NO WIN SITUATIONS

NO WIN SITUATIONS

                “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Evelyn Beatrice Hall.

                Some of the issues that we as Christians face in these last days seem to force us into no win situations. For instance, as it concerns the issue of Christmas:

                First of all we know that the date for Christmas is at least partially of pagan origin. So some people are against the celebration of Christmas and among those the Messianic Jews that choose to observe only the Lord’s appointed Feasts. There are others as well who for one reason or another choose not to observe Christmas. Those include Jehovah’s Witnesses  and others.

                Some have said that if God wanted us to know the time of Jesus’ birth He would have told us. However, with the information given us in the Bible concerning the reign of the kings and the cycles of the Jewish Priests make it possible to know exactly when Zacharias, John the Baptists father served as a priest in the temple. So (Thanks to the dead sea scrolls that gave us the courses of the priests) we can take the other precise timings of Elizabeth and Mary and such, and come up with a pretty accurate timing of the birth of Jesus. So the information is in the Bible for those who want to seek it out.

                But there is an issue in the world today concerning Christmas that is bigger than that. The truth of the matter is that the war against Christmas is not so much about the day as it is about Jesus Himself. We are engaged in a war against Jesus Christ Himself and the world’s desire to bury His name forever.

                Given this fact, we are faced with the reality that to do away with Christmas would be a major blow to the cause of Christianity. Christmas stands, along with Easter as one of the two of the great testimonies of the existence and mission of Jesus Christ. One bears the testimony that Jesus Christ was born into the human family. He was born in the likeness of sinful flesh. He came into the world to redeem us and to reconcile us to His Father, to save us from our sins and to be born in us by His Spirit so that we can grow up in Him to share His glory and His throne.

                Likewise Easter stands as another witness to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and because Easter bears witness to the truth of His resurrection, it also bears witness to the truth that He will come again as promised to receive us unto Himself so that where He is, there we may be also.

                In other words, if you believe that the events of Christmas and Easter are true, then you agree to the validity of God’s Word and if these two miraculous events are true then the rest of the Bible is true as well. There can be no agreement with the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus without agreeing that His Word is true

                What we might say then, is that to do away with both Christmas and Easter would be to shoot ourselves in the foot by doing away with two of the great witnesses to the birth, death and resurrection of our Messiah Jesus Christ the Lord.

                So, to take a firm stand against these two institutions is a no win situation. How much better off we would be to take our stand for Jesus Christ and His Word and to let Christmas and Easter take care of themselves. They still bear witness to Jesus Christ, His birth, His death on our behalf and His resurrection and as such they also bear witness to the truth of God’s Word and the validity of His promise that He will come again.

                The signs of His coming are everywhere and even as the virgins sleep and argue about petty things, the antichrist is building his final kingdom… and we will soon have to defend our faith in Jesus Christ and His Word with our very lives. The issue then is not going to be about Christmas or Easter, but whether we are willing to stand for Jesus Christ and His Word or if we will give in and receive the Mark of the Beast, which will represent our final rejection of Jesus as our Savior and Lord. Think on these things.

                Our right to proclaim the name of Jesus is on the chopping block right now as the hordes of the coming antichrist are surging ahead to remove all freedom of speech for those who speak the truth. Let us make sure that the truth for which we may give our lives is a truth worth telling.