But you will speak My Words; the Laws and the Prophets, to them...

whether they will listen or whether they will not...and they will yet know that there has been a Prophet among them. Yechetzqyah 2:7, 5 YISRAYL HAWKINS You need to read this article thoroughly, and compare it with the Holy Scriptures. IT’S VITAL TO YOUR SALVATION!

You will not survive what is coming next on this world if you don’t repent of sin (I Yahchanan 3:4, 7-8) and convert to keeping Yahweh’s Laws (Acts 3:18-23). You are not praying to the Creator Yahweh when you pray to God, El, Elohim, Adonai, Lord or the many other titles that have been used to replace the Name of the Creator. Yahweh will not answer you when you pray using these pagan titles. To Abilene... To The Religions That Crucify The Savior Each Day Because They Refuse To Repent Of Breaking Yahweh’s Laws.

Hebrews 6:6, King James Version (KJV)— 20 And that He may send Yahshua, the Messiah Who was . preached to you, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God .Revelation 22:12-16— afresh, and put him to an open shame. 12 And behold, I come quickly, and My Reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work will be. You who say Yahweh’s Laws of Righteousness have been 13 I am the First and the Last, the Beginning and the done away with, you continue to sin and cause all of your End. followers to crucify the Savior afresh each day. There is no 14 Blessed are those who keep His Laws, that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the hope for you unless you repent and turn to Yahweh. gates into the City. .I Yahchanan (John) 2:4— 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whore- He who says: I know Him, but does not keep His Laws, is a mongers, and murderers, and worshipers of Gods (elohim) liar, and the Truth is not in him. and everyone who professes to love, yet practices breaking I Yahchanan (John) 3:4, 7-8— the Laws. . 16 I, Yahshua, have sent My Malak to testify to you these 4 Whoever commits sin, transgresses also the Laws; for sin is the transgression of the Laws. things in the congregations of The House of Yahweh. I am the 7 Little children, let no man deceive you; he who practices Root and the Offspring of David, and the Bright and Righteousness is Righteous, just as He is Righteous. Morning Star. 8 He who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has ou are now, this day, held responsible for all the sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Y Yahweh was manifested; that He might destroy the works of Righteous blood, from the blood of Righteous Abel, after the devil. whom this city was named, to the blood of the Savior, .Acts 3:17-20— Whom you continue to crucify. You are being warned at 17 And now, brothers, I know that you did this through this time. You see the Scriptures presented above, unless ignorance, as did also your rulers; you repent and convert to Yahweh’s Laws, your sins will 18 But those things which Yahweh foretold by the mouth of all the Prophets, that Messiah must suffer, He has fulfilled not be blotted out. this. .Hebrews 10:26, KJV— 19 Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may For if we sin willfully after that we have received the be blotted out; that times of refreshing may come from the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for Presence of Yahweh; sins. The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 1 Greetings, nor your wife, nor your son, nor your 7 Little children, let no man deceive If we sin...what is sin? You want to daughter, nor your manservant, nor you; he who practices Righteousness is your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor Righteous, just as He is Righteous. persecute me for telling you the truth, the stranger who dwells within your as if I wrote the Inspired Scriptures. gates. The Apostles were taught this You should be reading these Scriptures 11 For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and Message by the Savior. Notice the and rejoicing in the fact that you are all that are in them; and rested the Apostles’ Words: being offered repentance before the Seventh Day. Therefore, Yahweh .I Yahchanan 1:5-6— prophesied nuclear baby is turned loose blessed the Sabbath Day, and hallowed 5 This is the Message which we it; Yahweh made the Sabbath Day on this world. have heard from Him, and declare to Holy. you: That Yahweh is Light, and in Him What is sin? Note the Scriptural 12 Honor your father and your is no darkness; evil, falsehood, definition below. mother, so your days may be long upon deception, at all. I Yahchanan 3:4— the land which Yahweh your Father is 6 If we say that we have fellowship . giving you. with Him, but walk in darkness, we lie Whoever commits sin, transgresses 13 You shall not murder. also the Laws; for sin is the transgres- and do not practice the Truth. 14 You shall not commit adultery. I Yahchanan 2:4— sion of the Laws. 15 You shall not steal. . He who says: I know Him, but 16 You shall not bear false testi- does not keep His Laws, is a liar, and hat Inspired Scripture is very plain. mony against your neighbor. T the Truth is not in him. There is no way anyone can deny these 17 You shall not covet; lust after, your neighbor’s house; you shall not .I Yahchanan 1:7-9— Inspired Words, nor the words of the covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his 7 But if we walk in the Light, as He Apostle Shaul (Paul) in: manservant, nor his maidservant, nor is in the Light, we have fellowship Hebrews 10:26— his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything with one another, and the blood of . that belongs to your neighbor. Yahshua Messiah His Son cleanses us For if we sin willfully after we have received the Knowledge of the Truth, from all sin. there no longer remains a sacrifice for If you practice breaking one of these 8 If we say that we have no sin, we sins, deceive ourselves, and the Truth is not commandments you are guilty of in us. These Laws of Righteousness are breaking them all. 9 If we confess our sins, He is Yaaqob (James) 2:10-11— Faithful and Just to forgive us our given to everyone who owns a bible. . sins, and to cleanse us from all The Ten Commandments are as follows: 10 For whoever keeps the whole Law, and yet offends in one point, he unrighteousness. .Exodus 20:3-17— is guilty of all. .Acts 3:19— 3 You shall have no hinder Gods 11 For He Who said: Do not Repent therefore, and be converted, (elohim) at all. They are in opposition commit adultery, also said: Do not that your sins may be blotted out; that against Me. murder. Now if you do not commit times of refreshing may come from the 4 You shall not make for yourself adultery, yet you do murder, you have Presence of Yahweh. any carved image; an idol, in the form become a transgressor of the Laws. of anything in heaven above, or on the Notice, your sins are not blotted out earth beneath, or in the waters below. hese are Laws of Righteousness 5 You shall not bow down to them T unless you convert to practicing nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your found in every bible. Practicing them Yahweh’s Law, turning from sin, which Father, am a Heavenly Father Who is will bring you to Righteousness. is the breaking of Yahweh’s Laws. zealous for My House. I will make it I Yahchanan 3:4, 7— known that the diseases caused by the . 4 Whoever commits sin, trans- sexual misconduct of the fathers will be gresses also the Laws; for sin is the upon their children to the third and transgression of the Laws. Continued on page 23 fourth generation of those who hate Me, 6 But I will show My Love to thousands who love Me by keeping My Laws. Live Radio Program! 7 You shall not take the Name of Yahweh your Heavenly Father to bring Don’t miss the Last Days’ Witness Yisrayl Hawkins every other Sunday it to nothing, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who brings dishonor upon morning at 10:00 am Eastern Standard Time (9:00 am CST) or Sunday or profanes His Name. afternoon at 1:30 pm EST (12:30 pm CST) from Atlanta, Georgia! Now 8 Remember the Sabbath Day, to just type in www.love860.com/streamer/streamer.html.html. This will keep it Holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all launch the media player that will open the radio stream. You can also go your work, to www.yahweh.com and click on the link at our website . 10 But the Seventh Day is the Sab- bath of Yahweh your Heavenly Father. PLEASE NOTE LINK CHANGE. In it you shall not do your work: you,

Page 2 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 The Savior’s Name Is Not

One of most important things we This source also points out to us that any case it came to be associated should know as people who strive to this name, correctly pronounced with uvy, cf. Mat I21; on uWvy v. esp. VOJiv, 1890, 332 f. SK 1892, 177, f. do the Will of the Heavenly Father is Yahshua, is a compound name Frä Müll who constructed with the Tetragrammaton, cite analog & Nes 1.c.)—1. Moses’ the Name of our Savior. The importance successor, son of Nun, (G of knowing this Man’s name cannot which is the Name Yahweh (hwhy). The ’Ihsouu~Wvohyu~Wvohy+ Dt 321 Ju 27;=uv%ohy+ be overstated. Names were and are very Name Yahshua follows the common important to the Hebrew people, and practice among the True Worshipers of .The Hebraic Tongue Restored, by their meanings are of great significance Yahweh, in forming and using Fabre d’Olivet, page 462, gives us this not only to individuals, but also to compound names which brought Glory information concerning the Hebrew entire families. to Yahweh’s Name. word, shua. We find that this word The name Jesus is an invention of .The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 9, comes from the word Yasha: page 153, tells us this about compound man which in no way carries the u? shuh. Every idea of conservation, meaning of the True Name of the Savior names which glorify Yahweh: restoration, cementation. mentioned in the . The A distinctive characteristic of Bible u? In a literal sense, lime, cement; simple fact (which is easily proven from onomatology is the frequency of in a figurative sense, that which authoritative sources) is that the composite names, which form at consolidates, guarantees: which times even complete sentences, as serves as safe-guard; which pre- Savior was born a Hebrew, and He had serves. a Hebrew name. Do you know that in the case of Isaiah’s son Shear— jashub (= ‘‘the remnant shall re- there is no such name as “Jesus” in Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon turn’’). . the Hebrew language? In the majority of cases these To The Old Testament, page 811, tells Reading from The Encyclopedia composite names are theophorous, us: Judaica, Volume 10, page 10, we find referring to, or actually mention- ...not used in Kal, that the supposed name Jesus is ing...the name of YHWH. uov i.q.uvy***—(1) TO BE AMPLE, actually the common Greek form of the BROAD; hence— The Interpreter’s Dictionary, Volume Hebrew Name Joshua. . (2) to be rich, wealthy (see uov, 3, page 505, tells us: uov No. 1). JESUS (d. 30 c.e.), whom (3) to be freed from danger and sees as its founder and object of There is an increasing tendency, distress (compare uv~~~ y*). faith, was a Jew who lived toward especially in the 7th Century b.c. to the end of the Second Common- The Hebrew-English Lexicon of the wealth period. use compound names which state a . fact or express a wish... The most Old Testament, by Brown, Driver, and The Name, Birth, and Death Date of numerous are names compounded Briggs, page 447, tells us about the Jesus. Jesus is the common Greek with ‘YAH’... which number over 150 word yasha. form of the Hebrew name Joshua. and are almost entirely personal or Is 51,5 Jesus’ father, Joseph, his mother, family names. †[email protected]. deliverance, rescue, Mary (in Heb. Miriam), and his salvation, also safety, welfare;—uvy@ brothers James (in Heb. Jacob), The Name Yahshua is just such a y 207 + 4 t.; uvy@ Jb 511 + 4 t.; sf. 3 Joses (Joseph), Judah, and Simon compound Name. It is a combination yu!v+y! 2 S 22 + 11t., + 14t. sfs.;71. (Mark 6:3) likewise bore very popu- safety, welfare, prosperity 2 S 235 y of Yahweh’s Name in a personal name lar Hebrew names. 126 Jb 54.11. 2. salvation, i.e. primarily (YAH: yod-heh) and SHUA (shin-ayin), physical rescue, by Yahweh, oft. .The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume which means: Salvation. The Hebrew- with added spiritual idea: Is 6211 y 12, page 805, gives us additional English Lexicon of the Old Testament, 6914 858.10;

The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 3 shin-ayin). This name is correctly his Sun worship, he instructed Saviour-god, Krishna (Krishna is pronounced Yah-shu-a. Eusebius to convene the first of Sanskrit for Christ), and thus three sittings on the summer Hesus Krishna would be the official .The Harper Bible Dictionary, by Paul solstice, 21 June 325 (Catholic name of the new Roman god. A vote Achtemeier, page 474, shows us that Encyclopedia, New Edition, vol. i, p. was taken and it was with a the form Yeshua or Jesus is not even a 792), and it was “held in a hall of majority show of hands (161 votes Hebrew name: Osius’s palace” (Ecclesiastical to 157) that both divinities become Jeshua (Heb., ‘‘Yahweh is History Bishop Louis Dupin, Paris, one God. Following long-standing salvation’’), the Aramaic form of 1986, vol. i, p. 598). heathen custom, Constantine used Joshua. From his extensive research into the official gathering and the councils, Dr Watson Roman apotheosis decree to legally Rather than this name being correctly concluded that “the clergy at the deify two deities as one, and did so written and spoken “Yahshua” (containing Yahweh’s Powerful Council of Nicaea were all under by democratic consent. A new god Name), its new form was ‘‘Yeshua,’’ the power of the devil and the was proclaimed and “officially” meaning He will save. Not only was convention was composed of the ratified by Constantine (Acta Yahweh’s Name removed from the lowest rabble and patronised the Concilii Nicaeni, 1618). That purely correct name (Yahshua) written in its vilest abominations” (An Apology for political act of deification effectively new form (Yeshua), but Yahweh’s Christianity, op. cit.). It was that and legally placed Hesus and Power was removed from it as well. infantile body of men who were Krishna among the Roman gods as responsible for the commencement one individual composite. That So Where Did The Name of a new religion and the theological abstraction Earthly existence Jesus Come From? creation of Jesus Christ. to amalgamated doctrines of the Constantine’s intention at Empire’s new religion; and because In fact it was the Roman emperor Nicaea was to create an entirely there was no letter “J” in alphabets Constantine who came up with the new god for his empire who would until around the sixteenth century, name Jesus Christ. If you really want unite all religious factions under the name subsequently evolved into to know the truth, read the following one deity. Presbyters were asked to “Jesus Christ”. historical records. You will be shocked! debate and decide who their new god would be. …the names of 53 Nexus Magazine, Volume 14, The First Council of gods were tabled for discussion. “As Number 4 Nicaea and the “missing yet, no God had been selected by here was not even a “J” sound in the council, and so they balloted in T records” the English language until the 1600s. order to determine that matter... For We must remember also, the fact that Thus, the first ecclesiastical one year and five months the there is no “J” in the Hebrew language. gathering in history was summoned balloting lasted...” (God’s Book of Even the modern English “J” was not and is today known as the Council Eskra, Prof. S.L. MacGuire’s in use until the sixteenth century. of Nicaea. It was a bizarre event that translation, , 1922, provided many details of early chapter xlviii, paragraphs 36, 41). No! Jesus Christ is not the Savior’s clerical thinking and presents a At the end of that time, Name! The Savior’s Name is Yahshua, clear picture of the intellectual Constantine returned to the meaning Yahweh will save His People climate prevailing at the time. It gathering to discover that the from their sins. was at this gathering that presbyters had not agreed on a new For complete and thorough proof on Christianity was born and the deity but had balloted down to a this subject, ask about our book, In ramifications of decisions made at short list of five prospects: Caesar, Seach Of A Savior. the time are difficult to calculate. Krishna, Mithra, Horus and Zeus Keep this article handy and when About four years prior to chairing (Historia Ecclesiastica, Eusebius, c. the nuclear wars start, remember the the Council, Constantine had been 325). Constantine was the ruling persecuted House of Yahweh. We are initiated into the religious order of spirit at Nicaea and he ultimately being persecuted severely at this time Sol Invictus, one of the two thriving decided upon a new god for them. but this is the only place on earth cults that regarded the Sun as the To involve British factions, he ruled promised protection from things to one and only Supreme God (the that the name of the Druid god, come because we teach and practice other was Mithraism). Because of Hesus, be joined with the Eastern Righteousness.

