The Origin of Mother's Day and Father's Day

 

 



For most of America, Mother's Day is a day of great celebration. And of course, AHAYAH has commanded His people to "Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which AHAYAH thy Power gives you." ([Ex.] 20:12).



For many of us, keeping this commandment includes the celebrating of these "holidays." But in truth, these worldly so-called holidays and their common practices are not based on scripture, like Christmas and Easter, have roots in paganism.

 

To begin with, the day set aside to "honor" fathers was merely an afterthought to Mother's Day. And yet, the law says "honor thy father and thy mother." Not mother and father, but father and mother. This subtle reversal of order has led to major confusion and family instability - even in the household of faith. 

 

Rhea the wife of her brother Cronus

Like all western so-called holidays, the origin of a Mother's Day celebration clearly traces back to ancient pagan practices. Beginning at about 250 BC, the Greeks held an annual spring festival in "honor" of 'Rhea', the wife of her brother Cronus, known as the "mother of the gods"(Queen of Heaven), similarly, evidence of a three-day Roman festival in Mid-March called Hilaria, to honor the Roman goddess Magna Mater, or Great Mother. During that same period, the Romans held a similar festival dedicated to the "mother goddess" 'Cybele.' By the 1600's, "Mothering Sunday" was being celebrated by the English on the fourth Sunday of "Lent."



The concept of Mother Earth arose centuries later in Greece. In the 7th century BCE, the poet Hesiod gave the "deep-breasted" earth mother the name Gaea, she who "gave birth" to the sky, sea, and mountains, as well as the ruling gods called the Titans. A few centuries later, Gaea's daughter Rhea, was honored each year with festivals called "Hilaria". The festivities lasted for three days and by all accounts were great family entertainment, with revelers bringing and here the stage was set for one of the great struggles of all time, a battle that the classicist Robert Graves described as one between the pagan Goddess and the Hebrew and Christian God. Known as the Magna Mater (Great Mother), Cybele was widely honored. Her worship, however, was associated with some rather repellent rituals that eventually led to the banishment of her followers from Rome, gravely weakening the goddess religions.

 

 

Triple Goddess



 

Graves notes that the Christian church declared war on the White Goddess, also known as the Triple Goddess, the ancient European deity who appeared as the new, full, and old moons, representing "The Female Goddess of Birth, Love and Death". The Christian Trinity, said Graves, eventually triumphed over the trinity of the Goddess. The Western male conquered the Eastern and agricultural female. 

 

  

In victory, the patriarchal Roman Catholic Church subsumed and welcomed its former opponents by calling itself  ''Mother Church.'' A new variation of Mother's Day, was put in place, this time in honor of the church itself. On the fourth Sunday in Lent, people brought gifts to the church where they had been baptized. This custom changed during late Medieval times when many children had to move away from home in order to find work and were only allowed one holiday a year, and it was on this fourth Sunday that the children went home to see their mothers. Thus the custom of "Mothering Sunday" was begun.

 



 

Similarly, in the Celtic countries and the British Isles, the powerful goddess Brigit was transformed into her Christian successor, St. Brigid. Brigit's sacred day, which was connected with the ewes coming into milk, became St. Brigid's Day. Though formal mother worship was never completely eliminated in the British Isles, by the 17th century Mother's Day had been almost completely submerged into Mothering Day. Not surprisingly, with the disappearance of a female deity, the devotion to Mary, Mother of Jesus (Yashiya), would soon emerge as the new Mother cult.



In 1872, Julia Ward Howe, lyricist of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", introduced the idea of a Mother’s Day in the United States. Some 35 years later, Ana Jarvis of Philadelphia started a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day. By 1911, Mother's Day was celebrated in nearly every state in the union. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made it official - proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday to be held each year on the second Sunday of May.


 

In 1909, Sonora Dodd, a woman from Spokane, Washington, while listening to a Mother's Day sermon, thought about her father William Smart, a Civil War veteran, who had raised his six children by himself after his wife died while giving birth to their last child. Ms. Dodd then decided to show her appreciation for her father by setting aside a special day to "honor" him. His birthday happened to be in June, so she chose that month for the new "Father's Day."

 



 

With the enthusiastic support of the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA, the first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910. By 1914, President Wilson had personally approved of the idea. Further support came from President Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Finally, in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday in June as Father's Day.
 

