Satan You need to read the articles thoroughly, and compare them with the Holy Scriptures. Worship IT’S VITAL TO YOUR ENTICING SALVATION! The Whole World

My Dear Friends, You can read in the Inspired Scriptures that Satan has deceived the whole world, but it seems hard to believe such a thing until one actually takes a close look at the things Scripture calls Satan worship, because they are disguised to look Righteous. Plus, the preachers, referred to in Scripture as false prophets, teach that activities of Satan worship are desirable and holy. Even the act of sodomy is called “holy” by the preachers who practice pedophilia. This was done by the Hebrew religions that called themselves Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes before they moved to Rome and accepted the name Catholic, which means You will not survive what is coming universal. Satan, when she deceived Eve, as seen in the Book of Genesis, next on this world if you don’t made Satan worship appear the same as it’s made to appear in repent of sin (I Yahchanan 3:4, 7- Hollywood today. It’s being accepted today even as it was in the 8) and convert to keeping Yahweh’s beginning. Notice: Laws (Acts 3:18-23). You are not .Revelation 12:9— And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and praying to the Creator Yahweh when Satan, who deceives the whole world. She was cast out into the earth, and her angels were cast out with her. you pray to God, El, Elohim, Adonai, .Genesis 3:6— Lord or the many other titles that So when the woman saw that the tree was desirable for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit have been used to replace the and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Name of the Creator. Yahweh will .II Corinthians 11:13-15— 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves not answer you when you pray using into the apostles of the Messiah. 14 And no marvel; for Satan herself is transformed into an angel of light. these pagan titles. 15 Therefore, it is no great thing if her ministers also are transformed as the ministers of Righteousness—whose end will be according to their works.

But they did not fool Yahshua. Notice what He says. DON’T LET THIS .Mattithyah 7:13-23— MAGAZINE DIE 13 Enter in through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who go that way. This information is needed all around 14 Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leads to Life, and few there are who find it. the globe. Make copies and give them 15 Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but to others or call us at 325-893-5899 or inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, 325-672-5420 and we will send you or figs from thistles? extra copies. You could help save 17 Likewise, every Righteous tree brings forth Righteous fruit; but a tree of evil brings forth fruit of iniquity. someone from disease or death. You 18 A Righteous tree cannot bring forth fruit of iniquity, nor can a tree of evil could help turn the world from the bring forth fruits of Righteousness. 19 Every tree which does not bring forth Righteous fruit is cut down, and ignorance that all religions have helped cast into the fire. to produce, ignorance that is causing 20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. 21 Not everyone who says to Me; Teacher! Teacher! will enter into the curses all over the world at this time.

The Prophetic Word 11/2010 1 Kingdom of Yahweh, but only he who does .Mattithyah 19:17— .Romans 6:16— the Will of My Father Who is in heaven. But He said to him: Why do you question Do you not know that to whom you yield 22 Many will say to Me in that day; Me about Righteousness? There is only yourselves as servants to obey, his servants Teacher! Teacher! Have we not prophesied One Who is the Standard of Perfection, you are whom you obey—whether of sin, in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your and He is Yahweh; so if you would enter which leads to death, or of obedience, Name, and in Your Name performed many into Life, keep the Laws of Yahweh. which leads to Righteousness? wonderful works? Revelation 22:12-14— 23 But then I will declare to them; I . .I Yahchanan 3:4, 7-8— never knew you. Get away from Me, you 12 And behold, I come quickly, and My 4 Whoever commits sin, transgresses who practice iniquity. Reward is with Me, to give every man also the Laws; for sin is the transgression according as his work will be. of the Laws. 13 I am the First and the Last, the 7 Little children, let no man deceive you; Most people think nothing of Beginning and the End. he who practices Righteousness is celebrating Easter because it’s 14 Blessed are those who keep His Righteous, just as He is Righteous. celebrated by people all over the world. Laws, that they may have right to the Tree 8 He who commits sin is of the devil, The most they ever hear about this form of Life, and may enter in through the Gates for the devil has sinned from the beginning. into the City. For this purpose the Son of Yahweh was of worship is the lies that are taught Exodus 20:8-11— manifested; that He might destroy the . works of the devil. to the children about rabbits laying 8 Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep colored eggs on Easter Sunday. it Holy. Sometimes but rarely are they ever told 9 Six days you shall labor and do all I urge you to closely study, with your that their bible shows that this your work, bible, the following articles that expose 10 But the Seventh Day is the Sabbath worship is of the Queen of Heaven and of Yahweh your Heavenly Father. In it you the Satan worship that has deceived not the Creator Yahweh or the Savior shall not do your work: you, nor your wife, the whole world. Yahshua. Nor are they told that the nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your Recommended reading: The Lost Queen of Heaven is well described in manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your Faith of the Apostles, History and cattle, nor the stranger who dwells within Scripture as being worse than a whore, your gates. Prophecy and Devil Worship, The and that the rabbit was chosen as an 11 For in six days Yahweh made the Shocking Facts. unclean object of sexual perversion. heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that People today are taught not to read are in them; and rested the Seventh Day. May Yahweh bless your under- Therefore, Yahweh blessed the Sabbath their bibles. In fact, up until a few years Day, and hallowed it; Yahweh made the standing. ago it was illegal to own, read, teach Sabbath Day Holy. Love, True Love or practice what the Creator Yahweh In Yahshua Messiah inspired the Prophets to write in what Worshiping the Easter Goddess is not is called the bible today. a commandment. Worshipping on The crusades conducted by the Sunday is not a commandment. If you popes (yes, the ) were would enter into Life as the Savior said, fought against the Savior’s followers you must keep the Commandments who owned, read, taught and practiced (Laws). Yisrayl Hawkins the worship of Yahweh written by the .Mattithyah 19:17— Overseer, Holy Prophets. History shows that the But He said to him: Why do you question The House of Yahweh, Abilene believers of Yahshua, the One called Me about Righteousness? There is only the Savior (yes, His Name is Yahshua) One Who is the Standard of Perfection, and He is Yahweh; so if you would enter Sermon Program! and His followers, starting with the into Life, keep the Laws of Yahweh. twelve Disciples and their followers, .Revelation 22:14— The House of Yahweh offers a were hunted down and murdered for Blessed are those who keep His Laws, program to make the sermons following the written instruction found that they may have right to the Tree of available as soon as possible on in your bible. Life, and may enter in through the Gates into the City. Some preachers know the evil in this MP3/CD. worship but they try to convince people There is no quicker way to Everything about Easter looks okay that the Savior was raised from the grow in the Wisdom and until you actually study the origin of dead on Sunday morning so that’s why Knowledge of Yahweh, than by this worship and see that it’s based on they worship the Easter Goddess on nothing but lies and deception, and hearing the Word of Yahweh, Easter Sunday. However, the Savior did that it’s condemned in the very bible over and over again. You will not rise on Sunday morning. The article the deceivers hold in their hands on gain vital information not within this magazine about Easter Sunday morning. They lie and bring proves from your bible that the Savior contained in The Prophetic Word forth not what is in your bible but was put in the grave on Wednesday and magazine and the monthly rose three days and three nights later Satan worship that your bible Newsletter. on Saturday evening. So if they truly condemns. Call 325-893-5899 today and wanted to celebrate the resurrection of .I Yahchanan 2:4— ask how you can take advantage He who says: I know Him, but does not the Savior, they would celebrate the keep His Laws, is a liar, and the Truth is of this program. Seventh Day Sabbath as commanded. not in him. Your Salvation depends on it!

2 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 True Stories About Christmas

himself when the first corn was planted, derived directly from the Saturnalia. Was The Messiah’s Birth primitive man needed rain and sun. So, with Many other customs have become en- On December 25th? their primitive eyes on the great and myste- grafted into the ancient celebration occurring rious sky...the first religious instincts prayed at this time of year. Mummers and Wild Men Authoritative educational books of to the sun! The moment of the Sun’s Annual roam the British Isles and Europe. The Mari the world, such as encyclopedias, give rebirth in late December was one of the vital Lwyd ritual in Wales is reviving. The ever- us the truth. In our own Holy Scrip- religious times of the year. This time of year green tree is an ancient custom incorporated. tures, long before the virgin birth, the was also the least laborious. There was time The Vikings gave their Yule...the druids Creator speaks of this festival being to make merry. Early Northern people, who donated their magic mistletoe...the Father had no exact astronomical findings began Christmas in Briton and the Santa Claus of celebrated, as Yeremyah 10:1-5 indi- their winter festivals earlier...in November... German origin were all donated and incorpo- cates. when the signs of the sun’s recession... rated into the holidays known worldwide as .Yeremyah 10:1-5— (dying) and the scarcity of animal food made Christmas and New Year! 1 Hear the word which Yahweh speaks the slaughter of the increase of the herd It was not until the middle of the fourth concerning you, O house of Israyl. necessary. Later, the ceremonies moved century c.e. that the ‘Birth’ of the Messiah 2 This is what Yahweh says: Do not forward to mid-December and the anticipa- was officially celebrated at the time of year learn the way; religious practices, of the heathen; Gentile nations; and do not be tion of the Saturnalia...that wonderful, when the lighting of fires...the praising of the deceived by the signs of heaven; though heartwarming, emotional festival introduced new sun...relaxation and feasting was set on the heathen are deceived by them; using by the Romans by their occupation of the the very same date as that of the birth of the them to set their feasts. then-known world. sun god...Mithra! 3 For the religious customs of the In Roman Times...a Pre-Christian Mes- peoples are vain; worthless! For one cuts sage of ‘peace and god’s will’ to all men MITHRAISM: The worship of Mithra shared a tree out of the forest, the work of the accompanied the Saturnalia! The Saturnalia many similarities with the newer Christian hands of the workman, with the ax. was within the solstice and Saturnalia- ceremonies. There was baptism, a sacra- 4 They decorate it with silver and with Kalendae period...starting December 17 and mental meal, and observance of Sunday, and gold; they fasten it with nails and with going through January 1st. The Roman the god himself was born on December 25th. hammers, so that it will not move; topple Saturnalia is recorded in writing and was the over. function of a highly civilized people. The first 5 They are upright, like a palm tree, but period of feasting was generally for seven they cannot speak; they must be carried, The Ancient Pagan days. The god celebrated was Saturn... because they cannot go by themselves. Do Celebrations Of Modern not give them reverence! They cannot do farmer of a former gold age and eater of his evil, nor is it in them to do Righteousness! own children. Christmas And New Year The giving of presents...particularly The Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol- candles and dolls called Sigillaria also de- In Revelation 1:1, the Apostle Yah- . rives from the insistent origin of human ume II (1943-1973), under Christmas, chanan is given the revelation of what says: sacrifice at this time of year! Directly following the Saturnalia was the will shortly come to pass at the end ‘‘In the Roman world, the Saturnalia was a Kalendae...more mathematically concerned of this age. Yahchanan is shown the time of merrymaking and exchanging of with the date of the new Roman year...and history of The House of Yahweh and gifts. December 25th was also regarded as the celebration of the god Janus, god of doors the end of the Babylonian mystery re- the birthdate of the Iranian Mystery god, (as a two-way engine) who looks back on the ligions that this whole deceived world Mithra, the Sun of Righteousness. past and forward to the future. worships in this very day and time. On the Roman New Year houses were One may think of the Saturnalia as ‘Roman Revelation 17:1— decorated with greenery and lights and gifts in Rome'...but the truth is: The Roman Em- . And there came one of the seven were given to children. pire was a World-Ruling Empire at that time. malakim who had the seven bowls, and To these observances were added the The customs of Rome were spread to all the talked with me, saying to me: Come, I will German and Celtic Yule rites...Food and known world! Britons and Celts, Indians show you the sentence of the great whore good fellowship, the Yule log and Yule cakes, and Egyptians were all called part of the that sits upon many waters. greenery and fir trees, gifts and greetings all Roman Empire at one time. These nations commemorated different aspects of this fes- brought their own Sun Worshipping Cults to The word waters in this verse is re- tive season. Fires and lights, symbols of join into the Saturnalia Celebrations! It was ferring to peoples, and multitudes, and warmth and lasting life have always been an Empire-Wide Celebration. All the people nations, and tongues, as we find in: associated with the winter festival, both in this Empire, save only a few...gathered in Revelation 17:2-6— pagan and Christian.’’ their homes to drink wine...to dance and . 2 With whom the kings of the earth sing...to light their candles and exchange have committed fornication; practiced In A Book of Christmas, by William presents...giving their children the little clay idolatry: Godworship (the worship of elo- Sansom, McGraw-Hill, 1968, pages dolls that represented their former sacri- him), and the inhabitants of the earth have 28-39, we find the following informa- fices! been made drunk with the wine of her for- tion: The Strenae...honoring the goddess nication. Strenia...were given for ‘good luck!’ 3 So he carried me away in the Spirit To get green food for his beasts and later for The Feast of Fools and the Lord of Misrule into the midst of Godworshipers (wor-

The Prophetic Word 11/2010 3 shipers of Elohim); and I saw a woman and traders carried the mystery religion of The Babylonians, in their popular sitting on a scarlet colored beast, full of to Cyprus, Sicily, Italy, Gaul, and Spain. religion, worshiped a goddess mother names of blasphemy, having seven heads This religion, transformed considerably from and a son, represented in pictures and and ten horns. its Egyptian prototype, had great popularity 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple images as a mother with her son in in Rome, and held its own for 500 years. It her arms. From Babylon this worship and scarlet color, and decked with gold, was at one time a formidable rival of Chris- and precious stones, and pearls, having a tianity. of the mother and her child spread to golden cup in her hand full of abomina- Mithraism, which was also a rival of Chris- the ends of the earth. tions and filthiness of her fornication. The original Babylonian mother 5 And upon her head was a name writ- tianity in the early centuries, seems to have ten: Mystery Babylon the great, the mother had many affinities with the mystery reli- goddess was . The adored of the harlots and of the abominations of gions, especially in its graded series of seven little child in her arms was the earth. stages of initiation. Mithra or Mithras was (Tammuz), signified as the son. This 6 And I saw the woman drunk with the the name of an ancient deity among the same little child was also signified as blood of the saints, and with the blood of Aryans. Originally he was the god of the the husband of Semiramis. the martyrs of Yahshua. And when I saw social order, but in Persian religion he had The Madonna and child worship her, I wondered with great astonishment. warlike characteristics, being a manifesta- certainly did not start in the Christian Revelation 17:15— tion of the power of the sun, fighting against . era. And he said to me: The waters which darkness on behalf of Ahura Mazda. His you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, emblem was sol invictus, the invincible sun, and multitudes, and nations, and lan- and his help was sought especially by those We are told of the first government guages. engaged in warfare. system by the people and of the people, The Romans became acquainted with and against Yahweh in: In Revelation 17:5, we are shown a Mithraism in 66 B.C. Pompey had been given .Genesis 10:8-9— religion of mystery, the great whore, dictatorial powers to suppress the pirates 8 Cush begot ; he began to be a or great God worshiper, as this reli- who swarmed the Mediterranean. He cap- mighty one on the earth. gion should be called, which brings tured their strongholds in Cilicia at the 9 He was a tyrant who deceived, who abominations to all peoples, multi- eastern end of the Mediterranean, took 20,000 turned against Yahweh; therefore it is said: prisoners and settled them at various points Like Nimrod the tyrant who deceived, who tudes, nations and languages. turned against Yahweh. Collier’s Encyclopedia, 1980, Vol- in Asia Minor and Greece. These captured Cilician pirates introduced Mithraism to the ume 16, pages 349-350, tells us of Romans. It did not make much headway, It has been said that the custom of these ancient mystery religions. however, till toward the end of the second Christmas “started with Semiramis THE MYSTERY RELIGIONS century A.D., when soldiers recruited in and the birth of her illegitimate son, Pontus, Cappadocia, and Lesser Armenia Tammuz. The mystery religions furnish an ancient spread the faith through the Roman legions. Legend has it that Tammuz was so example of a missionary movement. Origi- It was also propagated by merchants and nally they were magical ceremonies designed evil he married his own mother, slaves from these regions, but its strength Semiramis. After Tammuz’s untimely to induce bountiful crops. They dramatized lay chiefly in the army. Emperor Diocletian the annual decay of vegetation in the autumn favored it, and so did Constantine at first, death, his mother/wife brought for- as the death of a divine youth over whom a even using the emblem of the invincible sun ward the doctrine of the resurrection goddess mourned. Later they celebrated on his banners. He later replaced this by the of Tammuz. She claimed a full grown with ecstatic joy the return of verdure in the Christian emblem. Mithraism had already evergreen tree sprang up overnight spring as the coming to life again of the received a severe setback through the loss from a dead tree stump. She also departed youth. Participating in these rites of the important outpost of the army in Dacia claimed that Tammuz would visit the was believed to cleanse the devotee of his on the Danube, where the faith was espe- evergreen tree on each anniversary of sins and unite him mystically with the god. cially strong. While for a time Mithraism his birth and leave gifts upon it. They were crude and orgiastic but they had seemed a formidable rival of Christianity, it Semiramis, through her scheming, a dynamic quality which led to their expan- had an outstanding weakness. It was a mas- became the Babylonian Queen of sion. culine religion with little or no place for In spite of the protests of such men as women. Consequently it could never become Heaven. She introduced a worship to Euripides and Plato the mystery religions strongly entrenched in family life. Its vogue usher in the rebirth of her son every continued to make converts because they came to an end toward the close of the fourth year. supplied something which neither the reli- century, though it lingered on in a few iso- .Yeremyah 7:18— gion of the Olympic gods nor the philosophers lated places. How the children gather wood, and the of Greece could offer. This was especially fathers kindle the fire, while the women true of the Eleusinian mysteries which may knead dough to make cakes for the Queen have had their origin in Egypt. Has Mithraism, Or Sun of Heaven, and how they pour out drink Though the details of these rites are un- offerings to the hinder gods (elohim), so Worship, Really Come they may act defiantly against Me? known, because they were secret, it is evident Yechetzqyah 8:14— that the drama which the initiates saw en- To An End In These . Then he brought me to the door of the acted was a source of great comfort to them Modern Times? gate of Yahweh’s House, which was to- thereafter, attracting at Athens alone thou- ward the north; and behold, there sat sands of candidates who thronged to be n the earliest millennium, the great women weeping for Tammuz. initiated. I mother goddess was a symbol of pro- The Syrian mystery religion in which the n this ancient act of sun worship, goddess Astarte wept over Adonis was car- creation and fertility and was wor- I ried by Phoenician sailors and traders to shiped in every corner of the world. women would ceremonially weep un- various ports in the Mediterranean at an This mother goddess was pictured as til Tammuz was reincarnated as the early date. Later, when this sea was con- the sun and earth and her consort as evergreen tree. Tammuz’s birthday was trolled by the Ptolemies, Egyptian sailors the moon and the natural elements. December 25th.

