Hallelujah Night

Discuss the origins of Halloween and Hallelujah Night. Is there any biblical reference from God that permits the celebration of this Christian alternative?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Else who wants to join. Like I said, they'll just
have to play ketchup. So let's go ahead and do
the dog gone thing. Hello, Hi, and howdy, this is
your man's JK. Moore. Welcome back to breaking tradition. So

(00:21):
tonight we will be looking at what's known as Hallelujah Knight.
And for anybody who might not ever heard their term
or might call it something different, Hallelujah Knight is the
so called alternative that Christians celebrate in lou celebrating Halloween.

(00:45):
So as with everything else we're doing here, we got
lots of good scripture. Have actually a video that we're
going to look at that and it's very brief, like
ten minutes or so, that explains quickly the the origins
of Halloween. Then we're going to look at what Hallelujah
Knight is about and then answer that all important question

(01:09):
is there really any difference between the two of them.
So let's go ahead and hop on into it. I'm
so glad I turned up putting these headphones on. Always
get turn off the background. You there, week, All right,
now let's go and hop on. Let's go to the source.

(01:31):
Let's hit the Bible. So first We're gonna look at Ecclesiastes,
chapter nine, verses four through six. Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes, chapter nine,
verses four through six. All right, and here's how it reads.

(02:03):
There is hope only for the living. As they say,
it's better to be a live dog than a dead lion. Okay,
I guess that. I guess that was a saying in
Israel around the time of King Solomon, who was the

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author of the Book of Ecclesiastics. Because I can tell
y'all growing being born and raised here in the Deep South, Okay,
probably the hub for coming up with these philosophical folks,
these sayings in the United States. I never heard this
one before, but hey, like I said, it is written
a long time ago, so I ain't gonna doubt the

(02:47):
man worse. Number five. The living at least know they
will die. But the dead know nothing. They have no
further reward, nor are they remembered what ever they did
in their lifetime. Where they be loving, hating, envying is

(03:07):
all gone, all long gone. They no longer play a
part in anything here on earth. Okay, exactly, So back
up the verse number five here. But the dead know nothing.
They have no further reward, nor are they remembered. Well, yeah,

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on that part I might disagree, Lord, but because of course,
you know, we remember people from the dead. I mean,
there's a whole teaching of it in school, and there's
a whole career path of it. Okay, we call it history,
and we call the people who dig in and research

(03:51):
and teach history historians. So yeah, I'll say there's some
precedent for remembering the dead, but we're more so focused
on the second part of this first sentence, the dead
know nothing, and then the first part of the excuse me,
the second part of the first sentence, then this first

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part of the second sentence, they have no further reward. Okay. Now,
remember the Book of Ecclesiastes was written way, way, way
before there was anything even known as Church or Christianity
or Roman Catholicism. And also remember this book was written

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by King Solomon, who, I would say, outside of Jesus
Christ himself, is largely believed and considered to be the
smartest man or the wisest man, at least in the
Bible that his works are ever recorded. So this is
Solomon saying right here, the living know they died the dead, no, nothing.

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They have no further reward. So what is the point
of praying for the dead, whether they be dead saints,
whether they be dead relatives, whether they be anybody. He's
letting us know right here, No, they don't even know
you're praying for them, So it's pointless. It's useless. They

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have no further reward exactly, they are dead and gone,
So there is no point in praying for them. Because
but Heedio, I'm trying to tell you, okay, we can
even if we did pray for him, which obviously a
lot of people, they still observe that. I've actually been
in some services where people say that about offering up

(05:48):
prayers for the dead. I'm like, well, you do what
you do, but I'm not doing it because there's no
point once we have tried by dead. He's talking about
the physical death, this temporary death, in other words, transitioning
our soul's spirits, transitioning out of these living vessels that
we call bodies the dead. Yeah, once that happens, there's

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no more point in praying. It is game over, well,
at least for a lot of people. But our prayers
as the living continue nor will make no difference in
the long run, when it comes to those souls and
those spirits, it's not changing anything. Depending on whether or

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not they accepted and believed on Jesus while they were
still here in the temporal okay, in the flesh part
of living, whether they accepted Jesus and as their Lord
and savior, Okay, that's what makes all the difference. Praying
for praying for the dead. Okay, they either accepted Jesus

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or they didn't. That that's just okay, let me just
sum it up that way. So, which means on the
day of judgment, when they stand before God and he
asks the Angel opened up the Book of Life, is
their name written in it? The angel is going to
use to say yes or no. If their name is
written in the Book of Life, well then hey, cool,

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come on in. Now your soul gets to celebrate and
enjoy eternal life. But if God the Father asks that angel,
if their name written in the Book of Life, and
that angel says no, all the prayers of all humanity
combined from Adam on through to the end ain't gonna

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make no difference. If that person's name was not written
in the Book of Life, then it's a rep then
they move on to eternal death in the Lake of fire.
All right, let's look at some more scriptures. Let's look
at Matthew chapter eight, verses twenty one and twenty two.

