I often wonder how may OTHER gods we have before us in our homes and lives - that we are not even aware of, because they have been passed on to us just as traditions of our family or our religious backgrounds.

In Exodus 20:4, God tells us that, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." Scripture tells us in Deuteronomy 7:26, "Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing."

Deuteronomy 27:15 tells us that, "Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image," and in Jeremiah 11:3, the Lord says, "Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant." These Scriptures show us that these curses are from God and not from satan, therefore, the only way to get these curses removed is to repent and ask God to remove them. Jesus made the provision by hanging on the tree.

Have you ever wondered how (they or whoever) knew that December 25th was Jesus’ birthday? Well, I have recently began to question this and to my amazement here are some of my findings. The word Christmas is of Roman Catholic origin, meaning a mass as said for Christ. This thought had never entered my mind, and I have seen well over fifty "Christ masses."

God tells us through Ezekiel in Chapter 20:39, "Pollute ye My Holy Name no more". The word Christmas is a pollution of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In reality Jesus never told us to observe His birth nor is it found in Scripture the exact day that He was born. Why was this day chosen?

I believe He was born on the Day of Atonement - that great day of the Feast of Tabernacles. Christmas indicates that it is a mixture, though it includes the name of Christ, it also mentions the "mass." Now the mass, with its rituals, elaborate ceremony, pagan prayers for the dead, etc. is most assuredly a continuation of paganism. Considering then that the name of these pagan rites, the mass, is connected with the name of Christ in the word "CHRIST-MAS," we immediately see an attempt to merge two conflicting systems together! Actually, to attach the name of Christ with the word "Mass," a pagan and heathenistic ritual carried down from Babylon, is but to pollute the Holy Name of our God. Since Christ was not born on December 25, then how did this particular day come to be part of the church calendar? History has the answer.

Nimrod was the 3rd generation from Noah. Noah begat Ham, who begat Cush, who begat Nimrod, and Nimrod was the builder and founder of Babylon. Nimrod’s wife was Semiramis, (he was the king and she was the queen of Babylon). After Nimrod died, she said that he was to be worshipped as the sun-god, and she gave birth to an illegitimate son and claimed he was Nimrod, reborn by supernatural conception, who she named Tammuz. She set herself up before the people as "queen of heaven" and Tammuz as a "god-child" and December 25th has been worshipped as his birthday for hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. So Christmas is a mixture and a mixture is an abomination to God!!!

Christmas Trees - Semiramis, the mother of Tammuz, claim that overnight an evergreen tree sprang up from a dead tree stump. The dead stump supposedly symbolized her dead husband Nimrod; the new evergreen tree was the symbol that Nimrod had come to life again in the person of her virgin born son, Tammuz. From this time on, the evergreen tree was worshipped. In at least ten Bible references, the "green" tree is associated with idolatry and false worship.

Gifts - Supposedly gifts were found under this green tree that sprang up, so from that time to this, gifts are given on December 25th in honor of the birth of Tammuz, the child-god.

Yule Log - This is a carry over of the fire ceremony of passing through the fire which God forbade the children of Israel to have any part of. Also, a log was burned on the winter solstice day in December in honor of the coming of spring. Part of this log was kept to start the fire with at the time of the winter solstice the next year

Holly and Mistletoe - The holly and mistletoe were used in ceremonies of the Druidic priest in worship to satan.

Santa Claus - He is a false god and is depicted as living in the north, and that is where the Bible says that God is from, the sides of the North. He is depicted as being omni-present by being everyplace the same night by flying through the sky. Besides it is a lie to tell children about something that is false.

Tree Decorations - "Balls" symbolize the sun and represents the worship of Nimrod who was supposed to be the god of the sun. Lights on the tree originally were candles that were burned to the god of lights, Februa, and today electric lights on the tree are used.

Jeremiah 10:1-5 tells us, ".... The customs of the people are vain, for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers."

Exodus 20:5 says, "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;" or them that do not follow, obey, adhere to His statutes and commandments.

Do we not need to repent as Daniel (who I believe had received an understanding of this Scripture) in Daniel 9:3-19. Daniel set his face to seek the Lord by prayer, supplication and fastings with sackcloth and ashes because they had sinned and rebelled and in verse 11, he says that God’s curse is poured upon us as it is written in the law of Moses, and that the Lord hath watched over evil to bring it upon us.

In 1 John 1:9, we are told, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Could we knowingly be serving or doing service to false gods in these things, which is an abomination to God and be under a curse from Him? Galatians 4:8-11 says, "Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain."

Of these things I ponder and wonder ... are we under curses? Do we need to repent? I believe we do. Ask the Lord Jesus to turn the light of the Holy Spirit upon us.

(Reprinted from November 1978 edition, Voices From His Excellent Glory)

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