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Bible Study Course Lesson 3 – 16
1 Chronicles 5:25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the
gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
This scripture always bothered me. Why would a people, fresh out of Egypt, fresh out of the covenant
God made with them at Sinai, fall into idolatry and worship other gods literally every generation? And
as I explained in the last several lessons, it was because these other gods were in fact called God, and
purported to be the very same Deity who brought them out of Egypt!
Judges 8:33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again,
and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
This seems like a clear distinction – the God of Abraham, Yahweh Elohim, was neglected in favor of
this other god named Baalberith. But it’s not that simple; see, baal means “Lord” in Hebrew. It’s not a
name as much as a title.
As you’ve seen, often one particular deity is called Baal – just like we call Jesus “Lord” today, though
that is not His name. For instance, in the epic of Baal, his full title – which passed for a name – was
Baal-Hadad, “Lord of Storms”. He was, basically, the Canaanite version of Zeus or Thor.
Likewise, berith is not a name either, but a Hebrew word meaning “covenant”. So Baal-berith isn’t the
name of this other god, it’s a title! And the translation is “Lord of the Covenant”. So this is another title
for a god – but which one?
That’s the problem – when you only know God by a name or a title like Lord or God, it’s hard to tell
which lord and which god you’re worshiping! There are a lot of covenants mentioned in the Bible; the
promise never to bring another flood in Genesis 9:9-17; the covenants of faith and circumcision with
Abraham in Genesis 15 and 17; and of course the old covenant with the people under Moses in
Exodus 24:7-8.
The more immediate reminder of the covenant was (Joshua 8:30-35), which is likely the one meant,
but I won’t try to nail down which of these covenants is being referred to… the point is that they left the
God of Abraham and worshiped the Lord of the Covenant! The God that claimed to have delivered
them from Egypt (Exodus 32:4), that claimed to have saved Noah from the flood.
Remember Enki, the one who saved Noah from Enlil’s cruel flood? Another name for Satan?
Remember also Isaiah 14:14 where he said “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High” – another way of reading that is he would pretend to be the most high, which is
exactly what he has done ever since!
But because he was called the Lord of the Covenant, in their eyes, this was not forsaking the true God
for Satan – they still believed they were worshiping Yahweh and El! This was worshiping the aspect or
even the messenger of that God who made the covenant with them!
Likewise, Christians today don’t believe they are worshiping ancient pagan fertility and solar deities.
They believe they are worshiping an aspect of the true God – celebrating an event in His life, a moment
in His history – but in fact, the things they’re commemorating on their holidays… never happened at all.
At least, not to the true Jesus.
CHRISTMAS
Jesus was born, obviously. But the Bible says nothing specifically about when, except enough clear
facts to prove conclusively that, whenever it was, it was not on December 25th. One of the simplest
ways of proving that is that shepherds were in the fields in Luke 2.
Thing is, Israel has terribly rainy winter weather, so shepherds never go out in the fields with their
flocks in between November and March. So all but the most die-hard dogmatists admit that Jesus was
not born on December 25th.
Why then, does the whole world celebrate His birth as if He were? Because Christmas falls in midwinter,
around the shortest day of the year. To superstitious pagans, the sun was their god – symbolized
by a cross and a circle. And they watched the sun grow weaker in the winter, watched him move farther
and farther south in the sky as the weather grew cold and rainy and gray, and they feared – what if he
kept on going, and never came back?
Jeremiah 10:2 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.
There were many “signs of heaven” that the heathen were troubled by – comets, meteors, eclipses. But
the one that every culture in the world feared was that the sun would sink low in the horizon in the
winter and never return.
And the horror of eternal darkness upon the Earth drove heathens to placate the sun for his return. To
offer their own strength to supplement his, if only he would come back to them. Depending on the
culture, this might be done by offering of food, an animal, a human sacrifice, or simply prayers. But in
every culture, the shortest day of the year was a big deal.
But on the heels of this fear, came the announcement from the priests the following day: the day was
longer! The sun was higher in the sky! God heard them and was returning! The dismaying sign of the
death of the sun was followed by the rebirth of the sun!
This was grounds for a public holiday, days or weeks of reveling and drinking and exchanging of gifts.
Because the light of the world had come unto them! Joy to the world, indeed! The scientific name for
this day is the winter solstice.
