Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - October 31, 2023


EPISODE 594： THE TRUE STORY OF HALLOWEEN, THE OCCULT, AND THE APOCALYPSE WITH DR. TAYLOR MARSHALL


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On the eve of All Hallows' Eve, we re-unite with Dr. Taylor Marshall to discuss the history of Halloween and debunk some of the most popular myths and legends surrounding the Christian celebration of the spookiest day of the year.

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00:00:52.120 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to a very special edition of Human Events Daily.
00:00:57.060 Today, we are going to be rerunning our discussion recorded last year with Dr. Taylor Marshall,
00:01:05.140 entitled The True Story of Halloween, the Occult, and the Apocalypse.
00:01:11.180 We put this together last year to provide the truth about the Christian origins of Halloween
00:01:17.560 and debunk a lot of the rumors and myths and hoaxes that could spread this time of year
00:01:23.520 that Halloween was some kind of pagan, satanic holiday.
00:01:27.880 Now, that doesn't mean that Satanism isn't real.
00:01:30.360 And that doesn't mean that the demonic isn't real.
00:01:33.380 But we have to put it into proper context.
00:01:35.940 We actually later won an award for this episode from the tellies for 2022.
00:01:42.020 So, I'm very proud to present to you Human Events Halloween special,
00:01:47.060 The True Story of Halloween, the Occult, and the Apocalypse.
00:01:50.340 Dr. Taylor Marshall.
00:01:53.520 It is the eve of All Hallows' Eve here on the podcast here on Real America's Voice,
00:02:01.420 if you're watching.
00:02:02.560 And I wanted to really dig into this because every year at Halloween or Hallowtide,
00:02:07.740 All Hallowtide, if you're Catholic like me,
00:02:10.700 you get this sort of response from the Internet.
00:02:14.160 Every time I post something like a family photo, we did Adam's family last year,
00:02:17.760 we're doing, I'm not going to tell you what we're doing this year.
00:02:19.840 We'll have to look, but we're in the works.
00:02:22.840 So, Tanya Tay is hard at work making the kids costumes, and it's going to be great.
00:02:27.200 My mother, of course, also helping out making so many of the costumes.
00:02:30.320 But what I wanted to do was explain the true history of Halloween, get into this.
00:02:37.200 Is it a Christian holiday?
00:02:38.420 Is it a pagan holiday?
00:02:39.540 Is it Satan's holiday?
00:02:40.680 What is it?
00:02:41.320 And I thought, who better than to talk about this and all, you know, really get in, by the way,
00:02:45.800 to the occult, into paganism, exorcisms, all of these different things.
00:02:51.100 The author of the new book, Antichrist and Apocalypse, my good friend, Dr. Taylor Marshall.
00:02:57.500 Dr. Taylor Marshall, welcome to the program.
00:02:59.820 Hey, great to be here.
00:03:00.920 This is going to be a good show.
00:03:01.960 This is a good topic.
00:03:03.240 So right off the bat, answer the question, right?
00:03:05.420 Is Halloween, was this, we are told every time I tweet about this, I get a comment,
00:03:11.080 this was just a pagan holiday.
00:03:12.860 It was this Irish thing.
00:03:13.960 It was Samhain or Soween, however they say it.
00:03:16.180 You just stole it, and you converted it to Christianity, and the Pope stole it, 0.97
00:03:19.700 and he forced everyone to do it, and that's what Halloween is.
00:03:21.640 Is that true?
00:03:23.940 Well, it's a little more complicated than that.
00:03:26.140 I mean, we know early in the church, I mean, St. Ephraim the Syrian, St. John Chrysostom,
00:03:31.640 I mean, these are guys in the 300s, 400s.
00:03:34.220 They know of a holy day of all hallows, or all saints, celebrating all the martyrs.
00:03:42.080 Originally, it was more of a spring harvest.
00:03:45.680 It was after the festival of Pentecost, which is a Jewish feast that we Catholics received
00:03:51.380 and continue to celebrate, even this year.
00:03:55.560 And it's really to remember all the saints.
00:03:59.100 And hallow, Halloween, is literally short for hallow evening, the evening before hallows day.
00:04:07.240 What does hallow mean?
00:04:08.680 Well, if you say the Lord's Prayer, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,
00:04:14.500 what does that mean?
00:04:15.520 It's right there.
00:04:16.400 It's right there.
00:04:17.320 Hallowed.
00:04:17.780 Holy.
00:04:18.320 Hallowed.
00:04:18.680 It's the same word as holy, saint, and it essentially means saint, right?
00:04:24.260 It's an old English word for saint.
00:04:26.400 Yeah, the Latin is sanctificator, saint.
00:04:29.320 And so, yeah, hallow, holy, saint are all the three, same meaning.
00:04:35.880 So, just in an older English, you know, instead of saying holy be thy name, they said hallowed
00:04:40.540 be thy name.
00:04:41.220 And when they refer to the saints, they referred to a hallowed person, a holy person, someone
00:04:48.080 with a halo.
00:04:49.500 Do you want to keep...
00:04:49.860 Well, okay, so hold on, hold on.
00:04:51.020 So, let's say that you're listening to this and you have no idea what you're talking about.
00:04:56.020 What the heck, then, is All Saints Day?
00:04:59.360 Is that tied to anything?
00:05:00.580 Is there any day after it?
00:05:01.900 What's All Hallowed Tide?
00:05:03.300 What are these things?
00:05:05.100 Yeah, so in the early church, you know, for the first 300, 400, first 300-so years, there
00:05:11.420 were, I mean, martyrs galore.
00:05:13.420 I mean, just, if you were a faithful Christian, I mean, you were, they're getting killed left
00:05:18.420 and right all over the Roman Empire.
00:05:20.440 And so, what early Christians would do in local regions is they would say, you know,
00:05:24.220 our bishop, our pastor, you know, every August 4th, that was the day he was killed by the
00:05:30.680 Romans.
00:05:31.100 So, every August 4th, they would come together and they'd have a memorial service.
00:05:36.200 We call it a mass, a requiem mass.
00:05:38.020 They would usually go to his tomb and they would celebrate the Eucharist, the Lord's Supper,
00:05:43.700 the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and commemorate how he conformed his Christ
00:05:49.300 as a martyr, his life to Christ as a martyr.
00:05:53.200 Now, over time, it was like, well, there's so many people who are holy and went to heaven,
00:05:58.680 they're hallowed, and they don't have a day on the calendar, right?
00:06:03.200 I mean, we Catholics have a saint pretty much for every day on the calendar, but, you know,
00:06:07.140 there's so many other saints who have never been canonized.
00:06:09.760 It's full.
00:06:10.420 Calendar's getting pretty full at some point.
00:06:11.880 Yeah, full.
00:06:12.260 So, there was this idea that we need to come together and, you know, everyone who's in
00:06:18.040 heaven should be recognized like, high five.
00:06:21.440 You made it.
00:06:22.100 You're part of the big cloud of witnesses that surround us here on earth.
00:06:25.140 And there was—
00:06:25.740 You inspired us.
00:06:26.140 The early church believed, and they teach, and they still do, right?
00:06:30.440 That if you are martyred for the faith, I mean, you are just considered a saint.
00:06:34.320 That's just exact.
00:06:35.840 You are good.
00:06:36.960 You're good.
00:06:37.340 Yeah, I mean, if you give your life for Jesus Christ, you are a saint.
00:06:41.780 That's correct.
00:06:43.220 Right, period.
00:06:43.700 That's it.
00:06:44.140 Swiss Guards, 1527, saints.
00:06:47.220 Boom.
00:06:48.000 Yeah, you're good.
