The False Light

 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.  And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not a great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

2 Corinthians 11:13–15 (LEB)

The statement by Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians, “And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light” is proved to be a true statement, especially when we consider the festivals and sabbats around “the light”. We need not look any further than the October 31st and November 1st festival of Samhain, coming up at the end of the month. The following is from http://www.pagangrimoire.com, and it explains the sabbats of witchcraft. Historically, these days are associated with sun god worship, and have been celebrated since antiquity.

The Wheel of the Year: The 8 Festivals in the Wiccan Calendar

The Christian religion, consisting of thousands of sects, has adopted most of these days one way or another. Isn’t it suspicious that the major Christian and secular holy days fall on these sun god sabbats? This time of year churches will host “trunk or treat” nights on the Samhain sabbat eve and relate it to “shining the light”. This happens all over North America, and trunk or treats seem to have replaced the traditional “harvest parties”, churches would host in order to celebrate Halloween in the past. The following is from pagangrimoire.com:

“Samhain, or best known as Halloween, is Celtic New Year’s Eve and the final harvest. It’s when the veil between the world of the living and the dead is the thinnest and when pagans believe spirits easiest roam the earth and when it is easiest to communicate with them. Samhain is a time to honor all those who have come before, for all that was gifted to us during the year, to ask for guidance, and to set intentions as the turning of the wheel begins again.

Wiccans believe this is when the god dies and when the Goddess both reaches her highest power as the Crone and is pregnant with the god that will be born at Yule. And hence, the cycle begins again. It is, because the divide between the world’s is at is thinnest, also one of the most powerful nights to do magic.” pagangrimoire.com

These traditions follow the ancient birth myth celebrated in honour of “Jesus” at Yule, which was renamed by Christians to “Christmas”. “When the Goddess both reaches her highest power as the Crone and is pregnant with the god that will be born at Yule. ” Different cultures throughout history celebrated these days, and just like Christianity, they had different names for the days they celebrated. None of the eight sabbats are celebrating the Creator God, Yahuah, who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Bible.

1 Corinthians 10:18–22 (LEB): ¹⁸ Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not the ones who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? ¹⁹ Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ No, but that the things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons. ²¹ You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²² Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he is, are we?

Churches will claim that somehow, because of Jesus, we can now own these days from sun god worship and witchcraft and turn them into days to honour the true God. However, the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob said to absolutely not do this very thing.

Deuteronomy 12:29–32 (LEB): ²⁹ “When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are about to go to, to dispossess them before you, and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land, ³⁰ take care so that you are not ensnared into imitating them after their being destroyed from before you, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, and thus I myself want to do also.’ ³¹ You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods. ³² All of the things that I am commanding you, you must diligently observe; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it.”

The Church thinks it is above these instructions that God gave His chosen people, even though He punished these people for doing exactly what the church is doing with these ancient sabbats. This is pure deception from the false light. These types of festivals are what Balaak used to ensare Israel by the advice of Balaam.

Numbers 25:1–5 (LEB): 25 When Israel dwelled in Shittim, the people began to prostitute themselves with the daughters of Moab. ² And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and worshiped their gods. ³ So Israel was joined together to Baal Peor, and Yahweh became angry with Israel. ⁴ Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and hang them before Yahweh in the sun, so the fierce anger of Yahweh will turn from Israel.” ⁵ So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill his men who are joined together with Baal Peor.”

Micah 6:5 (LEB): ⁵ O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

This is not an obsolete story from the Old Testament. It is an example how God will judge His people for celebrating the sun god holiday wheel of witchcraft. We are reminded of this event by Yeshua in the revelation of John.

Revelation 2:14–16 (LEB): ¹⁴ But I have a few things against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. ¹⁵ So likewise you also have those who hold fast to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Therefore repent! But if you do not, I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war with them with the sword from my mouth.

When he says “commit sexual immorality” it is a reference to other gods. Using these sabbats for “Jesus” is equivalent to sacrificing food to idols and sexual immorality with the false god of light, which all of these holy days honour. Yeshua, called Jesus in Greek, said this to the church: “Therefore repent! But if you do not, I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war with them with the sword from my mouth.” At this point people will scream, “rightly divide”, so they can continue celebrating the false holy days. “Rightly divide” is a term misused by dispensationlists quoting second Timothy 2:15. Please see my blog post, Dividing God’s Word is Risky Business for more on this subject.

Hosea 5:1–7 (LEB): 5 Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! Because the judgment applies to you; because you have been a snare for Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor; ² they dug a deep pit in Shittim, but I am a punishment for all of them. ³ I myself know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; because now you have played the whore, O Ephraim—Israel is defiled. ⁴ Their deeds do not permit them to return them to God. Because a spirit of whoredom is in their midst, they do not know Yahweh. ⁵ The pride of Israel testifies against him, and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt, and Judah stumbles with them. ⁶ With their flocks and herds they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. ⁷ They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh because they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

Harvest parties and trunk or treats are more Protestant ways to celebrate the ancient deities . The Catholic Church made it a day to honour the dead saints and martyrs. The following is from Britannica.com:

“The first evidence for the November 1 date of celebration and of the broadening of the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs occurred during the reign of Pope Gregory III (731–741), who dedicated a chapel in St. Peter’s, Rome, on November 1 in honour of all saints. In 800 All Saints’ Day was kept by Alcuin on November 1, and it also appeared in a 9th-century English calendar on that day. In 837 Pope Gregory IV ordered its general observance. In medieval England the festival was known as All Hallows, and its eve is still known as Halloween. The period from October 31 to November 2 (All Souls’ Day) is sometimes known as Allhallowtide.“

The Father gave us His special holy days through Israel. They have nothing to do with the false light holidays that the world celebrates. We are currently at the end of Sukkot, or the feast of booths, which is a week long festival celebrating the fall harvest and the time that the Israelites lived in tents in the wilderness. It is a remembrance of how God delivered His people from slavery and it points to a time when this will happen again.

Jeremiah 23:7–8 (LEB): ⁷ “Therefore look, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when they will no longer say, ‘As Yahweh lives who led up the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’ ⁸ but ‘As Yahweh lives, who led up, and who brought the offspring of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he had driven them.’ Then they will live in their land.”

I believe this is the same gathering Yeshua is speaking about in Matthew 24:31: “ And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other end of it.”

We can celebrate these days in honour of the true light, even though there is no longer a temple, we are scattered in the dispersion, and our offerings are with our lips, not literal grain and animal offerings.

Hebrews 13:12–16 (LEB): ¹² Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order that he might sanctify the people by his own blood. ¹³ So we must go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. ¹⁴ For here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the city that is to come. ¹⁵ Therefore through him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name. ¹⁶ And do not neglect doing good and generosity, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

We are going to be celebrating these feasts in the future city in the kingdom of God, so why not practice now? There will be no one celebrating Halloween or Christmas in God’s city of the future.

Zechariah 14:16–18 (LEB): ¹⁶ And then every survivor from all those nations coming against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, and celebrate the Feast of Booths. ¹⁷ And then whoever of the clans of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, it will not rain on them. ¹⁸ And if the clan of Egypt will not go up and come in, on them will be that plague Yahweh inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

Are you serving the Creator God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, or the false light antichrist? By honouring the days that have been dedicated to witchcraft we show the god of our choice. As Yeshua told the women accused of adultery, “Go and sin no more”.

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