CHRISTMAS & JAN NEW YEAR ORIGINS
In the midst of my family coming out of Christmas, I remember telling Yeshua (Jesus) that Christmas and my tree weren’t idols to me. HIS response: “Just because you believe it’s not an idol, doesn’t mean it’s not. Look at the root.”
Learn about the immediate predecessor of our modern-day Christmas Day.
Why would you or I want to remain tethered to the fallen world once our eternal unlimited reality has become activated? You may believe that you are only tethered to the True Messiah Yeshua, but understand that our celebrations (i.e., worship practices) reveal this actuality, or not. Let’s examine the worldwide winter celebration called New Year, and the limited concept and world of Father Time.
In the midst of my family coming out of Christmas, I remember telling Yeshua (Jesus) that Christmas and my tree weren’t idols to me. HIS response: “Just because you believe it’s not an idol, doesn’t mean it’s not. Look at the root.”
SANTA CLAUS & CHRISTMAS TREES
Let’s really look at the facts as to where our modern Christmas Tree comes from.
Atheists can make the Tree of Knowledge connection to Christmas, because it is there.
The good old generous and miracle working St Nic didn’t endorse or support Christmas. He literally opposed Christmas. Wow!!! This is huge!!! Please allow me to re-iterate this bombshell of historically accurate revelation. Saint Nicolas was stripped of his bishop title for opposing the Catholic Church’s compromise with the Arianism promoted at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. What this means is SAINT NICOLAS OF MYRA OPPOSED THE CHURCH’S ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTMAS!!!
Let’s really look at the facts as to where our modern Christmas Tree comes from.
CHRISTMAS & THE KINGDOM OF GOD
The macro dispensation we just entered is the second time the phrase “fullness of time” is mentioned in the Bible. This fullness of time will result in the fullness of Him, and the fullness of the Gentiles is a door to it all.
Bridal lovers as well as mature sons of God must lay everything we have been taught and everything we have known on His altar (ourselves in our entirety); and then, by His Spirit and His Truth (2 Tim 3:16) we must sift through every thing in order to recognize what practices and beliefs actually please God, and which do not.
Several have asked me behind the scenes what to do with their heart change. They can’t “do” Christmas anymore, but important members of their family are not there yet. My answer has been: “Pray for a way out, then take it!” Follow the Lord’s leading.
The macro dispensation we just entered is the second time the phrase “fullness of time” is mentioned in the Bible. This fullness of time will result in the fullness of Him, and the fullness of the Gentiles is a door to it all.
CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI
HANUKKAH - BACK TO BASICS
Kindling of Lights & Hanukkah Devotions
Hanukkah is an annual eight-day Biblical Feast that celebrates the re-dedication of His Altar in Is-real as well as the overthrow of pagan sun god worship in God’s Temple. During this celebration, those who participate in a fresh new redemptive way in the Messiah are those who have overcome overwhelming odds to take a righteous stand against the world-dominating powers-that-be, just like the Maccabees did.
“Walking As Yeshua (Jesus) Did” When anyone asks why a Christian would celebrate Hanukkah, the simplest and most direct answer is that Jesus did. “Jesus gave them this answer: ‘I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by Himself; he can do only what He sees His Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does’” (John 5:19). So when Jesus celebrated Hanukkah on earth, significantly, His Heavenly Father participated also.
If you’d like to try to walk as Jesus walked during the Winter One-Dear-Land Season, the following links contain some basic how-to instructions as well as some simple devotions to give you an assist.
Hanukkah is an annual eight-day Biblical Feast that celebrates the re-dedication of His Altar in Is-real as well as the overthrow of pagan sun god worship in God’s Temple. During this celebration, those who participate in a fresh new redemptive way in the Messiah are those who have overcome overwhelming odds to take a righteous stand against the world-dominating powers-that-be, just like the Maccabees did.
Winter One-der-land & Gate of Great Grace
Blazing New Wine
Pure Oil Miracle & 7th Day Transfiguration of Man
144,000 & Nine Bridal Feasts
The Light of the Messiah
The Light of the Messiah
Jesus (Yeshua) Celebrated Hanukkah
I have heard people repeatedly say that Hanukkah has nothing to do with Christmas, but that is simply not the case. Hanukkah is all about overthrowing a polluted sacrificial system instituted in God’s Temple that centers around sun god worship, which is essentially Christmas. ART: "Spread the Light" by Yoram Raanan
It is extremely noteworthy that the One we see celebrating the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) in Scripture is the Messiah Himself. The Father celebrated it with Him, because the Father and the Son are one, and Jesus only did/does what He sees the Father doing (John 5:19; John 17:23). Not only does Scripture reveal that Yeshua celebrates Hanukkah; but when you explore the depths of John 10:23, you see that all believers meet during Hanukkah. ART: "THe Light of the Messiah" by Robin Main
Not only is pure worship and perfect peace part of the treasuries of ice and snow, but so are the mysteries of the crystal-clear connection to the True Messiah Yeshua – the King of Kings.
I have heard people repeatedly say that Hanukkah has nothing to do with Christmas, but that is simply not the case. Hanukkah is all about overthrowing a polluted sacrificial system instituted in God’s Temple that centers around sun god worship, which is essentially Christmas. ART: "Spread the Light" by Yoram Raanan
Doing What Jesus Did
Thanksgiving & Hanukkah