4 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 The festival of Mithras, the sun the week as a memorial of the resurrection pages 217-218, says: God of ancient Persia, was celebrated of Christ, and (5) the Scottish Presbyterian on December 25th. Tree worship and conception of Sunday as a day of rest and the By a stroke of tactical genius the Church, adoption of this conception by Puritan Mas- while intolerant of pagan beliefs, was able to celebrating a birthday on December harness the powerful emotions generated 25th certainly did not start in the sachusetts, with the resulting Sunday laws, usually known as Blue Laws. by pagan worship. Often, churches were Christian Era. From prehistoric times to the close of the sited where temples had stood before, and The Last Two Million Years, by The fifth century of the Christian Era the wor- many heathen festivals were added to the Readers Digest Association, 1971, ship of the sun was dominant. Deified in Christian calendar. Easter, for instance, a page 77, says: Egypt as Ra, the Sun-god, he is pictured in time of sacrifice and rebirth in the Christian year, takes its name from the Norse goddess Worship of the sun-god the oldest passages of the Pyramid texts. The sun-disk (Aton) with the outspread Eostre, in whose honour rites were held For the next 500 years Persia came under every spring. She in turn was simply a North- the rule of the Parthians, a warlike people wings of the falcon became the most gener- ally used symbol of Egyptian religion. In ern version of the Phoenician earth-mother from the north-east. This was a period of Astarte, goddess of fertility. Easter eggs almost ceaseless conflict with Rome, from Babylonia, cylinder seals picture the sun as a deity coming forth through open doors continue an age-old tradition in which the which neither side emerged victor. Roman egg is a symbol of birth; and cakes which soldiers carried back to Europe the Persian which attendants hold open for him, at the same time turning their faces away so as not were eaten to mark the festivals of Astarte worship of Mithras, the sun-god. If and Eostre were the direct ancestors of our Mithraism had not been superseded in the to be blinded by his brightness. This idea of hot-cross buns. Roman Empire by Christianity, Europe the sun having a habitation is reflected in the might have adopted the Persian religion. Biblical reference to his coming forth as a bridegroom from his chamber rejoicing as a By harnessing the emotions gener- .Collier’s Encyclopedia, 1980, Vol- strong man to run his course. When the ated by pagan religions, one can truth- ume 9, page 431, says: Israelites entered Palestine they found the fully say that the pagan religions are worship of the sun under the name of Baal- a part of Christianity. Roman Religion and the Emergence of hammon, the latter part of this title meaning Constantine, was also the leader of Christianity. sun images. the First Council of Nicaea in the year The religion of the Romans also displayed At an early unknown date the mystery cult 325 C.E. Sunday worship was estab- lack of imagination. As encouraged by of Mithra or Mithras arose in Persia. In Augustus and some of his successors, it Zoroastrianism he is named Yazata, a power lished for Christianity at that time. was a cold, remote affair of ceremonies and of light serving as aide to Ahura-Mazda. In The Christian church did not want to rituals. Much had been borrowed from the the valley of the Euphrates he attained the have anything to do with the ‘‘wicked Greeks, but, as so often occurred, the Ro- eminence of an Assyrian god. Mithraism rabble of the Jews,’’ including mans took the shell and left the kernel; the reached Rome in the second century B.C.E. Yahweh’s Seventh Day Sabbath. Eas- charm of the old Greek religion was lost. It became popular in the Roman army, in the ter, or the worship of the Goddess, As social and economic conditions became commercial class, and among the slaves and Eostre, was established at that Coun- worse, the Roman masses turned more eventually was adopted by the Roman em- cil because Passover was part of the and more to the colorful, strongly emo- perors because it supported the divine right ‘‘Jewish’’ religion. The doctrine of the tional, and superstitious mystery religions of kings. From very ancient times, the Ro- trinity was established and Yahweh’s imported from the East. The cults of the mans had marked each eighth day as a Great Mother, of Isis, and of Mithras were holiday. It is not surprising, since they were Feasts were changed to the pagan cel- the most popular. They all emphasized influenced not only by the favored cult of ebrations the deceived Christian world spiritual salvation and a future life__in a Mithras but also by the Egyptian cult in North celebrates today. word they offered comfort. The cult of Africa that they gradually came to observe a .Daniyl 7:24-25— Mithras, which appealed primarily to men, holiday dedicated to the sun. Dies solis was 24 And the ten horns out of this king- became very strong and was carried substituted for dies Saturni. The earliest dom are ten kings that will arise; and an- throughout the Empire by the constantly known Sunday law appeared in the edict of other will rise after them; and he will be moving Roman legions. It was to be the Constantine (A.D. 321) enacting that ‘magis- different from the first ones, and he will chief rival of Christianity. trates, city people, and artisans’ were to rest subdue three kings. 25 And he will speak great words on the venerable day of the Sun. This law against Yahweh, and will wear out; men- Was Mithraism the chief rival of probably bore no relation to Christianity. tally attack to cause to fall away, the Christianity or is Christianity just the The early Christians had first adopted the Saints of Yahweh, and think to change name of Mithraism in this day and Jewish seven day week with its numbered times; Yahweh’s Feast Days and Laws; weekdays, but by the close of the third age? Constantine was still a sun wor- and they will be given into his hand until a century the planetary week, and in the fourth time, and times, and the dividing of time. shiper when the religion that is called and fifth centuries the pagan calendar Christianity today was initiated. names had become general in western History has proven this Prophecy cor- Collier’s Encyclopedia, 1980, Vol- . rect. The last, diverse kingdom that ume 21, page 632, says: subdued three kingdoms is the reli- his says: ‘‘The earliest known Sun- gious power of papal Rome. This reli- SUNDAY. To understand the meaning and T significance of Sunday as the first day of the day law appeared in the Edict of gious power changed the Feast days of week it is necessary to consider the five Constantine in 321 C.E. enacting that Yahweh to the pagan festivals that contributions which have been made to its magistrates, city people and artisans were already popular. place in the calendar and to its manner of were to rest on the veneral day of the The most popular pagan festival observance: (1) the worship of the sun among sun.’’ This is not the only enactment was the birthday of the invincible sun ancient peoples, (2) the popularity of that resembles present day Christian- on December 25th. The Mithraic and Mithraism among the Romans, (3) the Ro- ity. Roman religions were already celebrat- man observance of the day of the Sun, (4) the The Last Two Million Years, by The ing the rebirth of the sun. It was not early Christian dedication of the first day of Readers Digest Association, 1971, a hard task to place the mask of Chris-

The Prophetic Word 11/2010 5 tianity over this pagan birthdate and holidays worshiped today; but it is an In Yechetzqyah 16:27-29, Yahweh call it the birthday of Jesus. entirely different thing to know what goes on to show that the children of Strange Stories Amazing Facts, by the bible says, and then refuse to obey Israyl also committed God worship The Readers Digest Association, pages what the bible says. with the Philistines, the Assyrians, 283-284, says: .Yechetzqyah 16:2-3— and the Chaldeans. The children of Is- Christmas and Easter, although the greatest 2 Son of man, make Yerusalem realize rayl celebrated the religious festivals festivals in the Christian calendar, are cel- her abominations, of the Middle Eastern versions of 3 And say; This is what Father Yahweh ebrated with customs that originated in Christmas and New Year. They says to Yerusalem: Your birth and your na- superstition and heathen rites hundreds of tivity are of the land of Canaan; your fa- brought gifts to the Gods. The high years before Christ was born. ther was an Amorite, and your mother was places were where sacred poles had Even the dates owe more to pagan prac- a Hittite. been set up for the renewed God and tices than to the birth and resurrection of sun. Their children were sacrificed to Jesus. It was not until the fourth century that Birth And Nativity? the high God Molech at the time of December 25 was fixed arbitrarily as the the new year. anniversary of the Nativity__because the pagan festivals from which so many Christ- The birth and nativity are as old as mas customs spring were held around that the history of the Holy Scriptures. Child Sacrifice time. As we have previously proven, the Mythology of All Religions, Volume Although Christianity has swept the world people throughout the known pagan . 5, page 52, says: in a relatively short time, as the histories of world, including Babylon, Egypt, and great religions go, the early missionaries Syria, all worshiped the sun and the At this festival a great fire was lighted and faced an uphill task. The pagans were reluc- moon through their Gods and God- having lost his old age in fire he obtains in exchange his youth. There was in conse- tant to give up their false gods and ancient desses. Mother and child worship was practices. quence a feast on the second of this month prevalent. The rebirth of this child throughout Syria called, Dies Natalis Solis So the missionaries, unable to convert each year was manifested in the form them easily to an entirely new code of wor- Invicti...Natal (birth) day of The Unconquer- ship, did the next best thing. They took the of an evergreen tree. In Yechetzqyah able Sun. pagan festivals as they were and gradually 16:2-3, Yechetzqyah spoke of this This legend of the death and burial of the grafted the observances of the new faith onto abominable worship. He also says in: sun god of Tyre is undoubtedly based upon these festivals and the rites and customs Yechetzqyah 16:15-17, 20-21— the legend of the tomb of Bel-Marduk at . Babylon. As Marduk (Bel-Baal-Lord) rose surrounding them. 15 But you trusted in your own beauty, December 25 was not called Christmas and played the harlot because of your re- from his tomb at the New Year’s Festival...so until the ninth century. Until then it had been nown; fame, and poured out your fornica- also the Tyrians believed their sun god to the Midwinter Feast, a combination of the tions upon every one who passed by; wor- come forth from his tomb, symbol of his Norse Yule Festival and the Roman shiping the Gods (elohim) of every na- annual sleep of death in the lower world. Saturnalia, both of which took place in late tion; his it became. At Aphaca in the Lebanons, east of Gebal, December. 16 You took some of your garments, was the tomb of BAAL, who, as shall be seen, decked your high places with many differ- is probably Adonis of Gebal, also a sun god. ow was this deceit perpetrated on ent colors, and played the harlot upon your The burning of the image of Melqart, the H high places. Such things should not have mankind? The Last Two Million Years, Tyrian Hercules, that by passing through come to pass, nor should they ever have the fire he may receive his youth again to by The Readers Digest Association, been! revive the life of a dying world, seems to have 1971, pages 217-218, tells us how: 17 You also took your beautiful jewelry, been peculiar to Tyre and the land to which Since bishops were educated men at a time My gold and My silver which I gave you, this cult spread. when education was a rarity, they became and made male Gods (elohim) for your- It may be presumed from the human (in- civil servants, chancellors and secretaries self, and committed whoredom; God (el) fant-child) sacrifices to Malik (Molech) in worship, with them; to rulers. ...in Rome itself, the popes had an Canaan and to Melqart (Bel-Baal-Lord) as 20 Moreover, you have taken your sons efficient organization, the curia, patterned and your daughters, whom you have borne Cronus at Carthage that the Phoenicians on that of the Roman Empire. Papal legates to Me, and you have sacrificed them as offered the first born in the fire which cel- abroad reported back to the pope on shifts of meat for your Gods (elohim)! Is your har- ebrated the Sol Invictus (the same Invincible policy and political power, and held a power- lotry not enough, Sun Constantine worshipped) and insured ful diplomatic weapon in their right to refer 21 That you must slay My children, of- themselves against the wrath of the relent- disputes to Rome. The pope claimed the sole fering them up and causing them to pass less god. The Malik of Tyre was identified power to grant absolution for sin. Through through the fire to your Gods (elohim)? with Hercules... the bishops and the parish priests, his au- thority reached into almost every corner of Playing the harlot and committing Living infants and children were Europe. whoredom in these Scriptures is giv- burned in the fire to the God Molech ing worship to Gods rather than to during this time. This was the time of The only educated people were the Yahweh. the winter solstice when those hea- Roman Catholic clergy. The great ma- Yechetzqyah 16:25-26— then were dismayed at the signs of jority of the population were ignorant, . heaven. 25 You have built your high places at uneducated, and superstitious. When the head of every road, and made your Unger’s Bible Dictionary, page 416 the priests said this was the way of beauty to be abhorred. You have offered says: worship, this was the way of worship yourself to every one that passed by, and Mo′lech (mo′lek; Heb. Melek, king), a de- no matter that it originated in pagan- multiplied your whoredoms. testable Semitic deity honored by the sacrifice 26 You have also committed fornica- ism, or that it had nothing to do with tion; God (el) worship, with the sons of of children, in which they were caused to the bible. Egypt, your neighbors who are great of pass through or into the fire. It is one thing to be illiterate, un- flesh; and you have increased your Mo′loch (mo′lok), another form in English learned, and deceived about the pagan whoredoms, acting defiantly against Me. (Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43) of Molech (q. v.). 6 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 .The Concise Encyclopedia of Greek It clearly started as a celebration of the The first presents given at this time of year, and Roman Mythology, by Sabine G. passing of the winter solstice, and the start at the Roman Saturnalia which began on Ostwalt, page 261, under Saturnus we of the sun’s return journey from the north to December 17, were green branches for good find: the south. luck. Way back in the reign of King Tatius of All the early nations of the earth joyfully the Sabines, the King received this woodland A Sacrifice was made to Saturnus... After the celebrated the arrival of this season in the token from a ‘‘lucky tree’’ in the grove of Sacrifice there was a public banquet...People sun’s journey. The ancient Romans observed Strenae. The branches (and later fruits, exchanged presents, most frequently clay this time with a festival dedicated to Saturn, cakes, and other things as well) were there- puppets (dolls) in memory of the fact Her- the god of agriculture, and it was called fore called strenae. Since the Saturnalia was cules abolished human sacrifice when he celebrated up through the Calends (or first) introduced the cult of Saturnus. Saturnalia. This festival was observed with great merriment and abandon. Gifts were of January, the branches were also one of the The Encyclopedia Britannica, Elev- exchanged. And great liberties were allowed earliest ways of wishing Happy New Year. . __ Green, in those days of nature worship, was enth Edition, under Saturnalia, says: between freemen and slaves just as the for luck and for warding off evil. And even ‘‘These dolls were especially given to chil- Hindus allow the breaking of the barriers between castes on certain holidays. now, for the Christian festival, to ‘‘bring dren and the makers of them held a regular home Christmas’’ is to bring into the house When Emperor Constantine decreed fair at this time.’’ the beauty and the blessing of the woods and Christianity as the new faith of the Roman outdoor world. What would Christmas be for Empire, early in the fourth century, the It was believed that these dolls repre- any of us without the green__the holly and the Christians gave the holiday an entirely new mistletoe, the evergreen boughs and, above sented the original sacrifices to the in- name and an entirely new meaning. all, the tree? fernal God. This infernal God was the They called the holiday the Mass of Christ, original Molech that the Greeks re- or Christ Mass, which was shortened to The Saturnalia was celebrated up named Cronus and the Romans re- Christmas. And they declared that Christ- through the Calends, or first of Janu- named Saturnus. Under the earliest Ro- mas was the birthday of Jesus of Nazareth. ary, as it is still being celebrated to- mans, the Saturnalia was unified with Though the exact day and year when Jesus day by the whole deceived Christian the Brumalia—the winter solstice. was born are not known, tradition has set the world. This same Babylonian worship of date as December 25, 4 B.C., according to our Molech, which came down through present-day reckoning. the Greeks and Romans, through Hogmany (Chag-Meni) All of the practices of Christmas Constantine and through the great Feast Of God Luck! whore of Revelation 17:1, is observed have come from paganism. They are merely the modern day practices of the with the same practices and the same Isayah 65:11— same worship that Yahweh says is an . customs, at the same time of year, by But you are those who forsake Yahweh, the whole deceived Christian world to- abomination to Him. who forget My holy mountain, who pre- day. pare a table for that troop and who furnish a drink offering for that number. Holidays Around The World, by Jo- New Year? seph Gaer, 1953, page 133, says: The Book of Holidays, by J. Walker The word troop is translated from the . Hebrew word gad. Unger’s Bible Dic- The Old Winter Solstice McSpadden, 1958, pages 183-184, Christmas is a very old holiday. says: tionary, on page 415, shows us: The Prophetic Word Program 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK Broadcasting Free-to-Air via Satellite:

