Note: What this man says about the name of Yahweh is inaccurate.

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This video will show with great detail how to correctly pronounced the Name of Yahweh, and why it is pronounced the way it is. Through such disclosure, all believers will be granted a fuller understanding of who their Master is, and finally understand why the Holy name has existed in obscurity and confusion for so long. Blessings in the Most Holy and Blessed Yahshua Messiah, Jesus our Saviour.

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It is demonstrably acknowledged that Jesus, Yahshua the Messiah, was the wisdom of Yahweh (1Cor 1:24). It is also settled that He had an understanding of the Holy Scriptures that could not be compared with any other individual before or after Him. For modern theologians to presume that the Messiah could err in scriptural doctrine is a faulty assertion, one that has been promulgated, codified and believed in by almost all. Claiming that Yahshua Jesus had an eschewed knowledge on the actual nature of what many modern believers agree to be disembodied living human spirits, or disordered angels, is a great oversight in the theologian’s tradition-motivated diligence to substantiate radical demonology and literal demoniac possession. Because of misunderstandings regarding the Messiah’s culture and the Holy Scriptures, many have run head first into superstitious conclusions about doctrines concerned with demons, and this is due to the New Testaments simple and clear matter of fact-ness regarding demonism. A great problem that exists is that the superficial treatment of demons in the New Testament is, when read outside of and apart from its natural context, incorrectly understood in almost every one of its treatments on the matter. Meaning that in order for any to correctly understand what’s truthfully stated, a certain amount of work is required, and this work is the reader’s responsibility. In order for the Messiah to have believed in the existence of literal beings whom possessed the bodies of living people, He would have to have been receptive to pagan ruminations and their vain philosophies. Furthermore, for the Messiah to believe in literal demons He would have to have been acting in a way latently antagonistic towards the various and plainly stated truths discussed in the only scriptures He had as foundationally sure, those being they found in the Tanakh. If it were true that He did ignore the words in the Tanakh, this would have brought multifarious problems into His ministry, problems that scripturally could not exist if He was to remain the promised Messiah. With acknowledgement of this, it is our responsibility to re-align the actions and teachings of the One Holy Messiah with the truths found in His Tanakh, and then understand the sure road of explanation for why Yahshua would seem to both teach and substantiate the existence of disembodied spirits who afflict, disease and possess the living in a Gentle influenced Israel, while the Scriptures He lived upon clearly stated exactly the opposite.

The Messiah was a law giver. It could be argued that He was also the very Word that spoke to the Prophets. In the flesh He was demonstrated to be the wisdom of Yahweh Himself. To suggest that the Messiah had erred in one of the most fundamental and clearly defined Old Testament doctrines (regarding posthumous spiritual existence before the judgment), would be first on behalf of the educated a gross oversight, and secondly, a reading into, or more properly stated eisegesis of the scriptures. By inspiration, the Messiah told Paul that men were appointed once to die than after this the judgment (Heb 9:27), and the Spirit of Holiness also told Solomon that when men died they could no longer think or act (Ecc 9:10), yet the superstitious Hellenized Pharisee would have all people believe that after death those who passed away in an angry state of mind could spiritually leave their graves and seek new lodgings in the abodes of the sinful or somehow susceptible persons. Teachings on the spirits of the dead have not come from 1st Samuel verse 28, nor had it come from the Messiahs parable about Lazerous and the rich man, which I mention arose much later than the belief of the spiritual life of evil spirits, but was one attained from historical heathendom, either Greek, Roman, Babylonian, Indian or Persian; this idea came fully prepared with a complete demonology as well. Such beliefs were so well feared by the people of the first century, that the apostles on no less than two occasions believed Jesus to be a wayward spirit, and this was after they had been educated by Him during His ministry. The notion of demonic possession was a superstition that was very firmly rooted in the cultural consciousness of their time – as it remains so concreted everywhere today.

For brevities sake here are the Old Testament scriptures that confirm the impossibility of posthumous thoughts and existence before the judgement.

Ecc 8:8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death

Ecc 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Ecc 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Psa 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Psa 146:3-4 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

One of the first Old Testament examples of an individual expressing the belief in spiritual possession comes from the King of Babylon. This is fitting, seeing that spirit possession is an belief taken from Babylonian mysteries.

Dan 4:9 “O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. (KJV)

The Aramaic source says the “Spirit of the Holy God” singular. This still promotes belief in the notion of spiritual possession.This scripture has many different translations, but all hold to the idea that a spirit inhabits the body of Daniel.

What Jesus actually taught about Demonic Possession

Many people believe that Jesus never corrected the unashamed errors contained in the beliefs of demonic possession existing all over the 1^st century world, but such conjecture is incomplete and because of its incompleteness absolutely erroneous. In actuality, Yahshua Jesus openly condemned the heathenized Pharisee belief that demons could ever enter the body and control one’s mind or will. The rebuke of this notion took place while He taught in Galilee which was a section of Israel that had been utterly steeped in demonic superstitions.

Evil spirits and hand washing: Jesus’ public rebuke against the belief of demonic possession.

The account of Jesus’ public rebuke of demonic possession is as such:

(Mar 7:1-3) “Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. (2) And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. (3) For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.”

The Judean Pharisees warned against eating with unwashed hands for various ritual reasons, each of these finding authority in post Tanakh texts (most finding allusion for authority from the Tanakh). One example of such a decree is found in the Talmud Bavli Hullin 106a-b.

The account continues:

(Mar 7:14-23) “14 And when [Yahshua] had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. 16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? 20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the [mind] of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

Explanation

A very important element of this public rebuke was that the Pharisees from Jerusalem did not in any way disagree with the Messiahs words about the affects of eating with unclean hands. Since the Pharisees from Jerusalem did not believe in demonic possession, Yahshua had used their beliefs as supports through their lack of denial, making them witnesses for what He now publicly taught the people as incorrect.

To elaborate on the reason for why Messiah said the words that He did, a book titled Demons and Jewish Magic highlights the significance of the purposes of hand washing, and why the Pharisees took it so seriously. “The connection between demons and uncleanness was made to serve important hygienic ends. Evil spirits, sometimes called "spirits of uncleanness," and once identified by the name bat melech, rest upon unwashed hands, contaminate foods handled with them, and endanger the lives of those who eat such food. Seven occasions which require a ritual washing of the hands (which destroys or dislodges the demons) were enumerated; most important among these was upon arising in the morning, for the night creates a special susceptibility to spirit contamination. Even on Yom Kippur when no ablutions might be performed, the hands must be washed in the morning. Touching the eyes, ears, nose and mouth with unwashed hands spells trouble; no doubt it was feared that the evil spirits would enter the body through these orifices. (… if, in speaking of infection, our vocabulary is more "scientific," the sense remains the same.) The demon of uncleanness, entering the eyes, could cause one’s glance to have a devastating effect upon the innocent passer-by; it might even be responsible for the loss of one’s memory, and ultimately complete loss of mind.” (p.33 Demons and disease Jewish magic)

It can be fairly presumed that the Pharisees from Jerusalem were more concerned with the breaking of tradition then the negative effects of catching a demon from eating food with unclean hands. This perspective will be emphasized further in following passages. I must highlight that when speaking to the Apostles in the house the Messiah focused on food, and how it could not contaminate, but in doing so He completely disregarded the existence of evil spirits and taught a valuable lesson that showed his followers that evil comes from the mind.

A side note and point of interest is how the evil spirits of hand washing could cause a person to develop the Evil eye[1]. In the above passage Jesus mentioned the evil eye, and it is clear that He surly did not believe in its existence, but he mentioned this superstition intentionally because He knew about the traditional teachings surrounding unclean hands and demonic possession which caused the evil eye. Through its mention, He wished to prove that the evil eye was nothing more than human envy if anything at all. I would also like to note that the evil spirits who entered the body as mention in the book on demons above, are by admission of the author equated with sicknesses caused by touching susceptible parts of the body with contaminated hands.

Not washing hands causes demonic possession continued:

“The custom of washing the hands after a funeral is very widespread … Efforts were made to find a Biblical precedent for this act, but … there was a general admission that it was done ‘to dispel the spirits of uncleanness’ which cling to one’s person, these being ‘the demons that follow them home.’” (page 179).

In the above scripture we notice that Yahshua Jesus told the people that they lacked understanding. Belief in demon possession to Yahshua was without question both folly and ignorance. By understanding that Jesus had corrected the erroneous beliefs about demonic infiltration and possession, we must further evaluate the attitudes regarding demonic possession held by the people in both Galilee and Judea.

Jesus educated the people in Galilee (Important):

Belief in demons in Galilee and Judea

“Based on his studies of the relevant Talmudic literature, Cambridge rabbinical scholar Herbert Loewe concluded that during the first century AD rabbis in Galilee and Mesopotamia generally believed in the literal existence of demons, while those in Judea did not. … Loewe next summarizes the results of his findings: "In investigating Talmudic evidence as to spirits, the reader will notice, at the outset, different attitudes adopted by the Rabbis in dealing with this question. In some cases the reality of demons seems to be taken for granted absolutely; in others it seems, with no less certainty, to be denied. Stories occur in which both these attitudes may be traced simultaneously. The reason for this may be found if the nationality of the respective teachers be sought. It has already been stated that Galilee was the centre of Palestinian demonology, and it will almost invariably be found that Galilaean teachers accepted, while Judaean teachers rejected, the existence of spirits. The numerous instances which the NT furnishes would have been impossible save in Galilee; there is a strong similarity between these and those adduced by Galilaean Rabbis. The same must be said of those Rabbis who came from Mesopotamia. And they were brought up in surroundings in which superstition was rife, their teaching was tinged by a belief in spirits, and in comparison with them the clarity of Palestinian teaching stands out in bold relief.‟ Loewe, “Demons and Spirits (Jewish),” Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, ed. 4, James Hastings (Edinburgh, 1911), p. 612-13.

"This background information opens a window on demonic activity during the ministry of Christ. Belief in demons was taught and fostered in the north by the local rabbis; conversely, those in the south were encouraged by a sceptical outlook by the Judaean teachers. Since belief in demons was rampant in the north, many people attributed sickness to demons. Because demon belief was much less common in the south [the above-cited scholarly source implies that it was virtually nonexistent among Judaean rabbis], then the demons did not exist either." (The Geographical Distribution of Demon-Possession: Mapping demon belief in the new testament pg 6)

Demon possession was not Geographically uniform – evidence against the belief

“Demon-possession in the Gospel accounts is not a geographically-uniform phenomenon. Specific cases of demon-possession in the synoptics occur in regional clusters, always in northern environs such as Galilee, rather than occurring throughout every location through which Christ travelled and performed healings. Conversely, not a single case of demon-possession in Judea or Jerusalem is recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Moreover, the Synoptics include several quantitative summaries of demon-possession that imply that demon-possession was a common and even characteristic phenomenon in Galilee and the northern regions. No comparable statements for Judean areas are found in the Gospel records. Finally, certain ostensibly physical pathological conditions, such as blindness, deafness and muteness, which are sometimes attributed to demon-possession in the north, are never so characterized in the south, even though descriptions of these conditions do occur in texts commenting on the Judean ministry.” (The Geographical Distribution pg.1)

Summery

It has been made clear that Yahshua Jesus did in fact correct the beliefs about demonic possession during His ministry. Through teaching that evil came from within out of a corrupt mindset agrees with many New Testament epistles (James 1:14-15 &c), and clearly states that nothing can enter into a man or women to defile them spiritually. This is to say that sin is the fruit of the human will. Yahshua clearly told all of the people who were present that demons were not able to enter into them and take possession of their minds and will, and that this notion is impossible (for even Yahweh Himself doesn’t do this, even Yahshua Jesus the embodiment of Yahweh had a free will). The fact that Jesus made reference to the evil eye shows that He was concerned with the numerous superstitions that currently ensnared the people. For Yahshua to command the people to understand shows that they as a whole held onto incorrect ideas that needed correcting. The fact that He rebuked His apostles shows that the practice of hand washing was not the chief focus of His reprove, but it was the belief in demonic possession (which the apostles (most coming from Galilee or surrounding area did also believe in)) that was the object of his scrutiny, nothing less. Since Jesus knew that the Judean Pharisees would not contradict His rebuke, He purposely taught this lesson in their presence using them as an aid. Jesus not only corrected the Pharisees flawed reasoning about hand washing obtained from the Talmud, but He also used their perspective on the demon doctrine to the advantage of the people. This topic of possession, and how Jesus treated it, is in absolute perfect agreement with the Tanakh; and it also shows that even though the Messiah used the term Demon at other times when speaking about those suffering from mental or otherwise un-diagnosable ailments, He not only understood the actual cause of their true diseases, but He used this popular term so the people of His time would understand, and relate with Him. Yahshua Jesus had in no way justified the existence of actual demons human or angelic nor demonic possession.

