Through the middle of 385 A.D. it is recorded that Pentecostals would not observe X-mas as a day to recognize the birth of Jesus.

It was in 354 A.D. in Rome that Pope Liberius of the heathen Catholic Church first made December 25th the official date of Christ’s birthday. Also Natalis Invicti a Roman Catholic cult of sun worshippers in the 3rd century A.D. was the first group to celebrate December 25th as Christ’s birthday.

Pentecostal Hebrews in the 1st Century ignored X-mas, because on December 25th Iran worshipped its mystery goddess Mithra., Chanukah the “feast of lights” Yule log, Candles, Holly, and the Christmas tree are all pagan traditions with no direct connection to the birth of Jesus.

Nineteenth-century folklorists along with contemporary historians Peter Burke, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Russian theorist Milkhail Bakhtin recorded Christmas with behavior that would be shocking in today’s churches today.

It was a time of heavy drinking, and unrestrained “carnival” a kind of December Mardi Gras with rowdiness and urban gang violence and Christmas-season riots.

E.D. Thompson and Susan G. Davis showed a new kind of Christmas by bringing it indoors, within the secure confines of the family circle. Christmas became as it is today quantitative (goods) not qualitative (Godly).

During the first two centuries of the early white American settlements most people did not celebrate Christmas.

In 1640 A.D. London mobs abused merchants who remained open on Christmas day. It was illegal for Puritans to celebrate it in Massachusetts from 1659 to 1681.

In 1712 Cotton Mather said it was time spent in reveling, dicing, carding, and in all licentious liberty by mad mirth, long eating, hard drinking, lewd gaming, and rude reveling.

In 1725 Reverend Henry Bourne called the way most people behaved during the Christmas season “a scandal to religion and an encouraging of wickedness”.

In 1728 merchants were drumming up business for jewelry, swords, guns, and cards, much like today’s money loving merchants do. Mumming was a seasonal practice treating with levity or contempt by singing X-Mas carols with begging for money.

Yearly the Devil plays upon human sentimentally with X-mas sweet music comical, palatable and entertaining to children and adults. It also involved “a changing of clothes between men and women” that ended in fornication, etc.

In 1822 public schools were open, and courts were in session, even in 1952 if people came to work late on Christmas day they were fired. It was a day of excessive eating and drinking, aggressive begging (receiving presents), etc.

In 1830 Santa Clause became the popular Christmas person not Jesus and department stores dressed up windows to attract people to spend money.

A more reasonable day after Christ’s resurrection for Saints to remember is the theophany, the decent of the Holy Ghost on Jesus in the river Jordan that began his public ministry.

If Christmas is the birthday of Jesus why do people give each other gifts? God did not ordain a special day in which to celebrate the birthday of his son, the Lord Jesus, so why should you.

Some of what is portrayed at X-mas may be good, but when mixed with ancient pagan custom it poisons mans intellect and soul.

Heathens were first to use Hollywood theatrics with colored X-mas lights in City Halls. Now Churches use “Christian movies” to gain acceptance from man for the X-mas heresy.

The main theme few can resist is seeing a homeless mother, a helpless baby and an unemployed husband stranded in a strange, crowded snowy city without money.

The Italian scholar Faenza in 1785 said, "There is no month of the year to which respectable authorities have not assigned to Christ Jesus birth".

If you must observe God’s feasts they are Passover, Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles, and First Fruits. The most important ritual to follow is not X-mas but to faithfully give God offerings, and tithes of your money to Pentecostal’s works.

Pentecostals have reversed spirits when observing X-mas. A reversed spirit is one living separate from the customs of Jesus and his people and believing opposite of the righteousness in God's Holy Word. Reversed spirits become as demons when sanctifying this heathen holiday as a doctrine glorifying God.

God hating adults excuse their observance of this pagan holiday by saying; we observe X-mas for the children. Why do "intelligent" parents deliberately teach this pagan X-mas lie to their children? We can only deduce that their love of God is superficial. X-mas observing parents have a disregard for the mental health of their children, and a sub-hatred of Jesus. These parents are S.O.B’s., Sons of Belial.

Working mothers feel they have to pay for not being home most of the time, so indulge their children with goods on X-mas, and Hanukkah. Their Kids whine, complain and manipulate parents to get what they want.

Hebrew children felt left out of heathen Gentile X-mas festivities, so in 1700 the Hanukkah bush or imitation X-mas tree was invented for them. Hebrews now enjoying the heathen Catholic X-mas falsehood with their demon possessed friends, and relatives are hypocrites.

With children of mixed Hebrew, and Gentile linage X-mas brings confusion, and questions about their religious identity.

Opposition by Pentecostals in Jerusalem to the bogus Nicene Catholic fathers X-mas holiday, lasted well past the year of 336 A.D.

In the year 411 A.D. a Catholic Priest, Jerome Eusebius Hieronymus, reproved his church because they kept the "Christ Jesus birthday" as a feast. While studying biblical truths in Arab Jerusalem, Jerome went against the Catholic Church by not accepting X-mas as a truth.

Religious German, idol worshipping Gentile Catholics brought the X-mas service into England, and named it "Christes Maesse." Shops in New England were forced to open so the public could dance, gamble, and waste time, and money on the pride of life, and lusts of the flesh. X-mas became a time for wild merrymaking. Not much has changed in America.

Most New England City offices closed at X-mas giving more time off for lazy, lying, inept bureaucrats to party. The New England X-mas carnival was a feast of pancakes, and drinking. The X-mas festival today is still a license for drunken parties.

