Unmasking Valentine’s Day

We trace the thread from Lupercalia to Valentine’s Day and ask whether a new name can redeem an old altar. History, scripture, and symbols meet a simple challenge: choose discernment over tradition when love is at stake.

• Y2K memory and segue into cultural fear cycles
• Lupercalia’s origins, rites, and pagan deities
• Church bans, rebranding, and public calendar shifts
• Symbols behind colors, candy, and Cupid
• Cupid and Eros contrasted with biblical love
• Media saturation and normalization of lust
• Scripture on idolatry, purity, and covenant
• Practical discernment and guarding the heart

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Chapters

• 0:00 Opening And Y2K Memories
• 2:35 Setting Up The Valentine’s Day Question
• 3:37 Lupercalia’s Origins And Rituals
• 6:36 Christianity, Pagan Festivals, And Rebranding
• 10:11 Was Valentine’s Day A Replacement
• 13:41 Symbols, Colors, And Hidden Meanings
• 16:26 Cupid, Eros, And Sexual Perversion
• 19:51 Media, Culture, And Moral Drift
• 23:01 Scripture, Idolatry, And True Love
• 26:41 Final Exhortation And Resources

Transcript

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Hey guys, it's B-Rob, and it is the Food for Thought Faith Cast. I hope you enjoyed the rebless from 25 episode yesterday. You got some play, so I think you guys did, and we'll do that periodically. Sometimes I have to do things like study, and I don't have time to do the podcast. But we'll do um, we'll definitely do stuff like that periodically. Well, guys, it's Saturday, it's February the 14th, it's the second day of the pagan Lupercalia Satanic Tradition Festival. And today we call it Valentine's Day. Um, it's actually my anniversary. It's my 27th anniversary. How about that, guys? Born, I mean, uh, the wedding was born in 1999. I mean, we got married in 1999, so the marriage was born in 1999. You remember 1999 was that crazy year of uh Y2K, you know, just something else for them to uh um see if we're still uh obeying and paying attention. Obviously we were because we fell sink line hooker into that. As a society, we just rolled up in there like ants. We uh thought the world was gonna come to an end because uh that's all they talked about. But anyway, let me um let's get back to Valentine's Day. You know, I like to do uh crazy podcasts which teach um today's Christians about the actual origin of the holidays that we traditionally partake in, and the Bible makes it clear we shouldn't. But um I've obviously been guilty of it my whole marriage because I did on Valentine's Day because I'm bad with dates, or I was bad with dates when I got married, but then I became great with dates and numbers, so you know all that I was a kid when I got married, so 23 years old. But um, guys, the Valentine's Day celebration, otherwise known as Lupalia. Um I actually did a little research, so let's uh it's pre-Christian Rome, that was the origin. Um apparently near Luprical Cave where uh Romulus and Remus were said to be nursed by a she wolf. Hmm, a she wolf. That's some uh old folklore type stuff, right? You notice everything they call folklore is um starting to begin, like we're starting to find out that it's not really folklore, it's um biblical. And what I mean by that is um if you go back and listen to some of the first man of God podcast, I talk about how bad the earth was and how it needed to be cleansed. Well, I mean, all that stuff started back then, you know, um, and then rolled up into Rome, and you see, they're honoring different pagan Roman gods, and they're not honoring the one true God, and it makes it clear in the Bible. If you if you look if you read my book Um Discernment, many scripture in there make it make it clear. Um, and I'll I'll pull that out in a second, but uh the gods they honor during this festival is uh Faunus, which is a Roman god of fertility, agriculture, nature. Um it's also linked to Luprius, which is a protector against wolves. So apparently they had rituals which involved animal sacrifice. So, so the story says, but I bet you there's a lot more than just animal sacrifice. Um goats and a dog, and then a young priest called uh Lupersy would cut strips from the goat hide, run through the city, striking people, especially women, and apparently it was believed to promote fertility, ease childbirth, and purify the city. Right, right, okay, yeah. We'll get into that in just a second, so hold that thought. So that's what they tell you. But they also told you that um abortion was health care as well. You see, the enemy is a master of deception, and um Christians were deceived. But I don't know if you guys know this. We didn't get the term Christian until after Christ had ascended. So, like, Jesus wasn't considered a Christian. Christianity was made up by people who weren't Christians that observed Christ's followers. Um, in the days of Paul. And I hope I said that right. I don't have a theology degree, but I spent a lot of years studying and doing research, and I can only tell you what you know what I've found, and I think I said that right. But anyway, um apparently the connection to Valentine's Day is uh Luperkalia is is a pagan precursor to Valentine's Day, is what they tell you. Um apparently, as Christianity spread, the church discouraged pagan festivals. See, they say discouraged, but from my knowledge, um