00:06:48.800 You're good.
00:06:49.300 So, that's kind of the whole idea of an all-saints day.
00:06:55.140 Now, originally, it was commemorated the first time formally in Rome.
00:07:01.540 It was in the Eastern Church, and the Syrian Church was May 13th, which is an important day,
00:07:05.600 because that's Our Lady of Fatima, in 610.
00:07:08.820 Pope Boniface IV, there was this huge temple in Rome called the Pantheon.
00:07:14.560 It's still there to this day.
00:07:15.720 It's an amazing building.
00:07:16.900 It's round.
00:07:17.660 Pretty well known, right?
00:07:18.940 I have.
00:07:19.440 We were just there.
00:07:19.760 Yeah, I mean, I think it's in Da Vinci Code, if you know those kind of movies.
00:07:23.880 But it's this round building with an Oculus in it.
00:07:26.040 And that was a temple to all the gods, Pan, all, Theon, gods, all the gods.
00:07:35.700 Well, the Pope was like, that's bogus.
00:07:38.460 You can't have a temple to all the gods.
00:07:40.300 So, what he did is, is he consecrated.
00:07:43.620 Well, first, he did an exorcism on that building to drive out the demons, because it's a false,
00:07:48.520 you know, temple.
00:07:50.080 And then he consecrated it as a Christian church, as a Catholic church.
00:07:54.600 And he brought in, get this, cartloads, wagonloads, wheelbarrow loads of relics from the catacombs.
00:08:04.300 Wow.
00:08:05.200 Remember, in the catacombs, there are all these people who had been martyred, right, and saints.
00:08:08.920 And he brought them into this church.
00:08:11.180 And this church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and all the martyrs and all the saints.
00:08:17.240 And so, it became custom to commemorate all the saints in Rome on that day when the church
00:08:24.320 of all the gods was exorcised and then reconsecrated to all the saints of Jesus.
00:08:31.300 So, that happened in the year 610 in Rome.
00:08:36.580 And then later on, as you get more towards later in the medieval era, in the 800s, 900s,
00:08:45.820 you start to see its transition to celebrating it in the fall.
00:08:50.860 And that's where we get November the 1st as the feast day of all saints.
00:08:55.460 And the eve of that is, of course, October 31st.
00:09:00.100 And a lot of that has to do with the harvest.
00:09:02.640 And as you know from the book of the Apocalypse and Jesus' teaching in the Gospels,
00:09:07.000 you know, the bringing in of souls to heaven is usually referred to as the harvest of Jesus
00:09:12.360 Christ, bringing people in.
00:09:13.500 So, this harvest idea kind of was more appropriate, you know, for an all saints idea.
00:09:20.500 And that's how it got lodged at November 1st.
00:09:23.880 So, it's all saints day, all hallows day.
00:09:27.040 Which then, of course, is also followed by all souls day.
00:09:30.580 So, that's all souls is just everyone.
00:09:32.760 No, and that's a little bit of a different concept.
00:09:35.060 Have you ever heard about the creepy volcano story, Jack?
00:09:38.580 Lay it on me, brother.
00:09:40.200 Lay it on me.
00:09:41.040 So, this is pretty interesting.
00:09:43.220 So, as you know, we Catholics, we pray for the dead because the Jews in the Old Testament 1.00
00:09:49.360 prayed for the dead.
00:09:50.740 The early Christians, all of them prayed for the dead. 1.00
00:09:54.140 You can read that in 2nd Maccabees, chapter 12, verse 42 and forward.
00:09:59.780 Martin Luther removed that from the Bible.
00:10:01.960 A little bit of controversy.
00:10:03.000 We won't get into that right now.
00:10:04.000 But, in the...
00:10:07.180 And there's instances, by the way, as well, in, I believe, Acts and in the epistles where
00:10:12.200 it seems like they're referring to the practice as well.
00:10:15.360 Yeah.
00:10:15.540 In the epistles, there's one place in particular in Paul where it very much, he refers to someone
00:10:20.100 in the past tense and he's saying a prayer.
00:10:23.340 And it seems like, well, most people say that he's talking about a dead Christian.
00:10:27.620 Um, so, yeah, that's another show.
00:10:32.280 Unless you want to just go into prayers in the dead right now, maybe.
00:10:35.100 But my point is, my point is, though, is that it's, it's, it's lodged right there after
00:10:39.400 All Saints Day.
00:10:40.280 So, it's a day for the dead.
00:10:41.600 It's All Saints Day.
00:10:42.980 And then prior to that is the first day of that.
00:10:45.520 You got three days.
00:10:45.840 Right?
00:10:46.080 So, this is All Hallow Tide.
00:10:47.860 Right.
00:10:49.000 The Halloween, Hallow's Day, November 1st, and then All Souls.
00:10:53.980 So, that, so, All Saints is everybody in heaven.
00:10:56.380 All Souls is everybody in purgatory.
00:10:58.600 We've got to talk about purgatory.
00:11:00.860 So, here's the cave story.
00:11:02.360 Listen to this.
00:11:02.840 This is interesting.
00:11:03.580 So, in the 900s, there's a French pilgrim returning from the Holy Land.
00:11:08.120 And he's coming back to France.
00:11:10.400 And he meets this hermit who lives near a cave.
00:11:14.260 And near the cave is this opening in the earth like a volcano where lava comes out and
00:11:20.060 there's this noise.
00:11:20.720 And the hermit says that when he prays, he can hear voices coming from the volcano.
00:11:28.460 All right.
00:11:29.040 This is a legend, but it's kind of an interesting story.
00:11:31.560 And he hears the demons complaining about all these holy monks at Cluny, which is a monastery,
00:11:37.300 who are praying so much and freeing souls from purgatory.
00:11:41.520 So, this hermit goes and tells the abbot of those monks, hey, I met this hermit who lives
00:11:46.700 at a cave next to a volcano.
00:11:48.360 And here's what he told me, your monks are praying so much and so well that it's delivering
00:11:53.000 all these souls from purgatory.
00:11:54.500 And the abbot, whose name was Odilo, was so moved.
00:11:58.080 He said, that's it.
00:11:59.540 The day after All Saints, we're going to do just an all-day prayer fest for the souls
00:12:04.380 in purgatory on November 2nd.
00:12:06.700 And then that spread to the whole church.
00:12:08.600 But it all started with the volcano story.
00:12:11.720 So, it starts with the volcano story.
00:12:13.560 So, coming up, right?
00:12:15.060 Lava coming up, like a very hellish kind of-
00:12:18.120 Yeah, hellish thing going on.
00:12:19.660 But also, also a connotation of burning, which is tied towards the word purgatory, of course,
00:12:24.760 comes, it's the same root word as the word for purification, right?
00:12:27.460 That's the process.
00:12:28.160 Exactly.
00:12:28.980 Yeah, purging.
00:12:29.820 Yeah.
00:12:30.180 Purging.
00:12:31.380 And so, we're coming up on our first break.
00:12:33.620 Coming up on our first break.
00:12:34.440 We've got about one minute left.
00:12:36.600 But close out, just close out on this idea that these dates, I mean, I don't hear you
00:12:41.140 mentioning anything pagan here.
00:12:44.040 No, no.
00:12:44.940 And remember, everything that's holy and sacred to God, the devil wants to attack.
00:12:50.980 So, Christmas is about the birth of baby Jesus.
00:12:53.980 So, what are they going to do?
00:12:55.540 Materialism, like all the, you know, just the indulgence.
00:13:00.480 And, you know, and all the bad things that can go on with Christmas.
00:13:04.240 That's just the devil attacking a holy day.
00:13:06.120 Same thing with Easter.
00:13:07.560 Easter is the resurrection of Jesus.
00:13:09.560 The devil wants to thwart that.
00:13:11.060 So, again, you know, of course, if you're talking about all the saints, people who are
00:13:14.860 disciples of Jesus Christ and became holy, the devil hates that.
00:13:18.180 He's going to thwart that.
00:13:19.100 So, I think we'll talk about this more.
00:13:20.940 It's not about running away and abandoning a holy day.
00:13:24.300 It's about reclaiming it.
00:13:25.400 It's about reclaiming the holy days, reclaiming all of our holy days, the practices of the 0.70
00:13:31.320 early church, praying for the martyrs.
00:13:33.900 It started with martyrs.
00:13:35.580 Then it extended to saints, the hallowed, praying for the hallowed.
00:13:40.120 Stay tuned.
00:13:40.840 You know, so, Dr. Marshall, last year when I was getting into this online debate, and
00:13:45.360 you know me, if you follow me on Twitter, you know I like to get in these debates, that
00:13:48.980 I found a website, believe it or not, on the halloween debate called historyforatheists.com.
00:13:54.120 Now, I know, not exactly the kind of website you'd think that, you know, a good Catholic 1.00
00:13:57.340 boy, Polish Catholic would be reading, but I said, well, hold on, let me see what it
00:14:01.080 says, because this is very interesting, because this is an analysis of Halloween, by the way,
00:14:05.680 they also have articles on Christmas and Easter, that has no dog in the fight, right?
00:14:10.300 They have no dog in the fight as to whether it's pagan, whether it's Christian, whether it's 0.91
00:14:14.520 a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, they just want to know what's the actual history of the practice.
00:14:20.660 And they come in completely on the side with resources and references.
00:14:27.560 I mean, the whole thing is like 5,000 words.
00:14:29.320 Highly recommend everybody read this, because it's a completely secular account of, and it
00:14:35.440 includes everything that you just talked about.
00:14:36.660 I don't know if it has a volcano story, actually, but it talks about Samhain and the fact that
00:14:41.580 Samhain was not celebrated in November.
00:14:43.420 It talks about the early church, it talks about the dates, how that was moved around
00:14:47.040 from different places.
00:14:48.200 And by the way, it also gets into the point that that part of Ireland was not part of
00:14:53.620 the Roman Empire at the time.
00:14:55.700 So the idea that the emperor or the Frankish kings or the pope would be referring to something
00:15:01.720 that's taking place beyond the bounds of the empire, beyond the bounds of any part of
00:15:07.300 Christendom or was considered Christendom, it just doesn't make any sense, right?
00:15:10.440 The dates don't match.
00:15:11.260 It's not like today where they're just, you know, Googling, hey, what's a cool pagan holiday
00:15:14.880 we can steal, right?
00:15:16.500 And what's interesting, though, in all this is a piece of it that a lot of this comes
00:15:20.660 back to, and I want to read this, that the idea, where does this idea come from?
00:15:26.140 And it spawns all these pop culture blogs, and it comes from basically this really bad
00:15:32.980 19th century, like a lot of bad things that came from the late 19th century, early 20th
00:15:37.740 century idea of comparative religion, right?
00:15:42.380 This idea of the study of comparative religion.
00:15:44.920 And the original book of this, or the most influential book, I should say, was called The
00:15:48.800 Golden Bough, Golden Bough by Sir James Fraser.
00:15:52.980 And in two volumes in 1890, which eventually expanded, it caused something of a scandal for
00:15:58.600 treating Christianity like any other form of ancient mythology, but effectively established
00:16:02.960 the discipline of comparative religion in the English speaking world.
00:16:06.220 And so in their reasoning, all religion is just the same thing.
00:16:11.440 This is for the comparative theologists.
00:16:13.620 They would say, well, no, every religion just takes something from the religions that came
00:16:17.720 before and then adds a little something to it, adds their own spin.
00:16:21.080 But it's really all just the same thing, and it's all mixed up.
00:16:24.060 And that's what we're getting today.
00:16:25.320 And in doing so, you actually lose the rich tapestry, not only by the way of actual theology,
00:16:31.180 but just human history, right?
00:16:33.080 Because that's not how it happened in any way.
00:16:35.300 Uh, you, you had wars, certainly you had, uh, but you had this great religious debate that
00:16:41.840 was going on time.
00:16:42.580 You know, I actually said this on another show recently, but the reason that atheists aren't 1.00
00:16:47.800 discussed in anywhere really in the Bible is because they didn't exist in biblical times,
00:16:52.720 right?
00:16:53.280 Everyone believed in something.
00:16:54.800 Everyone believed in whether it's the God of this tribe or that tribe or the God of the
00:16:58.640 Canaanites, you know, whether it was bow, it was Moloch, a lot of Moloch worship going 0.99
00:17:02.580 on today still.
00:17:03.820 And the fact was they were dealing with establishing the one true God, right?
00:17:10.220 For the ancient Israelites.
00:17:11.100 And then eventually going into, uh, into Jesus by fulfilling that through the, through coming
00:17:15.580 of the Messiah.
00:17:16.440 And so this idea that they would be borrowing things from, from other religions, it's, it's
00:17:23.040 anathema to what actually happened.
00:17:24.700 Yeah, I mean, it's a good point.
00:17:27.920 Like you were saying that, you know, Ireland wasn't even, that's kind of the narrative that
00:17:31.680 people hear is that they took these jack-o'-lantern myths and somehow imported them into Rome.
00:17:37.580 But one of the big, you know, wrenches in the machine is the Pope who eventually made
00:17:43.140 all saints on November 1st and moved it from May to November 1st.
00:17:47.080 He was the last non-European Pope until Pope Francis in 2013.
00:17:52.980 He wasn't even from Europe, you know, he's from Syria.
00:17:57.360 Okay.
00:17:57.800 So the Pope, Pope Gregory, the fourth Pope Gregory, the third Pope Gregory, the third.
00:18:03.600 Yeah.
00:18:04.140 He, he, um, he's the one who, you know, started this process and, uh, yeah, he was from Syria.
00:18:12.060 So I don't think he was like trying to get like Irish, like an Irish Syrian, you know, 0.56
00:18:17.720 Irish Syrian fusion.
00:18:19.440 You know, it's like, it's just like, he's as far away from Ireland as possible.
00:18:23.460 And, and he's the Pope who, you know, starts putting this stuff into play.
00:18:28.040 So yeah, it's, it's just a lot of, a lot of really bad research and really bad history
00:18:34.220 that's actually been debunked by, by secular historians for a long time.
00:18:38.340 Um, but it is a popular idea because it's used to combat the church.
00:18:43.200 It's used by secularists.
00:18:44.940 It's used by Satanists and occultists to say, aha, look at you.
00:18:49.620 We, you know, you took your thing from us and now we're taking it back from you.
00:18:53.460 If you, if you go to the city of Salem, by the way, we happen to be there passing through,
00:18:58.200 uh, about a year ago.
00:18:59.980 And it's, it's, it's all occult there.
00:19:01.700 Everything is occult in Salem now.
00:19:03.040 Um, and it's, it's celebrated.
00:19:04.860 It's absolutely celebrated.
00:19:05.960 And I have, I have no idea what was going on back there in Puritan times.
00:19:08.860 Um, you know, the witches, were they real or the witches or was just, I have no idea.
00:19:12.520 Right.
00:19:12.700 We can't really know.
00:19:13.620 But what I do know is there's a lot of witchcraft there today.
00:19:17.420 Absolutely.
00:19:18.300 I mean, it is a nexus.
