Pastor Shane Vaughn exposes the LIES OF LENT and the TRUTH of MARDI GRAS

Pastor Shane Vaughn exposes the LIES OF LENT and the TRUTH of MARDI GRAS Chapter 1: The Origin of Religion 0:00 0 seconds [Music] 0:09 9 seconds here in Louisiana and Mississippi where I live it is a season called Mardi Gras 0:17 17 seconds and lent is happening as we speak I'd like to talk to you about this season 0:26 26 seconds I want you to understand the truth because the truth really does matter long before there was Christianity 0:35 35 seconds there was religion there's always been religion from the earliest days of humanity they've always known 0:44 44 seconds that there was a higher reality that was in charge and rightly so 0:51 51 seconds because only a fool in his heart doesn't believe that there is a God of some type 0:58 58 seconds of some sort now these people worshiped anything they could find the 1:07 1 minute, 7 seconds Sun the moon the stars the zodiac uh the seasons whatever they could worship Chapter 2: Old Religion and the Call to Abraham 1:15 1 minute, 15 seconds they worshiped good intentions they meant to appease the Gods 1:24 1 minute, 24 seconds but during that time there was a man named Abraham and he also practiced the religion called the old 1:33 1 minute, 33 seconds religion collectively we call this paganism 1:41 1 minute, 41 seconds old ideology and yeah built on the premise 1:49 1 minute, 49 seconds that there are Gods aplenty Not Just One but many 1:58 1 minute, 58 seconds Ben Abraham believed that he was a pagan he practiced the Pagan religion 2:06 2 minutes, 6 seconds one day there was a Clarion call made to Abraham to come out 2:13 2 minutes, 13 seconds from those Pagan religions and this voice was the voice of the almighty Chapter 3: Abraham and the One True God 2:20 2 minutes, 20 seconds Yahweh the one true creator God 2:25 2 minutes, 25 seconds [Music] 2:26 2 minutes, 26 seconds they in those days did not know this God Abraham would come to know him 2:35 2 minutes, 35 seconds one-on-one from that encounter Abraham produced a great nation that still exists today 2:44 2 minutes, 44 seconds it's called the nation of Israel and no I'm not speaking of that plot of land in Palestine 2:52 2 minutes, 52 seconds I'm speaking of a people that have spread out all over the Known World all right what does 3:00 3 minutes that have to do with lent and Mardi Gras everything when Yahweh called Abraham out of those 3:07 3 minutes, 7 seconds religions he said I don't want you to ever go back to participating in the old religions I 3:17 3 minutes, 17 seconds want you to follow the one true way of the one true God I'm going to teach you a narrow path that I want you to walk Chapter 4: The Narrow Path and Separation from Others 3:25 3 minutes, 25 seconds down it's going to separate you from everyone else all right let's fast forward 3:32 3 minutes, 32 seconds thousands of years basically four thousand years when the early Christian Church 3:39 3 minutes, 39 seconds was being formulated in its early stages about 200 years after Yeshua Jesus went 3:50 3 minutes, 50 seconds to his father in Heaven the church began to grow exponentially all over the globe the 4:00 4 minutes church was growing perhaps too quickly because there was a man by the name of 4:09 4 minutes, 9 seconds Constantine you can do this research yourself I don't need to teach all of that you can do that 4:18 4 minutes, 18 seconds they meant to catch Christianity and make it the cool religion of the world Chapter 5: The Spread of the Catholic Faith and Resistance 4:26 4 minutes, 26 seconds everyone had to come in to alignment with the Catholic Church 4:33 4 minutes, 33 seconds it was very dangerous in those days not to be a Catholic if you don't believe me ask King James of England 4:41 4 minutes, 41 seconds and asked Queen Elizabeth because our very own sister Queen Mary had to have her killed for not 4:49 4 minutes, 49 seconds a good Catholic as the Catholic faith began to spread 4:55 4 minutes, 55 seconds they met great resistance from the old religion colloquially known as paganism 5:04 5 minutes, 4 seconds which is pagans Druids Celtics okay 5:11 5 minutes, 11 seconds so the Catholic church was at a point dealing with these people