Yahweh
Condemns
The Worship Of The Dead
Collier's
Encyclopedia, Volume 8, page 96, shows that the intervention
of spirits, gods, and demons was made possible by means of magic.
Magical
Influence.
The
intervention of spirits in
nature and human affairs is made possible, according to demonology, by
means of magic.
The
same page of this source shows us the types of spirits that were
influenced by magic.
Types
of Spirits.
Among the spirits most
familiar to students of
demonology are the spirits of vegetation, water spirits, domestic
spirits, ancestral
spirits, and dream demons.
Ancestral
Spirits. Belief in ancestral spirits and
the practice of
ancestor worship are widely prevalent. In its cruder forms, this phase
of demonology stresses the malignancy of the souls of suicides, of
those who die by violence, and of women who died in childbirth. Demons
of the unburied are feared more than ordinary ghosts. The
worship of ancestral spirits, either as gods or as surviving souls of
departed members of the family, reflects belief in immortality
and the almost universal belief that death does not dissolve an
individual's relation to the group.
The
Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 5, pages 1522-1523 tells us the
following:
Demonology
In the Bible. Israel's official religion contrasts sharply
with contemporary polytheisms in the role assigned to demons, which in
the Bible is practically nil. Magic was prohibited among the
Israelites from very early times, for already the oldest
collection of laws, the Book of the Covenant, contains the command: ``You
shall not tolerate a sorceress'' (Ex. 22:17 [Eng. 22:18]:cf.
Deut. 18:10-12), and Saul put the practitioners of necromancy out of
the land (I Sam. 28:3). Since much of pagan magic was
protective—intended to keep demons away or to expel them—obviously
Israel's religion aimed at a very radical extirpation of traffic with
demons.
The
ancient Babylonians had a god called Samas,
as we
find in The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 5, page
1020.
...for
example, before going out to battle with the Babylonian king Kastilias,
the Assyrian king accuses the latter of betrayal and violation of the
treaty between them, and as proof he reads the treaty in a loud voice
before the god Samas.
The
Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 14, page 719 says:
Samael,
from the Amoraic period onward the major name of Satan
in Judaism.
Jewish
legend says Samael-Samiel is the angel of death and the head of the
devils. The Greek rendering of the word, Samael is Sammane.
...includes
the name, although not in the most important place, in the list of the
leaders of the angels who rebelled against God. The Greek
versions of the lost Hebrew text contain the forms Sammanhv (Sammane)
and Semiel (Semiel).
The
Standard Encyclopedia of Folklore, Mythology and Legend,
pages 968-969, tells us what Samain is:
Samain
(pronounced sovan or sowan) The
festival of the beginning of winter, celebrated on or about November 1
in Ireland and Gaelic Scotland and of very great antiquity... According
to Keating, in heathen times the druids of Ireland assembled
to sacrifice to the gods and burn their victims on Samain eve.
All other fires were to be extinguished, to be rekindled only from that
fire.
Samain
is the Druidic assembly on the night of October 31, to sacrifice to
their gods and burn their victims. The Standard Encyclopedia
of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, Volume A-1, page 263,
tells us more about the sacrifice of the dead.
Cromm
Crúac A huge idol which stood on
the plain of Mag Sleact (the plain of adoration or prostrations) in
County Cavan, in Ulster, near the present village of Ballymagauran;
also called rig-iodal h-Eireann, the king idol of
Ireland. "Around him were twelve idols made of stone but he was of
gold'' and to him the early Irish sacrificed one third of
their children on Samain (Nov. 1) in return for "milk and
corn'' and the good weather which insured the fertility of cattle and
crops.
A
Dictionary of Non-Christian Religions, by Geoffrey Parrinder,
page 242, says:
Samhain,
Samuin.
Ancient Celtic feast, held at the
end of October and beginning of November. In Ireland it was
celebrated on the shores of lakes. Samhain marked the beginning of
winter, as Beltane (q.v.) marked the onset of summer. Samhain meant
`summer end', and bonfires were lit to strengthen the powers of the
waning sun. These are perpetuated in the bonfires of November 5, still
popular in Britain. In the Christian calendar, Samhain was
merged into All Saints' Day on November 1.
The
Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Symbols, Part 2, page
1393, says:
SAMHAIN
(SAMAIN, SAMAN, SAMHAN) Literally, summer's end. Celtic
winter solstice festival celebrated about November 1. The entrance
to burial caves were left open to allow the spirits to come out for an
airing. Corresponds to Halloween. Compare
Beltane.
Samhanach.
Goblins which come out on Samhain in Scotland correspond to Halloween.
The Yearbook of English Festivals, by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, 1954, pages 153-157, are displayed, showing us the ancient meanings of Halloween, All Saints Day and All Souls Day. All of these are part of the ancient sacrifices of the dead.