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The Prophetic Word 11/2010 7 Gad, a Canaanite deity improperly ren- and fortune, just as they did when the gates of the temple of Janus stood open. dered ‘‘troop’’ (Isa. 65:11), was the god of Isayah prophesied against them in his But when peace was declared, the gates good fortune, supposed to be the deified day. Spreading a feast of luxuriant were closed with great rejoicing. planet Jupiter. This star is called by the ‘lucky’ foods and toasting drink offer- There was also great rejoicing before the Arabs ‘‘the greater luck’’ as the star of good ings to ‘good luck’ still takes place gates of the temple of Janus on New Year’s fortune. in Christendom today on the evening Day when the people gathered to do homage to the god of all beginnings. Gifts were ex- This word number comes from the before New Year’s Day. changed among friends. Resolutions to be Hebrew word mene. The Hebrew-En- Collier’s Encyclopedia, Volume 6, friendly and good to each other were made. glish Lexicon of the Old Testament, by 1980, page 404, tells us: And the entire day was given to festivities. Brown, Driver, and Briggs, page 584, Gifts and Cards. The practice of exchanging When the Romans under Constantine ac- shows us that this word means God presents at Christmas stems from the an- cepted Christianity as their new faith, they of fate. cient Roman custom called Strenae. During retained the Festival of Janus as their New Unger’s Bible Dictionary, page 416, the Saturnalia Roman citizens used to give Year’s Day. ‘‘good luck’’ gifts (strenae) of fruits, pastry, also shows us: , by Alexander or gold to their friends on New Year’s Day. . Me′ni (me′ni; Heb. meni, destiny or fate). Hislop, 1959, pages 209-210, tells us Name of the god of destiny or fortune wor- These ‘good luck’ gifts are in honor about the key of Janus: shipped by the ancient Hebrews in time of of the Gods of fortune and destiny The apostasy (Isa. 65:11): ‘‘But you who forsook When the Pope came, as he did, into intimate the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, Book of Holidays, by J. Walker connection with the Pagan Priesthood; when who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of McSpadden, pages 7-8, says: they came under his control, what more mixed wine for Destiny’’ R. S. V. Fortune natural than to seek not only to reconcile NEW YEAR’S DAY paganism and Christianity, but to make it is ‘‘Gad’’ (q. v.) and Destiny is ‘‘Meni.’’ M. Both on the Eve and on the Day we indulge appear that the pagan, ‘Peter-Roma’, with F. U. in the old, old custom of ‘‘Wassail.’’ This his ‘keys’ meant ‘Peter of Rome’ and that universal toast comes from the old Gaelic ‘Peter of Rome’ was the very Apostle to What were these condemned people words, was hael, meaning ‘‘good health,’’ whom Jesus gave ‘‘the keys of the king- doing when Isayah prophesied against and signifies the special food and drink with dom?’’ Hence, from the mere jingle of words, them? They were celebrating Christ- which we wish each other well at this time. mas and New Year. The Two In Scotland and northern England wassail persons and things essentially different were Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, 1959, cakes and wassail bowls are still called by confounded; and paganism and Christianity jumbled together, that the towering ambition pages 94-96, shows us: that name. An entire book, instead of a chapter, could of a wicked priest might be gratified; and ‘‘Christmas Day among the ancient be written on the omens and rituals of New so...to the blinded Christians of the apos- Saxons...was observed to celebrate the Year’s Day throughout the ancient and mod- tasy, the Pope was the representative of BIRTH of any lord of the host of Heaven...The ern world. Peter the Apostle...while to the initiated Saxons regarded the sun as a female god and pagans..he was only the representative of the moon a male god. The birth of this ‘Lord There is no question that the first day Peter...the interpreter of their well known Moon’ was on December 25th. The name of of the pagan new year is spent in ac- Mysteries. Thus was the Pope the express this ‘Lord Moon’ in the East...Babylonians, counterpart of ‘‘Janus, the double-faced.’’ Chaldeans and among the Canaanites...was quiring ‘good luck’ from the Gods of Meni__The Numberer.’’ luck—fortune and destiny. There is also no question that the Janus, the God that the month of Janu- ancient festivities of Saturnalia— ary is named for was the father of the According to Hislop, Gad refers to the Gods, and at the same time the media- sun God, and Meni the moon God. The Brumalia—Chag Meni are nothing more than the Christmas—New Year torial divinity. He is identified with people offered sacrifices to these Gods Bacchus or Adonis (the Sun God) and in Isayah 65:11. of today. Christmas and New Year are still the ancient pagan worship of the was invoked in the religion of mystery Holidays Around The World, by Jo- as Satur, Saturn, Mystery. The Two seph Gaer, 1953, page 137, says: ancient pagan Gods Yahweh tells us is an abomination to Him. Babylons, page 269, says: A Happy New Year! As MYSTERY signifies the HIDDEN SYS- Exactly one week after Christmas comes TEM so SATURN signifies the HIDDEN GOD. New Year’s Day. In the minds of many people Janus: The God these two holidays seem to go together as if Of January his hidden God is the same God this they had something in common. Actually, of T course, there is no relationship between Holidays Around the World, by Jo- whole deceived world worships today . in the celebrations called Christmas them. Christmas is a deeply religious holi- seph Gaer, pages 138-139, says: day, whereas New Year’s Day does nothing and New Year. Two-faced Janus more than mark the beginning of the civil Collier’s Encyclopedia, 1980, Vol- Janus was represented among the Roman year. ume 20, page 449, shows us who Sat- gods as having two faces. He was called The date we celebrate as New Year’s, like Janus Bifors, meaning ‘‘Janus with the two urn is: the date of Christmas, is an inheritance from ′ the Romans. faces.’’ One face always looked back to the SATURN [sæ tern] (Lat. Saturnus), an an- old year, and the other always looked for- cient Roman god of sowing and agriculture, ward to the new. In his right hand Janus held hence considered a mythical king who had Hogmanay means feast of the a key, with which he closed the old year and introduced civilization and morality into numberer. It is the feast of the God opened the new; in his left hand he held a Italy, which was thus called Saturnia. The Meni. Even in this age the deceived scepter, symbol of his power. wife of Saturn was Ops, goddess of plenty. world bows down on New Year’s Day, A great temple with immense gates was Saturn was later identified with the Greek to Gad and Meni the Gods of luck built to Janus. And when Rome was at war, god Cronus, father of the gods, who was

