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And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him..." -1 Kings 18:21,
"When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it." -Deuteronomy 12:29-32
IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO BLEND PAGANISM WITH CHRISTIANITY?
Below you will find a culmination of Historic as well as Scriptural facts exposing the truth about the celebration of Christmas. I have decided to do this research because many have asked me over the years why I do not celebrate Christmas as the rest of the "Christian" World does.
In his book, "Too Long In The Sun," Richard Rives draws an appropriate parallel to the circumstances in Exodus 32, a Biblical precedent which provoked God nearly to the point of destroying the nation of Israel for their sin of blending pagan worship with His own:
"…the golden calf was built and the celebration declared a ‘feast to the Lord.’...The people had declared a celebration to honor God that he did not recognize as being in his honor." Richard Rives, Too Long in the Sun, Partakers Pub., 1996, pp. 129-30.
"Hathor and Aphis, the cow and bull gods of Egypt, were representatives of sun worship. Their worship was just one stage in the long Egyptian history of solar veneration. The golden calf at Mount Sinai is more than sufficient evidence to prove that the feast proclaimed was related to sun worship. The event at Mount Sinai was just one episode in the Satanic apostasy which began at the tower of Babel. The celebration of December 25th, originally proclaimed in honor of the birth of the sun god Mithra, can only be one of the final events in the long continuing saga of Satanic sun worship." -Ibid, pp. 130-31.
"Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God." -LEVITICUS 18:30
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." -2 Corinthians 5:17
"No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles." -Mark 2:21-22
"Abstain from all appearance of evil." -1 Thessalonians 5:22,
"The mass is the unbloody renewal of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary's cross...Christ, through the ministry of the Roman Catholic priest, offers Himself to God in an unbloody manner under the appearances of bread and wine." 10 (Christ is thus crucified afresh, obviously indicating His death on Calvary was insufficient.) "The mass is the same sacrifice as the sacrifice of the cross because the Victim is the same. The purpose of the mass is, among other things, to satisfy the justice of God for the sins committed against Him." -Rev. John A. O'Brien, UNDERSTANDING THE CATHOLIC FAITH, Ave Maria Press, Nortre Dame, Ind, 1955, p. 212
"When the priest pronounces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens and brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon the (Roman Catholic) altar to be offered up again as the victim for the sins of man...Christ became incarnate a single time, the priest brings Christ down from heaven and renders Him present on the (Roman Catholic) altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man-not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal, omnipotent God, bows His head in humble obedience to the priest's command...No wonder that the name which spiritual writers are especially fond of applying to the priest is that of 'altar Christus.' For the priest is and should be another Christ." -Rev. John A. O'brien, FAITH OF MILLIONS, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Ind., 1938, pp. 243-244
"There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that all the faithful ought to show to this most holy sacrament [the communion wafer] the worship which is due to the true God, as has always been the custom of the Catholic Church. Nor is it to be adored any the less because it was instituted by Christ to be eaten."--Vatican II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents.To those who know the Savior and Lord of the Bible, Jesus Christ, the above quotations from official Roman Catholic publications are at once sickening and outrageous! Note the following from the Word of God.
"And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." -HEBREWS 9:22
"For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. " -HEBREWS 9:24-28
"Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." -Hebrews 10:5-18,
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MERRY:
Source = Dictionary.com with the query "merry" |
The word "Merry" is defined to mean great happiness and joy. What of the word Christ?
| CHRIST: n.
Source = Dictionary.com with the query "Christ" |
Of course we already understand Christ is the title our Lord Jesus has been ordained before the foundation of the world for all of us. Now all we need to do is define the word "Mass" in Christ-Mass. This is in fact a Roman Catholic word, so let us go to the Roman Catholic Encyclopedia to find its meaning.
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MASS: "In the Christian law, the supreme sacrifice is that of the Mass. ...The supreme act of worship consists essentially in an offering of a worthy victim to God, the offering made by a proper person, as a priest, the destruction of the victim."Source = Page 537 of the Catholic Encyclopedia |
So, in essence the word Mass is defined as death sacrifice or "Destruction of the victim" according to the Roman Catholic church itself. So, when you say "Merry Christmas" you are actually declaring with great happiness and joy that Jesus is dead and gone. Kind of like the crucifix in the Catholic church declaring He is dead and they have proof they killed Him when they display His dead body for eons before the people. The Roman priests refuse to believe Christ IS risen and Christ WILL come again. If they did they would at least remove Him from that cross!
By the way, when Santa Clause says "Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas" he is openly and boldly mocking the sacrifice of Christ WITH LAUGHTER!!
A true Christian would want to examine and guard everything they say, because Jesus our Lord said to us in Matthew 12:36-37, "But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."(Also note that the word, "victim" of the Mass is also the Latin word "Hostia" from which the word "host" is derived.)
"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." -LUKE 2:8
Are we to
assume the shepherds
kept sheep outside in the
Winter? Fact is, the sheep were
brought in under cover
before mid-October to protect
them from the cold rainy season
that would follow.
(
see
this video to confirm)
Another fact is, the winter in
the Judea is at the time
characterized by cold,
wet, rainy conditions. Not
conditions worthy of sheep. Nor
will you find
shepherds outside with their
sheep this time of year.
Therefore it would be
impossible for them to actually
"see" the Star in the Eastern
sky
due to the fact they would not
have been in the fields that
time of year.The Bible is plain
here...
"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." -Luke 2:8-11,
The key part of this passage that can easily put down the assumption that Jesus was born on December 25th is, "...there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night..." This would NOT have been done in the Winter! This is absolutely impossible! According to the information we have about Palestine, the flocks were let out in the pastures in the month of March, and brought back in November, when the rainy season began.
"This proves plainly that the flocks were not yet brought home from their pastures, when the angels visited the shepherds. Some have the idea that there is no winter in Palestine, but that is a mistake, because sometimes it is very cold there, so that the lives of both men and beasts are in danger of the cold rain and hail storms of the winter."-- Horne's Introduction, Vol.II, pp. 23,24.
Concerning this, Adam Clarke makes the following remark in his commentary: "It was a custom among the Jews to send out their sheep to the desert about the passover, and bring them home at the commencement of the first rain. [See also the book, The Two Babylons, pages 91,92. ]
The first rain occured around the Jewish month of Cheshvan. That is around Oct, Nov. to us. So you see the flocks were BROUGHT IN well before Dec. 25! If everyone on planet Earth that claims Jesus as Lord would place their faith in "Whatsoever saith the Lord" we would have a LOT less Pagan activities being practiced by Christians. All too often people get offended easily by the truth that can expose the lies they have been embracing for years. But I say, stop! look! And listen! For you are not entirely at fault here. The devil is a cunning enemy, he has placed wolves in sheep's clothing before you masquerading as Christians, preachers, priests, and ministers to declare unto you the lie of Christmas. Why? So as to confuse the Truth that is held within the Word of God. And to get all the world under his control by partaking in activities of the Pagan.
"The twenty-fifth of December is supposed to be the day of the birth of Jesus Christ, and its observance has become customary and popular. But yet there is no certainty that we are keeping the veritable day of our Saviour's birth. History gives us no certain assurance of this. The Bible does not give us the precise time. Had the Lord deemed this knowledge essential to our salvation, he would have spoken through his prophets and apostles, that we might know all about the matter. But the silence of the Scriptures upon this point evidences to us that it is hidden from us for the wisest purposes. In his wisdom, the Lord concealed the place where he buried Moses. God buried him, and God resurrected him, and took him to heaven. This secrecy was to prevent idolatry." -R&H 12-9-1884
"For the very same purpose he has concealed the precise day of Christ's birth; that the day should not receive the honour that should be given to Christ as the Redeemer of the world, - one to be received, to be trusted, to be relied on as he who could save to the uttermost all who come unto him. The soul's adoration should be given to Jesus as the Son of the infinite God.
