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"The pagans of northern Europe celebrated the their own winter solstice, known as Yule. Yule was symbolic of the pagan Sun God, Mithras, being born, and was observed on the shortest day of the year. As the Sun God grew and matured, the days became longer and warmer. It was customary to light a candle to encourage Mithras, and the sun, to reappear next year. Huge Yule logs were burned in honor of the sun. The word Yule itself means wheel, the wheel being a pagan symbol for the sun. Mistletoe was considered a sacred plant, and the custom of kissing under the mistletoe began as a fertility ritual. Holly berries were thought to be a food of the gods. The tree is the one symbol that unites almost all the northern European winter solstices. Live evergreen trees were often brought into homes during the harsh winters as a reminder to inhabitants that soon their crops would grow again. In all societies, there were people who filled the roles of judge, doctor, diviner, mage, mystic, and clerical scholar - they were the religious intelligentsia of their culture."

Considerations on identification

"Identification refers to one or more ways of characterizing or selecting one object among many existing ones". When we mention "object" we do not necessarily refer to a physical piece, as the word is usually used, but we are dealing here with an "object of identification", which can be a product, a place, a vehicle, an animal, human beings or spiritual beings. These are the "objects of identification".

When dealing with human beings, there are today on the face of the earth some billions of this kind of "object of identification". Each one of them is unique and each one of them has to be characterized and selected uniquely among all others. This characterization of a human being which selects it uniquely among all the others is called an "identification process".

The human identification process is under constant evolution as the science finds new unique characteristics of human beings all the time. It's amazing to think that one century ago we knew nothing about the unique characteristics of finger prints as a resource for identification. Nowadays, not only the finger print analysis by computer is quick and precise but also the eye mapping, voice spectrum-analysis, DNA analysis and thermophoto as identification processes.

However, if we look back to a couple of centuries ago, there were no identification process besides the physical appearance of a person, like his face, height, weight and so on. Since the beginning, even when all these techniques were unknown, the Creator, with His great wisdom, has set in every human being, though they belong to the same specie, very unique identification characteristics. Firstly the face (even twins are slightly different); after that, the body, the height, the great variety of skin colors, the great variety of eye colors, a great variety of hair types and colors, then the finger prints, the eye maps, the DNA and the unique face temperature map which allows thermophotos. We do not know yet what else the Creator has set in every human being as a unique identification characteristic which the scientists will find some day in the near future. The Creator, beyond any doubt, dedicated Himself very much to this matter of "identification".

We can only consider as positive identification characteristics of an object, those which are permanent not changing along the time. Variable characteristics which change along the time are not positive identification characteristics. And so, aspects like behavior, personality, personal skills, knowledge and others like these can only help in the identification process but within a very short period of time.

It seems to us that the human identification process is being dealt with very well by the human science, by the government of each country, and by the national and international police departments. However, our great interest here is not focused on the human identification process, as there are people dealing with this very well. Our great interest here is focused on the identification of invisible spiritual beings.

Considerations on spiritual beings identification

Spiritual beings are invisible for us who live under the firmament in the material world. This is maybe the great difficulty for people to believe they are real, as they are used to the "touch" or "see" identification processes and besides they do not know anything about spiritual identification and its reality. Many people prefer to ignore the existence of spiritual beings, invisible to our sight, and not even consider their existence. But now, the point is the spiritual beings identification, considering the scriptures that say they are real. This is a fact.

Spiritual beings, for us who live under the firmament, have no face, no height, no finger prints, no eye map, no DNA either. Would the Creator have left the spiritual beings out of the possibility of a positive identification, considering He took many steps to assure a positive identification for each human being? Certainly not. Identification is so an important matter for the Creator that He first invited the man to participate in the identification process of each animal specie on earth that He had recently created. And He said that the way the man called them they would be called so. The Holy Scriptures show us that the Creator calls each cocav (star???) by its own name, because He identifies each one of them.

The Holy Scriptures show clearly that in the spiritual realm, above the firmament, invisible to our sight, though totally real, the only and exclusive identification is the NAME of each spiritual being. No other way is found in the scriptures by which a spiritual being could be identified by us. It's not up to us to wonder whether or not the spiritual beings have any other identification among them, above the firmament, like appearance, color, size, brightness or something else that we couldn't even imagine. The fact is that for us while living in this material world we cannot see any characteristic of spiritual beings identification, except the one and only revealed in the Holy Scriptures: THEIR NAMES.

