Religionists gave new names and new meanings to the old pagan days and ceremonies. This is known as syncretism, a blending of pagan teachings with Bible truth. It is better understood as baptized paganism. These pagan days are what have come down to us as the holidays of churchianity. Virtually none of Yahwehs Holy Days are observed as commanded. Instead, the world has found substitutes and thereby perverts the truth. Amos 5: 6 If you seek ADONAI, you will survive. Otherwise, he will break out against the house of Yosef like fire, devouring Beit-El, with no one to quench the flames. 7 You who turn justice to bitter wormwood and throw righteousness to the ground! 8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who brings deathlike shadows over the morning, who darkens the day into night, who calls for the water in the sea and with it floods the earth - ADONAI is his name 9 he flashes destruction on the strong, so that destruction overcomes the fortress. 10 They hate anyone promoting justice at the city gate, they detest anyone who speaks the truth. 11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and extort from them levies of grain; although you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; and though you have planted pleasant vineyards, you will not drink their wine. 12 For I know how numerous are your crimes and how outrageous your sins - bullying the innocent, extorting ransoms pushing the poor aside at the gate. 13 At times like these a prudent person stays silent, for it is an evil time. 14 Seek good and not evil, so that you will survive. Then Adonai ELOHEI-Tzvaot will be with you, as you say he is. 15 Hate evil, love good, and uphold justice at the gate. Maybe Adonai ELOHEI-Tzvaot will take pity on the survivors of Yosef. 16 Therefore thus says Adonai ELOHEI-Tzvaot, Adonai: In all public squares there will be lamentation, in all the streets they will cry, Oh, no! They will summon farmers to mourn and professional mourners to wail. 17 There will be wailing in every vineyard, for I will pass through among you, says ADONAI. 18 Woe to you who want the Day of ADONAI! Why do you want it, this Day of ADONAI? It is darkness, not light; 19 as if someone were to run from a lion, just to be met by a bear; as if he entered a house, put his hand on the wall, just to be bitten by a snake. 20 Wont the Day of ADONAI be darkness, not light, completely dark, with no brightness at all? 21 I hate, I utterly loathe your festivals; I take no pleasure in your solemn assemblies. 22 If you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; nor will I consider the peace offerings of your stall-fed cattle. 23 Spare me the noise of your songs! I dont want to hear the strumming of your lutes! 24 Instead, let justice well up like water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
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