Halloween

What is wrong with Halloween?

A good place to start is with the word "Halloween".  The word "Halloween" came from a contraction of "All Hallows Evening".  "All Hallows Evening" was later called "Hallows Even", then "Hallow E'en" and finally "Halloween".

"All Hallows Evening" was the beginning of a three day festival called "Allhallowtide".  The next day was called "All Saints Day" to remember so-called Saints.  The last day was called "All Souls Day" to remember regular people, who called themselves "Christians", who had died.

"All Hallows Evening" was a day of remembrance of all martyrs.  Sometime before the universal persecution of Rome, the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) had developed a tradition of building churches on the site, where a member of their local congregation was killed for their faith.  They would then commemorate the day of the death of the martyr each year by meeting together to pray to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) on that day.  They would pray to have the strength to follow the example of their local hero.

This left a patchwork of observation dates across congregations, with one congregation observing one day for a local martyr, and the next nearest congregation observing an entirely different date.  Once the Roman universal persecution began in 95 AD, many of the local congregations soon began running out of dates.  There were simply more martyrs than dates on the calendar.

The problem was somewhat lessened by declaring only certain martyrs to be "Saints", and only observing their dates. Still, many congregations would have too many remembrance dates to be practical.  There were also arguments over which martyrs were worthy to be called a "Saint".  Finally, there was the problem that sometimes multiple Saints died on the same date, often together.

So, the False Church of Rome established the first of May as All Saints Day to commemorate the death of those deemed to be "Saints" in 610 AD.  The evening before, "All Hallows Evening", was to commemorate the death of ordinary martyrs.  By this time, people had stopped praying to be faithful like the martyrs, but instead started praying to the Saints.

In 835 AD, All Saints Day was moved to the first of November.  This was done, so it would fall on the same day as the Druid holiday called "Samhain".  Although the Germans called this holiday by another name, it was the day when they, as well as the Celts, commemorated the dead with pagan customs.

Finally, in 1030 AD, All Souls Day was added after All Saints Day.  "All Souls Day" was to remember regular people, who called themselves "Christians", who had died.  This day was observed by praying for those who were stuck suffering in Purgatory after death, so they would be admitted into Heaven.

This completed the three day festival of the False Church of Rome called, "Allhallowtide".  So, the first thing wrong with Halloween, is that at best, it is a holiday of the False Church of Rome.  This entire festival is contrary to the Book of Truth (The Bible).

There is nothing wrong with being inspired by the faithfulness of martyrs.  However, these martyrs are part of the Children of Truth, and not their Master (Matthew 23:8-10).

The Children of Truth are to strive to be like their Master (Luke 6:40).  The Children of Truth are to strive to be like the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) (1 John 4:15-17).

So, instead of praying to be like one of the martyrs, the Children of Truth should be praying to be like the Man of Truth.

People are not to pray to dead people, even if they are declared to be "Saints", for every necromancer (anyone who talks to dead people) is an abomination to the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:11-12).  The Man of Truth taught the Children of Truth to pray to the Father of Truth (Matthew 6:6).

The Children of Truth are to pray to the Father of Truth in the name of the Man of Truth (John 16:26-27).  They are to thank the Father of Truth for all things in the name of the Man of Truth (Ephesians 5:20).

So, instead of praying to the Children of Truth who have died, the Children of Truth are to pray to the Father of Truth in the name of the Man of Truth.

The Children of Truth are not to pray for people to escape Purgatory after death.  It is as useless as being baptized for those who died (1 Corinthians 15:29).  No one cannot change the state of someone else after they die (Revelation 22:11).

When people die in their sins, they suffer unending punishment in fire (Mark 9:43-48).  Those who suffer in this fire, cannot be removed from this fire, no matter who prays for them (Luke 16:22-26).  There is no escape from the Chamber of Horrors.

When people die in the Man of Truth, they go to be with the Man of Truth (2 Corinthians 5:6-8).  The Children of Truth will always be with the Man of Truth (Philippians 1:21-23).   They are literally better off dead.

So, instead of praying for the dead to be saved, the Children of Truth are to carryout the Great Commission, and tell living people the Good News, so the living can come into the House of Truth.

As bad as this three day festival of the False Church of Rome is, it is only a small part of what is wrong with Halloween.

Many of the customs of Halloween, as celebrated in countries populated by descendants of the Celtic and Germanic people, like the United States, come from the Druid holiday called, "Samhain".

Although, this holiday was not part of Celtic Christianity in its original form, the Druids were successful in getting many of the customs of Samhain infused into celebrations of All Hallows Eve, after the False Church of Rome moved All Saints Day to fall on the same day as Samhain in 835 AD.

In order to explain Samhain, a brief explanation of seasons is in order.  There are three different systems for defining the seasons of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter involved.

Julius Caesar set up the Julian Calendar, that is still commonly used today, with a few adjustments made over the years.  On his calendar, the year began on the first of March.  (This is why December is literally "tenth month", even though it is the twelfth month on modern calendars.)  The reason for this was that the first season of the year for Julius Caesar was Spring.  His definition of Spring was Climatic Spring, when the weather became warm enough that life began to spring out of the ground.

The Romans had observed that this came about three weeks before the Spring Equinox, so they set the beginning of Spring to be the first of March, with the Spring Equinox occurring on the the twenty second of March.  Each season was broken into three months, to mark the early, mid, and late portion of each season.  So Climatic Summer began with June, Climatic Autumn began with September, and Climatic Winter began with December.

So in this system for defining the seasons, the first day of Spring is not the Spring Equinox, as people commonly think.  Under the Climatic system developed by the Romans, the Spring Equinox is more properly "the equinox that occurs in the Spring".

This is another system of defining seasons by the position of the Earth relative to the Sun.  In this system, Astronomical Spring begins on the Spring Equinox, Astronomical Summer begins on the Summer Solstice,  Astronomical Autumn begins on the Autumn Equinox, and Astronomical Winter begins on the Winter Solstice. In the Astronomical system, the year begins with the Winter Solstice.

The Celtic and Germanic people had an entirely different system for defining seasons.  They defined seasons by how much sunlight there was each day.  In this Solaric system, Solaric Winter began on the midway point between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice.  This is around the sixth of November on modern calendars.  The other seasons began on the midway points of the Astronomical Seasons as well.  Solaric Spring began around the third of February, Solaric Summer began around the fifth of May, and Solaric Autumn began around the fourth of August.

This system defined Winter as the quarter of the year with least amount of sunlight and Summer as the quarter of the year with the most amount of sunlight.  (Climatic seasons lag Solaric seasons by about a month due seasonal lag.  Seasonal lag is caused by the time it takes the climate to respond to a change in the amount of sunlight, usually about a month.)

The Celtic and Germanic people marked each day as starting with sunset, so that the day was darkness followed by light.  In the same way, the year began with the start of Solaric Winter, so that the year was darkness followed by light.

The first day of each season was marked with a holiday.  The first day of Solaric Winter, the beginning of the year, was marked by Samhain.  The first day of the other seasons were marked by Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh.

After the Romans, and then the False Church of Rome, took over the areas where the Celtic and Germanic people lived, there were some adjustments made by both sides to create a single syncretic calendar.  This calendar allowed their holidays to be combined into new "Christian" holidays.  These new "Christian" holidays went by the names established by the False Church of Rome, but most of the practices of the corresponding Celtic and Germanic holidays were incorporated into their observations.  All Saints Day and Samhain were both moved to the first day of November.  Most of the practices of Samhain were done during the night time portion, that began at sunset on the last day of October.  So, those practices were continued on "All Hallows Evening", better known as Halloween.

(Imbolc was moved to the second of February, and became "Ground Hog Day".  Beltane was moved to the first of May, and became "May Day".   Lughnasadh was moved to the first day of August, and became "Transfiguration Day" or "Lammas" (a contraction of "Lamb Mass").)

So, most of the customs that people associate with Halloween came from Samhain.  In order to understand better what is wrong with Halloween, we need to examine those practices in their original context.

