Letter to the Editor: When was Yahshua born?
To the Editor:
I am sure there are some people that celebrate Christmas with the idea that Yahshua, better known as Jesus, was born December 25. Yahshua is the only begotten Son of the most high living God. His name is Yahweh. The letters of his name in the Hebrew alphabet are YOD Hay VAV HAY. There is no “J” or “G” sound in the Hebrew alphabet.
Yahshua was born in a little town in Israel by the name of Bethlehem. How can we be sure when He was born? Your Bible will tell you when. In your Bible, the book of Luke will verify what you are about to read. There is much greater information there.
An angel appeared to Zacharia, a priest who belonged to the priestly division of Abiyah, assigned the 8th course of temple service, the 10th week of the biblical year. The angel told him his wife Elishevah, better known as Elizabeth, would bear him a son and his name would be Yahochanon, known by you as John, John the Baptist.
Luke 1:26-55 reports that the angel Gabriel was sent to Miriam by Yahweh to inform her that she would conceive in her womb and bring forth a Son and she shall call His name Yahshua. He will be great and will be called Son of the Highest. There is more.
Miriam was a virgin being only betrothed to Yoseph but not married. She graciously accepted the assignment, then went to visit Zacharia’s wife, Elishevah, who was six months pregnant. Elishevah would have conceived shortly after Pentecost. Yahochanon would have been born in early spring. The gestation time of a woman is most of nine and a half months. That would put Yahshua’s birth about mid-September or October.
That year, Caesar Augustus decreed that all families were to be taxed. It was the last of three pilgrimages commanded by Yahweh, known as the Feast of Tabernacles. The first and eighth days are Sabbath days. No work is to be done on those days. A perfect time for our Savior to be born, on a holy day, and eight days later to be circumcised as commanded by Yahshua’s Father, to become one of a set apart people.
Because of the thousands of people gathered in and around Yerusalem, Yoseph chose Bethlehem hoping for a better possibility of a room for Miriam to give birth. There was none.
December is winter in Israel. It is cold, windy and rainy. Miriam had to ride a donkey for a week or so and then deliver a baby in possibly very inclement weather with temperatures as low as 30 degrees. Yes, it does snow in Israel.
No, Yahshua was not born the 25th of December. There is no place in the Bible that Yahshua or any of Yahweh’s chosen people celebrated their birthdays, because it stems from worshiping the sun by the heathen pagan nations originating in Babylon and were specifically forbidden to worship other nations’ gods, traditions and abominations. They did and suffered greatly.
To us as with them. Our obedience to our Savior Yahshua will bring us incredible, innumerable blessings. Our disobedience will bring upon us the curses He spoke of. Repent, turn from evil, wicked ways according to His teachings. Deuteronomy 16:18-9:29, Colossians 2:8.
With love in our Savior, Yahshua.
Nanferd and Judy Felke
Waukon