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Give y'all quick second, just cases anybody else following them along. Okay,
Matthew chapter eight, verses twenty one to twenty two, and
they read. Another of his disciples said, Lord, first, let

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me return home and bury my father. But Jesus told
him follow me. Now, let the spiritually dead bury their
own dead. Now, some people might take that and look
at it like, man, you know, why why was Jesus
so rough? Why was he so harsh? All the all

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the disciples wanted to do was, you know, go home
and hold a funeral service for their father. Okay. Jesus
response to him was actually twofold. Jesus was addressing again
physical death and spiritual death. And you like, as far
as he concerned, they're one insane because they're both gonna
equal death if they're especially spiritually dead. No, let the

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dead worry about the dead, okay, because they're already written,
they're already done. I need you to follow me right
now if you truly want to be my disciples, because
I need you to go out here to a world
that does not know me yet, and I need you
to speak life. Okay, our real life is not this

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flesh existence. Our real life are not these lungs and
brain and eyes and feating all this other stuff. That
this is all just a shell to contain our real life,
which is our spirits and our souls. That's the real life.
That's what's gonna stand before God the Father, and that's

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what's going to get judged. So he's letting them know. Okay, yeah,
your dad's did and obviously his family friends, whoever's associated
with this guy, he's letting them know. And yeah, that
they're spiritually dead too, letting them know that more than
likely because at least by this point, okay, these people

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probably weren't even following the law, practice and customs as
far as it comes to covering sin and being redeemed
back to God through sacrifices. What they did pretty much
before Jesus came and was crucified and the veil in
the temple was ripped in half the old Jewish customs.

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So Jesus was like, no, we don't have time for
that now. If Jesus told this disciple this back when
Jesus was still operating in a flesh body. If he's
telling him, follow me, now, let the spiritually dead bury
their dead, Okay, then you darn well better believe that us.
Some two thousand some years later, the commission didn't change,

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the instruction didn't change. But you know what did change,
the time period, Because as each day goes by, the
time is shortening, shortening, shortening, shortening for people to hear.
Because remember, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God. For people to hear the word of God,

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mull it over, make it up in their own mind
and heart whether or not they're going to accept it.
And then if they do, okay, good, this is how
you get saved. Blah blah blah blah blah. This is
the path you need to walk now as a new
believer in Christ in the Kingdom of God. Or if
they flat out rejected, okay, well, much like these people

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are here, then you're already spiritually dead once you physically,
so I don't have any more time to waste on you.
I got to keep moving because there's somebody or somebody
these else out there who will accept it. Who does
need to hear it so that they can be saved.

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So Jesus is saying, telling him and telling us right here, okay,
don't focus again on the dead. They are just that dead,
all right. And then if those scriptures didn't sum it
up and put it out there playing, then this one

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right here during sure does Hebrews chapter nine, verse number
twenty seven. All right, Hebrews chapter nine, verse number twenty seven.

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And it reads, and just as each person is destined
to die once and after that comes judgment again. Why
why why pray for the dead? There is only one

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instance or should I say, one special circumstance where that
is commanded. Jesus said that there will be some who,
in his name, if they accepted, would be able to
raise the dead, one of the spiritual gifts that has
talked about a little later on after that talks about

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being able to raise the dead. There have been believers
who have prayed and raised the dead, But those are
certain people and so cer circumstances, that is not the norm. Okay,
that's not how it generally flows. If that be the case,
then we'd have plenty of people who had passed away

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back walking walking amongst us on the earth. If that
applied to everybody, but it doesn't unceremonious people passing away.
And then again, that is a gift only given to
certain people. Every believer does not have the gift to

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pray the dead back to life. So again, don't focus
on the dead. And I would even add to that,
especially of the person who passed, you know, for show,
for show that they didn't accept Jesus as their savior,

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and especially if they took it one step further that
and blasting the old spirit. Okay, didn't believe in God
and wanted nothing to do with God. Oh yeah, definitely,
do not waste your time on that one. Don't waste
your time on that one because it ain't happening. Serious. Hey,
good evening, good even Apostle Jones, how you doing, a

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certain teacher, I'm doing my best, all right.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
It's one of America's favorite holidays. Yet you might be
surprised to know Halloween actually has as ruth in the
ancient Celtic festival of Sooen, a pagan religious celebration to
welcome the harvest at the end of summer, when people
would like bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts,

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So how did we adopt the spooky Celtic celebration? While
fast forward a few centuries, when Christianity spread to Ireland
and the rest of the British Isles, the Christian Church
took it upon themselves to replace the Celtic religion and
convert the Salts by readily adapting to their pagan beliefs, practices,

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and symbolisms into the Christian Faith. Several Christian popes attempted
to replace pagan holidays like Swyn with their own religious observances.
In the eighteenth century, Pope Gregory the IID designated November

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one at a time to honor saints by one thousand
a d All Souls Day on November two served as
a time for the living to pray for the souls
of the dead, and the night before November one, October
thirty one, became All Hallows Eve, which later became Halloween.