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“Worldwide, interpretation of the event has varied from culture to culture, but most
cultures have held a recognition of rebirth, involving holidays, festivals, gatherings,
rituals or other celebrations around that time.” (Wikipedia, article “Winter Solstice”)
The Romans celebrated this festival under the name of Saturnalia, and on this day gifts were exchanged,
great excess of food and wine were consumed, slaves and masters reversed roles and it was a joyous
time for all. Truly a time of peace on Earth and good will towards men, eh?
This was the rebirth of the sun, but not the rebirth of fertility, which happened 3 months later when the
sun conquered darkness and regained his full strength. So while this might sound similar to Easter, and
some of the ideas surely overlap, it isn’t the same festival. Easter celebrates Tammuz’ coming of age,
while Christmas celebrates his birth.
All of the customs associated with Christmas have been thoroughly explained by others, so I won’t do
that here – Google it. Suffice it to say everything from Santa Claus to gifts, candles to the north pole
has a specifically pagan origin. Most of all, the Christmas tree.
THE TREE OF LIFE
Osiris was born 5 days before the new year; which, with 30 day months, would have put it around
December 25th. (Egyptians started their calendar in August, not January, but the relative position of the
date in the year is still compelling regardless.) Osiris was the sun-god for whom the world keeps Easter,
remember – turns out they also honor him at Christmas.
If you remember the prominent place of the tree in the story of Osiris, how the tree grew around Osiris’
body and was later worshiped even after his corpse was rescued from it, and how it was ritually erected
at Easter, you probably have a hint about where we’re going next. The significance of the tree of life –
a corruption of the Genesis story – was widespread throughout all ancient religions.
Beyond the fact that this was a paraphrase of the Bible’s version, there is a very logical reason to think
of trees as representative of life, because there are two kinds of trees. The first are those that “die”
every year, and live again each spring (a cycle that parallels the sun’s own journey from life into death).
Compare this idea to Romans 6:3-9, and you can see that this sort of thinking isn’t that far off from the
truth of the Bible – the leaves/lives of the trees are “buried with him in death” and “rise with him at
Easter”, in a manner of speaking.
The second kind of tree is the evergreen. The obvious conclusion, to pagans, is that the evergreen tree
lives in spite of the death of the sun, and transcends the normal cycle of life and death – and is, thus,
immortal. Thus, if we plant our bodies as a deciduous tree, we shall be raised an incorruptible tree
(1 Corinthians 15:52).
I cite these scriptures not to imply that the Bible teaches these things, but to show how easy it is to
pervert the meanings of scripture to support pagan theologies. The basic ideas here are not wrong – but
it becomes wrong to use any sort of representations of these symbols in worship (Romans 1:18-23).
“A seventh type of vitalistic symbol… demonstrates its Power by survival: notably
evergreen trees which persist through adverse winter conditions. The Egyptian cultic
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stylized tree, the “djed” column, is an explicit representation of this idea since “djed”
means ‘endurance.’ (Ackerman, Forgotten Religions)
“The phallus [which Isis couldn’t find] is replaced by the Djed pillar, symbol of eternal
generativity”, (Two Million Year Old Self, Stevens)
“Just as the Assyrian sacred tree is tended to by the apkallus [“wise men”… think about it]
and the king, in the Egyptian visual record, the djed pillar is shown erected by the king…
just as the Assyrian sacred tree is sometimes surmounted by the winged solar disk,
the djed pillar is sometimes surmounted by the Egyptian solar disk” (…Neo-Assyrian
relief sculpture, Mehmet Ali)
Below, you can see four trees under the solar symbol of the time; top left, Assyria 850 BC; lower left,
Egypt 1350 BC. Each of these festivals were celebrated at the end of the year, each displays a holy tree
of life representing the rebirth or resurrection of the god; and each of them are watched over by the
sun-god who literally rests on top of the tree, while worshipers care for and decorate the tree.
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Find one of these images that is different from the others! (Trick question).
“While the djed-column unquestionably was a very ancient symbol of Osiris… it may
originally have been a tree with the branches lopped off, and its ceremonial raising up
may have indicated his restoration from the grave as the culmination of the autumnal
festival.” (Ancient Gods, E.O. James)
“Inherent in the Osirian cultus, be it in the form of mortuary, vegetation or mystery rites
and festivals, was the death, burial, resurrection and triumph of the cultic hero. This was
most apparent in those performed in the month of Khoiak (December-January), in
which his interment and raising from the tomb were dramatically enacted and inscribed
on the walls of the temple of Denderah. But so numerous were the Osirian festivals that
they were celebrated throughout the seasons of the agricultural year at a great many
places… (Ibid.)
