RESTORED 3/16/22; Restored 7/6/23
– TAKE A GOOD LOOK. I BET THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU WERE PICTURING!!!
The World is preparing for the End. There is horror coming. Evil is about to be unleashed such as has never been seen before and God promises it will NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN! Praise God. Man cannot imagine the horror that is about to befall the earth. The masses are crying out for it. They are demanding their right to be free of GOD and his Commandments! They are about to get their wish.
Because true history has been withheld from the masses, they have forgotten what a Pagan World is like. They have been wondering from what did Jesus deliver them. Well…soon they will know.
Hang onto your hats my brothers and sisters. It is about to be one wild ride. If you are in right standing with the True and Living God. TRUST HIM! He is the only one who can get you through this. If you are called to suffer for His name sake, He will empower you to get through it. If you are called to be Martyred keep praising His name. He has faith in you that you will hold fast to him.
For the rest of you… may God have mercy on your souls.
Just to show you how far we have fallen as a people, I want you to see what they brought into the New York Presbyterian Church. If you have not noticed Paganism has been on the rise for sometime now. In fact, it has created such a stronghold that Americans consider themselves POSTMODERNISTS. If you don’t know what that means, I strongly suggest you look it up.
This Presbyterian Church brought a PAGAN IDOL into the Chancel. The IDOL was placed next to the High Altar. The Place of WORSHIP. This particular god is the highest pan-Slavic god Perun, also responsible for war, fertility, and abundance, but who also may have been the god of the cardinal directions and the four seasons. (If you have seen Epstein’s Island you know that the Elite are extremely focused on the four cardinal directions) spacer
In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Перýн) is the highest god of the
pantheon and the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law,
war, fertility and oak trees.
Norse equivalent: Thor and OdinGreek equivalent: ZeusSymbol: fire, oak, iris, eagle, hammer, mace or axe Baltic equivalent: Perkūnas also known as BA’AL
YouTube video of the Sviatovid sculpture during an earlier installation in Orlando
A Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation in New York made news this week after it featured the sculpture of a pagan deity in its chancel.
The United Presbyterian Church of Binghamton hosted “the Sviatovid idol” which depicts a ninth-century Slavic deity, as part of a September 6-7 festival of lights.
Sviatovid (alternately known as Svetovid, Svantovit, Sventovit, or Svantevit) was a local Slavic god of war, fertility, and abundance in the Baltic region.
In the early twentieth century, an idol was discovered near the Zbruch River in Western Ukraine (accessible with free JSTOR account). This idol pictured was originally thought to be the local god Svantevit, mentioned above, and merely called “the Sviatovid idol” for reasons that are unclear or unstated. Later scholarship, however, decided that this idol, also called the Zbruch Idol, for geographical reasons, actually depicted the highest pan-Slavic god Perun, also responsible for war, fertility, and abundance, but who also may have been the god of the cardinal directions and the four seasons.As if this is not enough to keep track of, some scholars argue that Svantevit and “the Sviatovid idol” are the same as the head god Perun.
Sviatovid Sculpture, Bart Kresa Studio (https://www.bartkresa.com)
This is the deity Binghamton Presbyterian hosted in the form of a beautiful, mesmerizing sculpture, during the fascinating Luma Festival.In and of itself, a church hosting an art installation displaying the image of a long-defunct god is not sacrilegious, though it may raise a few eyebrows. The kicker is that, not only did the god “materialize on the altar” of the church each night, “[t]he church spire, pipe organ and stained glass inform[ed] the new work.”Admittedly, and thankfully, the purpose of Sviatovid in this festive context is not worship, but mere interest. Yet, there is something inside that recoils at erecting an ancient Slavic deity in a church chancel of the same God who commanded, “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3, ESV).
Maybe Sviatovid was invited into the church in the spirit of multiculturalism. Perhaps it was a subtle nod to universalism. False teaching, but a desire for the best for (literally) everyone. {that point is certain open to argument. ANY IDOL placed in a church is sacrilege and IDOL WORSHIP} To put a false god in the same spot as God’s communion table, regardless of the fact that it was not during a worship service, raises questions of prudential judgment and is possibly sacrilegious.
English poet Philip Larkin, a famous agnostic, wrote a thoughtful poem on briefly stepping inside an empty church. It is worth quoting a few sections of “Church Going” here:
“Up at the holy end; the small neat organ;
And a tense, musty, unignorable silence, Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take off My cycle-clips in awkward reverence…
“Mounting the lectern, I peruse a few Hectoring large-scale verses, and pronounce ‘Here endeth’ much more loudly than I’d meant. The echoes snigger briefly. Back at the door I sign the book, donate an Irish sixpence, Reflect the place was not worth stopping for.
“Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this…
“A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognized, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious.”
Larkin’s agnosticism is displayed in the poem, but what is more apparent is his confused reverence for church. He acknowledges his failure to understand the draw of the church, and his deep-seated reverence for it, though he did not believe a word of the teaching therein.
If a famous agnostic such as Philip Larkin is careful of his appearance and behavior within a church, how much more should a Christian congregation be mindful of what goes on inside its building, every day of the week.
United Presbyterian has not commented on its choice to host the Sviatovid idol. The church affiliates with More Light Presbyterians and describes itself as a progressive congregation.
“We are a community of people questioning, learning, celebrating, connecting, risk taking, creating, and making music and art,” the church describes on its web site. Statistics provided by the PC(USA) research service show that from 2013-2017, the congregation dropped from 220 to 178 members (-19%), while Sunday attendance declined from 64 to 53 (-17%). The congregation is not diverse, reporting only four nonwhite members, while 72% of members are age 65 or older.
YouTube video of the Sviatovid sculpture during an earlier installation in Orlando:
ROME, November 6, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A reconstruction of a pagan idol who demanded child sacrifice was stationed at the entrance of Rome’s Colosseum as part of a secular historical exhibition.
The presence of the idol raised particular concern among Catholics, as it was erected nine days before the Amazon Synod and the subsequent scandal over the veneration of the Pachamama idol at the Vatican.
The statue of Moloch, worshipped by both the Canaanites and the Phoenicians, is part of an exhibit dedicated to Ancient Rome’s once-great rival, the city of Carthage. The large-scale exhibition, titled Carthago: The immortal myth, runs until March 29, 2020.
The pagan god Moloch placed next to an exhibition sign at the Colosseum, Rome, Sept. 27, 2019.sanmarinortv.sm / screen grab
“A reconstruction of the terrible deity Moloch, linked to Phoenician and Carthaginian religions and featured in the 1914 film Cabiria (directed by Giovanni Pastore and written by Gabriele D’Annunzio) will be stationed at the entrance to the Colosseum to welcome visitors to the exhibition,” stated a press release about the exhibit.
The statue of Moloch was erected nine days prior to the opening of the Amazon Synod, which was plagued with controversy from the beginning after a ceremony in the Vatican Gardens involving the pagan goddess “Pachamama” was held in the presence of Pope Francis and top-ranking prelates
People bow to Pachamama during pagan rite in Vatican Gardens prior to opening of Amazon Synod, Oct. 4, 2019.
In the ceremony, participants prostrated themselves before wooden statuettes of the fertility goddess indigenous to South America. The statuettes were kept as part of an exhibit in the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina until they were thrown into the Tiber by Austrian Catholic Alexander Tschugguel on Oct. 21. Afterward, one copy of the mass-produced figures was kept in the church.
Some Catholics are distressed that the pagan god Moloch has been erected at the entrance to the Colosseum, which is one of many amphitheatres where Christians were tortured and executed for the entertainment of the pagan crowds.
“We were so excited the day we decided to go to the Colosseum,” Alexandra Clark told LifeSiteNews via email. She and her sister Tiffany were looking forward to visiting the site of Christian martyrdom.
“But the moment we got there the sight that greeted us was horrifying! Standing guard over the entrance was the colossal pagan statue of Moloch. It was placed in that prime spot so that everyone that entered into the Colosseum had to pass it,” she continued.
Detail of the pagan god Moloch who greets visitors to the Colosseum, Rome, as part of an exhibition that opened Sept. 27, 2019.sanmarinortv.sm / screen grab
“It was like they put Moloch there to mock the sacred place where the holy martyrs spilled their blood for the True Faith!”
Clark saw a connection between the idol of Moloch and the Pachamama images that featured so prominently at the recently concluded Amazonian Synod.
“Both of these evil pagan idols required child sacrifices and both of them came to Rome at about the same time [as] the Synod,” she said.
The two sisters remained near the Moloch statue to gauge other reactions. Clark noted that a few others, including religious sisters, were clearly shocked by the giant figure.
The image of Moloch is modeled on a representation of the child-devouring demon found in the 1914 Italian silent film Cabiria. In the film the idol of Moloch, set up in a Punic temple, has a giant bronze furnace in his chest, into which hundreds of children are thrown. Cabiria, the heroine of the film, is threatened with this fiery fate.
The film’s depiction of the idol has a historical basis. Three ancient Greek historians all attest that it was customary in Carthage to burn children alive as offerings to the deity, whom they called Baal and Cronus or Saturn, the Roman god who, according to myth, ate his own children lest they supplant him. Moloch is also mentioned several times in the Book of Leviticus. Hebrew parents are forbidden to sacrifice their children to the god.
