Is Christmas a holy celebration that Jesus Christ commands His church to keep, or is Christmas-keeping rebellion, and the committing of sin against God, and a day that He detests and abhors? How can a true Christian participate in the keeping of Christmas, a day and season which through its' observance, breaks and encourages the breaking of all ten of God's Commandments. Christmas represents sin and God hates sin!

1. God's 1st commandment says, "Have no other gods before me," Ex. 20:3.

What does Christmas and the keeping of Christmas represent? From the very beginning of man, man and woman decided they would rather live by the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," rather than to choose to live by the "tree of life." Even though God commanded them not to eat of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," man rebelled against his Creator from the very beginning. This decision of man has been passed down through his generations, and results in man looking to himself as the god of his life, as Satan told him he could be, Gen. 3: 5. This choice of man, who now makes decisions pertaining to his life by his own knowledge of knowing good and evil, and by this inward nature becomes the "god" of his life. This is idolatry! It is having another god before his Creator God.

Man's continual choosing of being his own "god" enables him the freedom to choose, based on what he decides is good and evil. Christmas and Christmas keeping, is the fruit of such a choice. This "passed on choice of man" is what is referred to today, as man's human nature-a mixture of good and evil. Man's human nature is the worship of himself as god, making his own decisions, based on his own opinions, and is not submitting to the will of God, and to what God commands man, by the choosing God's "tree of life." The "tree of life" is looking to God and His guidance in life by obeying His Ten Commandments, through the power of God's Holy Spirit, rather than for man to look to himself as his "god" and the leading of the spirit of Satan. People keeping Christmas cannot with their human nature, recognize the sins committed through it's celebration, because they do not recognize the Ten Commandments of God that tells people what is sin, Rom. 7: 7, I John 3:4 There is no eternal life to those that chose to live by their human nature, the god of their life.

Christmas keeping is a mixture of good and evil, and bears the fruit of idolatry. In the beginning, man became the "god" over his life, and by this decision, he decided what is good and evil, by man's own standard. God commands man not to eat from the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," but to eat from the "tree of life, His way of establishing God's law-His Ten Commandments, and obedience to those commandments in man's life, in order for him to have the right to eternal life, Rev. 14: 22. Man refuses to submit to the instructions of His Creator God. God's warning to anyone continuing to choose and to live by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is: "you will perish unless you repent of following that way." For more information on this subject, read the article "Christmas and the Forbidden Tree."

2. God's 2nd commandment says, "You are not to make-create unto thee any graven images," (spiritually speaking--no carved out idols as creations of the heart and mind) Ex. 20:4

In order for man to feel religiously good, and feel justified about his life's choice of living by "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," man has added to that knowledge Christian names, and the Name of Christ. Man has even created a false image of Christ, a false christ who is preached by ministers of Satan, to look over the sins of anyone keeping Christmas, with all of it's borrowed and adopted, idolatrous customs of the past, which God has commanded man not to do, Ex. 12: 28-32. Man has even changed one of the idolatrous customs of the Christmas season, which in the past acknowledged the birth of a new sun of the winter solstice as was worshipped each year in sun-god worship, to now mean, the birth of the Son of God, to give to man's Christmas keeping, a Christianized justification. For more information about this subject, read the article, "The Created Christmas Christ." Christmas keeping breaks God's second commandment, and will reap the wages of death!

When people keep Christmas, they take God's Name in vain! Whenever a "professed believer" eliminates what God commands, such as His Holy Days and His Sabbath, and what God sets apart for worship and honor to Himself as man's Creator, and then this false believer sets apart his own way and days of worship because of his life's choice as now being the god of his life, this professed believer takes God's Name in vain, and profanes His Holy, Righteous, Sacred Name.

God and Jesus Christ hate, detest, and abhor it whenever people, professing to be Their followers, drag Their Name into the gutter and uncleanness as in Christmas, and religiously associate Their Name with Christmas, which was founded from an idolatrous day and season of the past, with all of it's idolatrous customs, trappings, and rituals that was used to worship this false "god-a sun-god," and then call it Christmas of Christ, and of God. Read and study Deut. 12:28, II Cor. 6: 14-18. People stand guilty of the punishment of death before God, that takes His Name in vain!

4. God's 4th commandment says, " Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," Ex. 20:8

Why do people professing to be followers of Christ, forget to remember the only weekly 7th day Sabbath Christ created, Gen. 2:1-3, and set the day aside as Holy at creation, and commanded man to remember to keep it holy, Ex. 20:8 ? It is because in their seasonal Christmas keeping celebrations, God's holy Sabbath Day, Saturday, is totally forgotten, and is profaned by professed Christians, by them doing their major portion of Christmas shopping on that day in buying and selling, in order to keep their unholy Christmas. The reason is because their worshipped, false "created christ" of their professed Christianity, has done away with the Sabbath commandment of God in their worship, along with God's other commandments, and instituted another sabbath, Sunday keeping sabbath, a day of their own choosing. This is one of the benefits Satan said man could have by choosing the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Man as god, has chosen Sunday to be his sabbath, another unholy day, but will reap death as the result of that decision.

Is keeping Christmas a sin? Christmas is a non-commanded and a non-holy day, but kept as a feast day of Christ. It is filled with sins and abominations against God! Yet there are "professed to be" Christians who keep all of the Christmas celebrations to exalt, and set apart this unholy day of Christmas as being of Christ. Study Isa. 1: 10-20. In these verses, God says he hates man's feast days. The wages of the sins of Christmas keeping is death, and the wages of continuing to live by man's choice of "the tree of Genesis" by being his own god is death, Gen. 3: 3, Romans 6: 23.

5. God's 5th commandment says, "Honor your Father and Mother, that your days may be long upon the land, which the Lord, thy God has given you!" Ex. 20:12

Is God the Father, honored in the keeping of Christmas and all it's sins? No, He and His Son, Jesus Christ, are dishonored in every way possible! Parents teach their children about the idol of Santa Claus through a child's early learning years, and continue to lie to them about this idol image and his god-like goodness for continuing years. Do parents etch and write in their children's minds, by this example: honesty, respect and honor before their children? By their lying example, parents who are "professed to be believers" dishonor their Heavenly Father, and by this example of lying and false witnessing to their children, are teaching their children not to trust and honor themselves as their parents. God says, "He hates lying," Pro. 6:16-19, and will destroy those who love to make a lie, Rev. 22: 15. People keeping Christmas teach their children that breaking God's commandments is to be accepted, is of Christ, is lawful, and is the teaching of their worshipped, false, "created christ," who looks over it! But the Christ of Bible will judge all of this as sin, and worthy of death.

6. God's 6th commandment says, "You shall not murder," in Ex. 20:13,

Does keeping Christmas honor the True Savior, Jesus Christ, and bring peace to families when this season generates a great sigh of relief when it is over? Some people can barely make it through the depression and discouragement Satan's spirit generates at this season, and the great let down after all the superficial hype. The spirit of the Christmas season generates more family hatred, strife, malice, and hateful anger than any other time of the year. Christ says these unrestrained emotions and outbursts are in themselves the mind and spirit of a murderer, Mat. 5: 21, and John makes it plain in I John 3:5, "whoever hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him." Murder and the spirit of murder, is sin and will bring death. Christmas keeping lays the foundation for people to be tempted to fall into the spirit of a murderer. Why, because Satan is the father of lusts, the father of lying, and the father of murdering and it is his spirit that prevails at this season of the year, John 8:44. Murder and the spirit of murder will reap the judgment of sin!

7. God 7th commandment says, "You shall not commit adultery!" in Ex. 20:14,

Committing adultery means breaking faith with God, or breaking covenant, agreement, contract, or commitment-apostasizing from what God commands-breaking God's commandments. Does keeping Christmas cause people to break faith, covenant, and His commandments? When people profess to be believers and do not honor the covenant of the law, God's Ten Commandments, that were given to be written in their hearts, they commit adultery, or break covenant with Christ. They become unfaithful to God first, and this will be followed with breaking covenant with their mate if married, because the restraint and covenant to keep one from committing sin is broken and lost. Today, 50 % or more of all marriages end up in divorce and into adultery. This seventh commandment, and its' transgression is multiplied at the Christmas season. Sin brings curses! People tend to go along and follow the trend in society, and keep Christmas, regardless of the curses it brings. Christ says in His Word, James 4:4, "You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." Christmas and it's sinsm is an activity of Satan and his world that tempts to lead believers of Jesus Christ into this world's friendship, and will cause anyone to reap the punishment who refuse to resist the temptations of being a part of it.

