Unholy Holidays

Proverbs 18:13

“He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.”

The Barna Group had an interesting observation. “The problem facing the Christian Church is not that people lack a complete set of beliefs; the problem is that they have a full slate of beliefs in mind, which they think are consistent with biblical teachings, and they are neither open to being proven wrong nor to learning new insights. It may well be that spiritual evaluation is so uncommon because people fear that the results might suggest the need for different growth strategies or for more aggressive engagement in the growth process. No matter what the underlying reason is, the bottom line among both the clergy and laity was indifference toward their acknowledged lack of evaluation.”

We know that God does not change, but many act like he does. If he hated something in the old testament He will hate the same thing in the new. Why? Because He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

“Thus saith the Lord God; are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? For when ye offer your gifts … ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, shall I be inquired of by you? … pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.? (Ezekiel 20:30,31,39) “For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?” (II Corinthians 6:14-16)

Here we see God condemning the practice of pagan rituals with worshiping Him. God tells us in his word to have nothing to do with pagan stuff. He tells us that He does not want us to learn how pagans worship their god’s and then worship Him the way that the pagans do.

Jeremiah 10:1-5

10 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

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.

3 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.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

5 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.

Here God is very clearly talking about a Christmas tree. Many believe that Christmas trees come from the Christians, but the truth of the matter is they come from Babylon thousands of years before Christmas was ever celebrated as Christ birthday.

Here you see Dagon the fish god worshiping around there Christmas tree. The pagans would decorate the fir tree to worship their sun god. They would decorate it with 12 candles to honor their god Tammuz.

Here is another picture of Babylonians worshiping a Pine Tree.

As we can see the Christmas tree goes all the way back to the Babylonian worship of Tammuz.

“An old Babylonish fable told of an evergreen tree which sprang out of a dead tree stump. The old stump symbolized the dead Nimrod, the new evergreen tree symbolized that Nimrod had come to life again in Tammuz! Among the Druids the oak was sacred, among the Egyptians it was the palm, and in Rome it was the fir, which was decorated with red berries during the Saturnalia!” (Walsh, Curiosities of Popular Customs, p. 242).

"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." (Ephesians 5:8-11)

The Encyclopedia Americana states, “The holly, the mistletoe, the Yule log…are relics of pre-Christian time.”

The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1946 edition, states, “Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church…Certain Latins, as early as 354, may have transferred the birthday from January 6th to December 25, which was then a Mithraic feast…or birthday of the unconquered SUN…The Syrians and Armenians, who clung to January 6th, accused the Romans of sun worship and idolatry, contending…that the feast of December 25th, had been invented by disciples of Cerinthus…”

It is not a secret to many of the American pastors of Christmas deep occult roots. They simply don’t care and state that God does not care either. But if God’s word is true then men must be liars.

What about Saint Nick. Where did he come from? Well if we look around the world, we will see that he is the farthest thing from any thing Christian.

Gods of the New Age include Sanatan and Sanatsiyata, . . . New Agers say each name is 'concealed anagrammatically' 'and are aliases,' and are 'an anagram used for Occult purposes. Is Santa, the great usurper of Christ's attention at Christmas, an anagram? "Ole Nick" is listed among the fallen angels or devils in the Dictionary of Fallen Angels. Scholars concur that Christ was born in the fall on the 4th day of the feast of tabernacles. December 25 is actually "the feast in honor of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven, later called Saturnaha by the heathen Romans. (Gail Riplinger, New Age Versions, p. 52)

Old Nick: A well-known British name of the Devil. It seems probable that this name is derived from the Dutch Nikken, the devil...(Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, p.650)

Nick, the devil. (Walter W. Sleay, Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, p. 304)

Devil: Besides the name Satan, he is also called Beelzebub, Lucifer . . . and in popular or rustic speech by many familiar terms as Old Nick . . . (Oxford English Dictionary Vol III D-E)

Kriss Kringle A US name for Santa Claus derived from the German Christkindl (little Christ child).

(Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Phrase and Fable, p. 334)

Santa Claus, before he became santa, he was known to the Scandinavians as Odin, who was the god of intoxicating dring and ecstasy, as well as the god of death. Odin was the god of magic and occult knowledge. His name means “the inspired one”. He traveled around the world on a white horse that had eight legs. Now it is eight reindeer. Eight is the number of transportation.

In Holland around the 1500’s Santa was known as Sinterklaas. He looked just like our Santa does today. He had a white beard and red cloak. He would fly from roof to roof with his Black Jacks (Krampus) and leave gifts under his sacred fir tree. He would visit people on His birthday, and you would get a gift if you were good or if you where bad you would be beaten by his black jacks.

In the 1700’s the Sinter Claus  legend made its way to North America, where it was changed into Santa Claus.

In the 1930’s the Coca-Cola Company used Santa to market their drinks. They gave him a jolly look, some elves and reindeer.

Many think that Saint Nicholas really existed. But according to the Second Vatican Council in 1970’s they stated that no Catholic by the name of Saint Nicholas ever existed! They later confessed that Saint Nicholas had no Christian origin at all and that it probably came from pagan traditions!

Let us not forget Santas Elves, or should we say Krampus. The Krampus would punish bad children with switches and rusty chains before dragging them in baskets to hell bellow.

The Krampus have evolved into Santas little Elves.

“According to legend, Krampus accompanies St. Nicholas during the Christmas season, warning and punishing bad children, in contrast St. Nicholas, who gives gifts to good children.” - Wikipedia

Notice that these Krampus look an 0ffal lot like fauns or satyrs.

“In Greek mythology, a satyr … is one of a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus with goat-like (caprine) features, including a goat-tail, goat-like ears, and sometimes a goat-like phallus….

As Dionysiac creatures they are lovers of wine and women, and they are ready for every physical pleasure.” –Wikipedia

I hope you are beginning to see the deep occult roots of this celebration. Santa has all the traits of God. He has no beginning or end. He is all knowing. He knows if we’ve been good or bad. He writes our names in his book.

“We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or English;  and secondly, because we find no scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior, and, consequently, it’s observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.” C.H. Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, 1971, pg.697

Even our early Church Fathers spoke against Christmas.

December 25^th has never been the birthday of our savior Jesus Christ. But it has been celebrated as the birth of Tammuz for thousands of years, just as the Christians have learned to celebrate it.  In fact when they used to burn the Yule Log for 12 days, in honor of the fertility goddess (Estar) or Easter for bringing forth their savior, Tammuz.

Many people do not know this but Christmas and Eastar used to be outlawed in America. Not because it was Christian, but because it was a filthy pagan celebration. Celebrating sex, drunkeness and lawlessness.

“…To the great dishonor of God and offense of others: It is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof that whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way, upon any such account as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall pay for every such offence five shilling as a fine to the county.”  From the records of the General Court, Massachusetts Bay colony – May 11, 1659

“Christmas,” we find the following: “Trynne says in his strong way i(in histrio-mastix), ‘our Chr-stmas lords of musrule,’ together with dancing, masks, mummeries, stage-players, and such other Chr-stmas disorders, now in use with Christians, were derived from these Romans Saturnalia and Bacchanalian festivals, which should cause all pious Christians to abominate them!”  McClintock and Strong’s Bible Cyclopedia

Bacchus:

The Roman god of wine and intoxication, equated with the Greek Dionysus. His festival was celebrated on March 16 and 17. The Bacchanalia, orgies in honor of Dionysus, were introduced in Rome around 200 BCE. These infamous celebrations, notorious for their sexual and criminal character, got so out of hand that they were forbidden by the Roman Senate in 186 BCE. Bacchus is also identified with the old-Italian god Liber.

