It is the holiday season again and who is the one being lifted up?
This is a question we should ask our selfs when setting up for the holidays!
Take a look at each holdiday:
THANKSGIVING:
worshipped: turkey
the history is not only was the pilgrams thankful for religious freedom but also for how they killed all the indians in the area thats they felt would be a threat
CHRISTMAS
worshipped : santa
Take a look at this santa=satan
see how its transform the supposed real meaning of christmas is lost. If you ask most kids what is the meaning of christmas is they will respond when santa comes and gives me presents. they dont even know that the meaning is JESUS being born and that is THE GREATEST GIFT. Just how satan tried in heaven to be better then GOD and take all his GLORY ( which will never happen) he is tring to take all of the focus off of GOD and the wonderful gift he shed and we in all our sin do not deserve (THANK YOU JESUS)
EASTER: the bunny
honestly I never found out until i first got saved and went to church the easter is when JESUS resurrected from the cross. Here we go again the glory taking out of what is suppose to be.
ok now look at something else where in THE BIBLE THE LIVING WORD OF GOD does it give a date on when JESUS was born and when JESUS resurrected?? It never says does it
These holiday we believers celebrate are man made!!!!!
read this:
"celebration during the winter season were common, way before Christmas was celebrated on December 25th. Actually, Christmas was a movable feast and was celebrated many different times during the year. Not until Pope Julius I in the 4th century AD choose December 25th because it coincided with the Pagan rituals of Winter Solstice or "Return of the Sun". The purpose was to replace the Pagan celebration with the Christian one. 11 days were dropped from the year in 1752, when we switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. The date, December 25th was effectively moved backwards by 11 days. Some Christian Church Sects, called the "Calendarists", still celebrate Christmas on January 7th (previously December 25th of the Julian calendar)." this was taking from www.inglewoodcarecentre.com/history/christmas_history.htm
And this:
Modern-day Easter is derived from two ancient traditions: one Judeo-Christian and the other Pagan. Both Christians and Pagans have celebrated death and resurrection themes following the Spring Equinox for millennia. Most religious historians believe that many elements of the Christian observance of Easter were derived from earlier Pagan celebrations. this came from:www.religioustolerance.org/easter.htm
now think of this:
john 12:32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all [men] unto me
isaiah 1:14 "I hate your new moon festivals and your appoionted feasts, they have become a burden to ME . I am weary of bearing them."
isaiah40:18-20 "to whom then will you liken GOD? or what likeness will you compare with him?(19) As for the idol, a craftsman casts it, a goldsmith plates it with gold, and silversmith fashins chains of silver.(20) He who is too impoverished for an offeirng selects a tree that does not rot; he seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman to prepare an idol that will not totter" ( do you see the christmas tree in this)
last thing to think on:
did GOD not make all days equal and who are we to decide what days should be held higher then the next for GOD the creater of heaven and earth created days not man.
