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                                       CHRISTMAS, SANTA CLAUS
AND SATAN





    What is the chief Christian holiday of the entire year?



    Most people, in answer to this question, would unhesitatingly
reply, "Christmas, of course." No holiday seems to have the
endorsement of the entire world more so than Christmas. Millions
observe this day with a special reverence. Others don't care so
much about the religious aspect of the day, but observe it any
way in a family sense, giving gifts to each other. Still others
use the Christmas season as an excuse to go out and get roaring
drunk, hold riotous parties, or even wild and abandoned orgies.



    Very few realize that this is the very way pagans observed
Christmas centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ!



     Only they didn't call it "Christmas." They called this
mid-winter festival by its original heathen or pagan name -- the
Saturnalia.



     Did you know that the Bible nowhere enjoins the observance of
Christmas? Did you know that it was nowhere celebrated by the
New Testament Church of God? What is the real origin of this
remarkable holiday, and why do millions of Christians observe
it, since Jesus never did, nor any of the twelve apostles, or
the early New Testament Church of God?



    In ancient times the winter solstice was celebrated in Babylon
as the birth day of Tammuz. This was the shortest day of the
year, in the latter part of December (today it actually falls on
December 21). According to the pagans, the god Nimrod would
visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. This festival
became known as the Saturnalia, and friends and family would
exchange gifts upon it.




Nativity of the Sun



    Interestingly, the winter solstice was also celebrated by the
followers of Mithra as the "nativity" or "birth" of the sun.
Mithra was the Persian sun-god, and his worship was widespread
throughout the Roman Empire in the days of the New Testament
Church of God. When the feast was celebrated in Rome, it was
called the festival of Saturn and lasted for five days. In both
ancient Rome, and more ancient Babylon, this festival was
characterized by bouts of drunkenness, wild merrymaking, and
lascivious orgies which would begin with an "innocent kiss"
underneath the mistletoe and would then lead to justification of
all sorts of sexual excesses, perversions and abominations.



    Alexander Hislop writes in "The Two Babylons":



And first, as to the festival in honour of the birth of Christ,
or Christmas. How comes it that that festival was connected with
the 25th of December? There is not a word in the Scriptures
about the precise day of His birth, or the time of the year when
He was born. What is recorded there, implies that at what time
soever His birth took place, it could not have been on the 25th
of December. At the time that the angel announced His birth to
the shepherds of Bethlehem, they were feeding their flocks by
night in the open fields. Now, no doubt, the climate of
Palestine is not so severe as the climate of this country; but
even there, though the heat of the day be considerable, the cold
of the night, from December to February, is very piercing, and
it was not the custom for the shepherds of Judea to watch their
flocks in the open fields later than about the end of October.
It is in the last degree incredible, then, that the birth of
Christ could have taken place at the end of December. There is
great unanimity among commentators on this point (pp. 91-92).



    Hislop continues:



Indeed, it is admitted by the most learned and candid writers of
all parties that the day of our Lord's birth cannot be
determined, and that within the Christian Church no such
festival as Christmas was ever heard of until the third century,
and that not till the fourth century was far advanced did it
gain much observance (pp. 92-93).



    Incredible, but true! Jesus was actually born nowhere near
December 25th! Then why does the world attempt to honor "Him" by
making that day appear as His birthday? If God wanted us to
observe Jesus' birthday, don't you think He would have told us
the exact day in Scripture? Why would He have deliberately
hidden the exact day from us? There is obviously something very
suspicious about Christmas observance, and the more we study
into it in this article, the more shocking and astonishing its
true nature will become!



    Why did the early Roman Catholic Church fix upon December 25 as
the day to honor Christ's birthday?



    Hislop makes the answer plain:



Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian
era itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that
precise time of the year, in honour of the birth of the son of
the Babylonian queen of heaven; and it may fairly be presumed
that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the
number of the nominal adherents of Christianity, the same
festival was adopted by the Roman Church, giving it only the
name of Christ. This tendency on the part of Christians to meet
Paganism halfway was very early developed; and we find
Tertullian, even in his day, about the year 230, bitterly
lamenting the inconsistency of the disciples of Christ in this
respect, and contrasting it with the strict fidelity of the
Pagans to their own superstition (ibid., p. 93).



