Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Sunday Special： The True Story of Halloween, The Occult, and The Apocalypse with Dr. Taylor Marshall

00:00:00.000 ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard for a very spooky edition of human events sunday special it 0.83

00:00:18.020 is the eve of all hallows eve here on the podcast here on real america's voice if you're watching

00:00:25.800 and i wanted to really dig into this because every year at halloween or hallow tide all hallow tide

00:00:32.300 if you're if you're catholic like me you get this this sort of response from the internet every time

00:00:38.260 i post something like a family photo we did adam's family last year we're doing i'm not going to tell

00:00:42.840 you what we're doing this year you'll have to look but but we're we're in the works so tanya tay is

00:00:47.500 hard at work making the kids costumes and it's it's going to be great uh my mother of course also

00:00:52.200 helping out making so many of the costumes but what i wanted to do was explain the true history

00:00:58.200 of halloween get into this is it a christian holiday is it a pagan holiday is a satan's holiday what is

00:01:04.980 it and i thought who better than to talk about this and all you know really get in by the way to

00:01:09.760 the occult into paganism exorcisms all of these different things the author of the new book

00:01:16.280 antichrist and apocalypse my good friend dr taylor marshall dr taylor marshall welcome to the program

00:01:22.700 hey great to be here this is going to be a good show this good topic so so right off the bat answer

00:01:28.380 the question right is is halloween was this we are told every time i tweet about this i get a comment

00:01:34.440 this was just a pagan holiday it was this irish thing it was sam hain or so ween however they say it

00:01:39.900 you just stole it and you converted to christianity and the pope stole it and they forced everyone to 0.54

00:01:44.280 do it and that's what halloween is is that true well it's a little more complicated than that i mean

00:01:50.100 we know early in the church i mean saint ephraim the syrian saint john chrysostom i mean these are

00:01:55.900 guys in the 300s 400s yeah they know of a holy day of all hallows or all saints celebrating all the

00:02:04.820 martyrs originally it was more of a spring harvest it was after the festival of pentecost which is a

00:02:12.520 jewish feast that we catholics received and continue to celebrate even uh this year um and it's it's

00:02:20.600 really to remember all the saints and hallow halloween is is literally short for hallow evening the evening

00:02:28.820 before how hallows day what does hallow mean well if you say the lord's prayer our father who art in

00:02:35.220 heaven hallowed be thy name what does that mean it's right there it's right there hallowed holy

00:02:41.860 hello it's it's same same word as holy saint and it essentially means uh saint right it's an old

00:02:48.480 english word for saint yeah the latin is sanctificator saint and so yeah hallow holy saint are all the three

00:02:57.540 uh same same meaning so just in an older english you know instead of saying holy be thy name they said

00:03:03.780 hallowed be thy name and when they refer to the saints they referred to a hallowed person a holy

00:03:10.500 person someone with a halo do you want to keep okay so hold on hold on so let's let's say that

00:03:15.720 you're let's say that you're listening to this and you you have no idea what you're talking about what

00:03:20.020 what the heck then is is all saints day is that tied to anything is there any day after it what's all

00:03:26.260 hallowed tide what are these things yeah so in the early church you know for the first 300 400

00:03:33.140 first 300 so years they were i mean martyrs galore i mean just right if you were a faithful christian

00:03:39.700 i mean you were they're getting killed left and right all over the roman empire and so what early

00:03:45.020 christians would do in local regions is they would say you know our bishop our pastor you know every

00:03:50.660 august 4th that was the day he was killed by the romans so every august 4th uh they would come

00:03:57.300 together and they'd have a memorial service we call it a mass a requiem mass they would usually go to

00:04:02.740 his tomb and they would celebrate the eucharist the lord's supper the body and blood of our lord

00:04:08.720 jesus christ and commemorate how he conformed his christ as a martyr his life to christ as a martyr

00:04:16.480 now over time it was like well there's so many people who are holy and went to heaven they're hallowed

00:04:23.180 and they don't have a day on the calendar right i mean we catholics have a saint pretty much for every

00:04:29.460 day on the calendar but you know there's so many other saints who have never calendars get pretty

00:04:34.920 full yeah so so there was this idea that we need to come together and and you know everyone who's in

00:04:41.800 heaven should be recognized like high five you made it you're part of the big cloud of witnesses that

00:04:47.720 surround us here on earth and there was you and the early church believed and and and they teach and

00:04:53.420 they still do right that if you if you are martyred for the faith i mean you're you are just

00:04:56.980 considered a saint that's just exact you are good you're good yeah i mean if you give your life for

00:05:03.400 jesus christ you are a saint that's correct right period that's it swiss guards 1527 saints boom yeah

00:05:11.980 you're good you're good so um so that's kind of the whole idea of an all saints day now originally it was

00:05:21.300 commemorated uh commemorated the first time formally in rome it was in the eastern church and the syrian

00:05:27.060 church was may 13th which is an important day because that's our lady fatima that's right 610

00:05:32.360 pope boniface the fourth there was this huge temple in rome called the pantheon it's still there to this

00:05:39.180 day it's an amazing building it's round pretty well now right i have we were just yeah i mean

00:05:43.920 i think it's in da vinci code if you you know those kind of movies but it's this round building with an

00:05:49.080 oculus in it and that was a temple to all the gods pan all theon gods all the gods well the pope was like

00:06:00.980 that's bogus you can't have a temple to all the gods so what he did is is he consecrate well first he did

00:06:07.980 an exorcism on that building to drive out the demons because it's a false you know temple and

00:06:14.220 then he consecrated it as a christian church as a catholic church and he brought in get this cart