8. God's 8th commandment says, "You shall not steal," Ex. 20:15.

It is reported that there is more stealing that goes on at Christmas than at any other time of the year. People steal so they can keep Christmas! Merchants have to raise the prices on their merchandise to compensate for all the stealing that people commit at the Christmas season, and this is all done in the name of Christianity's day of celebrating Christ's birth at Christmas. Zechariah gives a prophecy for the last days inspired of God, that should put fear into everyone that keeps Christmas and it's celebration, with it sins of stealing and lying, Zech. 5:3-4. The wages of sin is sure death!

9. God 9th commandment says, "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor," Ex. 20:16.

Does Christmas keeping and the spirit of Christmas generate lying? In every family from the least to the oldest, Christmas lying is taught and accepted. Satan and his Santa Claus idol, is the objective of the lying, with all the exalting and praising of Santa Claus, as the idol for children to worship. This idol of Santa is idolalized in the young child's mind, and is built on lies, false witnessing, dishonesty, and false swearing, affirming it to be true. People, keeping Christmas, talk with each other about having the spirit of Christmas, but the spirit of Christmas is a lying spirit. True Christians are warned to test the spirits, I John 4:1. For more information on this subject, read the article "The Lying Spirit of Christmas." The penalty for lying is death unless there is repentance. Read Zech. 5:3-4 again!

10. God's 10th commandment says, "You shall not covet (unlawful desire and lust) anything belonging to others," Ex. 20: 17.

In order for people to keep Christmas, people's minds and hearts are led by the world to focus on the things appealing to their flesh, and the satisfying of the flesh. People are pressured to do their Christmas shopping, to buy for their family and others at the sake of going into debt, run over top of other people in shopping to get the sale item, get into a pressured mind set all to satisfy one's lust and desires. People at Christmas are pressured to buy things and to desire things they don't need and can't afford, to keep up with the world during this unholy celebration. Society creates a false economy at Christmas, based on debt, people's coveteousness, and a desire of people's minds to be centered on the flesh, and all the (things) works and working of the flesh. For the Christian, God gives a warning in Romans 8: 13, "If you live after the flesh, you shall die," verse 6, "To be fleshly-minded is death," verse 8, "So that they that are in the flesh (pursuing the things of the flesh) cannot please God."

Keeping Christmas keeps potential believers away from the working Spirit of God, that teaches and inspires people to worship God in truth and spirit. Christmas keeping keeps a person that desires to be Christian from having a mind led by the spirit of Christ, and worshipping God in spirit and truth, as Christ points out in John 4:24. Keeping Christmas pressures people and lays great stress on them, to keep their minds on the flesh, and all the unlawful things, lusts and desires of the flesh, and a life that is desired to be led by the flesh. God says, "Coveteousness is idolatry, which is the worship of the flesh and all of it's unlawful desires and lusts," Col. 3: 5. Christ says in Heb. 10:26-27, If we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins; but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Christmas keeping is sin, and all of its works pertains to sin, the ways of the flesh, a way that seems right to the flesh, but will end in the reaping the penalty of death. Christmas is presented to everyone as being of Christ, and originating with Christ. Christmas is Satan's masterpiece of deception! He inspires his ministers to present it as light from God's Word, with lights, glitter, and customs borrowed from idolatry of the past, and presented as the birth of Christ, the Son of God, taken from the birth of the new sun, the winter solstice, worship of the sun of the past, and all of it is his masterpiece of coverup and deception, and doing all he and his ministers can do to cover and justify all the sins associated with it. Jesus Christ is still crying out loudly, "repent of your sins, repent of Christmas keeping and all it's sins, or you will perish."

Can your sins of Christmas Observance keep you out of God's kingdom from receiving eternal life?

A confessed believer desiring to know the true Jesus Christ of Scripture cannot participate in all of the Christmas rituals and symbolism borrowed from past sun worshippers, Deut. 12:1-3, 28-32, in the name and worship of a false Christmas Christ, which is a false god and still be accepted for eternal life. This idolatry along with all the other sins committed in Christmas observance and its celebration will keep a believer from being accepted by Jesus Christ for forgiveness of their sins and salvation. It is true that the Christ of Scripture and His sacrifice does cover over sin, and forgive sins if there is repentance and change in behavior, but His death and shed blood will not cover a person's sins of Christmas observance without a total change of heart in repentance, to stop participating and being involved in all the sins of Christmas and its observance.

In plain words, a believer will not be accepted by Jesus Christ, who continues in Christmas observance with all of its sins and still have his sins washed away, forgiven, justified by Jesus Christ. This is true unless there is a total repentance, a total change in heart, which is a commanded requirement of Christ's Word for receiving the gift of eternal life. The Christ of Scripture began His ministry preaching repentance, but today, people do not even know what is repentance! Repentance is a change of heart to stop breaking God's commandments. All professed believers in today's accepted Christianity live their lives above God's law and commandments, meaning that they believe and have been taught that they will not have to answer for their committed sins against God's 10 commandments, by being punished in the day of judgment. These so called Christians do not believe God's Word that says if "they don't repent then they will perish for their sins." They just do not believe the Word of God that says, "you must repent or suffer the judgment of death," Mat. 4:17, Rom. 6:23.

Today's average Christian believes he will be accepted by Jesus Christ and raptured up without repenting of his sins. First, to be raptured up into heaven as it is preached is a big lie and secondly, today's Christian believes Christ has done it all for him, and so he believes he has nothing to do to be saved, except accept His name, which is another big lie. Today's accepted Christianity is in total deception about everything that constitutes true Christianity, and one of the main reasons is because people have been taught to accept lies as children through Christmas observance, along with lies and deception they hear every Sunday morning in their churches and through their television broadcasts.

The observance and celebration of Christmas and the season that is associated with it is built on the lies of Satan, the deception and evil of today churches, who worship a false god, a false Christmas Christ and this false worship gets bigger every year. All of this should bring to ever thinking person, which is a rare gem in today's Christianity, the manifested sins that this season and day generates and promulgates every year, but covered over by today's Christianity. This holiday is accepted, kept and observed by today's Christianity and society just like it is a law of the land, and a command of God, whereas all businesses totally shut down on Dec. 25th in commemoration and honor of this day and season of lies and idolatry.

This action of observance and its action to close down businesses tries to copy or imitate what God commands in the keeping of His annual Holy Days, that all businesses and labor are to shut down during His annual Holy Days and His weekly Sabbath. But keeping this unholy day of Christmas is not a command of God, instead it is an accepted command and suggestion of Satan through the teaching of His enlightened ministers, who, along with all the store merchants help to keep this God hated holiday and feast day of man and his churches, Isa. 1:14, alive and getting bigger every year and is accepted by all the churches and its members. And anyone not of these false churches who does not observe this season and day is looked upon as a very odd, or a self-righteous person, as not loving their false Christmas Christ, odd by not loving children by not lying to them at this season, and odd as not really being a friend to the world, its society, all because this odd person believes the Christ of Scripture who says in James 4:4 "he who is a friend to the world is an enemy to Christ."

On our web site we have a number of articles that can help you understand about Christmas and all the wickedness and sins that are involved with observing and celebrating this day of the year. These messages give much more detail than this article, and shows you how all of the evils of Christmas and its observance is an enemy to and works against the true Christ of the Bible, and against all what His life and death stands to represent. One such article is about the sin of idolatry, that exposes the false Christ of Christmas, where a church created, spiritual image and idol is created to represent the true Christ, and this false worship becomes a stumbling block of deception to the minds and hearts of families. This idol image is created and raised up through a false Christianity, and worshipped at Christmas, and causes people to accept lies. This article is titled, The Created Christmas Christ.

We have another article about another created idol at this season that is put in the minds of all the children, naive little children, causing them to accept lies, and this message makes clear the sin of idolatry pertaining to the Santa Claus idol that has been created to be associated with Christmas, and it is titled Is Santa Claus A Christmas Idol? Another article that points out how Christmas is nothing less than eating of the fruit of the forbidden tree, the fruit of self worship of being the god of one's own life in deciding what is right or wrong, that God commands His people not to eat from and bear the fruit of this tree in their life, for it will bring certain death. This article is titled Christmas And The Forbidden Tree

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Other very interesting and revealing articles expose more of the sins of Christmas as it relates to how today's Christianity looks over and accepts all the committed sins and lies pertaining to Christmas, and how Satan has subtly deceived today's professed Christianity into accepting the sins of Christmas as good and worship of the true Jesus Christ found in Scripture. The articles are entitled Satan's Big Deception Christianizing Christmas , showing how society and its churches have deceived the people into accepting Christmas as being of Christ. Is Keeping Christmas Sin , and The Lying Spirit of Christmas are 2 more articles that makes it plain about all of the sins that are committed of just how all of God's 10 commandments are broken at the Christmas Season, but accepted as good, not evil, fulfilling prophecy where Scripture says of today that people will accept evil and sin and call it good and Christian, Isa. 5:20-25, but God says He will punish the evil doers. If you are truly interested in truth and believe you can still think for yourself, and have not been totally dumbed down by the churches, then don't fail to read these eye and mind opening messages that could change your life forever.