00:19:19.400 It's like, uh, it's like, well, you and I've talked about before Easter eggs, people
00:19:24.040 like, Oh, Easter eggs are pagan.
00:19:25.720 They mean this, it's this goddess.
00:19:27.380 It's like, no.
00:19:28.660 So in the medieval era and up until recently, you couldn't eat meat or eggs during Lent.
00:19:35.200 It was part of fasting.
00:19:36.460 It was penance.
00:19:37.240 It was to make your life hard, no protein, right?
00:19:40.140 You're living on basically a vegan diet during Lent.
00:19:43.140 And then on Easter Sunday, you got to eat an egg and it would tasted so amazing because
00:19:48.820 you hadn't had an egg in 46 days and people would paint them and be excited about it.
00:19:53.720 It wasn't pagan.
00:19:55.080 It was, by the way, for, for those, for those of you who don't understand how chickens work,
00:19:58.600 chickens don't know that it's, that it's Lent.
00:20:00.800 So the chickens continue producing the eggs.
00:20:04.020 So you've got all these eggs just stacked up around your house and you have the chickens
00:20:08.060 don't, you can't just go to the chicken and say, Hey, wait.
00:20:10.420 So, you know, you've got, you've got to do something with the chicken.
00:20:13.040 So there you go.
00:20:13.800 Yeah.
00:20:14.100 Um, that's, that's where all the, uh, that's where all the folks are listening.
00:20:18.140 Yeah.
00:20:18.540 Just practical Catholicism. 0.89
00:20:20.380 And I think since our society, you know, since the reformation became more Protestant, especially
00:20:25.920 in America, and then now that we live in a post-Christian era, all of the, sort of the, 0.94
00:20:31.320 the Catholic nuts and bolts and the, the, you know, the underpinning of our culture, it's
00:20:36.440 all forgotten.
00:20:37.300 And then now we have all these people on blogs who are like trying to impose Wicca on everything. 0.96
00:20:43.300 Which is completely made up by the way.
00:20:45.560 Completely.
00:20:46.120 Yeah.
00:20:46.380 So it's just, it's not, it's not even it's, if you were an ancient pagan and ancient occultist,
00:20:51.960 you were definitely not a Wiccan because that was made up. 1.00
00:20:56.360 Yeah.
00:20:57.240 Yeah.
00:20:57.560 So we should, we should talk about that a little bit.
00:20:58.920 So we're, we're, you know, I feel like that's enough for anyone who wants to read this full
00:21:02.420 article, I'll, I'll actually link it here.
00:21:04.540 So, you know, I know, right.
00:21:05.700 Jack Posobiec and Taylor Marshall linking to an atheist website.
00:21:08.640 Um, you know, that, that'll be fun, but put us in good standing with the, with our fellow
00:21:13.520 Catholics, uh, for sure. 0.99
00:21:15.200 And, um, but, uh, but, but let's get into this idea that, you know, the occultists really
00:21:21.520 have perverted this holiday and so many other Christian holidays, uh, the same way that in,
00:21:27.960 in all occultism, it's always a perversion of the true faith.
00:21:32.640 Uh, you have the mass, you have the black mass, you have, uh, three, you know, 3 PM becomes 0.92
00:21:37.660 3 AM 3 PM.
00:21:38.680 The traditional, uh, by, by tradition, we believe that's when, when Christ died on the cross
00:21:43.200 or 3 AM becomes satanic hour.
00:21:45.600 You see this in movies, by the way, the exorcist, right?
00:21:48.100 This, there's a lot of Catholic, obviously, right.
00:21:50.820 There's the overt Catholic motifs of the rosary, the holy water, the crucifix, the young priest,
00:21:56.980 the old priest.
00:21:57.580 But there's even, there's even deeper stuff.
00:21:59.440 If you know, if you know the background of 3 AM 3 PM itself, et cetera, like this, by
00:22:04.700 the way, just a, another note on that, you know, that's one of the coolest things about
00:22:09.380 growing up Catholic is that number one, you, you never actually have to have this discussion
00:22:13.160 because you just know, uh, you know, inherently that that's what it is.
00:22:16.900 But then also that, uh, it always means that you get the day after Halloween off.
00:22:20.680 So just saying.
00:22:22.180 Yeah, that's right.
00:22:23.400 Yeah.
00:22:23.620 As long as you go to church, as long as you go to church.
00:22:25.320 For us, November 1st is a high holy day.
00:22:28.960 It's a holy day obligation.
00:22:30.000 And that means we have to go to mass.
00:22:32.480 It's just like a Sunday.
00:22:33.260 We have to go to mass.
00:22:34.640 We get to go to mass, but we're required to go to mass because we come and we commemorate
00:22:39.440 all the saints in heaven and we Catholics like saints.
00:22:43.940 And then I, people say, well, what about the, in, in Eastern Europe, I don't know if
00:22:47.940 you know this, but in Poland, um, all saints day and all souls day are massive, just absolutely
00:22:53.460 massive.
00:22:53.860 And, and all, all souls day, what the polls will do.
00:22:57.860 And, uh, you would see this in Ukraine as well.
00:22:59.860 Probably not, you know, this year, obviously, uh, that might be harder, but I actually, I take
00:23:04.400 that back.
00:23:04.720 I guarantee you, you will see this on November 2nd in Ukraine, even in wartime, that for
00:23:10.760 the, in Western Ukraine, you still have a lot of Catholics.
00:23:13.040 They go to the, they will go to the ceremony, the cemeteries and it's candles and it's flowers
00:23:18.140 for your family, for your ancestors.
00:23:20.440 And there's sort of this idea that if you're, if you're not taking care of the graves of
00:23:24.700 your ancestors, um, that you're, you're like, it's, it's, it's a shame, right?
00:23:29.100 It's, it's a personal shame.
00:23:30.260 It's a familial shame that you are not, because the idea being that you have to honor your
00:23:34.180 ancestors, which by the way, last time I checked, that wasn't a recommendation.
00:23:37.460 That wasn't a suggestion from God honoring your, your answer.
00:23:40.420 That's a commandment, right?
00:23:41.240 That's a commandment.
00:23:42.340 And this idea that, and then of course that hopefully it's someone will do that for you
00:23:46.800 at some point.
00:23:48.860 That's right.
00:23:49.420 And I think, you know, people who aren't Catholic get that.
00:23:52.020 They're like, why don't you just worship God?
00:23:53.700 You know, keep it, keep it focused on Jesus.
00:23:55.380 And we do, and we have a distinction in Catholicism.
00:23:58.680 We have this Greek term called doulia and, and then another term called latria and doulia
00:24:04.400 is what we give to humans.
00:24:08.700 Uh, you can say you can give it to the American flag, the cross, like we show respect and honor.
00:24:14.960 We salute.
00:24:15.820 It's not worth it.
00:24:16.840 Yeah.
00:24:16.960 It's a veneration.
00:24:17.920 It's not, it's not.
00:24:18.960 And then the other term latria in Greek is to, is for God alone.
00:24:23.660 So only the father, the son, and the Holy ghost get latria, the true adoration of worship
00:24:29.500 as God.
00:24:31.100 And then the saints get our, our doulia.
00:24:34.500 Like you would respect, you know, in a monarchy, a monarch, we should even respect our president.
00:24:40.900 Um, even though we're not thrilled with who he is, but I mean, we, we show, you know, you
00:24:46.460 like you were in the Navy, you salute, you salute the rank, you salute the uniform, you
00:24:50.240 know, and that form, you salute the rank.
00:24:51.920 You're not like someone can't come in.
00:24:53.480 Like, why are you worshiping that general or that?
00:24:55.440 Where are you?
