Christmas was originally a heathen festival celebrated on the 25th December in honour of the birth of Tammuz (Ezekiel 8: 14), also called Baal the Sun-god, the son of Semiramis, the Babylonian queen of heaven. The celebrations included hymn-singing in the street, riotous merry-making, feasting, drunkenness and the giving of gifts. Among the Romans these pagan ceremonies known as the Saturnalia, were held in honour of the victor of Sol Invictus (the unconquerable Sun-god), over the darkness at the winter solstice. The Sun-god in the Saturnalia ceremonies was likened to a small child. Yule-day is another name for Christmas. “Yule” is the Chaldee or Babylonian name for “an infant” or “little child.” The 25th December was called by our Pagan ancestors (the Anglo-Saxons) “Yule-day”, “The child’s day”, long before they came in contact with Christianity (A. Hislop).
The Christmas Tree
The decorating of an evergreen tree was part of the worship of Tammuz or Baal, the Sun-god of ancient Babylon. Through the Church of Rome — the Babylon of the Apocalypse — this act of Baal-worship has been handed down through the centuries, and deluded Protestants, by setting up Christmas Trees in their homes, in their schools and churches are guilty before God of upholding and perpetuating a practice peculiar to the worship of Baal. How can anything connected with the worship of Baal be pleasing to the Lord? Was it not for countenancing such worship that the judgments of the Lord repeatedly fell upon the people of Israel of old? (See 1 Samuel 12: 9, 10).
Christmas Cards
How sad in this degenerate age of widespread apostasy to see professing Christians bowing at the pagan and popish shrine of Christmas! How guilty parents are who under solemn obligations to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord to be leading them into these heathenish customs! “For thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen . . . for the customs of the people are vain.” (Jer. 10: 1-3). Seek to honour Christ according to His Word as our godly forefathers did. Have nothing to do with Christmas parties, Christmas trees, Christmas gifts, the selling or sending of Christmas cards or Christmas stamps. Avoid as you would the plague the Christmas Eve Midnight Service and the Christmas Crib. They all point to Rome. The observance of Christmas is largely responsible for the subtle infiltrations and advancement of Popery with its blasphemous worship and veneration of the Virgin Mary. Anew we are confronted with the question, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him.” (1 Kings 18: 21). May it be ours to say in truth, “I have refrained my feet from every evil way that I might keep Thy Word.” (Psalm 119: 101).
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