Meanwhile, that Christians were killed in arenas like the Colosseum is indisputable. Before his martyrdom, St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote a letter circa 110 AD describing his probable fate.
“I write to the Churches, and impress on them all, that I shall willingly die for God, unless you hinder me. I beseech of you not to show an unseasonable good-will towards me. Allow me to become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to God. I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ.”
According to historian Eusebius of Caesaria, St. Ignatius was indeed killed by wild animals in an arena in Rome.
Carthage was destroyed by the Roman Republic in 146 BC during the Third Punic War after repeated demands from Cato the Censor to the Roman Senate. Cato is said to have ended all his speeches with the declaration that “Carthago delenda est,” that is, Carthage must be destroyed. However, Carthage was born again as a Roman colony, Roman Carthage, which became an important city in Roman Africa. St. Augustine of Hippo taught at a school of rhetoric there in the fourth century.
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I find it interesting that the Catholics can recognize the Pachamama statue as Pagan, yet they cannot see that their “adoration and veneration” of the Saints and Mary are no different in God’s eyes! IF they were true followers of Christ, then this should already have been revealed to them.
All of you Catholics out there who really Love the Lord, forget that the priests tell you that you cannot go to God for yourself. Forget about Mary or the Saints, even for just a little while… GO TO GOD HIMSELF and ASK HIM! Seek him in all sincerity and humility,, ask Him to forgive you for putting anything above HIM and ask him to guide and lead you to the truth! spacer
News item: ‘A video has been posted online showing a man taking so-called “Pachamama” statues from the church of Santa Maria in Transpontina in Rome and throwing them in the River Tiber.’
Christopher Lamb of the very liberal Catholic mag ‘The Tablet’ tweeted:
‘An act of iconoclasm, and a further attack on the indigenous of the Amazon, who are already persecuted. ‘This takes place amid a climate of hostility to indigenous icons generated in some Church quarters during the Amazon synod’
Note the implication that this act is racist and oppressive – everything conservative nowadays seems to be colonialist or borderline racist or discriminatory.
The statues of naked women placed in the church are obviously pagan idols. They now sleep with the fishes.
One the Church believed in a divine order in the universe, in which paganism and other bad things had no part.
And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
In Inca mythology,Pachamamais a fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting, embodies the mountains, and causes earthquakes. She is also an ever-present and independent deity who has her own self-sufficient and creative power to sustain life on this earth.wikipedia
When I first saw this next item on the News, I about fell out of my chair. The NEWS anchor was in Downtown Dallas at the ALTAR constructed to honor the Pagan Goddess Santa Muerta. He was there inviting everyone to come down and bring offerings to the alter on behalf of their dead relatives! This same type of video was played over the next few days as a commercial, showing the altar covered with food, money and trinkets… ARE WE NUTS?????
Dallas hosts first-ever Día de Los Muertos Parade and Festival
DALLAS OBSERVER
The Latino Cultural Center this past weekend held its annual Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) celebration in addition to it’s first Noche de Calaveras (Night of Skulls). The festival helped to inform Dallasites on the rich traditions behind the Day of the Dead and allowed community members to participate by adding photos of loved ones on the community altars and decorating sugar skulls. In addition to this, the festival had an altar dedicated to the Dallas Police officers who lost their lives this summer and a display of candles were on display dedicated to the 43 missing college students in Mexico.
Saint Death (2009): On the first day of each month, thousands of people flock to a house in Mexico City. They bring offerings of candles and fruit, tequila and marijuana. Theyve come to worship at the alter of Saint Death.
Art, culture, food, love, tradition, the celebration of life and death will be the root of this event.
The celebration will include catrinas, dancers, music, floats and costumes.
It will be a time to honor deceased loved ones and the entire familia is invited.
Saturday’s event:
The best part of Saturday’s parade and festival is that it’s free to the public. The entire community of Dallas can take part in the tradition this year.
The festivities will begin at 4 p.m. and wrap up around 11 p.m.
The parade will start and end at Dallas City Hall located at the 1500 block of Marilla Street.
Bring your hermanas, hermanos, ninos — even your primos, because this is a family-friendly celebration.
Of course, you can’t have a festival without food. Make sure you don’t eat too much before the event because there will be concession stands with tacos, Día de Los Muertos bread and Michelada.
And for those who love to dance, or just enjoy live music — mariachis will be performing. There’s also going to be a tribute to Latino music artists including, Selena, Juan Gabriel and Celia Cruz.
If you’re walking in memory of someone, you’re encouraged to wear white or bring a special memento to honor a loved one.
Map of Saturday’s event
Día de Los Muertos
What is Día de Los Muertos?
Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a Mexican holiday that has been celebrated by the Latino community for years.
Día de Los Muertos is not a “Mexican Halloween” and is much more than sugar skulls and the movie Coco.
It is a time for people to celebrate the life and death of late loved ones.
Many honor those who passed away by visiting grave sites and decorating them with their loved one’s favorite foods or decorations.(offerings)
Others make altars at home. These ofrendas (offerings)often include photos, items that belonged to a loved one and even food that the person enjoyed.
Ofrendas for Dia de Los Muertos
WFAA
Bringing the tradition to Dallas:
Mauricio and Norma Navarro are the visionaries of the parade. They both emigrated from Mexico wanted preserve and celebrate the tradition of Día de Los Muertos.
“I’m humbled to be a part of a great group of visionaries who seek to build unity by honoring such a deep Mexican tradition,” Navarro said in a written statement. “Dallas welcomed me as a young professional more than 30 years ago, and today North Texas is home to more than two million Latinos. How amazing to be able to see our traditions celebrated at this scale and have the opportunity to share this with everyone.”
Honoring the Fallen Five:
Navarro wanted to make sure to stay true to the meaning of Día de Los Muertos: Remembering the fallen.
The year’s parade will honor U.S. veterans and local law enforcement.
The National Latino Law Enforcement Organization will also have a special float to honor the five fallen officers from the July 2016 ambush.
They present this Pagan Festival to the world as if it is something warm and friendly. Just honoring your dead loved ones. They conceal the truth about Santa Muerta. They don’t tell you that by placing offerings on the ALTAR you are inviting demons into your life, your home and your body!! See my article: Dia de Los Muertos? Really??
I bet you did not know that we have a Parthenon and a Statue of Athena right here in Tennessee, did you?
Nashville’s Parthenon is such a precise copy that even ancient Greeks might be momentarily confused.
The least likely place to find the most perfect replica of the Greek Parthenon would seem to be in in the Country Music Capital of the World. But before Nashville was Country Strong it was “The Athens of the South,” a city that prided itself as a center of learning and enlightenment. When Nashville hosted Tennessee’s Centennial Exposition in 1897, the city wanted to remind everyone of its “Athens” claim, so it built a temporary full-size replica Parthenon (The original is in Athens). The site later became Centennial Park, and the temporary temple was so popular that the city replaced it with a permanent one in 1931.
The tallest indoor statue in the U.S. is a pagan goddess. Covered in real gold, too.
Soon after that, the singing hillbillies and honky-tonkers came to town, and the Parthenon has been weirdly out-of-place ever since.
“People ask all the time, ‘Why is this here?'” said Wesley Paine, the Parthenon’s director. “I’ve had visitors say they only found out about it at the real Parthenon in Greece. The tour guides told them about it.”
To make Nashville’s Parthenon complete, a colossal statue of the goddess Athena had to be built inside it. But the Great Depression dried up funds. Visitors to the Parthenon were instead greeted by a small model of the statue and a donation box. The nickels and dimes slowly added up, and in 1982 construction at last began on Athena. It took sculptor Alan LeQuire eight years to complete, and a lot more time and donated money before he could paint and gild the goddess in real gold in 2002. After more than a hundred years, work finally ended at the Parthenon.
“At the time,” said Wesley, “some people said it was just a horrible thing for this pagan statue to be in a city park. They implied that it was created with government money, and it was not.” But, she added, “we could not have bought such great publicity. Our critics spread the word far and wide.”
Athena stands 42 feet tall — the tallest indoor statue in the U.S.— and with her giant companion snake and crazy eyes she’s an eerie sight in the temple gloom. Visitors lower their voices in her presence, then try to imitate her pose in their photos. A tiny (human size) Nike stands in her upturned palm, crowning her with a wreath of victory. If you look closely you can spot other gods and creatures: Zeus, Apollo, Poseidon, Pegasus, fighting Amazons, a Sphinx, and the severed head of serpent-haired Medusa. “Great attention was paid to accuracy and detail,” said Wesley. “This really is the only place in the world you can go and see what the ancient Greeks intended.”
A parade of pagan gods fill the pediments on both ends of the Parthenon.
Tosh Williams, a docent who was overseeing Athena’s hall when we visited, told us that pagan visitors sometimes lay flowers at the statue’s feet. A woman, who Tosh guessed was not pagan, once backed away in horror when she saw Athena. Another woman, whose husband held a Bible, wanted to sing hymns to counteract the statue’s pagan juju. “She was polite,” said Tosh, “but I told her, ‘No thank you. You might disturb our other guests.'”
