International Fellowship of Prophetic Watchmen

Beginning with Sunday worship, we are born into customs and traditions taught us by our family members, our religious factions and the world system; automatically observing seasons and holidays and customs just because our families, loved ones, churches and villages observed them as we observed from our infancy knowing not the origin nor the conception of any.  

So what could be wrong with growing up doing what our ancestors did, yet not knowing the origin of a thing?

New Year’s Day – January 1st on the Gregorian[1] calendar is reflected and celebrated yearly and continually on January 1st.

The Gregorian calendar is today’s internationally accepted civil calendar and is also known as the Western or Christian calendar.

However, the true New Jewish New Year is the first day of Rosh Hashanna  (one of the 1st Moeds in the Fall).  It is also referred to as the Feast of Trumpets.

Valentine’s Day (February 14)  - Enacted on behalf of St. Valentine (aka, the feast of St. Valentine, a celebration of love and affection), Valentine’s day originated from the abominable sexual relationship with Tammuz and his mother, Semiramis whose symbol is that cupid angel.

Lent – 

Generally, Lent involves 40 days of fasting leading up to Good Friday.  But this too is a Roman Catholic pagan practice whose origins stemmed from “40 days of mourning for the death of Nimrod (aka: Ba’al). 

Hundreds of years later, the phonecian god Daggon (half man/half fish) was celebrated on what is called, Good Friday, Romes Christian religion.”[1]  This is also a time of Fasting & Prayer for Tammuz.

[Exo 12:49 KJV] 49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

[Jhn 10:16 KJV] 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.

Though it is deceptively said to be symbolic of the 40-day Fast of Jesus before He went into ministry we know that its origin is pagan and leans towards those 40 days of mourning for Nimrod.

The symbolism demonstrated in Lent are compared to those of America’s College Mardi Gras or Spring Break activities filled with oversexed individuals filled with alcohol and ungodly lusts.  These activities of which lead to Ishtar’s fertility and sexual inequities.

Easter -

Contrary to mis-guided ideology, Easter’s origin is not a celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus/Yeshua.  This idolic form of abomination existed prior to the death and resurrection of Yeshua.  It is a pagan holiday celebrating the idol Ishtar, the goddess of fertility/sex.

“Ishtarday[1], the wife of Nimrod, the fertility goddess, is associated with the pagan holiday, Easter.

She was born on the venebal day of the sun.

It is said that she turned a bird into a rabbit that laid eggs.

What is the origin of this custom?   A pagan priest would sacrifice babies to Ishtar and the sun god Tammuz and take the blood of these human sacrifices to dye eggs.”[2]

Eggs dyed blood red, as was the pagan ritual (in its origin), are symbolic of the tradition of sacrificing (killing) babies and dipping eggs in their blood to honor Ishtar the goddess of fertility.  And since the symbol is an egg, I can see that it also has a reference to, or is symbolic of abortion.

Bunny Rabbits represent, or are symbolic of, fertility.

Even referring to it as Resurrection Sunday as most churches have transitioned, as worshiping on Sunday rather than Saturday (and calling Sunday the Sabbath); or, instead of Halloween, have a Harvest Festival on your church grounds is considered mixing (according to Deuteronomy 18:9-12) your Christian beliefs with pagan traditions.

Deut 18:9-12. 9¶When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.  10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

We are not to mix our (Christian) beliefs with pagan customs, traditions and rituals sacrificing to Ishtar, Nimrod or Molech.

You don’t celebrate the Resurrection of Yahawasha on Easter.  Easter is a pagan holiday.  There is no such thing for the Christian as Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. 

You should be honoring and celebrating the Resurrection of Yeshua every day!  We must find ourselves in rightstanding with Yahawah.  EVERY DAY! (SEE www.talkshoe.com/tc/114379 message on 1st Advent Pt 2, 4/5/18)

Halloween (October 31st) - 

Early Christians (Roman Catholic Church) changed the date of All Hallows Eve from May to November in order to Christianize the pagan holidays of Beltane and Samhain which were Fall/Winter celebrations.[1]

“Halloween is an annual holiday which represents the Goddess Pomona.  There are cities in the U.S. that dawn this name.  She was the goddess of fruits and seeds as well as the festival of the dead. 