People today are so calloused to sin, their conscience being seared through lies, I Tim. 4:2, that most accept sin, lies, idolatry, as normal everyday life, and think nothing about its soon coming final judgment. Today's world is exactly, without question, like the world was just before the great flood in Noah's day, and as it was before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God said of those people, that their wickedness was great, just as it is in today's world. God said of man at that time just before the flood, that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, just as it is today, Gen. 6:5. God said the earth was corrupt before Him, and the earth was filled with violence, Gen. 6:11, just as the earth is filled with violence today. Wars and rumors of wars the world over are in the news every day. This Season of the year, Christmas, is filled with the sins and evils and wickedness of men and yes, the thoughts of men are continually evil during this season, as well as the rest of the year, II Tim. 3:1-5.

But somehow no one seems to associate and connect the dots of the false Christ worship of Christmas as a false god, and of all the sins of Christmas and people's desire to be involved in such sins in its celebration as being the reason for the season. Today's Christianity cannot connect the dots of Christmas because most feel no need to examine their life, or examine Christmas and its season, to take notice of what is happening and influencing their thinking and motivation. Plus the fact, that all people live at such a fast pace in trying to make a living, they reason they don't have the time to think about the world and all of it sins. In reality, they cannot or don't want to connect sin with all the curses and sufferings that sin, the breaking of God's commandments, brings upon a society. They cannot or choose not to understand the wisdom that comes from knowing, what do the sins of Christmas bring upon people and their families.

People today do not want to know that sin is the way of bondage, curses, deception, and confusion. They do not want to understand that sin produces the season's follow up depression, discouragement, blues, debts, accepting sins without shame, the created extra stress, family strife and violence, all the thievery, the greed and lust that is induced, the coveting and buying frenzy, more adultery and fornication of all kinds, all kinds of idolatry, and the self-inflicted sickness caused from eating all the junk food at this season. As if these sins are not all bad enough throughout the rest of the year, society really goes into a shark-eating frenzy by engaging in these sins at Christmas without any shame and guilt, and under the cloak of doing it all in the name of a false Christ that is accepted as Christianity.

These are all the curses of the sins of this Season that bring on a heavy toll of bondage, suffering and pain on the lives of its participating victims. These are all sins that are being committed throughout the year, but at the Christmas season, these sins are all compounded and get much worse with each passing year. This is a time that is preached to represent peace, joy and good will, and a happy time for the family, but many say they are so glad when all this supposedly peace, joy and good will is over for another year.

Where are the vigilant and alert watchmen that are on their watch warning the people of their sins that they are seduced into committing through the celebrating of the Christmas Season? There are no watchmen warning about all the sins being committed the rest of the year why would there be any at the Christmas Season. A true Watchman of God is one who instructs people about God's law and about sin and all of its temptations and warns people and their families what will be their fate if they continue in their sinning ways against the true Christ of Scripture.

Today in the media, in church ministries, and in radio and TV talk shows there are talk show hosts, ministers, newsmen and some of them professing to be watchmen for the people. But they are not what God defines and describes as being a true watchman for the times of today's society that is going to save people from their real enemy, and that is sin's judgment, Ezek. 33:1-31. Read our article describing who is God's True Watchman . He is one who should be teaching and warning and watching to see if the people are being warned against their real enemy, sin, and the coming judgment for their sins, and against the sins of observing the Christmas Season.

God tells all in Deut. 12:28-32, about Israel with its God appointed priests, who were appointed to teach all of Israel, because they all were also called to be priests, a kingdom of priests to all of the world, to teach and to be an example of keeping God's law and the blessings that come from keeping His commands, Ex. 19:6. However, they failed to obey God, but even in their failure and wrong example became an example to others for today, an example of warning against sin's judgment, that Paul warns today's believers about in I Cor. 10:1-12, (read for understanding). This wrong example of Israel's past and their judgment will help to warn others in the world now and their fate and punishment who choose not to follow what God has commanded in His Word:

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God. It is not going well with families when mothers and their doctors are murdering their young in the womb, when their children at a very young age in schools are learning lies, perversion, all about sex, experiencing sex, and being taught perverted sex as being good, and learning to be violent, and teaching them that lying is all right by observing Christmas and all of its lies and idolatry worship.

30 Take heed to yourself that you be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that you enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

Today's professed Christian society is enquiring about the gods of the past, borrowing the rituals of the worship of the sun of the past with all its customs, and are doing and keeping those customs in the worship of their false god, their false Christ that they have raised up and created at the Christmas Season.

31 You shall not do so unto the Lord your god for every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. Today people sacrifice their young in the womb to a murderous abortion evil to the god of sex, along with men and priests abusing the young horribly in abusive sexual acts, and call it good and acceptable. Both of these evils, the burning of children in a fire to an idol of the past or murdering babies in a mother's protective womb to the worship of the god of unlawful sex today are of the same evil and wickedness. There is no difference of the degree of evil between them. God will judge both severely for these wicked sins.

32 What thing soever I command, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it. Today's professed Christianity has added so much and taken so much away from God's true Word that today's Christianity does not in any way resemble the true Christianity of Jesus Christ and what He teaches. What a shame on a nation that calls itself a Christian nation!!!

God continues in Deut. 13:1-4

1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder, (great work of preaching in what is accepted as the gospel) (or deceptive healings)

2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto you, saying, Let us go after other gods (false christs), which you have not known, (not taught to know these gods) and let us serve them; (the false Christs are other gods, false gods that believers are taught not to know and not to worship them.)

3 You shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams for the Lord your God proves you (is testing you with these God permitted deceptions of wonders and visions and deceptive great works produced in today's false Christianity and all in the name of all these preached false christs) to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Or will you continue to worship and love these false created christs in today accepted Christianity.

4 You shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep this commandments, and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him.
God is man's creator, and provider, and giver of all good things, but when man sins greatly and continues to commit himself to the worship other gods, false christs, that Satan has created for man to worship, God becomes very jealous and His wrath is being heated up to a point in time when He will destroy sinful man from the earth.

Read the above suggested articles to get a greater and more detail word picture of all of the sins being committing at the Christmas Season, so you can be forewarned and then your blood will be upon your own head, unless you will repent. And, if you don't repent, and obey your true creator God, and His Son Jesus Christ, then you will suffer the judgment of the coming Lord and Judge, who is coming upon all of the earth, Ezekiel 33:8-9. God says in Ezekiel 33:28-29 "For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease: and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed."

"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death," Pro. 14:12. This wise precept is so important that God repeated it again in Proverbs 16:25, in order for man to be aware and to understand the subtly of Satan, who is the master of deception, and who covers over sin and all of sin's working in the ways of mankind. Christmas is one such way, a subtle deception of Satan, masquerading as being of God and Jesus Christ, and promulgated through today's, false, Christian religion, by Satan's ministers of light.

Christmas is accepted as such a Holy Day and as being of Christ that all work and daily labor is stopped throughout the nation in observance of this day. The nation shuts down all of its restaurants, stores, even service stations and its industry to come to rest on this day in honor and worship of the birth of who they believe and worship as the Christ of Bible. At least this is what they proclaim to be the reason for the season. Today's society celebrates and observes Christmas by borrowing all of the idolatrous customs, sinful practices and rituals of past idolatry of Sun worship and uses these things to observe the unknown birth of the Son, Jesus Christ, and do this at the same time and season that the pagans of the past used these things in the worship of the SUN. God commands man to not borrow idolatrous practices and customs of the past to worship Him, and not to make images and idols and exalt and worship them as if they are God. God says it is all vain and vanity! He warns all that the penalty for such sinful practices and idolatry is death, unless there is repentance, and coming out of this Babylonian system, Deut. 12:1-4.

In Deut. 12: 30-31, God even makes His command and will for His people crystal clear, where God says "Take heed to yourself that you be not snared by following them, (idols), after that they be destroyed from before you; and that you enquire not after their gods, saying , How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise. verse 3, You shall not do so unto the Lord your God, for every abomination to the Lord which He hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." Today people don't burn their sons and daughters in fire, but they do things just as evil by destroying, murderering them in the womb, and to the rest that live past the womb, they lie to them without shame about idols by raising up a Santa Claus idol, and raising up a false image of Jesus Christ as an idol to worship that today's Christians have made in their own church image. Also read and study Deut. 5:7-9 and Deut. 17:2-5, and Jer. 10:1-3, 14-15, where Jeremiah gives the word and command of God and says, "learn not the way of the heathen using decorated trees in worship of God, because in the time of their visitation, (God's visiting judgment) verse 15, they shall perish".

