It's the Holiday season and I feel a tear in my heart. For the last 3 years I have felt that I should not celebrate Christmas as I have always done all my life. All the childhood memories at Christmas, families, food, fun and the excitement of what santa might bring.I can smell my mom's cooking in my memories.
Since I was a small child I was always interested in the Jewish people - I read all the books I could get my hands on including the ones about the concentration camps. I could not get them out of my heart no matter how hard I tried. So, years and years went by and about 4 years ago I was blessed by a trip to Israel from my husband...the dream of a life time. I started studying the customs and looking at things from a different view. It made so much more since to me than what I had been taught. I am saying all of this to say that I feel God has put it in my heart to be obedient to the Feast of Israel and the Bible from this time on and not to the pagan holidays of this world.
So - Hannukah (The Festival of Lights) the celebration of Miracles and Victory of the Word of God makes so much more logic than celebrating a pagan holiday a man in a red suit on a day that the pagans celebrated the sun god..and we chose it to celebrate the SON! Don't even get me started about halloween - thatis a whole other story.
Yeshua's birth wasn't even in december - it was in september.....people today when questioned about christmas "justify" by saying we are going to focus on Christ! Some people even say they are "honoring Christ" in their christmas keeping. Hummmm..could it be that we owe alot to the druids by adopting the pagan mid-winter festival as the alleged birdthday of Yeshua...of Nazareth...and then threw in a few other pagan goodies and gods to make it taste a little better?
In any event, we don't know the real, exact date of Yeshua's birth....God could have made it know...but HE chose to hide it from the world's eyes. How did all of this Paganism get blended into our christian beliefs and into the church? The enemy innocently influenced someone and here it is and we have for years with our best food, clothes, decorations and everything else wallowing in it smiling , giving presents and singing carols as we go! Oh my goodness - how can this be?. We never saw it coming and some still cant see it or choode to ignore it when they know in their heart that somewhere deep down there this isn't right.
God took Israel out of Egypt - from slavery - out of the customs of the world around them and revealed HIS law (Torah) to them - HE doesn't want HIS people going back to the traditions, customs & ways from which HE has called them.
To everyone that visits this site........have an awesome day, and may Yeshua bless you beyond all your dreams! Karen
