THE ORIGIN OF LENT

THE ORIGIN OF LENT

Numerous mother/child cult religions existed before the time of Christ. Back in time, Nimrod had a wife by the name of Semiramis and she supposedly conceived a son by a sunbeam. Her son’s name was Tammuz and she offered this son as a promised deliverer. When Tammuz grew up, a wild boar killed him. After forty days of his mother's crying, he arose from the dead. Lent was this forty-day period of weeping for Tammuz before the feast, which celebrated his resurrection in the spring. They worshiped Semiramis by offering a wafer to her and her title was the Queen of Heaven. The worship of Semiramis also involved priests, sacramental rites, burning of incense, dedication of virgins, and purgatory. This is the basis of the harlot’s worship and Roman Catholicism.

Jeremiah 44:17
17. "But we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her,

Ezekiel 8:14
14. So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the Lord's house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

Satan is the father of all mother/child cults:
In Babylon, it was Semiramis and her son, Tammuz.
In Egypt, it was Isis and her son, Osiris.
In Phoenicia, it was Ashtoreth and her son, Baal.
In Greece, it was Aphrodite and her son, Eros.
In Rome, it was Venus and her son, Cupid.
In India, it was Devaki and her son, Krishna.
In Roman Catholicism, it is the Queen of Heaven and her son.

When the Roman Empire finally became the dominate world empire, Julius Caesar had all the priestesses and priests of Semiramis move from Pergamos to Rome. When the worship of Semiramis arrived in Rome, the chief priest in Rome took the title Pontifex Maximum and it was imprinted on his miter. The title had to do with the worship of a god called Dagon the Fish-god. From then on, every emperor in Rome wore the title Pontifex Maximum. It had nothing to do with Christianity; it meant you were the chief priest of the worship of Semiramis. Do you know who wears that title today? The Pope! The Pope is not the direct successor of Peter; he is a servant of Satan, Dagon the Fish-god, and the Babylonian mystery religions. The chief priest of Dagon the Fish-god always wore a big hat with two tall peaks that looked like a big fish with its mouth open. All the Popes wear that same style hat even to this day.

Satan couldn’t destroy true Christianity with killings and persecutions so when Julius Caesar brought the Babylonian mystery religion to Rome, Satan started to merge the names and events of the Babylonian religion with the names and events associated with Christianity and this is the basis of Roman Catholicism. In 325 A.D., Constantine, the ruler of the Roman Empire, said, by proclamation, that all Roman citizens were to automatically become Christians and all non-conformists were to be punished. Satan hoped that by adding millions of non-Christians to the true Christians, he would water down and destroy Christ’s Church. As a way to make sure that all future people were included, he introduced infant baptism. True Christians were never a part of Catholicism back then and true Christians are not part of Catholicism today.

Whenever I compare the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church to what is actually said in the Bible, I always think of the classic line from the Marx Brothers’ movie called “Duck Soup” where Chico Marx, who was dressed up as Groucho Marx, said, “Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” The Roman Catholic Church pronounces a curse on anyone who says that they can know that they have eternal life but what does the Bible say?

I John 5:13
13. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life,

The dead in Purgatory (to purge) are punished to purge them from their sins and enduring punishment gains merit points which are then added to their account. When they earn enough merit points, (Satan’s balance scale concept, when the good stuff outweighs the bad), they will be released to proceed to Heaven. In order to have even more merit points added to their account, the Roman Catholic Church wants their loved ones to give money to a priest to say a mass in their honor. Of course, since they would never know if or when their loved ones got out of Purgatory, they would have to keep giving money year after year. The selling of indulgences as a way to escape the penalties of Penance and paying priests to say masses so that the dead can escape the punishment of Purgatory and enter Heaven are two of the biggest sources of income of the Roman Catholic Church.

Where does the Catholic Church get all of this abundance of merit points to pass out? Simple … from the Queen of Heaven and her son, of course. You see, the Roman Catholic Church says that the Queen of Heaven and her son were so righteous that they got into Heaven with all sorts of extra righteousness and merit points to spare. The Roman Church is then able to sell those excess merit points from those two people back to the billions and billions of people who didn’t have enough. Is it any wonder that the Roman Catholic Church pronounces the penalty of anathema (a curse) on anyone who does not believe in Purgatory or the Sacrament of Penance? It was just recently disclosed that Pope John Paul II continually flagellated himself with a belt and slept on the floor as acts of penance. Some people have been known to crawl on their bloody knees for miles or to wear a belt with nails in it under their clothes as acts of self-mortification. I have an old Catholic Bible that has the seal of the pope and in it they purposely mistranslated the last part of 2 Peter 3:9 to say, “come to do penance” as a way of trying to promote the un-Biblical practice of self-mortification instead of the correct word, repentance, which means to turn from sin. In their newer Bibles, they have quit mistranslating the text.

2 Peter 3:9
9. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

If you want to find out all of the weird stuff the Roman Catholic Church teaches, just go to a Roman Catholic bookstore and buy Ludwig Ott’s Catechisms #1, #2, and #3. These books contain all the official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and have the Imprimatur (seal) of the Pope. You would be amazed at how much extra stuff, not found in the Bible that a Catholic has to believe under penalty of anathema from the Church of Rome. Remember, before you join any organization or sign any document, always be sure to read the fine print.

As strange as it may seem … a devout Catholic cannot not be a Christian but, an uncommitted Catholic might be a Christian. In order to be a devout Catholic, under the penalty of anathema, a Catholic has to commit himself to believe every weird thing the Roman Catholic Church teaches. However, an uncommitted Catholic would not have committed himself to study and know all the stuff he’s supposed to believe and may have just decided in his heart that Jesus Christ is Lord and prayed to Jesus to help his unbelief.

Mark 9:23
23. Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.''
24. Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!''

If he were sincere about wanting to follow the Lord Jesus Christ, God would help him leave that apostate religious system and find a church that just teaches the Jesus Christ of the Bible.









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