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DO YOU BOW DOWN TO THE CHRISTMAS TREE GOD
wow....thats scary, man
wow....thats scary, man
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
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Whatever ancient rituals you are talking about were
done in vain ignorance to appease their false gods.
I think I'm safe in speaking for the majority of Christians when I
say we don't bow down or offer sacrifices to our Christmas trees.
Our modern observance of Christmas is not meant to appease Christ.
It is ideally meant to commemorate His birth and act in His giving
spirit so that the lost among us might desire to have what we have.
Yes, we should live like that every day,
but it's not wrong to amplify it for a season of the year.
You want to live your life indistinguishable from Jehovah's Witnesses?
God bless the United States of America.
done in vain ignorance to appease their false gods.
I think I'm safe in speaking for the majority of Christians when I
say we don't bow down or offer sacrifices to our Christmas trees.
Our modern observance of Christmas is not meant to appease Christ.
It is ideally meant to commemorate His birth and act in His giving
spirit so that the lost among us might desire to have what we have.
Yes, we should live like that every day,
but it's not wrong to amplify it for a season of the year.
You want to live your life indistinguishable from Jehovah's Witnesses?
God bless the United States of America.
I see alot of that in modern times also.
The majority teach their children to "pray" to satan claus, ohh misspelled it santa claus for material gifts...
"ask santa for what you want and if your good he will give it to you"
We are to worship in Spirit an truth, the Messiah's birthday is not Dec 25, it is arounf the Feast of Tabernacles most likely and since every Feast day is/will be fulfilled by the Messiah, and not just fulfilled but literally fulfilled on the month, day and minute of that prophetic shadow picture, this gives me insight that indeed He was born on the first day of tabernacles. Why re-purpose a Babylonian ritual and say its for the Messiah. And yet we are in the times in which I am spoken evil of for not wanting to partake in this ritual straight out of Babylon. And yes every part of it is taken from Babylonian rituals.
The Messiah is not amplified on Christmas; trees, santa, and gifts are.
You want to live your life indistinguishable from Mystery Babylon?
The majority teach their children to "pray" to satan claus, ohh misspelled it santa claus for material gifts...
"ask santa for what you want and if your good he will give it to you"
We are to worship in Spirit an truth, the Messiah's birthday is not Dec 25, it is arounf the Feast of Tabernacles most likely and since every Feast day is/will be fulfilled by the Messiah, and not just fulfilled but literally fulfilled on the month, day and minute of that prophetic shadow picture, this gives me insight that indeed He was born on the first day of tabernacles. Why re-purpose a Babylonian ritual and say its for the Messiah. And yet we are in the times in which I am spoken evil of for not wanting to partake in this ritual straight out of Babylon. And yes every part of it is taken from Babylonian rituals.
The Messiah is not amplified on Christmas; trees, santa, and gifts are.
You want to live your life indistinguishable from Mystery Babylon?
IDK where to start with that one...
If the world was not so far from the ways of Yahweh this would not be an issue. And no I will not comprise just because the world follows santa, I mean satan. (so close they are easy to misspell)
You are right lost people are lost, and many times i lose sleep over it, but I realized, at times to lesser application, that it is not for me to make them know the truth, just to speak with the little ability Yahweh has given me, if they are really Yahweh's He will call them out of Babylon.
PS I do think it would be great if all the "followers of Messiah" removed all the pagan idols, icons, practices, etc, etc from this world, if this were done there would be less material for satan to mislead with, but I know we are in the days were removing the tools of satan is spoken evil of, the sad part is this is even spoken evil of in the "congregations."
why dont we all stand together and settle for nothing less than following the Messiah in truth?
satan wont use satan to fight against satan....now thats deep
If the world was not so far from the ways of Yahweh this would not be an issue. And no I will not comprise just because the world follows santa, I mean satan. (so close they are easy to misspell)
You are right lost people are lost, and many times i lose sleep over it, but I realized, at times to lesser application, that it is not for me to make them know the truth, just to speak with the little ability Yahweh has given me, if they are really Yahweh's He will call them out of Babylon.
