<TITLE>05. Par 36-42</TITLE>L-36   Now, if you wish to turn in the Bible to the... The Scripture is found in Saint Matthew the 21st chapter, and beginning with the... I think we read the--the 10th and the 11th verse of the 21st chapter of Matthew. Be good, when you go home, if you haven't already done it through this holidays, if you would read this chapter through. It's very good. It's all good. This especially, for this season, and with the Message I hoping that the Holy Spirit let me bring you this morning.

L-37 Notice the 10th verse as we read, and the 11th.
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Now let's... God add to His Word the--the context of this Scripture reading.

L-38   Now we know the time that it is, and many of you are familiar with the Scripture of this certain chapter. It's on... really on the day that Christ came into Jerusalem, riding on this little donkey. And we... There's a legend says that "it was a white donkey." I'd imagine, in prefigure of His second coming on a charger. That time, the prophet said, that "He would ride... Your King comes to you upon the foal of an ass, and is lowly and meek." That's how He come and--and... upon a--a little donkey, a little burden-bearer. But the next time He comes from Glory (in the 19th chapter of Revelation), He comes as a Mighty Conqueror. His vesture dipped in blood, setting upon a white horse, and all the host of Heaven's following Him upon white horses. And the legend (not scripturally or historically)... But the legend believes that He was riding a little white donkey as He come into Jerusalem.

L-39   Now that... I have chosen this... is still... because that we're in the shadows of the... or in the time of the yule season of Christmas, and--and New Year's; the ending of an old year, and the bringing in of a new one. A few days from now, many people will be turning new pages and--and doing new things and making new vows; and it's beginning of a New Year. And it never seems to me too much like Christmas. I don't know why, I always like to call it "Santa Claus Day." See? Because there's not much really...

L-40 It couldn't have been Christ's birthday. It just absolutely could not have been. He'd have had to been born in March or April, 'cause He was the Lamb. And He was a male sheep and borned in under the ram, Aries. It had to be, you see. And sheep are not born in December anyhow. Sheep are born in the Spring. And then another thing, the hills of Judea now, there's twenty feet of snow on it. How could the shepherds have been out there?

L-41   So it really comes from Roman mythology, which was the sun-god's birthday. The solar sun as it passes, the days lengthen and lengthen, and the nights grow shorter. And between the 20th and the 25th of December is the sun-god's birthday, under the Roman--Roman mythology. And then their gods... And then they celebrated the sun-god's birthday. And Constantine, and--and drawing up the constitution of the church and state and so forth. He said, "We will change it" (not knowing what the day was) "and put it over on the sun-god's birthday, and make it: Son of God's birthday." See? Which... But we don't know what day it was.

L-42 But now, theirs, taken so much of Christ out, till it's everything... some again brought back the mythology of some creature that lived, supposingly, by the name of Saint Nicholas or--or Kriss Kringle, some German mythology. And it's all just a myth, and Christ is not in it at all.


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