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[SIZE=+1]EASTER IS THE MOTHER OF BAAL
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Should Christians use the 'E' word? What does the term
Easter mean? In the Old Testament times the Bible
talks about Ashtoreth and Baal worship in I Kings
11:5-6, "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth [Easter in
english] the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom
the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did
evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after
the LORD, as did David his father." Ashtoreth is the
mother of Baal. The short form is Ashtar or Ishtar and
the English form of the word is "EASTER". Easter is
nothing other than the mother of Baal and the
celebration or worship of Ashtoreth is forbidden in the
Old Testament Scriptures. Look at the Scriptures in
Judges 2:13-14, "And they forsook the LORD, and
served Baal and Ashtoroth. And the anger of the LORD
was hot against Israelů" Easter is Ashtoreth! EASTER IS
AN EVIL WOMAN!
In AD316 Constantine was in charge of the known world
and in AD321 he declared Christianity to be the only
religion. The pagan religions did not go away. They
simply gave their practices new names. Ashtoreth and
Baal became Mary and Jesus. Many today know Mary
as the 'queen of heaven'. This pagan title belonged to
Ashtoreth in the Old Testament. Ashtoreth and Baal
were adored and worshipped and many today adore
and worship Mary and Jesus (read Jeremiah 44). We
must ask ourselves, who is the real Mary and who is
the real Jesus? Unless we examine what we believe in
the light of the Scriptures, we might well be deceived.
According to the Scriptures, only God is to be adored
and worshipped (Exodus 20). Watch out!
As Christians, we celebrate the RESURRECTION of
Jesus Christ from the dead. We should use the 'R' word
as in Resurrection. Certainly, we do not celebrate
Easter (the mother of Baal), but we do celebrate the
Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Easter does not
occur in the Bible at all. There is one appearance of the
word 'Easter' in Acts 12:4 in the King James Bible, but it
is a mis-translation and should be translated 'Passover'.
Have you ever wondered about the "WOMAN" of
Revelation chapter 17? She represents a religious
(worldwide) system that had its beginnings in ancient
Babylon and will have its final headquarters in Rome
during the Tribulation period. God will judge the
religious system and destroy it during the Tribulation.
H. A. Ironside, a past pastor of Moody Memorial
Church, in his commentary of the Book of Revelation,
written in 1920, gives us the following insights: "The
wife of Nimroud-bar-Cush was the infamous Semiramis
the First. She is reputed to have been the foundress of
the Babylonian mysteries and the first high-priestess of
idolatry. Thus, Babylon became the fountainhead
mystery-religion that was originated there and spread
in various forms throughout the whole earth; it is with
us today.
Building on the primeval promise of the woman's Seed
who was to come, Semiramis bore a son whom she
declared was miraculously conceived! And when she
presented him to the people, he was hailed as the
promised deliverer. This was Tammuz, whose worship
Ezekiel protested against in the days of the captivity.
Thus was introduced the mystery of the mother and the
child, a form of idolatry that is older than any other
known to man. The rites of this worship were secret.
Only the initiated were permitted to know its
mysteries. It was Satan's effort to delude mankind with
an imitation so like the truth of God that they would not
know the true Seed of the woman when He (Jesus
Christ) came in the fullness of time.
From Babylon this mystery-religion spread to all the
surrounding nations. Everywhere the symbols were the
same, and everywhere the cult of the mother and the
child became the popular system; their worship was
celebrated with the most disgusting and immoral
practices. The image of the queen of heaven with the
babe in her arms was seen everywhere, though the
names might differ as languages differed. It became
the mystery-religion of Phoenicia, and by the
Phoenicians was carried to the ends of the earth.
Ashtoreth and Tammuz, the mother and child of these
hardy adventurers, became Isis and Horus in Egypt;
Aphrodite and Eros in Greece; Venus and Cupid in Italy;
and bore many other names in more distant places.
Within 1,000 years Babylonianism had become the
religion of the world, which had rejected the Divine
revelation. In 316 AD, it became Mary and Jesus.
