I am going through all the booklets I have on the topic
so you can read my resources. If you want to write
an article or book on the topic please feel free to use
as you like.

Rough Notes -WDHCF

• Where did Halloween originate from?
• How did we get it?
• Halloween was celebrated by pagans centuries
  before the First Century Congregation was founded.
• Introduced into the First Century Congregation
  centuries after the death of the Apostles, yet it
  was celebrated by the pagans centuries before the
  First Century Congregation was founded.
• From Halloween Through Twenty Centuries, by Ralph
  Linton, page 4, it says, "The American celebration
  rests upon Scotish and Irish folk customs which
  can be traced in direct line from Pre-Christian
  times. Although Halloween has become a night of
  rollicking fun, superstitious spells, and eerie
  games which people take only half seriously, its
  beginnings were quite otherwise. The earliest
  Halloween celebrations were held by the Druids in
  honor of Samhain, Lord of the Dead, whose festival
  fell on November 1."
• very distant from being righteous festival.
• pagan holiday masquerading as though it was a
  genuine custom of the true Congregation of
  Yeshua / Jesus Christ.
• parents allow their children to get involved in the
  spirit of the pagan custom.
• The Encyclopedia Americana states, "it’s clearly a
  relic of pagan times."
• The Encyclopedia Britannica states, "It long
  antedates Christianity. The two chief
  characteristics of ancient Halloween were the
  lighting of bonfires and the belief that this is the
  one night in the year during which ghosts and
  witches are most likely to wander about. History
  shows that the main celebrations of Halloween were
  Druidical and this is further provided by the fact
  that in parts of Ireland October 31 is still known
  as Oidhch Shamhna, "Virgil of Saman.’"
• Halloween celebrated by the pagans long before
  Yeshua / Jesus Christ was even born.
• Halloween was celebrated by the Romans.
• Encyclopedia Britannica continues, "On the Druidic
  ceremonies were grafted some of the characteristics
  of the Roman festival in honor of Pomona held about
  November 1, in which nuts and apples, representing
  the winter store of fruits, played an important
  part."
• Halloween’s pagan customs are widespread around the
  world to celebrate this season.
• The Book of Halloween by Ruth Kelley writes, "The
  pagan Druid priests taught the immortality of the
  soul, that it passed from one body to another at
  death … They believed that on the last night of
  the old year (October 31) the lord of death
  gathered together the souls of all those who had
  died in the passing year and had been condemned to
  live in the bodies of animals, to decree what forms
  they should inhabit for the next twelve months. He
  could be coaxed to give lighter sentence by gifts
  and prayers. "
• Halloween Through Twenty Centuries page 5 writes,
  "On the New Year, their sins being expiated, they
  were released to go to the Druid Heaven."
• Wheel of the Year, picture found
  here
  illustrates Pagan festivals such as Samhain
  (Halloween), Yule (Saturnalia - Christmas),
  Imbolc, Ostara (Ishtar - Easter) Beltane, Litha,
  Lammas, Mabon, which some of their customs have
  been grafted into Christianity.
• Halloween / Samhain promoted the ‘Doctrine of
  Immortality of the Soul" that the dead are not
  really dead.
• almost all heathen countries had festivals or days
  set aside to honor the dead.
• These festivals originated from the death of Nimrod,
  (Genesis 10:8-10) whom Semiramis said had resurrected
  from the dead when an evergreen tree grew out of a
  dead tree stump which is the origins of the Christmas
  tree associating Yule (Saturnalia - Christmas) to Samhain
  (Halloween).
• The meaning of the word "Halloween" - Allhallows or
  Hallowmas, or All Saints Day which is one of the
  festivals of the Catholic Church says Lintons
  Halloween Through Twenty Centuries, page 3.
• Samhain / Halloween was the evening celebration
  commencing at sunset, in anticipation of November 1,
  honoring the Lord of the Dead.
• Who is Lord of the Dead?
• Yeshua / Jesus Christ states in Matthew 22:31-32
  "But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have
  ye not read that which was spoken to you by God,
  saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of
  Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God
  of the dead, but of the living"
• God is not God of the dead but in reality and in
  righteousness, Yeshua / Jesus Christ is Lord of the
  dead.
• the dead do not serve God (Psalm 6:5, 115:17), the
  soul that sins dies (Ezekiel 18:4), the dead know
  nothing (Ecclesiastes 9:5), the dead’s thoughts
  perish (Psalm 146:4), only God has immortality
  (1 Timothy 1:17, 6:15-16), and only God can destroy
  a persons soul (Matthew 10:28)
• to consult the dead is an abomination.
  (Leviticus 19:31, Deuteronomy 18:9-12) and is part
  of the abominations of the nations.
  (Deuteronomy 18:9, 1 Kings 14:24, Ezekiel 6:9)
• How is Yeshua / Jesus Christ Lord of the dead? He
  defeated death as atonement for our sins but also to
