Christmas?

Christmas is a holiday shared and celebrated by many religions. It is a day that has an effect on the entire world. To many people, it is a favorite time of the year involving gift giving, parties and feasting. Christmas is a holiday that unifies almost all of professed believers. The spirit of Christmas causes people to decorate their homes and churches, cut down trees and bring them into their homes, decking them with silver and gold. In the light of that tree, families make merry and give gifts one to another.

When the sun goes down on December 24th, and darkness covers the land, families and churches prepare for participation in customs such as burning the Yule log, singing around the decorated tree, kissing under the mistletoe and holly, and attending a late night service or midnight mass.

What is the meaning of Christmas? Where did the customs and traditions originate? You, as a believer, would want to worship the Almighty in Spirit and in truth, discerning good from evil.

The truth is that all of the customs of Christmas pre-date the birth of Messiah, and a study of this would reveal that Christmas in our day is a collection of traditions and practices taken from many cultures and nations.

The date of December 25th comes from Rome and was a celebration of the Italic god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god. This was done long before the birth of Messiah. It was noted by the pre-“Christian” Romans and other pagans, that daylight began to increase after December 22nd, when they assumed that the sun god died. These ancients believed that the sun god rose from the dead three days later as the new-born and venerable sun. Thus, they figured that to be the reason for increasing daylight. This was a cause for much wild excitement and celebration. Gift giving and merriment filled the temples of ancient Rome , as sacred priests of Saturn, called endrophori, carried wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession.

In Germany , the evergreen tree was used in worship and celebration of the yule god, also in observance of the resurrected sun god. The evergreen tree was a symbol of the essence of life and was regarded as a phallic symbol in fertility worship.

Witches and other pagans regarded the red holly as a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, also known as Diana. The holly wood was used by witches to make wands. The white berries of mistletoe were believed by pagans to represent droplets of the semen of the sun god. Both holly and mistletoe were hung in doorways of temples and homes to invoke powers of fertility in those who stood beneath and kissed, causing the spirits of the god and goddess to enter them. These customs transcended the borders of Rome and Germany to the far reaches of the known world.

The question now arises: How did all of these customs find their way into the contemporary body of believers, ranging from Catholicism to Protestantism to fundamentalist churches?

The word “Christmas” itself reveals who married paganism to the assembly of believers. The word “Christmas” is a combination of the words “Christ” and “Mass”. The word “Mass” means to depart or death and was coined originally by the Roman Catholic Church, and belongs exclusively to the Church of Rome. The ritual of the Mass involves the death of “Christ”, and the distribution of the “Host”, a word taken from the Latin word “hostiall” meaning victim! In short, Christmas is strictly a Roman Catholic word.

Interestingly, our Savior was never called Christ in His native language. He was called Mashiach (Messiah) which means Anointed One. Christos, which means “anointed” in Greek, is the name of a pagan deity. The first letter of Christos is the chi (X): cristz . The word “Christmas” literally means “anointed-depart” and is seen abbreviated in “X-mas”. The “X” which stands for Christos, is also the representation of the cross of Tammuz. (You’ve heard of hot cross buns? There was an “X” on the top of them. These were baked for this pagan deity.)

A simple study of the tactics of the Romish Church reveals that in every case, the church absorbed the customs, traditions and general paganism of every tribe, culture and nation in their efforts to increase the number of people under their control. In short, the Romish church told all of these pagan cultures, “Bring your gods, goddesses, rituals and rites, and we will assign righteous sounding titles and names to them.”

When Martin Luther started the reformation on October 31st, 1517 , and other reformers followed his lead, all of them took with them the paganism that was so firmly embedded in Rome. These reformers left Christmas intact.

In England, as the authorized Scriptures became available to the common people by the decree of King James the II in 1611, people began to discover the pagan roots of Christmas, which are clearly revealed in Scripture. The Puritans in England , and later in the Massachusetts Colony, outlawed this holiday as witchcraft (few realize it was once illegal to celebrate christmas in America).

