Book of Jeremiah
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Pogo Do you also know the story about two baby boys Romulus and Remus who were discovered at the bottom of a tree by a man and taken to his wife, her name was Laurentia and she raised them. According to sources (of research) Laurentia was a fallen woman before she married which in Latin means Lupa (she-wolf) which is where the name of the festival originated, Lupercalia.
In the book Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop and another book, Mystery Babylon there are images depicted which were used in the creation of faces one would find on Valentine Cards and those images are Semiramis, Dianna, Ashtarte and Tammuz who is supposed to be the face of Cupid from one source I read about.
Valentines day is the celebration of Lupercalia not the life of a saint named Valentine. That story was used as a cover but was exposed long ago. If I am not mistaken the Roman Catholic Church no longer acknowledges the day as one of their own and the St. has been taken off of Valentines day because of this.
The satanic powers behind such pagan rites is real. When a Christian invokes such powers upon themselves by participation in such celebrations they have opened themselves up to great danger through the sin of idolatry. It is literally opening the door wide to satanic attack.
Also you should look up the significance of Romulus and Remus, you may be surprised.
Sure, I'm aware of the Romulus/Remus creation myth, it's cute. And of course the wolf/Lupo linguistic connection. And I'm in full agreement that "St. Valentine" was made up to co-opt existing pagan holidays, as were Easter and Christmas and "All Souls Day". I'm not up to date on Valentine's status in the Church in the present day though. It really is of no consequence.
I don't believe in the whole "Satan" concept though. I consider that a childish anthropomorphism to (literally) demonize forces we don't understand or find intimidating. It's also a way of running away from them by embodying them in a mythical "being" who can then be "cast out". Which completely ignores that these forces are part of not only human nature but Nature itself. There's nothing to be learned from such an avoidance, plus it's WAY too façile and blatantly binary, so I've always rejected it out of hand.
Romulus and Remus are not a myth although that is what you will be told if you search on google because they claim it is part of Roman Mythology. Although you will find some truth in there such as they were the founders of the city of Rome but make no mistake about it. These two people are in fact historical figures. It's not mythology anymore than Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz (who also existed and lived once upon the earth).
Nimrod was supposedly born on the winter solstice and the date mentioned is January 6th. At the time Semiramis who was queen (she was a witch - Jezebel was also a witch who became queen, it's not unusual even in modern times) ordered that specific date (Jan. 6th) for Nimrod to be celebrated. The Eastern Orthodox churches celebrated it while calling it Christmas. (January 6th) but Caesar ordered the Roman world to celebrate Nimrod on the 25th of December according to the new date of the solstice. Now this is interesting, the custom was the mother of a male child present herself for purification on the 40th day after the date of the birth and as Nimrod's original birthday was January 6th, the 40th day of Semiramis's purification fell on February 15th with the celebration beginning on the eve of the 14th which is why Lupercalia is celebrated beginning on the eve of February 14th. It is there that you see the connection to Nimrod.
If you listen to the video in the OP you'll see the connection to Nimrod and the 7 hills of Rome where the Vatican is (I'm pretty sure this is the same video with that information in it). Perhaps through tracing back the roots of this Baal worship God will open your eyes to see the truth and realize that Satan is indeed your enemy and that if you are dabbling in the occult you are involving yourself in something that is extremely dangerous.