Easter is a day that is honored by nearly all of contemporary Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The holiday often involves a church service at sunrise, a feast which includes an “Easter Ham”, decorated eggs and stories about rabbits.
Those who love truth learn to ask questions, and many questions must be asked regarding the holiday of Easter.
Is it truly the day when YAHUSHA HA’MASHIACH (The Messiah) arose from the dead? Where did all of the strange customs come from?
The first thing we must understand is that professing Christians were not the only ones who celebrated a festival called “Easter.”
“Ishtar”, which is pronounced “Easter” was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called “Tammuz”, who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god.
In those ancient times, there was a man named Nimrod, who was the grandson of one of Noah´s sons named Ham.
Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis. Cush and Semiramis then had a son named him “Nimrod.”
After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and became a powerful King.
The Scriptures tells of this man, Nimrod, in Genesis 10:8-10 as follows: “And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before YAHUAH: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before YAHUAH. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”
Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semiramis, his wife and mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon.
Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in pieces and sent to various parts of his kingdom.
Nimrod’s and Semiramis’ followers plunged so deeply into sin and the occult that they even sacrificed babies to Satan in their worship of him. This became a common practice until Shem who was one of Noah’s three sons and the great uncle of Nimrod, in his anger and wrath killed Nimrod and cut him up into small pieces as an example to others not to commit such abominable sins and not to follow such evil religious practices. (Shem was a holy man and it was through his seed the Messiah would come.)
Semiramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that could not be found.
That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semiramis claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called “Baal“, the sun god.
Queen Semiramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on earth in the form of a flame, whether candle or lamp, when used in worship.
Semiramis was creating a mystery religion, and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess.
Semiramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived.
She taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day cycle and ovulated when full.
She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River.
This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Semiramis became known as “Ishtar” which is pronounced “Easter”, and her moon egg became known as “Ishtar´s” egg.”
Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.
Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal. Tammuz, like his supposed father, became a hunter.
The day came when Tammuz was killed by a wild pig.
Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit.
Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the “Mother of God and Queen of Heaven”, continued to build her mystery religion.
The queen told the worshippers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood of Tammuz.
She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz.
During this time, no meat was to be eaten. 40 days weeping for Tammuz. (Lent)
Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the “T” in front of their hearts as they worshipped.
They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a “T” or cross on the top.
Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made.
It was Ishtar´s Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs.
Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig, that a pig must be eaten on that Sunday.
By now, the readers of this tract should have made the connection that paganism has infiltrated the contemporary “Christian” churches, and further study indicates that this paganism came in by way of the Roman Catholic System.
The truth is that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with the resurrection of YAHUSHA HA’MASHIACH.
We also know that Easter can be as much as three weeks away from the Passover, because the pagan holiday is always set as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Some have wondered why the word “Easter” is in the the King James Bible.
It is because Acts, chapter 12, tells us that it was the evil King Herod, who was planning to celebrate Easter, and not the Christians.
The true Passover and pagan Easter sometimes coincide, but in some years, they are a great distance apart.
We know that the Scriptures tells us in John 4:24, “YAHUAH is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits, hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon. These are all antichrist activities!
Satan is a master deceiver, and has filled the lives of well-meaning, professing Christians with idolatry.
These things bring the wrath of YAHUAH upon children of disobedience, who try to make pagan customs of Baal worship Christian.
These customs of Easter honor Baal and is still worshipped as the “Rising Sun” and his house is the “House of the Rising Sun.”
How many churches have “sunrise services” on Ishtar´s day and face the rising sun in the East?
How many will use colored eggs and rabbit stories, as they did in ancient Babylon.
TAMMUZ WAS WORSHIPPED AS THE SUN GOD THE SON OF EASTER {ISHTAR} Easter Sunrise
Ishtar which is pronounced Easter was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called Tammuz, who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon goddess and the sun-god.
Her moon egg became known as Ishtar’s egg.
Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.
The son that she brought forth was named Tammuz. He was noted to be fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god Baal.
Tammuz became a hunter. When he was killed by a wild pig Queen Ishtar told the people that he was now ascended to his father, Baal (Nimrod), and that the two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son, and Spirit.
The Paganism Of Lent And Weeping For Tammuz!
Semiramis (Ishtar) also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz.
During this time, no meat was to be eaten.
Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the “T” in front of their hearts as they worshipped.
They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a “T” or cross on the top.
Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made.
It was Ishtar’s Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs.
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He said also unto me, Turn yet again, and you shall see greater abominations that they do.
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of YAHUAH’S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Then said he unto me, Have you seen this, O son of Adam? turn yet again, and you shall see greater abominations than these.
And he brought me into the inner court of YAHUAH’S house, and, behold, at the door of the Temple of YAHUAH, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the Temple of YAHUAH, and their faces toward the east;
and they worshipped the sun toward the east. Then he said unto me, Have you seen this, O son of Adam? Is it a light thing to the house of Yahudah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
St. Patrick’s Day: Religious Tribute or Empty Tradition?
The holiday has become an emblem of spring and all things Irish. A day for millions to wear their “St. Patty’s” attire and pinch those who neglect to wear green. City streets reverberate to the tunes of marching bands, and harp, fiddle and bagpipe sounds are matched with the aroma of freshly boiled corned beef (or traditional boiled bacon) and cabbage.
March 17 is a day of Irish folklore and the color green—mythical green leprechauns, green shamrocks, green fingernails, green rivers, green athletic jerseys, and green alcoholic drinks, among others.
For countless numbers of celebrants, it is a holiday in which religion and the pub meet halfway. Many begin the day with acts of devotion, only to end it with excessive booze. This type of widespread inebriation moved Michigan’s government to pass a “super drunk” law in 2010. The date is even part of AAA motor club’s “tow-to-go” program, a free and confidential ride home for drunken holiday drivers.
The historical inspiration for such a celebration: a fifth-century Briton largely attributed with Ireland’s conversion to Christianity. On the anniversary of his death, March 17, he is commemorated as the symbol of Ireland.
In The Antiquities of Ireland, author Edward Ledwich examined medieval accounts that promoted the myths surrounding the holiday: “St. Patrick while an infant, brought a new river from the earth, which cured the blind. He produced fire from ice. He raised his nurse from the dead. He expelled a devil from an heifer, and he changed water into honey. These were but the infant sports of this wonder-working Saint.”
Obvious fables aside, most see nothing wrong in the festivities, national pride, and religious overtones attached to this day. Yet the holiday’s track record unmistakably shows its true intent.
Party Spirit
St. Patrick’s Day has resulted in numerous riots over the years.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that its 2014 pre-St. Patrick’s Day celebrations turned ugly: “At the University of Massachusetts…police in riot gear arrested more than 73 students, some of whom threw beer cans, bottles and snowballs, causing minor injuries to four officers.”
At the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, in 2013, which was named the top St. Patrick’s Day party school in the nation during the same year.
“More than 1,000 people were involved in last year’s St. Patrick’s Day riot,” Dayton Daily News reported. “Ten police jurisdictions respond to the incident in the student campus housing area. There were broken beer bottles and 11 damaged cars, including a police cruiser.”
The year 2011 was particularly violent.
An out-of-control Hoboken, New Jersey, celebration resulted in 34 arrests and reports of two sexual assaults, Reuters stated. As a result, the town’s mayor declared “she would switch the traditional weekend parade to a weekday.”
The article continued, “Scores of arrests and violence at parades in Albany, New York and Newport, Rhode Island are prompting police and city officials to rethink their approach as well. They said [2011’s] parade violence is the worst they have seen to date.”
In Cleveland, “Fights broke out in Public Square around 3 p.m. and continued for over three hours…The majority of those arrested were teenagers,” NewsNet5 reported.
At Pennsylvania State University, a student-run St. Patrick’s Day drinking marathon referred to as a “drunken free-for-all” has become more extreme. According to The Patriot-News, “In recent years, the event has led to a rash of vandalism, public drunkenness, medical emergencies and arrests.
Community and student groups have attempted to tamp down the fallout of hundreds of drunken young people carousing through campus and borough streets. Even so, with some of those initiatives in place, last year was the worst year yet.”
