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Daniel 7.23-25: The fourth beast is the fourth reign on earth, which is different from all other reigns, and it devours all the earth, tramples it down and crushes it. And the ten horns are ten sovereigns from this reign. They shall rise, and another shall rise after them, and it is different from the first ones, and it humbles three sovereigns, and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times and law, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time.
Holiday: noun
a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person. any day of exemption from work (distinguished from working day). a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.:
adjective
of or relating to a festival; festive; joyous. suitable for a holiday.
verb (used without object)
Chiefly British. to vacation:
Holy Day – The Hebrew word translated as “festivals” is moedim, a word that is key to lunar Sabbatarians’ arguments. Moedim, a plural noun (#4150 in Strong’s Hebrew Concordance) occurs for the first time in this passage. Translators often render it as “seasons” or “times.”Properly, it denotes “appointed seasons” or “appointed times,” referring to the festivals of Elohim, His feast days. Today, we generally call these festivals by the term “holy days.” Lunar Sabbatarians, looking at Genesis 1:14, correctly conclude that the sun—and particularly the moon—play a key role in establishing the seasons, and most specifically, the appointed feast days, the holy days of Elohim…The word does not solely mean a festive time or a season of celebration. It is a time to remember and reflect on all of the times when Elohim revealed Himself as mighty and strong, loving and holy.Mo-ahd also has a root meaning, “to repeat,” and can mean “a signal as appointed beforehand.” There are things that are to be repeated each time the preset appointed time has come. The feasts are “signals and signs” to help us know what is on the heart of YHWH. The moedim affirm a covenant relationship with YHWH. They signify life. Yes, these are the most wonderful days of the year for the people of Israel.
Feast – חָגַג châgag, khaw-gag’; a primitive root (compare H2283, H2328); properly, to move in a circle, i.e. (specifically) to march in a sacred procession [or to make a pilgrimamge], to observe a festival; by implication, to be giddy:—celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), reel to and fro.
American National Holiday:
New Year’s Day: Over the centuries, the calendar fell out of sync with the sun, and in 46 B.C. the emperor Julius Caesar decided to solve the problem by consulting with the most prominent astronomers and mathematicians of his time. He introduced the Julian calendar, which closely resembles the more modern Gregorian calendar that most countries around the world use today. As part of his reform, Caesar instituted January 1 as the first day of the year, partly to honor the month’s namesake: Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, whose two faces allowed him to look back into the past and forward into the future. Romans celebrated by offering sacrifices to Janus, exchanging gifts with one another, decorating their homes with laurel branches and attending raucous parties. In medieval Europe, Christian leaders temporarily replaced January 1 as the first of the year with days carrying more religious significance, such as December 25 (the anniversary of Jesus’ birth) and March 25 (the Feast of the Annunciation); Pope Gregory XIII reestablished January 1 as New Year’s Day in 1582. (History.com)
Valentine’s Day: WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE HEART SYMBOL? It is the symbol of debauchery, derived from the name of the deity, BACCHUS. It is Bacchus’ symbol meaning ORGY. It is now promoted in association with “Valentine’s Day.” The Greek deity of wine and debauchery was Dionysus. The Roman culture called him Bacchus. The heart is the image of an ivy leaf, worn by Bacchus / Dionysus during his feasting and orgies. He was honored for the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, fertility, theater, and drunkeness. The name Bacchus is the source of the word debauchery. Orgiastic love is represented by the penetrating arrow, the occult images of the male and female depicted as other objects. When you see a heart-shape with an arrow through it, you are really seeing the symbol for “orgy” – to Yahuah it is debauchery (from the name, Bacchus) and the highest level of fornication, rubbed into His face. People simply don’t realize what they are training their children to perform. An archaeological discovery was made at the site of the ancient city of Ephesus. It was a sign indicating the directions to a brothel, and depicted three symbols: a WOMAN, a HEART, and a FOOT. Basically, this said “walk this way for sex.” (Fossilized Customs)
Easter: But you say, “The word ‘Easter’ is in my King James Version.” Translations are not inspired and errors exist by the tens of thousands in many translations. The word in the Greek that underlies the word “Easter” in the KJV is pascha, and it means Passover, from the Hebrew word Pesach. Pascha is correctly translated 28 times in the KJV as Passover, but in one place it is mistranslated “Easter.” All scholars admit that this is an error in translation, and it only appears ONCE, at Acts 12:4. Verse 3 is discussing “Unleavened Bread.” Luke, who wrote almost 40% of the Mashian writings (NT), didn’t put it there as Easter. The KJV is the only one with this error, since translators corrected it in all others. There was a previous English translation made by the Catholic priest John Wycliffe during the 14th century. Wycliffe’s influences came from the Latin Vulgate, and in his day the word “ester” and “Pascha” were thought to be synonyms for the same thing. Luther’s version used the word Oster. These men had no idea Ostara, Ester, Ishtar, Eostre, and so on were references to the Earth mother, adopted from former worship of the host of heaven. Pagan religions through time paralleled each other, carrying the Sun, Earth Mother, and child model from Babylon to Media Persia, Phoenicia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Celts. The Medes cooked the mythology into Zoroastrianism, producing the magician priests called Magi. They worshipped Ahura, Haoma, and Ohrmazd as their trinity. (We’ll survey them all under Trinities later). The Greeks’ Zeus was their sun deity, whose mother was Lydia, shown riding a swan…The Britannica Encyclopedia (1934) states: “EASTER (es’ter). Ostara, or Eastre, was the goddess of Spring in the religion of the ancient Angles and Saxons. Every April a festival was celebrated in her honor. With the beginnings of Christianity, the old gods were put aside. From then on the festival was celebrated in honor of the resurrection of Christ, but was still known as Easter after the old goddess.” (Fossilzied Customs)