The Creator invited the man to give names to the animals that He had created. The Creator calls each of the 'cocavim' by its own name. The Creator changed the name of several people, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures. The Messiah changed the name of one of His disciples. The name of the predecessor of the Messiah has not been chosen by his parents, but by instruction of the spiritual being Gaborul (corrupted as 'Gabriel'), who has been sent to his father who was the high-priest at that time. The Name of the Messiah has not been chosen by any man or woman either. This precious Name has been informed by a spiritual being to His mother and to the husband of His mother.

The Creator Himself, to Whom the New testament refer as "The Father", and being the Messiah His one and only Son, He has a Name which has been revealed to men and determined that "by which I will be remembered from generation to generation". Exodus 3:15. There is no other way, scripturally speaking, to identify the Creator or His Son, except by Their Names.

It's interesting to notice how the Creator, in Exodus 20, has forbidden making any kind of sculpture or any resemblance of what is "above in heaven". Making sculptures are idolatrous attempts to identify invisible beings in a visible way, disobeying the scriptures that reveal such exclusive identification by the names. Many religions, specially the catholic church, make thousands of such sculptures and images, being totally away from the spiritual reality, as if we observe any of these images there is no positive identification as they are completely different among themselves. The calendars which are sold or given containing images supposedly of the Messiah, present an unreal picture besides the fact that we cannot find two of them with some similarity. They created a stereotype of the Messiah with long curled hair and beard with white skin and blue eyes. Possibly because the natural human being disconnected from the scriptural knowledge associates the beautiful to the good and the ugly to the evil. Despite the scriptures teach that "He had no beauty" these idolatrous images keep multiplying all over, not only disobeying the commandment not to make them but also ignoring the one and only scriptural way of identifying a spiritual being: THE NAME.

The mistaken identifications

May it be very expensive to us a mistaken identification? Yes. It can be very expensive. Let's try to imagine in first place in the material world what may happen due to a mistaken identification. The list of possible losses is long. Innocent people might be condemned to death in the place of the real criminal; people may lose money in their bank accounts by others taking their places; people may lose great amount of money when their credit cards are used by other people not properly identified; check books are stolen and the signature is forged to wrongly identify the owner of that check; cars are stolen and their numbers are modified to avoid proper identification; children are stolen while in the hospital right after birth by fake nurses and sometimes this crime is solved only when that child is already an adult.

Today the techniques for forgery and violations evolve to a level that even finger prints are stolen as well as eye maps in order to allow somebody to take the place of somebody else. The real sad in all this is that this is no longer science fiction like it used to be some years ago.

What to say about the losses for a mistaken identification of spiritual beings? As the Holy Scriptures clearly associate the most important facts of our lives to a perfect identification of spiritual beings, we can quickly evaluate the losses that may come from a mistaken identification.

As we said before the scriptural identification is based on the name and nothing else. Therefore it's not difficult to understand that the inappropriate use of names will directly cause the mistaken identification of spiritual beings, with its resulting loss. By means of adulteration or substitution of names impostors take the place of the true ones. When a name is changed or replaced the person behind that name is also replaced as another name is now called upon. A particular name refers to a particular spiritual being but another name refers to another spiritual being. Always remember this important concept because this will be required to understand many following teachings herein.

In the book of Exodus, the second book of the Holy Scriptures, whose author is Mehushua (corrupted as Moses), we read about the Creator sending him unto Pharaoh to release the people from the captivity in Egypt which was lasting for four hundred years already. Mehushua didn't have any video cameras, digital cameras, tape recorder or any other device to show to Pharaoh and the Hebrew people Who had sent him to speak to them. The Creator did not give him any signed paper, social security card or even some picture that could be useful as an identification. The only identification that the Creator gave to Mehushua has been His Name. "What is Thy Name so that I may tell the children of Yaoshorul", asked Mehushua.

The greatest loss for the mankind: the Salvation.

The Holy Scriptures present the salvation of our soul and spirit, as well as our body later on, extremely tied to the correct identification of our Saviour, the Messiah. As all spiritual beings are identified only by their names, and as salvation for the mankind is available only in the true Messiah, it becomes obvious that we need to precisely identify the Messiah by His one and only authentic Name.