For years it pained me to know this information and yet love Christmas carols rich with adoration for the Holy One, the True Holy One, Jesus our Messiah! In time, I would learn to trump the enemy at his own game, just as the Lord does, and completely exploit the pagan days of Easter and Christmas to expounded on the deeper truths they replaced.
The name Easter means Astra, the female goddess, rooted in Babylon's Semiramis) and Christmas means, Christ-mass which is celebrated on Tammuz, her "deified son's birthday. Stomach turning paganism! However, though this was a strategy of the enemy to defile, Christmas (the celebration of the birth of Christ) and Easter (the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ) are the two most attended days of worship in the Christian faith. God always trumps the enemy!
By and large, present Christendom is not confused about Who they are celebrating at Christmas and Easter, but we are confused about the origin and titles of the neopaganism they represent. We should caution ourselves with the resurgence of neopaganism, especially in the religious inclusiveness of Universalism and Emergents under the disguise of a Cosmic Christ! Or the opposite, of people sporting Christian fig-leaves with a right by might, yet far removed from God and a heart to be pure and undefiled -- just as the Germans did when following Hitler.
In accord with the pattern that we have now seen (Nimrod and Semiramis, Jezebel and Ahab, Antiochus IV and now Constantine and Theodora), it should not surprise us that Constantine had an aversion to the Jews.
In fact, at his famed Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which met in Bithynia, Turkey (as an effort to architect the religious creed that would authorize his government), out of the leadership of 318 bishops that attended, not one Jew was either invited or crashed the party!
That was not by accident, because Constantine himself said, “We should have nothing in common with Jews.” This new Roman, exclusively Gentile, Church campaign began with all-inclusive, prescript of antisemitic Jew-hate talk! He believed Jews to be Christ killers and that they should be eradicated completely from any church. How convenient to get rid of the fellas who really knew the truth that could expose their neopaganism! Yep, Christians sporting a Judeo-Christian fig leaf, were easily and effortlessly hijacked!
And by that, he hijacked the New Testament doctrines that are fulfillments of the Old Testament, and replaced them with pagan holidays and practices.
Constantine claimed that he was given a vision of a cross to put on all his military shields to conquer through. This was his global marketing brand campaign to launch his new world order. Constantine’s Roman Catholic Church, by declaration of creed, had legal authority to enforce his religious and governmental policies through military power.
This authorization of power was the basis for endless abuses within the Roman Catholic Church and an ever increasing network of corruption. No doubt, Satan grinned behind the cross-bearing shields as gross monstrosities were done through the imagery of the cross and the Name of Christ. The Church that the Apostle Paul wrote his epistles to, instructing them to respect and expect the restoration of the Jewish people, was now hijacked and murdering the Jews en masse. It would be unbelievable, if history wasn’t soaked in blood stained facts.
When Jesus died on the cross, the veil in the Temple was torn from top to bottom, but when the Roman Catholic Church separated from her Jewish roots, the veil went back up from bottom to top in theology!
By the 5th Century, there were over 500 translations of the Scriptures throughout the world and by the 6th Century there was only ONE, the Vulgate Latin! The Vulgate Latin was an archaic, unused language and was chosen for the sole purpose of concealing the truth from the masses and taken out of the hands of the public. The root meaning for the word vulgate is vulgar - hmm, isn’t that interesting!
The Catholic Church came up with some exploiting goofy stuff that very effectively controlled the populace through guilt and shame, such as: purgatory, a deceased loved one who was doomed to hell’s fires unless their soul was purchased from the flames; indulgences, a buck for small sin, two bucks for big sin and a special deal for those who can pay with a wink at their priest; confession, no worries, no need for public accountability to your family or community - do your dirty deed, just make sure you confess to the priest and leave a buck at the door.
Satan successfully hijacked the deep desire in Man to be good, dominated them through their guilt and shame and made them pay! It was and is an absurd mockery of the full payment of the Blood of Jesus for all Mankind.