Today's Christianity, with all its form, show and Christmas programs, is one of the prime reasons for the season's continual idolatrous, and its ever growing cancerous growth. "Professed ministers of today's Christian churches cannot define sin or point out that there is a penalty for sin, and so cannot stand up and cry aloud, and show God's people their sins, Isaiah 58:1. God will judge them according to their wicked stewardship!

Christmas is a pretty name for a cover-up of Satan's oldest trick. Make it sound pretty, feel good, pleasing to man's eyes, add a thing or two concerning Christianity to it, and man will go for it every time! Christmas, a day renamed from "pagan sun worship," is still the same old, idolatrous, Baal-worship, Day of Saturnalia and is still today celebrated with all of its pagan customs of sun worship, along with its merrymaking, plus having a little religion as in Christianity attached to it! People believe that if they have Christ's name or confess His Name in any of their professed Christians rituals, their special days and church fellowships, then none of their sins will bring Christ's judgment of death upon their lives.

God continually, throughout the history of the Old Testament, told His people, and tells His people today, not to worship Him the way the heathen nations worship their pagan gods, Deut. 12:1-5. "Professed Christianity" today does the opposite of what God commands, and sets themselves up as god, telling people what is good and what is bad or sinful, according to "their" own standards, not God's standards and laws. This in their minds justifies their sins of idolatry, regardless of what God's Word says because they decide what days of the year that they will rest and make as holy days and then forget the Holy Days and Sabbaths of God that He has commanded to be kept Holy!

Christmas merrymaking is built around a custom of raising up a mystical, deified St. Nicholas, referred to as Santa Claus. He is an idol, widely accepted and worshipped by children, that parents continually raise up and teach to their children every year and bear a false witness about all his doings. This Santa idol is made up in the likeness of God, breaking God's 2nd commandment, with a low voice and white hairs, girdlelike belt, seated on his throne in stores, which is all descriptive of God and Christ, and is found in Daniel 7:9, and Revelation 1:13-14. Children are allowed and taught to revere this idol and its worldwide power of giftgiving and stocking filling, instead of revering the Almighty God and Creator, the only real giver of life, and all good gifts. Almighty God and Jesus Christ have never been any part of an abominable and idolatrous Christmas, with its Santa Claus idol and with all of it SUN WORSHIP customs, rituals, and symbols that is used to observe and celebrate this day and season!

Parents, teachers, professed Christians, and all people alike, continue this idolatrous worship by providing a worship alter for Santa's placing of gifts, that being an evergreen Christmas tree--the alter place of receiving gifts, which is a pagan custom of the past. Much of the pagan, false-god worship of the past was done around trees, groves, decoration of trees, and carving of trees. God very plainly says, "Don't worship Him like the Baal worshipers did of their gods of the past," Please read these Scriptures in their context, Deut. 12:1-4, I Kings 14:22-24, II Kings 17:7-20, II chronicles 28:1-4, Jeremiah 10:1-25, then read an end-time prophecy for the end results of idol worshipers in Ezekiel 6:9-14.

Satan keeps everyone feeling good about Christmas with a man generated Christmas Spirit, and then he inspires his ministers to flood the season with lies that Christ was born on December 25th, and other lies and facts surrounding His birth, then preach it is the season for honoring Christ! How can anyone honor Christ with lies? Christ purposely kept His date of birth hidden so people would not observe it in commemoration! He does command people to remember to observe His death at Passover, but church people forget that day and remember and set aside a day to remember His resurrection with another idolatrous day of Easter which Christ does not command to remember as a special day. Nevertheless, Satan has inspired the lie of Christ's birth date to be at the same time of the time of pagan sun-worship so all would follow his teaching against God, his way and laws, rather than follow God, and His command of rejecting idolatry and submit to His laws.

Starting in December every year, Satan generates a fleshlyminded, covetous, Christmas spirit, through religions and stores with all the church programs, Christmas glitter, music and etc. God says in I John 4:1, "BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but try (test or prove) the spirits whether they are of God, because many false ministers are gone out into the world." It is not God's spirit that inspires parents to bear false witness (lie) about the raised up and worshipped Santa Claus idol, or all the stealing (shoplifting) in order to keep this the spirit of this day. It is not God's Spirit that inspires all the seasonal frustrations, discouragement, depression, resulting in anger, fighting, family arguments, and even murder. It is not God's Spirit that leads and seduces people into all the fornication and marital unfaithfulness, all in the name of merrymaking and the spirit of Christmas! It is not God's Spirit that inspires one to use all the symbols of the past that were used in SUN WORSHIP to make people believe that this day is about the birth of the real Christ of God's Word. This is all the deception of Satan's spirit and influence through his ministers.

Many will say, "Surely charitable giving justifies Christmas doesn't it? God says helping the poor is a continual on-going work not to be done just once a year. God also says in I Corinthians 3:3, that a person can give everything he or she has, even his own life to be burned in sacrifice, and all be done in vain and still not have love, because love is the fruit of obeying God's commandments." II John 6 and I John 5:3..."This is love that we obey His commandments." Some will say, "But that is referring to Christ's two great commandments." This is a cop-out that today professed Christians use because of their lack of Scriptural knowledge and understanding! Everyone should know that the Two Great Commandments are based on the Ten Commandments, and more of God's Ten commandments are transgressed during the Christmas season than at any other time of the year! The observance of this day does not in any way express love to God or for family! And even if it did that still would not make it a day that Christ has commanded to be one of His commanded Holy Days.

What about all the supposed joy of Christmas that the Christmas season creates? Professed Christians do not know what is true Christian joy, they confuse it with emotionalism, temporary fleshly generated happiness. Christmas is only a momentary happiness pertaining to the flesh and self--here today and gone December 26th! Real joy from God and God's Spirit is everlasting and not governed by circumstances, emotions, opinions, and happenings, but by obeying Christ and His Word, and being led by His Spirit. Why is it so many people are so glad when the Christmas season is over, hoping they can survive it again, and won't have to be counseled about their depressed spirit, that is not the joy of God's spirit? That artificial Christmas joy is of Satan. Sin, which is broken laws, automatically brings on the bondage of depression, frustration, curses, and a mind without peace, security, real joy, and headed for later the great judgment of Christ.

But really, how can professed Christianity recognize Christmas idolatry and how its churches justify that day and season, when they are unable to recognize the false Christs raised up in Sunday worship? How can today's religions recognize Christmas as one of Satan's, pagan-god holidays, when they can't even recognize the true Sabbath of God (7th day, Saturday) as well as any and all of His commanded Holy Days, which give His gospel plan of salvation for mankind? True God recognition comes only to a person who desires His truth, to know and obey His laws and desire to learn of His plan of salvation, through God opening their mind to this understanding. If a person accepts and walks in these things, he will be accepted into God's Kingdom. So, if you choose not to question the idolatry of the Christmas season, and then try to justify it by using Christ's Name in vain for idolatrous purposes, you have chosen to be a partaker of the plagues that Revelation 18 talks about coming on all the earth very soon!

The only way that the sin of idolatry of Christmas can be justified is by repenting of that sin, stop observing this unholy day, and repent of all of one's sins, and asking Jesus Christ to accept your repentance and to forgive you of that sin and all of your sins. If you really desire to be a Christian, then you cannot mix the Holy and Clean Name of Christ with some Scriptural facts, along with many lies surrounding His un-revealed and secret date of birth, and go along with society creating this day to celebrate His unknown date of birth, amid much sin. A true Christian cannot continue to join himself with all the unclean, the unholy, the sins of observing an idolatrous Christmas, and then pronounce it clean, pure, honorable, and justified!

Christmas is not a God - created Holy day, but a day that Satan, along with the help of his ministers, have created by observing it with all of the unclean customs and sins of idolatry of the past, and pronoucing it Christian. A true Christian cannot mix the clean name of Jesus Christ with the unclean sins of the idols of Christmas, such as raising up a Santa Claus idol in the minds of children, and then lying to their children about this idol. All of this takes Christ's name in vain, profaning God's true Holy Sabbaths, and using it to take the place of the true worship of Christ. This is all done by raising up a false Christ idol and then making this false image of Jesus Christ to appear as making the true Christ giving people permission to worship Him at this season of the year. Please read what God says explaining this principle in Haggai 2:11-14, Ezekiel 22:24-31 and II Corinthians 6:14-18. Using Christ's Name and some of His early, life events at Christmas, will not justify the idolatry of Christmas, which is all part of the great MYSTERY BABYLON system! The true Christ commands you to come out of it, repent of it, become clean of it, II Corinthians 6:17 and Revelation 18:4. Yes, there is a way that seemeth right which man will always try to justify by his following the forbidden tree, but will end in death. "He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination." Proverbs 28:9!