kind of like the pilgrims when they first came to America, they banned it. Like they banned it because the Bible stated clearly against it. And that's where the Jewish people went wrong so many different times in the Old Testament. They worshiped other gods, they wanted kings. You know, there's a lot of uh symbolic things going on here. Um it says the church discouraged pagan festivals, i.e., the wording in this stuff is amazing, but I'm sure it was funded by the very same people who celebrate the satanic holiday or own the company, own publish the book. I mean, there's a lot of things going on that guys have to take it take into consideration. You can't just run with something and say it's the gospel. You gotta research the author, you gotta research where he came from. I mean, it's there's a whole lot of things there. But anyway, I'm getting off the subject. Let's get back to the subject. Um, I looked so St. Valentine's Feast Day is obviously February 14th, is what we celebrate and we call it Love Day or Cupid. I mean, it's it's amazing how everything is twisted in our society, and eventually that falls like Babylon, which we're seeing. So I looked up the actual definition of Lupercalia, and apparently it's an ancient Roman fertility and purification festival celebrated in mid-February, which is obviously the 14th or the 13th to the 16th. Um, so then I dug a little deeper on how that was replaced with Valentine's Day. Um so they're saying there was a conflict with Christian beliefs, uh duh. Uh the lupercalia involved pagan gods, which is we're not, it's a no-no in the Bible. Animal sacrifice, which is a no-no in a New Testament. We don't do that no more. Um ritualized sexuality. There you go. There you go. Perversion. Boom. And fertility rights. Guess what? You don't have rights. God has all the rights. God gives you child when he wants you to have a child because he is the only one living God. You see? And I'm not gonna start preaching about that. I'm just we're talking about Valentine's Day, and I just want you to keep that in the back of your mind or the forefront of your heart. Um, you see, apparently these practices directly conflicted with Christian theology, you think, you think, which rejected pagan worship and sacrificial rituals. Yeah, you're not supposed to do that anymore. So the church leaders viewed it as indecent, superstitious, and spiritually harmful. So around the fourth, fifth centuries, I would say around the Constantine, uh, if I had to guess, I'm still doing research on this. I just haven't had time to do a lot, so I'm gonna give you what I got. Because I'm still studying to take my exam for insurance in the state of Georgia. So, um, apparently, fourth fifth century Christian leaders were actively trying to reshape public morality around chastity, marriage, and spiritual purity rather than ritual fertility. You see what it says, actively trying to reshape. So it makes Christians look like they don't have any authority when you have all the authority when you have the authority of the Almighty Living God, the one God, Yahweh. Um so you see how they word it as Christianity became an official religion of Roman Empire, eliminating pagan festivals helped. They didn't eliminate anything. They put a veil over it and fed it to you in a spoon, repackaged, rebranded. You need to know this. Even though your history books aren't gonna tell you this, you need to know these things. Um, it was supposedly to unify society under Christian norms. So Valentine's Day. Let me let me ask you something. Where in the Bible is Valentine's Day? So how is that a Christian norm? Okay, let me stop on my rant. Um It was to reduce the influence of the older Roman religious tradition traditions, although it's painted all over everywhere, and they call it folk folklore or um mythology. Yeah, mythology. Right. Assert church authority over public life. Yeah, yeah. So apparently in um four hundred ninety-four AD Pope Galatius formally condemned Lupercalia, um criticized Roman elites for clinging to the pagan rituals, the festival was discouraged and eventually stopped. But did it stop? They gave up three days for one, and it's still the same thing. You follow what I'm saying? So what they tried what they did is they uh they took lupercalia. Um, they promoted Christian feast days around it. They elevated the feast of Saint Valentine and made it Valentine's Day. And instead of the feast, we do the poison now with the candy and the sugar, and we feed the diabetes, which feeds the big pharma, which is pharmacia, which is a satanic spell that the population is under. Oh man, I just went deep on y'all. Lord have mercy. I'm like swimming down here under the sharks. I'm down here with the shrimp. You know what I'm saying? Sorry. Anyway, the approach conversion was made easier because it kept family calendar rhythms. Wow. Man, bro, the the uh the stuff in the toilet after you sit on it is getting deep up in here when I'm reading this stuff, and they they put this stuff for you to read out, man. That's crazy. So um, basically redirecting culture of meaning towards Christian values. So what what they used to have was a big three-day festival where everybody went wild and it probably orgies, sex, you know, everything sacrifice, you're your perfect Satan. The same thing they do underground or