Page 4 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 ! Sacrifices Of The Dead

Each year, on the last day of the Ro- Cakes for the dead were substituted for In The Book of Holidays, man month of October, millions of human sacrifice, fortune-telling for hea- 1964, by Marguerite Ickis, pages 123- people seem to enjoy a night filled with then augury, lighted candles for the old 125, we are shown the meaning fun and games. abound. The Baal fires. Gradually, the last night of October— behind the traditions of Halloween. dressing up in costumes that represent first a Druid feast, then a Christian holy The custom of holding a festival at har- devils, demons, and witches are all day—emerged as a night of gaiety, when part of the tradition that is Halloween. vest time goes back over two thousand young people played games and read for- years. The last day of the year on the old tunes from simple objects, such as “Trick or Treat” is the phrase for the pagan calendar, October 31, served the apples, cabbages, or nuts. night and childish pranks are played. triple purpose of bidding goodby to sum- Though many old All Hallow E’en cus- ‘‘Of course, this is all done for plea- mer, welcoming winter and remembering toms have disappeared survivals of All sure, and it is just for the children, the dead. The Irish built tremendous bon- Souls’ (November 2), as will be seen, still fires on hilltops to offer encouragement they need to have a nice time and en- exist in many communities. Soulers, not joy life!’’ very unlike American Halloween mum- to the waning sun and to provide a warm The celebration of Halloween is an mers, still make village rounds and beg welcome for visiting sprites and ghosts established custom in the United for ‘‘soul cakes,’’ instead of ‘‘something that walked about in the night. for Halloween.’’ More fearful of spooks than spouses, States, the British Commonwealth, folks began hollowing out turnips and and various Scandinavian Countries. ALL ’ AND ALL SOULS’ pumpkins and placing lighted candles in- The Yearbook of English , November 1 and 2 side to scare evil spirits from the house. by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, 1954, pages The early English Church called All Why was the result called a ‘‘jack-o’-lan- 153-157, are displayed, showing us the Saints’, the feast to commemorate all tern’’? Tradition says that an Irish Jack, the saints, All Hallows, Hallow E’en, All too wicked for heaven and expelled from ancient meanings of Halloween, All Saints’ and All Souls’ (October 31, No- hell for playing tricks on the devil, was Saints Day and All Souls Day. All of vember 1 and 2, respectively) share a condemned to walk the earth with a lan- these are part of the ancient sacrifices common tradition. The three festivals of the dead. concern remembrance of departed souls. tern forever. Hallow E’en, as already noted, is cel- It was the Irish, too, who initiated the ALL HALLOWS’ EVE ebrated with games and divination rites, “trick or treat” system hundreds of years October 31. All Hallows’ Eve or All Hallow since people once believed spirits of the ago. Groups of Irish farmers would go from E’en, with its tradition of witches, ghosts, dead walked abroad on this night. All house to house soliciting food for the vil- hobgoblins and sprites, its games and in- Saints’ and All Souls’, on the other hand, lage Halloween festivities in the name of cantations, still is a gay time for pranks are popularly observed with ‘‘souling’’ no less a personage than Muck Olla (an- and parties in many North Country homes. customs and plays. Originally, these dem- cient god of Irish clergy). Prosperity was Fun-loving Americans have borrowed from onstrations were intended to honor the promised to cheerful givers and threats their British ancestors many Hallow E’en faithful departed and to ease the pain of made against tightfisted donors. It was games, such as apple-bobbing, nut roast- the bereaved. the custom for English children to dress ing and tossing of apple parings. ‘‘Souling,’’ or ‘‘Soul-caking,’’ is the up in each other’s clothes (boys donning To ancient Druids, the end of October custom descended from pre- girls’ outfits and vice versa) and, wear- commemorated the festival of the wan- times, of going about on All Saints’ or All ing masks, to go begging from door to ing year, when the sun began his down- Souls’ and begging for cakes, in remem- door for ‘‘soul cakes.’’ ward course and ripened grain was gar- brance of the dead. The Soulers, singing Surprisingly, Halloween was scarcely nered from the fields. Samhain, or verses inherited from a remote past, are observed in the United States until the ‘‘Summer’s End,’’ as this feast to the dy- rewarded with ‘‘soul cakes.’’ last half of the nineteenth century. It is ing sun was called, was celebrated with Once soulers of certain villages be- thought the large-scale Irish immigration human sacrifice, augury and prayer; for gan their rounds with services in the par- had much to do with the popularizing of at this season spirits walked and evil had ish church, the cakes householders gave the ... power over souls of men. were in exchange for prayers for the dead, a ‘‘charity’’ for the departed. In other The following excerpt is from The Not until the fourth century did the Book of Holidays, 1958, by J. Walker pagan vigil for the god of light give way to words, soul cakes were intended as a All Hallows, the mass for Christian saints; bread dole to the community poor. Bon- McSpadden, pages 149-153. and not until the tenth, did the Druids’ fires, ‘‘to light souls out of purgatory,’’ Halloween, in spite of the fact that it death feast become All Souls’, the day of and the ringing of church bells, also char- takes its name from a Christian festival prayer for souls that had entered rest. acterized old-time observances. (All Hallows or All Saints’ Day), comes The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 5 from pagan times and has never taken gradually grafted the observances of the these abominations is worship. It is on a Christian significance. new faith onto these festivals and the rites the worship of demons, and not of There were two different festivals in and customs surrounding them. Yahweh. the early world at this time of year, and Like and , the festi- I Corinthians 10:20-21— they are both represented in our own Hal- val of Halloween originated in a pagan cel- . 20 But I say that the things which loween activities. When you duck for ebration, even though its name derives the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to apples, or throw an apple paring over your from the Christian festival of All Hallows’ demons and not to Yahweh; and I do shoulder to see what initial it makes on or All Saints’ Eve. not want you to have fellowship with the floor, you are doing as the Romans It was introduced in the seventh cen- demons. did—honoring Pomona, the Roman god- tury to commemorate all those saints and 21 You cannot drink the cup of dess of orchards and especially of apple martyrs who had no special day to them- Yahweh and the cup of demons; you orchards. And when you light a candle selves and was held on May 13. But in the cannot partake of Yahweh’s Table and inside the jeering pumpkin face, you are eighth century All Hallows’ Day was moved of the table of demons. in a small way imitating the Celtic Druids to November 1, to counteract the pagan of northern Britain (described in the chap- celebrations held on that date. All of the customs of this pagan cel- ter on Patrick’s Day), who lit a fire October 31, the eve of November 1, ebration called Halloween, which have to scare away winter and the evil spirits was the last night of the year in the an- come down to this sin__sick world as who were waiting to come rushing in when cient Celtic calendar and was celebrated fun and games have originated with summer was over. as the end of summer and its fruitfulness. baal worship, which Yahweh hates. On that night between October and It was a festival that the of northern Deuteronomy 4:1-2— November, the Druids kindled great fires Europe marked with , to help the . 1 Hear now, O Israyl, the Statutes on the hills as a barrier against the evil to sun through the winter. and the Judgments which I teach you to come. (These Halloween fires still burn Only since the late 18th and early 19th observe and do, that you may live, and every year in many places, but especially centuries has Halloween developed into go in and possess the land which Yah- in Scotland and Wales). By waving burn- a festive time for children, with weh, the Heavenly Father of your fa- ing wisps of plaited straw aloft on pitch- costumes, lanterns, and games... thers, is giving you. forks, people tried to frighten off demons In the 17th and 18th centuries, 2 You shall not add to the Word and witches, but just in case this didn’t however, it was customary for which I command you, nor shall you work, they also put on grotesque and ter- ‘‘guisers’’—people in weird masks and take anything from it, so that you may rifying costumes. For if you dressed in a costumes—to go from house to house, keep the Laws of Yahweh your Father horrible enough fashion and went troop- singing and dancing to keep evil at bay, which I command you. ing around with the spirits all night, they or to go about as representations of the would think you were one of them, and do ghosts and goblins of the night. Add Nothing To: you no harm. This is where the persistent Take Nothing From Halloween custom of ‘‘dressing up’’ and Trick or treat wearing masks originated; and among the This custom has survived today in many e realize that many Halloween ar- parts of the world, as a children’s W children who come to the door on Hallow- ticles appear in different newspapers een, calling ‘‘trick or treat,’’ the most masquerade. In the United States costumed children go from door to door around the United States, but in each alarming costumes are still considered article, the conclusion is: Somehow, the best. in a ritual known as trick or treat. They Other northern peoples in the Ger- usually carry a sack and threaten to play all this pagan worship has now been manic and Scandinavian countries also a trick on householders if they are not accepted by the Creator, and since it lived in terror of ‘‘the raging rout,’’ as they given a ‘‘treat’’, in the form of candy or is now only in fun, there is little or called the evil spirits whom they believed cookies. no harm in re-enacting these tradi- The Halloween lantern, made from a to be led by the great god Odin. hollowed-out pumpkin or turnip with a tions. But, to coin an old phrase, ‘‘a When one studies the origins of the candle inside it, is a relic from the days rose by any other name is still a rose.’’ customs of the Christian religion, one when food offerings were made to the To know these traditions and cus- comes to the conclusion that the pa- spirits of the dead. toms are the worship of pagan gods, gan worship was not banished from and then to still participate in them, the world. The strongest pagan reli- Yahweh Tells Us is actually worse than not knowing at gions were just incorporated into Leviticus 19:31— all! It is classified as an abominable . sin to Yahweh. Christianity. Do not turn to mediums nor familiar The book, Strange Stories, Amazing spirits. Do not seek after them, to be .Hebrews 10:26— Facts, 1980, by the Readers’ Digest defiled by them. I am Yahweh. For if we sin willfully after we have Association, corroborates this conclu- Deuteronomy 18:10-11— received the knowledge of the Truth, . there no longer remains a sacrifice for sion. 10 Let there not be found among you one who sacrifices his son or his sins. Although Christianity has swept the daughter in the fire, who practices divi- world in a relatively short time, as the his- nation or sorcery, interprets omens, en- The worldly preachers claiming to fol- tories of great religions go, the early mis- gages in witchcraft, low the Scriptures are afraid to sionaries faced an uphill task. The pagans 11 Casts spells, or who consults condemn these pagan practices. They were reluctant to give up their false gods familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necro- are afraid to rock the big boat that and ancient practices. mancer. So the missionaries, unable to con- brings them so much wealth, yet there vert them easily to an entirely new code The tradition of Halloween is steeped is no Scripture that condones these of worship, did the next best thing. They in just the abominations Yahweh told practices. Search the Holy Scriptures took the pagan festivals as they were and us not to whore after. Consulting from Genesis through Revelation and Page 6 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 you will only find the warning to come There is no blessing from Yahweh for know them by their fruits, as we find out from among them. the practice of this pagan worship. in Mattithyah. Revelation 18:4— Yahweh does pronounce many curses .Mattithyah 7:16-20— . 16 You will know them by their And I heard another voice from for these worshipers (Deuteronomy heaven, saying: Come out of her, My 28:16-68). fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? People, so that you do not partake in Preachers today condemn the Laws 17 Likewise, every Righteous tree her sins, and so that you do not receive of Yahweh, while they condone these brings forth Righteous fruit; but a tree of her plagues. pagan practices. Whose side are they of evil brings forth fruit of iniquity. Yahweh commands us to follow His on? The Apostle Shaul answers this 18 A Righteous tree cannot bring question in: forth fruit of iniquity, nor can a tree of instruction, not adding to it, nor di- evil bring forth fruits of Righteousness. minishing from it, that we may live. .Romans 6:16— 19 Every tree which does not bring Deuteronomy 4:2— Do you not know that to whom you forth Righteous fruit is cut down, and . yield yourselves as servants to obey, cast into the fire. You shall not add to the Word which his servants you are whom you obey__ 20 Therefore, by their fruits you I command you, nor shall you take any- whether of sin, which leads to death, will know them. thing from it, so that you may keep the or of obedience, which leads to Righ- Laws of Yahweh your Father which I teousness? Will you follow these false preachers command you. who teach this pagan god worship? .Revelation 22:14— Yahshua warned us, over and over, Will you accept the ways of baal any Blessed are those who keep His about false preachers who would teach more, now that you know this way is Laws, that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through against the Laws of Yahweh, while condemned by the Word of Yahweh, the gates into the City. they serve Satan. He said you will your guide to Eternal Life? g

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The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 7 THANKSGIVING DAY: Pagan