As Christianity spread throughout Europe, the celebration of the "Mother Church" replaced the pagan tradition of honoring mythological goddesses. The fourth Sunday in Lent (Weeping for Tammuz), a 40-day fasting period before Easter, became known as Mothering Sunday.



To show appreciation for their mothers, they often brought gifts or a "mothering cake" (Jeremiah 7:18) and over time, it began to coincide with the celebration of the Mother Church.
Mother's Day always falls on the second Sun-day of May, and like so many other holidays rooted in pagan sun-worship including Father's Day which always falls on the third Sun-day of June, usually fall on the day named in honor of their most powerful god -- The Sun!

But are these "holidays" truly honoring our fathers and mothers in Spirit and in truth?

 



 

In the original Hebrew language, the word honor actually means to provide with material substance. It is written, "Honor widows that are widows indeed." (1 Tim 5:3). The passage goes on to say, "If any man or woman that believes have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged: that it may relieve them that are widows indeed." (1 Tim 5:16).
In TRUTH, the fifth Commandment charges us with the reciprocal responsibility of taking care of our fathers and mothers when they are aged. As the financial systems of this world continue to be shaken, it is simply an imperative that we truly honor our fathers and mothers - with deeds, and not just with days...

 

Remember O Yisrael, this is the first commandment with promise; and therefore we would do well to honor our mothers according to the truth of AHAYAH - and not the vain traditions of men!

 

Carnival Once a Year - A Caribbean BACCHANAL Festival - What is the Origin of BACCHANAL?

Ahayah Yashiya's Blog

CARNIVAL COMES once a year - a time for merriment and fun, dancing, drinking, singing and women. How did this festival start in the first place?

Bacchanal is a feast to Bacchus (Dionysus). It is named for the Roman god of wine.

Self-Portrait as  Bacchus, 1593-94

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Word Origin & History

Bacchanalia

"drunken revelry," 1630s, from the name of the Roman festival held in honor of Bacchus, from L. neut. pl. of bacchanalis. A participant is a Bacchant (1690s), fem. Bacchante, from French. Bacchanalian (adj., 1620s)

 

 rubens-bacchanal

 

The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy. They were based on the Greek Dionysia and the Dionysian mysteries, and probably arrived in Rome c. 200 BC via the Greek colonies in southern Italy, and from Etruria, Rome's northern neighbour. Like all mystery cults, the Bacchanalia were held in strict privacy, and initiates were bound to secrecy; what little is known of the cult and its rites derives from Greek and Roman literature, plays, statuary and paintings.

 

Terminology

Bacchus and Dionysus are interchangeable names of the same deity. Bakchos was his common Greek name and his followers were called Bacchoi. The Roman adaptation was Bacchus. Dionysus also derived from Greek was a term for “son of Zeus.” The Cult of Dionysus and the rites of his mysteries were practiced in both public festivals and in more secretive bacchanals.

 



His later Bacchus is exotic, Japanese-looking, white, soft and effeminate. His Self-Portrait is unclean, sickly perhaps indicative of the influence wine had in his personal life contributing to his propensity for getting into trouble.

 

 

Bacchanalia Iconography

Besides his unusual retinue, Bacchus had special attributes and symbols.



bacchus-ariadne Bacchanal

The Dithyramb was poetry in choral song and dance praising Dionysus and essential in the ritual. Maenads sang and danced and satyrs played musical instruments (tambourine, pipes, clappers) thereby enhancing the intoxication of the wine. Loud music provided passion in the reverie and created the spirit of wild abandon.
 

The thyrsos was the iconic fertility symbol of the Cult of Dionysus heralding the Bacchic celebration. It was carried by either Bacchus or Maenads. The thyrsos was a staff tipped with a pine cone and sometimes wrapped in ivy or grape leaves.

Goats were Dionysus’ sacrificial animal. They are present in most bacchanal scenes usually being restrained by the horns or ridden by satyr-putti trying to protect the tender grape leaves from being eaten. Roman poet, Virgil said, “Beware of the rough-toothed goat.” Goat skins were used to hold wine.

Snakes sometimes in Bacchic celebrations were possibly from Minoan tradition as symbols of rebirth and rejuvenation because snakes shed their skins. In ancient periods in this context they were not symbols of evil.

Masks relevant to Greek theater were important attributes of Dionysus.

