How December 25 Became Christmas

Grace Centered Magazine ^ | 12-6-2017 | Dr. Andrew McGowan

[Just mythoughts]

I will take Luke's time table. He would have been among the first followers of Christ. December 25th represents the date of conception of Jesus.

[MosesKnows]

December 25th represents the date of conception of Jesus

No, it does not but if you want it to represent the date of conception then for you it does.

[Hostage]

It depends on your frame of reference.

Most people and societies use the Gregorian. Orthodox except for Greek Orthodox celebrate the Nativity on January 7 under the Gregorian.

[Just mythoughts]

Luke is the one that set the time line. He has the most credibility.

[angryoldfatman]

I don’t care what you say. I’m pulling out the Festivus pole this weekend, and then the Airing of Grievances and Feats of Strength will begin soon afterward.

[Biggirl]

The most important thing is Christ’s birth is remembered.

[Zuriel]

No doubt. When I was shown the scriptural timeline, I had no problem tossing the man made timeline aside. Same with the “Christmas” tree. It so thoroughly resembles the description found in Jeremiah 10:1-5.

It’s interesting that God would command his people to not learn the ways of the heathen, and then people go right out and do it anyway. Folks will use any excuse to justify the tree, even concerned that somebody’s feelings might be hurt.

Does God have feelings? Duh!

My daughter in law’s parents invited my wife and I for Thanksgiving last year. The next day they asked us to tag along while they picked out a tree. We went three places, trying to find the least “flawed” tree. The husband, knowing that we don’t bother with one, whispered to me, “y’all are lucky that you don’t have to do all this”. I just said, “Godliness with contentment is great gain”. (He had never read, or even heard of the passage in Jeremiah.)

The tree is to help people feel religious. God has already made his feelings known.

[Campion]

The original Christian Church, The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, celebrates the birth of Jesus on January 7th.

No, they celebrate it on December 25th as well. We just don't all agree what day December 25th is.

[chuckles]

Usually Tabernacles is in September-October.

[Oratam]

Everything in the Christian year is centered on Easter, the central event in Salvation history. To fit all those related events into a repeatable annual cycle, you have a relatively arbitrary date to commemorate the Incarnation.

You'll notice the largest bloc is post-Pentecost--the spreading of the Gospel and the winning of souls for the Lord.

[chuckles]

The Leviticus feast days represent 3 harvests.Passover- First Fruits is for the Barley harvest. Barley represents the Jews. Pentecost is the Wheat harvest which represents the Gentiles. Trumpets-Tabernacles is the grape harvest, which will be the whole world.

Every Christian should spend some time studying the Leviticus 23 Feast days. God starts out saying "These are My days". He uses Hebrew words saying these are dress rehearsals at appointed times. First Fruits is NOT Easter. They are as much as 2-3 weeks apart. Christmas is as much as 2 moths off. These days come from about 400 some odd AD. The church married the world instead of marrying Jesus when Constantine required everyone to be Christian. The state and religion combined. In Spiritual terms, God considers this adultery or fornication. The RCC changed the calendar, changed the Sabbath, and ditched the days God required His people to celebrate. Instead, the church observed pagan days to make the locals happy. These practices go all the way back to Nimrod and Babylon. Nimrod married his mother, Semiramis. She had a son and told everyone he was the resurrected Nimrod. She called herself the Madonna and child and the queen of Heaven.She went outside to find an evergreen tree growing out of as stump and claimed it was evidence of her husband coming back from the dead. This story, or one very close, is used in almost all early myths in idolatry. Semiramis had a daughter. Her name was Thyatira. Read about her in Revelation in the 4th letter to the churches. The Bible names a Harlot from Babylon. She is drunk with the blood of the saints. What church has killed more Christians than even the Romans and Muslims combined?

It's not too late for them. They are asked to "Come out of her" in Revelation 18:4 to avoid the punishment of the non believers. It behooves them to figure this out before the Tribulation. If they can overcome, they will join the church of Philadelphia and be Raptured on the Day of Trumpets. All the others will be left behind as the foolish virgins were to "buy and sell".

[Jeremiah Jr]

25 Kislev 3756 - Chanukah / Conception of Yeshua

15 Tishri 3757 - Sukkot / Birth of Yeshua
September 14, -4

15 Nisan 3790 - (30 C.E.) Pesach / Crucifixion of Yeshua

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Shepherds do not watch over their flocks by night, in winter! Sukkot, late summer, a pilgrimage festival, three times a year all males go up to Jerusalem, that's why there was no room at the inn(s).

[boatbums]

Shepherds do not watch over their flocks by night, in winter! Sukkot, late summer, a pilgrimage festival, three times a year all males go up to Jerusalem, that's why there was no room at the inn(s).

There were no rooms at the inns because the out of town Bethlehemites had to come back for the census.

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. (Luke 2:1-5)