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Halloween

HOLY HALLOWEEN

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HOLY HALLOWEEN

A Pagan Celebration … All Hallow’s Eve (Eve as in evening) ….AKA Hallowmas. Holloween is the night before the Christian holiday of “All Saints Day.” Switched from May 13 to November 1 to honor the Celtic pagan holiday of Samhain. The dressing in costumes signifies the dead walking around and getting their revenge on their enemies, the day before All Saints Day, before moving out of this world into the next life. The Halloween pumpkin and lanterns are representations of the souls in purgatory. The trick or treat custom came from Scotland and Ireland a custom called guising.

In ancient Britain, the festival known as Samhain was celebrated on October 31st. It was supposedly a day when dead souls would revisit their old homes.

According to the History Channel, Samhain was also the day when the Druids “gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities”.

According to Wiccans, Halloween is the time when the veil between the living and the dead is considered to be the thinnest. They believe that on this day their god “dies” and is reborn every year on the Winter Solstice. This year the winter solstice falls on December 22nd.

In ancient times, the resurrection of the sun god required human and animal sacrifice. Druids worshiped the sun god, called by names like Bel (Ba’al?) or Chrom. On October 31, they believed that he died and went into the kingdom of the dead, Anwynn. The purpose of Samhain was to insure his return. Even witches admit this involved human sacrifice.

Both animal and human blood were believed to be needed to resurrect Bel on Samhain. Human blood was believed to open the gates of Anwynn and released the spirits for a night. Thus, October 31 came to be associated with ghosts. This is not just history. Samhain is still celebrated by Pagans and is the most solemn ceremony on their “religious calendar”.

To this day, animal torture and sacrifice is still practiced on Halloween by occultists. Many animal shelters will not adopt out black cats during the month of October for this very reason.

In the early seventh century, a Catholic Pope known as Gregory the First decided that the best approach to ensure the continued spread of Catholicism was to “christianize” existing pagan holidays and practices…

As a result of their efforts to wipe out “pagan” holidays, such as Samhain, the Christians succeeded in effecting major transformations in it. In 601 A.D. Pope Gregory the First issued a now famous edict to his missionaries concerning the native beliefs and customs of the peoples he hoped to convert. Rather than try to obliterate native peoples’ customs and beliefs, the pope instructed his missionaries to use them: if a group of people worshipped a tree, rather than cut it down, he advised them to consecrate it to Christ and allow its continued worship.

The tradition of “trick-or-treating” was one of the existing pagan traditions that was later “Christianized”…

The idea of trick-or-treating is further related to the ghosts of the dead in pagan, and even Catholic, history. For example, among the ancient Druids, “The ghosts that were thought to throng about the houses of the living were greeted with a banquet-laden table. At the end of the feast, masked and costumed villagers representing the souls of the dead paraded to the outskirts of town leading the ghosts away.”

As already noted, Halloween was thought to be a night when mischievous and evil spirits roamed freely. As in modern poltergeist lore, mischievous spirits could play tricks on the living—so it was advantageous to “hide” from them by wearing costumes. Masks and costumes were worn to either scare away the ghosts or to keep from being recognized by them

The tradition of carving out a “Jack-O-Lantern” also comes from paganism. The following comes from wicca.com…

Turnips were hollowed out and carved to look like protective spirits, for this was a night of magic and chaos. The Wee Folke became very active, pulling pranks on unsuspecting humans. Traveling after dark was not advised.

Pumpkins eventually replaced turnips, but the meaning remained the same…

Here it’s a pumpkin, but in Europe it was often a turnip, or a skull with a candle in it. This serves two symbols, 1) the lord of the Dead, a “god” just like a Buddha – in short, an idol. 2) The fearsome face represented the god, Samhain, who would drive off less powerful demons that night. The lights in the Jack-o-Lantern symbolize the “faery fires” or “Will’o the Wisps” which were believed to be the lost souls flitting through the night. They also hearken back to the huge Samhain “balefires” which were lit to help conjure back the god from the darkness.

On all Satanic holy days, there are children that get ritually abused. This has been documented repeatedly, and yet most people (including most Christians) don’t want to hear about it.

For Satanists, Halloween is one of the most important celebrations of the year. On page 96 of the Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey wrote the following…

“After one’s own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht (May 1st) and Halloween.”

The Scriptures are very clear about this sort of thing. Deuteronomy 18:9-13 says the following: “When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults with the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord”.

In the early seventh century, a Catholic Pope known as Gregory the First decided that the best approach to ensure the continued spread of Catholicism was to “christianize” existing pagan holidays and practices…

As a result of their efforts to wipe out “pagan” holidays, such as Samhain, the Christians succeeded in effecting major transformations in it. In 601 A.D. Pope Gregory the First issued a now famous edict to his missionaries concerning the native beliefs and customs of the peoples he hoped to convert. Rather than try to obliterate native peoples’ customs and beliefs, the pope instructed his missionaries to use them: if a group of people worshipped a tree, rather than cut it down, he advised them to consecrate it to Christ and allow its continued worship.

All Saints Day, November 1, is a Holy day of Obligation that all Catholics are required to attend church services, mass, on that day.

Today Santeria is a combination of catholic practices and voodoo … same in Africa….they combine Christianity and pagan practices. Halloween is also one of their special holidays.

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Wicca

For Wiccans, the festival known as “Samhain” is the time when the veil between the living and the dead is the thinnest, and so communication with the other side is the easiest. And as you will see below, it is also the time “when the god dies, to be reborn again on the Winter Solstice”. Many Americans are still very unfamiliar with Wicca, but the truth is that it is rapidly growing in popularity. In fact, it has been projected that Wicca will soon become the third largest “religion” in America after Christianity and Islam. According to the American Religious Identification Survey, the number of self-identified Wiccans in the United States grew from 8,000 in 1990 to 134,000 in 2001 to 342,000 in 2008. The New York Post recently ran an article which stated that some experts have estimated that the number of witches in the U.S. is doubling every 30 months, and that there may now be “8 million undeclared practitioners” of “the craft” in this country

October 31st is the midway point between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice. As such it is considered the end of the harvest time, when everything has stopped growing and the earth goes back to sleep. On the Wiccan calendar, known as the “wheel of the year” it is also the day when the god dies, to be reborn again on the Winter Solstice. Samhain is therefore the day when the veil between the living and the dead is considered thinnest, and is a time to remember people in our lives who have passed away.

On page 96 of the Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey wrote the following…

“After one’s own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht (May 1st) and Halloween.”

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Approximately 70 percent of all Americans will participate in Halloween festivities once again this year, and they will spend somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 billion dollars celebrating the holiday,

Halloween is where some people say spirits can wander the earth freely, and others say their children can wander the neighborhood unattended, trick-or-treating or causing havoc.

