What God intended to be pure must remain consistent with Holiness, Righteousness and Truth. The fact that the enemy has been allowed through lack of diligence, mis-attended doctrine and friendship with the world to infiltrate, pollute and prostitute that mandate is cause for tears and action.  What you say, “It is well with my soul”.  Well fabulous but if you are eating and worshiping with unbelievers or worse yet the camouflaged enemies of God how pure is your body?  Not your singular body but in memory that it not just about you my Brother or Sister it is about the unity and health of the Church Body, His Body that He told to remain the untainted maiden ready for marriage.

If on that glorious day of rapture five of your fellow maidens are not prepared in readiness for the Master’s return do you seek to escape any measure of culpability or responsibility for this issue? Worse yet does it even break your heart, or do you perhaps say, I have achieved my salvation, the fact that you weren’t ready is entirely your problem?  Just let a Pastor try and run that one by the Lord Jesus at the day they meet face to face.  Each of us is not our Brother’s Keeper but we are supposed to love them as we ourselves would want to be loved, If you see a Brother or Sister who is not yet ready or does not appear to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit sealing them for eternity wouldn’t now be the appropriate time to say something and take action?

Now to the poisonous hand of the enemy upon the Church in its history. The enemy breeds Paganism.  Throughout the History of Jews and the Christians it has always been his main source of joy to prostitute that which God made sacrosanct to remain Holy for His Purposes. If it wasn’t Tammuz, Semiramis and Nimrod then it was the Greek pantheon, Roman gods, Persian influences or dark Turkish worship of antiquity that were continually mixed with Jewish and Christian faith to dilute its potency and anger God. Apollo’s Birthday was December 25th.  The Roman Emperor knew this, the Jews knew this, the pagans knew this, so did the Priests of what would become the Catholic Church.  The goddess Ishtar, pronounced colloquially Easter, was worshiped at the Spring solstice through prostitution as a way of receiving money offering at the Temple. Now the enemy will call this folly and those within the church who have blinded their eyes to the spotting of the world’s myths into the faith have gone full bore in supporting these worldly apologists.  Simply read the “Scientific American” explanation that supports those who shall not repent.  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/beyond-ishtar-the-tradition-of-eggs-at-easter/  Note that you cannot comment on this article and that its sources are all secular, supporting the argument satan so happily makes that there is “nothing to see here, move along”

Here is some reading for comparison, Encylopedia Brittanica, equatting this goddess with the sun god, which Constantine worhsipped when he had a dream to conquer the world under the sign of the cross. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ishtar-Mesopotamian-goddess.  This is the false religion and trinity of Father Mother Son that is repeated in the Catholic Church inserting Mary into the role typically held by Isthar, Astarte, Iannani or whatever other name satan is using for her in this iteration. https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-asia/love-battlefield-legend-ishtar-first-goddess-love-and-war-008301    The names continue to change throughout history to suit the next infiltration but you will recognize this age old process practiced by direction of God’s enemy.  Coincidentally, NOT, you will see that the first poems to Ishtar were published in the Town of UR, Babylonia, which modern day Iraq, the same town in which Abraham was born and told by God to come out of to a new land that he would be shown.  https://inanna.virtualave.net/ishtar.html#Titels.  Sol invictus, Apollo https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/40794/was-apollos-birthday-december-25th-according-to-the-romans

You may determine through research and prayer that this information is incorrect or perhaps the Lord will validate the veracity of these claims to seeing our church body infiltrated throughout the millennia. Let me ask a question of Logic; If satan has infiltrated every country, school, organization and corporation that dedicated its blessings to God, wouldn’t he  be especially mindful to do the very same to the church body as quickly as possible.

Look we can sit here accepting of the tainted history of ritual, sin, false doctrine and worship having been forced into the church through assimilation and espionage at which the Roman’s were experts. Or we can come to grips with the fact that it has happened. And then just as the Jews returning from captivity in Babylon and Persia have a public reading of God’s Word, weep, get cleansed of the unholy and infiltrators and move on.

I am praying that my Brothers and Sisters who hold on to these rituals, practices and worship events that have nothing to do with the Saviour, repent, be transformed and become ready for His imminent return.  In Jesus’ Holy Name.