wherever they do it nowadays, right? The big ritual, kind of like in the movie Eyes Wide Shut. If you have not seen that and you're an adult, you need to go watch that. Because that's that's not mythology, that is uh factual, and the the actual man who made the movie died, Stanley Cooper died like two weeks before the release because he would not cut out things they wanted him to cut out. So, see, they want you to see it, because once you see it and once you pay to see it, you're an accomplice to it. So pay attention, Christians, or pay attention, my brothers, children of God, brothers and sisters. So uh the themes for the original festival was fertile, physical, or I I we just got into that. So it was replaced, it says it was replaced, it was rebranded, repackaged, and spoon fed to you as spiritual love, moral devotion, Christian saints, holiness, and charity. Yeah, I'm gonna just give my love away freely. Yeah. What's it called when you have sex before you make the commitment to God with that person? In marriage? What's it called? Fornication? Yeah. Like I said, rebranded, repackaged, and spoon fed to you. With a big um with a big bow on it. Yep, with a big bow on it. That's crazy, isn't it? Alright, let's get into the um. Of course, you know they're gonna tell you right here, there's no evidence that Valentine's Day was created specifically to replace Lupercalia. Okay. Okay. One plus one equals two. Yeah. They trying to tell you that one plus one don't equal two right there. That's how they that's how they put doubt in your head. That's how they make you um be a hipster and you think you know it all and have great coffee talk because you read uh, you know, you read some encyclopedias and you read some uh published stuff. Well, guess what? The best information is from the non-published stuff, and we're gonna read that right now. Um found some of these clips out on the interwebs, and this one's crazy. Prince of Darkness is fascinating and bewitching the people's visions and minds with sensuality of the underworld. Remember, we talked about that orgy, that sexual, that lust, everything that love is not. They twisted love, okay. Um so basically they possess these women with almost like a Jezebel spirit at the time, um their evil sex spells, uh they're like leases on sexual wickedness among men, and it apparently continues until the final deceiver arrives on the scene, which would be um the evil one. Man, this is crazy. So apparently, February, the month of February, due to natural activities and events, is regarded as the month of love by most people because February happens to be when the earth is most fertile. I did not know that. Ooh. The time when farmers get ready for lambing and chick season, ah, makes sense now. Um, time when plants and flowers are ready to shoot up. Yeah, it got up to the 80s the other day. Ah, this is making sense. See how the unpublished stuff makes a lot more sense than the published stuff. It's funny how that. Funny how that works, you know. Like I say, conspiracy theorists are winning 17 and nothing. There's no such thing as a conspiracy theory or a coincidence, it's just God showing up anonymously. Um, my friend Nikita Kolov shared that with me. And I thought it was great. But apparently, um the annual festival of purification was held on February 15th as Februotio, and it's commonly known as Lupercalia, and celebrated in honor of three Roman pagan deities. Here we go. Luprius, the god of fertility, Juno, the goddess of marriage and women, and Pan, the god of nature. So not only are we uh, you know, worshiping one, we're worshiping three. Um, Lupercalia is an annual ritual festival celebrated in belief to ward off evil spirits and increase fertility among the people. Has nothing to do with God, though, the one living God. So they're playing uh they're playing God down there, and they're worshiping false idols once again. Um and this is uh post-Christian Rome or pre-Christian Rome and then um we changed it to Valentine's Day because I guess we thought it'd be cool. I don't know. Um but apparently it began with sacrifices, dogs, purification of the land, goats were a sacrifice for fertility. Yeah, I'm sure that's what they're telling you. Just like the history, um, published stuff. The animal's blood was smeared on the priest. Forehead and afterwards, the blood wiped away from the priest's forehead and wool soaked in milk. Ah, here we go. Men ran naked around the cities with strips of sacrifice animal skin, making women the blood as marking women with the blood as a symbol of fertility. Yeah. Yeah, man, that's some crazy stuff, ain't it? That is crazy stuff. You see, we um changed it to Valentine's Day, and it's supposed to be apparently it comes from a romantic priest. How you a romantic priest? Huh? I'm gonna have to hit the vape on that one. Lord have mercy. A romantic priest whose conduct made him a saint that helped to start Valentine's Day celebration and write-ups of Saint Valentine are stories without real facts or evidence. Mm-hmm. Yeah, man. Um the red, white, and pink colors used as Valentine's Day symbols are connected to the Lupercalia ritual. Imagine that. And I bet it ain't animals they was sacrificing. They sacrificed kids back in them days. Kind of like uh what you're finding out still going on. Just saying. And then it goes on to