In Ireland, “Fifteen teenagers under the legal drinking age were arrested in just one area of south Dublin in a night of drunken St Patrick’s Day celebrations,” British newspaper The Independent reported. “The figures reflect a worrying rise in under-age drinking flagged by leading mental health experts…”
These are far from uplifting ways to honor a “saint.”
On the contrary, St. Patrick’s Day is brimming over with what the Scripture condemns. Notice:
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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of YAHUAH.
GALATIYM (GALATIANS) 5:19-21
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Patron of Ireland?
Patrick is known as Ireland’s “Patron Saint.” In his book, Mr. Ledwich explained how the “patronage” came about: “Let us next inquire how St. Patrick came to be dubbed the Patron Saint of Ireland.
The ninth century, famous for reviving and incorporating Pagan practices with the Christian ritual, observing that Rome had her… Mars, Athens her Minerva, Carthage her Juno, and every country and city a proper and peculiar deity, whose guardian care was its greatest protection and security, conceived it a very becoming employment for Christian Saints to assume the patronage of a Christian People, and to interest them the more in this new occupation, they brought their bones or reliques, wherever laid, and deposited them in the principal church of the metropolis.
The superstition and illiteracy of the age were favourable to every clerical imposition” (The Antiquities of Ireland).
The author later stated, “It is an undoubted fact, that St. Patrick is not mentioned by any author or in any work of veracity in the 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th centuries. In 858, we find his name and miracles in a fragment of Nennius: this fragment is composed of the wildest incoherences and exactly in the style of the incredible fictions of that age. It seems to have been compiled from an Irish Legend, as in some places it refers to it” (ibid.).
Not one of Patrick’s generally accepted writings claim any connection with the Roman church of his time. William Dool Killen’s The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland records, “He [Patrick] never mentions either Rome or the Pope, or hints that he was in any way connected with the ecclesiastical capital of Italy. He recognizes no other authority but that of the Word of YAHUAH…”
The title “Patron Saint” refers to “a saint or angel designated (by individuals, groups, or the Church) as the heavenly protector of individuals, institutions, or specialized activities,” according to the New Catholic Encyclopedia. This implies Patrick is somewhere in heaven looking over, and protecting, Ireland.
Such an idea also conflicts with the Scriptures, a book, Mr. Killen explained, Patrick embraced as his only authority.
YAHUAH’s Word reveals that a person should rely on Him for protection—not any person—dead or alive.
Ecclesiastes states,
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For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they anymore a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
QOHELETH (ECCLESIASTES) 9:5
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This means only one thing: the real Patrick has been dead for a long time, and knows “not anything.”
No matter how many millions today believe otherwise, the concept of a dead “Patron Saint” is contrary to what the Scripture teaches.
Silly Myths
Above all, St. Patrick’s Day is about Irish superstitions and traditions. Here are some of the most popular:
Leprechauns: “In Irish folklore, fairy in the form of a tiny old man often with a cocked hat and leather apron. Solitary by nature, he is said to live in remote places and to make shoes and brogues. The sound of his hammering betrays his presence. He possesses a hidden crock of gold; if captured and threatened with bodily violence, he might, if his captor keeps his eyes on him, reveal its hiding place. But usually the captor is tricked into glancing away, and the fairy vanishes” (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
YAHUAH tells those who follow Him that such beliefs are worthless:
“For the customs of the people are vain…” (YIRMEYAHU/JEREMIAH 10:3.
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance defines “vain” as “unsatisfactory” or “emptiness.”
Shamrocks: “According to St. Patrick’s Day lore, Patrick used the three leaves of a shamrock to explain the holy trinity…Today, St. Patrick’s Day revelers wear a shamrock out of tradition,” National Geographic reported.
QOLASIYM (COLOSSIANS) 2:8 warns against following manmade traditions:
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“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after HA’MASHIACH (The Messiah).”
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Excessive drinking: “Like many other forms of carnival, St. Patrick’s Day is a feast day, a break from Lent in which adherents are allowed to temporarily abandon rigorous fasting by indulging in the forbidden. Since alcohol is often proscribed [forbidden] during Lent the copious consumption of alcohol is seen as an integral part of St. Patrick’s day” Scripture strictly forbids drunkenness:
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“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the RUACH” (EPH’SIYM/EPHESIANS 5:18.
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Wearing green and pinching: “According to some accounts, blue was the first color associated with St. Patrick’s Day, but that started to change in the 17th century,” The Christian Science Monitor stated. “Green is one of the colors in Ireland’s tri-color flag, and it has been used in the flags of several Irish revolutionary groups throughout history. Ireland is the ‘Emerald Isle,’ so named for its lush green landscape.
Green is also the color of spring, the shamrock, and the Chicago River, which the Midwestern city has dyed green on St. Patrick’s Day for the past 40-odd years.” The article later explains that pinching is “…an entirely American tradition that probably started in the early 1700s. St. Patrick’s revelers thought wearing green made one invisible to leprechauns, fairy creatures who would pinch anyone they could see (anyone not wearing green). People began pinching those who didn’t wear green as a reminder that leprechauns would sneak up and pinch green-abstainers.”
But the apostle Peter taught true followers of YAHUAH,
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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the other nations, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
KEPHA RI’SHON (1 PETER) 4:3-4
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Also, I Timothy states,
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But refuse profane and old women’s fables, and exercise yourself rather unto righteousness.
TIMOTHEUS RI’SHON (1 TIMOTHY) 4:7
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YAHUAH’s Traditions
St. Patrick’s Day customs, regardless of how harmless they may seem, are not from YAHUAH. YAHUSHA bluntly said what it meant for those who follow such customs:
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For laying aside the commandment of YAHUAH, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of YAHUAH, that ye may guard your own tradition.
MARQUS (MARK) 7:8-9
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Recognize that, as with many other manmade holidays, St. Patrick’s Day is filled with pagan customs. The shamrock, green paraphernalia, and a plethora of fantasies about Patrick, including his fictional function as “Patron Saint” in heaven, are simply empty traditions. Such manmade holidays were adopted as early church leaders began “laying aside the commandments of YAHUAH” to “hold the tradition of men.”
But to what should they be holding?
YAHUAH commands that seven Feasts be kept throughout the year. He records in VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 23 that these were to be observed forever (vs. 41). These were kept by YAHUSHA HA’MASHIACH (The Messiah) and the original Talmidiym (Disciples). Each Feast depicts a fascinating step in His Master Plan of salvation. When YAHUAH’S MOEDIM – DIVINE APPOINTMENTS (Set-Apart Days) are obscured, so is YAHUAH’s Plan for mankind.
Purim celebrates Hebrew Esther’s victory over anti-Semitic Haman.
Purim is NOT a Sabbath and is NOT a High Holy Day!
PURIM, the Feast of Esther and the Festival Of Lots, is not a YAHUAH-established, YAHUAH-ordained Feast / Festival.
PURIM is not mentioned in Tanakh, the Hebrew’s Holy Scriptures (The Old Testament, in Christian Bibles), and it is not even mentioned in the historical Book Of Esther.
For, following Shemini Atzeret in early fall, the next Holy Day on YAHUAH’scalendar is the next Passover, six months later, in the following spring, a month after PURIM.
This means that both Simchat Torah and Hanukkah (Chanukah), along with PURIM, are NOT Scriptural holy days, they are not YAHUAH-established, and they are not YAHUAH-ordained.
PURIM is a later-established celebration to commemorate a feast and subsequent victorious events recorded in The Book Of Esther.
Since PURIM could fall on any day of the week, other than when on Saturday (a routine, weekly, Sabbath) there is no special, YAHUAH-ordained “Holy-Day” or Sabbath on PURIM because PURIM is a tradition-based celebration instituted by men, not by YAHUAH.
The 7 High Holy Days established by YAHUAH are:
The Seven Annual Sabbaths (High Sabbaths)
If you thought that The Eternal only had weekly Sabbath Days then you would be mistaken.
There are SEVEN Annual Holy Sabbaths that occur once every year.
These SEVEN Annual Sabbaths are:
1 The first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread
2 The last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread
3 The day of Pentecost (Shavuot) which coincides with the beginning of The Feast of Weeks
4 The Day of Trumpets (Yom Teruah)
5 The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
6 The first day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth or Sukkot)
7 The Last Great Day (also, Sukkot)
These Holy Days are spoken of in Leviticus chapter 23; Three of these annual Sabbaths are Feasts periods.
