I am a Mechanic – With God’s help I will fix it! – “Kingdom Booster, and not Kingdom Busters!”

No more Christmas, New Year or Easter!

I meet so many people on social media such as Facebook who claim to want to follow G_D, and yet are busy tearing down the ‘house’ of the faith community world-wide. The big bogy-man is usually the Pope who as head of the Catholic Church, that represents at least half of Christendom –with about a billion Christians followers of the approximately two billion believers in the world today.

These folk say, “Oh, didn’t you know the Pope (and not just this present Pope) is the Anti-Christ? He is to blame for the corruption of a biblically based faith.”

These instructive teachers – did I say ‘instructive teachers?’ – it is much more correct to call them out for who and what they are – destructive teachers, who know better than all of us, are busy exposing the corrupt Catholic, Protestant, and for that matter, Eastern Orthodox Churches. Some even have a go at Messianic, Yeshua-believing Jewish believers, saying that we are not real Jews at all, but Kazar Turks. Yes, this kind of stuff is all out there on the world-wide web.

The blessing and curse of the web – blessing, most definitely, as it is through the web that we have connectivity on a scale like never before and we are able to use this to boot God’s Kingdom world-wide.

Is that not a reason to rejoice? Yes, most certainly!

Notwithstanding, alas due to human depravity, multitudes use the web for destructive purposes – and this includes those demolition agents who get their strokes negatively by causing controversy, discord and are contentious. It is one thing to contend for the ‘truth,’ while it is quite another to cause discord and consternation within the body of Messiah.

What is the significance behind those who want to cancel Christmas? The are a number of reasons that some folk don’t celebrate Christmas, or Xmas, or now as in a secularised society it is called Winter feast. We must carefully consider their reasons, as they are not all negative of motivated by ‘kill-joys.’

Let’s list them and consider each one in turn and I also want us to consider their arguments that are put forward:

First, Jesus wasn’t born on the 25th of December! Well that is perfectly true, as he was probably born in late September, or early October – So what! Does it matter what the correct date is? Blame the Pope if you want to – What utter futile nonsense – Let’s be quite clear the Roman Pontiff does not deny the incarnation and birth of Jesus – belief in the incarnate Son of God is a central tent of the Catholic faith – okay, so you aren’t in amid with all the cultural trappings – it does not matter. I have a confession to make, neither am I that taken up with a lot of the Christmas trimmings, particularly coming from a Jewish heritage. There is also a big plus, I get to celebrate Hanukkah / Feast of dedication as well, which is not totally disconnected to the story of the incarnation of the Son of God – if there had been no Jewish context with a restored Jewish presence in Israel, there would have been no context for Yeshua to be born into.

Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water!

Oops – didn’t mean to do that! Help!

No baby, no nativity, no incarnation, no divine Son of God, and consequently no gift of eternal salvation!

“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” is an idiomatic expression for an avoidable error in which something good or of value is eliminated when trying to get rid of something unwanted. It is a loan translation from the German phrase das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten, literally to empty out the child with the bath, first recorded in 1512.

A slightly different explanation suggests this flexible catchphrase has to do with discarding the essential while retaining the superfluous because of excessive zeal. These two definitions get to the heart of the matter, and therein lies the problem. I observe that those who reject the Christmas concept are generally also those who are weak on emphasising the incarnation of the Son of God – Jesus/ Yeshua!

There is a rather sad song that goes like this…”A mother was bathing her baby…bring back oh, bring back, oh bring back may baby to me, to me!”

New Year has pagan origins – so don’t celebrate it either – real New Year should be in April, or how about the celebration of the Jewish New Year in the seventh month of the year. Israel has three New Years, the secular one on the 1st January; the New Year of Trees and Fruit; and the religious one as explained. If one rejects events like acknowledging the New Year, while it may not have a profound religious impact upon one’s life, it does help to make you into an odd-ball! Get over it, and get on with your life addressing the really important matters of how you best be serving God in the here and now.

New Year if not exactly cancelled – it is postponed as the sign below says.

Easter is also pagan and has been highjacked!

Yes, all that pagan stuff about Asteratae, Easter bunnies, and Easter eggs are unbiblical – very true, but don’t let it block out the most significant Messianic doctrine about the Redemption wrought through the Sacrificial death of Yeshua on the cursed tree/cross/stake!

Don’t forget that Yeshua’s betrayal, trial and death by crucifixion took place at Pesach/ Passover! I am not concerned about all the cultural trappings attached to this time of the year, and while the name

Easter may not be the correct biblical name, yet it is also known as Passion Tide, which recalls the death and then the glorious resurrection of Yeshua – He is alive forever more – Hallelujah!

Encountering This Jewish Jesus: Messianic Jewish Faith and Practice by Roni Mechanic | 27 Aug 2023

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