The PlainTruth

About
CHRISTMAS
 The PlainTruth
About
CHRISTMAS
by Herbert W. Armstrong
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Where did the world get
Christmas? . . . from the
Bible, or paganism?
Here are the astonishing
facts which may shock you!
Test yourself. How much
do you know of the origin
of the Christmas tree-of
"Santa Claus "-of the
mistletoe-of the holly
wreath-of the custom of
exchanging gifts?
"Christmas is for the children, " it is often said Few people, how-
ever, realize where the many customs associated with the
Christmas season came from.
W HEN I was a very little boy, I was taught to
hang up my stockings on Christmas eve.
When I awakened the next morning, they
were filled with small toys and sacks or little boxes
of candy and nuts. And beside the mantle, from
which my stockings hung, a Christmas tree had
suddenly appeared, decorated with shiny tinsel.
And on it hung presents. Other presents for us
children were piled on the floor underneath. I was
told Santa Claus had come down the chimney
during the night and left all these things.
But did I question what my parents had told me?
Of course not. I accepted it-took it all for granted.
Didn't you?
Stop and think a moment! Very few have ever reflected
on why they believe what they do-why they follow the
customs they do, or from where those customs came. We were
born into a world filled with customs. We grew up accepting
them without question.
Why? Sheep instinct? Well, not exactly.
But by nature we do tend to follow the crowd, whether
right or wrong. Sheep follow others to the slaughter. Humans
ought to check up where they are going.
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How-when did Christmas originate?

Does Christmas really celebrate the birthday of Christ?
Was Jesus born on December 25th?
Did the original apostles, who knew Jesus personally and
were taught by Him, celebrate His birthday on December
25th? Did they celebrate it at all?
If Christmas is the chief of the Christian holidays, why do
so many non-Christians observe it? Do you know?
Why do people exchange presents with family members,
friends, relatives, at Christmas time? Was it because the wise
men presented gifts to the Christ-child? The answer may
surprise you.
Most people have "supposed" a lot of things about
Christmas that are not true. But let's quit "supposing" and
get the facts!
What Encyclopedias Say
The word "Christmas" means "Mass of Christ," or, as it came
to be shortened, " Christ-Mass." It came to non-Christians
and Protestants from the Roman Catholic Church. And where
did they get it? NoT from the New Testament-NOT from the
Bible-NOT from the original apostles who were personally
instructed by Christ-but it gravitated in the fourth century
into the Roman Church from paganism .
Since the celebration of Christmas has come to the world
from the Roman Catholic Church, and has no authority but
that of the Roman Catholic Church, let us examine the
Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 edition, published by that
church. Under the heading "Christmas," you will find:
"Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the
Church .. . the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt."
"Pagan customs centering around the January calends
gravitated to Christmas."
And in the same encyclopedia, under the heading "Natal
Day," we find that the early Catholic father, Origen,
acknowledged this truth: " ... In the Scriptures, no one is
recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his
birthday. It is only sinners [like Pharaoh and Herod] who
make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born
into this world" (emphasis ours).
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1946 edition, has this:

"Christmas (i.e., the Mass of Christ) .... Christmas was not
among the earliest festivals of the church.... " It was not
instituted by Christ or the apostles, or by Bible authority. It
was picked up afterward from paganism. The Encyclope-
dia Americana, 1944 edition, says: "Christmas.... It was,
according to many authorities, not celebrated in the first
centuries of the Christian church, as the Christian usage in
general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons
rather than their birth.... " (The "Communion," which is
instituted by New Testament Bible authority, is a memorial
of the death of Christ.) " ... A feast was established in
memory of this event [Christ's birth] in the fourth century. In
the fifth century the Wes tern Church ordered it to be
celebrated forever on the day of the old Roman feast of the
birth of Sol, as no certain knowledge of the day of Christ's
birth existed."
Now notice! These recognized historical authorities show
Christmas was not observed by Christians for the first two or
three hundred years-a period longer than the entire history
of the United States as a nation! It got into the Western, or
Roman, Church, by the fourth century A.D. It was not until
the fifth century that the Roman Church ordered it to be
celebrated as an official Christian festival!
Jesus Not Born December 25th
Jesus was not even born in the winter season! When the
Christ-child was born "there were in the same country
shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock
by night" (Luke 2:8). This never could have occurred in
Judaea in the month of December. The shepherds always
brought their flocks from the mountainsides and fields and
corralled them not later than October 15, to protect them
from the cold, rainy season that followed that date. Notice
that the Bible itself proves, in Song of Solomon 2:11 and Ezra
10:9, 13, that winter was a rainy season not permitting
shepherds to abide in open fields at night.
"It was an ancient custom among Jews of those days to
send out their sheep to the fields and deserts about the
Passover (early spring), and bring them home at commence-
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ment of the first rain," says the Adam Clarke Commentary

