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TABERNACLE AMONG US
Shane VaughnSeries: STANDALONE BOOK
Effect When believers participate in these holidays, they are not engaging in neu- tral cultural activities. They are participating in the pagan circle—re- hearsing Babylon’s story rather than Yahweh’s story. Each celebration pulls them deeper into counterfeit ... circle has influenced even sincere believers. This requires: • Acknowledging that most “Christian” holidays are actually Christian- ized pagan celebrations • Repenting of participation in Babylonian practices, even when done with good intentions • Choosing to orient your family’s life around Yahweh
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Are Birthdays Pagan?
Shane VaughnDeuteronomy 4:2Series: STANDALONE BOOK
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- …he birthday. It is the wicked heart of a tyrant. Pagan Participation Is Not Pagan Origin If birthdays are forbidden simply because pagans celebrated them, the…
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- …an action does not make the action itself pagan. Pagan participation does not equal pagan origin. Christmas, Easter, and Halloween can be shown to possess doc…
Holy Halloween?
Shane Vaughn2023-10-31Romans 11:16
dead) and demands that covenant believers separate themselves from all pagan customs and choose the Tree of Life (obedience to Yahweh) over the Tree of Death (rebellion and worldly participation). The sermon emphasizes that believers must teach their children
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Pagan Festivals Treatise
Shane Vaughn
passages are consistently misquoted every winter: Romans 14:5 Colossians 2:16 Both are routinely used to justify participation in pagan festivals, to undermine the covenant calendar, or to silence those who stand firmly for Yahweh's appointed times ... Easter no Saturnalia no solstice feasts no worship days at all Anyone quoting Romans 14 to justify participating in pagan festivals is misusing Scripture and placing Paul in conflict with the Torah—something Paul himself condemned (Rom. 3:31). This
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A Spring Fling - Sermon About the Spring Celebrations
Shane Vaughn2023-03-18Romans 1:25
traditions and return to Torah observance and the feasts of Yahweh. The message traces pagan symbolism through modern celebrations and church practices, claiming believers are participating in sexual perversion and mystery religion without understanding the origins
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Hidden in the House - Athaliah Revealed
Shane Vaughn2023-11-17Revelation 2:20
Pastor Shane Vaughn teaches through the story of Athaliah and Joash, revealing
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Shane Vaughn Preaches "No More Pigs On The Altar" an explanation of Hanukkah
Shane Vaughn2017-12-18John 10:22–24
In No More Pigs on the Altar, Pastor Shane Vaughn explains Hanukkah
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The Plain Principles of Paganism
Shane Vaughn2023-12-16John 4:23
Pastor Shane Vaughn teaches that pagans are worshippers but not true worshippers, distinguishing between worship in spirit and truth versus false worship. He explains that there are two opposing systems represented by cl…
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in 10 minutes: Why We Don't Celebrate Christmas in our ministry
Shane Vaughn2024-12-24No scripture reference explicitly cited in the transcript.
The message explains why the speaker and his congregation do not celebrate Christmas, emphasizing separation from pagan customs and faithfulness to Yahweh’s appointed celebrations. It presents Christmas as a later blendi…
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Shane Vaughn Teaches The Heavenly Scroll Of Revelation
Shane Vaughn2011-09-11Revelation 5:1–5
teaches that believers are not resurrected merely to enter heaven but to become members of the divine family and participate in the government of the Earth. He also distinguishes Yeshua from Yahweh, arguing that Yeshua is Elohim without being ... Enoch and the historian Josephus. He argues that the heavenly message was known before the development of later pagan religious systems. He distinguishes the original heavenly scroll from the Greek, Babylonian, and astrological interpretations that he believes corrupted its meaning
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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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Rom 14:5 Proves Why We Shouldn't Keep the Sabbath — Doesn't It?
Shane VaughnRomans 14:5
This teaching addresses the common objection that Romans 14:5 abolishes Sabbath observance. Shane Vaughn argues that the chapter’s context concerns food disputes and voluntary fasting days among early believers rather th…
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Part 2 - The Return of Elijah - The Spirit of Elijah
Shane Vaughn2018-08-05Malachi 4:5–6Series: The Return of Elijah, The Spirit of Elijah
1. Pentecostal heritage and the recovery of Hebrew roots — 00:03–02
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Echoes of Israel (Part 8) Pagan Holidays; Sunna, Ishtar, Oestra, Easter 4/18/25 - Zoom Bible Study
Shane Vaughn2025-04-18Deuteronomy 12:29-32Series: Echoes of Israel
This lesson uses Deuteronomy 12 as an "Echoes of Israel" warning against adopting the religious practices of surrounding nations. The speaker traces Easter to pagan spring fertility celebrations associated with Ishtar, O…
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In Defense of the Holy Days
Shane Vaughn2017-04-05Exodus 31:13
Pastor Shane Vaughn presents an extended biblical defense of the continued observance
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The story you were never supposed to know
Shane VaughnSeries: STANDALONE BOOK
Title: The story you were never supposed to know Full Disclosure is required before you read one more line of this life changing booklet. What you are about to learn and can never unlean has absolutely nothing to …
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The Sacred Mystery of Union
Shane VaughnGenesis 2:24Series: STANDALONE BOOK
This book presents marriage as a sacred covenant mystery rooted in Genesis
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The Story That You Were Never Supposed to Know
Shane Vaughn2020-10-18Deuteronomy 12:2-8
The speaker teaches that God commanded his people not to worship him in the customs of the nations, reading Deuteronomy 12. He argues that the sun, moon and stars were created as markers for God's appointed feasts and th…
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The Zadokite Calendar 2nd Revision
Shane Vaughn2026-03-26Daniel 7:25
Comprehensive doctrinal work presenting the Zadokite calendar as the original biblical timekeeping
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10 Minutes of Truth - Why Do You Celebrate Easter?
Shane Vaughn2016-03-14None
The speaker explains why his ministry at First Harvest does not celebrate Easter. He argues from the sign of Jonah that Yeshua had to be in the grave three days and three nights, or 72 hours, and that a Friday burial wit…
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