WHEN WAS JESUS
BORN???
This Page was updated 01/05/09
Exact
Date of Jesus Birth
by Roy A. Reinhold
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A few days before January 1,
2001, I decided to see if the Bible code
could identify the exact day of Yeshua's birth (Jesus), since a ton of
books and articles have been written forwarding different views and
theories. The traditional day celebrated in the church is December 25,
1 BC, although that day wasn't designated until about 360 AD. All the
ante-nicene church fathers did not specify in their writings, the exact
day that Yeshua (Jesus) was born.
In that article, there is
evidence from the calculated possible birth
date of John the baptist (Yochanan the Immerser), that he was born
around Passover in the spring of the year. Since John the baptist was 6
months older than Yeshua (Jesus), that would place the birth of Yeshua
in the fall of the year around Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), plus
or minus 3 weeks. Using the Bible code, the test was to see if Yeshua
was born in the fall of the year around the time of the fall feasts of
Israel, or whether He was born on December 25.
This multi-part article will
present multiple Bible code matrices and
other scholarship to show that with a fair degree of certainty, we can
specify the exact day the angel Gabriel visited Miriam (Mary) and
announced that she would bear a child conceived by the Ruach HaKodesh
(Holy Spirit), the exact day Mary conceived the child, the exact day of
the birth of Yeshua, and the exact day Mary and Joseph took the child
to the Temple on the 8th day to dedicate the firstborn with the
necessary sacrifice and perform the Brit Milah (circumcision).
The matrices shown are all
different views of the same overall matrix.
In other words, the overall matrix has everything in it related to the
conception and birth of Yeshua.
In beginning the process, I was
predisposed to believe that the Bible
code would show Yeshua's birth on a feast day. The fall feast days of
Israel are as follows.
Rosh Hashanah (Yom Teruah, or
Feast of Trumpets) occurs on 1 Tishri in
the Jewish calendar.
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
occurs on 10 Tishri in the Jewish
calendar.
Succot (Feast of Tabernacles)
starts on 15 Tishri and runs for 7 days,
where the 15th and 21st are annual Sabbath days.
Why was I predisposed to believe
it would fall on a feast day of
Israel?
In the gospel of Luke, it states
the following:
Luke
2:1-7
“Now
it came about in those days
that a decree went out from Caesar
Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was
the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all
were proceeding to register for the census, everyone to his own city.
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to
Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem (actually, Beit
Lechem), because he was of the house and family of David; in
order to
register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and who was with
child. And it came about that while they were there, the days were
completed for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her first-born
son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger (feeding
trough), because there was no room for them in the inn.”
What I wanted you to see are 3
clues necessary to sort out this process
of looking for exact date of Yeshua's birth.
One, they left Nazareth and
went
to Bethlehem to register for the
census, because both Mary and Joseph were descended from king David
along different family lines. The birth took place in Bethlehem.
Secondly, the days were
completed for her to give birth, which tells us
that the child was born at the correct gestation time. The Encyclopedia
Britannica shows that the average human gestation period for a female
child is 266-267 days and 270-271 days for a male child. That will come
into play in pre-calculating the expected day of conception when Mary
became pregnant.
Thirdly, it states that
there
was no room at the inn (motel for you
modern folks).
I would have guessed that the
day of birth of Yeshua was on one of the
feast days, because there was no room at the inn. Bethlehem is only 3-5
miles south of Jerusalem, and during the fall feast days, Jewish people
from all over the world would arrive ahead of time and overflow into
the surrounding towns. According to the scriptures, all Israel was only
required to appear before the Lord at the Temple 3 times a year
(Passover, Shavuot or Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles).
However, because they didn't have airplanes, trains, and cars then,
Jewish people from other countries would arrive early and be there for
Rosh Hashanah through Succot (a 3-week period). Therefore, it would
have been difficult to find a room at the inn anytime during the fall
feast days.
