Demonic History of St. Valentines’ Day, Ash Wednesday & Mardi Gras
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Deuteronomy 12
29 When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
(Notice that this isn’t limited to Canaan, land of Judea, but any nation/land where his people go in and conquer, which would include the American “Native Indians” and other groups around the world conquered by the British Empire & Americans.)
30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
31 Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
February 14th = Saint Valentine's Day. And of course, the average person would think that Valentine's Day is not religious, and there's nothing pagan about it, and there's nothing harmful or evil or demonic about it. Most people think that it's just a day that you show your love to your husband, to your wife, to your girlfriend; the children draw cards at school of who's going to be their valentine. “Just harmless child's play and candy.”
Valentine's Day was originally under a different name. The name was changed around 498 A.D. by a Roman Catholic pope. That was when the name was changed to Saint Valentine's Day.
But before then, it was known as Lupercalia.
And it was an ancient pagan festival, held even as far back as the 6th century B.C. and earlier, way back there in the B.C. years. Way back! And it celebrated the fertility goddess named Lupercus. And that's why it was called Lupercalia.
Lupercus was a pagan goddess, female false god. That is your origin of Valentine's Day. It has an origin, a beginning, in pagan religion and in breaking the 1st Commandment to not have any other gods!
"Saint Valentine" lived back around 200 or 300 or 400 or 500 AD, depending on which Valentine, because there was quite a few men named Valentine in those first five centuries AD.
The Roman Catholic Church says that it honors a Roman Catholic priest. They say that's what it's about. Well, if that is true and it honors a Roman Catholic priest, and if you are even half awake to the reality of the corruption in this world, then why would you want to honor a Roman Catholic priest? Why would you want to honor such a pagan? Those Roman Catholic priests, both in our current generation and back in that time era, both, they are people that have sold their soul to the devil through many pagan (demonic) practices.
I have on the ministry website, an article that shows 20 ways that the Catholic Church and Islam are the same.
https://www.isawthelightministries.com/falseprophet.html
The main person named Valentine that they think that it's named after, his skull is on display in Rome for people to see. It's in a church, the Basilica of Santa Maria in Rome. This is one perfect example out of millions of perfect examples of how the Catholic Church is a cult that worships demons, dead people, and death.
Cupid = originally known as Eros, the god of love. Another false god. Another counterfeit in competition against Jesus who is the true and only God of Love.
Two false gods connected with St. Valentine's Day. Lupercus was a female false god, heathen, pagan god, and the Cupid, Eros.
St. Valentine's Day was originally three days.
And the pagan priests would perform animal sacrifices during these three days. Animal sacrifices. So it's a counterfeit of God's true holy days.
And they would take the animal sacrifices, the skin of the goats, to make whips. And these whips were called februa, which is where we get the word February from. The month February is named after the whips that was made out of the skin of the goats that were sacrificed for Valentine's Day.
That's how we get the word February. And these whips, called februa, were used to hit naked women that had lined up to volunteer for men to hit them, to whip them, so that they would be fertile. So that they would be more likely to have babies and successful childbirth by being whipped by men.
Also during this festival, men would draw names of women, pull a woman's name from a jar, to be matched with that woman, either for the three-day festival or sometimes for a year. It depends on the person, the situation. Sometimes they would draw names for who would be their Valentine's for three days, and other times it would be who would be their Valentine/mate for an entire year.
That is the origin of the St. Valentine's custom of what the children do in the public school system right now, or they did back when I was a child, how we would draw names of who you would trade Valentine's cards with, and stuff like this.
They do that even today, and some of the churches do this. And that is the origin of it. It's all paganism!
St. Valentine's Day was originally three days. Notice how that Ash Wednesday is the same day as Valentine’s Day. Also notice how that Mari Gras is the day before. No coincidence in any of this. It’s very well documented the connections between these pagan festivals.
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is observed by Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, some Reformed churches, some Baptists, some Methodists, Mennonites, the Moravian Church, the Wesleyan Church and the demonic Metropolitan Community Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church does not observe Ash Wednesday, but they do observe Lent, which is directly related to Ash Wednesday.
Now it also, surprisingly, is not really a one-day festival. It's connected with other days surrounding it.
It’s also connected with the 40 days of Lent, as well as two days of feasting before Ash Wednesday. They have 2 days of feasting on Monday and Tuesday, right directly before that Wednesday. So 3 days just like the original Valentine pagan festival. It’s the same event!
And then on Wednesday, they start fasting from whatever they want to fast from. Some of them will fast from meat for 40 days, or smoking, or chewing gum, or whatever that they want to fast from.
It's individually a choice of fasting for 40 days from something. And then that leads up to Easter. So it's directly connected with pagan Easter which is named after the female Assyrian fertility goddess named Easter, also spelled Isthar and Astarte, etc.
They put ashes on their forehead while they fast for Ash Wednesday.
Matthew 6:16 "Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward."
Matthew 15:8-9 "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
1 Timothy 4:1-3 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils (fallen angels). By means of the hypocrisy, amen, of lives seared in their own conscience with a branding iron.
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Verse 3: Forbidding to marry (as the Catholic Church does for their priests), and commanding to abstain from meats (as they do on Fridays except for fish), which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."
40 Days of Lent, Easter, Ash Wednesday, all connected in this bible verse:
Ezekiel 8:13-14 "He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz."
We know for a fact that ancient pagan people observed 40 days in honor of Tammuz.
One version of the Babylonian celebration of Easter and Lent declared that Tammuz, a false god, was the husband of Astarte/Ishtar/Easter. And he was slain. He was killed while he was hunting a wild boar, a pig. They mourned for him by weeping ceremonies for forty days. Forty days!
We also know that the + plus sign was a symbol of Tammuz, the very sign they are putting on their foreheads.
In the pagan Nordic religion, putting ashes on the forehead was believed to ensure the protection of the Norse god Odin. This was done on a Wednesday, on what was known as Odin's Day. Wednesday was named after Odin also known as Woden or Weda. He was known as the 'leader of the possessed'.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Odin (Inforgalactic is a great alternative to Wikipedia.)
To put ashes on your forehead specifically on Wednesday is to say that Odin is your god and that you are honoring him, the one who possesses your mind and body. Their hand applies the mark to their forehead. It’s one of many different ways that people accept the mark of the beast which comes in many different forms.
Although Mardi Gras technically refers only to Fat Tuesday, but actually Mardi Gras is a season of time, not one day.
It actually begins on January the 6th, which is also called the 12th day of Christmas. Mardi Gras season begins on the 12th day of Christmas.
So again, yes, there is a connection with Christmas and Easter, both with Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday. You cannot separate these days because the 12th day of Christmas, January 6th, begins Mardi Gras season, which is Fat Tuesday, followed by the 40 days of Lent/Tammuz leading up to Easter.
You cannot separate paganism, the Roman Catholic Church, St. Valentines Day, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, Christmas, Easter, Sunday worship, and trinity worship. They are all very directly and strongly connected. It's all directly, not even indirectly, but rather directly connected.
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