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Week 29A Discussion – The Truth Shall Make You Free 
The Origins of Halloween 

  • John 8:32 [And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.] 

  • If we want to be free, we must believe the truth of the bible, that we are the Israelites and that Christ died for us and will return to deliver us from the hands of our enemies. 

  • Def.: Hallowed 

  • Regarded as Holy; venerated, sacred; 

  • Hallowed be Thy name; the Hallowed Saints; our Hallowed political institutions 

  • (Google Dictionary) Synonyms: sanctified, blessed, revered, worshipped 

  • Ween = eve; Halloween = Holy Eve 

  • Career Day is an alternative method of keeping the Halloween tradition in the school system. 

  • Origins 

  • Halloween is a Celtic holiday that was celebrated during the Middle Ages. 

  • It is in honor of nature and Samhain (the Lord of the Dead), and the end of the Autumn season. 

  • In Mexico, All Souls Day (Day of the Dead) 

Shows how the tribe of Issachar honored All Souls Day, which has its roots in the Roman Catholic church. 

  • There were the druid priests in Ireland, Scotland, and England. An example is Stonehenge 

  • Stonehenge is located in Salisubry Plain England and has been used for ceremonial purposes by many different groups of people at different times. It was possibly built between 3000 and 1520 BCE. It is previously thought to be a Druid temple. 

  • October 31st was the beginning of the Celtic new year. 

  • Symbols: Jack O Lantern, Witch and Broom Stick, Black Cat, “Trick or Treat” slogan, and dressing up as monsters, beasts, and other characters. 

  • Deuteronomy 32:17 [They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.] 

  • Moses is prophesying how the Israelites will eventually go into captivity and there will begin to celebrate the wicked customs of the nations around them. 

  • Halloween is a from a new “god” Samhein. God did not command any of our forefathers to celebrate this custom. 

  • Witch 

  • Black pointed hat – Pinnacle of Power (the larger the cone, the more power she has) 

 

History 

  • Isaiah 29:15-16 

  • 15 [Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?] 

  • Their works are in the dark (Speaking of Edom) 

  • While we were enslaved, they were bringing pagan holidays from around the world and teaching them to us. Israelites could not do anything to stop it because they did not allow us to read or write during slavery. 

  • Many that are still asleep believe that the white man can do no wrong and forget about them enslaving God’s chosen people while also corrupting them with pagan traditions. 

  • 16 [Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?] 

  • They turned upside down the truth of the Bible, which include our laws and customs. 

  • Instead of us celebrating the High Holy Days of God, we are given the holidays of the nations. Many of our people actually prefer the pagan holidays over the God given biblical High Holy Days. 

  • Potter’s clay can be molded into the shape that a potter desires. In this case, the God is letting it be known that all the corruption that Edom has brought will be put back in order and we will worship the Lord the way it was meant to be. 

  • By introducing these false holidays, Edom is saying that they are god and believe they can do everything better than God. 

  • Zephaniah 2:13-15 [13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. 14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.] 

  • Times when men played God 

  • Creating artificial life (After 15 years, Dr. Craig Venter, a multimillionaire pioneer in genetics, finally achieved his dream—to create artificial life. His controversial work was published in the journal Science in 2010, and it detailed how he and his team developed “a completely new synthetic life form from a mix of chemicals.”) 

  •  Creating An Alien Organism With Synthetic DNA (Though life on Earth is extremely diverse, surprisingly all of it is encoded by only two pairs of DNA bases, C-G and A-T. Just recently, scientists made a breakthrough: They created an organism that contains the two natural pairs of DNA bases plus a third, artificial one.) 

  • Editing Human Genes (In the past, genetic editing was only confined to animals and plants. But now it is being “aimed squarely at humanity.” This happened after the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority in England gave Kathy Niakan, a researcher from London’s Francis Crick Institute, permission to edit human embryos for scientific purposes.) 

  • Developing Human-Animal Hybrid Organs (Known as chimera, this mix of animal and human DNA in modern medicine was inspired from a monster in Greek mythology, which was part snake, part lion, and part goat.) 