Dressing up on Halloween comes from the Celts.

Celts believed Samhain was a time when the wall between our world and the paranormal world was porous and spirits could get through. Because of this belief, it was common for the Celts to wear costumes and masks during the festival to ward off or befuddle any evil spirits.

The name “Halloween” comes from the Catholics.

Hallowmas is a three-day Catholic holiday where saints are honored and people pray for the recently deceased. At the start of the 11th century, it was decreed by the pope that it would last from Oct. 31 (All Hallow’s Eve) until Nov. 2, most likely because that was when Samhain was celebrated and the church was trying to convert the pagans.

“All Hallow’s Eve” then evolved into “All Hallow’s Even,” and by the 18th century it was commonly referred to as “Hallowe’en.”

Halloween is still the Wiccan New Year.

Halloween originates from a Celtic tradition called Samhain, a festival that marked the end of the Celtic calendar year in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. They believed it was a time that spirits or fairies could enter our world, and the Celts would put out treats and food to placate the spirits — sometimes, a place at the table was even set for the souls of the dead.

Wiccans still celebrate Samhain as a New Year celebration today.

Turnips, not pumpkins.

The origin of Jack-O-Lanterns comes from a Celtic folk tale of a stingy farmer named Jack who would constantly play tricks on the devil. The devil responded by forcing him to wander purgatory with only a burning lump of coal from hell. Jack took the coal and made a lantern from a turnip, using it to guide his lost soul.

The myth was brought over by Irish families fleeing the potato famine in the 1800s, and since turnips were hard to come by in the U.S., America’s pumpkins were used as a substitute to guide lost souls and keep evil spirits like “Jack of the Lantern” away.

Halloween symbols aren’t random.

Black cats, spiders, and bats are all Halloween symbols because of their spooky history and ties to Wiccans. All three were thought to be the familiars of witches in the middle ages, and are often associated with bad luck.

Bats are even further connected to Halloween by the ancient Samhain ritual of building a bonfire,

A full moon on Halloween is extremely rare.

Though a common trope in horror movies and Halloween decorations with witches flying across the full moon, the next full moon on Halloween won’t occur until 2020.

The most recent Halloween full moon was back in 2001, and before that it was in 1955.

Trick-or-treating has been around for a long time.

Versions of trick-or-treating have existed since medieval times. In the past, it was known as “guising” where children and poor adults went around in costumes during Hallowmas begging for food and money in exchange for songs or prayers. It was also called “souling.”

There’s a $1,000 fine for using or selling Silly String in Hollywood on Halloween.

The prank product has been banned in Hollywood since 2004 after thousands of bored people would buy it on the streets of Hollywood from illegal vendors and “vandalize” the streets. The city ordinance calls for a maximum $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail for “use, possession, sale or distribution of Silly String in Hollywood from 12:01 AM on October 31 to 12:00 PM on November 1.”

Trick-or-treating as we know it was re-popularized by cartoons.

Trick-or-treating was brought to America by the Irish and became popular during the early 20th century, but died out during WWII when sugar was rationed. After the rationing ended in 1947, children’s magazine “Jack and Jill,” radio program “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,” and the “Peanuts” comic strip all helped to re-popularize the traditionof dressing up in costumes and asking for candy from door-to-door.

Halloween and the candy industry supposedly influenced Daylight Savings Time.

Candy makers supposedly lobbied to extend daylight savings time into the beginning of November to get an extra hour of daylight so children could collect even more candy (thus forcing people to purchase more candy to meet the demand).

They wanted it so badly that during the 1985 hearings on Daylight Savings they put candy pumpkins on the seat of every senator, according to NPR. (The candy industry disputes this account, according to The New York Times.)

By 1952, trick-or-treating became hugely popular again.

Halloween is the second-most commercial American holiday of the year.

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New Years

NEW YEARS

A Pagan Celebration of the Past ……The custom of celebrating it, AKITU FESTIVAL, has remained essentially unchanged for 4,000 years! It began in ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia. It was a pagan custom of ancient sun-worship.

In 46 B.C.E. Roman Emperor Julius Cesar establish January 1 and New Years day. Why that day? Janus was the God of doors and gates. God Janus had two faces; one looking forward and one looking back. Cesar felt that a month named Janus would be the appropriate door for a new year. The first January one celebration was a celebration to the God Janus. Cesar ordered the violent routing of revolutionary Jewish forces in Galilee. Witnesses said the streets literally flowed with blood. Years later Roman pagans celebrated January one by partaking in drunken orgies symbolizing a personal reenactment of the chaotic world before the cosmos was ordered by the Gods. Today the celebrations are pretty much the same. The New York Police Dept was formed in response to these January first celebrations.

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As Christianity spread the pagan holidays were incorporated into the Church calendar or were abandoned entirely. Most of Europe during the medieval period regarded Annunciation day, March 25, as the beginning of the new year. Annunciation day is the day the angel Gabriel told Mary that she had been impregnated by God and she was to have God’s son called Jesus. The pagans celebrated January first as the New Year but the Christians were definitely opposed to the pagan start of the year and celebrated Annunciation day and the first day of the year.

William the Conqueror

When William the Conqueror, AKA William the Bastard, became King of England on December 25, 1066, He decreed that the English would return to the first of the year date established by the pagans. He wanted to assure that the date of Jesus’ birthday would align with his coronation. And the date of the circumcision of Jesus, January first would be the day to start the New Year off. This change was eventually rejected when he died, and all of Christianity abandoned January first as the start of the year and went back to Annunciation day and the first day of the year, March 25.

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Then 500 years later, in recent history, in 1582, Ugo Boncompagni, AKA Pope Gregory 13th, abandoned the Julius calendar because the solar year was represented as 365 and 1/4 days which is not correct. It introduced a day every four years to maintain a correspondence with the lunar and solar cycles. The Jewish Talmud knew the correct days in a year 2000 years before. There are 365 days five hours forty-eight minutes and 46 seconds. The Julian calendar would slip behind one day a century. Pope Gregory based his calendar on the date based on the date of the Council of Nicaea (March 21 325 C.E.). This made Pope Gregory’s calendar off by 14 day in his year time period. He based his reform calendar on the vernal equinox, March 11, the date they had 1,357 years earlier. The change in the calendar was made the day after October 4, 1582. The following day was changed and established as October 15, 1582.

The Gregorian calendar (as in Pope Gregory) differs from the Julian calendar in 3 ways.

First no century year is a leap year unless it is exactly divisible by 400.

Second, years divisible by 4,000 are common, not leap years.

Third, starting with Pope Gregory in the year 1582, the New Year would again begin on January first.

