Lent & Easter
Today February 10th, most of the Christians around the world celebrate as “Ash Wednesday”. What is it? Christians go to the Church and get a sign of the cross on their forehead with ashes. I remember my childhood days where the sisters (nuns) who taught us, would check the foreheads of all the students on Ash Wednesday if all of them have attended Church . Some even used to take ashes from the oven and make a sign of the cross for themselves so that they can escape from getting beaten up.
Lent of 40 days begins with Ash Wednesday. Christians believe that it is a time for purification for all the sins committed thus far in their lives. As anybody can understand from history lent originatess from Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod (Gen. 10: 10-13) who asked the women of their land to observe a 40 days lament over her son Tammuz who was dead.
Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Eze 8:14
so that he might be raised from the dead, since she had made them believe that She herself is the woman mentioned in Gen. 3:15 and her son Tammuz was the redeemer of mankind. From Nimrod and his wife Semiramis originated the first pagan religion of Sun God & Moon God worship.
During Caesar Constantine’s period, many of the pagan practices entered into the Roman Catholic Church and later into all the other Churches. Lent and Easter are among them. So the question arises, “Can I observe Lent and celebrate Easter?”
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Col 3:17