On Samhain, it was believed that it was easier to come in contact with the Aos Si, which are Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods), than any other time of the year.  (Some of the Aos Si were also called Fairies, because they appeared in the form of "fair" (beautiful) young women, usually with wings.)  These spirits were greatly feared, especially the Horned God.  It was also believed that the souls of the dead would return to their homes on this night.  (People would set out plates with food for them at the table, and keep a seat open for them by the fireplace.)  Lastly, people were concerned, that the dead would seek revenge on this night, for any perceived injustice that they had faced in life.

For these reasons, a number of practices developed for the celebration of Samhain.  Most of these practices are commonly carried out on Halloween today.  Here are some of these common Halloween practices derived from Samhain, and their original purpose:

1.  Decorations and costumes

People dressed up like ghosts, dead people, and the like, to disguise themselves from the souls of the dead.  In order to keep the souls of the dead away from their homes, they disguised their yards as graveyards, in the hopes that the souls of the dead will be confused.  They often used other emblems  of death, like coffins, skeletons, and skulls, to make the scene more convincing.

2.  Bonfires

Originally, the Druids would build a wicker man around a human sacrifice on Samhain, and set it on fire to appease the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, especially the Horned God.  This practice was banned by the Romans, and then the False Church of Rome, but continued for centuries in remote areas.

Later, the practice was changed to setting fires where the bones of the recently departed were burned.  They would gather around these bone fires for protection from the vengeful souls of the dead, and the Aos Si.  The words "bone fire" was later contracted to form the word "bonfire", which people still gather around on Halloween to this day.

3.  Jack-o-lanterns

Carved turnip lanterns were originally used to ward off the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si.

After the False Church of Rome recast Samhain as All Hallows Eve, these carved turnip lanterns came to remind people to pray for the release of their loved ones from Purgatory.  The faces of these carved turnip lanterns were carved to show the torment that those in Purgatory were experiencing, until someone arranged for them to be released.

These carved turnip lanterns were much later called "Jack-o-lanterns".  This name came from a myth about a thief named Jack, who was forced to wander the Earth at night after death, with an ember from Hell in a carved out turnip as his lantern.  So, these carved out turnip lanterns first became known as "Lanterns of Jack", or "Jack-o-lanterns" in 1837 AD.  Jack-o-lanterns were first brought over to the United States by Irish immigrants around that time.  The first known case of one being carved from pumpkin was in 1866 AD.

4.  Trick or Treat

Food was also set as offerings for the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, and as refreshments for the souls of the dead.  Originally, Druids in their hooded outfits that hid their face, would collect and eat these offerings, because it was believed that these Druids were possessed by these spirits and souls on Samhain.  

If the Druids were not pleased with the offering for some reason, they would paint a hexagram (a six-pointed star in a circle) in blood, sometimes human, on the door of the house.  This was supposed to mark the house as cursed.  This was known as putting a hex on a house.

When a hex was put on a house, it meant that the Aos Si, and the vengeful souls of the dead, would bring wrath upon it.  One of the inhabitants would usually die that night, supposedly from the curse, but usually it from was poison, or an "accident" carried out by the Druids.

Sometimes, the Druids would mark an individual person with a hexagram in blood on their chest.  This was supposed marked them as cursed in the same manner.  This was known as putting a hex on someone.

When a hex was put on a person, they usually did not live until morning, unless they managed to escape.  One reason was that their neighbors would hunt them down and kill them, often by stoning, to appease the Aos Si, and the vengeful souls of the dead.  This sacrifice was thought to protect the community from the wrath of these spirits and souls on Samhain, especially the Horned God.

After the False Church of Rome recast Samhain as All Hallows Eve, this practice of putting out food to appease the Aos Si, and the vengeful souls of the dead, and putting hexes on houses and people, were replaced with new customs derived from the old customs.

Instead of food being placed outside of each house to be consumed by hooded Druids, people wearing disguises to conceal their identity, would go from house to house to eat soul cakes, carrying turnip Jack-o-lanterns.  Those who ate the soul cakes, would then pray for the souls of those dear to the owner of the house, who were in Purgatory.  Those who did this were known as guisers or soulers.

Any house that did not offer soul cakes to the guisers or soulers, was subject to dreadful pranks, that replaced putting a hex on a house or person.  These pranks were typically annoying, like having their outhouse tipped on its door when occupied.  Sometimes the pranks were damaging to property, but not harmful to people, like setting an unoccupied outhouse on fire.  These pranks were attested to as an old practice on All Hallows Eve among the Scots and Irish in 1780 AD.

By 1895 AD, guisers had expanded from praying for the souls in Purgatory in exchange for soul cakes, to accepting treats and money, in exchange for NOT carrying out a Halloween prank on the occupants.

Like Jack-o-lanterns, another wave of immigrants from Ireland brought this form of extortion to North America.

The first known case of guisers in North America were children in Canada in 1911 AD.  The first known instance of guisers asking for treats in North America was in 1915 AD.  The first known case of guisers in the United States was in Chicago in 1920 AD.  This practice of guisers demanding treats and money to NOT carry out a Halloween prank, was first called "Trick or Treat" in Canada in 1927 AD.

This term did not appear in the United States until 1934 AD.  It was not well known in America, until a major publication wrote about it in 1939 AD.

It was then popularized throughout America by candy makers in California.  Of course, an entire industry for creating Halloween costumes also emerged, mostly in cities with large populations of newly arrived Irish immigrants.  Halloween then became the commercialized holiday that many people know it as today. 

5.  Halloween Games

The Celtic and Germanic tribes used hazel nuts in games of divining a good match between unmarried men and women on Samhain.  They believe that the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, would show them, whether or a match was good, through the roasting of hazelnuts.  One person would grab two hazelnuts.  They would then name one after themselves, and the other after their desired spouse.  They would then lay both nuts next to each other on the edge of a fire pit to roast.  If one of the nuts moved away from the other one as it roasted, then it was taken as a sign from these spirits that the match was a bad match.  However, if the nuts remained still until they were roasted, then it was a sign from these spirits that it was a good match.

Then the Romans introduced the apple tree to Celtic Lands, as a symbol of Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees.  They also introduced various games involving apples to the Celtic and Germanic tribes that they conquered.  These games were also meant to give signs from Pomona, about who to marry.  These apple games were soon incorporated into Samhain celebration for the same reasons as hazelnut games.

The most popular of these apple games was bobbing for apples.  The first unmarried person to bite into an apple and remove it from the tub with their teeth, had been selected the Aos Si to get married next.

Another variation involved biting an apple suspended on a stick with a candle on the other end.  The first to bite the apple had been selected to get married.  However, anyone who got hot wax from the candle on their face, was thought to have been marked by the Aos Si to remain single for the next year.

People would also peel an apple into one long peeling, and toss the peeling over their shoulder.  They would then look at the shape of the apple peeling to see if appeared to form a letter.  If it did, then this was thought to be a message from the Aos Si, revealing the first letter of the name of their future spouse.  There were similar games involving dropping egg whites into boiling water, or molten lead into cold water.

The introduction of glass and mirrors by the Romans brought about scrying on Samhain, as another means to determine a future husband.  Unmarried women were told, that if they sat and stared into a mirror on Samhain night, then the Aos Si would show them their future husbands in the mirror.  However, if the Aos Si showed them a skull instead, then they were being shown that they would die before marriage.

Long before the Romans came, the Celtic and Germanic people would place stones, each representing the person who laid it, in the shape of a ring in the pit, where the wicker man was burned on Samhain night. The next morning, they would check to see if any of the stones had moved from their original position.  If a stone had moved, they believed that the Aos Si had shown them, that the person who laid the stone would die before the next Samhain.

After the wicker man was outlawed, they did the same in the bonfire that was burned.  

There were many other similar divination games played on Samhain.  These were often games of chance, like hiding objects in a cake, and giving guests pieces of the cake.  The object that the person found in their slice of cake, was supposed to convey a message the Aos Si about their future.

Another variation was the cake walk, where small cakes containing the objects were given to players, based on which square they were standing on when the game ended.  The players walked from stone to stone in a circle until a predetermined event occurred, like the wind blowing out a candle.  This was event was a sign from the Aos Si, that the players were aligned with future events.