2. The following treatments will go through the history of the word demon, demoniac, and all other terms directly connected to demon possession, and will show how these terms were historically derived from outside of Israel. It will continue to show that when said terms were used in Israel they represented nothing more than names for people suffering from various difficult illnesses, or parable based mythical beings for stories.

How the concept of demons as the spirits of dead men came into popularity

Popular Lectures and Addresses By Rev. A. Campbell 1868

The subject of demons, as forming a portion of the real antiquities of the world as connected with Pagan, Jewish and Christian theology the subject of demons, sometimes called devils, not in their fictitious, but in their true character, is that which I propose to discuss; for even here, as in everything else, there are the fact and the fable, the true and the false, the real and the imaginary. The extravagant fancies of the poets, the ghosts and spectres of the dark ages, have spread their sable mantles upon this subject, and involved it either in philosophical dubiety or in a, blind indiscriminate infidelity. The Christian philosopher in this department, as in most others, finds truth and fable blended in the same tradition; and therefore, neither awed by authority; nor allured by the fascinations of novelty, he institutes an examination into the merits of this subject, which, if true, cannot but deeply interest the thoughtful, and if false, should be banished from the minds of all.

That a class of beings designated demons has been an element of the faith, an object of dread and veneration, of all ages and nations, as far back as memory reaches, no one who believes in a spiritual system, no one who regards the volumes of divine inspiration, or who is even only partially acquainted with Pagan and Jewish antiquity, can reasonably doubt. But concerning these demons, of what order of intelligences, of what character and destiny, of what powers intellectual and moral, there has been much debate, and there is need of further and more satisfactory examination. Before entering either philosophically or practically into this investigation, it is necessary that we define the true and proper meaning of the term demon. This word, it is said, is of Grecian origin and character of which, however, we have not full assurance. In that language it is written and pronounced daimoon, and, according to some etymologists, is legitimately descended from a very ancient verb, pronounced daioo, which means to discriminate, to know. Daimoon, or demon, therefore, simply indicates a person of intelligence—-a knowing one. Thus, before the age of philosophy, or the invention of the name, those were called demons, as a title of honor, who afterwards assumed the more modest title of philosophers. Aristotle, for his great learning, was called a demon, as was the celebrated ‘I’hucydides: hence among the Platonists it was for some time a title of honor, But this, it must be observed, was a special appropriation, like our use of the words divine and reverend. When we apply these titles to sinful men, who, because of their calling, ought to be not only intelligent, but of a divine and celestial temper and morality, we use them by a special indulgence from that sovereign pontiff with whom is the jus et norma Loquendi [right and norm of speaking]. But as some of the Platonists elevated the spirits of departed heroes, public benefactors and distinguished men into a species of demigods or mediators between them and the supreme Divinity, as some of our forefathers were accustomed to regard the souls of departed saints, this term began to be used in a more general sense. Among some philosophers it became the title of an object of worship; while, on the other hand, it degenerated into the genii of poetry and imagination.

In tracing the popular transitions of words, permit me, gentlemen, to say that we are not to imagine that they ceremoniously advance, like our naval and military officers, from one rank to another, by some systematic or conventional agreement. On the contrary, the transitions are exceedingly anomalous, and sometimes inverted. In this instance the term demon" from simply indicating a knowing one, became the title of a human spirit when divested of its clay tenement, because of its supposed initiation into the secrets of another world. Thus a separated spirit became a genius, a demigod, a mediator, a divinity of the ancient superstition, according to its acquirements in this state of probation. But we shall better understand the force and import of this mysterious word from its earliest acceptation among the elder Pagans, Jews and Christians, than from the speculations of etymologists and lexicographers. Historical facts, then, and not etymological speculations, shall decide not only its meaning, but the character and rank of those beings on whom, by common consent, this significant title was conferred.

To whom, then, among Pagan writers shall we make our first appeal? Shall we not at once carry up the question to the most venerable Hesiod, the oldest of Grecian bards, whose style even antedates that of Homer himself almost one hundred years? Shall we not appeal to the genealogist of all the gods, the great theogonist of Grecian mythology? Who more likely than he to be acquainted with the ancient traditions of demons? And what is the sum of his testimony in the case? Hear him speak in the words of Plutarch :_U The spirits of mortals become demons when separated from their earthly bodies." The Grecian biographist not only quotes with approbation the views of Hesiod, but corroborates them by the result of his own researches, avowing his conviction that the demons of the Greeks were the ghosts and genii of departed men; and that they go up and down the earth as observers, and even rewarders, of men; and although not actors themselves, they encourage others to act in harmony with their views and characters." Zenocrates too, is quoted by Aristotle, extends the term· to the souls of men before death, and calls them demons while in the body. To the good demons and the spirits of deceased heroes they allotted the office of mediators between gods. And men. In this light Zoroaster, Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Plutarch, Celsus, Apuleius, and many others regarded the demons of their times. Whoever, indeed, will be at pains to examine the Pagan mythologies, one and all, will discover that some doctrine of demons, as respects their nature, abodes, characters or employment, is the ultimate foundation of their whole superstructure; and that the radical idea of all the dogmata of their priests, and the fancies and fables of their poeta, is found in that most ancient and veritable tradition-that the spirits of men survive their fallen tabernacles, and live in a disembodied state from death to the dissolution of material nature. To these spirits, in the character of genii, gods or demigods, they assigned the fates and fortunes of men and countries. With them a hero on earth became a demon in hades, and a demigod, a numen, a divinity, in the skies. It is not without some reason that the witty and ingenious Lucian makes his dialogist, in the orthodoxy of his age, ask and answer the following questions:- What is man’ A mortal god. And what is God! An immortal man. In one sentence, all Pagan antiquity affirms that from Titan and Saturn, the Poetic progeny of Coelusm and Terra, down to Aecnlapius, Proteus "and Minos, all their divinities were the ghosts of dead men, and were 80 regarded by the most erudite of the Pagans themselves.

We see that historicity and scholarly knowable prove the specific source for both the word and imaginary ideal of what are commonly called demons. Can we honestly, with a holy heart presume Jesus took these ideas from none believing, ignorant and lost men? Let us not even remotely think so.

How early Theological sources viewed Demoniac’s (The demon possessed)

A theological, biblical and Ecclesiastical Dictionary 1815 John Robson

DEMONIAC, a human being whose volition and other mental faculties are overpowered and restrained, and his body possessed and actuated by some created spiritual being of superior power. This appears to be the determinate sense of the word; but it is disputed whether any of mankind were ever in this unfortunate condition. The following are the principal arguments on each side of the question.

1. Arguments against the existence of demoniacs. – The Greeks and Romans believed in the reality of demoniacal possession. They supposed that spiritual beings sometimes entered into the sons or daughters of men, and distinguished themselves by capricious freaks, deeds of wanton mischief, or prophetic enunciations. But in the instances in which they supposed this to happen, it is evident that no such thing took place. Their accounts of the state and condition of those persons whom they believed to be possessed in this supernatural manner, plainly shew that what they ascribed to the influence of demons was merely the effect of natural diseases. Among the Latins, all the words which describe demoniacs, or persons possessed by ghosts, include in them the idea of madness. Their lareati, cerriti, and lymphatici, were all madmen, persons of a disordered mind, and in the same unfortunate situation as those madmen, idiots, or melancholy persons, whom we have among ourselves. To be full of lareae, or the ghosts of wicked men, was a phrase expressive of the most outrageous madness. In like manner among the Greeks, rage and phrenzy were the usual attendants of inspiration and possession; and the same word denoted both the being mad, and having a demon. The highest degrees of rage and distraction are expressed by the term borrowed from evil demons. Lucian describes demoniacs as lunatic, and as staring with their eyes, foaming at the mouth, and being speechless. It appears still more evident that all the persons spoken of in the New Testament as possessed with devils, were either mad or epileptic, and precisely in the same condition with the madmen and epileptics of modern times. Some of the Jews, offended with Christ’s discourses, said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? The expressions he hath a devil, and is mad, were certainly used on this occasion as synonymous. With all their virulence, they would not surely ascribe to him at once two things that were inconsistent and contradictory. Those who thought more favourably of Christ, replied to the calumny of his enemies, These are not the words of him that hath a devil; meaning that they did not discover in his discourse the ravings of a madman, or of one disordered in his understanding. The Jews ascribed to demons not only raving, but also the melancholy madness of John, who secluded himself from intercourse with the world, and was distinguished by abstinence and acts of mortification, they said, He hath a demon. The youth, whose father applied to Jesus to cure him, was plainly epileptic; and the disorder was attended with a deprivation of the understanding, or loss of sense, and with the signs of phrenzy. This appears from the language of his father: Have mercy on my son, for he is lunatic, and sore vexed with a demon: for often times he falleth into the fire, and often into the water. In the interval of his fits, the demon was supposed to depart from him. Indeed, everything related in the New Testament concerning demoniacs, proves that they were persons affected with such natural diseases as are not uncommon among mankind in this present age. When the symptoms of the disordered cured by the Saviour and his apostles, as cases of demonical possession, correspond so exactly at the present time, it would be absurd to impute them to a supernatural cause. It is much more consistent with common sense and sound philosophy, to suppose that our Saviour and his apostles adopted the vulgar language in the speaking of those unfortunate persons, who, without any foundation, were imagined to be possessed with demons. It is customary with the sacred writers, and our Saviour himself, to speak on many subjects in the language of the vulgar, though known and admitted to have been originally grounded on a false philosophy. When therefore, the sacred historians tell us, that one person was possessed by seven demons, and another by a legion, is it not more probable to suppose that they adopted the phraseology of the Jews, than to imagine that diseases which arise at present from natural causes, were produced in ancient times by the intervention of demons, or that evil spirits still continue to enter into mankind in all cases of madness, melancholy, or epilepsy? Besides, it is by no means a sufficient reason for receiving any doctrine as true, that it has been generally received through the world. Error, like an epidemical disease, is communicated from one to another. In certain circumstances, too, the influence of the imagination predominates, and restrains the exertions of reason. Many false opinions have extended their influence through a very wise circle, and for a long time maintained it. On all such occasions, therefore, it becomes us to enquire not so much how generally any opinion has been received, or how long it has prevailed, as from what cause it has originated, and on what evidence it rests. In every part of the world that falls under our observations, we perceive a fixed order of causes and effects, which is not disturbed by any invisible beings; and the preservation of this order appears to be essential to the happiness of the creation. May we not hence conclude that the human system, in particular, is governed in the same manner, and subjected to invariable laws, which God alone can control? Are we to take it for granted that God will permit these laws to be controlled, merely for the sake of subjecting the health’s, the understandings, and the lives of mankind, to the caprice and malice of evil spirits? This appears utterly repugnant to all our ideas of the equity, the goodness, and the mercy of the gracious Parent of mankind.

