CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS
"CHRIST'S MASS"
Subject:
Christmas – a few questions about it asked recently of
Message from (name deleted):
"This appears to be my year to break away from observing christmas. From
what I have studied I believe that ceasing to observe christmas is part of
"Coming out of her". I believe that I have been called to stop
participating in this man-made holiday and to start observing the appointed
times of Yahuah. I have already told my parents and grandmother and I can
not say that this was an easy thing to do. It was met with sadness as I
expected. I just now informed my wife's mother over the phone and she
basically said that she "didn't feel her daughter should be with someone who
doesn't want to be her family on christmas". She doesn't understand why I
cannot at least be with the family on that day. Forsaking christmas has
been a process over the past few years. I know that there is no way
that I would be able to confront these people in my life if it were not for His
strength and encouragement. If I were to ignore Yahuah's desire, I will
live as a miserable coward not worthy of what He has called me to. I also
believe that this is a test and that Yahuah can use my obedience to Spiritually
benefit my family. I am assuming that you were brought up in a family that
celebrated christmas. If this was the case, do you mind sharing with me a
little about your experience with your family when you stopped participating in
christmas?
1) I
believe that I am to cease from having
anything to do with
christmas, even if that means not even eating with my family. Would you
say this is accurate?
2) Will you
share with me some about your experience with your family when you stopped
participating in christmas?
Dear brother
(name deleted),
Like most people, I was raised celebrating Christmas as the “birthday of the Savior”. Because families are bonded by the closeness and love they share around the "holidays", to reject the holidays seems to be a signal they are being rejected. If we begin by going to them and explaining that we love them, but certain truths have convicted us to stop celebrating certain holidays, they may still feel insulted for several years. The mind of the flesh is very bonded to these holidays.
This practice
of Christmas under other names has been observed by Pagans as
the rebirth of the sun deity for approximately 3000 years. The last big
shift in the meaning or application of the solstice festival occurred in about
525 CE (AD), when Dionysius Exiguous (a monk) was appalled at what he discovered
being celebrated at
Today we see the terms "festival of lights", and "solstice festival" used by the media, to disarm the low-information masses and humanists who love to keep observing the glittering winter holiday. "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" have no connection to Yahusha, since He was born in the fall during the commanded festival called Sukkoth, one of the redemption shadows of things to come (there are seven of them).
The worship of Baal and his consort Asherah was wrapped-up in the practice and symbols of this festival originally dedicated to the re-birth of the sun deity, being nine months from the springtime fertility festival of Ishtar (Easter), a time when the sun was believed to impregnate the Earth with the rays of the solar disc. As Christianity developed, these formerly Pagan festivals became reinvented so the idolatry would be concealed, down-played, or cloaked beneath new meanings - they essentially put lipstick on a pig and kissed it, believing it had changed into a beautiful woman.
The Jesuit practice of “casuistry”
(Google that term)
makes it possible to think about something in a completely new way,
rationalizing and justifying it, so adapting a Pagan practice is thought to be
“cleansed” as acceptable as long as the camouflage covers the old ideas well
enough. The wreath is a symbol of a womb, the tree is a phallus, and the
balls are testacles -- all liberally sprinkled with the tinsel which
represents the semen of the solar deity. These symbols are only “seen” for what
they really are by those initiated in the occult, yet Yahusha told us that what
is whispered in secret will be shouted from the rooftops. To the
Canaanites, the tree was worshipped as Asherah, and gifts were brought into the
“groves” of trees and placed beneath them as offerings.
Goliath of Gath (a Philistine/Palestinian) would have certainly used the tree,
balls, Easter baskets, and Maypoles seen today. All of this is
specifically against Dt. 12:28-32, but it is all well camouflaged and promoted
to apply to the Messiah of Israel throughout the entire world. People can
live in denial of the truth for their entire lives, but most never have the
opportunity to learn there is anything wrong.
My
parents and other family members thought I had come in contact with a “cult” or had lost
my mind when I first stopped going to the Christmas Day family get-togethers
around 1986. They still don’t understand any better after over 20 years,
but I always have hope they will come to understand my motivation for avoiding
the Pagan practices specifically condemned by the Creator, Yahuah.
All
I can do is encourage you to avoid idolatry in all its forms (Acts 15:29), and
embrace the faith once delivered to the saints, Yahuah’s Torah (the Covenant),
which Yahusha seeks to write upon a believer’s heart.
In
answer to your first question, I’d say that Yahusha would not go to a party or
gathering that people were having that had at one time been based on sun worship
(Baal), or excuse it like the Jesuits with mental acrobatics (casuistry).
So, completely ignoring the man-made “Christmas Day” is the best decision
considering we’re going to have to give an account to the Creator of the heavens
and the Earth one day.
We also have to warn those who engage in such
things, otherwise their blood (on the day of judgment) will be upon our heads.
Needless to say, those who practice Christmas Day, Sun-day, and Easter Day are
not exactly thrilled to hear about the true origins of the days from people like
us. They feel we are judgmental, harsh, and no fun to be around.
What they don’t see in us is the incredible freedom and clean-feeling we have
because we have resisted the harlotry of idolatrous practices. We’re
strange to them, and probably have the stench of the Messiah upon us.
Peter told the former Pagans not to fall back into their idolatry, as a pig that
has been bathed would return to wallowing in the mud, or a dog would return to
that which it had once vomited up:
2Pe 2:21, 22:
“For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the set-apart common delivered
to them. For them the proverb has proved true: ‘A dog returns to his own
vomit,’ and, ‘A washed sow returns to her rolling in the mud.’”
For more details, see www.fossilizedcustoms.com/christmas.html
The Lie
Parents lie to their child about a Santa Claus,
as they were lied to by their parents, schools, movies, songs,
commercials, and stores everywhere.
They keep inflating, compounding, and repeating that lie, and then when someone comes along and speaks Truth, it threatens to expose the lie. When we are living in a delusion, we can’t bear to hear Yahusha is the real Name, because that means the previous name we accepted (Jesus) is a lie.
Galatians 4:16 is about pagans and their weak and miserable principles:
“Have I now become your enemy,
having told you the Truth?”
Challenge your Christian pastor to teach the Truth:
http://www.fossilizedcustoms.com/truthtradition.html
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