Halloween: Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31, and Halloween 2021 will occur on Sunday, October 31. The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints. Soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows Eve, and later Halloween.Some historians trace the origin of Halloween back to the ancient Christian tradition of celebrating the lives of Christian martyrs on the anniversaries of their deaths. When Pope Boniface IV re-consecrated the Pantheon in Rome on May 13, 609 CE, re-naming it the “Church of St. Mary and the Martyrs, ”he established that anniversary as a day of celebratory remembrance for all of the Church’s martyrs. Pope Gregory III later changed the date of remembrance to November 1 when he dedicated a chapel in St. Peter’s Basilica to “all saints.” November 1 became All Saints Day, otherwise known as All Hallow’s Day. The nightbefore became All Hallow’s Eve (“Halloween” being a colloquial contraction of that phrase). While Halloween began as a localized celebration, Pope Gregory IV extended its observance to all of Christendom in the 9th Century. The policy of the Catholic church was to adapt the customs of an indigenous population (Pagan practices) and give them “new” meanings more appropriate to controlling them, or steering them toward their priests, rather than the Pagan priests. In other words, the RCC would show salvation to a population by using that population’s own former Pagan framework. The maxim, “the-end-justifies-the-means,” allowed behavior of all sorts to be acceptable. (Fossilized Customs)
Thanksgiving: In America, it’s believed that the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621, but this was not the first time people gathered to give thanks for the Autumn harvest. In fact, people have been celebrating the harvest for millenia and our Thanksgiving meal is just a modern incarnation reflecting these ancient celebrations of autumn abundance. Most of our modern holidays, like Christmas and Easter, are a combination of Pagan and Christian traditions. Thanksgiving, on the other hand, doesn’t have as much of a Christian influence. While Thanksgiving is not tied to any one specific religion, it’s traditions are quite similar to a number of ancient Pagan harvest celebrations. For example, in ancient Rome they celebrated the holiday of Cerelia, which honored the harvest goddess of grain called Ceres. There are around a 100 different harvest Gods and Goddesses from Greek & Roman culture so it’s clear that celebrating the harvest season was a key feature of their spiritual beliefs. Harvest celebrations were also vitally important during Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Pagan times. In Britain these traditions evolved into a holiday called Harvest Home. Historically, the date of Harvest Home differed each year as it was celebrated when all of the autumn crops were finally harvested. The final cartload of food was paraded through the town and a big Harvest Supper was celebrated among the villagers. Apparently these harvest suppers started to get a bit out of hand, and in 1867, were described as “unrestrained riot and excess.” In addition to Harvest Home, a separate religious holiday called the “days of thanksgivings” was practiced in the Church of England, in which people set aside one religious day of their choosing to “give thanks to God.” We get the name “Thanksgiving” from this Christian tradition, while the feasting commonly associated with Thanksgiving largely derives from the Harvest Home celebrations. Luckily for us Americans, our harvest Thanksgiving celebrations were never commandeered by the church and as such they remain pretty Pagan to this day. (Arcane Alchemy).
Christmas: Undoubtedly, the worldwide celebration of Christmas today can be traced back to European domination of the world. Throughout Europe, various forms of similar winter solstice celebrations were held. In Greece, there was celebration held to honor Dionoysis. This god was identical to the Roman god Bacchus. Bacchus was the child of Jupiter (Zeus in Greek) according to Roman myths. Diónysos, the god of wine (grape harvest), and included parties, festivals, wild celebrations, madness, chaos, drunkenness, ecstasy and fertility. December 25 marks his birthday. This feast lasted for 12 days. These days of wild celebrations and excess reveling was called Bacchanalia. The days were marked with great feasts that included parades of naked women and public sex. This celebration has left footprints around the world in the form of carnival, bacchanal, or bacchanalia, and Mardi Gras. In Finland, they had the Beiwe (Beaivi) Festival. They worshiped the sun-goddess of fertility and sanity, Beiwe. This pagan god is sometimes shown as a male figure. At the winter solstice, white animals, particularly white reindeer, were sacrificed to Beiwe. They also thought (think) that Beiwe rides a sleigh made of reindeer bones and was pulled by white reindeer (Kaldera & Krasskova, 2012). Accuteach.com
The biblical chapter that summarizes these festival days, these moedim, is Leviticus 23.
Leviticus 23
Spring Moedim
Passover – Pesach
Feast of Unleavened Bread – Hag HaMatzot
First Fruits – Yom Habikkurim
Festival of Weeks (Pentecost) – Shavuot
Fall Moedim
Feast of Trumpets – Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashanah)
Day of Atonement – Yom Kippur
Feast of Tabernacles – Sukkot
Sabbath – Yom Shabbat
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