Blessed is the womb

I heard about Santa when I was a little boy growing up in Southern Rhodesia. I also heard about the snow and the reindeer, etc. However, it was the middle of summer in our country, and I remember hearing people say it was “A 100 degrees in the shade.” (Fahrenheit).  Yet I heard about Santa, and the snow, and the reindeer, and the chimney, etc. Our chimney was too small for anyone to come down, and we never had any snow in our country, and we didn’t have any reindeer either! So it all felt like “fairy stories!”

Churches are also into all the “fairy stories.” There is no such word as “Christmas” in the Bible. That word may also be taking Christ’s name in vain, because Jesus never gave authority for his name to be used in that way. Jesus never gave authority for the use of his name in the word “Christian” either. In fact that is opposite to what Jesus taught. Jesus said: “Many shall come in my name saying ‘I am Christ’ and shall deceive many.” (Matthew 24:5). When I was a kid, I too was deceived. I read in the Bible that the disciples were called “Christians” first in Antioch, but some ‘unknown person’ is not a credible witness. (Acts 11:26). Jesus said: “By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” (Matthew 18:16). King Agrippa used the word “Christian“ right in front of Paul, but Paul never used that word. (Acts 26:28). King Agrippa is not a reliable witness either. His ancestors tried to kill baby Jesus, they killed John the Baptist, they killed James, and wanted to kill Peter. Peter is the only disciple in the Bible to use that word “Christian,” and he uses it in connection with persecution. “If any man suffer as a ‘Christian’ let him not be ashamed, but glorify God on this behalf.” (1 Peter 4:16). Peter got beaten by the leaders of Israel for believing that Jesus was the Christ. (Acts chapter 5). He got imprisoned a few times, and Herod wanted to kill him. (Acts chapter 12). Peter said: “Love the brotherhood.” (1 Peter 2:17). Jesus means “Saviour” and Christ means “Messiah.” There is only ONE Saviour and ONE Messiah, and that is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Faith in that name can cause the lame to walk, and dance with joy! (Acts chapter 3). All my life, I have basically had three teachers: 1. Church people. 2. The Doctor of the Bible School. 3. The Holy Spirit. I choose to follow the Holy Spirit, even though church people get very angry with me at times. I don’t want to tell any lies to try and please people, I want to go to heaven one day! All liars are going to go to the lake of fire! (Revelation 21:8). There is also no such thing in the Bible as December the 25th. There is nothing in the Bible about the shepherds being with their sheep on a cold winter’s night. A Rabbi on the internet said that the sheep in Israel only have babies in the springtime.

I am of the opinion that Jesus was born in the springtime in Israel. Let me give you my reasons. In Exodus chapter 12, God himself told Moses that His New Year starts 14 days before Passover. Then one year later at Mount Sinai, in Arabia, (Galations 4:25), God told Moses he must erect the tabernacle on the first day of God’s New Year. (Exodus chapter 40).That was when the glory of God came down from heaven into the tabernacle. When Jesus got born, the angels sang: “Glory to God in the highest.” When Jesus got born, that is when the glory of God came down to earth in the form of a baby. “A body hast Thou prepared me.” (Hebrews 10:5). We met a preacher that went to heaven and back, and he said that Jesus was born at Passover, and died at Passover. I have never been to heaven and back, so I didn’t argue with him, but it was in the “springtime” that Jesus got born, not in the winter.

The Romans believed in the sun-god, and when the days got shorter in the winter, they thought that the sun-god was dying. So, 25th of December is the day of the re-birth of the sun-god according to Pope Gregory’s Calendar. Sun worship is death penalty in the Bible. (Deuteronomy  chapter 17). When the Israelites were in Egypt, God made the sun go dark, to show the Egyptians that the sun is not a god. (Exodus chapter 10).  So beloved, I urge you to follow the teachings of God as found in the Bible, and forget all the pagan stuff that comes out of Rome. Paul even wrote to the church in Rome and said to them: Be not conformed to the world (Rome), but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2).

Jesus told the religious leaders of his day that their traditions made the word of God of none effect. (Mark chapter 7). Most people seem to be very bound by their traditions. They make their traditions higher than the word of God. Beware. One day there will be a day of judgment. There are only two places to go: the new earth or the lake of fire. (Revelation chapter 21).

Song – Whispering hope

The other day I was driving my daughter to another city and she was singing various worship songs, then this old country gospel song came into my mind: Whispering hope. I tried to sing it, but had forgotten the words. She said she had never heard the song before, so I decided to look for it under the name of Jim Reeves and share it with her. I ended up getting carried away searching, and found this song sung by so many people around the world. I have tried to list them in alphabetical order.

  1. Andy Griffith
  2. Anita Kerr Singers
  3. Anne Murray
  4. Ben Shima
  5. Berean Gospel Ministers Family
  6. Bird Youmans
  7. Blackwood Brothers
  8. Bluegrass Martins
  9. Byron Lee and the Dragonaires and Friends
  10. Charley Pride
  11. CheeSookWan – piano
  12. Christian Edition
  13. Christopher Tan – piano
  14. Come on Gospel Quartet
  15. Connie Smith and Nat Stuckey
  16. Cristy Lane
  17. Dana
  18. Daniel O Donnell and Mary Duff
  19. Dick van Altena
  20. Firm Faith Zimbabwe
  21. Gloria Gaither – talking
  22. Hank Doell
  23. Hank Snow
  24. Hayley Westenra
  25. Jennifer Pearson – piano
  26. Jim Ed Brown
  27. Jim Hendricks – music
  28. Jim Reeves – Country Gospel Song – Whispering Hope
  29. Jim Roberts and Norma Zimmer
  30. Jo Stafford and Gordon McCrae
  31. Johnny Carroll – trumpet
  32. Jule Crandall
  33. Julie Andrews and Dinah Shore
  34. Kilby Brothers – music
  35. Larry Ford
  36. Mantovani Orchestra
  37. Mary Go
  38. Mother Maybelle and the Carter sisters
  39. ODONGO’S Family Choir
  40. Olive Klein and Elsie Baker (1914)
  41. O.M.
  42. Pat Boone
  43. Phil Coulter – music
  44. Presentation School Choir
  45. Rosemary Clooney and John Raitt
  46. Singing Men Quartet
  47. Skeeter Davis
  48. Slim Whitman
  49. Tjeerd Venema – instrumental
  50. TUKSDA Church Choir
  51. Virginia Lee
  52. Willie Nelson

Of all these singer, the only one I have met is Pat Boone, and he is a very nice guy. Beloved, don’t lose hope. God can always make a way for you, no matter what your circumstances are. Joseph was once in prison, but God elevated him to a high position. Daniel was in a lion`s den, three guys in a fire, Jeremiah in a muddy cistern, Peter in prison, Paul and Silas in prison, etc. Jesus said that with God all things are possible. Job got healed and his riches restored!

On some other videos it says the words and music were created by Alice Hawthorne, so that leaves a bit of mystery. Wait, I saw this afterwards: Whispering Hope was written by Septimus Winner in 1868 using the pseudonym Alice Hawthorne. Okay, that solves that mystery. Apparently he used lots of different names for his songs.