Come Out of Her, My People - The Key of Knowledge
Come Out of Her, My People - The Key of Knowledge
Come Out of Her, My People - The Key of Knowledge
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custo ms <strong>of</strong> the Gentiles.<br />
Furthermore, being secretly enticed by the sun or the moon, or any<br />
homage paid to them, is an iniquity and a denial <strong>of</strong> Elohim (Job 31:26-<br />
28).<br />
In Eze. 8:3-16 we see the most alarming description <strong>of</strong> how idolatrous<br />
worship is merged with True Worship, especially in verses 14-16, where<br />
Sun-worship has been brought into the House <strong>of</strong> Yahuweh. <strong>The</strong> Tammuz-worship<br />
<strong>of</strong> v. 14 is just one form <strong>of</strong> Sun-worship, Tammuz being<br />
the incarnate Sun, the young rising Sun as a deity. 2 In verse 16 the<br />
prophet was also shown the twenty-five men worshipping the Sun<br />
towards the East, and that is exactly what started taking place in postapostolic<br />
Christianity.<br />
This praying towards the Sun in the East is recorded in the writings <strong>of</strong><br />
Clement <strong>of</strong> Alexandria (150-215 C.E.), as well as in the writing <strong>of</strong> his<br />
scholar, Origen. <strong>The</strong>y were both guilty <strong>of</strong> trying to justify this practice,<br />
which Yahuweh labeled “wicked abominations” (Eze. 8:9). <strong>The</strong> Bishop<br />
<strong>of</strong> Carthage, Cyprian, in the year 258 also exhorted Christians to pray to<br />
the East at sunrise.<br />
On the other hand, in the year 197, Tertullian writing in his Ad nationes<br />
1, 13, accused fellow Christians <strong>of</strong> Sun-worship because <strong>of</strong> their praying<br />
to the East and because <strong>of</strong> making Sunday a day <strong>of</strong> festivity. 3<br />
Despite this warning by Tertullian, Augustine (350-430 C.E.), in his<br />
many writings, was repeatedly trying to justify his prayers to the East.<br />
This was a regular practice in the basilica <strong>of</strong> St. Peter in Rome, which<br />
caused Pope Leo the Great to make a vigorous attack on this practice in<br />
the year 461. 4 However, his objection was ignored and they continued<br />
with this in the basilica up to the year 1300, as we shall later see.<br />
Another voice in the wilderness was crying out against this practice,<br />
that <strong>of</strong> Eusebius <strong>of</strong> Alexandria, who wrote, “and not only Sun-worshippers<br />
and heretics do this, but also Christians, departing from the faith,<br />
mingle with heretics.” 5<br />
<strong>The</strong>se important facts are all well documented in Dr. F.J. Dölger, Sol<br />
Salutis, as well as in Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi, From Sabbath to<br />
Sunday.<br />
In Eze. 8:9 Elohim calls this a “wicked abomination.” In Deut. 17:3-5<br />
the civil law demanded that those <strong>of</strong> Israel who were found guilty <strong>of</strong><br />
worshipping “the sun, or moon, or any <strong>of</strong> the host <strong>of</strong> heaven,” were to be<br />
stoned to death. Has our Mighty One changed? “For I am Yahuweh, I do<br />
not change” (Mal. 3:6). He is “the Father <strong>of</strong> lights, with whom there is<br />
no variation or shadow <strong>of</strong> turning” (James 1:17). <strong>The</strong> civil laws <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Scriptures are not being applied today, but Yahuweh has not changed<br />
and will still mete out righteous punishment.<br />
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