God says in Heb. 10:26-27- "For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins. V.27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries."

THE CREATED CHRISTMAS CHRIST

Who is the Christ in Christmas that people profess to serve, honor and worship with all its' associated customs of tree decorating, Christmas lights, Christmas shopping, Santa Claus and gift giving?

Did the Savior of the Bible or did a false religious system calling itself Christianity create another savior, a false, created christ and rename this original day of Saturnalia to be CHRIST-MAS, and retain all of its' pagan, sun-worship customs for the worship of this false christ of Christmas? God says to His people in Jer. 10: 1-14, 23 learn not the way of the heathen and in Deut 8:19-20 God says walk not after other gods for if you do you shall perish. Some religious people say because of people's attention given to the heavy Christmas shopping season, that their Christ is being being left out and so they cry out, "LET'S PUT JESUS CHRIST BACK IN CHRISTMAS," because they say, "HE IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!" Is the reason for the season the Jesus Christ of the Bible, or "another christ, a no-law, false, god-savior," created for this sun-worship season by professed Christians, and has been created in the name and image of the True Savior, II Cor. 11:4, 14?

People sacrifice, exalt and worship Christmas and it's Santa Claus by giving of their life, time, money and heart, all in the name of this "false christ." This satanic and Christmas-created, false christ, along with the false christ of today's professed Christianity, fits together so well with their idolatrous, pagan season of sun-worship, because they both appeal to man's lust of no restraint, fleshly minded, unlawful pursuits and man's hostility against God and His law, Rom. 8:7-8. One of the commandments of Jesus Christ, who was the God of the Old Testament, (I Cor. 10: 2-7) clearly states, paraphrased "YOU SHALL NOT MAKE (CREATE) UNTO YOURSELF ANY GRAVEN IMAGE OR ANY LIKENESS OF GOD OR (CHRIST), BECAUSE HE WILL REMEMBER TO BRING PUNISHMENT ON YOUR CHILDREN THAT HATE HIM, BUT WILL HAVE MERCY ON THEM WHO LOVE HIM AND KEEP HIS (TEN) COMMANDMENTS," EX. 20: 4-6. God has punished people and nations in the past years but now His ultimate punishment and judgment over the whole wide world of all nations and people for their sins is about to take place, Rev, 17: 1-18, Deut.8:19-20.

Satan's work is at its' peak of deception at Christmas and is one of the greatest of all His masterpieces of deceptions in today's professed Christianity. God's Word in Rev. 12:9 says, "SATAN HAS DECEIVED THE WHOLE WORLD." Jesus Christ says, "Satan is a liar and father of all lying," John 8:44. Christmas and Santa Claus is built on and perpetuated by lies, false swearing and religious deception. Satan, along with the help of his false, profess to be ministers, II Cor. 11: 13-15, have taken a fact of the Bible such as Christ's birth, and twisted the facts concerning His birth to lay a foundation for their Christian Christmas observance. For example, they take the fact that shepherds were still out in the field at the warm season tending their flocks, and then preach falsely His birth was in the cold, winter season. These false ministers proclaim publicly every year that Jesus Christ was born in the winter solstice season at the same day and season when the past, pagan sun-worshippers, worshipped the sun, with all their sun-worship, customs of tree decorations, hanging of lights, displaying winter greenery, wreathes, yule logs, and etc. Satan and all of his teachers of light give an unsound Biblical foundation for all their false worship and observance of Christmas and all of the rest of their unholy days.

Satan and his ministers have made all of this appeal to the eyes, heart and lust of man and then proclaim and program people and his world, to believe that the keeping and celebrating of Christmas is of true Christianity. They believe to worship this "false created, Christmas christ," is showing love to the Christ of the Bible in man's own way. Continually, Satan is still telling all people that they are as "gods" and they can decide what is love, what is good, what is evil and what is pleasant to the eyes, and that man will not die for choosing this "tree of the knowledge of good and evil, man deciding his own way, " Gen. 3:4-6, Pro. 16:25. Man's thinking is that the end justifies the means, and the highs and lows of Christmas justifies the means of whatever sin is committed to obtain it!

People who are truly interested in the truth will examine this worshipped christ through God's Word to determine who is the "worshipped christ of Christmas" It is a fact of truth from the Bible that the Christ of the Bible, who was the God of the Old Testament, I Cor.. 10:1-4, hates, detests and abhors idolatry and idols (created images) and all attachments (customs and rituals) to them, whether it is in relation to sun-worship, star worship, mother earth, or anything or even a person that takes the place of God in creation and worship. The "created, christian christ," that is worshipped at Christmas, and that is of professed Christianity, says through Satan and his ministers, "that Christmas is good and good for children!" Man, by the fact he believes he is as god in determining what is good and what is evil, reasons, if the good by man's standard out weighs the bad-evil, then man believes he is justified of the bad. The end to them justifies all of the means of attaining it: lying to their children about the Santa idol and his having god-like traits and characteristics, associating the Name and birth of Christ with a Santa idol and yuletide season, that is set in sun-worship, creates a "false christ" that compromises true Christ worship, and is a "created christ" that has done away with God's law that points out man's sins.

Can you recognize the true Christ from the "false, created, christ"? The Christ of the Bible says, "FLEE IDOLATRY AND ALL IT'S TEMPTATIONS," I COR. 10: 13-14. The created, Christ of Christmas and Satan says, "go ahead, enjoy sin and its' highs-pleasures for the moment, no harm or punishment shall come on you." The Christ of the Bible says, "HE HATES A LYING TONGUE," (believing and teaching a fictitious Santa) a heart that creates "wicked imaginations," (that Christmas and all of it customs is of a good spirit) and "false witness," that swears falsely, (declaring in Christ's name that Christmas is Christian and to children that Santa is real) Pro. 6: 17-19. Satan and His "created Christmas christ" says, "If it looks good to the eyes, tastes good to the mouth and appeals to the desires and lusts of the body, don't worry about it being unlawful and reaping the judgment of God, because he, "the created christ" projected through Satan, has done away with the law and its' judgments. The Christ of the Bible warns all of His followers not to offend His "little ones," including the "little ones" in a Christian family, and put a stumblingblock of sin before them, and if you do, expect severe punishment and judgment, Mat. 18: 1-6. The "created, christ of Christmas" says through his ministers that people can teach children about the idolatry of Christmas and the Santa idol without harm and punishment coming to them. Which Christ do you follow in worship?

Is there coming a judgment day of Christ upon all sin? You had better write it down because Christ has it written down in His Word! The Bible says, "CHRIST CHANGES NOT," MAL. 3:6, HEB. 13:8. CHRIST WRITES, "HE IS A CONSUMING, DESTROYING FIRE," HEB. 12:29. Christ writes in Deut. 7:25, " To burn your graven images and not to desire them, lest you be snared, because they are abominations to Him." In verse 26, the God of he Bible writes, " don't bring the idol abominations into your house lest you be cursed like it , but utterly detest and utterly abhor it , for it is a cursed thing. Christ writes in Zech. 5:3-4, "He will send a curse over the face of the whole earth and will destroy the people of that house that steals and swears falsely by His name, along with the timbers and stones of that house!" The Christ of the Bible tells us, " whosoever loves and makes a lie will not enter through the gates of the eternal city," REV. 22:14-15, and He writes, " all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire," REV.. 21:8. In Deut. 8: 19, Christ writes, "if you don't obey Him, and worship Him and the Father, expect to perish from the earth!

Is anyone really concerned about the true facts of Christmas? Are they like what Christ said in mark 7:9, "Full well you reject the commandments of God, that you may keep your own tradition," and in verse 13, "making the word of God of none effect through your traditions." Anyone desiring protection and salvation from the Christ of the Bible had better do a good house-cleaning of Christmas in their home, and the worship of the "created, christ of Christmas." Jesus Christ will not save anyone who does not repent of idolatry, idol creation, lying and false swearing. His grace and mercy does not cover unrepentant sins. Write it down in your heart, because Christ has it written down in His Word, Rev. 20: 12, Ex. 32:31-33, Heb. 8:10, Heb. 10:16, 26-27, II Peter 3:9.

THE LYING SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

The reason for the season is the deceiving, lying, spirit of Christmas and that spirit emanates as truth from Satan the devil, the father of all deception and lying, John 8:44, Eph. 2:2.

