False Religions in the Last Days

A few years back, I was talking to one of my ladies in my Bible study. She was being coy with me and wanted to discuss something. She had emailed me, saying she couldn’t come to the Christmas Tea.

“Did you get my email regarding the tea…I can’t come?” she said.

“Yes, I did,” I said.

“You know that I can’t come to the tea?” she said.

“Yes, that’s what you said.”

She was baiting me. She wanted to tell me the reason she wasn’t coming to the tea. I took the bait.

“So why can’t you come to the tea?” I asked.

A satisfied sigh came over the phone. She said she DID NOT celebrate Christmas. She said it was a pagan holiday. She went into a long explanation about Christmas being a pagan holiday. How we don’t know when Jesus was born. She said she is mindful of idolatry and she doesn’t want any part of idolatry in her life. Christmas was idolatry.

I felt skewered after talking to her. I felt drained and icky. I began to question myself. I was a Christian and I celebrated Christmas. I really liked Christmas. Was I being a heathen? Was I dishonoring the Lord with my celebration of Christmas? I’ve been a Christian for a long time, could I be so off base as to celebrate a pagan holiday? Yikes.

She had so much angst about Christmas. She acted like Christmas was evil. Christians really only have two holidays: Christmas and Easter. Why are we tossing out Christmas?

In the Bible it tells us:

“Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day,” Col 2:16

Boy did I feel judged after talking to her. I felt judged the whole time she sat in my Bible study group. It was the things she said, especially. She acted like she had special knowledge about the Bible that the rest of us heathens did not have. She would not use Jesus’ name. She would only call God, Father. She would try and interpret the New Testament with Hebrew. Yet the New Testament was written in Greek. It was never written in Hebrew. She would constantly refer to Jewish festivals and celebrations. But not Christmas, of course. That was a pagan holiday. I knew something was off with her, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. What did she believe?

By the end of the year I had figured it out. That is a whole other story. Bottom line, she was into what is called, Hebrew Roots. Right off, Hebrew Roots sounds fairly safe. Our Judeo-Christian roots do come from Jewish history. But Hebrew Roots is far from safe. Hebrew Roots is a false religion that seeks to snare the Christian. Hebrew Roots throws Jesus under the bus and wants you to embrace everything Jewish: holidays, celebrations, eating of Kosher food, etc. The huge problem with it, is that they HAVE thrown Jesus under the bus. They rarely talk about Jesus Christ. That’s why no Christmas. Christmas celebrates Jesus Christ’s birth. Why would you want to celebrate the birth of a Messiah, when you really don’t believe in the Messiah?

Now they seduce the Christian by saying you can have a deeper relationship and understanding of God by embracing the Hebrew Roots. But that is just a rouse.

“Many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many,” Matt. 24:11

We live in the last days. We need to keep our eyes open and stay awake. I firmly believe that Hebrew Roots is just one of many false religions coming out right now. In my research of Hebrew Roots, I found an excellent website that educates one in all things Hebrew Roots- http://joyfullygrowingingrace.wordpress.com/

Because we live in the last days and perilous times, we need to alert each other to the dangers that are out there. http://joyfullygrowingingrace.wordpress.com/ does a really great job in educating Christians about the dangers of Hebrew Roots.

Here are some tips about Hebrew Roots. If you have friends or family who start doing some of the following things, investigate. It could be no problem at all. And then, it could be a huge problem. Just be wary.

• They begin to go to church on Saturday saying it is the real Sabbath.
• They stop using the name of Jesus and call Him Yeshua.
• They start eating kosher food.
• They start hating on Christmas and Easter and start posting articles on Facebook on how bad these holidays are.
• They began to celebrate Jewish holidays.

Now these aren’t bad in themselves, they are simply signs that your friends or family members might be getting swayed by Hebrew Roots. We are in the last days. Be wary dear sister. Like the picture I posted with this piece, Hebrew Roots tries to reflect our faith, but it’s not the real thing.