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winter solstice, the shortest day and the

longest night of the year. The unconquered

sun survived the winter as the pagans saw

this, and to appease their god, they had

festivals, sacrifices, gifts and revelry and

things of that nature at this time of year.

Now, there are a lot of things written on this.

Some of it's good and some of it's not. But

there's a lot of material that's written on the

origin of Christmas, so I'm not going to

spend a lot of time on this.

Ezekiel 20:39 says, “. . . pollute ye my holy

name no more with your gifts,” and as we

come to Ezekiel chapter 22, verse 26 says,

“Her priests have violated my law, and have

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