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2 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 3

An Open Letter from the Staff...

WHY do people all over the world
observe so many different days of worship? So
many different customs?
Where did this world’s holidays come
from? Were they established by the
SUPREME AUTHORITY of YEHOVAH
God Almighty? What BIBLE AUTHORITY
is there for the holidays observed by most of
modern so-called Christianity?
Very few know WHY they observe the
days they do! Where did Easter -- with its hot
cross buns, bunnies and Easter eggs --
originate? And Halloween -- with its ghosts,
witches and trick-or-treat?
Satan’s pagan holidays have become HOPE OF ISRAEL MINISTRIES
such a traditional part of professing BIBLE
Christianity that many, though acknowledging
their pagan origin, STILL OBSERVE THEM! CORRESPONDENCE COURSE
What about you? LESSON 3
The very same pagan practices
YEHOVAH God condemned in Old Published at Arcadia, California by Hope of
Testament times have crept into modern Israel Ministries (Ecclesia of YEHOVAH).
“Christianity” and are being celebrated today.
Every tribe, every nation, every religion EDITOR AND DIRECTOR
singles out certain times of worship. It is a John D. Keyser
manifestation of the basic “urge to religion”
that the Creator God placed within human TECHNICAL ADVISOR
nature. Sean C. Keyser
But YEHOVAH God has not left it to
human nature -- or human whim dependent YOUR ENROLLMENT has been paid by
upon human ideas or traditions -- to determine others. Bulk copies for distribution not
either the time or the manner of the worship given or sold.
acceptable to Him. And without YEHOVAH’s ADDRESS COMMUNICATIONS to the
own instruction, man could not know which Editor at the following address:
days YEHOVAH Himself MADE HOLY.
Hope of Israel Ministries, P.O. Box 2186,
Did you know YEHOVAH God
Temple City, California 91780, U.S.A.
Almighty, in His Word, condemns humanly
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devised worship -- such as Easter -- as VAIN?
Also the Messiah said, “In vain they do About Our Cover...
worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men” (Matthew 15:9).
Witches lose their repulsiveness and communi-
How about YOU -- are you
cating with the dead seems less horrifying when
worshipping YEHOVAH God and His
they become familiar -- a very real danger indeed!
Messiah in vain?

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