  become Lord of the dead (Romans 14:9)
• Yeshua / Jesus Christ through his resurrection
  obtained the keys to Hades or state of the dead.
  (Revelation 1:18)
• Who did Yeshua / Jesus take the authority of "Lord
  of the Dead" from? Satan / Lucifer ofcourse.
  (Hebrews 2:14)
• What is Yeshua’s / Jesus Christ’s function as Lord
  of the Living and the Dead?
• on the last day to change the righteous from mortal
  to immortal (1 Corinthians 15:51-58,
  1 Thessalonians 4:14-18), to resurrect the righteous
  to eternal life (John 3:16) and the unrighteous to
  resurrection of condemnation (John 6:39, 40, 44, 54,
  11:24-26, 12:48, 5:28-30)
• Paganism make the "Lord of the Dead" other than
  Yeshua / Jesus Christ but give authority to deities
  such as Samhain, Baal, Nimrod, Hercules, Tammuz,
  Adonis, Achilles, Orion, Belial, Mithra, Horus,
  Osiris, Thor, Yule, Cronos, Kronus, Saturn, Odin,
  Bacchus, Dionysus, Molech, Deonius, Jupiter, Man
  the Branch, Wodan, Attes, Attis, and many others
  depending which variation of paganism the name
  derives from.
• Paganism really is worshiping Satan / Lucifer as
  "Lord of the Dead" , as Satan deceives the whole
  world (Revelation 12:9) and Satan / Lucifer is the
  Prince the power of the air (Eph 2:2) and god of
  this world (2 Cor 4:4).
• Giving these deities the authority of "Lord of the
  Dead" rather than Yeshua / Jesus Christ is
  glorifying Satan / Lucifer and is a form of
  Idolatry.
• In my opinion Halloween is Satanic.
• people today are deceived into believing that
  Halloween is harmless fun, but infact are honoring
  Satan on this day.
• most people know deep in their soul that Halloween
  is Occult, sinful, and honors Satan / Lucifer
• Apostle Paul states that this kind of worship is
  worshiping demons (Galatians 4:8)
• Halloween is not a righteous form of worship to
  worship God
• The True God demands that worshipers worship him
  in Spirit and in Truth. (John 4:23-24)
• What is the origins of All Saints Day?
• November 1st, derived from the pagans is celebrated
  by in hundreds of Church denominations to honor
  the dead Saints
• Pope Urban IV states All Saints day is "to honor
  all the saints, known and unknown, and to supply
  any deficiencies in the faithful’s celebration of
  saints’ feasts during the year" according to
  Reference Catholic Encyclopedia
• How did Christianity come to venerating saints
  come to be observed on the day in honor of the
  devil?
• The Catholic Encyclopedia continues, "… The
  Church, feeling that every martyr should be
  venerated, appointed a common day for all."
• The Catholic Encyclopedia continues, "Gregory III
  (731-741) consecrated a chapel in the basilica
  of St. Peter to all saints and fixed the
  anniversary on November 1 … Gregory IV
  (827-844) extended the celebration on 1 November
  to the entire church. The vigil (Halloween) seems
  to have been held as early as the feast itself."
• From Halloween Through Twenty Centuries Ralph Linton
  says, "All Saints’ Day was introduced into the
  church calender because the year was not long
  enough to make it possible to dedicate a special
  day for each spirit of the Catholic Church, … That
  the day chosen was one already associated in the
  popular mind with a thronging of spirits of the
  dead which was quite in line with church policy
  of incorporating harmless pagan folk ideas. "
• Protestant Churches observe All Saints’ Day "since
  it was on this day in 1517, that Martin Luther
  posted his epoch-making ninety-five theses on the
  door of the castle church at Wittenberg, … He
  chose Halloween night because he knew that the
  townsfolk … would be coming to the church that
  night." (Halloween pp 9-10)
• What is the origins of "Trick or Treat?"
• Where did the prank of children knocking on peoples
  doors and shouting "Trick or Treat" come from?
• From Halloween Through Twenty Centuries Ralph Linton
  says, "… certainly it comes from pagan times. …
  led by a man in a white robe wearing a horse mask.
  … which indicated that this custom was a survival
  of a Druid rite."
• The horse head was sacred to the Sun God.
• The procession levied a contribution from the
  farmers in the perverted name of what probably was
  an old Druid god. Unless the procession was treated
  liberally with gifts, the farmers were tricked with
  the threat of a curse that would ruin following years
  crops.
• The custom of having processions at Halloween were
  further derived by wealthy churches during the Middle
  Ages copying the ancient Greek and Roman processions
  parading the relics of patron saints.
• Poorer churches could not afford to buy relics so
  they used caricatures of their patron saints
• Halloween Through Twenty Centuries page 103 states,
  "Those who were not playing the parts of the holy
  ones also wanted to get into the procession and so
  dressed up as angels or devils. The Allhallows
  procession around the churchyard eventually became a
  gay and motley parade."
• the "Trick or Treat" custom simply derived from these
  former degenerate absurd customs which came out of
  paganism, grafting them into Christianity labeling
  them with Christian names.