In the Roman Catholic Church, January 1 is an Attendance Obligation Holy Day honoring “the Holy Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God.”

Saint Sylvester

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Today the Israeli government decided it was not right to celebrate a Gregorian New Years. New Year celebrations in Israel are discouraged. Because the whole world is celebrating, instead of New Year parties the people have Sylvester parties. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with Disneyland.

Sylvester was a great Christian theologian, who later the Catholic Church beatified him as a saint, Saint Sylvester. Sylvester was the Pope reigning at the time of the Council of Nicaea. The Year before the Council of Nicaea, Sylvester convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living anywhere in the region of Jerusalem. There were many Jews in the area and most refused to leave. It was their homeland. At Sylvester’s urging Constantine went and slaughtered the Jews that refused to leave. At the Council of Nicaea Sylvester arraigned for a large number of decrees that were totally anti-Semitic. All Catholic Saints are given a special day by the Catholic Church in which the saint is to be celebrated. Saint Sylvester’s day is December 31. Hence the celebrations in Israel on the night of December 31st are dedicated to Saint Sylvester’s memory.

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Easter

The Goddess Ishtar…..The egg. The sign of fertility. ….

Spring is in the air! Flowers and bunnies decorate the home. Father helps the children paint beautiful designs on eggs dyed in various colors. These eggs, which will later be hidden and searched for, are placed into lovely, seasonal baskets. The wonderful aroma of the hot cross buns mother is baking in the oven waft through the house. Forty days of abstaining from special foods (Lent) will finally end the next day. The whole family picks out their Sunday best to wear to the next morning’s sunrise worship service to celebrate the savior’s resurrection and the renewal of life. Everyone looks forward to a succulent ham with all the trimmings. After all, it is one of the most important religious holidays of the year.

This is a description of an ancient Babylonian family—2,000 years before Christ—honoring the resurrection of their god, Tammuz, who was brought back from the underworld by his mother/wife, Ishtar (after whom the festival Easter was named). As Ishtar was actually pronounced “Easter” in most Semitic dialects, it could be said that the family event portrayed above is one of the other many culturral festivals. The occasion could easily have been a Phrygian family honoring Attis and Cybele, or perhaps a Phoenician family worshiping Adonis and Astarte. Also fitting the description well would be a heretic Israelite family honoring the Canaanite Baal and Ashtoreth. Or this depiction could just as easily represent any number of other immoral, pagan fertility celebrations of death and resurrection—including the modern Easter celebration as it has come to us through the Anglo-Saxon fertility rites of the goddess Eostre or Ostara.

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For the first two hundred years of European life in North America, only a few states, mostly in the South, paid attention to Easter.” Not until after the Civil War did Americans begin celebrating this holiday: “Easter first became an American tradition in the 1870s”

The original 13 colonies of America began as a “Christian” nation, with the cry of “No king but King Jesus!” The nation did not observe any Easter festival for an entire century after its founding.

Easter Date

Christian tradition is that Jesus died on March 25. This is the exact day that the resurrection of the God Attis was celebrated in Rome. However the Church father Lactantitus places the death of Jesus on March 23 and his resurrection on March 25. Doesn’t seem to be three days. However it is the exact dates of the death and resurrection of the pagan God Attis.

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Lactantius.

Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325) was an early Christian author who became an adviser to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I.

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Christmas

Birth Year of Christ

New testament states no year for Jesus birth. The Christmas date was a mistake according to a Scythian monk. Dionesius Exegus. Someone from the Catholic church added a wrong number; born 3 BCE.

Jarome Biblical Commentary has essay by Cardinal Fitsmier, one of the most influential writes for the pope. He says the birth definitely did not occur in AD 1. The error introduced 533 by Dionesius

On what day was Jesus born?

243 CE birth date written in north Africa. The document Pasta Computus (Catholic church document) states the birthday of Jesus was March 28.

Clemens (Bishop of Alexandria) who died 215 CE wrote that Christ was put death on Nov 18.

Today Catholic writer Fitzmier says both wrong, and that Jesus was born September 11, 3 BCE

Claims of Catholic church today are that Jesus was not born December 25. No Catholic or Protestant theologians believe this date was the birth date of Christ.

Christmas is NOT ... NOT ... Celebrating Christ’s Birthday

In Pagan Roman times, pre-Christian, there was a festival from December 17 to December 25, lasting 8 days. The Roman Courts shut down. The rule was anything goes. If you damaged property or murdered someone you were not held responsible. Each community would appoint one person to be the enemy of the roman people. They would name that person the “Lord of Misrule.” On the eighth day of the festival they would murder this person in a horrific fashion. The manner was a slow death with not much left of his body in the end. The festival was called the Festival of Saturnalia.

When Rome fell the festival of Saturnalia survived. The Greek historian Luchian, described how the Greeks celebrated in his writing “Saturnalia” saying, “In addition to the human sacrifice, there was wide intoxication, people going house to house singing (caroling) in street naked, consuming human shaped biscuits (the ginger bread man).”

The early Christian Catholic Church was trying to convert pagans and would accept pagan practices if the pagans would believe in Jesus. The Church Decided to bring in the Saturnalia cult. With bringing in this cult also came the eight day festival of uncontrolled wildness. Steve Nissibaum from University of Massachusetts describes, “By agreeing to the date December 25, the Catholic Church agreed to keep the celebration as it had been practiced. Kept was the sexual indulgence, the singing in street, etc. The Puritan leading theologian who was responsible for settling America, Increase Mather, wrote in Boston in 1687, “The early Christians that first observed the nativity on December 25 did not do so thinking Christ was born in that month, but because the heathen’s Saturnalia was at that time kept in Rome and they were willing to have those pagan holidays that metamorphosed into Christian ones.”

Puritans were totally opposed to Christmas, and between the years 1659 to 1681 anyone caught celebrating Christmas was thrown into jail. It was illegal to keep Christmas in puritan America. It was considered heresy. There are groups in Europe that do not celebrate Jesus birthday.

In 1466, Pope Paul for amusement of Roman citizens arraigned the festival of Saturnalia, December 25, to include the Jews running naked through the streets of the city. Eye witness wrote, “Before the run the Jews, they were amply fed making their run much more difficult and more amusing for the spectators. Shrieks and pales of laughter. The Holy Father stool upon a richly decorated balcony and laughed heartily.”

These celebrations continued on regularly through the eighteenth and nineteenth century. During this period the Rabbis of ghetto in Rome were forced to wear clownish outfits and march through the streets to the jeers of crowd and were pelted by objects thrown. The Jewish community of Rome sent a petition. It was presented in 1836 to Pope Gregory 16th pleading for him to stop the festival of Saturnalia.

