Xmas Trees It was an early Babylonian custom to go out and place a gift on a tree at the winter solstice (Dec. 25th) as an offering to Tammuz/Nimrod, who was after his death, believed to be the sun. In ancient Babylon these gifts were placed in the groves on the winter solstice.
The "Christmas trees" represented Nimrod to the ancient sun-worshipers (Jer. 10:2-5), and sunrise worship services involving "branches" were even found in Ezek. 8:17, where the priests turned toward the sun with their backs to Yahweh's Temple.
Many Pagan cultures used to cut boughs of evergreen trees in December, move them into the home or temple, and decorated them, often with gold balls. Modern-day Pagans still do. The evergreen trees came to symbolize the everlasting life and resurrection power of the god they worshiped, who originally was Nimrod.
He came to be incorporated into many cultures under different names. So the evergreen tree became representative of Nimrod the sun-god himself and it was a form of worship and veneration of the sun-god to take it into one's home and place gifts to him at it's base. Hence the tradition of placing gifts at the base of this altar to the sun-god. Putting tinsel around the tree comes from the practice of tying a ribbon around the tree as a prayer to the sun.
A similar practice referred to in scripture was raising an obelisk (a phallic symbol) next to a tree as an altar for the god represented by the tree. This was called an asherah (pillar) and was forbidden to God's people. Deut 7: 5; 16:21; Jer.10:2-4
The Asherim were considered altars, where animals and humans were ritually sacrificed. This altar was often a tree stump, with the trunk snapped-off, leaving jagged spike-like splinters. The Christmas tree phenomenon is also a type of altar, where gifts and offerings are placed.
The solstice tree is drawn directly from the Pagan worship, rendered for public consumption. Tree worship is the most prominent feature, however the serpent gets involved also. It seems that the adversary has the tree and the serpent seared into "his" mind indelibly. A serpent around a stump is one of the symbols we find used in ancient Pagan religions. The Tree of Life (ets chayim) and the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil may be the sources this fallen being is borrowing from in the design of the false worship.
Wreaths Garlands of greenery were also hung on the doors of homes as emblems of the sun. Every good sun-worshiper had a round wreath on the door of their home. The use of holly and of making wreaths of laurel branches twisted into a circle was a symbol of the sun. Nimrod was associated with greenery who was worshiped as the sun idol after he was slain and the wreaths made into round solar shapes were emblems of him. Everyone exchanged gifts, and drunken partying was everywhere.
The color RED was also symbolic for the sun, bringing to mind HEAT. That is the reason for the combination of green and red in the "Christmas" theme.
The Birthday of Nimrod and Tammuz and the Rebirth of the Sun (Christmas)
The origin of Christmas has been and continues to be exposed for its true original roots:
"Nimrod started the great organized worldly apostasy from God that has dominated this world until now. Nimrod married his own mother, whose name was Semiramis.
After Nimrod's death, his so-called mother-wife, Semiramis, propagated the evil doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a spirit being. She claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump, which symbolized the springing forth unto new life of the dead Nimrod. On each anniversary of his birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. December 25th, was the birthday of Nimrod. This is the real origin of the Christmas tree."
-The Plain Truth About Christmas
by David J. Stewart
"Traditionally, a yule log was burned in the fireplace on Christmas Eve and during the night as the log's embers died, there appeared in the room, as if by magic, a Christmas tree surrounded by gifts. The yule log represented the sun-god Nimrod and the Christmas tree represented himself resurrected as his own son Tammuz."
-- After Armageddon - Chapter 4 Where do we get our ideas?
by John A. Sarkett
The actual identity of �Santa Clause� is Nimrod himself and the X-mas Tree is a memorial to him. We see Nimrod in a long white beard clearly pictured with a �Christmas Tree� and even a reindeer as early as 2000 BC, yes TWO THOUSAND YEARS before �Christianity� was ever created:
Nimrod started the great organized worldly apostasy from God that has dominated this world until now. Nimrod married his own mother, whose name was Semiramis.
After Nimrod's death, his so-called mother-wife, Semiramis, propagated the evil doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a spirit being. She claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump, which symbolized the springing forth unto new life of the dead Nimrod. On each anniversary of his birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. December 25th, was the birthday of Nimrod. This is the real origin of the Christmas tree
Traditionally, a yule log was burned in the fireplace on Christmas Eve and during the night as the log's embers died, there appeared in the room, as if by magic, a Christmas tree surrounded by gifts. The yule log represented the sun-god Nimrod and the Christmas tree represented himself resurrected as his own son Tammuz.
-- After Armageddon - Chapter 4 Where do we get our ideas?
In paganism this is what is known as the winter solstice, which falls on December 21st ----when the earth is the furthest away from the sun. On December 24th, the earth begins to rotate back around the sun and comes closer to the sun. But the pagans did not know this in earlier times before science and telescopes. These pagans in Babylon thought that the sun died on December 21st and then it began to resurrect on the eve of December 24th and then it made it�s full rebirth on December 25th. They believed this to be the birthday of Nimrod or Baal the Sungod.
Using astrology as her guide, Semiramis became pregnant on around March 25th (9 months from December 25th), and then she concocted a legend for the Babylonian people telling them that on December 21st, Nimrod dies each year, but then on December 25th Nimrod is born-again as the sun-god or Ba�al. Hence, on December 25th the sun-god is celebrated around the world with many different names.
Semiramis told the Babylonians that she had become the goddess of the moon and the sky and that Nimrod was being reincarnated in her womb as Ba�al the sun-god on December 25th. She told the Babylonians that Nimrod impregnated her with the rays of the sun supernaturally and Nimrod re-incarnated himself as her new son Tammuz on December 25th.
Her new son was named Tammuz according to Ezekiel 8:14 or generically he was called Ba�al (which means Lord or husband). Each year on Tammuz�s birthday on December 25th, the pagans were ordered by Semiramis to go into the groves (forests) and placed a gift on a tree to honor Nimrod who was cut down like a tree. They were also ordered to cut down an everygreen tree, take it into their homes and decorate it with silver and gold balls to symbolize Nimrod�s [censored].
Trees and branches became symbols of Nimrod because Nimrod was cut down by Shem, the son of Noah who placed a bounty hunt on his life. The book of Jasher tells us that it was Esau (the son of Jacob) who actually killed Nimrod. Hence, a tree stump became a place of honoring him, as the scriptures speak of the pagans going into the groves or the forest and cutting down a tree, decorating it, and propping it up so that it will not totter. �
In paganism this is what is known as the winter solstice, which falls on December 21st ----when the earth is the furthest away from the sun. On December 24th, the earth begins to rotate back around the sun and comes closer to the sun. But the pagans did not know this in earlier times before science and telescopes. These pagans in Babylon thought that the sun died on December 21st and then it began to resurrect on the eve of December 24th and then it made it�s full rebirth on December 25th. They believed this to be the birthday of Nimrod or Baal the Sungod.
