BIRTHDAY, A CURSED DAY?

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bore me, be blessed (Jeremiah 20:14).

After the fall of Adam, the human race sinned and fell short of the glory of God. That was why David said in Psalm 51:5 “Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me.”

Ecclesiastes 7: 1 says the day of death is better than the day of one’s birth. This is why Jesus NEVER commanded His disciples to remember the day they were born but they should remember the day of His death by observing the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper.

Christ paid a high price with His precious blood in redeeming believers from the curse of the law and universal sin. Therefore, celebrating this day is counting the blood of the covenant, an unholy thing. Such believers in Christ who observe the days of birth are turning to the weak and beggarly elements, which bring them into the yoke of bondage.

It is renewing the covenant with the day that is cursed! It is therefore, a day that is not worthy of remembrance, let alone being celebrated!

None of the patriarchs or the disciples of Jesus, not even any of the saints of God in the bible observed the day they were conceived and born in sin.

But believers in Christ today bless this cursed day and make a joyful voice of it and even provoke the Lord to anger by the cutting of the so-called “birthday cakes”. These cakes are not different from the ceremonial cakes offered by the children of Israel unto a demon-goddess known as the queen of heaven as we see in Jeremiah 7: 18-19.

The two occasions recorded in the bible of birthday celebration are in Genesis 40: 20-22 and Mark 6: 21-28. And these two kings, Pharaoh and Herod, who observed and celebrated this day, were pagans.

Two lives were lost in the course of the celebrations in which King Pharaoh’s chief baker was hanged and John the Baptist, a servant of God was beheaded on the order of King Herod. It means the devil who has come to kill and to destroy was the author of these two birthday celebrations.

The devil is always at every birthday celebration, seeking whom to devour. Jesus, who came to redeem us from the Adamic sin, in which we were born into this world, must be grieved in His heart to see the people of God celebrating this day!

The truth is that the redemption of mankind was made possible by the death of Christ and by the shedding of His precious blood. Therefore, the birth of Jesus Christ, was only a precursor to this great memorable event of His death, hence Jesus never commanded His disciples to do anything in remembrance of His birth but were only commanded to remember His death by observing the Lord’s Supper often and often!

And so, this worldwide celebration of the birth of Christ, by believers and even by unbelievers is a religious ceremony in futility because it has no eternal or spiritual value to the souls of believers in Christ.

And this celebration, because it is unbiblical and ungodly, has been hijacked by the devil, who deceives the whole world, making them to accept this fictitious day of 25th December as the day Christ was born.

This preaching of “Christmas” and its celebration is actually the preaching and celebration of another Jesus, mentioned by Paul in 2 Corinthians 11:4a because the word, “Christmas” is nowhere to be found in the bible neither is Mas found in the bible. A ma, an abbreviation of Mass, is a subtle strategy of Satan to tarnish the name of Christ.

What should be uppermost in the heart of every believer in Christ is the thought of his/her eternal destination when he/she leaves the world, NOT the remembrance of the day he/she was born.