Apostle Dr. Gabriel Sanchez Velazquez with diciples of the Christian Community Philadelphia in Seneca Ks. USA. |
"Who exchanged the TRUTH
OF GOD for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen."
Romans 1:25
Jesus has already declared in
John 16:13: "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will
guide you into all truth." Therefore, it is the fullness of the Holy
Spirit in the Church that makes it possible that the holiness of life, the full
manifestation of the gifts, and pure doctrine is maintained.
The previous explains why in
the first centuries of the Church the Christians walked in the order of God,
experiencing daily occurrences on a supernatural level. It is because they showed an authentic
holiness and guarded the apostolic doctrine. In summary, we understand why they
“CONTENDED EARNESTLY FOR THE FAITH WHICH WAS ONCE FOR ALL DELIVERED TO THE
SAINTS”. (Jude 3) But we also
understand how, with the gradual loss of the anointing, the lie supplanted the
GOSPEL.
The Romanist Cardinal Newman
in his work The Development of the Christian Religion, on page 359 says:
“Temples, incense, oil lamps, votive offerings, blessed water, holidays
and devotional seasons, processions, blessings on the fields, priestly
vestments, the crown and the images, are all of pagan origin.”
Therefore, the apostate
religion has nesting in its inner core all the Babylonian religion and has
given it a letter of naturalization.
But thanks to God, you and I
we have been chosen to live in a time of the visitation of God to his people,
in which the HOLY SPIRIT, is already being poured out on all the earth.
Therefore, we are entering in a full restoration of NEOTESTAMENT
CHRISTIANITY. There is a genuine
interest by the servants of God to rediscover the pure doctrine, have a life of
holiness and show the world the manifestation of the supernatural power of the
Gospel.
Among these holidays and
devotional seasons that Newman points out that the apostate church took from
paganism figures the world wide celebration of CHRISTMAS.
But why should we not
celebrate Christmas? Let us get into that subject.
A. JESUS WAS NOT BORN ON THE 25TH OF DECEMBER.
We don’t have the exact date
of the birth of the Lord Jesus, but we do have a biblical foundation, clear and
categorical that the Lord was not born on the 25th of December. The following
biblical reasons give us certainty. Let’s see:
THE NIGHT IN WHICH JESUS WAS
BORN THERE WERE FLOCKS IN THE
FIELDS
Those who know the biblical
lands, know that in Israel
there are only two seasons
each year, the winter (rainy and cold weather) and
the summer (hot weather). Winter starts with the fall of the first rains, which
occurs between the end of September and the beginning of October each year and
lasts until the end of March or the beginning of April. Therefore, due to the
bitter winter, it is impossible that any shepherd would try to have his flocks
in the outdoors during this time of year. The shepherds that take their flocks
out to pasture during the summer, when winter hardly starts, they take them to
their sheepfolds, to their covered corrals to protect them from the cold. All
the flocks of the Jews in the Holy Land pass
the winter enclosed in their corrals, and return to the field in the summer.
Now, what does the Bible say of the night that the Lord Jesus was born? In the
Gospel of Luke 2:8-11 it says: “Now there were in the same country shepherds
living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold,
an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around
them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, ‘Do not be
afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all
people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord’.”
Can we find in the Bible some mention on this personage? |
By the previous, we know that
it was summer when Jesus was born, and not winter.
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