Daily Devotional, Year 2 – JULY 31 (The 7 Stars, Part 3: ‘7 Stars’ Imitate ‘The Cross of Orion’ CONTINUED “Christmas…the Highest Form of Praise!”)
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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – JULY 31
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The 7 Stars, Part 3:
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‘7 Stars’ Imitate ‘The Cross of Orion’
CONTINUED
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“Christmas…the Highest Form of Praise!”
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IMITATION: THE HIGHEST FORM of PRAISE?
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Have you ever heard the expression, “Imitation is the highest form of praise”?
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And don’t we see a lot of imitation going on in the world?
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For instance, look at these imitators of “The King” of modern music!
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Yes, the Bible says… “for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” Luke 16:8
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Yes, the world is often wiser in their worldly wisdom than we Christians are in heavenly wisdom!
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And it’s just too bad that we aren’t as zealous of imitating our King, as these men are about imitating their king!
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Elvis impersonator record – Wikimedia – Share-alike License
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THE TWO BABYLONS
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One of the most revered holidays is the Christmas holiday (or, “holy-day”).
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It is celebrated in many nations of the world, by Catholics, Christians, and non-Christians alike!
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But where did Christmas come from?
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Just where and when did Christmas come into being?
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Well, Hislop’s book, “The Two Babylons” presents the history of Christmas, and how it originally came from ancient Rome, as a day celebrating their pagan deity.
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Santa’s Portrait by T. Nast 1881wikimedia public domain
Choir performs at the Christmas-tree lighting celebration – wikimedia – public
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CHURCH of ROME IMITATES ANCIENT BABYLON
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But during the rise of the Church of Rome in early centuries, that apostate organization, in collaboration with pagan Rome…
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…began to mingle various Roman and pagan traditions into Christianity.
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Their intent was to gain a wider appeal to its vast pagan citizenry, thus enticing them into that apostate church.
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Thus, both Easter and Christmas are rooted in paganism.
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(The Bible even speaks of Easter as a day to celebrate the resurrection of the god, “Tammuz”, in which the apostate Hebrew women gathered at sunrise to weep for that pagan deity, just prior to his (supposed) rising from the dead. [See Ezekiel 8:13-15])
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CHRISTMAS ROOTED IN CHURCH of ROME AND POSSIBLY BABYLON
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And Christmas was a day in which another pagan god was celebrated, called “The Seven Days of Saturnalia”, which took place in late December.
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But of course, in previous centuries Satan designed these pagan “holy-days” to have enough similarity to the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ to make such a forbidden union of paganism-to-Christianity very easy!
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And Hislop’s book makes very distinct, the connection with the Church of Rome to ancient pagan Babylon…thus his title, “The Babylons”.
(Alexander Hislop has many detractors today, as one might well imagine, who attempt to criticize and malign him and his book in their defense of Christmas and its originator, the Church of Rome)
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Saturn – by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT – Wikipedia – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
The Two Babylons – Alexander Hislop – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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IMITATION: THE HIGHEST FORM OF PRAISE!
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And the point to be made today, is that by celebrating these Roman Catholic holy-days, the Christian community is actually praising, howbeit unwittingly, the Church of Rome.
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Yes, “imitation is the highest form of praise”.
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“COME OUT OF HER (SPIRITUAL BABYLON), MY PEOPLE”
Revelation 18:4
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The Good News is that instead of imitating & praising the World, God is just now giving us opportunity to come out of this Babylonish world, and begin praising our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Yes, instead of imitating this pagan world, we still have the privilege of imitating our Lord (which, of course, such an imitation is truly, truly, the very highest form of praise!)
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Prayer – USMC – Wikimedia – US Govt. Public Domain
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, help me to begin to embark on the upward, Heavenward sojourn out of this dark and dismally hopeless world…
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…July 23 (“Christmas, An ‘Ishmael’ of the Church!”)…
…or you can also read…July 12 (“How The Grinch Invented Christmas!”)
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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STARS IMITATE THE CROSS OF ORION
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This phenomenon begins in late October, in the pre-dawn hours.
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It then begins a little earlier each night, and lasts for several months, until they both appear to lie down once again.
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This Wikipedia star-chart has this Orion Constellation sketched in.
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You must locate Orion, when it is mid-sky, between east and west.
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You’ll be facing southward most likely, unless you are far south.
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Try to imagine it as a Cross on a steep hill.
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The 3-star belt of Orion becomes the crest of the hill.
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The 3 very faint stars that make up Orion’s head become the very top of the Cross.
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Next, locate the 7 Stars Constellation by facing northward.
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It stands upright a little later in the night.
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Eventually, Orion will lay down and no longer be seen as an uplifted Cross!
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Beginning in November, the 7 Stars (AKA Big 
Dipper) can be seen as a Cross a little bit later in evening.
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When you are comfortable in locating Orion & The 7 Stars Constellations, then show a friend. This can be a great witnessing tool!
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The 7 Stars Imitate The Cross of Orion”
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TOMORROW:
AUGUST 1 (A Heavenly Hobby!)
Starry Night at La Silla – Wikimedia – Share-Alike license
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20+ MINUTE AUDIO STUDY IN JEREMIAH 
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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO BEGIN FOLLOWING THIS 650+ AUDIO BIBLE STUDY THROUGH THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH EACH DAY ON THIS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.
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THIS STUDY #577 IS PRESENTED BY THE LATE HAROLD CAMPING…
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above picture: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain
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