From the propaganda of public The official historical pilgrim worked with the resources at hand, and, schools every American thinks he Thanksgiving day was not even a day although they successfully fed the hungry men, the feast bore little resemblance to knows how Thanksgiving originated; completely given to thanks and praise, the modern Thanksgiving dinner... in 1620 the small band of pilgrims of as the pilgrims were accustomed to ...Oysters, clams and fish rounded out Plymouth Colony braved the perilous doing. This day was primarily a show the abundant, but far from epicurean, feast North Atlantic in quest of religious of military power for the Indians. that the celebrators would have been more freedom. They landed in November and Thanksgiving, An American Holi- likely to call a ‘‘harvest home’’ than a ‘‘thanksgiving’’ celebration. faced winter with meager supplies of day, An American History, by Diana food that dwindled rapidly. Because Karter Applebaum, pages 7-11, tells us However satisfying it would be to the summer was blessed with rain and the true story of the pilgrims’ feast in point to a particular day and say, the autumn harvest was plentiful, the the fall of 1621. ‘‘This was the first Thanksgiving,’’ it pilgrim colony, appropriately grateful, Landing at Plymouth in December 1620, the definitely would not be the truth. This established a day of thanksgiving and Pilgrims faced winter without an adequate American holiday gradually grew up in invited the local Indians to share their food supply, sheltered from the elements the culture of Puritan New , bounty. Supposedly, this is the origin only by such dwellings as they could build an origin more complex than the leg- quickly... end the public schools have nurtured of the holiday known as Thanksgiving The first autumn, an ample harvest in- and it is so pure and holy that every- sured that the colony would have food for for generations. one can now observe this the winter months. Governor Bradford, with Thanksgiving day with a clear con- one eye on the divine Providence, pro- The Harvest Home claimed a day of thanksgiving to God, and science, knowing that this is pleasing with the other eye on the local political The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1980, to Yahweh. situation, extended an invitation to neigh- Volume 5, tells of harvest home: The truth is rather different. The boring Indians to share in the harvest feast. Harvest Home, also called Ingathering, tra- Plymouth Colony was not the first En- In order to guarantee that the feast served ditional English harvest festival, celebrated glish Colony to land on American to cement a peaceful relationship, the from antiquity and surviving to modern three-day long meal was punctuated by shores, nor were they the first to offer times in isolated regions. Participants cel- displays of the power of English muskets ebrate the last day of harvest by singing, thanks. The first Thanksgiving day for the benefit of suitably impressed Indian shouting, and decorating the village with service in what was to become the guests. boughs. United States was the one held on This ‘‘first Thanksgiving’’ was a feast called to suit the needs of the hour, which Observations on the Popular Antiq- August 9, 1607, by colonists en route were to celebrate the harvest, thank the . to found the short-lived Popham uities of Great Britain, by John Brand, Lord for His goodness, and regale and im- George Bell and Sons, pages 16-33 Colony at what is now Phippsburg, press the Indians. We have Edward gives a complete description of harvest Maine. Winslow’s testimony that the feast was a home. A few excerpts are displayed The first permanent English settle- success: Thanksgivings were holy days of solemn here: ment in America was founded at prayer in the Puritan lexicon, days akin to Jamestown, on the James River in Vir- sabbaths and feast days on which ‘‘Recre- HARVEST HOME ations’’ and ‘‘exercising of Armes’’ would ginia, also in 1607. As early as Macrobius tells us that, among the Hea- not have been countenanced. Had the gov- December 4, 1619, the settlers set thens, the heads of families, when they ernor proclaimed a day of thanksgiving to had got in their harvest, were wont to aside a day to give thanks for the sur- Almighty God, Edward Winslow, one of the vival of their small company. Their day feast with their servants who had Pilgrim Fathers, would have written about laboured for them in tilling the ground. of thanks continued to be observed on the religious services the settlers held. Thus The respect shown to servants at this December 4 until 1622, when a con- this feast was more harvest celebration season seems to have sprung from a than prayerful day of thanksgiving. grateful sense of their services. Everything flict with Indians almost devastated Preparing a feast for 90 Indians and 50 the colony. [The American Book of depends at this juncture on their labour settlers must have taxed the strength of and despatch. Vacina (or Vacuna), among Days, by Jane M. Hatch, 1978, pages the four Englishwomen and two teenage the ancients, was the name of the god- 1053-1054.] girls on hand to do the cooking... They dess to whom rustics sacrificed at the con- Page 8 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 clusion of harvest. tan ‘‘mother’’ from Connecticut, a Pilgrim Home, Christmas, proclamations of civic Moresin tells us the , in imitation ‘‘father’’ from Plymouth and, for ‘‘grand- thanksgiving and congregational days of of this, brings home her chaplets of corn, parents,’’ four traditions from the Old thanksgiving and prayer. which she suspends on poles; that offer- World. ings are made on the altars of her tutelar Connecticut made Thanksgiving day Harvest Home gods, while thanks are returned for the New Englanders came from Old En- an annual festival for the ordinary collected stores, and prayers are made for gland, where the Harvest Home–one of blessings of the year and for the fruits future ease and rest. the ‘‘grandparents’’ of Thanksgiving–was of the earth, a new holiday was born In a Journey into England, by Paul celebrated. The Harvest Home was a holi- Hentzner, in the year 1598, ed. 1757, which was based upon ancient prac- day on which the villagers joined together p.79, speaking of Windsor, he says: ‘As we tices. The American Book of Days, by to bring together the last loads of grain were returning to our inn, we met some Jane M. Hatch, page 1053, tells us: from the fields and share a merry feast country people celebrating their Harvest when the work was done. English villages Home; their last load of corn they crown Although Thanksgiving is one of the most followed local harvest customs; some with flowers, having besides an image richly popular holidays in the United States, dressed a maiden in white to ride atop a the idea of setting aside a day to ex- dressed, by which perhaps they would sig- loaded cart as ‘‘Queen of the Harvest.’’ nify Ceres”... press gratitude for good fortune did not Others fashioned a figure from the grain originate in this country. In ancient times Hutchinson, in his History of itself to be robed in a white gown and set many peoples held special festivals in Northumberland, ii. ad finem, 17, says, ‘I in the center of a circle of rejoicing farm- have seen in some places, an image ap- ers. There was sufficient taint of idol wor- the autumn to give thanks for bountiful parelled in great finery, crowned with flow- ship and evidence of licentious behavior in harvests. The Greeks honored Demeter, ers, a sheaf of corn placed under her arm, the Harvest Home for their goddess of agriculture, with a nine- and a scycle in her hand, carried out of to reject the custom summarily. They re- day celebration, and in a similar fashion the village in the morning of the conclu- coiled from these remnants of the pagan the Romans paid tribute to Ceres (iden- sive reaping day, with music and much customs that predated Christianity in En- tified with Demeter). After the crops had clamour of the reapers, into the field, gland, but memories of the harvest feast been gathered, the Anglo-Saxons rejoiced where it stands fixed on a pole all day, and lingered all the same. at a ‘‘harvest home,’’ which featured a when the reaping is done, is brought home hearty feast. In Scotland the harvest cel- Christmas in like manner. This they call the Harvest ebration was known as a kirn and in- Queen, and it represents the Roman Like the Harvest Home, Christmas–an- cluded special church services and a Ceres.’ other of the old-world ‘‘grandparents’’ of Thanksgiving–was remembered but not substantial dinner. Thus, since most of the settlers who The English Dictionary, Ox- celebrated by the Puritans. The practice of designating the day of Jesus’ birth, and came to America probably had known ford, Clarendon Press, London, especially of making merry on that day, some form of thanksgiving day in their England, pages 108-109, tells us of were viewed as one of the grave errors homelands, it is not surprising that they harvest home and the harvest queen. of the churches of both Rome and En- transplanted this custom to the New gland and as a departure from the purity World. Harvest home, harvest-home. of the early church. 1. The fact, occasion, or time of bringing Celebrations: The Comprehensive home the last of the harvest; the close of The spirit of Christmas, however, was . the harvesting. sorely missed, and during the 1600s, when Book of American Holidays, by Rob- b. A shout or song of rejoicing on that oc- Thanksgiving was becoming a popular fes- ert J. Myers, pages 271-272, tells us: casion. tival, small pieces of the English Christmas 2. The festival or merry-making to celebrate crept into the celebration of the Yankee The Pilgrims, who in 1621 observed our the successful homing of the corn, called Thanksgiving. Those quintessential English initial Thanksgiving holiday, were not a in Scotland ‘the kirn’. (Now rarely held.) Christmas dishes, plum pudding and mince people especially enthusiastic about the Harvest queen. A name given a. to Ceres, pie, became as indispensable a part of the celebration of festivals. In fact, these the goddess of agriculture and crops; b. Thanksgiving menu as turkey and pump- austere and religious settlers of America to a young woman chosen from the reap- kin pie itself. ers (or an image or doll dressed up, cf. har- Civil Proclamations vest-doll), to whom was given a post of Thanksgiving Day, our unique American DON’T LET THIS honour at the harvest-home. holiday, ought not to be confused with still MAGAZINE DIE. a third ‘‘grandparent,’’ the special days of .Thanksgiving, An American Holi- thanksgiving proclaimed by civil authorities This information is needed all day, An American History, in Europe and throughout the American around the globe. Make copies colonies. When some stroke of extraordi- Applebaum, pages 19-29, tells us the and give them to others or call truth about the ancestors of this holi- nary good fortune befell a nation, the civil authorities often declared a day of thanks- us at 325-893-5899 or 325-672-5420 day. giving and prayer, marked by special ser- and we will send you extra ...it was in the towns of the Connecti- vices in every church. copies. You could help save cut River valley and the farming villages Religious Proclamations of Plymouth Colony that the holiday as we someone from disease or death. Fourth “grandparent” to the American You could help turn the world know it evolved. Neither created intention- Thanksgiving Day was the tradition of in- ally nor copied from a paradigmatic ‘‘first dividual Puritan congregations declaring from the ignorance that all Thanksgiving,’’ the new celebration was a days of thanksgiving and prayer. religions have helped to synthesis of four distinct and ancient tra- ditions, elements of which united in the Synthesis of the Traditions produce, ignorance that is unique cultural milieu of Puritan New En- The Thanksgiving holiday born in Puritan causing curses all over the world gland to give birth to Thanksgiving. The New England in the 1630’s and 1640’s at this time. newborn Thanksgiving holiday had a Puri- was shaped by four traditions the Harvest The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 9 would have been dismayed had they In England the ‘‘harvest home’’ has been and the south directly after the Civil known of the long and popular history of observed continuously for centuries. The War in the United States. The Ameri- harvest festivals, of which their Thanks- custom was to select a harvest queen for giving was only the latest. this holiday. She was decorated with the can Book of Days, by Hatch, page 26, The harvest festival, with its attendant grain of their fields and the fruit of their tells us: rites, seems to have spread out from a trees. On Thanksgiving Day she was pa- The establishment of a national Thanks- relatively small area of land, from Egypt raded through the streets in a carriage giving Day on a permanent annual basis drawn by white horses. This was a rem- and Syria and Mesopotamia. The first or was largely the result of the work of Sa- nant of the Roman ceremonies in honor of rah Josepha Hale. ...Hale’s editorial ap- the last sheaf of wheat was offered to Ceres. But the English no longer thought the ‘‘Great Mother,’’ or the “Mother of peared at a significant moment. The Civil of Ceres or cared much about her. They War divided the nation into two armed the Wheat”—for the earth-power was es- went to church on this day and sang their sentially a feminine force. Astarte was camps in 1863. Despite the staggering loss Thanksgiving songs. of human life, the battle of Gettysburg was the Earth Mother of the ancient The Pilgrims brought the “harvest in” to Semites; to the Phrygians she was an important victory for the North. The re- Massachusetts. But they gave it a slightly sult produced great rejoicing throughout Semele; under the name of Demeter she new meaning, since they were thankful for the North, and this general feeling of ela- was worshiped by the Greeks at the fa- much more than their harvest. tion, together with the clamor produced mous Eleusinian Mysteries; Ceres, the The merriment of the harvest festivals by Hale’s editorials, undoubtedly prompted Roman goddess of corn, presided over is older than recorded human history. Abraham Lincoln to issue the proclama- the October Cerelia. tion on October 3, 1863, setting a last Thanksgiving day worship is merely Thursday in November 1863 as a national Thanksgiving for the plentiful foods the ancient fertility rites veneered with Thanksgiving Day. did not just come into the mind of the respectability of Christianity. How- Governor Bradford in the year 1621 ever, the fact still remains, that it is The world still loves this holiday, for c.e. as some imagine. On the contrary, ancient fertility worship. The Apostle it is now the beginning of the Christ- the pagan harvest festivals can be Shaul tells us of the gods, and the sac- mas shopping season, which is so dear traced to the land of Ancient Babylon rifices to these gods: to merchants everywhere, and the sig- and the worship of the original great I Corinthians 10:20-21— nal for innumerable football games, so . dear to fans everywhere. Continuing mother. Unger’s Bible Dictionary, 20 But I say that the things which Moody Press, page 413, tells us that the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to from The American Book of Days: Astarte is the Greek name for demons and not to Yahweh; and I do After three centuries as a holiday in its not want you to have fellowship with own right, Thanksgiving was rudely de- Ashtoreth, the Canaanite goddess of demons. sensual love, maternity, and fertility. moted to serve as the official opening day 21 You cannot drink the Cup of of the Christmas shopping season....and Licentious worship was conducted in Yahweh and the cup of demons; you Madison Avenue saw Thanksgiving as a her honor at her shrines. cannot partake of Yahweh’s Table and handy way to promote Christmas sales. of the table of demons. Our Wonderful World, by Grolier In 1921, Gimbel’s Department Store in Incorporated, Volume 17, page 220, he Apostle Shaul has told us that Philadelphia sponsored the first Thanks- T giving parade designed to kick off and pro- tells us of the harvest festivals. the things the Gentiles sacrifice are mote the holiday buying season. sacrificed to the demons, and we are ...The charge of commercialization could The Harvest Festivals not be rebutted. Macy’s responded to the We often think of Thanksgiving as an not to have any fellowship with this claim of interference with churchgoing by American holiday, begun by the Pilgrims demon worship. scheduling the parade for 1:00 P.M. that in Plymouth in 1621. At that time, so the .Romans 12:2— year, but it was soon back in its morning story runs, the survivors among the May- And do not be conformed to the pat- time slot. The afternoon schedule would flower passengers celebrated their first har- tern of this world; but be transformed conflict with Thanksgiving football games vest in the New World. Actually a thanks- by the renewing of your mind, that you and by the 1920s, that was the more seri- giving for the annual harvest is one of the may be able to test and prove what is ous conflict for many families. oldest holidays known to mankind, though the Righteous, and acceptable, and Per- celebrated on different dates. In Chaldea, fect Will of Yahweh. So, when anyone, or any book, tries in ancient Egypt, and in Greece, the har- I Yahchanan 2:15, 17— vest festival was celebrated with great re- . to tell you that Thanksgiving day is 15 Do not love the world, nor the joicing. From Holidays Around the World, things that are in the world. If anyone really in honor of Yahweh, you will by Joseph Gaer, by permission of Little, loves the world, the Love of the Father know differently. g Brown & Co. Copyright, 1953, by Joseph is not in him. Gaer. Revised by editor, 1959. 17 And the world passes away, Please note that our The Romans celebrated their Thanksgiv- with the lust that is in it; but he who ing early in October. The holiday was dedi- does the Will of Yahweh abides forever. monthly Prophetic Word cated to the goddess of the harvest, Ceres, I Yahchanan 5:19— and the holiday was called Cerelia. (That . magazine, monthly News- We know that we belong to Yahweh, is where the word ‘‘cereal’’ comes from). and that the whole world is under the letter and various book- control of the evil one. From Rome to the New World lets are available free for The Christians took over the Roman holi- It is an absolute fact that the world your viewing or down- day and it became well established in En- only loves worldly things. 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Page 10 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 True Stories About CHRISTMASCHRISTMASCHRISTMAS Christmas is the most commercial- concerned with the date of the new Ro- talked with me, saying to me: Come, I ized holiday of the year. People over- man year...and the celebration of the god will show you the sentence of the great Janus, god of doors (as a two-way en- whore that sits upon many waters. spend to buy gifts for their friends and 2 With whom the kings of the earth relatives. They try to celebrate what gine) who looks back on the past and for- ward to the future. have committed fornication; practiced they believe is the birth of their Sav- One may think of the Saturnalia as idolatry: godworship (the worship of ior, who was sacrificed for their sins. ‘Roman in Rome'...but the truth is: The elohim), and the inhabitants of the In our own Holy Scriptures, long earth have been made drunk with the Roman Empire was a world-ruling empire wine of her fornication. before the birth of the Messiah, the at that time. The customs of Rome were 3 So he carried me away in the Creator speaks of the festival of spread to all the known world. It was an Spirit into the midst of godworshipers Christmas being celebrated, as Yer- empire-wide celebration. All the people (worshipers of elohim); and I saw a emyah 10:1-5 indicates. in this Empire, save only a few... gath- woman sitting on a scarlet colored The Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol- ered in their homes to drink wine... to beast, full of names of blasphemy, hav- ume II, under Christmas, says: dance and sing... to light their candles ing seven heads and ten horns. and exchange presents...giving their chil- 4 And the woman was arrayed in In the Roman world, the Saturnalia was dren the little clay dolls that represented purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and a time of merrymaking and exchanging their former sacrifices. Many other customs have become en- pearls, having a golden cup in her hand of gifts. December 25th was also re- full of abominations and filthiness of garded as the birthdate of the Iranian grafted into the ancient celebration oc- curring at this time of year. Mummers her fornication. Mystery god, Mithra, the Sun of Righ- 5 And upon her head was a name teousness. and Wild Men roam the British Isles and written: Mystery Babylon the great, the Europe. The evergreen tree is an ancient mother of the harlots, and of the In A Book of Christmas, by William custom incorporated. The Vikings gave abominations of the earth. Sansom, McGraw-Hill, pages 28-39, their ... the druids donated their magic mistletoe... the in we find the following information: In Revelation 17:5, we are shown a Briton and the of German ori- religion of mystery, the great whore, ...Early Northern people, who had no gin were all donated and incorporated into the holidays known worldwide as Christ- or great god worshiper, as this religion exact astronomical findings began their should be called, which brings abomi- Winter festivals earlier...in November... mas and New Year. It was not until the middle of the nations to all peoples, multitudes, na- when the signs of the sun’s recession... tions and languages. (dying) and the scarcity of animal food fourth century c.e. that the birth of the made the slaughter of the increase of the Messiah was officially celebrated at the Collier’s Encyclopedia, Volume 16, herd necessary. Later, the ceremonies time of year when the lighting of fires... pages 349-350, tells us of these ancient moved forward to mid-December and the the praising of the new sun... relaxation mystery religions. and feasting was set on the very same anticipation of the Saturnalia... that won- The mystery religions furnish an ancient date as that of the birth of the sun god... derful, heartwarming, emotional festival example of a missionary movement. Mithra. introduced by the Romans by their occu- Originally they were magical ceremonies pation of the then-known world. MITHRAISM: The worship of Mithra designed to induce bountiful crops. They In Roman Times...a Pre-Christian Mes- shared many similarities with the newer dramatized the annual decay of vegeta- sage of ‘peace and god’s will’ to all men Christian ceremonies. There was bap- tion in the autumn as the death of a di- accompanied the Saturnalia. The tism, a sacramental meal, and obser- vine youth over whom a goddess mourned. Saturnalia was within the solstice and vance of Sunday, and the god himself was Later they celebrated with ecstatic joy Saturnalia-Kalendae period... starting born on December 25th. the return of verdure in the spring as the December 17 and going through January n Revelation 1:1, the Apostle Yah- coming to life again of the departed 1st. The first period of feasting was gen- I chanan is given the Revelation of youth. erally for seven days. The god celebrated ...the mystery religions continued to was Saturn... farmer of a former gold age what will shortly come to pass at the make converts... Though the details of and eater of his own children. end of this age. Yahchanan is shown these rites are unknown, because they The giving of presents... particularly the end of the babylonian mystery re- were secret, it is evident that the drama candles and dolls called Sigillaria also ligions that this whole deceived world which the initiates saw enacted was a derives from the insistent origin of hu- worships in this very day and time. source of great comfort to them... man sacrifice at this time of year. .Revelation 17:1-5— Mithraism...seems to have had many Directly following the Saturnalia was 1 And there came one of the seven affinities with the mystery religions, es- the Kalendae... more mathematically Malakim who had the seven bowls, and pecially in its graded series of seven