We asked Wesley what she found to be the most unexpected thing in this unexpected attraction. Wesley replied that she was surprised by how often visitors mispronounce its name. “I’ve heard it called the Para-thon, the Pan-theon, the Paree-theon,” she said. “My personal favorite is the Park-anon — because it’s in a park.”
This Pachamama Ritual was so much more than people imagine. This was part of the NWO/United Nations agenda. This is about NATURE WORSHIP/Mother Earth. That is what all the Ecology/CLimate Change/Agenda 2021/2030 is all about.
1893 – The First Parliament of the World’s Religions
In 1893, the first Parliament of the World’s Religions was held in Chicago. Its stated goal was to cultivate harmony among the world’s religions and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world. Actually, it was way ahead of its time because not much else happened on Interfaithism for 80 years or so.
This Whole UNITY thing, the ONE WORLD RELGION this push to bring ALL religions together has been a NWO Agenda from its concept before there was declared a NWO some 126 years ago. I never understood how anyone was unable to see that bringing ALL RELIGIONS into ONE is IMPOSSIBLE. HOW could anyone think that people who believe in the one true GOD of the Bible could possibly come into agreement with people who believe in Multiple Gods or, those who believe ALL is GOD, or those who don’t believe in GOD at all, or those who worship SATAN? Could they really not picture in their minds what a disaster that would be??
The NWO order/United Nations/Roman Catholic Church understood. They have been working hard to lead people away from the TRUE worship of the living GOD. They know that the only ones really standing in their way are the Bible Believers. Specifically Torah Keeping JEWS and Bible believing Christians. That is why they have declared us the ENEMY OF THE STATE.
The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH has been exactly that from its beginning. It is a religion built on ROMAN GODS and GODDESSES and the ROMAN EMPIRE, which has never really died, it just went undercover.
At this point in time just a quick search will reveal the truth of how the ROMAN CHURCH already based on Roman God’s merely comingled with all the pagan nations as Rome conquered the world.
In this Study, the primary Scriptures used will be from the Book of Revelation and the book of Deuteronomy, among many others. Also with the use of an excellant volume of Webster’s Dictionary as needed for certain confirmations, meanings , etc. And a few nessecary weblinks where appropriate.
But First, I remind with these Two…
2 Tim 2:15 (ISRV) “Do your utmost (Study) to show thyself approved unto ‘Elohim, a Worker who does not to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of Truth.”
2 Tim 3:16-17 (ISRV) “All scripture is breathed by “Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of ‘Elohim may be fitted, equipped for every good work.”
Remember also, That WE are to be Grafted [Spiritually] into the Natural Olive Tree of YaHuWSHu’A .That WE are not to be of the World, but to be seperate, and not to be partakers in the Pagan Rituals of False Worship, that is of the World (here are a few supporting Scriptures to the above statement} Yohanan [John] 15:1-6 ; 17:14-17 ; Romans 11:17-24 ; Revelation 18:1-4).
The following In-depth study of This Holiday that the Catholic/Protestant and Secular World calls “Christmas”, will involve several, or should I say Many, Many items of “Religious Icon use and Worship”.
I need to remind you of the Scripture (2 Cor 6:14-15) that says :
…”What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? And what fellowship hath light with darkness ? And what agreement hath the Messiah have with Beliya’al ?”…[ Beliya‘altranslated means : Worthlessness, wickedness, evil.]
Also, Ephesians 5:11 : “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.”
Maybe what I should do, is to list all of these different items first, here; and then address them each individually.
Here is the list :
1). Jolly Old Nick (Sometimes called Old St.Nick)
2). St. Nicholas
3). Santa Claus
4). The Christmas Tree
5). The Christmas Wreath
6). Mistletoe
7). Holly w/berries
8). Madonna and Child
9). Star of Bethlehem
Ok, first (#1) on the list is Jolly “Old Nick“. You can go to just about any Good and reputable dictionary or Encyclopedia and look up “Old Nick” and you will read that it refers to none other than Satan, the Devil ! Here is a link for those of you who do not readily have a Proper Dictionary or Encyclopedia. www.thefreedictionary.com/Old+Nick
How does this fit in with St. Nicholas ? Well let us look at what history there is on St. Nicholas.
#2. St. Nicholas
In my search of multiple sources, I discovered one that summed it all up in short order. Here is a Quote from “The St. Nicholas Center – The truth about Santa Claus :
“Was St. Nicholas a real person? Some say St. Nicholas existed only in legend without any reliable historical record… Many of the St. Nicholas stories seem to betruth interwoven with imagination.” In any case it all appears to be that there is a great deal of fiction surrounding this “person“.
Furthermore, here is what the Scriptures have to say on the subject of Nicholas.
Revelation 2:5-6
“Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come upon thee quickly, and will remove your candlestick from its place, unless thou repents. But this thou has, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicholaitanes, which I also hate.”
And Shaddai ‘El goes on further to say :
Revelation 2:15-16
“You also have them that hold to the Doctrines of the Nicholaitanes, which thing I hate. Repent; or else I will come upon thee quickly…”
These set of Scriptures from Revelations, of-course date back to the middle of the 1st Century, approximately A.D. 60. This date is well studied and explained at (www.ecclesia.org/truth/revelation.html)
But let us get back to the “Catholic St. Nicholas“ !
There is no record of his birth, he pretty much came out of nowhere. Was said (by the Catholic Church) to have been selected as the “Bishop of Myra”, without ever being Ordained. As one needs to be ordained in order to even be nominated to the position of Bishop. He was also said to have been at the Council of Nicaea, though his record of attendance in 325a.d. is not on “all” of the lists of attendees, but actually found on only a few lists that were compiled much later. In fact the earliest reference to “St. Nicholas” started over 400 years later, in the Late 700sby a Catholic Abbot. This is well afterhis supposed birth, death, etc. It is said that this Abbot of Sion was visited by the spirit of “St. Nicholas“(another direct Catholic violation of Deut 18:11-12 [I think the Abbot was visited by Satan himself]), it further states that this encounter was recorded by a“reliable witness“ who just happened to be a close associate of the Abbot’s (how is that for second hand, third hand or maybe it could be called slight of hand information). In any case, there is no record of the name of this so called “reliable witness“. It is all pretty much based upon the word of the Roman Catholic Church.
#3. Santa Claus (based upon the above… person?)
Please go to a reputable Library and do some serious seperate study on this, as the great majority of Church Theologians (Clergy) agree that the following person is just fanciful imagination (a Lie) that was made up “Just for the Children” !!! Remember the lie that was started saying, “Yes Virgin-ia, there is a Santa Claus”. Children are taught to believe in this fictional character [“even by Christian Parents“] at a very early age (usualy by their first “Christmas” after birth).
So let’s go on to the Santa Claus portion of this study. The name “Santa Claus” is a twisted form of the name and title that was given and promoted by the Catholic Church. I shall show you in this sequence:
Santo Nicholas; Saint Nicholas; Saintini Cholas; Santy Claus
Santa Claus; which has become a very important icon in society as he/it helps promote the sales market during the “Christmas” buying frenzy, that starts as soon as the day after “Halloween”. P.S. If you take the letters, SANTA and move the “N” to after the second “A”, you get the Name S A T A N (he doesn’t care how he get his worship[even if it’s by proxy] ). Furthermore, isn’t it quite amazing as to how “SANTA” cruises around the whole world “in one night“ on a custom flying sleigh, pulled by eight flying reindeer (www.wiki.name.com/en/Reindeer_Names); and is now even led by another invention, “Rudolph” the red nosed reindeer (again see wiki link above). And then he even manages to squeeze down chimneys (and electric furnace pipes, etc.). I suppose it isn’t hard for “SANTA” to pull all this off, as he does wear a “Wizards Cap“, uses “Magic Dust” on the Herd, and has the help of a multitude of little “Elfs” ( leprechauns, demons ). I mean this is quite an accomplishment for an 1800 year old dead dude that never really, truely existed; Except in Roman Catholic Tradition: and remember how the Catholic need to venerate and worship dead people (saints)! Boy isn’t it interesting, as to how, theCatholic Church, and all of Her Harlot Daughters, can help cause, the whole world to follow after the Beast !
#4. Christmas Tree
The “Christmas Tree” is a very famous Icon from antiquity, “Babylonian” to be exact. It first appears as an affirmation to the conception and re-birth of the dead Nimrod, as the Child Tammuz. It was invented by Semiramis, the wife/mother of Nimrod. When Nimrod was executed and his body quartered and parted out to the various outlying city/nation/kingdoms. Semiramis needed to find a way to keep a hold on the throne of “Babylon”. It is said (by Tradition) that she claimed that an evergreen sprig started to grow out of a dead Tree Stump, signifying the re-birth of Nimrod as Tammuz. And that the Evergreen tree was a symbol of that “miraculous” birth of her son. This is the first veneration of a tree that was decorated in adoration to an infant child.