"There is no divine sanctity resting upon the twenty-fifth of December; and it is not pleasing to God that anything that concerns the salvation of man through the infinite sacrifice made for them, should be so sadly perverted from its professed design. Christ should be the supreme object; but as Christmas has been observed, the glory is turned from him to mortal man, whose sinful, defective character made it necessary for him to come to our world." -R&H 12-9-1884
"Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." -ACTS 17:29-31
"Even Christmas, the day observed professedly in honour of the birthday of Christ, has been made a most effective means of turning the mind away from Christ, away from his glory. " -R&H 12-9-1890
"Christmas: The supposed anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ, occurring on Dec. 25. No sufficient data … exist, for the determination of the month or the day of the event… There is no historical evidence that our Lord’s birthday was celebrated during the apostolic or early postapostolic times. The uncertainty that existed at the beginning of the third century in the minds of Hippolytus and others—Hippolytus earlier favored Jan. 2, Clement of Alexanderia (Strom., i. 21) "the 25th day of Pachon" (= May 20), while others, according to Clement, fixed upon Apr. 18 or 19 and Mar. 28—proves that no Christmas festival had been established much before the middle of the century. Jan. 6 was earlier fixed upon as the date of the baptism or spiritual birth of Christ, and the feast of Epiphany … was celebrated by the Basilidian Gnostics in the second century … and by catholic Christians by about the beginning of the fourth century. The earliest record of the recognition of Dec. 25 as a church festival is in the Philocalian Calendar (copied 354 but representing Roman practise in 336)." -A. H. Newman, "Christmas," The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. 3, p. 47. Copyright 1909 by Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York
"A star cult, sun-worship, became (in the third century A.D.) the dominant official creed, paving the road for the ultimate triumph of Judaeo-Christian monotheism. So strong was the belief in the Invincible Sun (Sol Invictus) that for example Constantine I (d. 337), himself at first a devotee of the sun cult, found it, indeed perfectly compatible with his pro-Christian sympathies to authorize his own portrayal as Helios. And in 354 the ascendant Christian church in the reign of his pious but unsavory son, Constantius II, found it prudent to change the celebration of the birth of Jesus from the traditional date (January 6) to December 25, in order to combat the pagan Sun god’s popularity—his "birthday" being December 25." -Frederick H. Cramer, Astrology in Roman Law and Politics, p. 4. Copyright 1954 by the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
"The reasons for celebrating our major feasts when we do are many and varied. In general, however, it is true that many of them have at least an indirect connection with the pre-Christian feasts celebrated about the same time of year — feasts centering around the harvest, the rebirth of the sun at the winter solstice (now Dec. 21, but Dec. 25 in the old Julian calendar), the renewal of nature in spring, and so on." -The New Question Box - Catholic Life for the Nineties, copyright 1988 by John J. Dietzen, M.A., S.T.L., ISBN 0-940518-01-5 (paperback), published by Guildhall Publishers, Peoria Illinois, 61651., page 554.
DID EARLY CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?
"Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church...the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt." "Pagan customs centering around the January calendars gravitated to Christmas." "...In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his [Jesus] birthday. It is only sinners who make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born into this world" -Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 Edition, published by the Roman Catholic Church
And to settle "some" minds out there that place no stock in any boast of Catholicism, the Roman Church is not the only one that understands this simple historic fact...
"A broad element of English Christianity still considered Christmas celebration a pagan blasphemy. The Puritans, Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Calvinists and other denominations brought this opposition to early New England and strong opposition to the holiday lasted in America until the middle of the 18th century." -The Origins of Christmas," Rick Meisel, Dec. 19, 1993, p. 4.
"...Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church...." -Encyclopedia Britannica, 1946 edition
"Christmas... It was, according to many authorities, not celebrated in the first centuries of the Christian church, as the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons [eg Communion - death of Christ] rather than their birth..." "...A feast was established in memory of this event [the birth of Jesus] in the fourth century. In the fifth century the Western Church ordered it to be celebrated forever ON THE DAY OF THE OLD ROMAN FEAST OF THE BIRTH OF SOL [SUN], as no certain knowledge of the day of Christ's birth existed." Emphasis added. -Encyclopedia Americana, 1944 Edition
Since there is no evidence for the observance of Christmas in the Bible, the questions arise, What is its origin? and when did its celebration begin? Lector P. Walsdenstrom says: "The custom to celebrate the birth of Christ in the last part of December began first in the fourth century. Before that the sixth of January was celebrated."-- Notes to Luke 2:8.
"How much the date of the festival depended upon the pagan Brumalia (December 25th) following the Saturnalia (December 17th-24th), and celebrating the shortest day of the year and the 'new sun'...cannot be accurately determined. The pagan Saturnalia and Brumalia were too deeply entrenched in popular custom to be set aside by Christian influence...The pagan festival with it's riot and merrymaking was so popular that Christians were glad of an excuse to continue its celebration with little change in spirit and in manner. Christian preachers of the West and the Near East protested against the unseemly frivolity with which Christ's birthday was celebrated, while Christians of Mesopotamia ACCUSED THEIR WESTERN BRETHREN OF IDOLATRY AND SUN WORSHIP FOR ADOPTING AS CHRISTIAN THIS PAGAN FESTIVAL" Emphasis added. -The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
"...within the Christian Church no such festival as Christmas was ever heard of till the third century, and...not till the fourth century was far advanced did it gain much observance. How, then, did the Romish Church fix on December 25th as Christmas-day? Why, thus: Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honour of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven; and it may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of nominal adherents of Christianity, the same festival was adopted by the Roman Church, giving it the name of Christ." -The Two Babylons, p 93.
"The interchange of presents between friends is alike characteristic of Christmas and the Saturnalia, and MUST HAVE BEEN ADOPTED BY CHRISTIANS FROM THE PAGANS, as the admonition of Tertullian plainly shows." Emphasis added. -Bibliotheca Sacra (vol 12 pp 153-155)
What is the actual reason and purpose for this Pagan infiltration into Christianity? Ellen White put it best...
"This compromise between paganism and Christianity resulted in the development of the man of sin foretold in prophecy as opposing and exalting himself above God. That gigantic system of false religion is a masterpiece of Satan's power,--a monument of his efforts to seat himself upon the throne to rule the earth according to his will. {4SP 52.1}
The giving the presents was a Roman custom. The yuletide and the yule log are remnants of old Teutonic nature worship."-- Schaff-Hersog Encyclopedia.
"From the first institution of this festival, the Western nations seem to have transferred to it many of the follies and censurable (XXX) practises which prevailed in the pagan festivals of the same season such as adorning the churches fantastically, mingling puppet-shows and dramas with worship, universal feasting and merrymaking, Christmas visits and salutations, Christmas presents and jocularity, and Christmas revelry and drunkenness.... The Christmas holy days, which by a law of Tehodosius the Greek (emperor A.D. 383-395) were to comprise fourteen days, ...have borne so close a resemblance wherever they have been observed to the Roman Saturnalia, Sigillaria, etc., and to the yule feast of the ancient Goths, as to afford strong presumption of an unhappy alliance between them from the first."-- Ecclesiastical History, by Mosheim, Vol. 1, page 280.
"...The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among ourselves-- yule day-- proves at once its pagan and Babylonian origin. 'Yule' is the Chaldee name for an 'infant' or 'little child;' and as the twenty-fifth of December was called by our pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors 'yule day,' or the 'child's day,' and the night that preceded it 'mother night,' long before they came in contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character. Far and wide in the realms of paganism was this birthday observed."-- The Two Babylons, pages 93& 94. "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."
Notice the devil's tricky way of using the gifts to pull the worship away from Jesus. If we were to gift gifts on birthdays, which we're not, why are we giving gifts to everyone BUT Jesus? Did the three Wise men hand the gifts to everyone in the neighborhood except Jesus? The fact everyone does that today pulls the reason for the worship off of Jesus and unto those your give the gifts to.
THE BIRTHDAY RITUAL The ritual of the cake, candles, wish, and presents serve to give thanks to sky luminaries for allowing the birthday celebrant to reach the annual cycle of their birth. The cake was baked for the Queen of Heaven. (Hot cross buns) It was decorated, and monogrammed with the celebrant’s name. The candles symbolized the sacred fire, carefully numbered for each annual cycle completed. The prayer chant and all the ritual procedures are carefully preserved, and it is a religious occasion. Witches regard the day of one’s birth the most significant event in a person’s life. Astrologers base everything on it. If the celebrant can blow-out all the candles, then a secret wish made to a GENIE (or JUNO if the person is female) will be granted. The birthday itself was a time of great superstition to a Pagan, so they were surrounded by their friends and relatives for protection."In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his [Christ's] birthday. It is only sinners [like Pharaoh or Herod] who make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born into this world."--Catholic Encyclopedia, 11th ed., art: "Natal Day."
CHRISTMAS STEMS FROM SUN WORSHIP?
The author of "The Two Babylons" identifies also the child, whose birth was so universally celebrated, with Nimrod, who built the tower of Babel, and says that he was worshiped by the name Osiris in Egypt, and Tammuz (the same one as Adonis the famous hunter) in Phoenicia and Assyria. (See page 56.) This Tammuz is also mentioned by the holy prophet, Ezekiel, who in a vision saw the women of Judah weeping for him. He is there spoken of in company with sun-worship.
"It was an essential principle of the Babylonian system that the sun, or Baal, was the one only god. (Notice, "BAAL?" As in Daniels day too?) When, therefore, Tammuz was worshiped as God incarnate, that implied also that he was an incarnation of the sun."--Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, Loizeaux Brothers, page 96.
"This festival has been commonly believed to have had only an astronomical character, referring simply to the completion of the sun’s yearly course, and the commencement of a new cycle. But there is indubitable evidence that the festival in question had a much higher influence than this--that it commemorated not merely the figurative birthday of the sun in the renewal of its course, but the birth-day of the grand Deliverer...the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity." -Ibid pp. 94, 97.
In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, ‘about the time of the winter solstice.’ The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among ourselves - Yule day - proves at once its Pagan and Babylonian origin. ‘Yule’ is the Chaldee name for an ‘infant’ or ‘little child’ and as the 25th of December was called by our Pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors, ‘Yule-day,’ or the ‘Child’s day,’ and the night which preceded it, ‘Mother-night,’ long before they came into contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character. Far and wide in the realms of paganism was this birth-day observed." -Ibid pp. 93, 94
In this way we trace sun-worship back to Nimrod, whose worship was universal in the old time. Again we have good reason to say: "Little children, keep yourselves from idols." Fact is people...
