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There have been a lot of Christian, non-Christian, and Messianic
teachings on the roots of Haloween. For years, I wanted to know if
there were any Biblical roots on this perverse and pagan holiday, and
after research on certain issues, hwhy be the
glory, He revealed to me that there are Biblical roots of this pagan
day. I want to build on some of those roots by taking it one step
further by
first revealing
the factors that would lead to the Biblical roots
of
Halloween.
THE
BASICS OF A HOLIDAY
There were, and are, five basic needs for any holiday, whether
righteous or not,
during ancient times:
ONE: A god/deity to
worship and offer sacrifices to
TWO:An appointed day
and month for the feast
THREE:Priests to
officiate a holiday FOUR: Sacrifices to be
made for the event
FIVE: Food
AN ACCOUNT OF THE
ORIGINS OF
HALLOWEEN
The basics of Halloween, formerally known as "All Hallows Eve", goes
back
to the Anglo-Saxon times and further
back during the Roman occupation of Gaul (France) and Britain.
The ancient times of Halloween were based on the Celtic and Gaelic
Druids who were the so-called priests.
If one asks anyone on the streets from what country Halloween
originated,
those who know would say from Great Britain and Western Europe, and
some of them would probably say from Ireland.
The date of Halloween that we know today, October 31st, came from
historic connections.
BIBLICAL
CONNECTIONS
This next segment will be the next step to connect these three main
factors further back, in general, to the biblical period.
1.
THE PEOPLE THAT OFFICIATE
THE PAGAN RITUAL
It has been well known that
there were tribal peoples who played
a
religious role on Halloween. These people are called the Druids. They
were the earliest ones known to celebrate this pagan holiday. According
to Wikipedia, they are usually high ranking people in their
social status. They were like the Jewish people of Yeshua's
time who were not Levites, but those who were of high social and
political status. Though they were pagan, they were, in general, not
proper officiators, or one could say "priests", to do the ceremonial
activities, but simply common people not of priestly status or of the
priestly line.
2.
THE
ANCIENT TRIBES INVOLVED WITH THE PAGAN RITUAL
GAULS/CELTS/ANGLES
These activities were based on the fact that these ancient western
tribes, according to
Yair Davidiy of Brit Am
and Hebrew Nations,
they are the
ancient descendants of the lost ten northern tribes of Israel. These
are the
tribal names of some of the tribes during the Anglo-Saxon period:
Gauls (modern day France and Southwestern Scotland)
Celts (modern day Ireland)
Anglos (modern day England)
As one knows, letters can change slightly in words or names throughout
generations
and time.
One example is
Isaac's name in Hebrew, commonly written as "Yeets-khak"- Yod, Tsade,
Khet, Kuph ("qxuy), but in Psalms
105:9, the
Hebrew text of Isaac's name is
spelled "Yees-khak- Yod, Shin, Khet, Kuph (qxsy). This is one
of many examples that
have an altering of
letters, but yet the same name and person.
One
can see the
words "Gaul" and "Anglo" have the same common
letters "g" and "l". Celt has the letter "c" that could be similar to
the letter "g", and it contains the letter "l" in its name as well.
Take the "g" and the
"l", put them together, we get "gl".
Gaul- GL
Anglo- GL
Celt- CL
There is a Hebrew word with those
two letter root names:
Looking at the words GAUL, CELT
AND ANGLO
The Hebrew word for Gaul, Celt
and Anglo is "gahl"- Gimel, Lamed (lg).
It comes from
the Hebrew word "gah-lah"- Gimel, Lamed Heh (hlg).
It comes from
Strong's Concordance number 1540, and its definition
A
primitive root; to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by
implication to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively to
reveal: - + advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead,
go)
captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone,
open, X plainly, publish, remove, reveal, X shamelessly, shew, X
surely, tell, uncover.
It is also where we get the Hebrew word "galut"- Gimel, Lamed
Tav (tlg)
which is also
mentioned in the Hebrew Biblical text. This Hebrew word means "exile".