This resurrection festival was celebrated in the month of December. I connected this festival to Easter
in the last lesson, because it was indeed connected – Osiris’ festivals, like Tammuz’, were scattered
around the year, but almost always in connection with the death, burial, resurrection and triumph of the
sun-god at one of the solar seasons.
So to summarize – we have a tree being erected and worshiped in December or at the end of the year,
on the birthday of Osiris, the sun-god; on the day the sun is reborn after its brush with death. A tree
which symbolizes life, and which ALWAYS has to have a bright star on top.
A tree which is quintessential to observing Christmas and which is not mentioned in the Bible at all.
Well, that’s actually not true. It’s not mentioned around Christ’s birth. The Christmas tree IS mentioned
in another context; remember when God said not to worry about the signs of heaven, like the heathen
did? He went on to describe exactly what they did when they were dismayed by them! Jeremiah 10:3-
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You couldn’t describe a Christmas tree better than that! Nailed to the floor, decked with tinsel and
ornaments and specifically forbidden by God!
SUNMAS → CHRISTMAS
So how did this become a Christian holiday? By the same methods that Mary became queen of
heaven – association, patience, convenience, and ultimately, the fact that the people liked the holiday,
and the great whore was only too happy to compromise with them:
“In order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal adherents to
Christianity, the same festival [Saturnalia] was adopted by the roman church, giving it the
name of Christ. this tendency on the part of Christians to meet paganism half-way was
very early developed.” (Hislop, “Two Babylons”)
“Indeed, it is admitted by the most learned and candid writers of all parties that the day of
our Lord’s birth cannot be determined, and that within the Christian Church no such
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festival as Christmas was ever heard of till the third century, and that not till the
fourth century was far advanced did it gain much observance.” (Ibid.)
So Satan’s church brought this pagan festival into Christianity intact; only the names were changed;
instead of rebirth of the sun-god, it was for the birth of the Son-of-God; instead of the Roman
Saturnalia which was a gathering – a mass – to honor the sun’s rebirth, it became Christmas – the Mass
of Christ.
They took an actual event – the birth of Christ. Then quoted a few scriptures about it; and then just
applied those verses and names to a pagan festival. Satan always starts with the truth, but always ends
in paganism. God never commanded us to remember Jesus’ birth, and if He’d wanted us to, He’d
have at least told us when it was!
And yet when you ask the false church or a false minister for information about their pagan rituals,
such as Christmas, they turn to the Bible! Those few verses only record the birth of Jesus, with no
command to celebrate it, no instructions on how to observe it, no mention of three wise men, yule logs,
Christmas trees, exchanging gifts, reindeer, Santa Claus, the north pole, or even exactly when it was!
“The actual date of Jesus’ birth is unknown, but, in the fourth century AD, Pope Julius I
(337–352 AD) formalized that it should be celebrated on 25 December, around the same
time as the Saturnalia celebrations. Some have speculated that part of the reason why he
chose this date may have been because he was trying to create a Christian alternative to
Saturnalia.” (Wikipedia, “Saturnalia”)
A “Christian alternative” for an alternate Christianity – a false one. A Christian holiday that God did not
command, to celebrate an event God never told them to celebrate (Jesus’ birth), observed in a way God
specifically forbade (Christmas trees), and celebrated in the exact same way as the ancient pagan
festivals celebrated on the same day. Was this REALLY a Christian alternative?
“Another reason for the decision may have been because, in 274 AD, the Roman emperor
Aurelian had declared 25 December the birthdate of Sol Invictus and Julius I may have
thought that he could attract more converts to Christianity by allowing them to continue
to celebrate on the same day.” (Ibid.)
Sol Invictus, Latin for the unconquerable sun, was the personification of the sun, a rebranding of earlier
solar deities like Mithra and Shamash. He was extremely popular in the later Roman Empire,
particularly in the army.
At right, you see a Roman coin with
Sol Invictus on the cover. Far right,
see a typical modern representation of
the Baby Jesus… see something in
common? Are these REALLY
different symbols?
So by rebranding Sol yet again as
Jesus, both the heathen who loved the
holiday and the Christians who only
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served Jesus could be placated, reconciled, and made to serve the great whore in ignorance. And this is
the origin of Christmas.
Conservative Christians, distressed by the commercialized nature of the holiday in modern times, are
always crying “put Christ back in Christ-mas!” But it’s quite impossible to put Christ back in
Christmas, because Christ was never there in the first place!
WHY DOES IT MATTER?