"The wassailing-bowl of Christmas had its precise counterpart in the 'Drunken Festival' of Babylon; The candles, in some parts of England, lighted at Christmas eve and used so long as the festive season lasts, were equally lighted by the pagans on the eve of the festival of the Babylonian god, to do honor to him, for it was one of the distinguishing peculiarities of his worship to have lighted candles on his alters. The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in pagan Rome and pagan Egypt. In Egypt that tree was the palm tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm tree denoted the pagan Messiah, as Baal-Tamar; the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith.... On Christmas day the continental Saxons offered a boar in sacrifice to the sun, to propitiate her. In Rome a similar observance had evidently existed; for a boar formed a great article of Saturn, as appears form the words form Martial, 'That boar will make you a good Saturnalia.' Hence the boar's head is still a standing dish in England at the Christmas dinner, when the reason of it is long since forgotten. Yea, the 'Christmas goose' and 'yule cake' were essential articles in the worship of the Babylonian Messiah, as that worship was practiced both in Egypt and at Rome."-- Ibid., pages 97, 100, 101.
"The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt it was the palm tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm-tree denoting the Pagan Messiah, as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of Adonis, the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognized as ‘Man the Branch.’ And this entirely accounts for putting the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas Eve and the appearance of the Christmas tree the next morning. As Zero-Ashta, ‘The seed of the woman,’ ...he has to enter the fire on ‘Mother night,’ that he may be born the next day out of it, as the ‘Branch of God,’ or the Tree that brings divine gifts to men." -The Two Babylons, p. 97.
"...the divine child born at the winter solstice was born as a new incarnation of the great god (after that god had been cut in pieces...on purpose to revenge his death upon his murderers.) Now the great god, cut off in the midst of his power and glory, was symbolised as a huge tree, stripped of all his branches, and cut down almost to the ground. But the great Serpent, the symbol of the life restoring Aesculapius, twists itself around the dead stock...and lo, at its side sprouts a young tree - a tree of an entirely different kind, that is never to be cut down by a hostile power -...and thus shadowed forth the perpetuity and everlasting nature of his power, how that after having fallen before his enemies, he has risen triumphant over them all. Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed in Rome as the day when the victorious god reappeared on earth was held at the Natalis invicti solis, 'The birthday of the unconquered Sun." -The Two Babylons, p. 98.
Shall we have a Christmas tree? Will it not be like the world? We answer, You can make it like the world if you have a disposition to do so, or you can make it as unlike the world as possible. -R&H 12-11-1879
"Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the ways of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 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. Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might." -JEREMIAH 10:1-6
"The Yule Log tradition comes to us from Scandinavia, where the pagan sex and fertility god Jul, or Jule (pronounced 'yule'), was honored in a twelve-day celebration in December. A large, single log (generally considered to have been a phallic idol) was kept with a fire against it for twelve days, a different sacrifice to Jul being offered in the fire on each of the twelve days." -Holidays and Holy Days, by Tom C. McKenney
"The Yule log was originally an entire tree, carefully chosen, and brought into the house with great ceremony. The butt end would be placed into the hearth while the rest of the tree stuck out into the room. The tree would be slowly fed into the fire and the entire process was carefully timed to last the entire Yule season." -The History of Christmas; http://www.ridgenet.org/Szaflik/history.htm
This is where the Twelve Days of Christmas originated, which are now counted as the twelve days between "Christmas" and Epiphany (January 6th).
"Yuletide, meaning the turning of the sun or the winter solstice, has traditionally been a time of extreme importance in Scandinavia - a time when fortunes for the coming year were determined and when the dead were thought to walk the earth. For a long time, it was considered dangerous to sleep alone on Christmas Eve. The extended family, master and servant alike, would sleep together on a freshly spread bed of straw. " -The History of Christmas;
Stocking hanging comes from an English legend: "Father Christmas once dropped some gold coins while coming down the chimney. The coins would have fallen through the ash grate and been lost if they hadn't landed in a stocking that had been hung out to dry. Since that time children have continued to hang out stockings in hopes of finding them filled with gifts." -The History of Christmas;
"Lighted candles are foreign to the worship of God in the church of the New Testament scriptures. Yet, they too had their place in the worship of the sun god of paganism and in Christmas today. " -Alexander Hislop, THE TWO BABYLONS, Loizeaux Bros., Neptune, N.J., 1959, p. 94 and 97
"Among the pre-Christian Druidic superstitions, derived from ancient Babylon, was the legend of the mistletoe. It was regarded as a divine branch which came down from heaven and grafted itself into an earthly tree. Thus the mistletoe became a token of reconciliation, the kiss being a symbol of pardon" -Ibid p. 9
Since there is no evidence for the observance of Christmas in the Bible, the questions arise, What is its origin? and when did its celebration begin? Lector P. Walsdenstrom says: "The custom to celebrate the birth of Christ in the last part of December began first in the fourth century. Before that the sixth of January was celebrated."-- Notes to Luke 2:8.
Another author says: "The third one of the great feasts of the church, Christmas, doesn't seem to be kept during the first three centuries. In contrast to it a memorial of Christ's baptism was celebrated in the Orient as a revelation of his Messiahship and glory of his divinity called Epiphania, the sixth of January. This festival was, in Egypt, also given the meaning as a memorial of Christ's birth, and in that way they had in a certain sense a substitute for Christmas, which had not yet begun."-- Ecclesiastical History, by C.A. Cornelius, part 1, page 139. Further on, the same author says, "It began first to be celebrated in the Roman Church about 360, and from there it spread to the Orient," After he has mentioned "Saturnalia," the Roman feast of joy, which began the seventeenth and ended the twenty-fourth of December with the "Sigillaria," he continues: "At last the so-called 'Brumalia,' or the winter solstice, was celebrated the twenty-fifth of December. It was also called 'deus natalis invicti solis' (the birth feast of the unconquered sun), because in that season when the short days are gone, the sun again comes forth victorious from the gloomy night to travel on its orbit like an unconquered hero."--Ibid, part 2, page 91.
This proves that the twenty-fifth of December was an annual feast celebrated in the honor of the sun. Frederick Neilsen, a Danish bishop, says, "During the first three centuries we find no trace of any feast for the birth of Christ."-- Ecclesiastical History, page 224.
The commentator, Adam Clarke, gives the following information: "The Latin church, supreme in power and infallible in judgment (?), placed it on the twenty-fifth of December, the very day in which the ancient Romans celebrated the feast of their goddess Bruma.... Pope Julius I was the person who made this alteration, and it appears to have been done for this reason: the sun now began his return toward the northern tropic, ending the winter, lengthening the days, and introducing the spring."-- Notes to Luke 2:8.
The valuable testimony of J. Murdock, D. D., is in harmony with the above: "It was Julius I (Bishop of Rome, A.D. 337-352) who first ascertained this to be the right day; and though his authority is not the best, yet it is generally admitted that the designation of the twenty-fifth of December for the festival was first made about the middle of the fourth century."-- Ecclesiastical History, by Mosheim, Vol. I, page 279.
From Johnson's Encyclopedia and other sources we also learn that Julius I, Bishop of Rome, appointed the twenty-fifth of December for the celebration of Christ's birth.
All this proves very plainly,
(1)that the birth of Christ was not universally celebrated by the Christians during the first three centuries;
(2) that it was the Latin church which first ordained it to be celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December;
(3) that it was Julius I, Bishop of Rome, who made the appointment;
(4) and that the customs at this old pagan festival were transferred to Christmas. This is truly surprising. Here are indeed reasons for a solemn search of heart, fervent prayer, and firmness of character for those who wish to be pure in the sight of God. -No Foundation in the Bible By, S. Mortensen
THE LIE OF SANTA CLAUSE ALL PARENTS TELL THEIR CHILDREN
Think about that for a moment. Parents all over the world have been telling bold face lies to their children since birth about a fat man in a red suit that comes down a chimney to place gifts underneath the tree. Now guess what happens when the child comes of age. The child realizes that mommy and daddy have been lying to him the whole time! And not only that, but this child realizes that IT WORKED!!! He actually realizes that his parents lied to him and HE BELIEVED THEM! So now he has concrete evidence that lying is a resourceful tool that he can use to his advantage. And his own parents taught him.
The fabled Santa Claus also deserves our attention. The Library of Universal Knowledge says:--
"Nicholas Saint (St. Claus), a highly popular saint of the Roman Catholic Church, and reverenced with still greater devotion by the Russian Church, which regards him as a special patron, was one of the early bishops of Mysia, in Lysia. The precise date of his episcopate is a subject of much controversy. Of his personal history hardly anything is certainly known, and the great popularity of the devotion to him wrought through his intercession. He is regarded in Catholic countries as a special patron of the young, and particularly of scholars. On the vigil of his feast, which is held on December 6, (My mom puts up here tree on this day calling it "St.Nicks" day) a person in the appearance and costume of a bishop assembles the children of a family or a school and distributes among them, to the good, gilt nuts, sweetmeats, and other little presents as the rewards of good conduct; to the naughty ones, the redoubtable punishment klanbauf. The supposed relics of St. Nicholas were conveyed from the East to Bari, in the kingdom of Naples, toward the close of the eleventh century." Thus the fable is a part of the old relic-worshiping traditions of a corrupt church. The nearness of his feast, in December, to the Christmas festival, led to associating the saint and the present-giving idea with the feast of December 25. We must admit, in the light of the Bible, that it is very foolish and wrong to teach little children the tales of Santa Claus. "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."
