BUT
THIS IS A DAY, WHICH IS ALL RIGHT, JUST SET ASIDE TO WORSHIP IN MEMORIAL OF HIS
COMING TO THE WORLD.
36 Now just as a background, till--till we get
up to the part of it that I would use this morning. All of you just let
yourself be in the Spirit of the Lord.
We are today all over the world is
being cel--celebrated of the birth of Jesus, which now is just traditional.
Jesus was not born on no December the 5th or nothing like--or December the
25th. We know that's impossible. The hills of Judaea was full of snow at that
time, so how could it be that? Jesus commonly by astrology and so forth, and by
all of them was born, first, around first of April, so when it was springtime. But this is a day, which is all right, just set aside to
worship in memorial of His coming to the world.
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Not in December as the Roman
church put it, the sun-god's birthday, and put it with His, up there on
twenty-fifth of December, when their circuses was going on, if you've have took
the--the... studied the history of the church. And you understand that they put
that up there, make it... It was the sun-god's birthday, the solar, when it
stops almost still. There is
no change in it for five days, from December the twentieth to the twenty-fifth.
They put the Son of God and the
sun-god's birthday the same, compromising Christianity with paganism, made it
December. He couldn't have been born on December the twenty-fifth, why, it's
snow-bound mountains up there in Judaea.
208 He was born like all lambs are. He was born in springtime.
And He had to be born under the ram, because He was a Ram, and the ram was
April. Exactly. He was born under that ram. That's what He was. He was God's
Ram. That was Him up there that took Isaac's place. Amen. Don't you see it?
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AND
CHANGED THE BIRTH DAY OF JESUS FROM APRIL, WHERE ALL NATURE, WHERE HE WAS BORN
UNDER THE RAM, 'CAUSE HE WAS A RAM
And so did
the second Eve met hers at Nicaea, Rome, gave to it a denomination, creed,
accepted dogmas instead of the Word; taken down pagan idols like Jupiter and so
forth, and put up Paul and Barnabas. And--and
took down the sun-god and the moon-god, Ashtoreth, the moon-god, with round
kosher on it, and made her being the mother of the sun-god which is Jupiter.
And changed the
birth day of Jesus from April, where all nature, where He was born under the
ram, 'cause He was a ram, and changed that up to the sun-god's birthday in the
solar there, where it makes one day... There is just only about a minute
difference in the day when it passes on the twenty-fifth day of December, the
sun-god's birthday, not the Son of God. And every one of us play Santa Claus,
and decorate trees, a heathenism, and things like that, and then call ourselves
Christians? What's the matter with the Christian church?
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NOT A LITTLE INFANT LIKE CHRISTIAN
TRADITION HAS IT, IT WAS A YOUNG CHILD: BABY'S TWO YEARS OLD.
E-10 So in the days when Jesus was born, they
didn't have press, and so forth, like we have today, and radio, and television.
News just come merely from lip to ear. And when Jesus was born, some magis was watching for the star
of Jacob to rise, so they followed it over from the Orients and worshipped Him
out on the hillside--or in the Bethlehem manger, rather, as a young child. Not a
little infant like Christian tradition has it, it was a young Child: baby's two
years old. Herod went to immediately killing children from two years
old down. Why'd he kill them from two years old if it's just a little new
suckling baby a few hours old? See? Strange how people can get things mixed
up, isn't it? See?
He was a young Child. A young child's
not an infant: a young child. He was two years old. So the magis come from the
Orients, following a star that led them to the Child. The
shepherds was on the hill, a bunch of peasants out there, herding the sheep, not
on the 25th day of December. That's Catholicism. Along in April, 25th day of December, it's as cold as it is in
Indiana on Judaea. So they wasn't laying out there on a hill in that snow
watching sheep. So that's just something they set up so they taken on that way.
But He wasn't born on December the 25th. You ought to go to over there one time
and see how they laugh at that.