00:06:21.080 loads wagon loads wheelbarrow loads of relics from the catacombs wow remember the catacombs are all

00:06:30.340 these people who've been martyred right and saints and he brought them into this church and this church

00:06:35.520 is dedicated to the virgin mary and all the martyrs and all the saints and so it became custom to

00:06:44.380 commemorate all the saints in rome on that day when the church of all the gods was exercised and then

00:06:51.680 reconsecrated to all the saints of jesus so that happened in the year 610 in rome and then later on

00:07:02.720 as you get more towards later in the medieval era in the 900 800s 900s you start to see its transition

00:07:11.420 to celebrating it in the fall and that's where we get november the 1st as the feast day of all saints

00:07:18.720 and the eve of that is of course october 31st and a lot of that has to do with the harvest and as you

00:07:26.780 know from the book of the apocalypse and jesus teaching in the gospels you know the bringing in of

00:07:31.720 souls to heaven is usually referred to as the harvest of jesus christ bringing people in so this

00:07:37.520 harvest idea kind of was more appropriate you know for an all saints idea and that's how it got lodged

00:07:45.540 at november 1st so it's all saints day all hallows day which then of course is also followed by all

00:07:53.480 souls day so that's all souls is just everyone now and that's a little bit of a different concept

00:07:58.520 have you ever heard about the creepy volcano story jet lay it on me brother okay so so this is pretty

00:08:06.420 interesting so as you as you know we catholics we pray for the dead because the jews in the old 1.00

00:08:12.780 testament prayed for the dead the early christians all of them prayed for the dead um you can read

00:08:18.400 that in second maccabees chapter 12 verse 42 and forward um martin luther removed that from the bible

00:08:25.640 a little bit of controversy we won't get into that right now but in the by the way as well in

00:08:33.320 in i believe acts and the end in the epistles where it seems like they're referring to the practice as

00:08:37.940 well yeah and the epistles there's one place in particular in paul where it very much he refers to

00:08:43.600 someone in the past tense and he's saying a prayer and it seems like well most people say that he's

00:08:49.920 talking about a dead christian um so yeah that's another show if you unless you want to just go

00:08:57.120 into prayers and the dead right now maybe my point is my point is though is that it's it's it's it's

00:09:01.960 lodged right there after all saints day so it's a day for the dead it's all saints day and then prior

00:09:07.280 to that is the first day of that right so this is a halloween right the halloween hallows day

00:09:14.740 november 1st and then all souls so that so all saints is everybody in heaven all souls is everybody

00:09:21.000 in purgatory we've got to talk about purgatory so here's the cave story listen to this this is

00:09:26.780 interesting so in the 900s there's a french pilgrim returning from the holy land and he's coming back

00:09:33.160 to france and he meets this hermit who lives near a cave and near the cave is the opening in the earth

00:09:40.920 like a volcano where lava comes out and there's this noise and the hermit says that when he prays

00:09:47.820 he can hear voices coming from the volcano all right this is a legend but it's kind of an interesting

00:09:54.360 story okay and he hears the demons complaining about all these holy monks at cluny which is a monastery

00:10:01.080 who are praying so much and freeing souls from purgatory so this hermit goes and tells the abbot of

00:10:07.920 those months hey i met this hermit who lives in a cave next to a volcano and here's what he told me

00:10:13.200 your monks are praying so much and so well that it's delivering all these souls from purgatory and the

00:10:18.520 abbot whose name was odilo was so moved he said that's it the day after all saints we're going to do

00:10:25.720 just an all-day prayer fest for the souls of purgatory on november 2nd and then that spread to the

00:10:31.680 whole church but it all started with the volcano story so it starts with the volcano story so coming

00:10:37.660 up right lava coming up like a very hellish kind of yeah hellish thing but also also a connotation

00:10:45.600 of burning which is tied towards the word purgatory of course comes it's the same root word as the

00:10:49.940 word for purification right that's the process exactly yeah purging yeah purging and so we're

00:10:55.720 coming up on our first break coming up on our first break got about one minute left but but close

00:11:01.000 out just close out on this on this idea that these dates i mean i don't hear you mentioning anything

00:11:05.540 pagan here no no and and remember everything that's holy and sacred to god the devil wants to

00:11:14.320 attack so christmas is about the birth of baby jesus so what are they going to do materialism

00:11:19.580 like all the you know just the indulgence you know and all the bad things that can go on with christmas

00:11:27.380 uh that's just the devil attacking a holy day same thing with easter easter is the resurrection of

00:11:32.420 jesus the devil wants to thwart that so again you know of course if you're talking about all the

00:11:37.840 saints people who are disciples of jesus christ and became holy the devil hates that he's going to

00:11:42.240 thwart that so i think we'll talk about this more it's not about running away and abandoning a holy

00:11:47.840 day it's about reclaiming it reclaiming the holy days reclaiming all of our holy days the practices of

00:11:54.940 the early church praying for the martyrs it started with martyrs then it extended to saints

00:12:00.840 the hallowed praying for the hallowed we're stay tuned we're going to follow this up right next here

00:12:06.760 with dr taylor marshall on our all hallow tide special

00:12:10.300 and we're back here on halloween special with dr taylor marshall you know so dr marshall i last year

00:12:19.620 when i was getting into this online debate and you know me if you follow me on twitter you know i like

00:12:23.560 to get in these debates that i found a website believe it or not on the halloween debate called

00:12:27.960 historyforatheists.com now i know not exactly the kind of website you'd think that you know good

00:12:33.360 catholic boy polish catholic would be reading but i said well hold on let me see what it says because

00:12:37.820 this is very interesting because this is an analysis of halloween by the way they also have articles on