Two of the Feast periods have been positively identified in Scripture as being seven day long periods (a 7 day week).
The Feast of Weeks (a.k.a. The Feast of First Fruits), a symbolic Spring Harvest, is most probably, also, exactly seven days long.
Feasts are “Appointed Times” but are not necessarily Holy Convocations (Sabbath Assemblies).
However, four of the Seven Annual Sabbath Days (are Holy Convocations and) do occur during a Feast Period (a 7 day week).
“The Last Great Day” immediately follows the seven day feast period of The Feast of Tabernacles (a.k.a. The Feast of Ingathering, a.k.a. The Feast of Booths, a.k.a. Succoth or Sukkot).
Only three Annual High Sabbaths positively do not fall within a seven day Feast Period (Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, and The Last Great Day).
These are not manmade Jewish laws, but The Eternal Father’s Laws.
It’s a sad fact that modern Christianity has appropriated so many customs from the practice of the heathens, that one might wonder if it should still be called Christianity.
The early Pagan origins of Ash Wednesday
This ritual “imposition of the ashes” is purportedly in imitation of the repentant act of covering oneself in dust and ashes.
The marking of believers on Ash Wednesday is done in combination of another extra-Scriptural routine called “Lent.”
The practice of putting ashes on one’s forehead has been known from ancient times.
In the Nordic pagan religion, placing ashes above one’s brow was believed to ensure the protection of the Norse god, Odin. This practice spread to Europe during the Vikings conquests. This laying on of ashes was done on Wednesday, the day named for Odin, Odin’s Day. Interestingly enough, according to Wikipedia, one of Odin’s names is Ygg. The same is Norse for the World Ash. This name Ygg, closely resembles the Vedic name Agni in pronunciation.
The Norse practice which has become known as Ash Wednesday was itself, drawn from the Vedic Indian religion. Ashes were believed to be the seed Agni , the Indian fire god. It is from this name that the Latins used for fire, ignis. It is from this root word that the English language got the words, ignite, igneous and ignition. Agni was said to have the authority to forgive sins. Ashes were also believed to be symbolic for the purifying blood of the Vedic god Shiva, which it is said had the power to cleanse sins.
Lent
Lent is a period of 40 days preceding the observance of Easter, where the observers are expected to fast or cease from having the use of some other “luxury.” Like the majority of modern, so-called Christian practices, its beginning can be traced to heathen practices.
Let any one only read the atrocities that were commemorated during the ‘sacred fast’ or Pagan Lent, as described by Arnobius and Clemens Alexandrinus, and surely he must blush for the Christianity of those who, with the full knowledge of all these abominations, ‘went down to Egypt for help’ to stir up the languid devotion of the degenerate church, and who could find no more excellent way to ‘revive’ it, than by borrowing from so polluted a source; the absurdities and abominations connected with which the early Christian writers had held up to scorn. That Christians should ever think of introducing the Pagan abstinence of Lent was a sign of evil; it showed how low they had sunk, and it was also a cause of evil; it inevitably led to deeper degradation. Originally, even in Rome, Lent, with the preceding revelries of the carnival, was entirely unknown….
In the early 19th century, German explorer Alexander von Humboldt noted the practice among the pagans in Mexico, being held in the spring. His account states:
Three days after the vernal equinox…began a solemn fast of forty days in honour of the sun.
A Lent of forty days was also commemorated in Egypt. According to by English scholar John Landseer, in his Sabean Researches (1823), an Egyptian Lent of forty days was held in honor of Osiris.
There is a spiritual signature which bears witness to the spirit of these traditions. It is called Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras. It is the custom of living it up to get our fill of all the enjoyment the world has to offer before setting off to “Church” in mock repentance on Ash Wednesday. Such celebrations are an indication of the spirit behind the facade.
The Truth
YAHUSHA made it plain in John 4:23-24:
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship YAHUAH in Ruach (spirit) and in Emet (truth): for YAHUAH seeketh such to worship him. YAHUAH is a RUACH (Spirit): and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
To be sure, those who observe modern “Christian” practices are religious. They may have personal conviction, but they are missing a vital element of the belief (faith). They are lacking TRUTH.
Mark 7:7
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
The Scripture tells us in chapter 9 of the book of Hebrews, that we are made clean by the shed blood of YAHUSHA HA’MASHIACH. No amount of ritual or work of the hand of man can accomplish this.
1st Peter 1:13-16 tells us:
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of YAHUSHA HA’MASHIACH; As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
The word holy means set apart, different from the rest. If we keep traditions which are not of YAHUAH, how can we be holy? From what then are we different if we do as they do?
Not everyone has the conviction nor the courage to be set apart from the rest of the world. The sad truth is that mainstream Christianity lost her way, having fallen into apostasy long ago. This apostate tradition is continued by priests, pastors and preachers, ordained not by YAHUAH in the power of the RUACH HA’QODESH, but by men in the spirit of the world.
We will now look at each of the festivals, the Hebrew names, what they symbolize and what we are supposed to do to observe them.
YAHUAH’s Four Spring Feasts Are:
● Pecach/Passover – observed in the first month of the Scriptural Calendar on the 14th day of Abiv.
● Unleavened Bread – observed immediately following Passover on the 15th day of Abiv.
● Feast of First Fruits – observed the day after the weekly Sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
● Shavout/Pentecost – observed fifty days from the Feast of First Fruits.
Pesach/Passover
The story of the Passover is found in Exodus chapter 12. There is controversy today as to when the New Year Abiv 1 occurs.
A lamb without spot or blemish was removed from the flock on the 10th of Abiv and was kept and cared for at the home of each family that would sacrifice it. They would carefully inspect it to make sure it was free of any blemishes.
Exous 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Yisrael, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
Exous 12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Exous 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
The lamb would be inspected for 4 days. Often, it would almost become a family pet which made the sacrificing of it heart wrenching.
YAHUSHA was our sacrificial lamb without spot or blemish. He was also examined for 4 days when he entered the temple in Jerusalem on the 10th of Abiv and was condemned to die on the 14th (Passover). No fault was found in him – see Luk 23:4; 23:14; Joh 18:38; 19:4; 19:6.
Exous 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Yisrael After ensuring that the lamb was free from blemish, it was taken between the evenings (הערבים – Ha Erevim) on Abiv 14 and slaughtered.
YAHUSHA was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He was taken on the 4th day (4,000) years and was slain as our Passover lamb on Abiv 14.
Again, there is controversy as to the meaning of “between the evenings.” When the Jews were in Babylon, they had combined Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread into one festival and simply called the whole 7 day observance Passover. This is why the account in the New Testament is hard to understand.
Most translations have the Passover lamb being sacrificed on the first day of unleavened bread. The Passover lamb is never sacrificed on the first day of unleavened bread; it is already eaten by then.
Mark 14:12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
This should read “And Before the first day of unleavened bread…” The word translated “first” is protos in the Greek, Strongs # 4413 and should be translated “before” which makes it harmonize with the rest of scripture. John 13:1 is translated correctly. The lamb had already been sacrificed before the first day of Unleavened Bread.
The Rabbinic Jews maintain that what is meant by “between the evenings” is from when the sun begins to dip from noon going toward sundown until sundown itself. This is what puts them off in their observance of Passover. The Karaites and Samaritans take the position that it is from 6 PM to 7:20 PM. I agree somewhat with this in that I believe that “between the evenings” is the period from sunset until total darkness, a period of about 45 minutes.
A careful review of the Passover account in Exodus 12 will show that the death angel passed over at midnight on the 14th of Abiv. The only night time portion of the 14th is at the beginning of it as the Hebrew days begins at sunset and ends at sunset the following day.
Many object saying that since YAHUSHA was crucified during the day time portion of the 14th of Abiv, that the Pharisees observance of Passover is correct. However, YAHUSHA did observe Passover with his disciples the night before, even though he was slain during the day portion of the 14th. He still died on the 14th and both observed Passover with his disciples and was the Passover lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The Jews eat their Passover on the 15th which is actually the first day of Unleavened Bread. That is not scriptural. The blood of the lamb was applied to the door posts in the Exodus account on the night of the 14th. YAHUSHA observed Passover on the 14th as did the Sadducees. This is when I personally observe Passover.