Near the end of the nineteenth century, when other Scripture versions began to appear, there was a revival of the celebration of Christmas. We are now seeing ever-increasing celebrating of Christmas or Yule, its true name, as we draw closer to the second coming of our King! Yule-tide is the name of the December 25 th witches sabbat!

In either witchcraft circles or contemporary assemblies of believers, the same things are going on.

Scripture clearly states…

•Jeremiah 10:2-4
 Thus saith YHWH, Learn not the way of the heathen,
and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;
for the heathen are dismayed at them.
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.

What is wrong with Christmas?

1. To say Messiah was born on December 25th is a lie! The righteous neither recorded nor celebrated birthdays. However, December 25 is the birthday of the Babylonian god, Tammuz, one the first “anti-Messiahs.” Tammuz was the “immaculately conceived” son of Semiramus, the self-proclaimed Queen of Heaven. After Nimrod died, his wife, Semiramis, fooled around and found herself with child. Not willing to face having a child out of wedlock (or was it something more sinister) she devised a plan where Nimrod, who upon death was said to have ascended to the sun, becoming the sun god. It was he who had impregnated her with the rays of the sun. The resulting child, Tammuz, was later gored to death by a wild boar (how poetic), and was said to have been resurrected three days later. His symbol after this alleged event was the evergreen, symbolic of everlasting life.

2. The ritual/ceremonial use of trees, wreaths, holly, mistletoe and the like are strictly forbidden as pagan and heathen! To say that these are just symbols or that they can be made pure or sanitized is a lie! They are symbols alright; symbols of paganism that has crept into the ranks of believers.

3. The Son of man never spoke of commemorating His birth but rather commanded us to remember the sacrifice of His suffering and death, which purchased our salvation. Messiah called this memorial Passover. If believers are going to be persecuted or disfellowshipped for keeping the Feasts that YHWH sanctioned in Scripture, then the first to be written off the books should be those who honor and observe the festivals of Satan.

Think about it! How will you answer in judgment when faced with “learn not the way of the heathen”? Can we worship and honor YHWH by involving ourselves with customs and traditions which He has forbidden as idolatry? Can we convince the Mighty One of Israel to somehow “sanitize” these customs and the whole pretense and lie of Christmas so we can enjoy ourselves? Can we obey through disobedience?

So what is right about Christmas? Nothing!

•1 Corinthians 10:21
Ye cannot drink the cup of YHWH, and the cup of devils:
ye cannot be partakers of YHWH’s table, and of the table of devils.

The True Meaning of Christ-Mass

They tell us that it is the season to be jolly.  It is a time of ornaments, red and green decorations, silver bells, holly, mistletoe and colored lights.  It is also a time of department store Santa’s calling out their universal mantra, “Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas.”  Nearly all of the realm of so-called “Christianity” join in and repeat this same greeting, “Merry Christmas!”

Although we hear these words constantly as they resonate millions of times throughout the land, almost nobody understands what they are really saying.  It is the purpose of this tract to take the words, “Merry Christmas” and examine the true meaning and essence of those words.

A true believer would want to examine everything they say, because Messiah said in Matthew 12:36-37, “But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.  For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”  We will now set aside all of the customs, glitter and traditions of Christmas, which were taken from pagan witchcraft and popularized by the Roman Catholic Church, and we will focus on the true meaning of the words, “Merry Christmas!”

The word “Merry” is simple to define.  It unquestionably means to be happy, joyful and light-hearted.  The word “merry” fits into the ambiance of laughter and frivolity.  This word “merry” by itself is innocent and innocuous enough, but as we will now see, it becomes heinously blasphemous when used with the word “Christmas.”

Here let it be noted that most people think that the word, “Christmas” means “the birth of Christ.”  By definition, it means “death of Christ”, and I will prove it by using the World Book Encyclopedia, the Catholic Encyclopedia, and a book entitled, The Mass in Slow Motion.