    Frazier, in "The Golden Bough", states without hesitation: "The
largest pagan religious cult which fostered the celebration of
December 25 as a holiday through out the Roman and Greek worlds
was the pagan sun worship -- Mithraism." He adds, "This winter
festival was called 'the Nativity' -- the 'nativity of the sun'
" (p. 471).



    Mithra was not the only pagan deity said to be born at this
time of year. Osiris, Horus, Hercules, Bacchus, Adonis, Jupiter,
Tammuz and other sun-gods were supposedly born at the time of
the winter solstice!



    Alexander Hislop confirms this, adding:



That Christmas was originally a Pagan festival, is beyond all
doubt. The time of the year, and the ceremonies with which it is
still celebrated, prove its origin. In Egypt, the son of Isis,
the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this
very time, 'about the time of the winter solstice.' The very
name by which Christmas is popularly known among ourselves --
Yule-day -- proves at once its pagan and Babylonish origin.
'Yule' is the Chaldee name for an 'infant' or 'little child';
and as the 25th of December was called by our Pagan Anglo-Saxon
ancestors, 'Yule-day,' or the 'Child's-day,' and the night that
preceded it, 'Mother-night,' long before they came in contact
with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character.
Far and wide, in the realms of Paganism, was this birthday
observed ("The Two Babylons", PP. 93-94).



    The sun was the favorite object of worship among the pagans,
being the brightest object in the heavens. It was looked upon as
the life-giver. But at December 25th it was not only worshipped
as the orb of the day, but as God incarnate. Tammuz was
worshipped as the human incarnation of the sun. He was born for
the purpose of subduing the enemies of the gods who, without
such an incarnate birth, could not have been subdued.



    The festival at Rome, called the feast of "Saturn," lasted five
days, and loose reins were given to drunkenness and revelry.
This was precisely the way in which the Babylonian midwinter, or
December, festival was celebrated. Berosus tells us it also
lasted "five days."



    Declares Hislop:



The wassailing bowl of Christmas had its precise counterpart in
the 'Drunken festival' of Babylon; and many of the other
observances still kept up among ourselves at Christmas came from
the very same quarter. The candles, in some parts of England,
lighted on Christmas eve, and used so long as the festive season
lasts, were equally lighted by the Pagans on the eve of the
festival of the Babylonian god, to do honour to him: for it was
one of the distinguishing peculiarities of his worship to have
lighted wax-candles on his altars (pp. 96-97).



    What about that old favorite, the Christmas tree? Surely it
wasn't pagan, too, was it?



    The astonishing answer: "The Christmas tree, now so common
among us, was equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In
Egypt that tree was the palm-tree; in Rome it was the fir; the
palm tree denoting the Pagan Messiah, as Baal-Tamar, the fir
referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of Adonis, the
Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to
have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have
brought forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son
must have been recognized as the 'Man the branch.' And this
entirely accounts for the putting of the Yule Log into the fire
on Christmas Eve, and the appearance of the Christmas tree the
next morning" (Hislop, p. 97).



    The symbolism of the Christmas tree and the Yule log is made
plain by Alexander Hislop. He writes:



Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed at
Rome as the day when the victorious god reappeared on earth, was
held at the Natalis invicti solis, 'The birthday of the
unconquered Sun.' Now the Yule Log is the dead stock of Nimrod,
deified as the sun-god, but cut down by his enemies; the
Christmas-tree is Nimrod redivivus -- the slain god come to life
again (p. 98).



    For further confirmation of these facts, you could turn to
practically any encyclopedia. I will use the "World Book
Encyclopedia", the most popular in the United States. Under the
heading "Christmas," we read the following:



The exact date of Christ's birth is not known. The early
Christians did not celebrate His birth because they considered
the celebration of anyone's birth to be a pagan custom. The
first mention of the observance of Christ's birthday appears
about A.D. 200. For many years, several dates were used.
December 25 was first mentioned in 336. Christians of Egypt
celebrated Christmas on January 6. Many members of the Eastern
Orthodox Churches still observe this date (vol. 3, p. 416).



    This authoritative source continues: "For many years, people
observed Christmas as a religious festival only. But they
gradually adopted more and more customs UNRELATED TO THE CHURCH.
Most of the customs originated in cultures that existed BEFORE
Christianity" (ibid.). What could be plainer than that?



