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The Last "Christ-Mass" As once more we endure the apostacy and the foolishness of the nations in their observance (religious or commercial or both) of the pagan feast of the sun-god, it is beneficial to reflect upon what the end of this fatal abomination will mean to different people. In 'Departure from the Truth' we set out the history of how the Catholic "church" adopted the observance of the "re-birth of the sun" on 25 December (the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere) into its calendar of feasts. It was a useful way to easily transfer the affections of the population without upsetting their everyday lives, and the apostacy took full advantage of it. Edward Gibbon, the historian, wrote that although "Christianity" emerged triumphant over Pagan Rome, it was at the cost of the adoption of many pagan teachings.The most prominent and fatal of these was "immortal souls" from Egypt, "the trinity" from Babylon, and "a fallen angel devil" from Persia."Christ-Mass" day simply added to the bondage of paganism which was laid upon an unsuspecting & largely disinterested population. Their last "Christ-Mass"(alias "sun-god birthday") comes at different times to the various classes of humanity which must suffer under the present intolerable epoch when "the great whore" of Rome owns the allegiance of many millions world-wide and "the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her for- nication" from "the golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication" - Apocalypse (Revelation) 17v1-4. One of these "abominations" is the neo-pagan "Christ-Mass". The language above is taken from Jeremiah 51v7 where we read: "Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad". The Roman "church" is the modern-day "Babylon the Great" Apocalypse 17v5. The word 'Babylon' signifies 'confusion', and it is 'great' because it is world-wide. This apostacy is "the mother of harlots" - her daughters, many of whom would term themselves "protestant", nevertheless still adhere to most Roman heresies. Link to 'Proverbs and Parables in the New Testament' concerning this figure. As stated above, the last of this pagan event will come at different times - & also in different ways - to various people. The ones included are those who will have the opportunity to know, either in their lifetime, or after the resurrection, that they have endured what is for them the last pagan abomination. (Most of humanity die without hope, being ignorant of the Gospel of salvation - link to 'The Mortality of Man'). Those faithful believers who pass to their rest prior to the Lord's return & await the resurrection from the dead. The last pagan festival they need to endure is the one held before they fall asleep in the Lord. Those faithful believers who live until the Lord's return & who will then be delivered from the society which still observes the pagan abomination. As the rule of Christ extends throughout the earth, the observance of the pagan feast will cease coetaneously with His conquests.Some however will cling on tenaciously to their addiction with the sun-god and other pagan teachings which have been promoted for centuries by the Roman harlot and her many "Protestant" daughters. The call will go out to such as will repent: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues"-Apocalypse (Revelation) 18v4.To as many as respond to this appeal the moment they "come out of" Rome will constitute the time when their bondage to sun-god observance will end. Prior to the establishment of the Kingdom of God this pagan abomination (the last "Christ-Mass") will have been finally eradicated from the earth. The population which will live under Christ's righteous rule will be freed from paganism forever. They will be taught truth & righteousness. This page has been created 25 December 2011 in the spirit of Acts 17v16-31. Those who wish to follow out the theme of Christ's coming and world-wide con- quests and dominion can do so by linking to the following pages: go to the Lord's day go to the time of the end go to feasts go to promises return to index |