“Be ye wise and believe in Jesus, and abhor all the lies of Rome, and inventions of those who ape her detestable abominations.”  Charles Spurgeon

“That God’s word damns your ceremonies, it is evident; for the plain and straight commandment of God is, “Not that thing which appears good in thy eyes, shalt thou do to the Lord thy God, but what the Lord thy god has commanded thee, that do thou: add nothing to it; diminish nothing from it.” Now unless that ye are able to prove that God has commanded your ceremonies, this his former commandment will damn both you and them – Joh Knox, Joh Knox’ History of the Reformation in Scotland (Ed. By William Croft Dickinson; New Yok: Philosophical Library, 1950), Vol. 1, P.91

“Forasmuch then, as kneeling before the consecrated bread, the sign of the cross, surplice, festival days, bishopping, bowing to the altar, administration of the sacraments in private places, etc. are the wares of Rome, the baggage of Babylon, the trinkets of the whore, the badges of Popery, the ensigns of Christ's enemies, and the very trophies of Antichrist:” - George Gillespie (1613-49), Scottish Commissioner to the Westminster Assembly, A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded Upon the Church of Scotland. 1637.

"We Christians neither cover our doorposts with wreaths, nor...decorate our house like some new brothel. We...do not celebrate along with you the holidays...The pagan Romans clad their doorposts with green and branching laurels...In the Saturnalia...Presents come and go...There are...gifts...and Banquets...yet Christians should have no acquaintance with the festivals of the pagans." - Tertullian, (A.D. 155-220), A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, 1998, p. 342).

“There is no warrant in Scripture for the observance of Christmas and Easter as holydays, rather the contrary (see Gal. 4:9-11; Col. 2:16-21), and such observance is contrary to the principles of the Reformed faith, conducive to will-worship, and not in harmony with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” - 1899, General Assembly Of The Presbytarian Church U.S., Morton H. Smith, How is the Gold Become Dim,1973,p. 98.

"The Free Presbyterian Church rejects the modem custom becoming so prevalent in the Church of Scotland, of observing Christmas and Easter. It regards the observance of these days as symptomatic of the trend in the Church of Scotland towards closer relations with Episcopacy. At the time of the Reformation in Scotland all these festivals were cast out of the Church as things that were not only unnecessary but unscriptural." - The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, (1893-1970)

"Long before the Christian Era itself, A Festival was celebrated among the heathen. At that precise time of the year, in honor of the birth of NIMROD, the son of the Babylonian "Queen of Heaven". This same festival was adopted by the Roman Church, giving it the name of Christ." -The Two Babylons; p. 92-93, Alexander Hislop

"December 25 is when the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven was celebrated 2,000 years before Jesus was born. The name of the day itself --"Yule" -- is the Chaldean (Babylon) name for "infant" or "little child," the pagan counterpart... In ancient Babylon (Nimrod)...the "divine" child. There is ..no connection with the birth of Christ." - Where do we get our ideas?, John A. Sarkett

"Christmas as we know it came straight from the old Romans, who had a marvelous bash they called Saturnalia, culminating on December 25th, the birthday of THE SUN. Being lusty, pagan sun worshipers...Their Saturnalia was a feast of abundance in which brotherhood was emphasized and gifts exchanged."-How Christ Got into Christmas, Peter H. Samson, S.T.D.

The New Encyclopedia Britannica Dec. 25,  “the birthday of Mithra, the Iranian god of light and ...the day devoted to the invincible sun, as well as the day after Saturnalia was adopted by the Roman Catholic church as Christmas, the nativity of Christ, to counteract the effects of these festivals. .

New Standared Encyclopedia.
Chicago; Standard Educational pg.91 “Christianity thus replaced pagan holiday with a Christian one, while keeping the same symbolism. The birthday of Christ corresponds to the birth of a new year. Many of the pagan customs became part of the Christmas celebrations.”

Deuteronomy 12:30-31 30  “Take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? - that I also may do the same.' You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.”