You can read about this in multiple sources, including the Scriptures (look up Tammuz in a concordance). But what exactly does YaHuWaH say concerning this Tree worship thing, as the whole world has been led to partake in :
YermeYahu (Jeremiah) 10:1-5 :
“Learn not the way of the Heathen, and be not alarmed by the signs in the heavens, for the heathen is alarmed by them. For the custom of the people are vain delusions: for one cuts the tree out of the forest, the work of the workman with the axe. They deck it with Silver and Gold, they fasten it down with nails and the hammer so that it will not tip over. These Idols are like the Palm tree, and these Idols can not speak, they must be carried because they can not walk…“
And also in Deuteronomy 7:25 :
“The Images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: and neither shall you desire the Silver and Gold that is upon them, nor shalt thou take it unto thee, lest thou be snared by it: for it is an abomination to YaHuWaH thy ‘Elohim. Neither shall you bring the accursed thing into thy house, lest thou become a cursed thing like it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.“
P.S. The Round Ball ornaments found on the Tree{the pagan symbol of the phallis [male sex organ]), are the testes, also a pagan ritual symbol.
Ok, let’s go on…
#5. The “Christmas Wreath”
Yes, this goes back into Babylonian antiquity as well. It was a pagan symbol of fertility, as illistrated by the aforementioned Nimrod/Semiramis, Mother/Son, Sexual Incest, and the Baby Tammuz Thing. The Wreath was a Pagan Babylonian symbol of the Womb (the Tree was the Phallic symbol). The Wreath also later became known as the Nimbus (the symbol of the Sun) that is seen in different Cult-ures, like the crown around the head of kings and most notably, the “Cesars” of Rome. The Catholic Church further utilized it in the form of a Halo/Sun disc behind the heads of ALL of their saints and the Madonna/Christ Child, Jesus, etc., etc., etc. Take a good look at the Statue of Jupiter, that the Catholic Church re-named Peter.
You can research this Wreath thing for yourself on a large number of websites !!!
P.S. Here is another Babylonian/ Semiramis/ Womb/ Image/ “Wreath” thing …
But now, let’s get on with more of the Falsehoods that the Catholic Church and Her Harlot Daughters continue to accept, condone and promote, by allowing their flocks/congregations/pew warmers to practice, because the “Christmas Thing” is One of the major times for their churches funding.
P.S. The bigger the church, the bigger the TAKE, especially during Christmas !
#6. Mistletoe
This is another Pagan fertility symbol as it was used in order to foster advances upon the girls, to gain kisses and hopefully other sexually illicit acts during the Pagan Festival known as the Saturnalia/Brumalia, which was held during this same time of year. Also to note, is that the plant growth known as Mistletoe is in fact aParasite that feeds off of certain trees, most noteably the Oak.
#7. Holly w/berries
The Ivy and Holly were common symbols of the Roman deity known as “Saturn”. Many of the early believers (out of fear) would decorate their homes in order to blend in with the Pagan cult-ure, because everyone else was observing the “Saturnalia”. The believers thought that if they hung the Holly w/berries, they would suffer less persecution. As time went on, it became one of their traditions as well as the Wreaths, and the Babylonian Asherim (“Christmas“) Trees. They continued to do this for so long, that now they comtinue to do it to the point that you can see these Pagan symbols in the church assemblies (on their alter/stage) and homes.
In fact it is still the fear that if one does not conform to, or partake in these forms of Idolatrous acts; they will be labled freaks and called “Scrooges” (a form of persecution).
But what does our Heavenly Father say about these types of heathen practices:
Concerning “Babylon the Great”
Revelation 18:3-4 :
“For all of the Nations have drunk of the wine, of the wrath of her fornications, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are made rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of Her, my people, that you may not be partakers of Her sins, and that you may not recieve of Her plagues.“
And now for some very interesting parts associated with the “Christmas Season”.
#8. Madonna and Child
Yes, this also goes all the way back to ancient Babylon. It started when Semiramis declared that Nimrod came back(from the Dead)as the Child known as Tammuz. It’s all the way back in “Babylon“ that Semiramis and her son Tammuz were the very first Mother and Child that was worshipped as Deity’s. In fact, beginning with them, the “Madonna and Child” thing has come all the way down to the present, again with the help of the un-Holy Roman “Catholic Church”.
Although Semiramis and Tammuz originated in Babylon, their names have been changed in nations and kingdoms throughout history. So, Let’s start with the most Ancient known Mother and Child , Worship thing.
Babylonian: Semiramis and Tammuz :
Oh, Semiramis, Mother of god… ha, ha, ha, yea right.
I need to remind you again that their names changed throughout history and cultures. Here is a list , maybe you will recognize some of them.
Chaldean:
Astoreth and Haoma
Phoenician: Ishtar* and Tammuz
Egyptian:
Isis and Horus
Hindu:
Shiva and Vishnu/Krishna
*(P.S. It is from Ishtar that the RCC and her Harlot daughters got Easter and all of the Ishtar eggs and the Ishtar bunny rituals. Also Easter is always celebrated on Her Feast Day, the Catholic Church has made sure of that.)
( Vishnu is also known as Krishna, meaning: Shining one (from where the church eventually got the “Christ” thing) [ also KrisKringle ] means: shinning child)
< Isn’t Kris Kringle another name for Satan Claus >
Notice the Nimbus behind the head of Shiva, and the radiant glow that is behind both of their heads. Catholisism adopted that… bigtime. Called it a Halo, and claims it signifies holiness.
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Greek: Athena and Nike (Nike was also known as Persephone)
Nike in Lt. Hand Nike in her Right Hand Closeup of Nike
Roman Catholic: Madonna and Child (Mary and Jesus)
Pope Francis praying to Statue of “Mother and Child”
“Oh, Mary, Mother of God”… Ha, Ha, Ha, NOT!!! Miriam was the Mother of the“Son”of God. She could not have given birth to God, as He was around way long before she was .
Pope Francis kissing Miniture statue of the “Queen of Heaven” ; the Catholic Church Formally declared the worship of Mary, and that the “Blessed Virgin” , “Mother of God” to be the “Queen of Heaven” in 431a.d.( YermiYahu [Jeremiah] 7:18 ) States : “The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to their gods, that they might provoke me to anger.”
Pope John Paul ll bowing to a statue of the “Blessed Virgin”.
Exodus 20:3-5
“Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them :”
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#9. Star of Bethlehem
The first thing I should do here is Give the Scripture that speaks of this “Star”. It is found in the Book of MattatYahu (Matthew) 2:1-16
First of all, we notice that YaHuWSHu’A had already been born, and the “Wise Men” (Magi, Astrologers) had been led First to Yerushalayim; not Bethlehem. Their very first contact was when they were brought before Herod, because they asked, “Where is he that is born, King of the Yahudiym? For we have seen his star in the east. And have come to worship him.”
1. So, why did this “Star” lead them to Herod, and not to the Manger, as every one is led to believe ? [answer given below]
The next thing we read is that Herod was “Troubled“. And had to ask the “Wise Men” (Astrologers) what time the Star appeared.
2. So, why didn’t Herod, or any of his Chief Priests and Scribes Know about, let alone see this “Star” also ? [answer below]
The next thing we read is that, “Harod” sent them to Bethlehem in order to find out where “The young child“ was, and to then bring him word as to the location of the infant.
3. Why did these “Wise Men” have to be told Where to go ? [answer below]
4. So, why didn’t Herod just pack up his traveling gear and go with them ? [answer below]
Further on it states, “and, lo, the star,…, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.”
5. Why was this star only seen by the “Wise Men” ( Magi, astrologers) ?
6. Why were they so long in coming, that the infant was now a young child ?
Then in verse 11, it reads, “And when they came into the House, they saw the young child with Miriam his mother,”
7. Why is the false story of the Magi in the Manger with the infant (new born) taught, instead of the true story of the Magi going to a house to see the young child ? (answer below)
Next we read, the Magi, “being warned by ‘Elohim in a dream that they should not return to Herod…”
8. Why did YaHuWaH warn the “Wise Men” not to go back to Herod ?
Ok, let me answer those 8 questions in order.
1. This star was part of the babylonian ritual [horoscope] worship that the Magi, Astrologers were well aquainted with in their observance of the Zodiac (which originated in ancient Babylon). And since the “Star” led them to Herod instead of directly to the infant, the star was an attempt by haShatan to help inform Herod [via these pagan Magi, Astrologers] of the location on YaHuWSHu’A. A further and more clearer reason and discription of this “Star” will be forthcoming.
2. The main and most logical explaination for Herod and his Chief Priests needing to know when this “Star” first appeared, was because they were not into the Demonic, Zodiac, Astrological, “Star Worship” stuff like the Magi-cians were. And Herod also needed to know the approximate time of the birth of the Messiah, for reasons to be shown in the following answers.
3. The Magi needed to be told where to go because “The Star” needed to make sure that the Magi were to be set up by Herod to be his “Informers”! Then the “Star” re-appeared to the Magi, Astrologers, to lead them further.
4. Herod did not travel along with the Magi, because he was too afraid to step off of “his” throne for even such a short time as to go pay, even false homage, to the future King of Yisrael. Besides, he always sent others to do his “Dirty Work” (see verse 16).