    Continuing, we read: "In 1643, the Puritans, who regarded such
celebrations as pagan, outlawed the observance of Christmas in
England. Colonists in New England copied the English laws....
But immigrants brought Christmas customs from many lands and the
old festivities soon were restored."



    The same source says of the Yule log, "The custom of burning
the Yule log began with the ancient Scandinavians, who once a
year burned a huge log in honor of their god Thor. After the
Scandinavians became Christians, they made the Yule log an
important part of their Christmas ceremonies."



    Even Santa Claus, the most popular symbol of Christmas in the
United States, has a pagan origin. Says the "World Book
Encyclopedia": "Some of Santa Claus's characteristics date back
many centuries. For example, the belief that Santa enters the
house through the chimney developed from an old Norse legend.
The Norse believed that the goddess Hertha appeared in the
fireplace and brought good luck to the home."



    The "Encyclopedia Americana" adds the following information:



Christmas -- it was according to many authorities not celebrated
in the first centuries of the Christian Church as the Christian
usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable
persons rather than their birth. A feast was established in
memory of the birth of the Savior in the Fourth Century. In the
Fifth Century the Western Church ordered it to be celebrated
forever on the day of the old Roman Feast of the birth of Sol.
The holly, the mistletoe, the yule log and the wassail bowl are
of pre-Christian times. The Christmas tree has been traced back
to the Romans. It went from Germany to Great Britain (art.,
"Christmas").



    Finally, let us quote from the most authoritative and widely
regarded of all modern encyclopedias, the "Britannica":



    Christmas Day -- a festival of the Christian church, observed
on the 25th day of December, in memory of the birth of Jesus
Christ. There is, however, a difficulty in accepting this as the
date of the Nativity, December being the height of the rainy
season in Judea, when neither flocks nor shepherds could have
been at night in the fields of Bethlehem (vol. 5, p. 704, 1892
edition).



    The "New Standard Encyclopedia" informs us further, about the
customs associated with Christmas. "Among the Romans, certain
practices were adopted from an older pagan feast in honor of the
birth of the sun, or Sol."



    In England, the boar's head is a popular dish at the Christmas
dinner, and so are the Christmas goose, and Yule cakes. Where do
these features of Christmas originate?



    Again, the answer is in paganism!



    According to Theocritus, the goddess Venus (or Semiramis, wife
of Nimrod) was reconciled to the boar that killed Adonis
(another name for Nimrod, her husband), because when it was
brought in chains before her, it pleaded pathetically that it
had killed her husband by accident and not design. But in memory
of this deed, many boars were offered in sacrifice to the
offended goddess. The wild boar represented Shem, the grandson
of Noah, who was responsible for the death of Nimrod, the
arch-apostate (see Hislop, "The Two Babylons", p. 65).



    On Christmas day, as a carry over of this ancient sacrifice of
the boar, the continental Saxons offered a boar in sacrifice to
the sun, as a propitiation. In ancient Rome, during the
pre-Christmas festival of the Saturnalia, the boar was also part
and parcel of the feast. As the poet Martial of Rome wrote:
"That boar will make you a good Saturnalia."



    The Christmas goose and Yule cakes were essential features of
the worship of Nimrod, as he was worshipped in both Egypt and
Rome. The favorite offering of the Egyptian god Osiris (the
Egyptian name for Nimrod) was "a goose," says Wilkinson, and he
adds that the "goose could not be eaten except in the depth of
winter." Juvenal, of ancient Rome, also stated that if Osiris
was offended, he could be pacified only by a large goose and a
thin cake.



    The goose was a symbol of Cupid in Asia Minor. The goose was
also sacred to the god Brahma in India, as well as to the
Babylonians, where it was also offered in sacrifice. Says
Hislop, "There can be no doubt, then, that the Pagan festival at
the winter solstice -- in other words, Christmas -- was held in
honour of the birth of the Babylonian Messiah" (p. 102).



    Even the name of the Roman festival, the "Saturnalia," stamps
its origin upon it. For "Saturnalia" simply means the "festival
of Saturn." Who was Saturn?



    Saturn was a Roman name for Nimrod, the "hiding one," who hid
from Shem who was seeking his life. The place he hid was ancient
Rome, later called Saturnia, meaning the city of the "hidden
one."



                                                          The
Pagan Trinity



    Long before the birth of Jesus Christ, the pagans had evolved a
trinity to worship. The pagan father-mother-child trinity traces
all the way back to this same Babylonish system to which the
original pagan Christmas also traces. Nimrod, who was born soon
after the flood of Noah's time, was known as the builder of
"Babylon" (which means "confusion," for there God confounded the
tongues of the nations). He attempted to unite all men under his
name, to get them to worship him instead of the true God. He was
a great king, or tyrant, the first of the great kings or tyrants
in the earth. Of him the Bible record states: "And Cush begat
Nimrod: he began to be a MIGHTY ONE IN THE EARTH" (Genesis
10:8). No one else in that period compared to him; of no one
else are those words written.



    In verse nine we read: "He was a mighty hunter before the Lord:
wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before
the Lord." The word "before" could also be translated "against."
Nimrod actually set himself against the rulership of God!



    Verse ten: "And the beginning of HIS KINGDOM was Babel
(Babylon), and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of
Shinar." His was the first great Kingdom after the Flood!



    Although the Bible doesn't tell us much more about this famous
"Nimrod," ancient history does. One of his names was Merodach,
meaning "The great Rebel."



    And the Roman historian Justin wrote: "Ninus (Nimrod)
strengthened the greatness of his acquired dominion by continued
possession. Having subdued, therefore, his neighbours, when, by
an accession of forces, being still further strengthened, he
went forth against other tribes, and every new victory paved the
way for another, he subdued all the peoples of the East."



    He was the husband of the original "Mother," or "Mother of
God," whose name was Semiramis.



    Writes Alexander Hislop:



The Chaldean Mysteries can be traced up to the days of
Semiramis, who lived only a few centuries after the flood, and
who is known to have impressed upon them the image of her own
depraved and polluted mind. That beautiful but abandoned queen
of Babylon was not only herself a paragon of unbridled lust and
licentiousness, but in the Mysteries which she had a chief hand
in forming, she was worshipped as Rhea, the great "Mother" of
the gods, with such atrocious rites as identified her with
Venus, the Mother of all impurity, and raised the very city
where she had reigned to a bad eminence among the nations, as
the grand seat at once of idolatry and consecrated prostitution.



    Semiramis came to be worshipped as the great pagan Mother of
God. Her husband was Nimrod, who, after he succeeded in building
his kingdom, or empire, and led the world into gross idolatry,
was himself slain by leaders in Egypt, at the behest of Shem,
the son of Noah. When Nimrod was slain, the whole world
lamented, and looked upon Shem as a murderer. The custom of
"weeping for Tammuz" began, Tammuz being one of the names of
Nimrod, and every year the women would weep for him, as a
memorial of his being slain. His death came to be looked upon as
a propitiation for sin, and he came to be worshipped as the
Redeemer, the Saviour, a clear pagan counterfeit of the true
Saviour, Jesus Christ!



    After the death of Nimrod, however, Semiramis had an
illegitimate son. Whereas Nimrod was a black man, or a Negro in
race, this son was white -- obviously not fathered by Nimrod.
However, to justify her act of wantonness, Semiramis claimed
that her newborn son was actually a reincarnation of Nimrod that
she conceived supernaturally, or miraculously. And the child,
called Gilgamesh, came to be worshipped as a "holy child," the
child of the promise, the Deliverer or Saviour.



    Here we find the exact duplicate, the pagan counterfeit, of the
birth of Jesus, the true Christ, or Saviour!



    Says Hislop:



The Babylonians, in their popular religion, supremely worshipped
a Goddess Mother and a Son, who was represented in pictures and
in images as an infant or child in his mother's arms. From
Babylon, this worship of the Mother and the Child spread to the
ends of the earth. In Egypt, the Mother and the Child were
worshipped under the names of Isis and Osiris. In India, even to
this day, as Isi and Iswara; in Asia, as Cybele and Deoius; in
Pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter puer, or Jupiter, the boy; in
Greece, as Ceres, the Great Mother, with the babe at her breast,
or as Irene, the goddess of Peace, with the boy Plutus in her
arms; and even in Tibet, in China, and Japan, the Jesuit
missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of Madonna
and her child as devoutly worshipped as in Papal Rome itself;
Shing Moo, the Holy Mother in China, being represented with a
child in her arms, and a glory around her, exactly as if a Roman
Catholic artist had been employed to set her up ("The Two
Babylons", p. 20-21).



    The "Mother and Child" concept, which is so sentimentalized and
devoutly emphasized around Christmas time, can be traced all the
way back to the same origin as Christmas itself!



