Christmas is a much battered festival because it ought to be. Nothing good will ever come of it, nor has anyone ever become more holy because of it.
Americans want to believe they are not idolaters like those of ancient history, or heathen peoples of other lands. The fact is we are worse idolaters by American culture, and Christmas is a prime example.
First of all, Christ was not born at Christmas, nor has anyone tried to make the point till recent American history.
Secondly, Christ’s Mass should give a very loud clue as to where the concept originated. It was a scheme to make use of a very heathen festival and “Christianize” it by holding a mass in honor of Christ.
Here is a lesson on purity. Only God can make things pure. Sinners can only make things unholy, because everything the touch is made filthy. When sinners take their heathen and wicked festivals and try to make them holy, they in fact remain what they always were: unholy, degenerate, and wicked. Man is totally incapable of taken what is filthy and making it into something pure, by just renaming it, and adding a couple Christian elements. This is akin to taking feces and calling it a holy rock and saying that honor of it honors holiness. Furthermore, by giving lots of gifts purchased sacrificially and giving them to others is a means of honoring the holy rock.
Christmas does not honor Christ’s birth at all. Nor does it celebrate Christ. It honors the tree which is something roundly condemned in God’s Word, where the whole event is condemned including the cutting of it, the decorations, and fastening of it into the home and giving it a place of honor. It does honor the mass marketing industry that is based on communist and socialist work, and contributes to many Christians being arrested and tortured and put in slave labor camps to create cheap goods to sell in America on for that idolatrous day.
Now let’s examine the life of a heathen idol worshiper. Here are some corollaries.
1. It begins by committing to honor that idol with their life. Try to cancel Christmas and you will find a universal uprising of Americans to demand it be kept, and will suffer to their death for their idol. Anyone that dares to dishonor their god by not participating in the festival is ostracized as evil.
2. An image of the idol is made and kept in an honored place in the home throughout the festival. In Christmas, not only is a tree raised and decorated in belligerent disobedience to Scripture, but Santa Claus, snow men, and an optional manger scene is set up and given an honored place in the home, but much attention and honor by all who come to visit. It should be noted that the manger scene is neither historically accurate, nor is it even patterned after anything that would have been used in Jesus’ day. Everything else has nothing to do with worshiping Christ or Christ’s birth, except the star or angel that is sometimes used atop the tree. But both these elements are historically heathen idolatrous practices. The star is the worship of Mars and the angel is a worship of angels which the New Testament clearly condemns.
3. A meal is held in honor of the idol. In Christmas we have the dinner. Not only is Scripture ignored that condemns the use of ham for food, but a feast is had in honor of the idols in the house.
4. Gifts are given after they are presented to the idol. Some gifts are simply sacrificed to the idol. In Christmas a huge pile of gifts are bought and then wrapped in colorful attractive packaging and put under the idol tree in the house. These gifts are supposed to come from a Saint Nicholas, thus making the gifts no longer from the giver, but from the idolized Saint. Scripture makes fun of such practices, by asking what is wrong with the idol that it cannot give its own gifts, but must rely on what humans do for it. If the idol is really the god everyone says it is, then it should miraculously grant gifts itself, without the pathetic human intervention it is given. I have lived through many of these festivals and cannot ever remember a real miracle ever coming from the tree, Santa Claus, or someone acting on their behalf. In fact, truth be told, this festival is a very painful time emotionally, financially and spiritually, even though one is never allowed to admit it.
5. Lies upon lies are made to honor the idol. Christmas is a pack of lies, and teaches children from the earliest days that lying is a good thing if done for fun. All kinds of stories are made up to bring honor to the idols of heathen nations and Christmas. People are honored that add to these lies, and pretend to be a part of the lies. Satan is the father of lies and a festival based on lies cannot be holy, nor can it be made holy. There are so many lies about Santa Claus, the elves, snow men, the north pole, etc., it is amazing that people that name the name of Christ have not fled the whole event.
6. An idol has its own music, songs and dances. Christmas does too, in fact, Americans are frustrated each year by increasing taxes, inflation (comes from the government printing money that has no backing in precious metal), longer and more expensive political campaigns, and a longer Christmas season. The Christmas music in some places starts as early as July! In other places that are permanent temples to Christmas idolatry, the music is used year-round. But for the normal American household, Christmas music is brought out after Thanksgiving and played through the Roman calendar’s new year. Now God made all His creation musical so it can praise Him in holy harmony. Satan is a musical being complete with harps and trumpets to praise God. Instead, Satan has used these instruments to encourage music that is everything but honoring to God, to help keep people’s minds off of the reality of their eternal state, and current purpose in life. Dare to listen to the words of any of the Christmas sounds with an open Bible, and you will be horrified at the favorites sung even in Churches.
7. An idol has an alternative that is holy and pure. Christmas has an alternative that is holy and pure, and one that Christ himself celebrated publicly and did miracles during, and even gave sermons that are classics today, but not associated with their setting because of the idolatry of Christmas overshadowing the holy celebration. The Roman Government when instituting a religion that would mix the worship of the Roman deities of Zeus, Hercules, Ceres, Dianna, etc., and Christianity, wanted to later turn the winter festivals into a “Christianized” festival. The problem is there is a festival that happens around that time, but not always on that time, and it is Jewish, and Catholicism hates Jewish people, and has gone far to slaughter Israelis to this very day. So a modernized heathen festival was chosen over a Biblical festival. Furthermore, the Biblical festival lasts 7 days, and the Roman governments wanted to not have to give up more than a day to a holiday. So the Bible was discarded and heathen practice continued. The holy alternative is Hanukkah. This celebrated the Jewish revolt against the horrible Roman army and government, and the opening of the Temple doors to worship of God once again. Upon cleansing the temple of its defilement by the presence of Roman idols and their worship, as well as the forced eating of ham by all who came, it was found there was only one day’s oil to light the lampstand. It would be 8 days before a new batch of holy oil could be made. But in zeal of God, the lampstand was lit and to everyone’s amazement, it miraculously burned until the new oil was ready to be used!
This festival is called the “Festival of Lights” in the Gospels. It was during this time that Christ Jesus declared Himself the Light of the World, and the light that shines out of darkness. He also did amazing miracles during this great celebration. The Jewish people also hoped he would cause an uprising and once and for all overthrow the Roman government and reign as Emperor of the World. He could not, because He came to die for us and provide an alternative to the heathen practices that lead to eternal ruin and great suffering on this earth.
So we have a choice if we are saved. Either worship God and obey Scripture and flee from Christmas and be like Christ and celebrate Hanukkah, or join the Devil and his minions and take part in a most wicked festival that defies God, His Word and everything holy and good.