If you are an honest, sincere and discerning believer, please read on; if not, you might as well stop right here.  The World Book Encyclopedia defines “Christmas” as follows:  “The word Christmas comes from ‘Cristes Maesse’, an early English phrase that means “Mass of Christ.” It is interesting to note that the word “Mass”, as used by the Roman Catholics, has traditionally been rejected by the so-called Protestants, such as Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, and so on.  The word “Mass” is strictly a Catholic word and thus, so is “Christ-Mass.”

It would stand to reason, that since all of these denominations love and embrace “Christ-Mass”, that December 25th is the great homecoming day, when all of the Protestants become Catholic for a day.  It would seem that all of the so-called “wayward daughters” of the Romish church return to their mother, the scarlet harlot.  Thus, all of the so-called Protestant churches could sing to the Pope that popular song “I’ll be home for Christmas.”

As previously stated, the word “Mass” in religious usage means a “death sacrifice.”  The impact of this fact is horrifying and shocking; for when the millions of people are saying, “Merry Christmas”, they are literally saying “Merry death of Christ!”  Furthermore, when the fat man in the red suit laughs boisterously and says, “Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas”, he is mocking and laughing at the suffering and bleeding Saviour, who died for our sins.  He does this while parents place their little children into his waiting arms to hear his false promises of gifts that he says he will give them.  Consider what you are saying when you say “Merry Christmas.”

What is so amusing about our Saviour’s painful death?  What is so funny?  Why is Santa laughing?  Why are you going along with it?  Your words do count and Satan knows it.  Yes, the word “Mass” does mean “death sacrifice”, and to cement that fact, we will consider the definition of the inventors of the religious application of the word “ Mass”.  I am looking at page 537 of the Catholic Encyclopedia, which says, “In the Christian law, the supreme sacrifice is that of the Mass. ”  It goes on to say, “The supreme act of worship consists essentially in an offering of a worthy victim to God (H1408 a Babylonian deity of fortune), the offering made by a proper person, as a priest, the destruction of the victim.”

Please note carefully the word, “victim” of the Mass.   The Latin word for victim is “Hostia” from which the word “host” is derived.  The Mass, by definition of those who coined the word, is a sacrifice involving a victim.  There is no other meaning for the word “Mass” or “Christ-Mass.”  On page 110 of a book entitled The Mass in Slow Motion, we find the following words: “It is only with the consecration that the sacrifice of the Mass is achieved.  I have represented the Mass to you, more than once, as a kind of ritual dance.”

In essence, the Mass is the ceremonial slaying of Messiah over and over again, followed by the eating of His flesh and the drinking of His blood.  The Mass is the death sacrifice, and the “Host” is the victim.  This is official Roman Catholic doctrine, and “Christmas” is a word that they invented.  Again, I ask, what is so merry about the pain, bleeding, suffering and death of our Savior? Satan has done quite a job of getting millions of so-called “Christians” to blaspheme.  What a deceiver he is.

Now you know the true meaning of the word “Christmas” or Mass of Christ.  For the sake of your soul and those of your family, flee from idolatry!

-Information copied from Last Trumpet Ministries International.

Halloween

October 31st is a day of ghosts, witches, goblins, and grotesque creatures. It is also a day of orange and black, of candles and jack-o-lanterns. Costume parties and strange customs occupy the minds of western civilization, and all of this seems to be intensifying every year. Children are wearing every kind of costume imaginable, and some unimaginable. In recent years, many people have been decorating their yards as cemeteries and making their houses look spooky. Even churches have Halloween parties and set up “haunted houses” as fund raising projects. Most people would say it is all harmless fun. Some would venture to say, “If there is any witchcraft in it, it is white witchcraft.” In order to truly respond to these things we must go clear back to the origin of it all.