Leopard skins were worn by Dionysus and he traveled by chariot pulled by lions. Wild cats with their capricious behavior symbolized Dionysus’ irrational wild nature. Hunt animals as dogs referred to the story of Dionysus driving lions from Mt. Nysa.

History of the Cult of Dionysus and Bacchanal

The origin of the Cult of Dionysus is unknown. Fertility worship was prevalent in early Bronze Age Mediterranean area. Scholars postulate that some Bacchic elements may have their source in cultures of Asia Minor (Phrygian, Lydian) and in the Minoan civilization of Crete. It has been substantiated that by 1250 BCE, Dionysus was accepted as a god and rituals were part of Mycenaean religion.

 

Bacchanalia Celebration in Greco- Roman World – “Wine, Women and Song”

 





Bacchanal

The actual ritual practice of the bacchanal in the Greco-Roman world varied by region and cannot be described with singular complete certainty because the mysteries were not written down and were known only to the Bacchoi. However some Bacchic characteristics were known and universal. It was celebrated at night, outside in a wooded location lit by torches and led by Bacchantes (priestesses) and Bacchants (priests).

The thyrsos (reed and pine cone) was carried by the celebrants. Women were essential members of the Bacchoi in the role of Maenads or Bacchantes. Sometimes they practiced animal sacrifice but it is doubtful Maenads tore animals apart in wild frenzy. Music was another necessary element of the rite and it was used in the dithyramb praises of Dionysus in song and dance. Loud rhythmic sounds intensified the euphoria.

Wine liberally drunk gave Bacchoi the exultant power of feeling divine. Wine meant that the god was not only outside them, but when consumed he was within them too. Sexual involvement may have been a component of the activity but it was not a necessary inclusion in the ceremony. The reverie of “wine, women and song” was important because it represented Dionysus’ wild spiritual release and freedom. The Bacchanal was practiced by people of all social classes, but it was especially popular with the disadvantaged because it didn’t require expensive votives, women could participate and worshippers did not need a temple.

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The Bacchanalia, or Dionysia, were initially attended only by women, and later men were permitted to join. What started as a celebration three days each year later became a weekly, or even prolonged event.

Women abandoned their families and took to the hills to perform their festive rites. They danced to flute and drum, dressed in skins and leaves. While under the god's inspiration, they were believed to possess occult powers. There was a wild orgiastic meal where there was free use of wine to produce ecstasy, and animals were ripped apart with bare hands and devoured by the participants through their supernatural powers supplied by the god. The celebrations had such a bad reputation for orgies that by 186 BCE, they were outlawed in Rome, but they were still practiced in secret for over 700 more years. To this day, the word 'bacchanal' is still used to describe a drunken orgy.

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 Modern Day Bacchanal

Theology of Bacchanalia

Worship in the Bacchanal had obvious pleasurable orgy-like aspects, but it was the Cult’s theology that made Dionysus such an important god in ancient societies. Dionysus, a fertility deity, was life and rebirth. He was the vine painfully and severely pruned, left as bare stock to emerge alive again in joyful resurrection. He had rescued his mother from death. He was assurance that death didn’t end all. He was the expectation that the soul lived on forever. A poignant reference to this was in a letter written by the Greek writer, Plutarch, 80 CE, to his wife after news of the death of his little daughter:

 

Church 'saving' festivals

 

The Catholic Church, in its early days, was busy converting pagan festivals into Christian observances. Christmas and Easter are two popular examples. The Church, in observing the Lenten season, opted for abstinence from meat, to remember the lean times that our Lord experienced in the wilderness.

The festival which was celebrated before Lent was the Carnival. The word carnival can be traced back to its medieval origins. Carnem lavare or carnele varium both meant to take away or remove meat. It was a time to have a final fling before the lean times, when no fun or partying would be allowed. In the Catholic regions of Europe, the clergy demanded a strict break with pre-Christian ideas and practices, but the customary ceremonies and symbols were adapted with a Christianized reinterpretation.

Lovis_Corinth_Heimkehrende_Bacchanten_1898

 

Modern Day Bacchanal

  

Carnival takes all

 

Bacchanalia had always been the most popular festival practiced by the peasants and it was incorporated into the pre-Lenten carnival. The noise and music were originally to drive harmful spirits away, the masks in the masquerade were to transform the bearers into supernatural beings, ceremonial fire and various individual abstentions were to ensure the success of magic acts. All of these elements were carried over into the carnival, along with the drunken orgies for which Bacchanalia was infamous.