(Vol. 5, page 370, New York ed.)
Continuing, this authority states: "During the time they
were out, the shepherds watched them night and day.
As ... the first rain began early in the month of Marchesvan,
which answers to part of our October and November [begins
sometime in October], we find that the sheep were kept out in
the open country during the whole summer. And, as these
shepherds had not yet brought home their flocks, it is a
presumptive argument that October had not yet commenced,
and that, consequently, our Lord was not born on the 25th of
December, when no flocks were out in the fields; nor could He
have been born later than September, as the flocks were still
in the fields by night. On this very ground, the nativity in
December should be given up. The feeding of the flocks by
night in the fields is a chronological fact . . . See the quota-
tions from the Talmudists in Lightfoot. "
Any encyclopedia, or any other authority, will tell you
that Christ was not born on December 25. The Catholic
Encyclopedia frankly states this fact.
The exact date of Jesus' birth is entirely unknown, as all
authorities acknowledge-though if I had space in this
booklet I could show you scriptures which at least strongly
indicate it was in the early fall- probably September-
approximately six months after Passover.
If God had wished us to observe and celebrate Christ's
birthday, He would not have so completely hidden the exact
date.
How This Pagan Custom Got into the Church
Then how did this pagan custom creep into the Wes tern
Christian world?
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious
Knowledge explains it clearly, in its article on " Christmas":
"How much the date of the festival depended upon the pagan
Brumalia (Dec. 25) following the Saturnalia (Dec. 17-24), and
celebrating the shortest day of the year and the 'new
sun' ... cannot be accurately determined. The pagan Satur-
nalia and Brumalia were too deeply entrenched in popular
custom to be set aside by Christian infiuence . ... The pagan
In the Western world Christmas is the most important religious
and commercial season of the year. But exactly what do the various
Christmas customs have to do with the birth of Jesus?
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festival with its riot and merrymaking was so popular that

Christians were glad of an excuse to continue its celebration
with little change in spirit and in manner. Christian preachers
of the West and the Near East protested against the unseemly
frivolity with which Christ's birthday was celebrated, while
Christians of Mesopotamia accused their Wes tern brethren
of idolatry and sun worship for adopting as Christian this
pagan festival."
Remember, the Roman world had been pagan. Prior to
the fourth century, Christians were few in number, though
increasing, and were persecuted by the government and by
pagans. But, with the advent of Constantine as emperor, who
made his profession of Christianity in the fourth century,
placing Christianity on an equal footing with paganism,
people of the Roman world began to accept this now-popular
Christianity by the hundreds of thousands.
But remember, these people had grown up in pagan
customs, chief of which was this idolatrous festival of
December 25th. It was a festival of merrymaking, with its
special spirit. They enjoyed it! They didn't want to give it up!
Now this same article in the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclope-
dia of Religious Knowledge explains how the recognition by
Constantine of Sunday, which had been the day of pagan sun
worship, and how the influence of the pagan Manichaeism,
which identified the SON of God with the physical SUN, gave
these pagans of the fourth century, now turning over
wholesale to "Christianity," their excuse for calling their
pagan-festival date of December 25th (birthday of the
SUN-god), the birthday of the SON of God.
And that is how "Christmas" became fastened on our
Western world! We may call it by another name, but it's the
same old pagan sun-worshipping festival still! The only
change is in what we call it! You can call a rabbit a "lion," but
it's still a rabbit, just the same.
Again from the Encyclopaedia Britannica: "Certain
Latins, as early as 354, may have transferred the birthday
from January 6th to December 25, which was then a Mithraic
fea st . . . or birthday of the unconquered SUN . .. The
Syrians and Armenians, who clung to January 6th, accused
the Romans of sun worship and idolatry, contending ... that
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the feast of December 25th, had been invented by disciples of

Cerinthus . . . . "

The Real Origin of Christmas

But if we got Christmas from the Roman Catholics, and they
got it from paganism, where did the pagans get it? Where,
when, and what was its real origin?
It is a chief custom of the corrupt system denounced all
through Bible prophecies and teachings under the name of
Babylon. And it started and originated in the original
Babylon of ancient Nimrod! Yes, it stems from roots whose
beginning was shortly this side of the Flood!
Nimrod, grandson of Ham, son of Noah, was the real
founder of the Babylonish system that has gripped the world
ever since-the system of organized competition -of man-
ruled governments and empires, based upon the competitive
and profit-making economic system. Nimrod built the tower
of Babel, the original Babylon, ancient Nineveh, and many
other cities. He organized this world's first kingdom. The
name Nimrod, in Hebrew, is derived from "Marad," meaning
"he rebelled."
From many ancient writings, considerable is learned of
this man, who started the great organized worldly apostasy
from God that has dominated this world until now. Nimrod
was so evil, it is said he married his own mother, whose name
was Semiramis. After Nimrod's untimely 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.
Through her scheming and designing, Semiramis became
the Babylonian "Queen of Heaven," and Nimrod, under
various names, became the "divine son of heaven." Through
the generations, in this idolatrous worship, Nimrod also
became the false Messiah, son of Baal the Sun-god. In this
false Babylonish system, the "Mother and Child" (Semiramis
Colorful costumes, blinking lights, decorated trees, the burning of the
yule log, the hanging of mistletoe and holly, the exchanging of gifts,
merry-making and song singing-a description of a modern Christmas?
Not really These and other festive customs were commonplace 1n various nations of
Europe around the end of December and the beginning of January centuries before
Jesus was born!
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and Nimrod reborn) became chief objects of worship. This

worship of "Mother and Child" spread over the world. The
names varied in different countries and languages. In Egypt it
was Isis and Osiris. In Asia, Cybele and Deoius. In pagan
Rome, Fortuna and Jupiterpuer. Even in Greece, China,
Japan, Tibet is to be found the counterpart of the Madonna,
long before the birth of Christ!
Thus, during the fourth and fifth centuries, when the
pagans of the Roman world were "accepting" the new popular
"Christianity" by the hundreds of thousands, carrying their
old pagan customs and beliefs along with them, merely
cloaking them with Christian-sounding names, the Madonna
and "Mother and Child" idea also became popularized,
especially at Christmas time. Every Christmas season you'll
hear sung and chanted dozens of times the hymn "Silent
Night, Holy Night," with its familiar "Mother and Child"
theme. We, who have been born in such a babylonish world,
reared and steeped in these things all our lives, have been
taught to revere these things as holy and sacred. We never
questioned to see where they came from-whether they came
from the Bible, or from pagan idolatry!
We are shocked to learn the truth-some, unfortunately,
take offense at the plain truth! But God commands His
faithful ministers, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like
a trumpet, and show my people their transgression!" Shocking
as these facts are, they are the plain facts of history and the
Bible!
The real origin of Christmas goes back to ancient
Babylon. It is bound up in the organized apostasy which has
gripped a deceived world these many centuries! In Egypt, it
was always believed that the son of Isis (Egyptian name for
"Queen of Heaven") was born December 25th. Paganism
celebrated this famous birthday over most of the known world
for centuries before the birth of Christ.
December 25th is not the birthday of Jesus the true
Christ! The apostles and early true Church never celebrated
Christ's birthday at any time. There is no command or
instruction to celebrate it in the Bible-rather, the celebrat-
ing of birthdays is a pagan, not a Christian custom, believe it
or not!
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Thus the ancient idolatrous "Chaldean Mysteries,"

founded by this wife of Nimrod, have been handed down
through the pagan religions under new Christian-sounding
names.

Origin of Holly Wreath, Mistletoe, Yule Log

Now where did we get this mistletoe custom? Among the
ancient pagans the mistletoe was used at this festival of the
winter solstice because it was considered sacred to the sun,
because of its supposed miraculous healing power. The pagan
custom of kissing under the mistletoe was an early step in the
night of revelry and drunken debauchery- celebrating the
death of the "old sun" and the birth of the new at the winter
solstice. Mistletoe, sacred in pagan festivals, is a parasite!
Holly berries were also considered sacred to the sun-god.
The yule log is in reality the "sun log." "Yule" means "wheel,"
a pagan symbol of the sun. Yet today professing Christians
speak of the "sacred yule-tide season"!
Even the lighting of fires and candles as a Christian
ceremony is merely a continuation of the pagan custom,
encouraging the waning sun-god as he reached the lowest
place in the southern skies!
The Encyclopedia Americana says: "The holly, the
mistletoe, the Yule log ... are relics of pre-Christian times."
Of paganism!
The book Answers to Questions, compiled by Frederick
J. Haskins, found in public libraries, says: "The use of
Christmas wreaths is believed by authorities to be traceable
to the pagan customs of decorating buildings and places of
worship at the feast which took place at the same time as
Christmas. The Christmas tree is from Egypt, and its origin
dates from a period long anterior to the Christian Era."

Yes, and Even Santa Claus!

But surely dear old Santa Claus is not a creature of pagan
birth? But he is, and his real character is not so benevolent
and holy as many suppose!
The name "Santa Claus" is a corruption of the name " St.
Nicholas," a Roman Catholic bishop who lived in the 5th
century. Look in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 19,
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pages 648-649, 11th edition, where you'll read: "St. Nicholas,

bishop of Myra, a saint honored by the Greeks and Latins on
the 6th of December .... A legend of his surreptitious
bestowal of dowries on the three daughters of an impover-
ished citizen ... is said to have originated the old custom of
giving presents in secret on the Eve of St. Nicholas [Dec. 6],
subsequently transferred to Christmas day. Hence the asso-
ciation of Christmas with Santa Claus .... "
Through the year, parents punish their children for
telling falsehoods. Then, at Christmas time, they themselves
tell their little children this "Santa Claus" lie! Is it any
wonder many of them, when they grow up and learn the truth,
begin to believe God is a myth, too?
One little fellow, sadly disillusioned about "Santa
Claus," said to a playmate, "Yes, and I'm going to look into
this 'Jesus Christ' business, too!" Is it Christian to teach
children myths and falsehoods? God says, "Thou shalt not
bear false witness!" It may seem right, and be justified by
human reason, but God says, "There is a way that seemeth
right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death!"
"Old Nick" also is a term for the devil! Is there a connection?
Satan appears as an "angel oflight," to deceive! (II Cor. 11:14;
Rev. 12:9.)
And so when we examine the facts, we are astonished to
learn that the practice of observing Christmas is not, after all,
a true Christian practice, but a pagan custom-one of the
ways of Babylon our people have fallen into!
What the Bible Says About the Christmas Tree
But if the Bible is silent about telling us to observe Christmas,
or recording any such observance by the apostles or early true
Church, it does have something to say about the Christmas
tree!
This will come as a real surprise to many. But here it is:
Jeremiah 10:2-6: "Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the
way of the heathen . ... 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."
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There is a perfect description of the Christmas tree,

termed by the Eternal as "the way of the heathen-the
customs of the people." We are commanded not to learn that
way or follow it! It is also viewed in this passage as idolatry.
The fifth verse shows that these trees cannot speak-cannot
walk-must be carried. "Be not afraid of them; for they [the
trees] cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good."
They are not gods to be feared. Some people misread this to
make it say there is no harm in having a Christmas tree, but
that is not what it says.
Isn't Exchanging Gifts Scriptural?
But when it comes to the most important part of all in this
Christmas observance-the Christmas shopping season-the
buying and exchanging of gifts-many will exclaim trium-
phantly, "Well, at least the Bible tells us to do that! Didn't the
wise men give gifts when Christ was born?"
Again, we are due for some surprises, when we learn the
plain truth. First, let's look at the historic origin of trading
gifts back and forth, then see exactly what the Bible does say
about it.
From the Bibliotheca Sacra, volume 12, pages 153-155,
we quote: "The interchange of presents between friends is
alike characteristic of Christmas and the Saturnalia, and
must have been adopted by Christians from the Pagans, as
the admonition of Tertullian plainly shows."
The fact is, this custom fastened upon people of
exchanging gifts with friends and relatives at the Christmas
season has not a single trace of Christianity about it, strange
though that may seem! This does not celebrate Christ's
birthday nor honor it or Him! Suppose someone you love
has a birthday. You want to honor that person on his or her
birthday. Would you lavishly buy gifts for everyone else,
trading gifts back and forth with all your other friends and
loved ones, but ignore completely any gift for the one whose
birthday you are honoring? Rather absurd, when viewed in
that light, isn't it?
Yet this is exactly what people the world over are doing!
They honor a day that is not Christ's birthday by spending
every dime they can scrape together in buying presents to
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trade back and forth among friends and relatives. But I can
say by years of experience, as I believe most pastors and
ministers can say, that when the month of December rolls
around, nearly all professing Christians forget to give gifts to
Christ and His cause almost altogether! December often is the
most difficult month to keep Christ's work from dying! People
are too busy trading gifts back and forth among themselves to
think of Him and His Work, it seems. Then, in January and
even into February it seems they have to catch up from what
they spent for Christmas, so they seldom get back to normal
in supporting Christ and His Work before March!
Now consider what the Bible says about the wise men
giving gifts when Christ was born. It is in Matthew 2:1-11.
"Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the
days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the
east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the
Jews? ... And when they were come into the house, they saw
the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and
worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures,
they presented unto HIM gifts; gold, and frankincense, and
myrrh."

Why Gifts Presented to Christ

Notice, they inquired for the child Jesus, who was born KING
of the Jews! Now why did they present gifts to Him? Because
it was His birthday? Not at all, because they came several
days or weeks after the date of His birth! Was it to set an
example for us, today, to trade gifts back and forth among
ourselves? No, notice carefully! They did not exchange gifts
among themselves, but "they presented unto HIM gifts." They
gave their gifts to Christ, not to their friends, relatives, or one
another!
Why? Let me quote from the Adam Clarke Commentary,
volume 5, page 46: "Verse 11. (They presented unto him
gifts.) The people of the east never approach the presence of
kings and great personages, without a present in their hands.
The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still
prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered
South Sea Islands."
There it is! They were not instituting a new Christian
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custom of exchanging gifts with friends to honor Christ's

birthday. They were following an old and ancient eastern
custom of presenting gifts to a king when they came into his
presence. They were approaching Him, born KING of the Jews,
in person. Therefore custom required they present gifts-
even as the Queen of Sheba brought gifts to Solomon-even
as many people today take a gift along when they visit the
White House for an appointment with the President.
No, the custom of trading gifts back and forth does not
stem from this scriptural incident at all, but rather, as quoted
from history above, it is the continuance of an ancient pagan
custom. Instead of honoring Christ, it invariably retards His
Work, often sets it back, at the Christmas season every
year.
Does It Really Honor Christ?
Now come two arguments often used to justify Christmas
observance.
1) Many will reason this way: "But, even though the
exact date of Jesus' birth is unknown, should we not select
some date to celebrate as His birthday?" The answer is
positively no! Did you not notice the statement quoted from
the Catholic Encyclopedia: "Sinners alone, not saints, cele-
brate their birthdays." The celebration of birthdays is not a
Christian, but a pagan custom, observed by sinners!
2) But, many still reason, "Even so-even though
Christmas was a pagan custom, honoring the false sun-god, we
don't observe it to honor the false god, we observe it to honor
Christ."
But how does Goo answer in His Word? "Take heed to
thyself that thou be not snared by following them [the pagans
in their customs] ... that thou enquire not after their gods,
saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I
do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for
every abomination to the Eternal, which he hateth, have they
done unto their gods" (Deut. 12:30-31).
God says plainly in His Instruction Book to us, that He
will not accept that kind of worship, even though intended in
His honor. To Him, He says, it is offering what is abominable
to Him, and therefore it honors, not Him, but false pagan
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gods. Gon says we must not worship Him according to the