The Passover supper is called a Seder which is a ceremony full of symbolism of the Messiah. Besides being the lamb that was slain, he is also represented by the “Afikomen”, the middle portion of the unleavened wafer (Matzah) that is broken and wrapped in a linen cloth and hidden at the beginning of the ceremony. This represents the burial of YAHUSHA and is usually redeemed toward the end of the ceremony. The leader of the ceremony, usually the father of the household, will send the children out to look for the hidden Afikomen. When one finds it, the Afikomen is redeemed by a gift called the “promise of the father.” A small book of liturgy called the Haggadah (the telling) is used at the Passover Seder. Messianic believers have adapted the Haggadah to include scriptures from the Brit Chadashah. Passover is all about the Messiah, the false festival of Easter is not.
Feast of Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah)
This feast immediately follows Passover and begins on Abiv 15. It is a 7 day festival in which no one is allowed to eat leavened bread. The account can be found in Exo. 12:14-17. This symbolizes the leaving of Egypt which to us today is a type of the world. We are to purge all the leaven out of our lives during this time. Leaven represents false doctrine which does lead to sin.
This first day of this Feast is also referred to as a high Sabbath. It was this Sabbath that the Jews had to get YAHUSHA’s body down from the cross before it began at sundown. A misunderstanding of this has led to the false doctrine of a Friday evening crucifixion and Sunday morning resurrection of YAHUSHA.
When YAHUSHA was asked for a sign by the Pharisees, he replied that the only sign he would give was the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for 3 days and 3 nights, so shall the Son of man be 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth. (Mat 12:40; 16:4; Luk 11:29). Anyone claiming to be the Messiah and not being in the grave 3 full days and nights prior to his supposed resurrection is not the true Messiah.
YAHUSHA was crucified on a Wednesday afternoon and laid in the tomb before sunset which would have begun the Feast of Unleavened Bread. He arose 3 days later at the end of the weekly Sabbath.
The first and last days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread are Sabbaths in which no servile work is allowed (Lev 23:7-8). The keeping of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is to be:
Exo 13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that YAHUAH’s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath YAHUAH brought thee out of Egypt.
Exo 13:16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand YAHUAH brought us forth out of Egypt.
Deu 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Deu 6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
The above scriptures remind us to remember the Law (Torah) of YAHUAH always. The keeping of the weekly Sabbath is also a sign between the children of Yisrael and YAHUAH forever (Exo. 31:16-17).
These scriptures are the basis of the Jewish practice of “laying tefillin” in which they bind a leather pouch containing several scriptures to their forehead and wrapping leather straps on their arms and shoulders. The last two scriptures above (Deu 6:8-9) relate to what is known as the “Shema” (Deu 6:4-5) in which is stated we are to love YAHUAH our ELOHIYM with all our hearts, souls and might. If we love Him, we will keep His Commandments which are found in His Torah.
All of these signs have to do with keeping YAHUAH’s Torah. The Jews take this literally by “laying tefillin” whereas we look upon this as something we do by obeying His Commandments. The mark of the beast may be something similar, such as what we think in our minds and put into practice with our hands.
Keeping the weekly Sabbath is a test to see if we will obey the rest of YAHUAH’s commandments.
Feast of First Fruits (Bikkurim)
The day following the weekly Sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread is called “First Fruits”(Lev 23:9-14). It is always the first Sunday after Passover.
Lev 23:10 Speak unto the children of Yisrael, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
Lev 23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before YAHUAH, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev 23:12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto YAHUAH.
When the grain crops were ready to be harvested, an omer (about 2 quarts) would be brought to the priest who would then wave it before YAHUAH. This was the first fruits of the harvest and Yisrael was not allowed to eat of the harvest until the omer had been waved.
The Messianic fulfillment in this is the resurrection of YAHUSHA from the dead as the first fruit or the first born of many sons and daughters to be also raised. There are many verses in the Brit Chadasha (New Testament) that support this idea (Rom 8:29; 1 Cor 15:20,23; Col 1:15; Heb 1:6; Rev 1:5).
When YAHUSHA arose and appeared to Miryam (Mary), he told her to touch him not for he had not yet ascended to his father (Joh 20:17). He was the wave offering before the Father and was also our high priest. This was on the first day of the week (Sunday), the day after the weekly Sabbath.
The Feast of Pentecost (Shavuot)
Pentecost is also called the “Feast of Weeks”. From the time of the offering of the omer (wave sheaf offering), seven weeks are counted unto Pentecost, a period of 50 days. (Lev 23:15-21; Exo 34:22; Deut 16:9-10)
Lev 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete:
Lev 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto YAHUAH.
Pentecost will always fall on a Sunday. But, Pentecost on a Jewish calendar will vary wildly due to their faulty interpretation of the phrase “morrow after the Sabbath” of Lev 23:15. They conclude the Sabbath in question is the first day of unleavened bread which can occur any day of the week. Therefore, their 50 day count will begin the day after that and can fall on any day of the week. However, we know that the Sabbath in question is the weekly Sabbath. The day following the weekly Sabbath is Sunday; therefore 7 complete weeks later will also be on a Sunday.
Two loaves of leavened bread are to be waved before YAHUAH along with 7 sheep of a year old, 1 young bullock and 2 rams. The two loaves are thought to represent the two houses of Yisrael.
Pentecost celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai and is also the giving of the RUACH HAQODESH (Holy Spirit) 50 days after YAHUSHA ascended to the Father as the wave offering, being the first fruit from the dead. The RUACH is a promise of betrothal in which we are given the earnest of the spirit until the day of our redemption. The keeping of the weekly Sabbath is our wedding band.
Pentecost (Shavuot) is also a high Sabbath in which no servile work is to be done. It is a statute to be observed forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
The giving of the Torah in reality was a betrothal contract in which YAHUAH proposed to Yisrael. Their acceptance is recorded in Exodus 19:8. They were to be a kingdom of priests, but they played the harlot with the molten calf. This was even before Moses could bring back the details of the marriage contract written by the finger of YAHUAH upon the tablets of stone. YAHUAH had the right to put His betrothed to death because of adultery, but only the intercession of Moses saved them. Instead of Yisrael becoming a kingdom of priests, the Levitical priesthood was created to mediate between them and YAHUAH. At our final redemption, we will become the kingdom of priests YAHUAH desired.
The above are all the spring feasts that were fulfilled at the first coming of YAHUSHA. They were fulfilled on the exact date to that which they represented. Is there any reason to think that the fall feasts will not be fulfilled on the exact date to that which they also pertain?
Top 10 Best Coronavirus Infection Natural Treatments
The coronavirus is a very common kind of virus. It is causing an infection in the sinuses, nose or upper throat. It has first identified in the 1960s, but doctors do not know where they come from. This virus gets the name from the crown – like shape. In some cases, coronavirus can infect both animals and humans. Most types of coronaviruses spread the same way as other cold – causing viruses, through infected people sneezing and coughing; by touching the face or hands of the infected person; by touching things, such as doorknobs that infected people have touched.
It is noticed that almost everyone gets a coronavirus infection at least once in their life, most likely as a child. It is noticed that the coronavirus is most common in fall and winter, but every single person can get it at any time. The most common symptoms of coronavirus include sore throat, coughing, runny nose and sometimes a fever. There are some cases when people do not know if they suffer from coronavirus, because the symptoms of this condition are very similar to others. Your doctor will make lab tests, including nose and throat cultures and blood work, to find out if your cold was caused by a coronavirus.
If the coronavirus spreads to the lower respiratory tract, it can cause pneumonia, especially in older people, people with weak immune system and people with heart disease. You should know that there is no vaccine for coronavirus. You need to ask your doctor for permission about the below mentioned home remedies for coronavirus, so you will stay away from side effects and worsening of the symptoms.