Halloween has its origin in the British Isles about 1300 years ago. In those days, there were many who practiced a so-called “nature religion” known as Wicca, which means “wise ones.” The word “witch” is derived from “Wicca.” The witches worked their spells and magic as individuals or sometimes in groups of 13 known as Covens. Sometimes the witches and wizards worked as a triumvirate or power of three. The female Wiccan was known as a witch, and the male Wiccan was known as a wizard. The word “warlock” was only used by Satanists.

Witchcraft is very real but greatly misunderstood. I know because witchcraft goes back on the paternal side of my family for over five generations to Chesterfield , Massachusetts in 1770. My great grandmother became a well-known witch in Wisconsin in the early days of this century. Caroline was a blind witch and used her fingers to read palms and also became adept at putting “the hex” on people.

Many spooky things would happen in our family. Dishes would slide off from shelves, light bulbs would unscrew and fall to the floor, filmy apparitions would appear and vanish, and this sort of thing became a way of life. In one instance, my father was riding with my grandfather in a horse-drawn wagon, when a filmy white apparition appeared in front of the horse, causing the horse to rear up on its hind legs. My father also watched in stunned amazement when, on another occasion, an unhitched wagon loaded with hay went up a steep hill by itself.

By the time I was 19, I had reached my first goal. I was a powerful witch. Then, very suddenly, the realization hit me that I was making predictions without looking at my charts. I would blurt out predictions in minute detail, and they would come to pass. I became frightfully aware that I had become a sending station and was dispatching spirits to make my predictions come true. I predicted accidents and tragedies, and suddenly I became filled with overwhelming fear.

I did not know it at the time, but a dear old woman had been praying for me every day for a long time. She had known my grandparents, and God used her to pray me out of darkness. I was completely disabled by fear, which God, in His mercy, allowed to come upon me. A friend that I knew in high school persuaded me to come to church with him. It was a small apostolic church. I soon found myself on my knees repenting, as I had now found a power far greater than all witchcraft. One week later I was baptized. I felt fifty pounds lighter, as many evil spirits fled from me as I yielded myself completely to my newfound friend and Savior. Now I have no fear for I am a true minister of the Gospel. And believe me; I know what I am talking about.

The Wiccans were worshipers of the “Earth Mother”, the sun, the moon, and stars and meet every Friday night at a gathering called an “esbat.” They draw a magic circle with a six-pointed star in it called a “hexagram”, from which we get the word “hex.” The coven of 13 stand “sky clad” (naked) in the hexagram and work spells by chanting and doing rituals such as “drawing down the moon.” The full moon is sacred to witches, especially if it is on a Friday. It is considered to be even greater if the Friday is the 13th day of the month.

Eight times each year, the witches celebrated a sabbat and the ritual work and spell casting was always done on the eve of the sabbat. The sabbats are Imbolc (or Imbolg) on February 2nd, the spring equinox on March 22nd, Beltaine on May 1st, the summer solstice on June 22nd, Lugnahsaid on July 31st, the fall equinox on September 22nd, Samhain on October 31st, and the winter solstice on December 22nd, which is also known as Yule.

I also learned that the Roman Catholic Church copied and re-named all of the eight sabbats. Not only had Samhain become Halloween, but the Winter Solstice became Christmas, Imbolg became Candlemass, Beltaine became May Day, and Lughnasadh became Lammas. And the vernal equinox was celebrated as Easter, which is always the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox.

Raised with the occult, Halloween was my special time, when I felt drawn to become like my great grandmother. I wasn’t interested in the silliness of the Catholic Halloween. I wanted real magic. The so-called “Christians” were cursing themselves and their children by copying the craft that their tenets forbade. I knew full well that so-called Christians were copying what my spiritual ancestors had done for many centuries.