The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 11 stages of initiation. Mithra or Mithras was By harnessing the emotions gener- by The Readers Digest Association, the name of an ancient deity among the ated by pagan religions, one can truth- pages 217-218, tells us how: Aryans. His emblem was sol invictus, the invincible sun, and his help was sought fully say that the pagan religions are ...Meanwhile at the centre, in Rome itself, especially by those engaged in warfare. a part of Christianity. the popes had an efficient organization, Constantine, was also the leader of the curia, patterned on that of the Roman In Egypt, Osiris, the sun god, the son/ the First Council of Nicaea in the year Empire. Papal legates abroad reported husband of Isis was born on Decem- 321 C.E. Sunday worship was estab- back to the pope on shifts of policy and political power, and held a powerful ber 25th. In the Syrian mystery reli- lished for Christianity at that time. gion, Astarte/Semiramis wept over diplomatic weapon in their right to refer The last, diverse kingdom that sub- disputes to Rome. The pope claimed the Adonis/Nimrod. The birthday of Ado- dued three kingdoms is the religious sole power to grant absolution for sin. nis, the sun god of Syria, was Decem- power of papal Rome. This religious Through the bishops and the parish ber 25th. The festival of Mithras, the power changed the Feast Days of Yah- priests, his authority reached into almost sun god of ancient Persia, was cel- weh to the pagan festivals that were every corner of Europe. ebrated on December 25th. Tree wor- already popular. ship and celebrating a birthday on De- he only educated people were the The most popular pagan festival T cember 25th certainly did not start in was the birthday of the invincible sun Roman Catholic clergy. The great ma- the Christian era. on December 25th. The Mithraic and jority of the population were ignorant, Mithraism was a well known reli- Roman religions were already celebrat- uneducated, and superstitious. When gion in Yahshua’s day. The Romans the priests said this was the way of became acquainted with this religion ing the rebirth of the sun. It was not a hard task to place the mask of Chris- worship, this was the way of worship about 200 B.C.E., by the year 200 C.E., no matter that it originated in pagan- it was popular in the Roman armies. tianity over this pagan birthdate and call it the birthday of Jesus. ism, or that it had nothing to do with Diocletian, who brought the most the Bible. severe persecution against The House Strange Stories Amazing Facts, by of Yahweh, worshiped Mithras. His The Readers Digest Association, pages successor, Constantine, who was the 283-284, says: Child Sacrifice historical savior of the Christian reli- Christmas and Easter, although the Mythology of All Religions, Volume greatest festivals in the Christian . gion, also worshiped Mithras. 5, page 52, says: Collier’s Encyclopedia, Volume 9, calendar, are celebrated with customs that originated in superstition and heathen page 431, says: It may be presumed from the human rites hundreds of years before Christ was (infant-child) sacrifices to Malik (Molech) As social and economic conditions became born. in Canaan and to Melqart (Bel-Baal-Lord) worse, the Roman masses turned more Even the dates owe more to pagan as Cronus at Carthage that the and more to the colorful, strongly emo- practices than to the birth and Phoenicians offered the first born in the tional, and superstitious mystery religions of Jesus. It was not until the fire which celebrated the Sol Invictus (the imported from the East. The cults of the fourth century that December 25 was fixed same Invincible Sun Constantine wor- great mother, of Isis, and of Mithras were arbitrarily as the anniversary of the shipped) and insured themselves against the most popular. They all emphasized Nativity—because the pagan festivals the wrath of the relentless god. The Malik spiritual salvation and a future life—in a from which so many Christmas customs of Tyre was identified with Hercules... word they offered comfort. spring were held around that time. Although Christianity has swept the iving infants and children were Constantine was a worshiper of world in a relatively short time, as the L Mithra. He used religious toleration histories of great religions go, the early burned in the fire to the god Molech for the Christians as a political ploy missionaries faced an uphill task. The during this time. to strengthen his own power as the pagans were reluctant to give up their Unger’s Bible Dictionary, page 416 emperor of Rome. false gods and ancient practices. says: He was still a sun worshiper when So the missionaries, unable to convert them easily to an entirely new code of Molech (molek; Heb. Melek, king), a de- the religion that is called Christianity testable Semitic deity honored by the today was initiated. worship, did the next best thing. They took the pagan festivals as they were and sacrifice of children, in which they were gradually grafted the observances of the caused to pass through or into the fire... The Last Two Million Years, by The new faith onto these festivals and the Readers Digest Association, pages rites and customs surrounding them. Moloch (molok), another form in English 217-218, says: December 25 was not called (Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43) of Molech (q. v.). By a stroke of tactical genius the Church, Christmas until the ninth century. Until while intolerant of pagan beliefs, was able then it had been the Midwinter Feast, a .The Concise Encyclopedia of Greek combination of the Norse Yule Festival to harness the powerful emotions gener- and Roman Mythology, page 261, un- ated by pagan worship. Often, churches and the Roman Saturnalia, both of which der Saturnus, we find: took place in late December. were sited where temples had stood be- A sacrifice was made to Saturnus in his fore, and many heathen festivals were temple with uncovered head according added to the Christian calendar. Easter, How was this deceit perpetrated on to the Greek observance because for instance... mankind? The Last Two Million Years, Saturnus had come from Greece. After Page 12 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 the sacrifice there was a public banquet... New Year? Janus, the god that the month of Janu- People exchanged presents, most fre- ary is named for was the father of the quently clay puppets (dolls) in memory The Saturnalia was celebrated up gods, and at the same time the media- of the fact Hercules (Molech) abolished through the Calends, or first of Janu- torial divinity. He is identified with human (infant-child) sacrifice when he in- ary, as it is still being celebrated to- Bacchus or Adonis (the sun god) and troduced the cult of Saturnus. day by the whole deceived world. was invoked in the religion of mystery The Two Babylons, by Alexander This same Babylonian worship of Hislop, 1959, pages 94-96, shows us: as Satur, Saturn, mystery. Molech, which came down through Saturn is identified with Cronos (or the Greeks and Romans, through Christmas Day among the ancient Sax- Kronos), the father of the gods.Gods Constantine and through the great ons... was observed to celebrate the birth and Mortals in Classical Mythology, of any lord of the host of Heaven... The Michael Grant and John Hazel, pages whore of Revelation 17:1, is worshiped Saxons regarded the sun as a female god 124-125, tells us more about Cronos, by the same practices and the same and the moon a male god. The birth of customs, at the same time of year, by this ‘Lord Moon’ was on December 25th. the father of the gods: the whole deceived Christian world to- The name of this ‘Lord Moon’ in the East...... This aspect of Cronos links him with Babylonians, Chaldeans and among the day. Saturn, the Roman god with whom he was Canaanites... was Meni__The Numberer. Holidays Around The World, by Jo- identified. Some Greeks associated seph Gaer, page 133, says: According to Hislop, Gad refers to the Cronos’ name, wrongly, with the word sun god, and Meni the moon god. The chronos (time), and consequently de- Christmas is a very old holiday. It picted him as an old man with a people offered sacrifices to these gods clearly started as a celebration of the scythe__Father Time. passing of the winter solstice, and the in Isayah 65:11. start of the sun’s return journey from the Holidays Around The World, by Jo- Saturnus and Cronos are one and the north to the south. seph Gaer, 1953, page 137, says: The ancient Romans observed this same god. The Concise Encyclopedia time with a festival dedicated to Saturn, The date we celebrate as New Year’s, of Greek and Roman Mythology, the god of agriculture, and it was called like the date of Christmas, is an inherit- Sabine G. Ostwalt, page 261, says this Saturnalia. This festival was observed ance from the Romans. about Saturnus: with great merriment and abandon. Gifts were exchanged. Christmas and New Year go together ...an ancient agricultural deity who came When Emperor Constantine decreed like hand and glove today, just as they to Rome from Etruria. But he was very Christianity as the new faith of the Ro- have from ancient ages. early identified with the Greek-Cronus and man Empire, early in the fourth century, Collier’s Encyclopedia, Volume 6, his consort was thought to be Ops (Greek- the Christians gave the holiday an entirely page 404, tells us: Rhea)... Saturnus introduced the cultiva- new name and an entirely new meaning. tion of the vine and taught them to use a They called the holiday the Mass of Gifts and Cards. The practice of exchang- sickle for reaping corn; hence... his statue Christ, or Christ Mass, which was short- ing presents at Christmas stems from held a sickle. ened to Christmas. And they declared that the ancient Roman custom called Christmas was the birthday of Jesus of Strenae. During the Saturnalia Roman citi- The modern version of Father Time is Nazareth. Though the exact day and year zens used to give ‘‘good luck’’ gifts that of an old man with a sickle (rep- when Jesus was born are not known, tra- (strenae) of fruits, pastry, or gold to their resenting the old year) who dies at the dition has set the date as December 25, 4 friends on New Year’s Day. year’s end and is immediately reborn B.C., according to our present-day reckon- as an infant in the New Year. ing. .Holidays Around the World, by Jo- seph Gaer, pages 138-139, says: Strange Stories, Amazing Facts, by The Readers Digest Association, 1980, All of the practices of Christmas Janus was represented among the Ro- have come from paganism. They are man gods as having two faces. One face pages 283-284, tells us of some of the merely the modern day practices of the always looked back to the old year, and customs that were transferred to same worship that Yahweh says is an the other always looked forward to the Christmas and New Year: new... abomination to Him. Wearing paper hats and using fire- There was also great rejoicing before Regardless of the fact that these crackers are throwbacks to the wilder the gates of the temple of Janus on New excesses of ancient Rome. Yule logs and pagan festivals are covered with the Year’s Day when the people gathered to mask of Christian respectability—the do homage to the god of all beginnings. candles belong to the Norse tradition: adoration of the child; the tree wor- Gifts were exchanged among friends. They were symbols of fire and light, bring- ship with the burning of the yule log; Resolutions to be friendly and good to ing welcome relief in the cold and dark- each other were made. And the entire day ness of the northern midwinter. ham on Christmas and New Year; ex- In the centuries that followed the changing of gifts; and all of the magic was given to festivities. When the Romans under Constantine Norman Conquest, as Christianity gained of this season—they are still the an- accepted Christianity as their new faith, a firmer hold, carols and the Nativity play cient worship of Nimrod, the mighty they retained the Festival of Janus as were added. And Father Christmas one of the earth who opposed Yahweh. their New Year’s Day. evolved as a mixture of the red-robed Lord The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 13 of Misrule and St. Nicholas (Santa Claus), We realize that these customs of This custom practiced during this the patron saint of children. Christmas and New Year are pre- month of the year is not a new doc- sented to this world as beautiful trine ordained by any of the followers things. These holidays are well of Yahweh. This custom named bounded in the very fabric of life in the Christmas is an old, pagan practice world. These are times when families from the worship of Baal. come together, gifts are exchanged, These pagan practices brought on and the tree is set up with all the old the death of the first established decorations. These festivals play on House of Yahweh. Satan managed to the emotions and senses of mankind. slowly bring pagan practices and false These are exactly the kinds of feelings doctrines into The House of Yahweh Satan uses to get this world to give It is a proven fact that the festivities after all of the Apostles died. The her the worship she desires. of Christmas and New Year are the Apostles fought against these prac- The Apostles and early Believers same worship to the same gods which tices and doctrines until their deaths. kept the commanded Holy Days of Yah- Yahweh tells us is an abomination to The House of Yahweh was the Pil- Him. Yahweh also says to us in: weh: the weekly Sabbath, Yahshua’s Memorial, the Passover and Feast of lar and Ground of the Truth of Yah- .Yeremyah 10:2-5— weh when it was under the direct 2 This is what Yahweh says: Do not Unleavened Bread, the Day of Pente- learn the way; religious practices, of cost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of leadership of the Apostles. When pa- the heathen; Gentile nations; and do Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles gan practices and false doctrines en- not be deceived by the signs of heaven; and the Last Great Day. tered in, those polluted assemblies though the heathen are deceived by them; using them to set their feasts. The Apostles and early Believers were no longer the Pillar and Ground 3 For the religious customs of the never taught the pagan custom of of Yahweh’s Truth. peoples are vain; worthless! For one Christmas. This deception was As the Apostles would not yield to cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the brought into the congregations after pagan customs or false doctrines, we ax. the death of the Apostles. also should not yield to churches 4 They decorate it with silver and The world does not hear Yahweh’s today that teach these doctrines. with gold; they fasten it with nails and Words. The reason this world does not with hammers, so that it will not move; Yahshua gave us this warning in: topple over. hear the Word of Yahweh is because .Yahchanan Mark 7:7— 5 They are upright, like a palm tree, Satan has deceived this whole world, But in vain do they worship Me, but they cannot speak; they must be as we are told in Revelation 12:9. The teaching as doctrine the command- carried, because they cannot go by people have disobeyed Yahweh not ments of men. themselves. Do not give them Rever- ence! They cannot do evil, nor is it in only by learning heathen ways, but them to do Righteousness! also by practicing these heathen ways These customs and practices are the yearly. worship of gods that Yahweh warned Yahweh has told us emphatically, Yeremyah 10:3— against in: ‘‘Do not learn the way of the hea- . For the religious customs of the Deuteronomy 12:30-31— then!’’ The way of the heathen is writ- . peoples are vain; worthless!... 30 Be careful not to be ensnared ten in the chapters of man’s customs into following them by asking about and traditions that have come down Notice what Yahweh says in Yer- their gods (elohim), saying: How did from Nimrod/Semiramis/Ninus/ emyah 10:3. The customs that all the these nations serve their gods mother/son/husband adoration or wor- (elohim)? I also will do the same. world practices are vain customs. 31 You must not worship Yahweh ship. These customs will not bring Salva- your Father in their way, for every Yahweh’s Way is written in the tion. abomination to Yahweh, which He Holy Scriptures. His Way is there to The vain Christmas custom that hates, they have done to their gods read and then to obey. Yahweh commands us not to learn is (elohim). They even burn their sons Deuteronomy 4:1-2— and daughters in the fire as sacrifices . practiced every year. They cut their ev- to their gods (elohim). 1 Hear now, O Israyl, the Statutes ergreen trees, and they deck their trees and the Judgments which I teach you to just as they did in the time of Yer- observe and do, that you may live, and Pagan practices will not lead to emyah. This world thinks nothing of go in and possess the land which Yah- Eternal Life. Those who follow vain weh, the Heavenly Father of your fa- practicing this vain custom, although customs are called whoremongers and thers, is giving you. it is a custom of worship to pagan worshipers of gods by Yahweh. 2 You shall not add to the Word gods. The practice of this vain custom which I command you, nor shall you also breaks the First Commandment: The only way to Everlasting Life is take anything from it, so that you may Yahweh’s Way. There is no other keep the Laws of Yahweh your Father ‘‘I am Yahweh, you shall have no which I command you. hinder gods.’’ way. Praise Yahweh. g Page 14 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 TheThe RealReal MeaningMeaning BehindBehind Valentine’sValentine’s Day!Day!