00:12:43.000 christmas and easter that has no dog in the fight right they have no dog in the fight as to whether

00:12:48.140 it's pagan whether it's christian whether it's a bunch of mumbo jumbo they just want to know what's 0.53

00:12:53.660 the actual history of the practice and they come in completely on the side with uh resources and

00:13:03.260 references i mean the whole thing is like 5 000 words highly recommend everybody read this because

00:13:07.760 it's a completely secular account of and it includes everything that you just talked i don't know if it

00:13:13.260 has a volcano story actually but uh it talks about sam hayne and the fact that sam hayne was not

00:13:18.580 celebrated in november it talks about the early church it talks about the dates how that was moved

00:13:23.020 around from different places and by the way it also gets into the point that uh that part of ireland

00:13:28.360 was not part of the roman empire at the time so the idea that the emperor or the frankish kings or the

00:13:36.160 pope would be referring to something that's taking place beyond the bounds of the empire beyond the

00:13:42.320 bounds of anything any part of christendom or was considered christendom it just doesn't make any

00:13:46.160 sense right the dates don't match it's not like today where they're just you know googling hey

00:13:50.040 what's a cool pagan holiday we can steal right and what's interesting though in all this is is a piece

00:13:55.580 of it that a lot of this comes back to and i want to read this that the idea where does so where does

00:14:01.620 this idea come from and it it spawns all these pop culture blogs and it comes from basically this really

00:14:08.580 bad 19th century like a lot of bad things that came from the late 19th century early 20th century

00:14:14.400 um idea of comparative religion right this idea of the study of comparative religion and the original

00:14:21.800 book of this or the most influential book i should say was called the golden bow golden bow by sir james

00:14:28.420 fraser and in two volumes in 1890 which eventually expanded uh it caused something of a scandal for

00:14:34.920 treating christianity like any other form of ancient mythology but effectively established the

00:14:39.520 discipline of comparative religion in the english-speaking world and so in their reasoning

00:14:45.440 all religion is just the same thing this is for the comparative theologists they would say well no 0.91

00:14:50.880 every religion just takes something from the religions that came before and then adds a little

00:14:55.320 something to it adds their own spin but it's really all just the same thing and it's all mixed up and

00:15:00.440 that's what we're getting today and in doing so you you actually lose the rich tapestry not only by the

00:15:06.140 way of actual theology but just human history right because that's not how it happened in any way uh you

00:15:12.520 you had wars certainly you had uh but you had this great religious debate that was going on time you

00:15:18.940 know i actually said this on another show recently but the reason that atheists aren't discussed in

00:15:25.200 anywhere really in the bible is because they didn't exist in biblical times right everyone believed in

00:15:30.520 something everyone believed in whether it's the god of this tribe or that tribe or the god of the

00:15:34.960 canaanites you know whether it was bow it was moloch a lot of moloch worship going on today still

00:15:39.680 and the fact was they were dealing with establishing the one true god right for the ancient israelites and

00:15:47.680 then eventually going into uh into jesus by fulfilling that through the through coming of the messiah

00:15:52.560 and so this idea that they would be borrowing things from from other religions it's it's anathema to

00:16:00.160 what actually happened yeah i mean it's a good point like you were saying that you know ireland

00:16:06.200 wasn't even that's kind of the narrative that people hear is that they took these jack-o'-lantern

00:16:10.920 myths and somehow imported them into rome but one of the big you know wrenches in the machine is

00:16:16.580 the pope who eventually made all saints on november 1st and moved it from may to november 1st he was

00:16:24.280 the last non-european pope until pope francis in 2013 he wasn't even from europe you know he's from

00:16:31.640 syria okay so the pope pope gregory right the fourth pope gregory the third pope gregory the third

00:16:39.120 yeah he he um he's the one who you know started this process and uh yeah he was from syria so i

00:16:49.020 don't think he was like trying to get like irish wasn't like an irish syrian you know irish syrian

00:16:55.380 fusion oh it's like it's just like he's as far away from ireland as possible and and he's the pope

00:17:01.200 who you know starts putting this stuff into play so yeah it's it's just a lot of a lot of really bad

00:17:08.300 research and really bad history that's actually been debunked by by secular historians for a long

00:17:14.300 time but it is a popular idea because it's used to combat the church it's used by secularists it's

00:17:21.640 used by satanists and occultists to say aha look at you we you know you took your thing from us and

00:17:28.460 now we're taking it back from you if you if you go to the city of salem by the way we happen to be

00:17:32.580 there passing through uh about a year ago and it's it's it's all a cult there everything is a

00:17:38.560 cult in salem now yeah um and it's it's celebrated it's absolutely celebrated i have no idea what was

00:17:43.400 going on back there in puritan times um you know the witches were they real or the witches was just

00:17:48.040 i have no idea right we can't really know but what i do know is there's a lot of witchcraft there

00:17:52.620 today absolutely yeah i mean it is a nexus it's like uh you're there it's like you and i've talked

00:17:58.780 about before easter eggs people like oh easter eggs are pagan they mean this it's this goddess it's like

00:18:04.180 no in the medieval era and up until recently you couldn't eat meat or eggs during rent it was part

00:18:11.940 of fasting it was penance it was to make your life hard no protein right you're living on basically a

00:18:17.960 vegan diet during lent and then on easter sunday you got to eat an egg and it tasted so amazing

00:18:24.820 because you hadn't had an egg in 46 days and people would paint them and be excited about it it wasn't

00:18:30.400 pagan it was which by the way for for those for those of you who don't understand how chickens work

00:18:34.900 chickens don't know that it's that it's lent so the chickens continue producing the eggs so you've got

00:18:40.700 all these eggs just stacked up around your house and you have the chickens don't you can't just go to

