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In the Scandinavian countries the Christians do not have Halloween or St. Patrick's Day, but instead dress their children up around Easter In the same fashion as in America on Halloween. They explode their "Easter bombs," (small fire works like the ones used on July 4th in America). On April 30th, they light their bonfires to scare off the witches that are returning from "Blakulla," where they have previously flown to have sex with the Devil. On May first they dance around the May Pole, and in the month of June the girls pick "seven kinds of flowers, " which are put under the pillow so that the young girls can dream and see their future husbands, not to mention the dancing around the "Midsummer Pole." Every nation and culture in the world has been able to retain traditions dating back to Idol worship in that nation before the Christian faith was preached. Voodoo is a damning left-over of African witchcraft and Roman Catholic traditions, plaguing the southern United States and nations like Haiti. American Indians are bringing back their "Medicine Doctors," including rituals like "Sweat ceremony, peyote, drumming etc." Most Christians proclaim that they are not worshipping any demon gods, they are just participating in some old traditions that mean nothing spiritual to them. Is this a valid statement in harmony with the Bible? Absolutely not! Listen to what the apostle Paul states:
In his letters to the Ephesians, the apostle Paul tells that the believer should not even mention in his speech any uncleanness, neither filthiness or foolish talking, nor jesting or anything that is unclean. The believer in Christ should not even have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. (Ephesians 5:1-17) What many Christians have not understood is that there is no difference between a person worshiping a demon god in ritual traditions, or a Christian only partaking in the ritual traditions, but not taking part of the worship! The people who worshipped the Queen of Heaven, her son Tammuz and her dead husband, Nimrod (who became the Moon god after his physical death on the earth), used objects in their rituals. The evergreen tree was a decoration to was commemorate the "miracle birth" of Tammuz, and for some Tam 5000 years the followers of the Queen of Heaven (Semiramis) decorated their homes on December 25th each year to make sure that the memory of Tammuz would live on. But when the Roman Emperor, Constantine (325 A.D.), was elected emperor of Rome and made the head of the newly formed State Christian Church, a decree was made that December 25 was no longer the birthday of Tammuz, it had now become the birthday of Jesus. None of the ritual traditions changed; people kept setting up an evergreen tree, gifts were given to one another, alcohol was flowing, the wreath, the holly and all the other paraphernalia were kept; the only change was of the person whose birthday was celebrated. The celebration was changed from that of Tammuz to Jesus, but all the customs and traditions of Tammuz remained! Listen to what God told the Israelites as they were going to the promised land:
For more than 5000 years "Mourning for Tammuz" was a religious period, when people fasted and wept for Tammuz who had been slain and was in the midst of the earth. By fasting and weeping, the people were told that he would be resurrected. God hated this religious tradition! (Ezekiel 8:9-18) The Roman Catholic Church removed the name of Tammuz, replaced it with Jesus, called it LENT and kept all the original traditions. In Islam it is retained and called Ramadan.
