Sun worship is the hidden root of Christmas and other holidays of the so-called Christian world, which were lifted directly from pagan festivals, often tied to sex, and which Satan has persuaded people to see as honoring the Son of God. The worship traces to Nimrod, Ham's grandson, who was killed, after which his queen Semiramis presented her son as his reincarnation and turned God's patriarchal design into mother-and-child worship. As it spread, Nimrod took names such as Tammuz, Baal, Osiris, Bacchus, and Mithra, and he was eventually deified as a sun god. Confusion between the Chaldean words for "sun" and "seed/son" helped blur sun worship with the promised Child of Isaiah 9:6, a preemptive strike by Satan. Sun gods were said to be born on December 25, the winter solstice, marked by twelve days of drunken orgies. Ezekiel 8 pictures women weeping for Tammuz and men bowing eastward to the sun at the Lord's temple, a vision of the end-time that provokes God to jealousy. When the church re-emerged in the third century, it wholesale appropriated pagan practices: Sunday worship, a December 25 birth celebration, and sun-facing devotion. In Numbers 25, Israel's immorality and feasting with Baal of Peor brought God's command to hang the offenders "out in the sun," a jab at the sun god, and to kill those joined to Baal. Those who celebrate Christmas, especially those who know better, should take this warning seriously.

Christmas was not observed by Christians until about the fourth century. The Romans already celebrated Saturnalia and Brumalia in December as festivals worshipping the sun. Constantine, who worshipped the sun on Sunday, shifted Sabbath keeping to the first day of the week. This made it easier to rename the pagan December 25th winter solstice festival, which celebrated the birth of the sun god, as the birth of the Son of God. The New Catholic Encyclopedia is cited as saying the date was chosen because devotees of Mithra celebrated the "birth of the invincible sun" (Dies Natalis Solis Invicti) then. Aurelian had made the sun god patron of the empire in 274 AD, and in the fifth century the Roman Catholic Church ordered Christ's birth observed on the old feast of Sol. This syncretism of pagan rites with Christian themes makes the whole observance a lie and an abomination. God does not accept worship mixed with pagan custom, as Deuteronomy 12 and the golden calf episode show.

Sun worship is raised as the historical root of Christmas. December 25th has been a focal point of sun-worship for many millennia, and this pagan origin is so well documented that any good encyclopedia will show it. The real question is what business Christians have trying to Christianize something blatantly anti-God from the beginning. God warned ancient Israel against adopting Canaanite practices even under the guise of worshipping Him, and He specifies how He is to be worshipped, forbidding additions to or subtractions from His instructions (Revelation 22:18-19). Nothing in Scripture gives the date of Christ's birth, commands its celebration, or shows the first-century church observing it. Blending pagan customs into worship is therefore idolatry, replacing true worship with a false one, and is the kind of vain worship Christ condemned when people teach the commandments of men and set aside God's commandment for tradition (Matthew 15:8-9; Mark 7:9, 13). Satan wins whether secularists who reject God or Christians who accept syncretism prevail in the Christmas controversy.

Sun worship stands behind Christmas, which rests on pagan roots rather than on Christ's birth. Jesus was likely born in the second half of September, not December 25. Pagan Romans had marked December 25 as the birthday of Sol Invictus (the Invincible Sun), and after Constantine's conversion, pagans were allowed to keep their Saturnalia celebration by declaring that date to be Jesus' birthday. Little changed in practice. December 25 also coincided with the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, which worshippers of the sun god venerated long before Christ. The Egyptians celebrated Horus' birthday on that day, and the Mesopotamians, Greeks, and Persians honored their gods then as well. Rebranding pagan sun worship as worship of the Son of God violates God's command in Deuteronomy 12:30-31 not to inquire after the gods of the nations or to worship the LORD in the way they worshipped their gods. People cannot make the unclean clean or the unholy holy, so nothing about Christmas is righteous.