00:18:45.280 the chicken and say hey wait so you know you've got to do something with the chicken so there you go

00:18:50.020 yeah um that's that's for all the uh folks that are listening yeah just practical catholicism and i

00:18:57.040 think since our society you know since the reformation became more protestant especially in america and

00:19:03.580 then now that we live in a post-christian era all of the sort of the the catholic nuts and bolts and

00:19:09.980 the the you know the underpinning of our culture it's all forgotten and then now we have these

00:19:14.820 people on blogs who are like trying to impose wicca on everything which is completely made up by the 0.98

00:19:20.960 way completely yeah so it's it's not it's not even it's if you were an ancient pagan and ancient

00:19:27.760 occultist you were definitely not a wiccan because that was made up yeah yeah so we should talk about 1.00

00:19:34.760 that a little bit so we're we're you know i feel like that's enough and for anyone who wants to read

00:19:38.380 this full article i'll i'll actually link it here so you know i know jack basobic and taylor marshall

00:19:43.160 linking to an atheist website um you know that that'll be fun but put us in good standing with

00:19:49.260 with our fellow catholics uh for sure and um but uh but but let's get into this idea that you know

00:19:56.840 the occultists really have perverted this holiday and so many other christian holidays uh the same way

00:20:03.720 that in in all occultism it's always a perversion of the true faith uh you have the mass you have the

00:20:10.420 black mass you have uh three you know 3 p.m becomes 3 a.m 3 p.m the traditional uh by by tradition we

00:20:17.740 believe that's when when christ died on the cross with 3 a.m becomes satanic hour you see this in

00:20:22.600 movies by the way the exorcist right this there's a lot of cath obviously right there's the overt catholic 0.88

00:20:28.240 motifs of the rosary the holy water the crucifix the young priest the old priest but there's even

00:20:34.420 there's even deeper stuff if you know if you know the background uh 3 a.m 3 p.m itself etc like this

00:20:40.860 by the way just a another note on that you know that's one of the coolest things about growing up

00:20:46.180 catholic is that number one you you never actually have to have this discussion because you just know

00:20:50.400 uh you know inherently that that's what it is but then also that uh it always means that you get the

00:20:55.980 day after halloween off so just saying yeah that's right yeah as long as you go to church as long as

00:21:01.040 you go to church for us november 1st is a high holy day it's a holy day obligation and that means

00:21:07.040 we have to go to mass it's just like a sunday we have to go to mass we get to go to mass but we're

00:21:12.360 required to go to mass because we come and we commemorate all the saints in heaven and we catholics

00:21:18.920 like saints now people say well what about the in in eastern europe i don't know if you know this but

00:21:24.840 in poland um all saints day and all souls day are massive just absolutely massive and all

00:21:30.800 all souls day what the polls will do and uh you would see this in ukraine as well probably not

00:21:36.660 you know this year obviously uh that might be harder but i actually i take that back i guarantee

00:21:41.640 you will see this on november 2nd in ukraine even in wartime that for the in western ukraine you still

00:21:48.320 have a lot of catholics they go to the they will go to the ceremony the cemeteries and it's candles

00:21:53.500 and it's flowers for your family for your ancestors and there's sort of this idea that if you're

00:21:58.680 if you're not taking care of the graves of your ancestors um that you're you're like it's it's a

00:22:04.800 shame right it's it's a personal shame it's a familial shame that you are not because the idea

00:22:09.340 being that you have to honor your ancestors which by the way last time i checked that wasn't a

00:22:13.240 recommendation that wasn't a suggestion from god honoring your your answer that's a commandment

00:22:17.300 right that's a commandment and this idea that and then of course that hopefully that someone will do

00:22:22.580 that for you at some point that's right and i think you know people who aren't catholic get that

00:22:28.240 they're like why don't you just worship god you know keep it keep it focused on jesus and we do

00:22:32.580 and we have a distinction in catholicism we have this greek term called dulia and and another term

00:22:38.720 called glatria and dulia is what we give to humans uh you can say you can give it to the american

00:22:47.020 flag the cross like we show respect and honor we salute veneration is not worth yeah it's a

00:22:53.540 veneration it's not a it's not and the other term latria in greek is to is for god alone so only the

00:23:01.260 father the son and the holy ghost get latria the true adoration of worship as god and then the saints

00:23:08.720 get our our dulia like you would respect you know in a monarchy a monarch well we should even respect

00:23:15.940 our president um even though we're not thrilled with who he is but i mean we we show you know you

00:23:22.780 like you are in the navy you salute you salute the rank you salute the uniform you know and that

00:23:27.460 form you salute the rank you're not like someone can't come like why are you worshiping that general

00:23:31.260 or that where you yeah why are you worshiping that admiral right yeah no yeah or why are you

00:23:34.820 worshiping the flag well i'm honoring the flag it's custom it's actually called customs and duties

00:23:38.980 it's considered a duty yes exactly and and we believe that we have a duty

00:23:45.080 um that we should honor those who were exemplars in following jesus christ

00:23:52.500 you know saint mary magdalene saint paul saint luke you know uh and all the way into our own time

00:23:59.860 saint therese de lajue all these great saints who and maybe they were martyrs and maybe they were just

00:24:05.200 in their quiet way through suffering or illness they carried the cross of jesus with jesus we are coming

00:24:11.940 up on our next break so i'd hold that thought right there dr taylor marshall the author of

00:24:16.740 antichrist and apocalypse coming up next talking saints talking halloween talking to call be right

00:24:21.260 back

00:24:21.520 and we're back we're here with dr taylor marshall the author of the new book antichrist and apocalypse

