If Messiah Were Born Right Now
The holiday invites one to think about what they would do if Messiah were here today. A parallel question might be whether Messiah COULD be here today, in any capacity other than judgment.
It might be too fantastic to imagine, so maybe a step down would be that today what would the world do and how would it react if there were an actual prophet able to clearly hear the voice of God?
I believe that we are probably closer to how the Sadducee and Pharisees were on the collective whole with most modern Christianity taking the side of one of these polarities or the other. Indeed, I am not so sure that today's Christians would not make the same decision that the Jewish people were guilty of in calling for the Messiah's death.
The truth is, civilization and the world as a whole mostly, at this juncture, moves against purity and truth. That's not to say it does universally. It is to say that the persecution level has grown quite high over issues that should be not subject to debate and that many churches have closed their doors or allowed categorically unBiblical doctrines into their pulpits. One cannot dress sin up in righteous clothing and call themselves a church when the sin itself declares in a loud voice that it is an abomination.
The day of Christmas itself is derivative of the Catholic mass. Is it a Biblical day? Or, is it an invented day that the Catholic church settled on because it was close enough to the Solstice? If it were a Biblical day, wouldn't it be something like a Thanksgiving feast as opposed to a mass? Isn't the Catholic church busy trying to render blessings over marriages that Biblically cannot be? Well then, doesn't that make a 'mass' maybe not the thing to be doing if it is that confused about what it is supposed to believe and act upon?
The secular notions of love and tolerance are fighting a war with the actual spiritual definitions of those words and what freedom means within the confines of those constructs. A modern prophet would know the difference, and would likely be de-platformed quicker than he or she could type the words. This indicates a spirit of disobedience to Messiah which might even be present in the observation of the holidays. A pernicious wrong is one whereby many convince themselves they are, after all, doing right.