Jesus as partridge

Some say that “the twelve days of Christmas” is a song about Jesus as a partridge in a pear tree. It sounds to me like ridicule of Jesus, never mind really bad church history.

This is promoted by the Roman Catholic Church as created in a time of persecution, having to hide their beliefs in England in the 17th century during the time Catholicism was outlawed there after the Reformation. But all of these beliefs were in the English (Anglican) Church as well. The song doesn’t say anything about the doctrines of Papal Supremacy or Mary Worship, which they WOULD have to hide. It apparently is a French Christmas celebration memory game created during the reign of the father of Charlemagne, called Pepin the Short, who died in 768 AD. 

From a witch:

“The Partridge may be a small bird but it is associated with many meanings. The keywords that relate to it are: Low flight. Solitary Animal. Knowledge for knowledge’s sake. Fertility Association with Feminine forces. Man transformed to an animal. Connected to Christianity.”

“In many cultures spanning thousands of years, we can find references to the fruit of the Pear tree as a symbol of divine sustenance, abundance and longevity. The shape of the pear has represented the female form in the art world for centuries, creating a strong symbol of fruitfulness and femininity.”

This seems to be a reference to Christ as a divine feminine, as in the New Age religions. The connection to Christianity seems to be that the mother partridge will die to protect its young, like most animals will, so the sacrifice of Jesus for believers is brought down to the level of a animal dying to keep its genes going.

Sounds to me more like this was created as light-hearted ridicule of the dominant Roman Catholic religion by witches to celebrate their divine feminine while appearing to go along with Christian theology.

Sharpening

We must have compassion for those church people who fall from the high standards we expect from them, or even that they expect from themselves as followers of Christ. It is Christ that we look to as our Savior, not to weak and frail men. We can’t just reject fellow believers because their words or actions are like screeching fingernails on a chalkboard to us. Sharpening iron makes noise. The screeching indicates we are being sharpened. The temptation is to remove ourselves from their presence, by finding what we think is a better church, but we are just removing ourselves from the sharpening process. Some things need to be tolerated, as much as we are able. If we point out what is wrong about their actions, they will probably excommunicate us from our presence anyway, if they love their sin more than they do Jesus.

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Proverbs 27:17 (1611 KJB) Iron sharpeneth iron: so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Galatians 6:1 Brethren, if a man bee ouertaken in a fault: yee which are spirituall, restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted.

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BELIEVING IN JESUS IS KEEPING THE SABBATH

There are those groups who claim to keep the Sabbath as the Bible commands, and yet they make excuses where they don’t want to do it, as in Exodus —

35:3	Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations vpon the Sabbath day.

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This gives the impression that they do not want to trust Jesus to have fulfilled the Sabbath for them. Believing in Jesus is having identity with Him in His desire to do the will of the Father. It means delighting it taking up our cross, no matter how difficult. It means not just submission to the will of God, but delighting in it, and making our will in unity with it. God grant us that we can do so, because only He can bring us into unity with Him.

Psalms 119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

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Hebrews 3:18 (1611 KJB) And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that beleeued not?

3:19 So we see that they could not enter in, because of vnbeleefe.

4:1 Let vs therefore feare, lest a promise being left vs, of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to come short of it.

4:2 For vnto vs was the Gospel preached, as well as vnto the: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

4:3 For we which haue beleeued do enter into rest, as hee said, As I haue sworne in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

4:4 For he spake in a certaine place of the seuenth day on this wise: And God did rest the seuenth day from all his works.

4:5 And in this place againe: If they shall enter into my rest.

4:6 Seeing therfore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached, entred not in because of vnbeleefe:

4:7 Againe, hee limiteth a certaine day, saying in Dauid, To day, after so long a time; as it is saide, To day if ye will heare his voyce, harden not your hearts.

4:8 For if Iesus had giuen them rest, then would he not afterward haue spoken of another day.

4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

4:10 For he that is entred into his rest, hee also hath ceased from his owne works, as God did from his.

4:11 Let vs labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of vnbeleefe.