No one knows the real birthday of Jesus. But one thing is for sure. It is not on December 25. Several facts point to the actual birth of Jesus taking place in October. Humanity glosses over a lot of facts when it wants to believe something that is not true, but popular especially if it is based on tradition or political and/or religious indoctrination of today.
Let us look at the facts. At the time of the birth of Jesus, when that big new star was shining bright in the sky, shepherds were out in the fields, watching their flocks by night. Shepherds were able to keep their flocks of sheep out in the fields on both days and nights during the summer and into the early autumn months, until the rainy season began.
They went by the Jewish months in the Torah. The rainy season was called Heshvan, in what is now autumn. When the winter months arrived, it was too cold with frost and snow to keep the sheep out in the fields. Neither shepherds, nor sheep, were not out in the fields during the winter.
Remember that the reason for Mary and Joseph to go to Bethlehem, as this bible story is told, was to register for the census. It was to be the first registration of people of the earth of its kind. Caesar Augustus was portrayed to have sent out a decree for all the inhabited earth to be registered. Even the Syrian Governor Quirinius was said to be interested in the outcome.
According to this story, everyone belonging to the house of David had to register in Bethlehem. This census would not have taken place in the winter when the roads would have been treacherous with ice and snow. However, other than the bible, history does not have a record of such a census.
So why was the religious celebration of the birth of Jesus put on December 25?
The decision to put the birth of Jesus on December 25, the Iranian god Mithra’s (their sun god’s) birthday, was to Christianize it, if there is such a thing. The drunkenness and debauchery of revelry and gift giving celebrations of Saturnalia was simply too much to ask to give up.
The original Saturnalia week-long festival was established by none other than Nimrod of Babylonian fame. Nimrod was also thought to personify Mithra. You might recognize Nimrod’s wife as Ishtar, pronounced “Easter.” She was thought to be the embodiment of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of nature who self-dubbed herself as “Semiramis, Night Goddess of the Moon.”
Both Nimrod and Ishtar began the ungodly celebrations. They also created popular new customs that became instantly popular, like cutting down evergreen trees and decorating them with silver and gold ornaments, putting up wreaths and mistletoe, and Yule logs.
Sound familiar?
At the time of the birth of Jesus, approximately 6-4 BCE, people did not want to give up these popular customs, except for the child-sacrificing part which required them to sacrifice their first-born son in their so-called “sacred fire” to the god Mithra.
As time progressed, they also included celebrating the god of sowing and harvest, whose name was Saturn, which was celebrated on December 17 (in today’s calendar).
This is the famous week-long Saturnalia Festival. Nimrod expanded the celebrating time between December 17-25 as a time of unbridled revelry, anything goes, wild parties, drunken orgies, decadent food, and, of course, his fear-based sacrificing their first-born children to the fire so they, the parent, would reach enlightenment. It was also a power-play of fear to obey Nimrod. If they did not sacrifice their first-born child, they were made to “walk through the fire” themselves.
What kind of “god” would require this horrible tradition?
When the Roman government wanted to rule over the entire world, it was decided to put the celebration of the birth of Jesus on Mithra’s feast day, December 25, as a way to entice new Christians to switch over to belief in Jesus, instead of celebrating Mithra as the “sun god.” They thought they could trade the “sun god,” for the “Son of God.”
However, all of the customs and traditions that celebrate the god Mithra, remain to this day, like the famous “Ishtar,” pronounced as “Easter” eggs and celebrations in the spring.
All of the other religious holiday traditions likewise replaced secular feast days and celebrations, like the Spring and Fall Equinoxes and the Summer and Winter Solstice celebrations.
Many Christians today are taking a closer look at Christmas as the “reason” to celebrate the birth of Jesus. If Christians truly believe that Jesus is the “reason for the season,” then we ought to be celebrating the birth of Jesus when he was actually born, in October, not on a false, pagan god holiday, complete with all of the false God’s customs and traditions, on December 25.
This Babe, the Christ child named Jesus, came to inform humanity that the Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is the Light of God animating the Spirit and Soul of every human being on the planet. Like all things, all energy can be used for good or used for bad purposes. How humanity deals with all life issues are both sides of the same coin.
Use your free will to choose faith, hope and love in action or choose despair, fear, and cruelty. The choice is yours. What you focus on grows.
This is the Christ Eternal Universal Life Force Energy he came to share. It invokes a metanoia of the heart, from the seed of Nimrod’s inclination (a seedling remnant of Nephilim genealogy) to the Christ Energy illumination which this New-Born Babe later taught in his life’s example.
Was the world ready to hear this back then?
Is the world ready to hear this now?
The words of Jesus were conveniently changed to “among you” for a few centuries, changing the meaning of the words of Jesus, but all bibles are currently correcting this error, in Luke 17:20-21.
Have you ever asked yourself why there are so many Christian and Roman Catholic Churches in every city and state in the world?
As mentioned earlier, the Roman government wanted to rule the world. The bishops at the Council of Laodicea had to get their changes also approved by the Roman Emperor. It was not merely a religious consideration. Today we would call this the union of church and state. My book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS goes into detail about exactly how this happened.
There is much that has been misunderstood about the life of Jesus, including what has been neatly omitted from modern bibles, which does appear in the hidden scriptures found at Nag Hammadi and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Books of Enoch hold such pearls of wisdom.
Some groups wanted to preserve those poignant words of Jesus, like the Cathars. Hiding these words of enlightenment would preserve them until the time came for them to be understood by humanity.
Other groups in power did not want the empowering words of Jesus to continue to spread. It is understandable why certain religious and political groups wanted to suppress the words of Jesus from his ages 12 to 30. This is one of the reasons for the Crusades, which paint the extreme measures religious and political leaders went to silence those who believed all the words of Jesus.
There is so much more for us to know than the convenient stories that have repeated on an infinity loop since what has been taught since sixth grade. This is exactly why I wrote, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS. This is the first book in this 2024 INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARDS in the SOCIAL CHANGE category trilogy.
Read this book if you want to learn more about accurate history found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, 52 mostly Gnostic treatises, 3 works belonging to Corpus Hermeticum, and a partial translation of Plato’s Republic. It was discovered that these codices may have once belonged to a nearby Pachomian monastery.
Religious censorship prohibited humanity from learning empowering knowledge that would have advanced historical knowledge for nearly 2,000 years. Since 367 AD Athanasius preferred humanity only know the first 12 years of the life of Jesus and his last 3 years, for a total of 15 years, while burying the other 18 years of the life of Jesus.
It is unconscionable that humanity has been kept in the constrictive bounds of grammar school knowledge concerning the life of Jesus. I wrote IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS so humanity can finally learn all that Jesus taught, not only the sanitized and manipulating version that places the flocks of religions and political groups under the controlling thumb of oppression, fear, obligation, guilt, and threats to their immortal Spirits/Souls.
It is time to come out of Plato’s allegorical cave of ignorance. Give yourself a special Christmas present and learn all that Jesus Christ came to teach you.
It is all explained in my new book, available at:
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