that for them to come into the Catholic 5:20 5 minutes, 20 seconds church and they wanted to it was safe to be Catholic and yet the Catholic Church demanded they convert Chapter 6: Incorporating Pagan Celebrations into the Church 5:29 5 minutes, 29 seconds a compromise was made between their love for their old ways talking about the pagans they are their 5:38 5 minutes, 38 seconds love for their old celebrations their old holidays how do we incorporate that into the Christian Church well we can't it's 5:47 5 minutes, 47 seconds impossible the Bible says what Fellowship hath the works of darkness with the works of light you cannot do it 5:54 5 minutes, 54 seconds not in the True Church of God you can't however if you're building another church 6:01 6 minutes, 1 second that is not rooted in Apostolic Faith then what do you do you tell everybody 6:08 6 minutes, 8 seconds in the Pagan World come on in where there's safety and what we'll do is we 6:14 6 minutes, 14 seconds will incorporate your lifestyle into the church now before you think that that is strange we do the same Chapter 7: Incorporating Sinners into the Church 6:23 6 minutes, 23 seconds thing today when we invite Sinners into the church to bring their lifestyle and sit right 6:30 6 minutes, 30 seconds among us and we find a way to vacillate we find a way to tolerate their 6:37 6 minutes, 37 seconds lifestyle and incorporate it into our worship experiences 6:43 6 minutes, 43 seconds so as this was happening there was an old old practice that I want to teach 6:52 6 minutes, 52 seconds you about today that found its way into the church you guessed it Lent 7:00 7 minutes now to help you understand this before I talk about lent I need to talk to you 7:07 7 minutes, 7 seconds about what happens right before lent and I've actually a great person to hear 7:14 7 minutes, 14 seconds this from because I am from Louisiana born and raised just outside of New 7:21 7 minutes, 21 seconds Orleans the capital the world capital of Mardi Gras innocent looking Chapter 8: The meaning of Mardi Gras 7:28 7 minutes, 28 seconds fine it was probably my favorite holiday I loved Mardi Gras well 7:37 7 minutes, 37 seconds I had no idea what I was loving I want to explain it to you Mardi Gras because you can't understand lent 7:44 7 minutes, 44 seconds without understanding Mardi Gras Mardi Gras comes from the word Carnival 7:51 7 minutes, 51 seconds Khan eval if you break that word down and you get Carney it means flesh Baal 7:58 7 minutes, 58 seconds means farewell so Carnival are Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday 8:06 8 minutes, 6 seconds as it's known was all indicative of a period of time that was allowed into the church because 8:15 8 minutes, 15 seconds it's practiced heavily in the Catholic Europe European nations of the world 8:22 8 minutes, 22 seconds this period of the celebration of everything that Yahweh hates the flesh 8:30 8 minutes, 30 seconds your entire Bible speaks to you of what killing the flesh May the flesh Don't Walk In the Flesh but walk after the Chapter 9: The Meaning of Mardi Gras 8:39 8 minutes, 39 seconds spirit the word Mardi Gras is a celebration of fleshly indulgences 8:47 8 minutes, 47 seconds but why did they have Mardi Gras because they knew lent was coming Ash 8:55 8 minutes, 55 seconds Wednesday was coming and they knew that they would enter a 40-day period of fasting we're going to talk about that 9:03 9 minutes, 3 seconds today so before that 40 days begin let's have a Fat Tuesday 9:10 9 minutes, 10 seconds where we can celebrate the flesh before we crucify the flesh we're going to 9:17 9 minutes, 17 seconds elevate everything derogatory everything Bodacious everything that's carnal 9:25 9 minutes, 25 seconds Carnival we're going to celebrate sin before we fast to try to get rid of sin 9:34 9 minutes, 34 seconds we're going to celebrate sin I hope you begin to see the idiocy of the entire Chapter 10: The Idiocy of the Entire Setup 9:41 9 minutes, 41 seconds setup lit according to the Catholic church and I'll read you their statement in a moment has one purpose 9:50 9 minutes, 50 seconds and yet Mardi Gras sanctioned by the Catholic church is the total dichotomy 9:56 9 minutes, 56 seconds the