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NASB | Judges 4:4 ¶ Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Judges 4:4 ¶ Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. |
Subject: DOES THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT CHRISTMAS TREE |
Bible Note: WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY But what the harm? We would be fair enough to say there is no harm and that such is the True Story of Christmas and all its origins, if it were not for the Scriptures. But the Scriptures speak. 1. As to the Christmas Tree, the Scriptures speak plainly. Turn to Jeremiah, chapter ten, and we find that even in the ancient time of that prophet, that Christmas, with its Tree, was already a worldwide custom! The chapter begins, "Hear the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel. Thus saith Jehovah,"--the words which follow, then, are words of Jehovah God, twice over declared so! Why this great stress on fact that what follows is from Jehovah God instead of being some cranky or silly notion? What does He say? "Learn not the way of the nations--." Then here is something which is already international, worldwide, in its scope! What is it? "For the customs of the peoples are vanity!" The dictionary defines "vanity" as meaning "empty, destitute of reality." Then we are going to learn of a custom that is "destitute of reality," that is not what it is represented as being, but it is a sham. That is, it is a custom that celebrates a thing as being something which really it is not! What is the custom that thus is warned against by Jehovah God? "For one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe." Here, then, is a going to the woods and the getting of a Tree. What next? "They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not." "They deck it" means they dec-orate it, and we are told with the golden and silver tinsels. Here also is the nailing it upright. "Like the palm tree" either means it is ever some evergreen, or, perhaps refers to its uprightness, that it fall not over, the why of its being fastened with hammers and nails. Then come the presents on and about it, verse 9: "There is silver baten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men." Now what is this but disclosure. Cont. |