PS I do think it would be great if all the "followers of Messiah" removed all the pagan idols, icons, practices, etc, etc from this world, if this were done there would be less material for satan to mislead with, but I know we are in the days were removing the tools of satan is spoken evil of, the sad part is this is even spoken evil of in the "congregations."
why dont we all stand together and settle for nothing less than following the Messiah in truth?
satan wont use satan to fight against satan....now thats deep
LEADING OR BEING LED
This excerpt is from a 2007 report, however, I doubt much has changed since then, and it's probably gotten A LOT worse chemically speaking...
Considering the economic/political climate, does anyone really want to put another dollar in China's pocket to buy toys that will end up toxifying our land (fills) and ultimately end up in our drinking water? Isn't the world polluted enough yet? Will no one be happy until all the children are poisoned?
Gift at your own (children's) risk.
In the wake of scandals involving tainted food and toothpaste from China comes word of a new concern from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as the Food and Drug Administration – toys, makeup, glazed pottery and other products that contain significant amounts of lead.
While lead poisoning among children was once mainly caused by old paint, U.S. manufacturers long ago banned the ingredient. Today, a new rash of high lead levels in the bloodstreams of American kids is being caused by foreign products – mainly from China.
So serious is the resurgence of lead poisoning among U.S. children that the Iowa Department of Public Health is working on writing a new law to require mandatory testing of those entering school for the first time.
Lead poisoning, once a concern mainly in dilapidated urban areas, can cause learning disabilities, kidney failure, anemia and irreversible brain damage in children.
Rita Gergely, chief of Iowa’s bureau of lead poisoning prevention, specifically cited concerns about children’s jewelry imported from China.
Because of lead contamination, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of several children’s items all imported from China:
Children’s metal jewelry was found to contain high levels of lead. About 103,000 multicolored necklaces, bracelets, earrings and charms imported by Tween Brands Inc. of New Albany, Ohio, were affected. Some of the jewelry have the words “High School Musical” printed on them or include pictures of the popular movie. Others have frogs, hearts, stars, dogs with dog bones, flowers, and monkeys that hang from silver, black or brown chains or cords. The jewelry was sold at Limited Too and Justice retail stores nationwide.
Toy drums coated with red paint were found to contain excessive levels of lead. About 4,500 of the Eli’s Small Drums and Liberty’s Large Drums were recalled. They were sold in gift and collectible stores nationwide and were imported by Boyds Collection Ltd in Pennsylvania.
About 3,000 action figure toys called “Invincibles Transport Converters” contain surface paints with high levels of lead. They were imported by the Army & Air Force Exchange Service of Dallas.
Children’s gardening gloves imported by MTD Products of Valley City, Ohio, were found to have a stamp-painted logo on the backside containing high levels of lead.
Children’s turquoise rings imported by Cardinal Distributing in Baltimore were found to have high lead levels. About 300,000 of the silver-colored rings were recalled.
About 200,000 children’s necklaces, bracelets and rings imported by Spandrel Sales and Marketing Inc. of Tempe, Ariz., were found to contain high lead levels. The recalled jewelry included pendants that hang from silver-colored bracelet and necklace chains, and silver-colored rings with a charm on top. Charm shapes include silver-colored crosses, suns, moons, stars, butterflies, cupids, angels, keys, elephants, hands, cell phones, fish and shoes. They were sold mostly in vending machines for 25 cents.
About 5,000 bamboo game sets called “Anima” were found to contain lead paint. The products were imported by and sold in Target stores nationwide.
About 132,000 children’s necklaces using a fish symbol, popular among Christians, were found to be contaminated with lead. They were imported by the Oriental Trading Company Inc., of Omaha, Neb.
Multi-colored and solid-colored sidewalk chalk packaged in a clear plastic backpack-type carrying case and imported by Toys R Us were also found to contain significant levels of lead. The label reads: “Chalk To Go … 24 pieces, sidewalk chalk in different colors, fun chalk shapes.”
All of these products were recalled in May, and they were the only products recalled by the CPSC for high lead levels.
This excerpt is from a 2007 report, however, I doubt much has changed since then, and it's probably gotten A LOT worse chemically speaking...