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Carnival has always been a standard celebration in Roman Catholic countries, but how did it take the Caribbean? Once the University of the West Indies (UWI) opened in 1948, the crossover of cultures began. Some of our small-island neighbours introduced us to carnival.

 Titian_Andrians Bacchanal

First, there was UWI Carnival, which was later followed by Orange Carnival, Oakridge Carnival, Caribbean Carnival, Bacchanal and among many others.

 

Modern Day Bacchanal

 

Trini Dictionary

 

Bacchanal - party atmosphere; arguments, confusion e.g. "If dey find out, it will be rel bacchanal."

Bac·cha·na·li·a

/ˌbækəˈneɪliə, -ˈneɪlyə/ Show Spelled [bak-uh-ney-lee-uh, -neyl-yuh]

Noun, plural Bac·cha·na·li·a, Bac·cha·na·li·as.

1. (Sometimes used with a plural verb) a festival in honor of Bacchus.

2. a drunken feast; orgy.

Bacchus  (ˈbækəs)
— n
	(in ancient Greece and Rome) a god of wine and giver of ecstasy, identified with Dionysus
[C15: from Latin, from Greek Bakkhos ; related to Latin bāca  small round fruit, berry]

or·gy

noun \ˈȯr-jē\

: a wild party and especially one in which many people have sex together

: something that is done too much and in a wild way

 

Full Definition of ORGY

1: secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing

2

a :  drunken revelry

b :  a sexual encounter involving many people; also :  an excessive sexual indulgence

3:  excessive indulgence in something especially to satisfy an inordinate appetite or craving <an orgy of destruction> a national orgy of thrill seeking and risk taking.

 

Galatians 5:19-21

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
²⁰ Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
²¹ Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

A MESSAGE TO ALL CARIBBEAN/WEST INDIANS, As Children of the Most High Ahayah, we have to STOP celebrating these PAGAN FESTIVALS.

 

Carnival is foreign to our birth countries, our culture and our faith.

 

We MUST NOT support it.

 

 

 

BEWARE!!! Of This Demonic Doctrine - The Essenes Gospel of Peace

Ahayah Yashiya's Blog

The Gospel of Peace is an incorrect record. Many of the NT Apocryphal books are Roman Catholic Plagiarisms which have been injected with false doctrines and half-truths. 

It just shows you how mislead people are today. This book is not based on the scriptures, and it is not based on the Most High words through his son the Messiah Yashiya. It’s based on this guy Edmund Szekely information and this is why I’m EXPOSING this doctrine to all today.

This book is not what it claims to be, this book is a good health book, it has a list of information on health that other authors talked about today.

For instance it talks about:

The Biogenic Regimen

• Eat essentially living foods, not heat-treated (cooked) food
• Eat two times daily, noon and sunset, once a day if super-fit
• Eat two or three foods together fruit a.m., leaves & veg p.m.
• Small amounts of raw dairy untreated and not from cow
• Fast one day per week
• If diseased, fast one day for each of your years

So it sounds like wonderful advise, however when I say what it's not what it claims to be, the book claims to be taken from the Dead Sea Scrolls, which is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. It's simply a FICTION BOOK, that the author Edmund Szekely just made up and said it was based on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were written by a group of Essenes, a group of people that lived in Qumrum Israel during the time of Yashiya, which some of you known as "JESUS."

After looking into the Essenes Doctrine, and wanting more information on not eating meat, I've decided to do some research on it. In my research I found that Edmond Szekely was the grandson of Sándor Székely and, who was a poet and Unitarian Bishop of Kolozsvár; his mother was French and Roman Catholic, and his father was a Hungarian Unitarian. Per Szekely's book 'Essene Gospel of Peace', he was a descendant of Hungarian philologist and orientologist Sándor Kőrösi Csoma.  Edmond and his wife Deborah Shainman, whose mother was a past vice-president of the New York Vegetarian Society were the ones that came up with a New Age Movement of the Messiah being a Vegetarian and opened a camp and created their Essenes Doctrines, claiming it came from the original Hebrew and Aramaic Text in the Vatican, which was never proven, even according to the Vatican.

