For many Christians Christmas is a highlight of the year, and they love to decorate the trees, make the eggnog, bring the family together, share stories and wrap presents with pretty bows and bells. They tell tall tales to the children of a fat guy in a red suit flying around with his reindeer and elves, bringing toys and fun down their chimneys--just for them, but at the same time claiming "its all about Jesus". The whole modern culture has accepted Christmas Traditions and some go way overboard in their love for this time, including spending tens of thousands of dollars lighting up their entire yard with lights as a neighborhood spectacle, building additions onto their houses just to warehouse their fake trees, garland and decorations, all the while singing "jingle all the way!" What in the world does any of this have to do with Yeshua Messiah or his birthday? The short answer is "NOTHING!!!" If the average christian read their bible and learned where these traditions came from, and stopped listening to all the commercials, movies, songs and related propaganda, partaking in the cultural echo chamber and spiritual rot, they would learn that its all from Satan and shame would cover them! This "magical and joyful season" is also a period of sorrow for others that must be endured when obligations are placed on even the poor who spend thousands of dollars buying gifts that they can't afford to give to others for random stuff they don't fully appreciate, all for pumping up a few businesses' bottom line. Those who choose not to participate in this madness get criticized as "Scrooges" or "Grinches" who don't have the "Christmas Spirit." Its a sprit all right, but not from God and God even warns about participating in these traditions that undermine his Commandments and defile his people and temple.
Did the early first century church and Yeshua Messiah celebrate Christmas, including gift giving, decorating trees and drinking eggnog? Bible scholars say No. So when did this tradition start and where did it come from? There is absolutely no written account pre Constantine from any early church bishop or apostle that they celebrated Christ's birthday or had any such celebrations. The biblical account of Christ's birth also has no correlation to the winter solstice, nor is there any mention of December 25. However, in 336, under Constantine, Roman bishops wrote in a Roman almanac lists of the death dates of various Christian bishops and martyrs. They wrote these words as well " 25 Dec natus Christus in Bethleem Judeae." This is of no surprise that the same Romans who legally shut down Hebrew Sabbath on the 7th day and forced everyone to hold worship on the first day of the week for a sun god (Mithra) are the same ones inventing birthdays for the Messiah (or their version of the guy on the cross)! Later in the sixth century Dionysus Exiguus a monk was the first to record a seasonal festival associated with "Jesus" and December 25th, marking the winter solstice and marking the calendar of his birth to 0 zero AD. This winter solstice date was actually nothing new to Romans as they did what Romans did for centuries and that is borrow their traditions and practices from other cultures. Multiple cultures that extend way back to Babylon had this December 25 date as a significant birthday for their sun gods, and various offshoots of traditions surrounding these gods developed over time. Jews had a festival of lights and Germans had a yule festival, Celts had their legend with Baldar, Scandinavia had a sun god who was struck down by a mistletoe arrow and Romans had Saturnalia (worship of Saturn), feasting and giving gifts to the poor, Germans had their evergreen tree they decorated. Eventually, books like the King James added it to a schedule of Holy days of the Christian faith. However, no where in the words of scripture can it be found that Yeshua the Messiah was born on December 25th; and no where are any of the common symbols and practices of the holiday taught or even relatable to Christ or God himself. However, aspects of these traditions mentioned above are commented on as a pagan worship and form of idolatry mentioned all throughout scripture:
Jeremiah 10 - (shortened below) READ ALL OF IT TO HEAR GOD'S INDIGNATION!
"2. Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of hands of workman, with the axe. 4. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good...8. But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities...14. Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish....25. Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate."
Then in Jeremiah Chapter 11 God's complaint continues:
"7. For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 8. Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not...11. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them."
Wow. How do those milk and cookies taste now? God doesn't seem to like these traditions of man. He says in scripture he's a "jealous God," and in other books he likens these traditions that are full of graven images and idols with adultery to him! There are multiple references likening the Asherah to worship of Baal (which is what the Christmas tree is--an Asherah):
Deuteronomy 16:21
"You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the alter of the Lord your God that you shall make."
Exodus 34:13
"You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim."
Judges 6:25
"Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it."
2 Kings 17:16
"And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the hosts of heaven and served Baal."
2 Kings 23:7
"And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah." 8. " And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings...10. And he defiled Topeth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech. 11. And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun...14. And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men."
Micah 5:14
"And I will root out your Asherah images from amoung you and destroy your cities."
