THE FULFILLMENT OF THE VISION OF DANIEL (cont'n) ..... PART 5

WHO IS TAMMUZ?
EZEKIEL 8:9-14 “And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. 13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 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.

From the above passage, the weeping for Tammuz is linked to the Church that worships God with imagery and a censer which burns with a cloud of incense. Who is this Tammuz? Tammuz was the name of a Sumerian god of food and vegetation. It was an ancient sun-god who had been worshipped by different nations with different names: the Babylonians called it Tammuz; Medo-Persians – Baal; Greeks – Adonis; Romans – Cupid; Egyptians - Osiris. Iceland - Balder and far East – Zoroaster.

It was considered to be the annual life-death-rebirth deity. In cultic practice, the dead Tammuz was widely mourned in the Ancient Near East. These mourning ceremonies were also observed even at the very door of the Temple in Jerusalem in a vision of prophet Ezekiel, which serves as a Biblical prophecy which expresses God's message at His people's apostate worship of idols:

Ezekiel 8:14-15 "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 to me, 'Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these." Ezekiel's testimony is the only direct mention of Tammuz in the Hebrew Bible and was linked to the abomination of imagery and censer of thick cloud incense in the Holy Place.

After Constantine's celebrated vision on [☧], He took on support of Christianity (Xianity) with some zeal, and declared that his victory was owed to the god of the Christians; and set about adopting an imperial policy to advance its cause. Constantine's policies and actions as emperor indicated some considerable devotion to the church, and that was the beginning of the Apostasy of the true Church of God. Christianity therefore became the “community of “T” (Tammuz) believers.

The first ecumenical, or council, of Nicaea (325 A.D.), which he organised lasted two months and twelve days with three hundred and eighteen bishops present. After the Council of Nicaea, the Roman government became more entangled with the ecclesiastical matters of the Church, derailing it further from the original intent by multiple means. Emperor Theodosius (378-398 A.D.) from the last dynasty of the Roman Empire (East and West), made Christianity the State Religion of the Empire, and made church membership compulsory. This was the worst calamity that has ever befallen the church.

The forced conversion filled the churches with unregenerate people. The church had changed its nature, had entered its great Apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12), and had become a political organization in the Spirit and pattern of Imperial Rome, which took its nose-dive into the millennium of Papal abominations. The Imperial church of the 4th and 5th centuries had become an entirely different institution from the persecuted church of the first three centuries. In its ambition to rule, it lost and forgot the Spirit of Christ.

Many Biblical scholars, theologians, philosophers and religious proselytes believe that the Church that was formed by the Lord Jesus Christ is Christianity, and so base their doctrines (Faith) on the dogmas of its beliefs. But contrariwise, their doctrine cannot be fitted into Paul's doctrinal legacy for the Gentiles church, since he was made the Apostle for the Gentiles and laid the foundation of our faith (1Corinthians 3:10-13). Whilst Paul's foundation was built on Christ, Christianity was therefore instituted by the Emperor and the five Patriarchs of the Pentarchy, Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, from the so-called the Roman Universal Christianity, (remember the foot of the beast in Nebuchadnezzar's dream - a “mixed iron and miry clay”).

Although Constantine immediately declared that Christians and pagans should be allowed to worship freely, and restored property confiscated during persecutions and other lost privileges to Christians, these measures did not mark a complete shift to “the Way” (believers of Christ) class of ruling but rather the plan of Satan to take over the Church. Many of his actions seemed resolutely pagan, because he erected pagan temples, statues and temples for the churches.

The four early Patriarchates of the East, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Latin Jerusalem along with their counterpart in the West, Rome are distinguished as “senior”, “senior-born” or “ancient”; and claimed to be among the founding fathers of Christianity, having had one of the Apostles of Jesus Christ as their Bishop – Andrew (Alexandria), Mark (Antioch), Peter (Rome) and James (Jerusalem). Note, a patriarchate has “legal personality” in some legal jurisdictions that means, it is treated as a corporation. Paul, Barnabas, Timothy, Titus, etc whose maximum efforts established the Gentiles Church have been dropped out. Their names were blotted out as far as Christianity was concerned for they deemed their efforts as controversial and insignificant and claim to be of the same category with Peter, James, Andrews and Mark, who walked directly with Jesus. That was where the deviation started and the Church entered into Apostasy.