The Pope’s response was, “It is not opportune to make any innovation right now.” The festival of Saturnalia was left in place. On December 25 1881, Christian leaders along with polish masses worked up into an anti-Semitic frenzy which led to riots across the country. In Warsaw 12 Jews were murdered, hundreds of Jews who were maimed or wounded and dozens of Jewish women were raped. Two million rubles of property was destroyed. That was a classic example of the Christmas celebration.

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Christmas trees –

Catholics attempting to attract the Ashaera cult. Worshiped trees. Would bring trees into their homes and decorate and put candles on them and worship the tree. Christian Catholics said worship Jesus, but cult said we worship trees. Catholics said no problem just bring the tree into your house on December 25. They were accepted with their tree worshiping practices in order to bring them under the Churches influence.

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Mistletoe –

Mistletoe is a highly poisonous plant. So toxic that you need to be careful when you handle it. You hang this on your front door by itself or in a wreath. The Nordic mythology was that the God Balder was killed from a mistletoe soaked arrow by his rival, Hoder, while fighting for the female, Nana. Druid rituals used to use mistletoe in their sacrifices. And they sacrificed children. They would poison children with mistletoe when they sacrificed them. The today custom of kissing under the mistletoe came as a morph of the Druid mythology and the permissible practice on December 25 of a man in the street grabbing a woman and doing whatever he wanted with her. If she was out of her house on December 25 she was fair game. There was no repercussions from this act because of the customs of Saturnalia.

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Christmas Presents

Roman emperors insisted that the Jewish community bring offerings on December 25. Jews were forced to give these gifts on threat of death. This insistence was expanded by the emperors to include other people by threat of death. It evolved to gift giving in general because people gave presents to each other also during this time.

Saint Nick

Nicholas was born in Parara, Turkey in 270 CE and later became Bishop of Myra. He died in 345 CE on December 6th. He was wasn’t named a saint until the Catholic festival of Christmas was well established. The Catholic Church declared him a saint and gave him a day, December 6, in which he was to be honored. However, he didn’t become a saint until the 19th century, about 1,600 years after his death. I guess it took people a long time to realize that he was a saint.

Nicholas was among the most senior bishops who convened the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE and created the New Testament. The text they produced portrayed Jews as “the children of the devil” (the terrorists) who sentenced Jesus to death. They figured the people were stupid and would believe that the Jews told the Romans what to do (they were right about the stupid part). They didn’t put any fault on the Romans who, as the story goes, gruesomely killed their son of god, along with thousands of other innocent people. These actions paved the way for the Holocaust.

In 1087, a group of sailors who idolized Nicholas so much that they moved his bones from Turkey to a sanctuary in Bari, Italy. There at the new shrine location, a female gift giving deity named Pasqua Epiphania was removed and Nicholas was put there. This former occupant of the shrine, deity Pasqua, was more commonly known as “The Grandmother”, who used to fill the children’s stockings with her gifts. Since the Grandmother was ousted from her shrine at Bari, the location remained the center of the Grandmother cult. Saint Nicholas replace the Grandmother. Members of this group gave each other gifts during a pageant they conducted annually on the anniversary of Nicholas’ death, December 6.

The Nicholas cult spread north until it was adopted by German and Celtic pagans. These groups worshipped a pantheon led by Woden AKA Oden, their chief God. Woden was the father of Thor, Baldr, Vioarr and Vali. Woden had a long, white beard and rode a horse through the heavens on one evening each Autumn. Nicholas merged with Woden by the pagans. He shed his Mediterranean appearance, grew a white beard, mounted a flying horse, rescheduled his flight in the heavens to December, and donned heavy winter clothing. Nicolas lived in the near east and dressed in a t-shirt and shorts. When he was adopted in the cold northern areas he was clothed differently with warm heavy winter clothing and now had this long white beard.

Oden Oden

The Catholic Church pressed the Nicholas/Woeden cult to become Christians. They said they could bring their custom of worshiping Nicholas/Woeden with them just celebrate the day on December 25 instead of December 6.

In a bid for pagan adherents in Northern Europe, the Catholic Church adopted the Nicholas cult and taught that he distributed gifts on December 25th instead of December 6th (and they should do likewise). Open the Catholic New Testament Book and look at the Saint days that are celebrated and Saint Nicholas is listed as December 6.

Harpers Santa

Our Santa Clause

In 1809 Washington Irving, a famous writer (Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow), wrote a much less known satire about Dutch history called Nicker Barker History. Several times he refers to Saint Nickcholas by his Dutch name Santa Clause. A Christian theologian named Clement More, a writer, in 1822 wrote a poem “Twas the night before Christmas …” the poem addressed main character as Santa Clause, who had 8 reindeer and it had a Santa Clause who descended through chimneys. Santa still looked like a horror figure with long white beard and gruesome long black coat. He was short and bent over and carrying a cane. He looked frightening. This depiction was from the myth that he was known to punish children (you better not pout you better not cry). Santa Clause will beat you with a stick if you are not happy.

Thomas Nast Santa at White House

Santa transformed

Harpers Weekly, a then popular magazine, had a great illustrator by the name of Thomas Nast. From 1862 to 1896 he produced 2,200 cartoons of Santa Clause. Nast depicted Santa Clause differently. He depicted him as a jolly fellow that lived at the North Pole and he had helper Elves. This has nothing to do with Saint Nicholas who lived in hot dry Turkey. Nast created the mythology of Santa making toys for all the children at the north pole with his helper elves and was a jolly good fellow. Illustrator Thomas Nast created the Santa Clause we know today.

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Coca-Cola Santa

But Santa was still dressed in black up until the early 1900s. In 1931 the Coca-Cola Corp was in financial straits. Why??? Because they were forced to remove cocaine from the soda drink. Sales were slumping, going down. They tried putting in caffeine but it wasn’t the same Coca-Cola.

They needed a huge advertising campaign to pull them out of the downward slump. They hired the famous Swedish commercial artist illustrator by the name of Haddon Hubbard “Sunny” Sundblom. His job was to create a coke drinking Santa.

He modeled Santa Clause based on his friend Lou Prentis, who was overweight cheerful and had a chubby rosy red face. The corporation like it all but the outfit. They insisted that his fur trimmed suit Santa wore had to be Coca-Cola red.

All Santas today are based on the Coca-Cola Santa. Parts of Europe still have Santa in the scary black suit.

Our Santa Clause is a blend of Christian crusader, pagan god, and commercial idol.

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What Christmas Is

1 Christmas is a holiday celebrated carelessly based on the origin of civil decadence when the Roman courts were shut down.