    The ancient pagans worshipped and adored a little child held in
his Mother's arms. The son's name, Ninus, literally signifies
"The Son." He was looked upon as the "Son of God." The name
Ninus, also, at times, applied to Nimrod. This is why ancient
historians sometimes refer to Ninus as the husband of Semiramis,
and sometimes as her son. Both of them used this name.



    Nimrod, himself, however, was also, strange as it may seem, the
son of Semiramis! That is, he actually married his own Mother!
Thus he was also looked upon as an infant god, and the "son of
God." The young Ninus, or Gilgamesh, inherited his father's
title.



    In the pagan trinity, Nimrod was looked upon as the "Father of
the gods, as being the first of deified mortals" (Hislop, p.
32). Semiramis was the "Mother" of the gods. And Ninus, or
Gilgamesh, was the "son."



                                                          Origin
of Santa Claus



    Of course, closely associated with Christmas is the story of
"Santa Claus," or St. Nicholas. Does this popular figure also
trace back to Nimrod? One would assume it to be so, since both
are closely identified with Christmas, the chief festival of the
sun-god, and Nimrod himself was the first "Sun-god," or the
"Sun" born incarnate as a man, and also the "son of god."



    Most people think that Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas, is a
portly, merry old soul who derives from a certain "St. Nicholas"
who served as a bishop of Myra in Asia Minor in the A.D. 300's
who was famous for his generosity, and who became the patron
saint of children. Gradually he became accepted as the "gift
giver" at Christmas-time.



    But, as we have seen, the custom of giving gifts at
Christmas-time goes back thousands of years before the St.
Nicholas in Asia Minor was even born! In ancient times it was
actually a pagan god who was believed to leave gifts under an
evergreen tree. The Scandinavian god Odin or Wodin was the
precursor of our "Santa Claus" because it was he who supposedly
left special gifts at the Yuletide season for those who
approached his sacred tree. Odin was the original counterpart
for today's "Santa Claus"! (The name "Santa Claus" actually
derives from the early Dutch settlers in New York who called
Saint Nicholas Sinterklaas in their language.)



    Who was this original Odin, or Wodin? Who was this original
"Santa"?



    Odin, Wodin, or Wotan was the chief god in old Norse mythology.
He became the ruler of the universe after he and his two
brothers, Ve and Vili, killed the frost giant Ymir, the first
living being. Odin was a fearless fighter, and carried a spear
as his special weapon. He was a "mighty hunter" like Nimrod. He
was also known for his magic powers. He had many sons, one of
whom was Thor, the god of Thunder. The Anglo-Saxons called Odin
by the name of Woden, from which we derive the name Wednesday,
or "Woden's day."



    Perhaps you didn't know it, but paganism is still ever present
with us of this scientific and technological twentieth century,
even in the names of the days of our week!



    One of Odin's sons was Balder. Even as the Middle Eastern
countries mourned and lamented for the death of Tammuz, even so
the peoples of northern Europe lamented and be wailed the death
of Balder. Hislop tells us:



In Iceland, and throughout Scandinavia, there were similar
lamentations for the loss of the god Balder. Balder, through the
treachery of the god Loki, the spirit of evil, according as had
been written in the book of destiny, "was slain, although the
empire of heaven depended on his life." His father Odin had
learned the terrible secret from the book of destiny, having
conjured one of the Volar from her infernal abode. All the gods
trembled at the knowledge of this event. Then Frigga (the wife
of Odin) called on every object, animate and inanimate, to take
an oath not to destroy or furnish arms against Balder. Fire,
water, rocks, and vegetables were bound by this solemn
obligation. One plant only, the mistletoe, was overlooked. Loki
discovered the omission, and made that contemptible shrub the
fatal weapon. Among the warlike pastimes of Valhalla (the
assembly of the gods) one was to throw darts at the invulnerable
deity, who felt a pleasure in presenting his charmed breast to
their weapons. At a tournament of this kind, the evil genius
putting a sprig of the mistletoe into the hands of the blind
Hoder, and directing his aim, the dreaded prediction was
accomplished by an unintentional fratricide.



    Hislop continues the story of Balder:



The spectators were struck with speechless wonder; and their
misfortune was the greater, that no one, out of respect to the
sacredness of the place, dared to avenge it. With tears of
lamentation they carried the lifeless body to the shore, and
laid it upon a ship, as a funeral pile, with that of Nanna his
lovely bride, who had died of a broken heart.



