There are many people who really do not know or have never been told the history behind Christmas. Also included n this list are some Atheist and Christians.
THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS AS REPORTED
If you really want to celebrate Christmas during the period it is usually marked (December 25th), it is pertinent that you know when this celebration started.
NOW LET'S TAKE A WALK THROUGH THE HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS
Many non-believers would not waste time to tell you point blank that December 25th is not the date Jesus was born. The English term Christmas ( "Mass on Christ's Day) is of fairly not too distant origin. I mean it is fairly recent.
The non-believers and even some believers will gladly tell you that there is no record of Jesus Christ been born on December 25th or within the Yuletide period as we call it in the Bible. With much conviction, they will tell you that the celebration that took place within this period is the celebration of the "sun god", which was refereed to as the feast of the Winter Solstice.
According to history the high day of the celebration of the sun god occurred every December 25th ,following the Winter Solstice. This actually means that the birthday of the sun was celebrated on December 25th. Pagan worshipers do this.
WHERE IT ALL STARTED
This act according to history started in Shinar, a plain in Babylonia (modern South Iraq), where the tower of Babel was built (Genesis 11:2)
Nimrod, known in Egypt as Osiris, was the founder of the first world empire at Babel, which was later called Babylon (Genesis 10 and 11). Nimrod's birthday was celebrated every December 25th and his symbol was the evergreen tree, which represented his renewed life through Tammuz. This same date of Nimrod's birthday is also considered by the pagans as being the birth of the sun.
Nimrod was a mighty hunter and was so powerful that he led the people to building the Tower of Babel. He even married his own mother called "Semiramis". He was worshiped as a god by his people and is then first in line of the sun gods, and was the first to lead the first revolt against GOD (Tower of Babel).
After GOD destroyed the Tower of Babel according to legend, Nimrod was killed by Noah's son,
After the death of Nimrod, his mother wife claimed to be pregnant through the power of the sun and later, around December of the following year gave birth to a son, named Tammuz, also known as Egyptian Horuz. A reference is made in the scriptures in the book of Ezekiel 3:14
"and; behold, there sat women weeping
for Tammuz"
Semiramis also claimed that a fully grown evergreen tree originated from the dead stomp (the old stomp symbolizes Nimrod), which symbolizes the resurrection of Nimrod. It is also said that every December 25th, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts on it and a serpent wrapped around it.
BABYLON EGYPT
Nimrod Osiris
Semiramis Isis
Tammuz Horus
After the one language been spoken then was disrupted and GOD made the whole world speak in different languages, different names were given to the four as the belief and story of the four spread across the earth in so many languages.
(To be concluded in part 2)
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