2 Christmas was brought into Christian religion thoughtlessly. People never asked what connection does this have with Christianity. They simply said it’s fun so let’s do it.

3 Christmas day celebrates today a God who came to earth to do away with Judaism. The Jesus God is the reason the “old” testament is null and void. Commandments are no longer needed to be kept. Jews are to be abandoned because they are evil sinful people. There now is a new good people – the Christians with a “new” testament. The Jewish religion is a dead religion now.

4 Christmas is a lie. Jesus was not born on December 25. even the Catholic authority that writes for the Pope agrees to this.

Historically December 25 a day when Jews have been shamed and tortured … and murdered.

Christmas customs of Christmas trees, mistletoe, Christmas presents, and Santa Clause are just modern acceptance of the most depraved pagan rituals ever practiced (like child sacrifices).

Why not celebrate April 20 instead. This day is celebrated by a large German Austrian Polish population. What is the celebration day. It’s Hitler day. The day in which Hitler was born. Celebrated by Neo-Nazis and their friends. They have a big party and invite everybody. They dress up in German dress with swastikas and wear mustaches. In three or four generations the grandsons and granddaughters won’t know what they are celebrating just like the Christians. They will just know it’s a day to have a big party and drink beer and have lots of fun.

Christmas, December 25, was historically always celebrated as a violent mass murderous day.

In 1941 A Christmas card sent to the entire German people. It was published in very popular newspaper called Desturmer. Was written by the paper’s editor Julius Strifer. He encouraged Germans to return to the former style of December 25 celebrations. His Christmas card said,

“If one really wants to put an end to the continued prospering of this curse from heaven that is the Jewish blood there is only one way to do it. To eradicate this people, this Satan’s sun, root, and branch.
Have a merry Christmas.”

Catholic Church Ordered

In the 5th century the Catholic church ordered the feast of Jesus’s birth to be celebrated on the day of the Mithraic rites of the birth of the sun (right after the winter equinox), and at the close of the Roman festival of Saturnalia, December 25.

The Western Church fixed two birthday dates to Jesus, December 25 for his physical birth, and March 25 for his spiritual birth or resurrection also known as Easter. The same dual birthdays can be found in Egyptian mythology. Horus was born a babe on December 25 and reborn a man March 25, the same date also that Savior Adonis was resurrected on.

Easter Orthodox Church

They celebrate their Christmas, the birth of Jesus, on January 6. Osiris-Aion as said to be born of a virgin Isis on January 6.

Christmas aligns with the stars

What a coincidence!

winter solstice

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Borrowed Teachings

Same as Old Testament

The Wisdom of Jesus is not spectacular original insight as the Christians claim. The same teachings and philosophies are in the Jewish Bible texts and have been taught by Jewish Rabbis for centuries. A quick look at the similarities from Proverbs, Psalms, Lamentations, and the Talmud will demonstrate this.

1. Matthew 5:3 - Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom.

Proverbs 29:23 - A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

2. Matthew 5:4 - Blessed are those who morn, for they shall be comforted.

Psalms 147:3 - He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

3. Matthew 5:5 - Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Psalms 37:11 - But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

4. Matthew 5:6 - Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Psalm 5:12 - For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

5. Matthew 5:7 - Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

Talmud Shabbath - 151b

6. Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.

Psalm 24:3 to 4 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

7. He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

8. Matthew 5:9 - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Psalm 34:14 to 15 - Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

9. Matthew 5:39 - … but if anyone strikes you and the right cheek, turn to him the other also …

Lamentations 3:30 - He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

10. Matthew 5:42 - Give to him that begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.

Psalm 37:21, 26 21 - The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. 26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

11. Matthew 5:44 - Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

Proverbs 25:21 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

12. Matthew 6:3 to 4 - But when you give charity, do not let the left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your charity may be in secret . . .

Talmud Baba Bathra - 9b

13. Matthew 7:1 to 2 - Judge not, that you be not judged. For the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

Talmud Shabbath - 127b & Sotah 8b

14. Matthew 7:12 - So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Talmud Shabbath - 31a

Do Unto Others

Christians claim Jesus was the originator of the so insightful Golden Rule. The Chinese Bible
which preceded the New Testament by 500 years has the same saying almost word for word
the same.

Golden Rule by Confucius, 500 B.C.E.

Do unto another what you would have him do unto you, and do not to another what you would
not have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.

Golden Rule by Aristotle, 385 B.C.E.

We should conduct ourselves toward others as we would have them act toward us.

Golden Rule by Pittacus, 650 B.C.E.

Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him.

Golden Rule by Thales, 464 B.C.E.

Avoid doing what you would blame other for doing.

Golden Rule by Isocrates, 338 B.C.E.

Act toward other as you desire them to act toward you.

Golden Rule by Aristippus, 365 B.C.E.

Cherish reciprocal benevolence, which will make you as anxious for another’s welfare as your
own.

Golden Rule by Sextus, a Pythagorean, 406 B.C.E.

What you wish your neighbors to be to you, such be also to them.

Golden Rule by Hillel, 50 B.C.E.

Do not to others what you would not like others to do to you.

Enemies

The following is from the old Persian bible, the Sadder:

1. "Forgive thy foes, nor that alone;
Their evil deeds with good repay;
Fill those with joy who leave thee none,
And kiss the hand upraised to slay."

Never was love, and kindness, and forbearance toward enemies more sublimely expressed
than in the old Persian ballad.

2. "Treat thine enemy as though a friend, and he will become thy friend,"

was expressed by Publius Syrus, a Roman slave, which is a wiser admonition than that of
Christ, "Love thine enemy," as it is a moral impossibility.

3· "All nature cries aloud, Shall man do less than heal the smiter, and the railer bless?" (Hafiz, a
Mahomedan.)

4· "Bridle thine anger, and forgive thine enemy; give unto him who takes from thee." (Koran,
Mahomedan bible.)

5· "Let no man be offended with those who are angry at him, but reply gently to those who curse
him." (Code of Menu.)

6. "Let him endure injuries, and despise no one." (Ibid.)

7· "Commit no hostile action for your own preservation." (Ibid.)

8. "To be revenged on enemies, become more virtuous." (Diogenes.)

9· "To strike a man, or vex him with words, is a sin." (Zend-Avesta, Persian bible.)

10. "Even the intention to strike is a sin.” (Ibid.)

II. "Desire not the death of thine enemy." (Confucius.)

12. "Acknowledge benefits, but never revenge injuries." (Ibid.)

13. "We may di"slike an enemy without desiring revenge." (Ibid.)

14. "Pardon the offenses of others, but never your own." (Publius Syrus.)

1 5· "The noble spirit cures injustice by forgiving it." (Ibid.)

