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Christmas Greetings 2008
A blessed Christmas to all of you! Welcome back to you who have been visiting and to our new visitors, ...WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!! Doesn't it feel great to know that you are welcomed? Just to say that with sincere enthusiasm to someone can potentially change his or her life.
A popular Christmas song happily croons that this is the most wonderful time of the year. When one considers our current world situation, national challenges, and personal lives' problems, we may question the truth of that. The Holy Bible tells us in Hosea 4:6 that God's people are destroyed because of lack of knowledge. Many do not celebrate December 25th because they know that it was not the birthday of Jesus Christ as westerners usually think of a birthday. Regretfully, their ignorance of eastern ways of thinking and legalism excludes them from participating in one of the most wonderful times of the year. Other people suffer memories of past hurtful holiday seasons which blight the current one.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church reports that by the end of the 5th Century, most of the Western Church had adopted the 25th of December as the birth of Christ but that date has never been universally accepted. It is actually the date pagans celebrated the rebirth of the sun. At that time in history, many compromises were being made in the Church for political gain and peace at all costs.
Theologians tell us precisely what time of the year this happened. Luke I: 39-tells us, " Now at this time Mary arose and went with haste to the hill country, to a city of Judah and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And it came about, that when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit." Baby John the Baptist responded to the presence of Jesus. See Insights : The Original Person's Surviving Coping Mechanism.
According to theologians' calculations, since Mary conceived Jesus by the Holy Spirit when Elizabeth was in the sixth month of her pregnancy, the Incarnation would have been in December. Life begins at conception. Our Lord Jesus lived in the east. The Bible is Jerusalem centered. Even today, a Chinese birthday is calculated at conception, not the day the child come from the mother's body.
Isn't it interesting to think that is around the time of Hanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights? December is when the Light of the World came to dwell among us! A well researched article by Christine Darg in her fall 2008 "Exploits Newsletter " so aptly states, " Therefore it is likely that at Hanukah, the Feast of Dedication, the Son of God, who existed before all things, dedicated himself to be our Atoning Sacrifice and took flesh to be incarcerated for nine months in a virgin's womb." The true western thinking birthday would put the nativity around September-October during the time of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. See Articles: The Genuine Christmas.
People who have grown up in agonizing poverty may still suffer the conditioning of the pain of want and need, especially at this time of year. Watching other children joyfully play with their new toys, sport their new clothes or show off their gifts of electronic amazement often indelibly write on the heart of a child, that "tis the season of hurt and deprivation rather than to be jolly".
Those whose families usually ended up partying too much and swooned with stupidity, rage or brutality on the holidays also marked this season as a negative, rather the something to be greatly entered into with great anticipation and hope.
There are people who worship Satan and who practice the occult. When life experiences teach us that we cannot trust people, we usually look for power to give us a sense of security. We usually commit ourselves to something because of what it will do for us and we believe in it. Obviously, some people find what that fallen angel offers to be attractive. There is a book about The Beautiful Side of Evil by Johanna Michaelsen, which illuminates this. We know that after a given amount of time of being a follower of Satan, people become aware of the truth. The idea of commitment is no longer "voluntary or chosen" but imposed and often done so with threats and acts to assure the member of the validity of the threats. Fortunately some people wisely risk whatever it takes to get free from the mandatory enslavement. Others are forever condemned to the increasing darkness and death in their lives and the lives of their committed families.
Some people were born into the families of followers. Their parents reared their children by the Satanic Bible. The children knew no difference. The children did know that Christmas as other Christian Holidays can be hell on earth for them. The satanic holiday practices are so despicable, profane, evil, torturous and debauched, that to mention them in detail would defile this article's intent. There will be future articles featuring specific helps for holiday anxiety containment and management. Amazingly, many people do not know that something they did involved them in this satanic culture. They may be ignorant of the fact that their family or past generations were involved and now the commitments ancestors made on their progeny's behalf are afflicting them. They complain of paranormal experiences, increased trouble sleeping, bizarre fears or reactions to the flashing decorative lights, the abundance of the color 'red' and mostly the aura of unidentifiable fear which at times clutches at their stomach at this time of year.
Those of you who are survivors of satanic ritual abuse will do well to pay attention to the "cause" of some of the fears and log them for referencing when working with your therapist.
I hope and pray that all of you can freely and happily celebrate the reason for the season and experience it as the most wonderful time of the year without the trappings of old hurts and the resurgence of pain from long ago. At least, if some of the negative does surface, you are in the " know" to pay attention to the situations, log them and begin the productive journey to discover the roots, apply the Healing Process and end at freedom. For this we can indeed be extremely grateful and happy.
A blessed Christmas,
Sandra
**Biblical references are taken from the Ryrie Study Bible
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