00:24:55.680 Yeah.
00:24:55.840 Why are you worshiping that admiral?
00:24:56.860 Right.
00:24:57.100 Yeah.
00:24:57.280 No.
00:24:57.700 Yeah.
00:24:57.980 Or why are you worshiping the flag?
00:24:59.460 Well, I'm honoring the flag.
00:25:01.120 It's custom.
00:25:01.380 It's actually called customs and duties.
00:25:02.840 It's considered a duty.
00:25:04.760 Yes, exactly.
00:25:05.640 And, and we believe that we have a duty, um, that we should honor those who were exemplars
00:25:14.680 in following Jesus Christ, you know, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Paul, St. Luke, you
00:25:21.280 know, uh, and all the way into our own time, St. Therese de Lisieux, all these great saints
00:25:26.020 who, and maybe they were martyrs and maybe they were just in a, in their quiet way through
00:25:30.380 suffering or illness.
00:25:31.960 They carried the cross of Jesus.
00:25:34.040 I want to ask you another question, a serious question, maybe a spooky question.
00:25:38.360 Are demons real?
00:25:40.100 Are these spirits, these ghosts, these ghouls, these goblins, uh, this spiritual world that
00:25:45.760 we're called to believe in when I watch a movie like the exorcist or a series like the
00:25:49.760 conjuring, uh, it, they talk about things like this.
00:25:53.360 When I read the Bible, when I read the gospel, Christ performs exorcisms, uh, including transporting,
00:26:00.040 you know, demons like legion into, into a herd of pigs at one point and they fall off the
00:26:05.280 cliff, they run off the cliff.
00:26:06.400 And so am I supposed to just overlook those things?
00:26:09.960 Am I supposed to think that these are just, well, you know, that was just an early form
00:26:13.240 of mental illness.
00:26:14.740 And, you know, he was just, uh, he was curing them through a form of, of, you know, celestial
00:26:19.260 therapy or something, or, or are these things real?
00:26:22.160 And should we as believers take these seriously?
00:26:24.080 They're most certainly real.
00:26:27.240 If you read the Bible, old and new Testament, there are fallen angels and that's what a
00:26:31.540 demon is.
00:26:32.460 So we, as Christians believe that before our world, our human world was created, that God
00:26:40.040 made the angelic world and he gave them a test.
00:26:42.820 And there's some speculation of, of what that is.
00:26:45.160 And I talk about that in my book, but basically what happened is Satan said, non servium, I will
00:26:50.800 not serve, I will not serve.
00:26:53.300 And he fell.
00:26:54.680 Uh, there was another angel in our tradition who said, who is like God in Hebrew, Mikael,
00:26:59.580 who is like God in Mikael is Michael, Michael, St. Michael, the archangel.
00:27:04.960 And so he asked him that question, like, who can be God?
00:27:07.360 You know, you can't say, you can't be God, you know?
00:27:09.540 And so Satan was kicked out about a third of the angels fell and Satan and those third
00:27:15.140 of angels became demons.
00:27:18.140 They became dark angels.
00:27:19.440 And ever since then, they've been wanting to thwart and bother and bring us to hell.
00:27:27.300 And you see that in the opening of the Bible, Adam and Eve, right?
00:27:31.020 Satan comes and he starts talking to Eve.
00:27:33.360 And in the book of Job, you see Satan comes before God and says, you know, I'm going to
00:27:36.860 go after Job.
00:27:37.980 He's so holy.
00:27:38.960 He thinks he's so righteous.
00:27:40.040 That's because he has such a great life.
00:27:41.160 Let me start taking things away from him and he will curse you, God.
00:27:44.180 And God says, no, he's a just man.
00:27:46.020 And he allows Satan to start tempting and taking things away from Job.
00:27:51.300 And for some reason, in God's providence, he's decided to allow these fallen angels to
00:27:57.100 remain around us, to influence us, for us to fight against.
00:28:02.260 And we call it spiritual warfare.
00:28:04.640 And we have to prepare for that.
00:28:05.820 We have to be in a state of grace.
00:28:07.140 You know, we have to have the sacraments, read the Bible, live holy lives, help the poor,
00:28:11.460 alms, all these things.
00:28:13.380 And so the demons are real.
00:28:14.760 And then we find in the Bible that not only can the demons influence us, they can tempt
00:28:20.780 us.
00:28:21.200 Remember, Satan tempted even Jesus Christ.
00:28:23.880 And even the devil can quote scripture.
00:28:26.620 He can quote scripture.
00:28:28.260 These demons are smart.
00:28:29.840 They're used to be angels.
00:28:31.240 There's also this idea, right?
00:28:32.520 So if you're a demon or, you know, a fallen angel and you want to wage war on God, you want
00:28:38.440 to attack God, well, you can't attack God head on, right?
00:28:42.660 Yeah, you already lost on that one. 0.92
00:28:44.560 You'd be obliterated.
00:28:45.240 You're done. 0.94
00:28:46.080 There's nothing you could do.
00:28:47.020 But here's what you could do.
00:28:48.420 What you could do is find God's creatures, find God's believers, find God's flock.
00:28:57.960 And you could go and you could target them and you could target them and take them away
00:29:02.800 from God because you can see that God is working with them.
00:29:05.280 And God wants them to come closer to him because God wants them to attain heaven.
00:29:09.860 And so you can go and then try and work to thwart his plans.
00:29:15.120 And so they say, you know, they say every, um, you know, every challenge in every, every
00:29:21.240 time we're faced with something like that, it's also that perennial question, why do bad
00:29:24.680 things happen?
00:29:25.220 Right.
00:29:25.460 And you say, well, every, you know, every suffering is a chance for repentance.
00:29:29.020 And that's tough.
00:29:29.920 That's a very tough lesson.
00:29:31.040 I struggle with that lesson.
00:29:32.000 I struggle with that lesson, that teaching, but it, it is something that I just say in
00:29:36.680 my head over and over every struggle, every suffering is a chance for repentance.
00:29:41.320 Yeah.
00:29:42.180 Yeah.
00:29:42.660 Every setback is a setup.
00:29:44.280 And for some reason, God's allowed that.
00:29:46.440 And people, when they get possessed, there's two reasons.
00:29:51.020 I just interviewed an exorcist yesterday, a real exorcist, father, Chad, we, I asked, how
00:29:56.560 do people get possessed?
00:29:58.080 What what's happened?
00:29:59.020 And the main way people get possessed is they go looking for it.
00:30:03.220 They get involved, involved.
00:30:05.420 Yeah.
00:30:06.000 They, they, well, you can make a pact with the devil, which is not, he says not actually
00:30:10.040 a pact or a deal with the devil.
00:30:11.820 Cause the devil has no legal rights because he's already a defeated foe.
00:30:15.580 So his covenants and his, his, you know, contracts are void, but people who make these with them
00:30:22.240 enter into partnerships with him, or, you know, you can do that explicit where you just
00:30:26.680 say, I want to make a deal with you, Satan, or they get involved in extremely sinful or
00:30:34.260 demonic behavior, uh, witchcraft, seances, uh, Ouija boards, you know, some of these dark arts,
00:30:44.040 uh, dark magic, these kinds of things, uh, paganism, pagan rituals, sexual rituals, or really,
00:30:51.600 really criminal, um, activity, uh, mass murdering, you know, these, these really, uh, rapes,
00:30:58.840 child rapes, all these kinds of things.
00:31:00.320 These invite the demons into us.
00:31:03.400 And the exorcists say that the demon, when you're possessed, he's not in your soul.
00:31:08.780 A demon can't get in your soul.
00:31:10.160 Demons are actually in your bodies.