Considering the economic/political climate, does anyone really want to put another dollar in China's pocket to buy toys that will end up toxifying our land (fills) and ultimately end up in our drinking water? Isn't the world polluted enough yet? Will no one be happy until all the children are poisoned?
Gift at your own (children's) risk.
In the wake of scandals involving tainted food and toothpaste from China comes word of a new concern from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as the Food and Drug Administration – toys, makeup, glazed pottery and other products that contain significant amounts of lead.
While lead poisoning among children was once mainly caused by old paint, U.S. manufacturers long ago banned the ingredient. Today, a new rash of high lead levels in the bloodstreams of American kids is being caused by foreign products – mainly from China.
So serious is the resurgence of lead poisoning among U.S. children that the Iowa Department of Public Health is working on writing a new law to require mandatory testing of those entering school for the first time.
Lead poisoning, once a concern mainly in dilapidated urban areas, can cause learning disabilities, kidney failure, anemia and irreversible brain damage in children.
Rita Gergely, chief of Iowa’s bureau of lead poisoning prevention, specifically cited concerns about children’s jewelry imported from China.
Because of lead contamination, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of several children’s items all imported from China:
Children’s metal jewelry was found to contain high levels of lead. About 103,000 multicolored necklaces, bracelets, earrings and charms imported by Tween Brands Inc. of New Albany, Ohio, were affected. Some of the jewelry have the words “High School Musical” printed on them or include pictures of the popular movie. Others have frogs, hearts, stars, dogs with dog bones, flowers, and monkeys that hang from silver, black or brown chains or cords. The jewelry was sold at Limited Too and Justice retail stores nationwide.
Toy drums coated with red paint were found to contain excessive levels of lead. About 4,500 of the Eli’s Small Drums and Liberty’s Large Drums were recalled. They were sold in gift and collectible stores nationwide and were imported by Boyds Collection Ltd in Pennsylvania.
About 3,000 action figure toys called “Invincibles Transport Converters” contain surface paints with high levels of lead. They were imported by the Army & Air Force Exchange Service of Dallas.
Children’s gardening gloves imported by MTD Products of Valley City, Ohio, were found to have a stamp-painted logo on the backside containing high levels of lead.
Children’s turquoise rings imported by Cardinal Distributing in Baltimore were found to have high lead levels. About 300,000 of the silver-colored rings were recalled.
About 200,000 children’s necklaces, bracelets and rings imported by Spandrel Sales and Marketing Inc. of Tempe, Ariz., were found to contain high lead levels. The recalled jewelry included pendants that hang from silver-colored bracelet and necklace chains, and silver-colored rings with a charm on top. Charm shapes include silver-colored crosses, suns, moons, stars, butterflies, cupids, angels, keys, elephants, hands, cell phones, fish and shoes. They were sold mostly in vending machines for 25 cents.
About 5,000 bamboo game sets called “Anima” were found to contain lead paint. The products were imported by and sold in Target stores nationwide.
About 132,000 children’s necklaces using a fish symbol, popular among Christians, were found to be contaminated with lead. They were imported by the Oriental Trading Company Inc., of Omaha, Neb.
Multi-colored and solid-colored sidewalk chalk packaged in a clear plastic backpack-type carrying case and imported by Toys R Us were also found to contain significant levels of lead. The label reads: “Chalk To Go … 24 pieces, sidewalk chalk in different colors, fun chalk shapes.”
All of these products were recalled in May, and they were the only products recalled by the CPSC for high lead levels.
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Our children received piles of gifts from grandparents and great aunts and uncles with a lot of disposable income and a great love for the kids. (hard to fault that one! )
We never did the Santa thing. Didn't want to lie to them, or ever have them question the Lord's Reality. (i.e., if Santa's not really real, what about God?)
Now that they're grown, they give to one another one gift, always thought about for months, and meaningful.
They fill many shoeboxes and adopt a family from a charity whose kiddos would otherwise have nothing.
They put their money together to buy goats and chickens.
None of us can pass a red bucket without putting something in it, coming and going. If someone is willing to stand in the cold we are certainly willing to donate. I mean, which is easier?