Sunshine is a God-given benefit for health, but the sun itself must never be worshipped. Deuteronomy 4:19 warns against lifting the eyes to heaven and feeling driven to worship the sun, moon, and stars, which God gave to all peoples as a heritage. Ezekiel 8:16 shows men at the door of the Lord's temple with their backs to the sanctuary, worshipping the sun toward the east, and God counts this an abomination. In the same way, the annual Easter Sunrise service of mainstream Christianity, like the practice of the ancient priests of Baal, is an abomination to the Lord, as is its observance of Sunday in place of the Sabbath. Israel's descendants repeatedly feel a compulsion to do the opposite of whatever God commands. Believers are to appreciate the wonderful health benefits of sunlight, yet they are forbidden to worship anything inferior to the Creator (Romans 1:23), or anything inferior to what they will become as glorified saints, the very offspring of God. Scripture uses the sun as a metaphor for God's radiance, righteousness, and healing, as in Malachi 4:2, where the Sun of Righteousness is Christ, and Matthew 13:43, where the righteous will shine forth as the sun. In each case a far inferior created star symbolizes the self-contained luminescence of Almighty God, who alone deserves worship. The sun is not even needed in the New Jerusalem, where God's glory is the light.

Christmas customs descend from pagan midwinter festivals tied to the sun. Ancient peoples decorated homes and temples with evergreens such as holly, ivy and mistletoe, believing they were helping carry the diminished sun through a critical period around the winter solstice. Yule, an ancient northern European midwinter festival, celebrated the rebirth of the sun. The northern tribes lit sacred fires as an act of sympathetic magic to ensure the health and vigor of the newly reborn sun. Behind this lay fear of the dark and of the evil spirits believed to inhabit it, and of being at their mercy if the sun should die. Today's Yule logs, candles, and twinkling lights on trees and houses continue these rites. Such customs have nothing to do with Christ; they are sheer paganism descended from rites practiced long before His birth, and Jeremiah 10:1-5 warns against such practices. Satan, the master deceiver (II Corinthians 11:14), has embraced these lights as a way to mislead mankind, making the deception look beautiful and harmless. Observing them casts God aside in favor of Satan, breaks God's law, and may forfeit eternal life.

Rome celebrated a winter festival called Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, the Day of the Birth of the Unconquered (or Invincible) Sun. It fell on the winter solstice, when the sun's light, having reached its lowest point, begins to regain strength, so the Romans regarded it as the sun's birthday or rebirth-day. In pre-Christian times the solstice fell on December 25, the same date later assigned to Christmas. Some believe the Roman Catholic Church appropriated this pagan festival into Christianity, justifying the date by an allegorical calculation that Jesus was conceived on the date He died (March 25) and therefore born nine months later. Modern scholars try to downplay any link between Christmas and the pagan Roman celebration, but a Christmas-day sermon by Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430) suggests otherwise. He urged his hearers to celebrate the day not for the sake of the sun, which believers and unbelievers alike behold, but for the sake of Him who created the sun. Augustine evidently felt compelled to remind his congregation that the Christian observance had superseded the pagan one. The words "Noël" and "Nativity" come from the Latin natalis, "of the birth," the same root found in the Roman festival's name. Nothing in the Bible commands a celebration at the dawn of the winter season.

December 25 comes from Roman paganism, particularly the sun-centered and winter festivals of the empire. In 274 AD the emperor Aurelian established a feast of the birth of Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun, on that date, and it fell alongside the Saturnalia kept in late December. Scholars who find no proof that the Roman church deliberately merged this pagan holiday into Christianity in the late third or early fourth century overlook how readily that church ignored God's Word in its quest for converts. Even by their own admission, from the mid-fourth century Christians deliberately adapted and Christianized pagan festivals, a trend tied to Constantine, who converted in AD 312. Early Christian teachers did not celebrate Christ's birth at all. Origen mocked Roman birthday celebrations as pagan, and around AD 200 Clement of Alexandria noted that the dates proposed for the Nativity did not include December 25 and mostly fell in spring. The alternative explanation, that December 25 falls nine months after a supposed March 25 crucifixion and conception, rests only on supposition and imagined symmetry. The biblical details place Jesus' birth in early autumn, near the Feast of Trumpets, not in the short days of early winter when the sun was honored. Christmas customs such as trees, yule logs, and mistletoe likewise come from paganism and have no biblical foundation.

