The Family Altar Audio Devotional - Day 81

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. (Luke 2:7-8) 3 And, yet, at Christmas, you know, little kiddies, you can’t tell them no different. They, just, it’s Christmas time for them. And they wouldn’t have their little sock hung up, there would be something. It’s a tradition, even in our nation, that they hang up a sock, and something another. Why, I did, when I was a kid, and—and although as—as far off the Scripture, beaten path as it is. Yet, kids are, they hear the other kids say, “Well, I got this for Christmas. I got this.” The little fellows stand around, look, you know. You, you can’t make them understand. See? So, just, Christmas is here to stay. Yeah. 4 And it isn’t the birthday of our Lord, the time He was born. Now, if you’ll get on your…on the globe, and look, Judaea is just about as far under the equator as this is above it. So we find out, in Judaea, in them mountains up there, that there is snow. My! It’s more snow than there is here. So the shepherds could not be at…on the mountain at that time, herding their sheep. 5 And another thing, He, it’d be contrary to all nature. See? Lambs and so forth are spring born, not this time of year. Lambs are not born now. The—the ewes don’t lamb now. And He was the Lamb of God, you see. So there, He was born along in, they claim, along in April sometime, middle of April, something like that. 6 But, this being the 25th of December, why, making it the birthday. This is the sun-god’s birthday. See? The Roman Baalim, the sun-god. See? And the sun is just exactly halfway around now. And from the 20th unto the 25th was when the Roman circus was, in celebration of the sun-god’s birthday. And so they said, “Well, now, to please the both Christian and pagan, we’ll make, instead of sun-god, the Son of God and the sun-god, together. So we’ll put it all together and make it the same birthday, and make it on the 25th.” So it seemed to please the pagan and the nominal church then, in the first church of Rome. Was just…It was just all right with them, so they didn’t care. So they made it both sun-god and Son-of-God’s birthday. 7 Now, the longest day in the year is along about the 21st or 22nd, the longest night, I mean, in the year, is along about the 21st or 22nd, when, in the solar system, the sun is just bouncing over, coming back. Now they’ll start getting just a few seconds or minutes longer. And then sometime up in June or July, we have the longest day in the year. So, but, Christmas is here to stay, so we—we can’t help it. 8 Tubeless tires are here to stay. I hate them, but they’re—they’re here to stay. Uh-huh. That’s right. 9 Undressed women, they’re here to stay. Shorts, they’re going to stay. That’s all. They’re going to get shorter all the time, so ain’t nothing I can do about it. I just say it’s wrong. Stay with It, and that’s right. 10 Sin, it’s here to stay. It’s here to stay. We’re going to have it, on and on. So, just, it’s here to stay until Jesus comes. And all these things are here to stay. Now, I do not believe… 11 Let me make this clear. I do not believe that Jesus would care what day you worshipped His birthday on, if it’s the 25th, 26th, or whether it’s April, May, June, July, or whenever it might be, just so you worship, you worship Him on any day. 61-1224 - "Sirs, We Would See Jesus" Rev. William Marrion Branham