Some of these games, like apple bobbing and cake walks, remain popular today at Halloween parties.  However, at modern Halloween parties, there are often other games and events for consulting with the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, in a more direct way.

6.  Witches, Wizards, Seances, and Ouija Boards

Among the Celtic and Germanic people, witches were originally women, who were allegedly sexually involved with the Horned God.  They would often meet together naked in a secluded place in the woods to give themselves over as a group to the Horned God.  The Horned God would allegedly come to them in form of men.  These men were called wizards or warlocks.

The children that were born to these witches and wizards, were often sacrificed to the Horned God.  The women would also eat them as part of a marriage supper that they were sharing the wizards, who were possessed with the spirit of the Horned God.  They also were known to do the same with orphans that they captured.  They would drink their blood as well.

So, they were said to be "married" to the Horned God.  They did this to gain secret knowledge and power.  Among these powers were supposedly the ability to fly from place to place on brooms, and to cast spells. 

People would pay witches to curse other people, usually with a spell of some sort.  Sometimes, people would seek them out to cure them of various ailments.  In all cases, there was always some sort of process that the witch, and sometimes the people seeking their help, had to go through to get the desired results.

Often this process involved eating things that crawled on the ground, like toads and spiders, cooked into potions in a large caldron, along with shedding human blood.

Witches and wizards were often hated and feared, but they were allowed to continue because of the services that they provided.  They were believed to be able to communicate with both the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead.

In fact, on Samhain, it was believed that witches and wizards could allow the souls of the dead to take over their bodies, so that people could speak with those who had died.  In like manner, it was believed that the Aos Si could also take over their bodies, so that they could speak through them to tell people their future.  Since they could act as a communication conduit for the souls of the dead, and the Aos Si, they came to be called "mediums".

Once the Romans brought an end to the "marriage" of witches to the Horned God, witches and wizards became known for being familiar with the Aos Si.

These witches and wizards were not possessed by these spirits most of the time, but rather these spirits were thought to possess the black cats, bats, rats, crows, and similar creatures that they kept as pets.  These pets were called the familiar of the witch or wizard, on account of the familiar spirit that possessed the animals.

After the Romans introduced glass, these mediums also began using crystal balls for scrying.  They would see visions given to them by the Aos Si, whenever they stared into a crystal ball.  The vision might involve the future, or provide guidance for an important decision.

Witches and wizards also had procedures for contacting the souls of the dead, including seances.  In a seance, they led people in creating an atmosphere that was supposedly welcoming to the souls of the dead.  The souls of the dead would supposedly then speak through the leader of the seance, and sometimes through other participants.

Witches and wizards would also receive messages from both the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, using a "talking board", that was similar to a Ouija board.

After the False Church of Rome merged Samhain into All Hallows Eve, the witches and wizards, who had went into hiding, would say that they got their messages and visions as a result of praying to the "Saints".  This allowed them to continue their ancient practices in a new way.

In all cases, Samhain was seen as the optimum time to communicate with both the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead.

Many of these same practices are still carried out today as part of some Halloween parties.

7. Halloween foods

Before the Romans came, roasted hazelnuts, honey, wheat kernels, and small cakes were the primary foods associated with Samhain.  All of these things were offered to the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si, in some manner.

The hazelnuts and wheat kernels were roasted at the edge of the fire pit where the wicker man was burned as a sacrifice to the Aos Si, especially the Horned God.  The honey was often heated at the edged of this fire pit and hardened into a candy similar to toffee.  The small cakes were likewise baked in the fire that consumed the wicker man.

Hazelnuts were thought to be the means for the Aos Si to impart wisdom to the eaters on Samhain.  Roasted wheat kernels were shared with the souls of the dead on Samhain, by eating some of the wheat kernels, and leaving the rest out for the souls of the dead.  The small cakes were usually made with ground wheat kernels, hazelnuts, and honey.  The small cakes were used to foretell the future on Samhain.

After the Romans introduced the apple tree, apples were added.  Due to the connection with Pomona, apples were thought to connect people to the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, on Samhain.  Apples candied by being placed in heated honey, became part of Samhain.

Also, bonfires replaced the fires where the wicker man was burned, as the means of cooking the traditional foods of Samhain.

Also, as the Romans brought an end to cannibalism among witches and wizards, sweet treats in the shape of human body parts appeared.  Drinks that resembled blood in color were added as well, to remember the blood that the witches and wizards drank in toasts to the Horned God.

After the False Church of Rome brought an end to witches, treats were added that looked like spiders, worms, and the like, that the witches had used in making their potions.

After the False Church of Rome created All Hallows Eve, the small cakes of Samhain became soul cakes.

After sugar was introduced during the Crusades, the honey was replaced with molasses, and the new hard candy hardened at the bonfires, became known as bonfire toffee.  Also, full sized Halloween cakes, decorated with symbols of death like graveyards and skulls, were added.  These Halloween cakes were made to remind people that the Aos Si, and the souls of the dead, were among them on Halloween.

Soon, cinnamon was added to the melted sugar that the apples were dipped in, to create cinnamon apples.  These cinnamon apples were bright red, as a reminder of the blood that was shed in sacrifices for Samhain.

The spread of foods from the New World, and the introduction of Halloween to North America, brought more changes to the Halloween menu.

After Jack-o-lanterns began to be made from pumpkins, instead of turnips, roasted pumpkin seeds were added.  Also, pop-corn allowed caramel corn to became another food made with a roasted grain kernel and melted sugar, that had largely replaced honey.

Roasted sweet corn (maize) replaced roasted wheat kernels.  Peanuts also became a popular alternative to hazelnuts.  Apples were wrapped in caramel and rolled in peanuts.  This was similar to the apples being candied in honey at a bonfire, and then coated with hazelnuts.

Then the California candy industry started creating candies, shaped like things associated with Halloween, like Jack-o-lanterns.  After the California candy industry succeeded in popularizing Halloween across the United States, then other candies, like chocolate bars, began being marketed in Halloween themed packaging and shapes.

8. The Horned God

The Horned God basically was man-like from the waist down and goat-like from the waist up.  The Horned God was considered the opposite of Woden (called Odin by the Norse), the Spirit of Lies that is the inspiration for Santa Claus.

The Horned God was greatly feared by the Celtic and Germanic peoples, because they believed that the Horned God had the power of death.  The Horned God did not just have the power to bring death to an individual, but to bring death through famine, drought, and disease to the entire community.

The Celtic and Germanic peoples were in bondage to Druids, witches and wizards, through their fear of the Horned God.  They believed that the Horned God had to be appeased on Samhain night.

If a young virgin girl was selected to become "married" to the Horned God, but refused to do so, then she was tied to a stone table and stabbed through the heart.  Any man, who was perceived as having dishonored the Horned God in some way, was burned to death in the wicker man.  Most of the human sacrifices made on Samhain night, whether by burning someone alive in the wicker man, stabbing them through the heart on a stone table, or stoning them to death, were sacrifices to the Horned God.

The community made these sacrifices on Samhain night, because it did not want the Horned God to blame them for any slight.  Samhain was the night when the Horned God was to be appeased and celebrated.

The Horned God was considered the father of all of the Spirits of Lies known as the Aos Si.  The Horned God was basically what they called the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil).  In fact, most pictures of the Father of Lies found in the lands of Celts and Germans today, were inspired by ancient descriptions of the Horned God.

Samhain was created to honor and worship the Father of Lies, in the form of the Horned God.

In like manner today, the Father of Lies is honored on Halloween by people exalting his work of bringing death.  As Halloween has spread across America, many other emblems of death and the Horned God, from other cultures have been added to Halloween.

Along side the ghosts and skeletons, there has been added mummies, vampires, zombies, ghouls, and other undead creatures.  Witches and wizards have been joined by witch doctors, fortune tellers, shamans, and psychics in contacting Spirits of Lies.  Druids have been joined by undertakers, executioners, axe murders, serial killers, and cannibals.  Yards decorated as graveyards are accompanied by houses decorated as the scenes of the most gruesome murders, as well as torture chambers.  Jack-o-lanterns have been joined by emblems of the Horned God, like pentagrams (an upside down five point star in a circle).

Halloween is a celebration of death and the Father of Lies.