  • Creating Artificial Sperm (Scientists in China were able to create artificial semen in the lab. They extracted embryonic stem cells (which can become any type of cell) from a mouse and then exposed them to various chemicals. The result was primordial germ cells. They then exposed these germ cells to sex hormones and testicular cells. After some time, the germ cells transformed into fully functional sperm cells. The scientists then injected the sperm cells into female mice who later on gave birth to healthy babies.) 

  • Pumpkin and “Trick or Treat” 

  • Has roots back to druid priests of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 

  • At night they would say to give up a virgin of the household for sacrifice. 

  • The carved pumpkin would be have burning flesh within it and it would be placed at the door along with a drawing of a red pentagram as a sign that you would have until morning to give up the virgin or all the heads of the household would be sacrificed to their god Samhein. 

  • Leviticus 18:21 [And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.] 

  • It was a Canaanite custom to sacrifice children to false gods. Even during slavery and the Ku Klux Klan continued this practice along with sacrificing animals. 

  • Dressing up was believed to ward off the evil spirits as a sign to pay homage to the evil spirits for their protection. 

  • Justice League: The New Frontier (Video) – For the origins of superheros and why we should not allow our children to dress up even as them to celebrate Halloween. 

  • These characters are based on the ancient gods of Rome, Greece, and Egypt, who in reality were demonic. 

  • Exodus 22:18 [Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.] 

  • Suffer (Google Dictionary) : archaic – tolerate, put up with, support, accept 

  • It is a law that we are not to allow a witch to live. 

  • During Halloween, some dress as witches, while others actually practice witchcraft (Wicca – celebrate the worship of Satan). 

  • Deuteronomy 18:10-12 

  • 10 [There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,] 

  • To “pass through the fire” is child sacrifice which is more common during Halloween. 

  • Divination (Google Dictionary) – the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means: (Fortune Telling) 

  • Observer of time – Horoscopes 

  • Enchanter – Warlocks (Google Dictionary): a man who practices witchcraft; a wizard or sorcerer. 

  • 11 [Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.] 

  • Charmer (Google Dictionary) – a person with an attractive and engaging personality, typically one who uses this to impress or manipulate others: siren, enchantress 

  • Dealing with charms and items for “luck” 

  • A consulter with familiar spirit is when the spirit of a familiar with you would inhabit a body for communication. 

  • Necromancer (Google Dictionary) – a person who uses witchcraft or sorcery, especially to reanimate dead people or to foretell the future by communicating with them: 

  • 12 [For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.] 

  • Some forms of witchcraft is real and the Most High forbids us from dealing with them. 

  • 1 Samuel 28:7-20 

  • 7 [Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.] 

  • Saul was the first king of Israel of the tribe of Benjamin, whose Holy Spirit was removed from him because of his hatred of David. The same can happen to us if we do not keep the laws of God. 

  • [And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.] 

  • After Saul realized that the Most High wasn’t with him anymore, he sought out a witch who could summon spirits of those that he knew. 

  • [And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?] 

  • Saul did not always go against the laws of God because he did get rid of those who practiced witchcraft. 

  • 10 [And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.] 

  • 11 [Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.] 

  • 12 [And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.] 

  • The woman sees Samuel through the spirit. Because there are no disguises in the spirit world, she was also able to recognize Saul. 

  • 13 [And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.] 

  • The woman saw the spirits of the prophets who have died, rising from the earth and taken up before the Lord. 

  • Psalms 82:6 [I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.] 

  • 14 [And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.] 

  • Mantle – a hooded cape 

  • Saul remembered that this was the attire of Samuel. 

  • 15 [And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.] 

  • This is proof that this witch dealt with real demons. 

  • Elegua (Original Botanica) – Elegua is one of the four Orishas (diety in Yoruba religion) of the Santeria religion. He is also known to be the most important of the four. His importance among the Orishas is due primarily to him being the first of them to be created. The Orishas are warriors, with the other three being named OggunOchosi, and OsunElegua existed before creation and was witness to it after being created by Olodumare. He is the Orisha of the crossroads, which includes all other doors and roads. He is the very personification of destiny and fate and allows for the happiness of men. 

