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is commemorated by eating Easter ham, a tradition that hearkens back to the death of Tammuz, the
son of Baal and Ishtar, who was slain by a wild boar?”

Tammuz (Greek Adonis) Dying From His Wounds
(Note the gash on his thigh from the boar’s tusk.)

The forty days of mourning leading up to Easter, a period which the Roman Catholic Church calls
Lent, is the ancient rite of mourning for Tammuz that Ezekiel was shown as he observed the women
in the Temple. This forty days of mourning begins with Ash Wednesday. On this day the priests of
Rome place ash on the forehead of the worshipers, this being an ancient symbol of mourning.

Yes, Ezekiel would see the very things done today which provoked Yahweh to jealousy in 600 B.C..
Because so much idolatry has been introduced to the churches of this hour, the Spirit of Christ is
calling out to the people of God the following words recorded by the apostle John.

Revelation 18:4-5
Come out of her [Babylon, the Great Harlot], my people, that you may not participate in her sins and
that you may not receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has
remembered her iniquities.

It is encouraging to find that a remnant are heeding the call to come out of Babylon (confusion).
There is a remnant who are separating themselves from the profane practices, symbols, rites, and
holy days wherewith Satan has defiled the body of Christ. Yet, among those who are troubled by the
apostasy of the Christian religious system, a significant number are being further deceived by the
adversary as they embrace the Hebrew Roots Movement which is leavened with the apostasies of
Talmudic and Kabbalistic Judaism. Thinking they are returning to a purer and more authentic
Christian practice, they are in fact exchanging the profane elements of apostate Christianity for those
of apostate Judaism.