Lent’s Ancient Roots Coming from the Anglo-Saxon Lent meaning “spring,” Lent originated in the ancient Babylonian mystery religion. “The forty days’ abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess…Among the Pagans this Lent seems to have been an indispensable preliminary to the great annual festival in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Tammuz” (The Two Babylons).Tammuz was the false Messiah of the Babylonians—a satanic counterfeit of Jesus Christ!The Feast of Tammuz was usually celebrated in June (also called the “month of Tammuz”). Lent was held 40days before the feast, “celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing.” This is why Lent means “spring”; it took place from spring to early summer.The Bible records ancient Judah worshipping this false Messiah: “Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz” (Ezek. 8:14-15).This was a great abomination in God’s eyes! But why did the church at Rome institute such a pagan holiday? “To conciliate the Pagans to nominal“To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usualpolicy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skillful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity—now far sunk in idolatry—in this as in somany other things, to shake hands” (The Two Babylons).The Roman church replaced Passover with Easter, moving the pagan Feast of Tammuz to early spring, “Christianizing”it. Lent moved with it.“This change of the calendar in regard to Easter was attended with momentousconsequences. It brought into the Church the grossest corruption and the rankest superstition in connection with the abstinence of Lent” (The Two Babylons).Before giving up personal sins and vices during Lent, the pagans held a wild, “anything goes” celebration to make sure that they got in their share of debaucheries and perversities—what the world celebrates as Mardi Gras today.Abomination Masked as Christianity God is not the author of confusion (I Cor.14:33). He never instituted Lent, a pagan observance connecting debauchery to the supposed resurrection of a false Messiah.God commands His people to follow Him—not the traditions of men. God’s ways—not the traditions of men. God’s ways are higher, better than man’s (Isa. 55:8-9). Men cannot determine for themselves right from wrong or how to properly worship God. Why? Because “the heart [mind] is deceitful above allthings, and desperately wicked” (Jer. 17:9), and “the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps” (10:23). God designed us and gave us life. He knows how we are supposed to worship Him.To be a Christian and properly serve God,you must live “by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4), recognizing that His Holy Scriptures “cannot be broken” (John 10:35).God commands Christians to flee from the pagan traditions and customs of this world (Rev. 18:2-4), currently led and deceived by Satan the devil (II Cor. 4:4; Rev. 12:9).Lent may seem like a sincere, heart felt religious observance. But it is deeply religious observance. But it is deeply rooted in pagan ideas that counterfeit God’s plan.God hates all pagan observances (Jer. 10:2-3; Lev. 18:3, 30; Deut. 7:1-5, 16 They cannot be “Christianized” or made clean by men. That includes Lent.Now you know the true meaning of Lent.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:50:03 +0000
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