Turning Cities Upside Down During the Xmass Season

by Bro John McGlone

Saints, we have started our ‘holiday’ season preaching last Black Friday in Louisville at the Light Up Louisville Xmas tree lighting ceremony revelry.   We have been preaching there many years and were blessed again to lift up our voices for Jesus, and to be reviled for the truths that we preach from the Bible which is in such marked contrast to American culture and ‘churches’.

Bro Bill Preacher and John McGlone @ LightUpLouisville

Today, Dec 1st,  Bros Marvin Heiman and Joshua will head out to Columbia, Ky to preach at their small Christmass parade event.  We have always been given great favor using banners and small amplifiers to preach to our local community.

Tomorrow Bro Joshua and I will head out to Glasgow, Ky to preach at their local Xmass parade event.   Last year the city was set on it’s head with the truths of the Bible they obviously have not been hearing in their ‘churches’.    I will share here some of the media and events that happened after that fateful night of exciting preaching on the public square in that city.

Bro Marvin starting the night of preaching Dec 2017

Silly Statements by Parade Goers Glasgow, KY

Glasgow Xmass Parade Article

CITY ATTORNEY RICH ALEXANDER TO ADDRESS THE GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL REGARDING RECENT FIRST AMENDMENT FREE SPEECH ISSUES [OF PREACHERS WHO UPSET US]

Daniel Rusk Beaten in Glasgow
Br. Daniel had only preached for some 15 minutes before he was beaten and I was restrained from trying to intervene on his behalf.  He was subsequently arrested and charged for disorderly conduct by the police and attacker who claimed Daniel had spit upon him.  We filed charges against the man the next day after Daniel was released from prison.  We followed up months after Daniel’s court date and dismissal of all charges concerning the attacker.  The city attorney claims the man has not shown up for court, is on the run, and they can’t locate him.

In Kentucky, we have all manners of Xmass parades in multitudes of small towns that we can’t even keep up with all of them.  I exhort everyone to get out there to make the message of Christ, known among the heathen in your Jerusalem, your Samaria, and the outer parts of the world.
God bless you.

Christmas is a Pagan Holiday?

by Adam Bishop
afterword by John McGlone
Dec 25,  2017

 A nice chart which debunks the myth of claims by Zeitgeist and other New age disinformation propaganda material.

Note: I do believe that Jesus was born on December 25th.

Biblically speaking, it’s really based off of the conception of John the Baptist and the annunciation of the Holy Spirit to Mary.

The Archangel Gabriel appearing to Zachariah in the High Temple when he was serving as high priest on the Day of Atonement (Luke 1:8). This placed the conception of St. John the Baptist during the feast of Tabernacles in late September, as the Archangel Gabriel said (Luke 1:28) and his birth nine months later at the time of the summer solstice.

Since the Gospel of Luke states that the Archangel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary in the sixth month after John’s conception (Luke 1:26), this placed the conception of Christ at about the time of the spring equinox, that is, at the time of the Jewish Passover, in late March. His birth would thus be in late December at the time of the winter solstice.

Historically speaking, we see numerous examples.

Saint Telesphorus, Bishop of Rome, who reigned from 126-137 AD, instituted the Lord’s Supper on Christmas Eve. Liber Pontificalis, shows that he was already keeping Christmas, and then added the Supper right before the day occurred.

Theophilus (115-181 AD) was a Bishop in Caesarea who lived under the reign of the Roman Emperor Commodus. Within 100 years of the Apostles, he wrote:

“We ought to celebrate the birth-day of our Lord on what day soever the 25th of December shall happen.” Magdeburgenses, Cent. 2. c. 6. Hospinian, de orign Festorum Chirstianorum

Hippolytus of Rome (170-240 AD), in his commentary on Daniel, wrote this in regards to the date of our Lord’s Birth:

“The first coming of our Lord, that in the flesh, in which he was born at Bethlehem, took place eight days before the calends of January, a Wednesday, in the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus, 5500 years from Adam.” (Commentary on Daniel 4:23)

The eighth before the calends of January is the twenty-fifth day of December, and the forty-second year of Augustus counting from the death of Julius Caesar was 2 BC.

Clement of Alexandria (160-215 AD), also wrote concerning our Lord’s Birth:

“And there are those who have determined not only the year of our Lord’s birth, but also the day; and they say that it took place in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus, and in the twenty-fifth day of Pachon.” (Stromata, I, xxi)

Counting from the death of Antony in 30 B.C., the 28th year of Augustus would have been 2 B.C. The first month of the Egyptian calendar was Thoth, answering to late August (Thoth 1 = August 29). The ninth month was Pachon. The 25th of Pachon answers to the 20th of May. However, this is usually explained by the fact that the months originally took their names from where they occurred in the year. Hence, October, November and December were the eighth, ninth, and tenth months counting from March in the original Roman calendar, which had only ten months. But the Greek Fathers frequently took April, instead of March, for the first month of the year, as we see expressly in St. Chrysostom, in Anastasius Patriarch of Antioch, the Apostolic Constitutions, in Macarius, Stephanus, Gobarus, and other of the ancients. This would make December the ninth counting from April.

Irenaeus of Lyons (120-202 AD), in his works “Against Heresies” believe that March 25th was the date of the annunciation of the Holy Spirit to Mary in Luke 1. Since He based this off of John the Baptist’s birth. Since John the Baptist, was born on the day of atonement, he then set the date of it to September 25th as the day of the feast. Add 9 months later (as you would typically see in a mother giving birth to her child) and you have December 25th

See: Irenaeus: Against Hereseis, 3.10.1-2

Tertullian (160-220 AD), links and equates the equinox with the birth of Christ:

“And the suffering of this “extermination” was perfected within the times of the lxx hebdomads, under Tiberius Caesar, in the consulate of Rubellius Geminus and Fufius Geminus, in the month of March, at the times of the passover, on the eighth day before the calends of April [March 25th], on the first day of unleavened bread, on which they slew the lamb at even, just as had been enjoined by Moses”.(An Answer to the Jews, 8.18)

In 221 AD, you have the Christian Historian Julius Africanus who in his work “chronographai” which lists all of history dating back from 5500 B.C. to the time he wrote this work, lists the conception of Jesus Christ on March 25th.

In the Apostolic Constitutions, which were completed around 380 A.D., lists and dates back all the way to the beginning of the Church, says this about the date of Christ’s Birth:

In the Fifth book, Sec. III, we find:

“Brethren, observe the festival days; and first of all the birthday which you are to celebrate on the twenty-fifth of the ninth month.”

The ninth month counting from Nisan (April) is Casleu in the Jewish calendar. Transferred to our Roman calendar, the ninth month answers to December.

The Byzantine Christian, Nicephorus, wrote an ecclesiastical history in which he lists the Roman Emperor, Diocletian destroying a church on December 25th which celebrated the nativity of Jesus:

“At Nicomedia (a city of Bithynia) when the festival of Christ’s birth-day came, and a multitude of Christians in all ages had assembled together in the temple to celebrate that birth-day. Diocletian the tyrant, having gotten an advantageous occasion whereby he might accomplish his madness and fury, sent men thither to enclose the temple, and to set it on fire round about, and so consumed them all to ashes, even twenty thousand persons.”

John Selden in his work, “Theanthropos” (1661, pp. 33, 34), confirms Nicephorus’ report, saying that ancient Greek and Roman martyrologies date this event to Dec. 25th. And that this event occurred in either 303 or 304 AD.

 afterword by John McGlone

I will be updating this section as I have time to finish studying Adam’s fine assemblage of information concerning this divisive issue that rears it’s ugly head every year.  God bless you, and Happy Birthday Jesus!

Lighting Up Louisville by the Holy Ghost

Looneyville Gets Crazy for Idols!
by John McGlone

We headed up to Louisville, KY to preach the Light Up Louisville event the day after a blessed Thanksgiving.  Bros Marvin &  Joshua Heiman, my son Daniel, and my daughters Caitlin and Sarah made up our group braving almost freezing temperatures as God wanted us to get to this idolatrous event to bring some heat of the Holy Ghost upon the hearts and minds of men during this season.

I was blessed to speak at length to seven young adult Baptist Christians. Of course the following were hot topics; sinless perfection, OSAS, Lordship Salvation, daily sinful disobedience. One of the young men were very offended, yet most seemed very excited about the preaching. Pray they would continue to seek the truth!

I was blessed again to have young man who was desiring to come to our ‘church’ and very much approved of the open air preaching. He even knew the local preacher Chad Johnson who regularly preaches in Louisville.
I was blessed again to speak to a young black woman who had three children from different fathers. I prayed and asked the Lord to bless. and guide them. She was appreciative and the children were very excited to get the tracts about Jesus coming to ‘town’.
We preached a lot about good parenting, not lying to our children about Santa Claus, Rudolph, or Frosty. To give them the gift of godly parenting which would point the children to Jesus. We spoke about how parents; dads and moms would have the greatest judgment before Jesus for their children.
I had one very large young man with a lot of children breathe out murderous threats against me because his children were reaching out for tracts. I was surprised at his venom as he said, “Don’t get that sh#t near my children!” I was going to correct his grammar and vulgar language but the Lord lead me to tell him, “My King is going to burn you, if you don’t repent!”
Many were offended that our youth would be there testifying against them as well. They thought that we were corrupting our children. Wow, the carnal mind can’t get anything straight at all. I say many homosexual with young children that were not theirs biologically. The homosexual ageda includes the adoption of a whole generation of children to indoctrinate them and make homo normalized in our culture. “Christians”, where are you?
Marvelous preaching!

Get out there saints and light up your city for Jesus Christ, while there is yet light to give to these poor miserable souls lost in the darkness of their sin!

Luke 2:6-14 So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. 8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 14 “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”

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