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The Christmas Tree in the Bible…

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Overview

• Christmas Tree in the Bible• Christmas Tree Symbolism in Pagan Sun

Worship

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Christmas Tree in the Bible

• Deuteronomy 12:2 You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

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Kings of Israel and Judah

• 1 Kings 23-24 For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that YHVH drove out before the people of Israel.

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Kings of Israel and Judah (2)

• 2 Kings 16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of YHVH his God, as his father David had done, but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom YHVH drove out before the people of Israel. And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

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Kings of Israel and Judah (3)

• 2 Kings 17:10-12 They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom YHVH carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking YHVH to anger, and they served idols, of which YHVH had said to them, “You shall not do this.”

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Kings of Israel and Judah (4)

• 2 Chronicles 28:2-4 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals, and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom YHVH drove out before the people of Israel. And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

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Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 2:20 “For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, ‘I will not serve.’ Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.

• Jeremiah 3:6 YHVH said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore?

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Jeremiah (2)

• Jeremiah 3:13 Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against YHVH your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares YHVH.

• Jeremiah 17:1-2 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars, while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,

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Jeremiah (3)

• Jeremiah 10:1-5 Hear the word that YHVH speaks to you, O house of Israel. Thus says YHVH: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move. Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

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Jeremiah (4)

• Jeremiah 16:19-20 O YHVH, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit. Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!” “Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is YHVH.”

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Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 6:13 And you shall know that I am YHVH, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.

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Isaiah

• Isaiah 14 describes the defeat of the Antichrist (the King of Babylon) and Satan. Interestingly right in the middle of this verses we see that the tradition of cutting the Christmas Tree (to bring it into houses) is abolished!!!

• Isaiah 14:8 The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’

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Christmas Tree Symbolism in Pagan Sun Worship

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Christmas Tree Symbolism in Pagan Sun Worship (2)