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As time went on, Halloween continued to evolve into what
it is today. So here is a look at the
origins of some of the classic Halloween traditions we enjoy
so much.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Okay, and that part that just went by where she
was talking about the again, how the Catholic popes went there,
adopted the traditions and then tried to add their own
spin on it by creating those all souls day and
all saints, they praying for the saints, praying for the
dead stuff like that. That's what I was reading and

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applying that scripture from Ecclesiastes, Matthew and Hebrew to which
I was saying, the Bible flat out does not support
us praying for the dead the lung deceased like that,
and especially, like I said, if it's people who we
know died outside of the blood covering of Jesus, there

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is really no point that unless, yes, you as a believer,
just get told by the Holy Spirit, by extension God
the Father, okay, lay hands on that body and start
praying for it or whatever whatever. Okay, then of course
you're gonna do it. I mean, we're supposed to be

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sensitive and following the instruction of the Spirit. Anything outside
of that, then no, okay, long, especially long deceased relatives,
people who've been dead for months years. It definitely do
not waste your time doing that. The one instance we

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have of it, of Jesus doing it was within a
few days, and of course that's the famous story about
him calling forth Lazarus. That was it, okay? Because in
that few days there's other scriptures that say that or
believe that if the spirit leaves from out of the body,

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it actually lingers around that body for a few days
before it is called to whatever destination is being called to,
until the day of judgment. But again, praying for saints.
But the Catholic Church, their saints are what we know
and biblically, biblically and what we call the apostles and disciples,

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the original and these guys been going for two thousand
some years, and for surety they're probably up there chilling
in heaven. They definitely ain't trying to come back down here.
They ain't trying to come back alive. And for what
And again, for those who do have that gift of
praying to raise the dead, it is a gift given

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to those, a spiritual gift. And God, what have you
do it for a specific reason. It is not his
intent that everybody who passes from out of this thing
right here we call the body to all of them
get up and start walking around again. Terrisy gott it

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all right? Hey, I had to get it to deter.
All right, let's go on.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
First off, why black and orange. The traditional Halloween colors
of black and orange actually traced back to the Celtic
festival of Sowin. For the Celts, black represented the death
of summer, while orange symbolized the autumn harvest season seeing ghosts.

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The festival of Sowen marked the transition to the new
year at the end of the harvest and beginning of winter.
The Celts believed during this festival the spirits descended and
walked upon the earth. Later on, Christian missionaries introduced All
Soul's Day on November two, which perpetuated the idea of
the living coming into contact with the dead around the

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same time of the year, wearing scary costumes. Since the
Salts believed spirits would roam the earth on last night,
in order to avoid falling into harm's way by any
evil spirit, they dawned disguises so that they would be
mistaken as spirits themselves and left alone lighting canals.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Okay, so right there we have the basis or the
foundation for dressing up in costumes during that time of year,
during Halloween. It was because these people's belief that these
spirits it was to dress up like something anything other
than yourself in human, so that these spirits would mistake

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you for something else. All right, Again, no biblical precedent
nor scripture for doing that. And right before that, it
was saying how those early popes perpetuated that all saints
day for the living to talk to the Okay, again,

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doing that type stuff. The Bible talks about it clearly,
especially in Deuteronomy, talks about divination. All these other things
witchcraft are cultic practices. So that shows even those early
Roman Catholic popes and missionaries, Okay, we're completely out of
pocket and out of the will of God. Again, no

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big surprise seeing this. How we know that pretty much,
I'd say ninety nine point nine percent of not all
of them, of the pre Christian pagan practices and traditions
were introduced and merged to Kingdom law and practices or

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Christianity if you will. Yeah, that stuff was introduced by
the Roman Catholic system.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
And bonfires, this too went hand in hand with all
the preparation the soults took for the Knights of Solomon.
Bonfires were used to light the way for soul seeking
the afterlife. These days, lighting candles have generally replaced the
large traditional blazers trick or treating. There is much of

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a debate around the origins of trick or treating, but
generally there are three theories. The first theory suggest.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh, well, j tera, that that's what happens when you
allow your mind or more importantly, your spirit, to be
open like that to the tricks and the devices of satan. Okay,
things like this are allowed to enter in and you
grab on to these customs and practices. So yes, that like,

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like I said, that's the origin and the foundation of
dressing up in costumes. Because in their original practices it
was to fool these spirits that came through on that
particular night, to fool them, to trick them into thinking
that you were one of them, more like you were
an animal or something.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
That During seven an extra place was set at the
table to serve as an offering to disease loved ones.
In addition, food was placed outside near the doorway to
peace father some spirits traveling the earth at night who
might otherwise play a trick on the inhabitants of the house,
such as tipping over containers of milk. Over time, people

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began to dress as these unearthly beings in exchange for
similar offerings of food or drink.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Oh wow, see that. So they started dressing and acting
like these spirits supposedly were acting, and started asking other
people for food and drink or more popularly these days, candy.
And that's also where the term comes from. Trick or treating.