Witches have special ways of celebrating for each sabbat, and even though they do not believe in Satan, it is Satan who gives them the experiences they have and deceives them into thinking it is the forces of nature they are tapping into. Halloween is the most important of the eight sabbats in witchcraft and is known to the witches by the Scotch-Gaelic word “Samhain”, which is pronounced “SOW-EEN.” It is believed that on that night, the barrier between this world and the next, known as the astral plane, becomes very thin. The witches believe that this allows spirits of departed ones to travel freely back and forth between the earth and the spirit realm. Thus, Halloween is the highest day in Wiccan witchcraft. On this night for many centuries, witches would work their magic and then have wild parties all through the hours of darkness. They would play games, such as bobbing for apples, because witches regard the apple as sacred, because when cut in half cross-wise, the core would reveal the Pentacle or five pointed star. The five points of this star represented Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Spirit. The witches would also tell “ghost” stories from their personal diaries of spells known as their “book of shadows.”

In those early days in England , there was another kind of witchcraft known as Druidism. The Druids were called “men of the oaks” and were a strange clan of men who dressed in white robes. The Druids worshiped the “horned hunter of the night.” Halloween was sacred to the Druids because their sun-god receded to the underworld on October 31st, which is why darkness increased and light decreased according to their reckoning.

As darkness set in on October 31st, the clan of Druids would put on their white robes and hoods. They would carry sickles and Celtic crosses as they began a torchlight procession. At the beginning of the procession, a male slave was killed and dragged by a rope fastened to his left ankle. The Druids would walk until they came to a house or a village where they shouted the equivalent of “trick or treat.” The treat was a slave girl or any female to be given to the Druids. If the people refused to give a girl as a “treat”, blood was taken from the dead slave and used to draw a hexagram or six-pointed star on the door or wall of the village. Spirits of the “horned hunter of the night” were invoked by the Druids to kill someone in that house or village by fear that night.

If the house or village gave a girl as a “treat”, the Druids put a pumpkin with a face carved in it in front of the door or gate of that place. Inside the pumpkin was a candle made of human tallow to keep evil spirits away. Thus, the Jack-O-Lantern was and is a sign that you have cooperated with Satan. The treats or female victims were taken to Stonehenge where they were raped and killed and then sacrificed on the sacred bonefire until only glowing embers were left. The “bonefire” is the origin of the modern day bonfire. As a matter of luck for winter survival, all villagers were expected to use the glowing embers of the bonefire to light their hearths.

Clearly, Halloween is not harmless. Satan has people in our modern era mimicking the witches and Druids of old. All of this is cursed by the Almighty. We live in a time when witchcraft is being revived. Movies are filled with witchcraft and numerous television programs such as “Charmed” are teaching witchcraft to millions. The Harry Potter books are likewise furthering the cause of Satan! Halloween is no joke and is not harmless fun! This evil holiday has no part in the life of a believer. The Roman Catholic Church borrowed Halloween from the witches, which shows how blind they are. May the Mighty One of heaven help you to avoid Halloween and warn others that it is strictly the invention of Satan and can never be anything but evil of the highest magnitude!

Information by:
Pastor David J. Meyer, (A former astrologer and occultist)

Related Verses:
Lev 19:26, 19:31, 20:6, 20:27, Deut 18:9-12, Gal 5:19-21, Rev 21:8

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Facts about Halloween

Vain Customs

•Jeremiah 10:1-6
Hear ye the word which YHWH speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith YHWH, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 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, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O YHWH; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Origins of Christmas

Christmas

Many are confused this time of year due to be raised on traditions.  But they should realize some truth about those traditions. Christmas is not a holiday about Christ, but a Pagan holiday brought over to convert Pagans to Christianity.

The bible is very clear that we are not to bring over traditions from others. For they are not things for us. Remember, we were brought out to get away from such practices.

•2Thessalonians 3:
Now we command you, brethren,
in the name of our Master Yahushua the Messiah,
that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly,
and not after the tradition which he received of us.

•Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men,
after the rudiments of the world,
and not after the Messiah.

It is also clear about the so called Christmas tree that so many like to decorate and set up.

•Jeremiah 10:2-4
Thus saith YHWH,
Learn not the way of the heathen,
and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;
for the heathen are dismayed at them.
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.

Halloween