Purim and Christmas

Some believers claim that the Esther account of the Jewish institution of an annual feast to celebrate their deliverance from the evil machinations of Haman gives them the warrant to set up special events to celebrate Christmas.1 I wish to probe this claim.
The Jews certainly experienced a most remarkable, sovereign deliverance by God from Haman‟s vile schemes, and, wishing to preserve a sense of perpetual gratitude to God in all following generations of Jews, they established an annual celebration of the event – Purim. This is beyond dispute. As the relevant passage in Esther tells us: