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We like to think that Christmas has nothing to do with politics. But there it is right at the beginning of the New Testament in the genealogy of Matthew’s Gospel. Did you think Christmas was a chance to get away from all the bickering and cajoling and find some “peace on earth?”
Sorry for shaking your tree, but the Christmas story begins with Matthew highlighting four women in the birth story of Jesus: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and “her who had been the wife of Uriah.” Putting even one women in the genealogy of a future king would have stood out, but naming four females in the build up to the Messiah’s credentials is an in-your-face call for a fight in the male-dominated patriarchal society of the first century.
But wait, these are not just any women! Three out of the four were not even Israelis. Tamar, Rahab and Ruth are foreign immigrants! And “her who had been the wife of Uriah” (as through trying to hide her identity, but we all know who she is) was married to...
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The true Christmas story?? Are there any critically minded people among the writers of “Israel Today”?
ChristMAS is a Catholic MESS! Since when do Jews embrace what Catholics embrace, and what the whole world embraces = paganism squared in the guise of Christianity!! Ah… I forgot, Messianic Jews also embrace the Trinity, the chief idol of Rome Papal; they call it the “Triune God”, – yes, sounds so much better…
While the Jewish people held the Baptist in high esteem, they did not connect him with Jesus. His portrayal as a forerunner, miraculously born by an aged couple, was made up in the mid-second century to make pagans embrace a new god. Hippolytus of Rome, who was acquainted with the Hebrew Gospel, states that the mothers of Mary and Elizabeth were sisters, in other words, Elizabeth was young.
Census? Shepherds, angelic choir?? Have you all lost your mind? Do the writers of “Israel Today” also pray the rosary??? Is it not obvious that our canonical gospels are the paganised remains of the true narrative written by Mattai in Hebrew?? Is there no one who delves a bit into church and manuscript history? That is not optional… unless you want to follow the idolatrous “I-love-Jesus-so-much-freaks.”
Whether Josephus would have skipped the slaughter due to its insignificance (rather than including it due to anti-Herod bias) is a moot point because Herod the Great had been dead for 1½ years when Jesus was born on Yom Teruah.
Articles like this prove that history repeats itself: today, the pagans lure Israel into idolatry as they did in Moses’ day.
Yes, Merry Xmas… Merry Babylonian sun worship (i.e. devil worship, which feels always soooo good).