Yeshua’s birthday

Xmas is very important to Christians all though it is not mentioned in the New Testament and first believers did not celebrate it. Actually they did not even know a feast called Xmas – not until the 4th century BC. In history Xmas is first mentioned in a Roman calendar AD 354. In that calendar the birth day of Jeshua is united whit the birth day of Sol Invictus, Invincible Sun, on 25th of December. It was not until c. 200 that Church Fathers Clement of Alexandria and Hippolytus of Rome suggested that Yeshua was born on the  25th of December.

This very day has also been the birth day of Baal, Nimrod, Tammuz, Mithra, Horus, Isvara, Bacchus, Iacchus, Adonis, Attis, Zarathustra, Marduk, Kronos, Poseidon, Acca Larentia and Thor. The birth day of the Roman emperor was celebrated on that day too, whether he was born on that dayor not.

How does Yeshua fit in that crowd?  What has been the spirit working in these clergymen, that they could place Yeshya in a crowd like that?

God warns about uniting the Biblical with the Pagan: “Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness? What agreement has Messiah with Beliya`al? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?  What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, ‘I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people'” (2 Cor. 6:14-18).

According to the Scriptures it is quite obvious that Jeshua was not born in winter but at autumn in the month Tishrei (September-October). The precise date is not known.

Xmas seems to be deeply instilled into the hearts of many and even if they understand its pagan nature they still try to mold it to be somehow holy in order to be able to still celebrate it in some manner.

Celebration of Jeshua’s birthday is an invention of Roman 4th century anti-Semitic replacement theology. Xmasis one of the festivals that
replaced the God given Appointed times (Lev. 23) that were rejected.

Concerning the festivals believers ought to hold on to the Scriptures – not to add anything in Scriptures. First believers did not celebrate Jeshua’s birth day and it is not mentioned in the New Testament as a festival, not even related to Succot festival, as is not mentioned the time of Jeshua’s possible conception during Chanukkah.

Because the Apostles did not emphasize those things there no need for us to do that either.

Moshe Zew