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You're walking around acting in the capacity or fashion of
being one of these other worldly beings or spirits. You're
expecting a treat to be left for you. So, like
I said, they would either set an extra plate at
their dinner table for these things, or they would set
something outside to placate them. And if nothing was set

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out there i e. A treat, then these evil spirits would,
as she was saying, tip over their milk containers or
do something else i e. Playing a trick, trick or treating.
So either give me a treat or a trick is
going to be pulled on you.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
The second theory speculates the trick or treat stems from
the Schottarsh practice of guysing, which is a secular version
of soling. During the Middle Ages, generally children and poor
adults would collect food and money from local homes and
return for prayers for the dead. On All Soulsday, guys
are dropped the prayers in favor of non religious practices

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with the inclusion of songs, jokes, and other tricks. A
third theory argues that modern American trigger treatings that was
from Bence Nickling, a German American Christmas tradition where children
would dress in costumes and then call on their neighbors
to see if the adults would guess their identities of

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the disguise, and one version of the practice the children
were awarded with food or other treats if no one
could identify them. Carving jack lanterns not using pumpkins, but
with turnips. Yes, The tradition of carving jack lanterns originated
in Ireland, where they initially used turnips. It is allegedly

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based on a legend about a man named Stingy Jack,
who repeatedly trapped the devil and only let him go
on the condition that Jack would never go to Hell.
But when Jack dies, he learns that Heaven didn't want
to have his home either, so he was force to
wander the earth as a ghost for eternity. The devil
gave Jack a burning lump of cold and a carved

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out turnip to light his way, and so locals took
up the superstition and began carving scary faces onto their
own turnips to frighten away evil spirits. Down the line,
during the nineteenth century Potato Famine, when many Irish immigrants
traveled to America, the newcomers brought their own superstitions and

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customs to their new homes, including the jack lantern, and
eventually they began carving them out of pumpkins.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Black cats okay, and so well, I hate to tell you, Jack,
but if that's what you believe, and that's the where
you was moving and you're souling and wandering the earth
fall eternity, it's gonna be wandering around in the lake
fire fall eternity, and on top of it where they'd
be turnip, potato or pumpkins. Okay, these people are who

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would these practices were generally amongst the what's considered lower
class or poorer people. Okay, So you all are sitting
there wasting good food, good food, just to participate in
this pagan, ungodly stuff.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
The idea of being spooked by black cats dates back
to the Middle ages when these dark free lines were
considered a symbol of the devil. It didn't help that
centuries later, accused witches were often found to have cats,
particularly black ones. People began to believe that cats were
a which is familiar, supernatural entity that would assist in

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their practice of dark magic, and black cats and spookin
us have been linked ever since. Bats bats were likely
linked back to the original Solemn festival, not symbolic but
literally the sound slid large bonfires, which attracted insects, which

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in turn attracted bats. As time went on, people expanded
upon the erinus of bats with a number of superstitions,
and bats became harburgers of death and nova Scotian mythology,
a bat settling in a house means a man and
the family will die. If it flies around and tries

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to escape, a woman in the family will perish instead,
which is on broomsticks.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Okay, yeah, And the reason why death came with these
bets had nothing to do with superstition or spirits or
any of those other things, is because bets carry germs
and diseases, and they also carried their own brand of

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mite called beat mightes or bat ticks, which again that's
onto a human and they bite you, drinking your blood,
just like the same type of ticks that are usually
found on dogs and cats, and they transmit diseases. Oh yeah,
that's where that came from. Okay, and we pretty much

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have a wealth and knowledge about witches. Let's just scoop
through here.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Devouring candy. The act of going door to door for
handouts has long been a Halloween tradition, but not necessarily
for candy. It wasn't until the mid twentieth century. Treats
or things like fruits, nuts, coins, and toys. Trigger Treating
rose and popularity in the nineteen fifties, and it inspired

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candy companies to market small, individually wrapped candies. People began
to favor the confections out of convenience, but candy didn't
truly dominate at the exclusion of all other trees until
the nineteen seventies, when parents started fearing anything unwrapped candy corn.
In the eighteen eighties, a candy maker at the Wonder

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Old Candy Company in Philadelphia invented dating roumin popularity in
the US during the nineteen fifties candied apples. It is
believed that candied apples were invented accidentally in nineteen o
eight by William W. Cobb, a candy maker in New York,
New Jersey. As the story goes, just as the game

