Lent immediately precedes the supposed Sunday resurrection of Jesus Christ, Who did not rise from the dead on Sunday, but rather on Saturday at dusk. Also, Christians are not commanded to observe His resurrection, but rather His death (Lk. 22:19/1 Cor. 11:24,25). See Christ’s Resurrection and Passover Versus Easter. As commanded, the early church memorialized the Lord’s death, but never Lent or Easter which celebrate the supposed resurrection of a counterfeit messiah from Babylon Biblically known as Tammuz. But all is well, Truth-bearers are told by those who make their own truth, in that, while observing the prescribed heathen rituals they are in fact honoring Jesus. Isn’t it right, they ask, to observe any custom if it glorifies the Lord? God answers all questions relative to situational ethics.

“Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them (the heathen) … and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.’ Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God, for every ABOMINATION to the Lord, which He hateth, they have done unto their gods” (Deut. 12:30,31). “Learn not the way of the heathen …. For the customs of the people (heathen-Gentiles) are vain” (Jer. 10:2,3). Note it: Lent and Easter, along with all other Babylonian customs (Sunday Sabbath, Christmas, etc.), ARE ABOMINATIONS TO THE LORD. See The Mark of the Beast and the Christmas series.

The original name for the festival called “Lent” was Navigium Isidis–commonly called Isis. Isis is another name for the Egyptian goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility. Other names for Isis are Ishtar, Astarte, Simiramis and Easter depending on the society in question. Alexander Hislop wrote in The Two Babylons that Easter came directly from the Chaldean (Babylonian) mystery religion (Rev. 17:5), and that Easter is none other than the so-called “Queen of Heaven” worshiped by millions around the world. In the Scriptures, God condemns the worship of Astarte as the most abominable of pagan idols. God also specifically condemns “sunrise services” (Eze. 8:13-16) and the making of “hot cross buns” (Jer. 7:18-20; 44:19). When pagans in the Roman Empire began to flock into the Catholic Church they brought about the end of the Days of Unleavened Bread and Passover by substituting the observance of Easter and Lent–an extended period of abstinence which allowed them to sin at will until the beginning of the next Lenten Season. The church hierarchy embraced the substitution whole-heartedly.

Though the number of Lenten days are no longer set at 40, there was a reason why that number was originally established. Legend holds that Tammuz, the son of the sun god and Semiramis, was killed by a wild boar at the age of 40. His worshipers therefore wept, fasted and performed acts if penance a day for each year of his life. This heathen ritual was practiced not only by the Babylonians, but also by the Philistines, Egyptians, Mexicans and, as Ezekiel 8 reveals, the Israelites.

Today the observance of Lent is mostly a Catholic custom. However, both Catholics and Protestants celebrate Easter which, along with other pagan beliefs and observances, brings God’s condemnation upon the entire so-called “Christian world.” To be continued.