Written by: Damien Powell
Men and women all over the world are going out of their way to purchase roses, candy, cards, and other gifts to show their significant other how much they love them. The world spends an estimated 18.2 billion dollars for Valentines, but what are the origins behind this day? Why do we need the world to tell us when to love our significant others? Again, Satan has conditioned the world to sin against YHWH and YESHUA by unmarried couples engaging in fornication, others committing adultery, and the main focus of this blog is the fact that Satan has the world recreating pagan rituals and worshipping pagan deities.
Here are facts about Valentine’s Day:
· YHWH tells us in Jeremiah 10:2 “Do not learn the way of the gentiles/heathen” yet the world passes Valentine’s Day off as a Christian holiday when it is found nowhere in Scripture. We have done exactly what YHWH said DO NOT do, which is learn gentile/pagan customs by attempting to Christianize a pagan day known as “Lupercalia”. Valentine’s Day is no different than Halloween or Xmas.
· Lupercalia a Roman holiday, a festival that was performed between February 13th and February 15th. They performed the festival to expel spirits and purify the city and release fertility and health. It was an ancient Roman celebration in honor of Lupercus aka Faunus who was the deity of fertility. Faunus was a Roman deity of flocks and shepherds and had the head and torso of a man, but hindquarters of a goat. Lupercalia celebrated the coming of spring with orgies, sex with minors, fornication, and drunkenness.
· Lupercalia is the Roman form of worship of the Greek deity Pan (nature worship). And Pan can be traced to Ba’al the pagan deity of the Canaanites who the Bible mentions more than any other pagan deity who the Israelites worshipped to provoke YHWH to anger. Ba’al is the original Lupercus known as Nimrod the one who rebelled against YHWH at the tower of Babel.
· Faunus was considered a symbol of “fecundity”, which means the ability to produce an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertility because of his lustful nature. Now we know why everyone wants to lust, make love and fornicate on this day because of what it stems from with the pagan deities. Sex and fertility.
· Lupercalia was held on February 15th “The Feast of Lupercus”. Lupercus was the fertility deity the Romans worshipped, they sacrificed goats and dogs, then the blood was smeared on the foreheads of the young men, then the blood was wiped off with wool dipped in milk. Then the men wearing strips of goatskin around their loins ran around the city striking women with the goatskin. It was believed that pregnant women would have easier labor and interfile women would become fertile. Lupercus had priests called luperci which is similar to the 450 prophets of Ba’al and his priests. 1 Kings Chapter 18. It is interesting to note the significance of the goats being used in these rituals because the baphomet which is a demon that has a goat head with a pentagram and female breasts. This statue was placed named to the 10 Commandments statue in Arkansas.
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Lupercalia was the festival for Lupercus and later in the day the feast of Juno “Februate” was celebrated where women would be paired with men by a lottery. Juno was the Roman goddess fever of love, marriage, and women. Her day also fell on February 15th and on this day young women wrote their names on “billets” which are slips of paper and put them in a large bowl, then single men would draw out the billet. The lady whose name was on the billet would be his partner for all the erotic festivals for the day. Now we know where we get “secret valentines” from, where people would draw names from a bowl and get a gift for their secret crush. It is more modernized today because people can draw names online for their secret valentines and send anonymous messages and draw names online to find the perfect gift for your secret cupid. Also, the expected sex the couples are expected to have stem from the erotic pleasures for the day as it was in ancient Rome.
· Two men named Valentine were killed on Valentine’s Day and St. Valentine who married couples in private so they could avoid being drafted was beheaded on February 14, 269 AD. This reminds me of two people who were killed on the birthdays of two evil men in the Bible. Pharaoh killed the chief baker and King Herod killed John The Baptist.
· When Rome accepted Christianity the Roman Catholic Church did not like the open erotic behavior of Lupercalia so Pope Galasius honored February 14th as the honor of Valentinus a saint martyr instead of Lupercus. All he did was merge paganism with Christianity and disguised it with a new name to make it more acceptable to the masses.
· To get rid of the feast of Juno Februata, Pope Gelasius changed it form February 15th to February 14th and called it St. Valentine’s Day. It was then associated with various martyrs by the name of Valentine, covering up pagan roots behind the name of Christianity and the world has fallen prey. The world isn’t honoring any saints but worshipping pagan deities of fertility.
· Red roses which are so popular on Valentine’s Day was the favorite flower of Venus the mother of Cupid. And we can now see the connection as to why people by their lovers roses on this day.
· Valentine’s Day honors Lupercus, Junos, Pan, Venus, Aphrodite, Faunus all representing love, lust, desire, and fertility. Just because we change the name of a pagan ritual doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a pagan ritual. All we are doing is recreating pagan rituals in modern times and YHWH hates it.
Let us stand up and fight for the Elohim of Israel in truth and unlearn these lies and pagan rituals that have been passed down to us. We cannot justify having one foot in the world and the other worshipping YHWH.