Home remedies for coronavirus infection
Wash your hands: It is very important to wash your hands regularly using soap and warm water. Also, you can wash your hands with an alcohol – based hand sanitizer. In this way, you will keep yourself clean and you will prevent any chance of getting the coronavirus from other people, because when people are infected it, they can cough or sneeze and transfer this virus to things that they touch. You need to wash your hands at least twenty seconds with disinfectant.
Avoid close contact with infected people: You can easily get the coronavirus if you are in contact with people who are infected. This is a reason why you should stay away from all infected people that you know. This will decrease your chances of getting infected with coronavirus.
Lemon tea: The lemon tea is prepared using black tea or green tea and by adding the right amount of lemon juice to it. There are some studies in which are shown that the lemon tea can help in the treatment of coronavirus. This home remedy can help to kill the infection from the passageway and it can remove the symptoms of the coronavirus, like sore throat.
Do not smoke: It is known that smoke can worsen the symptoms of coronavirus, so you need to quit smoking and avoid going to smoking areas as much as possible.
Basil: When you suffer from coronavirus, then it is very important to have a good detoxification. The attack of this virus is contagious. You need to dissolve one to two teaspoons of honey in one cup of basil tea. You need to drink this type of tea, because it can help you in the fight against coronavirus.
Drink plenty of liquids: They can help you to stay hydrated and also, they can help to flush out toxins from your body. You can add water and herbal teas in your diet.
Stay home and rest: It is recommended to people who suffer from coronavirus to stay at their homes and to take a good rest. In this way, then can prevent the virus from spreading to other people and you will give your body a full recovery that it needs a lot.
Clean your home: It is very important to clean and disinfect objects and surfaces at your home, so in this way you will decrease your chances of getting the coronavirus, if some family member has.
Echinacea: This home remedy can help in the fight against coronavirus and you can easily find it in markets or pharmacies.
Cinnamon: There are some people who have reported improvements in their condition by using the cinnamon as their natural treatment for coronavirus, but you can talk with your doctor if it will be suitable for your condition.
Steamy shower: It has been noticed that the steamy shower can help to ease the sore and scratchy throat. You can get the same effect if you use a humidifier. It is your choice to decide which will work better for you. The hot shower can help you to get a relief from the pain
. Mint tea: There are some studies in which are noticed that the mint tea can help to stop the runny nose and it can help in easy breathing. It is a good home remedy for the fight against coronavirus. You need to add the mint tea in your diet, so you will see improvements in your condition.
Gargle with warm water: This home remedy can give you a relief from the sore throat, so you can try it as your home remedy for coronavirus.
Garlic: This natural cure has antibacterial and antiviral properties which can help in the fight against coronavirus. You need to take a couple of fresh garlic cloves early in the morning, or you can take garlic supplements.
Have your own towel: It is very important to have your own towel, because the person infected with coronavirus can spread it with the touch and you can easily get it. When you have a clean towel that is used just by you, then you will be sure that you are healthy.
Use a tissue: When you are coughing and sneezing, you need to use a tissue, so in care you are infected with the coronavirus, you will not transmit it to other people.
Menthol: This is component in many different formulations for relieving the cough and cold. You can add menthol in hot water and perform steam inhalation. It will give you a relief from the coughing and nasal congestion.
Oregano oil: You can use oregano oil as your home remedy for the coronavirus, because it can help with the symptoms. It is important to remember not ingesting oregano oil and just to inhale it.
Thoroughly cook: You need to thoroughly cook the meat and eggs, because the coronavirus can be spread through them, so in this way you will minimize your chances of getting it.
Avoid unprotected contact with animals: It is known fact that coronavirus can affect animals too. This is a reason why you need to avoid having unprotected contact with farm animals or wild animals.
Wear a mask: When someone suffers from respiratory infection, then he or she needs to wear a mask, because it can help to protect people around him or her from illnesses. When you wear a surgical mask, then it can somewhat protect you from an infection in a crowd if there is an outbreak. But in general, surgical masks are not closefitting enough to filter all the air you are breathing in.
Lavender oil: You can inhale the lavender oil as your natural cure for the coronavirus.
Throw used tissues: If you have used a tissue, then you need to throw it in the garbage, so you will reduce the risk of transferring the coronavirus to other people.
Keep your hands away: It is very important not to touch your mouth, nose and eyes with your hands and fingers, especially if you have been in some area that you suspect there are infected people with coronavirus. You need to wash your hands with soap and warm water and then you can touch your face.
Ginger tea: There are some studies in which are shown that the ginger tea can help to ease your headaches that are caused by the respiratory infections. You can use the ginger tea as your home remedy for coronavirus.
Salad: You need to detoxify your body, so you will not allow the coronavirus to cause pneumonia in your body. You can remove the toxins from your body with the help of mixed vegetable salad. You need to use detoxifying foods, such as broccoli, cabbage, radishes and beetroot. You need to boil the mentioned ingredients and mix them gently. This is tasty and healthy home remedy which can help you in the fight against this virus.
Lemon honey tea: This natural cure can help to soothe your airway passages and it can soften the rough coughs. This is a reason why you can use it as your home remedy for coronavirus. Do not doubt to add this tea in your diet as home remedy for this contagious virus.
Many Christians wonder are tattoos a sin and should they get one? I believe tattoos are sinful and believers should stay away from them. Tattoos have been known as a sin in Christianity for centuries, but now things are changing. The things that were once considered sinful are now acceptable.
I want to remind people that you don’t go to Hell for having a tattoo. You go to Hell for not repenting of your sins and putting your trust in YAHUSHA HA’MASHIACH alone for your salvation.
I have a few questions I want to ask those who desire a tattoo. How does YAHUAH feel about it and do you care?
Do you want a tattoo for self promotion? Is it truly for YAHUAH’s glory? Will it offend those weak in the faith? What did your parents say?
How will it look in the future? How will it affect your testimony? Do you plan to do it on impulse? Let’s begin.
Nor tattoo yourselves.
1. In Leviticus 19:28 it says no tattoos. I know someone is going to say, “it’s in the Old Testament,” but the fact that it says, “no tattoos” should cause someone to think twice about getting a tattoo.
“‘And do not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor put tattoo marks on you. I am YAHUAH.” Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 19:28
Honor YAHUAH with your body.
This is YAHUAH’s body not ours. You are going to have to give it back. Don’t think He’s going to be pleased with Scripture verse tattoos. Imagine if I let you borrow my car and you brought it back with scratches all over it because you thought I would be OK with it. I will be angry.
Are we to alter YAHUAH’s image? Some people are going to say, “1 Corinthians 6 was referring to sexual immorality,” but the principal still applies. Glorify YAHUAH with your body. Do not defile YAHUAH’s temple with tattoos. The disciples and early Natsariym knew how to honor YAHUAH. Never did we hear about one of them getting a tattoo.
2. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the RUACH HA’QODESH (Set-Apart Spirit) who is in you, whom you have from YAHUAH, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify YAHUAH in your body.
3. Romans 12:1 Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of YAHUAH, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to YAHUAH; this is your spiritual worship.
4. 1 Corinthians 3:16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are YAHUAH’s temple and that YAHUAH’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
Tattoos have roots in witchcraft, paganism, demonism, mysticism, and more. Never has tattoos ever been associated with YAHUAH’s children until the 21st century of course. Let’s be honest. As the world and demonic activity started to get into the church so did tattoos.
5. 1 Kings 18:28 And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
6. 1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of YAHUAH, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of YAHUAH’s table, and of the table of devils.
Many people get tattood to honor their god.
What does YAHUAH say? He says He does not want to be honored in the same way the world honors their idols. He does not want to be worshiped in the same way. YAHUAH is not like us. Just because the world is changing and the culture is different does not mean YAHUAH’s ways and desires are changing.
7. Deuteronomy 12:4 “Do not worship YAHUAH your ELOHIYM in the way these pagan peoples worship their elohiyms (gods).”
8. Leviticus 20:23 “You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.”
Are your motives truly pure?
I talked to people who said they want a tattoo because it means something, they can use it to share their faith, etc. I’m not denying that their motives are not genuine. However, I strongly believe that people will deceive themselves to cover up the real reason that they want a tattoo. The heart is deceitful. I’ve talked to people who said that they want to get a name tattoo of their family member. I talked to them and we finally got to the root of the reason.
