MYTH BUSTERS Part IV – the Finalé · MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV Because of his attitude toward...
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MYTH BUSTERSPart IV – the Finalé
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
Exposing the Roots of Paganistic Myths and Beliefs in Modern
ChristianityJude 1:3; 2 Tim. 3:12-4:4 & Rev. 17 & 18
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVReview:
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
1 Timothy 4:1-3:1. Doctrines/teachings of deceitful
spirits and demons2. Forbid Marriage3. Forbid Certain foods at certain times
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
Rev 2:12-15 & 20:1. Teachings that lead people to stray
away from the Truth2. Teaching idolatry is O.K.
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Rev 2:12-15 & 20:3. Blending Paganism with Christianity4. Separation of Clergy from the Laity ����
the laity are just lower class dumb folk
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
Rev 2:12-15 & 20:Jezebel -> Babel -> Babylon ����
Pagan Sun God Worship ����Ba’al, Ashtoreth (Easter), Tammuz
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
Rev 2:12-15 & 20:Jezebel -> Babel -> Babylon ����
Ancient SUN god worship
It all Goes BACK to Babylon
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
Rev Chapters 17 & 18:1. Harlot-Woman is Mystery Babylon2. Rides on back of anti-christ’s Kingdom 3. Commits Spiritual Immorality with
Governments / Kings of the Earth
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Rev Chapters 17 & 18:4. Drunk with the Blood of the saints –
martyrs of Jesus Christ5. Is both a Religious Institution and a City6. Full of riches and opulent clothing
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
Rev Chapters 17 & 18:
7. GOD is calling HIS People out of that Bablyonian/Pagan Religious system…
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
Question: With all of this prophetic evidence –who / what do you think God is talking about???
No need to Answer now… (1 Peter 5:13)
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
1 Peter 5:13 She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings, and so does my son, Mark.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
Peter was writing this from ROME – which He calls Babylon. Interesting… Indeed!!!
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
So – Who is this Harlot who rides on the Beast?
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV“I know for certain that the papacy is the kingdom of Babylon and the power of Nimrod (Genesis 19:8-9)”
Martin Luther (1520 A.D.)“The Babylonian Captivity of the Church”
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVTo the Protestant Reformers – those that fought for our beliefs – they thought of the Roman Catholic Church as the HARLOT in Rev. 17 & 18
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVPlease find and read –
Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”And
“A Woman Rides the Beast”by Dave Hunt
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEncyclopedia Americana:"Christmas -- it was according to many authorities not celebrated in the first centuries of the Christian Church as the
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEncyclopedia Americana:“… Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth. A feast was established in memory of the birth
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEncyclopedia Americana:“… of the Saviour in the Fourth Century. In the Fifth Century the Western Church ordered it to be
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEncyclopedia Americana:“… celebrated forever on the day of the old Roman Feast of the birth of Sol. " (i.e.: December 25th, Birth Day of Mithras –“Natalis Sol Invitus”)
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVWilliam Prynne (Puritan Protestant):“Our Christmas lords of Misrule, together with dancing, masques, mummeries, stage-players, and such
other Christmas disorders, now in use
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVWilliam Prynne (Puritan Protestant):
“… with Christians, were derived from these Roman Saturnalia and
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVWilliam Prynne (Puritan Protestant):
“… Bacchanalian festivals; which should cause all pious Christians eternally to abominate them”
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVBecause of his attitude toward
Christmas and the pagan rituals still
observed by the professing Christian Church, William Prynne was placed in a pillory and his ears were cut off.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
William Prynne (Puritan Protestant):1660-1669 – Oxford Graduate
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVFacts about “Christmas”1. The Early Church did NOT celebrate
this “holiday” – for over 300 years
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVFacts about “Christmas”2. Almost all the rituals, symbols,
decorations derive from pre-Christian Pagan Worship of false gods and idols.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVFacts about “Christmas”3. Mithra – the son of the Sun God… his
birthday for centuries prior to Christ was December 25th…
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVFacts about “Christmas”3. Mithra = Tammuz
Natalis Sol Invictus ���� from which we get the term “Nativity”
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MithraNotice
His Hat
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MithraNotice
His Hat
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVFacts about “Christmas”4. Santa Claus – from St. Nicolas into god-like qualities, chief of the elves, an elf himself… the god Odin with black Pete… whipping bad kids, etc.
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The Coca-Cola Santa
Claus
created by artist
Haddon Sunblom
had its debut in
1931 in The
Saturday Evening
Post.