Specifically, John 1:14 led me
to believe that the birth of Yeshua was
probably on the 15th of Tishri, the first day of the Feast of
Tabernacles; where it says, "And
the Word became flesh and tabernacled
among us." I believed that I would most likely find 15 Tishri
going
into this process, but that IS NOT the day of birth of Yeshua.
The matrix I used has a center
term at equidistant letter spacing (ELS)
of 19 letters. The center term is khag hamolad (holiday of the
Nativity, chet gimel--hey mem vav lamed dalet), a term often falsely
stated as Christmas, but literally it means holiday of the Nativity.
The matrix is only 19 letters wide, but is probably a couple of hundred
rows high. This is obviously a 3D-matrix spread out in 2D format. In
other words, it would actually be a cube where the center panel has the
center term and panels above the center panel would go in front of the
center panel, and those below would go behind the center panel. The
reason is that Hebrew is read from right to left and top to bottom. We
are currently designing a 3D codes program on paper, but it is
currently beyond what is available for use right now. If shown in a 3D
cube, the related terms would all be right next to each other. I want
to point that out, because hopefully, we can build the 3D codes program
soon, and this holiday of the Nativity matrix is an easy to see example
of it. However, for now we have to view the matrix flattened out into a
2D format.
I should mention that if we were
only looking for one date (the actual
birth date of Yeshua), it would be very difficult to try and prove one
date in a matrix, even with day-month-year. However, since we know from
the scriptures that we have 3 dates
that all have to be shown and are
related in a tight way, it is more conclusive.
We know there is a date for the
day Yeshua was born. From that date, we
must see
a
date of conception exactly
270-271 days prior to the birth date.
Finally, the scriptures say that
the Brit Milah (dedication and
circumcision) took place on the 8th day following the birth.
Since we have at least 3
specific dates that are inter-related, if all
show up, then we have much more certainty that we have found the exact
dates for all of them.
Part 2 will show the birth date
of Yeshua matrix and discussion. Part 3
will show the day the angel announced to Mary that she would conceive
the child, and the day she conceived the child. Part 4 will show the
Brit Milah (dedication of the first-born and circumcision at the
Temple). Finally, part 5 will show other scholarship by Dr. Ernest
Martin on his calculations of the birth date of Yeshua based on the
signs in the sky. All agree and paint a composite picture where we can
state with a fair degree of certainty that we now know that Yeshua
(Jesus) was born in the fall of the year, in September, in 3 BC. And we
can state the exact day for each event.
Bible Code
Matrix of Yeshua's
Birth
First, I want to show you the
center of the overall matrix (ELS 19),
which has the term "khag hamolad" (holiday of the Nativity) in red and
above it "ranu ami" (Sing or Rejoice, My people). The area of the
matrix with the date of birth information on Yeshua (Jesus) is below
the center area of the overall matrix, so it is good to look at the
center of the matrix and have a perspective.
Center of the Matrix
Note that I turned off all other
terms in the matrix from the display,
so that you could see the center of the overall matrix without any
clutter. Ranu ami (Sing or Rejoice, My people) is read in green from
top to bottom, while khag hamolad (holiday of the Nativity) is read in
red from bottom to top. That's why the matrix report above shows the
holiday of the Nativity term in the report at a skip or ELS of -19,
while Sing (Rejoice), My People has a +19 skip or ELS. That's kind of
basic Bible codes knowledge for viewers who are unfamiliar with the
Bible code. What is significant is that these terms are vertical in the
same line and near each other, and they set the topic for the overall
matrix.
For people new to the Bible
code, the R-value in the matrix in the
above report is a statistical measure of significance on a log 10
scale. An R-value of 0.0 means there is a 50-50 chance of the term
showing up in a matrix this size, negative R-values mean that the term
is likely to show up in the matrix by chance (shorter terms), while
higher positive R-values show little likelihood that this is by chance.
