This is a simple but blunt story. It is the story which originated in Nimrod's Babel, and it has come down through the ages to be the Christmass story of today. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the birth of the historic Lord Jesus Christ.
Thus, the Christmas story:
Ezekiel 8:1 And
it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the
month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the
hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness
as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire;
and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour
of amber.
BLASPHEMY ONE:
There were two images. One was Jehovah, and He was getting ready to leave Israel. He was already at the North Gate. How sad. Is He not also ready to leave Christendom today? I am sure there is a contextual connection with Babylon in this first blasphemy, but I have not figured out the exact one. Can you help in this? Is this Mulloch?
Ezekiel 8:3 And he put forth
the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted
me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to
Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where
was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
4 And,
behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that
I saw in the plain.
5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine
eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the
north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in
the entry.
6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they
do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that
I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt
see greater abominations.
BLASPHEMY TWO:
Cabbalist Jewish paganism is born. This is the account has been likened to the lodge of Freemasonry.
Ezekiel
8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole
in the wall.
8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and
when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
9 And he said unto me,
Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
10 So I
went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts,
and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house
of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every
man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house
of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say,
the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
BLASPHEMY THREE:
Women weeping for Tammuz. At the summer solstice the ancient Babel and Sumerian pagans would weep for Gilgamesh or Nimrod, whom they believed died as the days grew shorter. They believed that Gilgamesh, Nimrod, Marduk, Horus, and in Israel, Tammuz had gone to hell for six months because of the jealousy of Ishtar. Each nation had its mother and child, goddess and son, cult, and the names changed, but the cultic story never changed. This pagan cult had survived for thousands of years, and here, in Israel, the Jewish women had adopted the cult.
Ezekiel 8:13 He said
also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that
they do.
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.
BLASPHEMY FOUR:
They celebrated the birth of the baby god to the goddess. At the winter
solstice the men and priests of Babylon would stand on their temple porches and
watch the morning sun come up. They would do this for a couple of days to
be sure, then they would report to the people that the sun had indeed stayed up
longer. Thus, on December 25th, as early as 1500 BC, we have epigraphic
evidence that the Babylonians would shout, "rejoice, the goddess has given birth
to a son." They would then run down to the local temple. They would
get the baby god in residence, parade it through the streets, and shout for
joy. They would also light candles and put them in their windows, and they
would give gifts to one another. Below, the priests of Israel had adopted the
Babylonian cult, and 25 of them were standing WITH THEIR BACKS TO THE ALTAR OF
GOD celebrating the return and rebirth of the sun god. 25 men! Five
is the number of death in the Bible. So, they chose 5 times 5. Death
magnified in the face of Jehovah.
15 Then said he
unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt
see greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner
court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD,
between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs
toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped
the sun toward the east.
Graphic:
Idol excavated in Sumerian digs--
This is Ishtar and the baby god Marduk.
BLASPHEMY FIVE:
They put the branch to the nose. This was the use of Mistletoe or some similar Celtic-style cultic weed as a good luck charm. It is used at Christmass today to give men and women an opportunity to commit adultery and kiss those to whom they are not married. Also, we note the violence in the land-- Not unfamiliar to those who try to drive about the city on December 23-24. This year, Tucson, Arizona had so many accidents on December 23 that the local hospitals started falling behind in handling the victims of Marduk or Tammuz revelry.
17 Then
he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the
house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they
have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger:
and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
18 Therefore will I also deal
in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry
in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
END THOUGHTS
In Greece, just a century or so before the birth of Christ, Core gave birth to a son in the same Christmass model as Tammuz and Marduk who were born to Ishtar in Babylon. Then the cult progressed to Rome, where Lato gave birth to a son. Many years later, the Holy Roman Empire under Constantine, was thrashing about with their new church system. They were having quite a time "converting" the local pagans. They concluded that they needed church Holy Days (Holidays) which would follow by one day those of the pagans. Thus, the pagans would come to town to celebrate the pagan festivals, and they could be convinced easily to stay over for the Holy Day of such and such. It worked, and the church treasury also came into the black for a change.
At the winter solstice, the Holy Roman Church simply did a "bait and switch" on the pagans. They took Greek Core and Roman Lato away from them, and they gave the pagans a new goddess and son-- Mary and Jesus. Thus, the very first Christmas in which Mary and Jesus were involved is clearly a pagan mixture. The Mary and Jesus of the Holy Roman Church were counterfeits from Sumer and Babylon who happen to have the same names as two Bible characters whom we dearly love.
If
you celebrate Christmass, you are memorializing the single oldest and most pagan
event in the occult and pagan traditions since the Tower of Babel. The lights,
yule log, gifts, mistletoe, and manger scene all have pagan roots of the worst
sort. And, Santa (Satan) Clause is Old Nick-- Nick is the devil in
old Anglia.
There is absolutely NO way Jehovah God would have allowed the Lord Jesus to be born on December 25th. Furthermore; the early Church paid NO attention to the birth of Christ, The first ones to do so were Constantine and his whorish wimpy money grubbers. The Donatists, Winklers, Stablers, Cathari, Albergensians, Anabaptists, and Puritans had zero tolerance for Christmas. The Puritans would have dunked you in the pond and put you in stocks if they caught you doing ANYTHING on Christmas.
Check it out in Ezekiel. In the beginning of Chapter 8 above, Jehovah has vacated the temple and is standing at the north of the city ready to leave. Later in Ezekiel, He did just that. I am convinced that this same Jehovah is outside the churches of Christendom today and ready to leave. The Laodicean church is spewed. And, if you are Fundamental Baptist, King James 1611 only, and you are still exalting the goddess cult at Christmass, get ready-- the Holy Spirit is not going to hang around your church simply because you cling to the KJV. Your actions make your zeal for the Word null and void. The KJV is not a fetish which charms God into going along with your sloppy agape scumball religion.
Those who insist on performing pagan acts of Christ-mass are sinning.
SO THERE....
I have over 300 bibliographical entries from which I took 4000 pages of material on the era mentioned above (circa 3500 BC to 300 AD). Of the 300 authors, all are relating to ancient history and epigraphical material, and only about 10 authors are Christians. There are many entries relating to the subject I just discussed, and they are well indexed. I can provide some of these to any serious party. I know I am right, I am a bigot about it. No rational historian would debate me-- HE WOULD BACK ME UP 100%, even if he were an agnostic or atheist. I can assure you, you have NO LEG to stand on regarding Christmass-- NONE, ZIP, ZERO, NAUGHT!
Literature on Christmas:
Daryl Coates has written a work on Christmass
called, The Ten Commandments of Christmas.
You
can get it by writing to
Blessed Hope Baptist Church
PO Box 1172
Natchitoches, LA 71458-1172
WHERE
DID WE GET THE RED AND GREEN
COLORS AT XMASS?
Look what God says is RED and GREEN!
Leviticus
14:33-39; Deuteronomy 12:2; I Kings 14:23; Psalm 37:35;
Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah
3:6; Psalm 75:8; Isaiah 1:18; Revelation (Apocalypse) 6:4