5. OK ! Here is where the discription of the “Star” will get very intricate in its place within the “Christmas Worship” thing. As I mentioned before, the “Wise Men, Magi-cians, Astrologers; were into the Pagan forms of worshiping the “Stars” of Heaven, i.e. the Zodiac. It goes way, way back to Ancient Babylon. Here is a first glimpse and then I will provide even more in just a bit.
6. The main reason that the “Wise Men” arrived so far after the birth of Out Savior, was because they came all the way from Mesopotamia (Babylon, etc.). Besides, did not the “Star” first lead the “Wise Men” to “Herod” ? (that was definitely not a very direct route).
7. The Catholic Church would rather let the False stories become more ingrained into the minds of the Congregations, False Worship practices; that surrounds the “Christmas” thing. Because it also helps them maintain control over the Mass-es, and keeps the Mass-es un-aware of the “Truth“of the Scriptures ! Besides, you always see a display in front of “Churches”, or on peoples lawns, of a little manger thing, sitting wide open with the ‘Baby‘ laying in an eating trough, and three “Wise Men” next to it. I mean, that is just another one of those Big Ticket items that is $Sold$ during this “Holly Day” adopted by the “Catholic church” and then passed on to all of the “Protestant” denominations; and even to people who are not really religious, just because they want to try and keep up with the “Jones’s” lawn display, blah, blah, blah.
Let’s go on.
8. First I want to emphasize the fact that these “Wise Men” were definitely more afraid of the warning by YaHuWaH in their dreams, than they were of the “Star” that led them to “Herod” in the first place. This shows a definite distinction between the “Star“ (of verse 10), and the actual messenger of YaHuWaH found in Verse 12 and 13.
So, now, let me give you a chronological sequence of the acceptance of that Pagan “Star” worship thing, from Babylon, up to our present time, and how the Mass-es are totally oblivious to its origin.
Here we go.
Keep your eye on this images pattern upon the “Sun” disc. Notice how it radiates out with 8 main points from the central circle disc.
Now for an antique “Roman” usage
Below, in a Catholic cemetary
Then we find in a German Catholic cemetary, this interesting combination…
… it combines the “Star” rays with the “Eye of Horus” inside a “Masonic Triangle” that is itself inside of the “Luciferian Baphomet” ! What I also find in this is the Greek Name Iesous just above the Image Symbol and then just above that, A Serpent with its tongue sticking out. How about that for using multiple Pagan symbols all in one.
But how much does the “Catholic Church” utilize these Pagan symbols in their Worship Rituals ?
See more below…
Pope John Paul II
Pope Francis
They “Roman Catholics” are really into this Predominately 8 pointed Sun-disc/Starburst thing they call a “Monster-ance. Yes, the Devil/Satan is a Monster.
So;
Let’s go on now to this “Star”(aka. Sirius) that everyone associates with the
“Christmas” Holly-day and the “Mary and Child” at the “Manger” thing.
Below: Artists impressions of the “Star of Bethlehem”
Somehow, The Image is plastered all over the place for all to see, and the most interesting thing about this Ancient BabylonianImage, is that it is “Hidden in Plain Sight“ !
And then the Merchants of the earth make a bunch of Money off of it, by getting people to buy the thing !
And then the Mass-es are incouraged to place it in that most prominent place; on the very top of that other Pagan Symbol !!!
Notice the resemblance to the “Catholic Monstrance”
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The above is decked with Silver !
This one is decked with Gold !
This one has Silver and Gold !!!
And they most always have the “BALLS” hanging on that detestable, (Phallic Sympbol) Pagan, thing !
Remember: Revelation 18:3-4
“… Come out of her, My people, that you may not be partakers of Her sins,”
[…Be ye seperate…]
And also… (From the Messianic Scriptures)
1 Corinthians 1:2-3
“To ‘Elohim’s Messianic community in Corinth, consisting of those who have been Set apart by YaHuWSHu’A the Messiah, and called to be ‘Elohim’s chosen people; along with everyone who calls on the Name of our MasterYaHuWSHu’Athe Messiah, who is their Master as well as ours: Grace to you, and peace from ‘Elohim our Father, and the Master YaHuWSHu’A the Messiah.”
Concerning all of those Pagan and Heathen Practices…
1 Corinthians 6:11
“Some of you used to do these things. But you have cleansed yourselves, you have been Set apart for ‘Elohim, you have come to be counted righteous through the power of the Master YaHuWSHu’A the Messiah and the Spirit of our ‘Elohim.”
Hebrews 2:11
“For YaHuWSHu’A, those people who are Set apart for ‘Elohim, and those being Set apart, both have a common origin: that is why He is not afraid to call them Bretheren.”
1 Peter 2:5
“You yourselves, as living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house, made to be Set apartpriests unto ‘Elohim, to offer up Spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to Him, through YaHuWSHu’A the messiah.”
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I pray that YaHuWaH ‘El Shaddai will further bless you, and that you may continue to grow in the Knowledge of Him and the Truth of His Word; and that you may Honor Him further, in the pure Spiritual Worship of Him, through our Savior, YaHuWSHu’A the Messiah, Amen. spacer
In the historical and inerrant Book of Genesis, there is that special verse…that special sentence in Chapter 3…where the good Lord put enmity between the woman and the serpent. In other words, the Almighty Himself established an enemy relationship…an irreconcilable feud ultimately between Mary and Satan. Holy Moses put it this way in Genesis 3:15: I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. (WRONG! This misquoted in a very blasphemous way! See below) In a real way, all of human history…all of salvation history… has this theme running through it. The Sacred Scriptures begin with this feud and end with this feud. The enmity relationship begins at our origins…Genesis…and finds its culmination in St. John’s Apocalypse…chapter 12 to be exact…where we find both a woman clothed with the sun (this is an image of the People of GOD, Christ’s TRUE Church) and the moon under her feet, as well as a red dragon that seeks to devour Her Child. Always at odds with each other…always at war and never allied…there is never a peace treaty…but only complete victory for the woman (Victory for the WOMAN – Mary?? NO, victory for the CHurch of GOD through CHRIST!) and utter defeat for Satan. By the power of her Divine Son and Savior, (CHRIST DEFEATS THE ENEMY AND STOMPS ON HIS HEAD NOT MARY, the Catholic Church wants you to make MARY above CHRIST!) Our Lady ground her heel into the serpent’s head at her most Immaculate Conception. Furthermore, she desires that we join her…unite with her sacred heel…so that we too might crush Satan’s influence in our life. There is to be no co-existence between Christ the King and Baal…no accord between the (The bible warns us about those who Worship the Queen of Heaven that is a Pagan belief. There is no Queen mentioned in the bible. Only our Heavenly Father and HIS SON.) Queen of heaven and that unjust tyrant and usurper from below. The woman hates the serpent with a perfect hate. And yet, it seems that some think that this lasting feud can somehow be reconciled…that somehow the woman the serpent can co-exist and be at peace. ( THAT IS WHAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS BEEN PROCLAIMING FOR DECADES A UNION OF ALL RELIGIONS GOD’s PEOPLE AND PAGANS, even Satan Worshipers and Witches) Case and point…we have recently heard about a religious service, of sorts, happening in the Vatican Gardens where a particular false goddess received veneration. That false goddess receiving this honor…again in the Vatican Gardens…was and is called Pachamama. That will be the last time that I mention the name of this false goddess. To know a name could possibly open the door to communication and we want no fellowship with what ultimately is a demon. For some of the indigenous people in South America, this false goddess is considered the supreme goddess…the spirit of Mother Earth…even a Cosmic Mother. And for a number of modern people in the West, who have lost the Faith and embraced a neo-paganism and animism, this false goddess represents a universal feminine energy. Her adherents claim that she brings forth life…nourishes and protects existing life…and oversees the fruitfulness of creation. She demands worship…even blood sacrifices. She supposedly likes it when human beings are ecologically virtuous, but she punishes man with earthquakes and natural disasters if she is disrespected. But interestingly enough, this false goddess is often times depicted as a giant dragon…or she is depicted as a large, fertile woman with serpents wrapped around her arms and body. A woman and a serpent as one…united in peace…co- existing and reconciled. For more please visit http://reginaprophetarum.org & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest **
The Catholic Church makes the most blasphemous claims about Mary. They pervert and twist the Word of GOD to confuse and control the masses.
It is totally due to the fact that the Catholic Church worships idols that the whole world has been deceived. They have been lead to believe that they can continue to lift up these idols, build altars for them, dance around them, bring them offerings, light candles before them and PRAY TO THEM while maintaining there SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST!
Becauese they have continued these Pagan practices and worship their idols and seek the spirits for guidance, THEY HAVE LOST THEIR SALVATION if they ever had it. You cannot just say you believe in Jesus Christ and continue in your pagan ways!!
Because they lost their salvation, they lost the protection of the hand of GOD. They have become prey of the demonic spirits. GOD will not answer their prayers because they refuse to turn from their ancient ways.
Because they have been suffering and they are lost, they have begun to return to the ancient spirits to find comfort and to have their needs met. What they do not understand is that ANYTHING you receive from Demonic Spirits comes with a VERY HIGH PRICE. Once you begin to worship demons, you become their property. YOU HAVE ENTERED AGAIN INTO SLAVERY. THE SLAVERY from which JESUS CHRIST CAME TO SET YOU FREE.
