When will we will discern between the spirits?

 

 

The Philadelphia Christian Comunity  praising in a worship

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

1 John 4:1

 

Millions of evangelical Christians at this time already know that the Christmas holiday is of Babylonian origin, and however, do not have the least intention of abandoning this religious practice. The force of the custom is stronger in them than the desire to please God.  To remain accepted by others has a more prominent place in their interests.

However, if you desire to please the Lord Jesus Christ, and have an authentic hunger for the things of God, you should reflect with sincerity about those who celebrate the Christmas holiday and why.

 

We observe that this holiday is celebrated with much pleasure by the Roman-Catholics, the same as the Buddhists. The public plazas of self-proclaimed atheistic governments have Christmas trees just as in capitalistic countries of Christian tradition. In Red Square of Moscow or in the White House of Washington there is a celebration of Christmas. Christmas trees and decorations can be seen in schools that shout about imparting a secular education just as in classrooms of parochial schools. The voracious commerce is dressed with Christmas. There is a Christmas tree in an evangelical church just as in a bar or a brothel.

 

It is also a good time to point out that the Christmas decorations most sought after and valued are of Japanese origin.  And Japan is not a country of Christian tradition but of the Shintoistic religion. The best Christmas decorations for the West come from the East.

 

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

 

They say that in December there is a “Christmas spirit”. This truth cannot be denied. There is a Christmas spirit. It can be perceived in all the world. The essence of this statement is: Where does this Christmas spirit come from?

 

In the light of Christian teaching (I say, in the light of the same Christ) it has to be a spirit opposed to the Lord Jesus Christ. Since the word has only two attitudes: One of rejecting the things of God and one of full acceptance of the things of darkness. The sons of darkness abhor what is of God. Jesus Christ says in the Gospel of John 17:14: “I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, JUST AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD.”  In another opportunity Jesus Christ says to his true disciples according to Luke 21:17: “And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake.”

 

How can the declarations of Jesus Christ be reconciled with the attitude of the world toward the Christmas spirit? In only one way: Christmas has nothing to due with Jesus Christ, or with his doctrine, or with his true disciples.

 

Those who dwell in the brothel along with the robber and the atheist talk about and celebrate Christmas.  And the apostate churches keep on saying: “We make Christ the center of our Christmas celebration.”  Why do they have to say such affirmation if Christmas was a Christian holiday? But they know that Christmas is a pagan holiday and has an ingenious arrangement of “Christianity”.

 

ARE CHRISTMAS GIFTS PAGAN OR CHRISTIAN?

 

Although it cannot be denied that some people give gifts out of a sincere feeling, we all know that a major part of the gifts that “one has to give” on Christmas, especially in the famous “gift exhange”, is done with disinterest and many times with hypocrisy. It is done out of a social duty. But do you know my dear reader since when did they begin to give Christmas gifts? Could you imagine the Apostle Paul promoting this custom or maybe Peter or Philip? No. They never imagined it in the least!

 

Tertullian, considered by Roman Catholicism as the “father of the church" born between the year 150 and 155 and died between the years 220 and 225, was a lawyer born in Carthage and lived in Rome. Tertullian converted to authentic Christianity between 190 and 195 D.C., and this great Christian writings tells us that THE PRACTICE OF EXCHANGING GIFTS DURING THIS SEASON IS PART OF THE ROMAN SATURNALIA. You should know that in the days of Tertullian no Christian really converted to the Gospel celebrated Christmas. The Babylonian practices were combated headfirst, and in an unanimous way, by all Christians.

Is  Jesus Christ the center of the Christmas?

 

When the apostate leaders gradually adopted the celebration of the nativity of Tammuz, they tried to find in the Gospels some support for continuing the practice of exchanging gifts. They believed to find it in Mathew 2:11 where it says: “And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.”

 

We note that the wise men brought gifts to Jesus, and they found him in a house, and not in a manger, since they arrived about two years after the birth of Christ. Therefore, it didn’t have to do with Christmas gifts, but an expression of worship of the Son of God. We remember that the reason that Herod the Great ordered the killing of all boys two years and younger, was because the calculation of the age of the Lord was less than two years.  Also these gifts should be understood in the context of the oriental culture. One could not visit a king without taking him a present. And for the wise men, Jesus was the king of the Jews that had been born. In Mathew 2:2 when the wise men asked about the Lord they said: “Where is he who has been born Kind of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.” Said another way, these gifts have nothing to do with Christmas gifts.

 

The voracious business of Christmas has exalted the god of commerce, which is also the mythological character, Santa Claus (read Satan Claus), whose laugh signifies the mocking of the poor children who cannot buy the expensive and sophisticated toys that they advertise, and therefore cannot participate in the compulsive consumption.

 

Currently there are evangelical churches that adorn the doors and windows of their church with Santa Claus. Despite this, without any doubt, this character has a Babylonian origin along with all the Christmas practices that we have briefly listed.

 

HOW WAS THE NATIVITY OF TAMMUZ CHRISTIANIZED?

Among the books about the history of the Christian church, that the majority of the pastors of the historical churches (Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, and enlightened Pentecostals) have had in their hands is the classic work: History of the Christian Church by Wilston Walker. On page 169 of this book it says: “Towards the IV century the observance of the Ascension was common. The main church holiday added during this period WAS CHRISTMAS.  It appears that until the IV century there was never celebrated any holiday for the Nativity of Jesus. In any event, the celebration of the 25th of December as Christmas Day, appears for the first time in Rome in the year 353 or 354...From Rome it passed to the East, being introduced in Constantinople probably by Gregorio Nacianceno between 387 and 381.”

 

Another very important fact is that the Church of Antioch of Syria, where God raised up the Apostles Barnabas and Paul, opposed the celebration of this pagan holiday during a whole generation after it had already been made official in Rome by the apostate Bishop Liborio. It wasn’t until 386 that John Chrysostom succeeded imposing this pagan holiday in Antioch, apostatizing the great faithfulness that the local church had observed in the first four centuries of Christianity.