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of bobbing for apples is a staple at Halloween parties,
the origins of this game is actually rooted in love
and romance, as it traces back to a corning ritual
that was part of the Roman Festival. Young men and
women would be able to predict their future relationships by
the game. When the Romans conquered the British Isles in

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forty three, AD blended in with a similarly timed Salwyn,
a precursor to Halleen and the seventeen hundreds and eighteen
hundreds women performed to.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Someone, Let's see my mom back in the day, they
used to put blades in the apple in the gate. Yes, yes, yes.
A lot of people these days say that that that
is a what do they call it, like an urban
legend or something like, oh, you know, it just happened
one time, and somebody grabbed a whole too, and the

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story just kind of spread like wildfire, like, oh, a
lot of people were doing it. But my mom said
the exact same thing, which is why well, just like
we saw there was how she said the rides of
actually wrapped up treats came into play because of stuff
like that. But I mean, it wasn't just them putting

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rais of blades in apples. They were also also covering
like actual candy and some of the other things. They
were unwrapped and put poison on the candy, then wrap
it back up and putting in the bucket or wherever
that they would use for the trigger treaters. They would
inject the apples with poison sometimes like rat poison and

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things like that. And you know, because of course a
needle hole and you're not really looking for it, it's
kind of hard to see. So yeah, they were doing
all types of hat and stuff that came about their way.
So yeah, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
What similar ritual what the similar concept of halleren In
hopes of finding a husband, single ladies used to throw
apple peels over their shoulders, hoping to see their future
husband's initials in the shapes where they fell. They would
also competitively bomb for apples at parties, believing the winner
when Mary first, and in a ritual that just sounds

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downright creepy some thoughts standing in a dark room with
a candle in front of a mirror would make their
future husband's faces uppear in the glass. Bloody marry anyone.
What are some other Halloween traditions that you enjoy? Share
them in the comments below.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, that's why the church started doing Hallelujah Night for
the kids. Yeah, that's that's one of their justifications for
doing it. Matter of fact, great time, because that's actually
what we're about to hop over to. So I wanted
to start off with the origin of Halloween. Where did

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it all come from? Now? As a seor, James just
so eloquently segued us into let's look at how we
got from Halloween to Hallelujah Knight. Now, I tried to
find like an actual origin year maybe or an actual

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origin decade for Hallelujah Night. And if that one just
did not pop up, blow this up a little bit. Okay,
there we go. But what I can say for sure

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is that this is commonly commonly new or recent thing.
And by recent, I guess I mean maybe around like
the mid nineteen eighties going into the nineteen nineties. But
then again, you've always had certain denominations and certain churches

(35:38):
that participated the actual Halloween practice. I mean the whole
shebanga bank, costumes, the candy, the bobby for apples and
things like that. So take a look care of what
it says about. Hallelujah Night originated as an alternative Christian

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celebration to Halloween, a pagan holiday that became associated with
fear and the occult. Well, we just looked at a
video that says, yeah, a lot of that's true. And
by the way, if you all ever get time, there's
like a whole ton of videos on YouTube that go

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way way more into depth about some of the customs, practices,
and tradition of Hallow, or what we came to know
was Halloween. The first Hallelujah Knights were created by churches
to offer children a safe, positive environment on October thirty first,

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replacing the traditions of Halloween with Christian themed activities and games. Okay,
purpose to offer an alternative to Halloween celebrations, which many
Christians believe are rooted in pagan traditions that honor the
dead and evil spirits. Well, yeah, there's a good reason

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to believe that, because that's exactly what the holiday is
rooting in it. We have the original one, which is
an out sowing, the original Celtic celebration, and then over
the decades, once it's made its way over here to
the United States from the Irish and the Scottish in

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that area where it all originated from, then the US
added certain things on, and certain things on, and certain
things on, until Halloween became what we know it as today.
Same thing with Christmas in Eastern Again, two other days
have their origins and roots and Paganism. Catholic Church got
involved in it. Now all of a sudden, they're Christian

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and they're okay to do with while still keeping a
lot of the pagan traditions and origins alive. All right.
Many churches host these events on the same night as Halloween,
October thirty first, which is the eve of All Saints Day.
They provide and alternative to Halloween to give children a

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fund safe and godly alternative celebration. Now want y'all to
remember that part is spectly this to provide an alternative
to Halloween, because then the question becomes, which we're about
to look into, did God ever command that we as

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believers are supposed to create alternatives to practices, traditions and
customs that he flat out for bade us to engage in. Well,
we're going to see. And then the last part meaning okay,
just says, well, Hallelujah comes from hallal means praise, and

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then y'all lord, Hallelujah the highest praise to God, praise
the Lord. Okay. So again, if you scroll, if you
just type in Hallelujah Knight or as I put up
here in the search bar, what is the origin of
Hallelujah Knight? There are pages and pages and pages different

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churches under different denominations that list that yes, they do
participate in a Hallelujah Knight, and they list their different
days they do it and their different activities. And there
was no one video on YouTube that again that could
give me a year for the origin or even a place,

