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2. 90+ Reasons Why We Don’t Celebrate Christmas

….or any other pagan holiday….

· YAHUAH condemns using pagan religious practices in His worship (Shemoth sn-Deut 12:29-31)

· YAHUAH’s Son while on earth was named YAHUSHA not “Jesus.” Now His name since His resurrection is restored back to YAHUAH the Son/Savior (Yahuchanon 17:11). His true name is undisputable. Deceived or false “believers” call on a false Savior (Jesus) and celebrate the birth of a false god (“Jesus”), thus ignoring the warnings not to follow a False Maschiach (Messiyah) and False Teachings (Mattithyahu sn- Matthew 7:15; 24:24; II Cor 11:13,14 II Kephah sn-Peter 2:1-3; Rev 19:20).

· YAHUAH condemns adding to or taking away from His commandments (Debarim sn-Deut 12:32)

· YAHUAH condemns the heathen use of decorated trees at a solstice (Yermeyahu sn-Jeremiah 10:1-4)

· YAHUAH commands us to separate from and not to touch pagan religion (II Cor 6:14-18)

· YAHUAH commands us to come out of [Roman Catholicism] and her sins. Most of the current “Christian Churches” follow after the Roman “Catholic Church” (Rev 18:4)

· YAHUAH condemns turning to the left or right from His commandments (Debarim sn-Deut 5:32-33)

· YAHUAH told the apostles to teach us to observe only His commandments (Mattithyahu sn-Matthew 28:20)

· YAHUAH rejected Dauud’s (sn-David) worship for a small detail and killed Uzzah (II Shamahuel sn-Samuel 6:1-10)

· YAHUAH rejected and killed Nadab and Abihu for offering different fire (Wayyiqra- sn-Lev 10:1-7)

· YAHUAH rejected Moshah (sn-Moses) from seeing Canaan for a slight modification (Bemidbar sn-Numbers 20:12)

· YAHUAH rejected Qahyin's (sn- Cain) worship simply for bringing an alternative sacrifice (Bereshith sn-Gen 4:7)

· YAHUAH rejected Shaul (Saul) forever for noble intentions in a modification I Shamahuel sn-Samuel 15:22-23)

· YAHUAH rejected Uzziyahu (sn- Uzziah) and gave him facial leprosy for a new idea (II Debre ha Yamim sn-Chronicles 26:16-21)

· YAHUAH rejected and killed Ananias and his wife for lying about their gift (Acts 5:1-11)

· YAHUAH requires reverence and righteous fear in worship to avoid His fire (Ibrim sn-Hebrews 12:28-29)

· YAHUAH seeks true worshippers to worship Him in truth, not superstition (Yahuchanon sn-John 4:23-24)

· YAHUAH commands us to earnestly contend for the true faith, not traditions of men (Yahudah sn-Jude 1:3, 4)

· YAHUAH requires us to esteem all His precepts but to hate all other ideas (Tehillim sn-Psalms 119:128)

· YAHUAH commands us to prove all things by Scripture and reject the bad (I Thes 5:21)

· YAHUAH expects us to be noble and search Scripture to know true worship (Acts 17:11)

· YAHUAH gave Scripture to perfect us, which does not mention Christmas (II Tim 3:16-17)

· YAHUAH curses any different gospel that doesn’t teach the truth, and Christmas is not preached in the Scriptures because it is a lie (Gal 1:8-9)

· YAHUAH condemns fellowship with men having only a form of godliness ( II Tim 3:5)

· YAHUAH condemns loving pleasure more than Him, as many people do with traditions like Christmas (II Timothy 3:4)

· YAHUAH condemns anything different from His Word as dark ignorance (Yeshayahu sn-Isaiah 8:20)

· YAHUAH abominates anything popular with the world and esteemed by it (Lukah sn-Luke 16:15)

· YAHUAH condemns friendship with the world as becoming His enemy (Yahcob sn-James 4:4)

· YAHUAH condemns traditions in His worship as evil and vain hypocrisy (Marku sn-Mark 7:5-13)

· YAHUAH hates the polluting of His glorious name with pagan idolatry like Christmas (Yahtzekiel sn-Ezekiel 20:39)

· YAHUAH condemns the superstitious idolatry and blasphemy of the Catholic Mass {Christ- MASS} (I Cor 11:26)