Linked with the central mystery were countless lesser
mysteries, the hidden meaning of which was known
only to the initiates, but all the people practiced the
outward forms. Among these were the doctrines of:
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Salvation by countless sacraments, such as priestly absolution
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Sprinkling with holy water
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The offering of round cakes to the queen of heaven as mentioned in the book of Jeremiah
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Dedication of virgins to the gods, which was literally sanctified prostitution
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Weeping for Tammuz for a period of 40 days, prior to the great festival of Istar
Istar was said to have received her son back from the
dead, for it was taught that Tammuz was slain by a wild
boar and afterwards brought back to life. To him the
egg was sacred, as depicting the mystery of his
resurrection even as the evergreen tree was his chosen
symbol and was set up in honor of his birth at the
winter solstice. Along with many other mysterious
observances, a boar's head was eaten in memory of his
conflict, and a Yule log was burned. The sign of the
cross was sacred to Tammuz, as symbolizing the
life-giving principle and as the first letter of his name. It
is represented upon vast numbers of the most ancient
altars and temples, and did not, as many have
supposed, originate with Christianity.
It was from this mystery-religion that the patriarch
Abraham was separated by the divine call, and with this
same evil cult, the nation that sprang from him was
constantly in conflict. Under the leadership of Jezebel, a
Phoenician princess, this cult was grafted onto what was
left of the religion of Israel in the northern kingdom in
the day of Ahab, and it was the cause of their captivity
at the last. Judah was polluted by it, for Baal-worship
was nothing more than the Canaanite form of the
Babylonian mysteries, and only by being sent into
captivity to Babylon itself did Judah become cured of
her fondness for idolatry. Baal was the Sun-god, the
life-giving one, identical with Tammuz.
When Christ came into this world the mystery of
iniquity was holding sway everywhere, except where
the truth of God as revealed in the Old Testament was
known. Thus, when the early Christians set out upon
the great task of carrying the gospel to the end of the
earth, they found themselves everywhere confronted
by this system in one form or another. Though Babylon
as a city had long been but a memory, her mysteries
had not died with her. When the city and temples were
destroyed, the high priest fled with a company of
initiates and their sacred vessels and images to
Pergamos, where the symbol of the serpent was set up
as the emblem of the hidden wisdom. From there, they
crossed the sea and immigrated to Italy, where they
settled in the Etruscan plain. There the ancient cult was
propagated under the name of the Etruscan Mysteries,
and eventually Rome became the headquarters of
Babylonianism. The chief priests wore miters shaped
like the head of a fish, in honor of Dagon, the fish-god
and the lord of life. Here again is another form of the
Tammuz mystery, as developed among Israel's old
enemies, the Philistines.
The chief priest when established in Rome took the title
Pontifex Maximus, and this title was held henceforth by
all the Roman emperors down to Constantine the
Great, who was at one and the same time, head of the
church and high priest of the heathen! The title was
afterwards conferred upon the bishops of Rome, and is
borne by the Pope today. The Pope is thus declared to
be, not the successor of the fisherman-apostle Peter,
but the direct successor of the high priest of Babylonian
mysteries, and the servant of the fish-god Dagon, for
whom he wears, like his idolatrous predecessors, the
fisherman's ring.
Ash-Wednesday, Lent, Holy Water, Purgatory, etc,
These are all pagan and are not found in the Bible! All
of these can be traced back to the 'mother and son'
cult. For further study a book called Two Babylons by
Hislop is recommended. We are in the latter days, so
we expect rapid developments in the "Babylonian
Mystery" church system. This false church system will
aid the Anti-Christ in his rise to power! The church that
keeps it's focus on 'the woman' (MARY {not the true
Mary of the Bible]) and not on Jesus is the one to
watch! Keep your eyes open! See Revelation chapter
17!
Pray for the many who are deceived by this system!
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed
that no man deceive you (Matthew 24:4)."
EASTER IS THE MOTHER OF BAAL
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