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Today Starts The First Day Of Lent, Created By The Roman Catholic Church And Taken From The Babylonian Practice Of Weeping For Tammuz

The Roman Catholic Church would have you to believe that Lent is about fasting and repentance, but is really the pagan rite of Weeping for Tammuz.

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The Roman Catholic Church would have you to believe that Lent is taken from the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness, but is really the pagan rite of Weeping for Tammuz which God hates.

Today begins the first day of Lent, observed primarily by Roman Catholics, but we also see Lenten observances popping up in many Protestant churches, some Baptist churches and in the Church of England. The Roman Catholic Church advertises this is a time of great ‘fasting and repentance’ before the Lord, but did you know that Lent was taken directly from ancient pagan Babylon? The time you know as Lent began as ‘Weeping For Tammuz’, one of the many false gods of pagan antiquity.

“He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 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. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.” Ezekiel 8:13-15 (KJB)

The Roman Catholic Church would have you to believe that Lent is taken from the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness, but as you will see, that is not the case. No where in the Bible do we see any command to the believer to observe a 40-day ‘period of fasting’ prior to the feast of the Passover. Please note the following 40-day periods in the bible.

  • It rained 40 days and nights: Genesis 7:4, 12.
  • Forty days after sighting the tops of the mountains, Noah set forth a raven and a dove: Genesis 8:6-7.
  • Joseph mourned the death of his father Jacob for a period of 40 days: Genesis 49:33 – Genesis 50:3.
  • Moses on Sinai for 40 days: Exodus 24:18, 34:28, Deuteronomy 9:9-11.
  • Moses pleads for Israel 40 days on Sinai: Deuteronomy 9:18-25, 10:10.
  • Canaan spied on for 40 days: Numbers 13:25, 14:34.
  • Goliath taunted Israel for 40 days: 1 Samuel 17:16.
  • Elijah fasted and journeyed to Horeb for 40 days: 1 Kings 19:8.
  • Ezekiel bore the iniquity of Judah for 40 days: Ezekiel 4:6.
  • Jonah warned Nineveh of judgment in 40 days: Jonah 3:4.
  • Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days: Matthew 4:2, Mark 1:13, Luke 4:2.
  • Jesus was seen for 40 days after His crucifixion: Acts 1:3.

As you can see, no where does the Bible establish a 40-day period of fasting for the believer in either Testament, so just where does the 40-day period of Lent come from? It comes from the exact same place where Rome got the ideas for a confessional box, for robed priests, for a religious ruling class, it came from pagan Babylon! This is why in Revelation 17 and 18, we clearly see the Roman Catholic Church and its Vatican superstructure presented to us as MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, and THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS. The apostle John was shown the Church that Jesus shed His blood for, taken over and swallowed up by the counterfeit Roman church which was presented to him as Babylon! No wonder that all he could do in response was to stand there with his jaw hanging down, speechless.

 “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:3-6 (KJB)

Mystery Babylon is not America, it’s not Islam, its not the New World Order. It’s exactly who the Bible says it is. It’s the Roman Catholic Church system. Now you know. Tell a friend.

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Lent and the Weeping For Tammuz

In his monumental work on exposing the roots of the Roman Catholic Church, called “The Two Babylons” by Alexander Hislop, he tells us this about the Babylonian weeping for Tammuz and its connection to the Roman Catholic Lent.

“Whence, then, came this observance? The forty days abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess [Astarte / Ishtar]. Such a Lent of forty days, ‘in the spring of the year,’ is still observed by the Yezidis or Pagan Devil-worshippers of Koordistan, who have inherited it from their early masters, the Babylonians.

“Such a Lent of forty days was held in spring by the Pagan Mexicans, for thus we read in Humboldt, where he gives account of Mexican observances: ‘Three days after the vernal equinox …. began a solemn fast of forty days in the honour of the sun.’

“Such a Lent of forty days was observed in Egypt, as may be seen on consulting Wilkinson’s Egyptians.

“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, which was celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing, and which, in many countries, was considerably later than the Christian festival, being observed in Palestine and Assyria in June, therefore called the ‘month of Tammuz;’ in Egypt, about the middle of May, and in Britain, some time in April. To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, 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 so many other things, to shake hands.

“Originally, even in Rome, Lent, with the preceding revelries of the Carnival, was entirely unknown; and even when fasting before the Christian Pasch was held to be necessary, it was by slow steps that, in this respect, it came to conform with the ritual of Paganism. What may have been the period of fasting in the Roman Church before the sitting of the Nicene Council does not very clearly appear, but for a considerable period after that Council, we have distinct evidence that it did not exceed three weeks. The words of Socrates, writing on this very subject, about A.D. 450, are these: ‘Those who inhabit the princely city of Rome fast together before Easter three weeks, excepting the Saturday and Lord’s day.’ But at last, when the worship of Astarte was rising into the ascendant, steps were taken to get the whole Chaldean Lent of six weeks, or forty days, made imperative on all within the Roman empire of the West. The way was prepared for this by a Council held at Aurelia in the time of Hormisdas, Bishop of Rome [514-523], about the year 519, which decreed that Lent should be solemnly kept before Easter. It was with the view, no doubt, of carrying out this decree that the calendar was, a few days after, readjusted by Dionysius.”