2. Arguments for the existence of demoniacs. – It would appear that, in the time of our Saviour, demoniacal possession was very common among the Jews, and also in the neighbouring nations. Many were the evil spirits, that Jesus is related in the gospels to have ejected from patients, who were brought to him as possessed and tormented by those malevolent demons. His apostles, too, and the first Christians who were very active and successful in the propagation of Christianity, frequently exerted on similar occasions the miraculous powers with which they were endowed. The demons displayed a degree of knowledge and malevolence which sufficiently distinguished them from human beings. The language in which the demoniacs are mentioned, and the actions and sentiments ascribed to them in the New Testament, shew that our Saviour and his apostles did not consider the idea of demoniacal possession merely as a vulgar error concerning the origin of a disease or diseases produced by natural causes. The more enlightened cannot always avoid the use of metaphorical expressions, which, though founded on error, yet have been so established in language by the influence of custom, that they cannot be suddenly dismissed. However, in descriptions of characters, in a narrative of facts, and in laying down systems of doctrine, we require different rules to be observed. If any person, in compliance with popular opinions, should talk seriously of the existence, dispositions, declarations, and actions of a race of beings whom he knew to be entirely fabulous, we certainly could not praise him for his integrity; we must suppose, that he either exults in irony over the weak credulity of those around him, or that he takes advantage of their weakness, with the dishonesty and selfish views of an imposter. If he himself should pretend to any connection with them, particular honours from his contemporaries, what ever might be the dignity of his character in all other respects, no person would hesitate to brand him as an impostor. In this light we must regard the conduct of our Saviour and his apostles, if the idea of demoniacal possession be considered merely as a vulgar error. They talked and acted as if they believed that evil spirits had actually entered into those who were brought to them as possessed with devils, and as if those spirits had been actually expelled by their authority from the unhappy persons possessed. They also demanded that their authority and declarations should be believed, in consequence of their performing such mighty works, and thus triumphing over the powers of hell. The reality of demoniacal possession rests on the same evidence as the gospel system in general. There is nothing unreasonable in this doctrine, it does not appear to contradict those ideas which the general appearances of nature and the series of events, suggest, concerning the benevolence and wisdom of the Deity, by which he regulates the affairs of the universe. We often fancy ourselves able to comprehend things to which our understanding is wholly inadequate; we frequently persuade ourselves, that the whole extent of the works of the Deity must be well known to us, and that his designs must always be such as we can understand. We are then ready, whenever any difficulty arises in considering the conduct of providence, to model things according to our own ideas, to deny that the Deity can be the author of things for which we are not able to account, and to assert that he must act on every occasion in a manner consistent with our narrow views. This is the pride of reason, which seems to have suggested the strongest objections against the reality of demoniacal possession. But the Deity may certainly connect one order of his creatures with another. We perceive mutual relations and a beautiful connection in every part of nature within the sphere of our observation. The inferior animals are connected with mankind, and subject to their authority, not only in instances in which it is exerted for their advantage, but even where it is tyrannically abused to their destruction. Among the evils to which mankind have been subjected, might not demoniacal possession be one? The Supreme Being may employ whatever agents he thinks proper in the execution of his purposes: he may either commission an angel or let loose a devil, as well as bend the human will, or communicate any particular impulse to matter. All that revelation makes known, all that human reason can conjecture, concerned the existence of various orders of spiritual beings, good and bad, is perfectly consistent with, and favourable to, the doctrine of demoniacal possession. It is mentioned in the New Testament in such language, and such narratives are related concerning it, that the gospels can be regarded only as parts of an imposture and Jesus Christ be considered as a person who took advantage of the weakness and ignorance of his contemporaries, if this doctrine be only a vulgar error. In short, it teaches nothing inconsistent with the general conduct of providence; and the pride of reason alone, not the canton of philosophy, suggests objections against this doctrine. Farmer’s Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament; Dr. Worthington’s Impartial Inquiry into the case of the Gospel Demoniacs; Fell’s inquiry into the Heathen and the Scripture Doctrine of Daemons.

The positive element found in this second argument is that it kneels to the truthfulness of Yahshua Jesus’ teachings. Since the Messiah did in fact teach against the existence of said beings, He has eradicated this second argument leaving us with the first and only the first to choose from.

Three inquiries on the following scriptural subjects 1854 Walter Balfour

That Christ should adopt the common language of the day on this subject, as well as on others, is certainly no matter of surprise. Nor does it follow that by so doing he confirmed the people in the doctrine of real possessions. It is common, always and everywhere, to employ, on given subjects, the popular lan­guage of the day, and that without being held accountable for the errors from which it took its rise. We use the word lunacy, but we do not believe that the moon has anything to do with insanity; and we speak also of St. Anthony’s fire, and St. Vitas’ dance, without believing in the power and existence of these saints, much less that they are the authors of the disorders bear­ing their names. And so we say of a man that ‘he is out of his head,’ ‘ has lost his senses,’ &c.; which expressions are far from being philosophical, yet are universally used. We speak, like­wise, of ‘catching cold,’ as if it were something to be laid hold of, or seized with the hands; of a fever leaving a patient, as though it had a personality ; of a disorder attaking him, as if it came upon him like an armed man ; which phrases, according to the strict construction of language, are grossly incorrect, and yet are everywhere’ current. Now it would be just as unreasonable to conclude, that because a physician calls a certain disease St. Anthony’s fire, he therefore believes it to be caused by that saint, or because he says a fever leaves a patient, it has an individuality, and goes about from place to place,— as to conclude that because Christ adopted the popular language of his age respecting demo­niacal possession, he really believed it, or because he represents the demon as departing, or going out of the insane, he supposed it to be anything more than the disorder. (pg. 392)

Perhaps it will be said, this reasoning, though plausible, is not satisfactory; for we cannot think that Christ would have adopted the phraseology of his times on this subject, if he had not received the opinion in which it originated. Suppose we grant this, do we thereby avoid difficulty 1. If we admit the existence of demons, we must admit also the common opinion that they produced insanity, fits, and various other diseases. Dr. Barnes unhesitatingly adopts this absurdity, in opposition to all medical science. While that science explains the causes of diseases, and accounts for them on natural principles, and treats them in accordance with their origin, he places himself in direct opposition to it, and attributes insanity and other diseases to demons. Hear him: "We still see a multitude of cases that no man can prove not to be produced by the presence of an evil spirit. Who would attempt to say that some evil being may not have much to do in the case of madmen ?"—Com. on Matt. 4: 24. Rev. H. J. Hipley, in his Notes on the Gospels, endorses this idea. Now we are frank to confess that we cannot thus array the Bible against medical science; and we find it much easier to suppose that Christ adopted the common language of his age in regard to demons, without intending to endorse it, than to suppose that medical science is entirely wrong in the idea that disease has a natural cause. Medical men of this age are not alone in their theory in regard to diseases. Many of the learned in the age of Christ had the same theory. Aristotle said that those supposed to have demons were merely under the influence of melancholy. Hippoc­rates wrote a work to prove that epilepsy was the effect of natu­ral causes. Plotinus says only the vulgar held that diseases were caused by demons. Origen says this was the opinion of physi­cians in his times. Fasidonius, the most eminent physician of his times, affirms that insanity was owing, not to demons, but to a redundancy of peccant humors. The opinions of such men are worthy of consideration, for they judged from a knowledge of men and disease, and were not swayed by vulgar superstitions. (393-394)

Demons cannot be fallen angels

Now if demons were fallen angels the fact was unknown to the Jewish people. Their idea of them was entirely different. We have the best authority for saying that the common opinion among them was, that demons were the spirits of the dead. Josephus, in his writings, makes frequent reference to them ; and in his Jewish War, book vii., chap, vi., sect. 3, speaking of a very remarkable root he says, " Yet after all this pains in getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons, which are no other than the spirits of the wicked, that enter into men that are alive and kill them, unless they can obtain some help against them." Here was the Jewish opinion. Demons were the spirits of the wicked, and not fallen angels. Admit, then, that in the time of Christ such spirits did actually possess men, and it affords not a particle of-proof that angels fell from heaven. Dr. Barnes, therefore, gains nothing to sustain his theory respecting fallen angels, and is reduced to the necessity of admitting that demons were only the spirit of dead men. (395)

in conclusion, let me say, in thus adapting himself to the lan­guage of his times, Jesus shows that it was better to allow a mere superstition, which affected none of the vital questions con­cerning God, or "the plan of salvation, or the principles of duty, to be removed by time and the general influence of his religion, than for him to turn aside from his great work to refute it. He came to establish his divine system of truth, and to this work he consecrated his whole time, leaving minor errors, and especially those pertaining to science, to be corrected by others. On theology and on religious and moral duty, instead of passing over errors, he was entirely different, and sought to displace error by truth. (395)

The Cyclopaedia of Biblical literature, Vol 1. 1881 John Kitto

To these arguments the opponents of the theory of real demoniacal possessions reply, generally, that there can be no doubt that it was the general belief of the Jewish nation, with the exception of the Sadducees, and of most other nations, that the spirits of dead men, especially of those who lived evil lives, and died by violent deaths, were permitted to enter the bodies of men, and to produce the effects ascribed to them in the popular creed ; but the fact and real state of the possessed were afflicted with some peculiar diseases of mind or body, which, their true causes not being generally understood, were, as is usual in such cases, ascribed to supernatural powers ; and that Jesus and his apostles, wishing of course to be understood by their contemporaries, and owing to other reasons which can be pointed out, were under the necessity of expressing themselves in popular language, and of seeming to admit, or at least of not denying, its correctness. They further plead that the fact, admitted on all hands that the demon so actuated the possessed, as that whatever they did, was not to be distinguished from his agency, reduces the question, so far as phenomena are concerned, to one simple inquiry, namely, whether these phenomena are such as can be accounted for without resorting to supernatural agency. They assert that the symptoms predicated of demoniacs correspond with the ordinary symptoms of disease, and especially of hypochondria, insanity, and epilepsy ; that the sacred writers themselves give intimations, as plain as could be expected under their circumstances, that they employed popular language ; that consequently they are not to be considered as teaching doctrines or asserting facts when they use such language ; and that the doctrine of the agency of departed spirits on the bodies of men is inconsistent with certain peculiar and express doctrines of Christ and his apostles.

With regard to the symptoms related of the demoniacs, it is urged that such persons as were called demoniacs in other countries, and who seem to have laboured under precisely the same symptoms, are recorded to have been cured by the use of medicines. Helleboro quoque purgatur lymphatieus error (Sereb. Sammon. c. 27. v. 507), ‘Insane delusion is remedied by hellebore.’ Josephus and the Jewish physicians speak of medicines composed of stones, roots, and herbs, being useful to demoniacs (Gattei, f. 67). The cure of diseases by such methods is intelligible ; but is it rational to believe that the spirits of dead men [can be ejected] from human bodies by medical prescriptions? Maimonides (in sabat. ii. 5) says, ‘ all kinds of diseases which are called melancholy, they call an evil spirit’ (comp. Matt xi. 18; John vii. 20; x. 20).

1. With regard to the two demoniacs at Gadara (or one, according to Mark and Luke), it is concluded that they were madmen, who fancied that there were within them innumerable spirits of dead men. Accordingly they dwelt among the tombs about which the souls of the dead were believed [in the Talmud] to hover, went naked, were ungovernable, cried aloud, attacked passengers, beat themselves, and had in their phrensy broken every chain by which they had been bound. Strength almost superhuman is a common attendant of insanity. The subject is illustrated by Westein, in extracts from Greek medical writers. P. AEgineta, Actuarius, Caelius Aurelianus, also tell that such persons fancied themselves to be gods, demons, wolves, dogs, &c. ; hence the disorder was sometimes called [Greek words left untranslated]. Their question, ‘Art thou come to torment us?’ refers to the cruel treatment of the insane in those times, and which they had no doubt shared, in the endeavours of men to ‘ tame ‘ them. Both Mark and Luke the physician describe the demoniac as … in ‘his right mind,’ when healed, which implies previous insanity (see also Matt. xii. 22 ; xv. 28 ; xvii. 18 ; Luke vii. 21 ; viii. 2 ; ix. 42). It is true that these demoniacs address Jesus as the Son of God, but they might have heard in their lucid intervals that Jesus, whose fame was already diffused throughout Syria, was regarded by the peoples as the Messiah. They show their insanity, ‘ their shaping fancies,’ by imagining they were demons without number, and by requesting permission to enter the swine. Would actual demons choose such a habitation? They speak and answer, indeed, in a rational manner, but agreeably to Locke’s definition of madmen, ‘they reason right on false principles, and, taking their fancies for realties, make right deductions from them. Thus you shall find a distracted man fancying himself a king, and with a right inference require suitable attendance. Others, who have thought themselves glass, take the needful care to preserve such brittle bodies’ (Essay in Human Understanding, vol. 1. ch. 11, & 12). It is true that Jesus commands the unclean spirit (so called because believed to be the spirit of a dead man), but he does this merely to excite the attention of the people, and to give them full opportunity to observe the miracle. It is not necessary to suppose that the madmen drove the swine, but merely that in keeping with all the circumstances, the insanity of the demoniacs was transferred to them, as the leprosy of Naaman was transferred to Gehazi, for the purpose of illustrating the miraculous power of Christ ; and though this was a punitive miracle, it might serve the good purpose of discouraging the expectation of temporal benefits from Him. If the demoniac is represented as worshipping Jesus it should be remembered that the insane often show great respect to particular persons.

2. The men who were dumb, and both blind and dumb, are not said to have been disordered in their intellects, any more than the blind man in John v. These diseases in their organs were popularly ascribed to the influence of demons. It is observable that in the parallel passage (Matt. ix. 32), the evangelist says the man was dumb.

