“Jesus is the Real Reason for the Season!” Really????

“When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are about to go to, to dispossess them before you, and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land, take care so that you are not ensnared into imitating them after their being destroyed from before you, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, and thus I myself want to do also.’

Deuteronomy 12:29–30 (LEB)

It is that time of year again where we constantly need to be reminded that “Jesus is the real reason for the season”, or of the “real” meaning of the “Christmas tree” (it allegedly points to Jesus) and other such things. One would think these meanings would be self-evident after 2000 years of Christian history. If Jesus is the “reason for the season”, everyone should already know, and most of the population would not be interested.

For example, Passover and Hanukkah are generally known by most people to involve holy days which the Jews celebrate; Ramadan is a holy month in Islam; Diwali is an Indian holiday, and so on. No one truly cares about these religious days unless they are involved in the respective religion, and one does not usually hear from these religions on their holy days because they are busy celebrating.

With the December holidays, we have a wildly popular festive holiday all over the world with a relatively small amount of people popping up proclaiming, “Jesus is the reason for the season!”, when the majority of the population, a) know he is not the reason for the season, b) are indifferent about it, or c) only care about the presents, lights, trees and festivities. Many secular Jews, Muslims, Atheists, and people from other religions all celebrate Christmas. How can this be? What possesses an atheist to partake in gift giving, Christmas trees and other festivities if they do not believe in God? Why would someone celebrate the birthday of Jesus who does not believe he existed, doesn’t care, or may actually hate Christianity? The answer is that most people know it is not really the birthday of Jesus, don’t care that some people assign it to the birthday of their god, and are participating in holiday rituals that have existed in different cultures for the last 3500 years.

If we look at different religions around the world, we find December 25th is a significant date. Many gods of different religions were born on December 25th. The one thing they have in common is that they were usually some type of sun god. The tree is part of the festival not because it points to Jesus, but because it is the symbol that goes with the sun god and his female counter part. The fir tree is a phallic symbol that dates back to Nimrod and Asherah. Most of the props and rituals of the winter solstice holidays are related to fertility, sex and the renewal of life.

Deuteronomy 16:21 (LEB): ²¹ You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah pole beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourselves.

אֲשֵׁרָה, אֲשֵׁירָה n.pr.f. Ashera a. a Canaanitish goddess of fortune & happiness. b. a symbol of this goddess, a sacred tree or pole set up near an altar. Pl. אֲשֵׁרוֹת a. the goddess. b. sacred trees or poles.

Richard Whitaker et al., The Abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament: From A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by Francis Brown, S.R. Driver and Charles Briggs, Based on the Lexicon of Wilhelm Gesenius (Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906).

The sacred trees are very important throughout history, and the Creator said not to put them by His altar. There is no question that the “Christmas” tree is fashioned after the trees in ancient sun god worship. “Christmas” is simply its own version of sun god worship with the demigod “Iesous” at the center. I only say this because the real Creator of the universe and His son would have nothing to do with a festival that blends all of the traditions of the sun gods and goddesses of antiquity, therefore there must be a different god at the center of the December 25th holiday. The stress, consumerism, depression, coveting and hardships from overspending all point to Jesus (Yeshua) not being the reason for the season.

Deuteronomy 7:5 (LEB): ⁵ But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire.

The use of these symbols from other gods and religions to honor Jesus actually makes Christianity look dumb on the world stage, and the God of Israel told His people to have nothing to do with them. Jesus, called Yeshua by his followers, told us he only did what he saw the Father doing and only said what he heard the Father saying. The Father said that he does not change. So why do Christians think they can assign all of these symbols from other gods to Yeshua? Where are these things talked about in the Bible? Here are some places:

Jeremiah 10:2 (LEB): ² Thus says Yahweh: “You must not learn the way of the nations, and you must not be dismayed by the signs of the heavens, for the nations are dismayed by them.

1 Corinthians 10:21–22 (LEB): ²¹ You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²² Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he is, are we?

Matthew 24:3–5 (LEB): ³ And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” ⁴ And Jesus answered and said to them, “Watch out that no one deceives you! ⁵ For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will deceive many.

The whole Bible is written against the Church assigning the one true God to festivals and symbols of other gods. The holy days of the Creator were shared with the Israelites through Moses from God. These are not simply holy days of the “Jews”. They are the holy days that are important to the Father. It is through the error of dispensationalism theology that these get cast aside and replaced with holy days of other gods saying “we are not under the law” as if knowing and celebrating the holy days given to us by the Father is some type of punishment. We bring curses on ourselves by rejecting His days and choosing the days of the nations.

Leviticus 23:1–2 (LEB): 23 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, ‘The festivals of Yahweh that you shall proclaim are holy assemblies; these are my appointed times.

Yahweh says, “these are my appointed times” and does not mention anything about them belonging only to the Jews. These are His festivals and they were shared to the world through Israel. When I say “through Israel”, I don’t mean the secular country that is in western Asia in 2024. I am speaking about those who were at Mount Horeb, the Israelites and the mixed multitude. Paul tells us how the Jews were the vehicle used to deliver the “oracles of God”.

Romans 3:1–2 (LEB): 3 Therefore, what is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the use of circumcision? ² Much in every way. For first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

The days on the left are the festivals of the nations celebrated for thousands of years and include modern day Easter (after the goddess Eostre or Ostara), Christmas (Yule), Samhain (all saints day and Halloween), Litha ( St. John the Baptist day). There is also May day with the May “pole” complete with streamers. It is all disgusting when one researches the meanings of all of the days that are involved in sun worship.

The days on the right are the “appointed times” of the Creator, found in Leviticus chapter 23 (except Hanukkah). These are the days Yeshua celebrated, as did the early church, until corruption creeped in. Paul warned of this corruption speaking to the elders at the church in Ephesus.

Acts 20:29–30 (LEB): ²⁹ I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰ And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking perversions of the truth in order to draw away the disciples after them.

This means that perversions of the truth started to manifest themselves as early as 57 CE. Some accounts say that this corruption involved blending practices of the mystery religions. Based on how things are today in the Church this makes complete sense.

Dispensationalism theology teaches that Peter was only talking to the “Jews” in Acts Chapter three. This is deception to draw people away from the Father and the obligation to do what Yeshua said to do. We must be grafted into the family of God and do what He told us to do. This does not mean the religion of Talmudic Judaism. This means we follow the commandments as Jesus taught, not man made traditions by any religion.

Acts 3:19–26 (LEB): ¹⁹ Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out, ²⁰ so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and he may send the Christ appointed for you—Jesus, ²¹ whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things, about which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times. ²² Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You will listen to him in everything that he says to you. ²³ And it will be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be destroyed utterly from the people.’ ²⁴ And indeed, all the prophets from Samuel and all those who followed him have spoken about and proclaimed these days. ²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’ ²⁶ God, after he had raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you back from your wickedness!”

God hates idolatry and using things from other peoples’ gods supposedly to worship Him. Take Messiah Yeshua out of the Christmas sun god worship and learn to worship in spirit and truth! Truth contains no fairy tales, imaginary characters, myths or legends.