The Conception & Birth of Yahuwshuwa _ Our Messiah was conceived in the 9th month on the Hebrew calendar called Kislev. He was born on Yowm Teruw’ah in the 7th Hebrew month of Tishri. Who wWas Born On December 25th? YAHUWsHuwa the Messiah was not born on December 25, who was? In other words, whose birthday is the whole Christian world really celebrating on December 25, though they call it the birth of Christ? Or, to put it another way, what Christ are they talking about? The word Christ, remember, is merely the translation of the Greek word Christos, which literally means Anointed one -- it comes from the Hebrew word Moshiach, from whence we get the word Messiah. So what anointed one was born on December 25? Let us take out our magnifying glass, and like Sherlock Holmes, do some careful detective work, and see if we can solve the mystery -- the puzzle of why the whole world observes the birthday of Yeshua the Messiah on a day on which he was not even remotely born! In the book History of Rome, by Michael Grant, we read this startling revelation: Yet there was also another pagan belief during this same epoch, that much more nearly competed with Christ for the control of the Western world. This was the cult of the Sun, which was revered by millions of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire, and its religion for a time even became the state worship.... In Rome, the divinity of the Sun came very early on; and then, centuries afterwards, in the superb dome of Hadrians Pantheon, the central opening, surrounded by star-like rosettes, represented the solar orb....Before long, the emperor Aurelian established a massive temple of the Unconquerable Sun as the central and focal point of the entire religious system of the state (274). The birthday of the god was to be on DECEMBER 25, AND THIS, TRANSFORMED INTO CHRISTMAS DAY, WAS ONE OF THE HERITAGES THAT CHRISTIANITY OWED TO HIS CULT (p. 391- 392, emphasis mine). Notice! Christianity took over the birthday of the sun god, the cult of the sun, and transformed it into CHRISTMAS DAY, the birthday of thier Christ! It was in reality the birth day of the pagan sun god, worshipped by millions throughout the Roman Empire! We read more about this novel and profound plot to turn paganism into Christianity in a book by historian Jack Finegan, Myth & Mystery: An Introduction to the Pagan Religions of the Biblical World. Finegan writes: ...But the worship of the sun-god continued widely throughout the empire, and under Aurelian (A.D. 270-275) the cult was restored to its former high estate. In the year 274 Aurelian declared the god -- now called Deus Sol Invictus -- the official deity of the Roman Empire; he built a splendid temple of the sun in Rome...and set the suns birthday celebration (naturalis solis invicti) ON DECEMBER 25, the date then accepted for the winter solstice (also in his solar character the BIRTHDAY OF MITHRAS). In the time of Constantine the cult of Deus Sol Invictus was still at its height, and the portrait of the sun-god was on the coins of Constantine....Likewise it must have been in this time and with the intent to transform the significance of AN EXISTING SACRED DATE that the birthday of Jesus, which had been celebrated in the East on January 6...was placed in Rome ON DECEMBER 25, THE DATE OF THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF SOL INVICTUS. This date appears in a list of dates probably compiled in A.D. 336 and published in the Roman city calendar, edited by Filocalus, for the year 354 (Finegan, p. 211-212, emphasis mine). Are we beginning to get the picture? This was in the fourth century AFTER the Messiah! At this time, the Church moved to incorporate the birthday of the sun god into the so-called Christian calendar, and converted his birth day into the birth day of THE MESSIAH himself! That which was distinctly and definitely pagan now was baptized, and by some act of magic was transformed into something Christian! At least, to the observer, it appeared to be Christian. It was now called Christian. But in truth, it still had a pagan heart and core!
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