Dr. J. Dwight Pentecost writes, “Several years ago I visited an archeological museum in Mexico City. A recent find had just been put on display which Mexican archeologists had authenticated as belonging to the period about 200 years before Christ. The object was the center of religious worship among some of the early Indians in Mexico. To my amazement, it was an image of a mother with a child in her arms. This Babylonian religion spread abroad to become the religion of the world....” What was the teaching of Semerimus’ satanic church? It was simply this, Semirimus was herself the very pathway to God. In fact, the title she took for herself was the "Queen of Heaven"! Her claims were along these lines:
1. That she alone could administer salvation to the sinner through various sacraments, such as the sprinkling of holy water.
2. That her son Tammuz was tragically slain by a wild boar during a hunting trip.
3. That he was, however, resurrected from the dead forty days later. Thus, each year afterward the temple virgins of this cult would enter a forty-day fast (what we now know as Lent) as a memorial to Tammuz’ death and resurrection.
4. After the forty-day fast, a joyful feast (see the origins of Easter) called Ishtar took place. At this feast colored eggs were exchanged and eaten as a symbol of the resurrection (see the reasons for modern Easter eggs and Easter bunnies?). Finally, hotcakes marked with the letter T (to remind everybody of Tammuz) were baked and eaten! (see where the wafer of the host in Roman Catholic mass comes from?) Ezekiel 8:14 Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the Lord’s house which was toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.
From APO-18 - Catholic Origins (991107PM)
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