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you know, city, state, whatever, for the origin of Hallelujah Knight.
But what I did do, and let me get myself
off of here, I just went to YouTube then Hallelujah Knight,
and different churches or organizations or individual people's channels came

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up showing different things. So for that one, they used
an actual Halloween theme for their thumbnail for this one
the show Feet podcast featuring Ghost Babe Hallelujah Night. Well,
we see they're dressed up. Obviously he's Mario, so I'm

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assumed she's Princess Peach. All right, we go down here
to the Gospel Bill show its Hallelujah Knight. Okay, yeah,
nineteen eighty four. And if you just keep scrolling down again,
you see different people, different organizations, and there are different
celebrations that they got going on, which ties into again

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what I was able to find on the Google search.
You have different ministries and denominations that run the range
of how they celebrate Hallelujah Night. Let me tell you
what I mean by that. You have some who a
full on okay, if it's straight up Halloween, celebrating the

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whole shebangan bang. The only difference is you're not going
house to house, you're actually at one meeting location to
do it. Then you have others who are kind of
middle ground. They're like, Okay, we're gonna allow costumes, but
we don't allow anything quote unquote satanic or the money.

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So no demons, no witches, no, well, I guess whatever
they need to be satanic or demonic and that's the
only caveat. Okay, still come, still wear other type of costumes,
We're still gonna have games, still gonna hand out candy,

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do the whole thing. And then you have what I
would call the last category or of believers and denominations
that straight up say no, we are not doing costumes,
We're not doing games, we're not handing out candy, We're
not doing any of that. I'm sorry. They're not doing

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costumes and games. At the bare minimum, what they might
participate in is handing out candy and treats. But that's it.
No costumes allowed, no party games going on. Okay. So yeah,
when it comes to Hallelujah Knight, like I said, there
is no one set way of doing it. Okay, Like

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you have this guy here and his family, Okay, they're
doing the Hallelujah Knight, trunk or treat another name that
these denominations like to use for it. Okay, it's Fall Festival.
And then if you go to look up Fall Festival,
it's the same type of deal. Okay, it's always mashed
and lumped in with the celebration of Halloween. Okay, you

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got this person right here, Okay, yeah, we didn't even
get Hallelujah Knight. We had regular church. So yeah, that
regular church. That's more going into that last category of
people that I saw that like, yeah, now we're more
so having the service. We're just gonna hand out some
candy to y'all. So it's a whole, sweet, whole suite

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of how different churches again and how different denominations do
Hallelujah Knight. And we're gonna go back here again and
look at this the origin they provide an alternative to

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Halloween to give children a fun, safe, and godly alternative celebration.
And I asked the question, is there any were in
the Bible where God gave or said that we as
believers can create alternatives to things that he flat out

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told us not to get involved in whatsoever. All Right,
So now we're about to jump back to scripture. And
because there are a lot of scriptures showing where God
flat out told his people and warned them not to
do this stuff, I just took a screenshot here and

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so this section under the Google search it was called
key Biblical examples and Reasons for the warnings, right, So
not gonna read all of them here, but Jeremiah ten too,
and four, do not learn the way of the nations,

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for the customs of the people's are a delusion wealth.
We already saw the video that established that the basis
for Halloween celebration came from the British House, England, Ireland, Scotland,
other nations. This passage warns against adopting the ways of

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other nations, using the example of decorated wooden idols as
a symbol of futile practices. And like I said, Doudeuronomy
has a lot of scriptures, okay. For instance, Deuteronomy chapter eighteen,
verses nine through fourteen. This section lists forbidden practices including
sacrificing children, divination. Uh huh. Remember how we saw that

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part of the whole basis of this celebration and belief
was the living communing and communicating with the dead, sorcery
and consulting medium or spirits. Remember that was another part
of it again, leaving out the food or setting up
the extra plate at the table for these visiting spirits

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to placate them. These are described as abominable practices of
the surrounding nations. Deuteronomy twelve, verses twenty nine through thirty one.
God explicitly warns the Israelites not to be a snare
by the ways of the nations they were to dispossess

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and not to adopt their practices, which included bowing down
to their gods. Doteronomy seven verses one through five, summed
up before entering the Promised Land, God commands them to
completely destroy the nations there and not to intermarried with

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them or adopt their customs, as these would become a
snare and trap. But it's this next bullet point here
really really pay attention to, as it relates to the
link between Halloween and Hallelujah Night, the danger of syncretism.