An R-value of +1.0 is a 1 chance in 10, +2.0 is 1 chance in 100, +3.0
is 1 chance in 1000, +6.0 is 1 chance in a million, and so on because
it is on a log 10 scale. This is a rough way to calculate the odds,
although we won't go into statistical calculations in this article. I
only point this out because it is in the matrix report above.
The overall matrix was first
discovered by researchers at Bible Code
Digest http://www.biblecodedigest.com,
(Ed Sherman, Dr. Nathan Jacobi,
and Dave Swaney) although they hadn't sorted out all the information
when I decided to look and see if we could determine the actual birth
date of Yeshua from the matrix. Bible Code Digest puts out a monthly
newsletter on the Bible code at a very modest price, at the website
above.
The
Yeshua
(Jesus) Birth Matrix Report
I'll show part of the matrix
below, but for most people, the above
matrix report is easier to handle in analyzing what is in the matrix,
because you have the terms in Hebrew and in English.
What it shows is that Yeshua
(Jesus) was born on Rosh Hashanah (head of
the year), which is also called Yom Teruah (day of blowing) and in
English the Feast of Trumpets. It's also Rosh Khodesh which means the
head of the month. Rosh Hashanah occurs on the 1st of Tishri every year
in the Jewish calendar, and is in the fall of the year. The matrix
shows that the birth occurred in the Jewish year 3759, which is the
fall of 3 BC. In 3 BC, the 1st of Tishri occurred on September 11, 3
BC. With the matrix showing Rosh Hashanah, Yom Teruah, Rosh
Khodesh,
and "on 1 Tishri", it is clearly showing 1 Tishri as the exact day of
Yeshua's birth.
The matrix shows that Joseph
(Yosef) and Mary (Miriam or Miryam) were
in Bethlehem (Beit Lechem) and stayed in a succah, a stable. Yeshua the
Messiah came from heaven, to the earth, and His name is Wonderful, and
Counselor, and the Son of Man. The manger or feeding trough is
mentioned where Mary laid the baby after the birth. The Ruach Hakodesh
(Holy Spirit) was present and the shepherds came to pay homage. It
mentions the angels who announced the birth to the shepherds, and the
star in the sky announcing His birth.
All the details from the gospels
are present and there is probably much
more in this matrix than I have shown, since it didn't take me too long
to develop it as is. Have we proven that Yeshua was born exactly on
September 11, 3 BC? No, because if the matrix doesn't have the
conception 270-271 days prior to September 11, 3 BC, then it didn't
meet the criteria showing all the aspects surrounding Yeshua's
conception and birth. If we count up the days from January 1 to
September 11 in 3 BC (a non-leap year, because 4 AD is a leap year
which would make 1 BC a leap year), then we get 254 days. That means 18
days backward in December of 4 BC, should be the exact date of the
conception (December has 31 days). Our target should then be December
13, 4 BC for the date of the conception based on a 271 day average
human gestation period for male babies. I should mention that the
Hebrew word for pregnancy is "herayon" (hey resh yud vav nun). Since
Hebrew letters also have numerical values it would be as follows:
hey=5, resh=200, yud=10, vav=6,
nun=50; or total=5+200+10+6+50=271
OK, first take a quick look at
the matrix below (it'll look cluttered
to you), and then on to the next section showing the date of the
announcement to Mary by the angel and the subsequent conception by the
Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh). I think you'll be happy to know that it
agrees with out calculation above.
The matrix above is cluttered,
but if you were to trace the letters,
you would see things like Ruach and HaKodesh crossing, Angels and Star
crossing, Rosh and Khodesh crossing, Rosh and Hashanah crossing, manger
and succah (stable) crossing, and other related terms crossing or
closely parallel, or close together. It's better to look in the matrix
report and see what is there.
Is there scriptural support for
Yeshua (Jesus) being born on the 1st of
Tishri? Yes, in 1 Corinthians 15:45 it says in talking about Yeshua,
"The
first man, Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam became a
life-giving spirit." In 1 Corinthians 15:22, it states, "For as in Adam
all die, so also in Christ (the Messiah) all shall be made alive."