The Lord worked in the kids' hearts and they never thought of Christmas as a time to get, in spite of the relatives' generosity.
Maybe they learned their generosity from those wonderful people?
Just my thoughts on gifts...I've seen how God can use anything.
oh, and ps--I'm way in for celebrating the first Advent. ♥
)We never did the Santa thing. Didn't want to lie to them, or ever have them question the Lord's Reality. (i.e., if Santa's not really real, what about God?)
Now that they're grown, they give to one another one gift, always thought about for months, and meaningful.
They fill many shoeboxes and adopt a family from a charity whose kiddos would otherwise have nothing.
They put their money together to buy goats and chickens.
None of us can pass a red bucket without putting something in it, coming and going. If someone is willing to stand in the cold we are certainly willing to donate. I mean, which is easier?
The Lord worked in the kids' hearts and they never thought of Christmas as a time to get, in spite of the relatives' generosity.
Maybe they learned their generosity from those wonderful people?
Just my thoughts on gifts...I've seen how God can use anything.
oh, and ps--I'm way in for celebrating the first Advent. ♥
Weird stuff, peace, love and joy does not come as a wish, but as a result of living in FAITH, the TRUE FAITH. Not from gifts or presents, not from a santa claus, or any Christmas pagan practice, not even from the very tree itself, problem is we want to look at the good things of Christmas and forget the ROOT purpose of it, and it is definetly NOT TO HONOUR CHRISTS BIRTH considering the LORD was NEVER born on that very day.
It is Pagan. And we can never take things of the world and say i will make it look GOOD, or Holy. GOD can not be mixed, and GOD WILL NOT BE LIKENED to trees. HE STANDS ALONE, AS A CREATOR. and whatever HE has warned us, and told us from the WORD OF GOD, and all things HE has told us to observe are SUFFICIENT ENOUGH to keep us pressing more unto HIM.
It is Pagan. And we can never take things of the world and say i will make it look GOOD, or Holy. GOD can not be mixed, and GOD WILL NOT BE LIKENED to trees. HE STANDS ALONE, AS A CREATOR. and whatever HE has warned us, and told us from the WORD OF GOD, and all things HE has told us to observe are SUFFICIENT ENOUGH to keep us pressing more unto HIM.
Actually we preach the gospel, they choose to believe and smash down THEIR OWN TREES.
And your support for a pagan ritual should make you? LOST as well. So i wonder how you can preach to people to GET OUT OF BABYLON yet you yourself enjoy its whoredom.
THE THINGS OF CHRIST REMAIN AUTHENTIC, UNCHANGING, POWERFUL AND FULL OF TRUTH. WE CAN NOT MIX HIM, HE WILL NOT BE APPEASED BY TREES, BUT IT ONLY FILLS UP HIS CUP OF WRATH..!!..
And your support for a pagan ritual should make you? LOST as well. So i wonder how you can preach to people to GET OUT OF BABYLON yet you yourself enjoy its whoredom.
THE THINGS OF CHRIST REMAIN AUTHENTIC, UNCHANGING, POWERFUL AND FULL OF TRUTH. WE CAN NOT MIX HIM, HE WILL NOT BE APPEASED BY TREES, BUT IT ONLY FILLS UP HIS CUP OF WRATH..!!..
Where do we find a command to keep xmas? Only place I can find is here...
Jer 10:2 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.
Jer 10:3 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.
Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Jer 10:5 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.
Jer 10:6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
Jer 10:7 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.
Jer 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Jer 10:2 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.
Jer 10:3 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.
Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Jer 10:5 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.
Jer 10:6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
Jer 10:7 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.
Jer 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
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Do yourself a favor and do a study on xmas and find that it's origins are 2000 years BEFORE Christ. It is a pagan celebration of Isis (Nimrod), Osiris (Semiramis) and Horus (the reincarnation of Isis). Look into a few things like the origin of the yule log, the xmas tree, mistletoe and many of the other customs that orginated in Egypt before Israel was freed. God hates these customs...
Exo 8:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
Lev 18:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Lev 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Deu 12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Deu 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deu 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Exo 8:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
Lev 18:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Lev 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Deu 12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Deu 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deu 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.