The Truth about Christmas

Submitted by Mario

Does Christmas really celebrate the birthday of Jesus? Was He born on December 25th? Did Paul, the apostles, and the early Church of the New Testament celebrated Christmas? Do you know what the BIBLE says about the Christmas tree?

Stop and think! Very few know WHY we do the things we do, or WHERE our customs came from! We were born into a world filled with customs. We grew up practicing them, taking them for granted, but NEVER QUESTIONED WHY?

The word “Christmas” means “Mass of Christ”, or as it later became shortened, “Christ-Mass.” It came to us as a Roman Catholic mass. And where did they get it? They got it from the HEATHEN celebration of December 25th, as the birthday of Sol the SUN GOD! It is actually an ancient rite of BAALISM, which the Bible condemns as the most abominable of all idolatrous worship! It is not so much as even once mentioned anywhere in the New Testament to observe it. It was never observed by Paul, the apostles or the early true Christian Church! The idea that Jesus was born December 25th, is one of the FABLES the Apostle Paul prophesied (2nd Timothy 4:4) that would deceive the world in these latter days.

The plain truth is, Christmas is NOT Christ’s birthday at all! This festival, as important as it seems to so many, is not of Christian, but of pagan Babylonian origin! But, does that make any difference? Isn’t it all right to go ahead and observe it anyway? Isn’t the “Christmas SPIRIT” a good and splendid thing, regardless of how it got started? Please continue to read and see!

Now let’s look to some interesting PROOF! When was Jesus born? Jesus was not born in the winter season! When the Christ-child was born,according to Luke 2:8, “there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.” This never could have occurred in Palestine in the month of December, because it was too cold. The shepherds always brought their flocks from the mountainsides and fields and corralled them not later than October 15th, to protect them from the cold and rainy season that followed that date. Notice that the Bible itself proves in Song of Solomon 2:11, and Ezra 10:9, 13, that winter was a rainy season not permitting shepherds to abide in open fields at night.

It was an ancient custom among Jews of those days, to send out their sheep to the fields and deserts about the Passover (early spring), and bring them home at commencement of the first rain. The first rain began early in the month of Marchesvan, which answers to part of our October and November (begins mid-October), we find that the sheep were kept out in the open country during the whole summer. As these shepherds had not yet brought home their flocks, it is a presumptive argument that October had not yet commenced, and that, consequently, our Lord was not born on the 25th of December, when no flocks were out in the fields; nor could He have been born later than September, as the flocks were still in the fields by night. On this very ground, the nativity in December should be given up. The feeding of the flocks by night in the fields is a chronological fact.

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