Therefore, these were the "exiled people".
From the Classic Intelinear
Translations series, titled "Commentaries of Caesar on the
Gallic
War" (1937), Caesar explained the
tribal people in Gaul,
who are in France. This is what it shows:
In the text, it says:
"All Gaul
is divided into three parts:... the third, (those) who in (the)
language of themselves are called Celtae, in ours, Gauls".
This is a map of the tribal locations of Gaul in Caesar's day, showing
Celtica dominating the Gaulic territory, known today as France
SAXONS
Another tribal name is "Saxon" (modern day England).
In this case one letter is missing from this tribal name to see its
true identity. It is letter "i". Add the letter before the name and one
gets "Isaxon". Sounds very much like "Isaacson". It is because they
are. They are revealing themselves as the sons of Isaac. They are also
of the decsendants of Jacob, the son of Isaac. Ten of Jacob's sons are
descendants of the lost
ten northern tribes of Israel. Those are the ones who later separated
to make their own kingdom during the reign of Rehoboam, son of King
Solomon.
BRETONS
One more ancient tribal name in western Europe is "Bretons" (modern day
Northern France and England). The name should speak for itself. Change
the "e" to an "i"
and we get "Britons". This tribal name comes from the Hebrew.
Looking at the word BRETONS
The Hebrew root word for
Bretons is "breeth"- Bet, Resh, Yod, Tav (tyrb). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 1285, and its definiton
From
H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like H1254)); a compact (because made
by passing between pieces of flesh): - confederacy, [con-]feder[-ate],
covenant, league.
from 1262 "bah-rah" (hrb), and its definition
A
primitive root; to select; also (as denominative from H1250) to feed;
also (as equivalent to H1305) to render clear (Ecc_3:18): - choose,
(cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.
This reveals to us that the Tribal name, Bretons, means
"covenant". That is why Yair Davidiy of Brit Am and Hebrew Nations calls them,
based on the name of
his web site, "Brit Am" or "Covenant People". This is the tribal
name
that modern day "Britain" is called.
This is a map taken from Wikipedia on the Saxons showing most of these
major tribes in Western Europe in the fifth century AD
This map shows the migrations of the Israelite tribes moving to the west
In this section, there is strong proof that the ancient tribes in
Britain and France were descendants of the Lost Ten Northern Tribes of
Israel.
You can get Yair Davidiy's book "The Tribes" and on his website.
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3.
THE TIME OF THE PAGAN DAY
A Gaelic ritual that is observed today, during the time of Halloween,
is called "Sahmain" (pronounced Sah-win). According to Wikipedia, this
word defines a Gealic month, and the ritual occurs between October 31st
to November 2nd. This is the link to the Wikipedia page:
This is a perspective to the origin of Sahmain: First
a reminder
that this event occurs, at the earliest, in October. Since
now we
know that Sahmain is a Gaelic month, there is a Hebrew word that
relates to this term:
Looking at the word EIGHT
The Hebrew word for eight is
"sh'moh-nah"- Shin, Mem, Nun, Heh (hnms).
It is from Strong's Concordance number 8083, and its definition
Apparently from
H8082 through the idea of plumpness; a cardinal number, eight (as if a
surplus above the “perfect” seven); also (as ordinal)
eighth: - eight
([-een, -eenth]), eighth.
The word
"shemonah" is the Hebrew number "eight".
Going back to the Gregorgian Calendar month, October, the month in
which Haloween is widely observed, is commonly the
tenth month of the
Gregorian year. But if anyone knows their Latin, the word
"October" comes from the Latin "Oct", which is the Latin number for
"eight". Based
on these realizations, they establish that Sahmain means "eight",
meaning
that Sahmain is celebrated in the eighth month of
the Hebrew Biblical Calendar. Also, in generality, it is commonly
accepted that the dates of Haloween, between
the end of
October and the beginning of November on our Gregorian Calendar, fall
in
the same time frame as half way in the Biblical eighth month in the
Hebrew Calendar, which occurs in generality between mid October and mid
November.