Yeshua is the second Adam, and the rabbi's have long taught that Adam's
birthdate was on 1 Tishri. So it is no coincidence that the second Adam
has the same exact birth date.
Angelic
Announcement to
Mary & Yeshua's Conception
We've gotten to the point where
we are looking for corroboration for
the 1 Tishri, 3759 birth date for Yeshua (September 11, 3 BC) by
investigating whether the matrix also has the angelic announcement to
Mary and the conception. The conception should be 270-271 days prior to
the birth, or ~December 13, 4 BC. The matrix report follows:
As you can see above, the
sub-matrix area on the conception tells quite
a story. It shows that the year is 3758 (4 BC), and something
surprising showed up. In looking for all possible dates for Kislev in
the matrix area, it came up with 22 Kislev, plus it showed the evening
1 of Hannukah as a date. These are both in 3758 (4 BC). I would have
guessed that the angelic announcement to Mary and the conception took
place together, but that is not the case.
It seems that the Angel Gabriel
visited Mary on Kislev 22 in 3758
(December 11, 4 BC), and announced to her that she would conceive and
bear a child by the power of the Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Spirit).
However,
the conception didn't take
place until Evening 1 of Hanukkah, which
begins on the 25th of Kislev every year. Hanukkah is the
Festival of
Lights and commemorates the Maccabees victory over Antiochus Epiphanies
and the Syrians. They liberated Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and
lighted the menorah in the holy place of the Temple, with just enough
oil for one day and it burned for 8 days. Hanukkah commemorates that
miraculous cleansing of the Temple and the 8 days the menorah was
lighted supernaturally.
The matrix shows that as 24
Kislev was ending and 25 Kislev beginning,
marking the beginning of Hanukkah, that the power of the Holy Spirit
came upon Mary and she conceived. That day was December 13, 4 BC,
when
Mary conceived and became pregnant with Yeshua. The matrix
shows that
Mary was a virgin (bethulah). Her child was Yeshua the Messiah who came
from heaven to earth. Joseph and Mary lived in Nazareth of the Galilee.
Erev 1 of Hanukkah is more
specific than just saying 25 Kislev, since
it pinpoints the time to a few hours in the evening of December 13, 4
BC. Our criteria has been met now, where the conception of Mary was
shown to be 271 days prior to the birth date. The bonus was in finding
out the date that the angel made the announcement to Mary, which was a
couple of days prior to the conception. What we'll need to look at now,
is whether the Brit Milah (first-born dedication and circumcision) at
the Temple was on the 8th day following the birth of Yeshua.
First, a quick look at the
matrix below, followed by a few comments on
matrix design.
One thing you'll notice is that
there are many parallel terms, but the
letters seem to be spread out somewhat in the matrix. The reason for
this goes back to my comment in part 1, where I said that this was a 3D
matrix, but that we would have to show it in flattened 2D format. Many
of the terms appear at around 304 or double that of 608. This is
indication of the cutoff size for each pane in the 3D cube. 304 divided
by our matrix ELS of 19 gives us 16. We forward the view that this
matrix in 3D would have individual panes with the size of 16 rows by 19
columns. At that size, a term at 304 would be a horizontal term from
front to back with one letter on each pane in the 3D cube, while 608
would be a horizontal term from front to back in the cube, but with a
letter on every other pane. Plus or minus 19 from 304 and 608 would
give us additional diagonal terms in the 3D cube. I realize that some
of you cannot easily picture this in your mind, but for those who can,
it is prima facie evidence for a 3D matrix.
CodeFinder: Millennium Edition
Bible code software was used for all the
matrixes shown in this multi-part article. It is the number 1 ranked
codes program, and hopefully in the future we will venture into
actually building a 3D codes program.
Let's go to the next matrix
which shows the Brit Milah at the Temple,
and you'll find that matrix much simpler to view and understand.