In the month of February candymakers Dictionary of Symbols, by J.E. Cirlot, mythology. They had pointed ears, short unload tons of heart shaped boxes full 1983, page 375, says: horns, and a tail. Their legs are sometimes represented as human, sometimes as of candy. This candy is then purchased Valorentine was a common Roman name, covered with shaggy hair and with feet like by individuals for the people they love. which Roman parents often gave to their children in honor of the famous man who was a goat. The fauns were followers of Pan, Millions of innocent schoolchildren are god of the fields and woods, and Bacchus, indoctrinated to exchange valentine first called valiant: Valentine, in antiquity, Lupercus, The Hunter. god of wine. They were generally cards with each other. Florists consider represented as playful creatures. February 14, St Valentine’s Day, as The Romans identified Lupercus with one of their best business days. Faunus, a god of nature. The Greeks Pan was an Arcadian god of light, Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia called this nature god Pan. The and as such was equivalent to the Sun God: Baal, Bel, Belu, as Part 1 of The And Fact Index, F.E. Compton & Com- Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and pany, 1948, Volume 13, page 12, gives Symbols, by Gertrude Jobes, 1961, tells Symbols tells us on page 167: this information concerning St. us about Faunus in Part 1, page 552, Valentine’s Day: and about Pan in Part 2, pages 1230- BAAL (BAL, BEL, BELU): Any of the numerous 1231: local deities among ancient Semitic peoples, ’S DAY: For centuries typifying the productive forces of nature and February 14 has been observed as Saint FAUNUS: In Roman mythology, grandson of worshiped with orgiastic rites. Nameless Valentine’s Day. Saturn; son of Picus, brother-husband of deities are oldest, and Baal simply meant lord. Fauna; father of Acis and Latinus, suitor of An atmosphere or wind deity, also a heaven Traditionally, February 14 is a day for lov- Galatea; ancestor of the fauns. A rural and ers. In medieval times young people in or sun deity. His worshipers believed he was woodland deity; patron of herding, hunting, the originator of life, the soul of the world. England, Scotland, and France used to as- and husbandry. Worshiped in groves, where He brought earthquakes, fire, and storms; he semble on Saint Valentine’s Eve. They drew his oracles were heard by a visitant while was the generative principle in nature, names by chance from an urn. Each per- asleep on a sacred fleece. He revealed nature’s originator of good and evil, provider of food. son then became the ‘‘valentine,’’ that is, secrets to men only. Among Egyptian sects worshiped as a god of the special friend of the one whose name Faunus means to favor. He was also called the burning destroying sun. The Hebrews he drew. It is still customary on this date Inuus (fertilizer) and Lupercus (one who applied the name to any false god. As a to exchange gifts, many of them heart- wards off wolves). Phoenician sun deity he was the male shaped, as an expression of affection. reproductive power. In Syria worshiped as a PAN: Greek woodland spirit. God of flocks, lunar god, lord of heaven, creator. Controlling Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia, hills, pastures, and wild life. Lusty deity of fertility, rain, and thunder, he ultimately . weather or wind insofar as weather affected acquired solar attributes. He was Volume 13, page 12, tells us that the crops and herds. Chief of satyrs, he presided accompanied by Baalath. Probable source of Roman festival Lupercalia might have over rural occupations, was patron of Ball, Beal, Blaise. something to do with St. Valentine’s fishermen, hunters, and shepherds, and created day: mirages and other pitfalls for travelers. Baal, as the Sun, was the symbol of He is said to have caused groundless fear, the male reproductive power. Of the several saints named Valentine, the hence the word panic. most important were a Roman priest and a Plutarch relates that Thamus, passing the Baal which is mentioned so often bishop of Terni, both of whom were executed island of Paxos, heard a mighty voice com- in the Holy Scriptures, was a title of in Rome in the third century. That their feast manding Thamus to proclaim, ‘‘Pan is dead.’’ Nimrod, the hunter who was against day is also the day set aside for lovers seems Probably a misunderstanding of the lament Yahweh. We read in: to be merely a coincidence. The Roman festi- for the mutilated Tammuz. val Lupercalia, which occurred on February 15, He usually is portrayed with the head, chest, .Genesis 10:9, KJV— may be related to the modern celebration. and arms of a man, a crooked nose, the legs, He was a mighty hunter before the horns, tail, and sometimes the ears of a goat Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Centuries before the birth of Yahshua to typify his fertile powers. He is said also to Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Messiah, the Romans were celebrating personify the sensual (animal) as well as the Lord. spiritual (godly) attributes in mortals. the evening of February 14 and the day The Two Babylons, by Alexander of February 15 as an idolatrous and . . The World Book Encyclopedia, Hislop, pages 21-25, gives us this sensuous festival in honor of Volume 6, page 59, shows us: information: Lupercus. Faun, fawn, was a half-human god of the That son, though represented as a child Lupus is the Latin word for wolf. woods and herds in Roman mythology. The in his mother’s arms, was a person of The wolf is a symbol for valor, as A fauns corresponded to the satyrs of Greek great stature and immense bodily The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 15 powers, as well as most fascinating As the precession of the equinoxes to their rites, the Luperci (priests of manners. In Scripture he is referred to continued, Julius Caesar ordered the Lupercus), clad in goatskins, ran about Pa- latine Hill striking those they encountered, (Ezek. viii. 14) under the name of Roman Empire to celebrate this birth Tammuz, but he is commonly known particularly women, with goatskin thongs. among classical writers under the name date on the new date of the winter sol- This was believed to insure fertility and easy of Bacchus, that is, ‘‘The Lamented one.’’ stice–on December 25 of the reformed delivery. To the ordinary reader the name of calendar. This day, during the time of Webster’s Deluxe Unabridged Dic- Bacchus suggests nothing more than Julius Caesar was called the Brumalia. . tionary, 1979, page 1075, tells us that revelry and drunkenness, but it is now Today, this day is called Christmas. well known, that amid all the the Lupercalia was an ancient Roman abominations that attended his orgies, festival with fertility rites: their grand design was professedly ‘‘the The Purification purification of souls,’’ and that from the Lu.per.ca¢li.a, n.pl. [L., from Lupercalis, of guilt and defilement of sin. This The time of the winter solstice on Lupercus, from Lupercus, from lupus, a wolf.] lamented one, exhibited and adored as January 6, 2100 b.c.e., was the exact an ancient Roman festival with fertility rites, a little child in his mother’s arms, seems, time the pagans celebrated the birth held on February 15 in honor of Lupercus, a in point of fact, to have been the of the son, who was first known to pastoral god sometimes identified with husband of Semiramis, whose name, Faunus. Ninus, by which he is commonly known pagan antiquity as Nimrod. in classical history, literally signified is still celebrated today on January 6, According to The Dictionary of My- ‘‘The Son.’’ with the same rituals to the same fer- thology, Folklore, and Symbols, Part As Semiramis, the wife, was tility gods and goddesses. The 1, page 552: worshipped as Rhea, whose grand Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and distinguishing character was that of the Symbols, Part 1, page 516, tells us Faunus was called Inuus (Fertilizer) and great goddess ‘‘Mother,’’ the conjunction Lupercus (one who wards off wolves). Faunus’ with her of her husband, under the name about this ancient pagan ceremony: main festival was the Lupercalia; his priests Ninus, or ‘‘The Son,’’ was sufficient to EPIPHANY: Ancient Greek festival cel- were the Luperci. originate the peculiar worship of the ebrating the appearance of a deity; ‘‘Mother and Son,’’ so extensively hence an appearance or revelation of a What is the significance of these diffused among the nations of antiquity; supernatural being. In the Christian facts? Well, the proper surname of and this, no doubt, is the explanation Church, festival in commemoration of Lupercus was Februsus, as The Dic- of the fact which has so much puzzled the manifestation of Christ to the Gen- tiles in the persons of the Magi at tionary of Mythology, Folklore, and the inquirers into ancient history, that Symbols, Part 1, page 557, then shows. Ninus is sometimes called the husband, Bethlehem, celebrated January 6, the and sometimes the son of Semiramis. twelfth day after Christmas. Formerly Februsus: Properly a surname of Lupercus. called Twelfthday or Twelfthtide. The Now, this Ninus, or ‘‘Son,’’ borne in Lustrations were performed in his honor at mystery of incarnation. The Christian the arms of the Babylonian Madonna, the Lupercalia on February 15. festival was borrowed from European is so described as very clearly to identify pagan winter solstice rites, which were him with Nimrod. encouragements to the rebirth of the Lustrations were performed in his year. honor at the Lupercalia on February The hunter, Nimrod, it is said, 15. The Dictionary of Mythology, Folk- pursued wolves in the Appenine It is within Yahweh’s Laws that a lore, and Symbols, Part 1, page 557, Mountains of Italy, and acquired the mother who had just given birth to be tells us what the Februation was: unclean for a specified number of days, title of Lupercus—wolf hunter (hunter Februation: Roman rite of ceremonial purifi- of valor) [Valens: to be strong, depending upon whether she bore a cation, observed on February 15 at the powerful, mighty]. male or female child. The religions Lupercalia. hold on to a mixture of Righteousness What this does not say, but what The Dictionary of Mythology, Folk- any researcher can find, is the symbolic and evil. Semiramis, the mother, gave . lore, and Symbols, Part 2, page 1026, birth to a male child, Nimrod, and was meaning of the word, hunter. A tells us about the lustral bath: Dictionary of Symbols, by J.E. Cirlot, unclean for a period of 40 days. The 40th day after January 6 is February Lustral Bath: From earliest times a method page 154, has this to say about this of purification and expiation, frequently word, hunter: 15th. attended by sacrifices. Kings take a lustral February 15, which began on the bath at coronation. ...that it is desire itself. Similarly, Zagreus, another name for Dionysos, evening of February 14, was the day means: The Great Hunter, and stands for on which the Lupercalia was cel- The following definitions are from the insatiable incontinence of desire. ebrated. Webster’s Deluxe Unabridged The Dictionary of Mythology, Folk- Dictionary, which tells us: Nimrod, Baal-Lord-Sun God of the lore, and Symbols, Part 2, page 1026, lus.tral, a. [L. lustralis, from lustrum, a ancients, was born at the winter sol- tells us about Lupercus and the purificatory sacrifice.] stice, in agreement with the mythology Lupercalia. 1. used in, pertaining to, or connected with of the birth-initiation-death fertility ceremonial purification. cycle. In the year 2100 b.c.e., the win- Lupercus: A very ancient Italian rustic deity; lus.trate, v.t.; lustrated, pl., pp.; lustrating, ter solstice occurred on January 6. god of fertility identified with Faunus. The ppr. [L. lustratus, pp. of lustrare, to purify by name means one who wards off the wolves. means of a propitiatory sacrifice, from Semiramis, Nimrod’s mother/wife, or- Resembles Pan. lustrum, a purificatory sacrifice.] to make dered Nimrod’s birthday to be Lupercalia: Roman festival celebrated on Feb- clear or pure; to purify by means of certain celebrated on January 6. ruary 15 to honor Lupercus. As a conclusion ceremonies. Page 16 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 lus.tra.tion, n. 1. the act of lustrating or It was so in ancient Babylon, as is evident making pure; a ceremonial cleansing. and Love? from the Babylonian system as it appeared The Book of Festival Holidays, by in Egypt. There also a ‘‘Sacred Heart’’ was he purification of the mother was . venerated. The ‘‘Heart’’ was one of the sacred T Marguerite Ickis, Dodd, Mead, & Co., the fertility ritual performed at the symbols of Osiris when he was born again, New York, 1964, page 35, tells us: and appeared as Harpocrates, or the infant Lupercal, a cave below the Palatine Cupid was one of the gods of Mythology, divinity, borne in the arms of his mother Isis. Hill in Rome. Goats or dogs were whose name in Latin means ‘‘desire.’’ He is Therefore, the fruit of the Egyptian Perséa sacrificed as her ritual offering for her usually represented as a chubby, naked, was peculiarly sacred to him, from its uncleanness. The skins of these winged boy...with a quiver of arrows by resemblance to the ‘‘HUMAN HEART.’’ Hence which he transfixed the hearts of youths and this infant divinity was frequently represented offerings were then used to confer maidens. His darts, some of which were with a heart, or the heart-shaped fruit of the fertility upon women. poisonous at the tip, could pierce anywhere. Perséa, in one of his hands... the following The Februation was a rite of The rose, which speaks of love, is extract, from John Bell’s criticism on the purification observed on February 15– undoubtedly the most popular flower in the antiques in the Picture Gallery of Florence, world. By rearranging the letters in the word will show that the boyish divinity had been the very day upon which the mother ‘‘rose,’’ we get ‘‘Eros’’ the god of Love. This represented elsewhere also in ancient times of the husband was said to be now may explain why it has always been called in the same manner. Speaking of a statue of purified, and to have appeared in public the flower of romance, the choice of lovers Cupid, he says it is ‘‘a fair, full, fleshy, round in every century. boy, in fine and sportive action, tossing back with her son/husband for the first time a heart.’’ Thus the boy-god came to be since his birth on January 6. In mythology, it is said when regarded as the ‘‘god of the heart,’’ in other On this day, the celebration of the Nimrod’s mother saw him as a young words, as Cupid, or the god of love. To Lupercalia on February 15, the mother boy, she desired him. Nimrod became identify this infant divinity, with his father her cupid, her desired one, and later “the mighty hunter,” he was equipped with was cleansed 40 days after her son/ ‘‘bow and arrows...’’ He was the woman’s husband was born—40 days after his became her god of valor, her hunter. seed. Venus and her son Cupid, then, were appearance—Epiphany on January 6. none other than the Madonna and the child. Arrows? As the boy-god, whose symbol was the The significance of this mythology heart, was recognized as the god of was the fact that the mother was now .A Dictionary of Symbols, by J.E. childhood, this very satisfactorily accounts purified; the mother was now able to Cirlot, pages 19-20, tells us about the for one of the peculiar customs of the have sexual relations again. The symbolism of arrows: Romans. Kennett tells us, in his Antiquities, that the Roman youths, in their tender mother could again marry her son/ ...it was used to designate the sun’s rays. years, used to wear a golden ornament husband, to fertilize the world. The But, because of its shape, it has undeniable suspended from their necks, called bulla, purification of the mother was the phallic significance, specially when it is which was hollow and heart-shaped. shown in emblems balanced against the fertility rite. symbol of the ‘mystic centre’, feminine in character, such as the heart. The heart How did the heart take on such Symbols And The pierced with an arrow is a symbol of importance in ancient paganism? The Fertility Rites conjunction. Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, The conjunction referred to indicates pages 190-191, tells us: The question, ‘‘Will you be my sexual relations. In other words, these Is it asked, How came it that the ‘‘Heart’’ Valentine?’’ asked by millions of symbols were used in fertility rituals. became the recognized symbol of the Child deceived people at this time of year was of the great Mother? The answer is, ‘‘The asked by the hunters in this age-old Heart’’ in Chaldee is ‘‘Bel’’; and as, at first, The Heart after the check given to idolatry, almost all fertility rite. the most important elements of the Chaldean Collier’s Encyclopedia, Macmillan The most predominant symbol of the system were introduced under a veil, so Educational Corporation, 1980, fertility rite of Valentine’s day is the under that veil they continued to be shrouded Volume 12, page 191, tells us about heart. In America, the from the gaze of the uninitiated, after the ♥ this day dedicated to lovers: has the same meaning as love. ‘‘I first reason–the reason of fear–had long you.’’ ‘‘I ♥ America.’’ Almost every- ceased to operate. Now, the worship of the St. Valentine’s Day: a day that has been where one looks one can see examples ‘‘Sacred Heart’’ was just, under a symbol, dedicated since the 14th century to lovers. the worship of the ‘‘Sacred Bel,’’ that mighty of this love. The heart is also a one of Babylon, who had died a martyr for Valentine’s Day is traditionally observed by popular design for costume jewelry, the sending of messages and gifts, usually idolatry; for Harpocrates, or Horus, the employing the motif of a red heart, by young saying love without saying it. infant god, was regarded as Bel, born again. men and women. One tradition derives the This symbol was also familiar in customs of the day from the old Roman ancient Babylon, but this symbolized In Chaldee the heart is Bel, as The February feast called the Lupercalia, at the god who was worshiped. This Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop which young men and maidens drew partners symbol did not just come down to our tells us on page 190. Strong’s Hebrew by lot for the coming February feast. Later day as pure as the driven snow, as this this ancient festival custom was associated Dictionary, corroborates this fact with the name of a Christian bishop, deceived world thinks. In The Two Valentine, who was martyred Feb. 14, 271. Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, pages Other tradition attributes the observances of 188-190, we read about the Sacred the day to the fact that it falls within the Heart: mating season for birds and is, therefore, an appropriate season for young people to It is not very long since the worship of the ‘‘Sacred Heart’’ was first introduced; and choose their ‘‘valentines,’’ or lovers. now, everywhere it is the favourite worship. The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 17 Heart shaped love tokens, which are the priests wanted their converts to give the ministers of Righteousness—whose sent one to another in this deceived up former heathen practices. Therefore, end will be according to their works. world on Valentine’s day, are nothing the officials Christianized the ancient Although these fertility rituals have more than symbols of baal. Those who pagan celebration and called the Feast of come down to us through Satan’s min- Lupercalia St. Valentine’s Day. send these abominations, and those isters, in forms of beauty, we are still who receive them, are telling each creating, maintaining, and renewing other, in effect, that this is who they The Modern Cycle Of fertility to the same pagan gods that truly love, baal. Pagan Worship Yahweh says are an abomination to An example of the beautification of It is a documented fact that pagan Him, if we are practicing pagan cel- the fertility ritual called the ebrations in honor of these gods. Lupercalia, is shown to us in Collier’s customs were grafted into the Christian religion, almost en masse. It is a Scriptural fact that we can- Encyclopedia, 1980, Volume 9, pages not serve Yahweh while serving in this 625-626: The Reader’s Digest Association, in their book: Strange Stories, Amazing world’s god worship. Lupercalia: The Lupercalia (Faunalia) was Facts, 1980, page 283, tells us .I Corinthians 10:20-21— held on February 15 in honor of Faunus or 20 But I say that the things which Lupercus, the god of fertility, woodlands, and emphatically: the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to pastures. In a.d. 494 Bishop Gelasius Although Christianity has swept the demons and not to Yahweh; and I do replaced the Lupercalia with the Feast of the world in a relatively short time, as the not want you to have fellowship with Purification of the Virgin, held on the same histories of great religions go, the early demons. day. missionaries faced an uphill task. The 21 You cannot drink the cup of The next beautification for an old pagans were reluctant to give up their Yahweh and the cup of demons; you false gods and ancient practices. cannot partake of Yahweh’s Table and fertility ritual is that of Valentine’s of the table of demons. day. The Book of Holidays, by J. So the missionaries, unable to convert Walker McSpadden, pages 27-28, them easily to an entirely new code of We are told emphatically that we are worship, did the next best thing. They shows: servants to whom we obey in: took the pagan festivals as they were and Romans 6:16— What is this very special holiday, which gradually grafted the observances of the . Do you not know that to whom you has a fragile but enduring quality all its New Faith onto these festivals and the yield yourselves as servants to obey, his own, and which seems to have no rites and customs surrounding them. servants you are whom you obey– connection with Saint Valentine, the whether of sin, which leads to death, martyred Christian saint? Well, actually, Yes, the Christian missionaries took or of obedience, which leads to it is two days thrown into one, the each of these pagan festivals and Righteousness? merging of a pagan and a Christian feast. veneered them with Christian Many of the customs of Valentine’s Day If we obey Yahweh, by practicing every respectability by changing their Word that proceeds from His Mouth, are from pagan times, but the name is names. That is why today we have Christian. In ancient Rome, when wolves without adding to His Word or taking Christmas rather than the Saturnalia; were a great menace, there was a god from His Word, we are then Servants called Lupercus, corresponding Easter rather than the festival of the of Yahweh. However, if we follow after goddess of the dawn; and Valentine’s somewhat to the Greek god Pan, who the servants (ministers) of Satan, who day rather than the Lupercalia, the kept the wolves away. And in his honor are deceived into grafting pagan there was a festival, called Lupercalia, festival of the purification of the customs into Christianity, then we are every fifteenth of February, at which mother. servants of Satan. It is that simple. young people always drew lots for game Even though the Christian These customs and practices are the partners for the year. Later, when missionaries took the pagan festivals Valentine, a priest in Rome, killed about worship of gods that Yahweh warned A.D. 270 during the persecution of the as they were, and gradually grafted against in: early Christians, was canonized, or made the observance of the new faith onto Deuteronomy 12:30-31— a saint, his feast day was established on these festivals, with their rites and . 30 Be careful not to be ensnared the fourteenth of February, and the two customs, they are still abominations into following them by asking about days were combined. in the sight of Yahweh. their gods (elohim), saying: How did Yahweh inspired the following to these nations serve their gods .All About American Holidays, by (elohim)? I also will do the same. Mayme R. Krythe, page 40, tells us: be said about those who ‘‘...took the 31 You must not worship Yahweh There are conflicting ideas about the pagan festivals as they were and your Father in their way, for every origin of St. Valentine’s Day. Some gradually grafted the observances of abomination to Yahweh, which He sources say it goes back–perhaps to the the new faith onto these festivals and hates, they have done to their gods third century–when there were hordes of the rites and customs surrounding (elohim). They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to hungry wolves outside Rome. The god, them:’’ their gods (elohim). Lupercus, was said to watch over the II Corinthians 11:13-15— shepherds and their flocks. Therefore, in . 13 For such are false apostles, Pagan practices will not lead to February Romans celebrated a feast, deceitful workers, transforming them- Eternal Life. Those who follow vain called the Lupercalia, in his honor. Even selves into the apostles of the Messiah. customs are called whoremongers and after the danger from these fierce 14 And no marvel; for Satan herself animals was over, people still observed is transformed into an angel of light. worshipers of gods by Yahweh. this festival. 15 Therefore, it is no great thing if The only way to Everlasting Life is When Christianity became prevalent, her ministers also are transformed as Yahweh’s Way. g Page 18 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 An Easter Remembrance

The New International Dictionary Of birth of Christ is almost certainly because minds. It is fit, therefore, that rejecting The Christian Church, by J.D. that day was the great pagan day of honor the practice of this people, we should Douglas, page 322, gives the following to the sun, and in Rome in the fourth perpetuate to all future ages the information about the Christian century it was transformed into a Christian celebration of this rite, in a more celebration called Easter: festival. legitimate order, which we have kept from When Constantine “the great” the first day of our “Lord’s” passion even EASTER. The celebration of Christ’s to the present times. Let us then have resurrection. Although the Scriptures presided over the Council of Nicea in nothing in common with the most hostile make no provision for the observance of 325 c.e., his main objective was rabble of the Jews. (Council of Nicea, pg. Easter as the day of resurrection, all the political: how to merge religion and 52.) evidence suggests that the celebration politics efficiently. Since there were of the death and resurrection of Christ more politically powerful pagans than The Council of Nicea, page 23, then says: began at a very early date in the history there were politically powerful of the church, probably as early as the believers, the celebrations that the Easter day was fixed on the Sunday apostolic age. It would seem also that immediately following the full moon the Christians of the first century pagans were accustomed to observing which was nearest after the Vernal consciously sought to create a Christian were the celebrations which were Equinox, because it is certain that our parallel to the Jewish Passover, since accepted. Reading from Funk and Saviour rose from the dead on the Sunday the close relationship between the Wagnall’s Standard Reference which next succeeded the Passover of significance of that event in the O.T. and Encyclopedia, Volume 8, we find the the Jews. the in the N.T. made a following. transformation of that Jewish feast into An important historic result of the Easter both logical and easy. difference was that the Christian After A.D. 100, Easter, Pentecost, and churches in the East, which were closer Epiphany became the final parts of the to the birthplace of the new religion, and church year. in which old traditions were strong, Easter does not come from the Scrip- observed Easter according to the date of tures. This pagan custom has another the Passover festival, while the churches source. As we have read, there was a of the West, whose communicants were transformation of the Feast of Pass- descendants of Græco-Roman civilization, over into Easter. Remember though, celebrated Easter on a Sunday. The Pagan Worship this was done by man and not by Settlement of this difference was one of the objects of the Roman emperor Of Easter Yahweh. Constantine in convoking, in 325 A.D. the he New International Dictionary Reading from Compton’s Pictured Council of Nicæa (see NICÆA, COUNCILS Encyclopedia, Volume 4, page 140, we Of The Christian Church, by J.D. Dou- OF). glas, page 322, tells us how this find that Easter is the greatest festival transformation was accomplished in The justification for using the vernal of the Christian church, which the religion called Christianity. equinox to set their date for Easter commemorates the resurrection of CHRISTIAN YEAR, THE. The early Christians Sunday, which the Protestant Jesus Christ, which festival was named who were mainly Jews were used not only churches have accepted completely, after the ancient anglo saxon goddess to keeping one day in the week as separate comes from the words of Constantine of spring. but also to marking the year with certain himself, at the Council of Nicea in EASTER. The greatest festival of the religious festivals, notably Passover, the year 325 of this Common Era, Christian church commemorates the Tabernacles, and Pentecost. From early saying: times Christians kept a commemoration of Christ. Christ’s resurrection. This was held at And truly, in the first place, it seems to The name Easter comes from the Passover time and was finally fixed on the everyone a most unworthy thing that we ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, Sunday following Passover. Pentecost was should follow the customs of the Jews Eostre or Ostara, in whose honor an then celebrated at the appropriate time; in the celebration of this most holy annual spring festival was held. Some of the fifty days between the two were days of solemnity, who, polluted wretches! our Easter customs have come from this joy and rejoicing. The choice of 25 Having stained their hands with a and other pre-Christian spring festivals. December (in the East, 6 January) for the nefarious crime, are justly blinded in their Others come from the Passover feast of