00:31:12.200 And when you read the accounts in the, of Jesus exercising people, you see that the demons
00:31:16.980 are in their bodies, not in their souls.
00:31:18.840 So that's the main reason why people get possessed is they open themselves up to the
00:31:23.600 satanic.
00:31:24.700 So if someone says, Hey, let's do a seance or Hey, let's get the Ouija board out or let's
00:31:29.340 do any, you just run as far as you can from that.
00:31:32.200 Because if you want demons, that's how you get demons.
00:31:34.680 Now, you know, on that, it's, it's not, it's not, what is it?
00:31:38.620 You know, I don't know who makes it the Ouija boards, Fisher price or whatever.
00:31:41.360 It's not like the company's making a satanic instrument.
00:31:44.340 It's what you're doing with it.
00:31:46.180 That becomes satanic.
00:31:47.380 It's not like you go to the store and it's, and it's Satan.
00:31:49.700 That, that being said, you can go to a spirit Halloween and find all sorts of occult, uh,
00:31:53.380 paraphernalia there just right on the shelf, right on the shelf.
00:31:56.680 They have a little section for it.
00:31:58.320 Um, and the point is it's not that stuff doesn't come into your home and make you satanic,
00:32:02.820 but what it does is it opens your, you're opening yourself up to it.
00:32:06.800 You're opening up that world.
00:32:08.100 You're, Oh, you're inviting it in.
00:32:09.440 You're giving, you're giving it license, right?
00:32:12.880 You talked about legal rights.
00:32:13.900 You're giving it license, giving Satan license or some of the lesser demons license to be able
00:32:18.780 to come and then partake, right?
00:32:22.040 Partake of your life, of your corpus, your spirit is still there.
00:32:25.500 And you do see this in, like you said, some of these, you know, even the original exorcist
00:32:30.380 movie, there's this idea of the struggle within the young girl that she's, which by the way,
00:32:35.480 people don't realize that's based on a true story.
00:32:37.660 Um, you know, some of the more theatrical elements were added short walking on the ceiling
00:32:42.000 and all, but the, you know, speaking in tongues and the lesions and, um, knowing, knowing
00:32:48.380 information about the people that she's talking to that, you know, you couldn't possibly know,
00:32:52.780 um, saying, I'm, I'm here.
00:32:54.680 I'm speaking with your mother, knowing the mother's name, speak.
00:32:57.200 Yeah.
00:32:57.700 All of that goes back.
00:32:59.420 Sometimes they speak Latin, Greek, Hebrew, ancient languages that, that a person wouldn't
00:33:04.140 normally know.
00:33:04.760 And that's, that's, those are the kind of preternatural signs.
00:33:08.700 That's like, okay, there's something in this person.
00:33:11.160 So when you do this occult stuff, you're doing something spiritual and you're not doing it
00:33:15.380 with God and his angels, you're doing it with the underworld and that opens you up and it's
00:33:20.100 really bad.
00:33:20.700 But the other way you can be possessed, and this is kind of scary to think about is sometimes
00:33:25.920 extremely holy people, um, God allows demons to come into their lives and, uh, they're usually,
00:33:34.060 well, almost always victorious.
00:33:35.920 And the exorcist yesterday told me us a story of a very holy nun who is in, I think in Bavaria,
00:33:42.040 uh, one of the holiest nuns in the region, and she was possessed and the exorcist came
00:33:47.820 and she said that it was revealed that because of a sin that had taken root in the area, God had
00:33:55.800 allowed this sign to happen to get everybody's attention.
00:33:58.260 And he said, what is the sin?
00:33:59.920 And he says, divorce, people are turning to divorce.
00:34:03.140 And so once they knew that he did the exorcism and the demon came right out and the nun was fine. 0.97
00:34:08.140 You know, like the supernatural thing that God wanted.
00:34:10.440 So sometimes you can be very holy and not do anything wicked, just like in the story of
00:34:16.120 Job and the Bible, he was a very holy man.
00:34:19.420 Obviously there's no, there's no rules for, for God.
00:34:21.540 If God decides to write something, it's, you know, he's in.
00:34:25.300 Yeah.
00:34:25.820 But, but he said almost every single time you're dealing with someone who's possessed, uh, there
00:34:30.620 is some sort of, of magical dark art, wicked occult practice that has happened.
00:34:38.260 Um, that's usually traumatic to a person.
00:34:41.680 And, uh, they always, they always do a triage to make sure, you know, this is not some kind
00:34:46.940 of mental illness and they want to confirm that there's something preternatural, spiritual
00:34:52.740 in this person.
00:34:54.340 Um, that's not just psychological.
00:34:56.340 And once they have that and get approval, they do an exorcism and an exorcism is no joke.
00:35:02.620 Right.
00:35:03.020 And, and by the way, there's, there's no, you're, you're sanctioned exorcisms are done
00:35:07.500 by priests, right?
00:35:08.360 There's no, there's no lay exorcisms.
00:35:11.120 I mean, you can pray for the person and you can, you can hold whatever you want to do,
00:35:16.220 pray there.
00:35:16.540 And you should, you should be praying for the person, obviously.
00:35:18.840 But you know, the idea that you're going to be performing this outside, I mean, that's
00:35:21.900 like, that's like saying, you know, you're, you're, you're a member of the lady and you're
00:35:25.900 going to go perform open heart surgery on somebody.
00:35:28.440 It's, it's not probably not exactly.
00:35:30.340 Or I'm, you know, you're just a lay person and I'm going to go like do a seal team six
00:35:35.420 up on my, by myself.
00:35:37.120 It's just not, you're not trained for that.
00:35:39.380 Right.
00:35:39.800 And there's a lot that goes into it, uh, you know, rituals and preparation.
00:35:43.340 You, you open yourself up to what they say, if, if you, if a lay person or someone, even
00:35:50.380 a priest, who's not an exorcist, let me emphasize this.
00:35:53.300 Even a priest, who's not an exorcist, who tries to do one, he can get retribution and
00:35:58.600 have, and have demons come into his life.
00:36:00.640 So you have to be properly, you know, appointed certified in order to do it.
00:36:08.700 Uh, you, you can tell a little bit into this.
00:36:10.700 I've, I've read a lot of the work of, uh, father Amworth, um, watch his videos quite
00:36:15.820 a bit.
00:36:16.500 Um, he, so he was the Vatican's exorcist.
00:36:19.200 He was someone who's been very public about this.
00:36:22.020 And at one point he actually made a video and we're seeing the break that you haven't
00:36:25.560 actually seen this yet.
00:36:26.300 So you got to go watch this now when you're done, that he allowed the director of the
00:36:29.980 original exorcist movie to actually film an exorcism in Italy that he was performing.
00:36:36.840 Um, it was this, this, uh, Italian to the mother, young mother, and, uh, you hear the
00:36:43.460 speaking in tongues.
00:36:44.460 You see the, the sort of contortions that the body is doing and you you're able to watch
00:36:51.440 this.
00:36:51.660 No, it's, it's just him.
00:36:52.740 It's the director, some members of her family, no camera crew, just him, single camera in
00:36:57.120 the room.
00:36:57.560 They show the entire thing.
00:36:59.620 Wow.
00:37:00.500 Yeah.
00:37:01.540 I've never been to one, but I've, I've heard, I've spoken to exorcist priests who have done
00:37:05.820 them and, um, and they, it's not just like you come in and, uh, five minutes it's over.
00:37:10.440 Like these can go on for months actually.
00:37:13.020 Well, it's, that's right.
00:37:14.180 It's, it's, it's a very long process.
00:37:15.980 It's not like you see in the movies.