oxymoron the paradox of what lent is supposed to be about 10:03 10 minutes, 3 seconds so before you believe the lie of Lent you have to understand the truth of 10:11 10 minutes, 11 seconds Mardi Gras Mardi Gras has always been a celebration of pagan gods 10:19 10 minutes, 19 seconds think about it just stay with me please don't go anywhere just because you don't agree with me listen and study it for 10:28 10 minutes, 28 seconds yourself so one of the Gods of Mardi Gras that you need to know about if you've 10:36 10 minutes, 36 seconds ever been to a Mardi Gras parade then you know about this God um the first one I want to talk about is Chapter 11: False Gods and their Worship 10:44 10 minutes, 44 seconds Bacchus Bacchus is the god of wine a pagan God remember I told you in the beginning 10:51 10 minutes, 51 seconds before Christianity existed religion existed the worship of false gods existed that's why the first commandment 10:59 10 minutes, 59 seconds has shall have no other gods before me or love the Lord your God with all your heart and then no other gods before me Yahweh hates this worship or this 11:09 11 minutes, 9 seconds celebration of false gods Bacchus is a false god Venus the goddess of love 11:18 11 minutes, 18 seconds a false god Endymion Orpheus Rex ing 11:26 11 minutes, 26 seconds I could continue on and on and on all of these floats are made after these false gods then you go out there and bring Chapter 12: The Dark Side of Mardi Gras 11:35 11 minutes, 35 seconds your children to celebrate here in New Orleans murdered they just murdered so many people this week at Mardi Gras you 11:44 11 minutes, 44 seconds bring them out to celebrate the flashing of women's uh privacy the exposure of 11:51 11 minutes, 51 seconds degradation you bring them to celebrate and then you teach them to raise their hands to these false gods that's floating by and saying bless me with 12:00 12 minutes something sir or throw me something give me something receiving from them 12:09 12 minutes, 9 seconds what you should be receiving from God Yahweh Mal I'm not going to spend more time on Mardi Gras 12:17 12 minutes, 17 seconds all of your research because even most of Christianity agrees with what I'm saying about Mardi Gras they know it's a 12:26 12 minutes, 26 seconds righteous party of the flesh all right but what about lit now Pastor Von we can 12:34 12 minutes, 34 seconds understand you being against Mardi Gras we could almost meet you there but lit is the purest of intentions as a Chapter 13: Ash Wednesday and the Purpose of Lent 12:44 12 minutes, 44 seconds matter of fact let me read for you now you know Ash Wednesday right after Fat Tuesday after that great month-long 12:51 12 minutes, 51 seconds celebration of we go down to the church we get an ash cross put on our forehead and now we're going to dedicate 13:00 13 minutes ourselves for 40 days to prepare for Good Friday and Easter Sunday 13:08 13 minutes, 8 seconds well first of all please please please go watch my video it's on 13:16 13 minutes, 16 seconds fhtv.tv f as in Frank H as in Harvest TV DOT TV and do a search for the story you 13:26 13 minutes, 26 seconds were never supposed to know or type in the word Good Friday or type in the word Easter you'll find out that 13:33 13 minutes, 33 seconds none of those are what you thought they were but I digress and get back to lent so according to the Catholic church this 13:42 13 minutes, 42 seconds is the purpose of Lent let me read it to you the real aim of Lent is above all else Chapter 14: Lent and the Preparation for Easter 13:50 13 minutes, 50 seconds to prepare men for the celebration of the death and resurrection of Christ 13:57 13 minutes, 57 seconds pause now we're going to prepare men for the celebration of the death of 14:06 14 minutes, 6 seconds Christ right after we had a celebration of the antithesis of the death of Christ sin blatant sin supported by the 14:15 14 minutes, 15 seconds Catholic Church promoted Mardi Gras is a Catholic celebration it's the dichotomous celebration of what 14:24 14 minutes, 24 seconds lent is and it's sponsored by the same church if you will I continue 14:32 14 minutes, 32 seconds better the preparation the more effective the celebration of Easter will