The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 19 the Jews, observed in memory of their Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility, to of Ishtar of Assyria. To the Hebrews, deliverance from Egypt (see Passover). whom was dedicated Eastre monath, this abomination was known as The word ‘‘paschal,’’ meaning ‘‘pertaining corresponding to April. Her festival was Ashtoreth—Ashtoroth. From Collier’s to Easter,’’ like the French word for Easter, celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox, and traditions associated with the festival Encyclopedia, Volume 3, page 13, we Pâques, comes through the Latin from read: the Hebrew name of the Passover. survive in the familiar Easter bunny, symbol of the fertile rabbit, and in the equally ASHTAROTH the plural of the Hebrew .Unger’s Bible Dictionary, by Merrill familiar colored Easter eggs originally ‘Ashtoreth, the Phoenician-Canaanite F. Unger, page 283, goes on to painted with gay hues to represent the goddess Astarte, deity of fertility, corroborate this fact. sunlight of spring. reproduction, and war. Such festivals, and the myths and Easter (Gr. pascha, from Heb. pesah), the legends which explain their origin, Watson’s Biblical and Passover, and so translated in every . abounded in ancient religions. The Greek Archaeological Dictionary, tells us passage excepting ‘‘intending after Easter myth of the return of the earth-goddess to bring him forth to the people’’ (Acts more about this mother goddess, Demeter from the underworld to the light Ashtaroth. 12:4). In the earlier English versions of day, symbolizing the resurrection of life Easter had been frequently used as the in the spring after the long hibernation of ASHTAROTH, or ASTARTE, a goddess of translation of pascha. At the last revision winter, had its counterpart, among many the Zidonians. ...She was also called the Passover was substituted in all passages others, in the Latin legend of Ceres and queen of heaven; and sometimes her but this. See Passover. Persephone. The Phrygians believed that worship is said to be that of ”the host of The word Easter is of Saxon origin, their all-powerful deity went to sleep at the heaven.” She was certainly represented Eastra, the goddess of spring, in whose time of the winter solstice, and they in the same manner as Isis, with cow’s honor sacrifices were offered about performed ceremonies at the spring equinox horns on her head, to denote the increase Passover time each year. By the 8th to awaken him with music and dancing. and decrease of the moon. Cicero calls century Anglo-Saxons had adopted the The universality of such festivals and myths her the fourth Venus of the Syrians. name to designate the celebration of among ancient peoples has led some The Interpreter’s Dictionary, Vol- Christ’s resurrection. scholars to interpret the resurrection of . Christ as a mystical and exalted variant of ume 3, page 975, tells us of Ishtar’s It is a fully documented historical fact fertility myths. role as the queen of heaven: that the day which was chosen by the Ishtar, the goddess of love and fertility, Christian church to celebrate this Reading on page 103 of The Two who was identified with the Venus Star resurrection, was a day which had been Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, we find and is actually entitled ‘‘Mistress of celebrated by pagans from antiquity. that Easter and Ishtar are the same. Heaven’’ in the Amarna tablets... The title ‘‘Queen of Heaven’’ is applied in an Yes, the only difference between these Then look at Easter. What means the Egyptian inscription from the Nineteenth two celebrations, is the fact that its term Easter itself? It bears its Chaldean Dynasty at Beth-shan to ‘‘Antit,’’ the name was changed to veneer it with origin on its very forehead. Easter is Canaanite fertility-goddess Anat, who is Christian respectability. nothing else than ‘‘Astarte’’, one of the termed ‘‘Queen of Heaven and Mistress It is simply no secret that Easter titles of Beltis, ‘‘The Queen of Heaven’’ of the Gods.’’ This is the most active originated with the worship of a pa- whose name, as ‘‘pronounced’’ by the goddess in the Ras Shamra Texts, but in gan goddess. This fact is presented people of Nineveh, was evidently Palestine her functions seem to have identical with that now in common use been taken over largely by Ashtoreth. almost every time one researches the in this country. That ‘name’, as found by word Easter. Compton’s Encyclopedia, Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is We have found that Astarte is the Volume 4, says the following about ‘‘Ishtar’’. Greek name for the Hebrew Ashtoreth. Easter: From Collier’s Encyclopedia, Volume Many Easter customs come from the Old Ishtar of Assyria was worshiped in 3, page 97, we find that Astarte- World...colored eggs and rabbits have pagan antiquity during her spring Ashtaroth is merely the Semitic come from pagan antiquity as symbols festival. Collier’s Encyclopedia, Ishtar—Easter. of new life...our name ‘Easter’ comes Volume 15, page 748, gives us the ASTARTE [æsta’rti], the Phoenician from ‘Eostre’, an ancient Anglo Saxon following information. goddess of fertility and erotic love. The goddess, originally of the dawn. In pagan Greek name, ”Astarte” was derived from times an annual spring festival was held Ishtar, goddess of love and war, the most important goddess of the Sumero- Semitic, “Ishtar,” “Ashtoreth.” Among the in her honor. Some Easter customs have Akkadian pantheon. Her name in Canaanites, Astarte, like her peer Anath, come from this and other pre-Christian Sumerian is Inanna (lady of heaven). She performed a major function as goddess spring festivals. was sister of the sun god Shamash and of fertility. daughter of the moon god Sin. Ishtar was Reading about this pre-Christian equated with the planet Venus. Her The worship of Ishtar-Easter spread spring festival from Funk & Wagnall’s symbol was a star inscribed in a circle. throughout the ancient pagan world, Standard Reference Encyclopedia, As goddess of war, she was often where she was venerated in almost Volume 8, page 2940, we learn: represented sitting upon a lion. As every segment of society. The original goddess of physical love, she was patron Although Easter is a Christian festival, of this goddess, however, loomed of the temple prostitutes. She was also upon the historical scene in Babylon. it embodies traditions of an ancient time considered the merciful mother who antedating the rise of Christianity. The From The Two Babylons by Hislop, intercedes with the gods on behalf of her origin of its name is lost in the dim past; pages 20-22, we find this information worshippers. some scholars believe it probably is derived about the original of this great mother from Eastre, Anglo-Saxon name of a Astarte of Phoenicia was the offshoot goddess—Semiramis. Page 20 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 The Babylonians in their popular religion, sacred egg of Heliopolis, and the hopping mammals have represented supremely worshipped a Goddess Mother, Typhon’s Egg. fertility in many cultures because they and a Son, who was represented in pictures breed so quickly. In traditional Christian and in images as an infant or child in his art the hare represents lust... Yet as a mother’s arms. From Babylon, this worship symbol of life reawakening in the of the Mother and the Child spread to the spring__often portrayed as the innocent ends of the earth. and cuddly Easter bunny__the rabbit The original of that mother, so widely coexists in many places with the solemn worshipped, there is reason to believe, was Christian rites of Easter. Semiramis... the great goddess “Mother.” It was from the son, however, that she derived all her glory and her claims to Hot Cross Buns deification. That son, though represented Another custom closely associated as a child in his mother’s arms, was a with Easter is the baking and eating person of great stature and immense bodily powers... In Scripture he is referred to (Ezek. of hot cross buns. There is, of course, viii. 14) under the name of Tammuz, but he no Scriptural justification for this is commonly known among classical custom, but there is great pagan writers under the name of Bacchus, that is, The Roman Catholic Church now has justification involved. The cross is the ‘‘The Lamented One.’’ This lamented one, their own Official Representation of original sign of the god tammuz. The exhibited and adored as a little child in his Ishtar, “the Virgin Mother,” who cross is the letter T. mother’s arms, seems, in point of fact, to stands upon the top of this sacred The Two Babylons, by Alexander have been the husband of Semiramis, egg of Heliopolis, with the serpent . Hislop on pages 197-200, tells us the whose name, Ninus, by which he is Typhon at her feet. commonly known in classical history, following about the sign of the cross. literally signified ‘‘The Son,’’* As Semiramis, The magic virtues attributed to the so-called the wife, was worshipped as Rhea, whose ‘‘sign of the cross’’, the worship bestowed grand distinguishing character was that of on it, never came from [Yahshua or His the great goddess ‘‘Mother,’’* the Apostles]. The same sign of the ‘‘cross’’ that conjunction with her of her husband, under Rome now worships was used in the the name of Ninus, or ‘‘The Son,’’ was Babylonian Mysteries, and was applied by sufficient to originate the peculiar worship paganism to the same magic purposes of the ‘‘Mother and Son,’’ so extensively (signing oneself, kissing the cross, holding diffused among the nations of antiquity; the cross, wearing it as a charm), was and this, no doubt, is the explanation of honored with the same honors. That which is now called the ‘‘Christian Cross’’ was the fact which has so much puzzled the originally no Christian emblem at all, but inquirers into ancient history, that Ninus was the Mystic Tau of the Chaldeans and is sometimes called the husband, and Egyptians___the true original form of the sometimes the son of Semiramis.§ This also letter ‘‘T’’—the initial of the name of accounts for the origin of the very same The Ishtar Fertility Hare Tammuz...that mystic ‘‘Tau’’ was marked in confusion of relationship between Isis and The Easter Bunny baptism on the foreheads of those initiated Osiris, the mother and child of the in the Mysteries...The mystic ‘‘Tau’’, as the Egyptians; for as Bunsen shows, Osiris was rom The Encyclopedia Britannica, symbol of the great divinity, was called ‘‘the represented in Egypt as at once the son F we find the following information Sign of Life’’ it was used as an amulet and husband of his mother; and actually (‘‘good luck charm’’) over the heart; it was bore, as one of his titles of dignity and about Easter: marked on the official garments of the honour, the name ‘‘Husband of the Like the Easter Egg, the Easter Hare came (ancient pagan) priests, as (now) on the Mother.’’|| to Christianity from antiquity. The hare is official garments of the priests of Rome associated with the moon in the legends of (today)... The Vestal Virgins of Pagan Rome The Babylonian worship of the Great ancient Egypt and other peoples... Through wore (the cross) suspended from their Mother spread throughout the known the fact that the Egyptian word for hare— necklaces, as the Nuns do today... men as well as women wore earrings and they world. This mother goddess was um, means also open and period. The hare came to be associated with the idea of frequently had a small cross suspended to known by different names, but the form periodicity both lunar and human, and with a necklace or to the collar of their dress... of her religion has not transformed the beginning of new life in both the young (the cross) was also appended to the robes since antiquity. man and young woman, and so a symbol of the ‘‘Rot-N-No’’ (Pagan Priests); and of fertility and of the renewal of life. traces of it may be seen in the fancy ornaments of the ‘‘Rebo’’ (Pagan Priests), The Ishtar Egg aster eggs and rabbits are the showing that it was already in use as early E as the Fifteenth Century before the Christian The egg was a sacred symbol to the symbols of sexual fertility in the Era... Babylonians. Legend says an egg of ancient, pagan religions. The Reader’s wondrous size fell from heaven into Digest Book of Facts, page 122, gives the Euphrates River; from this the following information. marvelous egg the goddess Astarte EASTER AND THE BUNNY—Children’s (Easter) was hatched. Each pagan stories in many countries tell how Easter nation had its own representation of eggs are brought not by a chicken but by this wonder. The Greeks had their hares and rabbits. These long eared The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 21 Hot Cross Buns are in reality morning and because of this, they say, Tammuz cakes. These little magic they are worshiping on the day of His Tammuz cakes were made and used resurrection. There is, however, no in the worship of Ishtar-Easter: the Scriptural proof for this Good queen of heaven. During the time that the Prophet Friday__Easter Sunday tradition. Was Yeremyah was proclaiming Yahweh’s Yahshua, our true Savior resurrected Laws to the people, Yahweh inspired on Easter Sunday morning? The an- There is hardly a pagan tribe where the him to rebuke His people for this pagan swer is, NO! For complete information cross has not been found. The cross was practice. on when the Messiah was resurrected, Yeremyah 7:17-18— worshipped by the pagan Celts long before . please request our booklet, Was The the ‘‘incarnation’’ and death of Christ... The 17 Do you not see what they do in Druids in their groves were accustomed to the cities of Yahdah and in the streets Resurrection On Sunday. You will select the most stately and beautiful tree of Yerusalem? learn beyond a shadow of a doubt that as an emblem of the deity (god) they 18 How the children gather wood, the Messiah was not resurrected on adored, and having cut the side branches, and the fathers kindle the fire, while they affixed two of the largest of them to the women knead dough to make cakes Sunday morning. the highest part of the trunk, in such a for the queen of heaven, and how they manner that those branches extended on pour out drink offerings to the hinder each side like the arms of a man, and, gods... Do Not Practice It! together with the body, presented the appearance of a huge cross, and on the From The Last Two Million Years by Shortly, Easter Sunday morning will bark, in several places, was also inscribed The Reader’s Digest Association, page be upon us. Almost the entire the letter ‘‘Thau’’. It was worshipped in 215, we learn how the worship of a Christian world will participate in a Mexico for ages before the Roman Catholic pagan goddess became the most sunrise service that they believe to be missionaries set foot there, large stone important Christian festival. crosses being erected, probably to the ‘‘god in celebration of the resurrection of of rain’’. The cross thus widely worshipped, Pagan rites absorbed or regarded as a sacred emblem, was the By a stroke of tactical genius the Church, our Messiah. Factually, this is a pagan unequivocal symbol of ‘‘Bacchus’’, the while intolerant of pagan beliefs, was custom celebrated long before our Babylonian Messiah, for he was represented able to harness the powerful emotions Savior was even born. Yahweh with a head-band covered with crosses. generated by pagan worship. Often, condemns this pagan practice through churches were sited where temples had stood before, and many heathen festivals the pages of your own bible. were added to the Christian calendar. The only ones who will be given Easter, for instance, a time of sacrifice Eternal Life in Yahweh’s Kingdom are and rebirth in the Christian year, takes the ones who obey every Word that its name from the Norse goddess Eostre, in whose honour rites were held every proceeds from Yahweh’s Mouth. spring. She in turn was simply a northern .Deuteronomy 6:25— version of the Phoenician earth-mother And it will be our Righteousness, if Astarte, goddess of fertility. Easter eggs we observe to do all these Command- continue an age-old tradition in which the ments; His Laws, before Yahweh our egg is a symbol of birth; and cakes which Father, as He has commanded us. were eaten to mark the festivals of .Mattithyah 4:4— Astarte and Eostre were the direct But He answered, and said; It is ancestors of our hot-cross buns. written: Man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds .The International Standard Bible Many Encyclopedias will make the out of the Mouth of Yahweh. Encyclopedia, Volume 4, page 725, statement that Easter is the worship Revelation 22:14-15— . shows that the original of the name of a pagan goddess and at the same 14 Blessed are those who keep His Tammuz, which is dumuzi, means time will state this celebration is one Laws, that they may have right to the invigorator of the child. Tammuz was of the most important Christian Tree of Life, and may enter in through celebrations today. In each of these the gates into the City. the same Sumerian and Babylonian 15 For outside are dogs, and sor- god of fertility, who married Easter- reference works a statement is made, cerers, and whoremongers, and murder- Ishtar at the vernal equinox. in one form or another, that Easter is ers, and worshippers of gods (elohim) the day on which the Christian church and everyone who professes to love, TAMMUZ tam’uz, tä’mooz [Heb. tammûz; commemorates our Savior’s yet practices breaking the Laws. __ Akk. tammuz; Sum. dumuzi ‘‘invigorator resurrection. of the child (?)’’]. A Sumerian and Babylonian god of fertility mentioned There is no Salvation to the worship- once in the O.T. (Eze. 8:14). The prophet The Sunday ers of Baal and Ashtoreth. It is time in a vision during his Babylonian exile Resurrection Lie to come out of pagan worship and saw an abomination: women in the north start obeying Yahweh. Only Yahweh gate of the Jerusalem temple wailing for Christendom teaches that the Mes- Tammuz. siah rose from His grave on Sunday is able to give Eternal Life. g Page 22 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Continued from page 2