16. "It is much better to be injured than to kill a man.'' (Pythagoras)

17. "You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force." (Publius Syrus)

18. "Better overlook an injury than avenge it." (Publius Syrus)

19. "It is enough to think ill of an enemy without avenging it." (Publius Syrus)

20. "It is a kingly spirit to return good deeds for evil ones." (Ibid.)

21. "Learn for yon orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee
woe;
Flee, like yon rock, from base, vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy
side." (Hafiz)

22. "To revenge yourself on an enemy, make him your friend." (Pythagoras)

23. "It is not permitted to a man who has received an injury to revenge it by doing another."
(Socrates, in his Crito)

24. "Seek him who turns thee out, and pardon him who injures thee." (Koran)

25. "Return not evil for evil." (Socrates)

26. "Endure all things if you would serve God.'' (Sextus)

27. "Desire to be able to benefit your enemies." (Ibid.)

28. "Receive an injury rather than do one." (Publius Syrus)

29. "Be at war with men's vices, but at their persons." (Ibid.)

30. "Cultivate friendship for an enemy." (Pittacus)

31. "Be kind to your friends that they may continue so, and to your enemies that they may become
so." (Ibid)

32. "Prevent injuries if possible; if not, do not revenge them." (Ibid.)

33· "An enemy should not be hated, but cured." (Seneca)

34· "To act unkindly toward an enemy will increase his hate." (Antonius)

35· "Be to everybody kind and friendly." (Ibid.)

36. "Speak evil of no one, not even your enemies." (Pittacus)

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The First Day is Now the Seventh Day

One of the ten commandments of the Bible is “keep my Sabbath.” How many different times is this stated in the Bible? The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week. And it doesn’t say to keep my “Sundayath.” And many times after this commandment the next verse that follows is, “I am ” Shem Hamephorash” [ihvh] your God.”

The Sabbath day is so important that it was made one of the ten commandments. Exodus 20:8 – 11 8

****** Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.*******

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:
11 For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exod 20:9-11

16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. Exodus 31:16

3 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places. Leviticus 23:3

21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. Exodus 34:21

14 You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Exodus 31:14

Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. Deuteronomy 5: 12 – 15

The new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity. Isa. 1:13

It is one of the Ten Commandments and is “a perpetual covenant.”

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Exodus 20:8

My sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations … for a perpetual covenant. Exodus 31:13-16

Ye shall … keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:3, 30

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD. Leviticus 23:3

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.Deuteronomy 5:12

Blessed is the man … that keepeth the sabbath. Isaiah 56:2

Whoever “defiles” it “shall surely be put to death.”

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death. Exodus 31:14

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. Exodus 35:2

And they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day …. And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 15:32-36

The new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity. Isaiah 1:13

sundath

New Testament

Christians don’t honor Saturday the Sabbath. They worship on Sunday. They call Sunday the day of rest. The Catholic Church says they have the authority to change the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. The Protestants and Born Again Christians blindly follow whatever the Catholic Church says like good Christians. The people around Jesus observed the Sabbath and wouldn’t even anoint the body of Jesus until after the Sabbath as per Mark 16:1-2. 16:1

And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. Mark 16:1-2. 16:1

Paul and his companions … On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue for the services. Acts 16:13 On the Sabbath we went a little way outside the city to a riverbank, where we thought people would be meeting for prayer …

As was Paul’s custom, he went to the synagogue service, and for three Sabbaths in a row he used the Scriptures to reason with the people. Acts 17:2

The Christians justify that they can do anything they want as stated in their vague verses. These verses seem to remove one of the ten commandments, the Sabbath commandment.

In the same way, some think one day is more holy than another day, while others think every day is alike. You should each be fully convinced that whichever day you choose is acceptable. Those who worship the Lord on a special day do it to honor him. Romans 14:5-6 5

Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. Colossians 2:16-17 16

So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world? You are trying to earn favor with God by observing certain days or months or seasons or years. Galatians 4:8-10 8

Sylvester I (314-337 A.D.) was the Catholic Bishop of Rome (later to become pope) during the reign of Constantine. He officially gave the Churches approval to the Constantine edict of 321 A.D. Here is what he thought of the Bible Sabbath:

“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 [meaning loathing or cursing] of the Jews.”

–quoted by S. R. E. Humbert, Adversus Graecorum calumnias 6, in Patrologie Cursus Completus, Series Latina, ed. J.P. Migne, 1844, p. 143. The council of Bishops at the Council of Laodicea (363 A.D.) said;

“Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath.”

God did rest the seventh day from all his works. … There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Hebrews 4:4-9

And the “people of God they are talking about are not the Christians.”

And Jesus told his followers to pray that the end of the world doesn’t come on a Sabbath (since on that day they couldn’t run away from God’s wrath).

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day. Matthew 24:20

No, Believers say it doesn’t matter at all.

Jesus and his disciples didn’t bother much with the Sabbath, and they were criticized for it.

At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. Matthew 12:1-2, Mark 2:23-24

Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. John 5:8-10

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. John 5:16

If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? John 7:23

And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. Luke 13:14

And Jesus encouraged others to break the Sabbath, saying that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath, and that he was Lord of the Sabbath. (So he and his followers are free to break it.)

And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? Luke 14:3-5

He said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. Mark 2:27-28

Paul* told his followers to observe the Sabbath on any day they liked. It’s not important and no one should be judged for how they keep (or don’t keep) the Sabbath.

One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Romans 14:5

Let no man therefore judge you in meat and drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon; or of the sabbath days. Colossians 2:16

PAUL’S SATURDAY

There are many references in the book of Acts about the early Christian church meeting together on the Sabbath (Saturday) to pray and study the Scriptures. Here are some examples:

Paul and his companions … On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue for the services. Acts 13:13-14

On the Sabbath we went a little way outside the city to a riverbank, where we thought people would be meeting for prayer … Acts 16:13

As was Paul’s custom, he went to the synagogue service, and for three Sabbaths in a row he used the Scriptures to reason with the people. Acts 17:2

However, some Christians believe the early church began meeting on Sundays soon after Christ rose from the dead, in honor of the Lord’s resurrection, which took place on a Sunday, or the first day of the week. This verse has Paul instructing the churches to meet together on the first day of the week (Sunday) to give offerings:

Now about the collection for God’s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made. 1 Corinthians 16:1-2

And when Paul met with believers in Troas to worship and celebrate communion, they gathered on the first day of the week:

On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. Acts 20:7

Jesus and the Sabbath

Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. John 5:16

At that Time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were a hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. But when the pharisees saw it they said to him, behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day. But he said to them, . . . . Have you not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? Matthew 12:1, 2, 3, 5

While some believe the transition from Saturday to Sunday worship began right after the resurrection, the truth is it was changed by the Catholics at the meeting of the Council of Nicaea.

