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| Apostle Dr. Gabriel Sanchez Velazquez last June 10th, 2012, in a dinner that offered him the Philadelphia Christian Community on the occasion of his birthday |
"To
the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it
is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20
When one studies history, they
remain surprised at the cunning way that Satan has deceived humanity in the
same way, generation after generation.
Speaking of the Christmas
celebrations, you would suppose that present Christians that celebrate
Christmas do it in a distinct way from how the pagan peoples of olden times did
it. But, oh what a surprise! The tradition has been jealously guarded year
after year, the Babylonian priests with black cassock, miter, and stole do not
inhibit showing the pagan origin of the Christmas holiday.
THE CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION IN BABYLONIA
James George Frazer in his
book The Legacy of Rome, on page 242 says: "It is known that
the majority of our relation with the Christmas season and the holidays, the
giving of gifts and the feeling of friendship, are no more that an inheritance
of the Roman winter festival originating from the SATURNALIA, which comes from
paganism." (Saturnalia was the name that the Romans gave to the
Tammuz nativity, the 25th of December in Rome
Since the days in which
Semiramis propagated the idea that her husband Nimrod had transformed into the
"sun god", all the idolatrous religions rotated around this heavenly
body. The religious beliefs revolved around the sun, the heat, and the fire.
Therefore Baal was a
sanguinary god among the Canaanites that was represented by a figure of a man
seated with his arms crossed that simulated carrying a baby. It was of bronze
and hollow. In the back it was warmed up with firewood that remained fiery red,
and halfway through the mass they placed a sacrifice of a recently born baby
that was consumed burning in the breast of the statue.
In the book, Man and His
Gods, on page 201 it is affirmed: "The winter time was when all
the sun gods, from Osiris to Jupiter and Mitras celebrated their birthdays. The
celebrations consisted of pine trees for Adonis, Saturn, and others that
represented the heat of the new birth of the sun in the form of fire."
Therefore Christmas is a
celebration completely Babylonian, deeply rooted in the ancient world (before
the birth of Jesus Christ). A celebration that has been maintained for 16
centuries of nominal Christianity since the fourth century until today.
It should be honestly
accepted, that the apostate leaders of Christianity in their desire to mix the
Gospel with the galloping paganism, did not have second thoughts about reducing
their faith until it harmonized with the pagan celebrations, as in this case,
until they harmonized the birth of the false gods with that of the Lord Jesus.
THE CHRISTMAS TREE IN BABYLON
The Christmas of 1970 was the
first Christmas that I experienced being married to my lovely wife. I remember
well that it was already the 20th of December, and I did not have money to buy
a Christmas tree. I felt so pained as if my family had not eaten in a whole week.
Finally I bought the smallest one that I could find at a street stand, and with
embarrassment I took it home. But by the Christmas of 1971, (the year that my
firstborn son was born) I bought a tree so big that it reached the ceiling. We
have a family photo with this tree surrounded by many gifts that we brought for
our baby, since he was born on the 8th of November of that year.
Have you noticed how much
anxiety there is to buy, place and adorn the Christmas tree in each house?
Satan makes the people feel that in the house where there is no tree during the
Christmas season, there is no life, there is no love...in short there is no
home. But did you know that the Babylonians did the same many thousands of
years ago before the Savior of the world was born?
A Babylonian legend greatly
spread during antiquity, said that Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod, affirmed that
on the patio of her palace there was a dead tree trunk, that on the night that
her son Tammuz was born became a leafy pine tree. She said that the dead trunk
symbolized her then dead husband, and the leafy pine tree that came out of the
dead trunk symbolized her son Tammuz, who was the incarnated Nimrod, the “sun
god”.
So that by imperial decree of
Semiramis, soon in all of Babylonia , a tree
was adorned in the brightest way during every Christmas season. It was
decorated with cherries because cherries are red and heat is red, they are
round and the sun is round. In this way each Babylonian family believed they
had a religious representation of the god Tammuz in their own house. And nobody
wanted to be left without the blessing of Tammuz.
William S. Walsh in his book Curiosities
of The Popular Customs on page 242 says: “The Druids, the Egyptians,
and the Romans adorned their sacred trees with red cherries during the
Saturnalia” (the Roman Christmas).
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| Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod, with her son Tammuz |
It is noteworthy to specify
that the Christmas tree:
1. Was an idol. It represented Tammuz.
2. Wasn’t any tree, but a sacred tree.
3. The way of adorning it, joins oneself to those who do it
with the spiritual purpose of having the “sun god”
in their house.
Ethel L. Urlin in her book Holidays,
Saints, and Holy Days on page 222 asserts: “And just like other pagan
rites were absorbed by “Christianity”, so was the use of the Christmas Tree. The
Christmas tree sums up the ideas of worship with bright balls in the symbol of
the sun... and all of the pagan winter holidays have been incorporated in
the Christmas day.”
There hasn’t been lacking
those who would argue that in the Bible is mentioned THE TREE OF LIFE. We, however, have a trait of honesty. Nobody
with common sense would identify the Christmas Tree with THE TREE OF LIFE. On
the contrary, the green leafy trees among the Canaanites are always tied to
pagan worship. There are numerous Biblical passages that make reference to the
green tree being associated to idolatry. Deuteronomy 12:2 says: “You shall
utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess
served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills, and UNDER EVERY
GREEN TREE.”
The fall of Samaria
is associated with the apostasy of Israel
On this point we don’t pretend
to assert that those who adorn their house with a Christmas tree, worship the
tree. But we do affirm that the Christmas tree has been an idol, a motive for
worship. Consequently, returning to an idolatrous practice has a spiritual
cost. One should understand that is deals with an abominable practice in the
eyes of God. Remember:
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| Satan has a legal right on objects that have been used as religious idols. In this case, the Christmas tree is Tammuz's dedication |
- The Christmas tree
has originally been a symbol of a false god, representing Tammuz.
- It has been a
motive of worship.
- People use the
tree without understanding the spiritual consequences that it has. It is more than a
decoration, it has spiritual strongholds.
Think: Apart from the force of
the custom, what other reason is there to perpetuate the practice of putting up
a Christmas tree during the Christmas season?
The force of the tradition
cannot be stronger than our love for the eternal Word of God. “What would they
say about us” if we loose ourselves from this practice should not determine if
we follow or don’t observe a religious tradition from which the Lord Jesus with
the gospel has liberated us.
