Saint
Valentines Day Got Canceled in 1969.
The Roman Catholic Church, which originally made
this pagan feast of Lupercus: Lupercalia into a Saint
Valentines Day holiday, also canceled it in 1969
when they realized it had gone from a festival of love to an orgy of
consumerism. Officially there's no Saint Valentines Day.
But since many people are traditional and ignorant: traditionally
ignorant, it
seems to continue on being an orgy of consumerism, a windfall for
flower
shops, card makers, chocolate makers, and jewelers who windfall profit
from makers and lovers of lies.
Over 75% of
valentines for Saint Valentines Day are purchased by women.
(The
allegory for "silly women": 2Timothy 3:6 in
the allegoric Bible
is silly churches)
Origin
of Valentines Day: The Festival of Lupercus: Lupercalia
It was during the reign of Pope
Gelasius, that this festival of
Lupercus: Lupercalia
became a Christian
custom: "As far
back as about 496AD, Pope Gelasius
changed Lupercalia on
Feb. 15
to St. Valentine's Day on Feb. 14" (source:
Customs
and
Holidays Around the World, Lavinia Dobler, p.172). The Emperor
Constantine had made "Christianity" the official religion of the Roman
Empire in the fourth century. By this time, much of God's holy truth (
Bible Translators
wanted to be
made
more known) had
been discarded and replaced by pagan philosophy. Constantine himself,
was a
sun-worshipper. The Roman Catholic church's main
concern was to convert the pagans as quickly as possible. These
conversions were to be made at any and all costs. This included
allowing their pagan customs to continue -
ONLY, "Christian"
names were to be placed upon them.
Saint
Valentines Day at Schools:
At most public schools,
they are finally insisting:
if anybody gets a
valentine everybody gets one,
so that nobody feels forsaken or
unloved by others.
(forsaken being
what's in the midst
of seven last
utterances)
Partiality?
There is no respect of persons with God.
Saint
Valentine?
Valentines
Days has no relation to Saints. Researching
Saint Valentines Day in most reference works would lead to a
third-century
Catholic martyr named Saint Valentine. However, the Encyclopedia
Britannica states in its 15th ed., vol 10, p.336: "St. Valentine's
Day as a lovers' festival and the modern tradition of sending valentine
cards have no relation to the saints but, rather seem
to
be connected either with the Roman fertility festival of Lupercus: the
Lupercalia
(kept on the evening of Feb.14th and the day of the 15th) or with
the mating season of birds." This information is
reiterated
by the Encyclopedia Americana (article: "ST. Valentine's Day"):
The customs of Valentine's Day "have been handed down from the Roman
festival of the Lupercalia, celebrated in the month of February, when
the names of young women were put into a box and drawn out by men as
chance directed." This (of this/that) is the origin of valentines
day -
cards linking men and women together for sexual purposes.
Origin of Valentines Day: Popish
Lupercalia
Origins of Saint Valentines Day
are
steeped in legend. But Pagan scholar Grant Pontius discovered:
There is
no historical proof linking any of the
Saint
Valentine legends
with the traditions we've associated with the Saint Valentines Day
holiday. Instead, Saint Valentines Day is
another example of Christianity assimilating a pagan holiday for the
sake of conversion. But what they're converting people to is
another law of
2
beasts in Revelation 13:
law<--law.
Legends are common, the most common legend of all
being the flood (Noah's Ark).
Before 2,000AD scientists did a
worldwide survey to know what, if anything, was the
most common to all mankind everywhere. They
found it was a legend, of the Deluge.
History
of Valentines Day
Valentine's Day began to be popular around
the 17th century in Great Britain. By the middle of the 18th
century, it was common for friends and lovers in all social classes to
exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes. By the end of
the century, printed cards began to replace written letters due to
improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way
for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one's feelings was
discouraged. Americans probably began exchanging hand-made
valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began to
sell the first mass-produced valentines in America.
What the Spirit saith unto the churches
about Saint Valentines Day:
It's pretty much the same with law, which had an expiry date, and it expired l-o-n-g ago.
It got canceled
("abolished"): Eph
2, "done away": 1Cor 13, 2Cor 3; blotted out: Col 2,
for sin(law), when "it
is finished",
[it] brings forth death (not eternal life): James 1:15;
but ignorant people still go on
doing "it", even though it got canceled and it kills
them.
Saint Valentines Day: It's
the second biggest day for
cards.
Besides chocolates and flowers Saint Valentines Day is big on cards,
second biggest card selling day of the year (next to nearly Billion at
Christmas). It's
a windfall for card shops, flower shops, chocolate retailers,
jewelers.
Who
Still Celebrates Saint Valentines Day?
Saint
Valentines
Day is actively celebrated in these Six Countries:
Canada, United
Kingdom, United States, Australia, Mexico, France.
Two called United may have also began the mother of all wars in Iraq.
So perhaps what they are United in is pre-emptive law law vengeance.
Funny thing is they think they do God a service; But God is "merciful".
So a God they serve
an awful lawful God on
high in heavens, called Enmity.
Paul's higher
exhortation is: "mind not high things" & "be not high-minded",
for "high-minded" is among "un-holy" things to turn away from in
2Timothy 3.
Readers are encouraged to do their own research on
Valentines Day, search their own hearts, and form their own opinions,
preferably based on
evidence
rather than on legend and tradition; and from a viewpoint that's
above a servant(
slave) in
bondage to either law of
law law love.
The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ with you all. Amen.