorry, and Yahuwah told him he would not see His wrath. Yahuwah is so quick to forgive when we repent.
The Biblical Feast days of Yahuwah, our Creator, are holy (Holy Days instead of Holidays), pure, true, commanded by Yahuwah, and all are shadows of our Messiah, Yahushuwa (meaning they represent something about Him, foretell about Him, and teach us about Him!) Don’t be afraid of the idea of celebrating them. They are wonderful! In the next chapter I will explain them briefly. I am also going to go over the ‘laws’ (commandments, instructions, etc.) with you briefly so that you can see that they are not overwhelming as preachers make them seem. I want you to understand how easy most of Yahuwah’s commandments/laws are to keep! They are not a burden, but a joy to keep. Giving up pagan holidays isn’t as hard when you realize what they stand for, how some of them ‘replace’ Yah’s Feast days, and how His Feast days are holy rather than evil. I never knew these days existed until someone finally came along and explained them to me, and then and only then did I finally understand why it is so wrong to celebrate Christmas, Easter, and a few others. It all made sense after I understood Yahuwah’s Feast days!
Halloween Soup - Cover & Footnotes & Endnotes
Halloween Soup - The Devil's Year-Round Recipe for Oppression - DON'T EAT IT! - by Jennifer Lang
Chapter Two B - The Beautiful Mansion
Chapter Three - History of Halloween
Chapter Four - Witchcraft and Satanism
Chapter Five part 1 of 2 - Halloween and Occult Activities
Chapter Five part 2 of 2 - Halloween and Occult Activities
Chapter Six - What About the Other Holidays? Are They Occult Too?
Chapter Seven - Yahuwah's Feast Days
Chapter Nine - How to Get Set Free From the Effects of Halloween and the Occult
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