3. The symptoms of epilepsy in the youth described Matt. xvii. 15, are too evident not to be acknowledged. If the opinion of relatives is to be pressed, it should be noticed that in this case the father says his ‘son is lunatic.’ It was most probably a case of combined epilepsy and lunacy, which has been common in all ages. Epilepsy was ascribed to the … moon in those times. The literal interpretation of popular language would therefore require us to believe that he was ‘moonstruck,; as well as a demoniac. A curious instance of the influence of popular modes of speech, even on those who are conscious of its incorrectness, is offered in the case of Hippocrates, who though he wrote a book to prove that epilepsy is not a sacred malady … is nevertheless in the habit of applying to it that very appellation. In the same way a learned physician still speaks of lunacy, St. Anthony’s fire ; and persons of education speak of the rising and setting of the sun, falling stars as we all use phrases derived from the rites and religion of gentiles.

4. The damsel at Philippi is said by Luke to have been possessed with [greek word], a spirit of Apollo. It was her fixed idea. The gift of divination is said by Cicero to have been ascribed to Apollo (De Divinat. i. 5). Insane persons, pretending to prophecy under the influence of Apollo, would be likely to gain money from the credulous. A belief among the common people that the ravings of insanity were sacred was not confined to Egypt. The larvati, the lymphatici, the cerriti of the Romans signify possessed persons. The apostle, who taught that an ‘idol is nothing in the world,’ did not believe in the reality of her soothsaying. Many demoniacs are mentioned, the peculiar symptoms of whose diseases are not stated, as Mary Magdalene (Mark xvi. 9), out of whom Jesus cast seven demon, i.e. restored from an inveterate insanity (seven being the Jewish number of perfection), supposed to be caused by the united agency of seven spirits of the dead. Yet she is said to have been healed (Luke viii. 2).

5. If Jesus forbade the demoniacs to say he was the Christ, it was because the declaration of such persons on the subject would do more harm than good. If he rebuked them he also rebuked the wind (Matt. viii. 26), and the fever (Luke iv. 39). If it be said of them, they departed, so it is also said of the leprosy (Mark i. 42).

6. It may be questioned whether the writers of the New Testament make a distinction between the diseased and those possessed of demons, or whether they specify the demoniacs by themselves, as they specify the lunatics (Matt. iv. 24) merely as a distinct and peculiar class of the sick. It is, however, most important to observe that St. Peter includes ‘all’ who were healed by Jesus, under the phrase [long list of greek words], many of whom were not described by the Evangelists as subjects of demoniacal possession, which is urged as a striking instance of the usus loquendi [usage of speaking]. Sometimes the specification of the demoniacs is omitted in the general recitals of miraculous cures (Matt. xi. 5), and this, too, on the important occasion of our Lord sending to John the Baptist an account of the miraculous evidence attending his preaching (Matt. xi. 5). Does not this look as if they were considered as included under the sick?

7. It cannot be proved that all the demoniacs knew Jesus to be the Messiah.

8. It is admitted that Jesus addresses the demons, but then it may be said that his doing so has reference partly to the persons themselves in whom demons were supposed to be, and partly to the bystanders ; for the same reason that he rebuked the winds in an audible voice, as also the fever. It is also remarkable that the case of the demoniac (Mark v.8), it is said – [greek], the man, [greek], not [grk]. The same words occur in Luke viii, 30.

9.With regards to our Lord’s reply to the seventy, it will not be urged that it was intended of a local fall of Satan from heaven, unless it may be supposed to allude to his primeval expulsion ; but this sense is scarcely relevant to the occasion. If, then, the literal sense be necessarily departed from, a choice must be made out of the various figurative interpretations of which the words admit ; and taking the word Satan here in its generic sense, of whatever is inimical or opposed to the Gospel, Jesus may be understood to say, I foresaw the glorious results of your mission in the triumph which would attend it over the most formidable obstacles. Heaven is often used in the sense of political horizon (Isa. xvi. 12, 13 ; Matt. xxiv. 29). To be cast from heaven to hell is a phrase for total downfall (Luke x. 15 ; Rev. xii. 7-9). Cicero says to Mark Antony, You have hurled your colleagues down from heaven. Satan is here used tropically. Our Lord does not, therefore, assert the real operation of demons.

10. In the refutation of the charge that he cast out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, he simply argues with the Pharisees upon their own principles, and ‘judges them out of their own mouth,’ without assuming the truth of those principles.

11. The fact he seems to assert respecting the wandering of demons through dry places (Matt xIi. 45), were already admitted in the popular creed of the Jews. They believed that demons wandered in desolate places (Baruch iv. 35). Upon these ideas he founds a parable or similitude, without involving an opinion of their accuracy, to describe the end of this generation. The observations respecting prayers and fasting seem to have relation to that faith in God which he exhorts his apostles to obtain. Prayer and fasting would serve to enable them to perceive the divine suggestion which accompanied every miracle, and which the apostles had not perceived upon this occasion, though given them, because their animal nature had not be sufficiently subdued.

12. The application of the term Satan to the case of the women, who had a spirit of infirmity, is plainly to heighten the antithesis between the loosing of an ox from his stall, and loosing the daughter of Abraham whom Satan, as they believed, has bound eighteen years.

13. The objection taken from the supposed consequence of explaining the casting out of demons to signify no more than the cure of diseases, that it tends to lower the dignity of the Saviour’s miracles, depends upon the reader’s complexion of mind, our prior knowledge of the relative dignity of miracles, and some other things perhaps, of which we are not competent judges.

It remains to be observed, that the theory of demoniacal possessions is opposed to the known and express doctrines of Christ and his Apostles. They teach us that the spirits of the dead enter a state corresponding to their character, no more to return to this world (Luke xvi. 22, &c. ; xxiii. 13 ; 3 Cor. v. 1 ; Phil. i. 21). With regard to the fallen angels, the representations of their confinement are totally opposed to the notion of their wandering about the world and tormenting its inhabitants (2 Pet. ii. 4 ; Jude, ver. 6). If it be said that Jesus did not correct the popular opinion, still he nowhere denies that the phenomena in question arose from diseases only. He took no side ; it was not his province, It was not necessary to attack the misconception in a formal manner ; it would be supplanted whenever his doctrine respecting the state of the dead was embraced. To have done so would have engaged our Lord in prolix arguments with a people in whom the notion was so deeply rooted, and have led him away too much from the purposes of his ministry. ‘It was one of the many things he had to say, but they could not then bear them.’ It is finally urged that the antidemoniacal theory does not detract from the diverse authority of the Saviour, the reality of his miracles, or the integrity of the historians.

For further explanation of demonic possession and those supposedly demon possessed called demoniacs, we will allude to the first century Aramaic perspective on the matter, to gain even greater clarification and light.

Demons and Mental Illness from a 1^st century Aramaic Syriac stand point

To say that demons were cast out of someone is to say that they were cured of a mental illness, or an illness which was not understood at the time. People living in the first century tended to blame everything which they couldn’t understand on these imaginary beings called "demons‟. Mental illness being hard to understand with their level of medical knowledge, the people spoke of those afflicted as "demon possessed‟. In Old Testament times, an evil or unclean spirit referred to a troubled mental state (Jud. 9:23; 1 Sam. 16:14;18:10); and in every Old Testament reference to evil spirits, they were sent by God … In New Testament times, the language of evil spirit/demon possession had come to refer to those suffering mental illness. The association between demons and sickness is shown by the following: “They brought unto him (Jesus) many that were possessed with demons: and He cast out the spirits with a word… that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses” (Mt. 8:16–17). So human infirmities and sicknesses were described as being synonymous with “demon” possession and indwelling “evil spirits”.

When we read of unclean spirits crying out in Acts 8:7, the Eastern (Aramaic) text reads: “Many who were mentally afflicted cried out”. This is because, according to George Lamsa “unclean spirits” is an Aramaic term used to describe lunatics” (3). It should be noted that Lamsa was a native Aramaic speaker with a fine understanding of Aramaic terms. He grew up in a remote part of Kurdistan which had maintained the Aramaic language almost unchanged since the time of Jesus. It’s significant that Lamsa’s extensive writings indicate that he failed to see in the teachings of Jesus and Paul any support for the popular conception of … demons – he insisted that the Semitic and Aramaic terms used by them have been misunderstood by Western readers and misused in order to lend support for their conceptions of … demons.

Here is how the Aramaic Pishetta renders Matt 8 showing how the Aramean viewed demonic possession:

“8:16 And when it was evening, they brought before him many demoniacs, and he cast out their devils by a word; and all those who were heavily afflicted he healed. 8:17 So was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Eshaia, who said, that he should take our griefs, and bear our infirmities.”

Philo and other writers comment how the demon–possessed were laughed at and mocked especially by children – indicating that “demon possessed” people refer to the mentally ill rather than the physically sick. … The "demon possessed‟ man in Mk. 1:23 sits in the synagogue and then suddenly screams out – showing he was mentally afflicted. People thought that Jesus was mad and said this must be because He had a demon – “He has a demon, and is mad” (Jn. 10:20; 7:19–20; 8:52). They therefore believed that demons caused madness. (Demons and Sickness: The real Devil 208-209)

“George M. Lamsa’s book, “New Testament Light,” which gives the Aramaic view and understanding of idioms used in the NT. On the subject of “The Unclean Spirit” in the passage in Mark 1:23-27, he says, “The Aramaic word “rokha tamtha” means ‘the unclean spirit,’ [which means] a person who is unruly, insane or has an evil inclination”…. The term ‘spirit’ in Aramaic also means ‘inclination,’ ‘rheumatism,’ ‘temper,’ ‘pride’ or ‘a person … Wrong inclination is considered unclean…. [In this passage] Jesus rebuked the insanity and the man was restored…. The mentally disturbed man [who] spoke out, ‘I know who you are, Holy One of God,’ [spoke] sarcastically” (pp. 58-59). Lamsa says that the unruly man in the synagogue could not control his anger toward Jesus for His speaking out against the religion of the scribes and Pharisees.

On a section regarding; “The Lunatics and the Swine” (Mark 8:31), he states that, “‘Cast out’ is an Aramaic phrase which means to restore to sanity, to remove the cause which produces insanity…” (pp. 64-66).

Ending remarks: Call to repentance

It is the authentic Christians duty to test all things and hold fast to those which are true, and this means rejecting pagan explanations for phenomenon that have already been explained in the Old Testament, or exist in the New Testament in a state where it is unclear due to so many “apparent” contradictions (which moves you to investigate further). In order to grow, we must raise ourselves from the dust of ignorance, and understand our Creator for who He says He is. The true Christian is one that’s freed from the practices of pagan superstition, He is a human of superior mind and spiritual strength, and this is because he knows the truth about everything that needs to be necessarily understood for living perfectly before his King. Blind leaders have lead Israelites to doom forever, and the same blind ancient uneducated ideas of the past are those that will lead you into the exact same folly as those before you, and if not folly a life of worry over things that should be dispelled. Many generations have lived and died believing in the existence of demons, and these same generations have feared their imaginations, like groups of self guided children, this is opposed to respectfully fearing the only living Creator, Yahweh. The scripture says “And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent”, and this time is now. If you have read this information and are thoroughly convinced, repent of both idolatry, believing lies, not doing your duty by studying enough, and granting reverential fear to false gods, than return to Yahweh through the blood of Jesus who died that you could live. Ask for further wisdom so you can know your Creator and live the way He intended you to.

All glory be to Yahweh the Father, the Source of All life, and His co-eternal Son, who is the creator of all life, Yahshua Jesus the messiah our hope.

Children, keep yourselves from superstitions.

Blessings in Yahweh.

[1] “The basic belief in the evil eye consists of the notion that there are people, animals, demons or gods who have the power to cause harm to those of whom they are envious or jealous, just by looking at them (cf Nicholson 1999:18). People may become ill, have accidents, misfortunes, or even die. Those who possess the evil eye may cause harm to others, knowingly or unknowingly. Some people are not aware that they have the ability to harm another with an envious glance. The eye is believed to be the window to the soul, physically exposing a person’s inner being. Through this window evil spirits/demons enter the body, empowering the jealous or envious person to cause harm to others (Moss & Cappannari 1976:2).” (p. 1027-28 The Greek evil eye, African witchcraft, and Western ethnocentrism Anastasia Apostolides and Yolanda Dreyer)

1. THE IGNORANCE OF

666

What this number really means

Because people try to interpret the scriptures without first having a sound foundational understanding of the Bible, they are lead to believe in all kinds of lies that don’t make any Biblical sense. For instance, a whole mythology has been created around the number 666, this mythology has come from ignorant rock musicians, or even maybe theologians who haven’t correctly understand the book of revelations and its reference to said number.