Shalom Michael Grant

tags: Achilles, Adonis, Attes, Attis, Baal, Bacchus,
Belial, Branch, Cronos, Dead, Deonius, Dionysus, Easter,
Hercules, Horus, Ishtar, Istar, Jupiter, Kronus, Lord,
Man, Mithra, Molech, Nimrod, Odin, Oidhch, Orion, Osiris,
Ostara, Pomona, Saman, Samhain, Saturn, Semiramis,
Shamhna, Tammuz, Thor, Wodan, Yule, deity, female, male,
of, sun, the, tree

It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean
Babylonian origin on its very forehead. The
popular observances that still attend the period
of it’s celebration amply confirm the testimony
of history as to it’s Babylonian character. The
hot cross buns of Good Friday and the dyed eggs
of Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites
just as they do now. The "buns" known too by that
identical name, were used in the worship of the
Queen of Heaven, the goddess of Easter. The
prophet Jeremiah takes notice of this kind of
offering when he says:

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the
fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead
their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods,
that they may provoke me to anger.

From where comes the eggs?

The classic poets are full of the fable of the
mystic egg of the Babylonians and thus its tale
is told by Hyginus, the Egyptian, the learned
keeper of the Palatine library at Rome, in the
time of Augustus, who was skilled in all the
wisdom of his native country.

"An egg of wondrous size is said to have fallen
from heaven into the river Euphrates, the fishes
rolled it to the bank, where the doves having
settled upon it, and hatched it, out came Venus,
who afterwards was called the "Syrian Goddess"
– that is, Astarte. Hence the egg became one of
the symbols of Astarte or Easter.

From where comes the "Easter Bunny"?

That a rabbit, or more accurately a hare, became
a holiday symbol can be traced to the origin of
the word "Easter". According to the Venerable
Bede, the English historian who lived from 672
to 735, "the goddess Eastre" was worshipped by the
Anglo-Saxons through her earthly symbol, the
hare." - Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of
Everyday Things pg 55

Easter is another example of a Christianized
pagan festival. For hundreds of years before the
Messiah was crucified the pagans had a festival
which basically celebrated the "Queen of Heaven."
This spring equinox festival was known by
different names in different cultures (Eastre /
Ishtar / Astarte), but the same traditions
associated with it are pagan customs. YHWH (God)
commands us not to worship Him with pagan customs.

