1. Bad moment. You may already know that the winter solstice was celebrated as the birth of Tammuz, conceived by Semiramuz and Nimrod (Google). The shepherds were not “dwelling in the fields” in winter. Biblical clues support the birth of Christ in the fall at the Feast of Tabernacles. It is an 8 day commemoration of Israel’s sojourn in the desert which also fits Christ’s “tabernacle” with us. Described in Leviticus 23, it had a special focus on the 1st and 8th day. From a Christian point of view, Christ was born the first and was circumcised on the eighth day as every Jewish boy was.
2. Bad luggage. A fifth grade student asked his teacher what Jeremiah meant: “Do not learn the way of the pagans… The customs of the people are vain… One cuts down a tree from the forest… They adorn it with silver and with gold.” Jeremiah 10:2-4. The only birthday celebrations in the Bible were bad events. John the Baptist was beheaded at Herod’s birthday celebration and a baker was hanged on Pharaoh’s birthday. Maybe we should stop celebrating ourselves. Children can have healthy self-esteem without an ego trip that makes them self-centered and the focus of everything.
3. Incorrect identification. The name of Jesus is false! There was no letter “J” in Greek or Hebrew, so it cannot be correct. Christ gave us an important clue when he said: “I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.”

   If the Father’s name was Zeus, then they say the name of Christ right in Italy when they pronounce it as “Yes Zeus” (Iesous). In Latin America they pronounce it as “Hey Zeus”. We say Gee Zus. But the name of the Father was not Zeus, the god of Greek mythology who saved everyone without the need for repentance. God saves, but we must be willing to repent.

   Philosophically, Jesus fills the bill of billions of people who mystically want to be saved, but have no interest in repenting of their works; it is human nature to like our sins. The cross means acknowledging ourselves dead to sin and alive for Christ, totally alien to too many “Christians”!

   Support for the above concept is found in Acts 13:6,8 where Bar-jesus means sorcery. “Bar” means son of—so Jesus is the son of sorcery. To understand how this name entered the Bible as the name of the Savior, we should ask the Jesuits. His name means the Society of Jesus and the Vatican, a word meaning “divining serpent”, he worships Lucifer as the father of Jesus, http://vimeo.com/85267101 To better understand the true name of Christ, visit http: // en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshua_(name)

So what do we do? We cannot live in a vacuum. We should replace the “bad” above with what is good. The Feast of Tabernacles (and all the “appointed times” of Leviticus 23) were not only commemorative but prophetic and therefore instructive to us. Israel not only left Egypt to live in booths or tents in the desert, but the Apostle Paul said: “All these things happened to them as examples and are written for our admonition, on whom the end of the world has come.” 1 Corinthians 10:1,11.

Regarding the end times, Paul said: The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night, with sudden destruction… as the work of a pregnant woman. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6. We should be expecting a sudden calamity as a pretext for (military) martial law and loss of freedom. This is probably what Christ meant when he warned us to flee when we see the abomination “being where it should not be”, Mark 13:14

“Standing where you shouldn’t” is what we see with SWAT teams breaking down gates and checkpoints so that one can no longer travel without “show me your papers” (Nazi Germany). We are not far from it, and Christ said to flee. Those who don’t can become subjects of the Novus Ordo Seclorum (New Order of the Ages, words under the pyramid on our $1 bill). Fleeing to rural places will not be easy, so perhaps we should give it some thought before events take us by surprise, as the Scriptures imply for most…