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And in this great crucifixion time and resurrection time, how it seems
to be that heaven just hangs near the earth during this time. I've always
thought that Jesus'
second coming would be in the spring of the year, just in all resurrection. He was born in the
spring of the year. Anybody
would think He was born December the 25th is mentally upset. How could
the shepherds be on the hills of Judea in four foot of snow, watching their
herds at night or something like that? No, the real orthodox believers don't
believe that. He was born along April or May, somewhere like that in the
springtime, like all other nature. He was the very Creator of nature; He come
with nature. And as... And so I--I believe He was born in the spring. I don't
know that He will come in the spring, but I have a feeling that it will be some
beautiful spring morning when He appears. Whenever it is, I want to be ready no
matter what time it is. If it's midnight, or daylight, or spring, fall, winter,
wherever it is, I want to be prepared to meet Him.
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Now, it was about sun up. I suppose it was a--a pretty morning. It must
have been along about this time of year, about July. The baby was borned in
April. I know tradition says December, but that's totally impossible. That's a
creed. He couldn't have been born in December and shepherds on the hillsides.
Six or eight foot of snow there in that time... So, He was born in April when
all young life usually comes forth, along that time.
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265 Now, Constantine's feast, just like Balaam... Now, watch. Like Balaam's pagan feast, Constantine had a pagan feast. All right. Pergamos was invited. And a--notice now this...
I've got
something wrote down here; I'm going to leave it alone right now. All right.
All right. I was just trying to catch this note here of the--something I put
down.
Pergamos was
invited. All right, they was invited to a feast after the Nicene Council. They
was invited to the feast of Winter Solstice, which means the sun, worship of
the sun, which was a pagan god, which fell on December the 21st, the shortest
day in the year. And the years... The same time doesn't change till December
the 25th. All heathens celebrated it, the sun god's birthday. The sun god's
birthday was the shortest day in the year, December the 21st. And anyone that
ever read the history of the churches know that heathens worshipped on that
day. It was a celebration.
Well, the
Romans had--they had the big games, the Roman circus. How many seen this here,
whatever it was here not long ago, they had, "Ben Hur"? See? Now, the
Roman circus; that's what the Romans had on that sun day, in commemoration of
the birthday of the sun god. See?
And when
they did that, what happened? They--they said now... They had to have a
spiritual application, so they changed the (Lord Jesus) S-o-n of God's birthday
from April (which all good scholars know, and anybody with spiritual
revelations, that He was borned in nature time like when lambs and everything
else is born: in April) way back up to the 25th day of December. And still worship
Christmas, now it's Santa Claus. And what... Oh, mercy. See? Still more pagan
festivals added to it. That's just all. There you are. Invited, Balaam,
"You have the doctrine of Balaam among you." There it is. (O God,
just reveal it, Father. See?) The birthday from April until...
271
Now, the historians says that "All evidence that Jesus was born in
the month of April when all other life comes forth." But they've changed
it back to the 25th day of December, five days after (See?) after the pagan
god, so they could put their ceremonies together: paganism and Christianity.
And Catholicism is nothing in the world but a bunch of pagan superstitions and
Christianity's off-casts put together. That's right. That is true. And the
Protestants that knuck to it is just exactly the daughter of the mother
prostitute. That's exactly.
Now, God
help us to be real protesters against anything that's not godly. See? Oh.
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171 You know where you got Christmas? Christ
was born in April. But what did they do? The solar system is slowing up now as
it gets away, each day getting a little longer--a little shorter, and a little
shorter. And from the twentieth until the twenty-fifth is when the sun god had its
birthday. This... There's about five days there; that's when they had the Roman
circus in that time, the celebration of the sun god's birthday at that time.
And now you see what you got now? They said make it the sun-god, they take it
Son of God. And the whole thing is pagan to begin with. And the people on the
streets, with their high-heeled shoes, and they're twisting up and down the
streets, and running into stores...