8 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 said to have fled to Italy after being de- perhaps of autumn sowing, and identified It is a proven fact that the festivities throned by Zeus and to have reigned there with the Greek Kronos (q.v.). His festival, the of Christmas and New Year are the during the Golden Age. The festival of the Saturnalia, was on 17 December, when there same worship to the same pagan Gods Saturnalia, originally on December 17, was was considerable licence. Slaves could do as which Yahweh tells us is an abomi- later extended by five or seven days; they liked, for a time. There was a Lord of nation to Him. Yahweh also says to candles were lighted, friends exchanged Misrule, and presents were exchanged. Some gifts, and slaves were served by their mas- of this was transferred into Christmas and us in: ters; it was a period of good will and gen- New Year festivities. Saturn was also a planet .Yeremyah 10:2-5— eral festivity, the prototype of Christmas. from which Saturday is named. 2 This is what Yahweh says: Do not The earliest extant reference to Saturn’s learn the way; religious practices, of the heathen; Gentile nations; and do not be day dates from the first century B.C. Strange Stories, Amazing Facts, by deceived by the signs of heaven; though (Tibullus). See also AGES OF MAN; . The Readers Digest Association, 1980, the heathen are deceived by them; using CRONUS. pages 283-284, tells us of some of the them to set their feasts. 3 For the religious customs of the Saturn is identified with Kronos, the customs that were transferred to Christmas and New Year: peoples are vain; worthless! For one cuts father of the Gods. A Dictionary of a tree out of the forest, the work of the Non-Christian Religions, Geoffrey Weeklong feast hands of the workman, with the ax. Parrinder, 1971, page 157, says: The seven days of Roman feasting were an 4 They decorate it with silver and with ‘‘Kronos, time in ancient Greek my- occasion for exchanging presents__one of gold; they fasten it with nails and with thology...’’ the pagan customs that was gladly incorpo- hammers, so that it will not move; topple over. rated into Christmas. Even the sternest Gods and Mortals in Classical My- 5 They are upright, like a palm tree, but thology, Michael Grant and John Ha- advocates of the new faith could not eradi- they cannot speak; they must be carried, zel, 1973, pages 124-125, tells us more cate the notion that Saturnalia was a time for because they cannot go by themselves. Do about Kronos, the father of the Gods: merrymaking. not give them reverence! They cannot do The Romans used to switch roles with According to a different tradition, Cronos evil, nor is it in them to do Righteousness! their slaves, who were encouraged to elect had not been a grim tyrant but a benign ruler their own ‘‘king’’ for the holiday. He would who presided over a blessed golden age; Yahweh has told us emphatically, after his deposition he left to become ruler of preside over a great banquet, at which the ‘‘Do not learn the way of the hea- the Isles of the Blessed in the Western master would wait on him and his fellow then!’’ The way of the heathen is writ- Ocean. This aspect of Cronos links him with servants. ten in the chapters of man’s customs Saturn, the Roman god with whom he was A similar idea survives in the armed forces and traditions that have come down identified. Some Greeks associated Cronos’ in Britain, where it is still an honored tradi- from the mythological Semiramis— tion for the officers and senior NCO’s to name, wrongly, with the word chronos Tammuz/mother—son adoration or serve the Christmas dinner in the lower (time), and consequently depicted him as an worship. __ ranks’ mess. The reason Christian practice old man with a scythe Father Time. The Yahweh’s Way is written in the oldest account of the story of Cronos is given could never go the whole way with the Ro- by Hesiod in the Theogany. man custom is that the unfortunate slave Holy Scriptures. His Way is there for ‘‘kings,’’ after their brief exaltation, were put His House to read and then to obey. Saturnus and Kronos are one and the to death. .Deuteronomy 4:1-2— same God. The Concise Encyclopedia When the Normans invaded England in 1 Hear now, O Israyl, the Statutes and of Greek and Roman Mythology, page 1066, they introduced into the Christmas the Judgments which I teach you to ob- festivities a mock king, called the Lord of serve and do, that you may live, and go in 261, says this about Saturnus: and possess the land which Yahweh, the Misrule, whose job was to ensure that the ...an ancient agricultural deity who came to Heavenly Father of your fathers, is giving Rome from Etruria. But he was very early celebrations were conducted in the old pa- you. identified with the Greek-Cronus ...Saturnus gan style. 2 You shall not add to the word which I introduced the cultivation of the vine and Wearing paper hats and using firecrack- command you, nor shall you take anything taught them to use a sickle for reaping corn; ers are throwbacks to the wilder excesses of from it, so that you may keep the Laws of hence...his statue held a sickle. ancient Rome. Yule logs and candles belong Yahweh your Father which I command you. to the Norse tradition: They were symbols of The modern version of “father time” fire and light, bringing welcome relief in the We realize that these customs of is that of an old man with a sickle cold and darkness of the northern midwin- Christmas and New Year are pre- (representing the old year) who dies ter. sented to this world as beautiful at the year’s end and is immediately In the centuries that followed the Norman things. These worldly holidays are well reborn as an infant in the new year. Conquest, as Christianity gained a firmer bound in the very fabric of life in the Mythology of All Religions, Volume hold, carols and the Nativity play were added. Christian world. These are times when 5, page 52, shows that Kronus is the And Father Christmas evolved as a mixture families come together, gifts are ex- of the red-robed Lord of Misrule and St. ancient prototype of this modern holi- changed, and the tree is set up with Nicholas (Santa Claus), the patron saint of all the old, familiar decorations. These day: children. Bel-Melqart (Kronus)...renews himself each festivals play on the emotions and year as the ‘Invincible Sun’ in the fires that The mistletoe senses of mankind. These are exactly burned the infants and children to the Mistletoe, a plant sacred to the Druids, was the kinds of feelings Satan uses to get god__Molech! hung outside Viking homes as a sign of peace this world to give her the worship she and welcome to strangers. desires. A Dictionary of Non-Christian Re- . The custom of kissing under the mistletoe The worldly preachers who claim to ligions, by Geoffrey Parrinder, 1971, has been traced to the Roman Saturnalia. It follow the Scriptures are afraid to con- page 246, says: has also been associated with certain primi- demn these pagan practices. They are Saturn, Saturnalia. Saturn was a Roman god, tive marriage rites. afraid of upsetting all the rich mer- The Prophetic Word 11/2010 9 chants who benefit during the yule-tide (elohim), saying: How did these nations 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and season. They are afraid of upsetting serve their Gods (elohim)? I also will do the abominable, and murderers, and the worship of the sun that brings the same. whoremongers, and sorcerers, and worship- 31 You must not worship Yahweh your ers of Gods (elohim), and all liars, will them so much wealth. Father in their way, for every abomination have their part in the lake which burns .II Corinthians 11:14-15— to Yahweh, which He hates, they have done with fire and brimstone—which is the sec- 14 And no marvel; for Satan herself is to their Gods (elohim). They even burn ond death. transformed into an angel of light. their sons and daughters in the fire as sac- Revelation 22:13-17— 15 Therefore, it is no great thing if her rifices to their Gods (elohim). . 13 I am the First and the Last, the Be- ministers also are transformed as the min- 32 Whatsoever I command you, be care- ginning and the End. __ isters of Righteousness whose end will ful to observe and do it, you shall not add 14 Blessed are those who keep His be according to their works. to it, nor take away from it. Laws, that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the Gates Satan makes the emotional holidays Yahweh also shows us the judgment into the City. at this time of the year seem so right. of the religious system of mystery 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, But to know these customs and tradi- Babylon the great, mother of harlots and whoremongers, and murderers, and worshipers of Gods (elohim) and every- tions are the worship of pagan Gods and abominations of the earth. one who professes to love, yet practices and then to still willfully participate .Revelation 18:2,8— breaking the Laws. in them is an abominable sin. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong 16 I, Yahshua, have sent My Malak to Hebrews 10:26— voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, testify to you these things in the congrega- . is fallen, and is become the habitation of tions of The House of Yahweh. I am the For if we sin willfully after we have re- ceived the knowledge of the Truth, there demons, and the hold of every foul spirit, Root and the Offspring of David, and the no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. and a cage of every unclean and hateful Bright and Morning Star. bird. 17 And the Spirit and the bride, say: o know that these Christian holi- 8 Therefore, her plagues will come in Come! And let him who hears, say: Come! T one day—death, and mourning, and fam- And let him who is thirsty come. And who- days of Christmas and New Year are ine; and she will be utterly burned with ever will, let him take the water of life nothing more than the worship of an- fire; for strong is Father Yahweh Who freely. cient pagan Gods is to also know that judges her. to bow down and worship them is Personal Note From breaking the first two of the Ten Com- To those of Yahweh’s House whom mandments. He has called or is calling in these The Editor About The First Commandment is that Last Days, to all who would enter into Christmas And New Year Yahweh is our Heavenly Father and His Kingdom, Yahweh says: we are to have no hinder Gods at all, Revelation 18:4— When most people first begin to study (Exodus 20:2-3). . And I heard another voice from heaven, their bible for themselves, they are The Second Commandment is that saying: Come out of her, My People, so shocked to find that their bible does we are not to make any carved image that you do not partake in her sins, and so not say what their church teaches. in the form of anything in heaven, on that you do not receive of her plagues. Every honest bible student who has earth, or in the waters, to bow down studied the bible for any length of ahweh promises to His Servants, and serve them. (Exodus 20:4-5). Y time will admit that there has been those who obey every Word that pro- To bow down and serve Yahweh is vast changes in doctrine from the time ceeds from His Mouth: to obey every Word that proceeds out of the early followers of Yahshua. Isayah 65:13-15— of His Mouth, not adding to it nor di- . These students may not all agree on 13 Therefore, this is what Yahweh our minishing from it in any way. the times these changes took place, but All one needs to do in order to serve Father says: Behold, My Servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Behold, My Ser- they will all agree that this did take hinder Gods is to turn from Yahweh’s vants will drink, but you will be thirsty. place. Way. Do not be mistaken, Yahweh is Behold, My Servants will rejoice, but you In The New International Dictio- alive and sees all. Yahweh is the re- will be ashamed. nary of the Christian Church, Revised warder of those that diligently seek 14 Behold, My Servants will sing for Edition, by Zondervan Publishing, on joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of Him. page 222, we find this statement con- Hebrews 11:6— heart, and wail for vexation; grief, of spirit; . 15 And the names of your Gods cerning the Disciples who were per- But without the Faith it is impossible to please Him; for he who comes to Yahweh (elohim) will remain as a trap; test, to My sonally taught by Yahshua: Chosen; for it will truly come to pass that must believe that He is, and that He is a CHRISTIAN YEAR, THE. The early Chris- rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. you will be judged, and you will die, but Yahweh will give His Servants a Name; tians who were mainly Jews were used not Yahweh, that will remain forever. only to keeping one day in the week as The only reward that this sin-sick Revelation 21:5-8— separate but also to marking the year with world has is the emotional reward . certain religious festivals, notably Passover, 5 And He Who sat upon the throne, they receive as they keep these pagan said: Behold, I make all things new. And Tabernacles, and Pentecost. From early festivals. Their names are not written He said to me: Write, for these Words are times Christians kept a commemoration of in the Book of Life and they will not True and Faithful. Christ’s resurrection. This was held at Pass- know what has hit them when Yah- 6 And He said to me: It is done! I am over time and was finally fixed on the Sunday shua returns. What is Yahweh’s Word Aleph and Tau, the Beginning and the End. following Passover. Pentecost was then cel- I will give to him who thirsts of the foun- ebrated at the appropriate time; the fifty on this pagan worship? tain of the water of life freely. .Deuteronomy 12:30-32— 7 He who overcomes will inherit all days between the two were days of joy and 30 Be careful not to be ensnared into things; and I will be his Father, and he will rejoicing. The choice of 25 December (in the following them by asking about their Gods be My son. East, 6 January) for the birth of Christ is 10 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 almost certainly because that day was the He knew these people would turn back ceived by the signs of heaven; though the great pagan day of honor to the sun, and in to the pagan worship he had taught heathen are deceived by them; using them Rome in the fourth century it was trans- against for three years. He warned to set their feasts. formed into a Christian festival. them night and day with tears. From the fourth century the Christian Shaul knew that only Yahweh’s The people of this world have dis- calendar became more historical in charac- Way of Salvation was able to build one obeyed Yahweh not only by learning ter, and Holy Week and Ascension Day up to the inheritance of Eternal Life, heathen ways, but also by practicing appeared. Pentecost became the day of the as he said in: these heathen ways yearly. giving of the Holy Spirit. Lent arose out of the Acts 20:32— .Yeremyah 10:3— custom of preparing catechumens for bap- . For the religious customs of the peoples ...which are able to build up The House are vain; worthless!... tism at Easter. Saints’ days came into the of Yahweh, and are able to give you an calendar either through the commemora- inheritance among all those who are Saints. tion of a martyrdom or through the date of a Notice what Yahweh says in Yer- dedication of a church in honor of a particu- Sanctified means to be set apart for a emyah 10:3. This custom that all the lar saint. The advantage of the Christian holy purpose. Shaul knew that only world practices is a vain custom. This Year is that through the church services, the Way of Yahweh would sanctify a custom will not bring Salvation, but and in particular the choice of Scripture person and give that person the right its vanity will most definitely bring passages to be read, worshipers are regu- to the Tree of Life. death. We are also told in Yeremyah larly reminded of the great events of the Revelation 22:14— what this vain custom is that Yahweh Christian faith and a balance is kept between . Blessed are those who keep His Laws, tells us not to learn: them. In recent years there have been vari- that they may have right to the Tree of Yeremyah 10:3-5— ous suggestions for modification of the . Life, and may enter in through the Gates 3 ...For one cuts a tree out of the forest, calendar, particularly in relation to Advent into the City. the work of the hands of the workman, and Lent, and some demand, supported by with the ax. secular sources, for a fixed date for Easter. The Apostles and early believers 4 They decorate it with silver and with Peter S. Dawes never taught the pagan custom of gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it will not move; topple Christmas. This deception was over. Please note when these changes brought into the congregations after 5 They are upright, like a palm tree, but appeared on the pages of man’s the death of the Apostles. they cannot speak; they must be carried, history. Also note that, the followers This celebration was not a new doc- because they cannot go by themselves. Do of Yahshua, the Disciples and early trine by any means. The pagans had not give them reverence! They cannot do believers, did not celebrate these pagan been practicing these celebrations hun- evil, nor is it in them to do Righteousness! days. Do not be deceived, these pagan dreds of years before Yahshua was his vain custom that Yahweh com- celebrations were being observed even born! T mands us not to learn is practiced by during the time of the Apostles, but These celebrations were condemned all of Christendom every year. They cut Yahweh’s People did not observe any by the early Prophets. Yeremyah had their evergreen trees and they deck their of these pagan celebrations. this to say about the pagan celebra- trees just as they did in the time of Yer- The Apostles and early believers tion which early Christians renamed emyah. This world thinks nothing of kept the commanded Holy Days of Christmas: practicing this vain custom, although Yahweh—the weekly Sabbath, Yeremyah 10:1— . it is a custom of worship to pagan Yahshua’s Memorial, the Passover Hear the word which Yahweh speaks concerning you, O house of Israyl. Gods! The practice of this vain custom and Feast of Unleavened Bread, the also breaks the First Commandment: Day of Pentecost, the Feast of he world does not hear Yahweh’s ‘‘I am Yahweh, you shall have no hinder Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the T Words. The reason this world does not Gods.’’ Feast of Tabernacles and the Last hear the Word of Yahweh is because The breaking of Yahweh’s Laws is Great Day. Satan has deceived this whole world, sin (I Yahchanan 3:4). The wages you The Apostle Shaul warned the flock as we are told in Revelation 12:9. Our earn for practicing sin is death (Ro- of Yahweh of the changes that he Savior also said in: mans 6:23)! This world believes the fact knew would take place in: Mattithyah 13:13— that Yahweh inspired these Scriptures Acts 20:29-32— . . That is why I speak to them in parables; to be written. His Words are there for 29 For I know this, that after my de- because seeing they do not see, and hear- parting grievous wolves will enter in all to read, but they refuse to believe ing they do not hear, nor do they under- what Yahweh says. Yahweh says among you, not sparing the flock. stand. 30 Also among your own selves will men throughout the Scriptures that this arise, speaking perverse things, to draw vain way leads to death, and if you prac- ahweh’s Word is very clear. The away disciples after themselves. Y tice these vain customs which Satan 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that world knows what the Prophets have instituted, you are a servant of Satan for the period of three years I did not cease written, they even believe the Proph- and not of Yahweh. to warn everyone night and day with tears. ets spoke these things; yet they do not Romans 6:16— 32 And now, brothers, I commend you practice what the Prophets under . to Yahweh, and to the Laws which He gave, Do you not know that to whom you yield which are able to build up The House of Yahweh’s Inspiration taught, as we yourselves as servants to obey, his servants Yahweh, and are able to give you an inher- see written in: you are whom you obey—whether of sin, itance among all those who are Saints. .Yeremyah 10:2— which leads to death, or of obedience, This is what Yahweh says: Do not learn which leads to Righteousness? Shaul knew Yahweh’s Way of Salva- the way; religious practices, of the hea- .Yeremyah 10:2— tion would be rejected by ones there. then; Gentile nations; and do not be de- This is what Yahweh says: Do not learn The Prophetic Word 11/2010 11 the way; religious practices, of the hea- from 6 January and celebrated on 25 Decem- Yahchanan Mark 7:7— then; Gentile nations; and do not be de- __ . ber. By the middle of the fifth century it was But in vain do they worship Me, teach- ceived by the signs of heaven; though the being gradually observed throughout East ing as doctrine the commandments of men. heathen are deceived by them; using them and West. The Armenians still observe 6 to set their feasts. January, the closely related Feast of the These pagan customs and practices It was through ignorance, and the Epiphany, as Christmas Day. are the worship of pagan Gods that dread and fear of the signs of a dying There is no authoritative historical evi- Yahweh warned against in: sun, that this vain custom of Christ- dence as to the day or month of Christ’s birth .Deuteronomy 12:30-32— mas was introduced, though it was in Jerusalem. 25 December was the date of 30 Be careful not to be ensnared into a Roman pagan festival inaugurated in 274 as following them by asking about their Gods not called Christmas at that time. the birthday of the unconquered sun which (elohim), saying: How did these nations What is even more amazing is the fact at the winter solstice begins again to show an serve their Gods (elohim)? I also will do that today’s educated world still wor- the same. increase in light. Sometime before 336 the 31 You must not worship Yahweh your ships Satan through these vain cus- Church in Rome, unable to stamp out this toms that pagans practiced because of Father in their way, for every abomination pagan festival, spiritualized it as the Feast of to Yahweh, which He hates, they have done their ignorance. the Nativity of the Sun of Righteousness. to their Gods (elohim). They even burn .Revelation 21:7-8— Christmas in the Eastern Church celebrates their sons and daughters in the fire as sac- 7 He who overcomes will inherit all the birth of Christ together with the visit of rifices to their Gods (elohim). things; and I will be his Father, and he the shepherds and the adoration of the wise 32 Whatsoever I command you, be care- will be My son. men. In the Western Church the adoration of ful to observe and do it, you shall not add 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and to it, nor take away from it. the abominable, and murderers, and the Magi is attached to Epiphany on 6 Janu- ary. In the Roman Catholic Church three whoremongers, and sorcerers, and wor- hat is the way of worship that shipers of Gods (elohim), and all liars, will masses are usually said to symbolize the W have their part in the lake which burns birth of Christ eternally in the bosom of the brings Salvation? Your Savior, with fire and brimstone—which is the sec- Father, from the womb of Mary and mysti- Yahshua Messiah, through Yahweh ond death. cally in the soul of the faithful. The traditional our Father, gives you the answer—and .Yeremyah 10:8— customs associated with Christmas have it is not through the worship of pagan But they are altogether senseless; as been derived from several sources. The Gods. one They are consumed by their foolish- merrymaking and the exchange of presents Mattithyah 19:17— ness; their stock is a doctrine of vanities; . But He said to him: Why do you ques- preaching about worthless Gods (elo- find their origin in the Roman Saturnalia festival (17-24 December), and the greenery tion Me about Righteousness? There is only him, teraphim) made of wood! One Who is the Standard of Perfection, and lights come from the Kalends of January and He is Yahweh; so if you would enter This custom practiced during this (1 January, the Roman New Year) with its into Life, keep the Laws. month of the year is not a new doc- solar associations. The Germano-Celtic Yule Mattithyah 4:4— rites introduced the tradition of feasting and . trine ordained by any of the followers But He answered, and said; It is writ- of Yahweh. This custom named fellowship. In the USA (and in England dur- ten: Man does not live by bread alone, but Christmas is an old, pagan practice ing the Commonwealth) Christian by every Word (Law) that proceeds out of the Mouth of Yahweh. from the worship of Baal. celebrations were at first suppressed by the Puritans, who objected to their pagan ori- The Apostles warned against and gins. Since the nineteenth century the Yahshua quoted Mattithyah 4:4 from taught against this pagan practice. celebration of Christmas has become in- the Law__Torah: However, this pagan practice was creasingly popular. Deuteronomy 8:3— brought back into the congregations . James Taylor So He humbled you, and allowed you to by the Christians who claimed they hunger, and fed you with manna, which were following the Apostles—by men These pagan practices brought on the you did not know of nor did your fathers whom Shaul described as grievous know of it; so He might make you to know death of the first established House of that man does not live by bread only, but wolves in Acts 20:29. Yahweh. Satan managed to slowly The New International Dictionary by every Word (Law) that proceeds out of bring pagan practices and false doc- the Mouth of Yahweh, does man live. of the Christian Church, Zondervan, trines into The House of Yahweh af- page 223, says this about this vain ter all of the Apostles died. The Pagan practices will not lead to custom: Apostles fought against these practices Eternal Life. Those who follow vain CHRISTMAS. The English name for the and doctrines until their deaths. customs are called whoremongers and Feast of the Nativity of Christ kept on 25 The House of Yahweh was the worshipers of Gods by Yahweh. December by the Western Church. There is Pillar and Ground of the Truth of Yahweh also says such will suffer the no evidence of a Feast of the Nativity before Yahweh when it was under the direct second death in Revelation 21:8. the fourth century, except possibly among leadership of the Apostles. When The only way to Everlasting Life is the Basilidians. The earliest mention of 25 pagan practices and false doctrines Yahweh’s Way. There is no other way! December is in the Philocalian Calendar, entered in, those polluted assemblies compiled in 354, which cites its observance in Rome in 336. It would not appear to have were no longer the Pillar and Ground been celebrated in Antioch until approxi- of Yahweh’s Truth. mately 375. By 380 it was being observed in As the Apostles would not yield to PRAISE Constantinople, and by 430 in Alexandria. It pagan customs or false doctrines, we was still unknown in Jerusalem early in the also should not yield to churches today fifth century__it was not until the sixth cen- that teach these doctrines. Yahshua YAHWEH! tury that the Nativity was finally detached gave us this warning in:

12 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 An Easter Remembrance

The Christian choice of 25 December (in the East, 6 Janu- At the Council of Nicea, it was de- ary) for the birth of Christ is almost certainly cided that Easter should be celebrated Celebration Of Easter because that day was the great pagan day of in accordance with the Alexandrine honor to the sun, and in Rome in the fourth computation. Collier’s Encyclopedia, he New International Dictionary Of century it was transformed into a Christian T Volume 17, page 520, gives us the fol- The Christian Church, by J.D. Dou- festival. glas, Zondervan Publishing, Grand From the fourth century the Christian cal- lowing information: endar became more historical in character, Rapids, MI, 1974, page 322, gives the and the Holy Week and Ascension Day ap- NICAEA, COUNCILS OF [naisi' ], were two following information about the Chris- peared. Pentecost became the day of giving of in number. (1) The first (First Ecumeni- tian celebration called Easter: the Holy Spirit. Lent arose out of the custom cal), in A.D. 325, convoked by Constantine, of preparing catechumens for baptism at Eas- condemned Arianism, which was essen- EASTER. The celebration of Christ’s res- ter. Saints’ days came into the calendar either tially a denial of the divine nature of the urrection. Although the Scriptures make through the commemoration of a martyrdom Word, and so of the Son of God, Christ. no provision for the observance of Easter or through the date of a dedication of a church The traditional number of bishops present as the day of resurrection... Christians of in honor or a particular saint. was 318 (see Genesis 14:14); the real num- the first century consciously sought to cre- ber was probably about 270. The council ate a Christian parallel to the Jewish Why doesn’t this whole Christian defined the doctrine that the Son is con- Passover, since the close relationship be- world simply celebrate the Feasts, substantial (o&moouvsioV") with the tween the significance of that event in the which Yahweh ordained in His Holy Father. In the drawing up of the formula O.T. and the crucifixion in the N.T. made a Scriptures, clearly written in Leviti- leading parts were taken by St. Athanasius transformation of that Jewish feast into cus 23? Why would there have to be and Hosius, bishop of Cordoba; the latter Easter both logical and easy. any transformation of these Feasts in probably presided. The council promul- After A.D. 100, Easter, Pentecost, and the first place? gated the famous Nicene Creed in its Epiphany became the final parts of the original form. It also decided that Easter church year. The answer to these questions lies should thenceforth be celebrated every- in the early ; spe- where at the same time in accordance with Easter does not come from the Scrip- cifically, at the Council of Nicea in 325 the Alexandrine computation. tures. This pagan custom has another c.e. when Constantine helped to for- source. As we have read, there was a mulate Christian doctrine. The pagan Alexandrine computation transformation of the “Jewish” Feast When Constantine—the only man for the setting of Easter is written in (Passover) into Easter. Remember in history who was extolled both as a Collier’s Encyclopedia, Volume 8, page though, this was done by man and Christian saint and a pagan God— 492, which says: not by Yahweh. The following defini- presided over the Council of Nicea in tions of transform and transformation EASTER, the church feast which com- 325 c.e., his main objective was po- memorates the resurrection of Jesus are from The Reader’s Digest Ency- litical: how to merge religion and Christ, is considered the most ancient and clopedic Dictionary, page 1422. politics efficiently. Since there were most important festival of the Christian trans·form (v. trans·fôrm'; n. trans'fôrm) v.t. more politically powerful pagans than year. 1. To give a different form or appearance to. there were politically powerful believ- Prior to the time of Pope Victor I (189- 2. To change the character, nature, condition, ers, the celebrations that the pagans c. 198), the Western churches as a rule etc., of. were accustomed to observing were kept Easter on the first day of the week, trans·for·ma·tion (trans’fer·ma’shen) n. 1. Any while many of the Eastern churches, con- change. 2. The act of transforming, or the state the celebrations which were accepted; and at the same time, the celebra- forming to the Jewish rule, observed it on of being transformed. the fourteenth of the month of Nisan. tions of the Jews were rejected. Through the energetic efforts of Pope Vic- We will then let the New Interna- Reading from Funk and Wagnall’s tor, the latter practice gradually tional Dictionary Of The Christian Standard Reference Encyclopedia, Vol- disappeared. But another problem came Church, by J.D. Douglas, page 322, ume 8, we find the following. to the fore: granted that Easter was to be tell us how this transformation was An important historic result of the differ- kept on Sunday, how was that Sunday to accomplished in the religion called ence was that the Christian churches in the be determined? The Council of Nicaea Christianity. East, which were closer to the birthplace (325) paved the way for a final settlement by ruling that Easter is to be observed by CHRISTIAN YEAR, THE. The early Chris- of the new religion, and in which old tradi- tions were strong, observed Easter all on the same Sunday, that this must be tians who were mainly Jews were used not the Sunday following the fourteenth day of only to keeping one day in the week as sepa- according to the date of the Passover fes- the paschal moon, and that that moon was rate but also to marking the year with certain tival, while the churches of the West, religious festivals, notably Passover, Taber- whose communicants were descendants of to be accounted as the paschal moon nacles, and Pentecost. From early times Græco-Roman civilization, celebrated Eas- whose fourteenth day followed the vernal Christians kept a commemoration of Christ’s ter on a Sunday. equinox. Because of differences in the sys- resurrection. This was held at Passover time Settlement of this difference was one tems of chronology followed in various and was finally fixed on the Sunday following of the objects of the Roman emperor places, however, the decrees of Nicaea did Passover. Pentecost was then celebrated at Constantine in convoking, in 325 A.D., the not immediately remove all difficulties nor the appropriate time; the fifty days between Council of Nicæa (see NICÆA, COUNCILS win universal acceptance. The Gregorian the two were days of joy and rejoicing. The OF). correction of the calendar in 1582, more- The Prophetic Word 11/2010 13 over, introduced still further discrepancies. 11. The church week and year. The de- pascha. At the last revision Passover was Throughout Western Christendom the cor- velopment of the church calendar was a substituted in all passages but this. See rected calendar is now universally remarkably slow process in Christianity, Passover. accepted, and Easter is solemnized on the and equally striking is the fact that so little The word Easter is of Saxon origin, first Sunday after the full moon following of the Jewish year finally found a place in Eastra, the goddess of spring, in whose the vernal equinox, with the result that the Christian celebrations. Where we should honor sacrifices were offered about Pass- earliest possible date is March 22, the lat- have expected a Christian transformation over time each year. By the 8th century est, April 25. of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Succoth, Anglo-Saxons had adopted the name to Chanukah, Purim, etc., we find only the designate the celebration of Christ’s res- The Catholic church’s justification retention of the paschal festival. This is urrection. for using the vernal equinox to set its due to the fact that the church year was date for Easter Sunday, which the Prot- largely the creation of the Gentile church, It is a fully documented historical fact estant churches have accepted and the background of such notable days that the day which was chosen by the completely, comes from the words of as Christmas, Epiphany, Ember, etc., is pa- Christian church to celebrate this res- Constantine himself, at the Council gan, not Jewish. urrection, was a day which had been of Nicea in the year 325 of this Com- We must, however, suppose that the earliest celebrated by pagans from antiquity. mon Era, saying: Christians continued to observe the Jewish Yes, the only difference between these year and week, until the break with the And truly, in the first place, it seems to two celebrations, is the fact that its synagogue was complete. Of definitely name was changed to veneer it with everyone a most unworthy thing that we Christian days, distinct from those of should follow the customs of the Jews in Judaism, the N.T. affords us only one certain “Christian respectability”. the celebration of this most holy solem- example, that of Sunday. This was observed It is simply no secret that Easter nity, who, polluted wretches! having as the day of the Lord’s resurrection. originated with the worship of a pa- stained their hands with a nefarious crime, gan Goddess. This fact is presented are justly blinded in their minds. It is fit, The Pagan Worship almost every time one researches the therefore, that rejecting the practice of this word Easter. people, we should perpetuate to all future ages the celebration of this rite, in a more Of Easter Compton’s Encyclopedia, Volume legitimate order, which we have kept from Reading from Compton’s Pictured 4, says the following about Easter: the first day of our “Lord’s” passion even Encyclopedia, Volume 4, page 140, we ‘‘Many Easter customs come from the Old to the present times. Let us then have find that Easter is the greatest festi- World...colored eggs and rabbits have come nothing in common with the most hostile val of the Christian church, which from pagan antiquity as symbols of new rabble of the Jews. commemorates the resurrection of life...our name ‘Easter’ comes from Jesus Christ. This festival was named ‘Eostre’, an ancient Anglo Saxon goddess, The Council of Nicea, page 23, then after the ancient Anglo Saxon God- originally of the dawn. In pagan times an says: dess of spring. annual spring festival was held in her honor. Some Easter customs have come Easter day was fixed on the Sunday im- EASTER. The greatest festival of the mediately following the full moon which from this and other pre-Christian spring Christian church commemorates the Res- festivals.’’ was nearest after the vernal equinox, be- urrection of Jesus Christ. It is a movable cause it is certain that our Saviour rose feast, that is, it is not always held on the eading about this pre-Christian from the dead on the Sunday which next same date. The church council of Nicea R succeeded the Passover of the Jews. spring festival from Funk & Wagnall’s (A.D. 325) decided that Easter should be celebrated on the first Sunday after the Standard Reference Encyclopedia, Vol- According to the calculations adopted first full moon on or after the vernal equi- ume 8, page 294, we learn: at the Council of Nicea, which are nox (March 21). Easter can come as early Although Easter is a Christian festival, it still in effect in every Christian church as March 22 or as late as April 25. embodies traditions of an ancient time ante- and assembly in this world, we read: The name Easter comes from the an- dating the rise of Christianity. The origin of If the Passover fell on a Sunday, Easter cient Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, its name is lost in the dim past; some scholars was to be the following Sunday, so as to Eostre or Ostara, in whose honor an an- believe it probably is derived from Eastre, have nothing in common with the Jews. nual spring festival was held. Some of our Anglo-Saxon name of a Teutonic goddess of Easter customs have come from this and spring and fertility, to whom was dedicated It was not the Jews who were being other pre-Christian spring festivals. Oth- Eastre monath, corresponding to April. Her rejected. Constantine and his follow- ers come from the Passover feast of the festival was celebrated on the day of the ver- ers were rejecting the Laws that these Jews, observed in memory of their deliver- nal equinox, and traditions associated with people obeyed—Yahweh’s Laws which ance from Egypt (see Passover). The word the festival survive in the familiar Easter ‘‘paschal,’’ meaning ‘‘pertaining to Easter,’’ bunny, symbol of the fertile rabbit, and in the established each of the Feasts that equally familiar colored Easter eggs originally He had ordained. Effectually, because like the French word for Easter, Pâques, comes through the Latin from the Hebrew painted with gay hues to represent the sun- Christianity wanted nothing in com- name of the Passover. light of spring. mon with the Jews, they also have Such festivals, and the myths and legends nothing in common with the Ordi- .Unger’s Bible Dictionary, by Merrill which explain their origin, abounded in an- nances or Laws of Yahweh. Therefore, F. Unger, page 283, goes on to cor- cient religions. The Greek myth of the return roborate this fact. of the earth-goddess Demeter from the under- because Christianity has nothing in world to the light of day, symbolizing the common with Yahweh and His Feasts, Easter (Gr. pascha, from Heb. pesah), the resurrection of life in the spring after the long it has everything in common with pa- Passover, and so translated in every pas- hibernation of winter, had its counterpart, ganism and its festivals. This fact is sage excepting ‘‘intending after Easter to among many others, in the Latin legend of documented from The Interpreter’s Dic- bring him forth to the people’’ (Acts 12:4). Ceres and Persephone. The Phrygians believed tionary Of The Bible, Volume 4, page In the earlier English versions Easter had that their all-powerful deity went to sleep at the time of the winter solstice, and they per- 894. been frequently used as the translation of 14 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 formed ceremonies at the spring equinox to was sexual in nature__the offering of their Ishtar or Easter of Assyria was wor- awaken him with music and dancing. The uni- bodies for ritual purposes. shiped in pagan antiquity during her versality of such festivals and myths among spring festival. Collier’s Encyclopedia, ancient peoples has led some scholars to in- Sexual relations for ritual purposes terpret the resurrection of Christ as a mystical Volume 15, page 748, gives us the and exalted variant of fertility myths. was the ceremony for the fertility cults. following information. The Interpreter’s Dictionary, Volume 2, page 265 says: Ishtar, goddess of love and war, the most .The Dictionary of Mythology, Folk- important goddess of the Sumero-Akkadian lore, and Symbols, Part 1, page 487 FERTILITY CULTS. The oldest common pantheon. Ishtar was equated with the tells us more about this spring festi- feature of the religions of the ancient Near planet . As goddess of physical love, val. East was the worship of a great mother- she was patron of the temple prostitutes. goddess, the personification of fertility. She was also considered the merciful ‘‘It incorporates some of the ancient Spring Associated with her, usually as a consort, mother who intercedes with the gods on Equinox ceremonies of sun worship in was a young god who died and came to life behalf of her worshipers. Throughout which there were phallic rites and spring again, like the vegetation which quickly Mesopotamian history she was worshiped fires, and in which the deity or offering to withers but blooms again. His absence pro- under various names in many cities... the deity was eaten...The festival is sym- duced infertility of the earth, of man, and bolized by an ascension Lily...a chick of beast. His consort mourned and breaking its shell, the colors white and Astarte of Phoenicia was the offshoot searched for him. His return brought re- green, the egg, spring flowers, and the rab- of Ishtar of Assyria. To the Hebrews, newed fertility and rejoicing. bit. The name is related to Astarte, this abomination was known as The great mother-goddess Asherah, Ashtoreth, Eostre and Ishtar, goddess who Ashtoreth/Ashtaroth. From Collier’s the wife of the senescent chief god El, visited and rose from the underworld. Eas- seems on the way to becoming the consort Encyclopedia, Volume 3, page 13, we ter yields ‘Enduring Eos’... ‘Enduring of the rising young god Baal, with whom read: Dawn’.’’ we find her associated in the O.T. Ashtarte ASHTAROTH [梒òterath] the plural of the also appears in the Ugaritic myths, but she Hebrew ‘Ashtoreth, the Phoenician-Canaanite Part of this spring festival centered has a minor and undistinguished role. goddess Astarte, deity of fertility, reproduc- around phallic rites. Collier’s Ency- The O.T. furnishes abundant evidence tion, and war. clopedia, 1980, Volume 9, page 622, as to the character of the religion of the tells us of the Babylonian Ishtar fes- land into which the Israelites came. Fertil- .Watson’s Biblical and Archaeologi- tival phallic rites. ity rites were practiced at the numerous cal Dictionary, 1833, tells us more shrines which dotted the land, as well as about this mother Goddess, The Ishtar Festivals were symbolical of at the major sanctuaries. The Israelites ab- Ashtaroth. Ishtar as the goddess of love or genera- sorbed the Canaanite ways and learned to tion. As the daughter of Sin, the moon god, identify their god with Baal, whose rains ASHTAROTH, or ASTARTE, a goddess of she was the Mother Goddess who presided brought fertility to the land. A characteris- the Zidonians. The word Ashtaroth prop- over child birth; and women, in her honor, tic feature of the fertility cult was sacral erly signifies flocks of sheep, or goats; and sacrificed their virginity on the feast day sexual intercourse by priests and priest- sometimes the grove, or woods, because or became temple prostitutes, their earn- esses and other specially consecrated she was goddess of woods, and groves ings being a source of revenue for the persons, sacred prostitutes of both sexes, were her temples. In groves consecrated temple priests and servants. intended to emulate and stimulate the dei- to her, such lasciviousness was commit- ties who bestowed fertility. The agricultural ted as rendered her worship infamous. She We learn about these temple prosti- cult stressed the sacrifice or common meal was also called the queen of heaven; and tutes from The Interpreter’s Dictionary in which the gods, priests, and people par- sometimes her worship is said to be that of The Bible, Volume 3, pages 933- took. Wine was consumed in great quantity of ‘‘the host of heaven.’’ She was certainly represented in the same manner as Isis, 934: in thanksgiving to Baal for the fertility of the vineyards. The wine also helped in- with cow’s horns on her head, to denote a. The roll of the sacred prostitute in the duce ecstatic frenzy, which was climaxed the increase and decrease of the moon. fertility cult. The prostitute who was an by self-laceration, and sometimes even by official of the cult in ancient Palestine and self-emasculation. Child-sacrifice was also .The Interpreter’s Dictionary, Vol- nearby lands of biblical times exercised an a feature of the rites. It was not simply a ume 3, page 975, tells us of Ishtar’s important function. This religion was predi- cult of wine, women, and song, but a mat- role as the Queen of Heaven: cated upon the belief that the processes of ter of life and death in which the dearest Ishtar, the goddess of love and fertility, nature were controlled by the relations be- things of life, and life itself, were offered who was identified with the Venus Star tween gods and goddesses. Projecting their to ensure the ongoing of life. understanding of their own sexual activi- and is actually entitled ‘‘Mistress of Heaven’’ in the Amarna tablets. The title ties, the worshipers of these deities, Reading on page 103 of The Two through the use of imitative magic, engaged ‘‘Queen of Heaven’’ is applied in an Egyp- Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, we find tian inscription from the Nineteenth in sexual intercourse with devotees of the that Easter and Ishtar are the same. shrine, in the belief that this would en- Dynasty at Beth-shan to ‘‘Antit,’’ the courage the gods and goddesses to do Then look at Easter. What means the term Canaanite fertility-goddess Anat, who is likewise. Only by sexual relations among Easter itself? It bears its Chaldean origin termed ‘‘Queen of Heaven and Mistress of the deities could man’s desire for increase on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else the Gods.’’ This is the most active god- in herds and fields, as well as in his own than ‘‘Astarte’’, one of the titles of Beltis, dess in the Ras Shamra Texts, but in family, be realized. In Palestine the gods ‘‘The Queen of Heaven’’ whose name, as Palestine her functions seem to have been Baal and Asherah were especially promi- ‘‘pronounced’’ by the people of Nineveh, taken over largely by Ashtoreth. nent (see BAAL; ASHERAH; FERTILITY was evidently identical with that now in e find the following information common use in this country. That ‘name’, W CULTS). Attached to the shrines of these about Ashtoreth from The Interna- cults were priests as well as prostitutes, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monu- both male and female. Their chief service ments, is ‘‘Ishtar’’. tional Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Volume 1, pages 319-320. The Prophetic Word 11/2010 15 ASHTORETH ash’te-reth [Heb. ‘astoret. must have sunk to sordid depths as lust pl. ‘astarôt; Gk. Astarte]. A goddess of and murder were glamorized in Canaanite Canaan and Phoenicia whose name and religion. cult were derived from Babylonia, where CLEARANCE Ishtar represented the evening and morn- We have a limited number of Astarte is the Greek name for the He- ing stars and was accordingly androgynous brew Ashtoreth. From Collier’s in origin. Under Semitic influence, how- SERMON CASSETTE TAPES Encyclopedia, Volume 3, page 97, we ever, she became solely female, although retaining a trace of her original character from 1983-2008 available. find that Astarte/Ashtaroth is merely the Semitic Ishtar—which we have al- by standing on equal footing with the male Donation is ONLY $1.50 divinities. From Babylonia the worship of ready learned is Easter. each, plus shipping & han- the goddess was carried to the Semites of ASTARTE [æsta’rti], the Phoenician god- the West, and in most instances the femi- dling. They are going quick! dess of fertility and erotic love. The Greek nine suffix was attached to her name; name, ‘‘Astarte’’ was derived from Semitic, where this was not the case the deity was ODAY Call T for availability. ‘‘Ishtar,’’ ‘‘Ashtoreth.’’ Astarte was re- regarded as a male. On the Moabite Stone, garded in Classical antiquity as a moon for example, ‘Ashtar is identified with (325-893-5899) goddess, perhaps in confusion with some Chemosh, and in the inscriptions of south- ern Arabia ‘Athtar is a god. On the other other Semitic deity. In accordance with the hand, in the name Atargatis (2 Macc. 12:26), Ash’toreth (ash’to-reth), Astarte, a literary traditions of the Greco-Romans, ‘Atar, without the feminine suffix, is iden- Canaanite goddess. In south Arabic the Astarte was identified with Selene and tified with the goddess ‘Athah or ‘Athi (Gk. name is found as ‘Athtar (apparently from Artemis, and more often with Aphrodite. Gatis). The cult of the Greek Aphrodite in ‘athara, to be fertile, to irrigate), a god Among the Canaanites, Astarte, like her Cyprus was borrowed from that of identified with the planet Venus. The name peer Anath, performed a major function Ashtoreth; that the Greek name also is a is cognate with Babylonian Ishtar, the god- as goddess of fertility. modification of Ashtoreth is doubtful. It is dess of sensual love, maternity and fertility. Egyptian iconography, however, por- maintained, however, that the vowels of Licentious worship was conducted in honor trayed Astarte in her role as a warlike Heb. ‘astoret were borrowed from boset of her. As Asherah and Anat of Ras Shamra goddess massacring mankind, young and (‘‘shame’’) in order to indicate the abhor- she was the patroness of war as well as old. She is represented on plaques (dated rence the Hebrew scribes felt toward sex and is sometimes identified with these 1700-1100 B.C.) as naked, in striking con- paganism and idolatry. goddesses. trast to the modestly garbed Egyptian In Babylonia and Assyria Ishtar was the goddesses. Edward J. Jurji goddess of love and war. An old Babylonian Unger’s Bible Dictionary, page 412, . In Ephesus from primitive times, this legend relates how the descent of Ishtar gives us the following information into Hades in search of her dead husband mother Goddess had been called Tammuz was followed by the cessation of about Asherah. , who was worshiped as the marriage and birth in both earth and Asherah (a-she’ra), plural, Asherim, a pa- Goddess of virginity and motherhood. heaven; and the temples of the goddess at gan goddess, who is found in the Ras She was said to represent the genera- Nineveh and Arbela, around which the two Shamra epic religious texts discovered at tive powers of nature, and so was cities afterward grew, were dedicated to Ugarit in North Syria (1929-1937), as pictured with many breasts. A tower her as the goddess of war. As such she Asherat, ‘‘Lady of the Sea’’ and consort of appeared to one of Ashurbanipal’s seers shaped crown, symbolizing the tower El. She was the chief goddess of Tyre in of Babylon, adorned her head: and encouraged the Assyrian king to the 15th century B.C. with the appellation march against Elam. The other goddesses Qudshu, ‘‘holiness.’’ In the Old Testament of Babylonia, who were little more than re- Asherah appears as a goddess by the side flections of a god, tended to merge into of Baal, whose consort she evidently came Ishtar, who thus became a type of the fe- to be, at least among the Canaanites of the male divinity, a personification of the South. Other names of this deity were productive principle in nature, and more Ashtoreth (Astarte) and Anath. Frequently especially the mother and creatress of represented as a nude woman bestride a mankind. lion with a lily in one hand and a serpent In Babylonia Ishtar was identified with in the other, and styled Qudshu ‘‘the Holi- Venus. Like Venus, Ishtar was the god- ness,’’ that is, ‘‘the Holy One’’ in a dess of erotic love and fertility. Her chief seat of worship was Uruk (Erech), where perverted moral sense, she was a divine prostitution was practiced in her name and courtesan. In the same sense the male pros- she was served with immoral rites by titutes consecrated to the cult of the bands of men and women. In Assyria, Qudshu and prostituting themselves to her where the warlike side of the goddess was honor were styled qedishim, ‘‘sodomites’’ predominant, no such rites seem to have (Deut. 23:18; 1 Kings 14:24; 15:12; 22:46). Reading from Bible Manners And been practiced, and instead prophetesses Characteristically Canaanite the lily sym- Customs, by James M. Freeman, 1972, to whom she delivered oracles were at- bolizes grace and sex appeal and the page 451, we learn the following facts serpent fecundity (W. F. Albright, Archae- tached to her temples. about the mother of all things. From various Egyptian sources it ap- ology and the Religion of Israel, Baltimore, pears that Astarte or Ashtoreth was highly John Hopkins Press, 1942, pages 68-94). ‘‘The circle round her head denotes the regarded in the Late Bronze Age. At Byblos (Biblical Gebal) on the Mediter- nimbus (sin circle) of her glory, the grif- ranean, north of Sidon, a center dedicated fins inside of which express its brilliancy. Reading on pages 412-413 of Unger’s to this goddess has been excavated. She In her breasts are the twelve signs of the and her colleagues specialized in sex and zodiac, of which those seen in front are Bible Dictionary, we find the follow- war and her shrines were temples of le- the ram, bull, twins, crab, and lion; they ing information about Ashtoreth/ galized vice. Her degraded cult offered a are divided by the hours. Her necklace is Astarte. perpetual danger of pollution to Israel and composed of acorns, the primeval food of 16 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 man. Lions are on her arms to denote her that of the great goddess ‘‘Mother,’’* the con- power, and her hands are stretched out to junction with her of her husband, under the show that she is ready to receive all who name of Ninus, or ‘‘The Son,’’ was sufficient come to her. Her body is covered with vari- to originate the peculiar worship of the ous breasts and monsters, as sirens, ‘‘Mother and Son,’’ so extensively diffused sphinxes, and griffins, to show that she is among the nations of antiquity; and this, no the source of nature, the mother of all doubt, is the explanation of the fact which things. Her head, hands, and feet are of has so much puzzled the inquirers into an- bronze while the rest of the statue is of cient history, that Ninus is sometimes called alabaster to denote the ever-varying light the husband, and sometimes the son of Semiramis.§ This also accounts for the origin and shade of the moon’s figure... Like of the very same confusion of relationship be- Rhea, she was crowned with turrets, to tween Isis and Osiris, the mother and child of denote her dominion over terrestrial ob- the Egyptians; for as Bunsen shows, Osiris From The Two Babylons, by Hislop jects.’’ was represented in Egypt as at once the son on page 109, we learn about the mys- and husband of his mother; and actually bore, tic egg of Astarte: The Original Goddess as one of his titles of dignity and honour, the name ‘‘Husband of the Mother.’’|| From Egypt these sacred eggs can be distinctly Semiramis Of Babylon traced to the banks of the Euphrates. The clas- he Babylonian worship of the great sic poets are full of the fable of the mystic egg T of the Babylonians; and thus its tale is told by The worship of Ishtar/Easter spread mother spread throughout the known Hyginus, the Egyptian, the learned keeper of throughout the ancient pagan world, world. This mother Goddess was the Palatine library at Rome, in the time of where she was venerated in almost known by different names, but the form Augustus, who was skilled in all the wisdom of every segment of society. The original of her religion has not transformed his native country: ‘‘An egg of wondrous size of this Goddess, however, loomed since antiquity. The Layman’s Bible is said to have fallen from heaven into the Encyclopedia, William C. Martin, The river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank, upon the historical scene in Babylon. where the doves having settled upon it, hatched From The Two Babylons by Hislop, Southwestern Company, Nashville, it, and out came Venus, who afterwards was pages 20-22, we find this information TN, 1964, page 209, gives the follow- called the Syrian Goddess’’*___that is, Astarte. about the original of this great mother ing facts about Easter. Hence the egg became one of the symbols of Astarte or Easter; and accordingly, in Cyprus, Goddess—Semiramis. EASTER, an annual celebration observed by one of the chosen seats of the worship of Ve- much of the Christian church, commemorating The Babylonians in their popular religion, nus, or Astarte, the egg of wondrous size was Christ’s resurrection. Modern observance of supremely worshiped a Goddess Mother, and represented on a grand scale. (See Fig. 32) § a Son, who was represented in pictures and in Easter represents a convergence of three tradi- images as an infant or child in his mother’s tions: (1) The Hebrew Passover, celebrated arms. From Babylon, this worship of the during Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew Mother and the Child spread to the ends of the lunar calendar; (2) The Christian commemo- earth. ...the Jesuit missionaries were aston- ration of the ‘crucifixion’ and resurrection of ished to find the counterpart of Madonna ** ‘Jesus’, which took place at the feast of the and her child as devoutly worshiped as in Pa- Passover; and (3) The Norse Ostara or Eostra pal Rome itself... (from which the name, ‘‘Easter’’ is derived), a The original of that mother, so widely wor- pagan festival of spring which fell at the ver- shiped, there is reason to believe, was nal equinox, March 21. Prominent symbols in Semiramis, * already referred to, who, it is this celebration of the resurrection of nature well known, was worshiped by the after the winter were rabbits, signifying fecun- Babylonians, * and other eastern nations, § dity, and eggs, colored like the rays of the and that under the name of Rhea, ||the great ‘‘returning sun’’ and the northern lights, or au- The Roman Catholic church now has goddess “Mother.” rora borealis.’’ their own official representation of It was from the son, however, that she Ishtar—the virgin mother—who derived all her glory and her claims to deifica- The Ishtar Egg tion. That son, though represented as a child stands upon the top of this sacred egg of Heliopolis, with the serpent in his mother’s arms, was a person of great ggs have absolutely nothing to do E Typhon at her feet. stature and immense bodily powers, as well with the resurrection of the Messiah as most fascinating manners. In Scripture he is referred to (Ezek. viii. 14) under the name (three days and three nights after He of Tammuz, but he is commonly known among was placed in the grave), but the egg classical writers under the name of Bacchus, was a sacred symbol to the that is, ‘‘The Lamented One.’’ ¶ To the ordi- Babylonians. Mythology says that an nary reader the name of Bacchus suggests nothing more than revelry and drunkenness, egg of wondrous size fell from heaven but it is now well known, that amid all the into the Euphrates River; from this abominations that attended his orgies, their marvelous egg the Goddess Astarte grand design was professedly ‘‘the purifica- (Easter) was hatched. This teaching tion of souls,’’ * and that from the guilt and was scattered to the various parts of defilement of sin. This lamented one, exhibited and adored as a little child in his mother’s the earth. These religious people took arms, seems, in point of fact, to have been the with them the symbol of the mystic husband of Semiramis, whose name, Ninus, sacred egg. Each pagan nation had by which he is commonly known in classical its own representation of this won- history, literally signified ‘‘The Son,’’* As Semiramis, the wife, was worshiped as Rhea, der. The Greeks had their sacred egg whose grand distinguishing character was of Heliopolis, and the Typhon’s egg.

