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Why have you never heard the Sunday-observing preachers explain the beautiful Christ-centered pictures, types and shadows contained in God's seven annual holy days? WHY does your Bible say Christ will command even present-day ISLAMIC nations, such as Egypt, to begin to keep the Feast of Tabernacles during His millennial reign?
WHY will Jesus Christ ENFORCE His weekly Sabbath days and His annual Sabbaths upon ALL NATIONS during His one thousand-year reign on this earth? Since Christ will FORCE all nations to keep His feast during the millennium, WHY do people assume all of God's annual holy days are "done away" today? If they are "done away" why will Christ force you, and every other human being to KEEP them when He rules this earth?
Your Bible says, "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
"And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
"And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh" (Isaiah 66:22-24).
This is describing the horrible punishment for rebellious, unrepentant sinners. Sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), and the wages of sin is death in Gehenna fire (Romans 6:23). Survivors of the Tribulation and Day of the Lord will see the decaying bodies and ashes that were once living human beings as a witness and warning to those who would rebel against God's laws. Describing this same period the final chapter of the Old Testament says, "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
"But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
"And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts" (Malachi 4:1-3).
The "worm doth not die" because the larval stage of the fly does not die, but turns into another fly! This is describing rotting human flesh, fly-blown and teeming with maggots, being burned.
And the time setting? It is inescapable! This is another description of the horrendous events to occur just before and at the time of the second coming of Christ; the "Day of the Lord," and the beginning of Christ's RULE over this earth!
Notice the proof: "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked" (Isaiah 11:4).
HOW will He do this? What will be the method He will use to "slay the wicked"? Notice, "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone" (Revelation 19:20).
Jesus Christ of Nazareth is coming again. He is coming to RULE this rotten, God-defying, sin-sick, decadent world with a rod of iron (Revelation 2:27). One of the first laws Christ will enforce upon all nations is His command that they must OBSERVE HIS FEAST OF TABERNACLES!
But WHY?
For the simple reason that God's seven annual feasts, or holy days, picture the entire PURPOSE for human life! They picture, in moving, beautiful, rich types and shadows, the plan of salvation; the progressive fulfillment of all prophecy; how the saints of this time are but the "first fruits" of the great latter-day time of judgment; the second coming of Christ; the banishment of Satan; the millennial reign of Jesus Christ, and the great general resurrection of the "rest of the dead" (Revelation 20:5) to take place AFTER the millennium.
By understanding the types and shadows implicit in each of the annual Sabbaths, or holy days, one comes to understand the very PURPOSE OF ONE'S OWN LIFE! It is awesome! It is mind-boggling! It is GLORIOUS beyond your wildest imagination! Your fantastic human potential is so breathtaking you will not want to believe it at first. Yet, it is TRUE, as you will see amply proved in these pages!
At creation, the Divine Member of Elohim who brought the entire universe, the solar system, this earth and all life upon it into existence, gave command after command. He compacted pure ENERGY into MATTER. Matter is but energy, arranged in almost limitless law-abiding forms.
After the first six days of the REcreation of this earth (from an earlier creation, perhaps billions of years in the past, which had been destroyed by Satan), the one who had caused the dry land to appear; who had said "Let there be light," and who had said "Let US make man in OUR image," continued His creation process by RESTING! He had finished the WORK of creation, but He had not finished creating!
As the sixth day waned, and the earth turned on its axis, bringing sunset once more to the Mideast, Elohim RESTED from all His works! Your Bible says, "And God [Elohim. A plural word, meaning more than one] saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
"And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made" (Genesis 1:31; 2:1-3).
Jesus Christ proclaimed, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
"Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath" (Mark 2:27, 28). The Sabbath was something which was MADE. It was made when MAN was made. It was made for MAN, and not "for the Jews"! There was no person called a "Jew" (from "Judah," who was one of the sons of Jacob, or Israel) on the earth until thousands of years later!
The Sabbath was made when MAN was made, and it was made by its MAKER, who is, believe it or not, the same personage of the Godhead who "emptied Himself" and "became of no repute," and was born of the virgin Mary!
Notice that Jesus Christ said He is LORD of the SABBATH day, and not Lord of "Sunday"! The true "Lord's Day" is THE SABBATH; the day of which Jesus is LORD!
In His pre-human state, as a member of the divine family we call "God," the one who became Christ wrote with His own finger on two tables of stone the Ten Commandments. He wrote, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
"Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
"But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
"For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it" (Exodus 20:8-11).
He commanded Israel to REMEMBER the Sabbath because it was created at creation! Christ of the New Testament is the CREATOR of the Old Testament! Your Bible plainly says so! Notice it, "John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word [Greek: Logos, meaning "Spokesman"], and the Word was with God [Greek: Theos a plural, synonymous with Elohim in the Hebrew], and the Word was God.
"The same was in the beginning with God.
"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
"In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not…He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
"He came unto his own [the Jews], and his own received him not.
"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
"Which were born [Greek: gennao, meaning "begotten"], not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt [Greek: "tabernacled"] among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth" (John 1:1-14).
