Again I beg to ask the question why should a day which was ordained to be a day of great joy to all peoples be unknown and hidden from them and thus having the need to be substituted by the pagan festival of Christmas?
According to prophet Daniel the kingdom of God will be established during the reign of the fourth kingdom (the Roman Empire). For thus he wrote; “As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it in pieces.” But the court, shall sit in judgment and his dominion shall be taken away, and to be consumed and destroyed to the end.’
“And
the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole
heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High’ their
kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey
them” (Daniel
7:23, 26-27).
The
kingdom of God is the principal and ultimate objective for our righteous way of
living. It is stated that when Jesus returns He will separate the sheep from
the goats, and say to the sheep on His right hand, “Come you are blessed by My
Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation
of the world” (Matthew 25:34).
The
prerequisite for inheriting the kingdom of God is the immortality of our body;
because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God nor does the
perishable inherit the imperishable. Now in order for the immortal to put on
immortality, and for the perishable to become imperishable, the Holy Spirit
must dwell in the individual; because it is only if the Spirit of Him who
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the
dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through His Spirit which dwells
in you.
The
unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God, nor will the immoral,
idolaters, adulterers, sexual perverts, thieves, the greedy, drunkards,
revilers, and robbers inherit the kingdom of God. Those who are guaranteed
inheritance in the kingdom of God, and reaps God’s ultimate plan for man are
those who drinks the water that Christ has given which is His blood, and it
will become in him a spring of water, which is the Holy Spirit, welling up to
everlasting life, which is the immortality of the human body. This is what
believing in Jesus Christ entails, it is not merely a vague nebulous ideology
with little or no substance.
But as believers, how do we demonstrate our belief in Jesus Christ as being the King of kings and Lord of lords? The way one demonstrates his/her belief in Jesus Christ as the King of kings and Lord of lords is by observing the Feast of Tabernacles which commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ and also foreshadows the Millennium when the kingdom of God will be established on earth.
Remember, Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and the way the King and the Lord of hosts will be worshiped in the future is stated as follows; “And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles” (Zechariah 14:16).
This festival commemorates the day the Word became flesh and tabernacle among men and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. When Jesus was brought before Pilate and he asked Him, “Are You a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth” (John 18:37).
By observing the Feast of Tabernacles is how Jesus Christ is acknowledged as the King of kings and Lord of hosts and we have been forewarned saying; "And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles" (Zechariah 14:16-19).
Here
again we see clearly that this festival was ordained for the joy of all peoples
so I beg to ask the question again, why should a day ordained for the joy to
all peoples be hidden, unknown and had to be substituted with the pagan
festival of Christmas?
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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