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Ever notice this?
SANTA CLAUS ~STRANGELY COMPARED TO~ JESUS CHRIST
1. Has white hair like wool 1. Revelation 1:14 - Daniel 7:9
2. Beard-curly and white 2. Isaiah 50:6 - Rev. 1:14
3. Comes from North Pole 3. Ez. 1:4; Ex.26:35 Psa.48:2
4. Omniscient-knows about all 4. Revelation 19:6
5. Ageless, eternal 5. Rev. 1:8,21:6; Hebrews 13:8
6. Makes List of Judgments 6. Rev.20:12; 14:7; 21:27; 2 Cor.5:10
7. Checks list twice 7. Dan. 8:14; Matt. 10:26, 1 Cor.5:10
8. Gifts given on basis of a list 8. Matt.25:21; Rev. 21:27; 22:14
9. Christmas rewards once yearly 9. Leviticus 23:26-32
10. Confess wrongs to Santa 10. I John 2:1, I Tim. 2:5
11. Promise to be better next year 11. John 14:15,21; 15:10; I Jn. 2:3
12. Asks children to obey parents 12. Eph. 6:1; Prov. 6:20; Col. 3:20
13. Hour of his coming a mystery 13. Luke 12:40; Mark 13:33; Matt.24:36
14. Rudolph's shining nose to guide 14. Matt. 2:2,7,9-10; Numbers 24:17
15. Calls all children to his knee 15. Matt. 19:14, Luke 18:16
16. Be good for goodness sake 16. Matt. 19:17; Col 1:29; Phil. 2:13
17. Has a twinkle in his eye 17. Rev. 1:14, 2:18
18. Swift visit to whole world in 1 day. 18. 2 Peter 3:8; Rev. 18:8, Isa. 47:9
19. Omnipresent-Found in every mall 19. Psa. 139:7-10; Eph. 4:6
20. Says "Ho,ho" 20. Zecheriah 2:6
Like many of us, when I was a child, I was told that Santa Claus was "All Powerful" (He makes millions of toys and delivers them in one night). He defies the laws of nature by flying and jumping down narrow chimneys. With Santa all things are possible. He is by definition, Omnipotent. "...having unlimited power or authority; all powerful-the Omnipotent God." (Webster's New World Dictionary)
I was told that Good Ol' Saint Nick knows all things (At least he knows when every boy and girl is bad or good or how they behave throughout the year). He is by definition, Omniscient. "having infinite knowledge; knowing all things-the Omniscient God." Webster's New World Dictionary
The Lord demands more of us than of them, because we have come into existence in the age of wonderful research and discovery, when knowledge should increase (Dan. 12:4), and the Bible has been in our mother tongue several centuries. In the light of this situation, we would certainly deserve severe criticism for our ignorance if we should continue to honor old traditions or relic worship.
Many upright Christians in the past have taken part in the old festival to some extent, and such we will not criticize, because they did it in ignorance. But in this enlightened age it is indeed high time to inquire: "What concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?" 2 Cor. 6:15,16. But still many Christians, not only Catholics, but also Protestants, continue year by year at the Christmas festival to honor the old idol relics under a Christian garb. This is indeed very unfortunate, and it is going so far that entrance fee is demanded in many Protestant churches. O, what a dishonor to our dear Saviour, who has pointed out a distinct line between the holy and the profane!
I have noticed many downfalls to this Pagan Xmas season. I recall some years back when I lived in the Chicago area a man killed another man at a gas station holdup on Xmas eve. When asked why he did it he said, "I needed the money to buy Xmas gifts for my children." Is this what Jesus would have us do? Is this a 'blessed by Jesus' time of year? Or 'planned by Satan' time of year. I also recall a situation where a young boy committed suicide because his mommy and daddy didn't have enough money for his Xmas gifts. Again I ask, is this a season blessed by the Lord? What of all the elderly in nursing homes left abandoned by loved ones on Xmas day? Was this designed to occur by Jesus, or satan? I recall as a child be made fun of because I didn't get as many toys on Xmas as everyone else because we were poor. Is this an activity that a blessed season would encourage? Or is this designed to occur by a devil who invented the season to make situations like this pop up all over the place. What about all the drunks depressed and suicidal behind the wheels of their cars in your neighborhoods killing your loved ones during the Xmas season? Did you know that December 25th is consistently the highest recorded day of the year for suicide? Is this a season that the Lord God designed for His people? or is this a day designed by the destroyer devil designed for his people?
A PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS
WHERE DID WE GET THE RED AND GREEN COLORS AT XMAS?
Look what the Scriptures attribute to the colors, Red and Green...
Leviticus 14:33-39, "And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days: And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;"
By the way... Pagans and "Evergreen trees" go way back!
Deuteronomy 12:2, "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:"
1 Kings 14:22-23, "And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree."
Psalms 37:35, "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree."
Isaiah 57:5, "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?"
Jeremiah 3:6, "The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot."
Psalms 75:8, "For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them."
Isaiah 1:18, "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
Revelation 6:4, "And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword."
"By us...who are strangers to Sabbaths, and new moons, and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia, the feasts of January, the Brumalia, and Matronalia, are now frequented; gifts are carried to and fro, new year’s day presents are made with din, and sports and banquets are celebrated with uproar; oh, how much more faithful are the heathen to their religion who take special care to adopt no solemnity from the Christians." -The Two Babylons, p. 93.
WHO'S TO BLAME FOR ALL THIS PAGAN INFILTRATION?
So, who do we have to thank for all this Pagan infiltration in our lives? ROME! Now, don't take my word for it. Rome ADMITS this very fact...
Cardinal Newman admits in his book that; the "temples, incense, oil lamps, votive offerings, holy water, holidays, and seasons of devotion, processions, blessings of the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure (of priests, munks and nuns), images, and statues... are all of pagan origin." -The Development of the Christian Religion Cardinal Newman p.359
Such boldness! Such arrogance! It's as if the devil is puffing up his chest to proclaim to God Himself that, "Yes, they know it's against your will Lord! Yet they choose it over you anyway!!"
Notice the following list of Pagan rituals and symbols that Catholicism has introduced into Christianity. YOUR "so called" Protestant Church is taking part in many of these as well...
BAAL (PAGAN) WORSHIP ~VS~ CATHOLICISM
| INVENTED FOR THE PAGAN SUN GOD BAAL | CATHOLIC DOCTRINES OF THE VATICAN |
| 1. The nativity of the Sun, the birth of Tammuz Dec. 25 | The nativity of Jesus, Christmas Dec 25 |
| 2. The Midsummer festival held Jun 24 | The Nativity of St. John held June 24 |
| 3. The assumption of Semiramus who became the mother godess | The assumption of Mary, who became the mother of God |
| 4. The mother goddess was worshipped as the Queen of Heaven. Jer. 7:18 | The Virgin Mary worshipped as the Queen of Heaven. |
| 5. Cakes decorated to the goddess with a "+" drawn on it. Jer. 44:17,19 | Hot cross buns |
| 6. 40 days fasting for Tammuz, Ezek. 8:14 | 40 days of Lent |
| 7.Pagan festival of Easter. Ezek 8:16 | The festival of Easter |
| 8. The ressurection of Tammuz at Easter and the procession of graven images during holy week | The procession of graven images of Jesus, Mary, and Peter, and of the saints |
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9. Veneration of graven images of Baal, Ishtar, Tammuz and lesser gods in the heavens |
Veneration of graven images of Jesus, Mary, Peter, and of the "lesser" saints in the heavens |
| 10. The belief of immortality of the soul and burning place of torment | The belief of immortality of the soul and burning place of torment |
| 11. The doctrine of purgatory | The doctrine of purgatory |
| 12. The belief of the dead visiting the living, feast held for all in November, (All souls day) | The festival of all souls day held Nov. 2, and all saints day held Nov. 1 (All souls day) |
| 13. Burning incense and candles Jer 11:17; Ezek 8:11 | The burning of incense and candles |
| 14. Chants and repetative prayers. Beaded prayer chains. | Gregorian chants and the Rosary |
| 15. Symbol of the cross as symbol of Sun worship. Mesopotamian cylinder seal depicted the "cross in the sky" as a symbol of sun worship. Ancient carvings of an Assyrian king has a huge cross carved on his chest. The oldest pictures in the world from Mesopotamia has text with is explaining the "cross" in the sky as the sun. This particular find is on display at the University Museum in Philadelphia. | The crucifix |
| 16. Amulets and idols ro scare away evil spirits | The wearing of crucifixes and medals displayed for protection. (Scapular = main example) |
| 17. The round disk "sun" wafer IHS symbol of Isis, Horus & Seb, eaten as food for the soul. Some wafers also had a large "+" sign engraved on them as well to symbolize Baal. | The wafer used in the Eucharist is round with IHS engraved on it on on one side, and many have a large "+" engraved on the other side. |
| 18. Painting of the child (Tammuz) and mother (Semiramus) with the glory of the Sun around their heads | Paintings of the child (Jesus) and mother (Mary) with halos or of the Sun around their heads |
| 19. Infant baptism, and sprinkling of holy water | Infant baptism, and sprinkling of holy water |
| 20. Necromancy (Talking to the dead) | Mysticism (Novenas (prayers) to the dead) |
| 21. The first day of the week kept sacred to honor the Persian sun god Mithra. "SUN"day | The admitted change of 7th day Sabbath to "SUN"day |
| 22. Title Pontifex Maximus name for chief head of the pagan Babylonian system of idolatry | Pontifex Maximus one of the first names for the office of Pope |
| 23. Janus and Cybele, holders of the keys to Heaven and Hell | The pope claims to have the keys of Peter |
| 24. The high priest kings carried on a throne to the to the Temple of his god | The Pope carried on a portable throne to the Basilica of St. Peter (Sedia Gestoria) |
| 25. The Pagan high priest king believed to be the incarnate of the Sun god | The Pope
proclaims to be
Christ's Vicar
(replacement) here
on Earth. It is
also recorded in
numerous documents
that the pope believes
he is god on earth.  |
| 26. Offerings of "good works" to appease the gods | Penance, indulgences, salvation by works |
| 27. Houses for the virgin priestesses (Prostitutes) to be employed at Pagan temples to "service" priests that were not 'gay' | Nuns. (Recent modern day sex scandals involving Nuns has uncovered this well hidden reality) |
| 28. Human sacrifices burned by fire as offering to appease Sun god | Opposers of doctrines of the Roman Catholic church burned at the stake |
| 29. Gold was considered the flesh of the "Sungod" | Vatican and numerous Cathedrals are lietrally drenched in gold throughout |
| 30. Gargoils = a pagan god of protection | Vatican as well as thousands of Catholic churches have gargoils on their roofs for 'protection' |
| 31. Phallic symbol of the male sex organ placed on roofs as a sign of allegiance with Baal | Largest phallic symbol in center of St. Peter's square as well as steeples on all Catholic churches |
| 32. Solar wheel as symbol for Baal worship can be found carved into ancient as well as modern Buddhist temples,, carved into ancient ornament representing Osiris. Stone carvings showing a whell to represent and Assyrio Babylonian altar. | St
Peter's square has
largest solar wheel on
planet. ALL Catholic
churches have numerous
solar wheels in stain
glass windows as well
as many other areas of
the church. Notre Dame
Cathedral in Paris
sports a very huge one
on it's face. There is
a great one in ceiling
as well as the floor
tiles of the monastery
of St. Ignatius Loyola
in Spain. Numerous
paintings, statues,
ornaments, and
letterheads of all
Catholic churches have
one or more "solar
wheels" depicted upon
them. And the ONE
WORLD CHURCH that
started on June 26,
2000 uses the solar
wheel as its official
logo. |
| 33. Symbol of serpent on numerous Roman bath houses | Symbol of serpent on numerous Catholic church in door handles, Papal crests, etc. |
| 34. Atlas carries the universe on his soilders | Numerous Popes depicted in paintings in same manner |
| 35. Symbols of the "Unicorn, Peacock, and Phoenix" used to signify sun god | Symbols of the "Unicorn, Peacock, and Phoenix" used to symbolize the Christ in many churches on doors or chapels as well as sanctuarys holding the 'eucharist' |
| 36. Crescent moon used to signify moon goddess "Nanna" | Crescent used to cradle Eucharist in the Monstrance of the Catholic church. As well as depicted in numerous paintings and scupltures with Mary standing within it |
| 37. Three letters "S.F.S" within a small blaze is used to represent the universal symbol for the number "6" in the Pagan mysteries | S.F.S in a small blaze is carved into the Vatican Monstrance in the Vatican museum as well as many monstrances the world over |
| 38. Alternating rays of the sun burst used to represent unity of "man and woman" common in all aspects of Paganism. (Curved ray = female "yonic" Straight ray = male "phallic") | Monstrance of Catholicism as well as many paintings and sculptures all depict same rays of both the "phallic and yonic" symbolism can be found literally all over the Roman Catholic church |
| 39. Carvings of "nature spirits" (fauns or satyrs) depicting a horned, hoofed-god were a common feature in all Pagan cults | Carvings of "nature spirits" (fauns or satyrs) depicting a horned, hoofed-god are found all over the Treasury of the Vatican beneath St Peters square as well as many Cathedrals |
| 40. Statues of a "Madonna" found in all Pagan cults as well as Egyptian Madonna Isis with her son Horus, or Hindu cults with Divaki and her son Krishna | Statues of Mary can be found in all Catholic churches holding baby Jesus |
| 41. Statue of Zeus holds symbol of thunder and a lightening bolt to symbolise his position as a god. | Mary depicted in many statues holding the pagan symbol of thunderr |
| 42. Demi-gods holding crooked diving staff representative of the serpent and lightening bolt | Pope carries exact same staff (serpent crosiers) |
| 43. Adad, Enlil, Baal, Neptune, Poseidon and other "gods" of storm and sea were depicted as carrying tridents | Crosses as well as statues of Jesus and Mary in Cathedrals all over the world carved with tridents on them. |
| 44. Hand gestures in the form of a trident found depicted in Jupiter, Buddah, Appollo, Hindu diety's, as well as "votive hands" in pagan temples | Statue of St. Peter (Actually the old Jupiter statue of Rome) as well as millions of other statues, painitings, photos, and videos of everyone from Jesus and Mary to priests, cardinals,bishops, all the Popes, Vatican guards and even lay people in the Catholci church seen holding up the three finger trident salute of pagan Rome. (Now called the salute to the Trinity) |
| 45. Pine cones used to represent the diety of a solar god Osiris, Bacchus, Dionysus, as well as Mexican gods, Hindu gods, and Assyrian gods | Largest pine cone sculpture in the world found in the "Court of the pine cone" at the Vatican. Pine cone is also found carved into the crooked pagan staff (serpent crosier) or the Popes of Rome. In fact the pine cone is found all throughout the Vatican as well as Cathedrals as decoration. |
| 46. Oanne, Babylonian fish-god (half man half fish) was depicted by Pagan high priests by wearing a fish head mitre (head dress) upon a mans head to symbolize man and fish joining when "sun god" set into the ocean. (Neptune = case in point. Half man half fish) One particular Biblical diety = "Dagon" Dag=fish On=sun | Mitres are worn by all Popes of Catholcism |
| 47. The Roman sun-god with the alternating yonic and phallic symbols surrounding his head was found carved in excavated Roman bath houses in England. It is alos found as "Apollo" on the facade of the Pergamum Museum in East Berlin. | Almost all Catholic churches have the exact same carving above their pulpits, pillars, on statues, as well as carved into ceilings above altars. Some Catholic churches actually have it carved into the Eucharist itself. |
| 48. Statues of the Romanized Egyptians Isis with globes in hand, Hercules as a solar diety carried the very same globe in hand, and the Persian sun-god Mithra is also depicted with the globe in hand as a sign ruler of the Universe. | The Vatican has a solid gold statues of Jesus with the globe in hand, plus a black marble statue called "the black virgin of Montserrat" and a statue of a "child Jesus" with globe in hand, the list goes on... |
| 49. Coptic shells were carved to symbolize the Universe. Roman grave stones used them to represent the Heavens. Statues of Atlas can be found carrying the "universe" shell upon its shoulders. Pagan Rome carved Poseidon with the shell in his head. Venus was said to be born IN a coptic shell. | St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican has the Pagan symbols within the papal crest upon the wall. The Coptic shell is found over the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. This cosmic symbol is often used as a font for holy water in Catholic churches the world over. They even have statues of angels holding the pagan symbol |
| 50. Large evil eye can be found carved on a Roman sarcophagus in the National Archaeological Museum in Rome Italy. Masonic pendants have them as well. Hathor the "eye of Osiris" can be found all over Egyptian temple. It was commonly used as protection against evil magic. | This
very same evil eye
within the pyramid is
found on Roman
Catholic pulpits,
ceilings, altars,
doors, pendants,
medals, etc.
It is also on the back of the dollar bill of the USA on the left side |
| 51. The multi-level crown was first worn by old Babylonian gods in 1800BC. The horned tiara was carved atop Assyrian winged-bull cherubims. The Jewish Kabbalistic solar diety wore this very same tiara, as did Krishna. | The bronze tomb of Pope Sixtus (Pope6) has this three ringed tiara on his head. On that tiara you can also see 6 serpents upon it. All the Popes have word the tiara as a symbol of their authority as "gods of the earth, heaven, and hell" Hence, the "three rings" upon it. The Vatican has a solid gold tiara on display in the Vatican treasury. This is the very crown the Pope will hand to Antichrist when he arrives to impersonate Jesus Christ in the days ahead. |
| 52. Quetzalcoatl, the lord of life and death in the Aztec and Toltec cultures of 1000 AD had an open chest with an exposed heart displayed. This was believed to be nourishment offered to the sun gods. | Literally hundreds of thousands of statues, paintings, posters, lithographs, etc have Jesus as well as Mary depicted in the same manner with what the Catholic church calls "The sacred heart." Notice that these "sacred hearts" also have the symbols of the sun god Mithra glowing rather boldly behind them. |
| 53. Assyrians carvings show eagles as genies hovering over the dead. Their "book of the dead" depicts just such a picture on its cover. | Eagles are used as symbols all over the Roman Catholic church. See Rev 18:2 speaks of the Vatican as the "hold of ever foul spirit, and a cage of ever unclean and hateful bird." |
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PAGAN SUN WORSHIP MELDED WITH CHRISTIAN 'SON' WORSHIP
Referring to
Rorate (Nativity), a traditional
Scottish melody featured on her
recent Christmas album, American
Scottish fiddler Bonnie Rideout
described the lyrics in a way
that really captures
the essence of Christmas -
namely syncretism:
"Its about the
birth of the Son, meaning the
s-o-n, the Christ-child.
