Christmas, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?

Spoiler alert. Our Messiah wasn’t born at Christmas and He doesn’t give us any command to observe His birthday. We are given 7 feasts in Leviticus 23 that are Feasts of the Most High El to observe forever as His people.

At face value it looks beautiful, but it is very hard to put our Messiah back into Christmas. As you look around at all the symbolism, it’s hard to deny that it doesn’t look like a qodesh (holy) feast to YHWH (God) but rather a time when everyone seems to observe it. Why does it look like the world?

Winter celebrations date back to ancient Mystery Babylon religion relating to Semiramis and Nimrod:
Winter Solstice
Roman Saturnalia in honor of Saturn
Scandinavian and Teutonic Yule (norse word for wheel)
Greeks honor Dionysus (Bacchus) on Bacchanalia
Mithras, day the Persian god, Mithra born out of a rock
Brumalia denoting the shortest day of the year
Dies Invicti Solis, emperor Aurelian’s sun god festival
Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa

Saturn was an ancient agricultural god king who ate his children a parallel with Carthiaginian Baal, whose brazen horned effigy contained a furnace into which children were sacrificially fed.

Mithraism was an ode to Persia’s god of light and sacred contracts. Constantine adhered to this religion up until his “Christian conversion” where he mixed the 2 religions together to form his own.

Yule wheel signifies the cycle of the year. 12 nights (sound familiar? Log fires were burnt to assist the revival of the sun. Shrines and sacred places decorated with greenery.

ADruids, the caste priests among the Celts of ancient France, Britain, and Ireland decorated their temples with mistletoe and fruit of the oak tree. Among the German tribes the oak tree was sacred to Odin, god of war. They sacrificed to the oak-tree until St. Boniface, in the eighth century, persuaded them to exchange it for the Christmas tree, a young fir tree adorned to honor the Christ child.

Instead of worshipping the sun god, converts were told to worship the Son of God. The focus of the holiday subtly changed. We are told not to do this specifically in Scripture and told what to do and what to celebrate.

“The time of the winter solstice has always been an important season in mythology. The sun, the giver of life, is at its lowest ebb. It is the shortest daylight of the year; the promise of spring is buried in cold and snow. It is the time when the forces of chaos stand against the return of light and life must once again be defeated by the gods. At the low point of the solstice, the people must help the gods through imitative magic and religious ceremonies. The sun begins to return in triumph. The days lengthen and though winter remains, spring is once again conceivable. For all people, it is a time of great festivity.” (Gerard and Patricia De Re, The christmas almanac, 1979, p. 15)

Origies, lord of misrule, all manners of behavior. During Saturnalia, all businesses were closed except those that provided food and revelry. Slaves made equal to masters or set over them. Gambling, drinking, and feasting were encouraged. Anything goes, complete lawlessness (injuring or killing people, raping, theft) The people exchanged gifts, called strenae, from the vegetation goddess Strenia, whom it was important to honor at midwinter. Men dressed as women or in hides and caroused in the streets. Candles or lamps were used to frighten spirits of darkness. Roman soldiers in the east did human sacrifice of the king and the revels.

Yule Log. They set their intentions, do ritual magic for ‘light to overturn darkness’ (darkness to light). They would then carve images into it and set it on fire.

Early Romans used evergreens to decorate their temples at the festival of Saturnalia, while ancient Egyptians used green palm rushes as part of their worship of the god Ra.

Evergreens represent fertility and new life in the darkness of winter. One of the symbols most closely associated with Asherah was a tree. The ancient Canaanites and Phoenicians viewed the tree as a symbol of fertility.

The pole, balls, and tinsel (phallus, testes, semen) represented various aspects of male fertility, while wreaths were always made in a circle to represent female fertility. (If you ask me, the tinsel or garland looks a little like the serpent around the tree in the garden of Eden) Nimrod’s reproductive organ, phallic symbol, right in your home. You can also see these in the high places of many countries called obelisks and on the steeples of churches. Our bodies are supposed to be the spiritual temples of the Most High El.

Holly, ivy, and mistletoe are the few flowering plants at winter.

In many countries it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness.

” Hear the word which YHWH speaks to you, O house of Yashra’ĕl. Thus said YHWH, “Do not learn the way of the nations, and do not be awed by the signs of the heavens, for the nations are awed by them. For the laws of these peoples are worthless, for one cuts a tree from the forest, work for the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. They beautify it with silver and gold, they strengthen it with nails and hammers so that it does not topple.” Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 10:1-4

Is that verse about this very thing? The ancient and modern versions are very telling.

The star of Molech/Remphan (Star of David)

This is a symbol used in satanic occult witchcraft and shouldn’t be used by believers period. Whether 5 pointed or 6 pointed. This is not a symbol of our belief.

“But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chi´un your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.” Amos 5:26

“Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.” Acts 7:43

“Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.” 1 Kings 11:7

“And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy Elohai: I am YHWH.” Leviticus 18:21

“then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.” Leviticus 20:5

“And they built the high places of Ba´al, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination,

to cause Judah to sin.:

Jeremiah 32:35

Santa Claus a jolly fellow with fur trimmed clothing, sleigh, and reindeer.

Northern European gods Woden and Thor from which the days of the week Wednesday and Thursday get their designations. It can be further traced back to Saturn, Silenus, and Odin. Odin’s 8 legged horse Sleipnir was known for having a sleigh. Odin had magical elves and dwarves specifically known for being makers of gifts (like Thor’s hammer)

Before the Coca-Cola campaign which modernized Santa into a plump jolly man in a red suit, he was depicted as a tall, old, gaunt man with fur trimmed cloak usually dark colored and brimmed hat/hood who traveled by horse.

Flavia Claudia Juliana: Saturnalia festivities began with ritual and sacrifices in the Temple of Saturn. The statue of the god was hollow and filled with olive oil, as a symbol of his agricultural functions. His feet were bound with woolen strips, that were unbound at Saturnalia.

After the rituals, the Senators (who had to be present) dismissed the crowd with the cry of “Io, Saturnalia!”, a sign for the happy festivities of family parties and other private gatherings to begin. The traditional gifts were wax tapers and little dolls, although gifts of silver later became traditional. Gifts evolved from the wax tapers and dolls being turned into the survival of the human sacrifices once offered to Saturn. Christmas carols were often sung under the tree to drown out the screams from sacrifices.