They finally said it was because it looks cool. I believe for many believers the real reason is because it looks cool and everyone else has one and I’m going to justify it by saying this. People say, “I want a full sleeve to show off YAHUAH, but instead they show off themselves.” They go out of their way for you to see that they have a tattoo. Rarely do people even bring up the topic of faith with tattoos.
Do you desire to bring attention to yourself?
Would that be something that you would admit?
We can lie to ourselves when we really desire something. Deep down what’s the real reason? Is it truly to bring glory to YAHUAH or is it so you can show off, fit in, look cool, etc.
9. Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but YAHUAH weigheth the spirits.
10. 1 Corinthians 10:31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of YAHUAH.
11. 1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with modesty and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.
Tattoos are conforming to the world.
I believe tattoos are conforming to the world. I also believe that there are righteous Christians with tattoos, but do tattoos really show a heart for YAHUAH?
I’m tired of churches thinking that we have to conform to the culture. We are not going to win the world by being like the world.
Why do you think Christianity is going downhill, getting more sinful, and worldly?
It’s not working!
We are not to get the Assembly to conform to the world we are to conform the world to the Assembly. Throughout the Old and New Testament we are told not to conform to the ways of the world.
In Romans we are told to renew our mind so we can prove what the will of YAHUAH is. What does YAHUAH want? I’m here to tell you that Christian t-shirts and Christian tattoos don’t make a man or woman of YAHUAH. They don’t make you radical. When you don’t renew your mind you are going to be stuck fighting with this. You are going to think I want to do this so bad and you might even make excuses to justify yourself. You might even start looking to websites that will justify what you want.
When your mind is set on YAHUAH you desire less of what the world desires. There are some churches today with tattoo parlors in them. There are even Christian tattoo shops. You can’t add the word Christian to something that is pagan.
YAHUAH is not pleased with what is happening. More and more people want YAHUAH and their own ways.
12. Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of YAHUAH.
13. Ephesians 4:24 and to put on the new self, created to be like YAHUAH in true righteousness and holiness.
14. 1 Peter 1:14-15 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct.
Did YAHUSHA have a tattoo on His thigh?
There are many people who think that YAHUSHA had a tattoo, which is not true.
YAHUSHA would not have disobeyed YAHUAH’s Word in Leviticus.
Nowhere in the Scriptures did it say YAHUSHA got a tattoo or any disciples getting one. This passage was being symbolic. In those times a king would have his title engraved on his garment or he could have had a banner that said, “King Of Kings.”
15. Revelation 19:16 And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND ADONAI HA’ADONIYM.”
16. Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”
Do you have doubts?
Be honest with yourself. If you’re having doubts and you’re constantly fighting with should you do it or should you not do it, then it’s a good idea to stay away from it. If you are having doubts about something and you think it’s wrong, but you do it anyway then that is a sin. Do you have a clear conscience before YAHUAH or is something saying don’t do it?
17. Romans 14:23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
18. Galatians 5:17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
We shouldn’t look down upon people with tattoos.
I believe that tattoos are a sin, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t many righteous men and women with tattoos.
I am not condemning any believer with tattoos. I love all my brothers and sisters in MASHIACH regardless of appearance.
However, from studying Scripture I strongly don’t believe YAHUAH would want tattoos for His children.
Most of the time tattoos don’t give off the appearance of righteousness and I know that, but there are many believers who look down upon others with tattoos and that is a sinful attitude. There are some people who see others with tattoos and say, “he is not Natsariym.” We have to fight against a critical spirit. Once again just because YAHUAH doesn’t look at appearance does not mean it should be used as an excuse to get a tattoo.
19. John 7:24 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
20. 1 Samuel 16:7 But YAHUAH said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. YAHUAH does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but YAHUAH looks at the heart.”
Learn from our mistakes.
Usually you don’t hear about tattooed Christians saying no don’t do it, but I’m telling you don’t do it. There are sometimes consequences of getting tattoos.
I’ve heard of many people who had allergic reactions and are suffering the consequences today with scars they have to live with for life. We don’t think about the future.
Imagine 40 years from now. Your tattoos are going to be wrinkly, they will get faded, etc. I know so many people who regret the tattoos that they received in their youth. Although the number has decreased there are still many companies that won’t hire you if you have visible tattoos. It’s not worth it.
21. Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
22. Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
23. Proverbs 27:12 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
You don’t want to cause your brother to stumble.
There are many people who believe tattoos are sinful and by getting one it can lead those weak in the faith to get one even though their hearts are condemned. It can also offend others. Think about the youth. Love thinks about others. Love makes sacrifices.
24. Romans 14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.
25. 1 Corinthians 8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your’s become a stumbling block to them that are weak.
“Presidents are selected, not elected.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR knew this, but how many of you understand this?
It’s okay for a president to come out and tell you the game is rigged, but if someone like myself tried to tell you…. “oh, you’re a conspiracy nut”…. “my vote still matters”.
All your vote did was make you morally culpable for the atrocities being carried out in your name.
The president is nothing but a puppet on the throne for those who are really in power. Do you think maybe FDR knew a thing or two about this?
Even a brief view into history reveals the parasitic manner in which the ruling class has infiltrated the US government to ensure that their status quo will remain. Their NWO plan will continue to unfold regardless of who the president is.
The lie is in thinking it makes a difference whether it was Bernie, Hillary or Trump.
The following quotes are all from presidents, vice presidents, and the great historian Carroll Quigley who were telling us about this hidden hand. It’s not like this information is hidden. It’s right out in the open. They think that the American people are so dumbed down and brainwashed that they won’t figure it out. Again, even a brief study of politics and banking in the American 19th and 20th century alone would reveal how this works.
“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men… [W]e have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945), in a letter to Colonel Edward M House dated November 21, 1933, as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945.
All the U.S. Presidents Including Donald Trump Are Genetically Related Through Royal Bloodlines!
Most of the U.S. presidents are related through royal blood including our current president Donald Trump. Years ago, this royal connection was uncovered, yet many still don’t know that the elections are just shams and presidents are nothing but puppets.
12 year old girl exposes presidential bloodline connection:
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” —J. Edgar Hoover, The Elks Magazine, 1956
“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.” – John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832) and U.S. Senator, from a speech given on May 27, 1836
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 1913 (Appendix B)
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies… is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.”
― Carroll Quigley
“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.”
— Quote from Caroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope, Chapter 20
Just look at the last 20 years. We’ve had both parties taking turns driving the debt up to 20 trillion, starting wars all over the world, and pushing the country more and more into globalism. Does it really seem like these two parties we’ve supposedly been given choice between are not driving the U.S in the same direction?
Nobel Peace prize winning Barack Obomber though the “proxy war” was responsible for the largest U.S military budget since the WWII. In 2016 the U.S dropped an average of 72 bombs per day. That would be 3 per hour for this peaceful, anti-war president.
Furthermore, look at the 2004 presidential selection for example. We had the republican George W. Bush and the democrat John Kerry. These two men being the absolute best of the best when it comes to qualifications for running the United States Inc slave plantation, right?
Unknown to most voting Americans is what else Bush and Kerry have in common besides running for president in 2004. They are both members of Yale’s secret society Skull and Bones. A secret society who’s members often go on to head high positions in governmental office or “think tank” organizations and other influential organization. Here is a few examples:
Bush And Kerry seem to think it was funny that the American voters didn’t need to know about this. Check out these snipets from interviews pre-election:
Bush / Kerry Skull and Bones Avoidance
During the 2004 Presidential Election both George W. Bush and John Kerry were asked by Meet the Press host Tim Russert about their connection with Yale’s secret society The Skull and Bones. Both candidates avoided explaining anything about the group.
Many people in the comments below have stated that Tim Russert, the host of Meet The Press, died soon after these interviews, this is incorrect. Both interview, as seen above took place in 2004, Mr. Russert died in 2008.
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A secret society, with secret oaths… This presents a problem when you take new oaths as president, does it not? What if these secret oaths come in conflict with the presidential oaths?
Does it suprise you that George Bush Jr. was a C average high/prep school and a C average at Yale? Maybe not. What does surprise people is that Kerry of Massachusetts was a C average in prep school, in the C average at Yale, and it was a lower C average than George Bush.