4. FOOD
Any holiday that has a festive holiday requires food, like the Biblical
Feasts of Passover/Unleavened Bread, Shavuoth (Pentecost) and Sukkoth
(Tabernacles). These three feasts are the same feasts hwhy commanded all
the Israelite males to meet Him three times in the year,in Jerusalem.
In the pagan holiday of Haloween, the "feast" that comes with this day
today is mainly "candy", through the children's activity by going to
neighbors' homes and saying "Trick, or treat!", and later, they eat
their "harvest" of candy and "feast" on it. This is what About
Entertainment, on urbanlegends.about.com, under the article "A Quick
Guide to the Origin and History of Haloween" says regarding the roots
of Trick and Treating:
"Among the practices
associated with Halloween during the Medieval period were the lighting
of bonfires, evidently to symbolize the plight of souls lost in
purgatory, and souling, which consisted of going door-to-door offering
prayers for the dead in exchange for "soul cakes" and other treats".
But according to sources that in Medieval times, in general, it was a
time for the people to feast on this day from the produce that grew
during the summer.
After reaserching these factors, hwhy revealed to me
the Biblical roots of Haloween.
THE
BIBLICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF HALLOWEEN
This is the Biblical scripture of the creation for the beginning of
modern day Halloween, and it is located in the book of the Kings 1
Kings 12:25-33
1Ki
12:25 Then
[King] Jeroboam [of the Northern Kingdom of Israel] built ta-Shechem in
mount Ephraim, and
dwelt therein; and went
out from thence, and built ta-Penuel. 26
And Jeroboam said
in his heart,
Now shall the kingdom return to the House of David: 27 If this people
go up to do sacrifice in the House of hwhy at
Jerusalem, then shall
the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto
Rehoboam, King of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to
Rehoboam, King of
Judah. 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold,
and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:
behold thy elohim, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of
Egypt. 29 And he set ta-the one in
Bethel, and ta-the other
put he in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship
before the one, even unto Dan. 31 And he madeta-an house of high
places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of
the sons of Levi. 32 And
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month,
on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in
Judah, and he offered upon
the altar. So did he in Bethel,
sacrificing
unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel ta-the priests
of the high places which he had made. 33 So he offered upon the altar
which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even
in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and made a
feast unto the Sons of Israel:
and he offered upon the
altar of the
burnt incense.
King
Jeroboam of the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel, created common priests,
not of the tribe of Levi from The
Northern Tribes of Israel
made the date of the eighth month of the
fifteenth day of the month. He did this because he was afraid that
the people he was reigning would
go to Jerusalem and want to return to unite with King Rehoboam. His
fear caused him to not believe in hwhy in
his rule the northern kingdom, and made the Northern House of Israel
turn and fall away from their relationship with hwhy.
The
false priests King Jeroboam made were of the same people where the
Celtic Druids evolve, and are still in practice today. These
descendants of the Ten
Northern Tribes of Israel are
whom settled
in Western Europe and Great Britain today. King Jeroboam's feast, on
the
fifteenth day of the eighth month, later became the modern calendar
date for
the observance of Halloween on October
31st.
One more segment in relevance to this teaching
THE
FOOD COVENANT
In some of my Torah
portions, I have made note regarding "The
Food Covenant", and I give full credit to Rico Cortes of Wisdom In Torah
Ministries for revealing this to me. As I made note in the Torah
portions, a Food Covenant is the final step that is used in
various
kinds of means during Biblical times: business deals, marriages,
agreements, excepting an elohim one submits to, and the exceptance of
a High Holy Day. In this case of this teaching in the book of Kings
mentioned above, in verse thirty three, they made a "feast" in this new
"holiday" King Jereboam created and founded. This feast
was an act of accepting the elohim of the golden calves that King
Jeroboam created, and the fact
that they ate on that day to these elohim sealed their covenant saying
that this day is their festive day to make offerings to their pagan
elohim, just
like what happened to some of the Israelite men who were involved with
the Moab pagan elohim as noted in the
book of Numbers
Numbers
25:1-3
Num 25:1 And
Israel
dwelled in the Shittim, and the People profaned to fornicate to the
daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the People to
the
sacrifices of their elohim: and the People ate, and bowed down to their
elohim. 3 And Israel joined to Baal Peor: and the Anger
of hwhy burned against
Israel.