Now these spirits are not going to tell you that. They are not going to let you know, until they are ready to do so. WHEN YOU DISCOVER THAT YOU ARE THEIR SLAVE…. I HOPE IT IS NOT TOO LATE!
Mary is not our mother. The Word of God says the EVE is the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:20-21
And Adam named his wife Eve,ebecause she was to be the mother of all the living.
The Expulsion from Paradise
And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
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Genesis 3:13-14
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed (that being Jesus Christ the coming Messiah, the promised one);it (the seed) shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (THIS IS A PROPHECY ABOUT THE COMING SAVIOR. HE DESTROYS THE ENEMY NOT MARY!)
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Luke 1:27-55
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: (No mention of a Queen or a Mother of any kind. Or of elevating her to a higher position.)
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (and the Catholic church calls her the WIFE of the Holy Spirit as if this was a sexual act. Preposterous, Blasphemous, Ridiculous) Ignoring the fact that she has an earthly husband, and would have sex with him and give birth to multiple children.)
And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. (This does not make Mary some kind of Goddess because she obeyed GOD! This is what is required of ALL of GOD’s CHILDREN! We are all to live in obedience, and when we do, GOD fellowships with us!!! John 14:23 “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” )
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. (Well, of course, anyone would call that a major blessing, that GOD chose you for such an amazing miracle! No other woman will ever have that honor, that is a one time event!)
And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. (And that is ALL that is promised her, that all generations will know of her, speak of her and call her blessed. There is nothing about hail Mother of GOD, or Savior of the World, or defeater of Satan. No mention of her condition prior being IMMACULATE. No mention of her being or becoming QUEEN of HEAVEN!)
For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
The Vatican is as fascinating for conspiracy theorists as it is for the Catholic believers. The statues of deities from all sorts of beliefs, which early Christians would have regarded as idols, are now displayed in numerous chambers of the Vatican Palace. The Greek and Roman mythology is best represented, including a hall reuniting much of the ancient pantheon, but the Egyptian art also has a distinct section inside the museum, and Babylonian and other cults are also on display. For art lovers, these antiquities have long lost their religious significance and are admired solely for the artistic skills of those who made them. For those who accuse the Catholic Church of being part of a giant conspiracy, the occult symbols that are spread allover the place are a proof that the Holy See is holder of a secret doctrine, that is a source of knowledge and power. The most popular of these conspiracy theories talks about the integration of ancient Greco-Roman beliefs into Christianity. Especially, it is suggested that the solar cult was accommodated with artistic representations of Biblical characters. For example, Apollo, the solar god of the Greeks and Romans, has several statues, including a giant one in the courtyard of the palace, which was used by Michelangelo for the physiognomy of Jesus in the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Those who reject this theory simply point out that Apollo was viewed as an ideal of male harmony, so was natural for the Florentine artist to use it as a model. The worship of the sun was also part of a complex system of beliefs originating in the Middle East, where astrology was developed. And astrological symbols are present as symbols of the wisdom of the Designer of the universe, though the legends of the mythological characters associated with planets and constellations are no longer considered as serious during the Christian age.
After Christianity was legalized in the Roman Empire, and soon became a state religion, during an age that coincided with great migrations, many tribal pagan beliefs had to be reconciled with the new monotheistic faith. In some parts of the continent, this was done by the abundance of imagination used in the stories that told the lives of saints and their miraculous acts. But overall, the transition from polytheism to monotheism was done in a miraculous short time and apparently no survivors of the worshipers of the Greek and Roman pantheon. Some assume this capital of knowledge was transfered into inoffensive art, or in witchcraft and superstitions.
Another conspiracy theory goes a step forward and accuse the heads of the Catholic Church of being part of an even greater plot, which included secret societies like the free masons or the knights templars. The enemies of all these organizations accuse them of secretly worshiping the Devil, or at least some ancient Mesopotamian gods. According to this wild theory, an esoteric knowledge was in the hands of ancient paganism, in Egypt, Persia, Babylon and other places, and was transmitted through underground networks in an apparently Christianized world. From time to time, this type of mysticism would resurface, ever enriched with the speculations of the gnostic cults in Antiquity, rediscovered by the crusaders, who traveled to the Middle East and created their own secret societies, than revamped by the Jewish Kabbalah in the Middle Ages, to emerge in the melting pot of the New Age, in our days. Since mystery itself was the engine of these societies, it will be impossible to know for a fact what their real doctrine was, so we remain in the realm of supposition. The free-masons, for instance maintain that their order is just a means of self-improvement, which is not incompatible with Christianity. Turning to antique wisdom would only enhance the spiritual life of a Christian, some say, with beliefs in reincarnation or astrology. Others, point out that through esoteric brotherhoods paganism was carried on, together with the cult of oriental idols like Baal. The most vehement adversaries of any form of hidden knowledge claim that all these secret societies, sometimes in alliance with the Vatican, are in fact adversaries of the Christian God. Indeed, some occultists interpreted the Bible in a bizarre way, maintaining that man is capable of becoming himself a god, but was denied some essential information for his development, by a jealous Creator; thus Lucifer is viewed as someone who tried to enlighten mankind with his rebellion. Of course, Christians regard such fantasies as absurd, because the Devil is simply a deceiver, who acts through many idols and false gods, to make humans lose the distinction between good and evil, for illusory promises. The variety itself of these theories (of which we’ve noted only a few) speaks of the power that ancient artifacts still have over our imagination. With or without hidden meanings, these beautiful works of art continue to impress the viewer after thousands of years. Here are some of the most admired gods and heroes represented in the sculptures collection of the Vatican Museum:
Zeus was the patriarch of Greek gods dwelling on Mount Olympus. Though Zeus was the god of heavens and fathered most of the gods and heroes in the pantheon, it was different than the monotheistic view of an omnipotent creator of the universe, inherited from Jewish religion in Christianity and Islam. Zeus himself was a son of Cronus, a fallen deity associated with Saturn. In astrology, Zeus has the equivalent name from Roman religion, Jupiter. Zeus had some of the most impressive representation in antiquity, including the giant statue made by Phidias, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. In the Vatican Museum, there is a representation known as Zeus Orticoli, after the place near Rome where it was unearthed. The bust impresses through the painstaking reproduction of strands of hair and of the beard.
Apollo was the sun-god, with numerous equivalents in various religions that venerated the sun. Apollo had the same name in the Roman world and was considered a healer and patron of arts like music and poetry. Apollo was one of the numerous illegitimate sons of Zeus, and Artemis (Diana) was his twin sister. He was bisexual, with numerous female and some male lovers. In one of the two interior courtyards of the Belvedere Palace, known as Cortile della Pigna, there is a giant head of Apollo, masterfully crafted.
Pallas Athena was the goddess of wisdom, who helped those fighting in a just war. For Greeks and Romans (who called her Minerva) was providing courage and strength. The most famous temple of the ancient world, the Parthenon, on the Acropolis was dedicated to her, in the city that bear her name, Athens. In the statue at the Vatican she is depicted as usual, with her warrior helmet. It is one of the rare statues on which some paint is still preserved, coloring the eyes, as many antique statues used to be painted or adorned with precious stones. The virgin Athena gained the patronage of Athens by offering the locals the first olive tree. As Athena is associated with democracy and republic, as rational forms of organizing society, a large statue of her is also found in front of the Parliament of Vienna.
Venus (Aphrodite) is the renowned goddess of love and beauty. She was picked up by Paris as the fairest of the goddesses in Iliad. The legend of her birth might be shocking to a modern bashful audience, since she appeared from the foam of the cut pennis of Uranus, who’s organ was thrown into the see by Cronus. In Egyptian legends, Osiris is also cut to pieces, and the phallus is the only missing part when Isis recomposes the body. Some believe that obelisks might have exactly that phallic meaning. With time, probably due to the Christian influence, the public taste evolved and eliminated sexual innuendos from religious allegories and representations. In Italian, Venus is called Venere, and so are known many of her statues in the Italic peninsula, who came to stand for an innocent, unspoiled ideal of feminine beauty. Like Athena and other gods, Aphrodite is also born as an adult is miraculous circumstances. Due to her charms, attracting many of the Olympians, Zeus decided to marry Aphrodite to Hephaestus. With the god of fire and metalwork, she had an unhappy marriage, spiced by constant affairs with more attractive gods and mortals.
Demeter, called Ceres by the Romans, was the goddess of agriculture. Her cult was supposed to ensure good harvests for the ancients. Though she was mother of many gods and protecting earth and crops, she was distinct from Gaia, the primordial “Mother Earth”, from who’s union with Ouranos, the sky, all godly creatures emerged. A similar deity came from Middle East to Greece, in the person of Cybele, who took traits of both Gaia and Demeter. The cult of Demeter was not limited to a superstition of an agrarian population that depended on annual harvest. She was in the center on one of the oldest religious systems, that preceded the Olympian universe of classical Greece. The Mysteries of Eleusis were an initiating religion that involved popular ceremonies and secret rituals that remained a mystery to this day. In its main legend, Demeter brought drought and famine as a punishment for the kidnap of her daughter, Persephone, into the underworld. Zeus was convinced to intervene after this caused a human disaster and a cease of the offerings to the gods. It was a complex journey of descent, rebirth and promise of an afterlife of which only the initiates knew. It was obviously linked to the changing seasons and maybe enhanced with an astrological understanding of the life and universe. Though today Demeter is not viewed as an important deity of the Greeks, the Vatican rightly included it among the statues in one of its exhibit halls, that mimics the Pantheon in Rome.