This guy Edmond Szekely was Jewish from Hungary and his wife was a Catholic. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely was a Hungarian philologist/linguist, philosopher, psychologist and natural living experimenter.

 

Now, this guy Edmund Szekely, not only probably never seen the Dead Sea Scrolls, but he certainly translated it supposedly. If anyone has read the Dead Sea Scrolls, you will see that this is a FICTION BOOK. The problem is most people don't read the Dead Sea Scrolls, they just take what they read here in health wise for granted.

The dead Sea Scrolls, the Essenes wrote almost identical to what was in the Bible, you can find places word for word, there almost identical and they kept all the Laws that Yashiya told them to keep and they also kept the Old Testament Laws as well. Now, they didn't do the sacrifices but they still kept all the Laws, the Sabbaths and even went beyond the Laws because they had all this health understanding as well. That's what they said in the Dead Sea Scrolls, we are to keep the Laws of our Creator and Yashiya is a great example of that.



Now, then this book comes around and it start changing that, it does say to keep the Laws and it's funny because most people read this book and proclaims it being authentic and will say we believe in this book but they don't keep the Laws of our Creator. They don't know the Laws our Creator says, they will claim the Bible is twisted around when it said almost the exact things the Dead Sea Scrolls says. It is this book that is TWISTED around the WORD of our Creator.

Also the Essenes drink MILK, it even said it in this book that they drink MILK, but they are a lot of VEGANS out there claiming that this book is a great health book and want to follow this, but then there say MILK is bad for us. Now we all know that milk is bad for us if it's drug up and processed, but it's fine if it comes from a grass fed cow and it's raw and organic, but this book is just TWISTED.

Besides Yashiya would not be instructing people to avoid something that he himself did. "Yashiya said to them, "Come and eat breakfast." Yet none of the disciples dared ask Him, "Who are You?" --knowing that it was the Lord. Yashiya then came and took the bread and gave it to them, and likewise the fish. This is now the third time Yashiya showed Himself to His disciples after He was raised from the dead. So when they had eaten breakfast, ..." (John 21:12-15).



These are false books "The Essene Gospel of Peace." In it are a host of ridiculous claims attributed to Yashiya among them that one should only eat when the sun is at its highest point and at the evening (leaving out breakfast). Obviously if such were true, then Yashiya violated his own command, which cannot be true. Thus, "The Essene Gospel of Peace" is false. Just to give you an idea, the book also claims that you cannot eat the flesh of animals -- a contradiction of the Old and New Testament and again something that Yashiya did do. It also forbids the cooking of all foods, only raw vegetables are allowed! But again this contradicts the New Testament where we know Yashiya not only ate bread but cooked it for breakfast in John. Through out the book it teaches the worship of Earth as a goddess, calling the false deity, "our Earth Mother."

The teaching appears in the Zend Avesta of Zarathustra, who translated it into a way of life that was followed for thousands of years. It contains the fundamental concepts of Brahmanism, the Vedas and the Upanishads; and the Yoga systems of India sprang from the same source. Buddha later gave forth essentially the same basic ideas and his sacred Bodhi tree is correlated with the Essene Tree of Life. In Tibet the teaching once more found expression in the Tibetan Wheel of Life.

The Pythagoreans and Stoics in ancient Greece also followed the Essene principles and much of their way of life. The same teaching was an element of the Adonic culture of the Phoenicians, of the Alexandrian School of Philosophy in Egypt, and contributed greatly to many branches of Western culture, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, the Kabala and Christianity.

They spent much time in study both of ancient writings and special branches of learning, such as education, healing and astronomy. They were said to be the heirs of Chaldean and Persian astronomy and the Egyptian arts of healing.

Echoes of the teaching exist today in many forms, in certain rituals of the Masonic order, in the symbol of the seven-branched candlestick, in the greeting "Peace be with you etc."

 

Colossians 2:18

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.

 

All of this comes from Edmond Szekely, a radical vegetarian, who died in 1980. "Proof that Yashiya was a vegetarian is based on The Essene Gospel of Peace, which Szekely claims to have translated from an ancient text he supposedly discovered in the 1920s. Szekely alleges that this ancient gospel text is authentic and that the canonical gospels are forgeries. However, no one besides Szekely has ever seen the manuscript. This and other reasons prompt scholars to conclude that The Essene Gospel of Peace is a disreputable forgery."
 