The people sealed their covenant
to the Moabite pagan elohim, and it
cost them their lives. King Jeroboam caused the Ten Northern Tribes to
accept the pagan elohim of the golden calf and separated themselves
from the true Elohim
and the true location where they were to offer to hwhy,
in
Jerusalem. This cost the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel to ultimately
lose their inheritance in the land, and resulted in hwhy
divorcing them from the covenant and their exile into Assyria around
732 BC.
These are the scriptures in which the Ten Northern Tribes were judged
to be exiled. The first one is noted by the prophet Jeremiah which is
noted in his book
Ezekiel 4:1-5
Eze 4:1 Thou also,
son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon
it the city, even ta-Jerusalem: 2 And lay
siege upon her, and build a fort upon her, and cast a mount upon her;
set the camp also upon her, and set battering rams upon her round
about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set her for a
wall of iron between thee and the city: and set ta-thy face against her, and she
shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege upon her. She shall be a
sign to the House of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side,
and lay ta-the iniquity of the House of
Israel upon her: according to the number of the days that thou shalt
lie upon him thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 And I, I have laid upon
thee ta-the years of their iniquity,
according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: and
shalt thou bear the iniquity of the House of Israel.
And this is what the prophet Jeremiah says which is noted in his book
Jeremiah 3:6-8
Jer 3:6 hwhy said also unto me in the
days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel, she has
done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green
tree, and there had played the harlot. 7 And I said after she had
done ta-all of these things, Turn you
unto Me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw
her. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding
Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and I had given ta-a Scroll of Divorce to her;
yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, and she went and she
played the harlot also.
When the Ten Northern Tribes of the Kingdom of Israel were divorced
around 722 BC, they were originally exiled for 390 years according the
prophet Ezekiel. Calculating the years, it would come to 332 BC, which
is during the time that Alexander the Great of Macedonia was conquering
lands to create the Greek empire. This was to be the time that the Ten
Northern Tribes were to repent to hwhy to
return to the land of Israel, but they didn't. Based on what hwhy
said to Moses to say to Israel which is noted in the book of Leviticus
26:14-45, the Ten Tribes of the Northern House of Israel did not repent
from their iniquities and sins against hwhy.
As a result, their exile was multiplied seven times from the 390 years
because of their unrepentance. Calculation their exile:
390 years x 7 years = 2,730 years
That means that the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel original exile time
line of 390 years was extended seven times to 2,730 years. Calculating
the time line of 2,730 years from 722 BC, it would be around 2008 AD.
If this is the correct date, this was around the time of 2008 United
States presidential election, and if this is the correct date, this is
the time period for the Ten Northern Tribes to repent from their
iniquities and sins from "Uncle Jeroboam's Curse" of creating this
perverse and pagan holiday of Halloween on the fifteenth day of the
eighth Biblical month of Cheshvan, and creating non-Levitical priests,
and finalizing and sealing it by feasting on this day via a Food
Covenant, thus breaking the Covenant of hwhy
through this pagan festive day.
A
FINAL THOUGHT
We need to forgive Uncle King
Jeroboam for his fears that caused him
to
create this perverse and pagan day, and ask hwhy
to forgive us for practicing our ancestors' pagan feast that our uncle
King Jeroboam created and for breaking their relationship with hwhy by
partaking the Food Covenant that sealed our
ancestors' fates. I strongly urge those who are considering to
participate in these activities to not do it and to not partake of any
of the
foods during Halloween.
This is the result of
King Jeroboam's rebellion against hwhy,
and if one does it, I plead you to go hwhy,
our Heavenly Father about this.