Dionysus, or Bacchus, after his Roman name, was also a deity who was celebrated by both public festivities and esoteric initiations. Not surprising for a deity of the vineyard, the festivals of Dionysus were characterized by excess of wine. The drunkenness was accompanied by a state of ecstasy induced by music, dances and sensuality. The collective enthusiasm was a path to philosophical discoveries, as Plato suggests, in which theatric performances were used to communicate occult concepts. This young and attractive effeminate male is associated with a grape and mythological animals like the bull. In Rome, Bacchus was celebrated by Bacchanalia, a wild nocturnal ceremony at which only women were allowed, which involved sexual orgies, killing of a wild animal with bare hands and consuming its raw flash in a state of frenzy. The rite went underground after it was banned for the crimes committed with its occasion.
Cupid / Eros was a full fledge deity, honored as the most important of the entire Pantheon in some minor Greek cities (Thespiae) and whose altars received sacrifices even in Athens. Some believed he was a primordial god, without parents, while others thought he was a son of Aphrodite. Initially, Eros was presented as an adult male with wings, but his imagery turned to a child winged figure, with which the Roman Cupid became very popular in Renaissance and especially Baroque painting and decorations. This image of a chubby child with bow and arrow, aiming at those who were to fall in love became known worldwide in popular culture.
Hercules / Heracles has the only statue made of bronze in the Vatican pantheon, distinguishable also by the club he is holding. With his proverbial strength, Hercules managed to complete the twelve labours, which included killing or capturing various mythological beasts or obtaining special objects, like the golden apples. Hercules was made immortal after accomplishing these tasks.
Osiris was the Egyptian male god of the afterlife, central to the most important myth of that ancient religion. Egyptian and oriental beliefs are more present in modern occultism than the Greco-Roman pantheon, which has been in a way “domesticated” and secularized in European culture. The myth of Osiris, like any other oral tradition, knows lots of variations and is a story which sounds shocking and far fetched to modern ears, involving incest, intercourse with the dead and sorcery. The main characters are two brothers and a sister. Set, the epitome of evil, murders his brother, Osiris, to take his throne. The chopped body is found by his sister, Isis, except for the phallic part, which was probably represented by the obelisk. Using spells, Isis brings back to life Osiris only for a brief time, enough to conceive a child with him, Horus, the ever rising sun god. The entire mythology connected with Osiris and Horus was meant to transmit the idea of resurrection and the belief in an afterlife, crucial to Egyptians, who went at great lengths for preserving the body, as well as the belief in magical intervention in current life.
In the seventh century, the Church in Rome adopted the practice of Adoration of the Cross from the Church in Jerusalem, where a fragment of wood believed to be the Lord’s cross had been venerated every year on Good Friday since the fourth century. According to tradition, a part of the Holy Cross was discovered by the mother of the emperor Constantine, St. Helen, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 326. A fifth century account describes this service in Jerusalem. A coffer of gold-plated silver containing the wood of the cross was brought forward. The bishop placed the relic on the a table in the chapel of the Crucifixion and the faithful approached it, touching brow and eyes and lips to the wood as the priest said (as every priest has done ever since): ‘Behold, the Wood of the Cross.’
Adoration or veneration of an image or representation of Christ’s cross does not mean that we actually adore the material image, of course, but rather what it represents. In kneeling before the crucifix and kissing it we are paying the highest honor to our Lord’s cross as the instrument of our salvation. Because the Cross is inseparable from His sacrifice, in reverencing His Cross we, in effect, adore Christ. Thus we affirm: ‘We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee because by Thy Holy Cross Thou has Redeemed the World.’
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HEZEKIAH:reigned between c. 715 and 686 BCE.[2] He is considered a very righteous king by the author of the Books of Kings.[3] He is also one of the most prominent kings of Judah mentioned in the Bible and is one of the kings mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.[4]
He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done. He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
2 Kings 18:3-4
This passage reveals that Hezekiah was attacking two different problems that had entered into public worship in Judah. The first was that places of worship had been constructed for false deities, and the people were offering incense and reverence at those locations. This was a clear violation of what are usually counted as the first and second of the Ten Commandments. “You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them…” (Exodus 20:3-5a)
God Himself commanded Moses to make the bronze serpent, and He commanded any of the Israelites who were stricken to gaze upon it. This object was then preserved until the days of Hezekiah, when the Judeans were burning incense to it.
At this point, it is worth asking what was so wrong with the people of Judah burning incense before the serpent. After all, God had commanded them to make it. Not only that, but He had commanded them to look at it. Whereas those who prayed before wood carvings of Canaanite fertility goddesses clearly had sinful motives, I cannot help but wonder if many people in Hezekiah’s day didn’t think that burning incense before the bronze serpent was a perfectly legitimate way to honor Yahweh.
Perhaps you’re thinking, “But the Ten Commandments said not to worship images, so it was clearly illegitimate.” Yes, that is exactly what God commanded, but what if those Judeans had made an argument like this? “We’re not worshiping the serpent. The serpent points our thoughts to the true God. We are told to burn incense to God. Why not do it by this image He told us to create, which reminds us of Him and His power to deliver?”
So I ask, why did Hezekiah insist on destroying the bronze serpent, a priceless reminder of God’s faithfulness to His covenant people? I believe the answer is that while those who burned incense before the serpent may have been intending to worship Yahweh, they were doing so in a manner He had not commanded. Remember, God never told the Israelites in the days of Moses to worship the image. He told them simply to look at it. That may seem like a small difference, but it was important enough to cause Hezekiah to destroy the bronze serpent. He evidently believed that even if the people worshiped the correct God, it was still idolatry if they did so in the wrong way.
It does not matter what you believe your intentions to be, or how the Roman Church or anyone else interprets the bible. YOU MUST WORSHIP GOD IN THE WAY THAT HE PRESCRIBES AND ONLY IN THE WAY THAT HE PRESCRIBES!
You may feel that is unfair, you want things the way you want them. BUT YOU DID NOT CREATE THE EARTH or ANYTHING IN IT! The GOD and CREATOR of all things, KING and LORD of ALL…HE ALONE has the right to make the rules. His ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not ours! He is wisdom and understanding is so far beyond our own.
Deuteronomy 12:29-32“When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’ You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.”
HE IS SO SERIOUS ABOUT THIS THAT HE COMMANDED THE HEBREWS TO KILL EVERYTHING THAT HAD BREATH AS THEY MOVED THROUGH THE LAND. WHY? BECAUSE EVERYTHING, ALL LIFE HAD BEEN CORRUPTED BY THE FALLEN ANGELS, from the highest nobility to the lowest insect!
Deuteronomy 20:16-18
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes. For you must devote them to complete destructiona—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods and cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
Paganism has been exploding in our modern society. It used to be called myths and fairytales and people used to laugh. No one believed that those pagan gods ever existed. Yet here we are, so mature and sophisticated… piercing our body parts, tatooing our flesh, implanting horns, swinging dead chickens over our heads, torturing people, sexually abusing children, batching in blood, sacrificing humans, drinking their bloods and wearing their skins. We set up altars and burn incense and candles and summon spirits. HOW HAVE WE FALLEN SO FAR??
I can answer that for you. THERE IS AN AGENDA, A NAZI agenda. Ever since the WORLD WARS the elite, lead by the Nazis/Kabbalists and the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH have been working fervently behind the scenes to REBUILD the HOLY ROMAN/EGYPTIAN EMPIRE aka the One World Empire of NIMROD and THE TOWER OF BABEL! They formed the UNITED NATIONS and all of its OFF SHOOTS! One of those offshoots is called UNESCO – Unesco has been digging up bones all over the EARTH. They were given the authority and the funding to seek out and obtain all the ancient sites, ancient artifacts, ancient lands ans temples and renew, restore, reintroduce them.
Pagans around the world, who were forced with threat of death to convert to Catholicism by the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE and/or it’s ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, became only nominal Christians or Catholics in name only. They held on to their culture, their beliefs, and their practices. Now, there is so much discontent with the Church and so much interest in Pagan Religion and the “freedom” it brings. With the sexual revolution the normal rules and guidlines for sexual conduct become to confining. People did not like the feeling of condemnation brought upon them either externally or internally. They were searching for acceptance and even glorification of the perversions. They have come to embrace these higher entites that condone and even encourage their lusts. After all, they never really were completely committed to the Word of God/the Bible/or the Commandments. They find it freeing to be rid of them.
UNESCO –
Do you see all the dots on the map below? Those are all “World Heritage Sites”. Places that are protected, supported and Controlled by UNESCO. The picture below is cut and pasted from their site. I was not able to get ALL the sites in the picture with my Snippet. I urge you to go their Interactive map and play with it for yourself.
