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Christmas Celebrated in Heaven and Earth!
Every year, it seems there is more attempts at censoring the celebration of Christ's birth in public. For the last 150 years Sabbatarians, cults and now the Atheists have been loudly proclaiming, Christ's birthday is never celebrated in Scripture and shouldn't be celebrated at all.
You are now going to find that not only is Christ Birthday celebrated! It is celebrated both in Heaven and on earth.
Luke records that God sent his angel to proclaim this message: Luke 2:9And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people, . 11For unto you is born THIS DAY in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
The Very Day of Christ birth is declared to be a day of "good tidings and great joy" in Scripture. And it is God Almighty that sends the Angel to declare it! Notice the words that the the angel of the Lord was sent to them to proclaim, "Good tidings of of GREAT JOY, WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE" Unto you is born THIS DAY, in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord".
What annoys the Sabbatarians and Atheists is that Christ's birthday causes every people on every continent of the world to sing "Glory to God in the Highest" and "Christ our Saviour is born" . But thus, the scripture is fulfillled as promised, "GREAT JOY SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE.
They wonder why God couldn't just leave Christ for some exclusive Jewish Christian group, why did He have to make Christ to be "Great Joy to ALL PEOPLE" all the nations!
The GREAT JOY is for ALL people, on the day of Christ's birth. That is what Christians celebrate the Great Joy along with all people, which is the birth of Christ the Lord. But not only was it to be "Good tidings of Great Joy FOR A ALL PEOPLE".
But the Heavenly Host of Angels also rejoiced "that day" as it is written, "13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 14Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Instead rejoicing with the Angels and "all people" , on "THIS DAY" some have decided to rather make up excuses why Christ birth shouldn't be celebrated, though scripture says quite the contrary.
To respond to those who will say that Dec.25th is a pagan day, I answer that Christ is the creator of "all things" all the days of the week are created by him and He sustains all things. Christ owns 7 days a week 365 days a year. Col.1 says in verse 16, "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, " For the Sabbatarians and other cults, to think that Christ can't be born on December 25th because the pagans did this or that on that day is foolishness. God can do whatever he wants too on that day because he owns all the days, the Pagans don't own any of them. They simply misused the day.
The Sabbatarians say God would never let Christ be born on a day Pagans celebrated. It is not the Pagans which own the days, it is Christ who owns "all the days" . The Pagans only misused the days. Christ returned the days which were abused back to the RIGHTFUL OWNER, GOD HIMSELF.
God has done this with many things both past in present. He takes pagans and TRANSFORMS them to Christians.
The Hebrew worship in the Old Testament is full of similarities.
The pagans had a temple, then God gives Israelites a temple.
The pagans had a priesthood, God gives Israelites a priesthood.
The Pagan Priests had vestments, the Levitical priesthood has vestments.
The Pagans used incense in worship, the Israelites used incense in worship.
The Pagans offered animal sacrifices, the Israelites offered animal sacrifices.
The Pagans, had spring and fall harvest feasts, God gives Israel spring and fall harvest feasts.
The pagans baptized, the Christians baptized.
The list is endless. The Puritanism you can't do this and you can't do that because the pagans had a similarity is not found in scripture. It is a doctrine of fanatics, like Hislop. Who taught that a steeple on a church was a phallic symbol, when the truth was that the Architects built steeples on the Church because Christ said, "If I be LIFTED UP, I will draw ALL MEN unto me." So, the Architects of the Churches lived the cross high so that all men would see it and come unto Christ.
The kind of Pharisaical Puritanism that exists upon some of the Sabbatarian groups has blinded them from the plain evidence in scripture that Christ's birth was not only to be celebrated ON EARTH, but in Heaven ALSO.
According to their Puritanism, the Holy Spirit would never have referred to Christ as "the Sun of Righteousness" in Malachi. Nor would God ever let the Holy Spirit say in Ps.84, "11For the LORD God is a SUN and shield" .
According to the extremist view, The Holy Spirit would never call Christ, ""the light of the world" Because, everyone knows that the Sun is what gives the earth light!
But, that kind of fanaticism is not from God. It is from the same Pharisaical mind that existed in Christ's day by the self-righteous Pharisees who prided themselves in keeping the law to the nth degree, while they were inwardly, unrighteous.
Nevertheless, the Sabbatarians are once again to be shown wrong about Christ's birth not to be celebrated.
The whole world rejoices and sings, "Oh little town of Bethlehem" and "Christ the new born King is born" . There is no excuse for not celebrating Christ's birth.
My article is proof that Christ's birthday was celebrated not only on earth but also in heaven by the multitude of angels. God so desired the celebration of Christ's birthday that he sent forth his angels to announce it and to celebrate it. Further, there is a prophetic implication, in the scripture that "all people" would celebrate His birthday. We can certainly look back and see this scripture fulfilled every December 25th when "all people" from every nation on earth all rejoice and sing praises to God for the birth of Christ. I would therefore, conclude that it has been shown that it is the will of God that Christ's birthday be celebrated, otherwise God would not have sent his angels to announce it and to celebrate it. Thus, God gave us both divine example and human example of his will. And when we celebrate Christ birthday, we also fulfill the prophecy of "all people" rejoicing. In another article I will show that it December 25th is very close if not the exact date of Christ's birth.