Tent Revival in Columbus Mississippi April 12th thru 26th 2008 7:00 pm Nightly located on hwy 69 at the Columbus Fair Grounds dont miss this Holy Ghost Explosion! look forward to seeing you there!Check out this video: To God be the Glory
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Add to My Profile | More Videos The Origin Of ChristmasChristmas is a holiday shared and celebrated by many religions.It is a day that has an effect on the entire world.To many people, it is a favorite time of the year involving gift giving, parties and feasting. Christmas is a holiday that unifies almost all of professing Christendom.The spirit of Christmas causes people to decorate their homes and churches, cut down trees and bring them into their homes, decking them with silver and gold.In the light of that tree, families make merry and give gifts one to another.When the sun goes down on December 24th, and darkness covers the land, families and churches prepare for participation in customs such as burning the yule log, singing around the decorated tree, kissing under the mistletoe and holly, and attending a late night service or midnight mass.What is the meaning of Christmas? Where did the customs and traditions originate?You, as a Christian, would want to worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth, discerning good from evil.The truth is that all of the customs of Christmas pre-date the birth of Jesus Christ, and a study of this would reveal that Christmas in our day is a collection of traditions and practices taken from many cultures and nations.The date of December 25th comes from Rome and was a celebration of the Italic god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god.This was done long before the birth of Jesus.It was noted by the pre-Christian Romans and other pagans, that daylight began to increase after December 22nd, when they assumed that the sun god died.These ancients believed that the sun god rose from the dead three days later as the new-born and venerable sun.Thus, they figured that to be the reason for increasing daylight.This was a cause for much wild excitement and celebration. Gift giving and merriment filled the temples of ancient Rome, as sacred priests of Saturn, called dendrophori, carried wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession.In Germany, the evergreen tree was used in worship and celebration of the yule god, also in observance of the resurrected sun god.The evergreen tree was a symbol of the essence of life and was regarded as a phallic symbol in fertility worship.Witches and other pagans regarded the red holly as a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, also known as Diana.The holly wood was used by witches to make wands.The white berries of mistletoe were believed by pagans to represent droplets of the semen of the sun god.Both holly and mistletoe were hung in doorways of temples and homes to invoke powers of fertility in those who stood beneath and kissed, causing the spirits of the god and goddess to enter them.These customs transcended the borders of Rome and Germany to the far reaches of the known world.The question now arises: How did all of these customs find their way into contemporary Christianity, ranging from Catholicism to Protestantism to fundamentalist churches?The word "Christmas"itself reveals who married paganism to Christianity.The word "Christmas" is a combination of the words "Christ" and "Mass.The word "Mass" means death and was coined originally by the Roman Catholic Church, and belongs exclusively to the church of Rome.The ritual of the Mass involves the death of Christ, and the distribution of the "Host", a word taken from the Latin word "hostiall" meaning victim!In short, Christmas is strictly a Roman Catholic word.A simple study of the tactics of the Romish Church reveals that in every case, the church absorbed the customs, traditions and general paganism of every tribe, culture and nation in their efforts to increase the number of people under their control.In short, the Romish church told all of these pagan cultures, "Bring your gods, goddesses, rituals and rites, and we will assign Christian sounding titles and names to them.When Martin Luther started the reformation on October 31st, 1517, and other reformers followed his lead, all of them took with them the paganism that was so firmly imbedded in Rome.These reformers left Christmas intact.In England, as the authorized Bible became available to the common people by the decree of King James the II in 1611, people began to discover the pagan roots of Christmas, which are clearly revealed in Scripture.The Puritans in England, and later in Massachusetts Colony, outlawed this holiday as witchcraft.Near the end of the nineteenth century, when other Bible versions began to appear, there was a revival of the celebration of Christmas.We are now seeing ever-increasing celebrating of Christmas or Yule, its true name, as we draw closer to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!In both witchcraft circles and contemporary Christian churches, the same things are going on.As the Bible clearly states in Jeremiah 10:2-4, "Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen; and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven. For the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain. For one cutteth a tree out of the forest. The work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not."So, what is wrong with Christmas?1. To say that Jesus was born on December 25th is a lie! The true date is sometime in September according to the Scriptures.2. Trees, wreaths, holly, mistletoe and the like are strictly forbidden as pagan and heathen! To say that these are Christian or that they can be made Christian is a lie!3. The Lord never spoke of commemorating his birth but rather commanded us to remember the sacrifice of His suffering and death, which purchased our salvation.Think about it! Can we worship and honor God by involving ourselves with customs and traditions, which God Himself forbade as idolatry? Can we convince God to somehow "Christianize" these customs and the whole pretense and lie of Christmas, so we can enjoy ourselves? Can we obey through disobedience?So what is right about Christmas? 1. Nothing!Greetings in the wonderful NAME of JESUS; The great message of the book of acts is still alive today and the vision even greater the apostle peter in acts chapter 2 verse 14 proclaimed But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. This is the message and vision of this ministry To win the lost and bring forth the unity of the faith in all believers 2008 will be a year of great Harvest for the church our burden for the tent ministry is stronger than ever knowing our lord will soon return. We are currently setting up our 2008 Tent Revival schedule and praying for new locations. If You are your church would like to see a tent revival in your town or city and Preaching Jesus Christ the Same yesterday today and forever with the Gifts of the Sprit in operation and you know of a lot suitable for a 50x125 tent please let us know along with any information you might have about the lot or location I will be looking forward to hearing from you soon!!! Evangelist e Hayes Evangelist Paul Hayes Shechinah Miracle tent crusades