  • Santeria (Elegua) 

  • Brujaria (Witchcraft – Latin American countries) 

  • Shango – a folk religion originating in western Nigeria and now practiced chiefly in parts of the Caribbean, an African god of thunder significant to the Shango religion. 

  • Saul is still blinded and believes he is still doing the right thing even though the Lord has left him. 

  • 16 [Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?] 

  • Samuel is a servant of the Most High God and would not go against the will of God, so there is nothing that he could do. 

  • 17 [And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:] 

  • 18 [Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.] 

  • Samuel is explaining that the Lord left Saul because of his hatred for David, not following the commandments, and not destroying Amalek as he was told to. 

  • 1 Samuel 15:2-3,8-11 [How Saul dealt with Amalek] 

  • 19 [Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.] 

  • Samuel told Saul that he would be put to death. 

  • 20 [Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.] 

  • Edom pays for these show to indoctrinate our children to make them comfortable with dealing with demonic activity. 

  • Fantasia – The Sorcerers Apprentice (Worship of Sun, Moon, and Stars, and ultimately Diana/Astarte) 

  • Broom – traveling to one plane to another, Astro projection 

  • Acts 16:16-21 

  • 16 [And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:] 

  • The young woman was able to prophesy through demonic forces. Her masters would benefit financially by exploiting her. 

  • Soothsaying/soothsayer – a person supposed to be able to foresee the future. 

  • 17 [The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.] 

  • She had the spirit of divinition where she only needed to look at you to read the spirit within you. 

  • 18 [And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.] 

  • 19 [And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,] 

  • Paul knew that there was a familiar spirit within the woman that gave her that ability and knowledge. 

  • 20 [And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,] 

  • They did not care that the young woman was healed, they just cared about losing their source of income. 

  • 21 [And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.] 

  • Whatever city the prophets went to, they taught the laws of God in the name of Christ. The masters believed that because they were Roman citizens, that they no longer had to follow the laws of the bible. 

  • 22 [And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.] 

  • Paul and the prophets were beaten for teaching the law in the faith of Christ. 

  • Acts 19:13-20 

  • The Israelites who knew the law, would twist it to feed their own sins, such as witchcraft. 

  • 13 [Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.] 

  • Vagabond (Google Dictionary) – a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. 

  • Exorcist (Google Dictionary) – a person who expels or attempts to expel a supposed evil spirit from a person or place: 

  • Some Israelites, those who are bums, while teaching will use a book of witchcraft as a source to try and call out others over nonsense. 

  • Curious books – books that dealt with witchcraft 

  • There are those among us that have evil spirits which can include sickness such as cerebral palsy, being deaf or dumb, or mentally for those are lunatic or have a murderous spirit where they are not able to help themselves. 

  • Lunatic (Definitions.net) – a person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind 

  • 14 [And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.] 

  • Historically, when the Jews would go into witchcraft they would use a star. 

  • The seal of Solomon a star from when he delved into witchcraft. It is a six pointed hexagram that the Jewish people use today who call it the shield of David 

  • The symbol is found in the Kabbalah 

  • the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible, first transmitted orally and using esoteric methods (including ciphers). It reached the height of its influence in the later Middle Ages and remains significant in Hasidism. 

  • Jewish Virtual Library – The Magen David (Heb. מָגֵן דָּוִד; shield of David more commonly known as the Star of David),  the symbol most commonly associated with Judaism today, is the hexagram or six-pointed star formed by two equilateral triangles which have the same center and are placed in opposite directions. From as early as the Bronze Age it was used – possibly as an ornament and possibly as a magical sign – in many civilizations and in regions as far apart as Mesopotamia and Britain. Iron Age examples are known from India and from the Iberian peninsula prior to the Roman conquest. Occasionally it appears on Jewish artefacts, such as lamps and seals, but without having any special and recognizable significance. The oldest undisputed example is on a seal from the seventh century B.C.E. found in Sidon and belonging to one Joshua b. Asayahu. In the Second Temple period, the hexagram was often used by Jews and non-Jews alike alongside the pentagram (the five-pointed star), and in the synagogue of Capernaum (second or third century C.E.) it is found side by side with the pentagram and the swastika on a frieze. 