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The Bible warns against mixing true worship with pagan practices,
which is known as syncretism and is seen as a
path to spiritual compromise and decay. So again, within all

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of that we see what God explicitly warns his people
not to be ensnared to go in and wipe out
these pagan, ungottenly satanic worship people, telling them not to
adopt their customs. And then we even have a flat
out definition for exactly what the Catholic Church and I'm

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not at this point, I ain't gonna lay continue to
just lay it all on the Catholic Church, because again,
these practices were established hundreds of years ago, so modern
day churches and ministries that y'all can't lay that on
the Catholics. But why y'all still doing it and participating
in it. If you're still doing it participating in it

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Bible warrants against mixing true worship with pagan practices, like, okay,
but what do you mean they're doing it at church? Okay? Yeah,
but are they still dressing up in costumes like the
way the Celtics originally did to full and then pretend
to be these other worldly entities. It doesn't matter if

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the costume is what you deemed satanic or not. The
very act of them dressing up in the costumes on
that night, the same night that the Pagans practiced their
own day. Okay, Yeah, you're still observing one of their
original customs. You're still handing out treats for those who

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bob for apples and play games. Okay, You're still doing
a lot of the same things that the original Pagans
did in worship and honor of South as we again
now know, have to add, no but a few more
other things add to it. Modern day Halloween last but

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a point a call to holiness. The overarching theme is
a call for God's people to be set apart and holy,
which requires maintaining a distinct identity from the world and
it's often godless customs. Exactly one question I'm constantly hearing

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these these people asking these churches, why the why the
world won't come into church? Why won't people come to church?
My answer is always the same, why would they come
to a lot of these church? Just why should they?
You all are practicing the exact same days, the exact

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same traditions, the exact same customs of these ancient pagans,
These ungodly people, or at least, they don't worship and
honor the same God that we as believers do. They
all worship y'ah, not the Father of Jesus the Christ. Yeah,
they got all the gods and goddesses that they worship, okay,

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but not the one we do. These people see the
hypocrisy and they want no parts of it, no parts whatsoever.
So again, what why should they so called come into
the church from out of the world when the Church

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has already brought the world into it, and then also
saying yeah, you know, oh, this person's going to hell.
Those people are going to hell. Those people are going
to hell. These people ain't got it. Those people ain't
got it. Now, let's turn around and do hallelujah night. Hey,

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let's turn around and have Christmas celebration. Okay, again, the
world doesn't want to deal with the hypocrisy and the
myths and the bs they like with shoot up. I'm
going to continue to still do and practice these things.
I might as well stay out here and go all

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the way with them, not just go half the way
and then try to have you people convict me of
feeling bad on sinning, where y'all again are doing the
exact same thing. It's ridiculous. So yes, remember that word
think criticism mixing true worship with pagan practices. All right,

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let's look at our last couple of scriptions. Then we're
gonna wrap it on up. The first set we're gonna
look at is Mark chapter seven, verse six through nine.
Mark seven, verses six through nine, As again, falling along

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with yeah, God nowhere nowhere nowhere ever, gave his believers
the option to create alternative ways to practice ungodly traditions. Alright,

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So Mark chapter seven, verses six through nine, and it
reads Jesus replied, you hypocrites. Isaiah was right when he
prophesied about you, for he wrote, these people honor me
with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship is a farce, mess fake, for they teach

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man made ideas as commands from God. Mm hm, that's
exactly what this is, man made ideas. I mean, because
in the video we always already saw how the Catholic

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Church added their own stamp onto the celebration of Soeurn
by creating that November first and that November two, which
again is ungodly because there is no praying, okay, or
trying to communicate between the living and the dead. But
then now taking the Halloween celebration and then claiming to

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create Hallelujah knighte as an alternative for Christian Okay, again,
that's exactly what this is. Hallelujah Knight is a man
made tradition. And Jesus right here is telling another group

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of people who did that exact same stuff. Oh and
please believe that doing that master that wasn't just exclusive
to the Catholic Church. And the Roman Catholic Oh no, no, no,
you no, no, lots of ancient civilizations and people that
had their time in the sun, so to speak, for
doing that type of stuff. But look what Jesus is

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saying here. They teach man made ideas as commands from God.
Hallelujah knight is not a God is not a God institution.
Because you just looked at those series of scriptures where
God told his people, not told, okay, didn't give them

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the option, commanded them, don't adopt practices, customs, and traditions
from these ungodly people. And nowhere in that nor in
the Bible did we see where he gave them the
option for creating their own alternative versions of those ungodly

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practices and traditions and customs. That's a man made idea,
just like what Jesus is getting all up in these
jokers behind for it right here in martin verse number eight,
for you ignore God's law and substitute your own tradition.
Again again, that's exactly what they're doing with this. That's

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what they're doing with the Hallelujah knite. They're ignoring God's
law commandments, don't adopt these these other nations, practices, customs,
and traditions. Don't buy yourself, buy yourself down to other gods. Okay,
don't do it, have no parts in it. And that's
exactly what they're doing, ignoring God's law and substitute in

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their own tradition, because well, we need an alternative for believers.
Oh okay, according to whom because it Durnshaw wasn't God
the Father or Jesus the Christ all right? Verse number nine?
Then he said, you skillfully sidestep God's law in order

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to hold on to your own tradition. Y'all always say
humans haven't changed, Okay, humans been human in time of Jesus.
Right on up here the October sixteen five SR. James,

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This is the new Living Translation that I'm looking at
the NLT. That might be how you see it in
your search. So yes, this institution of Hallelujah Knight and
the people who defend it, because oh please believe there

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are people who defend it, are doing exactly again with
Jesus is chastising them for doing They skillfully sign step
God's law in order to hold onto their own traditions.
And it is again a man made idea and tradition. Cool.