There’s 325 million of us and the best the nation had to offer was these two fraternity brothers at Yale?
Mathematically these odds would be ridiculously high and the MSM obviously didn’t cover it. If they did it was quickly dismissed as a side note when in reality the headlines in the news should have ran, “Fraternity Brothers at Yale Run for President!”. Not to mention that the fraternity was Skull and Bones!
Now we have an alternative though, right? Good old “Make America Great Again” is going to “drain the swamp”, hooray!
Sadly, some people fell for this propaganda. All I’ve seen is Mr. Trump backing his massive dump truck up to the swamp and filling it with the most vile, slime covered, Golman Sucks, scum of the earth swamp creatures that we’ve seen with other puppets before him and more. He bows down to kiss the hand of Rothschild’s by supporting Israel and not only continuing, but seemingly escalating things in the middle east. The Project For The New American Century is carried forward just as it was before.
The “right wing” and the “left wing” are two wings attached to the same bird. The “New World Order” agenda of global domination and control marches on regardless of which puppet the slaves select to be their next master.
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To “Make America Great Again” Trump Added a $1 TRILLION Deficit in 2019 — Just Like Obama
The Trump administration ran an Obamaesque budget deficit of over $1 trillion in the 2019 calendar year.
It was the first budget deficit over $1 trillion in any calendar year since 2012.
The budget shortfall from January through December totaled $1.02 trillion, according to the latest report issued by the Treasury Department. That was a 17.1 percent increase over the 2018 deficit, which was a 28.2 percent increase over 2017.
The budget deficit for fiscal 2019 (October 2018-September 2019) came in just under $1 trillion at $984 billion. That represented 4.7 percent of GDP, the highest percentage since 2012. It was the fourth consecutive year in which the deficit increased as a percentage of GDP. The debt-to-GDP ratio is estimated to have increased a hefty 26 percent over last year.
The CBO estimates the budget deficit for fiscal 2020 will eclipse $1 trillion.
These are the kind of budget deficits one would expect to see during a major economic downturn. The federal government has only run deficits over $1 trillion in four fiscal years, all during the Great Recession. We’re approaching that number today, despite having what Trump keeps calling “the greatest economy in the history of America.”
Generally, during economic expansions, government spending on social programs shrinks and tax revenues climb with increased economic activity. Revenues have increased over the last year, but they haven’t kept pace with the increase in government spending.
The spending didn’t slow in the first quarter of fiscal 2020. Through the first three months of the current fiscal year, the deficit ballooned to $356.6 billion. That’s an 11.8 percent increase from a year ago. In just three months, Uncle Sam blew through $1.16 trillion. Spending through the first three months of FY2020 is up 6.5 percent over the spending through the first three months of fiscal 2019.
Meanwhile, the national debt has climbed to $23.2 trillion.
To put that into perspective, last February, the national debt topped $22 trillion. When President Trump took office in January 2017, the debt was at $19.95 trillion. That represented a $2.06 trillion increase in the debt in just over two years. The borrowing pace continues to accelerate. The Treasury borrowed $800 billion in just two months late last summer. (If you’re wondering how the debt can grow by a larger number than the annual deficit, economist Mark Brandly explains here.)
During the presidential campaign, Trump promised to deal with the skyrocketing national debt. In fact, he said he could take care of it “fairly quickly.” But the president hasn’t even played lip-service to reining in spending, instead, calling for more outlays for the military and championing paid parental leave for government employees.
Trump supporters have mostly offered up excuses, shifting the blame for the ballooning national debt to “Democrats in Congress.” This ignores the fact that 2019 spending was approved the previous year when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress. They also minimize the White House’s role in the budgeting process.
In fact, the president has significant power and input in that process
While Congress does ultimately pass spending bills, the president must sign them before they become law. He doesn’t have to sign bills that have spending he doesn’t want. If reining in debt and deficits was a priority, Trump would have vetoed these bills and insisted on spending cuts. Instead, he called for more spending, particularly for the military.
Republicans will argue that increased defense spending is necessary for “national security.” But unsustainable budget deficits pose a significant threat to national security, especially considering China ranks as one of the biggest buyers of U.S. debt.
The executive branch also plays an integral role in the budgeting process. Executive branch departments submit spending requests that Congress uses to set spending levels. The president has complete control over how much money various departments request.
Finally, the president’s near-complete silence on deficits and debt indicates that it’s not a priority. Trump didn’t even mention the national debt during the last State of the Union address.
Congress does in fact bear a great deal of responsibility for Uncle Sam’s fiscal malfeasance, but so does the president. His supporters need to quit making excuses, hold his feet to the fire and insist that he deal with the debt.
The spending trajectory is unsustainable. If we are running $1 trillion deficits now, what will the country’s financial situation look like when the next recession hits? Congress and the president can continue to kick the can down the road, but they are about to run out of pavement.
The Hegelian Dialectic – Problem Reaction Solution
To better understand the New World Order strategy behind the crises we experience, it is important you first understand “Problem-Reaction-Solution” or the “Hegelian Dialectic” from the German philosopher.
It is stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development:
A thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.
DAVID ICKE – Problem Reaction Solution
David Icke explains the manipulation technique he calls: Problem Reaction Solution. First a problem is created and designed to elicit a certain reaction out of the public. Then the people demand something be done about the problem and willingly accept the pre-planned New World Order solution; a solution that always involves actions or legislation that never would have passed under normal circumstances.
“It works like this – the manipulating body covertly creates a problem and then directs the media to incessantly focus on it without recourse. The problem could be anything – a war, a financial collapse, a rash of child abductions, or a terrorist attack. The power of the media can create the false perception that a big problem exists, even if it doesn’t … Once you have created this problem you make sure that an individual, a group or an aspect of society is blamed. This then rallies the population behind the desperate lunge for a solution to the problem. ‘Something must be done!’ they cry in unison. The people that created the problem in the first place then come back in and offer the solution that the people demand. Remember – the people screaming for a solution do not know that the problem was artificially created in the first place. The solution to the problem is always a further curtailment of freedom and an advancement of one or more aspects of the New World Order agenda – whether that is geopolitical expansion, new laws or the implantation of new societal worldviews.” (Paul Joseph Watson, Order Out of Chaos, pg. 13.)
Problem Reaction Solution
From Nero burning Rome to Hitler burning the Reichstag, power-mad leaders across the decades have manufactured crises in order to present the public with situations where their Police State solutions “make sense”.
“Give up your rights — it’s for your safety…”
The Problem Reaction Solution Paradigm
1 The government creates or exploits a problem blaming it on others (false flag).
2 The people react by asking the government for help willing to give up their rights.
3 The government offers the solution that was planned long before the crisis.
Adolf Hitler burned his own Reichstag building in 1933 to blame on his political enemies. He would later declare that, “Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.”
Hitler’s Nazi Reichmarshall and Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goering is quoted as saying,“Naturally, the common people don’t want war … But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship… Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Taking the lesson taught by Goering, George W. Bush famously said, “You are either with us or you are with the terrorists.”
Propagandists in the U.S. government used the Hegelian Dialectic and the 9/11 attacks to justify it’s war on terrorism, wage war in Afganistan and Iraq, and to convince the American people to give up their rights for their supposed safety.
The Hegelian Dialectic Applied Throughout History
False Flags A Brief History
False flags are covert operations usually conducted by governments or corporations which are made to appear as though performed by another entity. For instance when Nero burned Rome to blame it on the Christians, when Hitler burned his own Reichstag to blame on the communists, or when the USS Maine was blown-up to blame on Cuba/Spain. False flags are used disturbingly often and effectively through the implementation of the Hegelian Dialectic.
The history of the economic crises we’ve experienced in America can only be understood within a framework of the Hegelian dialectic process: Problem-Reaction-Solution.
1 The government and big banks create a real estate bubble and blames it on homeowners that cannot repay their loans.
2 The people react by asking the government and banks for help.
3 The government takes Trillions of taxpayer dollars to bail out banks and pay huge bonuses to those working in the financial industry who created the problem in the first place. The taxpayer is left with the debt and austerity measures.
