Where It Started
Where It Started
As a Christian, it is necessary to understand that Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus Christ, and separate the two in your mind
and heart. Jesus Christ the Messiah is real, Christmas is a deception led by Satan, the Father of Lies, passed through history
starting with the first type of AntiChrist, Nimrod.
"Two key figures in the origin of Christmas are Nimrod, (a great
grandson of Noah), and his mother and wife, Semiramis, also known as
Ishtar and Isis. Nimrod, known in Egypt as Osiris, was the founder of
the first world empire at Babel, later known as Babylon (Genesis 10:8-12; 11:1-9). From ancient sources such as the "Epic of
Gilgamesh" and records unearthed by archeologists from
long-ruined Mesopotamian and Egyptian cities, we can reconstruct
subsequent events.
After Nimrod's death (c. 2167 BC), Semiramis
promoted the belief that he was a god. She claimed that she saw a
full-grown evergreen tree spring out of the roots of a dead tree
stump, symbolizing the springing forth of new life for Nimrod. On the
anniversary of his birth, she said, Nimrod would visit the evergreen
tree and leave gifts under it. His birthday fell on the winter
solstice at the end of December.
A few years later, Semiramis bore a
son, Horus or Gilgamesh. She declared that she had been visited by
the spirit of Nimrod, who left her pregnant with the boy. Horus, she
maintained, was Nimrod reincarnated. With a father, mother, and son
deified, a deceptive, perverted trinity was formed.
Semiramis and
Horus were worshipped as "Madonna and child." As the
generations passed, they were worshipped under other names in
different countries and languages. Many of these are recognizable:
Fortuna and Jupiter in Rome; Aphrodite and Adonis in Greece; and
Ashtoreth/Astarte and Molech/Baal in Canaan.
During the time between
Babel and Christ, pagans developed the belief that the days grew
shorter in early winter because their sun-god was leaving them. When
they saw the length of the day increasing, they celebrated by
riotous, unrestrained feasting and orgies. This celebration, known as
Saturnalia, was named after Saturn, another name for Nimrod."
Martin
G. Collins
“Behind all Pagan deity worship stands Satan himself. He accepts
honor in whatever name we wish to call him;
Baal, Moloch, Marduk, Venus, Odin, Krishna, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Zeus,
Amon-Ra, Mithras, Ahura-Mazda, Dagon
— male or female, it matters not. The most important day in the
life of any Satan worshipper [sic] is their annual birthday.”
“The 'Saturnalia' was named for Saturn, otherwise known as Cronus.
Cronus is an alias for Tammuz. Tammuz was Nimrod reborn
- alias, his son. His wife and mother was Rhea (Semiramis). Egyptian and Babylonian antiquities
recognize his mother as Semiramis,
and his birthday is celebrated on 25th December.
Semiramis was depicted as a virgin Madonna holding the “Christ”
child.”
“The Saturnalia, therefore, was just another observance for
Tammuz/Nimrod, the Babylonian, counterfeit redeemer.”
~ Hebrew Roots – the Neglected Commandments
Eye Opening Pagan Events
Lawrence Kelemen excerpts from his site: SimpleToRemember.com
A more concise and in depth description of the initiation of first
Christmas
and
pagan events which were celebrated at that same time.
Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long
period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this
period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one
could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the
week-long celebration. The festival began when Roman authorities
chose “an enemy of the Roman people” to represent the “Lord of
Misrule.” Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced
to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week.
At the festival’s conclusion, December 25th, Roman authorities
believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally
murdering this innocent man or woman.
The ancient Greek writer poet and historian Lucian (in his dialogue
entitled Saturnalia) describes the festival’s observance in his
time. In addition to human sacrifice, he mentions these customs:
widespread intoxication; going from house to house while singing
naked; rape and other sexual license; and consuming human-shaped
biscuits (still produced in some English and most German bakeries
during the Christmas season).
In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival
hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders
succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by
promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia
as Christians.[2]
The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about
Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named
Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’
birthday.
Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of
Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the
University of Massachussetts [sic], Amherst, writes, “In return for
ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s
birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part
tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the
way it had always been.” The earliest Christmas holidays were
celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the
streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.
The Reverend Increase Mather of Boston observed in 1687 that “the
early Christians who first observed the Nativity on December 25 did
not do so thinking that Christ was born in that Month, but because
the Heathens’ Saturnalia was at that time kept in Rome, and they
were willing to have those Pagan Holidays metamorphosed into
Christian ones.”[3] Because of its known pagan origin, Christmas
was banned by the Puritans and its observance was illegal in
Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681.
Some of the most depraved customs of the Saturnalia carnival were
intentionally revived by the Catholic Church in 1466 when Pope Paul
II, for the amusement of his Roman citizens, forced Jews to race
naked through the streets of the city. An eyewitness account reports,
“Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make
the race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing
for spectators. They ran… amid Rome’s taunting shrieks and peals
of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented
balcony and laughed heartily.”[5]
As part of the Saturnalia carnival throughout the 18th and 19th
centuries CE, rabbis of the ghetto in Rome were forced to wear
clownish outfits and march through the city streets to the jeers of
the crowd, pelted by a variety of missiles. When the Jewish community
of Rome sent a petition in 1836 to Pope Gregory XVI begging him to
stop the annual Saturnalia abuse of the Jewish community, he
responded, “It is not opportune to make any innovation.”[6] On
December 25, 1881, Christian leaders whipped the Polish masses into
Antisemitic frenzies that led to riots across the country. In Warsaw
12 Jews were brutally murdered, huge numbers maimed, and many Jewish
women were raped. Two million rubles worth of property was destroyed.
[2]The first mention of a Nativity feast appears in the Philocalian
calendar, a Roman document from 354 CE, which lists December 25th as
the day of Jesus’ birth.
[3] Increase Mather, A Testimony against Several Prophane and
Superstitious Customs, Now Practiced by Some in New England (London,
1687), p. 35. See also Stephen Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas:
A Cultural History of America’s Most Cherished Holiday, New York:
Vintage Books, 1997, p. 4.
[5] David I. Kertzer, The Popes Against the
Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001, p. 74.
Bold added for emphasis