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In the 1949 Coca-
Cola Santa Claus
artwork, Santa
appears with
another character
created by artist
Haddon Sundblom -
Sprite Boy.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVFacts about “Christmas”5. Christmas Trees – male fertility symbol from pre-Christian times – from Ba’al, Ashtoreth, and Tammuz worship
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVFacts about “Christmas”5. Christmas Trees – used in the Roman Feast Saturnalia and Mithra celebrations around the time of Dec. 25th – gifts given to each other from under the tree, etc.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVFacts about “Christmas”6. Yule – as in “Yule Tide” celebration…
comes from old Norse Wotan/Odin worship of the son of the Sun God
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVFacts about “Christmas”6. Yule – worship of the son of the Sun
God coming back to life after winter solstice. (It echos back to Tammuz from
Babel)
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVWhy you do what you do, regarding
Christmas is between you and God…
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVBut, is it based on God’s Word? Why are you doing what you do?
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVIs it because of peer pressure, human
traditions, comfort, the relatives… or
because you are convinced from God’s Word you should do it that way?
See Romans 14:1-13
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVRomans 14:5-6a
(5) “One person regards one dayabove another, another regards every day alike.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVRomans 14:5-6a
(5) “… Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVRomans 14:5-6a
(6) He who observes the day,
observes it for the LORD,…”
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVWhy you do what you do, regarding
Christmas is between you and God…
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVBut, is it based on God’s Word? Why are you doing what you do?
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVIs it because of peer pressure, human
traditions, comfort, the relatives… or
because you are convinced from God’sWord you should do it that way?
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster ����
This word is not found in any English
Translations of the Bible, except for KJV
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster ���� The Word is “Pascha” (Greek)
µετα� το� πασχαIn Acts 12:4 – it is erroneously
translated in the KJV Bible
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV“Pascha” πασχα (Greek)
It is the word we use for “Passover”
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVThere is no indication of the observance
of the Easter festival in the New
Testament, or in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers…
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVThe first Christians continued the observance of the Jewish festivals, though in a new spirit,
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVas commemorations of events which those festivals had foreshadowed,”(Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition,
p.828). Jesus is the fulfillment of Passover
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster – Her Origins - not a pretty site…
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster – We must start with Constantine
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster – We must start with Constantine
1. Supposedly converted to Christianity in 313 AD (Milvian Bridge – sign of the cross in the SUN)
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster – We must start with Constantine
2. Presided over the Nicaean Creed Council in 325 AD. His titles were Pontifex Maximus, Vicarius Christi, and Bishop of Bishops
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster – We must start with Constantine
3. Wrote a letter to those who did not attend meeting stating ‘“Easter” is better than “Passover”’
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster – We must start with Constantine
4. Eastern/middle-eastern church rebelled against “Easter” and chose to keep Passover as Biblical remembrance of Christ’s Death & Resurrection
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster – We must start with Constantine
4. Eastern/middle-eastern church already knew that “Easter” was a pagan goddess from Babylon… that is why they rejected it (her).
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVEaster – We must start with Constantine
5. “Easter”���� Eostre ���� Isis ���� Ishtar ����
Ashtoreth ���� Ashera ���� Astarté
That Pagan goddess already had:
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV5. That Pagan goddess already had a “Good Friday” (fish Friday -> Fish God
– “black Friday”) celebration AND
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV5. That Pagan goddess already had an
“Easter Sunrise” celebration… as well many years prior to Christ.
PAGAN SUN GOD WORSHIP
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IV
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVConstantine – working with a persecution wearied church – caused spiritual immorality – and blended a pagan “Easter”celebration with Christianity – and it became what we have today
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVWhy Rabbits and Eggs?They are the Female Fertility symbols of Venus, Aphrodite, Astarté, Ashtoreth, Ishtar, Isis… that is why Rabbits and Eggs are prevelant during Easter
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVTemple prostitutes of Adonis – had children with woman who offer themselves to Astarté in her Temple.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVThen when these woman come back a year later… with their 3 month old children
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVThey offer their 3 month old children as a sacrifice by slitting their throats and spilling their innocent blood on the Altar of Astarté
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVThen they took hard-boilded eggs and dipped them in the Blood of the innocents… that is how “decorating”Easter eggs began.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVNow you see the connection between Easter eggs and children. Not a pretty site indeed.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVRabbits and Eggs… Rabbits multiply
Venus, Aphrodite, Astarté, Ashtoreth, Ishtar, Isis… that is why Rabbits and Eggs are prevelant during Easter -
FEMALE FERTILITY SYMBOLS
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVHalloweenAll Saints Day -> Roman Church sought to Christianize a very evil celebration of the dead and departed spirits… it still has those old PAGAN trappings today…
need I say more… ?
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVThe Harlot of RomeShe sought to Christianize many pagan worship celebrations and in the process she became Paganized herself…
and she has not changed since then.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVLessons:1. This should be a Warning to Us… we need to avoid compromising with paganistic practices – that may seem Christian on the surface…
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVLessons:2. Any “church” organization can become like that “Harlot” – spiritually committing immorality with the World and Paganism
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVLessons:3. After seeing all the evidence from Scripture and from History for the past 4 weeks… you must decide what you will do with it – in light of God’s desires.
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MYTH BUSTERS – Part IVRegarding the Harlot of Rome, God says, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues…”
Revelation 18:4