When these facts about Halloween are examined in the light of the Book of Truth, it becomes very apparent what is wrong with Halloween. 

Halloween is wrong because its practices are reflections of the practices of Samhain.  Samhain was wrong for so many reasons.

Samhain was wrong because it was created by the Druids.

People are not to determine the times based on observations of the sun, moon, and stars (Leviticus 19:26).  People are not to allow observers of times, like the Druids, to set times for them to carry out evil (Deuteronomy 18:12-14).

Samhain was wrong because people pretended to live among the tombs.

The Children of Lies (those who disobey the Father of Truth because they do not love Him) dwell among the graves, and eat vile things cooked in caldrons (Isaiah 65:2-4).  They use tombs for decorations, and honor graveyards (Matthew 23:27-31).

Those possessed by the Spirits of Lies live among the tombs (Matthew 8:28).  Living among the tombs is a sign of being possessed by a Spirit of Lies without restraint (Mark 5:2-4).

Turning your dwelling place into a graveyard, is like going into the wilderness to make an offering of human blood to the Spirits of Lies (Mark 5:5-9).  Living in a graveyard, is like meeting with Spirits of Lies naked in a secluded place in the woods (Luke 8:27).

Samhain was wrong because people sacrificed other people in fires, and burned the bones of the dead in fires.

People are not to sacrifice people in fires to a horned god like Molech (Leviticus 18:21).  (Molech had the head of a bull and the body of a man.)  Burning the bones of the dead in a fire, is a sign of judgment that belongs to the Father of Truth alone (Amos 2:1-3).

Samhain was wrong because it used enchantments, like Jack-o-lanterns, to ward off evil spirits and the souls of the dead.

People are not to use enchantments of any kind, including Jack-o-lanterns (2 Kings 17:17).

Samhain was wrong because it used extortion of the worst kind.

The Father of Truth plainly does not want people using extortion, like the Druids threatening to put a hex on anyone, who did not give them what they wanted (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

Samhain was wrong because it used games of divination.

People are not to use divination of any kind (Deuteronomy 18:10).

Samhain was wrong because of witches and wizards.

People are to destroy the secluded places in the woods where witches and wizards are "married" to the Horned God in acts of harlotry (Exodus 34:12-16).  The Father of Truth is against witches and wizards for slaying their own children as sacrifices to the Horned God, which were conceived in the marriage bed of the Horned God (Isaiah 57:5-7).

People are not to make sacrifices to Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si (Leviticus 17:7).  They are not to make sacrifices to Spirits of Lies, like the Horned God (Deuteronomy 32:16-17).  The are not to sacrifice their own children to Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si and the Horned God, because this will bring the wrath of the Father of Truth upon them (Psalm 106:37-40).

People are to have no regard for people with familiar spirits, nor seek after the services of wizards (Leviticus 19:31).  Those who do so, become enemies of the Father of Truth (Leviticus 20:6). 

People suffer, when witches are allowed to live (Exodus 22:18).  People are to stone to death, those with familiar spirits, as well as wizards (Leviticus 20:27).

People are not to allow witches, wizards, people who talk to familiar spirits, or people who talk to the souls of the dead, to live among them (Deuteronomy 18:10-11).  Those who do these things, are provoking the Father of Truth to anger (2 Kings 21:6).   Those who do these things, are committing great evil in His eyes (2 Chronicles 33:6).

The Father of Truth will destroy all witchcraft (Micah 5:12).  Those involved in witchcraft will not live in His kingdom (Galatians 5:19-21).

Samhain was wrong because of the food.

Food is not to be given for the dead (Deuteronomy 26:12-14).

People are not to drink blood when they eat meat (Genesis 9:4).  The blood is to be poured out on the ground like water (Deuteronomy 12:16).

People are not to drink potions made from vile things in secret (Isaiah 66:17).

People are not to eat things offered to the Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si (Acts 15:29).  They are to not eat these things, nor drink blood (Acts 21:25).  They are not to have a feast with Spirits of Lies like the Aos Si (1 Corinthians 10:20-21).

Samhain was wrong because it celebrated the Father of Lies and death.

People are not to worship the Father of Lies (Matthew 4:8-10).  The Horned God is a form that the Father of Lies took on (2 Corinthians 11:14).

The Children of Lies love death (Proverbs 8:36).  Their walking in the ways of the Father of Lies will bring them death (Proverbs 11:19).  Death is the work of the Father of Lies (Hebrews 2:14).

Death came upon people from sin (Romans 5:12).  Sin came from the Father of Lies (1 John 3:8).

Halloween is wrong because it is a reflection of Samhain.

The Children of Truth are no longer part of the wickedness celebrated by Halloween (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).  These wicked things of the past have passed away, and they are to live a new life (2 Corinthians 5:17).  It is not right for them to keep a holiday, which has been set up to remind them of the practices, that they have been called to forsake and forget (Philippians 3:13-15).

The Man of Truth came down from Heaven and overcame the darkness (John 1:1-5).  The Father of Truth sent him to deliver people from the darkness (Colossians 1:12-13).  The Father of Truth has called the Children of Truth out of darkness and into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9)!

The Children of Truth have left off walking in darkness to walk in the light (Isaiah 9:2).  The Man of Truth has led them out of darkness into light (Matthew 4:16-17).  The Man of Truth has taken them out of the darkness, to free them from the power of the Father of Lies (Acts 26:18).  They have cast off the works of darkness to live in the light (Romans 13:12-14).

The Children of Truth no longer have anything to do with the darkness, that comes from the Father of Lies (2 Corinthians 6:14-16).  They no longer live in their former darkness (Ephesians 5:6-8).  They no longer have anything to do with the shameful things, which are done secretly in darkness (Ephesians 5:11-12).

The Children of Lies continue to walk in the darkness, while the Children of Truth walk in the light (John 3:19-21).

The Father of Truth sent the Man of Truth to go into the grave to conquer it (Isaiah 53:8-10).  He was placed in a tomb after dying on a cross (Matthew 27:58-60).  He came out of that grave victorious over death (Matthew 28:5-9)!

Death could not hold the Man of Truth captive (Acts 2:22-24)!  He died to destroy death, so the Children of Truth could be free from the Father of Lies, who enslaved them through the power of death (Hebrews 2:14-15)!

The Children of Truth began having victory over the grave, right after the Man of Truth came out of the grave (Matthew 27:52-53).

The Father of Truth will break the power of the grave over the Children of Truth (Psalm 49:14-15).  The Father of Truth has promised that death will be swallowed up in victory (Isaiah 25:8-9).  The Father of Truth has promised to ransom the Children of Truth from the grave, and redeem them from the power of death (Hosea 13:14).  The Children of Truth will rise again to everlasting life, when death is swallowed up in victory, and the grave has no more victory (1 Corinthians 15:52-55).

The Law of Truth (Law of Truth) will keep the Children of Truth from death (Proverbs 13:14).  The fear of the Father of Truth will keep them from death (Proverbs 14:26-27). 

The Father of Truth will deliver the soul of the Children of Truth from death, and keep them alive in times of famine (Psalm 33:18-19).  He will deliver them from death, and will not allow them to go hungry (Proverbs 10:2-3).

The Children of Truth have passed from death to life (John 5:24).

Those delivered by the Man of Truth from the Spirits of Lies, are to no longer act like they live among the tombs (Mark 5:15-16).  Those who are no longer possessed by Spirits of Lies, are to show everyone that their dwelling place is not a graveyard (Luke 8:35-36).

The Children of Truth should not make any space in their lives to the Father of Lies (Ephesians 4:27).

So, the Children of Truth should not be observing a sugar coated rehearsal of the wickedness of Samhain.  They have no business being part of a memorial to the sick and twisted practices of Samhain.  The last thing they should be celebrating is a holiday honoring the Father of Lies.

They should not act like they are the living dead, who do not know the Father of Truth.  They should no longer to act like they are enslaved by the monster within, which causes people to do terrible things.  They should no longer to be wearing a costume, pretending to be part of the Children of Lies.

They should be like Saint Patrick, and have nothing to do with anything that came from the Druids.  They should recognize that Halloween is like Ash Wednesday.  They should follow the example of The Mensch Who Killed Christmas, when it comes to Halloween.  They should observe the Feasts of Truth instead, like those who wish each other "Happy Firstfruits!".

