Today is the 14th day of the month of Aviv. Aviv is the 1st month of Yehovah's calendar. The 14th of Aviv is the day of Passover.
Leviticus 23:4-5 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations <miqra'>, which you shall proclaim in their appointed times <mow`ed>. In the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the LORD's passover.
Miqra - a rehearsal
Mowed = appointed time
The plan of redemption is found in the creation story. The appointed times (mowed) would teach the 1st and 2nd coming. Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons <mow`ed>, and for days, and years:
They feast were to become yearly rehearsals (miqra) to reveal the plan of redemption that was told from the foundation of the earth.
1 Peter 1:18-20 Since you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
The feast were to be kept by both Israel and those who sojourned with them forever.
Exodus 12:24 And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
So why did the majority miss the first coming? The same reason those who call themselves followers of Yeshua are missing it still today. Men do what is right in their own eyes. The religious have attached themselves to a Roman fertility festival and rejected Yehovah's feast days given in His plan of redemption.
Life of Constantine (Book III)
Chapter 18. He speaks of their Unanimity respecting the Feast of Easter, and against the Practice of the Jews. (Not a Jewish Feast but Gods appointed time. Gen 1:14, Lev 23:2)
At this meeting the question concerning the most holy day of Easter was discussed, and it was resolved by the united judgment of all present, that this feast ought to be kept by all and in every place on one and the same day (Men doing what is right in their own eyes. That always brought judgment on Israel Acts 7:41).
Next week the churches will celebrate a pagan fertility festival and teach their children to practice the customs of the heathens.
If you do a study on the worker of iniquity you will find it is talking about those who do not follow Yehovah's instructions. The modern church is filled with workers of iniquity. They mingle Yehovah's plan of redemption with pagan practices (syncretism). There is a reason the scriptures talk about wide is the way that leads to destruction and many go that way.
Matthew 7:21-23 Not every one that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out demons? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.
In Babylon, Nimrod was worshiped as the Sun God and his wife (some say she was his mother too) Semiramus was the Moon Goddess.
Semiramus shared power with Nimrod and declared herself the “Queen of Heaven.”
After Nimrod was killed, Semiramus claimed to have an immaculate conception of Nimrod’s son, whom she named Tammuz, the reincarnation of Nimrod.
Tammuz, son of the mighty hunter Nimrod, died at the age of 40 while hunting. He was gored by a wild bore.
To honor him, Semiramus started a tradition of fasting for 40 days – a day for each year of his life.
The Bible records that the Israelites practiced weeping for Tammuz.
After God had Ezekiel look into the temple and see “every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls,”
God showed Ezekiel more abominations, “You will see them doing things that are even more detestable.” 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.” Ezekiel 8:13-14
Then God showed Ezekiel that the men were worshiping the Sun (Nimrod). “Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than these.” So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.” Ezekiel 8:15-16
So God clearly detests the worship of Tammuz of Babylon and He hates Sun worship.
Is the observance of Lent a representation of worshiping Tammuz of Babylon? Is there a commandment to keep the 40 day tradition or is it another tradition of man?
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