00:24:30.680 which is just rocketing up the charts on amazon we'll talk about that a little bit more

00:24:34.540 in the final segment but i i want to ask you another question a serious question maybe a spooky

00:24:39.660 question are demons real are these spirits these ghosts these ghouls these goblins uh this spiritual

00:24:47.740 world that we're called to believe in when i watch a movie like the exorcist or a series like the

00:24:52.440 conjuring uh it they talk about things like this when i read the bible when i read the gospel christ

00:24:58.220 performs exorcisms uh including transporting you know demons like legion into into a herd of pigs

00:25:06.080 at one point they fall off the cliff they run off the cliff and so am i supposed to just overlook those

00:25:12.260 things am i supposed to think that these are just well you know that was just an early form of

00:25:16.140 mental illness and you know he was just uh he was curing them through a form of of you know celestial

00:25:21.940 therapy or something or or are these things real and should we as believers take these seriously

00:25:26.780 they're most certainly real if you read the bible old and new testament there are fallen angels

00:25:33.680 and that's what a demon is so we as christians believe that before our world our human world was

00:25:41.720 created that god made the angelic world and he gave them a test and there's some speculation of

00:25:46.960 of what that is and i talk about that in my book but basically what happened is satan said non

00:25:51.860 serve him i will not serve i will not serve and he fell uh there was another angel in our tradition

00:25:59.060 who said who is like god in hebrew mikael who is like god in mikael is michael michael st michael

00:26:06.680 the archangel and so he asked him that question like who can be god you know you can't satan you

00:26:11.120 can't be god you know and so satan was kicked out about a third of the angels fell and satan and

00:26:17.320 those third of angels became demons they became dark angels and ever since then they've been wanting

00:26:24.660 to thwart and bother and bring us to hell and you see that in the opening of the bible adam and eve

00:26:32.900 right satan comes and he starts talking to eve and in the book of job you see satan comes before god

00:26:38.800 and says you know i want to go after job he's so holy he thinks he's so righteous that's because he has

00:26:43.100 such a great life let me start taking things away from him and he will curse you god and god says no

00:26:47.600 he's a just man and he allows satan to start tempting and taking things away from job and

00:26:54.080 for some reason in god's providence he's decided to allow these fallen angels to to remain around us

00:27:01.740 to influence us for us to fight against and we call it spiritual warfare and we have to be prepared for

00:27:08.300 that we have to be in a state of grace you know have to have the sacraments read the bible live holy

00:27:12.360 lives help the poor alms all these things and so the demons are real and then we find in the bible

00:27:19.040 that not only can the demons influence us they can tempt us remember satan tempted even jesus christ

00:27:26.120 and even even the devil can quote scripture he can quote scripture these demons are smart

00:27:32.080 well because there's also this idea right so if you're if you're a demon or you know you're

00:27:37.980 a fallen angel and you want to you want to wage war on god you want to attack god well you can't

00:27:43.320 attack god head on right yeah you already lost on that one you'd be obliterated you're done um there's

00:27:49.120 nothing you could do but here's what you could do what you could do is find god's creatures find god's 0.61

00:27:56.660 believers find god's flock and you could go and you could target them and you could target them and

00:28:04.660 take them away from god because you can see that god is working with them and god wants them to come

00:28:10.320 closer to him because god wants them to attain heaven and so you can go and then try and work

00:28:15.440 to thwart his plans and so they say you know they say every um you know every challenge in every

00:28:22.920 every time we're faced with something like it's also that perennial question why do bad things happen

00:28:27.900 right and you say well every you know every suffering is a chance for repentance and that's tough

00:28:32.480 that's a very tough lesson i struggle with that lesson i struggle with that lesson that teaching

00:28:36.760 but it it is something that i i just say in my head over and over every struggle every suffering is a

00:28:42.100 chance for repentance yeah yeah every setback is a setup and for some reason god's allowed that and

00:28:49.180 and people when they get possessed there's two reasons i just interviewed an exorcist yesterday a real

00:28:55.900 exorcist father chad and we i asked how do people get possessed what what's happening the main way

00:29:02.700 people get possessed is they go looking for it they get involved involved yeah they they well you can

00:29:09.780 make a pact with the devil which is not he says not actually a pact or a deal with the devil because

00:29:14.660 the devil has no legal rights because he's already a defeated foe so his covenants and his 0.98

00:29:19.740 his you know contracts are void but people who make these with them enter into partnerships with

00:29:26.220 him or you know you can do that explicit where you just say i want to make a deal with you satan

00:29:31.280 or they get involved in extremely sinful or demonic behavior uh witchcraft seances uh ouija boards

00:29:43.800 you know some of these dark arts uh dark magic these kind of things uh paganism pagan rituals sexual

00:29:52.300 rituals or really really criminal um activity uh mass murdering you know these these really uh rapes

00:30:01.260 child rapes all these kind of things these invite the demons into us and the exorcists say that the

00:30:07.780 demon when you're possessed he's not in your soul a demon can't get in your soul demons are actually

00:30:13.620 in your bodies and when you read the accounts in the of jesus exercising people you see that the

00:30:19.400 demons are in their bodies not in their souls so that's the main reason why people get possessed is

00:30:24.100 they open themselves up to the satanic so if someone says hey let's do a seance or hey let's get the

00:30:30.740 ouija board out or let's do anything you just run as far as you can from that because if you want

00:30:35.560 demons that's how you get demons now the other thing that's kind of on that you know on that it's it's

00:30:40.320 not it's not what is it you know i don't know who makes it the ouija boards fisher price or

00:30:43.560 whatever it's not like the company's making a satanic instrument it's what you're doing with