Halloween is a pagan, Celtic (Irish/Scottish/Welsh) folklore.   This is the beginning of the Wicken new year.  (According to various dictionaries, Wicken is elusively summized as an occult practice of pagan witchcraft or religion involving pagan gods, blood offerings and altar worship.)

Their festival was called Samhain (pronounced: sow-an).  This is the actual origin of Halloween which was a setting for supernatural encounters.”[2]

Even though I was also born ignorantly celebrating this paganistic holiday, yet from a Christian household, as a child even I, in my ancestral ignorance, grew up trick-or-treating. 

However, as I became an adult and had my own children, (one of which was born the day before Halloween), as a Children’s Church Director in the 80’s, as I was unconciously waking up, I decided to conduct a study on why the Church was drawing away from participating in the Halloween festivities.

One book in particular, (that I just cannot recall the name), was quite enlightening.  I explained to the children by reading from this particular book, the symbols of the pagan holiday, Halloween.  And it went on, for the most part, to explain these symbols in this manner:

Pumpkin (Jack-0-lantern) on the porch –Carving of originally the turnip, later replaced by the pumpkin, the Willow Wisp, with the 1 candle positioned in the center, left on door steps is purposed to ward off evil spirits.  It also symbolizes that a child has already been taken from this home as a child sacrifice.

Jack-o-Lantern means “night watchman”.[3]

Haystack/Bonfires – A pagan custom, “designed to burn quickly or to be very large, to warm the friendly spirits and ward off the evil spirits.”[4]

This place out in the fields, is symbolic of where children were sacrificed in the haystack during druid, Celtic, pagan ceremonies during the Halloween festivities.

Today many children and young adults go missing around this time of year; some succumbing to these rituals that are still practiced in this end time hour during Halloween or may be saved for other ritualistic opportunities that arise during the year.  Praise the Lord, many of the missing are being found quickly and do not have to be ___ in such practices.

Door to Door - “Trick or Treat” – This tradition was formerly called suling in Ireland  “where children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead for return of cakes and bread.”[5]  Candy and treats were given to keep the spirits at bay.  “If treats were not left for the spirits, then they would leave a “trick” for you.[6]  So you had better leave a treat or your home may get papered, or worse.

Going from house to house, I now understand symbolizes the spirits of the dead in search of food (the treats).  While those who pass out the treats are receiving visits from these dead or their spirits.

In order to protect themselves from the evil spirits, the child must do a magical trick to receive a treat (at that time was a lump of coal to be used for the sacrificial fire).  (Ergo the reference to the lump of coal left in your Christmas stocking by Satan on Christmas Eve should also be of concern.)

The Halloween Costume - During the Inquisition[7], the Christians that stayed behind had to learn to “blend in” with the pagans so as not to be uncovered;  so that the child could participate and “blend in” (be taken as one) with the spirits that are believed to be running loose on this particular 1 day of the year.  Communicating with those spirits were called suling.

Suling is a part of the tradition of All Saints Day.

Bobbing for Apples – derived from the goddess Pomona and the druid rite associated with water; another reference to the symbol of fertility.

All Saints Day (November 1st)

All Hallows Eve (Halloween) is followed by the Celtic pagan festival Catholic day of All Saints Day of Nov. 1st (the day, it is believed, souls walked the earth to visit their “earthly” homes during Catholic purgatory).  Candles would be lit at the graves of loved ones.

The day after All Hallow’s Eve is All Saints Day where the Saints of the Church are honored.  This day is NOT a Christian Holiday.  Some of you who do not know, Catholicism is not Christianity. 

We’ve already stated in this book, in the Chapter entitled, “The State of the Church”:  The Catholic church worships (idols & statutes) other gods and they pray to Mary, not Yah.  It is well known that they place Mary in a higher position than our Messiah; and still encourage the practice of confession where you must go into a booth before the Priest to be admonished of sin; placing themselves in the position above that of Yeshua).

Fall Festivals and Moeds of repentance are celebrated around September/October and considered the dress rehearsal for the coming of Christ.  Our God says that He is a jealous God, so then, why would we put individuals on pedestals in a time that we should be lifting up and praising Yahweh?