· YAHUAH condemns bringing any item of pagan images into our houses (Deut 7:25-26)

· YAHUAH commands us not to set up any image (trees, crosses, fish, etc.), which He hates (Debarim sn-Deut 4:15-19; 16:22; Shemoth sn-Exodus 20:4-6)

· YAHUAH condemns adopting any practices of the pagans around us (Wayyiqra sn-Leviticus 18:1-4)

· YAHUAH condemns sun worship which is what Christmas without a doubt actually is (Debarim sn-Deut 4:19: 17:3; II Melakim sn-Kings 23:5; Yahshub sn-Job 31:26-28; Yahtzekiel sn-Eze 8:16)

· YAHUAH teaches us through the Apostles to follow only traditions based on Scripture and Truth, and they never celebrated Christmas (II Thes 2:15)

· YAHUAH the Savior teaches us to remember His death rather than His birth (Phil 3:10; I Cor 15:3)

· YAHUAH gave Immersion (sn-baptism) and His Supper to remember His death (Rom 6:3-5; I Co 11:26)

· YAHUAH condemns other “spirits” such as "the spirit of Christmas" as another spirit He hates (II Cor 11:1-4)

· YAHUAH says we prove of our love for Him by not loving anything else more than Him and His Word (Mattithyahu sn-Matt 10:37-39)

· YAHUAH did not come to bring peace on earth but rather a dividing sword. Following the Truth will create division (Mattithyahu sn-Mat 10:34)

· YAHUAH blessed giving over receiving, but Christmas has proven to be selfish exchanging (Acts 20:35)

· Celebrating Christmas sincerely is identical to Yahrobam’s (sn-Jeroboam) two calves which YAHUAH hated (I Melakim sn-Kings 12:26-33)

· Aaron led Yashrael (sn-Israel) to try to worship YAHUAH with a golden calf and it became their judgment, just like what is happening today with “preachers” leading masses to their destruction by promoting false teachings/gods. Notice that Yahuah destroyed the people who didn’t repent! (Shemoth sn-Exodus 32:1-6; 19-35)

· Christmas breaks the First Commandment by having other gods - the sun god Mithra is what Christmas is really dedicated to (Shemoth sn-Exodus 20:3)

· Christmas breaks the Second Commandment by having images - a Christmas tree, Decoration, and a False Savior! (Shemoth sn-Exodus 20:4-6)

· Christmas breaks the Tenth commandment by promoting covetousness in children (Shemoth sn-Exodus 20:17)

· Many martyrs gave their lives to oppose Catholic superstitions and traditions.

· It was a crime to observe Christmas in America in the early beginnings of the country.

· It was a crime to observe Christmas in England for many years.

· Santa Claus is a pagan mockery of YAHUAH the Father. Santa with white hair, grandfatherly image, eternal, lives in the North, unlimited resources, omniscient of children's behavior, omnipresent for a night, hears confessions, comes without being noticed, blesses children, and distributes judgment for works.

· The name Christmas means "Mass of Christ.” Our Savior has already died for our sins once and for all. Mass is about killing our Savior over and over. This should cause an outrage.

· A gift exchange dictated by a calendar is not a message of love but a ritual of obligation.

· A gift exchange at the winter solstice was invented by pagans to celebrate the sun god.

· True giving is giving unexpected without obligation to reciprocate (Lukah sn-Luke 14:12-14)

· Secular Encyclopedias will gladly tell you that Christmas came from pagan sun worship.

· Alabama became the first state in the USA to make Christmas a holiday was in 1836.

· English parliament under Oliver Cromwell outlawed Christmas in 1644 and punished violaters.

· Loving and spreading the message of YAHUSHA (Yahuah the Savior) and keeping His commandments is what true followers of the Creator do, not promoting a lie (Yahuchanon sn- John 14:15)

· You cannot do unto YAHUAH what YAHUAH has condemned (Debarim sn-Deut 12:1-4; 12:29-32)

· Christmas is not a matter of freedom left up to our consciences and/or heart’s preferences, because our hearts will deceive us (Yermeyahu sn-Jeremiah 17:9)

· True followers of YAHUAH will not follow a multitude or majority to false worship (Shemoth sn-Ex 23:2)

· Christmas is a time of unbridled greed, covetousness, and materialism and cannot honor YAHUAH the Savior.