And here the
other day, my wife was telling me, "Someone said, 'I won't know what to get
daddy.' Said, 'Brother's going to get him a quart of whiskey, and the other one
said he was going to get him some champagne.' And one said, 'Well, I'm going to
get him a--a poker set.'" Celebration of Christmas, pagan,
devil-worship... All right.
173
But Augustine sanctioned it. If you want to refer to this in
Schmucker's, the writing of Schmucker, S-c-h-m-u-c-k-e-r-s, Schmucker's
"The Glorious Reformation," here's what it stated, that "From the
time that Saint Augustine of Hippo passed this verdict to the Catholic church,
it throwed the doors wide open for them to kill anything they wanted to then,
that denied that pagan church. And from the time of Saint Augustine, about
three hundred years after Christ until 1850, the great massacre of Ireland, there
was eighty-six million Protestants killed by the Catholic church. That's on the
Roman martyrology: Eighty-six million." Now, fuss with the historian, he's
the one that said that. I'm just repeating his word. "Everyone that
disagreed with the Catholic dogma..."
Not
catholic, the word "catholic." They don't--they don't deserve that
name. They are Roman pagans. Not those precious people, there's tens of
thousands of them people out there, just as sincere as them--any other idolater
is. They think that they're worshipping God, when (back to the Word) they're in
an idol with idols all over the place. See.
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29 And Christmas is such a great commercial day, until it's taken Thanksgiving pretty near out of the picture, because... in the--in the world of business, anyhow; because that the--the commercial world is so much greater influenced by Christmas, because there is so many people shop. And they just... Thanksgiving is just a little passing-by. And we find out, as we see Christmas nearing again, I thought it would be a good thing to speak on this subject, as we're nearing it. Seeing that, really, Christmas is not...
30
We celebrate this 25th day of December for the birthday of Christ, but,
course, anyone knows that it wasn't Christ's birthday. That was the Roman
sun-god's birthday, that when the church was converted into, or, brought into
Catholicism, was formed at the council at Nicaea. Instead of it being the
"sun god's," they made it the "Son of God's" birthday. That
was when, the sun, it's from the 20th until the... I mean the 21st till the
25th, it's kind of in its... Forget what the name you call it, rightly. It's
when it's hardly a second-or-two's time when it's passing through that stage.
And it was the sun-god's birthday, and they just taken the "Son of
God" and made that His birthday, to blend it in with their pagan
tradition. And it's no means, at all, being Christ's birthday.
31
He could not been born at that time, because Judaea is about the same on
the--on the... high up the equator, as this is, and we--we find out that, in
Judaea, in the wintertime, 25th of December, she is blizzardly and cold.
Shepherds cannot be on the hill, and many reasons that it couldn't be.
32 And then He was nature born, like all other
nature, He--He came forth in the Spring. Usually when the lambs are born, in
the Spring; and He was the Lamb. Now, I believe, He was born, myself, March,
April, or somewhere along in there, in the early Spring.
33 But we find that they made a day of
merchandise out of it. People crowding on the streets, and rubbing shoulders,
and fussing over things, and wondering about giving somebody a present, how
much they will pay for it.
34 The other day, I was surprised. In a place
I was standing, and two ladies was talking about giving their father the
birthday... or the Christmas present for this year. And one of them said, "I
got him a quart of whiskey." And the other one said, "I got him a
pack, or a carton of cigarettes," or something another like that. And they
were saying, one give so much more for the whiskey than they did the
cigarettes.
35 And I thought, "If that isn't a way to
give a--a... swap or give a present in commemoration of Jesus Christ, the Son
of God!" What a death-finding thing it is!
37 But we find out, at this Christmas, to get
down to the subject, that this Christmas finds the world just about like it did
two thousand years ago, when Jesus came. It hasn't changed very much since
then. Cause, this, that Christmas found the world falling apart, and was
looking for a Messiah to help hold it together. And--and that's about the way
it is today, we are doing the same thing. The World Is Again Falling Apart.
