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Rev #56~17:1-5 Origin Of Religious Babylon Series
Contributed by William D. Brown on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: Today I want to lay a foundation to a most important subject, the {ORIGIN OF RELIGIOUS BABYLON} there are countless people around the world that will not agree or except what I’m going to say, let me be sure and say right here at the beginning that I
Weeping for Tammuz for a period of 40 days, prior to the great festival of Istar, [Easter] *** who was said to have received her son back from the dead; for it was taught that Tam-muz was slain by a wild boar and afterwards brought back to life.
To him [Tammuz ] the egg was sacred, as depicting the mystery of his resurrection, even as the evergreen was his chosen symbol and was set up in honor of his birth at the winter solstice, *** when a boar’s head was eaten in memory of his conflict and a Yule-log burned with many mysterious observances. ---CHRISTMAS HAM---
The sign of the cross was sacred to Tammuz,*** {think of the Catholics today that make the mark of a T on their chest} as symbolizing the life-giving principle and as the first letter of his name. It is represented upon vast numbers of the most ancient altars and temples, and did not, as many have supposed, originate with Christianity.
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Ø From this mystery-religion, the patriarch Abraham was separated by divine call; and with this same evil cult the nation that sprang from him [Israel] was in constant conflict.
Only by being sent into captivity to Babylon itself did Judah become cured of her fondness for idolatry. Baal was the Sun-God, the Life-giving One, identical with Tammuz.
Though Babylon as a city had long been but a memory, her mysteries had not died with her.
When the city and temples were destroyed, their high priest fled with a company and their sacred vessels and images to Pergamos, where the symbol of the serpent**{ on the buildings of many medical facilities across the land, A SERPENT ENTWINED AROUND WHAT SEEMS TO BE AN OLIVE BRANCH } this was set up as the emblem of the hidden wisdom.
From there, they afterwards crossed the sea and emigrated to Italy . . . .[Church of Thyatira 2:18] There the ancient cult was propagated under the name of the Et-rus-can Mysteries, and eventually Rome became the headquarters of Babylonianism.
The chief priests wore mitres [head pieces] shaped like the head of a fish, ***{the pope and the so called priest head dress that they adorn today } in honor of Dagon, the fish-god, the Lord of life—another form of the Tammuz mystery, as developed among Israel’s old enemies, the Philistines.
The chief priest when established in Rome took the title Pontifex Maximus, and this was imprinted on his mitre.
When Julius Caesar (who, like all young Romans of good family, was an initiate) had be-come the head of the State, he was elected Pontifex Maximum, and this title was held henceforth by all the Roman emperors down to Constantine the Great, who was, at one and the same time, head of the church and high priest of the heathen!
The title was afterwards conferred upon the bishops of Rome, and is borne by the pope today, who is thus declared to be, not the successor of the fisherman-the apostle Peter, but the direct successor of the high priest of the Babylonian mysteries, and the servant of the fish-god Dagon, for whom he wears, like his idolatrous predecessors, the fisherman’s ring.