So, what is Asherah and where does it come from? It goes all the way back to Cush the grandson of Ham and the father of Nimrod. You know, that family line who Noah cursed! Nimrod's kingdom included the cities of Babel, Erech, Akkad in Shinar. The origin of this Babylonian religious practice was passed down to multiple cultures and peoples who all share the same practices:
See any patterns here? And we think Yeshua has a birthday on December 25, even tough there is zero evidence in scripture that the virgin birth story occurs on the winter solstice? Use your brains people! Do you not have a hint of discernment or curiosity to question this nonsense, especially since it does not align with the birth story? Remember the 10 Commandments, like numbers 1-5? "Thou shall not have any other gods before me!" What makes this holiday worse than something dedicated to a fictitious sun god or fat man in a red suit is that it primarily is all about Sex and Child Sacrifice! That's right--you heard it--Child Sacrifice! It also connects to Easter, which is a fertility festival. Its also a tradition about drinking and drunkenness. The Christmas tree / Asherah Pole is literally in Babylonian mythology Nimrod's penis and the spirit of Nimrod is the star on top of it. And women love to decorate it so, they put it in a prominent place and decorate the whole house! Oh, how lovely. But, when you mention how pagan it is they respond "that's not what it means to me"! Of course not, but it doesn't matter what it means to you now does it? WE DON'T WORSHIP YOU! God hates it and that is who matters. Various bible commentaries cite Asherah as the chief female goddess of the Canaanites and mistress of the sun-god Baal. The goddess Asherah (Ishtar or Easter) is also known in the Bible as the "Queen of Heaven" (Jeremiah 7:18, Jeremiah 44:17-25), and is also worshipped as "Artemis" by the Ephesians (Acts 19:23-27). The "Queen of Heaven" is also associated with the Catholic Mary. Her worship glorified sex and war and was accompanied by male temple prostitution. Farmers were known to visit these prostitutes believing that having sex with them would make their fields more fertile. This is why the Apostle Paul warned about fornication with prostitutes (1 Corinthians 6:15-17), because spiritually you are uniting with a sex goddess or similar demon and committing idolatry, which is adultery to God. When an entire culture engages with demons and false god traditions the Holy Spirit has a tendency to withdraw from those people and all sorts of sin enters in.
The Bible describes King David as a "man after God's own heart" who knew the law better than the priests of the temple. However, David wasn't a perfect servant, and plotted to kill Uriah to allow David to commit adultery with Uriah's wife Bathsheba. However, David was confronted about this by Nathan the Prophet and he repented.
In 2 Samuel 12:9-11 God tells David:
"9. Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and has taken his wife to be thy wife, and has slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou has despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with they wives in the sight of this sun."
David's son Solomon, who had over 700 wives and 300 concubines, had also allowed foreign women to influence his walk with God and the traditions observed in Israel. After Solomon died, his son Rehoboam inherited the kingdom, but the people did not submit to him and revolted, thus causing a division between the Northern Kingdom and Southern Kingdom of Israel. So by the conclusion of the 10th century BC the sins of pagan practices caused not only a division but caused God's Spirit and his protection to withdraw, leaving Israel open to punishment by attack and captivity. In 722 Assyria conquered Israel and forced all ten tribes to scatter into small populations all over the Middle East, eventually causing the scattering to the four corners of earth, blending generations into the Gentile nations and losing their identity. A century later Judah was conquered by the Chaldeans, which is Babylon, and a similar captivity and exposure to pagan practices occurred.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus says the LORD: “ Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce,
Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has been put away. "
Jeremiah 3:6-10
The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot. And I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also."
In Ezekiel chapter 4 we see a prophecy unfold about the length of time God plans on punishing Israel and Judah for their transgressions:
Ezekiel 4:5-6
"5. Lie thou upon thy left side...For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel." "6. And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year."
During this punishment Ezekiel 4 describes the houses are forced to eat mixed bread (which means pagan doctrine) baked over human dung!
Ezekiel 4:16-17
"16. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment. 17. That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity."