    Frigga, his mother, overwhelmed with sorrow and distress, was
inconsolable for the loss of her beautiful son, and sent a
messenger to Hela, the goddess of Hell, to offer a ransom for
his release.



The gloomy goddess promised that he should be restored, provided
everything on earth were found to weep for him. Then were
messengers sent over the whole world, to see that the order was
obeyed, and the effect of the general sorrow was as when there
is a universal thaw (Hislop, "The Two Babylons", pp. 57-58).



    The lamented one of course was Nimrod, mourned by his wife
Semiramis. What was she to do in this sudden emergency? Would
she leave the throne of Babylon, which she shared with her
husband? Would she quietly forego the pomp and ceremony and
prestige to which she had become accustomed?



    On the contrary. As Hislop states, "Though the death of her
husband has given a rude shock to her power, yet her resolution
and unbounded ambition were in nowise checked. On the contrary,
her ambition took a still higher flight. In life her husband had
been honoured as a hero; in death she will have him worshipped
as a god, yes, as the woman's promised seed, 'Zeroashta,' who
was destined to bruise the serpent's head, and who, in doing so,
was to have his own heel bruised."



    Thus Nimrod was supplanted in place of the true Messiah, Jesus
Christ!



    Actually, both Odin and Balder of the Scandinavian epic
represented Nimrod. Balder was the slain one, the lamented one.
But Odin was Nimrod in another form, another guise. Says
Alexander Hislop: "The Wodan or Odin of Scandinavia can be
proved to be the Adon of Babylon" (ibid., p. 133-134).



    Interestingly, the early Mexicans celebrated Wodan or Odin as
the founder of their race, just as the Scandinavians did. Says
Humbolt, "the Wodan of the Chiapanese (of Mexico) was grandson
of that illustrious old man, who at the time of the great
deluge, in which the greater part of the human race perished,
was saved on a raft, together with his family. Wodan cooperated
in the construction of the great edifice (the tower of Babel!)
which had been undertaken by men to reach the skies; the
execution of this rash project was interrupted; each family
received from that time a different language; and the great
spirit Teotl ordered Wodan to go and people the country of
Anahuac" (ibid.).



    Nimrod, or Adon, or Adonis, of Babylon, was the great war god
Odin. Both were war gods. Nimrod, in the character of Bacchus,
was the god of wine; Odin is represented as taking no food but
wine.



    Odin's son Balder, for whom lamentation was made, was just the
Chaldee form of Baalzer, "The seed of Baal." Baal and Adon both
signify "Lord," and since Balder is the "seed" or "son" of Baal,
that makes him the son of Adon, and therefore Adon and Odin must
be the same -- the original "Lord" Nimrod!



    Writes Hislop:



This, of course, puts Odin a step back; makes his son to be the
object of lamentation and not himself; but the same was the case
also in Egypt; for there Horus the child was sometimes
represented as torn in pieces, as Osiris had been ("The Two
Babylons", p. 312).



    Santa Claus stands identified as none other than that original
arch apostate Nimrod! His attributes hark back to ancient pagan
worship. When children are asked, "What did Santa Claus bring
you this year?" it is merely a modern twist to an old Satanic
counterfeit pagan religion! All the merry Christmas songs
hearken back to pagan times, relics of a pagan past.



    Of course, it should not really surprise us to learn that Santa
Claus was originally Nimrod, for as we have seen, virtually
everything else connected with Christmas is also proven to be
pagan in origin -- from the Christmas dinner, the Yule log, the
mistletoe, to the Christmas tree, and even the sending of
Christmas cards and exchanging of gifts at that time!



    Santa Claus is sometimes called "Old Saint Nick," and "Old
Nick" is also a term applied to Satan the Devil!



    Even the abbreviation for Christmas, as Xmas, bears the stamp
of Babylon in its forehead. "X" is the ancient letter Tau, and
by the ancients would have been read as Xmas, or "Taumas" -- or
Tammuz, who was often represented by the letter Tau or X. This
was the symbol of the Babylonian Messiah. Thus Xmas is the mass
of Tammuz, not the mass of Christ!



