What is Christ's-mass?
by Pastor Don Elmore
June 8, 2013
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 17:1-5
These five verses of Scripture tells us that for an Israelite, the covenant said that serving and worshipping other gods, one of which was the sun-god, was an abomination to God and the penalty for a person caught doing such a thing was death by stoning. I am happy that this was not true in the United States, for I would be nothing more than a crumbled up mess of broken bones; because I served and worshipped the sun-god for about 2/5 of my life time; maybe even a little bit more. I was totally ignorant of what I was doing. I was deceived.
And, even after I told my friends and family that I no longer would exchange gifts with them, I still participated in the family gatherings and watched as family members exchanged gifts with one another, ate the Christmas meal with them (but refused to eat ham), and watched the football bowl games on television. I did not convince any of them that keeping Christmas was wrong; except my sister and her husband at a later date.
It was not a “Merry Christmas” for me during those days. What had me in a state of confusion was that I knew where Christmas began, but I thought Catholics were Christians! In fact, I even thought that her daughters (Protestants) were Christians too. Maybe some of them, over one hundred years ago were, but it is very hard to find one in today’s deceived mess of theology. Even the Amish and Mennonites of today are a disgrace to their fathers of several centuries ago.
But that is true with a whole range of things in the world today. People do what they think is right and not what it says in the Bible. For example, same-sex marriages are the rage now, for judge after judge is ruling that it is unconstitutional. How can it now be unconstitutional when for over 250 years it was the law and it was constitutional? And doesn’t the Bible teach absolutely against this sin and calls it an abomination of God? God still calls it a major sin.