"dictates of our own conscience"-a term we often hear. But
Jesus said plainly, "God is a spirit: and they that worship him
must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). And
what is truth? God's Word-the Holy Bible-said Jesus, is
truth (John 17:17); and the Bible says God will not accept
worship when people take a pagan custom or manner of
worship and try to honor Christ with it.
Again, Jesus said: "In vain they do worship me, teaching
for doctrines the commandments of men" (Matt. 15:9).
Christmas observance is a tradition of men, and the
commandments of God, as quoted, forbid it. Jesus said,
further, "full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye
may keep your own tradition."
That is precisely what the millions are doing today. They
ignore the commandment of God. He commands, regarding
taking the customs of the pagans and using them to honor or
worship God: "Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God."
Still, most people today take that command of God lightly, or
as having no validity whatsoever, and follow the tradition of
men in observing Christmas.
Make no mistake! God will allow you to defy and disobey
Him. He will allow you to follow the crowd and the traditions
of men. He will allow you to sin. But He also says there is a
day of reckoning coming. As you sow, so shall you reap! Jesus
was the living Word of God in Person, and the Bible is the
written Word of God. And we shall be judged, for eternity, by
these words! They should not be taken lightly or ignored.

We're in Babylon, and Haven't Known It

Christmas has become a commercial season. It's sponsored,
kept alive, by the heaviest retail advertising campaigns of the
year. You see a masqueraded "Santa Claus" in many stores.
Ads keep us deluded and deceived about the "beautiful
Christmas spirit." The newspapers, who sell the ads, print
flowery editorials exalting and eulogizing the pagan season,
and its "spirit." A gullible people has become so inoculated,
many take offense when told the truth. But the "Christmas
spirit" is created each year, not to honor Christ, but to sell
merchandise! Like all Satan's delusions, it appears as an
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"angel of light," is made to appear good. Billions of dollars are

spent in this merchandising spree every year, while the cause
of Christ must suffer! It's part of the economic system of
Babylon!
We have professed to be Christian nations, but we're in
Babylon, as Bible prophecy foretold, and we don't know it!
"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her
sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues"-now soon to
fall-is the warning of Revelation 18:4.
This year, instead of gift trading, why not put that money
into God's Work?
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Sri Lanka: Worldwide Church of God, P.O. Box 1824, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Malaysia: Worldwide Church of God, P.O. Box 430 , Jalan Sultan, Petaling Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia
Singapore: Worldwide Church of God, P.O. Box 111, Farrer Road Post Office,
Singapore 9128
New Zealand and the Pacific Isles: Ambassador College, P 0 Box 2709, Auckland
1, New Zealand
The Philippines: Ambassador College Agency, P.O . Box 1111, MC C , Makati, Metro
Manila, Philippines 3117
Israel: Ambassador College, P.O. Box 19111, Jerusalem
South Africa: Ambassador College, P 0 . Box 1060, Johannesburg 2000
Zimbabwe: Ambassador College, Box UA30, Union Avenue, Harare, Zimbabwe
Nigeria: Worldwide Church of God, PMB 21006, lkeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
Ghana: Worldwide Church of God, P.O . Box 9617, Kotoka International Airport,
Accra
Kenya: Worldwide Church of God, P.O. Box 47135, Nairobi
Mauritius and Seychelles: Ambassador College, P 0 . Box 888, Port Louis,
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