Deut. 12:30-31 says, "enquire not after their
gods, saying, How did these nations serve their
gods? even so will I do likewise."

You can choose the broad way (the way the world
/ crowd goes) that leadeth to destruction …
(Matt 7:13) The pagan bunny fertility symbol -
Ishtar / Eostre to Easter - spring fertility
goddess worship rites. Or you can choose the
narrow way (of truth that few people find), which
leads to life eternal (Matt. 7:14)
- Leviticus 23 eternal feast days and Sabbaths
Obey Elohim’s (God’s) eternal holy days (Lev. 23)
for all Israel (including grafted in believers in
Yeshua / Jesus) (Rom. 3:31; 11:17, Eph. 2:12-13)
Check a good encyclopedia on Easter / Eastre /
Ishtar.

Shalom
Michael Grant

tags: Easter, Eastre, Ishtar, Astarte, Eostre, Osiris,
Isis, Attis, cupid, baal, baalism, Nimrod, pagan,
paganism, fertility, Chaldean, Babylonian, Good Friday,
Sunday, crusifixion, Rome, Egypt, Greece, holidays,
feast days, Yeshua, Jesus, HaMoshiach, Messiah, God,
Elohim, YHWH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SeIhUR-XA0

tags: Eros, Cupid, Tammuz, Venus, Pope, Nimrod,
Greece, Babylon, Valentine, Love, War,
Merchants, hearts

You might suppose that school teachers and
educators would know. But do they? How many of you
were taught the real origin of Valentines Day? Why
should you observe the custom of exchanging
valentines? The silence of educators!!! Teachers
are all too often silent about the origin of the
customs, they are forced to teach in today’s
schools! If they were to speak out, many would
lose their jobs!

Isn’t it time we examined why we encourage our
children to celebrate St. Valentines Day — when it
is never so much as mentioned in the Holy Bible as
a practice of the New Testament Congregation?
Today, candy makers unload tons of heart-shaped red
boxes for February 14, while millions of the younger
set are annually exchanging valentines Florists
consider February 14, — St. Valentines Day — as
one of their best business days. And young lovers
pair off — at least for a dance or two — at St.
Valentines balls.

Why? Where did these customs originate? Where do
we find any such practices in the Holy Bible? How
did we come to inherit these customs? Did you know
that century before Christ, the pagan Romans
celebrated February 15 and the evening of February
14 as an idolatrous and sensuous festival in Honor
of Lupercus, the "Hunter of Wolves"? The Romans
called the festival the "Lupercalia". The custom
of exchanging valentines and all other traditions
in Honor of Lupercus (the deified hero-hunter of
Rome) was also linked anciently with the pagan
practice of teenagers "going steady". It usually
led to fornication.

Today, the custom of "going steady" is thought to
be very modern. It is not. It is merely a rebirth of
an old custom handed down from the Roman festival
of the Lupercalia, celebrated in the month of
February, when names of young women were put into
a box and drawn out by men as chance directed.
When Constantine made Christianity the official
religion of the Roman Empire there was some talk
in church circles of discarding this pagan
free-for-all.

But the Roman citizens wouldn’t hear of it! So it
was agreed that the holiday would continue as it
was except for the more grossly sensual observances.
It was not until the reign of Pope Gelasius that
the holiday became a "Christian custom". As far
back as 496 Pope Gelasius changed Lupercalia on
February 15 to St. Valentines Day on February 14.

But how did this pagan festival acquire the name
of St. Valentines Day? And why is the little naked
Cupid of the pagan Romans so often associated today
with February 14? And why do little children and
young people still cut out hearts and send them on
a day in Honor of Lupercus the hunter of wolves?
Why have we supposed these pagan customs in Honor
of a false god are Christian? Who was the Original
St. Valentine?