Fact: 666 is not the number of a demonic force, nor is it the number of satan. This number alone has no magical powers, nor is it Biblically the representation of all things evil.

Fact: The number 666 is an allusion to Daniel chapter 3, and what Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had made his people do. This King commanded his people to worship his golden statue at pain of death. This act of worship was 666.

So Why 666?

“Here is wisdom: Let him who has understanding compute the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man and its number is six hundred and sixty six.” (HRV REV 16:18)

Okay, so if six hundred and sixty-six is the number of the beast, than who or what is the beast? According to the book of revelations, the beast is a monster that john saw “coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on its heads names of blasphemy.” (This beast is a Kingdom, and this kingdom is referred to as Babylon the great). John continues, “And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and its feet were like the feet of a bear, and its mouth was as a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave its power to it, and its throne, and great authority.”

The dragon here discussed is not satan but Rome, and Rome is synonymous with the final beast seen in the dream of Daniel the prophet, the dragon is explained as: “terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.” – Or In other words was a dragon. This forth beast is well known to be the Roman empire and this is not attested by modern or late theologians.

The beast of revelations 13 is a world wide Governmental power, and Vatican Rome (who is the Dragon of Daniel chapter 4) will be part and parcel with this system. There is no mention of satan or a devil in this chapter of the book of Revelations, nor is the devil ever explicitly mentioned in Daniel (unless people assume it was him who fought of the angel sent to give a message, this cannot be at all properly determined beyond speculation). So, what is 666? Six hundred and sixty six is the number of a man, and that man is the King of Babylon (no other than Nebuchadnezzar of the book of Daniel). 666 alludes or points to him, and it speaks about how he forced all of his diverse citizens to worship his image. The beast system of revelations will be guilty of taking part in the same forceful perversions.

This is how the Bible explains it: “And all those dwelling in the earth will worship [the beast], those of whom the names had not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb … 14 And [the false prophet] deceives those dwelling on the earth … saying to those dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast … and might cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.” (Rev 13) (bolding and underline mine)

This is the meaning of 666, it’s the story of Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue all over again.

Bow down to the 60×6 at the playing of the 6 instruments!

Above is  an example of the kind of Babylonian percussion that decreed the worship of Nebuchadnezzar’s golden Idol.

This is how the story of King Nebuchadnezzar’s demand for worship goes:

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits [60 cubits], and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Then … all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Daniel 3:1-7

Six instruments or five?

In some bible versions, this section begins with five instruments and lastly a word about symphony, this word symphony is actually a mistranslation of the word tumpanon.

Evidence that six instruments are used is seen when the instruments involved are reiterated again later in the chaoter, as seen here:

“Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:” (Daniel 3:10 same bible version)

For more information on the mistranslation of the instruments found in this section of scripture visit this very informative web site: http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/band-played-on.asp#

The Six instruments that played are as follow

                qayteros – 1st Lyre (mistrans’d as harp)                    mashroqi – Flute                                 psaltery – 2nd Lyre

              sackbut – an actual Harp           Dulcimer – tambour – tumpanon                           Cornet – Qeren – Shofar

Granted all of this information, in the future to come there will be a System that demands the worship of it’s “golden” image (be this image a man or something other) just like the King had desired in Daniel. This system will be helped by either a man, or another system called the false prophet (this prophet is described to be a beast with the two horns like a lamb but speaks as a dragon).  So the myth about 666 as being the devils number can be layed to rest. The Bible in no way endorses the beast to be satan, and 666 is a code that is only understood by those who read their Bible, or read this article

How such an error entered the mainstream

Satanist, and paedophile Alester Crowly found great pleasure in calling himself the beast, yet unbeknownst to him, the beast was not the devil at all. Because he assumed himself to be in a way the anti-Messiah, and because his mother called him the beast when he was young, he assumed 666 was the number that personified all things satanic – this is one show of every satanist’s ignorance and how they willingly believe lies. Sadly, the beast and the Anti-messiah or the one who is actually called the false prophet, are not at all one and the same thing or being, see Revelations 19:20. Crowley’s erroneous knowledge of the Bible lead him to associate the number of idolatry with what he thought was satan. Debunked!

Now satanists trying to show a pledge of allegiance by tattooing 666 on their bodies as a symbol of love for satan, are in fact only  glorifying their union with the beast system who in the book of revelations is destroyed, along with everyone else who receive the beats mark. By tattooing 666 on their bodies, these people are telling everyone that they find themselves worthless and worthy of destruction. 666 shows that these people are waiting for everlasting destruction through utter annihilation at the return of Yahshua Jesus! How sadly ignorant and ironic.

Conclusion

666 is not a pledge of allegiance to satan, nor is it his number.

2. The Ignorance of Satanic symbols

The Karana Mudrā and the history of the Horned hand sign

First and foremost, as I said in the beginning, symbols are empowered by what we invest them to mean. Symbols do have histories, and these histories tell us what they supposedly represent. The only power a symbol has is its ability to cause us to sin. This hand sign has for ages been accompanied with the lie that making it could expel or ward away demons.  So regardless of its modern applications, this sign should not be used amongst believers. It’s superstitious and falsehood through and through.

“The Karana Mudrā is the mudra that expels demons, and removes obstacles such as sickness or negative thoughts. It is made by raising the index and the little finger, and folding the other fingers. It is rather similar to the gesture known as "corna" in the West.” (http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mudra#Karana_Mudr.C4.81)

The history of this symbol is rooted in nothing more than human ignorance typified by superstitious beliefs. This sign was actually used as an anti-demonic, anti-satanic symbol before it was re-appropriated (taken and re-used) to become the sign now synonymous with satanic worship. (How ironic)

Fact: This symbol has never held any real meaning nor power against anything real or imagined.

Fact: This symbol has existed long before modern times, and has always been an anti-satanic, yet idolatrous sign.

Used in Ancient Greece

The Italian meaning of the hand sign

“Whether made as an apotropaic gesture or worn as an amulet, the mano cornuto is used for magical protection against the evil eye. In this it resembles other hand gestures and hand images that ward off evil, including the hamsa hand, the eye-in-hand, the mano fico (fig hand), and the interlocked thumb gesture. A regionally popular amulet, it is primarily found in Italy and in America among descendents of Italian immigrants.” (http://www.luckymojo.com/manocornuto.html)

Evidently the Italians borrowed it from the Buddhists and Indians

It’s actual meaning continued

“Interestingly, I stumbled across on old reference to it from a 50 year old TIME Magazine article:

A Negro maid to an Italian mistress sat in the witness chair of a Brooklyn, N. Y. divorce trial last week “making horns.” Carrie Cooper raised her hand to her forehead, sticking up two fingers… That, she said, was what her 36-year-old mistress, Mrs. Josephine Marotta, had done behind the back of her old husband, Giacomo…

The Brooklyn judge did not understand why this slight gesture was considered important testimony in a divorce case. Court Interpreter Vincent D’Agrossa volunteered to explain. This case involved an Italian couple, and to Italians the bit of old-world folklore had plenty of meaning. The gesture, said Interpreter D’Agrossa, was “what we call cornuto.” It was an ancient custom to cut the spurs off castrated cocks and graft them to the birds’ heads, where they grew as horns. Since the horned capon was a strutting definition of sexual inadequacy, its horns became a symbol of cuckoldry. TIME, Dec. 12, 1938”

Thus we see what this sign meant in the Italian culture, infidelity. Still nothing to do with devils.

More explanation of its meaning: “Mano Cornuto In modern Italy the horns are deviously placed behind someone’s head or pointed at a person with the conveyed meaning being that this person is being cheated on by his wife or her husband. The Italian cornuto translates literally to having horns, but figuratively means the person is a cuckold, literally, "a man whose wife has sexual relations with someone else". The gesture is also common in Spain, Colombia, Portugal, Brazil, Albania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Greece and has the same meaning in all of these countries.

(Pg.52 Religion, Power and Protest in Local Communities The Northern Shore of the Mediterranean Ed. by Wolf, Eric R.)

The Cornudo’s Meaning in the 17th century

‘The Wearing of the Horns’. A seventeenth century woodcut from a church broadsheet warning of the dangers of infidelity and published at the time of the wars against the Dutch. Note the goat horns depicted on the man’s head. The wearing of horns was linked to the Fool and also with the cuckold husband. The word ‘cuckold’ is a direct reference to the cuckoo. (http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/Gotham1.htm)

As is evident this symbol had always been a negative sign, but one used to mock others opposed to glorify their evilness.

How it entered Pop culture 

“Ronnie James Dio is known for popularizing the corna sign in heavy metal. His Italian grandmother used it to ward off the evil eye (malocchio or moloch as Dio calls it). Dio began using the sign soon after joining (1979) the metal band Black Sabbath. The previous singer in the band, Ozzy Osbourne, was rather well known at using the “peace” sign at concerts, raising the index and middle finger in the form of a V. Dio, in an attempt to connect with the fans, wanted to similarly use a hand gesture. However, not wanting to copy Osbourne, he chose to use the sign his grandmother always made. These accounts are all predated by the Chicago-based psychedelic-occult rock band Coven, led by singer Jinx Dawson, whose 1969 back album cover for ‘Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls’ on Mercury Records pictured Coven band members giving the ‘sign of the horns’ …

The horns became famous in metal concerts very soon after Black Sabbath’s first tour with Dio. From an interview with Ronnie James Dio on Metal-Rules.com: Metal-Rules.com – “I want to ask you about something people have asked you about before but will no doubt continue to talk about, and that is the sign created by raising your index and little finger. Some call it the “devils hand” or the “evil eye.” I would like to know if you were the first one to introduce this to the metal world and what this symbol represents to you?” R.J. Dio – “I doubt very much if I would be the first one who ever did that. That’s like saying I invented the wheel, I’m sure someone did that at some other point. I think you’d have to say that I made it fashionable. I used it so much and all the time and it had become my trademark until the Britney Spears audience decided to do it as well. So it kind of lost its meaning with that. But it was…I was in Sabbath at the time. It was symbol that I thought was reflective of what that band was supposed to be all about. It’s NOT the devil’s sign like we’re here with the devil. It’s an Italian thing I got from my Grandmother called the ‘Malocchio’. It’s to ward off the Evil Eye or to give the Evil Eye, depending on which way you do it. It’s just a symbol but it had magical incantations and attitudes to it and I felt it worked very well with Sabbath. So I became very noted for it and then everybody else started to pick up on it and away it went. But I would never say I take credit for being the first to do it. I say because I did it so much that it became the symbol of rock and roll of some kind.”

Conclusion

Even this symbols north American originator says it has nothing to do with satanism. Since Heavy metal Satanists like those seen above, began to use the sign in ignorance, via fad fashion, people have erroneously agreed that it must mean “hail satan”. Again, now anyone online who says every pop artist, and actor, or t.v personality who makes this sign or is caught in mid hand movements to be seen as making this sign is pledging allegiance to the devil is just wrong. I agree that the sign is now supposed to mean satan, but I understand that it also has means love in sign language, and is a symbol for rock music. This as a truly satanic symbol is debunked. But it’s superstitious history makes it a thing to be rejected none the less.

3.The accursed Pentagram – nothing more than

pagan foolishness

A, Levay was the person who popularized the inverted pentagram in our modern age. This man was nothing more than a modern day quack, who had the ability to see peoples need for spiritual fulfillment and capitalized on their ignorance (thus making a cult and philosophy that tended to selfish needs). The cult of satan also called the church of satan was, and is nothing more then a fraternity of outcasts who have fun playing ancient ritual make-believe in order to fulfill their need for connection and acceptance. Not to mention a crying out for Yahweh’s healing love.

Magick in the modern sense, is a concoction of middle age psedo-science, fan fictive muddled pagan histories, mind manipulations, drug use, and admitted fraud. The pentagram is one trinket fitting into this fairytale basket.

A little bit about Levay:

“His odd interests marked him as an outsider, and he did not alleviate this by feeling any compulsion to be “one of the boys.” … He dropped out of high school to hang around with hoodlum types and gravitated towards working in the circus and carnivals, first as a roustabout and cage boy and later as a musician.”

He was a shunned introverted outsider, and this was due to his odd idiosyncrasies,  and because of this hatred for those deemed popular, he ran away and joined the circus. He learned much of his theatrics from novels about the bizarre, and thus from a rebellion against the popular Christian moral ethic he created his own cult, a cult that was governed by his own mad-at-the-world sentiment, and called this the church of satan.

His witchcraft is parody, his devil symbols child play, his whole movement no better than those who believe in alien abductions and a living Elvis priestly.