00:37:17.540 It's you, you know, you, you don't just go in once and then it's done.
00:37:20.500 It's, it's multiple times.
00:37:21.720 Cause at the end of the day, um, and correct me if I have this wrong and we're coming up on a
00:37:25.700 break here, but you, it's, it's not just that you're performing the, the exorcism because
00:37:33.000 that person has been possessed.
00:37:35.200 God has allowed them to be possessed.
00:37:37.020 And that person has to repent for that, which they, that sin they committed there, uh, whatever
00:37:44.480 they let in, they have to repent for their actions.
00:37:46.540 And then the exorcism will begin to take place.
00:37:51.220 Yeah.
00:37:51.740 The person needs to be right with God.
00:37:53.940 And the exorcist I spoke to yesterday says, look, uh, you have to, he gives him a whole
00:37:59.200 thing, list of things they need to do before he'll even begin the exorcisms.
00:38:02.760 Cause they've got to be spiritually right.
00:38:04.620 We've been talking about the Christian history of Halloween.
00:38:09.100 Yes.
00:38:09.300 The Christian history before the pagans had anything to do with it, which they never did.
00:38:13.460 And before the occultists tried to come in, pervert it, take it away and steal it as
00:38:18.180 they do to all things Christian, you know, and, and, and actually Dr.
00:38:21.000 Marshall, we were talking a little bit in the break and I think we should say this on
00:38:24.320 air as well, though, that, uh, the original book of Dracula, right?
00:38:28.400 The original book of Dracula, we said the movie, the exorcist obviously has a lot of
00:38:32.900 Catholic motifs, but the original book of Dracula, it, it is so much more, uh, Christian 0.78
00:38:39.820 based that I don't think people realize where essentially it is.
00:38:43.200 It is the family of Dracul has made this deal with the devil, just like you were talking
00:38:47.420 about.
00:38:47.880 And the idea is that he's been possessed by Satan.
00:38:51.200 Um, he has to drink the blood of the living in a perversion of drinking the blood of the
00:38:57.360 eternal, right?
00:38:58.640 So it keeps him undead as opposed to dead and then achieving, uh, apotheosis to coming to
00:39:03.780 heaven.
00:39:04.680 And then, um, this, this, this sense that this is also why, you know, crucifixes and holy
00:39:11.340 water are things that ward him off.
00:39:12.680 So some of it has translated into the movies, but not quite.
00:39:16.700 Yeah.
00:39:17.140 I mean, it's perfect segue into the, the book of revelation, the apocalypse, because in
00:39:21.180 the book of revelation, Satan is called the dragon.
00:39:24.760 And in Greek it's Draco and in Latin Draco, where you get Dracula, Dracula means little
00:39:29.660 dragon.
00:39:30.440 Right.
00:39:30.560 So, so we're literally, you know, Dracula is the little dragon, the little Satan, because
00:39:36.540 he's so given himself over to the devil.
00:39:38.500 And he's, he's using all, if you read the novel, by the way, do yourself.
00:39:42.680 A favor and read the original Bram Stoker, Dracula novel.
00:39:46.040 It's short.
00:39:46.720 It's good.
00:39:47.420 I keep on Amazon or wherever you want to get books.
00:39:50.140 It's an excellent book.
00:39:51.180 And as you read it, especially if you're a Catholic, you'll see all this Christian sort 0.84
00:39:55.660 of black mirror, you know, analogy that's towards the, that's bent towards the demonic that
00:40:02.460 comes from Christian.
00:40:03.060 So he's talking about baptism.
00:40:04.660 He's talking the Eucharistic language of eating the flesh of the body and blood of Jesus Christ,
00:40:10.160 as in the Lord's supper, the Eucharist.
00:40:12.020 All this sort of Christian theology is inverted and perverted by Dracula, the little dragon,
00:40:20.640 Satan himself. 0.94
00:40:21.520 And he is possessed by Satan.
00:40:23.480 As you read the novel, you begin to realize that he, he's in need of an exorcism.
00:40:28.100 And what he's doing is he's, he's trying to have this Eucharist on other human beings.
00:40:33.320 He's eating off of them in order to preserve his life.
00:40:37.720 And we know that Jesus says, unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life
00:40:42.220 in you.
00:40:43.000 That's the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:40:45.440 And then Dracula has completely subverted it in a satanic ritual.
00:40:50.700 Uh, so yeah.
00:40:52.100 And even the whole idea of virgins and consecrated virgins in relationship to all these things
00:40:58.120 are going on in Dracula that are, it's very obvious once you kind of just say it to somebody.
00:41:03.280 And then when you read the actual novel, you realize, oh, well, it was overt in the novel.
00:41:07.540 And it's just been through Hollywood's lens that they've, they've, you know, diluted all
00:41:11.400 of this.
00:41:12.740 Yes.
00:41:13.700 Uh, and it takes place of course in Transylvania, which is kind of Romania ish area with some
00:41:19.400 kind of some interesting Christian, uh, motifs in the background there.
00:41:23.500 Yeah.
00:41:23.720 It's a, it's a fantastic story and it kind of just, you know, shows a perversion of what
00:41:30.900 true Christianity is and how Christ is our life and, and how we're incorporated him and
00:41:36.740 consecrated him.
00:41:37.660 And that's what gives us eternal life.
00:41:39.740 And I think, you know, our, our culture now is kind of the same thing.
00:41:42.740 People prey on other people to perpetuate, uh, their lifestyle, their life.
00:41:48.540 And it's just, it's, it's totally.
00:41:50.560 No, it's very sad.
00:41:51.560 And so, I mean, my, my, my final point on that is just, you know, if you're going to
00:41:55.420 celebrate Halloween, celebrate, you know, have fun with your kids, go out, have a good
00:41:59.680 time.
00:42:00.040 But, but also don't forget, don't forget the original part of it, right?
00:42:04.220 Don't forget the, the origin of this, the martyrs, the holy martyrs, the holy saints,
00:42:09.940 uh, understand the history and, and, and the true rich tradition that you're actually taking
00:42:17.440 part in by celebrating not just Halloween, right?
00:42:20.960 So that's my point.
00:42:21.560 If you're going to celebrate Halloween, don't just celebrate Halloween, but also celebrate
00:42:25.120 all saints, all souls.
00:42:27.620 So now you're completing what's called the hallow tide.
00:42:30.600 But what was interesting is that you, you mentioned as well, though, that, that all
00:42:35.360 saints is that it's a holy day of obligation, high holy day for Catholics, but the reading
00:42:40.980 on all saints day is always from the book of the apocalypse, also known as the book of
00:42:46.720 revelation.
00:42:47.100 Is that correct?
00:42:48.640 So what's the connection there?
00:42:50.160 Why is that?
00:42:50.860 Why is that the direct connection?
00:42:52.100 Well, when you read the apocalypse, the book of revelation, uh, as in my new book, antichrist
00:42:58.980 and apocalypse, there is, there are sevens, there's a seven, seven churches, seven seals,
00:43:05.120 seven trumpets, and then seven plagues.
00:43:07.600 That's the seven fold cycle.
00:43:09.880 It just starts cycling, literally twirling around in the book of the apocalypse.
00:43:14.080 And as you, as you go through it, you realize that there's this very strong harvest theme in
00:43:21.200 the book of the apocalypse.
00:43:22.120 And this goes back to the gospels where Christ says, you know, the harvest is plentiful, but
00:43:26.540 the laborers few, the angels will come and collect the harvest.
00:43:30.000 I mean, there's all these parables that have to do with harvesting, right?
00:43:33.020 So, and it's harvesting of souls, right?
00:43:36.480 And Christ even has them in the apocalypse.
