HALLOWE’EN – Trick? Or Treat?
(Copyright) by HOIM Staff (Azusa, California) Millions of people observe Hallowe’en as a time to have fun, kick up their heels, go to costume parties, dress up as ghosts, mass murderers, goblins, ghouls, witches, warlocks, demons, and send their children “trick or treating.” But WHY? What is behind this major holiday, whose commercial importance grows […]
Halloween Origins and Customs
(Copyright) by HOIM Staff (Azusa, California) Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhein which marked the end of harvest and the beginning of winter — a time of year associated with death. The pagan Celts believed that on that night, the boundary between the worlds of the living and dead blurred, and the […]
Did Early Christians Celebrate Birthdays?
(Copyright) by HOIM Staff (Azusa, California) It does not seem that the celebration of birthdays became common among those that professed the Messiah until the fourth century. Birthdays apparently originated in magic and mythology. They were traditionally also celebrated by followers of Mithra. Although birthdays were to some degree acknowledged, the celebration of birthdays was […]
Birthdays: Pagan/Occult Origins in the Satanic Bible
(Copyright) by HOIM Staff (Azusa, California) The Messiah told his disciples to “remember” him in his death, but there is not a word in scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, which tells us to celebrate his birth. Moreover, who knows exactly when, and in what month, he was born? The Bible is silent thereon. Not surprisingly […]
Are Birthday Celebrations Christian?
(Copyright) by HOIM Staff (Azusa, California) Birthday cakes. Lighted candles. Singing “Happy Birthday.” Receiving gifts. In almost every culture and nation on earth, virtually nothing is as universally celebrated as birthdays. But is birthday-keeping biblical? Does YEHOVAH God agree with this practice? As sure as death and taxes, all human beings are born on a particular […]
Ben Ha Arbayim – “Between the Two Evenings” –Just What Does This REALLY Mean?
(Copyright) by HOIM Staff, John Keyser (Azusa, California) Some proponents of observing the Passover insist that the Hebrew expression Ben Ha Arbayim — translated literally as “between the two evenings” — has to refer to dusk or twilight, the period of time after sunset and before dark. The Jews, rabbis, and orthodox Judaism, however, maintain that this […]