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39
Now that... I have chosen this... is still... because that we're in the
shadows of the... or in the time of the yule season of Christmas, and--and New
Year's; the ending of an old year, and the bringing in of a new one. A few days
from now, many people will be turning new pages and--and doing new things and
making new vows; and it's beginning of a New Year. And it never seems to me too
much like Christmas. I don't know why, I always like to call it "Santa
Claus Day." See? Because there's not much really...
40 It couldn't have been Christ's birthday. It
just absolutely could not have been. He'd have had to been born in March or
April, 'cause He was the Lamb. And He was a male sheep and borned in under the
ram, Aries. It had to be, you see. And sheep are not born in December anyhow.
Sheep are born in the Spring. And then another thing, the hills of Judea now,
there's twenty feet of snow on it. How could the shepherds have been out there?
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41
So it really comes from Roman mythology, which was the sun-god's
birthday. The solar sun as it passes, the days lengthen and lengthen, and the
nights grow shorter. And between the 20th and the 25th of December is the
sun-god's birthday, under the Roman--Roman mythology. And then their gods...
And then they celebrated the sun-god's birthday. And Constantine, and--and
drawing up the constitution of the church and state and so forth. He said,
"We will change it" (not knowing what the day was) "and put it
over on the sun-god's birthday, and make it: Son of God's birthday." See?
Which... But we don't know what day it was.
42 But now, theirs, taken so much of Christ
out, till it's everything... some again brought back the mythology of some
creature that lived, supposingly, by the name of Saint Nicholas or--or Kriss Kringle,
some German mythology. And it's all just a myth, and Christ is not in it at
all.
43 And the people has turned into buying
whiskey, and--and gambling, and fashions. And a--a man that... a merchant that
can sell his goods through Christmas time can live the rest of the year,
almost. See? It's such a great holiday, commercial. And poor little kids on the
street; their parents are not able to--to visit them with a--a present, like
from Santa Claus, and they walk down the street, and their little dirty hands
and their little red eyes. I--I just hate to see it come along. It ought to be
a solemn day of worship to God, instead of a heartache and a headache and the
things that's done. There's nothing to Christ about that. But we're right in
the midst of all this now.
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44
We find ourselves, something like they were then. See, it's just
entering in now to a great feast. Jesus was coming to a Feast of the Passover.
And He had entered Jerusalem... or entering Jerusalem. And the prophesies of
everything He did must be fulfilled. Everything in the Bible has a meaning.
Every name has a meaning. There's nothing written in the Scripture but has a--a
profound meaning.
45 I spoke the other night at Tucson, on Why
Did It Have To Be Shepherds Instead Of Theologian? He was born right in the
side of the church. And the Holy Spirit going way out into the wilderness and
picking up, not theologians, but shepherds. It had to be that way. Theologians
wouldn't have believed such a Message. So they... it had to be shepherds.
46 I preached up here, a few years ago, two
years ago, Why Was It, It To Be Little Bethlehem? The Lord willing, next
Christmas, I want us preach on, Why Did It Have To Be The Wise Men? These
"Why?'s"--they got answers to them, and they're right here in the
Bible. And we're living in a marvelous time, the greatest time of all ages.
We're living to when, anytime that it... time can cease and Eternity can blend
right in with it and go on. The ages of all the prophets and sages, looked
forward to. We ought to be every hour on our guard, watching for His coming.
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47
We find ourselves, at this Christmas, just about like they did the first
Christmas though. The world's just about to fall apart. As I preached on once,
somewhere, about a Christmas message, The World Falling Apart. And the world
again is just about to come to pieces. Look at the earthquakes over here in
California. I predict, before the coming of the Lord Jesus, that God will sink
that place. I believe that Hollywood and Los Angeles, and them filthy places
over there, that God Almighty will sink them. They'll go beneath the bottom of
the sea. And it's so much sin, you see, it's the barrier.
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