Let us look a little at the author, we see Edmund Szekely:

"There are three problems with Szekely's claims. The first and most significant point is that no one has actually seen any of these manuscripts except Szekely. The second is that there are serious inconsistencies and other problems in Szekely's description of the manuscripts. The third is the content of the manuscripts themselves. Taken as a whole, we can say that not only is there no evidence that the manuscripts are genuine, but that most likely Szekely's claims are fraudulent." ["Strange New Gospels" by Keith Akers]. This author goes on to document that the Vatican does not possess the claimed Aramaic originals. That there is no record of Szekely had been to some of the libraries he claimed to have visited (where records of visiting scholars are kept). And that there is no evidence that Szekely knew Aramaic, let alone able to translate it.
 

Now, VERY IMPORTANT, the ORIGINAL BOOK was published in 1937, so these are just more inconsistencies because in 1977 the book came out under a different title on the Essenes Gospel of Peace, because originally it wasn't under that title and to make even matter worse in the original book he said that this was a 1/8 of the work found and then in 1977 he said this is 1/3 of the works found and he printed up the other two books being of the 2/3. He also change the preface from the original version to the NEW VERSIONS, but he didn't change the date on that, so we see many inconsistences here.

It's just like today with the health movement or the alternative health movement that's just really on a rise and a lot of people are really excited about it, well it is the same thing during the times of when this book was written in the beginning of the 1900s and you have a lot of  people claiming things

The BIGGEST PROBLEM with all of this , it has nothing to do with the Bible. The Bible I read said there is only one way to be saved and that's by accepting Yashiya and his blood covers your sins, but you accept him as your Messiah and your heart changes. That's the only way, it doesn't say they are many paths or many people.

Edmund is saying you have to go through an enema to cleanse yourself of the devil and he has the audacity to say I believe in fasting and praying, and I think it's good, as a matter of fact I think it's important, however to say FASTING is what get rid the body of the devil because you starved the devil, because the devil lives on earthly food, is utterly ridiculous. What this books says and anyone that claims to be a believer of the Bible and you think this is authentic, you are really mislead.

My other  BIGGEST PROBLEM is when somebody says they believe in Yashiya, but then they based it on his words in this book. Now his WORDS in this book aren't his words, they are Edmund Szekely words. If you really want to know what he said and if you really interested, simply go to the Bible and open it up and read it, and you'll see what he has to say. Now if you're not interested in that, then don't go there, but please don't TWIST it around and then claim that this book is what it says.

Now, how I know the Bible is TRUE of what it says, the Dead Sea Scrolls that was written years after many of the books in the Old Testament were almost identical to those books but found many years after. Some people would say, well the writings have been changed over the years, then how these writings that have been written almost identical to the writings of the beginning, what these people have these books from way back when? You see, a lot of people say a lot of things that some of the translations of the Bible out there today have been changed but the MEANING has not changed. It says WHAT he wanted us to do and HOW he wanted us to live.
 

This is clearly a STORY that was made up.

What is the basis of this unusual claim?

1. "Yashiya belonged to the Essenes, who some historians believe were one of several Jewish sects that abhorred animal sacrifice and were practicing vegetarians."
2. When Yashiya drove the money changers from the temple, "he directed most of his ire at vendors in this 'den of thieves' who were selling animals for sacrifice and consumption."
3. "There is no mention in the New Testament of Yashiya eating poultry, beef, or lamb, even during the last meal with his disciples, where Scripture mentions only bread and wine."
4. "Passages in the Bible prove that God - from the Garden of Eden on - always meant for humans to be vegetarians."

To answer these claims, we need to note that Yashiya was a Hebrew who perfectly kept the Law of Moses perfectly.

 

"He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf . . ." (II Corinthians 5:21)

"... One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:16)

As a Hebrew, Yashiya must have kept the Law of Moses perfectly. Yet that same law required all Hebrews to keep the Passover celebration.

"All the congregation of Israel are to celebrate [the Passover]." (Exodus 12:47)

The Gospels specifically mention Yashiya keeping three Passover feasts in Jerusalem. However, in order to keep the feast, the participants were given roasted lamb, bitter herbs, and unleavened bread to eat (Exodus 12:3-4). The entire lamb had to be eaten during the feast. If there were any leftovers, they had to be burned (Exodus 12:10). If Yashiya did not eat the lamb, he would have been violating the Law and could have been accused of sin.