Today, some 1,671 years later, people do not know from where the traditions came. Since many Christians do not even read their Bibles, they have no idea who Nimrod, Tammuz, or the Queen of Heaven were. But faithfully, every year, all In the name of Jesus, they carry out the ritual traditions of an old Babylonian religion that was condemned by God. The average Christian pastor of today is proud to have these feast days in their churches and they try to out do one another with Christmas and Easter productions. They need to read what the apostle Paul wrote to the Church in Corinth some 1900 years ago:
There is no difference between a pagan who worships his demon god or a Christian who does not believe in the pagan demon god but partakes in all of the traditions and rituals. There are no exceptions for passive participation. Worship is worship! When a human being calls upon an idol (demon), it will invoke the wrath of God and attract hordes of demons, who will bring oppression, sickness and death. AS A CHRISTIAN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
After reading this booklet on The Truth About Christmas you can no longer claim innocence. You now have knowledge about the pagan traditions, so you must now choose between being obedient to God or to be loyal to your family and church! God is going to hold you responsible, not just for your own action, but what you are doing with the knowledge that you have now received. It is not enough for you to stop your "demon worship," you are also held responsible for warning other people. At this point, some of you might wish that you had never heard of this booklet or read it; your life has now forever changed. A decision must now be made. But this is what the Gospel is all about, presenting truth that will divide and cause conflict. Here is what Jesus said:
Now that you know what pagan worship is, what will you tell your family? Are you going to obey God, or are you going to stay the same in order to please your family and/or church? GODS PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. God spoke through the prophet Hosea that the people of Israel were destroyed because they had rejected God's Word and refused to obey:
This is a description of the nation of Israel at the time of Hosea, who lived on the earth between 767-690 B.C. As we look back on history, we know that God destroyed the Northern Kingdom of the ten tribes of Israel, and later the Southern Kingdom of Judah. All the prophets testify to the fact that God cannot tolerate idolatry, and if the people refuse to get out of idolatry, God will destroy their nation and their individual lives. As we follow the Christian Church through history, we find that the Church we read about in the book of Acts eventually became polluted with idolatry, and the result was war and destruction in all the nations in which the Church was operating, and a miserable death for many of the individuals living there. It was only in America that the Church of Jesus Christ was revived and idolatry was removed. Celebrating Christmas was a crime in the early years of the Colonies, and after the revivals in the 20th century. Christmas and pagan traditions hardly existed as late as the 1890's. But as the Roman Catholic Church began to grow in the United States, paganism began to creep into all the churches, resulting in the total apostasy that we have today! Most pastors and Christian leaders who have had formal training know this very well, but when I confront them, they become angry and accuse me of being "legalistic." Then they walk away thinking that they have silenced me, since it is not "politically correct" to believe In God's Word and most of all to obey it. The Western Church in Europe and in North America has not only become involved in idolatry itself, but through its missionaries the last 100 years, it has exported idolatry to all other nations, so that the whole Church in the world today is polluted by idolatry. Thus the description that Hosea gave us is prevailing in all nations, and people are suffering immensely, while the "priests" (pastors, evangelists, teachers, prophets) continue in their sins and every year the celebration of pagan customs is becoming more extravagant and expensive, as television is used to seduce God's people. IT TOOK ONLY ONE MAN TO START THE REFORMATION. When it looked the darkest and there was no hope that the Church would ever come out of the darkness, God raised up a man by the name of Martin Luther, a German Catholic monk, who after his salvation experience stood up against the entire institution of the Roman Catholic Church and rolled it back. Sad to say, some 500 years later the Roman Catholic Church has been able to roll back into the reformation Church and once again pollute it with idolatry. Today a new reformation is needed, to cause this horrible idolatry to be uprooted once again and destroyed from the Church of Jesus Christ. Are you willing to be that man or woman who God can use at this time to cleanse His Church of this ugly cancer? THE CHURCH NEEDS A HEZEKIAH REVIVAL When it looked as dark as it could be, God raised up a king in Jerusalem, who walked with God. Here is what the Bible tells us about him:
Here is what king Hezekiah did:
HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO TO BE OBEDIENT TO GOD