There is a lot more that can be said on this subject; books have been written tracking the origin of every
pagan custom surrounding Christmas, so I won’t repeat it here because surprisingly, it’s not very
persuasive to today’s Christians.
The pagan origins of Christmas are no secret anymore. Practically every Christian is aware of this these
days – thousands of articles, TV specials, books, videos and websites are devoted to this quite
unarguable fact. And yet when you present these facts to Christians today, rather than recoil in horror,
they say “well, that may be true but TO ME it celebrates Christ!”, or “I know it’s pagan, but we do it
for the children!”
So let me ask you a hypothetical question. If an Aztec temple, red with blood from the virgins
sacrificed to the sun-god, were washed and a cross put on top, would that make it a Christian church? If
they killed the virgins in the exact same way, but offered them to Jesus instead of Huitzilopochtli,
would that make them followers of Christ?
Can you take a pagan ritual and change nothing but the name and make it Christian? Can you
cross out the name “Baal” and replace it with “Jehovah” to make a statue of Baal into a statue of the
true God? Can you take a holiday designed to celebrate the rebirth of the unconquerable sun, and
change only the name to make it a Christian holiday?
If you paint the red devil white, give him plastic surgery for the horns and the tail, dress him in a suit
and tie, and change his name to Jesus… isn’t he still the devil? If you change his human sacrifice into
merely symbolic human sacrifice, isn’t it still human sacrifice? If you change sun-god worship into
Son-of-God worship, aren’t you still worshiping the sun-god – just by another name?
What does Jesus say? Matthew 7:21-23. Does God accept pagan rituals, adapted to fit His religion?
Deuteronomy 12:29-32. Did God want them to take the best parts of the Egyptian religion and make it
their own? Leviticus 18:3. Did He want Christians to adapt the idols of the pagans into Christian
images? Numbers 33:52. Did He want pagan customs AND HOLIDAYS “Christianized” and used
in “His” honor? Jeremiah 10:2.
These are facts. This is what God thinks about pagan holidays, pagan idols, heathen beliefs, and false
gods. You can’t make a pagan belief Christian by renaming it! So to those who say that “yes, it was a
pagan holiday once, but WE keep it to honor Christ!”, I ask: is Satan’s religion, called by
Christian names, a Christian religion?
Isn’t Satan’s holiday, given the name of Christ or of Christian saints, still Satan’s holiday? No matter
what you call it, no matter how you repaint it, IT IS STILL PAGAN. Fun or not, is that REALLY
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what you want to teach your children to enjoy – the rebirth of pagan fertility and sun gods?
Matthew 18:6.
MODERN DIVINE MARRIAGE
In the pagan mysteries, symbols are often done in layers; there is the ultimate divine trinity family, such
as Anu-Ishtar-Enlil, and also a lower, celestial trinity mirroring them – Sin, Ishtar, Shamash (the moon,
Ishtar-as-the-planet-Venus, and the sun).
And every year in the appropriate season humans would bring the divine family to life again by acting
out the divine marriage, the death and suffering and resurrection of their saviors, often with mock
battles and celebrations showing the conquering of the forces of chaos, darkness, and evil.
So now knowing that this happened around the new year; knowing that it involved the marriage of a
human man to a divine “queen of heaven”, and knowing that their offspring would bring life to the
world, is it really hard to guess how Christians celebrate the divine marriage today?
If you’re a Christian, you’ve no doubt proudly displayed idols of this same human trinity every
Christmas. Because is the nativity scene really any different than the trinities displayed in heaven by
Catholics or in pagan art?
To be fair, the Babylonian new year was in the fall or spring (it changed over the years), and not in
mid-winter. But the idea of a festival of rebirth at the new year doesn’t need to be tied to specific dates.
Because dates don’t matter; what matters is the relative position of the festival in the year.
Whether you celebrate Osiris’ birthday at the 5th-to-last day of the Egyptian year in August, or
Tammuz’ rebirth at the end of the year in the Babylonian spring, or Jesus’ birth at the end of the modern
year in winter it’s the same new-year festival observed in the same way, and with the exact same idols!
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The manger scene is quite simply an idol honoring the birth of the life of the land, the union of the
queen of heaven and a commoner, always overseen by the sign of Babylon, Satan masquerading as the
“star of Bethlehem”, who is the true father of this baby!
Were you to show this picture to an ancient Babylonian or Egyptian, they would have recognized it as
their own religion, which they observed by the divine marriage on the same day of their year!!