In Leviticus 26 we see God giving Israel warning after their first transgression of the Covenant about what happens if they don't repent, they will multiply their punishment by 7 times. So what we see happening in real time is Israel not only getting scattered to the four corners of the earth, losing their identity to the heathens, their punishment lasted 2,730 years. From 722 BC to 2008 Israel was punished for participating in pagan practices like a Christmas Tree and related activities common to pagan festivals! Unbelievable! This is how seriously God takes his Commandments and how severe he can be when we break them! At one point, Christians who fled Europe from the Catholic Church to America, in the 16th and 17th centuries, forbade the practice of Christmas. In the late 18th century some colonies had laws against Christmas, specifically. That is because those people knew their Bible and what it means to God. However, since the early 19th century a slow withdrawal from enforcement of these laws occurred and by the early 20th century all States in the US allowed Christmas to be celebrated, even commercialized and 100 years of propaganda has convinced most Americans that Christmas is a nice jolly good time and filling their belly with sugary bread, fat hams and hot cocoa and a fat man in a red suit flying through the air at 60,000 miles per hour to ensure all children have their toys and goodies Christmas morning. So this tradition, thanks to Babylon and passed around Europe, then to America, then to the rest of the world has taught multiple generations covetousness and related Commandment breaking practices; and God will punish everyone for these sins, as well as any other nation who follows these ways. Buckle up, Tribulation is nigh!
The tradition at Easter, which many churches partake in, is having children run around finding eggs filled with candy eating chocolate bunnies. Really? What does this have to do with the death and resurrection of Messiah? How is this even a useful tool to giving truth to these children? It might be fun for a time, but it does not teach useful values to children. The church makes up a convoluted story of how eggs are symbolic of death or resurrection, we need to encourage children to seek the egg with the name of "Jesus" and bunnies are super cute. This makes zero sense biblically-- except when you notice connections to the actual pagan practice from Babylon, which the bible warns about it.
In Ezekiel 8:14-17, Ezekiel expresses his dismay at a woman who is "weeping for Tammuz"...and states:
"Has thou seen this, O son of man? Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these." God will not hear, nor pity, nor hear these people praying to other gods.
The Babylonian religion involves the head goddess Ishtar (Easter) also referred to Ashtoreth. This religion has a belief that Nimrod, who is the husband of Ishtar was killed because of his violence and iniquity against the living God and his body was cut into pieces and sent to various corners of the kingdom. Ishtar promoted the belief that he was a god and an evergreen tree sprang out of the roots of a dead tree stump, symbolizing new life for Nimrod. His wife told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called “Baal”, the sun god. Ishtar ended up having a miraculous conception by the rays of the sun god, allowing her to birth her son Tammuz. Tammuz grew up to be a hunter. And one of his hunting outings he faced a wild boar and was killed by the wild boar, and some of his blood was spilled on the stump of the same evergreen tree, and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. So because Tammuz was killed by the boar, there would be a 40 day period of mourning for Tammuz where no meat was to be eaten (also known as Lent) and worshipers are to make the sign of Tav across their chest and meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz to bring about the fertility cycle. This same Tav sign placed on baked cakes and on that Sunday of the first full moon they celebrate with eating pork. Another variation is from Egypt between similar gods named Osiris and Isis. Much of this story is similar, but instead of Isis getting pregnant from sun rays, from the body parts of her husband that was scattered she finds Osiris' penis and uses it to impregnate herself. The Ishtar bunny comes from the story where Tammuz is so fond of rabbits that his mother declares them sacred--this also has to do with the idea that rabbits are excellent breeders and highly fertile, which ties into fertility worship. Everything about this is an abomination to God. The bottom line, its a fertility sex cult practice where every year by Easter they held orgies and by December they had babies that were used for child sacrifice. This is the transformed religion of the Catholic Church, adopted by Rome! This is not the faith of Christ or the Apostles or in any way relates to the God of Abraham and his Commandments and Faith.
Ishtar, the mother goddess, also known as the "Queen of Heaven" taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day cycle and ovulated when full and that she came down in a giant golden egg that fell into the Euphrates River at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox, on a Sunday. The origin of painted eggs involved sacrificing a child and dipping the eggs into their blood. Also at Easter was a practice raping virgins on the altar of Ishtar, getting them pregnant. The firstborn from the Easter rape get thrown into the fire of Baal (or Molech) by the Winter Solstice--December 21-25.
I'm sure first century Apostles taught this practice to Gentiles, right? Wrong, they taught everyone the scripture which says "have nothing to do with the practice of heathens." Did the Apostles teach we can whitewash these traditions just by thinking on the name "Jesus", right? Even if we are not slitting the throats of babies and dipping eggs into their blood, if we "Just believe" that "Jesus" is our savior we are Kingdom bound, right and all is forgiven? WRONG, you stupid ignorant wicked fools! The Bible is against you 100 times over, but these are just a few examples from scripture that explicitly say HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH PAGAN PRACTICES:
Proverbs 17:15
"He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord."
