The bible tells us the devil has deceived the whole world, and one of his dominating deceptions comes through the celebrating of Christmas. Most of the people called Christians accept Christmas as the day Jesus was born without doing any research or referring to the bible to see if this CLAIM is really true. I have found it to be a fact that people who attend church believe in what their Pastor says even if the bible makes no reference or there is no scripture to confirm it.
Where Did Christmas Come From?
Today, people in Western-based cultures refer to December 25 as "Christmas." However, a look into the origins of Christmas reveals its Pagan roots. Emperor Aurelian established December 25 as the birthday of the "Invincible Sun" in the third century as part of the Roman Winter Solstice celebrations. Christmas customs are an evolution from times long before the Christian period -- a descent from seasonal, pagan, religious, and national practices, hedged about with legend and tradition.
Their seasonal connections with the pagan feasts of the winter solstice relate them to ancient times, when many of the earth's inhabitants were sun worshipers. As the superstitious pagans observed the sun gradually moving south in the heavens and the days growing shorter, they believed the sun was departing never to return. To encourage the sun's return north (i.e., to give the winter sun god strength and to bring him back to life again), the sun gods were worshiped with elaborate rituals and ceremonies, including the building of massive bonfires, decorating with notable evergreen plants such as holly, ivy, and mistletoe, and making representations of summer birds as house decorations.
The winter solstice, then, was the shortest day of the year, when the sun seemingly stood still in the southern sky. Observing the slowdown in the sun's southward movement, and its stop, the heathen believed that their petitions to it had been successful. A time of unrestrained rejoicing broke out, with revelry, drinking, and gluttonous feasts. Then, when the pagans observed the sun moving again northward, and a week later could determine that the days were growing longer, a new year was proclaimed. This start of the solar year is a celebration of Light and the rebirth of the Sun. In old Europe, it was known as Yule, from the Norse, Jul, meaning wheel.
Not for real Christians
Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. It was not celebrated, commemorated, or observed, neither by the disciples of Jesus nor in the apostolic church not for at least the first 300 years of church history! They praised God that Jesus Christ had, indeed, come in the flesh. The day and the time of His birth had no relevance to them, because Jesus was no longer physically on earth. He had returned to heaven. And it was the risen, glorified Christ, whom they looked to by faith the extolled Lord of all.
Emperor Constantine after declaring Christianity the "state" religion Constantine forced all the pagans of his empire to be baptized into the Roman Church, as it was a need for true union between paganism and Christianity. As of the seventeenth of December until the twenty-third, Romans celebrated the ancient feast of the Saturnalia.
It was commemorative of the Golden Age of Saturn, the god of sowing and husbandry. In order to make Christianity palatable to the heathen, the Roman Church simply took Saturnalia, adopted it into Christianity, and then eventually many of the associated pagan symbols, forms, customs, and traditions were reinterpreted given new names (i.e., "Christianized") in ways "acceptable" to Christian faith and practice. All this was done by man and not God.
God's Warning
In Jeremiah, 10,1,8 God warns us to learn not the ways of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven:for the heathens are dismayed at them. For the custom of the people are vain: for one cutest a tree out of the forest, the labor of the hands of the laborer with the ax. And it goes on to say as you read to the 8th verse. However, they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Amos 5-21,27 I hate; I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Tho ye offered me burnt offerings and meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offering of your fat beasts. Take away from me the noise of, thy songs; for I will not hear the noise of the viols.
Rev.17-1,2 And there came one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials, and talked with me saying unto me, Come hither I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. Speaking of that false doctrine she has spread in the earth;
Rev 18- 3,4 for all nations have been drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sin, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
God's Feast
If we look in [Lev.23-1,44], we find the Feast of the Lord, who God gave Moses to give all Israel and the stranger who would observe it rightly, which most Christians have no knowledge of. They say these feasts, were nailed to the cross with the law when Jesus died. Most preachers today say because they are now under the Grace of God, these Feast Gods has declared to be his don't have to be observed.
Passover
Feast of Unleavened, Bread Pentecost
Memorial of the Blowing of the Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles, The Eight Day
Wrong, In the book of [Leviticus 23] you can read; it shall be a statue for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Now how long is for ever? As long as there are people living a generation is in manifestation, and it is required of every Christian that names the name of the Lord to honor God's feast days.
To prove to you that the feast days of God were not done away with notice what Paul said, Act_20:16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. 1Co_16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
The feasts of God are, in effect, forever, it because of unlearned traditional preachers drunk with the wine of the fornication of the whore that sitteth upon many waters spoken of in [Revelation 17 chapter],this doctrine has come out of Rome, who has deceived the world with another Jesus [11Corth.11-4,13-15] that except pagan worship in the churches of God today. To say Jesus is the reason for the season is like taking The Holy Bible and sprinkle dog's dung over it and give it to your mother and say God bless you.
Do a little research and you will find that [Jesus] has nothing to do with this season, it's all man PAGAN TO THE CORE inspired by Satan
Search the scriptures do your research and find out the real deal about Christmas!!!
Respectfully Submitted
Bro James
Do your research and you will find out as well that Christmas Is for Pagan Worship Not for Christians
Respectfully Submitted
Bro James
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