Today the king of the city doesn’t sleep with the high priestess to celebrate the divine marriage – oh, no!
Today, parents put idols of the divine family in their front yard and have their children dress up as Mary
and Joseph and act out parts in Christmas pageants every year.
The Babylonians at least married off adults in their pageants; the modern Babylonians instead celebrate
the divine marriage by having their children play the parts of Tammuz and the queen of heaven as they
miraculously procreate and fertilize the land!
Today’s Christianity is not merely tainted with Babylon. It has taken their sin to an entirely new
level.
AWAY BEHIND A MANGER
But look at the broader implications of the manger scene. Here, we have a helpless Jesus, symbolic of
life being brought forth by the queen of heaven; we have a beautiful, glowing mother who loves her
people enough to bring them “the bread of heaven”, who will bring “life to the world”; and we have a
background, passive, almost bored father figure. Joseph is almost a nonentity in Christianity.
“In art, Joseph is typically portrayed as an older man, with grey hair and a beard, often
balding, sometimes appearing frail and a marginal figure next to Mary and Jesus, if
not entirely in the background.” (Catholic.org, “Saint Joseph”).
Isn’t this exactly how they portray God the Father? And how the Babylonians portrayed Anu, or the
Canaanites portrayed El? Joseph IS in fact a minor figure in the Bible, but then so is Mary – who is
central to false worship everywhere.
So the universal portrayal of the nativity of Jesus is has absolutely no basis in the Bible. Nothing about
this scene is true. The shepherds and the wise men were never in the same place at the same time, and
saw Jesus in different places (Luke 2:15-20, Matthew 2:1-11). The wise men met Jesus in a house, not
a barn (verse 11).
There is no reference to animals being present at either scene, that assumption being built on the stablevisit
theory. In fact, Jesus was not laid in a manger as we understand the term, but on a bench where the
animals were commonly tied or fed.
“The manger, the bench to which the horses’ heads were tied, on which their food could rest” (JFB
commentary). We picture Jesus’ birthplace as a European or American barn full of hay; in fact, it was
probably a mud-brick structure closer in design to a fort than to a wooden barn.
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THE WISE TRINITY
Finally, the Bible doesn’t say how many wise men there were, only there were three gifts. So why are
there ALWAYS three wise men in these portrayals? What mystery could the false Church be trying to
teach her faithful followers in these images proudly displayed on the lawns of every Protestant on Earth?
There were three gifts, and they do have real meaning. But their significance to the true Christian is
minuscule, yet central to false Christians – so what we’re interested in today is her interpretation of
these meanings. Her symbolism says they brought “gold, as to a king; myrrh, as to one who was mortal;
and incense, as to a God” (Origin, “Contra Celsum”, 248 AD).
Wikipedia adds “The three gifts had a spiritual meaning: gold as a symbol of kingship on earth,
frankincense (an incense) as a symbol of deity, and myrrh (an embalming oil) as a symbol of death.”
(Article “Biblical Magi”).
Again, seen at face value we have no reason to question these meanings. But knowing the pagan love
of overlapping layers of triads, and their forcing the three wise men into every nativity scene on Earth,
there must be a reason.
Thinking about these symbols as they understand them, we have the Kingship, the Divine, and the
(overcoming of) Death; or, the Earth, the Heavens, and the Afterlife; or, again, the Father Tammuz
(Earthly King), the Mother Ishtar (Queen of Heaven), and the Son, reborn Tammuz (Life), fertility of
the land!
This is not what the Bible meant by those three gifts brought by an unknown number of wise men; but
this IS why they love to have them in their symbols, because it means that the human layer of the
divine family was being blessed by the heavenly version of their divine family in the three wise
“men” – God the Father, God the Son, and God(dess) the Holy Spirit!
Maybe this is just my imagination. This could be what Babylon really meant, or perhaps I’m just really
good at making up stories. Either way, it doesn’t really matter, because even if I’m completely wrong
about what they mean by their stories, what isn’t wrong is that nothing in the manger scene is true!
And what that means is that if you’ve ever had a nativity scene, you’re no better than the ancient
Babylonians who celebrated in orgiastic glee as their king mated with the queen of heaven to give birth
to Life!
And if you keep a nativity scene after knowing this, you might as well worship the gods of Egypt; for
are these pictures really that different?
Notice how the central character is usually elevated on a pedestal? What are the odds that happens by
accident in Cambodia, Egypt, and Catholic Europe? And in India, England, and Spain? Always with a
halo or other sun-symbol watching over, to show the true power behind the trinity?
