From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
                    Celebrating of holidays   
      
      
   The great Holidays, Christmas, Easter and the Pentecost do   
   not be celebrated according to the Bible.   
      
   The Bible says nothing about celebrating of Christmas. None   
   know which day or month Jesus was born. No bible word   
   gives any hint of that the first Christians celebrated Jesus'   
   birthday as a holiday.   
      
   Most of people's celebrating of Christmas has nothing to do   
   with the birthday of Jesus. They do it for their own pleasure.   
   The Christmas tree, the Christmas pig, Christmas ham, Lucia,   
   Santa Claus and many ridiculous songs, what has this to do   
   with the birthday of Jesus?   
      
   The Holiday of Easter (Passover), they have distorted beyond   
   recognition.   
      
   That Jesus was crucified on a Friday, it is a lie of the church.   
   Jesus was crucified on the Passover day, and it was a Wednesday.   
   At the evening the body of Jesus was laid in the grave. "And it   
   becoming evening already, since it was the preparation, that is,   
   the day before the Sabbath." Mark. 15:42. Thursday was the   
   Sabbath! For that Sabbath day was a high day. John 19:31.   
      
   The body of Jesus lay in the grave three days and three nights,   
   72 hours. Matt. 12:40. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. If we   
   count Wednesday evening and 72 hours ahead, we come to   
   the Saturday evening. Accordingly, Jesus already ought to   
   resurrect Saturday evening.   
      
   What does Easter egg or Easter witches have to do with the   
   Passover?   
      
   The day of Pentecost is celebrated as a Holiday, as a memory   
   of Jesus' first disciples was baptized by the Holy Spirit.   
   However, what that happened the day of Pentecost is not only   
   an isolated phenomenon that happened a long time ago. It has   
   continued all the time since the days of the apostles. When   
   people convert to Jesus and believe in him, then Jesus baptizes   
   them by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit gives them the new life in   
   Christ so that they become born again.   
      
   No bible word gives any hint of that the first Christians   
   celebrated the day of Pentecost as a holiday, as a memory of   
   that the first disciples were baptized by the Holy Spirit. Such   
   celebrating is unnecessary and meaningless.   
      
   Yet, the baptism by the Holy Spirit is vital. The Spirit gives   
   us the new life in Christ and makes us to new creations in   
   Christ. 2 Cor. 5:17. In this way we enter the Assembly of   
   God. In the Assembly of God we are ALL baptized by the   
   Holy Spirit, not only those who are speaking with tongues.   
   1 Cor. 12:12-31.   
      
   Being members in the Assembly of God has nothing to do   
   with churches or denominations. When someone becomes born   
   again, then the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit work together.   
   The Father draws the sinner to Jesus. John 6:44. Jesus baptizes   
   by the Holy Spirit. John 1:33. The Spirit gives the new life in   
   Christ so that the sinner becomes born again. John 3:6-8.   
      
   Assistance of any church or any denomination is not necessary.   
   Churches and denominations have no part in the propitiatory   
   sacrifice of Jesus, and they can never be saved. Only people   
   can be saved.   
      
   The churches serve Satan and hinder people to understand   
   God's word. At the same time they appear as God's servants,   
   and entice people to think that the churches are from God.   
      
   Through celebrating the day of Pentecost as a holiday and   
   make it to only an empty ceremony, the churches divert their   
   attention so that they do not understand or think that the   
   baptism by the Holy Spirit is something for themselves to   
   experience, if they convert to Jesus and believe in him.   
      
   The churches rather want people to celebrate the day of   
   Pentecost as a holiday, than that they experience the baptism   
   by the Holy Spirit.   
      
   Allan Svensson   
      
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