Can anything be plainer? The one who said "Let there be light;" who said, "Let the dry land appear;" the one who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush and said "I AM"; The one who parted the Red Sea; the one who wrote the Ten Commandments with His own finger in stone IS THE SAME PERSON WHO WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY!
Do you doubt this? No sane person can! Unless we are to rip John 1 out of our Bibles, the plain truth is that Jesus Christ, in His pre-human state, was the divine SPOKESMAN of the God family called Elohim. Elohim is a PLURAL word! This is why God (Elohim) said, "Let US make man in OUR image" (Genesis 1:26).
Do you require further proof? Then notice what Jesus said to the doubting Pharisees who challenged Him! "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
"Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM" (John 8:56-58). The false prophets of this world WILL NOT accept these divinely inspired words! They WILL NOT admit that Jesus Christ is the GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT!
WHY?
Because if they admit that the one who wrote the Ten Commandments is the SAME personage of the Godhead who came in the flesh as Jesus Christ, they condemn themselves for refusing to observe God's wonderful, righteous laws! They know that if they admitted the truth about John 1 they would be condemned of God for refusing to keep the holy Sabbath days and God's annual Sabbaths!
Yet, the first great edict which the conquering, returning Christ will issue to the nations is to command them to come up to Jerusalem to KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES!
Read it in your own Bible: "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
"And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
"And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
"This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles" (Zechariah 14:16-19). No matter who you are; no matter your racial, political or religious background, you WILL be keeping God's Sabbath days, and you WILL be keeping His annual Sabbaths when God sets up His kingdom on this earth!
In that day, there will be no Muslims, Shintoists, Animists, Buddhists, Confucianists, Hindus, Catholics, Protestants, or Satanists! Instead, there will be ONE GREAT WORLD RELIGION; the TRUE religion of Jesus Christ of Nazareth! All nations will be required to keep the LAWS OF GOD!
IF they are still alive then (which is very much in doubt), such dictators as Maomar Kadaffi, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro and Slobodan Milosevich WILL BE KEEPING THE SABBATH AND THE HOLY DAYS!
In Paganism
This world is fascinated with paganism. If it is "pagan splendor," people want to know about it. When one visits ancient sites, such as the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon at "San Juan de Teotihuacan" near Mexico City, for example, it is to be told about the human sacrifices of the Aztecs; about their calendar and their way of life. But especially about their religious superstitions. Man's fascination with spiritual ritual is endless. Isn't it strange that man's fascination with the mythological seemingly deliberately overlooks the rich typology seen in God's annual Sabbaths given to ancient Israel?
Historians know much about ancient, bygone civilizations from religious artifacts. As God charged, these nations, who worshipped false, nonexistent "gods" NEVER CHANGED those gods down through centuries and centuries of mythological, superstitious religious practice. Countless tens of thousands of helpless human beings have been slain as a sacrifice to a completely fictitious "god" who "demanded" such of his or her worshipers. Pagans have clung tenaciously to utterly false gods for thousands of years. Has China departed from Buddhism? India from Hinduism? Loyalty seems common among pagan religions.
Yet, God's own people have turned away from the one true God, away from the beautiful, detailed, seasonally-revealed picture of His plan for the human family, embracing purely pagan myths, instead! Do you doubt this? What are some of the pagan myths gleefully accepted by modern, space-age "Christian" societies?
this "Christian" Civilization:
What Do They Picture?
Which is the chief "Christian" holiday? Why, "Christmas," of course. Christmas means, simply, the "Mass of Christ." The Catholic Encyclopedia admits, "Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church" (Vol. III, p. 724), and explains, "The well-known solar feast, however, of natalis invicti, celebrated on 25 December, has a strong claim on the responsibility for our December date" (ibid., p. 727, emphasis mine).
History documents that the Roman Catholic Church did not settle upon the final date for the "Mass of Christ" as Christ's birthday until perhaps five centuries after Christ's death, burial, and resurrection.
Christmas is connected with purely pagan ceremonies: sun worship, ancient Roman festivals, and even more ancient Babylonian mysteries. You will find that holly wreaths, mistletoe, bulbs and orbs, trees, "Old St. Nick," and many other trappings of Christmas are utterly pagan in origin!
Yet, for all its paganism, Christmas is eagerly embraced by countless millions in the professing Christian world as the birthday of Christ; a time to exchange gifts, have family reunions, enjoy roast turkey or goose; a time replete with its own nostalgic music, feelings of good will, and hospitality. For an in-depth study about the purely PAGAN origin of "Christmas" be sure to call (903) 561-7070 immediately, or write to the address listed in this booklet for your free copy of "Facts You Should Know About CHRISTMAS!"
Pagan feasts revolved around the seasons because Satan the devil has counterfeits he has foisted on the world to deceive. They were based upon celestial observations, the summer and winter solstices, the vernal equinox. Most pagan holidays were essentially harvest festivals. Pagans prayed to their "invincible sun" (invictus solis) in the depths of winter to begin "his" journey further north once again, putting an end to winter, and bringing the springtime, and new growth.