· Christmas is a unique “holy day” in the Roman Catholic calendar and is exalted by three profane Mass services.

· On Christmas Eve the Pope of Rome conducts a special mass seen by much of the earth.

· Parents that love YAHUAH don't lie to their children about a Roman Catholic myth named Nicholas.

· The Pilgrims in 1620, seeking to worship “God” in truth, formally banned the Christmas holiday.

· The Puritans in 1659, seeking to worship “God” in truth, set a 5 shillings fine for keeping Christmas.

· The modern Christmas tree was not introduced to this country until 1821 by the Germans.

· YAHUSHA could not have been born in December.

· YAHUSHA was not born in December, for shepherds did not stay in the fields during winter.

· YAHUSHA was not born in December, for taxation would not have been in the dead of winter.

· YAHUSHA was not born in December, for wise taxation would have been shortly after harvest.

· YAHUSHA was not born in December, for careful calculation of the priest's courses exclude it.

· The Roman feast at the winter solstice was to the sun god Mithras from the Persians.

· The Roman, extended feast prior to the winter solstice was to Saturn, god of agriculture.

· So many consider Christmas a sacred day beyond questioning or condemning, but instead are worshipping a "sacred cow" thus bringing judgment on themselves.

· Emperor Aurelian picked December 25 for this holiday in 274 A.D. to worship the sun god.

· The public schools in Boston were still open for classes on December 25 as late as 1870.

· The "birthday of the invincible sun" (dies natalis Solis invicti) was December 25 in Rome.

· December 25 was chosen by being the date of the winter solstice in the Julian calendar.

· Satan uses the pagan feast of Christmas to steal glory from the Son of the Creator for ignorant sun worship. This is part of Satan deceiving the entire world (Rev 12:9)

· Christmas American-style is oppression of parents by greedy children (Yeshayahu sn-Isaiah 3:1-5, 12)

· YAHUSHUA promised that the majority are on the wrong road leading to death (Mattithyahu sn-Matthew 7:13-14)

· All the unique customs of Christmas may be traced individually to pagan religious rites.

· Christmas creates the most foolish, hectic, stressful, guilt-ridden, and unproductive time of year.

· The suicide rate is at its highest during the “Christmas Season.”

· YAHUAH is a jealous Eloah (sn-God) and will judge any playing with other Elohim {sn- gods} (Shemoth sn-Ex 34:12-16)

· Celebrating Christmas would be identical to offering incense to the serpent of Moshah (sn-Moses)- (II Melakim sn-Kings 18:4)

· We choose to emulate Yaqob (sn- Jacob), who put away family idols to worship YAHUAH (Bereshith sn-Genesis 35:1-5)

· We choose to emulate Yahu (sn-Jehu), who defiled Baal worship to please YAHUAH (II Kings sn- Melakim 10:26-28)

· We choose to emulate Yoshiyahu (sn-Josiah), who defiled all pagan worship to please YAHUAH (II Kings sn-Melakim 23)

· We choose to emulate Aacaa (sn-Asa), who defiled his mother's favorite idol (II Dibre ha Yamim sn-Chronicles 15:12-16)

Here's a email conversation from a gentleman and our brother Lew White of FossilizedCustoms.com

Lew did a excellent job of explaining the truth about Christmas (Christ's Mass):

CHRISTMAS (CHRIST'S MASS) QUESTIONS

Subject: Christmas – a few questions about it asked recently of Lew White

Message from (name deleted): "This appears to be my year to break away from observing christmas. From what I have studied I believe that ceasing to observe christmas is part of "Coming out of her". I believe that I have been called to stop participating in this man-made holiday and to start observing the appointed times of Yahuah. I have already told my parents and grandmother and I can not say that this was an easy thing to do. It was met with sadness as I expected. I just now informed my wife's mother over the phone and she basically said that she "didn't feel her daughter should be with someone who doesn't want to be her family on christmas". She doesn't understand why I cannot at least be with the family on that day. Forsaking christmas has been a process over the past few years. I know that there is no way that I would be able to confront these people in my life if it were not for His strength and encouragement. If I were to ignore Yahuah's desire, I will live as a miserable coward not worthy of what He has called me to. I also believe that this is a test and that Yahuah can use my obedience to Spiritually benefit my family. I am assuming that you were brought up in a family that celebrated christmas. If this was the case, do you mind sharing with me a little about your experience with your family when you stopped participating in christmas?"

