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Christmas, the cute deception
Shane VaughnDeuteronomy 12:29-32Series: STANDALONE BOOK
This booklet examines the origins of Christmas and argues that the holiday
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TABERNACLE AMONG US
Shane VaughnSeries: STANDALONE BOOK
Christmas: The Winter Solstice Deception Christmas represents perhaps the most successful Babylonian infiltration into Christianity. Everything associated with traditional Christmas celebra- tion derives from pagan winter solstice worship: • December 25th - Birthday of multiple sun gods (Mithra, Sol Invictus, etc.) • Christmas ... Biblical Festivals: Passover and Tabernacles—appointed times established by Yahweh Pagan Festivals: Winter solstice celebrations borrowed from multiple pagan religions Prophetic Significance: Both births align with messianic prophecy and bib- lical symbolism Cultural Accommodation: December 25th accommodates pagan tradition with
The Hedge or The Hammer
Shane Vaughn2026-05-23Jeremiah 8:5-7Series: SERMON NOTES
This three-hour Sabbath Bible study explores the biblical distinction between chastisement
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THE DREAM TEAM
Shane Vaughn2014-06-01Series: STANDALONE BOOK
these festivals to bet- ter illustrate the true purpose of the feast. One must read no further than the Encyclopedia Britannica for the very proof of these statements; “The sanctity of special times such as Christmas and Easter ... observance of Passover, the Lords supper. Unlike the modern church, those early believers were clueless of any festival called Easter or Christmas, the records of history show that they kept only the original feast that God commanded. Finally, allow
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Revealed Treasures of The Tabernacle
Shane Vaughn2026-10-13
pagan nonsense. It is the lie of the Incarnation. There is hardly a pagan religion in the world that does not teach an incarnation: divinity entering the natural world in human form. Nearly every pagan religion has a god called ... Tammuz, the dying and rising god of the pagans. They mourned for him and waited to see whether he would come back. That same pagan mourning and those same pagan festivals were later dressed in church clothes and brought into
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Pagan Festivals Treatise
Shane Vaughn
people of FHMI joyfully honor His ways. 2. FHMI Rejects All Festivals Rooted in Pagan Worship, Even if Christianized This includes, without limitation: ❌ Christmas (Saturnalia / Sol Invictus) ❌ Easter (Ishtar / Ashtoreth) ❌ Lent (weeping for Tammuz, Ezek. 8:14) ❌ Halloween (Samhain / ancestor ... embraced Christmas, Easter, and other Romanized traditions from the beginning. History says the opposite. For over 300 years after Yahshua, the followers of The Way: refused pagan feast days, refused Christianized pagan days, refused Roman innovations, refused solstice festivals, refused
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An introduction of the Feast of the 7th month
Shane Vaughn2017-09-14None
An Introduction of the Feast of the 7th Month is an introductory
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The Story That You Were Never Supposed to Know
Shane Vaughn2020-10-18Deuteronomy 12:2-8
Tammuz, perverted those signs into the customs behind Easter and Christmas. He quotes a pagan source and several Old Testament passages, urges the congregation to keep God's festivals and Hanukkah instead, and closes with practical advice on handling family
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Rightly Dividing the Word in the Season of Pagan Festivals: A Quick-Reference Guide for the Faithful
Shane VaughnRomans 14:5
verses most often used to defend pagan festivals. It argues Romans 14:5 concerns disputes over which days to fast, not holy days, and Colossians 2:16 defends believers judged by pagan ascetics for keeping Yahweh's calendar, with ... italicized 'is' removed so only 'the body of Christ' may judge. It sets out FHMI's rejection of Christmas, Easter, Lent, Halloween and similar days, with quick responses and an early-church appendix
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The Feast Portraying the Wedding
Shane Vaughn2016-12-18Exodus 12:16
This sermon teaches that the biblical feast days reveal the stages of
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The Upward Journey
Shane Vaughn2024-06-16Series: STANDALONE BOOK
This book introduces FHMI’s framework for Hebraic biblical interpretation, explaining the
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The Story You Were Never Supposed to Know: Once Upon a Time
Shane VaughnRevelation 18:4
This booklet contrasts two calendars: YAHWEH's appointed times (Passover through the
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The Exclusive Covenant of Israel
Shane Vaughn2026-05-01Psalms 147:19–20
This teaching establishes that covenant life belongs specifically to Israel and not
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The story you were never supposed to know
Shane VaughnSeries: STANDALONE BOOK
replaced Pass- over with the newly popularized festival of Easter. They weren’t translating a word — they were preserving a tradition. Thus, in one act of translation manipulation, Passover be- came Easter, and the Church drifted another step away from ... first realize he is in. Many believers today sit within churches that celebrate Bab- ylon’s festivals and call them Christian — Christmas, Easter, Lent, Halloween — and yet never question their origin. Truth begins with honest confession: “Father, I have inherited
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MOnthly Newsletter October 2026
Shane Vaughn2026-10-21
Tertullian, On Idolatry, ch. 14 The pagans would never keep a Christian feast. But the Christians were keeping the pagan ones — and calling it liberty. The church did not stumble into the pagan calendar by accident. It walked ... watch the sermon by that title on YouTube at @FirstHarvestMinistries. Rightly Dividing the Word in the Season of Pagan Festivals — Romans 14:5 and Colossians 2:16 answered. The Trouble With Time — YAHWEH's calendar restored. The Spirit
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Thanksgiving - A Worthy Celebration, free from Paganism.
Shane VaughnJohn 10:22–23Series: Stand Alone
This teaching explains why First Harvest Ministries observes Thanksgiving while rejecting holidays
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thanksgiving a worthy celebration for believers no it s not pagan
Shane Vaughn2025-11-26John 10:22
The message explains why First Harvest Ministries celebrates Thanksgiving while rejecting holidays
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Part 2 & 3 The Hedge and The Hammer
Shane Vaughn2026-05-24
church. We are not the casual Sunday-keeping crowd. We are not the pre-trib rapture, eat-bacon-on-Easter, Christmas-tree-in-the-living-room, name-it-and-claim-it crowd. We are a covenant people. We keep ... International · Rev. John Shane Vaughn · Page 51 of the feasts, when most of the Christian world is still celebrating pagan festivals. We have been given the truth of YAHWEH'S name and Yahshua's name, when most of the Christian
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Hanukkah, the Miracle of the Minority
Shane Vaughn2024-12-10John 10:20–24
Pastor Shane Vaughn presents Hanukkah as a celebration of spiritual courage, religious
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When Time Tells Truth
Shane Vaughn2026-03-03Series: STANDALONE BOOK
again: “Let no one pass judgment on you... with regard to a festival.” If the Colossians weren’t observing festivals, why would anyone be judging them? You don’t get judged for not doing some- thing. They were being judged ... Modern Christianity has largely abandoned the concept of ap- pointed times. The church calendar substitutes different appoint- ments (Christmas, Easter, Pentecost Sunday) that do not align with the biblical moedim. And increasingly, even these substitutes are being abandoned in favor