Page 53 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

Holiday.

Roman Holiday

Yet Satan has paid especial attention to corrupting the people of Yahweh. He has expended great
effort in introducing to both Jews and Christians the symbols and rites of his own worship. He has
done so in a veiled manner, for as Albert Pike declared, Satan “uses false explanations and
misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the
Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for those who are
unworthy or unable to receive it, or would pervert it....” Christians and Jews alike are deemed
unworthy of knowing the true meaning of the rites and symbols foisted upon them. Those who are
worshipers of Yahweh and His Son Yahshua are deemed to be deficient in both reason and
understanding. Therefore, Satan gives to them “a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.”

A growing number of Christians are become educated regarding the unclean spiritual elements of
Christmas and Easter. I trust that this present writing is helping some to perceive the Satanic origins
of the festival known as Hanukkah. Both Hanukkah and Christmas are adaptations of the Roman
Saturnalia. The subtlety and cunning of the devil is evident in that he has led multitudes of Christians
to embrace as their highest holy days two celebrations that are idolatrous. Christmas is nothing more
than the worship of Saturn/Satan promoted to Christians as a celebration of the birth of God’s Son.
Easter still bears the name of the pagan goddess of fertility whom it honors. Easter is a Germanic
form of the Babylonian Ishtar. In the Old Testament we read of the Israelites worshiping this pagan
goddess under the names Astarte and Ashtoreth.

Unlike the other gods worshiped by the Romans, the statue of Saturn that resided in his temple at
the base of the Capitoline hill was draped in a veil. The image introducing this chapter shows Saturn
veiled while holding his accompanying sickle. The image was found painted on a wall of that wicked
Roman city, Pompeii. The city of Pompeii, along with the city of Herculaneum, fell under Yahweh’s
judgment in similar fashion as the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah two millennia earlier. When Mount
Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., both of these Roman cities were buried in fiery ash and pumice, and
smothered with suffocating heat and gases, killing the inhabitants almost instantly. The cities were
buried, frozen in time. They have been a treasure trove for historians, showing what life was like in
the Roman empire of the first century A.D..

Both Pompeii and Herculaneum were grossly debauched cities. Found among the ruins of the cities