Setting up our Christmas Tree (Ashera) for Christmas

In the Tradition of the Ancient Canaanites in the Land of Canaan (Israel) we are putting up our Ashera Tree this weekend.

Did you know the origin of the Christmas Tree can be found in the Holy Bible (Torah / Tanakh) … 5,000 years ago

Yep.

Ashera was called the Queen of Heaven and was once worshipped as the Wife of God. …

The Mother of YHVH. ….

Later on the Son of God (Jesus) becomes ONE with God the Father.

Jesus makes this announcement on Hanukkah (25th kislev in the Temple of Solomon) See John 10

Source( Catholic) : https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2010%3A22-42&version=DLNT
Source (Hebrew) : https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2010%3A22-42&version=OJB
Source ( Aramaic) : https://biblehub.com/aramaic-plain-english/john/10.htm
Source (all): https://biblehub.com/parallel/john/10-22.htm#aramaic

The Ashera Tree is her symbol. This freshly cut Balsam fir was cut from the forest, trimmed and placed next to the Altar (like the ancient Menorah)

It was decorated with silver and gold, and dried pomegranates. With ribbons of purple and blue.

1 Kings 14:23 states:

For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred Ashera Trees on every high hill with every green tree…

An ancient artifact from the Sea of Galilee that shows the Ashera Tree in the Holy Temple... 3000 BC

Read in Jeremiah 10:

The Ashera is but a Tree that one cut from the forest, the handiwork of a carpenter with a small axe.

With silver and gold he beautifies it, with nails and with sledge hammers they strengthen them so that it does not bend.

Like a palm tree they are shaken, … ; they are carried (into the house) …

Sounds like our Christmas Tree !

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven (Ashera) … Jeremiah 7:18

Later on the Christmas Tree becomes a symbol of Mary, The Queen of Heaven, the Mother of God.

Her Son, Jesus the Messiah.

The Son of God.

Theological basis. Queen of Heaven (Latin: Regina Caeli) is one of many Queen titles used of Mary, mother of Jesus. The title derived in part from the ancient Catholic teaching that Mary, at the end of her earthly life, was bodily and spiritually assumed into heaven, and that she is there honored as Queen.

The title “Mother of God” is a western derivation from the Greek Theotokos, which means “God-bearer”. Mary being chosen by God, the Father, to bring Jesus Christ into this world, and her willingness to do so is great cause for celebration.

The Ashera Tree, like the ancient Menorah, represents the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden.

The Menorah in the Temple is also a representation of Ashera, the Tree of Life.

…the menorah was supposed to represent the wife and mother of God it explains why the bible goes into such intricate detail of how it should be built and how it should be made to look like a tree with blossoms and how much gold should be used in its making (Exodus 25:31-40). This clearly signifies that it is meant to represent something more than a mundane candlestick and means that God’s tabernacle and temple were dedicated to the worship of the goddess and God’s mother, wives, sisters and extended family, which his Hebrew/Canaanite/Syrian religion and mythology said he had.

Ashera, Tree of Life : https://biblicalmythology.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/the-real-meaning-of-the-tree-of-life-and-knowledge-in-the-midst-of-the-garden-of-eden/