be 14:39 14 minutes, 39 seconds one can effectively relive the mystery only with purified Chapter 15: The Purpose of Lent 14:46 14 minutes, 46 seconds mind and purified heart I do agree with that by the way the purpose of Lent is to provide that 14:53 14 minutes, 53 seconds purification by weaning men from sin and selfishness 15:00 15 minutes through self-denial and prayer and by creating in them the desire to do God's 15:09 15 minutes, 9 seconds will and to make his kingdom come by making it come first in all of their 15:16 15 minutes, 16 seconds hearts man that sounds amazing I'm in full agreement actually with the aim of Lent 15:25 15 minutes, 25 seconds the problem is it's not true I'll explain why it sounds good but according to the word 15:33 15 minutes, 33 seconds of God 40 days of fasting does not purify us but rather the shed blood of 15:42 15 minutes, 42 seconds yahshua the Messiah is our purification so in fact lit is teaching you a 15:50 15 minutes, 50 seconds lifestyle in these two celebrations that is redundant throughout the whole of Christendom here it is Chapter 16: The Celebration of Lent 15:59 15 minutes, 59 seconds live like you want to during the week as long as you come to church on Sunday 16:09 16 minutes, 9 seconds and celebrate the Eucharist go back out and have a Mardi Gras celebrate sin take part of it as long as 16:19 16 minutes, 19 seconds you come to the church as long as you come and take the Eucharist you can go back out and have your Mardi Gras 16:27 16 minutes, 27 seconds whereas the word of Yahweh teaches the total opposite of that so the 16:34 16 minutes, 34 seconds celebration of Lent is the celebration of a lie because in fact they are teaching you to 16:43 16 minutes, 43 seconds dedicate this 40 days a year whereas the word of God teaches you to celebrate every single day of your life 16:52 16 minutes, 52 seconds to Consecration and living a life free from the degradation of sin Chapter 17: The Non-Observance of Lent at First Harvest Ministries 17:01 17 minutes, 1 second now I want to go back if I can and explain to you that number one the 17:08 17 minutes, 8 seconds reason we don't celebrate lent here at first Harvest Ministries is very simple not because we're anti-catholic not 17:18 17 minutes, 18 seconds because we're anti-lint but we are anti-antic 17:25 17 minutes, 25 seconds thing that opposes yahweh's word no matter what church teaches it we 17:32 17 minutes, 32 seconds stand against it for example lent was never observed ever 17:39 17 minutes, 39 seconds by the head of our church who is that yahshua not one time do we see him celebrating 17:48 17 minutes, 48 seconds lent and we choose to walk in the steps that he walked in 17:54 17 minutes, 54 seconds now he never observed Easter never observed lit however he did 18:03 18 minutes, 3 seconds command Us in John 13 1-17 to keep the Passover Chapter 18: Observing the Passover and Unleavened Bread 18:11 18 minutes, 11 seconds and the days of unleavened bread now we have simply chosen 18:18 18 minutes, 18 seconds to obey what he said to do none of these other things are in his Commandments to us 18:25 18 minutes, 25 seconds I want to go back and talk now and there's so many other scriptures that I could show you but I would rather go 18:32 18 minutes, 32 seconds back to lit's ancient Roots now fruits have meaning 18:41 18 minutes, 41 seconds you know it's funny to me and all of the talk about the Confederate flag 18:48 18 minutes, 48 seconds I live in the Deep South and the flag of the Confederacy 18:54 18 minutes, 54 seconds uh doesn't mean to a lot of Southerners what it means to Northerners and other people it has a different meaning Chapter 19: The Roots of the Confederate Flag 19:03 19 minutes, 3 seconds however the roots of that flag are intermingled with a very ugly 19:11 19 minutes, 11 seconds practice slavery but what's funny to me is when you try to tell someone 19:19 19 minutes, 19 seconds well that's not what the Confederate flag means to me they immediately respond and say these words yes but the 19:28 19 minutes, 28 seconds roots of that flag are filthy oh really are you ready to go there 19:35 19 minutes, 35 seconds then let's go there Roots matter now do you see Roots do matter