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Subject: DOES THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT CHRISTMAS TREE |
Bible Note: Part 2 But, do you ask, what means verse five, that "they can neither do good nor can they do evil"? Why this gift-laden tree celebrates one as a god, declared so in this same passage. And this verse tells us the one celebrated can do nothing, is but a dead man--a funny kind of a god wouldn't such an one be? "But,"--on the contrary,--"Jehovah God is the true God," showing this gift-tree is tied up to a false god. What further about him? "Thus shall ye say unto them,"--say to all Christmas observers,--"the gods that have NOT made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens." Verse 11. And in this same passage we hear God say observance of such honors to this god (simply Christmas, as shown by the Christmas Tree) is going to bring such "indignation" from Him that "the Nations" (plural) shall "not be able to abide His indignation"! 2. As to eating in connection with Christmas,-- which means Christmas candies, cake, pies, Christmas dinners,--the Scriptures are again very plain. Eating is a chief characteristic of the Yule season. Look now at Isaiah 65:11-12. "But ye that forsake Jehovah, that forget My holy mountain that PREPARE A TABLE for fortune, and that fill up mingled wine unto Destiny, I will destine you to the sword, and ye shall bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but ye did that which was evil in MINE eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not!" "Fortune" is one of the literal names for this god as we have seen above (Cicero's Works, De Divitione, vol. 3, p. 77). The King-James (Authorized) version retains the words "Gad" and Meni." Gad is the perfect participle of the verb that means to assault, and is a name for Nimrod as the originator of war as the records of antiquity abundantly show him to have been; and Meni means the Numberer,--a name for the Moon which numbers the months. Just as the Babylonian messiah was worshipped as the star constellation of "Orion, the mighty hunter," so he was also deified as the "Lord Moon," or, "The Man in the Moon." Divinely destined to the Sword are all who partake of Christmas "eats" says Old Testament in Isaiah! What says New Testament? New Testament commands that we never drink or eat any thing in memory of Jesus Christ save the "Lord's Supper" which we are told is never candy, pies, cake or a meal, but is the bare ceremonial partaking of unleavened bread and a sipof the fruit of the vine. This, says New Testament, is the ONLY eating permissable in connection with remembering the Lord Jesus Christ! And yet, you are a "New Testament Christian," are you? Very well, then, if you really are,out go all Christmas candies, drinks, pies, cakes, dinners,--according to both Old and New Testaments! 3. As to Christmas Gifts,--still the Scriptures speak very plainly. Such gifts are described in Jeremiah, chapter ten, which we reviewed above,--the gold and silver gifts, the articles of clothing, the toys and articles all the work of "skilled workmen." All such are there positively forbidden by positive command,--"learn it not"! Also it is there where the Christmas gifts are told of that Jehovah God says His "indignation" shall be poured forth for such on all Nations wherein people so observe, that they shall "not abide His indignation"! Then in Psalm 16:4 (American Revision) we read that Jehovah God says of those who give gifts in connection with a god (in connection with any god) that "their sorrows shall be multiplied" and that He will not take their names on His lips! |