Valentine was a common Roman name. Roman parents
often gave the name to their children in Honor of
the famous man who was first called Valentine in
antiquity. That famous man was Lupercus, the
Hunter. But who was Lupercus? — and why should he
have also born the name Valentine among the heathen
Romans? The Greeks called Lupercus by the name of
"Pan". the Semites called Pan "Baal," according to
the "Classical Dictionaries".

Baal — mentioned so often in the Bible — was
merely another name for Nimrod, "the mighty Hunter"
(Genesis 10:9). The hunter Nimrod was the Lupercus
– or Wolf Hunter — of the Romans. And St.
Valentines Day was originally a day set aside by the
pagans in his Honor! But why should Nimrod have been
called "Valentine" by the Romans? And why should the
celebration of this day have been anciently limited
to the city of Rome before Pope Gelasius’ time? What
part did the site of ancient Rome play in the life
of Nimrod?

Valentine comes from the Latin word "Valentinus", a
proper name derived from the word "valens", meaning
"to be strong," declares "Webster’s Unabridged
Dictionary". It means literally "strong, powerful,
mighty." Any connection with Nimrod? We read in the
Bible that Nimrod was the "Mighty Hunter"
(Genesis 10:9). It was a common proverb of ancient
time that Nimrod was "the Mighty Hunter before the
Lord." Nimrod was their hero — Their Strong Man –
Their Valentine!

How plain that the original Valentine was Nimrod,
the mighty hunter of wolves. Yet another of Nimrod’s
names was "Sanctus" or "Santa", meaning "Saint". It
was a common title of any hero-god. No wonder that
the Roman Lupercalia is called "Saint Valentines Day"!
But why do we associate hearts on a day on Honor of
Nimrod — the Baal of the Phoenicians and Semites?
The surprising answer is that the pagan Romans
acquired the symbol of the heart from the Babylonians.
In the Babylonian tongue the word for "heart" was
"bal". The heart — "bal" was merely a symbol of
Nimrod — the "Baal" or Lord of the Babylonians!"

Nimrod — the original St. Valentine — was also known
as Saturn, the Roman-Babylonian god Hid from his
pursuers in a secret place. The Latin word Saturn is
derived from the Semitic-speaking Babylonians. It
means "be hid", "hide self", "secret", "conceal". The
original Semitic (Hebrew) word, from which the Latin
Saturn is derived, is used used 83 times in the Old
Testament.

According to ancient tradition, Saturn (Nimrod) fled
from his pursuers to Italy. The Apennine Mountains of
Italy were anciently named the mountains of Nembrod
or Nimrod. Nimrod briefly hid out at the site where
Rome was later built. The ancient name of Rome, before
it was rebuilt in 753 B.C., was Saturnai — the site
of Saturn’s (Nimrod’s) hiding. There he was found and
slain for his crimes.

Later, professing Christians in Constantine’s day made
Nimrod — the St. Valentine of the heathen — a Saint
of the Church and continued to Honor him under the name
of a Christian martyr. Why February 14Th? But why
should the Romans have chosen February 15 and the
evening of February 14 to Honor Lupercus — the Nimrod
of the Bible? (Remember that days in ancient times began
at sunset the evening before.)

Nimrod — the Baal or sun god of the ancient pagans –
was said to have been born at the winter solstice. In
ancient times the solstice occurred on January 6 and his
birthday therefore was celebrated on January 6. Later,
as the solstice changed, it was celebrated on December
25 and is now called Christmas. It was the custom of
antiquity for the mother of a male child to present
herself for purification on the fortieth day after the
day of birth.

The fortieth day after January 6 — Nimrod’s original
birth date — takes us to February 15, the celebration of
which began on the evening of February 14 — the
Lupercalia or St. Valentines Day. On this day in
February, Semiramis, the mother of Nimrod, was said to
have been purified and to have appeared for the first
time in public with her son as the original "Mother and
Child". The Roman month February, in fact, derives its
name from "februa" which the Roman priests used in the
rites celebrated on St. Valentines Day.