Source: The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, second American edition, 1959, published in America by Loizeaux Brothers, pages 106, 107.

The Bible Warns Against Weeping For Tammuz

The false god Tammuz is mentioned in the book of Ezekiel. The prophet describes a vision he had, saying the Lord “brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, mourning the god Tammuz” (Ezekiel 8:14). God calls the idolatrous practice of weeping for Tammuz a “detestable” thing, made even worse in that it was happening at the temple in Jerusalem. source

“He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 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. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.” Ezekiel 8:13-18 (KJB)

So while the Roman Catholic observance of Lent is not in the Bible, the false gods connected with Lent that Jehovah hated are certainly mentioned. God hates Tammuz, hates Ashtoreth, and hates anything connected to the sun worship observed by pagan religions. God hates them because they infected His chosen people, the Jews, who then worshipped these false gods in the groves. Baal, Tammuz, Ashtoreth, Astarte and Ishtar are all connected with pagan sun worship. Note that Lent is a movable observance, connected to and preceding the festival of Easter. Easter is celebrated on a day specified only by the Roman Catholic Church, and not the Bible, and is fixed based on the sun and the Spring or Vernal equinox.

As most of you know, I was a Roman Catholic for the first 29 years of my life, right up to the day when I met the Living Saviour Jesus Christ, and become wonderfully born again. If you are a Roman Catholic, I invite you to learn the truth about Jesus Christ, and what you must do to be saved.

The Origin Of The Pagan Practices Of  Lent And Ash Wednesday As Found In The Roman Catholic Church

According to the cult of Ishtar, Tammuz was conceived by a sunbeam, a counterfeit version of Jesus’ virgin birth. Tammuz corresponded to Baal in Phoenicia, Osiris in Egypt, Eros in Greece, and Cupid in Rome. In every case, the worship of those gods and goddesses was associated with sexual immorality. The celebration of Lent has no basis in Scripture, but rather developed from the pagan celebration of Semiramis’s mourning for forty days over the death of Tammuz (cf. Ezek. 8:14) before his alleged resurrection—another of Satan’s mythical counterfeits.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Dystopian Tech Startup Called Satyress Rolling Out Robot Called Threehalves Promising You’ll Become ‘Superhuman’

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Preparing For Antichrist: The Horned Threehalves Robot From Satyress Shows A World Embracing Demonic Imagery, Artificial Intelligence And Superhuman Machines In Real Time

Threehalves is more than a bizarre engineering experiment, it is a sermon in steel preaching the dark gospel of the coming post-human world. A company calling itself Satyress has fashioned a seven-foot, horned, goat-headed monstrosity with the torso of a man, the body of a beast and mechanical arms designed to wield chainsaws and other instruments of power—all beneath the slogan “BECOME SUPERHUMAN.” They could have given it the neutral appearance of ordinary industrial machinery, but instead they deliberately clothed it in the imagery of the satyr and the Baphomet. That choice reveals how rapidly this generation is losing its natural revulsion toward the demonic, the grotesque and the unnatural. What previous generations would have recognized as an abomination is now photographed, promoted and applauded as innovation. And tick, tock, goes the end times clock.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, Threehalves is a chilling preview of the technological environment into which the Antichrist will step after the Pretribulation Rapture of the Church. The world is being conditioned to communicate with artificial entities, obey voices coming from machines, surrender decisions to algorithms and accept mechanical bodies possessing strength far beyond that of human beings. Revelation foretells an image that will speak and cause those refusing to worship the beast to be killed; our generation is now constructing speaking images, autonomous weapons and robotic enforcers without giving a second thought to where those technologies may ultimately lead. The Antichrist will not arrive in a world unprepared for him, he will enter a world already trained to accept artificial authority, digital surveillance, manufactured reality and satanic power masquerading as human progress. Some of the people building this system undoubtedly understand the darkness they are invoking, while many others sincerely believe they are merely creating helpful technology. But conscious cooperation is not required when “the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” is steadily moving the whole world in the same direction. Artificial intelligence, transhumanism, digital identification, programmable money, global surveillance and weaponized robotics are converging to prepare the operational machinery of the coming kingdom of the beast. Threehalves is only one garage-built prototype, but its Baphomet-like form provides a startling picture of the spirit behind that approaching system: man attempting to transcend the boundaries established by God, merging himself with the machine and calling the resulting abomination “superhuman.” The Church is not waiting for Antichrist—we are waiting for Jesus Christ—but while we await That Blessed Hope, we should clearly be warning a lost and dying world that the stage is being set, the machinery is being assembled, and the “night cometh when no man can work” is rapidly approaching. Your King James Bible mentions satyrs multiple times, and today we show you how all this connects on the end times timeline.