Brit
Milah at
the Temple on the 8th Day
The events at the Temple on the
8th day following the birth of Yeshua
in a succah (stable) in Bethlehem, are an important aspect to show with
a high degree of certainty that the Bible code shows the correct dating
for all mentioned events. We have shown that the angel visited Mary and
announced that she would conceive and bear a child by the power of the
Holy Spirit. This event occurred on 22 Kislev 3758 (December 10/11, 4
BC). I show the 10th and 11th, because the day ran from evening to
evening rather than from midnight to midnight as we reckon time with
the Gregorian calendar.
Next, Mary was a virgin, and
conceived by the power of the Ruach
HaKodesh (Holy Spirit). The conception took place at the very beginning
of Kislev 25, the first day of Hanukkah, and the festival of lights. In
the matrix this is shown by multiple occurrences of erev 1 or evening
1. That conception took place on December 13, 4 BC in the evening,
which is exactly what we pre-calculated based on the 270-271 average
human gestation for a male child.
We know that there was no extra
month of Adar II in the Jewish year
3758, because 1 Tishri started the next year and it occurred on
September 11 in 3 BC. If there had been an extra month, then 1 Tishri
would have been in early October for 3 BC. This is important for
showing that the conception took place on the first evening of
Hanukkah. The same sequence was repeated in the Jewish calendar a
couple of years ago. In 1999, Rosh Hashanah occurred on September 11,
1999 (1 Tishri 5760). Any Jewish calendar you look at will show that
going back 270-271 days takes you to December 13, 1998, which was
evening 1 of Hanukkah on Kislev 25. You don't need to look at ancient
events, but just compare the
Jewish calendar in 1998 and 1999 and the
dates were exactly the same in the civil calendar as in 4 BC and 3 BC.
Is there a Bible scripture that
would lead us to believe that we have
the date correct for the conception? Perhaps there is an allusion to a
prophecy in Haggai 2:18-19
Do consider from this day
onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the
ninth month (24 Kislev), from the day when the temple of the Lord was
founded, consider: Is the seed yet in the barn? Even including the
vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree, it has not
borne fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you.
Sometimes we wonder why the
scriptures were so specific in citing day
and month for an event. The prophet spoke, "Is the seed yet in the
barn?" Perhaps this is an allusion to a future event when the true
vine, the root of the olive tree, the heavenly fig tree, would be
conceived as a human being. The seed in the barn can be an allusion to
pregnancy. As the 24th of Kislev was ending and the 25th of Kislev
beginning, Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. The seed was
in the barn, and a blessing for the world was here from that day
onwards.
Let's go on to the Brit Milah
matrix.
I kept the above matrix report
simplistic so that you can quickly see
that the people mentioned
in Luke 2:21-39, were there at the Temple.
Shim'on the tzaddik is there (Simeon
the righteous and devout man,
verse 25), along with Khannah (Hannah
the prophetess, the daughter of
Penuel). Brit and Milah
are at the same exact ELS only 4 columns apart
and crossed by meelah
for circumcision. Miryam
is there (Mary), and you
might ask, where is Joseph? It's there but is one of those terms that
crosses at a higher ELS so I left it out to make it all simpler
looking. Yeshua and Messiah
are there in the matrix, and most
importantly the date of 8
Tishri and the year 3759 (September 18, 3 BC).
I should admit that there is
probably much more in this matrix, but I
haven't spent too much time on it yet, because it already shows exactly
what we need to know. The entire scenario surrounding the announcement,
conception, birth, and Brit Milah at the Temple has been shown to all
be in one Bible code matrix. The dates are tightly interwoven and show
what occurs.
Let's
summarize all that we have:
1. Announcement to Mary--took
place on 22 Kislev 3758, which was
December 10/11, 4 BC.
2. Mary Conceived the Child by
the Holy Spirit--took place on the end
of 24 Kislev, beginning of 25 Kislev in the evening, in the year 3758,
which was December 13, 4 BC. This was the beginning of Hanukkah.