Now we can't talk about Christianity without making mention of Constantine, meanwhile, this little horn (king), Constantine himself, was not a Christian until his death when he became converted and baptised. He was able to pluck up three horns (kings) by their roots when he conducted the meeting at the council of Nicaea to write the Creed as the basic foundational faith for the church and the Empire as a whole. The foundational churches of the Apostles in Rome, Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem were displaced out of their Faith, and were inclined unto this “Polished Paganism” of the Roman Christianity, the worship of Eostre (Easter) and Tammuz (X'mas).

From the verse 9 of Daniel 7, the horn with the eyes like the eyes of man was able to cast down thrones meaning, it was able to affect nations with its polluted doctrines of the mother-son worship. The book of Revelation describes this new Church of the Roman Empire as “Babylon the Great, the Mother of harlots” or “the Great Whore” and Jeremiah described as “the Queen of Heaven”.

Revelation 17:1-7 “And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters (nations): 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 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. 4 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:

5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 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. 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

Jeremiah 7:17-18 “Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger”.

The prophet Jeremiah foresaw the mystery behind the introduction of Christmas and Easter with its celebrational cakes and drinks to honour the queen of heaven – Tammuz, the MOTHER-SON-GOD worship, so he spoke about them, giving the warning that these provoke God to anger. Today, the whole world, both Believers of Christ and Pagans celebrate these feasts ignorantly in honour of this mother-son-god. May the Gracious God have mercy upon His Chosen Ones, whose names have been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world in these end times; and open their understanding unto His truth, so that they might be saved from the oncoming wrath of God.

Jesus once said … “my sheep know my voice and wherever they are, when they hear of my voice they will run to me.” This shows that the voice of Jesus Christ is distinct and audible in the ears of His lost sheep; so no matter what the enemy will do or any denominational churches of the priest of Tammuz they may find themselves in - Christianity, they will come out from it and get save in this end time. However, this is the call of God unto you to come out from among them, and be ye separated unto God. Do not be a partaker of their abominable deeds and get swallowed up in the day of God's judgement.

When Christianity started at the Council of Nicaea, Rome's original religious hierarchy, and many aspects of its rituals, PAGANISM, influenced the Original Church forms, and many pre-Christian beliefs and practices of the Romans survived in the Church festivals and local traditions. This brought about the diversion of the True Church (Ecclesia) (“…. wearing out of the saints” Daniel 7:25); and the sect of the Way (Believers of Christ) was changed unto Christianity (- the sects of Tammuz believers) and in Antioch they were first called Christians (Acts 11:26). Subsequently till today, the church had fallen unto Apostasy to provoke God to anger, of which, God will consume with a fiery stream and destroy it unto the end. This is what Paul wrote about in his second epistle to the Thessalonians, when the Church was thinking about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ as at the corner.

2Thessalonians 2:7-9 " For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

There had been a falling away of the church ever since 325AD, and the man of sin, the horn with eyes like the eyes of man will be revealed, then Christ shall come. Many people refer this passage to the rapture thinking the church of today will be “raptured” first, before the anti-Christ shall come. This is absolutely the teaching of the Falling Away Church. It has no bearing in the scriptures. There is no Old Testament prophecy that confirms that.

Christianity, the worship of Tammuz (X'ianity), which was instituted by the Roman Empire is the fallen away church Paul talked about, since it teaches “another gospel”. Galatians 1:6-7 “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ”.

The gospel of Christ had been perverted unto another gospel because of the introduction of Christianity. While the early Church taught about unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, Christianity encourages denominational Churches with different doctrines. John 10:16 “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be ONE FOLD, and one shepherd”.

DISCIPLE SAMUEL AMPONSAH
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