ALL
HALLOWS' EVE
October
31. All
Hallows' Eve or All Hallow E'en, with its tradition of witches,
ghosts, hobgoblins and sprites, its games and incantations, still is a
gay time for pranks and parties in many North Country homes.
To
ancient Druids the end of October commemorated the festival of the
waning year, when the sun began his downward course and ripened grain
was garnered from the fields. Samhain, or "Summer's End,'' as this feast to the dying sun
was called, was
celebrated with human sacrifice, augury
and prayer; for at this season spirits walked and evil had power over
souls of men.
Not
until the fourth century did the pagan vigil for the god of light give
way to All Hallows, the mass for Christian saints; and not until the
tenth, did the
Druids' death feast become All Souls', the day
of prayer for souls that had entered rest. Cakes for the dead were
substituted for human sacrifice, fortune-telling for heathen augury,
lighted candles for the old Baal fires.
Fortune
Telling__Augury
au'gu
ry, n.; pl. au'gu ries,
[L.augurium, divination, from augur,
an augur.]
1.
the art or practice of foretelling events by signs or omens.
2.
that which forebodes; that from which a prediction is drawn; an omen;
portent.
3. a
formal ceremony conducted by an augur.
au'gur,
v.i.;
augured (-gurd), pt., pp.; auguring,
ppr. to guess; to conjecture by
signs or omens; to
prognosticate.
au'gur,
v.t. 1. to predict or foretell.
2.
to
be an omen of; as, to augur
ill success.
ALL
SAINTS' AND ALL SOULS'
November
1 and 2
The
early English Church called All Saints', the feast to commemorate all
the saints, All Hallows. Hallow E'en, All Saints'
and All Souls' (October 31, November 1 and 2, respectively) share a
common tradition. The three festivals concern remembrance of departed
souls.
"Souling,'' or "Soul-caking,'' is the custom
descended from
pre-Reformation times, of going about on All Saints' or All Souls' and begging
for cakes, in remembrance of the dead. The Soulers, singing
verses inherited from a remote past, are rewarded with "soul cakes.''
Once
soulers of certain villages began their rounds with services in the
parish church, the cakes householders gave were in exchange for
prayers for the dead, a "charity'' for the departed. In
other words, soul cakes were intended as a bread dole to the community
poor. Bonfires, "to light souls out of purgatory,'' and the ringing of
church bells, also characterized old-time observances.
By studying the origins of the custom of the worship of the dead, we come to the conclusion that it is nothing more than pagan worship to gods, to Satan herself!
Yahweh Tells Us
Leviticus
19:31—
Do
not turn to mediums nor familiar spirits. Do not seek after
them, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus
20:6—
And the
person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself
with them, I will set My face against that person, and cut him off from
his people.
Deuteronomy
18:10-11—
10 Let
there not be found among you one who sacrifices his son or his daughter
in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens,
engages in witchcraft,
11 Casts
spells, or who consults familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Yahweh
commands us to follow His instruction, not adding to it, nor
diminishing from it, that we may live.
Deuteronomy
4:2—
You
shall not add to the word which I command you, NOR shall you take
anything from it, so that you may
keep the
Laws of Yahweh your Father which I command you.
Revelation
22:14—
Blessed
are those who keep His Laws, that they may have right to the
Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates into the
City.
All
of the Children of Israyl who had forsaken Yahweh to serve baal peor
and ate the sacrifices of the dead (Numbers 25:1-5),
died themselves.
Deuteronomy
4:3—
Your
eyes have seen what Yahweh did to baal peor; the lord of
peor. For all the men who followed baal peor;
the lord of peor, Yahweh your Father has
destroyed them from among you.
There is no blessing from Yahweh for the practice of worshiping the dead. Yahweh does pronounce many curses for these worshipers (Deuteronomy 28:16-68).
Preachers today condemn the Laws of Yahweh,
while they condone these
pagan practices. Whose side are they on? The Apostle Shaul answers this
question in:
Romans
6:16—
Do
you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, his
servants you are whom you obey__
whether of sin, which leads to death, or of
obedience, which leads to Righteousness?
Yahshua
warned us, over and over, about false preachers who would teach against
the Laws of Yahweh, while they serve Satan. He said you will know them
by their fruits, as we find in Mattithyah.
Mattithyah
7:16-20—
16 You
will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from
thorns, or figs from thistles?
17
Likewise, every Righteous tree brings forth Righteous fruit;
but a tree of evil brings forth fruit of iniquity.
18 A
Righteous tree cannot bring forth fruit of iniquity, nor can a
tree of evil bring forth fruits of Righteousness.
19
Every tree which does not bring forth Righteous fruit is cut down, and
cast into the fire.
20
Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
Can you follow these false preachers who teach this pagan god worship? Can you accept the practice of worshiping the dead any more, now that you know this way is condemned by the Word of Yahweh, your guide to Eternal Life? Any worship that goes against the teachings of Father Yahweh is only worship of Satan the devil.
