The Spirit of Mardi Gras is Pagan Worship

Each year the ancient Greeks had a spring FERTILITY rite to insure a productive harvest for their fields and increase the fertility of their flocks and women. Later, the Romans adopted this festival and it was held each year in Rome during mid-February.

 

Of this predecessor to our Modern Mardi Gras one has said “It became known as “Lupercalis”, after the grotto on the Palestine hill where the festivals of the god PAN (Greek God of shepherds and flocks) were held. The Roman aristocracy of the time preferred debauchery (unrestrained self indulgence, immoral behavior) and licentiousness (pursuing desires aggressively and selfishly, unchecked by morality) to legality and morality. Men donned themselves in women’s clothing; the better to abandon themselves to orgy, thus the masquerade tradition began”

 

The elements attending this ancient pagan celebration were drunkenness, lewdness, obscenity, nudity, etc, - and are still very much a part of the present Mardi Gras celebration today.

 

The early church would have nothing to do with it, but as time passed the purity and godly intransigence (unyieldingness) of the early church deteriorated into an impure and ungodly tolerance of such things.

 

“Leaders of the new Christian church deplored the depravity and tried to stop it. Unsuccessful, they switched tactics. What they could not suppress, they absorbed. The church made the spring rites and acceptable feasting before the Lenten season of penance and abstinence. They called the celebration “carnelevare” – a Latin word that can be translated as “farewell to the flesh” in recognition of the period of fasting from meat that would follow.

 

In AD 325 the Council of Nicea fixed the date for the Easter celebration, it would vary each year but always fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox. “Ash Wednesday”, the beginning of “Lent” was to be a 40 day period of fasting, abstinence and self denial in preparation for Easter. Thus the day before Ash Wednesday was “Carnival”! The French called it Mardi gras or “Fat Tuesday” because it was a day to gorge oneself on flesh and all milk and egg products. Not surprisingly the symbol for the Mardi Gras is a huge, fat bull: the “Beouf gras” (the fatted bovine).

 

 Christians should remember that Baal, the ancient Canaanite god BAAL (which means sun, lord or master) was represented by a bull. Baal the bull was to them a symbol of virility, strength, and fertility. It almost supplanted the true worship of God in Israel, according to 1 Kings 19:18, and was worshipped on two other occasions, Exodus 32, and 1 Kings 12:28.

 

HOW CAN GOD IN HEAVEN BE PLEASED WHEN FLOATS DRAWN THROUGH STREETS AMIDST A VIRTUAL SEA OF UPLIFTED HANDS AND THE “THROW ME SOMETHING “ CRY OF REVELLERS WHO IMPLORE THIS MODERN BAAL FOR TRINKETS, DOUBLOONS (SPANISH GOLD COINS), OR OTHER “TOKENS” OF HIS FAVOR.

 

The significance of all this is unmistakable. The symbolism is all there. In which there is more than mere fun and frivolous activity taking place.

 

The Real Spirit of Mardi Gras is as follows:

 

  1. The spirit of idolatry.. the titles of the carnival parades are named in honor of the very same ancient pagan gods  that the INNERANT SCRIPTURES CONDEMN! How can a Christian be found attending balls and parades held in honor of the very same gods that have contended with our God through the centuries for the souls of men? Who else but SATAN himself could have inspired men to resurrect these deities forms out of the pages of history books, and promote their homage anew?
  2. The spirit of revelry and excess …Galatians 5:19-20 states that “reveling” conveys the thought of “letting go, to cast off all restraints.. to let go of all rules and principles of propriety…to cast off all inhibitions” Mardi Gras is one big, sensual, drunken party that displays an “anything goes” attitude.
  3. It is the spirit of hypocrisy; Christians should remember that God demands holiness in the everyday life of His followers, not just on Ash Wednesday. Hebrews 12:14. IT IS HYPOCRITICAL FOR CHRISTIANS, AND CHRISTIAN PARENTS TO TAKE THEIR CHILDREN TO SUCH SINFUL FESTIVALS HELD IN HONOR OF PAGAN GODS WITH RAISED HANDS  AS THOUGH IN HOMAGE OF WORSHIP, BEFORE THE PASSING PARADE NAMED IN HONOR OF FALSE GODS, YELLING FOR WORTHLESS TRINKETS!

 

Those who truly love Christ and want to please HIM should have NOTHING TO DO WITH MARDI GRAS!!!!!!

 

 

Note: Last year I noticed that many of our church family and their children came in the Lords House with beads of Mardi Gras hanging around their neck or on the rear view mirrors of their cars. Illustrating that they have been a part of a pagan ritual of fertility, speaking of the good time they had reveling to the pagan Gods with hands raised. However, I know that many of you were not aware of its history, and I pray that God will lead you to abstain from such. If you fall into the reveling of Mardi Gras please do not bring your trinkets of pagan worship into the house of our precious Lord and Savior.

 

 

In Love and TRUTH

 

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