The "febua" were thongs from the skins of sacrificial
animals used in rites of purification on the evening of
February 14. Cupid makes his appearance. Another name for
the child Nimrod was "Cupid" — meaning "Desire". It is
said that when Nimrod’s mother saw him, she lusted after
him — she desired him. Nimrod became her Cupid — her
desired one — and later her Valentine! So evil was
Nimrod’s mother that it is said she married her own son!

Inscribed on the monuments of ancient Egypt are
inscriptions that Nimrod (the Egyptians called him
Osiris) was "the husband of his mother." As Nimrod grew
up, he became the child-hero of many women who desired
him. He was their Cupid! In the book of Daniel he is
called the "Desire of woman" (Daniel 11:37). He provoked
so many women to Jealousy that an idol of him was often
called the "image of jealousy" (Ezekiel 8:5).

Nimrod, the hunter, was also their Valentine — their
strong or mighty hero! No wonder the pagans commemorated
their hero-hunter Nimrod, or Baal, by sending heartshapped
love tokens to one another on the evening of February 14
as a symbol of him. Nimrod, the mulatto son of Cush the
Ethiopian, was later a source of embarrassment to the
pagans of Europe. They didn’t want an African to worship.
Consequently, they substituted a supposed son of Nimrod,
a white child named Horus, born after the death of Nimrod.
This white child then became the "fair Cupid" of European
tradition.

It is about time we examined these foolish customs of the
pagans now falsely labeled Christian. It is about time we
quit this Roman and Babylonian foolishness — this Idolatry
– and get back to the faith of Yeshua /Jesus that he
delivered once for all time. Let’s stop teaching our
children these pagan customs in memory of Baal the sun god
– the original St. Valentine — and teach them instead
what the Bible really says!

Shalom
Michael Grant

tags: Nimrod, Osiris, Roman, Semiramis, Jesus, Valentines,

Day, pagan, Isis, Yeshua, Egypt, Greece

It was first observed in ancient Babylon about
4000 years ago. The Babylonian New Year began
with the first new moon after the Vernal
Equinox (first day of Spring). The Romans
continued to observe the New Year in late March
but their calendar was continually tampered with
by various emperors so that it soon became out
of sync with the sun. In order to set the
calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC
declared January 1st to be the beginning of
the New Year.

In 46 BC, Julius Caesar established January 1st
as the New Year after the god Janus (January).
Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates, and
had two faces, one looking forward and one back.
Caesar celebrated his first declared New Year
by ording the violent routing of revolutionary
Jewish forces in Galilee. Eye witnessess say
blood flowed in the streets.

In later years, Roman pagans observed the new
year by engaging in drunken orgies. The early
Catholic Church condemned New Years festivities
as pagan. But as Christianity became more
widespread, the early church began having its
own religious observances concurrently with
many of the pagan celebrations, and new years
day was no different.

The tradition of using a baby to signify the
new year began in Greece around 600 BC. It was
their tradition at that time to celebrate their
god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a
basket, representing the annual rebirth of that
god as the spirit of fertility. Early Egyptians
also used a baby as a symbol of rebirth.

Other traditions of the season include the
making of new year resolutions. That tradition
also dates back to the early Babylonians. The
early Babylonians’ most popular resolution was
to return borrowed farm equipment.

Should we celebrate new year? Should we
participate in a festivity that has its roots
in paganism? False worship is unclean and
detestable in the eyes of YHWH / God, and we
should reject practices that have such origins.

"When you come into the land which the Adonai
(Lord) your Elohim (God) is giving you, you
shall not learn to follow the abominations of
those nations." Deuteronomy 18:9

The Apostle Paul wrote: "Do not be unequally
yoked together with unbelievers, For what
fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness?
And What communion has light with darkness?"
2 Corinthians 6:14

"’Therefore, come out from amoung them and be
separate,’ says the Adonai (Lord) . ‘Do not
touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
I shall be a father to you, and you will be
sons and daughters to me.’" 2 Corinthians 6:17-18

Indeed, YHWH (God) promises eternal blessings and
prosperity to those who are loyal to him.

"For the Adonai (Lord) loves justice, And does not
forsake His saints; They are preserved forever,
but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut
off." Psalms 37:28

Shalom
Michael Grant

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