Make no mistake about it… these economic crises were engineered by the same International bankers that have been active throughout our history and that brought about a central bank and unconstitutional taxes in the U.S.
Every major financial crisis America has experienced in her history has followed this same Hegelian dialectic pattern with the outcome being another incremental step toward world financial domination by an elite few. The International bankers create the Problem in the first place… the Reaction is the economic crisis… and the Solution is provided by the same bankers and bureaucrats that created the problem in the first place.
In all previous financial crises, a state of war was always associated with the process.
The Panic of 1819 was the first major financial crisis in the United States, after the depression of the late 1780s (which led directly to the establishment of the dollar and, perhaps indirectly, to the calls for a Constitutional Convention). It resulted in widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing. It marked the end of the economic expansion that had followed the War of 1812. However, things would change for the US economy after the Second Bank of the United States was founded in 1816, in response to the spread of bank notes across United States from private banks, due to inflation brought on by the debt following the war.
The Panic of 1837 was a panic in the United States built on a speculative fever. The bubble burst on May 10, 1837 in New York City, when every bank stopped payment in specie (gold and silver coinage). The Panic was followed by a five-year depression, with the failure of banks and record high unemployment levels. On May 13, 1846, the United States recognized the existence of a state of war with Mexico, the Mexican-American War.
The Panic of 1857 was a sudden downturn in the economy of the United States that occurred in 1857. A general recession first emerged late in 1856, but the successive failure of banks and businesses that characterized the panic began in mid-1857. While the overall economic downturn was brief, the recovery was unequal, and the lasting impact was more political than economic. The creation of bank notes issued by private commercial banks as legal tender, eventually being replaced by the issuance of bank notes by President Lincolns led to the Civil War in 1861, and left America with fiduciary money (gold and silver certificates) as a medium of exchange.
It is interesting that both the original American banking houses that represented Rothschild – August Belmont and the Erlangers – funded the North and the South respectively during America’s Civil War. Abraham Lincoln saw the power play behind this masquerade as one bank was seemingly played against the other. The invisible hand underneath was never seen by the multitudes. Lincoln did see it, for he had resisted the pressure to create in America a central private bank that would print its money. He also spotted the “divide-and-conquer” movement where the North was pitted against the South with both sides financed by the same money elite.
The Panic of 1873 was the start of the Long Depression while U.S. forces protected American interests during hostilities between local groups over control of the government of the State of Panama. This followed a period of post Civil War economic overexpansion that arose from the Northern railroad boom. It came at the end of a series of economic setbacks: the Black Friday panic of 1869, and the demonetization of silver in 1873. The Black Friday panic was caused by the attempt of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk to corner the gold market in 1869. They were prevented from doing so by the decision of the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant to release government gold for sale. The collapse of gold premiums culminated in a day of panic when thousands of overleveraged speculators were ruined. The Coinage Act of 1873 changed the United States policy with respect to silver. Before the Act, the United States had backed its currency with both gold and silver, and it minted both types of coins. The Act moved the United States to the gold standard, which meant it would no longer buy silver at a statutory price or convert silver from the public into silver coins (and stopped minting silver dollars altogether.)
The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893. This panic is sometimes considered a part of the Long Depression which began with the Panic of 1873, and like that of earlier crashes, was caused by railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing; which set off a series of bank failures. Compounding market overbuilding and a railroad bubble was a run on the gold supply and a policy of using both gold and silver metals as a peg for the US Dollar value. On April 25, 1898, the United States declared war with Spain in the Spanish-American War.
The Panic of 1901 was a stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange caused in part by struggles between E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, and J. P. Morgan/James J. Hill for the financial control of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The stock cornering was orchestrated by James Stillman and William Rockefeller’s First National City Bank financed with Standard Oil money. After reaching a compromise, the moguls formed the Northern Securities Company. As a result of the panic thousands of small investors were ruined. US forces protected American interests following the war with Spain in the Philippine-American War from 1899-1913, defeating rebellious Filipinos seeking immediate national independence. The U.S. government declared the “insurgency” officially over in 1902, when the Filipino leadership generally accepted American rule. Skirmishes between government troops and armed groups lasted until 1913, and some historians consider these unofficial extensions of the war.
The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers’ Panic, was a financial crisis that occurred in the United States when the New York Stock Exchange fell close to 50 percent from its peak the previous year. Panic occurred during a time of economic recession, when there were numerous runs on banks and trust companies. The 1907 panic eventually spread throughout the nation when many state and local banks and businesses entered into bankruptcy. Primary causes of the run include a retraction of market liquidity by a number of New York City banks and loss of confidence among depositors. Following the manufactured Panic of 1907 the same bankers who created the crisis demanded reform from Congress who established a commission of experts to come up with a nonpartisan solution. This led up to setting up of the Federal Reserve system and cemented with the First World War.
In 1929 the stock market crashed, leaving America in the Great Depression. Roosevelt granted the Federal Reserve full independence over monetary matters, debased the currency, and put into place draconian Socialist programs. The Second World War was the outcome.
The United States responded to North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950 by going to its assistance, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions. The recession from 1953 to 1954 occurred because of a combination of events during the earliest parts of the 1950s. In 1951, there was a post-Korean War inflationary period and later in the year more funds were transferred into national security. Further inflation was expected into 1952 and the Federal Reserve set in motion restrictive fiscal policy. The recession of 1953 was demand-driven because the dramatic changes of interest rates earlier in the year led to an increase in pessimism towards the economy which led to a decrease in aggregate demand. Before the Federal Reserve stepped in to increase availability of reserves, the increase in interest rates continued to decrease aggregate demand. And finally, the actions of the Federal Reserve led to an increase in consumer expectation of an inevitable recession which led to an even further drop in aggregate demand and an increase in savings.
After President Kennedy’s 30 January 1961 call for increased government spending to improve the Gross National Product and to reduce unemployment, the 1960-61 recession ended in February. The next year, on October 22, President Kennedy instituted a “quarantine” on the shipment of offensive missiles to Cuba from the Soviet Union in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
On August 15, 1971, the United States pulled out of the Bretton Woods Accord taking the US off the Gold Exchange Standard (whereby only the value of the US dollar had been pegged to the price of gold and all other currencies were pegged to the US dollar), allowing the dollar to “float”. Shortly thereafter, Britain followed, floating the pound sterling. The industrialized nations followed suit with their respective currencies. In anticipation of the fluctuation of currencies as they stabilized against each other, the industrialized nations also increased their reserves (printing money) in amounts far greater than ever before. The result was a depreciation of the value of the US dollar, as well as the other currencies of the world. Because oil was priced in dollars, this meant that oil producers were receiving less real income for the same price. The OPEC cartel issued a joint communique stating that forthwith they would price a barrel of oil against gold. This led to the “Oil Shock” of the mid-seventies. The 1973 oil crisis brought a quadrupling of oil prices by OPEC coupled with high government spending due to the Vietnam War (1959-75) led to stagflation in the United States. The 1973 “oil price shock”, along with the 1973–1974 stock market crash, have been regarded as the first event since the Great Depression to have a persistent economic effect with a near collapse of our monetary system.
On Black Monday of October 1987 a stock collapse of unprecedented size lopped 22.6 percent off the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The collapse, larger than that of 1929, was handled well by the economy and the stock market began to quickly recover. However the lumbering savings and loans were beginning to collapse, putting the savings of millions of Americans in jeopardy. It soon turned out that the quick recovery was illusory, and by 1990, economic malaise had returned with the beginning of the Gulf War and the resulting 1990 spike in the price of oil, which increased inflation but to less of a degree as the oil crisis ten years earlier.
A recession began in March 2000 when the NASDAQ crashed following the collapse of the Dot-com bubble. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was relatively unscathed by the NASDAQ’s crash until the September 11, 2001 attacks, after which the DJIA suffered its worst one-day point loss and biggest one-week losses in history up to that point. In 2001, the United States invades Afganistan in response to the 9/11 attacks and “begin combat action in Afghanistan against Al Qaeda terrorists and their Taliban supporters. The market rebounded, only to crash once more in the final two quarters of 2002. March 20, 2003 marked the beginning of the War in Iraq and in the final three quarters of 2003, the market rebounded again.
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