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR CHURCH AND THE PASTOR Before you leave the church where you are now attending, try to wake them up. Begin by giving the pastor this booklet and ask him to read it and then to talk to you about it. Your pastor will be unable to refute what is written in this booklet, he will find no Bible verses to support idolatry. Your pastor will either agree with you and stop being in idolatry himself, or he will attack you and run you out of the church. If you cannot get the pastor to see the light, then present as many booklets as you can to the members in the church, and ask them to read and pray over this matter. If you are totally rejected, then leave the church and find another church where they honor the Bible and obey God. If you do not know of any church in your area where there is no idolatry, pray and ask God if he wants you to start one. If you try to not get into idolatry yourself, but you want to hang around the church and say nothing, you are promoting their sins and helping them to pay for them by placing your tithe in that church. Here is what God has said to us in this matter:
If you are in a Roman Catholic Church, the local priest will reject you because he has been trained in the Catholic seminary that Church traditions are superior to the Bible. If you are in a liberal church, the pastor will reject you because he does not believe in the authority of the Bible and is basing his teachings on the traditions of his denomination. If you are in a fundamental church, a Pentecostal church or a Baptist church your treatment will depend upon how close your pastor is to the Word of God. If he is a humble servant of the Lord, he will investigate and pray and seek the Lord, but if he is proud and arrogant, he will reject you. Some years ago I was a fundamental Pentecostal Baptist pastor who loved the Lord but was into idolatry, except for Halloween, St. Patrick's Day and Lent. When I was shown what you have now read in this booklet, my first reaction was, "If I don't read it, I am not responsible and don't have to do anything." But the Holy Spirit would not let me go; I could not get away from the conviction of God. I read the booklet first in anger, and then realized that I had grieved the Holy Spirit and sinned against God. At that time the booklet only consisted of the first chapter; the other two I have added. At once I started my own research in the Bible comparing the Hebrew and Greek text with the English translation, then dug into commentaries, dictionaries, encyclopedias and history books. The more I learned, the more I found out that the information given about idolatry in the first chapter of this book is correct, and I was shocked, embarrassed and grieved that I had not known this from the day I was saved, but that I had worshipped demons for all these years. I cried to God and asked Him to forgive me, I broke all the curses that I had brought into my life and I commanded all the demons to get out of my life. Since my wife had come to the same conclusion, we were together in this matter. But we had a hard time with our immediate family, and for the first few years there was a lot of friction and grief. Eventually, when our families realized that we were not going to change, and that what we believed was Biblically correct, they turned around and rejected paganism and joined us in our worship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Then I had to address the church, and repent for having been a sinful pastor leading my flock into idolatry. It caused an uproar in the church. Some accepted it and rejoiced; others became very angry and stormed out of the church labeling me a cultist. But once the dust had settled, the peace of God came and filled our church. The church where I am currently the pastor, Resurrection Life of Jesus Church in Sacramento, is today a Full Gospel Church, free of Idolatry and only worshipping our heavenly Father. It was a woman in our church who came to me very humbly and presented me with the truth about Christmas. She did not scold me; she asked me, in the love of God, if I would be so kind as to read the booklet and let her know what I thought. Little did that precious woman know that she was an instrument of God who was bringing me God's Truth, which would not only set me and my family free from bondage to demons, but the whole church and thousands of people who read this new edition of the booklet, and those who hear me on the radio and have watched us on TV. THE TERRIBLE SIN OF REJECTING THE WORD OF GOD The Bible tells us over and over again of men and women, who had heard the Word of God, but rejected it and were subjected to the judgment of God. Esau was the first born to Isaac and Rebekah, but he despised his birth right and sold it to his brother, Jacob, for bread and a pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:27-34). In his rebellion against God he married two heathen women, Judith and Bashemath, Hittite women. Esau could not blame this on his youth; he was forty years old when he married these women who worshipped demon gods (Genesis 26:34-35). The Bible tells us that later Esau cried bitterly and tried to come back to God, but was rejected.
MOSES was saved through his faith in God and the coming Messiah, but due to his disobedience In front of all the people of Israel, when he struck the Rock Instead of speaking to it, Moses was denied entering the promised land In his physical body.
KING SAUL was hand picked by the Lord Himself to become the first king over Israel, and the anointing of God came upon him and he was a changed man. (I Samuel 9:15-27; 10:1-27) But after Saul had been king for some years, he rebelled against the Word of God, and did his own thing, Instead of doing what he had been told by the prophet of God. The result was that the kingdom of Israel was taken away from him and his blood line would not occupy the throne of Jerusalem. As a matter of fact, the family of Saul (all his children and future generations to come) were killed, because of one man's sin.