“His curiosity was rewarded through “learning the ropes” … He became well-versed in the many rackets used to separate the rubes from their money, along with the psychology that lead people to such pursuits”

In short he was a con artist.

The “magical” and feared symbol of satan, only a logo?

The use of the pitchfork in this image just shows how ignorant and commercial this logo, and the whole movement / cult is and was. Embarrassing.

In regards to the goat face in the star a satanist says: “First, let’s clear the air and state that this was never a symbol of the Devil or Satan or of anything evil or bad. It only became associated with that after Anton Lavey saw it in a book filled with errors, liked it and decided to "make it" into a symbol for his cult. Therefore, what you read here will not be anything related to the modern "satanic" use of this symbol by various "satanic" groups. The use of this esoteric symbol by modern satanic cults is, in our opinion, as sad as the use of the Swastika by the Nazis. No one can use either symbol today without either being ridiculed or physically harmed. All of that can be blamed on the misuse of these symbols by ignorant people.

The Baphomet is also associated with the Androgyne Goat of Mendes. Only in the (ignorant) literature of the Inquisition, was the Biblical satan turned into Pan and associated with Witchcraft.”

How they re-used this so called “magical” symbol.

LaVey began the mass dissemination of his philosophy via the release of a record album, The Satanic Mass. The album featured a cover graphic named by LaVey as the “Sigil of Baphomet:” the goat head in a pentagram, circled with the Hebrew word “Leviathan,” which has since become the ubiquitous symbol of Satanism the world over.”

From the church of satan website it admits: "That the original source for this symbol was the Maurice Bessy book was well-known among the members who attended rituals at the Black House during our formative years. The book was constantly being perused by them, and was often used as a prop in photo shoots (minus the dust jacket which did not include this symbol). Anton LaVey never claimed to have designed the Bessy version of this symbol (as falsely stated by some of our detractors).

In its early days, the Church of Satan used the version seen on the cover of the Bessy book on its membership cards and stationery as well as on the medallions which were created both by hand and by professional manufacturers. Indeed, there were many variations, based on the skill of the renderers as well as on the resolution for detail of the means used to create the final product."

How this symbol became a pop cultural icon of fear

While The Satanic Bible was being written, it was decided that a unique version of this symbol must be rendered to be identified exclusively with the Church of Satan.The pentagram was made geometrically precise, the two circles perfect, the Hebrew characters were distorted to make them look more sharply serpentine and “corrupted with time,” while the goat face was redrawn with particular attention paid toward the eyes.

“The original highly-detailed artwork was first used to create altar plaques which were available only to local Church of Satan members (later, in February of 1970, they were made available to the general membership). This new version was then used on the cover of the groundbreaking LP, The Satanic Mass (©1968), produced by the Church of Satan. In addition to a recorded Satanic Mass, this LP included the “Prologue” and “Books of Satan: Verses I through V” from the then-unreleased book, The Satanic Bible. The album’s cover design was credited to “Hugo Zorilla,” a pseudonym used by Anton LaVey for some of his artwork. The liner notes, attributed to Franklin Kincaid, say that “the Satanic symbol, Baphomet,” was adopted from the Knights Templar. This symbol was finally widely-released to the general public in December of 1969 with the publication of The Satanic Bible, where it adorned the cover and appeared on the interior page introducing the section detailing the Satanic Ritual. And, significantly, here in this book was the very first time that this sigil was referred to as the “symbol of Baphomet” in any publication available to a mass audience. It was this version which the Church of Satan then had made into cloisonné medallions (which were only available to members) and it became the standard logo for all Church of Satan materials. We began calling it more precisely the “Sigil of Baphomet” and so it was named in print in The Satanic Rituals (released in December of 1972). It should be noted that this version is a copyrighted graphic which belongs to the Church of Satan alone. We have the legal right to place the © symbol next to this rendering, should we care to do so.  (church of satan website)

Conclusion

Therefore, Levay being the con artist that he was, stole this symbol from another occultist, then used it as some magical charm to summon and worship satan (which it was never used for before him). Thus, this symbol as anything more than superstition with angry eyes is debunked. This thing is not to be feared nor is a red stop sign. But this symbol is a cause of sin because it represents much paganism.

History of the pentagram

Based on my research, pagans, Satanists and educators are all confused about the original and actual menaing of the pentagram. Since every one of these people have no clear and perfect definition as to what it actually means, this means that every meaning it currently holds has been attributed to it, thus the symbol is a vain fraud.

This symbols most anciently assumed meaning is planetary, and was a symbol of some Sumerian Babylonian deity.

"The Pentagram appears as a sign (UB) in the earliest form of Sumerian pictographic writing (c. 3000 BCE).  Although such pictographs do not have a unique meaning, the general sense seems to be "heavenly body."  By the cuneiform period (say, after 2600 BCE) the pentagram means "region," "heavenly quarter" or "direction" (Forward Backward Left Right) and is generally used with the number 4.  It is conjectured that early Babylonians added a fifth direction (Up) because they believed Heaven ruled the Four Quarters” (http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/JO-PE.txt)

Middle age occult meaning of this sign is that the pentagram was called the seal of king Solomon, and was believed to be able to control demons. This assumption is a falsehood because Old testament Hebrews did not believe in the existence of actual demons. Demons did not exist in the old testament Hebrew worldview. The word(s) translated as demon(s) in Hebrew typically mean Idol, or literally “no thing” or sartye (a kind of mythical creature). This no thing means it is an apparition of the ignorant’s imagination.

It’s modern occult meaning having the Head of A goat deity supposedly satanic was popularized by the fraud Eliphas Levi. He turning the pentagram upside down made a whole explanation on how the symbol had two meanings, but his words are admittedly contrived (or made up) and find no evidence to be historically true.

According to a satanist “ People "into" Pythagoreanism today, the worst of them fake teachers of this esoteric system, usually claim the pentacle was one point up with a male image inside the star and claim that the pentacle represented Mars, Venus, Sun, etc. Some of them claim that the symbol only represents the "four elements plus spirit," a magical system that is medieval. They lie. That is a bold-faced lie told out of either complete ignorance or the determined desire to cover up esoteric traditions!

This star is a symbol of Pan, who is a pagan deity

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MYSIA, ca 4th Century BC, Head of "Zeus Ammon" / Pentagram. In some designs the head of Zeus Ammon is replaced with Head of Bacchante or ophamlos entwined by a serpent.

Conclusion

Therefore, throughout all time this five pointed star, facing up or down has a symbol of Idolatry. Most solar or star symbols have represented different deities throughout time. Thus, this star in a circle cannot bind demons, nor summon the dead, it can’t do anything at all except stand as a false hood that makes people fear, and fall into idolatry by that fear. It’s a superstition based on faulty history and used by dreamers to help with their troubled lives. Debunked!

Final Conclusion

The dedicated bible believer understands that Satan is nothing more then the evil existing in our minds that propels us to disobey the words of Yahweh. When Jesus came he defeated Satan (See Hebrews), and Satan is the cause of sin. Our hearts aka., minds are deceitfully wicked, and sin comes from the abundance of our imaginations. The heart in Hebrew means mind, so sin comes from the things we do through the unwise choices we make. Jesus said no thing can enter into a man to defile him, thus, demon possession is another superstition that has been misunderstood for centuries and comes from a pagan Babylonian, Persian and grecko-roman outlook of the dead. The devil worshippers treated above in a large way don’t believe in an actual devil, but they adhered to the belief system of self preservation through self guidance no matter the cost, sinful or otherwise. Are they wiser then you? They are sinners proud to be sinners, and therefore the world right now is filled with practicing satanists.

Until True believers understand that Yahweh is the bringer of both Good and Evil (see Isaiah 45:7), that judgment is His, and He gives His worship and glory to no angel, we will be trapped in a place where both reason based, thinking atheists, will just-fully mock us, and superstitions like the ones revealed today will keep us in bondage through the giving of fearful reverence to false trinkets and gods that don’t exist,  opposed to fearing Yahweh who is the Master of life.

The world is steeped in superstition and ignorance because it has left Yahweh’s truths. Yahweh said: he would give the unholy minded  over to a vain mind; that they might do what they ought not (Rom 1:28), and the same has happened to carnal disobedient or simply lazy Christians.

Learn the truth and be set free. You should fear nothing in the world beside Yahweh The Omnipotent. Seek and ye shall find.

To all satanist’s, seek the truth and be freed from the confusion of your falsely religious ways. Much of what you practice is deceit, and your leaders are blind and have been for centuries. Repent in the name of Yahshua Jesus the Messiah.  he will heal you with his love. I send you my love.

All honor goes to Yahweh the Holy sustainer of Heven and earth, and Yahshua Jesus our only Messiah and saviour.

All glory goes to Him, he reveals and keeps all secrets. Glory to His Holy Name.

Peace to those who understand.

With Love, have a blessed Sukkot my brethren!

If you ever have any questions please feel free to ask.

Source

Second Debate:

I disagree that Yahweh is an Eternal mind impersonal mind, some force, or female, I also disagree with basically everything Deepak chopra and the African American pastor says, this is apart from what they get correct about the nature of Satan. As you continue to learn about the mistranslations in the scripture about what Satan is, and the renewed understanding about what demons are, may you grow in grace and knowledge, worshipping only Yahshua and Yahweh as the Almighty Yahweh Elohim. Not fearing a superstitious entity that finds his roots in Paganism.

In Yahshua.

Excerpt from the paper:

“Peshitta’s explanation of rock

This final scripture is the one of Mat 16. See that all 4 times Keepa is used to mean different sizes of rock.

Since the Peshitta is the source text for the Sinaticus and the other ‘Old Syriac’ text, the above shows that the word rock can be taken in a multitude of ways. To be sure of the meaning of Petros/Chephas/Keepa/Peter in the coming scripture is difficult without a clear understanding of the rest of the Old testament.  [We see that the same word is used for rock in all 4 scriptures, these all come from the book of Matthew].

True meaning of upon this rock I will build my church

Mat 16:13-18 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? (14) And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. (15) He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? (16) And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. (18) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

We must realize that the revelation of Jesus being the Son of the most high Yahweh was not a new revelation, for in chapter 14 of the same epistle of Matthew just after Jesus walked on the sea, the Apostles admitted that “Of a truth thou art the Son of God.” (Mat 14:33) With this acknowledged, when Peter said the same thing out loud he wasn’t revealing some new revelation. What peter did was combine Yahshua’s Sonship with the fact that he was the promised Messiah “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God” (kjv).

The Hebraism

In order to understand the full meaning of this passage we must look at what the name Simon means. In the Hebrew Simon means “hearing”.

H8095

שׁמעון

shim‛ôn

shim-one’

From H8085; hearing; Shimon

The fact that Peter was a sir name and was not his proper name as we even see by his second Epistle beginning with Simon Peter…, the use of the full name Simon Barjon, or hearing son of Jona is used with a specific intent. Let’s look at this scripture with its intended language:

Blessed art thou, hearing son of jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

So the fact that his name means hearing is evidence that God the Father spoke to him and revealed such truth to his understanding. Jesus the Messiah then continues His Hebraism:

(18) And I say also unto thee, that thou art rock, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

This is a play on names, and each name has a purpose in regards to the revelation or knowledge of the Messiah being the Son of God. Let’s look at the parts:

1. Simon means hearing

2. Peter means stone, or rock or boulder and he was the one who heard the Father reveal the Messiahs full identity. Like Peters name, this revelation being the Rock but of a different kind then what Peter stands for was the foundation of all faith and even the church itself.

Further explanation: “Blessed art thou, hearing … for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee …

And I say also unto thee, That thou are stone (cephas), and upon this rock (cephas) I will build my church.

The Hebraism or play on words is that Simon is the same word as hearing and yet was a name explanatory of his reception of said revelation, and Cephas or stone was the same word as rock yet was a name explanatory of his reception of the revelation of Jesus as the Messiah who was the foundational rock of the new testament. If Cephas/peter was to be translated rock and Jesus said upon this rock I will build my church, then the entire pun would have no secondary meaning, thus destroying its structure and intent. This would also be confusing to the hearers for the church was built only upon Jesus the Messiahs death and the Fathers power, for he was rooted in God the Father, and is known in the old testament to all the Apostles as the Rock and foundation of all things (especially the church).