The Prophetic Word 11/2010 17 The Ishtar Fertility Hare Dumu-zi, from which the Hebrew form To view or download our Tammuz is derived. The cult of Tammuz, The Easter Bunny under the west-Semitic name of Adoni (my monthly Prophetic Word lord) and the Greek equivalent Adonis, was From The Encyclopedia Britannica, magazine, Newsletter, widespread throughout the Mediterranean we find the following information world. According to still extant mythology, various booklets and Tammuz died, descended to the lower about Easter: sermons go to our world, was resurrected, and ascended Like the Easter egg, the Easter hare came to again to earth and then to heaven. During Christianity from antiquity. The hare is asso- Internet site: his absence the earth remained sterile and ciated with the moon in the legends of ancient www.yahweh.com the flocks were plundered. Because of his Egypt and other peoples... Through the fact close association with the realm of nature, that the Egyptian word for hare___um, means the fields and animals, he was called ‘‘the also open and period. The hare came to be shepherd.’’ associated with the idea of periodicity both charm), was honored with the same honors. lunar and human, and with the beginning of That which is now called the ‘‘Christian Cross’’ The International Standard Bible was originally no Christian emblem at all, but . new life in both the young man and young Encyclopedia, Volume 4, page 725, woman, and so a symbol of fertility and of the was the Mystic Tau of the Chaldeans and Egyptians___the true original form of the let- shows that the original of the name renewal of life. ter ‘‘T’’___the initial of the name of Tammuz, which is dumuzi, means in- Tammuz...that mystic ‘‘Tau’’ was marked in vigorator of the child. Tammuz was Easter eggs and rabbits are symbols baptism on the foreheads of those initiated in the same Sumerian and Babylonian of sexual fertility in the ancient, pa- the Mysteries...The mystic ‘‘Tau’’, as the sym- God of fertility, who married Easter/ gan religions. The Reader’s Digest bol of the great divinity, was called ‘‘the Sign Ishtar at the vernal equinox. Book of Facts, page 122, gives the of Life’’; it was used as an amulet (‘‘good luck following information. charm’’) over the heart; it was marked on the TAMMUZ tam’uz, tä’mooz [Heb. tammûz; official garments of the (ancient pagan) priests, Akk. tammuz; Sum. dumuzi__‘‘invigorator EASTER AND THE BUNNY__Children’s as (now) on the official garments of the Priests of the child (?)’’]. A Sumerian and stories in many countries tell how Easter of Rome (today)...The Vestal Virgins of pagan Babylonian god of fertility mentioned once eggs are brought not by a chicken but by Rome wore (the cross) suspended from their in the O.T. (Eze. 8:14). The prophet in a hares and rabbits. These long eared hop- necklaces, as the Nuns do today...men as well vision during his Babylonian exile saw an ping mammals have represented fertility as women wore earrings and they frequently abomination: women in the north gate of in many cultures because they breed so had a small cross suspended to a necklace or the Jerusalem temple wailing for Tammuz. quickly. In traditional Christian art the hare to the collar of their dress...(the cross) was represents lust, and paintings sometimes also appended to the robes of the ‘‘Rot-N-No’’ As this source reference has stated, show a hare at the Virgin Mary’s feet to (Pagan Priests); and traces of it may be seen in the fancy ornaments of the ‘‘Rebo’’ (Pagan Tammuz was mentioned once in signify her triumph over temptations of the Priests), showing that it was already in use as Yechetzqyah. flesh. Yet as a symbol of life reawakening early as the Fifteenth Century before the Chris- Yechetzqyah 8:13-14— in the spring__often portrayed as the inno- . __ tian Era... 13 He also said to me: Turn yet again, cent and cuddly Easter bunny the rabbit There is hardly a pagan tribe where the and you will see greater abominations that coexists in many places with the solemn cross has not been found. The cross was wor- they are doing. Christian rites of Easter. shiped by the pagan Celts long before the 14 Then he brought me to the door of ‘‘incarnation’’ and death of Christ... The Dru- the gate of Yahweh’s House, which was ids in their groves were accustomed to select toward the north; and behold, there sat Hot Cross Buns the most stately and beautiful tree as an em- women weeping for Tammuz. Another custom closely associated blem of the deity (god) they adored, and having with Easter is the baking and eating cut the side branches, they affixed two of the This weeping for Tammuz was an largest of them to the highest part of the trunk, of hot cross buns. abomination which was being prac- in such a manner that those branches extended ticed even by the people of Yerusalem There is, of on each side like the arms of a man, and, course, no together with the body, presented the appear- at the time that Yechetzqyah was Scriptural ance of a huge cross, and on the bark, in prophesying. This weeping was a fer- justification several places, was also inscribed the letter tility rite. One of the ceremonies of for this cus- ‘‘Thau’’. It was worshiped in Mexico for ages Ishtar/Easter worship, was that of before the Roman Catholic missionaries set weeping for the dead vegetation God, tom, but there foot there, large stone crosses being erected, is great pagan jus- because fertility had ceased from the probably to the ‘‘god of rain’’. The cross thus land. In the people’s minds, unless tification involved. The cross is the widely worshiped, or regarded as a sacred original sign of the God Tammuz. The emblem, was the unequivocal symbol of this God was resurrected, there would cross is the letter T. ‘‘Bacchus’’, the Babylonian Messiah, for he was be no renewing of fertility with the The Two Babylons, by Alexander represented with a head-band covered with great mother Goddess. So, through Hislop on pages 197-200, tells us the crosses. sympathetic magic—the weeping of following about the sign of the cross. his mother (Easter/Ishtar)—Tammuz Tammuz, according to Collier’s En- was mystically resurrected. Each year The magic virtues attributed to the so-called cyclopedia, Volume 15, page 749, was these people grieved with Ishtar/Eas- ‘‘sign of the cross’’, the worship bestowed on the Sumero-Akkadian God of vegeta- ter over the death of Tammuz; and at it, never came from (Yahshua or His Apostles). tion, who was known as Adoni—my each vernal equinox they were re- The same sign of the ‘‘cross’’ that Rome now Lord. worships was used in the Babylonian Myster- warded as this resurrected God was ies, and was applied by paganism to the same Tammuz, the Sumero-Akkadian god of reunited with his great mother God- magic purposes (signing oneself, kissing the vegetation. His name in Sumerian is Dumu- dess, in order to ensure the success of cross, holding the cross, wearing it as a zi-abzu (true son of Apsu), or simply the crops and the fertility of animals