00:30:48.520 it that becomes satanic it's not like you go to the store and it's and it's satan that that being

00:30:52.860 said you can go to a spirit halloween and find all sorts of occult uh paraphernalia there just

00:30:57.380 right on the shelf right on the shelf they have a little section for it um and the point is it's not

00:31:02.700 that stuff doesn't come into your home and make you satanic but what it does is it opens you're it

00:31:08.000 you're opening yourself up to it you're opening up that world you're oh you're inviting it in

00:31:12.060 you're giving you're giving it license right you talked about legal rights you're giving it license

00:31:17.960 giving satan license or some of the lesser demons license to be able to come and then partake right

00:31:24.720 partake of your life of your corpus your spirit is still there and you do see this in like you said

00:31:30.740 some of these you know even the original exorcist movie there's this idea of the struggle within the

00:31:35.900 young girl that she's which by the way people don't realize that's based on a true story um you know some

00:31:41.440 of the more theatrical elements were added sure walking on the ceiling and all but the you know

00:31:45.960 speaking in tongues and the lesions and um knowing knowing information about the people that she's

00:31:52.780 talking to that you know you couldn't possibly know um saying i'm here i'm speaking with your mother

00:31:58.240 knowing the mother's name speak yeah all of that goes back sometimes they speak latin greek hebrew

00:32:04.280 ancient languages that that a person wouldn't normally know and that's that's those are the

00:32:08.860 kind of preternatural signs that's like okay there's something in this person so when you do

00:32:14.700 this occult stuff you're doing something spiritual and you're not doing it with god and his angels you're

00:32:20.080 doing it with the underworld and that opens you up and it's really bad but the other way you can be

00:32:24.840 possessed and this is kind of scary to think about is sometimes extremely holy people um god allows

00:32:32.780 demons to come into their lives and uh they're usually well almost always victorious and the

00:32:39.340 exorcist yesterday told me us a story of a very holy nun who is in i think in bavaria one of the

00:32:45.920 holiest nuns in the region and she was possessed and the exorcist came and she said that it was revealed

00:32:53.720 that because of a sin that had taken root in the area god had allowed this sign to happen to get

00:32:59.980 everybody's attention and he said what is the sin and he says divorce people are turning to divorce

00:33:05.160 and so once they knew that he did the exorcism the demon came right out and then the nun was fine

00:33:10.460 you know like the supernatural thing that god wanted so sometimes you can be very holy and not do anything

00:33:17.200 wicked just like in the story of job in the bible he was a very holy man obviously there's no rules for

00:33:23.480 for god if god decides to write something it's you know he's in yeah but but he said almost every 0.75

00:33:30.180 single time you're dealing with someone who's possessed uh there is some sort of of magical dark

00:33:37.000 art wicked occult practice that has happened um that's usually traumatic to a person and uh they

00:33:45.140 always they always do a triage to make sure you know this is not some kind of mental illness and they

00:33:51.120 want to confirm that there's something preternatural spiritual in this person um that's not just

00:33:58.200 psychological and once they have that and get approval they do an exorcism and an exorcism is no joke

00:34:04.040 right and and by the way there's there's no your your sanctioned exorcisms are done by priests right

00:34:11.020 there's no there's no lay exorcisms i mean you can pray for the person and you can you can hold

00:34:17.800 whatever you want to do pray there and you should you should be praying for the person obviously

00:34:21.140 but you know the idea that you're going to be performing this outside i mean that's like

00:34:24.860 that's like saying you know you're you're you're a member of the laity and you're going to go perform

00:34:29.260 open heart surgery on somebody it's it's not probably not exactly or i'm you know you're just a lay

00:34:35.340 person and i'm going to go like do a seal team six op on myself by myself it's just not you're not

00:34:40.920 trained for that right and there's a lot that goes into it uh you know rituals and preparation and you

00:34:46.500 you open yourself up too well as they say if if you if a lay person or someone even a priest who's

00:34:53.820 not an exorcist let me emphasize this even a priest who's not an exorcist who tries to do one

00:34:59.000 he can get retribution and have and have demons come into his life so you have to be properly

00:35:05.260 you know appointed certified in order to do it uh you can tell a little bit into this i've read a lot

00:35:14.240 of the work of uh father amworth um watched his videos quite a bit um he so he was the vatican's

00:35:21.220 exorcist he was someone who's been very public about this and at one point he actually made a video

00:35:26.360 and we're seeing the break that you haven't actually seen this yet so you got to go watch

00:35:29.620 this now when you're done that he allowed the director of the original exorcist movie

00:35:34.060 to actually film an exorcism in italy that he was performing um it was this this uh italian

00:35:42.620 to the mother young mother and uh you hear the speaking in tongues you see the the sort of

00:35:49.720 contortions that the body is doing and you you're able to watch this no it's it's just him it's the

00:35:55.740 director some members of her family no camera crew just him single camera in the room they show the

00:36:00.680 entire thing wow yeah i've never been to one but i've i've heard i've spoken to exorcist priest who

00:36:08.180 have done them and um and it's not just like you come in and uh five minutes it's over like these

00:36:13.640 can go on for months actually well it's that's right it's it's a very long process it's not like

00:36:19.320 you see in the movies it's you you know you don't just go in once and then it's done it's it's multiple

00:36:24.160 times because at the end of the day um and correct me if i have this wrong we're coming up on a break

00:36:28.580 here but you it's it's not just that you're performing the the exorcism because that person

00:36:36.580 has been possessed god has allowed them to be possessed and that person has to repent for that

00:36:43.880 which they that sin they committed their uh whatever they let in they have to repent for their actions

00:36:48.860 and then the exorcism will begin to take place yeah the the person needs to be right with god and the