They should show people that they are the real deal.  They should let people know, that the friendly ghost that they are familiar with, is the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost).  They should be helping people to escape the Chamber of Horrors, that awaits those who remain in the darkness.

They need to tell people, to come into the House of Truth, and demonstrate that they have been given power over the Spirits of Lies, like the Aos Si (Mark 16:15-18).  They need to tell people, that the Man of Truth has been victorious of death and the grave (Romans 1:1-4).  They need to tell people, to surrender their lives to the Man of Truth, because they believe that His Father gave him victory over death (Romans 10:9).  They need to tell people, that the Father of Lies has no power over those, who come into the House of Truth (James 4:7)!

Come into the House of Truth!

The Monster Within

What is the most terrifying monster?

Many people dressed up as monsters each Halloween.  There are zombies, vampires, Frankenstein, werewolves, ghosts and the like.  People sometimes argue over which of these is scariest but the truth is that none of them are real.  So they cannot compare to a human monster like a child molester or Hitler.

People can sometimes escape these human monsters or at least avoid their presence for periods of time.  The terror of these human monsters will always come to an end.  So they cannot compare to the monster within.

There is no escaping a monster that lives inside of you.  Its presence is always there.  Its terror never ends.  You never get any rest from the monster within because it is with you day and night.  Every waking moment it is there trying to get you to do things that you despise doing and know will only bring you trouble later.  Every night it will haunt your dreams so much that you dread going to sleep.  There is no rest from the torment of the monster within.

I have been terrorized by the monster within.

The monster within was constantly trying to take control of my actions and haunting my dreams.  There was no rest from it and it would always inevitably wear down my resistance.   Sooner or later it would take me over from the inside.

I would have violent fits of rage that would spring up suddenly for no really good reason.  I would feel my body grow stronger and I just seemed to grow larger like Bruce Banner turning into the Hulk.  Like the Hulk I would go into a rampage of destruction breaking stuff and hurting people.  Then suddenly it would be over.

I was always sorry later for the damage that I had done.  My sorrow was genuine and my remorse was deep.  Still I knew that no matter how hard I tried the monster within would always eventually take over again.

The monster within cause me lived in constant fear but other people did not really understand it. Some bullies thought that I feared them but the truth is that I was terrified that one day I would lose complete control and kill one of them.

I was even more afraid of how I would act afterwards.  Perhaps I would be plunged into deep remorse and kill myself.  Perhaps I would be caught and end up on death row.  Most terrifying of all was the prospect of getting away with killing one bully and then turning into a serial killer of bullies.

When I was about twelve my mother sent me to a psychologist to help me overcome the monster within.  Miss Kim met with me every week at the Presbyterian church after school for months.  She did all she could but she was no match for the monster within.

She did give me one useful technique though and that was to chop wood when I felt the monster within trying to take over.  Sometimes I would split five ricks of wood in a single setting.  Of course the entire time I imagined that the logs were the heads of bullies but at least no one got hurt.  I would be exhausted when I was done chopping wood but I was still not free from the monster within.

I had a new terror when I got to the age where I was becoming interested in girls.  I was afraid that if I became involved with any girl that she might set off the monster within.  I was terrified that I might hurt or kill a girl that I deeply cared about.   So I did everything that I could to push girls away.  I insulted them, disrespected them and did everything that I could to make myself unattractive to them.  I had to protect them from the monster within.

However there was one girl that I was absolutely crazy about.  This created a terrible conflict for me because I wanted her to like me as much I liked her but I also wanted to protect her.  Then one day she told me that she thought I was sweet.  I knew what had to do and I did it.  I went out of my way to drive her away from me.  Finally she told me that she no longer like me even a little bit anymore.  It broke my heart but I knew that I had kept her from being harmed by the monster within.
 
Then suddenly I had a period without any nightmares or fits of rage.  It seemed as if the monster within had left for some reason.  However, it did not stay away long.  Then suddenly one day I could feel that it was back.  When it came back it seemed as if it had brought along some of its buddies.  Now I was no longer just afraid of killing someone in a fit of rage but also started becoming involved in all kinds of sexual perversion, doing things that could only be described as sick and twisted, and dabbling in occult activities like seances and astral projection.  I became obsessed with hunting out other boys that were alienated from their parents and getting them interested in the occult to some degree through role playing games.

Every since the monster within had moved back in with his buddies I had thought about killing myself to protect others from the monster within.  I attempted to do so several times but I would always hear this kind and gentle voice that would talk me out of doing so.  The kind and gentle voice would ask me if I really wanted to hurt my mother and other relatives by killing myself.  The kind and gentle voice would tell me if I did this then I would end up in Hell with no chance of escape.  The kind and gentle voice also gave me a reason to hope that I could be the good man that I wanted to be and truly be free from the monster within.

You see the monster within could never take me over completely because there was something that it was no match for - praying grandmothers.

Their prayers were the reason that I heard the kind and gentle voice that put to silence the monster within when it spoke.  They probably never knew all of the evil that their prayers had prevented me from doing.  They must have been tempted to quit praying when I just seemed to get worse and worse but they persevered.  They stood in the gap between me and the monster within.

They could not have known it but events were being set in motion to bring about the answer to their prayers.

I had a bed with a built in book shelf at the head of the bed.  My grandfather had given me a Bible with a zippered cover that I kept on that book shelf.  I had zippered it shut when he died and had not read it since.  Then one afternoon when I was taking a nap I was awakened by a loud thud.  That Bible was laying on my floor unzipped and opened to a passage with a list of death penalty sins in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law).  I looked at the passage when I went to pick it up and I knew that I was guilty of more than one of those sins.  I knew that I deserved death for what I had done.

However, knowing the penalty of my sins was not enough to keep me from continuing in them.  I was still a slave to the monster within.

Then someone gave me a Good News translation of the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka New Testament) and I read all of it in one marathon sitting.  Later I read it again over a period of several days.  I really did not understand most of it but I did get three things out of it.  First I learned that I was a worse sinner than I thought because the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) was not just looking at my actions but at my intentions.  (Anyone that wants Him to judge them based on their intentions instead of their actions is lying to themselves about their intentions.)  Second I learned that He expected me to end my sins and do what was right instead.  Third I learned that the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) wanted all of me or none me.  He would rather me serve the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) full time than to serve him part time.  My performance of religious duties like going to church each weekend were not of any value unless I lived for him full throttle ever day of the week.

This troubled me greatly. I had tried to turn from doing the wickedness that I did not want to do but I could not seem to stop even though I often cried while doing those things.  I wanted to do the things that I knew were good but I kept finding myself not doing them when I had the chance.  So I found that I did the evil that I did not want to do and that I did not do the good that I wanted to do.  I simply could never be strong enough to conquer the monster within.

Then something happened to my cousin that changed everything.  My cousin had been heavily involved in drugs, alcohol, smoking and the like.  What I like to call garden variety sins.  I had already personally known more than five people that had died from drug related causes.  I have always been good at picking out patterns from repeated events so considering the hardness of the drugs he took I did not expect him to live to the age of twenty five.

Then suddenly, in the snap of a finger, he was completely free from all of it.  There was no twelve step program and he did not have any withdraws from quitting any of it.  It was as if the evil man that he had been was suddenly replaced with the good man that he now was. I knew that something supernatural was going on because no one that has been using heroine for years just gets up one morning and quits cold turkey with no withdraw symptoms.  This defied everything that I had been told and experienced but yet the living proof was right there in front of me.

The good news was that he said that what had happened to him could happen to anyone.  He told me that the Man of Truth had set him free from his own monster within.  He told me that the Man of Truth would do the same for me if I would meet his condition of total surrender.  He told me that if I would put the Man of Truth in charge of every area of my life then he would take the place of the monster within.  This was not a matter of me somehow being strong enough on my own.  This was a matter of the Man of Truth coming to live in me and he being strong enough to overcome the monster within.