New Year's Eve is pagan to its core, and sun worship lies at the root of it. It began as an adjunct to the Roman Saturnalia, a week of drunken revelry, role reversal, gift-giving, and even human sacrifice in honor of the god Saturn. The festival ran from mid-December to January 1, and December 25 fell in its midst as the day when the sun was reckoned to be at its lowest ebb. The celebration marked the sun's rebirth in the dead of winter. When pagans entered the church under Constantine, the Saturnalia customs of merrymaking, greenery, lights, and gifts did not disappear; the church took them from Saturn and gave them to the Babe of Bethlehem. In the Middle Ages the Teutonic and Druid peoples added further heathen rites. The Yule log is a carry-over from the bonfires of sun worship, and mistletoe was a Druid symbol of sex worship. Pope Gregory later reinstituted the pagan Roman date of January 1 for the whole Western world. God's New Year begins in spring, with Abib, and He nowhere commands a midwinter celebration. Jeremiah 10:2 and Leviticus 18:3 forbid learning the way of the heathen, so these sun-linked customs have no place among God's people.

The celebration of Christmas on December 25th is deeply rooted in pagan sun worship, a custom that predates Christianity by centuries. This date was originally associated with the birthday of the sun-god, a significant festival in the Roman world known as the feast of the unconquered sun. Historical records reveal that this pagan festival, often linked with the Saturnalia and Brumalia, celebrated the shortest day of the year and the renewal of the sun, holding a firm grip on popular custom. In the fourth century, as Christianity gained prominence under Emperor Constantine, many pagans converted en masse, bringing their entrenched customs with them. The influence of pagan Manichaeism, which equated the Son of God with the physical sun, provided a rationale for these converts to label December 25th, the birthday of their sun-god, as the birthday of the Son of God. Thus, the pagan sun-worshipping festival was absorbed into the Western Christian tradition, merely cloaked with a new name. Ancient symbols associated with sun worship, such as the holly wreath, mistletoe, and Yule log, also found their way into Christmas observances. Holly berries and mistletoe were considered sacred to the sun-god among pagans, while the Yule log, meaning "wheel," symbolized the sun. Even the lighting of fires and candles during Christmas echoes the pagan practice of encouraging the waning sun-god at the winter solstice. These elements, relics of pre-Christian times, underscore the festival's pagan origins. The real origin of these customs traces back to ancient Babylon, where Nimrod, a central figure in the Babylonish system, was linked to sun worship. After his death, his mother-wife Semiramis claimed he became a divine spirit, symbolized by an evergreen tree, which became the precursor to the Christmas tree. December 25th, celebrated as Nimrod's birthday, marked the foundation of this idolatrous worship that spread across cultures under various names, always centered on the sun-god and the mother-child motif. Despite attempts to Christianize these practices, the adoption of December 25th as Christ's birthday was met with accusations of sun worship and idolatry by some early Christian groups, such as the Syrians and Armenians, who adhered to January 6th. Historical authorities confirm that Christmas was not among the earliest Christian festivals and was not observed by the apostles or early Church, highlighting its pagan derivation rather than biblical sanction.

The celebration of Christmas is deeply intertwined with pagan practices, notably sun worship, which starkly contrasts with the worship of the One True God. Historical records reveal that Christmas was not observed by Christians from the time of Christ until about AD 300. During the 4th century, the Roman emperor Constantine, who seemingly converted to Christianity, shifted Sabbath keeping from the seventh day to the first day, Sunday, a day he previously dedicated to worshipping the sun as his god. This facilitated the transformation of the pagan December 25th winter solstice festival, celebrating the birth of the sun god, into a day claimed as the birthday of the Son of God. The New Catholic Encyclopedia notes that the birth of Christ was assigned to the winter solstice because on this day, as the sun began its return to northern skies, pagan devotees of Mithra celebrated the dies natalis Solis Invicti (birthday of the Invincible Sun). On December 25, 274 A.D., Aurelian proclaimed the sun-god as the principal patron of the empire and dedicated a temple to him. Christmas originated at a time when the cult of the sun was particularly strong in Rome, and it was not until the 5th century that the Roman Catholic Church officially ordered the observance of Christ's birth on this day, renaming the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol, the sun god, as Christmas. Such syncretism, blending pagan rites with Christian themes, destroys truth, rendering the celebration a mixture of truths and falsehoods that misrepresents its object and cannot be trusted as a form of worship acceptable to God.

New Year's Eve celebrations are rooted in ancient pagan sun worship. They began in Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago as a festival to renew the world for another year, and they are tied to Christmas, which celebrates the rebirth of the sun in the dead of winter. The Roman Saturnalia ran from mid-December to January 1st and included December 25th, the day the Romans reckoned the sun was at its lowest ebb. Its drunken revelry, role reversal, gift giving, and even human sacrifice honored the deity Saturn. When Constantine's empire adopted what it called Christianity, the church could not suppress the habit of Saturnalia, so it took the merriment, greenery, lights, and gifts and gave them to the Babe of Bethlehem. The pagan Romans became Christians, but the Saturnalia remained. Later, Teutonic peoples added the Yule log, a carryover from the bonfires of sun worship, and mistletoe, a Druid symbol of sex worship. Fertility rites, midnight kissing, and drunkenness belong to the same pagan stream. Pope Gregory finally imposed the January 1st date on the Western world in 1582. God never tells His people to celebrate the year's beginning this way. He forbids learning the ways of the heathen (Jeremiah 10:2) and following the customs of the nations (Leviticus 18:3). He does not change (Malachi 3:6), so a celebration that is pagan to the core stays unfit for His people, who are told to come out of Babylon (Revelation 18).

The celebration of Christmas, often embraced with sincerity, is rooted in pagan practices that God views as an abomination. Historical records reveal that Christmas was not observed by Christians from Christ's time until the fourth century AD. During this period, pagan festivals like Saturnalia (December 17-24) and Brumalia (December 25) persisted among the Romans. The Catholic Encyclopedia notes that early Church father Origen acknowledged no scriptural record of celebrating Jesus Christ's birthday, associating such feasts with sinners like Pharaoh and Herod, whose birthday celebrations involved horrific acts. In the fourth century, Emperor Constantine, converting to Christianity, shifted Sabbath observance to Sunday, the day he worshipped the sun, facilitating the transformation of the pagan winter solstice festival honoring the sun god into a celebration of the Son of God. The New Catholic Encyclopedia confirms that Christ's birth was assigned to December 25, coinciding with the pagan feast of the dies natalis Solis Invicti (birthday of the Invincible Sun), a date solidified by the Roman Catholic Church in the fifth century. This syncretistic blend of pagan rites and Christian themes stands in direct opposition to God's command in Deuteronomy 12:29-32, which warns against adopting the worship practices of other nations, declaring such acts as abominations. Despite the sincerity of many who celebrate, the lack of truth in these traditions renders their zeal misguided, as they ignore God's explicit instructions against worshipping Him in the manner of the heathen.

The world's Christians celebrate Easter on Sunday, the first day of the week, which they have deemed holy in their own minds, contrary to God's commandments. Within their carnal hearts, they still desire to worship the creation rather than the Creator, focusing on Sun-day at dawn for their resurrection services. This practice ties into ancient traditions of sun worship, reflected in the name Easter, which likely derives from a Germanic goddess, Eoster or Ostara, associated with the radiant dawn and up-springing light. This goddess's symbolism was easily adapted to the resurrection day of the Christian's God. Further origins of Easter may trace back to Middle Eastern goddesses like Ishtar, Astarte, Isis, Aphrodite, and Venus, all linked to fertility and often conflict, embodying love, sex, and power. These pagan influences have been incorporated into Christian traditions, evident in symbols like eggs and bunnies, which have long represented fertility across mankind's history.