Now that they have control of all the known historical sites and have recovered all the relics, artifacts, structures and cities, they are still not satisfied. They want to have access to all the unexplored, uninhabited and undeveloped areas of the earth. Seriously, where do you think they are getting the money for all of this? And who is benefiting??
In 1994, the World Heritage Committee launched the Global Strategy for a Representative, Balanced and Credible World Heritage List. Its aim is to ensure that the List reflects the world’s cultural and natural diversity of outstanding universal value.
Twenty-two years after the adoption of the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the World Heritage List lacked balance in the type of inscribed properties and in the geographical areas of the world that were represented. Among the 410 properties, 304 were cultural sites and only 90 were natural and 16 mixed, while the vast majority is located in developed regions of the world, notably in Europe. This section includes the objectives of the Global Strategy, analysis of the need for it, on-going efforts and related conferences and studies.
The objectives of the Global Strategy
By adopting the Global Strategy, the World Heritage Committee wanted to broaden the definition of World Heritage to better reflect the full spectrum of our world’s cultural and natural treasures and to provide a comprehensive framework and operational methodology for implementing the World Heritage Convention.
This new vision goes beyond the narrow definitions of heritage and strives to recognize and protect sites that are outstanding demonstrations of human coexistence with the land as well as human interactions, cultural coexistence, spirituality and creative expression.
Crucial to the Global Strategy are efforts to encourage countries to become States Parties to the Convention, to prepare Tentative Lists and to prepare nominations of properties from categories and regions currently not well-represented on the World Heritage List.
Analysis
A global study carried out by ICOMOS from 1987 to 1993 revealed that Europe, historic towns and religious monuments, Christianity, historical periods and ‘elitist’ architecture (in relation to vernacular) were all over-represented on the World Heritage List; whereas, all living cultures, and especially ‘traditional cultures’, were underrepresented.
At its 28th session in 2004, the World Heritage Committee reviewed more recent analyses of the World Heritage List and the Tentative Lists prepared by ICOMOS and IUCN. Both analyses were carried out on regional, chronological, geographical and thematic basis’ in order to evaluate the progress of the Global Strategy.
ICOMOS’ study found that the reasons for the gaps in the World Heritage List fall into two main categories: structural – relating to the World Heritage nomination process, and to managing and protecting cultural properties; and qualitative – relating to the way properties are identified, assessed and evaluated.
IUCN’s study pointed out that the natural and mixed sites currently inscribed on the World Heritage List cover almost all regions and habitats of the world with a relatively balanced distribution. However, there are still major gaps in the World Heritage List for natural areas such as: tropical/temperate grasslands, savannas, lake systems, tundra and polar systems, and cold winter deserts.
On-going efforts
Since the launching of the Global Strategy, 39 new countries have ratified the World Heritage Convention, many from small Pacific Island States, Eastern Europe, Africa and Arab States.
The number of countries around the globe that have signed the World Heritage Convention in the course of the last ten years has risen from 139 to 178. The number of States Parties who have submitted Tentative Lists complying with the format established by the Committee has grown from 33 to 132. New categories for World Heritage sites have also been promoted, such as the categories of cultural landscapes, itineraries, industrial heritage, deserts, coastal-marine and small-island sites.
Important conferences and thematic studies aimed at implementing the Global Strategy have been held in Africa, the Pacific and Andean sub-regions, the Arab and Caribbean regions, central Asia and south-east Asia. These well-focused studies have become important guides for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in these regions.
In an effort to further enhance the underrepresented categories of sites and improve geographical coverage, the World Heritage Committee has recently decided to limit the number of nominations that can be presented by each State Party and the number of nominations it will review during its session.
The World Heritage Committee works in cooperation with every State Party to the World Heritage Convention as well as its three Advisory Bodies: ICOMOS, IUCN and ICCROM, in order to make greater strides in diversifying the World Heritage List and make it truly balanced and representative of the world’s heritage.
Discovered by a fisherman, the statue garnered world renown before being confiscated by Hamas. The film ‘The Apollo of Gaza’ raises fascinating questions on the origins and fate of the sculpture
In August 2013, Jawdat Abu Ghurab, a young fisherman from the Gaza Strip, put out to sea. On his way home, about 100 meters from the shore, he saw the figure of a man lying under the water.
Abu Ghurab dived down to him, but the moment he touched the figure, he realized it was a statue. With the help of family and friends, he managed to drag the 300-kilogram statue to shore.
The sculpture was found in Gaza’s beach between Operation Cast Lead and Operation Protective Edge.Gaza’s Ministry of Tourism/AFP
The statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun and beauty,arrived on the Gaza coast in between the Hamas-Israel wars of 2009 and 2014. It was sculpted during the Hellenistic period, more than 2,000 years ago.
It briefly made headlines around the world before once again disappearing, this time into the warehouses of Gaza’s Hamas government, which confiscated it about a month after its discovery. Since then, it hasn’t been seen. All that remains of it are a few pictures of the statue lying on a Smurf blanket.
In May, the Swiss documentary filmmaker Nicolas Wadimoff and his partner, Beatrice Guelpa, came to Gaza to investigate the statue’s origins and its fate. The film they produced, “The Apollo of Gaza,”will be screened on Friday at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque as part of the 48mm Film Festival. The festival is devoted to the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” as Palestinians call their exile and loss of their land to Israel in the 1948 war.
Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist militant organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. It has been the de facto governing authority of the Gaza Strip since its takeover of that area in 2007. Wikipedia
I am sure that many of you are familiar with the Arch of BA’AL aka the Palmyra Arch that was reproduced by the Institute for Digital Archaeology, and paraded around the world in 2016. spacer
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This replicated arch, precise to the original from its ornamentation to its weathering, is the result of major collaborations between the UK-based Institute for Digital Archaeology, UNESCO, and Dubai’s Museum of the Future Foundation. It came with a price tag of about $143,000. The 3D structure grew out of the Institute’s Million Image Database, an international effort to document the world’s at-risk sites through pictures captured by volunteers equipped with 3D cameras; from these 360-degree views emerged a virtual computer model, reproduced by the computer-assisted carving bots in Italy. Any photographs, data, and 3D models the Institute has and continues to produce will be released to the public domain under a Creative Commons license. Source
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Model of Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph, an 1,800-year-old Roman arch blown up by the extremist group last year, was made using 3D printing technology
A recreation of the Palmyra arch, a Roman arch destroyed by Isis, goes on display at City hall Park in New York Photograph: Raya Jalabi/The Guardian
A recreation of Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph was unveiled in New York on Monday, almost a year after Islamic State militants destroyed the original structure.
The 1,800-year-old Roman arch was blown up by the extremist group last October, but a team of archeologists at Oxford University’s Institute for Digital archeology (IDA) set about recreating it, in an act of resistance to Isis’s rampant acts of cultural destruction in Iraq and Syria.
Standing at two-thirds the scale of the original, the arch is made of Egyptian marble and was built using 3D printing technology, based on photographs of the original arch.
Isis captured the city from government forces in May 2015, and progressively damaged its Roman-era ruins, staging mass executions in the ancient amphitheater. In addition to destroying artefacts, the extremist group looted and resold them to fund its activities.
The group also beheaded Palmyra’s renowned antiquities scholar, Khaled al-Asaad, last August, because he apparently refused to reveal where valuable artefacts had been moved for safekeeping.
A modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in recent years as followers see the stories as metaphors for life not worship of the gods
Reuters in Reykjavik
High priest Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson and fellow members of the Asatru Association attend a ceremony at the Pingvellir National Park near Reykjavik. Photograph: Reuters
Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age.
“I don’t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet,” said Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high priest of Ásatrúarfélagið, an association that promotes faith in the Norse gods.
“We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.”
Membership in Ásatrúarfélagið has tripled in Iceland in the last decade to 2,400 members last year, out of a total population of 330,000, data from Statistics Iceland showed.
The temple will be circular and will be dug 4 metres (13ft) down into a hill overlooking the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, with a dome on top to let in the sunlight.
The temple will host ceremonies such as weddings and funerals. The group will also confer names to children and initiate teenagers, similar to other religious communities.
Iceland’s neo-pagans still celebrate the ancient sacrificial ritual of Blot with music, reading, eating and drinking, but nowadays leave out the slaughter of animals.
You know of course, that most Roman Catholic Cathedrals were built on top of Ancient Pagan Worship sites. I am convinced that because of that fact and because of all the Pagan practices that they introduced to the Church, along with the statue idols and the veneration given to them, everyone and everything connected to the Roman Catholic Church has been given over to the influence of demonic entities. That is why there is so much sexual perversion [nuns, priests, cardinals, bishops and popes) (I did not have time here to go into detail on that, it is a topic for a whole other day)] being on the top of the list. Most pagan cults were sexual cults. Sexual demons come on you when you open a door. They convince you that it is you who is lusting, but it is really them. That is why the lust gets stronger and stronger and more and more perverse. People under the influence of demons do not recognize it. ONLY CHRIST CAN SET THEM FREE!
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