Holidays - St. Valentine's Day - by Jennifer Lang

 

ST. VALENTINE'S 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 Day is associated with romance because of this priest. 

        Then I found out that he didn't even exist, and about seven different fake stories about different 'Valentines' were made up to try and justify Valentine's Day as being an appropriate holiday to celebrate. So here is the real truth about Valentine's Day!

        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)

        One more paragraph from Maria - this says:

        "The Catholic Encyclopedia states: “It is within the city of Rome, called the city of seven hills, that the entire area of Vatican State proper is now confined.” These are the very same seven mountains (hills) where Nimrod was slain and resurrected (reincarnated) according to pagan mythology as “Saint Valentine,” but he was previously called “Saint Baalentine” to commemorate “Ba’al” the god of sexual desire. The letter “V” was an invention of Rome which also doubled as the Roman numeral “5.” Prior to that, all Semitic languages rendered this letter as the Hebrew “beyt” or a letter “B.” The Roman letter “V” also was used to substitute for the sixth Hebrew letter “waw” or the Greek Upsilon which doubled as the long “U” vowel sound or as the consonant “W.” Now we can see the connection between Valentine’s Day, the papacy, and Mystery Babylon. Valentine’s Day is another custom birthed in honor of Nimrod where he was killed at the seven hills of Rome, which is why the Roman papacy has made “Saint Valentine’s Day” an official Roman Catholic holiday."

        The next section comes from religioustolerance.org, and gives some more information on this pagan holiday;

        "Valentine's Day and its traditions originated in two separate Roman feasts: Lupercalia and the feast day of Juno Februata."

        "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 month of February was sacred to "Juno Februata, the Goddess of the 'fever' (febris in Latin) of love" in ancient Pagan Rome. She was also the goddess of women and of marriage. FEB-14 was her festival day. At that time, a box was provided from which single men could draw a "billet" -- a small piece of paper on which a woman's name was written. The couple would then form a temporary liaison for the erotic games to follow. They would remain partners for the following 12 months. Sometimes marriages resulted from this practice."

        "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, the little cherub with the bow and arrow seen on so many Valentine cards along with the heart, is the demonic pagan boy-god named Osiris when he was born ‘again’. The ‘sacred heart’ was a symbol of Osiris. The Egyptian persea fruit was sacred to him because it looks something like a human heart, so pictures often show him with this fruit. People regarded him as ‘god of the heart’, ‘Cupid’, or ‘god of love’. This fruit shaped heart also represented Bel (Baal), the demon god whom the Israelites worshiped. 

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.