1) I believe that I am to cease from having anything to do with christmas, even if that means not even eating with my family. Would you say this is accurate?

2) Will you share with me some about your experience with your family when you stopped participating in christmas?

Dear brother (name deleted),

Like most people, I was raised celebrating Christmas as the “birthday of the Savior”. This practice under other names has been observed by Pagans as the rebirth of the sun deity for approximately 3000 years. The last big shift in the meaning or application of the solstice festival occurred in about 525 CE (AD), when Dionysius Exiguous (a monk) was appalled at what he discovered being celebrated at Rome upon his visitation there. He saw the raw, Pagan festival of Saturnalia in full swing. He was from Scythia, north of the Black Sea, an area once occupied by the northern tribes of Israel that had fled there from the land of Samaria in 722 BCE, driven out by the Assyrians. He recognized Pagan behavior, but chose to simply divert the “meaning” of the practice toward the birth of Yahushua, instead of the sun.

The worship of Baal and his consort Asherah was wrapped-up in the practice and symbols of this festival originally dedicated to the re-birth of the sun deity, being nine months from the springtime fertility festival of Ishtar (Easter), a time when the sun was believed to impregnate the Earth with the rays of the solar disc. As Christianity developed, these formerly Pagan festivals became reinvented so the idolatry would be concealed, down-played, or cloaked beneath new meanings - they essentially put lipstick on a pig and kissed it, believing it had changed into a beautiful woman. The Jesuit practice of “casuistry” (google that term) makes it possible to think about something in a completely new way, rationalizing and justifying it, so adapting a Pagan practice is thought to be “cleansed” as acceptable as long as the camouflage covers the old ideas well enough. The wreath is a symbol of a womb, the tree is a phallus, and the balls are testacles -- all liberally sprinkled with the tinsel which represents the semen of the solar deity. These symbols are only “seen” for what they really are by those initiated in the occult, yet Yahusha [YAHUAH ha Maschiach] told us that what is whispered in secret will be shouted from the rooftops. To the Canaanites, the tree was worshipped as Asherah, and gifts were brought into the “groves” of trees and placed beneath them as offerings.

Goliath of Gath (a Philistine/Palestinian) would have certainly used the tree, balls, Easter baskets, and Maypoles seen today. All of this is specifically against Dt. 12:28-32, but it is all well camouflaged and promoted to apply to the Messiah of Israel throughout the entire world. People can live in denial of the truth for their entire lives, but most never have the opportunity to learn there is anything wrong.

My parents and other family thought I had come in contact with a “cult” or had lost my mind when I first stopped going to the Christmas Day family get-togethers around 1986. They still don’t understand any better after over 20 years, but I always have hope they will come to understand my motivation for avoiding the Pagan practices specifically condemned by the Creator, Yahuah.

All I can do is encourage you to avoid idolatry in all its forms (Acts 15:29), and embrace the faith once delivered to the saints, Yahuah’s Torah (the Covenant), which Yahushua seeks to write upon a believer’s heart.

In answer to your first question, I’d say that Yahushua would not go to a party or gathering that people were having that had at one time been based on sun worship (Baal), or excuse it like the Jesuits with mental acrobatics (casuistry). So, completely ignoring the man-made “Christmas Day” is the best decision considering we’re going to have to give an account to the Creator of the heavens and the Earth one day.

We also have to warn those who engage in such things, otherwise their blood (on the day of judgment) will be upon our heads.

Needless to say, those who practice Christmas Day, Sun-day, and Easter Day are not exactly thrilled to hear about the true origins of the days from people like us. They feel we are judgmental, harsh, and no fun to be around. What they don’t see in us is the incredible freedom and clean-feeling we have because we have resisted the harlotry of idolatrous practices. We’re strange to them, and probably have the stench of the Messiah upon us. Peter told the former Pagans not to fall back into their idolatry, as a pig that has been bathed would return to wallowing in the mud, or a dog would return to that which it had once vomited up:

2Pe 2:21, 22: “For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the set-apart common delivered to them. For them the proverb has proved true: ‘A dog returns to his own vomit,’ and, ‘A washed sow returns to her rolling in the mud.’”

Lew White

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