The fact that Jesus the Messiah said “and I say” shows that both the revelation from the Father and the declaration of Peter receiving the rock were a related theme that could not be misconstrued. Quite simply God the Father said to Peter: Jesus is the Messiah the Son of the Living God, and Jesus who is also God said “Upon this rock [alluding to the fathers words], stone or Peter I will build my church”. It was a double affirmative that Jesus was who He said He was, it was also a declaration of his Yahshua’s Godhood.”

Read the full Document Here:

Peter an Apostle Not a Replacement of Jesus the Messiah

The works and videos offered here come from doctoral dissertations and extremely accurate biblical exegesis. Most of the men being presented have stood against their peers for the sake of Yahweh’s great name. Worldly education counts for little, so I mention such only to show the professionalism of these works. These wisdoms ie, corrections to faulty theology, when and if applied will alter your present spiritual walk removing the dross from your life, and will allow you the fullest access to the Most high Creator through the way of His blessed Child Yahshua (Jesus).

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Tithing- What is actually required of us?

“3If any man teach … and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Master Yahshua Messiah, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.” (1 Tim 6)

The preachers of the world teach that gain is Godliness. How do we get this gain? By giving Tithes. In this video you will learn that tithes can come only from Israel, and go only to Levites. After this film your mind will be set on the protective truth of Yahweh’s Word.

Should the Christian Church teach Tithing?

Full sized video – Here

Should the church teach Tithing? – Russell Earl Kelly – Download full PDF

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From Sabbath to Sunday

This man documents and proves how the Sabbath over time in the 2nd century became Sunday. If you forsake the Sabbath by not keeping it watch this film and see why keeping Sunday is both an act of Anti-Semitism (Contempt for Jesus’ ways), and the keeping of traditions made by the Universal Roman church.

From Sabbath to Sunday – Samuele Bacchiocchi – Download full PDF

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Satan – A Superstitious teaching of religion

This man and his book goes through a point by point study and reveals how the idea of an eternally evil angel is not only an act of theft of glory from Yahweh, but is also a  mechanism to keep you from fighting against the true enemy (Your self). I disagree with his views on the place of Messiah, but I completly agree with his views on the truth behind the Adversary, and demons as first century diseases.

The Real Devil – Duncan Heaster – Download full PDF

Other works from different sources with same conclusions:

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History of the development of Satan

This film documents how a personal Satan was created. It proves that such an idea is superstition folks, and one that almost every denomination both Messianic and Protestants believe in. Through this belief the full spirit of Yahweh is not existing in everyone’s lives. Repent, grow up and realize that we live in a world of reason.

The History of Satan

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A paper on the theological notes of Sir Isaac Newton regarding Satan and Demons

Click Paper to read in full

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No Eternal Suffering in Hell

This is the truth about the pagan origins of the eternally burning, suffering in hell doctrine. Yahweh is a Creator of mercy, you will not burn for all eternity, but, you will be destroyed through great agony and becoming nothing, existing no more forever.

What happens to the dead – Download PDF here

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Keeping the Feast Days of Yahweh

Michael Rood explains the importance of the annual feast days, and he also introduces their meaning to both Jew and gentile (all spiritual Israelites). Forsake your ancient Roman festivals and enter into Yahweh’s Joy!

About the Spring Feasts

About the Fall feasts

Conclusion

With the full understanding of all these elements any person or Church can now begin to walk in the spiritual truth Yahshua (Jesus) first required. If we want revival (which is here) you must let go of these unrealistic superstitions and grasp onto the true Wisdom of righteousness. Rejection of an Angelic demon and the belief in Yahweh’s sovereignty will alter your life forever. Glorifying Yahweh as the one who gives and takes away allows you to glory in Him in a way that very few know today.

Keep the Commandments, Keep the feast days, forsake falsehoods and proclaim the full unadulterated gospel. It is time to walk in the fullness of wisdom. This can be accomplished today if you will open your ears and hear.

I implore you in the Spirit of Messiah, pray and ask if these things are true, then spread the gospel of the Omnipotent Creator!

Glory to His name forever and ever, Amein

In this presentation “Brother Sam”, or Dr. Samuel Bacchiocchi uses historical sources to present a fascinating, yet simple argument on how the Catholic church changed the Sabbath to Sunday.

In short, this video explains how:

“Anti-Judaism caused the abandonment of the Sabbath, and pagan sun worship influenced the adoption of Sunday”.

Some have criticized Dr. Sam as being a secret Jesuit infiltrator, but based on my experience, and this has been through the direct teaching from the Spirit of Yahweh, Brother Sam is not a secret Jesuit at all. His pro Catholic leanings are more pro individual than pro establishment. His revelations, and even other written works prove him not to be a Jesuit. He also calls the Catholic church the Beast of revelations openly. I don’t agree with everything he says, but his research is spot on. This movie will be a great benefit to anyone who loves the Word of Yahweh.

Link to full size movie: Here

Link to his Book: From Sabbath to Sunday

I hope this film, and it’s subsequent parts has helped your spiritual walk.

May Yahshua the Messiah richly bless you with all that you need as you work hard in His spiritual Kingdom.

Truly.

Modern Art: Its Occult Beginnings

If we look at history, we see that Art itself has been the true god of the Yahweh-less man. Statues of Idols “the works of human hands” are the things that were venerated and worshipped as deities. Men naturally applied their imaginations to these works and attributed spiritual powers to them (even though said powers were fictional). Continuing from our teaching about the renaissance, when Paganism once again invaded Europe, it was the ancient form and styles of art which engaged the minds on mass moving them towards rebellion against scriptural righteousness and ethical living.  We now must fast forward to the more modern era. We shall see that the effects of the renaissance have never completely faded. There were many religious reformations of different degrees and sorts that took place after the renaissance and the 1900’s but the cankering disease of freedom from all moral rule was now a staple in the mind of everyone. Artists who in a form were rebels against the old standard began deconstructing even the pagonic classical forms, and set out to create something radically new. In their search to define their new arts, they turned to occultism and gained strength through its philosophies. In this article we will discuss how modern art embraced Anti-Messianic ideals writ large to come to the place it is today, and we will also see how occultism / paganism is one to one with the modern dysfunctional forms we take as normal today.

KUPKA Frantisek

"Czech painter and graphic artist, born in 1871 at Dobruska, Bohemia, died in 1957. Kupka studied at the School of Fine Arts in Prague. To support himself, he gave lessons in religion and worked as a medium at spiritual séances. He was immersed in the thought of the French eighteenth century, and so was overwhelmed by an exhibition of the Impressionists in a Prague gallery. In 1991 he studied in Vienna and, in 1895, in Paris, where he has lived ever since. He studied from Nature and greatly admired Rodin and Toulouse-Lautrec. He undertook some important illustrative work: Lysistrata, Prometheus of Aeschylus and Les Erinnyes of Leconte de Lisle. He learnt Hebrew when commissioned by Élie Faure to make drawings for a new translation of the Song of Songs. His studio had the calm atmosphere of a religious workshop. From 1906 on his painting changed profoundly; his technical development served in imagination which saw beyond appearances. In his landscapes Kupka sought the distortions of bodies in water and expressed them in cold, strident colours." (http://serdar-hizli-art.com/modern_painting/kupka_frantisek.htm)

 

He claimed his paintings illustrated ideas in science, physics, astronomy, and biology, in all of which he was widely read. He was also knowledgeable about world religions and was particularly interested in the modern esoteric religion Theosophy, which tried to reconcile spiritualism with science. Throughout his life Kupka had a strong interest and, some claim, an involvement with the occult. (frantisek kupka; encyclopedia of world biography)

 

 

             

Two other pioneers, Frantisek Kupka, a Czech, and Kasimir Malevitch, a Russian who in 1914 and 1915 exhibited a series of squares on plain backgrounds, were also avid readers of theosophy and other metaphysical works. Kupka studied Greek, German and Oriental philosophy, along with a variety of theosophical texts. Douglas writes that the aesthetics of Malevich and his circle "resulted from a unified world view that encompassed all dichotomies; for them science and Eastern mystical ideas were seamlessly joined in a conceptual continuum, and knowledge of the world might be obtained by beginning at any point." (Christian Century, September 30, 1987, p. 819: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1065)

Piet Moderan

 

In the period that saw the genesis of abstract art—roughly the decade beginning in 1910—what is particularly striking about the outlook of the artists primarily responsible for creating abstraction is their espousal of occult doctrine. So prevalent was a steadfast belief in the occult among the pioneers of abstract art—not only Mondrian but also Kandinsky, Malevich, and a good many of their disciples— that we have no alternative but to regard such doctrine as a basic component of their artistic vision.

But meanwhile, in the spiritually imperfect present, an art that aspired to make itself the instrument of pure spirit—to align itself with what Kandinsky described in "On the Spiritual in Art" as the struggle toward the non-naturalistic, the abstract, toward inner nature—had no alternative but to make its case as an earthly cultural enterprise. … It was for this reason that even the most mystical of the pioneer creators of abstract art found themselves engaged in a dialectic that embraced two very different aspirations—on the one hand, that of advanced artistic thought, with its headlong drive to discover new modalities of pictorial expression, and, on the other, that of a spiritual ideal that looked upon art as a means to an end that transcended art itself.

 

The occult symbolism is clearly defined in this modernist work. This work employs almost every technique termed a modernist style.

But the truth is that in every realm of high endeavour in which we find mysticism serving as a spur and an ideal—in movements of political revolution and campaigns for sexual emancipation, for example, no less than in avant-garde art movements—this loyalty to occult doctrine has proven to be a powerful incentive to practical achievement. Within the imaginative faculties there is nothing that so stirs the will to accomplish extraordinary things as the conviction that one is possessed of absolute knowledge about the ultimate destiny of human affairs. This was precisely the kind of mystical conviction that the pioneer creators of abstraction brought not only to their own innovations as artists but to the formation of avant-garde movements that changed the direction of modernist art and greatly expanded the place it would come to occupy in modern cultural life.

It is this belief in the absolute that accounts for the speed as well as the confidence which the pioneers of abstraction brought to their break with what they saw as the last vestiges of representation in art, and for the success they achieved in winning converts to their radical view of artistic expression. These artist-acolytes of the occult really did believe they were fulfilling a unique spiritual mission in this fateful act of artistic innovation, and they persuaded a great many others to join them in that belief. Theirs was, in this sense, a religious movement as well as an artistic one, and they brought to it the kind of intensely felt faith that we associate with spiritual yearning and religious conversion.

In the latest developments of the art of their time, which in the case of Cubism had already brought painting to the very verge of abandoning representation, they shrewdly discerned a “logic” that cried out for completion. This gave to abstraction a powerful sense of purpose—a kind of ontological imperative—that was all the more compelling when combined with the promise of a spiritual vocation. As artists, the pioneers of abstraction had largely mastered in their earlier paintings the rapid succession of styles that had moved from Realism and Impressionism to the Post-Impressionist, Fauvist, Expressionist, and Cubist art which dominated the European avant-garde in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth.

The doctrinaire abstraction that was rooted in theosophical ideas was therefore seen to constitute, in the early years of its development, a counter-avant-garde opposed to the mainstream artistic interests of the School of Paris. It was, as far as Paris was concerned, virtually an underground movement that did not enjoy the critical acclaim, or even the kind of critical scandal, that had marked the emergence of Fauvism and Cubism before the First World War and would again mark the emergence of Dada and Surrealism in the years following the war.

“Plastic Mathematics is a "positive mysticism" in which "we translate reality into constructions controlled by our reason, later to recover these constructions in nature, thus penetrating matter with plastic vision".  Schpenmaeker believed that the new plastic expression (Neoplasticism), born of light and sound, would create a heaven on earth.”
(Modern Architecture, Alan Colquhoun)

What is remarkable about ‘The New Plastic in Painting’ is not only its triumphal affirmation of pure abstraction as an aesthetic “absolute”—a word that was repeatedly sounded throughout the manifesto—but the anxious attention that is lavished on the need to emancipate painting from the thralldom of what is variously called ‘nature’s appearance,’ ‘naturalistic representation,’ ‘naturalistic form,’’naturalistic color,’ and so on. Nature haunts the pages of ‘The New Plastic in Painting’ like a spectre that can be neither exorcised nor appeased. It can only be resisted by an act of transcendent artistic conscience that makes the pursuit of the ‘universal’ a quest so absolute that all the contingencies of nature are stripped of their importance.