God's Word says "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try (or test) the spirits, whether they are of God: because many false preachers have gone out into the world," I John 4:1. Satan impersonates himself as the "christ of Christmas," with an emanating, lying, spirit, and this is what people are really acknowledging and worshipping at Christmas. This merry-making, lying, spirit originated from past, pagan, idolatrous "sun worship." It's celebrations today continues to be set in the same sun-worship, idolatrous customs, but with the additional lie that Christmas is the time of Christ's unknown birthday, which preachers teach "christianizes" this unholy, pagan day. Instead of churches speaking out against this lying spirit, they promote this spirit in it's idolatrous setting, by depicting scenes and church plays of more erroneous facts concerning Christ's unknown birthday. Churches prostitute themselves with Satan's society, join in with this friendship of the world, and become willing tools of Satan in fabricating this lie and illusion at Christmas. Study these scriptures to help prove to you these statements, James 4:4, Rev. 22:15, Eph. 6:12, Eph. 2:2-3.

Is this lying spirit of Christmas a good, wholesome, and clean spirit to get and have at this season? Does the child pleasing, gift giving, merry-making pleasure of getting this spirit justify the means? The whole Christmas season puts down, belittles, makes light of all that the real Jesus Christ of the Bible stands for. The lying spirit of Christmas does not bear the fruit of God's Holy Spirit, but produces a way that seems good and right, but will produce death, not life, Pro. 14:12. Why? Because it teaches lying and idolatry, and these are sins Christ's sacrifice will not justify and cover unless they are confessed and repented with a heart that desires to change to obedience of God's commandments. Christ's grace was not given to be that amazing, to over look His law, to forgive sins without confession and repentance! The fruit of God's Spirit is love, which is the keeping of God's Ten Commandments, not the breaking of them, I John 5:3. Out of the six things God says He hates in Proverbs 6:16-19, three of them are about deception and lying and are involved with Christmas!

This lying spirit of Christmas is the mind, power and influence of Satan, Eph. 2:2, centered around the lie of a Santa Claus idol, bringing gifts to children on Christmas eve night. This God-hated lie of deception and betrayal is what parents and society puts on children and teaches as truth every Christmas, and is encouraged by "churches", II Cor. 11:13-15. WHAT A TRAVESTY! PAY UP DAY FOR SINS IS VERY SOON! Does the Holy Spirit of God teach deception, lies and betrayal, to open minded, humble, naive, small children? ABSOLUTELY NOT! But what is it that does teach these things, is the mind, power and influence of Satan, the father of all lying, John 8:44, Acts 13:10. God says in Rev. 21:8, "All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire." God's Word also says, "He who loves to make a lie (getting the lying spirit of Christmas), will not be in that eternal City of God," Rev. 22:14-15. People even after experiencing The Great Tribulation-the Day of the Lord, will continue their merry making and gift exchanging in celebration of the death of God's spirit-filled prophets, at the end of their 3 1/2 years preaching, Rev. 11:9-12.

The lying spirit of Christmas produces not joy, but a drugging effect and a yoke of bondage on people. The lying Christmas spirit produces a Satan induced, high, emotional feeling, like drugs and alcohol, and after the high feeling wears off, then there is the day after. It produces, like all of Satan's deceptions, depression, not joy, futility, not success, debt and ill health, not prosperity and good health, III John 2-4. The joy of God comes from obeying God's Ten Commandments, not following a pagan idolatrous custom that leads man to break God's commandments, John 15:10-11. Satan, the father of lust and lying, John 8:44, causes all the glitter--Christmas lights, Santa Claus, tree decorations and gift buying, to accomplish his purpose of keeping man in darkness to his sins of lying, lusting, idolatry, and breaking all of God's commandments, II Cor. 4:4, Eph.. 2:2, and away from the light of Jesus Christ.

When the evil of Christmas and exposing the lying spirit of Christmas is preached, Satan's loyalist, his ministers, have many justifying arguments, one of which is, "what about all the love of gift giving to children, charities, and feeding the homeless?" Surely all of this justifies these sins of lying, idolatry, and taking God's name in vain in celebrating this unholy Christmas celebration! First of all, man does not know what is real love and thinks his definition of love will justify the breaking of God's 10 commandments. Only God, through His Word, can define real Godly love. God in John 15:10 and I John 5:2-3, plainly says, "His love is the keeping of His Ten Commandments, and we know that we love God's children when we love God and keep His Ten Commandments." Secondly, only Christ's sacrifice can justify lying and idolatry, and that is based on man's repentance to obey. Justification of sin is not by man's works of giving of his money, time, and sacrifice and his "love". Thirdly, God says in I Cor. 13:3, that a person can give all he has to his family, to the poor and homeless, to charities, and even give his life also, and still not have God's love. One other thing about this righteousness of Christmas that they display, is that most of the time it is done to seen by others, which is sin. God says our righteousness is nothing but a bunch of filthy rags, meaning our righteousness is dead works without Christ and His sacrifice and our repenting of breaking His law-His Ten Commandments, and is without any value and worth in one's life, and will not be received into God's Kingdom.

Satan, in the very beginning told man he would not die if he partook of the forbidden fruit, that was pleasing to his eyes and much to be desired, Gen. 3:4-6, Pro. 14:12. But God said, if you live by Satan's suggestions instead of what He Commanded, it would reap sure death unless there is repentance, and man takes of the tree of life, Gen. 3:22, Rev. 22:14-15. The lying spirit of Christmas produces a burden and a yoke and the only way it can be lifted is by the conditions laid out by the True Christ, not the "antinomian christ of Christmas," Acts 3:18-20. TAKE HEED AND EXAMINE WHAT IS WRITTEN!!!!! II Cor. 13:5-8, Mat. 19:17, Luke 5:32.

CHRISTMAS AND THE FORBIDDEN TREE

Why has man chosen Christmas to be an international "holy-feast" day in observance of Christ's birth? Jesus Christ has not commanded a FEAST day to be kept holy to remember HIS BIRTH. Also JESUS CHRIST IS--NOT--ONE--BIT--PLEASED when churches, peoples, and nations use His name to title their feast holiday as in Christmas, at the same day and time of the year that the idolaters of the past served and worshipped their idols, with all their abominations in a hedonistic type of worship. Why does man choose to remember and observe Christmas, a day and season not commanded by God, and reject all the special Holy Days and seasons God has commanded man to remember to keep, Lev. 23:1-44? God's wrath is growing stronger and His patience shorter day by day, because of man's sins, and his continual, rebellious heart. Why does man choose to remember to observe the first work day of the week, Sunday, to be his sabbath, not commanded by God, and reject the Sabbath day God has commanded for man to remember to keep Holy--the 7th day of the week, Saturday?

It is all because of man in the beginning chose the forbidden tree in Genesis, the tree that God told man not to choose as the way man would live his life, and by him choosing this forbidden tree that his life would end in his death unless he would repent of following the way of that forbidden tree. Yet today man continues to eat and live by the fruit of the forbidden tree of Gen. 3:3-6, which is man as god, deciding what is holy and unholy, and man creating his own holy days, sabbaths, saviors, and gods made in man's and Satan's own image, Deut. 5:8. Woe be unto them in Christ's soon coming, Day of Judgment. Use these questions generated in this article to inspire you think about how you live and why you live as you do.

Why does man in his "professed Christian world" take the pure, sinless, righteous, holy Name of Jesus Christ, drag, copy, paste, and place His name into their hedonistic, idolatrous, special holidays, such as Christmas? The reason is to try to make Christmas, man's fruit of his chosen, forbidden tree, to appear as good, holy, and as fruit of the spirit of God's tree of life. This is man trying to Christianize his fruit of the forbidden tree, the tree of the knowledge of "good and evil." Study Mat. 7:17-20. Taking Christ's Name and associating it with all the sins, fruit of the forbidden tree, is--not--one--bit--pleasing to God, and God will not hold him without guilt and shame for taking His Name in vain and for evil use, Deut. 5:11, and using His name in observing man's idolatrous Christmas.

Why does man argue that he doesn't worship at Christmas the idols of the past, for which Christmas was begun, but at the same time teach his children to look to the idol of Santa Claus? Why does man deceive himself that he is not an idolater of Christmas, and yet at the same time put up a Christmas tree with all its lights and trimming, to serve as the Santa Claus's idol alter, where they lie and teach that Santa will visit with gifts, and use this tradition to glorify this Christmas idol as a gift giving, as another god in their children's minds and hearts? God the Father and Jesus Christ, hate idolatry of any form, along with all the lying that goes along with it! The idolatry of Christmas is not the fruit from the tree of life, Rev. 22:14, but is the fruit of the forbidden tree, a way of man that seems good, but will end in death, Pro. 14:12. Christ warns all idolaters and he who loves and makes a lie that they will not have a right to the tree of life nor enter into His City, Rev. 22:14-15.