say, should true believers celebrate February festival? Um, no, absolutely not. 1 Corinthians 6, the real, genuine love is God. 1 John. And those who love have love, which is the love of God, are known as the keepers of God's commandments. The commandments of God give guidelines on how to have a joyful and blessed love, and that's in John. Chapter 14. That a Lupercalyan Valentine's Day celebration are said to be an opportunity to give gifts of love to loved ones around the world. But you see, the only gift of love is that greatest sacrifice. I mean, that's the love, not none of this stuff. Where God gave the spotted lamb, his son. That's the greatest love. That's the gift of salvation, that is the gift of love. You see, we gotta stay grounded, and I don't mean grounded in this world, I mean grounded in the Bible. Um the whole Cupid thing. Cupid is another symbol of Valentine's Day, the Greek and Roman god of love. So they made up a fairy tale like a Mickey Mouse and called it Cupid. But you see, what you guys don't know, despite the innocent appearance, as a chubby winged cherub, which is in the Bible. Not the chubby part, but a winged cherub with bow and arrow shooting people to make them fall in love. So it's really just an illusion and it's deception because it's actually a demon of lust, and it tries to cause sexual immorality, unholy unions, and chaos. You remember in 2 Corinthians 11, verse 14, it specifically says the devil masquerades around as an angel of life. Like literally, it's in your face all year long, in your traditions, in this cursed society, and he has many of minions. Because in order to deceive those people that are not led by the Holy Spirit and are not vigilant and are not using discernment, this is what has to happen. You see, Cupid is the Latin name for the Greek god Eris, and that God is a god of sexual desire. You see, love was never meant to be perverted, the marriage bed was never meant to be defiled. But we are a perverted society in a perverted generation. You cannot turn the TV on and watch a show that is not perverted. No wholesome shows. There's a couple. I watched uh the first episode of the JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bissett story is called Love Story on FX last night. It was really good, but there were a couple parts that I just didn't care to see. Trying to be a man of God. But it was a decent show. Other than that, it was good. But it's sexual immorality is in everything. Music, internet, ads, commercials, TV, everything. So, like I said, Cupid is the Latin name for the Greek god Eris, the god of sexual desire, whose name we derive from our modern word erotic. There's so much marketed around perversion and sexuality and eroticism. Eros is depicted in the eighth century by a poet named Hosidos, Hasidos, or Hosidos, who characterizes Eros as a pre-premeval deity, one of the very first to emerge from chaos. So you see, it's based on tricks, mischievous, and matchmaking in those things, which is often directed by his mother, who is an Aphrodite, Venus, the goddess of love. You see this worship is still going on today. Aphrodite. Look it up. In fact, I'm gonna look it up. Hold on just a second. Give me just a second. We having fun today. Give me just a second. I'm a lot more animated that I don't um drink or smoke cigarettes anymore. I have a lot more energy. It's kind of crazy. Yeah, I mean Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, desire, fertility. Um yeah. More of the same crap. It's all based around perversion and sexuality. Apparently, uh Cupid shot Zeus with one of his arrows and caused him to commit adultery. So the folklore goes. Man, a Roman writer, Lucius Apulius, describes Cupid as winged Cupid, rash and hardy, who is by his evil manners, condemning all public justice and law, armed with fire and arrows running up and down in the nights from the house to house, and corrupting lawful marriages of every person. He doth nothing but evil. Kind of writing in the old version. It says, Don't be struck down by one of Cupid's heirs today, causing you to fall for another decoy, causing you to backslide into fornication, adultery, and homosexuality, tempting you to get pregnant out of wedlock, like so many others will fall. You see, the evil one and his minions, they ain't on no clock. They work twenty-four-seven. So you gotta put on the armor of God. You gotta put on the armor of God and guard your heart. Guys, there's only one true God, and He loves you. I love you. And I honestly hope you don't partake in this satanic ritual. You see, what a lot of people don't realize is they got together. And they changed this. And they just put a veil over what they were doing. It's still a ritual. Magic is real, spells are real, it's in the Bible. If you don't know where to go to look for it, I can show it to you. Guys, I love you. I hope you have a great day. God loves you, and if you do not have a relationship with Jesus, you better get right. And guys, remember, visit the website www.forchministry.com and go to Amazon and grab you a copy of the book, Discernment, a wake-up call for a generationally cursed society. Also, um, if you want a Bible verse on a shirt or any custom shirt, I can do that as well. Guys, check out the website, send me a message through there. I love you guys. God bless you. Hashtag get right.