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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
Initially, the son of the beast, Rome, tried to exterminate Christianity, even as his sister the whore was
infiltrating it. And by the fourth century, it’s obvious that she was winning. By the fourth century,
Christians were rapidly becoming a significant percentage of the population, and this created a problem
for the civil rulers of the beast.
Rome had always survived and spread precisely because they were willing to welcome any new
religion into the fold – and most religions were fine with that. But Christianity had a stubborn streak
and refused to acknowledge any other gods, and that had Christians and pagans at war with each other.
The world sees this as a fight of good versus evil, but by this time Christianity was so full of deceptions
that it was mostly the son and daughter of the beast struggling against each other, as siblings often do,
and this unrest threatened to destroy Constantine’s empire.
It was Constantine’s worship of Sol Invictus that led him to see the cross in the sun, and he realized that
Jesus and the sun-god could be reconciled and, in so doing, heal the civil crisis in the Roman Empire.
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The various edicts that Constantine oversaw were all performed with a single purpose – to openly
incorporate sun-worship into Christianity.
Under Constantine, the sun-cross of Babylon received official recognition. The keeping of Easter was
officially moved to Sunday to coincide with the resurrection of the various sun-gods. The Sabbath of
rest was replaced with a Sunday to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection weekly on the day of the Sun. Sabbathkeeping
was made illegal. The doctrine of Antichrist you learned in Lesson 2-5 was officially declared
dogma.
The year Constantine died, the Pope was consecrated who would officially, and consciously, choose
December 25th as the official date of Christmas to appease the worshipers of sun-gods from Babylon to
Egypt to Carthage to England.
There really is nothing left that is Christian in today’s Christianity except the name. The devil did, after
all, deceive the whole world – all but the very elect (Revelation 12:9, Matthew 24:24). He usually did
this incredibly slowly, but the life of Constantine made him confident, and he took some gambles and
moved very quickly – it was a risk, but it clearly paid off.
And in some ways, Christmas is one of the greatest gambles the false church ever made. Few false
doctrines have so little support in scripture, and few theories can be so easily disproved – to the point
that even today’s false Christians admit Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th!
And yet… the whole world keeps it anyway. Knowing it originally honors the sun-god, they think
because they say “well, that’s not why *I* keep it!” that it suddenly makes it Christian. Can you bring
something holy out of something unholy? Can that which is pagan be made Christian? Haggai 2:11-14.
How does God feel about you keeping holidays that He doesn’t command? Malachi 2:3, Isaiah 1:14-
16. Yes, these were specifically talking about OT Israel and their festivals, but surely you can see this
applies to Christmas and Easter just as well!
There is not a single command to keep this holiday… but He did specifically command us, “learn NOT
the way of the heathen” – using Christmas as a SPECIFIC case-in-point (Jeremiah 10:1-5) – and
NOT to go to the pagans and copy their religious practices and call them Christian! The scripture that,
had you thought about it, could have replaced this lesson, is…
2 Corinthians 6:14-17 (GWV) …Can right and wrong be partners? Can light have anything in
common with darkness? Can Christ agree with the devil? Can a believer share life with an
unbeliever? Can God’s temple contain false gods? …The Lord says, “Get away from unbelievers.
Separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with anything unclean. Then I will welcome you.”
Is Paul talking about having business, working, or even friendly relationships with sinners?
1 Corinthians 5:10. Who then is he talking about? Verse 11.
A believer cannot share life with an unbeliever. God’s temple cannot contain false gods. Christ cannot
agree with the devil – and yet there is not a religion on the planet where they don’t try to make
Him do just that.
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Deuteronomy 12:30-32 (Douay) Beware lest thou imitate them… LEST THOU SEEK AFTER THEIR
CEREMONIES, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship. THOU
SHALT NOT DO IN LIKE MANNER TO THE LORD THY GOD… What I command thee, THAT ONLY
DO thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.
God specifically commanded you not to incorporate pagan rituals and heathen symbols into your
worship of Him! How much clearer could He say it! DO NOT COPY BABYLONIAN RITUALS
INTO CHRISTIANITY!
And yet that’s exactly what all large Christian churches today have done, as you have seen for yourself
through these last dozen lessons! There is hardly a single belief, and certainly not a single ritual or idol,
that cannot be directly traced back to the church of the king and queen of heaven at Babel!
And you can’t change that – but you can rebel against the rebels, and use these facts to show your
former brethren who they truly serve – and why you won’t serve Satan with them any more.