I, like the New Testament Apostles, speak out in opposition to paganism.  Acts 19:21-41 – [i.e., the goddess Diana, (side note:  Wonder Woman inspired in the storylines of the Comic world.[1])]

In Acts 8:9-26 – Simon the Sorcerer (a magi/magus, magician) was a counterfeit claiming himself as “a” great power of God”.  But when they believed Philip, who represented the power of God (not as the power himself), men and women were baptized.  And when Simon saw that….. “he offers them money….” attempting to bring his gnostic ways into the body of Christ.  You don’t mix that which is unholy with that which is holy. 

The word of YAHUAH warns us by saying, “Do not be unequally yoked with non-believers.  Come out from among them!!”

Christmas (December 25th)  –

The Winter Solstice.

The birth of the Son of YAH, Yahushua, (also called Yeshua and Jesus), our Messiah, is traditionally celebrated around the world in most places, on December 25th.  Most of us are aware that 'Jesus' was not born December 25th.  Yet, some of us may or may not be aware of who’s birthday it truly is.

But, for the sense of family and giving, we have blindly been celebrating and acknowledging the birth of our Lord and Savior, on this day (repeating that phrase, "Jesus is the reason for the season as though it magically makes everything okay) in lieu of His actual conception and birth which is acknowledged by the Hebrew community during the Feasts of Tabernacles as it is believed that Yeshua was born in during the Fall Festival Advent.

When it comes to the Pope, he is good at “co-opting” to include the Christian community in ignorantly celebrating pagan holidays.

So we are acknowledging and celebrating the birth of Christ on this day, by an edict of the Roman Catholic Church.  When did the Roman Catholic Church become the “boss over” the Christian Church?

“As Christian numbers increased and their customs prevailed, the celebrations took on a Christian observance. But the early church actually did not celebrate the birth of Christ in December until Telesphorus, who was the second Bishop of Rome from 125 to 136AD, declared that Church services should be held during this time to celebrate “The Nativity of our Lord and Saviour.” However, since no-one was quite sure in which month Christ was born, Nativity was often held in September, which was during the Jewish Feast of Trumpets (modern-day Rosh Hashanah). In fact, for more than 300 years, people observed the birth of Jesus on various dates…”[3]

I have repeated with conviction, sooo many times, the quote, “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” adamantly believing that this was a statement of truth that could not be refuted as fact.

However, in actuality, I have recently learned that Christmas was first honored by the pagans as they celebrated the birthday of the sun god, Tammuz born centuries prior to the birth of our Messiah. 

So I stand corrected.  And I take it all back.  Jesus is NOT the reason for this season.

Tammuz, the son of the moon god Semiramis was born out of an adulterous affair after the death of her husband the sun god Nimrod, on the day of the Winter Solstice, December 25; the (false immaculate) birth and death of the false Messiah.”[4]

So, instead of worshiping the birth of our true Christ (we have inadvertently been observing the birth of the false Messiah, Tammuz /Nimrod.  The Saints of God have complacently accepted observance of this day just by being told that it’s just a random chosen day to celebrate at the same time Winter Solstice is celebrated; as we do know that it has been estimated that Jesus was born more closely to the Moed of Rosh Hashanah,  in a Sukkot (not a manger) on the first day of Feast of Tabernacles.

There are so many pagan symbols incorporated in the celebration of Christmas.

Symbols of Christmas:

Christmas has been a legal religious holiday only since 1834 as deemed by Queen Victoria.  You should do your own research.  It’s not my mandate to give you everything as you sit complacent reading and rebuking it at the same time.  So, I encourage you to find out, search all things, for yourself.  And remember if you are searching the internet, to scroll down to get the real truth, past the titles that the enemy wants to sell you.

And as a matter of fact, for reasons not stated herein, the U.S. banned Christmas in 1836 because it had become too commercial.  Look it up!

Gifting – Gold, Frankencinse & Myrrh

So as we go about our days following Thanksgiving (beginning with Black Friday) to the merchants in our various cities and (now) online, we are being used to our own financial demise to spend our last to give gifts to those we love and those we have friended over the years, like any other holiday, for the sake of the economy.