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  • The sons of the chief priests were meddling with the dark arts such as divination and soothsaying. 

  • 15 [And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?] 

  • The spirits know the sons and daughters of the Most High who are diligent in the truth so we may try to fake it on the outside, but our spirit can be clearly seen by spiritual forces. 

  • 16 [And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.] 

  • The spirit they tried to cast out was not affected by them and cause the man to fight the others and win against them to the point that their clothing had been torn off. 

  • 17 [And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.] 

  • Greeks are the scattered Israelites that followed Greek customs. 

  • Hellenist (The Free Dictionary) 

  • 1 One in Hellenistic times who adopted the Greek language and culture, especially a Jew of the Diaspora. 2 A devotee or student of Greek civilization, language, or literature 

  • American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 

  • This situation became well known, even to Ephesus and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 

  • 18 [And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.] 

  • Many that believed who before were following the sons of Sceva and the chief priests came and confessed their sins because they saw that witchcraft could not keep evil spirits from them. 

  • 19 [Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.] 

  • Many burned their books, which was very expensive, of witchcraft and anything that dealt with Satan, showing everyone that they were repenting of their sins. 

  • Deuteronomy 10:12-13 

  • 12 [And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,] 

  • After learning who we are and believing it, we must find out what the Lord requires of us. 

  • 13 [To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?] 

  • To love and fear the Lord, we must keep His commandments and statutes. 

  • 20 [So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.] 

  • Dressing up the children, no matter what they may be, to celebrate that day, it is all rooted in evil. The pagans would celebrate Halloween while the catholics would celebrate All Saints Day. Both would dress up for their respective holiday. Halloween is also a time when transvestites would come out. 

  • Deuteronomy 22:5 [The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.] 

  • Pants are what pertain to a man, there is no scripture where women were told to wear pants. 

  • If a man allows his wife or daughter to dress out of order, he is also not in order and has an effeminate spirit while also being fearful. 

  • Everyone who is a cross-dresser is an abomination to the Lord. 

  • When seeing a camp, you must determine whether or not they believe that Christ is the Messiah and if they keep the laws of God or not. One thing to look for is if the women in the congregation are at least keeping the dress code of the bible. 

  • Pants for women are a strange thing to the elder women. They grew up wearing dresses. 

  • Woman’s Rights Movement (Lesbian movement – Late 1800 to Early 1900s, especially around World War 2, where women dressed as men) 

  • It began with the edomite woman and then Israel would join them after. 

  • Exodus 28:41-42 

  • 41 [And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.] 

  • 42 [And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:] 

  • The men were told to wear pants, not just the priests. 

  • Exodus 19:6 [And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.] 

  • Many superheroes give homage to creatures of the night 

  • Batman, Spiderman, Blue Beetle 

  • Zephaniah 1:8 [And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD’S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.] 

  • God will kill the people who are dressed in strange clothing during the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Even the children will not be spared from the wrath of God. Cross-dressing is also considered strange apparel. 

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 

  • 16 [And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.] 

  • Halloween is an idolatrous practice that God does not deal with. The Israelites are the temple of the living God and we must act accordingly so that the spirit of the Lord can dwell within us. 

  • Wisdom of Solomon 1:5 [“For the holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and remove from thoughts that are without understanding, and will not abide when unrighteousness cometh in.”] 

  • 17 [Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,] 

  • We must come out of the customs of the nations and keep the law of God, thus saith the Lord. To “don’t touch”, is to not meddle or participate with the wickedness. 

  • 18 [And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.] 

  • Revelation 18:2,4, 21-23 

  • [And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.] 

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  • [And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.] 

  • The 12 tribes of Israel in Babylon the Great, the United States of America, must come out of the customs and traditions of America. God’s people are captive in Babylon and we cannot be a part of the sins of this land. This is the way to have mercy when the plagues come upon this land. 

  • 21 [And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.] 

  • America is prophesied to be destroyed through violence and nuclear war. 

  • 22 [And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;] 

  • The music of this land will not be heard again, and there will be no work here. 

  • 23 [And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.] 

  • The merchants are all those that do trade and stock exchange will no longer be here. 

  • By the witchcraft of America, all the nations were deceived. 

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