18 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 and people. isolated references, however, it is not pos- mark the festivals of Astarte and Eostre This ancient fertility worship was sible to determine with certainty the object were the direct ancestors of our hot-cross exactly scheduled according to the of worship, the more so because of variant buns. shadows of the sun. It is very easy to readings. The MT (melekat) is an unusual form of learn how this was done. Obtain our Why were the pagan rites absorbed, melekah, the normal word for ‘‘queen’’ and rather than being completely abol- book, Deceptions Concerning Yahweh’s certain MSS read melakat (‘‘handiwork’’), ished? The answer to this question is Calendar Of Events. meaning presumably the stars; this was that many people had been drawn to understood by the LXX translators in Jer. the religion called Christianity, but Hot cross buns are in reality Tammuz 7:18, where ‘‘the heavenly host’’ (th stratia so strong in their minds was their cakes. These little magic Tammuz tou ouranou) is read, supported by the cakes were made and used in the wor- Targ., which reads ‘‘the star(s) of heaven’’ adoration for the mother Goddess that they would not forsake her worship. ship of Ishtar/Easter, the Queen of (shemia kukbat). If ‘‘the queen of heaven’’ is to be read__which seems more Due to the fact that Christianity could Heaven, for it was she who brought __ the God back to ensure their fertility. probable the reference might be to Ishtar, readily transform its beliefs, compro- the goddess of love and fertility, who was mising church leaders saw their So, when the God returned to fertil- identified with the Venus Star and is actu- opportunity. They found similarities ize the mother, on the exact day of ally entitled ‘‘Mistress of Heaven’’ in the the vernal equinox, the people mysti- in Christian customs with those of Amarna tablets. The difficulty is that the the mother Goddess and brought cally held him in their hands and ate Venus Star was regarded in Palestine as a people by the droves into their fold. the God, mystically uniting with him male deity (see DAY STAR), though the cult of and his mother in worship. the goddess Ishtar may have been intro- Who did these compromising church leaders find to worship, in- During the time that the Prophet duced from Mesopotamia under Manasseh. stead of the great mother Ishtar/ Yeremyah was proclaiming Yahweh’s It is possible that Astarte, or Ashtoreth, Laws to the people, Yahweh inspired the Canaanite fertility-goddess, whose cult Easter? They found Miryam (Mary), the mother of Yahshua Messiah. him to rebuke His People for this pa- was well established in Palestine, had pre- served more traces of her astral character Through Mary worship, the pagans gan practice. as the female counterpart of Athtar than Yeremyah 7:17-20— could continue their customary prayers . the evidence of the O.T. or the Ras Shamra and devotion to the mediating God- 17 Do you not see what they do in the Texts indicates. The title ‘‘Queen of dess—just change her name to Mary. cities of Yahdah and in the streets of Heaven’’ is applied in an Egyptian inscrip- Yerusalem? This would give the pagan worship of tion from the Nineteenth Dynasty at 18 How the children gather wood, and Beth-shan to ‘‘Antit,’’ the Canaanite fertil- the mother the appearance of respect- the fathers kindle the fire, while the women ability, the same respectability that it knead dough to make cakes for the Queen ity-goddess Anat, who is termed ‘‘Queen of Heaven, and how they pour out drink of Heaven and Mistress of the Gods.’’ This still holds today. Slowly but methodi- offerings to the hinder Gods (elohim), so is the most active goddess in the Ras cally, the religion of pagan Rome, they may act defiantly against Me? Shamra Texts, but in Palestine her func- which was a synthesis of everything 19 Is it I Whom they act defiantly tions seem to have been taken over largely that was abominable to Yahweh from against? says Yahweh: Or is it not by Ashtoreth. the beginning, became established with themselves, whom they harm to their own its new name: Christianity. shame? We have had the opportunity to read During the first centuries of this 20 Therefore this is what Yahweh says: more than once throughout this ar- Behold, they have acted defiantly against religion, no emphasis was placed upon Me, so justice will be poured out on this ticle that the name and the festival of Mary whatsoever. But, thanks to place__on man and on beast, on the trees Easter have their origins in the wor- Constantine, the savior of Christian- of the field and on the fruit of the ship of a pagan Goddess of spring, ity, in the early part of the Fourth ground__and they will burn; and this fire but Easter is now the most important will not be quenched. Century of this Common Era, the wor- Christian festival. From The Last Two ship of Mary as a Goddess was Million Years by The Reader’s Digest The very things that the people were encouraged. Since Rome had long Association, page 215, we learn how been a center for the worship of the seeking to reproduce in this fertility the worship of a pagan Goddess be- worship—man, animals, fruits, and mother Goddess of paganism, we need came the most important Christian not be surprised that Rome was one produce—were the very things that festival. Yahweh would not bless because of of the first places where Mary wor- their apostasy and God worship. Pagan rites absorbed ship, and many other renamed, but By a stroke of tactical genius the Church, The Interpreter’s Dictionary of The very familiar customs, became firmly while intolerant of pagan beliefs, was able rooted. Bible, Volume 3, page 975, tells us of to harness the powerful emotions gener- Ishtar’s role as the Queen of Heaven: From Grolier’s Encyclopedia, ated by pagan worship. Often, churches Grolier Corporation, N.Y., 1966, Vol- QUEEN OF HEAVEN. The object of wor- were sited where temples had stood be- fore, and many heathen festivals were ume 17, we find the following ship, particularly by women, in Judah in information. the time of Jeremiah; cakes (konim), pos- added to the Christian calendar. Easter, sibly shaped as figurines, were offered to for instance, a time of sacrifice and rebirth Easter: A Day of Joy her with libations (Jer. 7:18; 44:17-19, 25). in the Christian year, takes its name from Though not all Protestants observe Lent Jeremiah censures the Jewish refugees in the Norse goddess Eostre, in whose honour and Holy Week, all Christians celebrate Egypt after the fall of Jerusalem for burn- rites were held every spring. She in turn Easter Day, commemorating the Resurrec- ing incense and offering libation to the was simply a northern version of the tion. Easter Day invariably falls on a Queen of heaven. From the second refer- Phoenician earth-mother Astarte, goddess Sunday, the first Sunday after the full moon ence this cult seems to have been designed of fertility. Easter eggs continue an age- following the spring equinox, usually late to secure material welfare. From these two old tradition in which the egg is a symbol in March. of birth; and cakes which were eaten to The name of this holiday and the time The Prophetic Word 11/2010 19 it is celebrated have led people to believe however, no Scriptural proof for this baths can fall on any day of the week. that an earlier holiday existed on this day Good Friday/Easter Sunday tradition. Most people today are deceived into before the Christian observance. For many As we have seen, the foundation for believing that the Messiah was resur- ancient nations joyously celebrated the end this tradition is in pagan antiquity, rected on Easter Sunday morning. of winter and the ‘‘resurrection of the sun’’ although this tradition is taught as They believe they are honoring His at this season of the year; and some de- voted this festival to Eostre, Germanic Scripture to deceived Christianity. resurrection by celebrating an Easter goddess of spring. Was Yahshua, our True Savior, resur- sunrise service. This belief is based The Church Fathers turned this hea- rected on Easter Sunday morning? The on the following Scripture from The then holiday into the Christian celebration answer is, NO! King James Version which says: of the Resurrection. And Christians the There is a reason this world is con- .Matthew 28:1 KJV— world over observe this day with great re- fused as to when our Messiah was In the end of the sabbath, as it began to joicing. Some greet each other with: ‘‘Christ placed in His grave. The reason being dawn toward the first day of the week, is risen! Christ is risen!’’ And all think of that this whole world has rejected came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. Jesus, who conquered death so that those Yahweh and His Laws. Yahweh’s who follow him may gain everlasting life. Laws include Yahweh’s Feast Days, On Easter people go to church services False preachers will tell you this and delight in the sight of the great masses Yahweh’s weekly Seventh Day Sab- dawning toward the first of the week of Easter lilies that decorate the altars. For bath, plus the seven Sabbath Days is at the time of day called sunrise. the Chinese the peony is the king of flow- (Holy Convocations) which are shown This is a false conclusion. This dawn- ers and symbol of spring. But to the people in Leviticus Chapter 23. ing toward the first day of the week in church on Easter Day, the fragrant lily .Leviticus 23:2— was actually at a time of day called with its trumpet shaped blossoms is the Speak to the children of Israyl, and say sunset. symbol of purity and the welcome harbin- to them; Concerning the Feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be Holy To know what time of day this ger of spring. Scripture is referring to, we must first The churchgoers enjoy the flowers and Convocations; these are My Feasts. the music and the sermon of the day. And know the time sequence in a day. Yah- from time to time they look about them to The world has rejected not only weh our Heavenly Father, the Creator observe the gay clothes that people wear, Yahweh’s weekly Seventh Day Sab- of the day, tells us the time sequence since it has long been the custom for people bath, but also all of Yahweh’s Feast of a day. to put on their newest clothes on Easter Days (Holy Convocations) by replac- .Genesis 1:5— Day. ing them with their own feast days And Yahweh called the light day, and which are condemned in the Holy the darkness He called night. And (notice) The Eastern Orthodox Easter Parade the evening and then the morning were the Scriptures. (Isayah 1:13-14) First Day. In countries where the Eastern Orthodox The Feasts of Yahweh are not feasts Church dominates, a quite different parade of the Jews, as many would say. is put on during Easter. The worshipers Yahweh created a day to be an gather early on Saturday night in an elabo- Yahweh’s Feasts are not done away evening (darkness) first, and then the rate ritual. And at midnight, led by their with either, as many would like you morning (light). Genesis 1:4-13 gives priests in richly embroidered vestments, to think. Yahweh tells us His Feasts the details of the creation of the first carrying images and lighted candles in their are Statutes forever. This world, there- three days in a week; each day was hands, they go out into the night in search fore, is not led by Yahweh’s Spirit one night, then one day—which is of Jesus. Holy, because they have rejected Yah- one day, Yahweh’s Way. The first It is almost dawn when the people re- weh, Who inspired the Prophet turn home to eat the Easter bread with three days of creation were a time se- Hosheyah to say; ...Because you have quence of seventy-two hours, spanning white cheese and honey and the richly col- forgotten the Laws of Yahweh, I will ored hard boiled eggs. one night, one day; one night, one also forget your children. day; one night, one day. This same Many encyclopedias will make the For more facts concerning principle applies to the time span in statement that Easter is the worship Yahweh’s Sabbath Days, please write which Yahshua was in the grave. of a pagan Goddess and at the same for information about how you may The words coming from Yahshua’s time will state this celebration is one obtain our books, The Seventh Book own mouth about His resurrection, of the most important Christian cel- of Yisrayl, Part I and II. Also request were that He would be in the grave ebrations today. In each of these our booklet, Which Day Is The Sab- three days and three nights. reference works a statement is made, bath Of The New Testament? Our Mattithyah 12:40— booklet, What Yahweh’s Feasts Mean . in one form or another, that Easter is For as Yahnah was three days and three the day on which the Christian church To You, will explain the significance nights in the belly of the great fish, so will commemorates our Savior’s resurrec- of Yahweh’s Feasts for His House— the Son of Man be three days and three The House of Yahweh. nights in the heart of the earth. tion. .Yahnah 1:17— Now Yahweh had prepared a great fish The Sunday Don’t Be Deceived! to swallow up Yahnah. And Yahnah was in the belly of the fish three days and three In order for you to see through this nights. Resurrection Lie great deception, it is vital that you Christendom teaches that the understand the difference between Even the critics admit that this Messiah rose from His grave on Yahweh’s Feast Day Sabbaths and the means a period of seventy-two hours. Sunday morning and because of this, weekly Sabbaths—the weekly Sab- They admit there were three twelve they say, they are worshiping on the baths always fall on the Seventh Day, hour days, and three twelve hour day of His resurrection. There is, Saturday, whereas the Feast Day Sab- nights in which Yahnah was in the 20 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 belly of the fish. And just as distinctly, days and three nights. day of the same Moon: then the whole Yahshua Messiah said that He would Yahshua did remain in the grave multitude of the congregation of Israyl be in the grave for the same length of three days and three nights, proving shall kill it between the two evenings. time. Not only this, but Yahshua Him- that He was the True Messiah sent his lamb had to be alive on the self gives us the length of time in a by Yahweh. Read Mattithyah 28:1 T fourteenth day, and then it was killed day. again for affirmation that the two between the two evenings. Yahchanan 11:8-9— Miryams came at the end of the Sab- . The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed- 8 His Disciples said to Him; Teacher, bath. Just after sunset, while it was ited by J.H. Hertz, page 254, explains the Yahdaim just recently tried to stone still twilight, the two Miryams went the meaning of between the two eve- You, and You go there again? to the sepulcher, and found it empty. 9 Yahshua answered: Are there not nings. twelve hours in a day? If any man walks in The malak told them Yahshua had the day, he does not stumble, because he already risen and departed. 6. at dusk. Better, towards even (M. Fried- sees the light of this world. Other vital facts you must have in lander); lit. ‘between’ the-two evenings’. According to the Talmud, the ‘first evening’ is your mind are the facts about the sac- the time in the afternoon when the heat of the The teaching of the majority of Sun- rifice of our Messiah. sun begins to decrease, about 3 o’clock; and day keeping Christianity is that the the ‘second evening’ commences with sunset. Messiah was put in the grave on Good FACT #1: Our Savior was to be killed Josephus relates that the Passover sacrifice Friday at sunset, and was resurrected (sacrificed) at the time of the Pass- ‘was offered from the ninth to the eleventh at sunrise on Easter Sunday morn- over. hour’, i.e. between 3 and 5 p.m. ing. But our Messiah said that the .Mattithyah 26:2— .Leviticus 23:5— only sign He would give that He was You know that after two days the On the fourteenth of the First Moon, the True Messiah, was the sign of the Passover is celebrated as a Feast, but the between the two evenings, Yahweh’s Son of Man is betrayed before; prior to Passover Sacrifice is to be killed. Prophet Yahnah—the sign that He this Feast, to be sacrificed. would be in the grave three days and .The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, by three nights. Can you get three days FACT #2: Our Messiah died as our Hertz, page 520, gives a clearer mean- and three nights from Christianity’s sacrifice. He paid the death penalty ing of the Passover in this Scripture. time sequence? for us that we may live (Romans 6:23). at dusk is the LORD’S Passover. Better, to- As our sacrifice, our Messiah is en- wards even is a Passover unto the Lord Friday night__one night abling us to keep Yahweh’s Passover (Friedlander) i.e. a paschal offering in honor Saturday day__one day of the Lord. according to His Ordinance. Saturday night__one night Resurrected Sunday at dawn__no day The Passover lambs were slaughtered FACT #3: The Messiah is our Pass- on the temple mount on the four- over Lamb. here are two nights and one day in teenth day in the afternoon. The man T I Kepha 1:18-19— this time sequence. It should not be . of the household had the responsibil- 18 Knowing that you were not too difficult for anyone to understand redeemed with corruptible things, such as ity of killing this lamb for his family. that this was a period of about thirty- silver or gold, from your idolatrous way of The woman of the household then had six hours—not seventy-two hours. life handed down to you by tradition from the responsibility of roasting, not boil- Even a child can figure that there are your forefathers; ing, this lamb until it would be not three days and three nights from 19 But with the precious blood of thoroughly done. This roasting pro- Messiah, as of a Lamb without blemish Friday sunset to Sunday sunrise; yet, and without spot. cess would take at least three to four, Satan has caused the majority of .Yahchanan 1:29— or more hours. people in this world to accept this lie. The next day Yahchanan saw Yahshua If Yahshua had been placed in the coming toward him, and said; Behold! The grave on Good Friday evening at sun- Lamb of Yahweh Who takes away the sin Which Day Was The set, then His resurrection should not of the world! Messiah Put In The have taken place until Monday .I Corinthians 5:7— Therefore, purge out the old leaven, that Grave? Which Day Did evening at sunset. you may be a new batch, since you are Was our Messiah confused, or is unleavened. For truly Yahshua our He Rise? this whole world deceived as the Holy Passover was sacrificed for us. Scriptures say in Revelation 12:9? Sa- Our Messiah fulfilled the Passover tan has deceived this whole world. FACT #4: Our Savior was sacrificed Lamb requirement. Yahshua did not Could this lie of a Sunday sunrise for us on the exact same day, at the abrogate Yahweh’s Laws in any way. resurrection be one of the ways by exact same time the Passover lambs Yahshua was offered on the four- which Satan has so subtly deceived were being slaughtered on the temple teenth day of the First Moon between this world? mount. If this were not so, He could the two evenings. Yahshua knew how long He would not be our Passover sacrifice. be in the grave. There was no guess- This is a provable fact. Letting ing or speculation. It was absolutely Scripture interpret Scripture we can necessary that Yahshua Messiah ful- understand the ordinance of the Pass- Tues. Night Wed. DayWed. Night Thurs. Day fill this Prophecy; otherwise, He would over lamb and the exact day it was to Sabbath not prove to be the True Messiah. be kept up to. Yahshua’s Yahshua Passover First Holy The True Messiah sent by Yahweh Exodus 12:6— Memorial Killed Night Day . Then Buried And you must keep it until the fourteenth must have remained in the grave three Between The Two Evenings

