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Name Bubbe Mysehs Shabbat ARMOR Goisha Gospel Close Your Eyes! Torah Teacher Jewish Messiah Christmas Grace

 

Guess what! Christmas is not Yeshua's birthday.

The Pagan Mass for Tammuz celebrated on the 25th day of Thebeth, which centuries later became Christ's Mass on the equivalent 25th day of December, has no Biblical connection with Yeshua's birth

Our Jewish prophet ,Micah, wrote that the Messiah was destined to be born in Beth-Lechem - the House of Bread. God called Him the Bread from Heaven, manna which in Hebrew means "What is It?" It was because of this prophecy that King Herod had the children of Beth-Lechem killed, in order to protect his throne against the coming promised king. The rabbis who translated the Septuagint taught from the prophet YeshaYahu, Isaiah, that He would be born of a virgin and would be called Immanuel - God with Us.

In the expected time and place, on the Festival of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, in a succah , or temporary dwelling, a Son was born to a virgin descended from David.  At an angel's command, he was named Yeshua , meaning "The Lord is Salvation."

Yochanan tells us that the Word of God became flesh and "dwelt among us" as in a succah, a tabernacle .

We can also understand the time of Yeshua’s birth by a simple understanding related to the time of his cousin Yohanan’s birth which is based on his father’s service in the temple.