Be
Nobody's Valentine
Each year on February 14th countless millions of people celebrate a day
known as "St. Valentine's Day." Millions of heart-shaped cards and
boxes of chocolates are given as gifts, and even churches have Valentine
parties on this so-called "Day of Love." In schools, from
pre-school and kindergarten on up, children draw names from a box and
exchange heart-shapes notes which "pair off" the children and is
said to be "all in fun." People of all ages get into the act, and
the words that are heard everywhere on that day are, "Be My
Valentine."
The sad fact is that most people never question the origin of the customs
that they involve themselves with. Most people do not ask questions but do
what everybody else does, never stopping to consider how the Almighty God of
Heaven feels about their activities. When we consider that Valentine's Day
is a day of preoccupation with the heart, it is essential that we listen to
the following words spoken by the Almighty,
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who
can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give
every man according to his wages, and according to the fruit of his
doings." Jeremiah 17:9-10
Christians should be known by their discernment and should be asking
questions regarding Valentine's Day. What is the origin of this unusual day?
Why is there a preoccupation with the color red? Where did the heart shape
come from, and what does it mean? These and other questions will now be
answered, as we examine the roots and pagan origin of this popular day.
In the days of the
Roman Empire
, the month of February
was the last and shortest month of the year. February originally had 30
days, but when Julius Caesar named the month of July after himself, he
decided to make that month longer and shortened February to 29 days while
making July a month of 31 days. Later when Octavius Caesar, also known as
Augustus, came to power, he named the month of August after himself, and not
be outdone he also subtracted a day from February and gave the month of
August 31 days. To this very day it remains that way. The ancient Romans
believed that every month had a spirit that gained in strength and reached
its peak or apex of power in the middle or ides of the month. This was
usually the 15th day, and it was a day when witches and augurs, or
soothsayers worked their magic. An augur was a person filled with a spirit
of divination, and from the word augur we get the word
"inaugurate", which means to "take omens". Since
February had been robbed by Caesars and had only 28 days, the ides of
February became the 14th day of that month. Since the Ides of a month was
celebrated on the preceding eve, the month of February was unique, because
it was the 13th day that became the eve of the Ides that month, and it
became a very important pagan holiday in the Empire of Rome. The sacred day
of February 14th was called "Lupercalia" or "day of the
wolf." This was a day that was sacred to the sexual frenzy of the
goddess Juno. This day also honored the Roman gods, Lupercus and Faunus, as
well as the legendary twin brothers, who supposedly founded
Rome
, Remus and
Romulus
. These two are said to have been suckled by wolves in a cave on Palatine
Hill in
Rome
. The cave was called Lupercal and was the center of the celebrating on the
eve of Lupercalia or February 14th. On this day, Lupercalia, which was later
named Valentine's Day, the Luperci or priests of Lupercus dressed in
goatskins for a bloody ceremony. The priests of Lupercus, the wolf god,
would sacrifice goats and a dog and then smear themselves with blood. These
priests, made red with sacrificial blood, would run around Palatine Hill in
a wild frenzy while carving a goatskin thong called a "februa."
Women would sit all around the hill, as the bloody priests would strike them
with the goatskin thongs to make them fertile. The young women would then
gather in the city and their names were put in boxes. These "love
notes" were called "billets." The men of
Rome
would draw a billet, and the woman whose name was on it became his sexual
lust partner with whom he would fornicate until the next Lupercalia or
February 14th.
Thus, February 14th became a day of unbridled
sexual lust. The color "red" was sacred to that day because of the
blood and the "heart shape" that is popular to this day. The
heart-shape was not a representation of the human heart, which looks nothing
like it. This shape represents the human female matrix or opening to the
chamber of sacred copulation.
When the Gnostic Catholic Church began to get a foothold in
Rome
around the 3rd century A.D., they became known as Valentinians.
The Catholic
Valentinians retained the sexual license of the festival in what they called
"angels in a nuptial chamber", which was also called the
"sacrament of copulation." This was said to be an reenactment of
the marriage of "Sophia and the Redeemer." As the participants of
the February 14th ritual began their sexual sacrament, presided over and
watched by the priests known as Valentinians, the following literary was
spoken: "Let the seed of light descend into thy bridal chamber, receive
the bridegroom. open thine arms to embrace him. Behold, grace has descended
upon thee."
As time went on, the Orthodox Church suppressed the Gnostic Catholics and
manufactured "St. Valentine", whose day continues to be celebrated
in these modern times.
It should be without saying that the Christians should avoid Valentine's Day
like a plague. In God's eyes, it is still "Lupercalia", the
"Day Of The Wolf." Men become wolves, as they carry on the Satanic
rituals of fornication, which means sexual intercourse without marriage. We
have heard of the "wolf whistle", and we all know that wolves do
not whistle. It is lustful men and women, who carry on Satan's blasphemy to
this very day. In conclusion, we must ask ourselves, "Should a true
Christian be associated in any way with this celebration of evil roots?
Should we be doing what the heathen have done for so many years and try to
justify it as love?" Romans 12:2 answers this very well,
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind."
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These tracts have been prayed over, and you will
never be the same after reading this message. May our Lord Jesus Christ
grant unto you a desire to walk in His truth.
Pastor
David J. Meyer Last
Trumpet Ministries