I Yahchanan 3:7-8— fourth part of the earth in and around gave him his power, and his throne, . and great authority. 7 Little children, let no man deceive the great River Euphrates by nuclear war, 3 And I saw one of his heads, as it you; he who practices Righteousness is disease epidemics, and famine. For full were, wounded to death. And his Righteous, just as He is Righteous. details of these Last Days Prophecies deadly wound was healed; and all the 8 He who commits sin is of the you can find them in our book Birth of world wondered; followed, after the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beast. beginning. For this purpose the Son of the Nuclear Baby and also on the 4 And they worshiped the dragon Yahweh was manifested; that He might following websites: www.yahweh.com which gave power to the beast; and destroy the works of the devil. and www.yisraylhawkins.com. You can they worshiped the beast, saying: Who is like the beast? Who is able to make also call 325-893-5899 or 325-672-5420 onfess your sins, the Apostles said. war with him? C for further information. 5 And there was given unto him a That means confessing that you have The nuclear baby comes from a mouth speaking great things, and been breaking Yahweh’s Laws. Confess blasphemies; and power was given combination of many Prophecies in that you have not been practicing unto him to make war for forty-two your bible. The end Prophecies are moons; months. Yahweh’s Laws. found in the Book of Revelation, 6 And he opened his mouth in blas- I Yahchanan 3:7— phemy against Yahweh, to blaspheme . which is the last of the Inspired His Name, and His House, and those Little children, let no man deceive you; he who practices Righteousness is Prophecies. This book was given by who dwell in heaven. Righteous, just as He is Righteous. Yahweh to Yahshua Messiah, Who 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the Saints, and to Many are being deceived today into sent it through His Malak to the overcome them. And authority was thinking that they do not need to Apostle Yahchanan who copied it for given him over all tribes, and peoples us today. and languages, and nations. practice Yahweh’s Laws. In fact, all of 8 And all who dwell upon the earth the world’s religions are practicing this Yahchanan was arrested and will worship him—whose names have not been written from the foundation deception of Satan. imprisoned for teaching the same Message that I preach today, the words of the world, in The Book of Life of I Yahchanan 3:8— the Lamb Who was slain. . straight from the Savior. The Message He who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the that I teach is that you must practice Please notice, verses 6-8 show that beginning. For this purpose the Son of keeping Yahweh’s Laws or you will not Yahweh was manifested; that He Yahweh allows this religious system might destroy the works of the devil. be given Eternal Life. This world’s to work deceiving the nations, proving .Revelation 12:9— religions in this time period do not what comes from breaking His Laws. And the great dragon was cast out, have Eternal Life to offer because they What comes from breaking Yahweh’s that old serpent, called the devil, and will not practice keeping Yahweh’s Satan, who deceives the whole world. Laws? Sickness, disease, confusion, She was cast out into the earth, and Laws. Notice first: hatred, violence, fighting and wars. her angels were cast out with her. .Revelation 1:1— All of the curses mankind brings upon The Revelation of Yahshua Messiah, himself by breaking Yahweh’s Laws Yes, the whole world has been deceived which Yahweh gave to Him, to show His Servants things which must that are shown in Leviticus chapters into practicing sin. This has been done shortly come to pass; and He sent and 11 and 18, and Deuteronomy 28. by teaching the same lie that was signified it through His Malak to His Notice again: taught to Eve, “you won’t die if you Servant Yahchanan: Revelation 12:9— .Revelation 13:8— sin”. Yes, with this lie, Satan is still . And all who dwell upon the earth And the great dragon was cast out, deceiving the world today, the whole that old serpent, called the devil, and will worship him—whose names have not been written from the foundation world, not just Eve. Satan, who deceives the whole world. She was cast out into the earth, and of the world, in The Book of Life of her angels were cast out with her. the Lamb Who was slain. The Religions Will Not .Revelation 13:1-8— Repent 1 And I stood upon the sand of the The only people whose names are sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the written in the Book of Life are those sea, having seven heads and ten horns, who keep Yahweh’s Laws as is shown The Savior shows that this world’s and upon his horns ten crowns, and religions belong to Satan and will not upon his heads the names of by the Savior. repent, even after a third part of blasphemy. .Revelation 22:14— mankind is destroyed by the nuclear 2 And the beast which I saw was Blessed are those who keep His similar to a leopard, and his feet were Laws, that they may have right to the baby that is soon to be released. Yes, a as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as Tree of Life, and may enter in through third part of man will be killed over a the mouth of a lion; and the dragon the gates into the City.

The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 23 The details of this Prophecy of the of those things which were written in Revelation 20:15— the books, according to their works. . nuclear wars that will kill a third part And whoever was not found written 13 And the sea gave up the dead of man over a fourth part of the earth in The Book of Life was cast into the which were in it; and death and sheol; lake of fire. in and around the great River the grave, delivered up the dead which Euphrates are found in our book Birth were in them. And they were judged, Now, let’s go back to Mattithyah 7. of the Nuclear Baby. You also need our every man, according to his works. 14 And death and sheol were cast Mattithyah 7:21-22— book, The End. This book shows all into the lake of fire. This is the second . 21 Not everyone who says to Me; the Prophecies of this Last Days death. Teacher! Teacher! will enter into the deception. It shows which religion is 15 And whoever was not found Kingdom of Yahweh, but only he who written in The Book of Life was cast leading the nations, why there is does the will of My Father Who is in into the lake of fire. heaven. hatred, violence, sickness, disease, 22 Many will say to Me in that day; confusion, war, and in the end, nuclear How does one get their name written Teacher! Teacher! Have we not proph- wars that will darken the sun in this in the Lambs Book of Life? Notice the esied in Your Name, and cast out de- generation. Yes, this will take place in mons in Your Name, and in Your Name Savior’s Words in: performed many wonderful works? this generation. .Matthew 19:16-17, KJV— Mattithyah (Matthew) 24:21-22, 29, . 16 And, behold, one came and said That’s what all the preachers in 34— unto him, Good Master, what good Abilene are saying now, “we are doing 21 For then will be Great Tribula- thing shall I do, that I may have tion, such as has not come to pass eternal life? wonderful works”. The celebration of since the beginning of the world to this 17 And he said unto him, Why Christmas and giving the poor a turkey time—no, nor ever will be. callest thou me good? there is none 22 And unless those days were good but one, that is, God; but if thou dinner on Christmas day are what they shortened, there would no flesh be wilt enter into life, keep the command- are referring to when they say they are saved; but for the Elect’s sake, those ments. doing wonderful works. days will be shortened. .Mattithyah 19:16-17, BOY — First off, Christmas (December 25) 29 Immediately, but after the 16 And behold, one came to Him, Tribulation of those days will the sun and said; Teacher, what Righteous is not the birth date of the True Savior. be darkened, and the moon will not thing may I do, so that I may have It’s the birthday of a pagan God and give her light, and the stars will fall Eternal Life? from heaven, and the powers of the was celebrated many years before the 17 But He said to him: Why do you True Savior was born in honor of this heavens will be shaken. question Me about Righteousness? 34 Truly I say to you: That genera- There is only One Who is the Standard sun God. It was condemned then by tion will not pass away, until all these of Perfection, and He is Yahweh; so if things are fulfilled. the Holy Prophets just as it is you would enter into life, keep the condemned today by Yahweh’s House. Laws of Yahweh. The curses or plagues shown in Read it for yourself in your own bible. Mattithyah chapter 24 are already So what if we do not keep the How did they celebrate this pagan visible. They also have nuclear bombs Commandments? Notice: God’s birthday? They set up a that can darken the sun. This complete .Mattithyah 7:15-19— Christmas tree and decked it with silver chapter is about to be fulfilled. You will 15 Beware of false prophets who and gold. Sound familiar? Now, notice not survive what is coming next on come to you in sheep’s clothing, but this in your bible. inwardly they are ravening wolves. Jeremiah 10:1-5, KJV— this world unless you repent of sin and 16 You will know them by their . convert to practicing Yahweh’s Laws. fruits. Do men gather grapes from 1 Hear ye the word which the Lord thorns, or figs from thistles? speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: The Savior’s Judgment for life or 2 Thus saith the Lord; Learn not the 17 Likewise, every Righteous tree way of the heathen, and be not death is plainly written. Notice first: brings forth Righteous fruit; but a tree dismayed at the signs of heaven; for Revelation 20:11-15— of evil brings forth fruit of iniquity. . the heathen are dismayed at them; 11 And I saw a Great White 18 A Righteous tree cannot bring 3 For the customs of the people are Throne, and Him Who sat on it, from forth fruit of iniquity, nor can a tree of vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the Whose Face the powers of the earth evil bring forth fruits of Righteous- forest, the work of the hands of the and the powers of the heavens, the ness. workman, with the axe. Gods (elohim), were driven away; for 19 Every tree which does not bring 4 They deck it with silver and with the verdict was reached that there is no forth Righteous fruit is cut down, and gold, they fasten it with nails and with place for them. cast into the fire. hammers, that it move not. 12 And I saw the dead, small and 5 They are upright as the palm tree, great, standing before Yahweh. And Verse 19 shows that one who does but speak not: they must needs be the books were opened; and another . borne, because they cannot go. Be not book was opened, which is The Book not keep the Commandments is cast afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, of Life. And the dead were judged out into the fire. This agrees with: either also is it in them to do good.

Page 24 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 For more information on the origin of 4 Who assemble and spend the prophesied in Your Name, and cast out this day and other pagan God night keeping memorials for the dead, demons in Your Name, and in Your who eat swine’s flesh, and the broth of Name performed many wonderful worshiping days such as Halloween, abominable things; unclean foods, is works? the worship of the dead, or Easter, the in their vessels, 23 But then I will declare to them; worship of the fertility Goddess, Ishtar, 5 Who say; Stand by yourself! Do I never knew you. Get away from Me, you who practice iniquity. which are also condemned by the not come near me, for I am holier than you! These are an abomination before Prophets in your bible, read the content Me, men who will be judged on that According to the Greek dictionary in of this magazine. last day. Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, the What does the lie of colored eggs or word iniquity is word #458 from word he worship of the dead instead of the a rabbit laying them have to do with T #459, and means: doing away with Heavenly Father Yahweh is what Righteousness? Nothing! Righteous- Yahweh’s Laws, not subject to the Halloween is all about. ness is practicing the Righteous Laws Laws. of Yahweh that are written in your .Isayah 66:17— bible. Sin (evil, wickedness) is break- They who sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens, ing Yahweh’s Laws of Righteousness. following after the priests in the midst I Yahchanan 3:4-8 — of those who eat swine’s flesh and the . __ 4 Whoever commits sin, trans- rodent will be consumed together: gresses also the Laws; for sin is the says Yahweh. transgression of the Laws. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and Remember: Mattithyah 7:19— in Him is no sin. . Remember: 6 Whoever abides in Him does not Every tree which does not bring sin; whoever sins, has not seen Him, forth Righteous fruit is cut down, and .I Yahchanan 3:4, 7-8— neither knows Him. cast into the fire. 4 Whoever commits sin, trans- 7 Little children, let no man deceive Revelation 20:15— gresses also the Laws; for sin is the you; he who practices Righteousness is . transgression of the Laws. And whoever was not found written 7 Little children, let no man deceive Righteous, just as He is Righteous. in The Book of Life was cast into the you; he who practices Righteousness 8 He who commits sin is of the lake of fire. devil, for the devil has sinned from the is Righteous, just as He is Righteous. beginning. For this purpose the Son of 8 He who commits sin is of the Yahweh was manifested; that He You may be deceived into thinking devil, for the devil has sinned from the might destroy the works of the devil. that these ways of worship are beginning. For this purpose the Son of Righteousness but they will only get Yahweh was manifested; that He Yahweh’s Righteousness that teaches might destroy the works of the devil. you burnt in the lake of fire. They are Hebrews 10:16, 26-27— our children moral character has been . as the Prophet Yeremyah (Jeremiah) 16 This is the Covenant that I will pushed aside by the religions and said in: renew with them after those days, says replaced with vain customs that the Jeremiah 10:3, KJV— Yahweh: I will put My Laws into their . hearts, and in their minds I will write Holy Prophets condemned. Notice For the customs of the people are vain… them; what the Prophet Isayah said about 26 For if we sin willfully after we those who practice the custom of have received the Knowledge of the Halloween, which is the worship of the People who come before the Judgment Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, dead. Throne thinking they have done won- derful works by celebrating these pa- 27 But a certain fearful .Isayah (Isaiah) 65:1-5— expectation of Judgment, and fiery 1 I am sought by those who did not gan holidays will be greatly disap- indignation which will devour the ask for Me; I am found by those who pointed about their failure to practice adversaries. did not seek Me. I said: Here I am, Yahweh’s Laws of Righteousness. here I am, to a nation that was not Their names are not written in the called with My Name. Notice the Savior’s Words. 2 I have spread out My Hands all .Mattithyah 7:21-23— Lamb’s Book of Life unless they repent the day to a rebellious people, who 21 Not everyone who says to Me; and convert to practicing Yahweh’s walk in a way which is not right, Teacher! Teacher! will enter into the Laws. They will only see the following: after their own thoughts; devices; Kingdom of Yahweh, but only he who Luke 13:25-28— 3 A people who continually act does the will of My Father Who is in . 25 When once the Ruler of the defiantly against Me to My Face; who heaven. house has risen up and shut the door, sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense 22 Many will say to Me in that and you begin to stand outside, and to on altars of brick; day; Teacher! Teacher! Have we not knock at the door, and say; Teacher!

The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 25 Teacher! Open for us!—He will answer, is like a wise man who built his house murderer; and you know that no and say to you; I do not know you, nor on the rock; murderer has Eternal Life abiding in where you are from. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods him. 26 Then you will begin to say; We came, and the winds blew, and beat Revelation 20:11-15— ate and drank in Your presence, and . against that house; but it did not fall, 11 And I saw a Great White You were taught in our streets. for it was founded upon the rock. Throne, and Him Who sat on it, from 27 But He will say; I tell you, I do 26 But everyone who hears these Whose face the powers of the earth not know who you are! Get away from sayings of Mine, but does not do them, and the powers of the heavens, the Me, all you workers of iniquity. is like a foolish man who built his Gods (elohim), were driven away; for 28 There will be weeping and house upon the sand; the verdict was reached that there is gnashing of teeth, when you see 27 And the rain fell, and the floods no place for them. Abraham, and Isaac, and Yaaqob, and came, and the winds blew, and beat 12 And I saw the dead, small and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of against that house; and it fell, and great, standing before Yahweh. And Yahweh, and yourselves thrust out. great was the fall of it. the books were opened; and another 28 And when Yahshua had finished book was opened, which is The Book Please notice that the Savior named these sayings, the people were aston- of Life. And the dead were judged out Abraham because Abraham kept ished at His teaching; of those things which were written in 29 For He taught them as One the books, according to their works. Yahweh’s Laws. Who had Authority, and not like the 13 And the sea gave up the dead .Genesis 26:1-5— scribes. which were in it; and death and sheol; 1 There was a famine in the land, Yahchanan 5:25-29— the grave, delivered up the dead which . were in them. And they were judged, besides the first famine that was in the 25 Truly, truly, I say to you: The days of Abraham. And Isaac went to hour is coming, and now is, when the every man, according to his works. Abimelech king of the Philistines in dead will hear the Voice of the Son of 14 And death and sheol were cast Gerar. Yahweh; and those who hear will live. into the lake of fire. This is the second 2 Then Yahweh appeared to him, 26 For just as the Father has life death. and said: Do not go down to Egypt; in Himself, so He has given to the Son 15 And whoever was not found 3 Stay in this land, and I will be to have life in Himself; written in The Book of Life was cast with you and bless you; for to you and 27 And has given Him Authority to into the lake of fire. your seed I give all these lands, and I execute Judgment also, because He is .Revelation 22:12-14— will confirm the oath I vowed to the Son of Man. 12 And behold, I come quickly, and Abraham your father. 28 Do not be astonished at this— My Reward is with Me, to give every 4 And I will make your seed for the hour is coming in which all man according as his work will be. multiply as the stars of heaven; I will who are in the graves will hear His 13 I am the First and the Last, the give to your seed all these lands; and Voice, Beginning and the End. in your seed all the nations of the 29 And will come forth. Those who 14 Blessed are those who keep His earth shall be blessed; have practiced Righteousness will be Laws, that they may have right to the 5 Because Abraham obeyed My resurrected in order to live; and those Tree of Life, and may enter in through Voice, and kept My Charge, My who have practiced wickedness will be the gates into the City. Commandments, My Statutes, and My resurrected in order to be damned. Laws. .Hebrews 10:26-27— How does one achieve the position of 26 For if we sin willfully after we entering Yahweh’s Kingdom and Remember: have received the knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a Eternal Life? Mattithyah 19:17— . sacrifice for sins, Acts 3:17-21— But He said to him: Why do you 27 But a certain fearful . question Me about Righteousness? 17 And now, brothers, I know that expectation of judgment, and fiery you did this through ignorance, as did There is only One Who is the Standard indignation which will devour the of Perfection, and that is Yahweh; so if also your rulers; adversaries. 18 But those things which Yahweh you would enter into life, keep the I Yahchanan 3:7-8, 10, 15— Laws of Yahweh. . foretold by the mouth of all the 7 Little children, let no man deceive Prophets, that Messiah must suffer, you; he who practices Righteousness is He has fulfilled this. So who does your Savior say will be Righteous, just as He is Righteous. 19 Repent therefore, and be allowed to receive Eternal Life? 8 He who commits sin is of the converted, that your sins may be Compare the following: devil, for the devil has sinned from the blotted out; that times of refreshing beginning. For this purpose the Son of Yahchanan 6:63— may come from the Presence of . Yahweh was manifested; that He Yahweh; It is the Spirit that gives Life; the might destroy the works of the devil. 20 And that He may send Yahshua, flesh is useless. The Laws that I speak 10 In this the Children of Yahweh the Messiah Who was preached to you, to you, they are Spirit, and they are and the children of the devil are 21 Whom the heaven must retain Life Everlasting. manifest. Whoever does not practice until the time of the restoration of all .Mattithyah 7:24-29— Righteousness is not of Yahweh, and things, about which Yahweh spoke by 24 Therefore, everyone who hears he does not love his neighbor! the mouths of His Holy Prophets since these sayings of Mine, and does them, 15 Whoever hates his neighbor is a the world began.

