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 :
1) Nimrod who was son of Cush, son of Ham who was cursed by his father Noah, Genesis 9:25.
2) Nimrod's incestouos mother who was also his wife known as Semiramis, was also known as
Ishtar and Isis [the focus of Easter on the Gregorian calendar. She is also considered the Queen of Heaven referenced in Jeremiah 44:15-19 [Ancient biblical scholar and historian Eusebius identifies Semiramis as the wife of Nimrod and as Queen of Babylon. She was pretty wicked herself.]
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). [His name means "rebellion" or "the valiant" he was a mighty hunter. The book of Jasher ( 8 & 11) tells a little more and that he was horribly wicked. VERY wicked.] 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) [Jasher 27], Semiramis
promoted the belief that he was a [sun] 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 [which means God of Light], she maintained, was Nimrod reincarnated (also called Tammuz memtioned in Ezekiel 8) With a father, mother, and son deified, a perverted trinity was formed through an immaculate conception deception. His being a sun god is depicted with the sun glow around his head as are] 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, [after the solstice on the 25 it was said to be re-born”. They therefore proclaimed it to be the birthday of the sun-deity.] they celebrated by riotous, unrestrained feasting and orgies. This celebration, known as Saturnalia, was named after Saturn, another name for Nimrod." [held on December 17th later expanded through 24 Dec on Julian calendar. "All known sun-deities were 'born' on December 25. There are many. Nimrod was considered the father of all the Babylonian gods.]
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
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.
Tracking The Masquerade
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 AD 120 – ca 180 (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). I wonder if they were gingerbread?
The New Testament has no evidence linking the nativity to the 25th December. In fact, it was not until 221 AD that Sextus Julius Africanus linked the birth of Christ to this date. ~ Historyandarchaeologyonline.com
"Because the Roman emperor Aurelian fixed December 25th for the winter solstice holiday in AD 274, it is thought that the early Christians adopted this day for their Christ-mass so that they would be less conspicuous in the observance of their holiday. . . .
The World Book Encyclopedia "Christmas" as "Cristes Maesse", meaning "Mass of Christ." The word "Mass" used only by the Roman Catholics means a "death sacrifice."
The date of December 25 is contrived from evidences of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Calculating that date to be March 25, Rome and the church determined he was 'conceived' and died on the same day of the month. Hence, conceived on March 25 thereby born 9 months later brings us to December 25. Rome just happened to be celebrating several pagan festivals at that time so they managed to 'justify' it without facts and to get it lost in with pagan festivities ~ according to "Inside the Vatican" in their article " The 25th of December Pagan Feast or Patristic Tradition" (church fathers) Eye Opening Pagan Events ~ Lawrence Kelemen excerpts from his site: SimpleToRemember.com
The earliest known observance of Christmas on December 25th was the year AD 336 in Rome, as recorded in a calendar of the period." ~ The Book of the Bible by Riedel, Tracy & Moskwitz [2]
The first mention of a Nativity feast appears in the Philocalian calendar, a Roman document from 354 AD/ CE, ...and it notes “December 25th was officially established as the birthdate of Christ on the calendar of Philocalus in Rome.”Historyandarchaeologyonline.com
In the 4th century AD/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] As in our time today where Christians are taught they do not need to repent. This is Satan's lie to make you think you can do whatever you want and still be saved. This is not Scriptural.
Side Note: When Islam was initiated by their prophet Mohammad in 632 AD after he was chased out of Mecca, he fled to Medina where he enticed 10,000 men to follow him in his new religion promising they could continue many of their pagan practices
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.
In 1466 some of the most depraved customs of the Saturnalia carnival were intentionally revived by the Catholic Church 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]
Also in the fifth century the Roman Catholic Church order that the birth of Christ be observed on December 25, the day of the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol, the sun god. They renamed this day "Christmas."
Between 1659 and 1681 because of its known pagan origin, Christmas was banned by the Puritans and its observance was illegal in Massachusetts.
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. [4] However, Christmas was and still is celebrated by most Christians.
In the 17th century, the English anti-Christmas attitude spread to her Puritan territories in America. In defiance of the Puritan attitude, the Catholic church established special Christmas services in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1690s, but many civil authorities strongly opposed them
By the early 1700s, German and Dutch settlers had brought the pagan custom of the gift-bringing St. Nicholas and the Christmas tree with them. Christmas was primarily celebrated in their settlements. German mercenaries, fighting on the British side in the War of Independence, raised Christmas trees in their camps.
In 1823 Santa Claus acquired national fame in the United States as a result of a poem. According to Man, Myth and Magic Encyclopedia: St. Nicholas had become famous as a result of Clarke Moore's poem "The Night Before Christmas," published in 1823.
In 1836, Christmas first became an American legal holiday in the state of Alabama. Soon, one state after another legalized this pagan festival. Today, the U.S. celebrates this 4000-year-old festival as a national holiday with gift-giving and riotous, unrestrained feasting and drinking, in a manner similar to the celebrations in the ancient world. Martin G. Collins ~ Syncretismas!
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. Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia.
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. Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia.
By the 1890s the English Father Christmas, originally a minor character in a mummer's play (armature folk plays), had been absorbed into the personality of his American counterpart, and become the jovial figure that he is today.
As part of the Saturnalia carnival throughout the 18th and 19th centuries AD/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]
The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 edition, in the article "Natal Day," records that the early Catholic church father, Origen, acknowledged: In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It is only sinners like Pharaoh and Herod who make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born into this world.
Encyclopedia Americana, 1944 edition "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. . . ." (The "Communion," which is instituted by New Testament Bible authority, is a memorial of the death of Christ.) ". . . A feast was established in memory of this event [Christ's birth] in the fourth century.
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.
[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.
Brackets [ ] in paragraphs indicate additional information to quoted source
Bold added for emphasis