Jesus Messiah Fellowship
Light To The Nations
Christmas Is Pagan Part
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Copyright 1987 All
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By Cohen G. Reckart, Pastor
As with any sin, Christmas is difficult to stop and make appropriate adjustment. Christmas, along with other pagan holidays are only a habit, a bad habit, that those around us want us to believe we are being to nit-picky about. As the alcoholic around other alcoholics, and a drug addict around other users are ridiculed and mocked, if they announce they had enough and want to quit, so the person who stands up among friends who practice pagan holidays, and announces they quit, get the same treatment. Quitting pagan holidays has even divided families.
Paganism, like alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, is now viewed as holiness. Even many Churches no longer preach against the sins of the heathens. But does that make sin acceptable to God? If all the Churches quit preaching against paganism, would the absence of that preaching make it holy and pure? Practicing pagan holidays and surrounding ourselves and the Church doors with wreaths representing the death and resurrection of Nimrod, is wrong. Isn't worshiping only ONE GOD the only right faith of Christians?
Christmas is an addictive celebration because everyone seems to trip-out on the sins permitted and the pagan customs. This holiday is an annual habit passed down to us from ancestors who also were tricked. The devil has no greater joy than to give human minds a delusion that evil is good. Those who quit celebrating pagan holidays are giving only one message to those around them. That message is that they love God with all their HEART, MIND, AND SOUL. Where could ole Nick and his Baalmas possibly fit in?
Self Test Circle the correct answer
1.) Christmas is
(a) A pagan holiday
(b) A Jewish holiday
(c) The First Commandment
2.) Jeremiah 10:1-5
(a) Is a totem pole as found in Alaska
(b) Condemns the Christmas tree and decorating it
(c) Tells us the heathens are worshiping the true God
3.) The story of the Birth of Messiah
(a) Is found in the book of Genesis
(b) Is not in the Bible
(c) Is in the book of Luke
4.) The Christmas story of Santa and the Christmas tree
(a) Was told to Adam and Eve by God
(b) Are in the book of Jezebel
(c) Is not in the Bible
5.) December 25
(a) Is the day Jesus was crucified
(b) Is not the true birthday of Messiah
(c) Is the day the wise men came to Bethlehem
6.) The doctrine of Balaam is
(a) Eating things sacrificed to idols and sexual immorality
(b) Going to Sunday Church
(c) Baptising infants so they can be saved
7.) Heli was
(a) The high priest
(b) The blind man Jesus healed
(c) The King father of Mary
8.) Mary was
(a) A queen when her parents died
(b) The daughter of Jacob
(c) The daughter of a priest
9.) Jesus was born a King
(a) Because he was God come down from heaven
(b) Because he took the throne away from Herod
(c) Because his mother was a queen of David's seed line
10.) Jesus was born in
(a) September
(b) December
(c) March
11.) The wise men visited Jesus
(a) In the stable
(b) In a house
(c) Along the road to Jericho where he had fallen among thieves
12.) In the stable around the manger
(a) There was no Santa Claus or Christmas tree
(b) Joseph gave out free drinks of spiced liquor
(c) The wise men exchanged gifts with each other and departed
13.) Jesus Messiah is
(a) Moses reincarnated
(b) The only Saviour and giver of eternal life
(c) Krishna and Buddha reincarnated
14.) Santa Claus is
(a) One of the 12 Apostles
(b) A Prophet who came to Bethlehem from Jerusalem
(c) The "lord of misrule" who presides over the "Feast of Fools."
(5.) Elizabeth was six months pregnant
(a) In March
(b) In December
(c) In September
16.) The angel that came to Mary was
(a) Gabriel
(b) Sampson
(c) Michael
17.) When Joseph learned Mary was with child
(a) He went to the Chief Priest and filed a complaint
(b) He went home to put her away privily
(c) He told the neighbors to have her stoned to death
18.) The shepherds brought their sheep home to the sheepfolds
(a) Around January first of each year
(b) For shearing in March
(c) Toward the end of September
19.) There were
(a) Three wise men
(b) Two wise men
(c) An unknown number of wise men
20.) Joseph and Mary
(a) Did not cook up a wild boar's head to celebrate the birth
(b) Cooked up a wild boar's head to celebrate the birth
(c) Served ham to visitors for snacks
21.) God saw fit
(a) That everyone see the birth of Messiah
(b) That sinners did not witness the birth of Messiah
(c) That Mary's mother was with her in Bethlehem
22.) Paganism began
(a) In Mystery Babylon
(b) In Rome
(c) In The Catholic Church
23.) There remains no more sacrifice for the sin of idolatry
(a) For all Jews
(b) For those who receive the Truth about paganism and reject it
(c) For Christians who live holy
24.) The Kool-Aid cowboy writer, for pagan Christmas
(a) Made mockery about not celebrating Christmas paganism
(c) Is a well educated man of wisdom
(d) Is right, Christmas is not pagan and is a high holy day of God
25.) The dead who never knew Christmas was pagan
(a) Will go to hell anyway
(b) Will be judged based upon a past record of accepting Truth
(c) Can be saved only if someone burns a red candle at Easter
26.) Jewish Children
(a) Were not allowed to celebrate pagan holidays
(b) Were allowed to celebrate pagan holidays
(c) Should follow their parents if they celebrated pagan holidays
27.) Nimrod was the first Santa Claus
(a) At Rome
(b) At Jerusalem
(c) At Babylon
28.) The sodomites (homosexuals)
(a) Are holy men being eunuchs of God
(b) Were the sons of Aaron and Moses
(c) Wove hangings (wreaths) to decorate the groves (Christmas trees)
29.) Ministers get the blood of the lost off their hands
(a) By washing them in the Jordan river
(b) By proclaiming the Truth how ever uncomfortable it may be
(c) By dipping them in the blood of a red heifer
30.) Saints are holy ones because
(a) They do miracles and help the poor
(b) The Pope sprinkles holy water on them and promotes them
(c) God has imputed Righteousness unto them
31.) The Nimrod Bush
(a) Is where Moses was hid three months in Egypt
(b) Is the Christmas tree
(c) Is what Moses saw burning and was not consumed
32.) The evergreen tree
(a) Believed by pagans to be a symbol of reincarnation and eternal life
(b) Was the favorite tree of Jesus because his mother decorated one
(c) Was the tree the Cross was made from
33.) Liberal Ministers and Churches
(a) Are what Jesus ordained with fire on the day of Pentecost
(b) Are the only ones going to heaven
(c) Changed the word grove to totem pole loving the Christmas tree
34.) The Christmas tree was
(a) Cut down, decorated, burned to cook food, and made into an idol
(b) Used to build Noah's ark
(c) Planted near the altar of God to represent eternal life
35.) Zoganes, the red-robed lord of misrule
(a) Is code for "devil" and he presided over the "feast of fools"
(b) Was the king of Israel when Jesus was born
(c) Was one of the twelve Apostles
36.) Santa Claus and the Christmas tree
(a) Are symbolic of the doctrine of eternal life through reincarnation
(b) Both will be in heaven around the throne of God
(c) Will be in heaven at the throne of God when we get our rewards
37.) Pastor Reckart reports
(a) The grove is a totem pole like they have in Alaska
(b) The grove was to be planted near the altar of God
(c) The grove of Christmas trees was symbolic of the Garden of Eden
38.) The Pagans would celebrate ancient Christmas by
(a) Drawing a circle, sacrificing a child, and sexual immorality
(b) Living holy lives for twenty one days
(c) Going to Bethlehem to pray at the stable
39.) The Pagans would pour out of the mystic circle
(a) To go home
(b) To commit sexual immorality among the grove of Christmas trees
(c) To come down from the high places to repent of their satanism
40.) An idol of the tree of life laden with fruit
(a) Was set up in the midst of the grove of Christmas trees
(b) Was in the Jewish Temple
(c) Was worshipped by Messiah and the Apostles at a special Mass
41.) The Puritans who came to America
(a) Celebrated Christmas
(b) Brought the Christmas tree and Santa Claus customs to America
(c) Attacked Christmas as the old heathen's feast day
42.) Christmas was the only time
(a) The husband and wife could commit adultery without penalty
(b) People went to Church to be saved
(c) Children were safe from human sacrifice
43.) The "feast of fools" and the "Lord's table"
(a) Can both be eaten if we cross our fingers
(b) Are equal, one celebrates the birth of Messiah, the other his death
(c) Those who eat of the Lord's table pledge not to eat at the devil's
44.) The Bible teaches
(a) Idolatry, adultery, drunkenness, child sacrifices etc are evil and sin
(b) All sins can be forgiven so sin for all your worth at Christmas time
(c) God is loving and will not punish us for having other idols
45.) The Mass
(a) Is a symbolic re-crucifixion of Messiah to get fresh blood and flesh
(b) Is a Jewish ritual Jesus attended as a child
(c) Was started by the Apostles who borrowed it from the Pagans
46.) 336 A.D. is when
(a) The birthday of the sun was converted to the birthday of Jesus
(b) The date the last Apostle died
(c) When the Ark landed upon Mount Ararat
47.) Alexander Hislop reports
(a) The Christmas tree came from Jerusalem and Jewish Law
(b) The Christmas tree was believed to be Nimrod reincarnated
(c) The Christmas tree was the favorite tree of Jesus
48.) Santa Claus
(a) Is the first person in the trinity "father Christmas"
(b) Is Adam celebrated as "father Christmas"
(c) Is the symbol of a false Messiah who is not against sin or evil
49.) The First Commandment says
(a) Thou shalt have no other gods before me
(b) It is alright to have idols if you don't worship them
(c) You may have other gods as long as you also worship God
50.) Those who commit
(a) Idolatry can not inherit the Kingdom of God
(b) Idolatry can be saved if they also worship God at the same time
(c) Idolatry prove God hates legalism more than idols
Answers: 1.) a 2.) b 3.) c 4.) c 5.) b 6.) a 7.) c 8.) a 9.) c 10.) a 11.) b 12.) a 13.) b 14.) c 15.) b 16.) a 17.) b 18.) c 19.) c 20.) a 21.) b 22.) a 23.) b 24.) a 25.) b 26.) a 27.) c 28.) c 29.) b 30.) c 31.) b 32.) a 33.) c 34.) a 35.) a 36.) a 37.) c 38.) a 39.) b 40.) a 41.) c 42.) a 43.) c 44.) a 45.) a 46.) a 47.) b 48.) c 49.) a 50.) a
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