For the first time I had a tangible reason for hope of being free from the monster within.  However, his explanation contradicted everything that every religious professional I had ever talked to had told me.  I had been told that Christians were just sinners saved by grace who were forgiven but still were slaves to a sin nature.  They had nineteen hundred years of church tradition to back up their doctrine while my cousin only had his testimony of what the Man of Truth had done for him.

So I watched my cousin to see if it was real and if it would last.  I even tempted him to go back to his old ways because I had to know if there was really hope for me.  It soon became obvious that there was no going back for my cousin.  (This was thirty years ago and he has never went back to any of it since that day.  He has truly been set free.)

So on November thirteenth nineteen eighty two, shortly after midnight, I pulled my car over to the side of the road and took the deal.  I cried like a baby while I listed each sin that I had committed, or had wanted to commit, while telling the Father of Truth how sorry I was. I told the Man of Truth that I no longer wanted to be in charge of my life and he was in charge of every area of my life from now on.  It was total surrender.

My cousin had told me if I would do this then I would be set free by the Man of Truth.  The good news is that it was true!  In a moment of time, in the twinkling of an eye, Jesus came into my life and I no longer had to fight the monster within.  It was suddenly all gone - the fits of murderous rage, the desire to hunt down and kill bullies, the sexual perversion, the pull of the occult on my soul, the sick and twisted acts, the constant thoughts of suicide along with everything else that came from the monster within and his buddies.

Instead I could hear that kind and gentle voice that had talked me out of so many terrible things, including suicide, now talking to me from the inside.  (I did not know that this kind and gentle voice was the voice of the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) at the time.)  The moment that kind and gentle voice came in was the moment of the total eviction for the monster within.

(The guy that I was giving a ride to when I pulled over must have been pretty freaked out by all of this.  He had no idea of what I had done before this or what I been struggling against doing.  He did not know about the monster within until that moment.  The man that drove him home from that spot was not the same man that had pulled over to the side of the road.)

I had been a man possessed by the monster within but now I am a man possessed by the Man of Truth.  I have been set completely and utterly free from the monster within.  While I can be exposed to the same temptations on the outside there is no desire to do them on the inside.  I feel no more temptation to do those things when I am in the same situations that I was in before then I do to pick up dog poop and eat it when I see it on the ground.  I am dead to those things because the Man of Truth lives in me and he is dead to those things.  As long as I live a life of total surrender to the Man of Truth then there is no chance of return for the monster within.

The Good News is that the same thing can happen to you.  I have known about twenty five people that have had the same experience even if their monster within was different than mine.  It does not matter if your monster within is overcoming you so that you commit garden variety sins like fornication or alcoholism or putting on a religious show or less common struggles like being on the road to becoming a serial killer.   Anyone who will surrender control of every area of their life to the Man of Truth will be set free from the monster within.

Those of us that have been set free from the monster within are not unique or special in any way.  The Book of Truth (The Bible) tells what really happened to those of us that have been set free from the monster within.  Now it is time to look at the same events through the lenses of the Book of Truth.

The efforts of Miss Kim and others to help me were ineffective against the monster within because my problem was neither physical nor mental but rather spiritual (Ephesians 6:12).

When there is a monster within there are really have two forces at work to effect the behavior of the person.  First of all their spirit lives in a human body that has no desire to do what is right even if their spirit wants to do what is right (Romans 7:18).  The flesh wants to do every evil thing under the sun (Galatians 5:19-21).

Second of all there are Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods) that appeal to the nature of their flesh to do wrong just as the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) tried to tempt the Man of Truth to do wrong by appealing to the nature of his flesh (Matthew 4:1-3).

When someone yields to one of these Spirits of Lies by obeying them in disobeying the Father of Truth then they become slaves to that spirit who can lead them into certain types of sin (John 8:34).  This Spirit of Lies can then move in and try to take control of their body by constantly appealing to the nature of their flesh (Romans 6:16).  This Spirit of Lies that has moved in is the monster within.

These Spirits of Lies can cause everyone to be afraid of the people they inhabit (Matthew 8:28).  The monster within can fill a person with rage so that they hurt other people (Acts 19:14-16).

The monster within can make the person stronger than they are on their own when it gets control (Mark 5:2-4).  The monster within will cause them to isolate themselves, live strangely and hurt themselves (Mark 5:5). The monster within will drive them to attempt to commit suicide (Matthew 17:15-18).  The Spirits of Lies will cause those that they have completely take over to kill themselves when they have no more ability to resist their influence (Mark 5:11-13). 

Some Spirit of Lies can pass on information from other Spirits of Lies to the host person when they move in (Acts 16:16-19).  Those that have the monster within will resort to the occult that is filled with other people who are puppets controlled by their own monster within (1 Samuel 28:6-8). 

Sometimes the monster within will leave on its own if the conditions are not suiting it for some reason.  For example when I chopped wood until I was exhausted whenever I felt the violent fits of rage coming on.   However this absence of the monster within will only last for a little while like it did for me.  When the monster within comes back and finds that everything has been cleaned up and there is still a vacancy it will move back in with some of its buddies and the person will be worse off than before (Matthew 12:43-45).  Since I was still empty inside the monster within was able to move back in with his buddies and make me worse than I was before (Luke 11:24-26).  This is why people get clean through some sort of self-effort for a while and then return to their former behavior to only end up even worse off.

People can never be free from the monster within on their own strength.  They must be delivered from the terror of the monster within by the Man of Truth (Romans 7:24-25).

When my grandmothers prayed to the Father of Truth for my deliverance their prayers were not in vain because they had been made righteous by the Man of Truth (James 5:16).

Their prayers caused angels to be sent to literally wake me from my sleep with the Book of Truth and opened it to the Law of Truth.  If it were not for the Law of Truth then I would not know that I was in bondage to sin through the monster within (Romans 7:7).   It was the Law of Truth that made me aware of the true nature of the monster within and that I was deserving of death for giving in to it (Romans 7:8-11).   It was the Law of Truth that convicted me of my sin and show me my true condition (Romans 7:12-14).

While I knew what the Law of Truth said was good still it only made me aware of how wretched I really was (Romans 7:22-24).  The Law of Truth was powerless to make me able to obey it because my flesh was powerless against the monster within  (Romans 8:3).

Since the Law pointed me to the Man of Truth it caused me to seek after deliverance by reading the Renewed Covenant twice (Galatians 3:24).

However, I could not understand what I needed to do because the religious professionals that I had sought out contradicted what I read in the Renewed Covenant in order to maintain their own traditions (Mark 7:9).  Their traditions made the Word of Truth ineffective to deliver me because I could not believe what it said while also believing what they said (Mark 7:13).  They were religious but they denied the power of the Man of Truth to set people free from continuing in sin so I needed to stay away from them (2 Timothy 3:5).  They were powerless over the monster within because they clung to their traditions instead of believing the Word of Truth whereby they could truly know the Man of Truth (Acts 19:13-16).

However, three things were evident.

First, I would be judged on my intentions and not just my actions (Matthew 5:21-22).  In the eyes of the Father of Truth hating bullies was no different than murdering bullies (1 John 3:15).  Anyone who wants to be judged by their intentions is deceived about the condition of their own heart (Jeremiah 17:9-10).

Second, the Man of Truth demands that I repent and sin no more (John 8:10-11).  This is the same thing that His Father demands (Ezekiel 18:21).

Third, the Man of Truth wanted me either serving him full time or serving the Father of Lies full time instead of just playing church on the weekend (Revelation 3:14-16).  This was only reasonable since he had given everything at the cross (Romans 12:1).

This troubled me greatly.  I found myself unable to do the good things I want to do but instead doing the evil things that I did not want to do because I was still under the control of the monster within (Romans 7:15-17).  No matter how hard I try to do good I just ended up doing evil (Romans 7:19-21).  The conflict between what I want to do and what I ended up doing when I knew that it would lead to my demise made me miserable (Romans 7:22-24).  This kind of double mindedness made me unstable in everything that I did (James 1:8).  I was tormented by a constant fear of completely giving in to the monster within because I did not have perfect love (1 John 4:18).

