10.31.2003
Gamaliel for this Week
I’m going to take a pause and give Gamaliel the week off. Normally he would go on about all the pagan celebrations taking place this week on that High Unholy Day of witchcraft – Halloween. Since most of you are already familiar with the arguments against celebrating Halloween, I’m going to give the concern a new twist. This week I will be spoofing those who get all up in arms about Halloween, Easter, Christmas and all the other things in our culture that have pagan roots (the “Peace” symbol, ankh or looped cross, rabbit’s foot, four leaf clover, etc.) The outline for this week’s piece can be found at http://www.llano.net/baptist/pbc9610.htm but the application may be a little different than what you are accustomed to. I hope you enjoy this week’s departure from the usual Gamaliel fare.
rick
Calendars: The Devil's Toolbox
(Satan’s Plot to Infuse Christianity with Paganism)
By Dr. I. M. Zealous
The Calendar's Origin
The current calendar we are now using is an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Church and was forced on society by Pope Gregory – hence its name, the Gregorian Calendar. It was implemented to replace the Julian Calendar but retained all of its pagan elements intact. The roots of our modern calendar go all the way back to Nimrod, the Tower of Babel and astrological worship of the heavens.
The Calendar - The Devil's Tool
Because the calendar is so much a part of our daily lives we tend to take it for granted. What we don’t realize is that it is a subtle way for Satan to fill every facet of our lives with pagan influences. Most Christians are so complacent about the calendar that they don’t even know they are using Satan’s tool for worshipping pagan deities every time they use one. Ignorance, however, is no excuse that God will accept in the Day of Judgment when he calls us to account. Every idle word is going to be brought forth, including every calendaric reference to pagan deities.
The Months of the Year
Let us begin our study by looking at the months of the year and the origins of their names:
• January – named after the Roman god Janus, a two-faced deity of “beginnings” with faces looking forward and backward
• February – also known as the month of expiation from the Roman festival of purification that occurred on the 15th
• March – named after the Roman god of war, Mars
• April, September, October, November & December – all named after their place in the ancient Roman calendar being respectively Second, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth by Roman reckoning
• May – named after the earth goddess Maia
• June – named after the queen of the gods, Juno
• July, August – named after Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus
Simply put, there is not a month in our calendar that does not have some godless pagan origin. This is a clear case for Christians to never use a calendar because every time they do they celebrate the filthy pagan deities of Rome. But it only gets worse from here.
The Days of the Week
Did you ever wonder where we got the names of the days of the week? Every single one of them is an homage to one vile deity or another. Just look at the list:
• Sunday – worship of the Sun god
• Monday – worship of the Moon goddess
• Tuesday – worship of Tiu, god of war & sky
• Wednesday – worship of Wodin (Odin), king of the gods
• Thursday – worship of Thor, god of thunder
• Friday – worship of Frigg, queen mother goddess of fertility
• Saturday – worship of Saturn, god of agriculture and fertility
So you can see that every single day of the week is named in honor of a pagan god. Every time we name a day of the week, we invoke the name of one of these heathen deities. Spiritual Christians should avoid ever mentioning any day of the week by name. Only call them by number except for Sunday, I mean the first day of the week, which can also be called The Lord’s Day.
Conspiracy and the Calendar
It should be plain by now to any conscientious Christian that Satan has been plotting since time immemorial to snare unsuspecting believers any way he can. The Romish plot to force Christians to adopt a pagan calendar system was propagated in the very pits of hell and is now so deeply ingrained in our culture that there is no way for us to escape it. We can protest it however through some practical cautions:
• Never buy a calendar
• Never display a calendar at home, work or anywhere else
• Refuse to watch TV shows which refer to the calendar or use the days of the week in conversation
• Don’t listen to radio stations that prominently feature the use of the calender as part of their programming
• Take all references to the calendar from your church signs, literature, Bibles, and anything associated with things Christian.
• Refuse to associate with people who fail to take any of the above cautions.
“But What Is The Harm?”
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." (Ephesians 5:11)
"Abstain from all appearance of evil." (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
"When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." (Deuteronomy 18:9-12) This Scriptural injunction in Deuteronomy 18 strictly forbade the people of Israel from having anything to do with the Satanic practices of their Canaanite neighbors. This is a Scriptural principle to follow.
"Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:31)
"And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver." (Acts 19:18-19)
[rick’s note: Oops. I forgot to change the above paragraph in any way from its original.]
Conclusion
It is my conviction that true Bible-loving Christians should not be a part of the evils and wickedness of Satanic things. We must realize that Halloween every time we worship on “Sunday” we are not worshiping the God of Heaven when we do so. We are actually worshipping a god in the heavens, even if we don’t mean to. True worship must be on “The Lord’s Day” instead of “Sunday.” Otherwise it will be an offering to the Sun god, not the Son of God. Christians need to be warned and enlightened about the Satanic origins of the calendar.
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because they are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him. You may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.