May Day connects to sun worship through the Celtic festival of Beltane. Etymologists relate Beltane to the practice of Baal worship and sun worship. Celtic peoples decorated bushes and used them as fuel for large bonfires lit on hills in the evening. The next day involved celebration with homage paid to the warming spring sun through bonfires. May 1st celebrations connect with heat and light through bonfires as a part of sun worship. The worship of the sun appears in the bonfires. May Day represents the connection between ancient fertility worship and modern political movements with the worship of the sun in the bonfires.

Constantine recognized Sunday as the day of worship because it was the day he had worshipped the physical sun. Christmas originated at a time when the cult of the sun was particularly strong at Rome. According to the hypothesis accepted by most scholars today the birth of Christ was assigned the date of the winter solstice because on this day as the sun began its return to northern skies the pagan devotees of Mithra celebrated the dies natalis Solis Invicti meaning birth of the invincible sun. On December 25 274 Aurelian had proclaimed the sun-god principal patron of the empire and dedicated a temple to him in the Campus Martius. It was in the 5th century that the Roman Catholic Church ordered that the birth of Christ be observed on December 25 the day of the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol the sun god.

In the ancient Chaldean idolatrous sun worship as practiced by the Phoenicians, Baal was the sun god. Astarte is the same as Ishtar or the English Easter. Easter is nothing else than Astarte one of the titles of Beltis the queen of heaven. The Phoenician name of this goddess was Astarte consort of Baal the sun god whose worship is denounced by the Almighty in the Bible as the most abominable of all pagan idolatry. In the ancient Chaldean idolatrous sun worship as practiced by the Phoenicians Baal was the sun god. Astarte his consort or wife. And Astarte is the same as Ishtar or the English Easter. The festival of which we read in Church history under the name of Easter in the third or fourth centuries was quite a different festival from that now observed in the Romish and Protestant Church and at that time was not known by any such name as Easter. It was called Pascha or the Passover. All Western nations have been deceived into dropping the festival God ordained forever to commemorate the death of the true Savior for our sins and substituting in its place the pagan festival in commemoration of the counterfeit savior and mediator Baal the sun god named after the mythical Ishtar his wife actually none other than the ancient Semiramis who palmed herself off as the wife of the sun god the idolatrous queen of heaven. God was showing the Prophet Ezekiel the sins of His people in a vision a prophecy for today. Between the porch and the altar were about five and twenty men with their faces toward the east and they worshipped the sun toward the east. Then he said unto me Hast thou seen this O son of man. Is it a light thing that they commit the abominations which they commit here. Therefore will I deal in fury mine eye shall not spare neither will I have pity and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice yet will I not hear them. It is the identical thing millions are doing every Easter Sunday morning the sunrise service standing with their faces toward the east as the sun is rising in a service of worship which honors the sun god and his mythical idolatrous consort goddess Easter. Deceived into believing this is Christian millions practice every Easter the identical form of the ancient sun worship of the sun god Baal. Throughout the Bible this is revealed as the most abominable of all idolatry in the sight of the Eternal Creator.

Sun worship involved annual fire festivals that sought to coax the sun to be reborn as well as the Roman Brumalia celebrations. Constantine appears to have been a sun worshiper and a member of several late pagan cults that had observances in common with Christians. Worship of such gods was not a novel idea. After his professed acceptance of Christianity Constantine built a triumphal arch to the sun god and in Constantinople set up a statue of the same sun god bearing his own features. The heresy of the Trinity would have never gained a foothold if the apostolic church had continued to honor the seventh day Sabbath command rather than replacing it with the venerable day of the Sun. On March 7 321 AD Emperor Constantine and his prelate Bishop Eusebius issued a decree making Sunday an official day of rest and worship.