Lent was held 40 days before the feast, “celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing.” This custom of weeping for Tammuz is referred to in the Bible in the only passage where the name occurs (Ezekiel 8:14).
In the days of Ezekiel, the prophet, God showed him the women of Israel who were ‘weeping for Tammuz.’ [Ezek. weeping for Tammuz." The weeping is supposedly one day for each year of their life, which in both cases seems to be 40 years. 15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? The Feast of Tammuz was usually celebrated in June (also called the “month of Tammuz”). This is another pagan practice, a very sexual one involving ritual prostitution. The god Tammuz was by design a false messiah. Tammuz is the offspring of the Egyptian god Osiris and goddess mother Isis, and is usually pictured as a baby being held by …
Lent was held 40 days before the feast, “celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing.” Everywhere the symbols were the same, and everywhere the cult of the mother … 14 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. 8:12-14] He called it an abomination. Satan, of course, knew that the Messiah was to come through Abraham’s offspring and from King David’s lineage. This custom of weeping for Tammuz is referred to in the Bible in the only passage where the name occurs (Ezekiel 8:14). This weeping occurs in the Spring. Tammuz, Sumerian Dumuzi, in Mesopotamian religion, god of fertility embodying the powers for new life in nature in the spring. Tammuz was the false Messiah of the Babylonians — a satanic counterfeit of YAHUSHA the Messiah! Ezekiel 8:13-15 King James Version (KJV).
Tammuz was the false Messiah of the Babylonians -- a satanic counterfeit of Yeshua the Messiah! The name Tammuz seems to have been derived from the Akkadian form Tammuzi, based on early Sumerian Damu-zid, The Flawless Young, which in later standard Sumerian became Dumu-zid, or Dumuzi.
In verse 14, Ezekiel expresses his "dismay" at yet a greater abomination: "women .
The Feast of Tammuz was usually celebrated in June (also called the “month of Tammuz”). Who is Tammuz and why are the women weeping for him? The fact that Jewish women in Jerusalem were weeping over Tammuz meant that the Devil had succeeded in … ... Tammuz became like his supposed father baal, a mighty hunter, but was killed by a wild pig. The earliest known mention of Tammuz is in texts dating to the early … The queen proclaimed 40 days of sorrow after the day of his death each year & that is why they wept for him. . . There's much more, but this is who he is. I’ve seen some anti-Catholic Protestants espousing the claim that the Catholic season of Lent “is derived from the 40 days of Weeping for the god Tammuz.” From Babylon this mystery-religion spread to all the surrounding nations, as the years went on and the world was populated by the descendants of Noah. 13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. This mourning for Tammuz was celebrated in Babylonia by women on the 2nd day of the 4th month, which thus acquired the name of Tammuz (see CALENDAR). Tammuz was mourned for 40 days each year, and the people would place the TAU symbol on their foreheads, and FAST in worship of him.
This mourning for Tammuz was celebrated in Babylonia by women on the 2nd day of the 4th month, which thus acquired the name of Tammuz (see CALENDAR).