Plum puddings and mince pies were once condemned as heathen delicacies. The pagan pastry pie custom is today one of Americas X-mas mainstays.

Homosexuals and heterosexuals performed carnival-like celebrations with sex rites. Even X-mas sports have turned into riots, and death. Mistletoe or the kissing plant came from the heathen Irish Druid priests.

JER 3:6 Many unspoiled young women lost their virtue playing the harlot under the colored, blinking lights of a X-mas tree.

In the late 16th Century the Christmas tree again became generally accepted in American households as part of their yearly religious worship. Puritans of 17th Century America attempted to do away with the revived and senseless celebration of the Devilish X-mas day.

Early into the middle of the 19th Century in New England the elected officials made X-mas a regular workday.

America has forty-three other holidays. Thirteen are days off with pay for worthless City, County, State, and Federal employees. Because of millions of "uncivil servants" the holiday tax dollar rip-off will never be repealed in America.

X-mas greeting cards filled with canned sentiment, and written by Pagans first originated in the 19th Century. It would be better for families with love, and sentiment to speak with each other personally instead of using (sloppy agape) heathen cards.

The history of Santa Clause began first as: Pelzmartel, on a wooden horse. German. St. Martian, on a white charger. French. Father X-mas, to bless men. German. St. Nicholas. German. Santa Clause with reindeer is the American invention.

The Catholic priest St. Francis of Assisi, in the year 1223 made the first unscriptural X-mas crèche or crib scene with the ox, and ass. Crib idols, and other man made images are vain attempts to reduce God to human size, and make man equal too or larger than the Lord.

MAT 2:11 The number of wise Hebrew’s came with three gifts gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Jesus when he was about two years old in a rented house, not in an animal manger.

The benefactor of the night before X-mas observance was a German Roman Catholic named Knecht Ruprecht. The annual night before X-mas with its casual friends and fragmented families has with it a sickeningly fake show of solidarity.

During the night before X-mas heathens gave gifts, and lit candles. Their twisted Catholic customs are now part of many Pentecostal lifestyles. Giving money or gifts at X-mas began as a pagan Catholic custom.

Non-bible living and non-tithe paying Hebrew or Gentile consciously or unconsciously thinks of Jesus only as giving, receiving and taking time off work to buy a X-mas tree.

Adults are expected to swap ego bolstering trinkets, and cheap or expensive gifts with each other, and if not they must endure childishly hurt feelings. These are signs of a left handed, erroneous, sickological attempt to validate X-mas. Unknown to many X-mas people, they have a deep-seated spiritual, and psychological need for the sin cleansing Blood of Jesus in their lives.

If God had ordained X-mas then gifts of money, lands and jewels would be given to his Pentecostal Instruction Ministers, not what they now receive, hatred, persecution, death and pennies.

When Jesus is mentioned at Satan’s X-mas parties it is with disrespect, and with tired old "St. Peter at the pearly gate" jokes. There is very little family bonding during the pagan night before X-mas. Beneath the false laughter, and gayety lays sadness, and depression.

X-mas season depression is so widespread that the air is filled with suicide, robbery, murder, and general anti-social dissatisfaction. If you must celebrate family gatherings, do it on a day other than Dec. 25th, and without Jesus, and the X-mas tree as its focal point.

X-mas fires and blazing wheels starred the hills across Europe, their houses were adorned, criminal trials suspended, and people celebrated with feasts. The Yule log had its beginning at this time. Now burning logs in American condos activate lower passions, not the worship of Jesus.

Catholics were first to begin X-mas decorations inside their homes with evergreens, religious symbols, idols of Mary, and the "saints" Also, German Catholics were the first in Europe to decorate a fir tree with lights, and tinsel.

JER 10:3, 4 The prophet Jeremiah wrote that God disapproved of people owning and decorating trees which are phallic symbols, for their religious festivities. Once the British Islands and American Pentecostal churches dissented against X-mas, now ignorant people keep this custom alive.

Most pagan countries of the world do not observe X-mas, Muslims, Buddhists, Indians, and Hebrew’s have their own heathen days of idol worship.

Modern liberal Pentecostals to justify this holiday say, souls can be saved during X-mas. Bull they forget that salvation comes only at Christ’s Fourth Coming. How many have you converted or seen converted under your X-mas tree? Baa Hum-Bug.

A tract writer: William Prynne wrote: "X-mas people dancers, actors, and other such X-mas disorders are inspired of Devil worship". This should make Pentecostals hate X-mas.

In 1627 the Puritan Prynne wrote many tracts much like the one you are now reading. Religious men hated Prynne’s tracts, and jailed him. Nominal preachers cut off his ears, branded both his cheeks with the letters S, and L on his forehead, and slit his nose.

After release from prison he refused to pay taxes, and the stubs of his ears were shaved off. Jailed again he wrote a tract against worldly X-mas preachers named, "Lords of Lucifer".

Will you and your family suffer a little for the truth of God's word neighbor, by rejecting X-mas? The main theme proving this is not a Godly day is hearing sinners say; "This is a very special day for me and mine".

Sources:

Cyclopedia Of Biblical, Theological And Ecclesiastical Literature

The Encyclopedia Of Religion, Macmillian And Free Press

Strongs Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible

European Pentecostal Perspective, 1963

Obseravatore Romano, Schuster 1952

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Catholic Encyclopedia

Marginal Prynne, 1963

King James Holy Bible

The Nicene Fathers, Roman Almanac

Prophet R. Michael Hands, TH.D

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