Lesson 40 - They Shall Make Merchandise of You

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Lesson 40: They Shall Make Merchandise of You
02/13/2020
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01.) 2 Peter 2:1-3 (False prophets make merchandise of you).
02.) Merriam Webster Dictionary: Heresy - Adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma; Denial of a revealed truth by a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church; An opinion or doctrine contrary to church dogma; Disent or deviation from a dominant theory, opinion, or practice; An opinion, doctrine, or practice contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs or standards.
03.) Merriam Webster Dictionary: Dogma - Something held as an established opinion, especially an authoritative tenet (tenet - a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true); A code of such tenets; A point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequae grounds; A doctrine or body of doctrines concerning faith or morals formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church.
04.) Merriam Webster Dictionary: Pernicious - Highly injurious or destructive; Deadly; Wicked.
05.) Merriam Webster Dictionary: Merchandise - The commodities or goods that are bought and sold in business; Wares; The occupation of a merchant; Trade; To buy and sell in business; To promote for or as if for sale; To carry on commerce; Trade.
06.) InfoPlease.com
https://www.infoplease.com/calendar-holidays/major-holidays/valentines-day-history
Valentine's Day History
Pagan festivals, Christian saints, Chaucer's love birds, and the Greeting Card Association of America
by Borgna Brunner
Roman Roots
The history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by various fanciful legends. There are some suggestions that the holiday's roots are in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. Pope Gelasius I recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day.
Valentines Galore
Which St. Valentine this early pope intended to honor remains a mystery: according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there were at least three early Christian saints by that name. One was a priest in Rome, another a bishop in Terni, and of a third St. Valentine almost nothing is known except that he met his end in Africa. Rather astonishingly, all three Valentines were said to have been martyred on Feb. 14.
Most scholars believe that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a priest who attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius II around 270. At this stage, the factual ends and the mythic begins. According to one legend, Claudius II had prohibited marriage for young men, claiming that bachelors made better soldiers (although there is no record of the alleged ban). Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death. Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius, fell in love with the daughter of his jailer. Before he was executed, he allegedly sent her a letter signed "from your Valentine." Probably the most plausible story surrounding St. Valentine is one not focused on Eros (passionate love) but on agape (love of God): he was martyred for refusing to renounce his religion.
In 1969, the Catholic Church revised its liturgical calendar, removing the feast days of saints whose historical origins were questionable. St. Valentine was one of the casualties.
Chaucer's Love Birds
It was not until the 14th century that this Christian feast day became definitively associated with love. According to UCLA medieval scholar Henry Ansgar Kelly, author of Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine, it was Chaucer who first linked St. Valentine's Day with romance.
In 1381, Chaucer composed a poem in honor of the engagement between England's Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. As was the poetic tradition, Chaucer associated the occasion with a feast day. In "The Parliament of Fowls," the royal engagement, the mating season of birds, and St. Valentine's Day are linked:
For this was on St. Valentine's Day,
When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate.
Tradition of Valentine's Cards
Over the centuries, the holiday evolved, and by the 18th century, gift-giving and exchanging handmade cards on Valentine's Day had become common in England. Hand-made valentine cards made of lace, ribbons, and featuring cupids and hearts eventually spread to the American colonies. The tradition of Valentine's cards did not become widespread in the United States, however, until the 1850s, when Esther A. Howland, a Mount Holyoke graduate and native of Worcester, Mass., began mass-producing them. Today, of course, the holiday has become a booming commercial success. According to the Greeting Card Association, 25% of all cards sent each year are valentines.
07.) TheHolidaySpot.com
https://www.theholidayspot.com/valentine/history_of_valentine.htm
The Origins of valentine's Day
Every year, the fourteenth day of the month of February has millions across the world presenting their loved ones with candy, flowers, chocolates and other lovely gifts. In many countries, restaurants and eateries are seen to be filled with couples who are eager to celebrate their relationship and the joy of their togetherness through delicious cuisines. There hardly seems to be a young man or woman who is not keen to make the most of the day.
The reason behind all of this is a kindly cleric named Valentine who died more than a thousand years ago.
It is not exactly known why the 14th of February is known as Valentine's Day or if the noble Valentine really had any relation to this day. The history of Valentine's Day is impossible to be obtained from any archive and the veil of centuries gone by has made the origin behind this day more difficult to trace. It is only some legends that are our source for the history of Valentine's Day.
The modern St. Valentine's Day celebrations are said to have been derived from both ancient Christian and Roman tradition. As per one legend, the holiday has originated from the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalis/Lupercalia, a fertility celebration that used to observed annually on February 15. But the rise of Christianity in Europe saw many pagan holidays being renamed for and dedicated to the early Christian martyrs. Lupercalia was no exception. In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius turned Lupercalia into a Christian feast day and set its observance a day earlier, on February 14. He proclaimed February 14 to be the feast day in honor of Saint Valentine, a Roman martyr who lived in the 3rd century. It is this St. Valentine whom the modern Valentine's Day honors.
08.) Britannica.com
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cupid
Cupid
Roman god
Written By:
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last Updated: Feb 12, 2020 See Article History
Alternative Title: Amor
Cupid, ancient Roman god of love in all its varieties, the counterpart of the Greek god Eros and the equivalent of Amor in Latin poetry. According to myth, Cupid was the son of Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods, and Venus, the goddess of love. He often appeared as a winged infant carrying a bow and a quiver of arrows whose wounds inspired love or passion in his every victim. He was sometimes portrayed wearing armour like that of Mars, the god of war, perhaps to suggest ironic parallels between warfare and romance or to symbolize the invincibility of love.
Although some literature portrayed Cupid as callous and careless, he was generally viewed as beneficent, on account of the happiness he imparted to couples both mortal and immortal. At the worst he was considered mischievous in his matchmaking, this mischief often directed by his mother, Venus.
09.) Deuteronomy 5:1-10 (Thou shalt have no other gods).
10.) Numbers 25:1-9 (Israel worships Baal-peor, false gods).
11.) 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (Be not yoked with unbelievers).
12.) Hosea 13:1-4 (Thou shalt know no god but Me).
13.) Revelation 17:1-2, 18 (The great whore).
14.) Revelation 18:1-8, 11 (Babylon the great whore is destroyed).