And then the lyrics continue.to
talk about the earth and the sea
and the birth of the sun, s-u-n,
meaning the winter solstice. The
sun is coming
back and with the return of the
sun, comes new hope. But in the
Christian sense, the birth of
the Son, meaning the Christ
child, is the
bringing of new hope for
Christians. So there is this
sort of nice
interplay with the Christian and
the Pagan beliefs coming
together and sort of meaning the
same thing, which is the rebirth
of the spirit.its a
very uplifting feeling." Bonnie
Rideout, The Thistle and
Shamrock,
produced by Fiona Ritchie,
National Public Radio, 12/23/99.
How
Santa Mocks God (On
Merchant's Day)
By
Gary C. Michael
Satan's goal is to get us to see him instead of seeing God. He wants to be like the most high in any way he can. God receives praise when we follow Him. Satan receives praise when we follow him. His strategy is to get us to follow him thinking that we're following God.
I can see him
now, laughing at God every
time he convinces some soul to
replace God with himself. It
may seem like a lovable thing
to do, but it may not be
reality based. Example: We
celebrate Christmas and we
say, "I know that Christ was
born. It doesn't matter when.
We choose Dec. 25th to
represent his birth date. "
Then we follow the crowd and
sing and tell lies about a fat
clown in a red suit. Then we
take our children to the malls
to see this perfect man called
Santa Claus. As innocent as
Santa may seem, Satan is
mocking God.
I'm about to
destroy the image of Santa
Claus, so if there are children
that you don't want to know the
truth, you'd better get them out
of here. This message is
entitled "How Santa Mocks God."
Let's start with Santa's hair
and eyes. Santa has white woolly
hair. Right? His eyes are said
to have a twinkle in them. Rev.
1:14 says, talking about Christ,
"His head and His hairs were
white like wool, as white as
snow; and His eyes were as a
flame of fire." Fire twinkles,
doesn't it? Are we talking about
Jesus or Santa Claus?
Santa is from the
North pole, right? Why the
North? Why not the South pole?
Well, God is from the North. We
find in Isaiah 14:12-14 these
words: "How art thou fallen from
heaven, o Lucifer, son of the
morning! How art thou cut down
to the ground, which didst
weaken the nations! For thou
hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars of
God: I will sit also upon the
mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the North: I
will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will be like the
most high." I tell you, Santa is
from the North because God is
from the North.
Santa has unlimited
power. Is there anything that
Santa can't do? Ask a kid.
There is no dispute about that.
I don 't need a text to tell you
that only God has unlimited
power.
Santa is all
knowing, huh? He knows when you
are good or bad, so be good for
goodness sake. You'd better
watch out....you know the song.
So we tell our children that
Santa is omniscient (all
knowing). Well, he would have to
be in order to know about all
the children in the world,
wouldn't he? I don't need a text
to tell you that only God is all
knowing.
Santa is immortal.
Have you ever heard of Santa
being born? Oh, I know the story
about Saint Nick. He was a
generous man, but the legend of
Santa Claus grew into the
ridiculous tale that it is
today. Only God is immortal.
Santa is perfect.
Who does he need to repent to?
Can Santa do any wrong? Ask a
child. Who is Santa's
boss? He has none. Does he
ever say praise the Lord? Have
you ever heard of Santa giving
God glory or credit for
anything? If he did, he
wouldn't be Santa long. My, my,
my.
Santa also judges
us. I thought that was God's
job. But according to Santa he's
checking his list, checking it
twice, gonna ' find out who's
naughty or nice. Jesus Christ is
coming to town. No! That's Santa
Claus is coming to town. But I
thought that Jesus was checking
his list to see who has been
naughty or nice and is coming to
town to bring his rewards. Who's
gonna do it, Santa or Jesus? My,
my, my.
Santa calls the
children to come unto him, sits
them on his lap and the children
repent to him for the bad that
they did during the year and
promise to be good. I tell you,
Jesus is the one we should teach
our children to repent to. Jesus
often called the children to him
and said forbid them not. Santa
is fooling our children. Santa
is omnipresent, which means that
he can be everywhere at the same
time. How else can he visit
every home on the same
night? I don't need a text
to tell you that only God can
visit every home at once.
I don't know about
you, but I think that Santa is a
clown. A big fat, jelly belly,
rolely polely, curly headed
clown. What about his red suit?
Why red? Rev. 19:13 tells us
why. "And he was clothed with a
vesture dipped in blood: and his
name is called the word of God."
Need I say more? Santa, like
Jesus, is the same in character
today, yesterday, and forever.
When does Santa come?
On a foggy
Christmas Eve Santa asked
Rudolph to lead his sleigh that
night. There is no dispute that
Jesus is coming in fog. What is
fog? Clouds. The Bible tells us
that the clouds are angels.
Gabriel will probably lead the
coming of my savior, not
Rudolph.
Santa lives in a
shining ice palace, like clear
glass. Why? Rev. 21:18 tells us
why. "And the building of the
wall of it was of jasper: and
the city was pure gold, like
unto clear glass." Santa is
tended by elves, which are
mysterious creatures. Just as
God is tended by mysterious
angels.
Come Christmas time
we say that we celebrate the
birth of Christ, but I ask you,
who's image do we see
everywhere? Who get's the most
attention? Who is advertised
most? Is it Jesus or Santa? If
it is Jesus' birth that we
celebrate, why do we buy each
other gifts? Do you know anybody
else in the world who has a
birth-day Celebration and the
world buys each other gifts and
leave the birthday person out of
the celebration? My, my, my.
If you want to
celebrate the birth of Christ
this year, give to the church.
It is not a sin to give gifts to
each other but I just want to
get the priorities straight. I
hope this makes sense to you. If
we say that we are celebrating
Jesus' birth, then he should get
all of the gifts. The Bible says
that the wise men brought gifts
to Jesus. It does not say that
the wise men or any men gave
gifts to each other during the
birth of Christ.
The merchants make
millions each year and they
program us by calling us a
scrooge if we don't help make
them rich. If the church got all
of those millions, the budget
would not suffer as much. The
church would not need to beg so
much. Just think back over the
years that you spent money on
gifts and left Christ out. It's
like throwing a party for you
and inviting everybody but you
to your party.
Go to Wal-mart or
Sam's this year and buy the
church some paper towels or
toilet paper or paper plates or
donate your gift to the church
budget, but give your gift to
Christ, if you are sincere about
celebrating his birth. Oh some
will find a way to compromise
with the world so that no one
will fuss at them.
I don't know about
you, but when I realized how
Satan is playing with the world,
I decided not to play with him.
Since it was my choice, I
grabbed my ball and went home.
You know how children get mad
while playing, and the one who
owns the ball might grab it and
go home.
What does Santa say
before he enters? Ho, ho, ho.
Why ho, ho, ho? The word "ho"
comes from the Hebrew "ahaw"
meaning listen, a word
expressing pain with an
exclamation point. Why would
Satan use such a word? In the
book of Zechariah chapter 2:6,7
we find the answer. God is
talking to his people. "Ho, ho,
come forth, and flee from the
land of the North, saith the
Lord. Deliver thyself, O Zion,
that dwellest with the daughter
of Babylon." God is expressing
pain in the fact that His people
are on the wrong road. This is
the only thing that causes God
pain.
Satan is playing
with God and with us. When God
says ho, ho, pain, pain. Satan
is saying "ho, ho, Ha. Ha."
and we are too slow to pick up
on it, so we join in with him
and pick at God while thinking
that we are saying something
nice. My, my, my.
Why Santa? Well,
God has more than one name.
Santa unscrambled spells Satan.
I use to say they x-ed
Christ out of Christmas when
they wrote x-mas instead of
Christmas. Now I realize that
Christ was never in Christmas.
Col. 2:8 helps us to understand
this fact. 2:8 "
Beware lest any man spoil
you through philosophy and vain
deceit, after the tradition of
men, after the rudiments of the
world, and not after Christ.
"
The Bible does not
say anything about remembering
the birth of Christ. There is no
Bible principle that even
suggests that we do. This is
Satan's doing and the idea
caught on and is carried on by
greedy men who couldn't care
less about Jesus. "If the name
Jesus can bring a fast buck,
then Jesus was born. Now, come
buy my goods."
I would like to
ask, why do we need a Christmas
tree for anything? We know that
it has pagan roots. Must we mix
this mess with the birth of
Christ? Let's look at Jeremiah
10:1-5 1. hear ye the word
which the Lord speaketh unto
you, o house of Israel: 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 the hands of
the 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. I've
been told that "we don't worship
our tree." But, it is
interesting that one must kneel
to retrieve a gift from under
the tree. Satan is so smart. He
knows how to insult God. Then
there is a song called "Oh,
Christmas Tree." Is God happy
with this? I don't think so.
