A Big Change for the Family

12/9/2014

There are big changes happening in our family. The more you draw near to the Lord the more you want nothing of the world and its hypocrisies and lies. This is true for us with the holidays. Amid my time trying to get this website up and running I have been trying to figure out what to do with the holidays. In the last couple of months I have come to realize that the only holiday that does not have pagan (idol worship) roots is Thanksgiving. When I brought this new revelation to my husband he says to me, "Renie, we knew this. This is nothing knew." As I thought back to our earlier years of marriage I remembered him telling me we should not celebrate the holidays and it would be harder to get rid of when we had children. I wished I would have listened to him. The one that is the hardest for me to get over is Christmas. I recently realized (apparently for the second time) that December 25th is the day in which Tammuz's birthday is and is actually celebrating the birth of a false god which in turn is really celebrating the birth of satan. When I watched the videos that shed light on this holiday and many others I was disgusted with myself for being fooled, and thinking that it was ok to celebrate something evil as long as we put a Christian name to it. The Bible tells us in 2Kings 17:33 that Israel worshiped the Lord but "served their own gods" which is one of the reasons that led to the punishment from God and they went into captivity. Reading the chapter you will find out that they celebrated the holidays, or holydays, of the nations around them even to the point of sacrificing their children on the altar, verse 31. I do not want to sacrifice my children on the alter of these pagan holidays so we are making new traditions and casting off the old cankered ones. This is a process and we are still trying to figure things out. If you want to understand us and why we are doing what we are doing you can watch these links. The last video gives you ideas on what to do for alternatives, which was really nice for me. I am choosing not to be ruled by fear and move forward knowing that God is bigger than these holidays and will fill our family with Him as we search for truth and walk by faith.
Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOGFi76b_wE&list=UURXjqorfHKfBn_8CUQw7tmQ

Video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHLPcPy1Nk0&list=UURXjqorfHKfBn_8CUQw7tmQ

May God Bless you,
Renie

4 Comments

SONYA JUTZY

12/9/2014 02:28:37 pm

THERE WAS A GREAT CELEBRATION WHEN JESUS WAS BORN.....YOU KNOW THE STORY....THE ANGELS SANG...THE SHEPARDS CAME....THE WISE MEN ETC. NOW I KNOW THAT JESUS WAS NOT BORN IN DECEMBER BUT IT DOES SEEM TO ME THAT IT IS NOT A BAD THING THAT THE RELIGIOUS WORLD CELEBRATES THE BIRTH OF JESUS. OF COURSE, I DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL THE COMMERCIAL SIDE OF THIS TIME OF YEAR WITH EMPYSIS ON GIFT GIVING ETC. EVEN ELLEN WHITE DID NOT ADVISE TO IGNORE THE HOLIDAY COMPLETELY. THIS IS JUST A FEW THOUGHTS I HAD WHEN I READ YOUR COMMENTS. THINK JESUS, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD......NOT SATAN.....HE CAME AND CONQUERED SATAN AND AM THANKFUL HE IS IN CHARGE NOW!!!
ANOTHER COMMENT....MAYBE YOU COULD ENLARGE THE FONT ON YOUR WEB PAGE....VERY DIFFICULT TO READ SUCH SMALL PRINT.........GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AS YOU STRUGGLE WITH THESE ISSUES. lOVE TO ALL

Renie

12/29/2014 01:31:38 pm

Thanks for the feedback Sonya about the print. This whole website is extremely new to me and I think I figured out how to increase the font. You think it would be easy but some of the tools are preset and it takes a bit to go in and change them. As far as Christmas I have read the quotes in which you are referring to but am moving forward in my walk with Christ based on conviction and truth. I do not have hard feelings towards those that continue in this event. I feel that I would be a hypocrite in telling others to not keep a pagan day holy i.e. Sunday as the Sabbath instead of the true Sabbath (Saturday) yet continue to practice and participate in other pagan holidays. If I am to prepare myself to give the loud cry I need to be laying aside all hypocrisy and follow Christ in all things. The people who justify keeping Sunday holy use the same rational that I find I was using to celebrate Christmas. That is that what does it matter if I am celebrating and worshiping Christ? We know that it does matter. The fact that my family is not celebrating Christmas like the rest of the world does not mean that we do not believe that Jesus conquered satan and that Christ is not in charge. Quite the contrary, I believe Christ is in charged and conquered and He wants us to conquer as well through His Spirit which is why we have the strength to put off the things of the world. Right now it just happens to be Christmas.

Original SDA

12/25/2014 07:46:40 am

Great personal perspective on why not to celebrate Christmas. Many christians already know the 25th December is not really Christ’s birthday, yet they still persist on celebrating the day as a higher spiritual meaning of His birth. Thought… If someone (lets say that person is your arch enemy) gave a celebration for your son’s birthday on a date other than that of his birthday and insisted on celebrating for the mere reason of him being born, but at the same time maligning his character and using the day for his personal agenda you would have great difficulty in accepting such an offer. This is what Satan has deceived the world with, let us not look at the reason for the season but the season itself.

The bible never sanctioned the celebration of Jesus’ birth as a yearly ceremony, Christ’s birth was actually a secret to the world when it occurred in history, only a sincere few were able to recognize the lowly entrance and no pageantry. The angels rejoiced because they knew of the greatness of the incarnation for the salvation of man in that the fullness of time had come for God to tabernacle as a man being born of a woman.

We are to be advancing in the light of God’s word, even if EGW spoke of christmas within the church as a tool to give the gospel message to others, we must rise higher in our spiritual eyesight and look deeper in our research and development as time advance closer to Jesus’s second coming. EGW did not endorse celebration of christmas as a doctrine or did she expect those after her to rest on this position as final. As we grow more in faith, our eye will be open to higher principles of truth that will distance us further away from lies and errors that the arch enemy of the Gospel has brought to the world in the guise of using Jesus’s physical birth as a celebration.

Many SDA will tell you all the facts of why christmas is not the birth day of Jesus, that it was a pagan holiday and even show that the bible condemns the use the evergreen tree as an ornament but yet still they discard all these factual evidence and embrace the fable of Christmas to substantiate what EGW wrote over one hundred years ago. Is it that our faith has not grown from since her time, our separation from all the customs of Rome has not been clearly decided. Are we still in Rome in some things and in the revival in others, are we still undecided in how to live in the world and not be of the world.

On the flip side there are those who explain away these facts as non essential for spirituality and salvation. They tout that its does not matter about these trivial issues but the importance is your relationship with Jesus. Well, we have news for those of that view, these issues does form your relationship with Jesus. Jesus himself states no truth is of a lie, so we cannot partake in celebration that are spawned from lies, especially knowing more about the baleful influence christmas has brought the the world.

I congratulate the author for her stance with her family for rising higher in development to separate from Rome further and further. Continue your efforts to sanctify your life as you prepare for his second coming in the stream of the reformers.

12/30/2014 01:42:57 pm

Thanks for your encouragement and incites. We are all on a journey aren't we. My prayer for those around me is that they are walking towards Christ in whatever manner that He leads them and that I would lead by example. God bless. Renie

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