Matthew 23:15
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves."
Matthew 23:27
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness."
Deuteronomy 32:17
" They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded."
1 Corinthians 10:21
"You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons."
Psalm 106: 37-38
"They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood."
Matthew 18:6
"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. "
What you will find if you study scripture using terms like "Queen of Heaven" or Tammuz or Asherah it will describe all the common practices of the Catholic church, which is all connected to sun god worship and Baal, yet they use the names of the Bible like Mary (who is their new Queen of Heaven). The whole Catholic religion is just a reinvented Baal worship that used Hebrew names and characters from real events to mask the worship of pagan gods passed down from other cultures to Rome. In the book of Kings we see Elijah demonstrating to the prophets of Baal who is God and who is not, and the prophets of Baal were slain by the river after God performed a miracle of fire on the altar. These prophets are the ones who eat at Jezebel's table. In the book of Revelation we see Christ speaking to John about a few churches (representative of types we see in the world today):
Revelation 2:12-16
"12: And to the angle of the church in Pergamos write: These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges: 13. I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and has not denied my faith...14. but I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. 15. So has thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 16. Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth."
Revelation 2: 18-23
"18. And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write...20. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. 21. I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed (of suffering), and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. 23. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts and will give unto every one of you according to your works."
People participating in these practices need to Repent and return back to the Covenant. Churches who are willfully participating in these traditions are in fact worshipping Baal and allowing demons into their houses and sanctuaries. "Come out of her my people," saith the Lord!
Another fun demonic tradition passed down from the Catholic Church to the modern church and culture at large is Halloween. The Catholic Church claims it's about "reverence" to dead saints, but even that is against what scripture says about the dead. Most people who follow Wicca or Satanism are always amazed that Christians observe this holiday that is their most holy of days, of course a day known for every type of abomination imaginable. When it comes to Pagan worship, any excuse to sacrifice children and have an orgy seems to be a repeated common practice, followed by a quick prayer to a demon or inquiring of the dead.
Isaiah 8:19
"And when they say to you, Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?"
Leviticus 19:31
“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God."
Deuteronomy 18:10-11
"There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead"
Exodus 20:4-5 (Commandment 2)
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me"
Ephesians 5:11-12:
"11. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove and expose them. 12. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret."
For the average Bible reading Christian it should come as no surprise that Halloween is a kind of wickedness to avoid, but more and more churches offer "Trunk and Treats" and similar events where kids dress up and go to the church to get candy. Sorry, but offering them a safer place to practice a demonic holiday is not bringing kids to Christ--it condones this evil. If you want to save kids for Christ it would be better to teach them to rebuke their classmates for participating in it.
Most of the practices of Halloween were blended from paganism from the Roman Empire and the religion of the Druids and Celts in Northern Europe called Samhain. There are many articles written on the topic anyone can search, but the short summary of how this works is Druids held a ceremony around a Stonehenge like structure, then went out to homes "trick and treating". The treat given was a pumpkin or similar gourd filled with human fat and lit and placed on the entrance to a manor as a means of protection from demons and the trick was if the owner was not compliant with the druid demands and a six pointed star was placed on their door and these people were rounded up and taken to a wicker to be burned alive. However, they also had a game where the Druids brought a kettle of mead to a boil and put apples in it and gave the victim a choice to bob for an apple or get beheaded. If they bobbed for an apple successfully they would be allowed to live, but usually with debilitating injuries. This is now a fun game for kids (without boiling the water). Its amazing that any Christian who reads their Bible will think this kind of tradition is a good thing and that its compatible with the Christian walk.
We are living in the end days generation, and 99% of the churches are apostate because they don't read their Bibles in Spirit and Truth and make many compromises with the world instead of being set apart from it. Most of the Protestant churches failed their Protest and obey a Roman governmental institution that is masquerading as True Christianity, but is actually a religion of Baal worship! The time is at hand that IF people want any level of protection from God, to have his mark instead of the mark of the Beast, they need to Repent of their fornication with this world system developed by Rome and Babylon and start obeying the Commandments written by God. Withdrawing from ALL these pagan practices is a good first start.
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