(Mondrian & mysticism ’My long search is over’ by Hilton Kramer; http://www.redbubble.com/painters-in-modern-times/forums/560/topics/10823-mondrian-positive-mysticism-and-plastic-mathematics-article)

Conclusion

What Mondrian purposed to do was strip creation of its realness, and for that substitute a fakeness. The purpose in doing such was to create a new aesthetic reality wholly made in the image of man, and entirely new. In the process of wanting such a radical change, he came up with his own philosophy called Neoplasticism, and from this philosophy we get our modern vector art. Problem is that this new art form, although mimicking reality, is not. And this fake reality makes children equate visual representations with the real thing. The sort of problems this produces is not fully ascertained, but he felt as though it would change human kind in a radical form, and thus we see his artistic effects implemented in children’s cartoons. Everything here is rooted in Theosophy and the occult.

Picasso and the Occult

Pablo Picasso Evil behind his expression:

"No, painting is not made to decorate apartments, it’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy." (Tery, Picasso, n’est pas officer dans l’Armee francaise, Les Lettres Francaises, March 24, 1945)

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies." (The Arts, Picasso Speaks, 1923)

"What is truth? Truth cannot exist. … Truth does not exist. … Truth is a lie." (Parmelin, Picasso: The Artist, His Model, and Other Related Works, 1965, p. 110)

 

 

  

 

 

The DADA Movement

   

We see that modern art, with its abstractions and deconstructions of reality, are highly influenced by the occult ideas of men gaining all knowledge and art as a form of ascension from this realm to one greater. If we have a generation who hungers to mimic artists who’ve used occult means in order to express new forms of creativity, it is only rational to see that our endeavours and appreciations of orderly conduct are going backwards instead of forwards. The problem with abstract art is that it makes something that it ugly, disordered, and bizarre, to seem as though it’s beautiful, charming and acceptable. This is how evil transmutes itself into goodness.

Dysfunction made fitting:

Underground becomes main stream

Punk Rock made acceptable:

There was once a time in both American and Canada when strangely colourer hair was highly disapproved. But with an influx of new styles, and the blurring of moral standards, we can find our politicians with pink streaks in their hair. Why is this important? Such things are meaningful to observe because they represent how society is descending into the depth of anarchy, and accepting thinds they once abhorred due to their unnaturalness and blatant rebellion.

 

Punk first emerged in the mid 1970s in London as an anarchist and aggressive movement.  About 200 young people defined themselves as part of an anti-fashion urban youth street cultural movement.  Closely aligned was a music movement that took the name punk…The clothes suited the lifestyle of those with limited cash due to unemployment and the general low income school leavers…Punks cut up old clothes from charity and thrift shops, destroyed the fabric and refashioned outfits in a manner then thought a crude construction technique, making garments designed to attract attention… in the 1970s it shocked many people, because it had never been seen before.

 

Body piercing was done in parts other than the usually accepted placement of the ear lobe. The placement of studs and pins in face, body parts such as eyebrows and cheeks, noses or lips, for the masses was then quite unusual even after the freedom of the 1960s.

Here we see punk influence in the media. In fact, such an influence is just more conditioning. Dysfunction is fed, but by the tea spoon.

-FROM GOOD TO UGLY-

Here are a few images of stars in their natural states, then them when influenced by the trends.

Miley Cirus

 

Beyonce Knowles

 

Rihanna

 

Little children have no choice but to copy the fads because if they don’t they will be overlooked and left alone. This world becomes dysfunctional one degree at a time. Just that normal has adopted elements of what was once anarchy shows that ethical lines have not only been blurred, but completely eroded away.

Tattoos

Ye shall not … print any marks upon you: I am YAHWEH.
Leviticus 19:28

 

Tattoo enthusiast and historian, Steve Gilbert, in his popular, Tattoo History: A Source Book, cites some of the historical facts Hambly [a tattoo historian] found in his extensive research.

[Hambly] "retailed a wealth of examples which he had culled from field work by anthropologists in many parts of the world. Tattooing was supposed to: prevent pain; protect against gunshot wounds; cur illness; confer superhuman strength; preserve youth; enhance the supernatural powers of a shaman; ensure the survival of the soul after death; identify the soul in the hereafter; attract good luck; protect against witchcraft; ensure the protection of a deity; confer occult powers; prevent drowning; exorcise demons; ensure the protection of a totemic animal or spiritual guardian; record a pilgrimage to a holy place, etc. . .

This blue bowl (c. 1300 B.C.), housed in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Amsterdam, features a musician tattooed with an image of the household deity Bes on her thigh. (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/10023606.html#)

"the worship of the sun-god Baal had involved the marking of the hands [tattoos] with the divine token in a mystic attempt to acquire strength."
(Ronald Scutt, Art, Sex and Symbol, 1974, p. 64)

[Tattooing] "[Is] association with sun-worship, megalithic building, ear-piercing, serpent worship"
(Ronald Scutt, Art, Sex and Symbol, 1974, p. 22)

"The reasons why puncturing the skin should be regarded with some degree of awe are not far to seek, for in the first place, there is the drawing of blood, which to the savage world over is full of significance as a rejuvenating and immortalizing factor. There is in addition to the opening of numerous inlets for evil to enter. . ."
(Hambly Wilfrid D. 1925. The History of Tattooing and its Significance, p. 233, cited in Gilbert, Steve, Tattoo History: A Source Book, p. 162)

"Tattooing is often a magical rite in the more traditional cultures, and the tattooist is respected as a priest or shaman."
(Michelle Delio, Tattoo: The Exotic Art of Skin Decoration, p. 73)

"The actual tattooing process, which involved complex ritual and taboos, could only be done by priests and was associated with beliefs which were secrets known only to members of the priestly caste. . . Hambly concluded that historically tattooing had originated in connection with ancient rites of scarification and bloodletting which were associated with religious practices intended to put the human soul in harmony with supernatural forces and ensure continuity between this life and the next."  (Gilbert, Steve, Tattoo History: A Source Book, p. 158)

Tattooing is a return to mans pagonic histories, it is a complete circle. The issue with such an “art form” is that it desecrates something that Yahweh made perfect. We are given clothing to adorn ourselves, so things such as ink under the skin shouldn’t be required, especially when Yahweh told us not to do it. This prohibition was meant to separate the Israelites from the pagan tribes, today not having a tattoo symbolises a certain purity. Since Tattoos are rife in popularity, those without them stand apart as almost odd. Christians should stand up for the beauty of original form.

Degradation in Fashion

In 1971 these sinful jeans hit the market. Created by two Italian men who used the scripture to promote licentiousness, these designers were only mimicking their forefathers found in the humanism of the Renaissance.

How fashions have changed over time

“The knee-length hemline from the 1920’s stayed in place for about 30 years or so. The conservative 1950’s were followed by a great decade of revolution. This decade brought the miniskirt into the limelight and this new hemline caused quite a fashion stir during its time. Hemlines rose to unheard of heights during this decade and many of us typically think of the sixties when we think of the mini.” (http://www.dressandskirt.com/dresses-and-skirts.htm)

Modern levels

Modesty has jumped screaming out the window. If a person from the 1920’s arrived in a time machine to 2011, I’m sure they would presume themselves to be in what was mystically imagined as a level of hell.

New female trend, showing the thong

A male trend popularized by Prison culture and spread through Hip hop, the exposure of the entire buttocks

What’s wrong with what we wear?

“8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!” (Psalm 81)

What we adorn ourselves in represents what we cherish. Many brands become idols in the sight of Yahweh because they are representative signs of pagan gods and goddesses. We must be aware of these symbols, with placing them on our bodies we propagate their messages through our wearing them. The coming revelations will leave you shocked or angered. Will you destroy these idols or remain wearing them to be like everyone else?

Nike

“Nike is the Greek goddess of victory. She presided over the earliest battlefields, and since the 1928 Summer Olympic Games, every Olympic medal bears Nike’s figure holding a palm frond in her left hand and a winner’s crown in her right. The Nike SWOOSH came about in 1971. It represents the wing of the Greek goddess Nike.” ( http://inside.nike.com/blogs/nikewomen-en_US/2009/12/22/nike-goddess)

“The logo represents the wing of the Greek Goddess.The Nike logo is a classic case of a company gradually simplifying its corporate identity as its frame increases. The company’s first logo appeared in 1971, when the word "Nike," the Greek goddess of victory, was printed in orange over the outline of a checkmark, the sign of a positive mark. Used as a motif on sports shoes since the 1970s, this checkmark is now so recognizable that the company name itself has became superfluous.”

Converse

The Pentagram, period.

Versace

“Medusa Gorgon Goddess of Righteous Wrath. In some traditions she was a serpent goddess of the Libyan Amazons and represented female wisdom. In others she was an Anatolian Sun Goddess. Medusa is identical with the Crone or Destroyer aspect of the dark Egyptian goddess Nieth; she was also one member of the triple personae of the North African goddess An-Ath. When that goddess was imported by the Greeks as patroness of Athens, Medusa’s fierce visage was embossed on Athena’s shield.”

Gucci and Chanel

Barbara Walker hypothesizes in her book, The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, that the Ichthys was the son of the pagan sea goddess Atargatis. She also posits that the Ichthys symbol was a representation of sexuality and fertility. It is also a symbol for the Goddess Venus.

Lululemon

This franchise supports Indian Yoga, and derives its symbol from Astrology. It’ anti-Messianic ideals are self explanatory.

Parasuco

Greek chimera, a evil deity in Greek mythology

Mercedes goddess worship

The Mercedes comes from Germany, and it in itself is an embodiment of Envy and Vanity. The reason it is so evil is because its symbol is from occult / pagan roots. These vehicles are the sorts that ethical Yahweh loving followers of Messiah should not hunger to own. If you do own one, like I once did, you will quickly realize that the negative attention it brings is not pure. You will see why and how they become idols in your life. These vehicles are idols through and through, and yes they are coveted by the world for a reason.

The triskelion is a symbol formed by three of almost anything conjoined and radiating from the center—triangles, commas, lines, circles, tear or water drops, trombone slides, arms, or legs. Such symbols are very widespread in human cultures and are found all the way from Celtic mythology to Buddhist art.

The Triskelion is the triple-triangle form of fate (or the fates). Three rings were supposed to invoke the three fates in several ancient traditions. The number three is particularly sacred to the celts – the used a triple cycle for the seasons, and for many magical patterns. Celtic goddesses frequently appear in triple form – from ancient times, the great earth mother was a trinity, representing her three aspects, maiden, mother and crone. The triskele is a three-legged pattern with a variety of manifestations in romano-British art. … The triskele pattern is often used as a magical charm- probably to avert evil. Spirals are among the most sacred signs of Neolithic Europe, symbolizing the womb, death and re-birth, they appear on megalithic monuments, entrances to caves – sacred places of worship, all over the continent and the British isles, such as Newgrange in Ireland, and Gavrinis in Brittany. The spiral was a particular symbol of the Goddess faith. Spirals also symbolized the coiled serpent or dragon, both regarded as sacred in the old religion, representing the natural energies of the earth and sky.

Bmw Sun worship

This logo is perfectly sun worship, period.

Above Greek sun crosses

Below diverse and similar sun crosses

In Conclusion

So we see good followers of Messiah, in order to keep ourselves un-tainted from the world we need to study showing ourselves approved, and be wise in all things we take part in. Many of you will read this wisdom and shrug it off, but now since you gave been taught and do understand that idolatry exists in nearly everything, from abstract art to fashion trends, we must clean up our lives and acts, and have them resemble a more Yahwehli kind of vision. Yahweh hates Idols, and coveting such will definitely remain a block from His full blessings entering your life.

PILGRIMS PROGRESS VANITY FAIR

This is an excerpt from Bunyan’s “Pilgrims progress” and it represents vanity fair. This fair is the culmination of all things anti-Messiah, and it actually represents all the things our world holds dear. I recommend the novel “Pilgrams Progress” for it is beneficial for every Christian to at least read once.

“Then I saw in my dreams, that, when they were out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long. It bears the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter that vanity, and also because all that is sold there, or that comes there, is vanity; as is the saying of the Wise, �All that cometh is vanity.�

This is no newly begun business, but a thing of ancient standing. I will show you the original of it.

Almost five thousand years ago, there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial city, as these as these two honest persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions seeing that the path of the pilgrims lay through this town of Vanity, set up a fair; a fair where they would see all sorts of vanity, and it should last all the year long. Therefore at this fair are all such things sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.

At this fair there are at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind.

Also, there are several rows and streets under their proper names, where such and such wares are sold, such as Britain Row, the French Row, the Italian row, the Spanish Row, the German Row, where several sorts of vanities are to be sold. Also the wares of Rome are greatly promoted in this fair.”

 Yahweh and Yahshua Bless you and Keep you. More articles in this vein coming soon. 

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