Page 26 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 The world today is filled with gresses also the Laws; for sin is the self, to enter in at the narrow gate; for deception. Everything that is evil is transgression of the Laws. many, I say to you, will seek to enter 7 Little children, let no man deceive in, and will not be able. increasing—the sin of adultery, you; he who practices Righteousness is 25 When once the Ruler of the fornication, sodomy, and bestiality Righteous, just as He is Righteous. house has risen up and shut the door, from which come sickness, disease, 8 He who commits sin is of the and you begin to stand outside, and to devil, for the devil has sinned from the knock at the door, and say; Teacher! confusion, and defilement of mankind’s beginning. For this purpose the Son of Teacher! Open for us!—He will answer, bodies, the food supply, animals, air, Yahweh was manifested; that He and say to you; I do not know you, nor water, and land. This defilement in might destroy the works of the devil. where you are from. turn causes more confusion, 10 In this the Children of Yahweh 26 Then you will begin to say; We and the children of the devil are ate and drank in Your Presence, and uncontrolled hatred and illegal lust, manifest. Whoever does not practice You were taught in our streets. violence, and war. It is leading to the Righteousness is not of Yahweh, and 27 But He will say; I tell you, I do soon coming nuclear baby that will kill he does not love his neighbor! not know who you are! Get away from Me, all you workers of iniquity. a third part of mankind over a fourth .Acts 3:19-21— 19 Repent therefore, and be part of the earth in and around the converted, that your sins may be Let’s look at the word iniquity again. great River Euphrates, but the blotted out; that times of refreshing religions still will not repent. may come from the Presence of Revelation 9:20-21— Yahweh; . 20 And that He may send Yahshua, 20 And the rest of the men who the Messiah Who was preached to you, were not killed by these plagues, still 21 Whom the heaven must retain did not repent of the works of their until the time of the restoration of all hands, that they should not worship things, about which Yahweh spoke by demons, and Gods (elohim, teraphim) the mouths of His Holy Prophets since of gold, and silver, and brass, and the world began. stone, and of wood: which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk; .Luke 13:28— 21 Neither did they repent of their Yahshua’s coming is near. You will There will be weeping and gnashing murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of not be able to repent if you wait until of teeth, when you see Abraham, and their fornication, nor of their thefts. His coming. Look at what He is saying Isaac, and Yaaqob, and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of Yahweh, and to you. yourselves thrust out. All of the above are the result of sin, .Revelation 22:12-17— which is the breaking of Yahweh’s 12 And behold, I come quickly, and Laws. My Reward is with Me, to give every If Your Religious I Yahchanan 3:4— man according as his work will be. . 13 I am the First and the Last, the Leaders Will Not Whoever commits sin, transgresses also the Laws; for sin is the Beginning and the End. Repent, Then Repent transgression of the Laws. 14 Blessed are those who keep His Laws, that they may have right to the Without Them Tree of Life, and may enter in through The Teachings of the Prophets, the the gates into the City. Savior and the Apostles are the 15 For outside are dogs, and Yahweh shows that the religions, as inspired guides to life, abundant life. sorcerers, and whoremongers, and a whole, will not repent; nor will they murderers, and worshipers of Gods start practicing Righteousness. Those who preach against the way of (elohim) and everyone who professes Mattithyah 7:17— Righteousness that the Prophets and to love, yet practices breaking the . Likewise, every Righteous tree brings Apostles taught and wrote about are Laws. 16 I, Yahshua, have sent My forth Righteous fruit; but a tree of evil called false religions, imposters who Malak to testify to you these things in brings forth fruit of iniquity. belong to Satan. Read this in your own the congregations of The House of bible, then repent and be converted to Yahweh. I am the Root and the Remember iniquity means doing away Offspring of David, and the Bright with Yahweh’s Laws, not subject to the Righteousness as Yahweh commands and Morning Star. you to do. 17 And the Spirit and the brides, Laws. Iniquity is what the religions I Yahchanan 2:4— say: Come! And let him who hears, are bringing forth at this time when . say: Come! And let him who is thirsty He who says: I know Him, but does they refuse to teach and keep the come. And whoever will, let him take not keep His Laws, is a liar, and the Commandments of Yahweh. When they Truth is not in him. the water of life freely. .I Yahchanan 3:4, 7-8, 10— .Luke 13:24-27— teach that they have Salvation to offer 4 Whoever commits sin, trans- 24 Strive; contend for, exert one’s but do not teach the Laws that one

The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 27 must keep in order to have Salvation, There is only One Who is the Standard dwells within your gates. that is also iniquity. of Perfection, and He is Yahweh; so if 11 For in six days Yahweh made you would enter into life, keep the the heavens and the earth, the sea, and A Saint is one who keeps the Laws of Yahweh. all that are in them; and rested the Commandments. .Matthew 19:17, KJV— Seventh Day. Therefore, Yahweh Revelation 14:12, BOY— And he said unto him, Why callest blessed the Sabbath Day, and . thou me good? [there is] none good hallowed it; Yahweh made the In this manner are the Saints purified—by keeping the Laws of but one, [that is], God: but if thou Sabbath Day Holy. Yahweh, in conformity with the Faith, wilt enter into life, keep the 12 Honor your father and your as Yahshua Messiah. commandments. mother, so your days may be long upon Revelation 14:12, KJV— Revelation 22:14— the land which Yahweh your Father is . giving you. . Blessed are those who keep His Here is the patience of the saints: 13 You shall not murder. here [are] they that keep the Laws, that they may have right to the 14 You shall not commit adultery. commandments of God, and the faith Tree of Life, and may enter in through 15 You shall not steal. of Jesus. the gates into the City. Yaaqob 2:10-12— 16 You shall not bear false . testimony against your neighbor. 10 For whoever keeps the whole Did you notice who is a Saint? Read 17 You shall not covet; lust after, Law, and yet offends in one point, he your neighbor’s house; you shall not it again, Revelation 14:12, a Saint is is guilty of all. covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his not what this world’s religions are 11 For He Who said: Do not manservant, nor his maidservant, nor commit adultery, also said: Do not teaching. A Saint is what the Inspired his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything murder. Now if you do not commit Prophets, Apostles, and Savior show. that belongs to your neighbor. adultery, yet you do murder, you have One who practices Yahweh’s Laws is become a transgressor of the Laws. a Saint. 12 So speak, and so do, as those Please notice again: Keeping the Commandments is a who are being judged by the Laws of Exodus 20:10-11— liberty— . must for Salvation. 10 But the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of Yahweh your Heavenly .Mattithyah 19:17, BOY— The Ten Commandments are found in: Father. In it you shall not do your But He said to him: Why do you Exodus 20:3-17— work: you, nor your wife, nor your question Me about Righteousness? . son, nor your daughter, nor your 3 You shall have no hinder Gods manservant, nor your maidservant, nor (elohim) at all. They are in opposition your cattle, nor the stranger who against Me. dwells within your gates. 4 You shall not make for yourself Sermon Program! 11 For in six days Yahweh made any carved image; an idol, in the form the heavens and the earth, the sea, and The House of Yahweh offers a of anything in heaven above, or on the all that are in them; and rested the earth beneath, or in the waters below. program to make the sermons Seventh Day. Therefore, Yahweh available as soon as possible. 5 You shall not bow down to them blessed the Sabbath Day, and nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your You can get them on either hallowed it; Yahweh made the Father, am a Heavenly Father Who is Sabbath Day Holy. cassette tape or MP3/CD. zealous for My House. I will make it There is no quicker way to known that the diseases caused by the sexual misconduct of the fathers will The Fourth Commandment is the grow in the Wisdom and be upon their children to the third and keeping of the Sabbath, which is the Knowledge of Yahweh, than by fourth generation of those who hate seventh day of the week, not the first hearing the Word of Yahweh, Me, or the sixth. Remember: over and over again. You will 6 But I will show My love to thousands who love Me by keeping My .Yaaqob 2:10-11— gain vital information not Laws. 10 For whoever keeps the whole contained in The Prophetic Word 7 You shall not take the Name of Law, and yet offends in one point, he is guilty of all. magazine and the monthly Yahweh your Heavenly Father to bring it to nothing, for Yahweh will not hold 11 For He Who said: Do not Newsletter. him guiltless who brings dishonor commit adultery, also said: Do not Call 325-893-5899 today upon or profanes His Name. murder. 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Page 28 The Prophetic Word 12/2009 beginning. For this purpose the Son of also the Laws; for sin is the ing of the Sabbath to the People of Yahweh was manifested; that He transgression of the Laws. Yahweh, might destroy the works of the devil. .I Yahchanan 2:4— 10 For he who has entered into His 10 In this the Children of Yahweh He who says: I know Him, but does rest has also ceased from his own and the children of the devil are not keep His Laws, is a liar, and the works, as Yahweh did from His. manifest. Whoever does not practice Truth is not in him. 11 Therefore, let us be zealous to Righteousness is not of Yahweh, and enter into that Rest, so that no one he does not love his neighbor! The Religions Are may fall after the same example of .Hebrews 10:26-27— unbelief. 26 For if we sin willfully after we Unbelievers have received the knowledge of the There still remains the keeping of the truth, there no longer remains a The Inspired Scriptures show that Seventh Day Sabbath. Those who keep sacrifice for sins, those who rebel against keeping 27 But a certain fearful it practice Righteousness and belong expectation of Judgment, and fiery Yahweh’s Sabbaths are unbelievers. to Yahweh, the Creator. Those who indignation which will devour the Therefore, they are disobedient to don’t, belong to Satan. adversaries. Righteousness. I Yahchanan 3:7-8, 10— Remember, Yahshua said these . 7 Little children, let no man deceive The religions make every excuse as to unbelieving, disobedient, false you; he who practices Righteousness is why they will not practice this religions described as evil trees bring Righteous, just as He is Righteous. Righteousness. The fact is, they don’t forth iniquity. Again, iniquity means 8 He who commits sin is of the keep the Sabbath because they don’t devil, for the devil has sinned from the doing away with Yahweh’s Laws. beginning. For this purpose the Son of believe. They practice disobedience That’s what the religions have done Yahweh was manifested; that He instead of practicing Righteousness; and they will not repent. might destroy the works of the devil. therefore, they all belong to Satan. See Iniquity is what we see among all 10 In this the Children of Yahweh and the children of the devil are this for yourself. of the world’s religions. Now notice manifest. Whoever does not practice .I Yahchanan 3:4, 7-8, 10— what the Inspired Scriptures show. Righteousness is not of Yahweh, and 4 Whoever commits sin, .Hebrews 4:1-11— he does not love his neighbor! transgresses also the Laws; for sin is 1 Therefore, since a promise of the transgression of the Laws. entering His Rest remains, let us be They can only look forward to death. 7 Little children, let no man deceive faithful so that none of you should They do not have an immortal soul, as come short of it. you; he who practices Righteousness is they teach. See this for yourself. Righteous, just as He is Righteous. 2 For this Message was preached to 8 He who commits sin is of the us, as well as to them; but the word .I Yahchanan 3:15— devil, for the devil has sinned from the which they heard did not benefit them, Whoever hates his neighbor is a beginning. For this purpose the Son of because they did not share in the Faith murderer; and you know that no Yahweh was manifested; that He of those who obeyed— murderer has Eternal Life abiding in might destroy the works of the devil. 3 However, we who have believed him. 10 In this the Children of Yahweh do enter that Rest, as He has said: So I .Ezekiel 18:4, KJV— and the children of the devil are vowed in My Judgment; They will not Behold, all souls are mine; as the manifest. Whoever does not practice enter into My Rest, although the soul of the father, so also the soul of Righteousness is not of Yahweh, and works were finished from the the son is mine; the soul that sinneth, he does not love his neighbor! foundation of the world, it shall die. 4 For He spoke in a certain place of the Seventh Day, in this way: And They sin each and every Sabbath and Yahweh says to you in: Yahweh rested the Seventh Day from Revelation 18:4-5— all His works. crucify the First Begotten Son of . Yahweh afresh (again and again). 4 And I heard another voice from 5 And in this place again: If they heaven, saying: Come out of her, My will enter into My Rest. .Hebrews 10:21-29, KJV— People, so that you do not partake in 6 Since therefore it remains that 21 And having a high priest over her sins, and so that you do not receive some must enter it, and those to the house of God; of her plagues, whom it was first preached did not 22 Let us draw near with a true 5 For her sins have reached unto enter because of disobedience, heart in full assurance of faith, having heaven, and Yahweh has remembered 7 Again, He designates a certain our hearts sprinkled from an evil her iniquities! day, saying in David: “Today,” after so conscience, and our bodies washed long a time, as it has been said: Today, with pure water. Come out from those who practice sin. if you will hear His voice, do not 23 Let us hold fast the profession harden your hearts. Breaking the Fourth Commandment is of our Faith without wavering; (for he 8 Now Yahshua caused them to rest is faithful that promised;) sin. in obedience to the Law, spoken of by 24 And let us consider one another .I Yahchanan 3:4— Yahweh in a day previously. to provoked unto love and to good Whoever commits sin, transgresses 9 Therefore, there remains the keep- works.

The Prophetic Word 12/2009 Page 29 25 Not forsaking the assembling of away, and the haughty people of the Yahchanan 5:27-29— ourselves together, so the manner of . earth languish. 27 And has given Him Authority to some is, but exhorting on another, and 5 The earth also is defiled because execute Judgment also, because He is so much the more, as ye see the day of the inhabitants of it, because they the Son of Man. approaching. have transgressed the Laws, changed 28 Do not be astonished at this— 26 For if we sin willfully after that the Ordinance, and broken the for the hour is coming in which all who we have received the knowledge of the Everlasting Covenant. are in the graves will hear His voice, truth, there remaineth no more 6 Because of this, the curse has 29 And will come forth. Those who sacrifice for sins. devoured the earth, and they who dwell have practiced Righteousness will be 27 But a certain fearful looking for therein are desolate; therefore, the resurrected in order to live; and those of judgment and fiery indignation, inhabitants of the earth are burned, who have practiced wickedness will be which shall devour the adversaries. and few men left. resurrected in order to be damned. 28 He that despised Moses’ law Revelation 20:13-15— died without mercy under two or three . id you notice the cause? The cause 13 And the sea gave up the dead witnesses; D which were in it; and death and sheol; 29 Of how much sorer punishment, is the changing of Yahweh’s Laws by the grave, delivered up the dead which suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, the religions. That is called iniquity. were in them. And they were judged, who hath trodden under foot the Son every man, according to his works. of God, and hath counted the blood of They are also transgressing Yahweh’s 14 And death and sheol were cast the covenant, wherewith he was Laws, which is sin. Because of this into the lake of fire. This is the second sanctified an unholy thing, and hath the curse has devoured the earth. death. done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 15 And whoever was not found Notice again: written in The Book of Life was cast Again, Yahweh says to you: .Isayah 24:5-6— into the lake of fire. Revelation 18:4-5— 5 The earth also is defiled because .Revelation 22:14— . of the inhabitants of it, because they 4 And I heard another voice from Blessed are those who keep His heaven, saying: Come out of her, My have transgressed the Laws, changed Laws, that they may have right to the People, so that you do not partake in the Ordinance, and broken the Tree of Life, and may enter in through her sins, and so that you do not Everlasting Covenant. the gates into the City. receive of her plagues, 6 Because of this, the curse has 5 For her sins have reached unto devoured the earth, and they who It’s your choice. It’s your life or death. dwell therein are desolate; therefore, heaven, and Yahweh has remembered Yahweh is asking you to choose life. her iniquities! the inhabitants of the earth are burn- ed, and few men left. .Deuteronomy 30:15-16, 19-20— 15 See, I have set before you this he plagues are here and they are T ou will not survive what is coming day Life by Righteousness, and death Y and destruction__ getting worse each day. The viruses next on this world if you refuse to that are now being experienced are just 16 In that I command you this day believe Yahweh and repent of sin and to love Yahweh your Father, by walking the beginning of the prophesied convert to practicing Righteousness. in all His ways, by keeping His Laws, plagues. The world is filled with Acts 3:19— His Statutes, and His Judgments, so . that you may live and multiply, and so defilement and abominations that are Repent therefore, and be converted, Yahweh your Father may bless you in that your sins may be blotted out; that caused by breaking Yahweh’s Health the land which you go in to possess. Laws. The cause is shown by the times of refreshing may come from the Presence of Yahweh. 19 I call heaven and earth as Inspired Prophets. Notice this in: witnesses against you this day, that I Isayah 24:1-6— have set before you life and death, . If You Convert, You Will blessings and curses. Therefore choose 1 Before Yahweh’s very Eyes, the Life, so both you and your children may earth is made empty and it is made Be Persecuted live; waste; the face of it is perverted and 20 So you may love Yahweh your its inhabitants scattered abroad; You will be persecuted as they now Father, by listening to Him, and then 2 And it will be: as with the people, persecute us, The House of Yahweh, obeying Him. Hold fast to Him, for He so with the priests; as with the is your life... servant, so with his owner; as with and as they persecuted the Prophets, Apostles and the Savior, but you will the maid, so with her mistress; as with You know that I am right. I await the buyer, so with the seller; as with receive Eternal Life from Yahweh and your response. the lender, so with the borrower; as the Savior. with him who takes usury, so with him who gives usury to him: .Yahchanan 15:22-23— 3 The land will be utterly emptied 22 If I had not come and spoken to and utterly plundered, for it has come them, they would not have had their to pass that this Judgment has been sins revealed; but now they have no pronounced. cloak, covering for, their sins. 4 The earth mourns and fades 23 He who hates Me, also hates Overseer Yisrayl Hawkins away, the world mourns and fades My Father. The House of Yahweh

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