Titus 3: 9-11 (NIV)
For those of you who want to read about the pagan origins of Halloween you may go to any of the links below (but you won’t find any similar warnings about the calendar – I don’t know why not since it is clearly just as pagan):
http://www.freechurch.org/oldrec/oldrect.html
http://logosresourcepages.org/h_origins.htm
http://www.anabaptists.org/tracts/hallow.html
www.biblehelps.us/download/doc/318.doc
http://www.dalecitybaptist.org/resources/halloween.html
http://www.kingdombaptist.org/article677.cfm
http://www.stjohndc.org/homilies/homhalwn.htm
I’m going to take a pause and give Gamaliel the week off. Normally he would go on about all the pagan celebrations taking place this week on that High Unholy Day of witchcraft – Halloween. Since most of you are already familiar with the arguments against celebrating Halloween, I’m going to give the concern a new twist. This week I will be spoofing those who get all up in arms about Halloween, Easter, Christmas and all the other things in our culture that have pagan roots (the “Peace” symbol, ankh or looped cross, rabbit’s foot, four leaf clover, etc.) The outline for this week’s piece can be found at http://www.llano.net/baptist/pbc9610.htm but the application may be a little different than what you are accustomed to. I hope you enjoy this week’s departure from the usual Gamaliel fare.
rick
Calendars: The Devil's Toolbox
(Satan’s Plot to Infuse Christianity with Paganism)
By Dr. I. M. Zealous
The Calendar's Origin
The current calendar we are now using is an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Church and was forced on society by Pope Gregory – hence its name, the Gregorian Calendar. It was implemented to replace the Julian Calendar but retained all of its pagan elements intact. The roots of our modern calendar go all the way back to Nimrod, the Tower of Babel and astrological worship of the heavens.
The Calendar - The Devil's Tool
Because the calendar is so much a part of our daily lives we tend to take it for granted. What we don’t realize is that it is a subtle way for Satan to fill every facet of our lives with pagan influences. Most Christians are so complacent about the calendar that they don’t even know they are using Satan’s tool for worshipping pagan deities every time they use one. Ignorance, however, is no excuse that God will accept in the Day of Judgment when he calls us to account. Every idle word is going to be brought forth, including every calendaric reference to pagan deities.
The Months of the Year
Let us begin our study by looking at the months of the year and the origins of their names:
• January – named after the Roman god Janus, a two-faced deity of “beginnings” with faces looking forward and backward
• February – also known as the month of expiation from the Roman festival of purification that occurred on the 15th
• March – named after the Roman god of war, Mars
• April, September, October, November & December – all named after their place in the ancient Roman calendar being respectively Second, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth by Roman reckoning
• May – named after the earth goddess Maia
• June – named after the queen of the gods, Juno
• July, August – named after Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus
Simply put, there is not a month in our calendar that does not have some godless pagan origin. This is a clear case for Christians to never use a calendar because every time they do they celebrate the filthy pagan deities of Rome. But it only gets worse from here.
The Days of the Week
Did you ever wonder where we got the names of the days of the week? Every single one of them is an homage to one vile deity or another. Just look at the list:
• Sunday – worship of the Sun god
• Monday – worship of the Moon goddess
• Tuesday – worship of Tiu, god of war & sky
• Wednesday – worship of Wodin (Odin), king of the gods
• Thursday – worship of Thor, god of thunder
• Friday – worship of Frigg, queen mother goddess of fertility
• Saturday – worship of Saturn, god of agriculture and fertility
So you can see that every single day of the week is named in honor of a pagan god. Every time we name a day of the week, we invoke the name of one of these heathen deities. Spiritual Christians should avoid ever mentioning any day of the week by name. Only call them by number except for Sunday, I mean the first day of the week, which can also be called The Lord’s Day.
Conspiracy and the Calendar
It should be plain by now to any conscientious Christian that Satan has been plotting since time immemorial to snare unsuspecting believers any way he can. The Romish plot to force Christians to adopt a pagan calendar system was propagated in the very pits of hell and is now so deeply ingrained in our culture that there is no way for us to escape it. We can protest it however through some practical cautions:
• Never buy a calendar
• Never display a calendar at home, work or anywhere else
• Refuse to watch TV shows which refer to the calendar or use the days of the week in conversation
• Don’t listen to radio stations that prominently feature the use of the calender as part of their programming
• Take all references to the calendar from your church signs, literature, Bibles, and anything associated with things Christian.
• Refuse to associate with people who fail to take any of the above cautions.
“But What Is The Harm?”
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." (Ephesians 5:11)
"Abstain from all appearance of evil." (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
"When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." (Deuteronomy 18:9-12) This Scriptural injunction in Deuteronomy 18 strictly forbade the people of Israel from having anything to do with the Satanic practices of their Canaanite neighbors. This is a Scriptural principle to follow.
"Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God." (Leviticus 19:31)
"And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver." (Acts 19:18-19)
[rick’s note: Oops. I forgot to change the above paragraph in any way from its original.]
Conclusion
It is my conviction that true Bible-loving Christians should not be a part of the evils and wickedness of Satanic things. We must realize that Halloween every time we worship on “Sunday” we are not worshiping the God of Heaven when we do so. We are actually worshipping a god in the heavens, even if we don’t mean to. True worship must be on “The Lord’s Day” instead of “Sunday.” Otherwise it will be an offering to the Sun god, not the Son of God. Christians need to be warned and enlightened about the Satanic origins of the calendar.
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because they are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him. You may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.
Titus 3: 9-11 (NIV)
For those of you who want to read about the pagan origins of Halloween you may go to any of the links below (but you won’t find any similar warnings about the calendar – I don’t know why not since it is clearly just as pagan):
http://www.freechurch.org/oldrec/oldrect.html
http://logosresourcepages.org/h_origins.htm
http://www.anabaptists.org/tracts/hallow.html
www.biblehelps.us/download/doc/318.doc
http://www.dalecitybaptist.org/resources/halloween.html
http://www.kingdombaptist.org/article677.cfm
http://www.stjohndc.org/homilies/homhalwn.htm