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Operation Africa! Delivers Mattresses And Blankets To 84 Orphan Children In Kenya, Replacing Cardboard On Concrete With A Clean And Comfortable Place To Sleep Tonight

Earlier today  at Glory Fellowship Orphanage in Kenya, what began as a burden, a prayer and a fundraising appeal became something these children could finally reach out and touch. The mattresses arrived. The blankets arrived. And because the people of God responded, 84 orphan children who had been sleeping on cardboard laid over a concrete floor now have a clean, soft place to rest. Look closely at the photograph. Those children are not standing around a promise of help that may come someday. The help is there, lined up across the orphanage grounds, still wrapped in protective plastic, ready to be carried inside and put to use. But first things first, they’re spraying the rooms for bedbugs.

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After Trump Was Smuggled Off Air Force One In A Catering Truck, Gulf States Now Accept That An ‘Obliterated’ Iran Controls The Strait Of Hormuz

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The Catering Truck Escape Of President Trump Exposes How An Iran Declared ‘Decimated And Obliterated’ Remains Dangerous And In Control Of Hormuz Despite Months Of American Bombing

America was told that Iran had been “decimated” and “obliterated,” but the truth of the matter is that when President Trump visited Turkey last month, credible threats from Iran forced the Secret Service to extract the president and smuggle him out hidden inside a catering truck, and flown to safety on an alternate Air Force One. As you let that sink in, ask yourself, what does that tell you? It tells me that we have been lied to about the Iran War from start to finish. How do you reconcile the endless boasting and bragging from the Department of War on how America “decimated” Iran with the mental picture of Trump and Hegseth hiding in a catering truck because Iran made some threats? The photo at the top of this article shows you the actual container that Trump and Hegseth were hidden in. This is beyond shameful and unacceptable, and as American patriots, we cannot, and must not, abide this deception any longer.

“The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.” Proverbs 21:31 (KJB)

Faced with what American officials reportedly considered a credible Iranian assassination threat, Trump did exactly what the president of the United States should have done: he followed the security plan designed to keep him alive. The scandal is not that Trump got into the catering truck. The scandal is that America was repeatedly told Iran had been “decimated” and “obliterated,” while the people protecting the president privately believed Tehran still possessed the reach, intelligence and operational capability to threaten his life in a NATO country. That’s the bombshell hiding underneath the sensational headline. According to a report published by the New York Post, President Trump publicly boarded the familiar blue-and-white Air Force One following the NATO summit in Ankara on July 8. Television cameras recorded the presidential departure, reporters boarded the plane, White House personnel took their seats, and everything appeared normal. But it was all a decoy.

On the opposite side of the aircraft, Trump and several aides reportedly entered an elevated airport catering container. The container was lowered onto a truck, driven across the tarmac and raised to the door of a smaller Air Force C-32A military aircraft. Trump secretly boarded that plane while reporters and even some White House staff departed Turkey believing the president was flying with them aboard Air Force One. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was also aboard the secret flight, reportedly boarding separately to preserve the illusion of a routine military departure.

The operation was triggered by what a United States official described as a credible Iranian threat against Trump’s life. Israel had reportedly warned Washington of a possible Iranian assassination plot. The White House did not subsequently deny that the clandestine transfer occurred, instead saying that every available security measure was being employed to protect the president. Now, no responsible person should criticize him for following the security instructions of the Secret Service and the military. Presidents do not prove courage by unnecessarily exposing themselves to assassination. But Americans have every right to ask why, to demand why the private threat assessment differed so dramatically from the public victory narrative. This is absolutely a scandal that needs to be addressed.

Iran Was Bombed Into Rubble, But It Was Not Neutralized

The United States and Israel unquestionably inflicted catastrophic physical damage upon Iran. An April 1 Department of War fact sheet claimed that American forces had struck more than 12,300 targets, flown more than 13,000 combat missions and damaged or destroyed more than 155 Iranian vessels. Command centers, IRGC headquarters, intelligence facilities, air defenses, ballistic-missile sites, weapons-production facilities, communications networks and Iranian naval assets were hammered by the most technologically advanced military force on the planet.

Iran could not match the United States in the air. It could not match the United States at sea. It could not prevent American bombers and missiles from destroying enormous portions of its conventional military infrastructure. But destroying thousands of targets is not the same thing as winning a war.