    The word Christmas, or Xmas, itself is pagan, because the
"mass" with its rituals, elaborate ceremony, pagan prayers for
the dead, transubstantiation rites, is nothing more than a
pagan, heathen ritual and superstition!



    It may surprise you to learn not only that Christmas
celebration goes back to pagan customs antedating Christ by
thousands of years, as well as the ingrained thoroughness of the
pagan ancestry and imprint upon Christmas. But it is pagan --
and pagan to its very core. It is utterly and totally pagan!



    Most people, of course, don't look at the pagan heart and core
of Christmas. They look at the glitter and the trappings, they
think of the beautiful carols, the prettily wrapped packages,
the colorfully decorated trees. They think of Christmas pie and
family reunions and Christmas parties (and who doesn't like a
party?). On the surface, on the outside, Christmas looks so
wonderful, so goooood, so enticing, so beautiful. Combine those
features with a little sentimentality, and people get up in arms
if they think you are trying to take Christmas away from them.



    But beneath all the glitter and tinsel, beneath all the glowing
light bulbs and gleaming candles, beneath all the trappings,
lies a pagan den of iniquity, a throbbing pagan heart of deceit
and evil, the abominable corpse of Nimrod and the sepulchre of
Tammuz!



    People just don't realize how evil Christmas is in the sight of
God. They fail to realize the reality of Satan the devil and his
impressive masquerade. But even though millions call Christmas
"Christian," it is no more Christian or Biblical than
devil-worship or witchcraft in God's sight! Just calling a wolf
a lamb doesn't make it a lamb; just calling cold water hot
doesn't make it hot; and just calling a pagan ritual and heathen
festival "Christian" doesn't make it Christian, either!



    Isn't it about time we all grow up, and face facts, and have
the courage to admit the truth, and obey God instead of the
Devil?



                                                  Origin of the
Christmas Tree



    The winter solstice was the time when all the pagan sun gods
celebrated their birthday -- from Osiris to Jupiter to Mithra.
The celebration was adorned with the pine tree of Adonis, the
holly of Saturn, and the mistletoe.



    In Babylon, the birthday of Tammuz was celebrated at the time
of the winter solstice with great feasts, revelry, drunkenness
and debauchery. The custom spread over much of the world, so
that from pagan Rome and Greece to Scandinavia and Egypt, in
east, west, north and south, the period of the winter solstice
was always a time of rejoicing, festivity, merrymaking,
frivolity and foolishness. In Rome, the Saturnalia, or feast of
Saturn "the hidden one," was filled with immorality, license,
drunkenness, debauchery, where all restraints were cast aside,
and everything went. From this celebration in Rome, the Roman
Catholic Church created the festival of "Christmas" and foisted
it upon the Church! The giving of presents, the genial feeling
of camaraderie, the customs, all trace back to relics of
paganism!



    Various nations have had their legends about sacred trees. The
Druids held the oak sacred. The Egyptians held the palm sacred.
In Rome the fir tree was decorated with red berries during the
Saturnalia. The fir tree was sacred to the Scandinavian god
Odin. He was believed to bestow special gifts at the Yuletide
season to those who approached his sacred tree.



    Let's face it. The Christmas tree is not nearly so innocent as
millions assume, today. The Christmas tree recapitulates the
essence of tree-worship. The rounded orbs and balls hanging from
the tree symbolize the sun-god. The use of holly and mistletoe
was a widespread pagan custom. The Christmas tree is merely a
modern descendant of Odin's sacred fir tree! In many Biblical
references, the "green tree" is associated with pagan rituals,
idolatry and false worship. See, for example, Deuteronomy 12:2;
I Kings 14:23; II Kings 16:4, 17:10; and Ezekiel 6:13. The tree
especially noted for being "green," of course, is the evergreen
tree -- the Christmas tree!



    Does the Bible condemn the use of Christmas trees?



    Notice Jeremiah 10:1-5. We read: "The customs of the people are
vain (foolishness): 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" (verses 3-5).



    In verse two, God says: "Thus saith the Lord, LEARN NOT THE WAY
OF THE HEATHEN. . ."



    We have already seen clearly that the custom of the green tree,
at the winter solstice, gifts under it, is of pagan origin! God
says, "Learn  NOT the way of the heathen." As Christians, then,
we should have nothing whatsoever to do with any celebration
which stems, all or in part, from ancient PAGAN customs!



    Christmas is PAGAN!



