Do you celebrate Christmas?
When I learned the truth (at an early age), I ceased observing that pagan holy-day.
Where did Christmas come from?
"Christmas" was celebrated by the heathens thousands of years before Jesus was even born! One of their customs was to decorate a tree with silver and gold ornaments, then fasten the tree so that it would not topple. Here is Biblical evidence of this fact:
Jeremiah 10:2-5, "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the
heathen…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…"
God is telling us in this verse, "Do not learn the way of the heathen" Don't even learn it, let alone practice it. God even condemns a custom that the heathens practiced, yet we see this very same custom exist even today; it is called the Christmas tree. The scripture describes this "Christmas celebration" as idolatry. Other pagan customs include Mistletoe and the yule log. If you seek, you will find that these things are pagan also all over the world.
Now, some claim that this verse refers to idols being made from the trees. This may be true (Isaiah 40:19; 41:23, 45:20; 46:1,7, Psalm 115:5,7, Habakkuk 2:19). But this is not important. What is important is the question, "Does God approve of trees being used to worship Him?" Is there a command in the scripture to do so? The answer is simple. No.
December 25th has always been a Sun worship holiday. When the sun was on its lowest dip on the horizon and the days grew shorter in the winter, the sun worshipping people feared that the sun would not return. So they held certain festivals around the time of the Winter Solstice when the sun began to return. December 21st is the shortest day of the year, and the following 3 days after it are exactly the same length. On December 25th, the day starts to become longer again, and the pagans called that day the "coming of the Sun".
This is why a "star", or sun, was placed on top of their "Christmas trees". Does this sound familiar? Sure, people might say this represents the star that appeared in the sky after Jesus was born, but where does the scripture approve of such things? Some people place an angel on top of their trees, and claim this is OK. Well, let’s see what the scriptures say about angels.
2 Corinthians 11:14, "…for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." The scripture confirms that Satan is an angel of light. Placing an angel on top of the tree is synonymous with placing a star on top of the tree, because both images represents "light", or the "sun". But some might claim that their angel on their tree is a heavenly angel. OK. Please look at God’s Second Commandment: Exodus 20:4, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above." Angels are in heaven above, and God forbids having images of any thing that’s in heaven above for the purpose of worship! So, no matter how you look at it, God does not approve of these pagan practices.
December 25th is the birthday of nearly every pagan god ever invented! The birth of the Sun god, Mirtha, was on December 25th. In Egypt, the Sun god, Osiris, was born December 25th. In the Syrian religion, the Sun god, Adonis, was born December 25th. In the Mithraic religions, they celebrated the "Birthday of the Invincible Sun" on December 25th. In Rome, they celebrated the "Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun" on December 25th . Also, Nimrod’s birthday’s was on December 25th!
The scripture is full of examples of Sun Worship (Deut. 4:19; 17:3, 2 Kings 23:5,11, Job 31:26-28). Women would weep for Tammuz (Eze.8:14), then the people would worship the Sun (verse 16). Tammuz is the god of nature and fertility, and is the offspring of Dumuzi, the Acadian Sun-god (the Adonis of the Greeks). Christmas was always a pagan holiday, and now we are substituting a holy name in place of the name of the pagan gods, but still practicing pagan ways and not the ways of Jesus. Deuteronomy 12:30-32 commands us not to serve God the same way they follow their gods. "Christmas" is following the pagans after their Sun-gods.
MOST WHO DO CELEBRATE THE GIFT GIVING AND SUCH THAT ARE OF THE WORLD WOULD RATHER DIE THAN MISS OUT ON THIS OCCASION, BUT CANNOT STAND TO DISCUSS ANYTHING REMOTELY RELATED TO THE SON.
Most, but not all. What else shall we discuss re: the Son of God?