and they give meaning 19:44 19 minutes, 44 seconds to symbols and celebrations so let's talk about Lentz ancient Roots if I may 19:52 19 minutes, 52 seconds the word lent means spring March early spring the word lent comes 19:59 19 minutes, 59 seconds from the Anglo-Saxon word LinkedIn l-e-n-c-t-e-n this remember I told you before there Chapter 20: The Origin of Lent and its Pagan Roots 20:08 20 minutes, 8 seconds was Christianity there was religion Lenten comes from the old religion the 20:15 20 minutes, 15 seconds old ways of the wise according to Witchcraft it's an ancient Babylonian mystery is what it is and it's always 20:24 20 minutes, 24 seconds included 40 days now this comes from the worship of a 20:31 20 minutes, 31 seconds goddess a false god among the pagans and it was a time an annual Festival 20:39 20 minutes, 39 seconds every year that happened in the old religion known as weeping 20:46 20 minutes, 46 seconds for tammuz t-a-m-m-u-z you can look that up on your 20:53 20 minutes, 53 seconds own who was tamus he was the false Messiah of the Babylonian people 21:00 21 minutes he was a satanic counterfeit of Yeshua the Messiah 21:07 21 minutes, 7 seconds the Feast of tammuz was always celebrated in the month of June that's where your maypole and all of these Chapter 21: Weeping for Tammuz 21:16 21 minutes, 16 seconds things come from now lent was held 40 days before 21:26 21 minutes, 26 seconds uh tammuz is celebration and it was known as weeping and rejoicing it was a 21:33 21 minutes, 33 seconds mixture of the two for tammuz this is why lent means spring it took place in 21:41 21 minutes, 41 seconds the early spring now we can find this celebration in your Bible you can turn right now and read 21:49 21 minutes, 49 seconds about this Lent celebration it's in Ezekiel chapter 8 verses 14 through 21:56 21 minutes, 56 seconds verse 15. I'll just read one little line then he brought me to the door of the Gate of yahweh's house or yahweh's own 22:06 22 minutes, 6 seconds church which was toward the North and behold they're set women 22:13 22 minutes, 13 seconds weeping for tamus now this was a weeping period of 40 days Chapter 22: The Origin of Lent 22:22 22 minutes, 22 seconds now known as lent why because when these pagans came into the church they brought 22:30 22 minutes, 30 seconds these 40 days of weeping for tamus with them and the church sanctioned it renamed it 22:39 22 minutes, 39 seconds lent for this great spring pagan celebration 22:46 22 minutes, 46 seconds now why did the church Institute this pagan holiday because they had to please this group of 22:55 22 minutes, 55 seconds people to get them to join the church then they christianized it and then put 23:00 23 minutes a mask on it confusion calling it Lent Yahweh commanded his people to follow 23:08 23 minutes, 8 seconds him not the traditions of men yahweh's ways are holy they separate us 23:16 23 minutes, 16 seconds from this world they are what we are to follow and I want to ask you today before I 23:25 23 minutes, 25 seconds leave can you show me Lent in your Bible Chapter 23: The Biblical practice of Lent and Ash Wednesday 23:32 23 minutes, 32 seconds can you show me Ash Wednesday in your Bible can you 23:39 23 minutes, 39 seconds if you cannot then you are not following a Biblical practice 23:45 23 minutes, 45 seconds in fact you're following a practice who's are ancient dark 23:53 23 minutes, 53 seconds and deep it's a tree of death sometimes mistaken as a tree of life 24:02 24 minutes, 2 seconds there is good and evil on this tree do you know how because when evil is wrapped in good 24:11 24 minutes, 11 seconds intentions it becomes the tree of death remember the tree of death has good 24:18 24 minutes, 18 seconds and evil meaning the good shrouds the evil to where only those who have ears Chapter 24: Discerning the Evil behind the Good 24:28 24 minutes, 28 seconds to hear and eyes to see can discern the evil hiding behind the good 24:36 24 minutes, 36 seconds do you have those eyes today do you have those ears if you do 24:43 24 minutes, 43 seconds you would never celebrate Lent or Mardi Gras have a good day thank you 24:51 24 minutes, 51 seconds for listening to us today 24:55 24 minutes, 55 seconds [Music]