King Saul tried to repent, but God rejected his repentance. The kingdom of Israel was forever lost to Saul and his blood line, and a short time after this event had taken place, Saul died together with his favorite son, Jonathan, in a battle.
BUT PASTOR JOHN, I AM LIVING UNDER GRACE! This is the battle cry of the backslidden preachers and their followers. "We are living under grace; it does not matter how much we sin; God does not care; we are covered by the blood of Jesus." This Is the biggest lie produced by the Devil and spoken by every demon on this earth, and repeated by every backslidden Christian! There is no place in the New Testament that you are told this. Actually, you will not find this In the entire Bible. Yes, it is true that God has saved us by grace through Christ, but nowhere does it say that you can live like "hell", break God's commandments, and not be held accountable. On the contrary, the Word of God tells us that God will hold us accountable for our sins once we have been saved. Here is what Jesus said:
Here is what the apostle Paul said:
The risen Jesus said this:
Who are you going to believe? The Devil? The liberal preacher? The backslider? Or are you going to put your trust in God and His Word? Ask the liberal preacher: "Which one of God's commandment can I break and get away with it? Can you steal? Can you commit murder? Can you worship other gods and not upset God?" The answer is obvious. You cannot violate any of God's commandments and expect to be without judgment from God! A HORRIBLE REJECTION After the fall of Jerusalem, a remnant of people were left with the prophet Jeremiah. Despite the fact that they had lived through a terrible siege, witnessed the taking of Jerusalem by the Babylonian army and the terrible blood bath that followed, they had learned nothing and refused to give up the idolatry that had caused the wrath of God to fall upon Judah to begin with. Look at what the people told God and his prophet:
The people had not understood that it was their
idol worship that had brought the judgment of God upon them. Now they were
defiant and told the prophet (and God) off, they were going to continue to
worship the queen of heaven. God responded by telling them that the judgment
would continue upon them until they had all been killed, and that God would only
save a small remnant of them for his name's sake. And the judgment was
fulfilled, and they were killed. (Jeremiah
44:20-30) Everything that could be said about idolatry has now been said. There is nothing more to add. It Is up to you if you are going to join THE INFAMOUS people who defied God, rebelled and did their own thing and died in their sins, OR will you join the great band of people who loved God and gave theIr lives for the Lord. Men and women as described In the book of Hebrews, chapter 11, Abraham, Sarah, Moses, Daniel etc. Are you going to be another Esau, another Manasseh or another Jezebel? Or are you going to be a new Moses who will lead people to the promised land In your generation? THE CHOICE IS YOURS! You can be blessed:
You can be cursed:
Don't believe the old lie from the Devil putting Christ back into Christmas. Jesus was never part of Christmas. From its inception, it was a holiday to honor the birthday of Tammuz. Let's stay out of this heathen worship that was sanctified by the Roman Catholic Church. When you do celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, do it without any pollution from paganism! |
Unless a person knows that he is involved in
idolatry, he will never try to stop any activities of idolatry. American
Christians who faithfully participate in Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day,
St. Patrick's Day, Lent, Easter Egg Hunts and other activities around Easter
claim these are harmless American traditions that mean nothing and are just fun
for the children and adults.
The priests of The Queen of
Heaven religion taught that in the spring Tammuz was resurrected, and for more
than 5000 years people celebrated his resurrection by worshipping the "Rabbit,"
and the rituals of coloring eggs and "Egg Hunting". The rabbit and the eggs
symbolized the fertility of the Queen of Heaven and by participating in this
worship women would be fruitful and conceive children, livestock would be
fertile and the fields would yield a bountiful harvest. The Roman State
Christian Church took out the name of Tammuz and replaced it with Jesus. Since
the celebration of Tammuz was tied to the moon, the Jewish Passover and the
celebration of Tammuz only occurred on the same week at certain years. Thus the
Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Is never on the same day
every year, it flows with the moon according to the worship of Tammuz. Again the
Roman State Christian Church did not remove any of the ritual traditions, they
just changed the name from Tammuz to Jesus.
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