Christmas

So what is the reason for the season, Christmas?

The Christian Church from its origin until at least the forth century did not celebrate Christmas. The date of Yeshua’s birth was debated and assigned to; March 21 or 28, May 20, April 18 or 19, or Jan 2 or 6 depending upon who was writing. It was a non-existing holiday. Actually it was a holiday, but not a Christian one. It was celebrated by the worshipers of a Babylonian god, who was the son of the Queen of Heaven, who later became the Roman god, Bacchus, the branch. Bacchus was the son of the goddess Diana. This pagan worship included the holiday of December 24 and 25 which was set aside for Bacchus and gods of many other names by different peoples. The Anglo-Saxons celebrated Yule-day, December 25 long before Christ. The Arabs celebrated the “Birthday of our Lord”, the moon, on December 24. This was spoken of in Isaiah 65:11 as the worship of Meni (moon). The Romans called this the feast of Saturn, or the feast of drunkenness (they drank for five days). The use of the pine tree (Roman), yule log (Anglo-Saxon), wassel (Roman), ornaments (to scare away evil spirits), candles (Babylon), misletoe (Druids), Christmas ham (pig sacrificed to Roman and Saxon god), and the Christmas goose (goose sacrificed to Indian god) all came from the worship of the Babylonian son of the Queen of heaven.

Yeshua, “Jesus”, was not born in December. The best estimate for His time of birth was, at the latest, October. The winters were too cold for the shepherds to be tending their flocks or for the Israelites to be traveling to pay taxes.

So how did we get Christmas? It was compliments of Constantine, a “converted” Roman emperor, 300 AD. He took the feast of Saturn and renamed it Christmas, presumably to consolidate his power. He was a worshiper of the son god. He also declared the Day of the Sun (Sunday) to become the Christian “Sabbath”. The Christian Church did not adopt the practice until one hundred years later. Constantine went on to become the first pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

What does the Scripture say about Christmas? NOTHING. The absence of an exact date for His birth, the fact that nothing is said in the Scriptures about a “Christmas holy day”, and that the early Church did not observe “Christmas” until after Constantine, suggests the God is not particularly interested in the observation of the “birthday of His Son”, (everyone is born). However, He is interested in His death (everyone also dies) and more importantly His resurrection (only One resurrected), which was not on Easter by the way. This holiday, Christmas, is not just an invention of man, but it is part of the worship of pagan gods, a holiday (holy-day) for them.

The word Christmas came from the Roman Catholic Christ’s Mass, the celebration of the massacure of the Messiah. The weekly Mass is also the suffering and death of Yeshua ending with the Eurcurist which attendance is required to be saved.

So what about the various practices during the Christmas season such as; miseltoe, pine tree and decorations, gifts from Santa Claus, yule log, serving wassel, decorating with lights and pine branches, setting out images or models of various people and animals, etc? These kind of practices are all of pagan origin and the Lord spoke of these practices in Deuteronomy.

DEU 7:25-26 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

DEU 20:17-18 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

The Lord’s command to Israel was to :

DEU 12:2-3 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

Paul wrote that; we were not to listen to someone who wanted to judge us for not observing these holidays, Col 2:16-19. The heart of this passage is the whole point. That is, that Yeshua is not a little baby lying in a manger to bring peace to the earth but He is The risen from the Dead, LIVING Savior who is returning to earth to judge man’s acceptance of His sacrifice. He is Who we are to be in constant communication and communion with, our very Life. I didn’t talk to little baby today, but the very Creator of the universe, my Lord and Master, who is recording every thing I do, say and think to be revealed before the Judgment Seat of Christ when I die. This is the God the world needs to see! This is our testimony.