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it is said he married his own mother, whose name was Semiramis. After Nimrod's untimely death,
his so-called mother-wife, Semiramis, propagated the evil doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a
spirit being. She claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump,
which symbolized the springing forth unto new life of the dead Nimrod. On each anniversary of his
birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. December 25th
was the birthday of Nimrod. This is the real origin of the Christmas tree.

Through her scheming and designing, Semiramis became the Babylonian "Queen of
Heaven," and Nimrod, under various names, became the "divine son of heaven." Through the gen-
erations, in this idolatrous worship, Nimrod also became the false Messiah, son of Baal the Sun-
god. In this false Babylonish system, the "Mother and Child" (Semiramis and Nimrod reborn) be-
came chief objects of worship. This worship of "Mother and Child" spread over the world. The
names varied in different countries and languages. In Egypt it was Isis and Osiris. In Asia, Cybele
and Deoius. In pagan Rome, Fortuna and Jupiterpuer. Even in Greece, China, Japan, Tibet is to be
found the counterpart of the Madonna, long before the birth of Christ!

Thus, during the fourth and fifth centuries, when the pagans of the Roman world were "ac-
cepting" the new popular "Christianity" by the hundreds of thousands, carrying their old pagan cus-
toms and beliefs along with them, merely cloaking them with Christian-sounding names, the
Madonna and "Mother and Child" idea also became popularized, especially at Christmas time.
Every Christmas season you'll hear sung and chanted dozens of times the hymn "Silent Night, Holy
Night," with its familiar "Mother and Child" theme. We, who have been born in such a Babylonish
world, reared and steeped in these things all our lives, have been taught to revere these things as
holy and sacred. We never questioned to see where they came from -- whether they came from the
Bible, or from pagan idolatry!

We are shocked to learn the truth -- some, unfortunately, take offense at the plain truth! But
God commands His faithful ministers, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
show my people their transgression!" Shocking as these facts are, they are the plain facts of history
and the Bible!

The real origin of Christmas goes back to ancient Babylon. It is bound up in the organized
apostasy which has gripped a deceived world these many centuries! In Egypt, it was always be-
lieved that the son of Isis (Egyptian name for "Queen of Heaven") was born December 25th. Pa-
ganism celebrated this famous birthday over most of the known world for centuries before the birth
of Christ.

December 25th is not the birthday of Jesus the true Christ! The apostles and early true
Church never celebrated Christ's birthday at any time. There is no command or instruction to cele-
brate it in the Bible -- rather, the celebrating of birthdays is a pagan, not a Christian custom, be-
lieve it or not!

Thus the ancient idolatrous "Chaldean Mysteries," founded by this wife of Nimrod, have
been handed down through the pagan religions under new Christian-sounding names.

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