    No matter how cleverly Satan tries to dress it up, and make it
look holy on the outside, its inner core is utterly PAGAN!



    It's time we took the blinders off our eyes, and see these
modern, so-called Christian customs as GOD sees them -- and
forsake them, and quit them, and have nothing to do with them!



    Jeremiah, chapter 10, seems to be clearly referring to the
ancient pagan Christmas tree, used during the pagan celebrations
of the heathen SUN-GOD at the winter solstice! Evidence that
this is so is found in verse 2, where God connects this tree
worship with the signs of the heavens. "Thus saith the Lord,
Learn not the way of the heathen, and BE NOT DISMAYED AT THE
SIGNS OF HEAVEN (the signs of the winter solstice, in this
case!); for the heathen are dismayed at them" -- that is, they
carry important meaning to the pagans, telling them when to hold
their festival, and representing the death and birth of the
sun-god.



    God says learn NOT this heathen custom. He says this custom,
and the associated customs, are VAIN. Will we believe God? Will
we obey Him? Will we cast Christmas out of our lives, as an
abominable branch, as a filthy, pagan, vile thing? Will we
recognize that it is wrapped up in the pagan Mystery Religion
palmed off on the world by a clever and deceitful Devil who has
made it a pillar of his own religion?



    What does God say about taking a pagan celebration and trying
to make it "Christian," and calling it "Christian," and mixing
Christianity with paganism?



    God says we should have nothing whatsoever to do with pagan
customs, or any customs which trace back to pagan origins. God
tells us not to compromise in any way with His Word, His truth.
He commands:



    "Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all
these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: and
the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof
upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.



    "Ye shall therefore keep MY statutes and MY judgments, and
shall NOT commit any of these ABOMINATIONS; neither any of your
own nation, nor any stranger that so journeth among you: (For
all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were
before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you
out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that
were before you.



    "For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the
souls that commit them shall be CUT OFF from among their people.
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" (Leviticus 18:24-30) .



    God says:



    "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 INQUIRE NOT after their gods,
saying, How did these nations serve their gods (Christmas trees,
Yule logs, holly wreaths, mistletoe, etc.)? 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 things soever I command
you, observe to do it: not add thereto, nor diminish from it!"
(Deuteronomy 12:29-32).



    Don't ADD TO IT, God says -- and don't diminish from it! Don't
add pagan customs to Christian! Don't try to mix paganism with
the truth of God! The evil concoction is poisonous; the evil
brew that results is vile and deadly; it is spiritually toxic!



    God says further, in Deuteronomy 4:2: "Ye shall not add unto
the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught
from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God
which I command you."



    What could be clearer than that?



    Paul is equally strong in the New Testament. He says: "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? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God
hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be
their God, and they shall be my people.



    "WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, saith
the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive
you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty" (II Corinthians 6:14-18).



    The adherents of the customs of the Babylonian religion, and
the practitioners of the Babylonish mystery religion, spawned by
Nimrod and Semiramis and carried on in the guise of false
"Christianity" of today, will suffer the seven last plagues of
Almighty God! This evil Babylonish system will be severely
judged and punished in the very near future. But God says to His
people: "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, COME OUT
OF HER, MY PEOPLE, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and
that ye receive not of her plagues" (Rev. 18:4).



    May God grant you the wisdom, and the insight, to hear, and to
fear, and to begin taking those first steps out of modern
paganism, and to come out of the Devil's false religion --
completely!



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                                         BEWARE OF THE DAY OF
THE SUN!



Momentous changes are taking place in the continent of Europe,
as emissaries of the VATICAN move undercover to GRASP CONTROL of
the burgeoning United States of Europe! Secret agreements are
being signed as a REUNITED, REEMERGING GERMANY takes the helm of
Fortress Europe in one final attempt to create a GERMAN REICH
that will rule the nations of the earth! Yet all these
PROPHESIED EVENTS are going unnoticed and unheeded by the People
of God, who are LULLED TO SLEEP by the siren song of LAODICEAN
CHURCHES OF GOD who are compromising with, dissembling, and
repudiating the TRUTH OF GOD. BUT YOU CAN KNOW THE TRUTH if you
stir yourself from your slumber and reactivate the spirit of God
through SINCERE repentance, prayer and obedience to the laws of
God! IT IS NOT TOO LATE -- WILL YOU HEED THE WARNING?



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