Today, the majority of Christian believe Sunday is the Sabbath day

First Sunday Law

The legal duty imposed by the consitution of Constantive in 321 AD that all courts of justice, inhabitants of towns, and workshops were to be at rest on Sunday (venerabili die Solis) with an exception in fovor of those engaged in agricultural labor. Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition “Sunday”

Found in the Codes Justiniani lib 3, title 12, lex 3.

“Let all the judges and town people and the occupation of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun.” Edict of March 7, 321 A.D. Corpus Juris Civilis Cod. lib 3. tit. 12, Lex 3.

364 AD at the Council of Laodicea, the Catholic church transferred the soleminity from Saturday to Sunday.

First Sunday Law in the U.S.

Virginia 1610 —

“Every man woman shall repair in the morning to the divine service and sermons preached upon the Sabbath [Sunday], and in the afternoon to divine service, and catechizing, upon pain for the first fault to lose their provision and the allowance for the whole week following; for the second, to lose the said allowance and also to be whipped; and for the third to suffer death.” Laws and Orders, Divine, Politique, and Martial, for the Colony in Virginia, first established by Sir Thomas Gates, knight, Lieutenant General, the 24th May 1610.

–still on the books

Most States have enforced “Sunday Blue Laws” in the past and most are still on the books.

Days of the Week

In the area of modern Germany the Teutons labeled the days of the weeks based on their gods;

Sun = Sunday

Moon = Monday

Tiu = Tuesday

Wooden = Wednesday

Thor = Thursday

Frigg = Friday

Seturn = Saturday

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OLD TESTAMENT NO LONGER VALID?

Gen 17:9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.

Exodus 31:16 The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.

Deuteronomy 11:1 Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.

Deuteronomy 28:46 They [the commandments] will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

Psalm 111:7 The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy; They are established for ever and ever, enacted in faithfulness and uprightness. He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever– holy and awesome is his name.

2 Kings 17:37 You must always be careful to keep the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands he wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.

This was written after the rule of King David. This is talking about David’s descendants that will rule.

Ezekiel 37:24-25 “‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees. They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.

Isaiah 2:2-3 In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

The last prophet’s instructions.

Malachi 4:4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.

Do NOT Add to or Subtract from

The Torah of Hashem is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of Hashem is trustworthy, making the simple one wise; the orders of Hashem are upright, gladdening the heart; the command of Hashem is clear, enlightening the eyes … ” Psalm 19:8-10

You shall not add to the word that I [God] command you, or shall you subtract from it, to observe the commandments of Hashem, your God, that I command you. Deuteronomy 4:2

The entire word that I command you, that shall you observe to do: you shall not add to it and you shall not subtract from it. Deuteronomy 13:1

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The Catholic Ten Commandments

CATHOLICS CHANGED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

The Catholic Church knew the power of idols had on the people. They wanted this power so they changed the Ten Commandments so that idol worship was NOT, NOT one of the commandments…

Here are the Ten Commandments according to the Catholics;

1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.

2. You shall not take the name of the Lord God in vain

3. Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day

4. Honor your father and your mother

5. You shall not kill

6. You shall not commit adultery

7. You shall not steal

8. You shall not bear false witness

9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife

10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods

Point 1 –

Instead of remember the Sabbath and keep it holy …. they change the commandment to say, “remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.” And of course, according to them, the Lord’s Day is Sunday, not Saturday. However it is very clear that the Old Testament commandment states “the Sabbath,” or Saturday. Sunday has always been the day the pagans worshiped the Sun.

Point 2 –

Also, another major difference of their altered commandments is that they left out the commandment not to have any graven images of anything in the heaven, earth, and waters.

8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
Deuteronomy 5:8-9

The Catholic church loves graven images because they know the people adore them and will be magnetized to their church because of them. They had to remove that commandment.

Point 3 –

The Catholics also modified the last commandment. To make ten commandments they split the last commandment not to covet anything of your neighbors and made two commandments out of it; Not to covet thy neighbors wife, and not to covet thy neighbors goods. So, that makes ten. The Catholics have ten commandments also.

This is a chart from a Christian site. They typically degrade Jews as falling short and themselves as they see themselves as so inspired knowing “the truth” and being saved. Here they show the Jewish commandments as having left out the no graven images commandment, and this is done knowing that this not accurate. Jews are very adamant about not having anything close to a graven image as commanded in Exodus Chapter 20:4 to 6 and in Deuteronomy Chapter 5:8 to 10. Jews will not even have graven images of any political leader no matter how great or even graven images of their children. No graven images period (flat pictures are O.K.)!

The Christians are so inspired they don’t even state a commandment for number one in the Jewish column.

Ten Commandments comparisons

Exodus Chapter 20:4 to 6

4–6 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy Chapter 5:8 to 10

8–10 “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Christians are violating at least 4 of the Ten Commandments on a continual basis!

You shall not make for yourself any graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth (Idols of Crosses, Statutes of Jesus, Mary, & Saints)
No false Gods before me (three Gods in one God, Jesus (a man) is God)
Take the name of God in vain (Jesus born of a virgin is God in the flesh, Jesus is the son of God)
Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy (Keep the Sundayath)

Look around you at the Results from the violations.

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Matthew the Scribe

Matthew was one of the apostles. He is pictured with an angel standing next to him dictating what he was to write. The character seems to be copied from the Egyptian Story concerning Lord Horus. Taht-Matiu was the scribe of the gods. The lion is the symbol attributed to Matthew which is the zodiac symbol of Egyptian month Taht-Matiu (Thoth).

Tradition makes Matthew the eighth of the apostles and and Esmen (eighth) is the title of Taht-Matiu. After Judas was no longer an apostle, Matthias was chosen to fill the place of the traitor. In the Egyptian story Matiu (Taht) succeeded Sut [Set] and took his place after the betrayal of Osiris. Matthew wrote "inspired" writings and Taht-Matiu wrote the Ritual, the Hermetic (inspired) by inscribing in hieroglyphics by the finger of Mati himself.

Luke

He was not one of the apostles. He was said to be a physician or Therapeut. He was a "doctor" of the Church. Luke is said to have traveled to Greece, Macedonia, Jerusalem, and Rome as a companion of Paul. This is doubted by many scholars. The name Luke in the original Greek is Lykos, another name for Apollo, the god of healing.

Just another example of using a god name of another belief group to make their transition easier into the Catholic (means universal) Church.

