Should we celebrate Christmas ?
Evidence Pagans used DEC 25th as SUN Worship
The Festival of the Sun was December 25th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus#Festival_of_Dies_Natalis_Solis_Invicti
Christmas might have been considered Mitra’s Birthday a Roman pegan god in the 1st century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trees_in_mythology#
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah_pole
Deuteronomy 16:21You shall not plant you a grove of any trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make you.
Deuteronomy 12:2You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which you shall possess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
2 Kings 21:3For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
Jeremiah 7:1-27
KJV Jeremiah 10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. (Jer. 10:1-11 KJV)
2kings 23 ashera pole versus needed added
0842 אֲשֵׁרָה ‘asherah {ash-ay-raw’} or אֲשֵׁירָה ‘asheyrah {ash-ay-raw’}
Meaning: Ashera(h) = “groves (for idol worship)” 1) a Babylonian (Astarte)-Canaanite goddess (of fortune and happiness), the supposed consort of Baal, her images 1a) the goddess, goddesses 1b) her images 1c) sacred trees or poles set up near an altar
Origin: from 0833; TWOT – 183h; n pr f
Usage: AV – grove 40; 40
There are no notes for this verse.
06086 עֵץ `ets {ates}
Meaning: 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows 1a) tree, trees 1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax
Origin: from 06095; TWOT – 1670a; n m
Usage: AV – tree 162, wood 107, timber 23, stick 14, gallows 8, staff 4, stock 4, carpenter + 02796 2, branches 1, helve 1, planks 1, stalks 1; 328
There are no notes for this verse.
Verse’s that USE asherah and tree
KJG Deut. 16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
KJG 1 Ki. 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
KJG 2 Ki. 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
KJG Jer. 17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
The Tree’s Rejoice no one comes to cut them down….
||Isa. 14:8 KJV|| 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
The Assyrian
Tree of Life
his is the first post in a new series on Mesocosm, presenting short commentaries on pictures of interesting artifacts or works of art. Over time I’ll draw links between recurring motifs or historical connections.
Conclusion: Search your heart and filter your thoughts through GOD’s word. We have grace and freedom in Christ, but we should be ever so careful not to grieve the HOLY Spirit.