Then I saw proof that the Man of Truth was alive and living in my cousin.  The deliverance of my cousin from his own monster within was a supernatural sign from the Father of Truth that I could not deny which made evident His wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:22).  The change in my cousin was living proof of the power of the Man of Truth to deliver people from the monster within that I had about read in the Renewed Covenant (2 Corinthians 3:2-4).

My cousin told me that the Man of Truth would set me free from the monster within if I would submit to giving him control of every area of my life in total surrender - which is what it really means to be his disciple (John 8:30-32).  If I became his disciple then I would have to put the Man of Truth in front of everyone else and everything else including my very life (Luke 14:26-27).  I was told to count the cost before I made such a commitment because it would be of no value unless I was willing to give everything (Luke 14:28-30).  I simply would not be accept as his disciple unless I was willing to forsake everything else in total surrender (Luke 14:33-35).  Total surrender to the Man of Truth is the only way to be free from the monster within (Romans 6:15-18).

I watched for my cousin to see if he to return to his old ways.  He never went back to his old ways because the Man of Truth had really set him free (John 8:34-36).

So I took the deal.  The moment I submitted to the Man of Truth in total surrender the monster within became terrified because that Spirit of Lies knew he was coming (Mark 5:6-7).  When the Man of Truth came into my life the monster within and its buddies went out (Mark 5:8-10).  When I chose total surrender to the Man of Truth I was set free from the monster within (Romans 6:16-18).  The Spirit of Truth came in and forced out the monster within (Romans 8:15-17).  The perfect love that the Man of Truth had ended the tormenting fear that came from the monster within (1 John 4:17-19).

In that moment I began to truly live instead of just occupying space and sucking air (John 5:24).  I became a new man with new desires and all of the desire to do the former things had passed away (2 Corinthians 5:17).  I was dead to sin and alive to the Father of Truth (Romans 6:10-12). The Spirit of Truth began changing my thoughts, attitudes, and actions (Galatians 5:22-23).  I no longer hated bullies but instead was overwhelmed with concern about telling them how they could be delivered from their own monster within (1 John 3:14).

Just as the monster within had kept me from doing what was pleasing to the Father of Truth so now the Man of Truth keeps me from doing what is pleasing to the Father of Lies (Romans 6:20-22).   This is not a matter of me being strong enough on my own to meet the righteous demands of the Law of Truth but of the Spirit of Truth giving me the strength to do so (Romans 8:2-4).  No one can do so in their own strength (Romans 8:6-8).  It is living a life of total surrender to obey the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) that gives me that strength to live as a Child of Truth (Romans 8:12-14).  This causes the Man of Truth to live inside me instead of the monster within (Galatians 2:19-21).

The monster within can only return to someone that is empty inside (Matthew 12:44-45).  When I submitted to the Man of Truth in total surrender then the Spirit of Truth came in so that I was no longer empty inside (Romans 8:9-11).  That Spirit of Lies cannot return because the Spirit of Truth that lives in me is greater than even the Father of Lies (1 John 4:4).

As long as I continue in total surrender to the Man of Truth by hearing and obeying the Spirit of Truth then I will not return to the behavior that allowed that Spirit of Lies to become the monster within (Galatians 5:16-18).

The Good News is that I am nothing special.  It does not matter whether your monster within drives you to an addiction to pornography or alcohol or drugs or putting on a religious show or even becoming a serial killer.  It is not about your abilities or your worthiness.  It is about the ability and worthiness of the Man of Truth.

He will deliver you from your monster within if you submit to him in total surrender (Matthew 16:24-25).   He will make you worthy to participate in his plan like he did Mary Magdalene after he delivered her from her own monster within and its buddies (Luke 8:1-3).  He made her so clean that she was the first person that he revealed himself to after his resurrection (Mark 16:9).  There is no condemnation for those that submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender (Romans 8:1).

The Father of Truth will deliver anyone from their monster within if they will surrender control of every area of their life to the Man of Truth (Acts 10:34-35).  It does not matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile (Romans 2:10-12).  Whether or not you are delivered from the monster within depends upon your willingness to submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender (Colossians 3:24-25).

Total surrender will cost you something in this life or maybe even everything in this life.  You will lose relationships with other people and maybe even your property (Matthew 19:29).  The religious professionals may kick you out of your congregation and persecute you in their religious zeal (John 16:2).  You will suffer some type of persecution from other people (2 Timothy 3:12).

However, you should come into the House of Truth and take the deal.  What good is for you to keep running your own life just to lose everything that you thought you had gained (Matthew 16:26-27)?  If you insist on running your own life then the monster within will bring you to ruin (Mark 8:34-36).  The Father of Truth has graciously given you an opportunity to be free from the monster within before it destroys you completely (Romans 6:23).  What you lose in this life due to total surrender cannot compare to what you will gain by being free from the monster within (Romans 8:15).

All you need to do to come into the House of Truth where you will be free from the monster within is submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).

Come into the House of Truth.

The Spirits of Lies

Do you know what is really going on behind the scenes?

Have you every heard it said that someone has not been themselves lately?  Have you ever heard it said of someone after they have done something wrong that it is so not like them?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone, who followed the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ), who suddenly found themselves, doing what no one would have ever imaged them doing?   How could they be doing the very things that they hated?  What brought them to that place?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone that seemed like a good person even though they were of a different religion than the one prescribed in the Book of Truth (The Bible)?  Have you ever found that once you got to know them better that they were not near as good as they first seemed?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone to be suddenly overtaken by some strong emotion for no apparent reason?  I am not talking about suddenly becoming sad a few months after the lost of someone they were really close to or about someone becoming enraged after someone provoked them.  I am talking about someone being so overwhelmed by one emotion when there is no apparent cause for such a strong onset of that emotion.  Again I am not talking normal feeling of sadness after a tragic event nor about feelings of anger after someone did something to make them mad.  I am talking about suddenly being overwhelmed by emotion to the point that it completely dominates their thoughts and actions.  When this emotion comes on them they lose all ability to reason and their normal personality is completely obscured by the emotion.  I am talking about people that are going along doing one thing, say attending a sporting event, and then they suddenly going into a fit of anger or despair or the like for no good reason.  Then just as suddenly, again for no good reason, it will be over and they will be back in their normal frame of mind.  Sometimes they cannot even remember the event occurring.  It seems as if they were someone other than themselves for a short while.  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever read about or known someone that has had multiple personalities?  This is beyond unpredictable periods of their personality being taken over by some emotion.  This is where suddenly the person will start going by a different name and display a different personality.  They often will have different talents and abilities than the person normally has.  They will have different taste in food, music, movies and about everything else than the person normally has.  They will even have a different sounding voice.  Then just as suddenly the person will return to their normal personality.  Usually they cannot even remember what occurred when the other personality had taken over.  It was as if they were someone other than themselves for a short while.  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone that went insane and was eventually institutionalized?  Have you ever met or seen a video of someone like Charles Manson that does not even seem human when he talks?  Is there any hope at all for people like David Berkowitz who many people know as the Son of Sam killer because he shot thirteen people at the command of his neighbor's dog named Sam?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known an animal that start behaving strangely for no known reason?  Have you ever been around an animal that just seemed creepy to be around even though it looked harmless?  Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Have you ever known someone that has some part of their body that does not work but medical science cannot find a reason for it to not be working?  Have you ever known someone that sickness just seems to hang on to for no apparent reason?   Have you ever wondered what was really going on?

Fortunately, we do not have be left in the dark wondering about what is really going.  The Book of Truth (The Bible) tells us.  While people are accountable to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) for their own actions there are other entities that are contributing to their actions.  In all the cases above there were entities that worked to bring about the destructive behavior or circumstances.

What are these entities?

These entities are Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods). A Spirit of Lies can only move forward in time (Matthew 8:29).  The Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) says that a Spirit of Lies does not need a body to live in this world (Matthew 12:43).  He says that a spirit does not have a body of its own (Luke 24:39). 

A spirit is an energy being without a physical body to host it.  Since it has no physical body of its own a spirit has no physical mass and takes no physical space although it is bound by time.

How do Spirits of Lies operate?

Spirits of Lies can do nothing to people without getting people to carry out their desires.