Mark

He was not one of the apostles. he served as the scribe of Peter. As one of the four writers of the gospels he represented one of the cardinal points of the zodiac. This is admitted by Irenaeus. The gospel writers are represented in Christian Cathedrals as the four creatures of the apocalypse: the man, the ox, the lion, and the eagle. These are the astrological symbols of Aquarius, Taurus, Leo, and Scorpio. Mark is depicted as Leo the lion, summer.

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Thomas the Twin

One of the twelve apostles

Andrew

One of the twelve apostles

Philip

One of the twelve apostles

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John the Baptist

A Roman Catholic Saint. Born the son of Zachariah, a Temple priest, and his wife Elizabeth, who was a cousin or aunt of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Tradition has it he was born very late in his parents' lives, after it had been accepted that theirs would be a barren union. He was apparently born between six and twelve months before Jesus.

He was to become known as ‘the Precursor' whose role it would be to announce the coming of Jesus. Traditionally, John began his ministry by proclaiming the coming of the Messiah. He gathered a large following, whom he then baptized them in the River Jordan.

Burial Site = Umayyad Mosque Damascus, City of Damascus, Damascus, Syria

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Where is John the Baptist

John the Baptist is Where?

JOHN THE BAPTIST REMAINS ARE IN ... FRANCE, ITALY, VATICAN, DAMASCUS, ISTANBUL, MUNICH, AND GREECE.

France

The Catholic Church of Amiens in France have kept John the Baptists skull on a plate.

John the baptist

Jesus explains there have never been a greater man than John the Baptist walking the Earth. Still a Catholic Church in France, feels the need to keep a skull on a plate, and claims it is the very head of the baptist.

Surely this picture is insane enough. But just as the Catholic World is grasping for fresh air, there is an Italian claim, that the skull of the baptist is only to be found in Church of S.Sivestro in Rome. Not to be outdone by this, the backside of the skull of John the Baptist has been kept in the city of the Vatican. And this piece of the head can be adored and venerated at a glass mounter.

Lets start with the photos from the Church in France.

Amiens cathedral

The Amiens Cathedral in France.

head on platter

The half skull kept on a pillow, and presented on a platter.

Head for veneration

The head taken out for adoration and veneration.

This is the official Catholic story:

The head of John the Baptist on display in Amiens Cathedral. The relic was brought back from Constantinople (today is Istanbul) in 1206 after the sacking of the city by the Fourth Crusade.

head of John the baptist

But most of the time kept safely behind bars.

copying Herodius

I do not think this Frenceman knows how this copying of Herodias looks.

The best site with photos of this skull, is made by an Orthodox “Christian”. Take alook.

Since both Rome and a city in France is involved here, we have a problem with a dual claim to the same head. It is worth noting that both these two Catholic Churches admit that they do support the story of Catholic priests who have fought over a skull, and broken it into at least two pieces.

Rome

The skull, or the head of John the Baptist, is nevertheless
not so “impressive” inside the Church in the city of Rome. Lets take a look:

half skull

The half skull, the backside, of claimed to be John the Baptist. St. Sylvester Church in Rome.

St Sylvester church

St. Sylvester Church in Rome

Who, if not Papal priests, have divided the skull of John the Baptist into two pieces?

And the skull might have been cut in three, with one piece left in Turkey. Please keep on reading.

This is surely one of the most bizarre example of Church adoration and veneration of any item. Two half skulls, separated by two national borders, by two Churches that both have the Pope as their head.

Damascus

But this story does not end here. To make the legacy of John the Baptist more complicated, the Grand Mosque of Damascus Syria also claim to have the head of John the Baptist. This head is kept in a small chapel inside the Islamic dome. What?

Damascus mosque

at mosque

John the Baptist in the Mosque in Damascus, at least with the back turned towards us. Because I guess he has been kept reading verses from the Koran on the wall.

This amazing picture from a Mosque, can be viewed at this site.

The official Syrian version:

Sheltered inside the mosque is the small chapel and shrine of John the Baptist (Prophet Yahia to the Muslims) where tradition holds that the head of John is buried. One legend says that when the church was demolished, his head was found underneath, complete with skin and hair. This head is believed by some to possess magical powers and continues to be the focus of the Mandaeans’ annual pilgrimage, when they press their foreheads against the metal grill of the shrine and reportedly experience prophetic visions.

chapel in mosque

Interesting photo from Damascus. Did you know there are chapel’s inside Mosques.

Catholics should flock to the Mosque in Damascus, and try to get a pieces of the “holy” head. There might even be some prophetic vision left.

Munich

And there is also a forth claim to the head, of the Jew who baptized the savior of the World. This head is kept in a Museum in the German city of Munich. In the Residenze, a castle belonging to the past Catholic Kings of Bavaria.

head in Munich

The most funny head you have ever seen. Or have the royals packed the skull, to avoid children getting nightmares after visiting this castle in Munich?

Bavaria castle

Just like king Herod, Catholic Kings of Bavaria lived in this castle. They both claimed to hold the head of John the Baptist.

If is of course difficult to understand, what is so special about people who keep the head of John the Baptist on a platter.

It was only the completely wicked and evil wife of King Herod who took pleasure in such a gruesome sight. And probably also King Herod and his staff and followers.

Why do our modern day Church goers want to share her joy, and probably also Herodias final destination?

It is bad enough to see four different institutions trying to convince the World, they they have the genuine skull. The story will eventually fall into the deepest pit of perversion, if a handful of Catholic and Orthodox Churches claim they have collected parts of his headless body.

These claim presented by religious people, should leave the World’s best pathologists speechless.

The Ottoman Empire did not only manage to slaughter and kill 1,5 million Armenians in the bloodiest genocide prior to the Holocaust. In Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, modern day Turkey claim they have both John the Baptist's right arm, and a part of his skill. In fact, the top of his skull.

Golden container

Can anyone really buy the story of whose remains are inside this golden container?

skull relic

Istanbul

There are claimed to be remains of the baptists, held by a Museum in Istanbul.

I am sure many Muslims will be puzzled by the fact, that Islam collects such items for adoration. The same Museum also claims to be the correct holder of some of Muhammad’s beard. The Islamic relics do not look very different from the Catholics relics.

The problem with the Turkish claim of holding the right arm of John the Baptists, is that an Greek Orthodox Church claims to have the very same hand in its collection of relics.

Greek

right hand

The right hand of John the Baptist can simply not be in two different places at the same time.This is the Greek version of what looks like an idol hand of gold.

Cloister

And, the Hellenists claims the remains of John are in this cloister in Greek.

Bulgaria

And a Orthodox Church in Bulgaria recently claims they found one tooth of the Baptist.

tooth of John

Does this Bulgarian box hold a 2.000 year old tooth, and is it one of the teeth of John the Baptist.

The story of the corrupt Catholic word on relics could continue for years. But there is surely a limit of how much gulibility people can accept.

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