The springtime festival of Ishtar, the pagan goddess of sex and fecundity of the ancient Babylonians (pronounced "Easter," with a long "ee" sound on the "I" and a silent "h") was in thanksgiving for the advent of the spring, the end of winter, and new life. It was celebrated with a plethora of mythological ritual: rabbits, for their rapid procreation; eggs, as the source of life and the pagan concept of the beginning of creation; the bous, or symbol of Tammuz (Nimrod), represented by the Ox, and cakes to Semiramis, Nimrod's mother-wife, and high priestess of the Babylonian mystery religion, as the "queen of heaven." Such cakes, called boun, or bous, featured a cross, as a solar symbol, and were baked in honor of Ishtar, or Ashtoreth, and are seen today at "Easter" (Ishtar) time as "hot cross buns."
What did you learn, as a child, about your purpose for being here, the plan of salvation, from "Easter"?
Your parents probably told you it was about the resurrection of Christ. Perhaps you went to a sunrise service, faced the rising sun as a minister chanted or prayed. Then there was the excitement of wonderful new clothes—yellows, greens, and whites, the colors of springtime—white patent-leather shoes for little girls; "Easter" (Ishtar) bonnets, parades, and, of special excitement to little children, "Easter egg" hunts! Cuddly little bunnies and eggs. How cute. How wondrous. How nostalgic. But what do the children who gleefully engage in the annual White House "Easter egg hunt" learn about the PURPOSE OF HUMAN LIFE?
But not one child in a million was taught that the rabbits and eggs were sex symbols; that sunrise services were conducted in sun worship; that "Easter" means Ishtar, or Ashtoreth, the pagan goddess of sex and fertility.
Consider next the frivolous, capricious, demoniacal trappings of "Halloween." What is Halloween? Even the spelling has been altered, as the passing years and obfuscating tradition contrive to obscure the true, pagan symbolism of this most transparent of all the pagan harvest festivals.
Originally, the phrase "All Saint's Day" became called the "Evening of All Hallows" or "Hallowed Evening." Eventually it was shortened to "Hallowe'en." Were you taught this as a child? Catholics often celebrate the day of their favorite saint, perhaps the "saint" after which they were named. When the calendar was filled with 365 names, a convenient date was chosen, our November 1st, as a day for "All Saints." Many Central and South American countries feature towns and villages named Todos los Santos, meaning, "All Saints."
However, Halloween is not an invention of the Catholic Church, but an adaptation of an ancient, pagan festival. "Though now known as little else but the eve of the Christian festival, Hallowe'en and its formerly attendant ceremonies long antedate Christianity" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Vol. XII, p. 857). History proves most of the superstitions connected with Halloween, including "apple dunking," and the like, are purely Druidic, from the pagan priests of pre-Christian Ireland.
The pagan Greeks and Romans celebrated a fall harvest festival in honor of their goddess "Pomona," which featured apples and nuts. Since the Druids believed "Saman," or Samhain, or Shaman, the "lord of the dead" (Satan), consigned the departed souls of people to the bodies of animals as punishment for wickedness, it was natural for them, in their darkened, pagan superstitions, to imagine it necessary to attempt to placate Saman with offerings, and to attempt to frighten away wicked spirits with "Jack o' lanterns."
Halloween features symbols of witchcraft, demonism, and death. What does it teach little children? The common practice of "trick or treating" is nothing more than children playing the part of Saman and his demons, approaching homes, demanding an "offering" of candies and the like in return for refraining from vandalizing the house!
Today, people festoon their houses and yards with "ghost decoys," in blissful ignorance. Are they attempting to attract "ghosts," or demons? Naturally, were you to make such a suggestion, a neighbor who has festooned his yard with jack o' lanterns, witches, black cats and plastic ghosts would look at you in utter amazement, and wonder if you had gone crazy.
It would not seem "crazy" to the neighbor to decorate his home and yard with symbols of Satan, demons, and death.
Do modern space-age Americans, Canadians, Britons and many other nations actually "believe" they are frightening away evil spirits by pieces of white plastic hung in trees, or orange leaf bags with hideous faces, "jack o' lanterns," placed on their lawns? Of course not. They are "innocently" mimicking pagans, entering into the "spirit of Halloween," perhaps vying with the neighbors for decorations about the house.
Perhaps you have not realized Halloween is the most important annual festival to Satanists. You will be astounded at the rank paganism associated with this fall harvest festival!
These three—Christmas, Easter, and Halloween—are probably the most important among "Christian" holidays. Then there is "Valentine's Day," also rooted in paganism, with connections to Nimrod; and other days, like "New Year's" day, in the middle of a dead winter; "Groundhog Day," and many, many more. Among them all, "Thanksgiving" and the 4th of July stand out as celebrations one may safely assume God endorses.
For Americans to gather around a bounteous table, giving thanks to God in commemoration of the early Pilgrim's practice of doing so is surely a wonderful thing to do, and has no pagan connotations, and "Independence Day," or the 4th of July is certainly not condemned of God.
But why, in all your church-going and religious experience, have you never been told about the rich, CHRIST-centered, NEW Testament meanings of God's annual Sabbaths given to Israel and Judah? Look at the emphasis on Christ in the Passover.
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