false prophet Tony Ellsworth claims that friday the 13th is a "bad luck day" and says this was proven because of the airliner that went down in buffalo, ny. While this was a tragedy, the fact is that it went down on thursday the 12th. At least one person was killed because they chose that flight instead of flying on the "bad luck day" of friday the 13th. At least one person was still alive because they missed the february 12 flight and flew safely home on friday the 13th.
false prophet Tony Ellsworth also claims there is a "link" between the dates because one of the passengers husband died during the 9-11 event. he also claims his [magik] third "friday the 13th tragedy" was that congress passed a spending package which, false prophet Tony Ellswroth claims, is "an attack on Christianity".
false prophet Tony Ellsworth also claims there is a link between the "bad luck day of friday the 13th" and "valentines day" which he claims is a "christian holiday" because "G-d is the very definition of love" valentines day is pagan and is not a Christian holiday. It has to do with celebrating lust, fertility, and fornication:
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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.”
NOWHERE in the bible does it tell us to celebrate "valentines day" it is a pagan day that celebrates lust and fornication - not G-d's love.
II Tim 4:3-4
3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
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http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2009/tonye214-1.htm
Tony Ellsworth (14 Feb 2009) "What a Difference a Day makes: Fri 13th to Valentine's Day"
What a Difference a Day makes
Friday the 13th to Valentine’s Day
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As I’m writing this article it is February 13, 2009 – the first of three such ominous days in 2009. Clearly, this is considered a day of bad fortune. So far, it’s living up to its billing.
You can’t turn on the news today without hearing about the following:
First of all we have the tragic crash of flight 3407 in Buffalo, N.Y. This flight not only crashed, but landed on a home. So far the death toll is 50 persons. One of the women was the surviving spouse of a 9-11 victim. Now we have a connection between these two dates – horrifying.
The second major headline is the “Spendulus” package passed and is ready for Senate approval. This is a bill that has little to do with money, lots to do with control and still even more for obliterating true Christianity.
Well, could we expect any better on a Friday the 13th???
Thirteen (13) in the Bible has a stamp of rebellion on it. The anti-christ is introduced in Revelation chapter 13. Nimrod was 13th in the line of Ham, Noah’s son after the flood. The Revolutionary War was led by 13 colonies. I don’t think it takes much convincing to realize 13 is a rebellious number. I mean, we were all teenagers once right? What age does one receive such a designation? I rest my case.
Yet, we have such an interesting contrast this year between two days. The very next day is Valentine’s Day. This is a day in observation of love. God is the very definition of love, and I consider the day to be John 3:16 day:
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
As humans we are familiar with rebellion.
As humans we are also familiar with love.
How do we reconcile two such opposing concepts?
The Bible holds out several examples, but the first one that comes to my mind is King David.
When we break God’s law, we are in rebellion. In one of the most famous sins of all time, David committed adultery, and covered up his sin with the premeditated murder of a loyal and innocent servant.
It’s hard to think of a more heinous crime, and I think that’s the point God is making with David. Different than the woman caught in adultery, that was thrown at the mercy of Jesus’ feet, David was King of Israel. When Nathan brought the news to him, he could have had his head. Yet he submitted, confessed and repented.
This is what makes David special.
He understood the condition of man – rebellion (like Friday the 13th)
And, also God’s love (like Valentine’s Day).
Psalm 51 is the prayer between David and God regarding this regrettable act. Let’s take a look…
Psalm 51
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
David understood God’s nature, and he starts his prayer that way asking for mercy and reiterating God’s nature.
5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
He acknowledges the rebellion which is present even at his birth. There is no escaping it.
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
David, predating Jesus, yet he knows God’s heart and plan for his son – a Valentine prequel…
I really think the purpose is set forth by God, and fully understood by David in – you guessed it, verse 13:
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you.
Have you ever heard someone say after a horrible tragedy – “Can anything good come of this?” Jesus was the model of perfection, and He died for our sins. Yet Jesus is said to be the one to sit on David’s throne – how can this be??? David is the model for us, sinners in grave need of a Savior. We are a Friday the 13th waiting and hoping to be a Valentine’s Day at the dawn of a new day. Why would God allow David, his servant to commit such a heinous crime, and have it be made public? Because when you find yourself on the other side of the sin you believe you cannot handle you can look to David, who in turn looked to Jesus.
Today, as I write in Nebraska, where I live it is Friday the 13th yet, and I look out the window at the snow coming down continually…
Isaiah 1:18 “Come let us reason together says the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, I will make you white as snow, though they are as crimson, I will make you as wool.”
13 a number that clearly stands for rebellion in the bible, is one short of 14.
13 + 1 = 14
When we take a look at the Hebrew gematria for 14 we find:
14 + Beloved, David + Loves him + Heart (Ord)
When we combine our rebellion with the “One” God sent, it equals 14.
We are a model of rebellion
David provided us with a model of repentance
And, Jesus is our means for redemption
Don’t worry, the morning will come…
Happy Valentine’s Day
Maranatha (Lord Come Quickly)
Tony
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