"... observe the Passover to the Most High. 'In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 'They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it. 'But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects to observe the Passover, that person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not present the offering of the Most High at its appointed time. That man will bear his sin." (Numbers 9:10-13)

The New Testament records that Yashiya did eat the Passover feast, which would include the eating of the roasted lamb (Luke 22:14-15). In fact, before the last Passover meal, Yashiya specifically instructs his disciples to prepare the meal, including the lamb, for their observance.

"Then came the first day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. And Yashiya sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it."" (Luke 22:7-8)

Not only did Yashiya eat lamb, but he also ate fish. "But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, 'Have you any food here?' So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. And He took it and ate in their presence" (Luke 24:41-43). He served it for the 4,000 in Matthew 15:34-37. Yashiya also promoted the catching of fish for the purpose of consuming them.
 

"So Yashiya said to them, "Children, you do not have any fish, do you?" They answered Him, "No." And He said to them, "Cast the net on the right-hand side of the boat and you will find a catch." So they cast, and then they were not able to haul it in because of the great number of fish. ... So when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire already laid and fish placed on it, and bread. Yashiya said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have now caught." Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. Yashiya said to them, "Come and have breakfast." None of the disciples ventured to question Him, "Who are You?" knowing that it was the Lord. Yashiya came and took the bread and gave it to them, and the fish likewise." (John 21:5-6, 9-14)

I noticed in the Essenes they were careful to avoid saying that Yashiya did not eat fish. What is the difference between the consumption of a land animal and a sea animal?

It is true that in the beginning, mankind only ate vegetables (Genesis 1:29-30). However, this was changed when Noah departed the ark.

"Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant." (Genesis 9:3)

Under the Law of Moses, the eating of various kinds of meat was allowed (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14:3-20). The eating of beef, lamb, various poultry and fish were permissible for any Hebrew. Yashiya' eating of these animals would not violate the Law.

The claim that Yashiya belonged to a group of vegetarian Essenes is simply wishful thinking on Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA's) part. The Essenes are not mentioned in the New Testament, nor is there any mention of Yashiya belonging to any Jewish sect.

The idea that Yashiya and the Most High, the Father, would oppose the killing of animals is not true! Did you know that the Most High was the first to kill animals to make clothing for Adam and Eve? (See Genesis 3:21.)

God's Law to Israel required numerous animal sacrifices. If Yashiya protested animal sacrifices, then he would have been protesting the teachings of the Law of Moses. Fighting God's law is a sin, yet Yashiya was without sin. When Yashiya cast out the money changers from the temple, he was protesting the profiting being made from an ordinance of God (Mark 11:17).

"And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business."" (John 2:14-16)

Christians are not forbidden to eat meat. Any meat according to (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14:3-20) may be eaten except for blood and strangled animals (because the blood remains in the meat). Peter was commanded by God to kill and eat the animals God presented before him (Acts 10:9-16). Paul instructed Christians to eat anything according to (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14:3-20) sold in the meat market without question (I Corinthians 10:25-26). In fact, the forbidding of eating certain foods is an indication of people departing from the Christian faith.

 

The scriptures says:

Revelation 22:19

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁹ And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

That's what Edmund Szekely obviously done with his book the Essenes Gospel of Peace.

So there you have it everyone, you have to make a choice out there, if you want to use this book and a lot of other material out there as health advise, that's OK, but if you want to use this book as a religious doctrine, well anyone can make up of what they believe and then what you have is a NEW BELIEVE SYSTEM, which many people are following today.

You see the Bible tells us we cannot pick and choose what we like from it, it said that you follow these guidelines, instructions and our Creator will take care of us. That's the bottom line.

Satan will have his own religious doctrines (Revelation 3:8-9) that blind people's minds from the truth (2 Corinthians 4:4). These are usually connected with idols (1 Corinthians 8).



Vegetarianism and celibacy are two demonic doctrines that will manifest in the last days.

"But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer." (I Timothy 4:1-5)

The people tauting "The Essene Gospel of Peace" are living illustrations of "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables" (II Timothy 4:3-4).

If some scriptures may prove authentic from the Essenes Gospel of Peace with the Bible, then WHY do you need to go to this book?

I say to Edmund Szekely, NO THANK YOU for this TWISTED information you've given to us and I say to everyone out there to take this message and research and see it for yourself.