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Thank you for this very important question. Many people have written to The Refiner's Fire asking the same thing.
Let's put it another way: Would you care if we celebrated your birthday on another day - say, three months before or after the actual date?
Most of the church knows that "Jesus" wasn't born on December 25th, so why are they celebrating it then, in the first place? Should we celebrate our own birthdays in a different day and month as well? Does that even make sense?
The Scriptures reveal He was born on the Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot, which falls on our Gregorian calendars in the September/October timeframe.
In reality, though, where in the Scriptures are we told to celebrate His birthday at all, much less, come up with a pagan holiday called Christmas to celebrate it? At the same time, Easter is also off the mark, because the Resurrection happened on Passover. It's His death and resurrection that are important.
So, the answer to your question is: Yes, it matters to YHWH. He actually commanded His people to keep His feasts, and we really don't have a right to veer from that.
Also, it would have been better to ask: Do you believe God will punish us for celebrating His Son's birthday?" YHWH God doesn't have a birthday, but His Son (a human with a divine Nature) was born on the first day of Sukkot and circumcised on the eighth day. Yeshua is definitely YHWH-in-the-Flesh, but His Father is Spirit (Genesis 1:2, John 4:24). Yeshua came from the Father; He was the "arm" of YHWH (Isaiah 53:1).
This is akin to hackneyed phrase used by Catholics who call on "Mary, the mother of God." GOD doesn't have a mother; however, the SON did....
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