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Annual Holydays: as if Weak and Beggarly Elements
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weak and beggarly elements: annual holydays like laws, are
non eternal
Galatians 4: ye
observe days, and months, and times, and
years, as desiring to be in bondage again |
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Annual Holydays: as if Weak and Beggarly Elements
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Observing non eternal
things like annual holydays around the world (rooted in laws and
traditions) is as if being bewitched. After we're saved (delivered from
law) our focus should be on eternal
things. So Apostle Paul admonishes churches for observing plural days, and months, and
times,
and years he calls weak
and beggarly elements. For if we compromise on little things,
like observing natural birthdays, counting our age in years, observing
annual holydays, it's as if we've compromised on returning to
law bondage, like a dog turned to his vomit, a washed sow to her mire,
a fool to his folly.
Summary of Galatians,
the only biblical book written unto the churches:
Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon
removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto
another gospel. If any preach any other (grace
+ law), let him be (blessed + cursed = accursed) ... 2:19-21 I am dead to the law that I
might live unto God
... I do not frustrate
(law, vex) the grace of God ... 3:1
who
bewitched you ... 3:11 no man is
justified by the law
in the sight of God ... the law is not of faith ... 3:24 the law was our schoolmaster,
but after that faith (grace) is come,
we are no longer under a
schoolmaster ... 4:1 child = servant (kNOW not:
John 15:15) 4:3 when child-ren,
we were in bondage
under elements of the world: But when the fulness of time (expiry of law) was
come (Eg: Luke 16:16), God sent forth his Son ... to redeem them under
the law ... 4:7 wherefore thou art no more a servant (child),
but a son ... 4:9,10 But now, after that ye
have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements,
whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and
years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you
labour in vain ... 5:1 Stand fast
therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage
... 5:4 Christ
is become of no effect
to you, whosever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace
... 5:9 A little
leaven (law
hypocrisy) leaveneth the whole lump ... 5:18 if ye be led of the Spirit
(Grace), ye are not under
the law ... 5:21 they which do
such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (is not right of
left/right things on high, but higher of high/higher is
harmless) ... 5:26 Let
us not be desirous of vain glory ...
6:18 Brethren,
the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen. Clarity: Galatians 4 admonition is not given to accuse or condemn any, but only for our awareness. |
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Winter annual
holydays around the world: weak and beggarly elements
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| Chanukah:
Hanukkah: (Jewish):
Jews only have an eight day, nine candle menorah |
December |
| Christmas:
(Christendom):Seven Xmas
Fallacies. Birth of Jesus
is not at Christmas |
December 25th |
| Kwanzaa:
(African): 7 day festival: 7 principles, 7 symbols,
7 candles(kinara) |
Dec 26 - Jan 1st |
| New Year (International): foolish carnal thing many do; and then also look back, "behind" | January 1st |
| Epiphany
(Christian): 12th day after Christmas; mainly Roman Catholic tradition |
January 6th |
| Candlemas
(Groundhog Day): ghostly "shadow"
of law, as things to come
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February 2nd |
| Ash Wednesday: RC, Anglican, Lutheran: Lent begins 40 days (not counting Sundays) before Easter | prior to Easter |
| Chinese New Year: Year of the ? |
Lunar |
| Valentine's Day: VD was cancelled in 1969 for being an orgy of commercialism | February 14th |
| Friendship Week: beware the legalism of "must" pass it on fwds, else accursed | February 12 - 18 |
| Purim (Jewish):
Feast of Lots; Hebrew deliverance: book of Esther; |
Adar 14 |
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Spring annual
holydays around the world: weak and beggarly elements
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| Spring
Equinox: Great Pyramid
has no shadow; Sphinx pointts to sun; eggs stand on end |
March |
| April Fool's Day: just kidding (is
anyone
just, kidding, if to kid means to deceive) |
April 1st (fixed) |
| Passover
(Jewish): Unleavened Bread; the two Sabbaths
of passover week? highminded? |
Nisan 14 |
| Easter
(Christian) - see also seven
last
utterances and contrary
appearances |
Changeable |
| Earth
Day (International): in
dispute with Spring Equinox is also Earth Day |
April 22nd |
| Mother's Day
- 2nd Sunday in May. But Jersualem above
is mother of us all in Galatians. |
May |
| Salvation Army Week - over 100 countries add-verse-ly affected by "them" | April or May |
| Pentecost:
Eastern/Western
(Christian): descent of Holy
Ghost on The
Twelve |
50 days after Easter |
| Shavuot (Jewish): Hebrew Pentecost; Feast of Weeks, Harvest, First Fruits. | May or June |
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Summer holydays
around the world: weak and beggarly elements
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| Father's
Day: (Western) Biblically
"the Father" is not same
God or Father as "our
Father" |
June |
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Fall holydays
around the world: weak and beggarly elements
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| Ramadan:
(Muslim) Islamic month of daytime fasting; can occur in Sept to Feb |
Sept to Feb |
| Rosh haShanah: (Jewish) New Year; supossedly the day the world began, but two days as if one | Tishrei 1 |
| Yom Kippur: (Jewish): Day of questionable Atonement ending the Jewish high(?) holy days | Tishrei 10 |
| Sukkot:
(Jewish): Feast of Tabernacles; 7 day festival; last of the 3 containing 7 |
Tishrei 15 |
| Hallowe'en:
began as celtic priests offering crop & animal sacrifice to darkness |
October 31st |
| Remembrance Day (Veterans Day): Canada (USA): to honor war is a disgrace | November 11th |
| Thanksgiving (USA) - biblical look at what(?) "might" be in Revelation about it | 4th Thurs in Nov |
