December 7, 2009

• Christmas….CHRIST-MAS????

  My Friend wrote something and I would like to share it with you….

  Christmas day 2007 I sat around my Christmas tree opening presents and thought ‘what in the world are we celebrating, JESUS, wasn’t even born on this day?’

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  Who knew from that day on, He would have His hand on my heart and mind to find out the truth.

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  As a society we have been led to believe that we don’t know the exact date of Yahshua’s birth and that is what is ingrained in our minds year after year.

  December 25th has been the ‘accepted’ time and people accept it as Bible truth.

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  There are some of us though, who get tired of being spoon fed the same old diatribe year after year so we take it upon ourselves to find the truth of a matter. It’s amazing the things that happen when you say ‘Yahweh, I want to know the truth, show it to me’ and He ends up showing it alright, in a big way. =)

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  And that’s what I did concerning this subject. All you need is your Bible and some basic history about Judaism and you can easily see that Yahshua was not born December 25th, or even in the winter season.

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  There were gods who were born on December 25th but it sure wasn’t the Messsiah.

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  “Well if JESUS wasn’t born December 25th, when was He born smarty pants?’ you may be saying…

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  The Feast of Tabernacles / Sukkot which are fall (normally around September) holidays.

  Here’s my proof….

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  * During Yahweh’s birth, shepherds were tending their flocks in the field, at night (Luke 2:8).

  That alone rules out His birth in the winter.

  The time of pasturing in Palestine, begins (according to Talmudists) in March, and lasts till November, when the herds are brought in from the fields and kept under shelter till the close of February (Phillip Schaff – History of the Christian Church).

  The flocks are indoors during December because it’s too cold.

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  * It is most likely Yahshua was conceived on Chanukah (Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication)

  Remember this fact, because it will come into play as I go on. =)

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  When John the Baptist was conceived and born plays a HUGE part in determining the general time frame of Yahshua’s birth.

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  * Read Luke 1:5-25
  When the angel, Gabriel, appeared to Zacharias as he was ministering in the Temple, it was during the ministration of Abiyah (Abia). This order of priests ministered in the Temple the eighth week of the Hebrew year according to the ordinance of 1 Chronicles 24:10 (and according to the Talmud). The eighth week transverses the last week of the second Hebrew month of Iyar and the first week of the third Hebrew month of Sivan, which culminates at Shavuot (Pentecost). This is the anchor point for discovering the exact time of Messiah Yeshua’s birth. The angel promised Zachariah that his prayer had been answered, and when he went home to his wife Elizabeth she conceived. This puts the conception of John the Baptist very near the time of Shavuot, the Feast of Pentecost, in the second week of the month of Sivan, the third Hebrew month.

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  *At the close of the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary. Gabriel told Mary about Elizabeth, saying “she who was called barren is six months pregnant,” This would be the last of the ninth Hebrew month called Kislev at the time of Chanukah. There are 27 weeks weeks between the end of discourse of Abiyah and the start of Chanukah (Dedication), which is celebrated eight days, from Kislev 25 to Tevet 2.
  Mary accepts the word of the angel concerning the conception of Messiah in her, and she goes to the home of Elizabeth and Zachariah.
  Upon Mary’s greeting to Elizabeth, Elizabeth responds to Mary, calling her “the mother of my LORD”. This proves that Mary was already pregnant with Yahshua. Thus, Yeshua was conceived at Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, for He is the Light of the World.

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  * Read Luke1:56-80
  Mary stayed with Elizabeth for 3 months, which was until the birth of John.

  Since a full pregnancy term is 41 weeks, and 27 weeks makes up the first six months (two trimesters), which is exactly the time from the discourse of Abiyah to Chanukah, that leaves 14 weeks to accomplish the last trimester and bring the pregnancy to full term. There are exactly 14 weeks from Chanukah to Passover.

  John the Baptist was born at Passover.

  He was circumcised on the eighth day, which would be the last day of Passover/Feast of Unleavened Bread.

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  *Nisan , when John was born, is the 1st month of the Hebrew year.

  Mary conceived 6 months after Elizabeth conceived, which means Yeshua’s birth would have to come 6 months after John’s birth, during the 7th Hebrew month called Tishri.

  Since we know that John was born at Passover/Feast of Unleavened Bread, we learn the time of Yeshua’s birth by counting 6 Hebrew months from Passover.

  The Feast of Unleavened Bread begins on Nisan 15 and 6 months later Tabernacles begins on Tishri 15.

  Yahshua was born on the first day of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles).

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  *The Feast of Tabernacles — Take a look at Leviticus 23: 34-43. It’s awesome and you will see how it all ties in!

  YHWH commanded that Israel should observe it 8 days. They were to build temporary dwellings called a sukkah (booths) and dwell in them.

  These sukkahs were erected to house families with some bare comforts and food for the eight days. Food was placed in a stall or a crib for storage in the tabernacle. The KJV Bible calls this food crib a manger.

  Yeshua was not born in a barn, but rather in a temporary tabernacle which had been built for the celebration.

  This celebration would explain why there wasn’t any room at the inn. It’s because folks had come from all over to observe this Feast and had taken all the rooms.

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  * An AWESOME tidbit of info…turn with me to John 1:14. It says “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth”.

  That world “dwelt”, in the Greek means:

  to fix one’s tabernacle, have one’s tabernacle, abide (or live) in a tabernacle (or tent), tabernacle
  to dwell

  Pretty cool, eh? =) He was made flesh and tabernacled among us. HalleluYAH!

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  * One last AWESOME tidbit before I close. We are going to be keeping the Feast of Tabernacles in the New Kingdom.

  Turn with me to Zechariah 14: 16-19.

  ” And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

  And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King; the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

  And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

  This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles”.

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  “Jesus is the Reason for the Season?” Our Saviour and His birth have nothing to do with Christmas.

  Would you like someone celebrating your birthday, when it’s not your birthday at all?

  The Feast of Tabernacles / Sukkot is about celebrating His birth, celebrate His glorious coming then, in the fall.

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  “Keep Christ in Christmas!” He has NOTHING to do with Christmas my friends. You do know Christmas is nothing more than a pagan holiday that’s been “Christianized”, right?

  Celebrate the day if you want, but let’s stop dragging our Messiah into a pagan holiday.

  Why not do a search and find out how Christmas originated.

  It’s a known fact that the early church did not have anything to do with “Christmas”. That “holiday” didn’t come into the Roman church till the 4th century.

  Our Saviour’s birth got sucked into all that mess which has now morphed into the Christmas that we know today.

  So, my question to you is, will you keep celebrating a day that Yahshua was not born on and has nothing to do with, or will you take the time to do your own research like I have and get to the heart of the matter.

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  Time is running out friends. It’s time you seek the Truth out while you can.

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  Yahshua will show you the Truth if you will let Him. Will you let Him?

  We as Christians need to quit justifying and distorting truth from fables.

  I didn’t post this to look down my nose at anyone who celebrates Christmas (thought I would get that in there before somebody told me I was “judging” or “condemning” them, because I am not).

  I am showing you the facts and TRUTH of a Biblical subject. You can take it, study up more on it or leave it. Your choice.

  It’s high time we wake out of our slumber satan has cast upon us. I am just ringing the warning bell in hopes to wake us up.

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  Jeremiah 10 is a reminder from Yahweh to “Learn not the way of the heathen”…it goes hand in hand with Mark 7:9 – ” And He (JESUS) said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of GOD, that ye may keep your own tradition”.

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