The Spirits of Lies operate under the direction of their prince (Matthew 9:34).  The name of their prince is Beelzebub (Ba'al Zebub), the Lord of the Flies, because flies flourish on things that are dead or filthy (Matthew 12:24).  They operate under the direction of the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) (Luke 11:18).  They work on behalf of the Father of Lies to bring people into disobedience to the Father of Truth (Ephesians 2:2).

The primary way that the Spirits of Lies influences people is by telling them lies (2 Chronicles 18:21).  They lead people who will cooperate with them to give other people false information (Micah 2:11).  They cause all who will listen to them to turn from the Father of Truth (Hosea 4:12).  They will always cause people who will listen to them to err from the truth so that they will not listen to the Father of Truth (1 John 4:6).  That is why I call them "Spirits of Lies".

The Spirits of Lies operate by appealing to the wrong desires of the bodies of people.  The desires of the body are at war with the desires of the Spirit of Truth so they appeal to those desires (Galatians 5:17).  They know that everyone who allows the desires of their flesh to control their behavior will be destroyed by the Father of Truth (Ephesians 2:3).  They appeal to the desires of the flesh with what brings pleasure to the flesh, the desires of the eyes with what is pleasant to see and to the pride of life with what inflates the egos of people because those things are from the world of darkness instead of the Father of Truth (1 John 2:16).

The Spirits of Lies operate through every religion that keeps people from the Father of Truth.  They are the ones who people make sacrifices to when they sacrifice to anyone other than the Father of Truth (Leviticus 17:7).  They are who people are really worshiping when they worship any god other than the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 32:17).  They are who people worship when they are lead in worship by anyone other than those who the Father of Truth ordained to lead them in worship (2 Chronicles 11:15).  They will demand sacrifices other than those commanded by the Father of Truth (Psalm 106:37).  They demand these sacrifices so that people will be in the House of Lies instead of the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 10:20-21).  They keep people worshiping them so that people will not repent from rebelling against the Father of Truth no matter what they suffer for their rebellion (Revelation 9:20).

The Spirits of Lies work through people to carry out their religions. They work through people that become familiar with them to lead others from the Father of Truth by carrying out their religion (Deuteronomy 18:10-12).  They speak lies through every prophet that was not sent by the Father of Truth (1 Kings 22:22).  They will produce counterfeits of the Children of Truth that work in counterfeits of the prophetic gifts of the Spirit of Truth (Acts 16:16).  They will work miracles through people they control to deceive other people into remaining in rebellion to the Father of Truth (Revelation 16:14).

The Spirits of Lies are not confined to idol temples and places like houses of prostitution where the activities of their worship are carried out.  They will operate right in the midst of where ever people congregate to worship the Father of Truth by infecting their doctrine.  They will seek to confuse people about the Man of Truth by giving witness that the Man of Truth is the Son of the Father of Truth so so that people will be unable to tell their doctrine from the doctrine of the Man of Truth (Luke 4:41).  They will come in with anyone in the congregation who they have gained control of (Luke 4:33).  They will try to confuse people about the Children of Truth by giving witness that the Children of Truth belong to the Father of Truth so that people will be unable to tell their doctrine from the doctrine of the Father of Truth (Acts 16:16-17).  They seek to seduce people to leave the House of Truth through doctrines that are not from the Father of Truth (1 Timothy 4:1).  They will try to influence a congregation that calls itself a place for worshiping the Father of Truth so much that it is really comes under the complete control of the Father of Lies (Revelation 3:9).

Each Spirit of Lies has its own personality and some are pretty much all one emotion to the exclusion of everything else including reason and logic.  Some of them produce unreasonable jealousy over their wife in men who listen to them (Numbers 5:14).  Some of them produce a haughty attitude in those who listen to them (Proverbs 16:18).  Some of them produce unreasonable fear in those who listen to them (2 Timothy 1:7).   There are Spirits of Lies for every emotion that can bring ruin to people when that emotion takes someone completely over.

Every Spirit of Lies wants to produce some sort of behavior in people.  Some of them produce perversion in those who listen to them (Isaiah 19:14).  Some of them cause those who listen to them to be asleep to the danger that they are in (Isaiah 29:10).  Some of them produce fornication in those who listen to them (Hosea 5:4).  There are Spirits of Lies for every behavior that can bring ruin to people when someone does it.

The Spirits of Lies seeks to take complete control of a person by joining themselves to the spirit of the person so that they are living in the body of the person and can take control of it.  A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person will cause the person can cause the person to speak in a voice that is not their own because it is the Spirit of Lies who is actually speaking (Luke 8:28).  They can cause the person to display different personalities as different Spirits of Lies take control of the body of the person that they are living in because more than one Spirit of Lies is living in the person (Luke 8:30).

A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause the person to harm other people (Matthew 8:28).  A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause the person to have unnatural strength (Mark 5:2-4).  A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause the person to hurt themselves (Mark 5:5).  A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause the person to be out of their mind (Luke 8:27).  A Spirit of Lies will live in a human body if it gets the opportunity (Luke 11:24-26).

A Spirit of Lies who takes control of the body of a person can cause part of the body to not function right for no apparent reason (Matthew 12:22).  If a Spirit of Lies cannot take control of the body of a person it can still hang around the person to afflict the person with sickness (Luke 13:11).  A Spirit of Lies can afflict the person with sickness as long as it hangs around the person (Acts 5:16).

A Spirit of Lies will live in the body of an animal in order to harm people.  A Spirit of Lies will seek out the body of an animal to live in if no humans are available (Mark 5:12).  A Spirit of Lies can enter the body of animal and take over the animal (Mark 5:13).  A Spirit of Lies will use the body of an animal to bring harm to people (Luke 8:32-34).

Every Spirit of Lies seeks to keep people from every good thing that the Father of Truth has for them in the House of Truth.  Each one brings people into bondage as slaves to the Father of Lies instead of becoming Children of Truth that live with the Father of Truth in the House of Truth (Romans 8:15).  They will say that the Man of Truth never even lived in this world as a man to prevent people from coming into the House of Truth (1 John 4:3).

So is this any way to fight these Spirits of Lies?  Is there any hope of rescuing those that are being harmed by these Spirits of Lies?  Can those that have been taken over by a Spirit of Lies be brought back to their right mind?

The first thing to recognize is that the Father of Truth gave people control of the Earth and everything in it (Genesis 1:28).  The Spirits of Lies can only operate in the lives of people where they have gained some sort of legal right to operate by the choices that people make (1 Kings 22:5-7).  They can only do anything to people because people have not kept the Father of Truth in control of every area of their lives (Romans 1:28-32).

The Father of Truth sent the Man of Truth to save people from being slaves to the Father of Lies (John 3:17).  Those that come into the House of Truth will be set free from the bondage that comes from the Spirits of Lies (John 8:31-32).  The Man of Truth sets free those whose choices that brought them into bondage to the Father of Lies when they come into the House of Truth (John 8:34-36).  The Spirit of Truth forces out every Spirit of Lies that belong to this world when anyone becomes a Child of Truth (1 Corinthians 2:12).  The Children of Truth have the Spirit of Truth living in their body so that the Spirits of Lies cannot live in their bodies (1 Corinthians 6:19).

The Children of Truth are sent by the Man of Truth to teach people to obey the Man of Truth so that they can be free from the Spirits of Lies (Matthew 28:19-20).  The Children of Truth are sent by the Man of Truth to set people free from every form of bondage that is brought about by the Spirits of Lies (Mark 16:17-18).  The Children of Truth come in the power that comes from the baptism of the Spirit of Truth to set people free from the Spirits of Lies (1 Thessalonians 1:5-6).

Those that come into the House of Truth will be set free from the Spirits of Lies and returned to their right minds no matter how many Spirits of Lies had taken control of their bodies (Mark 5:15).  This is what happened to David Berkowitz after he went to prison.  He is now a Child of Truth and he works from prison to set others free from the Spirits of Lies.  You can find freedom from the Spirits of Lies if you will believe and the Man of Truth will help you have enough faith to be set free if you will be honest with him and seek his help (Mark 9:23-25).

The House of Truth is your shelter from every Spirit of Lies.  If you have not came into the House of Truth, then you can by submitting every area of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9-11).

Come into the House of Truth.