So when we celebrate Christmas and Easter and have all our wonderful family memories, God all the time is remembering all the children sacrifices to Tammuz, and all the sexual orgies and the like. We have told God that we don’t care that the Christmas tree is a tool that the pagans used in there worship of Nimrod and Tammuz. We say we want to use it to worship Him. When will we throw away our useless pagan practices that we have attached Christian names too. Our grandparents were ignorant of these facts. We have the chance to make it right and spread the truth to others.

Leviticus 18:30

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

Mark 7:7-8

 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

It occurred to me as I was seeking the Lord one day that just about every major revival that America has seen was before Christmas and Easter were made legal.

Deuteronomy 12:29-32

 When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

What thing so ever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

God is telling us that he does not want us to pick up pagan practices and apply them to our Christain faith. This goes for easter also. The early church celebrated the feast days. Many people have been taught that the feast days are Jewish feast. But God clearly says they are His days.

In 325 AD Constantine writes, “It appears that the churches of Syria and Mesopotamia continues to fallow the custom of the Jews, and celebrated Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon whether falling on Sunday or not. All the other churches observed the solemnity on Sunday only.” Constantine did not want to admit that the Christians were still celebrating the feast days and said they were celebrating Easter. But all those that know our Bibles know that the fourteenth day of the moon is how you calculate Passover. We can see that Easter comes from the pagans. The King James Bible mentions Easter in Acts 14:2, but, this is a gross mistranslation of the word pascha, an Aramaic word that actually refers to the Passover.

“The term “Easter” is not of Christian origin. It is another form of Astarte, one of the titles of the Chaldean goddess, the queen of heaven. The festival of Pasach Passover and the Feast of unleavened bread was a continuation of the Jewish (that is, God’s) feast, from this Pasach the pagan festival of ‘Easter’ was quite distince and was introduced into the postate western religion as part of the attempt to adapt pagan festivals to Christianity.”  Vine’s Complete expository Dictionary p.192 

"Ishtar", which is pronounced "Easter" was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called "Tammuz", who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god.

Every year their would be wild parties with drinking and orgies on March 25^th. On this day the pagan priests would impregnate young virgins who would then give birth sometime in December. The pagan priest would impregnate these virgins on the alter of Ishtar, to commemorate the birth of Tammuz. Once these babies where born they would be offered up to Nimrod the sungod on December 25^th.

“In England, for example, the Puritans could not tolerate this celebrating for which there was no biblical sanction. Consequently, the Roundhead Parliament of 1643 outlawed the feasts of Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, along with the saints’ days,” Celebrations, P. 312

Many people sight Acts 12:4 to justify their celebration of Easter. But truth be known, this is a mistranslation from the Greek. Believe it or not the Greek actually says “Pascha” which is the Strong’s number 3957, and is properly translated as “Passover” not “Easter”. In this case as strange as it may be many other translations got it right. Instead of endorsing the Church celebrating Easter, it actually proves that the Church was still observing the so called “Jewish” feast day known as Passover ten years after the death of Christ.

In America the Puritans openly rebuked the pagan holidays of Christmas and Easter. It was not until the late 1800’s that Americans made Christmas and Easter a national holiday.

It was not the early Christians that stopped worshiping God on the feast days, to replace it with these pagan days. It was the Great Whore, the Vatican that made it law. They hated the Jews and the true Christians. Here is why they stopped celebrating the feast days.

Eusebius' Life of Constantine, Book 3 chapter 18 records Constantine the Great as writing: "... it appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their hands with enormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with blindness of soul. ... Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Saviour a different way."

Theodoret’s Ecclesiastical History 1.9 records The Epistle of the Emperor Constantine, concerning the matters transacted at the Council, addressed to those Bishops who were not present: “It was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. … Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. … avoiding all contact with that evil way. … who, after having compassed the death of the Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason, but by an unrestrained passion, wherever their innate madness carries them. … a people so utterly depraved. … Therefore, this irregularity must be corrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with those parricides and the murderers of our Lord. … no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews.”

Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church, volume 3, section 79, The Time of the Easter Festival states: "The feast of the resurrection was thenceforth required to be celebrated everywhere on a Sunday, and never on the day of the Jewish passover, but always after the fourteenth of Nisan, on the Sunday after the first vernal full moon. The leading motive for this regulation was opposition to Judaism, which had dishonored the passover by the crucifixion of the Lord. ... At Nicaea, therefore, the Roman and Alexandrian usage with respect to Easter triumphed, and the Judaizing practice of the Quartodecimanians, who always celebrated Passover on the fourteenth of Nisan, became thenceforth a heresy. Yet that practice continued in many parts of the East, and in the time of Epiphanius, about a.d. 400, there were many, Quartodecimanians, who, as he says, were orthodox, indeed, in doctrine, but in ritual were addicted to Jewish fables, and built upon the principle: “Cursed is every one who does not keep his passover on the fourteenth of Nisan.”

As we can very clearly see, it was not our Christian forefathers or the disciples that stopped celebrating the feast days, but it was that wicked institution the “Vatican,” that has attacked the Christian faith with more paganism.

“The fact that vernal festivals were general among pagan peoples no doubt had much to do with the form assumed by the Eastern festival in the Christian churches. The English term Easter is of pagan origin” (Albert Henry Newman, D.D., LL.D., A Manual of Church History, p. 299).

“Easter—the name Easter comes to us from Ostera or Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, for whom a spring festival was held annually, as it is from this pagan festival that some of our Easter customs have come” (Hazeltine, p. 53).

The story goes that Nimrod was a very powerful man who rebelled against God. Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy and cut up. His wife Semiramis went to gather up all his body parts, but she could not find his reproductive organ. To this day the oblisk is used to represent that organ. Nimrod became the Sun-God and later impregnated his wife/mother who had a son that was supposed to be Nimrod reincarnated as Tammuz. Semiramis became Queen of heaven the moon god. Semiramis later fell into the Euphrates River and came back to life as “Ishtar” which is pronounced “Easter”. The Easter eggs, rabbits, sunrise services all have occult roots in the pagan holiday of Easter. Ishtar is also known as “Mother of God”  and “Queen of Heaven”. Now you can see how that the early catholic church promoted these pagan days and put a stop to the Holy feast days and Sabbaths of Almighty God.

So to conclude, we see that Christmas and Easter are very much pagan. We have just given the pagan gods Christian titles. What does God say about all this?

Deuteronomy 12:29-32

When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.”

Jeremiah 10:1-5

10 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

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.

3 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.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

5 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.

The Catholic church has been trying to adulterate the true message of Christ from the beginning. It has twisted God’s laws, perverted His words and changed His times. What else has the Vatican done to the Christians that we are unaware. Hang on it is a bumpy ride. 

We in the Church have been taught never to question, but just take every thing by faith. Oh how the Jesuits loved us. Ignorant and innocent little pew sitters. But the word tell us to study to show ourselves approved. To search the Scriptures.

Contrary to what most people are taught in seminary school the fact is, that Jesus never changed the Sabbath, and the disciples never changed the Sabbath. It was the pagan sun-worshiping Constantine that changed it. In the year 321AD Constantine enacted his first civil law regarding Sunday.

“On the venerable day of the sun let the magistrate and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however, persons engaged in agricultural work may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain growing or for vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost.” —Schaff’s History of the Christian Church, vol. III, chap. 75.

In 325 AD, Pope Sylvester officially named Sunday as the “Lord’s Day”.

But what does the scriptures say?

Genesis 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
We also have: (Exodus 20:8-11, Deut. 5:12-15, Exodus 31:12-17)

Leviticus 23:1-2 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

Now how many times have we heard the teachings that these feast are the Jewish feast? Here we see our Lord calling them His feast. He says “feast of the Lord” NOT “feast of the Jews” and then He ends with saying “these are “My feasts.”  So where did this teaching come from? This is what is known as displacement theology. The Vatican not only wanted to kill the Jews and those who truly followed Christ, but also say that they were dirt and God was done with them. Now He is the God of the gentiles. This is not true! Jew and Gentile must come to God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ.