WHAT'S WRONG WITH A LITTLE PAGANISM THIS WEEKEND..?
Does The Lord mind our Christmas observations?
In case you’re wondering why you didn’t get my card.. I wrote the following article FOUR years ago - one year after I posted that the USA was entering into judgment, (2017) and 3 years before we did. (2020) The prophet Samuel named disobedience as ‘the sin of witchcraft’.1 The Bible actually tells us to NOT practice heathen traditions. To do so, is so much disobedience; At what cost? Look around you in the USA today, and you tell me... Here it is again, the 2018 piece on - ‘Why to NOT celebrate Christmas’.
Dear Friend of God,
After talking to dear friends earlier today who are celebrating Christmas, I decided to post the uncomfortable truth that Christmas is not of God, that it has no Biblical basis at all, and we are not to celebrate it. And that, in fact, much that like 2water baptism, Christmas is harmful to Christians.
A cursory reading of Ezekiel chapter 8 would explain.
So would reading John 4:23
NOTE: I just opened the Bible to check the specific verse and it opened EXACTLY to John 4!.. where Jesus opines, 'God is SEARCHING for people who will worship Him in spirit AND in TRUTH'.
(Christmas is not truth Misha, and it is not up to us to call something 'pure' that God has not cleansed. To this day He has not cleansed pagan Sun worship. He still hates it.)
OBEDIENCE has rewards
So Having obediently posted the truth about the 'holiday', the holy spirit surprised me with a visit - while my mind was on other things,. taking me virtually by the hand to an archive in my house...
In a drawer that I rarely venture to open, my hand was moved to pull out an old DVD cover; that I probably have had more than 5 years, but have never opened. Obediently I pulled off the wrapping and found a sermon inside entitled 'Sunburned'. Then the holy spirit said to me 'This is about Christmas'.
So this time, instead of stashing it back in the drawer, I opened the case and sat down to listen..
It has been my exciting experience that when the holy spirit directs a study, he means to show me tremendous things!.. (Like in January of this year when he had me Biblical character of the flat, motionless earth.. but that's for another time...)
The DVD contained a tremendous Bible ministry called "Test Everything"., had a teaching about Christmas and Easter. Somehow I had a copy of it and didn't even know it!
(I am listening to the sermon right now and marveling again at the principle of the 2nd witness. The 2nd witness is the way that God ESTABLISHES truth for us. I daresay, if churches would seek out the 2nd witness faithfully, there would be no division in the body of Christ.)
Well the teacher on the DVD in discussing whether or not it is OK to observe Christmas - took me to Ezekiel 8.
Fact is, in Ezekiel 8 I’d marked verse after verse after verse on the subject of ‘not observing pagan rites', and not 'worshipping the gods of the heathens'.
But take a look at verse 16!
Verse 16 is where the angel shows Ezekiel the WORST of the abominations... God's own people are practicing SUN WORSHIP!
In fact in this DVD sermon, just about EVERY verse proffered on Christmas and Easter, I have underlined in my Bible. This is the 2nd witness at work..
SO..as LON SOLOMON would say.. 'SO WHAT?'
Easter and Christmas are about sun worship. That's what.
God is looking for people who will worship Him in TRUTH. Jesus also said that 'if we love God we would obey Him'. Jesus also said no man can serve 2 masters.
Paul wrote to the Corinthians "You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too." (I Cor 10:21)
IS there a point in which we realize what this means is that we are to not follow - as the Sadducees and Pharisees did - the customs and traditions of men? Are we MEN pleasers? Or pleasers of God?
There is a great deal more on the DVD (Sunburned), than this, though I did learn 2 things I didn't realize:
1) The first Christians in American outlawed Christmas. They knew its roots.
2) Christmas didn't become a holiday in the US until 1856. Which marks the period of time that the scriptures were already being watered down, and compromise was making inroads into the church of Christ.3
SO WHAT?? Does it REALLY matter?
What we're seeing here - is how celebrating CHRISTMAS is precisely the sort of COMPROMISE the church of Christ is guilty of, an act of insouciance which has brought the United States to the point where NOTHING is sacred, EVERYTHING can be rationalized, NOTHING matters, and the whole labyrinth of outrageous behaviors, deadly woes, godawful practices and a church sold out to the world.. began with innocent little celebrations in Christ's church like the pagan 'Sun worship' otherwise known as Easter and Christmas. That's all.
I'll tell you so what. Jesus is set to return very very soon. He pounds that fact home to me daily; He WANTS a pristine church to present to the Father.
Are your garments spotless? I've been working hard on getting all of the stains out of mine. Because he matters to me more than anyone liking my posts., and because the ‘Midnight Hour fast approaches’.
God bless you.
Victoria Christine
I Samuel 15:23
Water baptism is harmful, because it gives a person the false sense of security that they are now born again. If a Christian is only water baptised, and not baptised in the holy spirit, he may be not be born again at all, and may not realize it. And he may NOT be on the fast track out of here when Christ returns; Do you want yourself, or any of your family members to be here for the hell on earth to come? That's why it is harmful.
Europe was already well on its way down, as noted by giants of Biblical research like E.W. Bullinger; and learned men like James Fenimore Cooper were challenging the American propensity for things material as opposed to spiritual.