00:36:56.860 exorcist i spoke to yesterday says look uh you have to he gives him a whole uh thing list of

00:37:03.080 things they need to do before he'll even begin the exorcisms because they've got to be spiritually

00:37:06.560 right wow wow all right we're coming right back talking exorcisms getting spooky dr taylor marshall

00:37:12.420 all right we're back final segment here we've been getting spooky with dr taylor marshall the author

00:37:20.240 of antichrist and apocalypse the new book we've been talking about the christian history of

00:37:26.840 halloween yes the christian history before the pagans had anything to do with it which they never

00:37:31.360 did and before the occultists tried to come in pervert it take it away and steal it as they do to

00:37:36.760 all things christian you know and and and actually dr marshall we were talking a little bit in the break

00:37:41.680 and i think we should say this on air as well though that uh the original book of dracula right the

00:37:46.800 original book of dracula so we said the movie the exorcist obviously has a lot of catholic motifs

00:37:51.860 but the original book of dracula it it is so much more uh christian based that i don't think people

00:37:59.160 realize where essentially it is it is the family of dracul has made this deal with the devil just like

00:38:05.200 you're talking about and the idea is that he's been possessed by satan um he has to drink the blood

00:38:11.100 of the living in a perversion of drinking the blood of the eternal right so it keeps him undead as

00:38:18.740 opposed to dead and then achieving uh apotheosis coming to heaven and then um this this this sense

00:38:27.200 that this is also why you know crucifixes and holy water are things that ward him off so some of it has

00:38:31.880 translated into the movies but not quite yeah i mean it's a perfect segue into the the book of revelation

00:38:38.440 the apocalypse because in the book of revelation satan is called the dragon and in greek it's draco

00:38:44.860 and in latin draco where you get dracula dracula means little dragon right so so we're literally you

00:38:51.040 know dracula is the little dragon the little satan because he's so giving himself over to the devil and

00:38:56.940 he's he's using all if you read the novel by the way do yourself a favor and read the original

00:39:02.660 bramstoker dracula novel it's short it's good i keep on amazon or wherever you want to get books

00:39:08.300 it's an excellent book and as you read it especially if you're a catholic you'll see all this

00:39:12.340 christian sort of black mirror you know analogy that's towards the that's bent towards the demonic

00:39:20.500 that comes from christ so he's talking about baptism he's talking the eucharistic language of

00:39:25.180 eating the flesh of the body and blood of jesus christ as in the lord's supper the eucharist 0.96

00:39:30.280 all this sort of christian theology is inverted and perverted by dracula the little dragon satan

00:39:39.140 himself and he is possessed by satan as you read the novel you begin to realize that he he's in need

00:39:45.480 of an exorcism and what he's doing is he's he's trying to have this eucharist on other human beings

00:39:51.560 he's eating off of them uh in order to preserve his life and we know that jesus says unless you eat my

00:39:58.240 flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you that's the true gospel of jesus christ and then 0.99

00:40:04.420 dracula has completely subverted it in a satanic ritual uh so yeah and even the whole idea of

00:40:11.720 virgins and consecrated virgins in relationship to nuns and all these things are going on in dracula

00:40:17.480 that are it's very obvious once you kind of just say it to somebody and then when you read the actual

00:40:23.220 novel you realize oh well it was overt in the novel and it's just been through hollywood's lens that

00:40:28.120 they've they've you know diluted all of this yes uh and takes place of course in transylvania which

00:40:34.520 is kind of romania-ish area with some kind of some interesting christian uh motifs in the background

00:40:41.380 there yeah it's it's a fantastic story and it kind of just you know shows a perversion of what true

00:40:49.600 christianity is and how christ is our life and and how we're incorporated him and consecrated him and

00:40:55.980 that's what gives us eternal life and i think you know our our culture now is kind of the same thing

00:41:00.940 people prey on other people to perpetuate uh their lifestyle their life and it's just it's it's totally

00:41:08.380 no it's very sad and so i mean my my my final point on that is just you know if you're going to

00:41:13.680 celebrate halloween celebrate you know have fun with your kids go out have a good time but but also

00:41:19.200 don't forget don't forget the original part of it right don't forget the the origin of this the

00:41:25.200 martyrs the holy martyrs the holy saints uh understand the history and and and the true rich

00:41:32.860 tradition that you're actually taking part in by celebrating not just halloween right so that's my

00:41:39.560 point if you're going to celebrate halloween don't just celebrate halloween but also celebrate

00:41:43.340 all saints all souls so now you're completing what's called the hallow tide but what was

00:41:50.000 interesting is that you mentioned as well though yeah that all saints is that it's a holy day of

00:41:54.720 obligation high holy day for catholics but the reading on all saints day is always from the book

00:42:02.940 of the apocalypse also known as the book of revelation that's right so what's the connection

00:42:08.000 why is that why is that the direct connection well when you read the apocalypse the book of

00:42:14.160 revelation uh as in my new book antichrist and apocalypse there is there's seven there's uh seven

00:42:21.180 seven churches seven seals seven trumpets and then seven plagues that's the sevenfold cycle that

00:42:28.220 just starts cycling literally twirling around in the book of the apocalypse and as you as you go

00:42:33.940 through it you realize that there's this very strong harvest theme in the book of the apocalypse

00:42:40.380 and this goes back to the gospels where christ says you know the harvest is plentiful but the laborers few

00:42:45.820 the angels will come and collect the harvest i mean there's all these parables that have to do with

00:42:49.700 harvesting right so and it's harvesting of souls right and christ even has him in the apocalypse he's

00:42:56.920 even depicted as having the sickle and reaching the sickle down into the earth and harvesting souls

