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THE APOSTOLIC VOICE
Feb 8 , 2003

"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord"

Shalom again,

Feburary 14 is Valentine’s Day and sorry to say I’m not with the festivities or the idea of “church” Valentines Day events. I don’t get it, what part of “come out from among them” don’t we understand? Everything the world celebrates, some of us in the church of the living God are so quick to emulate it; when in fact, it should be the opposite. Not only is this a pagan holiday superimposed under the banner of Christianity, but the Christian orientation given to it are from the very religious system that martyred many One God believers under the inquisition and perverted the word of God.

SATAN’S PLOT

Those who read the Christmas message would readily see why pagan festivities were cloaked under popular Christianity. Reason being, the pagan festivities of these popular holidays are now being known because satan has already woven these occult festivities within 'Christian' traditions, unknowingly. So allowing it to be unmasked, internationally, would only drop the Christian values from it and the festivities would continue, as it was when it was openly occult. That’s the reason the ‘St’ is dropped from “St. Valentines Day.” In this world, which is becoming a melting pot for culture and religion, no one will even notice or bother to give consideration whether or not it's Christian or not, after so many generations of it. No one is going to give up their traditions (chocolate, cards, sex, etc), even though they will find out that Christ nor God had nothing to do with it; or apart of it.

Satan would have then used a good name to preserve his occult practice until the dawn of the New Age and religious tolerance delusion. Reason being, he cannot beat Christianity, so he has to tolerate it and pervert it from within to achieve his goal. Here is a quote about one of the top members of satan's army, which confirms this strategy:

"Weishaupt [founder of the luciferian society- illuminati], a professor of ingolstadt, heartily hated the Jesuits, and formed his league of illuminati with the express intention 'of using for good ends the means which the Jesuit order had employed for bad'" (The power and Secret of the Jesuit -1930-Fillip Miller).

BE NOBODY’S VALENTINE

The sad fact is that most people never question the origin of the customs that they involve themselves with. Most people do not ask questions but do what everybody else does, never stopping to consider how the Almighty God of Heaven feels about their activities. When we consider that Valentine's Day is a day of preoccupation with the heart, it is essential that we listen to the following words spoken by the Almighty, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his wages, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jeremiah 17:9-10

Christians should be known by their discernment and should be asking questions regarding Valentine's Day. What is the origin of this unusual day? Why is there a preoccupation with the color red? Where did the heart shape come from, and what does it mean? These and other questions will now be answered, as we examine the roots and pagan origin of this popular day.

Origin

In the days of the Roman Empire, the month of February was the last and shortest month of the year. February originally had 30 days, but when Julius Caesar named the month of July after himself, he decided to make that month longer and shortened February to 29 days while making July a month of 31 days. Later when Octavius Caesar, also known as Augustus, came to power, he named the month of August after himself, and not be outdone he also subtracted a day from February and gave the month of August 31 days. To this very day it remains that way. The ancient Romans believed that every month had a spirit that gained in strength and reached its peak or apex of power in the middle or ides of the month. This was usually the 15th day, and it was a day when witches and augurs, or soothsayers worked their magic. An augur was a person filled with a spirit of divination, and from the word augur we get the word inaugurate, which means to take omens. Since February had been robbed by Caesars and had only 28 days, the ides of February became the 14th day of that month. Since the Ides of a month was celebrated on the preceding eve, the month of February was unique, because it was the 13th day that became the eve of the Ides that month, and it became a very important pagan holiday in the Empire of Rome. The sacred day of February 14th was called Lupercalia or day of the wolf.” This was a day that was sacred to the sexual frenzy of the goddess Juno. This day also honored the Roman gods, Lupercus and Faunus, as well as the legendary twin brothers, who supposedly founded Rome, Remus and Romulus. These two are said to have been suckled by wolves in a cave on Palatine Hill in Rome. The cave was called Lupercal and was the center of the celebrating on the eve of Lupercalia or February 14th. On this day, Lupercalia, which was later named Valentine's Day, the Luperci or priests of Lupercus dressed in goatskins for a bloody ceremony. The priests of Lupercus, the wolf god, would sacrifice goats and a dog and then smear themselves with blood. These priests, made red with sacrificial blood, would run around Palatine Hill in a wild frenzy while carving a goatskin thong called a februa. Women would sit all around the hill, as the bloody priests would strike them with the goatskin thongs to make them fertile. The young women would then gather in the city and their names were put in boxes. These love notes were called billets. The men of Rome would draw a billet, and the woman whose name was on it became his sexual lust partner with whom he would fornicate until the next Lupercalia or February 14th.

Thus, February 14th became a day of unbridled sexual lust. The color red was sacred to that day because of the blood and the heart shape that is popular to this day. The heart-shape was not a representation of the human heart, which looks nothing like it. This shape represents the human female matrix or opening to the chamber of sacred copulation.

Catholic Take Over

When the Gnostic Catholic Church began to get a foothold in Rome around the 3rd century A.D., they became known as Valentinians. The Catholic Valentinians retained the sexual license of the festival in what they called “angels in a nuptial chamber”, which was also called the sacrament of copulation. This was said to be a reenactment of the marriage of “Sophia and the Redeemer.” As the participants of the February 14th ritual began their sexual sacrament, presided over and watched by the priests known as Valentinians, the following literary was spoken: “Let the seed of light descend into thy bridal chamber, receive the bridegroom open thine arms to embrace him. Behold, grace has descended upon thee.”

As time went on, the Orthodox Catholic Church suppressed the Gnostic Catholics and manufactured St. Valentine, whose day continues to be celebrated in these modern times.

It should be without saying that the Christians should avoid Valentine's Day like a plague. In God's eyes, it is still Lupercalia, the Day Of The Wolf. Men become wolves, as they carry on the satanic rituals of fornication, which means sexual intercourse without marriage. We have heard of the wolf whistle, and we all know that wolves do not whistle. It is lustful men and women, who carry on Satan blasphemy to this very day.

D.J.M ("This information can be easily verified at any public library")

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, we must ask ourselves, Should a true Christian be associated in any way with this celebration of evil roots? Should we be doing what the heathen have done for so many years and try to justify it as love? Romans 12:2 answers this very well, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Church of living God when will it end? When will the line be drawn? Who will stand up in your church for God sake? Who will have a voice and say let us cleave to godly things and refrained from getting cloaked in the system of the world? Is there one that will say, ‘Come out from among them and be ye separated, saith the Lord!’

Again, “as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!”

Grace be unto you,
Oneil.

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