Christ's First Advent Ties to Chanukah and Christmas

Armed with much research and the Holy Spirit, God has made something perfectly clear to me: Saturnalia HAS NOTHING TO DO with Christmas, and Christmas Trees are not evil! It's time someone started decrying all the misinformed and brainwashed Christmas-bashers in the Church and the Messianic movement with the REAL facts surrounding Christmas, not the manufactured ones meant to destroy Christian holy traditions. What should be clear to every believer but unfortunately is not is that the constant attacks on Christmas these days are also attacks on Christians and Christianity.

There is plenty of evidence that December 25th was not ever meant to be associated with a Pagan feast day like Saturnalia. On the contrary, this date was likely picked for Gentile believers for several important and valid religious reasons. First of all, December 25th jives well with the Kislev 25 date for the beginning of Chanukah and the 9th Jewish Lunar month of Kislev usually falls in December. Secondly, if Yahshua was born in September of 3 BC as I have virtually proven in my books, the shepherds likely found the infant Yahshua in a Sukkot booth, NOT in a dirty manger in a smelly animal pen. Nonetheless, Yahshua´s real FIRST ADVENT was likely not on Rosh Hashanah or during the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot, but sometime during the week of Chanukah!

This can be logically proven. For example, there are 280 days or 9 months and 10 days in the average cycle of human gestation. Furthermore, the Sign in the Heavens announcing Yahshua's imminent birth described in Revelation 12:1-2 of the Woman clothed with the Sun is an allegorical reference to the Sun being in the center of the sign of Virgo, and this sign appeared on the horizon on September 11th, 3 BC, when the Messiah planet Jupiter was in conjunction with the king star Regulus in the sign of Leo, the Lion of Judah. Since this was a sign of Yahshua´s imminent birth, He was likely born shortly thereafter during the Feast of Sukkot or Tabernacles beginning on the night of September 25th that year. However, Yahshua was most likely conceived around December 15th in 4 BC, which was the first day of Chanukah that year. Therefore, since conception is the TRUE beginning of life, NOT birth, Yahshua our "Immanuel" or "God With Us" truly came to be with us around the time of Chanukah, not on Rosh Hashanah or Sukkot/Tabernacles.

When carefully read, the Scriptures coupled with Sacred Astronomy also make it clear that there is a double tie-in with Yahshua's birth narratives and Chanukah. This is because the Scriptures clearly say that the Wise Men likely found Yahshua in Bethlehem living in a house with his earthly mother and father when he was a young child or toddler, and this would have been at least a year after he was born. Furthermore, the Star of Bethlehem may have been the Messiah planet Jupiter in a spectacular conjunction with Mars, Mercury and the Morning Star Venus between the Zodiac signs Leo and Virgo on August 27th, 2 BC.

Fascinatingly, Virgo was considered to be the first sign of the Zodiac in ancient times, not Aries, thereby making Leo the last sign of the Zodiac. This means that any conjunction between these two signs is suggestive of Yahshua as the First (Virgo) and the Last (Leo). Therefore, this August 27th, 2 BC conjunction may have been the final heavenly sign among many preceding signs that triggered the Magi, who were Sacred Astronomers, to leave Persia and travel to Judea. The journey between Judea and Persia took about three months on average by caravan, and this would have placed the Magi in Bethlehem around December 25th in 2 BC. This would have been the second day of Chanukah that year according to Jewish records and Astronomy, since the Moon was on the 26th day of its cycle on December 25th on the Julian calendar, which also made it the 25th of Kislev that year.

Interestingly, the nine days of Chanukah always begin on the 25th of Kislev while the twelve days of Christmas always begin on December 25th and Kislev usually always falls in December. So it would have been natural for Paul and the other Apostles and disciples attempting to lead the many Gentile saints within the Greco-Roman culture to associate Yahshua´s birth narrative stories with December 25th, the Greco-Roman date most closely meshing with the 25th of Kislev beginning of Chanukah. After all, these converts to Christianity were not becoming Torah-observant Jews when they accepted Yahshua. They were entering into a New Covenant of Grace similar to but better than the Covenant that God unconditionally made with Abraham, who was a Gentile who loved Yahweh God and followed Him before any Jews even existed.

So you see, there is really no problem with Christmas or traditional Protestant Christianity. There is, however, a BIG problem with the persistent lies and misinformation being used to attack Christmas coming from both rabidly Antichristian Messianics and misled Christians who don't know the facts or are being presented with the incorrect facts and then passing on these lies.

Armed with the TRUTH, I have no problem saying MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone who shares my love of Christ at this time of year! To make my point even further, here are links to two articles I've written that explain how I came to understand that December 25th is truly holy unto Yahweh God and His Son and not a Pagan feast at all:

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Where is Christ in Christmas?

In this essay, Helena carefully shows how many Christmas symbols are not truly Pagan at all, and how these symbols can be reclaimed for Christ. Helena also shows that, though Christmas has an undeniable connection to the autumn Feast of Sukkot or Tabernacles, it also celebrates Chanukah, which always begins on the 25th of Kislev and Yahshua was likely conceived and hence truly came to be with us during Chanukah of 4 BC. Kislev 25 has a natural connection to December 25th that can´t be denied, and it is likely that the Wise Men discovered the already toddler-aged Yahshua in a house in Bethlehem on that very day, which was also the second day of Chanukah in 2 BC. Therefore, this article shows that, for a Christian to celebrate Christmas in the traditional manner, they are not forsaking Christ for a lie! Instead, they are keeping a tradition with Biblical and Sacred Astronomical support.

http://pillar-of-enoch.com/essays/index.html#Xmas

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Excerpt from "The Language of God in the Universe" - The Divine Timing Of The Celestial Signs At Christ´s Birth and Their Ties to Sukkot, Tabernacles, Chanukah and Christmas

Though this supplement is now included in all editions of "The Language of God in the Universe" printed after January 2008, it compliments and enhances the information shared in older editions, and offers a sizable peek into the amazing contents of this book. This supplement discusses the heavenly signs at Christ's birth in much greater detail than the original book, as well as the origin of the Magi, and their purpose for visiting Christ. It also shows Zodiac tie-ins of the heavenly signs at Christ's birth with several major Jewish Feast Days, and contains new illustrations not shown in the book prior to 2008.

http://pillar-of-enoch.com/essays/index.html#Birth

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Read these illustrated, heavily researched articles to learn that those attacking Christmas are doing so with subtle as well as blatant lies rather than the truth, which is not meant to enslave us but to set us free to be true disciples of the Messiah.