So, who was born on
December 25th? His name was
Tammuz. When Nimrod, the great
hunter before(against) the Lord
died, his wife had a son from
another man. She told the people
that her husband sent her seed
through a sun ray as it shone
into her bedroom window. Her
name was Semiramis. The people
fell for this lie. When he died,
she told the people that he too
was now a sun God as Nimrod was.
She went on to say
that each year when the fall
came, Tammuz was dying all over
again, but each spring, he came
back to life as evident in the
flowers. So, 40 days before
spring the women would start
weeping for Tammuz to come back
to life again. Ezekiel 8:14
"Then He brought me to the door
of the gate of the Lord's house
which was toward the North; and,
behold, there sat women weeping
for Tammuz."
Today, they are
called the 40 days of Lent.
Could God be happy with any of
this pagan activity,
including December 25th? Is
Jesus being glorified? I don't
think so. We all know what
would happen if we abandoned
Christmas, don't we? Family
& friend trouble, right? Can
you endure being talked about?
This message is either truth or
error. Let us all pray and ask
God what He would have us do and
obey what we know. God is not
the author of confusion.
HOW SANTA
MOCKS GOD
WHITE, WOOLLY HAIR Revelation 1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 1:14 His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire; 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
FROM THE
NORTH Isaiah
14:12 How art thou
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning! [how] art
thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the
nations! 14:13
For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God: I will
sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of
the north: 14:14 I
will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will be like the
most High.
ALL
KNOWING Psalm
139:1 To the chief
Musician, A Psalm of David. O
LORD, thou hast searched me, and
known [me].
139:2 Thou knowest
my downsitting and mine
uprising, thou understandest my
thought afar off.
IMMORTAL
Hebrews
13:8 Jesus Christ
the same yesterday, and to day,
and for ever.
SINLESS &
PERFECT
Hebrews 4:15
For we have not an high priest
which cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities; but
was in all points tempted like
as [we are, yet] without
sin.
JUDGES
US Revelation
20:12 And I saw the
dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were
opened: and another book was
opened, which is [the book] of
life: and the dead were judged
out of those things which were
written in the books, according
to their works. John
5:27 And hath given
him authority to execute
judgment also, because he is the
Son of man.
5:30 I can of mine
own self do nothing: as I hear,
I judge: and my judgment is
just; because I seek not mine
own will, but the will of the
Father which hath sent me.
GIVES
GIFTS Matthew
5:16 Let your light
so shine before men, that they
may see your good works, and
glorify your Father which is in
heaven.
CALLS THE CHILDREN
TO HIMSELF Mark
10:14 But when Jesus
saw [it], he was much
displeased, and said unto them,
Suffer the little children to
come unto me, and forbid them
not: for of such is the kingdom
of God. 10:15
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever
shall not receive the kingdom of
God as a little child, he shall
not enter therein.
10:16 And he took
them up in his arms, put [his]
hands upon them, and blessed
them.
HOUR OF HIS COMING
A MYSTERY Luke
12:40 Be ye
therefore ready also: for the
Son of man cometh at an hour
when ye think not.
OMNIPRESENT
Revelation
18:8 Therefore shall
her plagues come in one day,
death, and mourning, and famine;
and she shall be utterly burned
with fire: for strong [is] the
Lord God who judgeth her.
(Referring to the day of the
Lord.)
RED
SUIT
Revelation
19:13 And he [was]
clothed with a vesture dipped in
blood: and his name is called
The Word of God.
COMES IN FOG
(CLOUDS)
Revelation 1:7
Behold, he cometh with clouds;
and every eye shall see him, and
they [also] which pierced him:
and all kindreds of the earth
shall wail because of him. Even
so, Amen.
LIVES IN A CLEAR
HOUSE
Revelation
21:18 And the
building of the wall of it was
[of] jasper: and the city [was]
pure gold, like unto clear
glass.
HO! HO!
HO! Zechariah
2:6 Ho, ho, [come
forth], and flee from the land
of the North, saith the LORD:
for I have spread you abroad as
the four winds of the heaven,
saith the LORD.
2:7 Deliver thyself,
O Zion, that dwellest [with] the
daughter of Babylon.
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Revelation
18:2 And he cried
mightily with a strong voice,
saying, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become
the habitation of devils, and
the hold of every foul spirit,
and a cage of every unclean and
hateful bird.
18:3 For all nations
have 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.
18:4 And I heard
another voice from heaven,
saying, Come out of her, MY
people, that ye be not partakers
of her sins, and that ye receive
not of her plagues.
Move
the letter "N" from the center
of "SANTA" and place it at the
end.
SANTA
= SATAN
IS THIS A COINCIDENT?
PERHAPS GOD IS TRYING TO
SHOW US SOMETHING?
Christmas
Contrasts
Courtesy of... http://www.temcat.com/
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SANTA
CLAUS |
JESUS
CHRIST |
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1st
& most important,
Santa is fantasy. That
which is not true comes
from the father of lies! |
Jesus is
REAL: ‘God, that
cannot lie’, Titus
1:2. |
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Jolly Old
St. Nicholas |
‘A
man of sorrows, and
acquainted with
grief’: Isa 53:3 |
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Welcomed by
the World |
‘We
hid as it were our faces
from him; he was
despised, and we
esteemed him not.’
Isa 53:3 |
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The myth of
Santa is that he's
coming to town to give
us material goods. |
Christ is
coming to Earth to give
us eternal life and
eternal goods. |
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Fat, red
faced, symbol of
self-indulgence; most
older pictures show him
smoking a pipe, and a
red nose has always been
linked to alcohol
indulgence. Message:
“Indulgence =
Happiness” |
Fasting
alone in the desert,
tell of the days that He
passed, How for OUR sins
He was tempted, yet was
triumphant at last.
Victory over appetite
was the Reason for
that Season!! Message:
“Indulgence=Death” |
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Attractive,
bright, sparkling,
admired. |
‘His
visage was so marred
more than any man, and
his form more than the
sons of men’: Isa
52:14 |
|
Santa is
all about getting (When
has it ever been said
that Santa promotes
people to give to each
other?) |
Christ
promotes giving: Ac
20:35 “…It
is more blessed to give
than to receive.”
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Smiling,
laughing, hilarity,
mirth, gaiety etc. |
‘My
soul is exceeding
sorrowful, even unto
death.’ Mark
14:34. John 11:35
‘Jesus
wept.’ |
|
Has many
‘little
people’ (elves)
to do all his
work. (Typical of the
rich) |
‘I
have trodden the
winepress alone; and of
the people there was
none with me’: Isa
63:3 He was servant to
all. |
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Uses MAGIC
to do his work |
‘He
did not use His divine
power to make His life
easier for
Himself’.
{SJ 34.5} |
|
Only comes
to ‘good little
boys and girls’. |
‘a
friend of publicans and
sinners!’ Luke
7:34 |
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Untruthful
in that everyone knows
that ‘bad’
children still get
gifts. |
‘that
will by no means clear
the guilty’ Ex.
34:7 Judges Righteously. |
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Says
“Ho, Ho,
Ho!” |
Says
“Woe, Woe,
Woe!” (see Matt.
23) |
|
Children
write letters and even
pray to
‘Santa’
– this is a false
god, an idol. |
Says,
“Suffer little
children to come unto
me!” Mark 10:14 |
|
Teaches
that material gifts are
the most important
concern. Children feel
rejected if friends get
more for Christmas than
they do. Abundant gifts
means you are
‘good’. |
Teaches,
‘a man's life
consisteth not in the
abundance of the things
which he
possesseth’. Luke
12:15 |
|
Parents lie
to children about Santa.
God hates lies. (Pr.
12:22) |
‘Come,
ye children, hearken
unto me: I will teach
you the fear of the
LORD.’ Ps. 34:11 |
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Santa
sneaks into homes
through the chimney!
Satan always intrudes
any way he can. |
“Behold,
I stand at the door, and
knock: if any man hear
my voice, and open the
door, I will come in to
him.” Jesus only
comes by invitation. |
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Associated
with feasting, partying,
rich foods, flesh meats,
celebration. |
Pr 23:20
‘Be not among
winebibbers; among
riotous eaters of
flesh:’ ‘And
take heed to yourselves,
lest at any time your
hearts be overcharged
with surfeiting’
Luke 21:34. |
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Only
involved with us for 1
night. |
“Lo,
I am with you alway,
unto the end of the
world” Matt 28:20 |
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It is time
to wake up! Many things
that are
‘cute’, and
‘sentimental’
and are considered
‘innocent’
come straight from
hell’s kitchens
and we should have
nothing to do with it! 2 Co 6:15
“And what concord
hath Christ with
Belial?” |
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WHAT'S
THE REAL REASON
FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON?
WHY DO PEOPLE PUT UP AN
EVERGREEN TREE?
DOES THIS MAKE JESUS EASIER TO
SEE?
Observation
based on comments by Pastor
James Knox of Deland, Florida:
In Latin and Spanish, "San" is
used before the names of male
saints, such as San Juan, San
Luis Obispo, and San Diego Also,
"Santa" is used before the names
of female saints, such as
Santa Maria, and Santa Lucia.
From this linguistic usage we
can determine that Saint
Nicholas somehow morphed
into Santa Claus. This would
seem to indicate one of
two things:
1. Santa Claus is in fact a lady who is cross dressed in a man's outfit, complete with fake beard. This would be a real encouragement to the feminists to agitate for equal hiring and affirmative action to see more lady Santa Clauses.