00:43:02.000 so this whole idea that he is the kind of this great farmer remember adam was a farmer right adam

00:43:10.760 and eve he was cultivating the garden christ is the new adam he was found in the garden mary magdalene

00:43:15.360 thought he was the gardener remember that right on easter sunday so he is in a way cultivating a

00:43:21.620 garden but is it just like grapes and grain well in the eucharist it is that but it transubstantiates

00:43:26.800 into his body and blood and somehow it it brings in this harvest of souls and so on all saints day

00:43:32.960 traditionally we read from the book of the apocalypse and it's this whole idea and it's

00:43:39.260 the reading from from revelation chapter seven where the angel comes and it marks on the forehead

00:43:46.840 with the sign of the tau which is a cross on all the faithful on earth and it marks them and

00:43:54.680 denotes them that they are to be harvested for jesus christ they are to be taken for him and that's 0.79

00:44:00.020 the beautiful imagery in the book of revelation for all saints day is that we have been marked on

00:44:06.140 our heads with the sign of the cross and baptism we're baptized on our heads and then in the catholic

00:44:12.420 tradition the priest also puts chrism on our heads and marks us with the sign of the cross the seal of

00:44:18.900 of the cross of jesus christ and tells us to to preserve this baptism until the day of our death

00:44:25.860 so in a way he marks us for the harvest this is why eventually i think all saints day was moved to

00:44:33.060 november 1st because it fits with this apocalyptic book of revelation harvest theme because this that's

00:44:40.740 the time of the harvest you know that final fall harvest of bringing in everything before it turns winter

00:44:45.720 uh so yeah there's all these things by the way is obviously just as a normal fall tradition anywhere

00:44:52.200 you are in the world it's not tied to paganism the fact that it's becoming you know fall and autumn and

00:44:57.840 we're collecting the crops right that's just that's just life you know that's again part of god's creation

00:45:03.820 uh but there's no there's no direct and and by the way if you if you end up for anyone who ends up

00:45:08.280 reading that article i hope you do it points out that even even by the way if you go into the irish

00:45:14.040 harvest festival uh in in ancient times of sowing there was no connection to paganism whatsoever just

00:45:19.780 a harvest festival that's all that's it that's all it was yeah i mean you bring in a bunch of grain

00:45:24.060 and you have tons of food and your work is all done what are you going to do you're going to eat

00:45:27.900 great food and bake some pies and have fun yeah yeah and let the kids eat the apples and you know just

00:45:34.540 have a grand old time and and that's kind of part of it is is it celebrating as we read in the book

00:45:40.380 of revelation you know that christ has marked us and he is coming back for us he has we're special

00:45:47.520 to him and he wants to bring us into a storehouse which is heaven and that's the great hope of it

00:45:54.060 all and that's what all saints is all about it we we look to those who already made it you know it's

00:45:59.340 kind of like if you're you know you're overcoming alcoholism or drugs or sex addiction meeting and

00:46:05.480 knowing people who have been successful in that journey inspires you like okay i can do it you

00:46:11.720 know i can do it i can go one more day when i say you know i'm i'm 17 years sober um i try not to make

00:46:19.820 i try not to you know that's like bragging it's it's um but but i i try to mention that every once

00:46:24.860 in a while uh we just we just had that you know just a couple of uh what two three weeks ago um was

00:46:30.700 my anniversary and i try to mention that i try to mention that you know often it's not like uh

00:46:35.180 oh look i'm better than you think no it's not like that at all it's it's a message to anybody

00:46:39.180 that is struggling out there that hey 17 years boom didn't didn't think i could do 17 years but here i

00:46:45.760 am it's possible and and that's that that is just an analogy to where we look in this lab like is it

00:46:52.160 really worth being a christian is it really worth trying to live chase is it really worth going to

00:46:56.820 church every sunday and you know praying every day and this family and then you look at the saints

00:47:02.580 and you're like they did it thousands of people have done it and one day one day though when when

00:47:10.020 we realized that you know go uh i've had a priest once who said you know the best place to count your

00:47:15.300 money is in the graveyard best place to check your bank account you know that that this is this is a

00:47:20.940 you know this is a testing ground that we're in right here this is this this reality that we're in

00:47:26.000 whatever it truly is right it's it's set up for us as a test that's the true life right beyond this

00:47:33.720 and this is you know so your answer to the test will take place there not here and you'll be there

00:47:40.100 a whole lot longer than you are here that's right final final words final words we're almost out of

00:47:45.020 time dr taylor marshall the new book antichrist apocalypse available everywhere that books are sold

00:47:50.520 hasn't been banned yet get it before it is um we're definitely gonna have to order some for it because

00:47:55.220 everyone i'm in every all the producers asking me for a copy now uh but what's what's the final

00:48:00.120 word why should people read this book now well you know everything creepy the book of revelation has a

00:48:06.000 lot of creepy scary unusual stuff in it and all of those things are there just like the demonic just

00:48:11.580 like death just like all these things we're talking about as we get close to halloween all of that there

00:48:16.220 is to inspire us to have hope and confidence that christ conquered death he conquered the demons he

00:48:22.460 conquered the devil all these things that scare us he's conquered and we have hope in him and that's

00:48:28.480 the message of all saints be a saint memento mori memento mori memento mori dr taylor marshall the

00:48:35.980 book is antichrist apocalypse thank you so much god bless you happy halloween ladies and gentlemen

00:48:41.640 gentlemen as always you have my permission to lay ashore

00:48:45.480 you

00:48:45.620 Thank you.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - October 30, 2022

Sunday Special： The True Story of Halloween, The Occult, and The Apocalypse with Dr. Taylor Marshall

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