14 FAITH IN ACTION
THE
MEANING
BEHIND
CHRISTMAS
In order to speak about Christmas, we must go back to the time of Noah, after the
flood, when Ham, one of his sons, saw him sleeping drunk and naked. He laughed at
his father and ran to tell his other two brothers, Shem and Japheth.
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nstead of laughing, they walked back towards their father
and covered his naked body. Once he learned about what
had happened, Noah cursed his son Ham so that he and
his descendants would serve his two other children, and every
generation after him was cursed.
Ham married Semiramis (this is the woman on the 1, 2, 5, 10, 20,
50 and 100 Reais – the Brazilian currency, the Statue of Liberty,
Lady Justice, the woman from Columbia Pictures, etc.), and
they had a son, Nimrod. He killed his father, Ham, and married
his mother.
He was the founder of Babylon, Nineveh and other pagan
cities. He tried to build the tower of BABEL, and GOD
stopped him.
His uncle Shem killed him because he was opposing God too
much. Semiramis, his wife and mother, spread a lie and said
that he had not died but had in fact gone to heaven since he
called himself the sun-god.
Semiramis fell pregnant and claimed it to be a gift from the
gods, the reincarnation of Nimrod when, in fact, it was the
result of a betrayal, since her husband and son was already
dead. And Tammuz was born on the 25th of December, the
sun-god of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Persians,
and Romans.
He died during a hunting trip, probably killed by a wild animal,
and his body was found slumped over a rotten tree trunk. His
mother said that a pine tree sprouted from the rotten trunk,
and every year, on the 25th of December, it was common for
people to take a pine tree home and decorate it with gold
and silver, as a symbol of the rebirth of Tammuz.
The priestesses fasted and wept for 40 days and 40 nights over
the death of Tammuz at the foot of the pine tree, and once
finished, they thanked each other by exchanging gifts, which
were placed at the foot of the pine tree. Every year, on the 25th
of December, Christmas was celebrated (the birth of Tammuz).
When the Persians dominated this region, they took all of their
idols back to Persia, including the gods Tammuz, Nimrod and
Semiramis, and simply changed their names. The Greeks soon
gained power and they did the same thing by changing their
names. They became Zeus, Aphrodite and Eros.
However, during the times of Jesus Christ, Rome was in power,
and the Romans also changed these names. They became
known as Venus and Cupid because the father figure was
dropped. During the fourth century after Christ, Emperor
Constantine decided to honour Christianity to please the
large numbers of Christians who were in Rome, making it
the official religion of Rome. To please them even more, he
took the strongest names from Christianity and gave the idols
Christian names.
Semiramis and Tammuz became known the baby Jesus and
Virgin Mary. As a result, Christmas is still being celebrated as
the birth of baby Jesus when, in fact, this boy was Tammuz, a
pagan god.