Beloved,
It’s that season again, the biggest
‘holiday’ of the year and again we in the body
of Christ have to battle with the sentiments
surrounding Christmas. It’s a holiday celebrated
by every nation and faith; yet it is suppose to
be a celebration of Christ. Go to China and
you’ll see airport officials in Santa clause
hats being merry and upholding the ‘spirit’ of
the season. If they are celebrating Christ’s
birth and are glad for it, why don’t they become
Christians; why still a Buddhist or an adherent
of another faith? Because as it was in the
beginning so it is in the end – Christ is not
associated with Christmas! I know many opinions
usually jump out with this topic, but
CLICK HERE to read the pagan
origins of Christmas. The intension of this
letter is not to disgust it, but to show
unequivocally what is meant by a ‘holiday’ and
why pagan holidays where used in the first place
for Christmas.
WHAT IS A HOLIDAY?
Translated from the original: “Middle
English holidai, holy day, from Old English h
lig dæg : h lig, holy; see holy + dæg, day; see
day,” dictionary.com.
Therefore, holiday is really Holyday.
Than a holiday as we know it has not been
served much justice. In that, the purpose of a
holiday has been wasted in festivities.
For instance, Labor Day was and should
be a day of labor. As a child, we dreaded Labor
Day because school clean up projects would come
up, the aunt you never saw suddenly wants
gardening help, mom and dad makes you paint the
barn, clean out the garage and all the strenuous
long work load that couldn't be done on a normal
school day.
Now-a-days, the labor has gone out of
'Labor Day' and it's purely a day to rest and
play. In fact, back home, some of the biggest
parties and shows are scheduled for that day.
Long live Labor Day! Though the work was hard,
it made you feel you had accomplish something
worthwhile; you got a feeling of self-worth;
especially after taking on a project like
refurbishing the local clinic.
The same thing has happen to the word
holiday. In stead of the original meaning of a
'holi-day' or better translated 'holy day', many
have made them into festivities and even
reveling. Not that festivity is wrong, but there
is always a time set apart for that. In the Old
Testament book of laws they were days of
festivities and they were days of reverence -
holydays (holiday).
If we read the Old Testament when God
instituted 'holidays' for the Israelites, we
find that they were mainly days of reverence or
intended for the use of the day, according to
its namesake – Holy Day. After leaving the
occult society of Egypt, where holidays were set
apart for different gods and pharaohs, it would
only be a matter of time before these practices
were revived, if God doesn't allow. Holidays or
Holy Days are religious days dedicated to a
particular deity. So then, Christianity cannot
adopt a pagan holiday like Christmas or Easter;
for this would indirectly give reverence to the
former practice. When the Israelite left Egypt,
God made new and specific Holidays unto him for
them to observe. Using occult holidays
intertwined with Christianity as a day of
reverence is horrendous. Nevertheless, more and
more people are getting to realize this and
unfortunately here is the reason why:
THE REASON WHY...
Most of the truth concerning the original
intent of the Holidays like Christmas, Easter
and others are now being known because satan has
already woven these occult festivities within
our 'Christian' traditions, unknowingly. So
allowing it to be unmasked, internationally,
would only drop the Christian values from it and
the festivities would continue, as it was when
it was openly occult. In this world, which is
becoming a melting pot for culture and religion,
no one will even notice or bother to give
consideration whether or not it's Christian or
not, after so many generations of it. People
will just continue to dress their trees, eat
lots of food, kiss under the mistletoe, give
presents and feel 'the spirit of Christmas'. No
one is going to give up their traditions, even
though they will find out that Christ nor God
had nothing to do with it; or is apart of
it.
Satan would have then used a good name to
preserve his occult practice until the dawn of
the New Age and religious tolerance delusion.
Reason being, he cannot beat Christianity, so he
has to tolerate it and pervert it from within to
achieve his goal. Here is a quote about one of
the top members of satan's army, which confirms
this strategy:
"Weishaupt [founder of the luciferian
society- illuminati], a professor of ingolstadt,
heartily hated the Jesuits, and formed his
league of illuminati with the express intention
'of using for good ends the means which the
Jesuit order had employed for bad'" (The power
and Secret of the Jesuit -1930-Fillip
Miller).
Many Christians still can’t see this and
even go as far as to say, “It’s a time of
witnessing…” The same thing was said for
Halloween, but did you/they celebrate it? To
justify celebrating it a Christian quoted, “Let
no man therefore judge you … in respect of a
holyday” (Col 2:16). I like that. First,
Christmas is not a holy day and the Holy Day
there mention was the holy day laid down in the
first five books of the bible; of which Paul
said that these were a shadow of things to come
in verse 17. Also, if one read the entire
chapter it showed that he was talking about
salvation and justification; in that, the old
Jewish law doesn’t justify any more but rather
as he said a few verse above, “ye are complete
in him” (relativity). Yet another said, “Well,
no one knows exactly when is Christ’s Birthday
so we can use this to celebrate Him; as long as
he is the focus it’s all right.” Could it be
that God intentionally made the birth of Christ
go unrecorded to avoid something like this?
Besides, how convenient that Dec 25 was chosen.
Here is how Christ said we should celebrate
him, “And he took bread, and gave thanks, and
brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my
body which is given for you: this do in
remembrance of me” (Lk 22:19). I think we call
that “Lord Supper” in some churches. That’s the
Christmas we should be celebrating ever so often
with our real family – born again
believers.
Trying to encourage Christians and
non-Christians to give up these practices might
be hard, but if you feel led to do it, go right
ahead. On the other side, "as for me and my
house we will serve the Lord."