00:43:38.380 He's even depicted as having the sickle and reaching the sickle down into the earth and
00:43:42.780 harvesting souls.
00:43:43.740 So this whole idea that he is the kind of this great farmer, remember, Adam was a farmer,
00:43:52.040 right?
00:43:52.280 Adam and Eve, he was cultivating the garden.
00:43:54.280 Christ is the new Adam. 0.99
00:43:55.420 He was found in the garden.
00:43:56.520 Mary Magdalene thought he was the gardener.
00:43:58.260 Remember that on Easter Sunday.
00:44:00.560 So he is in a way cultivating a garden, but is it just like grapes and grain?
00:44:05.980 Well, in the Eucharist, it is that, but it transubstantiates in his body and blood and somehow
00:44:09.780 it brings in this harvest of souls.
00:44:13.120 And so on All Saints Day, traditionally we read from the book of the apocalypse and it's
00:44:19.940 this whole idea and it's the reading from, from Revelation chapter seven, where the angel
00:44:25.940 comes and it marks on the forehead with the sign of the towel, which is a cross on all the
00:44:34.300 faithful on earth.
00:44:35.420 And it marks them and denotes them that they are to be harvested for Jesus Christ. 0.65
00:44:39.780 They are to be taken for him.
00:44:41.260 And that's the beautiful imagery in the book of Revelation for All Saints Day is that we
00:44:46.760 have been marked on our heads with the sign of the cross and baptism.
00:44:50.980 We're baptized on our heads.
00:44:52.980 And then in the Catholic tradition, the priest also puts chrism on our heads and marks us
00:44:58.520 with the sign of the cross, the seal of the, of the cross of Jesus Christ and tells us
00:45:03.940 to, to preserve this baptism until the day of our death.
00:45:07.600 So in a way he marks us for the harvest.
00:45:11.700 This is why eventually I think All Saints Day was moved to November 1st because it fits
00:45:16.640 with this apocalyptic book of Revelation harvest theme, because this, that's the time of the
00:45:23.140 harvest, you know, that final fall harvest of bringing in everything before it turns winter.
00:45:27.460 Uh, so yeah, there's all these things, by the way, is obviously just as a normal fall
00:45:32.900 tradition anywhere you are in the world.
00:45:34.940 It's not tied to paganism.
00:45:36.200 The fact that it's becoming, you know, fall and autumn and we're collecting the crops,
00:45:41.420 right?
00:45:41.600 That's just, that's just life.
00:45:43.020 You know, that's again, part of God's creation.
00:45:45.560 Uh, but there's no, there's no direct, and by the way, if you, if you end up for anyone
00:45:49.660 who ends up reading that article, I hope you do, it points out that even, even by the
00:45:54.040 way, if you go into the Irish harvest festival, uh, in, in the ancient times of sowing, there
00:45:59.580 was no connection to paganism whatsoever, just a harvest festival.
00:46:02.540 That's all it, that's it.
00:46:03.380 That's all it was.
00:46:04.080 Yeah.
00:46:04.420 I mean, you bring in a bunch of grain and you have tons of food and your work is all
00:46:07.980 done.
00:46:08.280 What are you going to do?
00:46:08.940 You're going to eat great food and bake some pies and have fun and let the kids eat the
00:46:15.000 apples and, you know, just have a grand old time.
00:46:18.220 And, and that's kind of part of it is, is it celebrating as we read in the book of Revelation,
00:46:22.720 you know, that Christ has marked us and he is coming back for us.
00:46:27.760 He has, we're special to him and he wants to bring us into a storehouse, which is heaven.
00:46:34.240 And that's the great hope of it all.
00:46:36.000 And that's what all saints is all about.
00:46:37.480 It, we, we look to those who already made it, you know, it's kind of like if you're,
00:46:42.000 you know, you're overcoming alcoholism or drugs or a sex addiction meeting and knowing
00:46:47.500 people who have been successful in that journey inspires you like, okay, I can do it.
00:46:53.320 You know, I can do it.
00:46:54.440 I can go one more day.
00:46:56.420 When I say, you know, I'm, I'm 17 years sober.
00:47:00.040 Um, I try not to make, I try not to, you know, that's like bragging it's, it's, but,
00:47:04.580 but I, I try to mention that every once in a while.
00:47:07.480 Uh, we just, we just had that, you know, it's just a couple of, uh, what, two, three
00:47:11.060 weeks ago, um, was my anniversary.
00:47:13.260 And I try to mention that.
00:47:14.600 I try to mention that, you know, often it's not like, uh, Oh, look, I'm better than you
00:47:18.140 think.
00:47:18.380 No, it's not like that at all.
00:47:19.340 It's, it's a message to anybody that is struggling out there that, Hey, 17 years, boom.
00:47:25.800 Didn't, didn't think I could do 17 years, but here I am.
00:47:28.340 It's possible.
00:47:29.600 And, and that's, that, that is just an analogy to where we look in this lab.
00:47:33.440 Like, is it really worth being a Christian? 1.00
00:47:35.300 Is it really worth trying to live chase?
00:47:37.300 Is it really worth going to church every Sunday and, you know, praying every day and this family.
00:47:42.560 And then you look at the saints and you're like, they did it.
00:47:46.120 Thousands of people have done it.
00:47:47.760 And one day, one day though, when, when we realized that, you know, go, uh, had a priest
00:47:55.380 once who said, you know, the best place to count your money is in the graveyard, best
00:47:58.600 place to check your bank account, you know, that, that this is, this is a, you know, this
00:48:03.300 is a testing ground that we're in right here.
00:48:05.340 This is this, this reality that we're in, whatever it truly is, right.
00:48:09.520 It's, it's, it's set up for us as a test.
00:48:12.700 That's the true life, right.
00:48:14.740 Beyond this.
00:48:15.460 And this is, you know, so your answer to the test will take place there, not here.
00:48:21.340 And you're gonna be there a whole lot longer than you are here.
00:48:23.800 That's right.
00:48:24.400 Final, final words.
00:48:25.540 Final words.
00:48:26.100 We're almost out of time.
00:48:27.220 Dr. Taylor Marshall, the new book, Antichrist apocalypse available everywhere that books
00:48:31.880 are sold.
00:48:32.300 Hasn't been banned yet.
00:48:33.480 Get it before it is.
00:48:34.940 Um, we're definitely going to have to order some for it.
00:48:36.860 Cause everyone, I'm in every, all the producers asking me for a copy now.
00:48:40.640 Uh, but what's, what's the final word?
00:48:42.100 Why should people read this book now?
00:48:43.300 Well, you know, everything creepy, the book of revelation has a lot of creepy, scary, unusual
00:48:49.480 stuff in it.
00:48:50.200 And all of those things are there just like the demonic, just like death, just like all
00:48:54.460 these things we're talking about as we get close to Halloween, all of that there is to
00:48:58.920 inspire us to have hope and confidence that Christ conquered death.
00:49:03.080 He conquered the demons.
00:49:04.080 He conquered the devil.
00:49:05.380 All these things that scare us, he's conquered and we have hope in him.
00:49:09.560 And that's the message of all saints be a saint memento Mori memento Mori memento Mori
00:49:16.140 Dr.
00:49:17.180 Taylor Marshall.
00:49:17.660 The book is Antichrist apocalypse.
00:49:19.580 Thank you so much.
00:49:20.380 God bless you.
00:49:21.820 Happy Halloween.
00:49:22.940 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.
00:49:25.580 God bless you.
00:49:26.160 God bless you.
00:49:27.200 Amen.
00:49:27.920 Jim Tyler.
00:49:28.300 God bless you.
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