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So yeah, like I said, Jesus even now, of course
he's not specifically talking about it, Hallelujah knight right here,
But it's the same idea that the exact same train
of thought, something man made, trying to be put under
the umbrella of God to make it more palatable and

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acceptable to people. And then you know, carrying on and
passing on the tradition until somebody, somebody's come and confront
you be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, Wait a minute, what

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godly basis do we have for doing this? Because I
I haven't found it. And that's when you get this
skillful side step in or to just flat out ignoring
all these things. So yeah, no difference, no difference whatsoever.

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All right, let's look at our last ones. And this
for any of y'all who's new to listening to or
watching this, this is what I call one of my
foundational scriptures, one of the ones I base all of
the teachings off of Matthew chapter twenty eight, verses eighteen

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through twenty. Matter of fact, anybody listening to this who
has been listening for a while probably back. Oh God, dog,
here he goes again. Matthew twenty eight. Well, yeah, that's
why I call it a foundation. Okay, you ain't moving
no foundations that you just completely uprooting and get rid

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of it, and it's down in the ground, but it
ain't going nowhere. Matthew Chapter eight, verses eighteen through twenty,
and it reads, Jesus came and told his disciples, I
have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.
Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing

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them in the name of the Father and the Son
and the Holy Spirit, Verse number twenty. That's the focus
scripture for this. Teach these new disciples to obey all
the commands I have given you, and be sure of this.
I am with you always, even to the end of
the age. So if you really want to get down

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to the nitty of the gritty of it, Jesus is
telling the ones who outside of him are directly responsible
for us eventually hearing and learning the Word of God,
to teach all disciples, and you know, hope that those

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people would then teach their disciples to obey the commands
that were given to us. Jesus, being part of the Godhead,
had already given them, and by extension us the commands
of not to adopt other nations ungodly practices and traditions.

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And again there was nowhere in there well was mentioned.
But you all can create alternatives to it. Mm hm,
So obey all the commands and be sure of this.
I am with you always, even to the end of

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the age. Jesus ain't dead, God ain't dead. And they're watching,
they are watching right. Well, that's it is far as
the scriptures, man, as far as this teaching. Now when
it comes down to it, and I'm sure somebody will say,

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what are you saying we shouldn't do it? We should
do it? That's what to it. That is solely up
to you all individual I'm not God, so I'm in
no position to judge you and y'all grown people, and
ain't none of my kids, so I'm in no position
to tell you what to do either. But we did

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look at enough evidence here to including scriptural evidence, to
know that that excuse of well, we need an alternative
for us to know that is not scripture nowhere in
the Bible. So hey, do with that which you will. Oh,

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thank you, seer James, appreciate it, and thank you for your participation,
and I'm pretty sure Apostle Jones had to hop off
hear that guy stays busy, but want to thank him too.
So yeah, there it is, folks, There it is. And
I said that is all I have for tonight, so
I'll aluja night. Yeah. Okay, So this will be getting

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loaded up to all the usual spots. If you want
to go back and listen to this episode then you
can definitely will be able to find it on Spotify, Amazon, Audible, iHeartRadio,
and speaker dot Com. There's already been live stream on Rumble,

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so it'll stay on there on the Rumble Breaking Tradition channel,
and I think YouTube changed up their live streaming because
it was my intent to also live stream this on
YouTube tonight as well. So once it's done, I'm gonna
see about go ahead and getting it uploaded the YouTube
as well, if you're a YouTuber and you want to

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be able to go back there and watch it over again.
So guys, as always, I thank you for listening to
joining this old country boy Joe on about it for
a minute again on October thirty. First, I have no say,
and to be completely honest, not really much interest in
what any of you all or anybody else chooses to do,

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because like I said, that is between y'all and God.
But what I am interested in and am looking forward to,
God willing is coming back here next week because we
will be starting on a new series and boy, oh boy,
it's gonna be a hot one, y'all. So I am
looking for me and my guest co hosts are looking

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forward to it. So guys, until then, as I always say,
it is perfectly fine to love yourselves, but seek to
try to love other people even more so, even if
you have to do it from afar, stay safe, stay
prayed up, and no matter what you do on October
thirty first and every day, always stay safe, Always stay

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prayed up, always stay watchful, okay, because you best believe
the dog worn devil is all right. And again I
tell God brings us back together. If God brings us
back together, I will see y'all when I see you. Peace,