Isn’t it funny that the year of Jubilee is no longer acknowledged in this society; where every 7 years your debts are forgiven and we all start at zero again?  Funny how  God’s system (vs. the world’s system) that would bring you back into financial security have been overlooked and replaced with a holiday every month solely purposed to keep you in debt?

And you wonder why you can never seem to get out of debt.  Each month, there is a holiday that draws from that savings, that little extra that you had planned to put aside in your storehouse because you have been guilted into believing it is better to adorn your children with gifts that they toss aside a few days after they receive them.  In actuality,  this is the “gift” of the spirit of entitlement.

And you’re told by society it’s because you give your tithe that you are unable to save. “That’s your ‘extra’ money”. 

However, because you have been giving while you’ve been asleep, you have not yet received the wisdom or the blessing of the tithe.

It’s time for the people of God to fully awaken.

Christmas has not only been used for the purpose of merchandising, it has also been used to awaken your ability to lie to your children about a few things.  That’s the spirit of deception which causes the rift between parent and child that causes the child to feel the parent is deceptive and untrustworthy.  You say one thing.   You tell them “don’t lie”, “God doesn’t like liars”.  But you are deceiving them throughout the year with the deception of Santa Claus.

First of all, you tell then that some big, fat, white man in a red suit comes down the chimmey to bring “gifts” to good boys and girls; gifts that took you a year to accumulate the finances to purchase.  (There was a time when most households had a fireplace as their source of heat for the household.  But many no longer have that privilege of luxury in their homes now.  So you make up another lie as to how Santa gets into your home.)   And, you insist, you tell your children that some other person gave them the gifts.

First of all, gifts were not brought unto the baby Jesus, but unto a toddler.  The 3 wise men did not appear on the night of His birth, but years later.

[Luk 2:4-7 NASB] 4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, 5 in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child. 6 While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

And, the 3 kings (wise men) who brought gifts to the toddler Yeshua, were not white men.  The bible clearly tells us (in Matthew 3:1-2, 11) that they were from the Orient (Asia Minor).

“the Bible does not say there were only three wise men. There could have been many more. Tradition says that there were three and that their names were Gaspar/Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar/Balthazar, but since the Bible does not say, we have no way of knowing whether the tradition is accurate.

We know that the magi were wise men from "the East," most likely Persia, or modern-day Iran. This means the wise men traveled 800 to 900 miles to see the Christ child. Most likely, the magi knew of the writings of the prophet Daniel, who in time past had been the chief of the court seers in Persia. Daniel 9:24-27 includes a prophecy which gives a timeline for the birth of the Messiah. Also, the magi may have been aware of the prophecy of Balaam (who was from the town of Pethor on the Euphrates River near Persia) in Numbers 24:17. Balaam's prophecy specifically mentions a “star coming out of Jacob.””[5]

St. Nicholas (Santa):

“Saint Nicholas (Greek: Ἅγιος Νικόλαος, Hágios Nikólaos, Latin: Sanctus Nicolaus); (15 March 270 – 6 December 343),[3][4] also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century Christian saint and Greek[5] Bishop of Myra, in Asia Minor (modern-day Demre, Turkey).[6] Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker (Νικόλαος ὁ Θαυματουργός, Nikólaos ho Thaumaturgós). His reputation evolved among the faithful, as was common for early Christian saints,[7] and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus through Sinterklaas.

The historical Saint Nicholas is commemorated and revered among Anglican,[8] Catholic, Lutheran, and Orthodox Christians. In addition, some Baptist,[9] Methodist,[10] Presbyterian,[11] and other Reformed churches have been named in honor of Saint Nicholas.[12] Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers and students in various cities and countries around Europe.

The historical Saint Nicholas, as known from strict history: He was born at Patara, Lycia in Asia Minor (now Turkey). In his youth he made a pilgrimage to Egypt and the Palestine area. Shortly after his return he became Bishop of Myra and was later cast into prison during the persecution of Diocletian. He was released after the accession of Constantine and was present at the Council of Nicaea. In 1087, Italian merchants took his body from Myra, bringing it to Bari in Italy.[13][14][15]”[1]

“During his service as Archbishop, a violent persecution of Christians began. Nicholas was almost certainly imprisoned during this time and was likely tortured for his faith. The persecution that began during the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian was carried on by his successor, Galerius, for a total of eight long years.