The Prophetic Word 11/2010 21 Immediately after that sunset would There were two Sabbaths that came begin the fifteenth day. Remember, in that one week. Now we know and Live Radio Yahweh created days to begin and end understand it was before the Sabbath at sunset. Sundown on the fourteenth of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that Program! would be the beginning of the first Yahseph of Arimathea demanded the Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Body of Yahshua and not before the Don’t miss the Witness Yisrayl Bread, on the fifteenth day. weekly Saturday Sabbath. Hawkins every other Sunday .Leviticus 23:6-7— .Yahchanan Mark 15:42-43— morning at 10:00 am Eastern 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same 42 By now, the first evening had come, moon is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to and because it was the Preparation, that Standard Time (9:00 am CST) or Yahweh; seven days you must eat is, the day before the Passover High Holy Sunday afternoon at 1:30 pm EST unleavened bread. 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A stone With this fact firmly in mind we can link at our website. then understand what is being said was then rolled in front of the door. in: This burial took place on a Wednes- Yahchanan Mark 16:1— day afternoon, just before sunset, as directly under the care of the Apostles, . Scriptures do prove. And when the Passover Sabbath was celebrated Easter. past, Miriam Magdalene, and Miriam the Prove this for yourself. Count for- After the death of our Savior, severe mother of Yaaqob, and Salome, bought ward: Wednesday NIGHT, Thursday persecution arose at Yerusalem (Acts sweet spices, that they might go and anoint DAY, Thursday NIGHT, Friday DAY, 8:1), and the believers were scattered Him. Friday NIGHT, Sabbath DAY. There abroad. They were forced into slavery, are three NIGHTS and three DAYS and even put to death in some of the his Sabbath was not the weekly Sab- T in this time sequence. most horrible ways man could imagine. bath! This particular Sabbath was the Our Messiah was not resurrected However, this was only the first, ten first Holy Day Sabbath of the Feast Sunday morning at sunrise. Yahshua great persecutions that came upon the of Unleavened Bread. rose Saturday Sabbath evening, which established House of Yahweh. The only Luke 23:56— . makes it exactly three days and three people on the face of the earth who Then they returned. Then they prepared spices and ointments. Then they rested the nights that He was in the grave, worshiped Father Yahweh, was The Sabbath Day according to the Law. thereby fulfilling the only sign He House of Yahweh established by gave that He was the True Messiah. Yahshua during the time of the In these two Scriptures, we see that For an even greater indepth study Apostles. This first era of the seven there are two Sabbaths spoken of. One of this most important truth concern- eras of The House of Yahweh is called Sabbath had already passed when they ing the resurrection of the True Smyrna. This era and the four bought the spices. Then they prepared Messiah, please request our booklets, following it suffered these religious the spices they had bought after the Was The Resurrection On Sunday? persecutions. Our book, The Lost Faith Sabbath had already passed. Then and Yahweh’s Passover & Yahshua’s of The Apostles and Prophets; History they rested on the weekly Saturday Memorial. Also write for information and Prophecy, explains in detail the Sabbath according to the Law of about how to obtain our books, Devil seven eras of The House of Yahweh, Yahweh. Worship...The Shocking Facts!, The and the facts concerning the ten By understanding these previous Sabbath...Every Question Answered! persecutions. Scriptures we know our Savior was and Deceptions Concerning Yahweh’s not put into the grave on Friday be- Calendar Of Events. Baal and Ashtoreth worshipers had fore the weekly Sabbath. We know pre-eminence. From approximately the Yahshua was placed in His grave on The Easter Tradition year 70 C.E. to the year 312 C.E., Wednesday just before sunset—before Forced Upon Baal and Ashtoreth worshipers openly the Sabbath of the Feast of Unleav- practiced their religions under the be- ened Bread. The Believers nevolent eyes of man’s ruling governments. The early believers When Constantine became the em- knew the difference peror of Rome, after the tenth, last Tues. Wed. Wed. Thurs. Thurs. Fri. Fri. Sat. between Baal- and greatest persecution under Night Day Night Day Night Day Night Day Ashtoreth worship Diocletian, Baal and Ashtoreth wor- and the worship of shipers then disguised the many Yahshua’s Sabbath Bought Memorial Yahweh. They Passover First Holy and Prepared pagan customs making them to ap- Day of the Sabbath Night Spices Day knew the differ- Yahshua Feast of pear Scriptural. Killed Unleavened Bread Sabbath ence, and none of By the time Constantine came to Then Buried Night Yahshua’s the early believers, Between The Two Evenings Resurrection power, The House of Yahweh as an 22 The Prophetic Word 11/2010 established organization had died out, fornication with her, and the merchants of every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth just as Prophecy said it would. There the earth have grown rich through the of Yahweh. was no true organization, led by abundance of her delicacies. Deuteronomy 8:2-3— 4 And I heard another voice from . Yahweh’s Spirit Holy, to say to the 2 You must remember that Yahweh your heaven, saying: Come out of her, My People, Father led you all the way these forty years deceived world—Easter is a pagan cel- so that you do not partake in her sins, and in the wilderness, in order to humble you, ebration. Thus, the pagan celebrations so that you do not receive of her plagues. test and prove you, and know what was in became the Christian celebrations of your heart; to see whether you would keep today. Source reference materials, which are His Laws, or whether you would not. The House of Yahweh has been re- available in any library throughout 3 So He humbled you, and allowed you America, are replete with the fact that to hunger, and fed you with manna, which established in these Last Days you did not know of nor did your fathers according to the Prophecies in the worship of Easter/Ishtar is the know of it; so He might make you to know Micahyah 4:1 and Isayah 2:2. Praise worship of a pagan Goddess. Man- that man does not live by bread only, but Yahweh! Request our booklet, The kind’s own reference books say the by every Word that proceeds out of the House of Yahweh Established. Now, worship of Easter, a pagan Goddess, is Mouth of Yahweh, does man live. in these Last Days The House of Yah- the most important Christian practice .Revelation 22:14-15— weh is again telling this deceived today. Can our Creator be pleased with 14 Blessed are those who keep His Laws, that they may have right to the Tree world that this worldly holiday called this? of Life, and may enter in through the Gates Easter is a pagan custom. into the City. Do Not Practice It! 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, Yahweh’s Warning! and whoremongers, and murderers, and Shortly, on April 24, 2011 Easter Sun- worshipers of Gods (elohim) and everyone who professes to love, yet practices Throughout the Holy Scriptures we day morning will be upon us. Almost breaking the Laws. find warnings from our Creator Yah- the entire Christian world will partici- weh and His Son, Yahshua Messiah, pate in a sunrise service that they There is no salvation to the worship- to beware of spiritual deception. As believe to be in celebration of the res- ers of Baal and Ashtoreth. When far back in time as the Scriptural books urrection of our Messiah. Factually, Yahweh’s Kingdom is established on of the kings, this female Goddess was this is a pagan custom celebrated long earth, all Baal and Ashtoreth worship being worshiped. The Holy Scriptures before our Savior was even born. Yah- will stop entirely. Only our Father plainly show that the adoption of pa- weh condemns this pagan practice Yahweh, through His Son Yahshua gan practices and the worship of through the pages of your own bible. our Messiah, will be worshiped. Easter is condemned. These same Christians reject the Only those who resist Satan’s in- .I Kings 11:33— wonderful Feasts of Yahweh which fluence and overcome the pagan I will do this Because they have are ordained by Yahweh and will be forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the worship practiced today, and then turn kept forever in the Kingdom of Yah- to Yahweh in complete obedience will Goddess of the Phoenicians, (Sidonians), weh. Read of Yahweh’s Feasts in Chemosh the God (El) of the Moabites, be a part of Yahweh’s soon coming and Milcom (Molech) the God (El) of the Exodus Chapter 12, Leviticus Chap- Kingdom. people of Ammon, and have not walked in ter 23, Yechetzqyah 45:21, Isayah It would be much better to obey My Ways, to do that which is right in My 66:23 and Zecharyah 14:16-21. Yahweh voluntarily now, thereby Eyes, and to keep My Statutes and My The only ones who will be given qualifying to reap the joyous reward of Judgments, as David his father did. Eternal Life in Yahweh’s Kingdom are Deuteronomy 12:29-32— Eternal Life, rather than to voluntar- . the ones who obey every Word that ily disobey Yahweh, thereby qualifying 29 When Yahweh your Father cuts off the nations from in front of you, and you proceeds from Yahweh’s Mouth. yourself to be one of those who will displace them and live in their land, .Deuteronomy 6:25— be cast into the lake of fire to be 30 Be careful not to be ensnared into And it will be our Righteousness, if we burned up and gotten out of the way. following them by asking about their Gods observe to do all these Laws before Yahweh (elohim), saying: How did these nations our Father, as He has commanded us. It is time to come out of pagan wor- serve their Gods (elohim)? I also will do .Mattithyah 4:4— ship and start obeying Yahweh. Only the same. But He answered, and said; It is written: Yahweh is able to give Eternal Life. 31 You must not worship Yahweh your Man does not live by bread alone, but by Father in their way, for every abomination to Yahweh, which He hates, they have done to their Gods (elohim). They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their Gods (elohim). 32 Whatsoever I command you, be careful to observe and do it, you shall not add to it, nor take away from it. .Deuteronomy 8:19— If you, by any means, ever forget Yahweh your Father, by following hinder Gods .www.yisraylhawkins.com (Elohim) to serve and worship them, I testify and witness against you this day .www.propheticword.com that you will surely perish. .Satellite television: Galaxy 19 at 97ºW or Hotbird 8 at 13ºE .Revelation 18:3-4— 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine .www.love860.com/streamer/streamer.html of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed .Weekly sermon MP3-CD

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