2. Saint Nicholas is a drag queen who is using a female name, Santa Claus, as some sort of signal to the gay community.
THE X-MAS FILES!
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Discuss this in either the POGM Audio Conference... |
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Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God. -Leviticus 18:30
"Now
therefore, if ye will obey my
voice indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall be a
peculiar treasure unto me
above all people: for all the
earth is mine:"
-Exodus
19:5,
"These are they which
were not defiled with women;
for they are virgins. These
are they which follow the Lamb
whithersoever he goeth. These
were redeemed from among men,
being the firstfruits unto God
and to the Lamb."
-Revelation
14:4,
Do you do as the rest of the world does? Do you embrace their festivities as did the people of Noah's day? Do you keep their customs and partake in their feasts that are looked upon as an abomination unto your God? Or are you a "peculiar treasure" unto the Lord God Creator? Does the ever faithful Groom look upon you as His virgin keeping His New Covenant not defiled by the customs and abominations shared by Rome to all the world? Does He see you as the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb?
I pray so...
Final thought...
Christmas has been designed by Rome so as to make it nearly impossible for you to give it up. Your family, friends, and everyone you meet that says "Merry Christmas" will look upon you as "strange, peculiar and odd" when you tell them that you do not celebrate Christmas. Your children, will cry out to you their disappointment when you inform them that you have decided to do as the Lord you worship would have you do. Your loved ones will be offended when you tell them you won't be giving them Christmas gifts anymore. Your boss, your friends, you co-workers, all of them have been programmed by Rome to look upon you as one that is strange and un-Christlike when you inform them you cannot take part in the festivities they embrace so wholeheartedly. But rest assured, there is one that will look upon you as one worthy of His embrace when all the world hates you for His sake...
"And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the last first." -Mark 10:29-31,
To follow Christ is to stop following the world.
Our battle cry stands... "Whatsoever saith the Lord!"
"I have said to my family and
my friends, I desire
that no one shall make
me a birthday or
Christmas gift, unless it be
with permission to
pass it on into the Lord's
treasury, to be appropriated
in the establishment of
missions." {CCh 159.6}
SANTA CLAUSE SANCTIONS BOTH HOMOSEXUALITY AS WELL AS TRANSGENERDERISM
Now
what I am about to share may
shock some of you. But notice
this if you will. I came
across this many years ago and
as I continue to dig into it
when time permits I
found even more to share on
this very strange sinfulness
with every passing
year. And being in the age of
lying wherein men can declare
themselves women
and vice versa, when you see
what Rome did with Santa years
ago shows how
closely they work with Satan.
The Popes could not have known
how well this was
all going to work for the
enemy of souls in these last
days, but Satan did and
so what they invented
centuries ago has become the
norm today. When I first
shared this a couple of
decades ago people laughed.
But now with the
transgender movement being
normalized, most can see why
Satan used the Vatican
to push this even back then.
As some of us
are very aware, in Latin as
well as in Spanish, the term
"San" is always
used before the names of male
saints in the Roman Catholic
church. So called
saints such as San Juan, San
Luis Obispo, and yes, San
Diego as well. But the
term "Santa" is only used
before the names of female
saints in Roman
Catholicism. Names like Santa
Maria, Santa Anna and Santa
Lucia.
And so, this
means that Santa Claus is one
of two things. He is either a
transgender female
dressing up as a man, beard
and all. And keep in mind,
making the man into a
fat man allows for the female
form to be well camouflaged by
all the extra
clothing needed to make Santa
fat and jolly. Or is it that
Santa Claus is
actually a homosexual man
using the name of a woman as
so many do to this day
that claim to be a woman
trapped in a man’s body.
Again, 20 years ago they
laughed. Today, they can see
how the demons that were alive
centuries ago are
the same ones pushing all this
today. That fact alone may
make some people
realize what time it is and
prepare for the coming of the
Lord.
One more thing
needs to be addressed here for
better clarity in all this. It
has to do with the
fact that since historic
record confirms Santa Clause
is half Pagan sun god
Woden and half so called
Catholic saint Nicholas of
which Rome forced back into
American society after their
prophesied wound started to
heal in 1929, we all
know that the Roman Catholic
priesthood; which was recently
outed in Italy as
being 98% homosexual, is it
any wonder that they would
purposely confuse the
sexes in the fabrication of
Santa Clause in the same way
they confuse
Christianity by mixing it with
Paganism to build on the
fabrication of
Catholicism? After all, is not
the term Babylon in prophecy
defined as to mix
truth with error?
And so it’s
perfectly natural for the
Pagan high day of worship,
which they call the Winter
Solstice, Saturnalia, Brumalia
or just plain Christmas to
those that will trust
the mixture, this so called
holiday was destined to be
uplifted by them on a
global scale by Satan who
knows his time is short and
right before the end when
Satan was prophesied to push
homosexuality worldwide as he
did in Noah’s day. What
we see happening now is
fulfillment on a grand scale.
It’s Satan’s last
hoorah.
What I mean is,
the final prophecy of our day
matches the one of
Noah’s day when it comes
to
how homosexuality was uplifted
worldwide as the norm. Hence
the reason for the
global flood. Jesus confirms
this in Luke 17 in fact.
Luke
17:26-27
And as it was
in the days of Noe, so shall
it be also in
the days of the Son of man. (27)
They did eat,
they drank, they married
wives, they were given in
marriage,
until the day that
Noe entered into the ark,
and the flood came, and
destroyed them all.
As we
know, Jesus never wasted His
Words. There is a reason He
repeats how marriage
is seen in the last days. Many
people think He’s just
repeating Himself for
effect when He said “they married
wives, they were given in
marriage” But the
fact
is He is speaking about two
different marriages here.
When He
says “they married
wives” He is speaking
about normal marriage between
a man
and a woman. And when He says
“they were given in
marriage” He is speaking
of
abnormal marriage. And we all
know about how abnormal
marriage has been in our
day. Everything from same sex
marriages to men marrying
their computers that
they download porn on.
There’s even a woman
that married a carnival ride
here
in America not too long ago.
And why does Satan attack
marriage? For the same
reason He attacks the seventh
day Sabbath. Both sacraments,
and no that’s not a
Catholic word, but both
sacraments were sanctified in
the Garden of Eden.
This is also why
the demons possessing these
poor souls in the LGBTQ
community are always moved to
wave the rainbow flag as a
mockery unto the God of the
Bible who put the
rainbow in the clouds in
Noah’s day for the very
first time as a sign.
No, I am not
saying the homosexual knows
about the real reason for that
rainbow Satan has
been forcing them to wave.
They have no clue at all. But
again, Satan and the
demons that possess the people
will not die until the end of
the 1000 years.
They were alive in
Noah’s day, and they are
alive today. Satan and all his
demon cohorts know exactly
what that rainbow means as
they were there the very
day the flood killed all their
subjects. They saw that
rainbow placed in the
clouds after all those people
they possessed drowned and
they know exactly how
close they are to the end as
we speak.
The demons wave
that flag in our
Father’s face in the
same way they wave the NIV and
other
bogus Bibles. They boldly
declare how easily they can
control the very people
that were created in the image
of God. For them to do such
vulgar acts makes
them soil the image of their
Creator and so that flag is
just a cherry on top
their bold and blasphemous
vulgarities.
And so,
something as trivial as Santa
being a homosexual
crossdresser may seem
insignificant and laughable
just a few decades ago. But,
and now, it’s seen as
absolute truth. And get
this… as I was going
through my news articles
looking
for something to post on the
blog or make a video on just
this a year or so
back and it was on a Wednesday
morning of all days, Wednesday
actually being the
day of the week named after
the Pagan god Woden, or
Wodensday where Santa Claus
originated after the Pope
mixed him with a so called
patron saint, I came
across a video from The View
online of Whoopi Goldberg
commenting on something
she was wearing or promoting
on camera, I don’t
recall which. But it had
something
to do with Santa Claus. And
when she was done, she made a
comment saying, And I
am not kidding at all here!
She actually said on camera
that “we all know that
Santa Clause is actually a
woman, right?” And no
one on the panel said anything
to the contrary which shows me
this is now confirmed to have
been planned as
something to run with all
along. Hence the reason I did
a video back on
December 20 of 2017 titled
“CNN
Promotes Santa's Husband.”
And just the
previous Monday of that week
an Article came out titled It Begins:
‘Gender-Busting’
Santa on
Display at New Zealand Mall
wherein they are finally
taking advantage of the fact
that Santa is in fact
transgender.
And get this, a Christian man
was arrested in Cleburne
Texas for repeatedly telling
children Santa wasn’t
real to the children
gathered at a Presbyterian
church.
Seriously! The government now
protects churches that protect
Santa who is
boldly marching with his
rainbow flag against Jesus
Christ?! And the News video
had the Presbyterian pastor
and some members on camera
defending Santa in a big
way for the little kids that
may be watching and everyone
played along as if it
was perfectly acceptable to
tell their precious little
children that the
Christian man was crazy and
Santa was real. That Christian
man was asking the
parents if they were going to
teach their children about
Jesus instead of lying
to them about Santa and they
arrested him for that. He
actually showed more
love for those children than
their own parents did!
