The True Meaning of Christmas

OK, so what does Christmas mean? Well, I suppose, first and foremost it depends on whom you are asking. Is it the British, US & European secular lobby or the Christian religious lobby, or even the heathen religious lobby, ‘cos here in secular UK we have Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists and even Muslims keeping Christmas – you name ‘em and they keep it? So what’s going on? Perhaps the answer to this question is tied up in why I, as a believer in Yashua Anointed (the Lord Jesus Christ), do not keep Christmas and haven’t done so for many years. Now, before I get labelled Ebenezer Scrooge 2012 I will quickly explain that it’s for Spiritual reasons that I don’t keep Christmas, not for financial reasons. That being said, this year I reckon I will save more than a £1,500.00 or in excess of $2,400.00 US. The projected national Christmas spend here in the UK, for this year, is expected to be £70 billion or $112 billion US. This equates to nearly £1,100 or $1,760.00 US for every man, woman and child in Britain!! This is awesome big business however we cut it – nativity or no nativity.

Moreover, and whether there is a recession or not, from a Spiritual and Holy Scriptural perspective, where is the Father God and/or Yashua Anointed (the Lord Jesus Christ) in all this frantic commercialised frenzy? How can God play any part in such a self serving festival where Mammon is king? Mammon rules, OK!? Yashua Anointed does not. With that in mind, I can hear some of you saying: “Yes, but there is a Spiritual dimension to Christmas – it’s all about one’s perspectives, priorities and focus.” True, there can be a Spiritual side to the 25th December and if you want to keep the 25th of December “Holy to Yashua Anointed” that’s your business and I’m not against you doing so, nor am I going to speak against you doing so. In turn, I trust you are not going to speak against me, whilst I choose not to keep it and, perhaps, you might like to know why, I, as a Christian, do not keep it when multiple millions of so called Christians do. If we are serious as committed Christians we all need to know The Truth about Christmas to enable us to come to an informed decision as to whether we should or should not continue keeping it, i.e. once we know The Truth about it. So, if after reading my article on Christmas you still want to carry on with it, OK, as I said – that’s your business, not mine, and make the most of it for one day it will be gone forever – never to be observed again.

OK, apart from the commercial negativity of Christmas, what are the supposed Spiritual elements and benefits of Christmas? Is it, for instance, something that was or is commanded by Yashua Anointed (the Lord Jesus Christ)? Let’s face it, it is His birthday after all, isn’t it? Well no, actually it isn’t, there is no known date for His birth nor did He leave us with any command to keep it. Now why do you think that is? We know the date of His death and resurrection, but not His birth, why? To me, this means we are not meant to keep it, if we were, He would have left us a date, at least, surely!? So why do so many so called Christians keep it? Why is it called Christmas or Christ’s Mass? Where did this nonsensical term come from? Why is the word ‘mass’ not found anywhere in the Holy Scriptures? When did Christians start holding a ‘mass’ for His birth? Indeed, where in The Holy Scriptures are we commanded to hold a ‘mass’ for anything, let alone a ‘mass’ on Yashua Anointed’s supposed birth?

All the answers to these questions lie in the origins of Christmas, which are steeped in heathen, pagan and man made religious traditions – the traditions of men, and there are no Biblical foundations for these traditions at all, not one. The 25th of December is actually the culmination of the Feast of Saturnalia, a heathen festival kept by the Romans. This feast began on the 17th December and ended a week later on the 24th culminating in the festival of Sol Invictus or Unconquered Sun on the 25th December. This feasting was just a pagan celebration of bestial fertility rites and the winter solstice, nothing else. This pagan festival has no connection with the birth of Yashua Anointed at all – not one part of it. Furthermore, all the Biblical evidence, such as there is, points to another time of the year altogether for Yashua Anointed’s birth.

So let us start our search for The Truth in the Gospel of Luke:

Luke 2:8 “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.”

Here we read of the shepherds watching over their flocks at night, but this didn’t happen in December in Judea, it was far too cold and wet for that. All the animals not slaughtered were taken indoors before the winter season arrived, so just from this evidence alone a very big question mark appears over the 25th December as the birth date of Yashua Anointed (the Lord Jesus Christ). This event most certainly took place at a warmer time of the year, when shepherds would have been out in the fields watching their flocks.

Here is another piece of evidence: In September the Israelites used to keep an Old Covenant festival known as the Feast of Trumpets. The Jews still do to this day and call it

Rosh Hashanah.

Leviticus 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, (The seventh month of the Hebrew Calendar and the ninth month of Julian Calendar) in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an Holy Convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. (Emphasis & brackets Mine)

This feast was symbolic of the coming of Yashua Anointed, The Messiah, in both his physical coming in the first century and His Spiritual second coming in the future to rule this earth. When Yashua Anointed returns a Trumpet will sound prior to His arrival. First we have Joel in the Old Testament prophesying the first coming and then Yashua Anointed Himself prophesying His second coming. The Feast of Trumpets always takes place in September.

Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand.

Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Emphasis mine)

Here is more Biblical proof that Yashua Anointed was not born on December 25th:

The birth of John the Baptist took place six months before Yashua Anointed was born and we know this from Luke:

Luke 1:36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

Now if we can roughly prove when John was born we will know that Yashua Anointed was born six months later:

Luke 1:5 & 8 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course. (Emphasis mine)

Holy Scripture tells us that Elizabeth became pregnant just after her husband Zacharias, who was a priest, had finished his stint of service at The Temple; called “the course of Abia” This was six months before Mary was miraculously found with child – Yashua Anointed. In Old Testament times during the reign of King David, the priestly course was separated into 24 sessions of duty and we can read the proof of it in 1 Chr 24:7-19. These sessions of service began in the first month of the Hebrew year – Abib or Nisan or March/April in the western secular calendar. Again, read 1 Chr 27:2.

Each of these priestly sessions or shifts of duty, to use a modern term, lasted a week. The first course was the first week and the second course the second week until the 24th course and 24th week and then they were repeated or rotated all over again. An additional four weeks were also served at the time of their feasts and annual weekly feasts to complete the fifty two week annual cycle. Now Zacharias’ term of duty or course of Abijah was the eighth session or week counting from the beginning of the Hebrew New Year – Abib/Nisan or March/April, taking us to early June. If it had been the second rotation of service it would then have been in December. So Elisabeth conceived either in June or December. In the first instance this would mean that John the Baptist was born in March and Yashua Anointed six months later in September. In the second instance John the Baptist would have been born in September and Yashua Anointed six months later in March. Either way, we certainly don’t have a December birth date for Yashua Anointed – it never happened in December. It’s all conjured up by man and it is all lies of the tricksters and sorcerers within the Roman Cult and the Protestant Christian Religion.

Having shown this proof and evidence of either a March or September birth date for the Lord, we can now see that this ties in nicely with shepherds being in the fields with their flocks at night, for it would have been dry and warmer. Furthermore, with the Feast of Trumpets proof thrown in as well, we can now be very sure that Yashua Anointed was born in September and not in March. Of one thing we can be 100% certain – it wasn’t the 25th December!!

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