Christian leaders who endured this period of persecution earned a tremendous amount of admiration from believers and pagans alike. Had anyone questioned Nicholas’ young age at his appointment as Archbishop, they would no longer express concern. Years of suffering for his faith had most certainly deepened his godly character in a manner worthy of respect.

There are an overwhelming number of stories regarding Nicholas’ generosity and even miracles. After his death on December 6, a tradition of gift giving was begun in his honor.

St. Nicholas Day is still observed on December 6 in many countries, but in others, America included, the practices associated with the day were combined with Christmas. It seems natural that a holiday celebrating giving would merge with the birth of Christ, the greatest gift ever given to the world. However, the merger happened to the dismay of many Christian leaders who thought that St. Nicholas drew too much attention away from Christ. In Germany, parents were encouraged to teach their children that the Christ Child was the gift-giver. The name Kriss Kringle is the English form of the German name for Christ Child. Ironically, in America the name Kriss Kringle came to be used synonymously with St. Nicholas, St. Nick, Santa Claus and even the English name Father Christmas.”[2]

All of this has nothing to do with how the Church envisions, the birth of Jesus.

As I continue with Santa Claus. Well, that plate of cookies and milk left out on Christmas Eve for Santa is eluded to (just as the Evergreen Tree) in Jeremiah 7:18:

[Jer 7:18-20 NASB] 18 "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me. 19 "Do they spite Me?" declares the LORD. "Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?" 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched."

Christmas Festivities/Dinner

The biggest celebration of the year became the Winter Celebration, Saturnalia, which was celebrated for the agricultural diety Saturn who paralled the Greek god, Kronos.  This celebration included gambling, public sex and drunkenness.

The Saturnalia dinner (and Easter/Ishtar) also included a ham, reflective of the wild Boar that had killed Tammuz.

Holly – The Blood of Jesus

“To avoid persecution during the Roman pagan festival, early Christians decked their homes with Saturnalia holly.”[1]

The Christmas Tree/ Ornaments – Eternal Life

Commemorates the premature death of Tammuz (who was killed by a Boar).  Queen Semiramis had said that an evergreen tree appeared over night where his blood had fallen.   Ergo, the worship of the Evergreen Tree referred to in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 10.

[Jer 10:1-5 KJV] 1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.

The Star Topper – The Star Above the Manger (that guided the 3 Wise Men)

The star that you place on the top of that pagan tree that you have brought into your home is reflective of the 8-point sun burst of ancient sun gods which was placed on the tree of Tammuz/Nimrod and (the star) which you see represented as symbols of the sun god in the Roman Catholic Churches.

The Christmas Stocking

One story of St. Nick includes him placing gold coins in the wet stockings of 3 sisters, young ladies who were drying out their stockings, preparing to be sold into slavery.  These coins bought their freedom.  This started his career as Santa Claus.

So the oranges you find in your stocking are reflective of the gold coins that will get you through the upcoming new year.

The Yule Log

“In ancient pagan times, the last day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere was celebrated as the night that the Great Mother Goddess gives birth to the baby sun god. It is also called Yule, the day a huge log is added to a bonfire, around which everyone would dance and sing to awaken the sun from its long winter sleep.”[2]  That is our so-called Christmas Eve celebration.

The Mantel

Our fireplace mantels have become altars where we put idol graven trinkets to worship.

God does not allow us to have “alternative” holidays.  He has proclaimed the Moeds that we are to follow.

The reality of the magic of Christmas is before us.  The knowledge of this issues us the ultimatum to let go of these superficial pagan ideologies, celebrations and festivities and return to YAH’s original plan for us.

So, because we have been so traditionalized, in lieu of Christmas as we abruptly ween ourselves away from celebrating December 25th, my family and I have discussed the possibility of sharing our traditional family times observing the celebrations of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.  This gives us an opportunity to still honor God in family while also sharing gifts among one another and recognizing and honoring the birth of Yeshua at the appropriate time and fashion, during the Moed of The Feast of Tabernacles (Shelter/Booths), visualizing the baby Yeshua in His proper habitat of the Sukkot rather than a lowly manger.

We are not to mix our (Christian) beliefs with pagan customs, traditions and rituals.