3. Birth of Yeshua in
Bethlehem--took place on 1 Tishri in 3759 (Rosh
Hashanah), which was September 11, 3 BC.
4. Brit Milah at the
Temple--took place on 8 Tishri in 3759, which was
September 18, 3 BC.
Is there additional scholarship
to support the above scenario? A friend
wrote to me as I was working on the above Bible code matrixes and
suggested the work by Dr. Ernest L. Martin. I ordered his book, and in
the last section of this multi-part article will relate what Dr. Martin
shows in his book related to signs in the sky and the real date of
death of king Herod. Needless to say, Dr. Martin's work agrees 100%
with the scenario above.
Other
Scholarship Proving the Exact Date of Birth of Yeshua
Dr. Ernest L. Martin wrote a
book called The Star of Bethlehem: The
Star that Astonished the World, and I became aware of this book as I
was working on the Yeshua birth matrixes. His scholarship has withstood
peer review and at least one aspect of the book is now in the latest
edition of The Handbook of Biblical Chronology. We'll cover that
shortly, but first his website is http://www.askelm.com and you can
order his book directly by calling 1-503-292-4352.
Dr. Ernest L. Martin shows in
his book, that the signs in the sky shown
in Revelation 12:1-3, occurred on only one day in 3 BC, and they
occurred exactly on September 11, 3 BC between 6:15 PM and 7:49 PM.
What are these celestial signs?
Revelation 12:1-3 And a great
sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed
with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of
12 stars; and she was with child, and she cried out, being in labor and
in pain to give birth. And another sign appeared in heaven; and behold,
a great red dragon having seven heads and 10 horns, and on his heads
were seven diadems.
Because the earth is rotating,
there is apparent motion of the sun and
moon, while the stars stay somewhat fixed in relation to the earth. The
sun was mid-body along the ecliptic in Virgo the Virgin on September
11, 3 BC, and the moon was under her feet exactly from 6:15 to 7:49 PM
on September 11, 3 BC. According to Dr. Martin, this great sign in the
sky only occurred on that one day in 3 BC.
While Dr. Martin's date for the
birth of Yeshua (Jesus) agrees exactly
with what is in the Bible code, can we infer that the birth of Yeshua
took place exactly between 6:15 to 7:49 PM on September 11, 3 BC? I
believe that we can accept the time of birth as being 7 PM plus or
minus an hour based on the exact sign in the sky.
What about the death of Herod as
it relates to all this? After all,
many scholars have said that king Herod died in 4 BC or 5 BC? Dr.
Ernest L. Martin in his book, laboriously goes through each possibility
for the death of king Herod and with a number of other scholars, proves
that Herod died a couple of weeks after the total lunar eclipse of
January 10, 1 BC. He pinpoints the date of death of Herod to about
January 29, 1 BC plus or minus a couple of days.
Flavius Josephus wrote many
details surrounding the death and burial of
King Herod in his Jewish Antiquities. He writes that king Herod died
shortly after a lunar eclipse. The lunar eclipses for that period of
time in Israel were:
7 BC -- no lunar eclipse
6 BC -- no lunar eclipse
5 BC -- total lunar eclipse on
March 23, time between eclipse and
Passover was 29 days
5 BC -- total lunar eclipse on
September 15, time between eclipse and
Passover was 7 months
4 BC -- partial lunar eclipse on
March 13, time between eclipse and
Passover was 29 days
3 BC -- no lunar eclipse
2 BC -- no lunar eclipse
1 BC -- total lunar eclipse on
January 10, time between eclipse and
Passover was 12.5 weeks.
Dr. Martin and a number of other
scholars have shown that given the
details by Josephus and other historians of that time, that king Herod
had to have died almost 3 weeks after the lunar eclipse. Then there
were preparations for a royal burial and a 30-day period for the
procession and burial. After that was over, the new king, Archelaus
took care of many royal duties before Passover. Given all this, the two
springtime lunar eclipses in 5 and 4 BC could not possibly be the lunar
eclipse preceding king Herod's death. You'll have to read Dr. Martin's
book to get all the details and other supporting information.
