Gods’ New Year
Eccl 3:1-2 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Is January 1 the true beginning of a new year? Who has the AUTHORITY to determine when a new year begins?
New Year's is one of the oldest and most universal of all pagan TRADITIONS! The custom of celebrating it has been around for 4,000 years!
The celebration of New Year's began in ancient Babylonia. It was a pagan custom of ancient sun-worship 2000 years before the birth of Jesus.
The celebration of New Year's is never once commanded in the Bible. Jesus and the apostles never observed it. Moses forbade it!
Don't say "it doesn't matter." It does matter to God. We are not to adopt the customs of the heathen. Your Bible says,
Jer 10:2 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.
*(Confusion/fear)
The New Year's festivities that had originated in Babylon found their way to Greece and finally to Rome. The Romans called it "Saturnalia" -- in honor of Saturn. Among them it was extremely popular -- a time of raveling’s (drinking), drinking, orgies -- finally ending in HUMAN SACRIFICE!
"The first day of the Feast shifted during the lifetime of Rome ... it began around the middle of December ... and continued until January first. In its midst was December twenty-fifth, the day, as the Romans calculated, when the sun was at its lowest ebb ...." (E. W. Count's "4000 Years of Christmas", page 28.)
It was Julius Caesar, Emperor of pagan Rome, who instituted the New Year's festival on January first. In 46 B. C., Caesar adopted the Julian calendar. He transferred to the first January ALL of the customs surrounding the Roman Saturn god! (Sun God)
Finally Pope Gregory re-instituted the ancient pagan Roman date of January first. He imposed it on the whole Western world in 1582 when his Gregorian calendar "reforms" were accepted. All Roman Catholic countries accepted this change AT ONCE! The beginning was with the Druid customs.
Rather than resist the influence of pagan customs, the Catholic Church fathers compromised!
God Almighty does not compromise! Notice the warning to Israel as they conquered the pagan nations of the Promised Land:
Duet 12:30 -31 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
How many people are sacrificing their children today through pagan Holidays?
Dionysus or Dionysos is the Greek god of wine and he represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. He was also known as Bacchus. He is the patron deity of agriculture and the theater.
Eccl 3:1-2 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Is January 1 the true beginning of a new year? Who has the AUTHORITY to determine when a new year begins?
New Year's is one of the oldest and most universal of all pagan TRADITIONS! The custom of celebrating it has been around for 4,000 years!
The celebration of New Year's began in ancient Babylonia. It was a pagan custom of ancient sun-worship 2000 years before the birth of Jesus.
The celebration of New Year's is never once commanded in the Bible. Jesus and the apostles never observed it. Moses forbade it!
Don't say "it doesn't matter." It does matter to God. We are not to adopt the customs of the heathen. Your Bible says,
Jer 10:2 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.
*(Confusion/fear)
The New Year's festivities that had originated in Babylon found their way to Greece and finally to Rome. The Romans called it "Saturnalia" -- in honor of Saturn. Among them it was extremely popular -- a time of raveling’s (drinking), drinking, orgies -- finally ending in HUMAN SACRIFICE!
"The first day of the Feast shifted during the lifetime of Rome ... it began around the middle of December ... and continued until January first. In its midst was December twenty-fifth, the day, as the Romans calculated, when the sun was at its lowest ebb ...." (E. W. Count's "4000 Years of Christmas", page 28.)
It was Julius Caesar, Emperor of pagan Rome, who instituted the New Year's festival on January first. In 46 B. C., Caesar adopted the Julian calendar. He transferred to the first January ALL of the customs surrounding the Roman Saturn god! (Sun God)
Finally Pope Gregory re-instituted the ancient pagan Roman date of January first. He imposed it on the whole Western world in 1582 when his Gregorian calendar "reforms" were accepted. All Roman Catholic countries accepted this change AT ONCE! The beginning was with the Druid customs.
Rather than resist the influence of pagan customs, the Catholic Church fathers compromised!
God Almighty does not compromise! Notice the warning to Israel as they conquered the pagan nations of the Promised Land:
Duet 12:30 -31 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
How many people are sacrificing their children today through pagan Holidays?
Dionysus or Dionysos is the Greek god of wine and he represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. He was also known as Bacchus. He is the patron deity of agriculture and the theater.
God of Wine/Agriculture |
God of Time
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Cronus was Father Time because of his association with the destructive power of time. There’s even an interpretation saying that his eating his kids symbolizes time devouring everything, in the end.
Another symbol of New Year's celebrations are equally pagan! It is the familiar figure of a white-haired man carrying a scythe. What does he represent? The ancient Greek god Cronos. It is from the name "Cronos" we derive our "chronograph" which measures time.
Among the Greek gods, Cronos originally cut a swath of HUMAN SACRIFICE with his sharpened scythe! The "silent reaper" anciently "reaped" little children in CANNIBALISM! This Greek rite of human sacrifice was adopted by ancient Rome, where human sacrifice was practiced at least until 300 A. D.
When Does God Begin the New Year?
Remember! The Lord Jesus, who created the Universe, He set the heavenly bodies in their places at Creation. It is by His "clock" that time is determined.
The earth's rotation regulates the length of a day -- the lunar phases indicate the length of a *month. (New Moon) And the orbit of the earth around the sun dictates the length of a year!
Only the Father and Jesus has the AUTHORITY to set the date of the beginning of the New Year!
God's calendar year begins in the spring -- NOT in the middle of winter! Notice what the Lord told Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt."
Ex 12:1-2 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Ex 34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
The Hebrew month Abib overlaps the months of March-April on the Roman calendar in use today.
The first month of God's calendar is called, in the Bible, "Abib". It means the month of "green ears." Later, the Jews called it "Nisan" -- a Babylonian word having the same meaning.
God placed the beginning of the year in the early spring to mark the beginning of the seasonal harvests. The two annual harvests in Palestine foreshadowed God's Plan for the twofold SPIRITUAL harvest of souls to be born into His Kingdom.
Your Bible speaks of a great false religious system which will "think to change times and laws”. This system has deliberately thought to change the beginning of God's calendar year in an attempt to hide God's Plan for the salvation of mankind! But man has no authority to change God's "clock."
Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. (1260Years)
Rev 13:3 -4 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Rome itself, the head of the empire, and which was built on seven mountains, designed by the seven heads of this beast: and this head was
And his deadly wound was healed; by the setting up of ten kingdoms in it, the kings of which gave them to the beast, to Antichrist, the pope of Rome, and so the empire came to have an head again, a governor, though of another kind: some choose to understand this of the wound which Antichrist received at the Reformation, by Luther, Calvin, and others, which has since been healing, Pope/Church recovering itself again in some countries where it was driven out, and which, it is thought, will be entirely healed before his destruction: all the world wondered after the beast which expresses the large extent of Antichrist's dominion, which reached to all the Roman empire, yea, to all kindred's, tongues, and nations,
Rev 13:7 -9 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindred's, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
The Pope boasts of, the true church, is actually the mark of the beast, or of Antichrist; and is his followed, by those who admire his power and authority, his grandeur, pomp, and riches, his signs and lying wonders, his pretended *infallibility(Never being Wrong) and holiness, his stock of merits and unwritten traditions, his skill to interpret Scripture, and his power to forgive sins, and the like: they went after him, obeyed him, embraced his doctrines, attended his religion and worship with wonder and amazement.
Satan, has deceived the world into believing the New Year begins on January first!
Do you think God has changed His mind about compromising with paganism?
Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
Mali 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
The same punishment is for anyone or any nation that forsakes God's laws which are in the Bible, and turns to the customs of paganism.
Does it make any difference if YOU continue observing pagan customs -- like New Year's? IT could be harmful.
New Year's celebration began in Babylon 4,000 years ago. It is practiced today by almost all.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
But God Almighty has sent His ministers to warn this world
Isa 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
I pray that people will Listen to God’s warning and not celebrate The PAGAN Practices of this modern world!
Cronus was Father Time because of his association with the destructive power of time. There’s even an interpretation saying that his eating his kids symbolizes time devouring everything, in the end.
Another symbol of New Year's celebrations are equally pagan! It is the familiar figure of a white-haired man carrying a scythe. What does he represent? The ancient Greek god Cronos. It is from the name "Cronos" we derive our "chronograph" which measures time.
Among the Greek gods, Cronos originally cut a swath of HUMAN SACRIFICE with his sharpened scythe! The "silent reaper" anciently "reaped" little children in CANNIBALISM! This Greek rite of human sacrifice was adopted by ancient Rome, where human sacrifice was practiced at least until 300 A. D.
When Does God Begin the New Year?
Remember! The Lord Jesus, who created the Universe, He set the heavenly bodies in their places at Creation. It is by His "clock" that time is determined.
The earth's rotation regulates the length of a day -- the lunar phases indicate the length of a *month. (New Moon) And the orbit of the earth around the sun dictates the length of a year!
Only the Father and Jesus has the AUTHORITY to set the date of the beginning of the New Year!
God's calendar year begins in the spring -- NOT in the middle of winter! Notice what the Lord told Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt."
Ex 12:1-2 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Ex 34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
The Hebrew month Abib overlaps the months of March-April on the Roman calendar in use today.
The first month of God's calendar is called, in the Bible, "Abib". It means the month of "green ears." Later, the Jews called it "Nisan" -- a Babylonian word having the same meaning.
God placed the beginning of the year in the early spring to mark the beginning of the seasonal harvests. The two annual harvests in Palestine foreshadowed God's Plan for the twofold SPIRITUAL harvest of souls to be born into His Kingdom.
Your Bible speaks of a great false religious system which will "think to change times and laws”. This system has deliberately thought to change the beginning of God's calendar year in an attempt to hide God's Plan for the salvation of mankind! But man has no authority to change God's "clock."
Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. (1260Years)
Rev 13:3 -4 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Rome itself, the head of the empire, and which was built on seven mountains, designed by the seven heads of this beast: and this head was
And his deadly wound was healed; by the setting up of ten kingdoms in it, the kings of which gave them to the beast, to Antichrist, the pope of Rome, and so the empire came to have an head again, a governor, though of another kind: some choose to understand this of the wound which Antichrist received at the Reformation, by Luther, Calvin, and others, which has since been healing, Pope/Church recovering itself again in some countries where it was driven out, and which, it is thought, will be entirely healed before his destruction: all the world wondered after the beast which expresses the large extent of Antichrist's dominion, which reached to all the Roman empire, yea, to all kindred's, tongues, and nations,
Rev 13:7 -9 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindred's, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
The Pope boasts of, the true church, is actually the mark of the beast, or of Antichrist; and is his followed, by those who admire his power and authority, his grandeur, pomp, and riches, his signs and lying wonders, his pretended *infallibility(Never being Wrong) and holiness, his stock of merits and unwritten traditions, his skill to interpret Scripture, and his power to forgive sins, and the like: they went after him, obeyed him, embraced his doctrines, attended his religion and worship with wonder and amazement.
Satan, has deceived the world into believing the New Year begins on January first!
Do you think God has changed His mind about compromising with paganism?
Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
Mali 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
The same punishment is for anyone or any nation that forsakes God's laws which are in the Bible, and turns to the customs of paganism.
Does it make any difference if YOU continue observing pagan customs -- like New Year's? IT could be harmful.
New Year's celebration began in Babylon 4,000 years ago. It is practiced today by almost all.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
But God Almighty has sent His ministers to warn this world
Isa 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
I pray that people will Listen to God’s warning and not celebrate The PAGAN Practices of this modern world!