Page 124 - Prophetic Word Newsletter Archive 2010

“Christmas” or “Christ – Mass”
is the creation of a religious institution that has been rightly dubbed
“the king of tradition”, an organization whose very origins itself are steeped in ancient
Babylonian pagan rituals –the Roman Catholic Church. This old classic work is but one of
many that expose the pagan origins of Christmas as well as the Roman Catholic Church itself.
I have copied out several paragraphs to entice you to consider reading what it has to say:

“That Christmas was originally a Pagan festival, is beyond all doubt. The time of the year, and the
ceremonies with which it is still celebrated, prove its origin…
The festivals of Rome are innumerable; but five of the most important may be singled out for
elucidation--viz., Christmas-day, Lady-day, Easter, the Nativity of St. John, and the Feast of the
Assumption. Each and all of these can be proved to be Babylonian. And first, as to the festival in
honour of the birth of Christ, or Christmas. How comes it that that festival was connected with the
25th of December? There is not a word in the Scriptures about the precise day of His birth, or the
time of the year when He was born. What is recorded there, implies that at what time soever His
birth took place, it could not have been on the 25th of December. At the time that the angel
announced His birth to the shepherds of Bethlehem, they were feeding their flocks by night in the
open fields. Now, no doubt, the climate of Palestine is not so severe as the climate of this country;
but even there, though the heat of the day be considerable, the cold of the night, from December to
February, is very piercing, and it was not the custom for the shepherds of Judea to watch their
flocks in the open fields later than about the end of October…Christ could not be born in the depth
of winter. Again, at the time of Christ's birth, the shepherds lay abroad watching with their flocks in
the night time; but this was not likely to be in the middle of winter. And if any shall think the winter
wind was not so extreme in these parts, let him remember the words of Christ in the gospel, 'Pray
that your flight be not in the winter……that within the Christian Church no such festival as
Christmas was ever heard of till the third century…not till the fourth century was far advanced did it
gain much observance…

How, then, did the Romish Church fix on December the 25th as Christmas-day? Why, thus: Long
before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era itself, a festival was celebrated among
the heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honour of the birth of the son of the Babylonian
queen of heaven; and it may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to
swell the number of the nominal adherents of Christianity, the same festival was adopted by the
Roman Church, giving it only the name of Christ. This tendency on the part of Christians to meet
Paganism half-way was very early developed; and we find Tertullian, even in his day, about the
year 230, bitterly lamenting the inconsistency of the disciples of Christ in this respect, and
contrasting it with the strict fidelity of the Pagans to their own superstition. "By us," says he, "who
are strangers to Sabbaths, and new moons, and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia,
the feasts of January, the Brumalia, and Matronalia, are now frequented; gifts are carried to and
fro, new year's day presents are made with din, and sports and banquets are celebrated with
uproar; oh, how much more faithful are the heathen to their religion, who take special care to adopt
no solemnity from the Christians." Upright men strive to stem the tide, but in spite of all their efforts,
the apostasy went on, till the Church, with the exception of a small remnant, was submerged under
Pagan superstition. That Christmas was originally a Pagan festival, is beyond all doubt. The time of
the year, and the ceremonies with which it is still celebrated, prove its origin. In Egypt, the son of
Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, "about the time of the
winter solstice." The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among ourselves--Yule-
day --proves at once its Pagan and Babylonian origin. "Yule" is the Chaldee name for an "infant" or
"little child"; * and as the 25th of December was called by our Pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors,
"Yule-day," or the "Child's day," and the night that preceded it, "Mother-night," long before they
came in contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character.”