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Regarding Halloween

According to the late Teacher Eraño M. Evangelista of thename.ph, our practice of visiting the graves of our deceased loved ones and family members during this Halloween season is one of the signs that we Filipinos are God's new chosen people, even though God hates such practices.

We can read that in Isaiah 65:1-4

"I was sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, 'Here I am, here I am,'
To a nation that was not called by My Name.
Isaiah 65:1 NKJV

The passage reads: "I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, 'Here I am, here I am,' To a nation that was not called by My Name."

God makes it known that He is no longer with His former people. He is now with a different nation. How do we identify them?

Let us continue reading Isaiah 65, verses 2 to 4:
I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,
Who walk in a way that is not good,
According to their own thoughts;
A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;
Who sacrifice in gardens,
And burn incense on altars of brick;
Who sit among the graves,
And spend the NIGHT IN THE TOMBS
Who eat swine's flesh,
And the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Isaiah 65:2-4 NKJV (CAPS mine)

"Who sit among the graves,
And spend the NIGHT IN THE TOMBS
Who eat swine's flesh," --- To identify God's new nation is through their religious practice of honoring their dead loved ones in their tombs. Such yearly religious celebration is what Filipinos are known for.

Question: Why did God say in Isaiah 65 verse 1 that He is now with the people or nation who were not called by His Name? What is the blessing offered by God to us Filipinos that if we accept, we truly become His full-fledged people?

Let us read in Zechariah 13:9

I will bring the one-third through the fire,
Will refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them.
I will say, ‘This is My people’;
And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”
Zechariah 13:9 NKJV

"Will refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested."- Despite our religious practices that God despises, God will cleanse us with His true teachings.

Teacher Evangelista even once gave the word "Pilipino" a unique definition:
Pili- In Tagalog means "Chosen"
"Pino"- In Tagalog means "Refined."

Thus he said, "Ang Pilipino ay Pinili na ng Diyos at Pinino pa"- which in English means we Pilipinos or Filipinos are the people that God has chosen and refined.

They will call on my name" - This is God's blessing granted to us Filipinos. We were allowed to know His actual Name as the man chosen by God to reveal it, the late Teacher Evangelista, was of Filipino descent.

The late Teacher Evangelista fulfilled his mission and made the revelation of God's Name in the Bible known to the world's people through the website www.thename.ph.

Since it is now on the website, it is up to us Filipinos to read and accept his Bible revelations about God's actual Name to become God's new people.