Do the holidays such as Christmas and Easter? Do they have any other meaning and do they have pagan roots? That's a very popular question. The pagan origins of Christmas and Easter that you find in YouTube videos and online, the surgeons of all of that or the popularity of those arguments, don't really have proof that there's really no proof of that. So there's no real proof of the winter, solstice happening December 25th. There's no real proof of Easter coming from Ishtar or Astorath. Actually, Ishtar came, the name is a derivative of Anglo-Saxon goddesses and most people don't know that, but it is a goddess of fertility, Ostra is what it is. And so people just want to be smart sometimes or want to know when they don't. And if you don't have proof proof, then just claiming it or guessing at it is just not, it's not a good idea. Now, of course, there are some trappings of Easter that are pagan as it pertains to the goddess of fertility. So the bunny rabbit and the eggs and all of that, of course that is. But the resurrection of Jesus Christ actually happened. And so because the resurrection of Jesus Christ happened and because we have that dominion here in the earth, the date we choose to celebrate it is just the date we choose to celebrate it. God doesn't have a problem with us picking that weekend and calling it resurrection Sunday. I don't describe to call it Easter just because of Ostra, but the actual celebration of that weekend should be the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And we should exclude the pagan trappings from it. We have to be very careful with the pagan roots of certain things, because almost everything in our culture is pagan because we live in a pagan society. I mean, you can't go to the Capitol building without looking up and seeing pagan gods and goddesses. That's just the way our culture is. And then trying to pick the exact date Jesus was born as impossible because there's no documentation to tell you what day that was. It's like our birthdays. We have a birth date and number, but we don't have a birth date because our calendar is linear and work that way. So it's a different day every year, linearly. So once you get into the go deep or delve deep into it, you find out that a lot of this, we have to depend on the grace of God. And we have the dominion to pick days and say, hey, this day I want to celebrate this person, this day I want to celebrate this person. Like I said in the beginning, you go to YouTube, you find people trying to link the worship of to moves and try to make Jesus equal to to moves and those kind of things using the parallels of the old societies that had all the different gods and goddesses to mimic Christ. They try to link them and say Christ, I mean, I've heard the word Jesus means Zeus. And you have to call him Yeshua. I've heard all of these things, but I'll tell you, John, I've traveled this world and I've cast thousands and thousands of demons out of people with the name Jesus. And they react to it. And I have a video of the truth about here part eight where I talk about our energy when we speak and how it's not necessarily the words that we frame, but it's the energy or the intent of what we're saying that projects and it's the same with our recognition of Christ and resurrection Sunday. If we recognize Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday or whatever they want to call it, we give praise to him. We talk about him and the incentives come up and want to be saved. Is there a salvation valid on that day? Or because it had pagan roots, is it not? And so those are things that we have to consider. Some of this stuff is just not important. But I do think that what Constantine did, I think our society in America still tries to do. And that is link pagan things with our Christian celebrations to discredit them, to cause Christians to fight over them, and to distract us from what we're doing. It used to be during Christmas, everyone would be talking about Jesus Christ. Now it's exmos and now it's about the season. I think it's Starbucks who refused to put Christmas on their stuff this past year. So now it's just the season thing. They still want a profit off of it. They still have the colors and all of that, but they won't put Christmas because Christ's name is in it. And so for Christians to bicker over that, I think we need to be trying to keep Christ and everything that we can keep in mind. Now I'm totally against Halloween, you know, because I'm Halloween is a day set aside for Satan worship. I'm not into taking that day and trying to use that for God because the intent of that holiday is to invoke Satan's presence. And I think it gets dangerous when you take something like that and try to use that as an opportunity for us to get together and worship God or whatever in the name of that holiday. But these other holidays were actually brought in and they're trying to link it to the birth of Christ as we celebrate it. And so I think those differences need to be brought out and they need to be understood. I like to celebrate Christmas. I like the atmosphere, the songs, some of the songs are just wonderful. I'm not talking about Rudolph. But the songs about the Savior, I think they're wonderful. But I think a lot of people. And I talk about this all the time. So our audience are those from my church. This is just all stuff we talk about all the time. But even some of the, you know, Hebrew Israelites and different ones who hate the holidays, it's for the very reason they chose the religion that they're in. They're in an angry religion to express their anger because of fatherlessness and neglect, abuse, whatever happened to them. They haven't gotten past that. And so they want to be in a system that is angry. They want to be in a system that, you know, they can express their anger. So they go against holidays and any opportunity for a family to get together because they're angry at family. And so a lot of people are doing that, you know. And I think that's, it's important for us to realize that we need to forgive. Once you forgive and really allow people in your heart, you'll want to take days to celebrate. You'll want to take days to sit at the table and let's just eat and, you know, let's do those things. I think a lot of those things get in the way of that. And another thing I wanted to bring up was Jeremiah 10 because a lot of people linked that to the Christmas tree and bringing the tree in the house. I don't know if you've read that passage, but it talks that particular passage is describing how they make idols. So it's describing the process of making idols. You go out into the forest. You bring in, you get bringing the tree, you carve it. And then you deck it in gold and silver. Those kind of things. Well, the carving was actually carving the God to be shaped as, or the wood to be shaped as whatever God it was you were serving. So these were actually carving of wood to create an idol, nailing the idol to a plate to make it stand up and then decking it with gold and silver or it's a tire, it's royal apparel, it's what it was. A lot of people think that's talking about bringing a Christmas tree in the house and decorating it and it is totally not. So a lot of those things like I said are just outlandish. And another thing is our whole society is so pagan. If we're going to get that petty, then Sunday we can't have church because that's Sunday, the SUN. That's the day that was where they recognize the sun. We can't look at planets, Jupiter's a God, Mars is a God, days of the week, Saturday is saturn day. It was the day set aside for worship to Saturn. So there's going to be pagan roots to certain things. But I think we have to just allow God to help us through a pure heart. And like I said, I don't dog out people that go against it. But don't dog me out because I'm doing it. I don't have a problem celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ as the wise men did when they brought him gifts. We bring gifts to each other and we bring the gift of our own life to it. So I just think we just have to be careful not to shun those that want to do it or shun those that don't want to do it.