by Pastor Don Elmore
What day is our National Sabbath (United States)? Let’s see — what day do most stores and government offices close? What day looks like a day of rest? What day became a state and national holiday in the middle 1800’s?
I saw a commercial on television today and it said that this company which repossesses objects (like cars) took the advice of emails from some of its customers to take a day off.—what time did they take off—this year they took off Christmas. Christmas is the only day of the year that Kroger’s closes its stores. For many stores—the story is basically the same. Christ’s mass is the time for the nation’s Sabbath.
Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Meier’s, Macy’s, Sear’s, Ikea’s, etc. all are closed on Christmas. The one day that resembles a Sabbath in America is Christmas. Most stores and factories are CLOSED. Most people are not working. But it is NOT commanded by our God; it is the Sabbath of the god of this age.
All over the world, most civilizations have been celebrating a time of celebration for this week during the Winter Solstice. It is the actual birthday of Mithras or Nimrod. The stories are all similar. The husband dies a horrible death. The son marries his own mother. The mother has a son; which is a miraculous birth. The birth was on December 25th.