Why can't so-called believers in Christ see through all the deception, falseness, idolatry, make believe lies and sins of Christmas, and understand that this is man following a way that seems right, and that this mis-appropriating the name of Jesus Christ and His birth, will end in death? Men, through Satan and his professed "Christian ministry," have been and are liars and covering up the truth about Christmas, and all its abominations. God says, "HE HATES, DESPISES, MAN'S FEAST DAYS," Amos 5:20-24, because they are the fruit of the forbidden tree--the tree of death and corruption. Christmas is one of man's feast days and fruit of the forbidden tree of Genesis. God told man to not eat of its fruit,. Satan and his ministers of light, II Cor. 11:13-15, will always make the fruit of the forbidden tree, pleasant to the senses, and sensual desires of man, such as in Christmas with all its decorations, lights and food, but it will always reap the unpeaceful fruits of unrighteousness and death. Romans 8:6 says, "For to be fleshly minded (mindful of the things of the flesh) is death: but to be spiritually minded (mindful of the spiritual things) is life and peace."

Why did Jesus Christ of the Bible say, "Don't think (celebrate at Christmas) that I came to send (bring) peace to the earth, I came not to send peace but a sword," Mat. 10:34. Luke 12:51 says "I (Christ) came not to give PEACE BUT DIVISION. Division and a sword means a battle of the spirits the dividing of the spirits the spirit of the flesh that follows the forbidden tree, the spirit of the flesh that fights against the spirit of the born-again Saint following the tree of life. Gal. 5:16-17, "The flesh lusteth (desires things) against the spirit and the spirit (desires things) against the flesh." Jesus Christ said in Mat. 10:35, "He came to set a man at variance (divided apart) against his father, and a daughter against her mother," verse 36, "and a man's foes shall be they of his own household."

The Christian community, observing Christmas, do not believe or worship this Christ of the Bible, but the false christ of Christmas, that brings families together all bearing the same corrupt fruit of the forbidden tree, and trying to unite families in the same Satanic spirit. Why does Jesus Christ say He came to divide families, to set them at variance, at difference or opposition with one another? It is all because some are continually desiring to follow the way of the forbidden tree of the flesh, living by their own opinions or standards or laws, by their own knowledge of good and evil, and others desiring to follow the tree of life of obeying Christ's 10 commandments His tree of God's way of life. Christ desires to live in His chosen sons by His spirit, verses 37-40, Mat. 12:33, and to totally reject the fleshly spirit of man and Satan, all who reject God and His 10 commandments.

Why don't "Professed to Christians" teach their children about the true Jesus Christ of the Bible, and His true gospel message? The message that Christ came to the earth to give His Life and pour out His Blood because of men's sins of idolatry and lying, all sins that people engage in by observing Christmas. They bear a false witness about Christ, His Name and His Birth., and teach them that the christ of Christmas is the Christ of the Bible. They do not teach their children that the Christ of Scripture hates lying, idolatry and that the Christ of the Bible is coming soon, to reveal Himself (WHAT A SHOCK THAT WILL BE) and He is coming to put down and destroy all the idol images of Him, and to judge all idolaters, and all who love to make a lie, and who are still living by the fruit of the forbidden tree, like that of Christmas, which seems right in their own eyes, but will end in death. Woe be unto all that will not repent and continue to justify their way and fruit that they are reaping from the forbidden tree! John the Baptist said, "The axe is laid to the trees: therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit (people living of the forbidden tree) is cut down and cast into the fire," Mat. 3:10 If people who profess to be Christians, don't cut down this forbidden tree in their lives, then Christ will cut them down in His Judgment coming on all the earth.

IS SANTA CLAUS A CHRISTMAS IDOL?

Santa Claus is taught to children as a grand old fictitious being, having special god-like power of bringing good and blessing children. Webster's Dictionary defines an idol as an image, object, or being that is greatly or excessively loved and admired. This word picture of man describes Santa Claus, without any doubt, to be an idol. God explains and describes an idol in His Word, Ex. 20:4, as either a graven (carved-out) object that one can see, or a being of the mind's creation of any likeness of God in heaven. Doesn't Santa Claus fit an idol's description, without question, and is taught to have god-like power to serve families and all their children of the world at Christmas?

Man and his society has even clothed it's Santa Claus idol to even appear like a likeness of God, as Christ in heaven appeared to John in vision, that has a golden or (black) girdle girt about the body with the head and hairs appearing white like wool, white as snow and having a deep voice. Read it in Rev. 1:13-15! The Santa idol has been made to appear to sound like Christ in heaven, with a deep laugh and a Christ like appearance, with head and hairs white like wool wearing a black girdle. God's 2nd commandment says in Ex. 20:5, "Don't worship nor serve them, any of man's created God-like idols or gods," and in the last part of verse 5, God says, "this sin depicts hatred-hostility against God." God says He is a jealous God for His people and the creating of idols, as in Santa, does not show love as many professed Christians believe it does, but hatred and rebellion against God and Jesus Christ, Ex. 20:4-5.

Society and professed Christianity would have all to believe that observing Christmas, and teaching about Santa is done in the name of Christ, to remember His unknown birthday. Is observing Christmas Christ's will or the will of another spirit being, posing as Christ? People literally raise up Santa and put him on a throne at the Christmas season, and exalt him in conjunction and amidst all the sun-god customs and practices of idolatry of the past, as in setting up a tree with all the lights, candles, yule logs and songs that seem so joyous and wonderful, but are oh so deceiving! Jesus Christ said there would be false Christs, false imaginations, creations and images of Him, worshipped by many people and showing great wonders, and with shows that are put on at the Christmas season, and Christ said if possible this deception would deceive even the elect, Mat. 24:5-24. Why not the elect, because they are not deceived about the requirements for salvation and understand what is idolatry, and have repented of this sin, a sin God greatly hates, Deut. 7: 25-26, Deut. 8:19-20. They can see through Christmas and all the sins it represents, and they understand the truth of the true Gospel and what is required of it's message, that no one can enter God's kingdom living in sin and being a part of sin.

Can a confessed Christian, who has repented of the sins of idolatry and the worship of idols in his life, join in and be a part of the Christmas season? An absolute no! Christmas was founded in idolatry and still carries with it the worship of the Santa idol, and all of it's borrowed idolatrous, sun-worship practices and symbols of the past, but because Christ's name has been added to it, people reason erroneously that Christmas and Santa Claus has been Christianized. Oh what a deception! This is not only idolatry, but taking Christ's Name in vain as well, and joining His Holy Righteous name to idols and idolatry, and doing despite against His spirit of grace, Heb. 10:28-31, also II Cor. 6:14-17. This is works of unholiness, and will reap the wages of sin! Jesus Christ has given no one-- preacher, church, or whatever, permission and authority to use His Name in conjunction with the season's symbols of sun-god worship, and extolling the idol of Santa Claus. Then who has given churches permission? It is Satan, who has deceived the whole world, Rev. 12:9, and set up false Christ worship in all the churches, II Cor. 4:4 and study II Cor. 11:13-15.

People, extolling the Santa Claus idol to their children at the Christmas season, is the fruit of man's living from the knowledge of the "tree of good and evil." Man, as his own self-appointed god, Gen. 3:5, justifies his decision to observe Christmas in its' spirit, as his own choice, and to follow his own and his church's standard of what is "good and evil" even if it is contrary to God's law, and God's spirit. However, and whenever a man is converted to God's way and desires to choose God's "tree of life," he comes to see from this choice, that only God knows what is good and evil, and it is God's standard of measurements--His Ten Commandments, that man must acknowledge as the only way of love and real joy. The excuse that Satan's preachers teach, that no one can keep Christ's Ten Commandments and by this statement deny having God's Holy Spirit in them which is God's power to help them to keep His commandments is their deception or ignorance of God's word, and this will not protect anyone from God's judgment. God's Word still stands--the wages of sin is death, not life, and every commandment broken and continually being broken, will reap the death penalty, Rom. 6:23, II Peter 2:2, II Tim. 3:5.

The man-gods of professed Christianity reason from their church, their family "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" that they have come from, gives them justification from God's Word. They reason is that Rom. 14:3-6 gives them their justicication in choosing and esteeming any day for the sabbath or holy day, such as Christmas, Sunday and Easter, with no remorse or guilt of commandment transgression. Is this Paul's teaching? Do these verses give a believer permission to cast off, denounce, and forget God's commanded 7th Day Sabbath, and His Holy Days--making light of why Christ died, Heb. 10:26-29? Of course not! That is ridiculous! These verses are teaching that no one is to judge a believer that esteems a certain day for fasting and prayer, to praise and draw close to his Master, and has nothing to do with the law of God, and the time He has set aside to be holy time and days. The Word's meaning and inspirition here was in no way meant to forget his Master's weekly, 7th Day Sabbath, or His annual Holy Days, Mark 2:28, Ex. 20:8.

Professed Christianity uses Rom. 14:3-6 to justify their sins, and of exercising their self-imposed right as "gods" to choose their own Sabbath and Holy Days, not realizing it is the Master of the Word who is to say what days are to be holy! Romans 14 is not about God's law or His established doctrine, but about one's freedom in choosing optional, personal areas of worship in his life not based on God's laws, and no one is to judge that man in that personal, optional worship of God. There is no liberty given here in these verses to forget to remember Christ's Sabbath day, and the holy days of Jesus Christ.

Santa Claus is a greatly admired idol of Christmas, that parents lie about and teach to their children that takes the place of God. Santa Claus is raised up in Christmas parades, at parties, and brought into American homes against the will of Jesus Christ, and is an abomination to God! Christ says, "Come out of it and be ye separate," II Cor. 6:16-18, I Cor. 6:9-10, Gal. 5:19-21.

Christmas is celebrated as the birth of the Son, but birth of which Son-Sun does it really commemorate--the birth of the Son of God, or the birth of the new sun of the Solstice Season? Today's Christianity proclaims that Christmas is about the observance of the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son, but it is done with all of the customs, rituals, and religious practices that were used in the past for the worship of the Sun.Is the real Christ, the coming judge to the earth pleased with this type of worship and professed love for Him, or is all of this really pleasing the god of this world, Satan and all of the season's worship is actually toward his and his ministers created, false image of Christ which creates a false and empty seasonal joy that soon turns into depression. This is all Satan's and his ministers' inspired evil work, who inspired and teaches that this is all good, joyous, who permits all of the sin associated with the season of Christmas, raising up a Christ image of no-law, a Satan-created, false image of Christ, who is accepted by all as being the real Jesus Christ?

In these last days of man's government, as prophecy is being fulfilled, one of the chief signs, that Jesus Christ predicted and warned about, is "that there will be false Christs (Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22), and that if it were possible, they would deceive even the very elect of God."Are you sure you are not deceived?

One of these false Christs appears at the Christmas season every year, and our whole society has come to accept him as truth, believing that Christmas actually originated from the actual birthday of the Real Christ. Is this true? Is the Real Christ in Christmas, or is it all about recognizing a raised up, false Christ? Is Christmas ordained of God, and did God command Christmas as a commanded holy day and season?

Whenever a person, organization, church or product wants recognition, men use a popular, familiar name to sell the product, thereby, reaping billions of dollars from using that name. Are religions, with certain religious, seasonal days any different? It's no different! They and retail merchants use the name of the Real Christ and events surrounding the unknown and secret birthday of the Real Christ to make billions, as well as using that Name to get recognition for their church organization, and to celebrate a false, holiday season. What great deception people have acepted, and by them using that Name falsely, they will worship Christ in vain and create a false Christ that sees no harm and sin in being a part of such an abomination! Many "professed Christians" exalt the name of Christ to exalt their false doctrine, false teachings and false church, thereby forming and manufacturing false Christs. They do this by twisting Scriptures and Biblical events to mean something contrary to what God intended, II Peter 3:16-17.

The "Christ" in Christmas is a false Christ because this false entity, through false, "professed ministers," demands the worship of this false Christ and the observance of this season against the intentions of the Real Christ.In fact, the Real Christ's date of birth is unknown, kept secret, and not intended to made a day of such recognition, indicating He does not mean for His birth to be a day of celebration and commenoration, but His date of death is well known, with the actual date, and with commands to observe and commemorate it each year--not each week, as many do. There is not one verse in God's Word directing His true followers to celebrate Christmas as a holy day!

Secondly, the true Christ would never command His true followers to observe Christmas by setting aside that day, using His Name in conjunction with the same time of the year heathen people of the past, worshipped their pagan god--the sun god--the birth of the "new sun." This is the Solstice season of December, and the time where and when Christmas was founded with all its superstitions, rituals and idol worship, such as the yule log (sun wheel) symbol of the sun, lights and candles, encouraging the waning sun at its lowest place, and the beginning (birth) of a new sun: along with mistletoe, encouraging revelry and unlawful sensual pleasure. These are all customs of past, pagan, idolatrous worship of the winter "sun god," observed for hundreds of years, and which God so vehemently condemns in Deut. 17:2-6..."If any worshipped other gods, such as the sun, moon or host of heavens, it was death."

People will say, "But we worship the true Christ--not the Sun, and just borrow the practices, and rituals, and customs of that past, idolatrious, sun worship season." But is it the true Christ that people worship and honor at this season of the year or another god and a raised up false savior?Let's examine the works of Christmas observance with common sense to see which is true. Would the Real Christ teach you to lie and deceive your child about a mythical, Santa claus idol -- however innocent it may seem? Would the Real Christ encourage you and society to borrow customs of "sun-worshippers, and use them in commemoration of His unknown, and Scriptural secret date of birth? Would the Real Christ inspire people to generate, through materialism and pagan customs, a false spirit of warmth and giving that dries up and disppears the day after Christmas, because it was based on materialism, the physical pleasing of the senses and emotions? Would the Real Christ inspire people to steal (shoplift) in order to keep this day, and be under all kinds of pressure to go into debt to give or swap gifts, becuse of the peer pressure from family and others?

Has the real Jesus Christ commanded you to prove the spirits of this Day and Season to determine if this spirit of Christmas is a false spirit, or the true Spirit of Jesus Christ? Would the Real Christ encourage you to use parties and family get-togethers to commemorate His un-commanded and unknown date of birth, and condone this commemoration by worshipping and exalting Him on this day--the same day the sun was worshipped in the pagan idolatrous, sun-worshippers of the past? People can call a skunk a cat, but upon close examination, the lie is exposed and the truth comes out. Close examination of Christmas will prove that it is not a Christian holy day, but created by today's, accepted, false Christianity!

Christ warns people who think they are worshipping Him--the Real Christ, that actually in their heart, they are really serving , a created, false image of Christ that man conjures up in his mind, fueled by his false minister and friends through false assumptions and false teachings, which in reality, are man's own commandments, and by following man-created images, commandments and traditions, worship Him in vain, Matthew 15:8-9.

The "Christ" in Christmas that people worship, is a false Christ, which is like the many false Christs that people worship in many churches, and these false Christs teach all kinds of false doctrines, and one of the worst is the false doctrine about salvation--teaching a grace without repentance and obedience to God's Ten Commandments, and all His law, which is the worst of all of their false teachings, because it deceives people into accepting a false Christ, a false salvation set upon a false foundation, all of which does not demand repentance and obedience to God and His law ,to begin their new life in the true Christ.

What about all the many wonderful works, programs and accomplishments of giving at Christmas? The Real Christ says..."You can do all these many, many wonderful works in vain if you are living contrary to His laws and commands," Matthew 7:21-23. I Corinthians 13:3 says..."You can give everything you have and even you life, and it all will be done in vain if you don't have the real love of the Real Christ," and that real love comes as the fruit of keeping Christ's Ten Commandments, I John 5:2-3 and I John 2:4.

Yes, but you say "People need special days and seasons to look forward to." Most people do not realize that God has given 7 Annual Holy Days and seasons, which give great purpose, understanding and insight to God's plan for man and His salvation, but have been totally rejected and lost by most all people and churches, because people do not study God's Word. They are challenged to look into God's Word, or study about His Holy Days in order to see what God has commanded. They don't realize that God's Holy days are special days, providing real joy and purpose. These are the days of the Real Christ, which give great purpose and helps to keep man inspired and uplifted, with hope, joy and understanding of true salvation, and provide real peace and security, rather than leave him depressed, let down, with no lasting spiritual accomplishments, which are the results of Satan's false Christs and false, pagan holidays! God's true Holy Days teach and give happiness, joy and purpose for life, whereas, Satan's, false Christs days produce despair, sin and death! We have articles about God's Holy Days on our website.

God says in Revelation 18:4..."Come out of her my people (this Babylon of false religion and confusion), and be not partakers of her sins and receive not of her plagues, which are coming on all mankind."Will any repent, obey and follow the Real Christ, or will they continue to submit to the demands of society, and continue to follow the false leading of a false Christ? If a person does understand, and is determined to obey God's commandments--all ten of them, God promises to help that person by giving him, or her, a portion of His Holy Spirit--and that is not a false spirit, which so many "professed Christians" have and is especially manisfested at the Christmas Season.

The Real Christ inspired John to record in Revelation 12:9..."Satan has the whole world (society) deceived," and as he (Satan) comes to see his time is short (Revelation 12:12) he will lash out a large scale, unprecedented, tribulation and human carnage on an unsuspecting society, which God will permit, because of man's enormous sins. Hopefully, God will help some to come to see their sins, repent and draw away from these false Christs, by coming out of today's false Christianity, and all false religions so that they can be protected from all the human suffering and devastation before it, the Day of the Lord, comes!