The point is that scholarship by
Dr. Martin and others proves that what
the Bible code shows in relation to the birth of Yeshua (Jesus) is both
reasonable and expected.
Go here:
http://ad2004.com/prophecytruths/Articles/Yeshua/xmas_star.swf
for a short Flash movie that was developed by a cooperative venture of
MSNBC and Griffith Planetarium, based on Dr. Martin's
research/findings, to show what the Star of Bethlehem actually looked
like in the skies in 3BC and 2 BC. You'll need either the Flash player
from Macromedia which you can download for all types of computers and
browsers, or you can play the Flash movie in RealPlayer. This is really
worth seeing visually!
What
does this all mean?
It means that Christmas is
entirely pagan and is the continuation of
the religious practices of ancient Babylon. Yeshua (Jesus) was born on
September 11, 3 BC and was earlier conceived on December 13, 4 BC.
There is nothing about Yeshua related to Christmas except man-made
customs.
Saturnalia was the celebration
of the winter solstice from ancient
Babylon and Semiramis gave birth to Tammuz on December 25.
The Roman and Greek world
worshipped the sun in a religion called
Mithraism, and December 25 was the Nativity of the Sun (Sol the sun
god).
Tammuz was supposedly the
rebirth of Nimrod who is also known as Baal.
The yule log is from ancient
Babylon symbolizing the stump for Nimrod
or Baal.
The green tree decorated with
silver and gold and nailed down so that
it would not totter was celebrated by ancient Israel as they
apostatized (Jeremiah 10:3-4), and there are a number of references in
the Old Testament to a green tree as an idol. It is the same Christmas
tree customs which people use today for Christmas. The round sparkly
balls represent the sun.
The popes in about 350 AD
deliberately renamed the birth of Sol the sun
god on December 25 as a Christian custom. That is recorded in the Roman
writings of that time. All of these Christmas customs were done by the
pagans before the day was renamed as a Christian holiday.
Isn't it interesting that there
were ancient presentations of the woman
and child thousands of years before Yeshua was born? These madonna and
child representations were Semiramis and Tammuz from ancient Babylon.
A good book is Babylon Mystery
Religion, by Ralph Woodrow, available at
many Christian bookstores.
So many Christians wonder when
reading the Revelation, what Mystery
Babylon could be in our modern time. It is partly the modern church,
which has a mixture of the true teachings from the Bible, plus the most
sacred Christian days being the old pagan Baal customs. All of these
old pagan customs are part of the celebration of the rebirth of the sun
on December 25. None of this is from God our Father.
The Puritans in America forbade
the celebration of Christmas because
they knew and taught what has been presented here, that Christmas has
nothing to do with Christ or the conception or birth of Yeshua.
Actually
the end-times Mystery
Babylon is a religious Babylon, an
economic Babylon, and a political Babylon. The religious Babylon is
only part of Mystery Babylon.
I know, the first excuse usually
given is, well we can do good on that
day. Yes, you can do well on any day of the year. Why is it that you
have to give gifts and put up a green tree in your house on December
25? Is it because everyone else does it? Secondly, pastors will say
that they preach the gospel on that day and some get saved. Yes, that
does occur, but isn't it the preaching of the Word of God and not the
trappings of the pagan holiday that saves people. That too can occur
any day of the year.
The fact is that believers need
to repent that they perpetuated these
pagan days and called them meaningful. You can make fun of ancient
Israel when they adopted the customs of the pagans and were later
expelled from the land for their faithlessness, but aren't we doing the
same things? Please reconsider celebrating pagan holidays and calling
them Christian.
Barbara Di Gilio recently put an
article on her Mayim Hayim website,
adding to the debate concerning the conception and birth of Yeshua
(Jesus). While her work doesn't specify the exact dates as shown in
this article for the birth, however it is a good background article.
For Unto Us a Child is Born: The Debate of Timing.