A war is won when the enemy can no longer impose his will, threaten your interests or compel you to alter your behavior. Judged by that standard, Iran was in some respects devastated, but it was not defeated. It was damaged, but it was not disarmed. It was battered, but it was never neutralized. Iran absorbed the punishment, kept its regime alive and retained the weapons that mattered most: geography, asymmetrical warfare, assassination capabilities, mines, missiles, drones, regional proxies and control over the narrow passage through which a major portion of the world’s energy supply must travel. Washington won the bombing campaign. Tehran may be winning everything that came after it.

The Strait Of Hormuz Tells The Real Story

On July 28, the White House published remarks in which President Trump flatly declared, “Iran doesn’t control the Strait. We control the Strait.” Less than two weeks later, the Wall Street Journal published a report beneath this astonishing headline:

“Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control.”

That isn’t  a minor discrepancy, t is the difference between the victory Americans were promised and the strategic reality now confronting the Middle East. Persian Gulf energy producers are reportedly concluding that Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz could become permanent. They do not like it, and they do not necessarily recognize Tehran’s claims as legitimate. But they increasingly view accommodation with Iran as preferable to returning to a war that would bring additional Iranian missiles and drones crashing into their ports, pipelines, refineries and desalination plants.

An emerging agreement under discussion would reportedly place inbound shipping through Hormuz under Iranian oversight while Oman supervised outbound traffic. The agreement has not been finalized, and Washington remains opposed to allowing Iran to restrict international navigation. Nevertheless, Gulf governments are reportedly willing to contemplate formal Iranian oversight because the alternative may be another destructive regional war.

Think about what that means. The United States possesses aircraft carriers, submarines, stealth bombers, cruise missiles, surveillance satellites and enough firepower to demolish Iranian military installations repeatedly. Yet the Gulf states are concluding that all that American military power still cannot guarantee the uninterrupted movement of their oil and natural gas. Iran does not need to defeat the United States Navy ship for ship. It only needs to make commercial navigation dangerous enough, insurance expensive enough and Gulf infrastructure vulnerable enough that terrified governments begin negotiating for Tehran’s permission to conduct business. That is how an apparently weaker nation converts geography into strategic power.

America can control which ships reach Iran through its naval blockade. Iran can control whether ships belonging to the Gulf states move safely through the waterway. Washington possesses overwhelming firepower, but Tehran possesses the ability to create chaos at the precise point where the global economy can least afford it. We told you back in July of 2024, after Trump got his warning shot to his right ear, that God has put him in power as judgment on America. And so it is.

The Catering Truck Exposed The Truth

The catering truck operation now takes on tremendous symbolic importance. Trump and Hegseth spent months speaking as though Iran had been reduced to strategic irrelevance. But when intelligence officials warned that Iran might be targeting the president, the victory speeches stopped and the professionals went to work. Air Force One became a decoy. Reporters and White House personnel unknowingly became part of the deception. The president and his War Secretary disappeared onto another aircraft.

American intelligence and presidential security officials believed the threat was sufficiently credible to justify one of the most extraordinary presidential extraction operations in modern history. The government did not behave as though Iran had been obliterated, it behaved as though Iran remained organized, dangerous and capable of striking the president of the United States beyond its own borders. That is the reality Americans were not shown while administration officials were celebrating overwhelming victory. The public was given the number of targets destroyed. It was not given an honest assessment of the enemy’s remaining ability to retaliate. Tactical achievements were packaged and sold as strategic victory, while Iran’s most dangerous capabilities survived beneath the rubble.

Iran Lost The Battles But May Have Won The War

Iran never needed to defeat the United States conventionally, as such a victory was always impossible. But as the old saying goes, “there’s more than one way to skin a cat”. Iran’s realistic objectives were to survive, preserve the regime, impose unbearable economic costs, frighten the Gulf monarchies, keep the Strait of Hormuz under threat and force Washington toward negotiations without surrendering Tehran’s regional power. Measured against those objectives, Iran has performed far better than the American public was led to believe.

If the final settlement allows the Iranian regime to survive, gives Tehran formal authority over inbound shipping, produces sanctions relief and ends American military operations without eliminating Iran’s power to threaten its neighbors, then Iran will have achieved a genuine strategic victory despite suffering catastrophic battlefield losses. It will have lost its ships, missile batteries, command centers and military installations while gaining international recognition of the leverage it always wanted over Hormuz. That’s not Iran winning because it was militarily stronger. It is Iran winning because it endured longer, accepted greater pain and convinced its enemies that continuing the war would cost more than tolerating the new Iranian order.

In conclusion, we strongly urge you to disbelieve anything and everything told to us by the Trump administration going forward. They have proven to be patholoigical liars, incapable of truth, and only a complete defeat in the midterms will come close to stopping them. The Iran War is all but over now, America has been roundly humiliated, but worse than that, our enemies like Russia, China and North Korea now see how we can be defeated under Trump. And make no mistake, they’re coming.

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