Today we want to explore a frequently asked question: Why is Tammuz used on God’s Calendar? Isn’t it pagan? A lot of our blog posts are about time. Many discuss how we can best spend our time. Here at The IN SEASON Lifestyle, we love to consider time from God’s perspective. Of course that is practically impossible. Our minds are not nearly as wonderful as God’s mind. Perhaps we CAN get glimpses here and there, through the scriptures. The pagan name of Tammuz is mentioned and used a few times in the scriptures. We will consider those passages.
YHVH gave the people of Israel a sacred calendar. Beginning with creation, His specifications for keeping time are recorded through the scriptures. Right in the middle of the Hebraic calendars of today we can still find a month with the name Tammuz.
LETTING GOD GUIDE OUR TIME
Why has YHVH allowed the use of such pagan names inside our calendar? Is there any reason why they have not been corrected? We seem to have picked these names up by default from the captivity in Babylon. Is He allowing us to keep the names because He wants us to remember how the captivity happened? The 70 years of captivity came about because the people were doing things that were idolatrous.
Let’s try to consider God’s perspective. This writer believes God stands on the outside of all time. He is looking into our days as they transpire. It would be much the same as when we watch a movie. He is always observing what we are doing with the blessing of time He has given to us.
GOD SEES ALL OF TIME
He isn’t looking to see the next moment, He alredy knows. YHVH already knows our endings because He can see and know the whole spectrum of time at once. However, He puts us inside of time with free-will and choices. What we do determines our own outcome. If we allow Him to do so, He guides us and leads us down the right paths of time. His ways always outshine any ways we devise of our own.
Imagining how this happens would be similar to a Zoom call from one world to the other. God would be on His throne in heaven seeing into everything that we do. He can see us, but we can’t see Him. Yeshua, through God’s Holy Spirit, would be the One connecting our calls. It is actually a two-way call, in that we can talk to Him. We just can’t look into the throne room yet. One day we will be able to do that too. What is He concerned with? I think it is mostly about how we are spending our time.
HOW IS YOUR TIME GOING?
What would God see if He looked into your time right now?
Are you pondering the right ways to keep Sabbath?
Are you trying to discern why God gave His calendar to His people? Have you actually looked at how He set up that calendar? Do you know about the feasts and festivals of God? Are you able to understand why it is so important to God for us to keep them?
Looking at the Hebraic calendar of today, I can see we are heading into the month of Tammuz. At this writing, we are presently in the year 5786, which is 2026 in secular years. Tummuz for this year begins on June 16 of the secular calendar.
DISCERNING HOW TO GIVE GOD GLORY WITH TIME
But should we even be saying that word “Tammuz” out loud?
Have you heard the stories about how pagan it is?
We have noted before that the scriptures refer to the months and the days in numbers instead of words. There is a reason for that. Many of the words making up the Jewish calendar come from the Babylonian era. They have very pagan meanings. This is also true for the days of the week. The biblical passages use numbers instead of these words MOST of the time. However, the word “Tammuz” or “Tamuz” (it is spelled different ways) is mentioned by name in a few scriptural passages. Hopefully, we are going to determine the meaning of why God let that happen.
The word “Tammuz” means: a Sumerian and Babylonian shepherd god. He is said to be the original king of Erich. In this myth we are told that Tammuz was confined forever in the afterworld. He is used as a substitute for his consort Inanna or Ishtar. Other cultures have similar false-gods and fake-deities with the same types of stories. Those other stories just change the names to match the language of their own culture. Ugh!
PAGANISM HAS BEEN FORBIDDEN BY GOD
Why would good Jewish people use such a name for this month? And why have Christians followed their lead? Have they lost their direction? This name totally symbolizes idolatry, which is strictly forbidden in both the Jewish AND the Christian religion.
I’m looking mostly for the Christian reasons. However, I’ve found studying the Hebraic reasons often helps me to arrive at a good and/or better conclusion. The legends around this definition speak of a pagan god named Tummuz who was loved by a pagan goddess. He was in the woods hunting for her. While there, he was killed by a wild boar. She mourned for him crying giant tears. It is said that her tears brought him back from death. However, he was cursed to spend half his years in the otherworld, and half his years in the present world. A pagan festival was established for Tammuz. This is the festival where the women fast and cry for Tummuz each year to remember this myth. It is said their annual mourning brings him back from the otherworld.
Of course this story is a perversion of the death and resurrection of Yeshua. The two stories have some similarities. They also have some differences. Especially the fact that one is myth and one is real truth. All pagan celebrations have a touch of truth, but are not about the proper deities. Thus myths are NOT true. The worship of nature is very prevalent in these celebrations. Immoral acts are said to have been the main activity of the participants. So, what gives here? Why has God let this type of situation happen to this month of the calendar?
CLUES FROM EZEKIEL’S WRITINGS
The Prophet Ezekiel had a little to say about this subject. It is written in Ezekiel 8:14: “Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, mourning the god Tammuz.”
What was happening with Israel at the time when Ezekiel spoke this? Ezekiel had become known as a prophet. The Elders of Israel had been through years of captivity under the Babylonians. They sought Ezekiel out for advice. This was during the time just before they were released to move back to The Holy Land. Some captives were being allowed to return; but things were not as they expected.
This month called “Tammuz” was a time between our secular months of June and July. This passage of the vision of Ezekiel is speaking of a time in August – September during 592 B.C. Therefore, we know the pagan time for mourning Tammuz had already passed when Ezekiel experienced the vision.
EZEKIEL THE PROPHET
Ezekiel was called by God to be a Prophet to The People of Israel. Eventually, word of Ezekiel’s prophecies reached to Jerusalem. He was still a young and new prophet. Ezekiel was famous enough that others were seeking him in order to discern what they should do next. The original remnant of Israelites, those who had survived the captivity, were still living in Jerusalem. These people resented the return from captivity of the exiles. They had been away for seventy years. The hateful resentment was all about land and property rights.
Those who had stayed and suffered through the atrocities done to Jerusalem felt they now owned all of the land. This even included the lands that had previously belonged to those who were carried away against their will into exile. The remnant who had stayed in Jerusalem merely by default considered themselves “favored of the Lord.”
Those who had been exiled, even during that time of exile, had heard from the Prophets. One of those prophets was Ezekiel. They resented the arrogance of the remnant who had originally been allowed to stay in Jerusalem. Of course they were grieved at the way these people were treating those who had decided to return.
The former captives were distressed at the circumstances of having to reclaim what was rightfully theirs in the first-place. They resented having to deal with their own people in order to take back possession of their own lands. In their eyes, they too were “favored by the LORD.” So, seeking God’s perfect will, they had come in person to talk to Ezekiel about the situation.
EZEKIEL’S VISION
While speaking with them, Ezekiel experienced a vision from God. In this vision One who was enthroned took him by the hair of his head and brought him to Jerusalem. He came to the door of the gate of the inner court of the Temple. God told Ezekiel to look and see what was happening there. Ezekiel beheld four abominations to the Lord in that place.
The first abomination he observed was an image of an idol which was placed upon the altar of the Temple. This false image had provoked God to jealousy. God says to Ezekiel, “See what they are doing? See how they make me so angry that I desire to go far away from here?”
To make things even worse, God tells Ezekiel a time is coming when he will see things even worse than this. As He spoke to Ezekiel, God was referring to many things in the Temple as “abominations.”
IDOLATRY DISCOVERED AND REVEALED
Ezekiel saw a hole in the wall. On the other side of it was a door. The door opened into a secret place. God told Ezekiel to go inside and see the things that the remnant of priests had been doing in secret. Once inside this place, Ezekiel saw every idol of Israel portrayed against the wall. There were all kinds of beast and creeping things representing pagan fertility gods.
Standing inside that desecrated place were the Elders of Israel. The priests had censors in their hands. In the middle of them stood Jaazaniah – Son of Shaphan. The smoke of their incense filled the place. Then God asked Ezekiel if he had seen the abominations that the Elders of Israel do in the dark.
This place was on the inside of the Temple in Jerusalem. The “Elders” here were the original Israelites who had not been taken out of Jerusalem during the Babylonian captivity. They were NOT ordained priests. Actually they had no rights to be serving inside the temple as they were with the burning of the incense. These men had appointed themselves as priests when the real ones were taken captive and taken away. Each man had concealed idols within his own chambers.
And God told Ezekiel he would again see such things as this. Possibly this meant in another time. That time could be right now. Could our “elders” be concealing things, hiding them from the people? Are these pagan and improper things we would be shocked to know about? Could such things be happening in secret and hidden places?
GOD SENDS JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL
Ezekiel saw that the Temple had been defiled by apostate Israel. He knew God had left the Sanctuary. Ezekiel saw six men with destroying weapons coming from the north. There was a man in the middle of them in white linen with a pen in his hands.
The Glory of God had moved from the Cherubim by the altar to the threshold of the Temple. Ezekiel called out to the man with the pen in his hands. This One was to go through the city. He was to mark the foreheads of those who had mourned and wept for the state of Jerusalem. They were the people who detested the pagan, hidden things that were going on inside the temple. They saw that these false priests were causing abomination for the whole nation. Those who were not marked were to be slain by the other six beings. They were not to spare one in the process.
This was very similar to when God sent the flood in Noah’s days. Also, it was similar to when Saul was told to destroy his enemy completely. I caught myself remembering what it was like when Moses discovered the golden calf. Also, this is what it will be like when God choses to destroy the wicked of mankind again. Perhaps at the return of Yeshua. Ezekiel was actually told these things would be seen another time too.
JERUSALEM IS BURNED AND DESTROYED BY FIRE
The vision continues. God departs the Temple. It is thought He went forth to dwell only in the scattered remnant of the captives. His Holy Spirit doesn’t return to Jerusalem again until the Day of Pentecost. On that day He goes out, not to the Temple, but He returns to the true believers. This is when The Body of Christ actually becomes the TEMPLE of God ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST. This is a story of the true Third Temple, which is a Temple not made by the hands of men.
Over the last few weeks I have pondered and wondered how the month of Tammuz plays into this passage. I’ve wondered what it should mean today in light of God’s calendar. It has been proven that following this calendar correctly leads to victory in the Christian life.
HOW CHRISTIANS SHOULD OBSERVE THE MONTH OF TAMMUZ
The more I study the Hebraic calendar, the more I see how God uses it to give us direction. We are now entering the last three months of the civil calendar. Next is the fourth month of the sacred calendar. We have come again to this provocative month of Tammuz. What should it mean to us?
This month was named after an Egyptian false god, an idol worshipped for fertility. He was one of the most pagan of all idols. Why would God’s people have such a name for one of their months? Here is an important concept to consider. Typically, when you see something so ironic, it is usually there as a reminder.
AN IRONIC REMINDER
For example, consider Purim. Purim is a time when you might be told to drink so much that you can’t remember anything. This is a reminder of the fact that a world without constraints can become completely evil. The contrasting of morality teaches us to be paying attention to how we are living our lives during the rest of the year.
By acting out the opposite, we learn and discern. It teaches by example that we should be sober and attentive to the details of our lives. We see we should not drink and forget about every responsibility. Nothing teaches better than experience, whether right or wrong. Our eyes are opened to the fact that Haman lost. The ironic contrasts at Purim show us what we should be avoiding. They teach of what we should not do during the other days of our lives. Purim is a form of irony in order to teach a lesson. Perhaps the use of the word “Tammuz” works in similar ways.
Have you ever viewed plays set up in this fashion? They portray things that are wrong. However, the point is to teach what is right. This is done by allowing knowledge of what is wrong. We call these ironic plays satires.
That is how the name “Tummuz” works on the calendar. It works like satire.
Tammuz isn’t the only word used this way. Most of the months and days of the week are Babylonian names. They too, can be translated to be the names of false gods or idols. This is why the scriptures more often uses numbers instead of names for the months and days of the week. This can be confusing to the average reader.
A TYPE OF REMEMBRANCE
The days of Tummuz are set to bring things to our attention. They are a reminder that we must discern right from wrong. We know that our ancestors sinned greatly by melting down the gold God provided for them from their slave masters. They made that very abundant blessing and provision into a golden calf. The blessing was turned into an idol used in sun worship.
This happened just as Moses was coming back into the camp. He was so disgusted and angry with the people that he threw down the tablets of stone. They broke into a million little pieces. Then he had to go up the mountain AGAIN for 40 more days. He went up to plead with God as an intercession for the people. They had committed a great and terrible sin against God.
Well, here we are again folks. The month of Tummuz symbolizes those 40 days AFTER the tablets were shattered and broken into a million pieces. This was a 40 day period of intercession by Moses for the people with God. Moses was a type and shadow of Yeshua, who is now interceding for us as we pray to Him.
A TIME FOR REPENTING
I look back over the last few years in America and recall so many instances of people repenting and trying to return to God. Many seem to be repeating that popular scripture found in 2 Chronicles 7:14 over our nation. They are reminding God, through prayers to Yeshua Messiah, that the ways of the nation are not the ways we truly want to live. Many are repenting and pleading with God for the healing of the land.
So many of the faithful are asking God to change the hearts of our leaders. They ask God to put leaders in place who would again bring America back to “One Nation Under God.” When we pray our prayers are carried by God’s Holy Spirit living within us. The Holy Spirit carries our pleas up to Yeshua Messiah who sits at the right hand of the Father. He is always there, waiting to hear from us. He takes our prayers to YHVH and intercedes for us. Yeshua Messiah pleads for answers to our problems. He asks God to apply His own sacred blood against our sins. Our Messiah requests for blessings to be poured out on us. Yeshua Messiah is for us. He loves to defend us and bring us closer to the Father.
OUR FATHER IS LISTENING
The month of Tammuz was a time when Moses was pleading for the Children of Israel. So the present month of Tammuz is a time when Yeshua Messiah is especially tuned in to hearing from us. As always, He is on a mission to bring us closer to God. Once we act and pray, He is faithful to intercede on our behalf. He offers His own sacred blood to cover our sins.
It all fits in accordance with God’s calendar. Heaven is doing its work to nourish our souls. Yet, probably nine-tenths of God’s people are still totally unaware that this timing comes around annually. No one seems to understand how we all benefit from it each year. This three week period is often a time of tests and trials on the earth. In the ironic month named Tammuz, we begin the efforts for reversing the effects of sin on the earth.
I can see patterns in the calendar year which reflect the ways and the paths the ancients took as they journeyed through the wilderness. The times of their times fit right over our own calendar times. Different people, same sins. However, the same God of Heaven and Earth is addressing all of our prayers.
PATTERNS IN TIME
It seems that time is somehow related by the way certain patterns form each year. These patterns relate to similar situations that were happening in the days of crossing the desert with Moses. Moses was listening to God and directing the people. Only now, this happens with us living in the modern world. Yeshua Messiah is now directing the steps of the faithful from the Right Hand of God’s Throne in Heaven. God’s people are keeping this same calendar, because it originated first from heaven to creation.
Remember when God created night and day in creation week? He gave us this calendar. It followed His own ways in the Heavens, which he also created during that period of time. God is ALWAYS a God of order. He would not bring us to a very prophetic time in history without first warning us. Nor would He let us go through such a time without the comfort of His Holy Spirit. He would not leave us without the intercession of His Only Begotten Son, Yeshua Our Messiah.
ARE WE LIVING IN END TIMES?
We are living in a very significant time in prophecy. It definitely feels like end times. I can almost feel Ezekiel breathing down the back of my neck as I type out these words. Christians MUST be paying attention to how God is moving in the keeping of our allotment of time.
We can reach this conclusion. The name of the month of Tammuz is there to remind us to destroy our idols. It is a critical reminder that we do not ever want to go back to those apostate times of idol worship again. We get this reminder every year. It is repeated over and over because it is important. The irony in the name emphasizes the importance. It is there to catch our attention and remind us to act.
DISCERNING THE TIMES OF THE CALENDAR
You have to understand the myths about this false god to understand exactly what to look for. It is important to know and understand what to see and avoid in our daily living today. The story goes that Tammuz was in love with another false goddess. Every culture shares a different pagan name for this woman. Tammuz went out hunting for her and was killed by a wild boar.
The false goddess grieved for him so much that she went into the underworld to find him. She brought him back to life. He was then permitted to live half of the time of each year in this world. Half of the time each year he was destined to live in the underworld. We can see that this counterfeit story starts similar to Yeshua’s. The huge difference is that Yeshua rose completely victorious. He and we became completely free of death and the grave. An idol could never accomplish such a thing.
The pagan festivals started with all the women mourning for the loss of Tammuz. They typically ended in immoral celebrations to reenact his rising from the dead.
WOMEN MOURNING
Whenever we see the word “Tammuz” used in the scriptures, it is referring to visions. These are visions where the women are seen in this time of mourning for Tammuz. The prophet Ezekiel saw this vision from God. The vision seems to be about end times. Women were seen mourning for Tammuz in the courtyard. We must note their mourning was for Tammuz, not the loss of the Temple. Their sadness was not about the tragedies the devil brought upon their people, but for a false, pagan god.
TAKE A SECOND LOOK
So many think it is sad to know that this time for mourning still takes place in the Jewish culture today. Do not be deceived though. It looks that way at first. However, instead of mourning for Tummuz, these Jewish women are mourning for the loss of the Temple. Their grief stands in stark contrast to the ancient women mourning for Tammuz. Today’s women are crying over the tragedies the Jewish people have endured over the course of human history. These faithful women are not doing pagan things. They are actually doing righteous things. Their prayers are going up to YHVH, the One true God. What they are doing is just the opposite of the mythical women mourning the death of Tammuz. It isn’t the same thing. We are not comparing apples to apples when we point our acusing fingers.
In Ezekiel’s vision, the angel with the sword is told to go about the cities. He is to kill all those who are not marked as the ones who mourn and grieve over the state of what has become of God’s people. Considering that thought, I have to conclude that these women are doing exactly what God requires. We ARE told to mourn and grieve over the state of idolatry in our nations. This is what brought destruction to Israel. It could also bring destruction to the nations of today.
GOD HATES IDOLATRY
The more I think of the past, present, and future, the more I see the similarities. I also see the differences of these stories. Moreover, through prophecy it seems God is indicating that all of those who do not mourn the idol worship of the people in the end times will be destroyed by the sword.
God hates idolatry. He is pulling another great reversal here. He so often does this. In the visions of the prophet named Ezekiel, God is using the same form of action the pagans were doing. It involves mourning in order to reverse and produce just the opposite in his own people. They are NOW told to mourn the fact that pagan idol worship is prevalent in the land. This is just the opposite of the women who worshipped Tammuz in the pagan rites.
So let’s put our facts together as we have found them. At first glance it looks wrong to participate with Israel in their times of mourning. At first it seems pagan to us. Then you have to stop and think of what they are mourning. They are mourning the tragedies that happened to God’s people, not the tragedy that happened to a false god. This is completely different. It would not be idol worship at all. This would be counted as righteousness. The scriptures tell us, there is a time to mourn. If you don’t want to mourn over God’s people destroying themselves with pagan ways, you might need to look at your definition of Christianity.
ANOTHER GREAT REVERSAL
Still, how strange that it has come to this point. How odd that things have been turned around in this way. A little truth creates a great deception. Yet, this overturning, reversing pattern is shown in almost every celebration of God. Remember the story of Esther in the original Purim? Passover overturns bondage for freedom. Early First-Fruits (Resurrection) overturns or reverses death and brings everlasting life. The Day of Atonement overturns the sins of the repentant and reverses the actions of their days forward. The Feast of Tabernacles overturns the wicked and evil ways of mankind. It shadows the coming reign of Yeshua Messiah on the earth for one thousand years of peace.
Clearly, we can see that God is into great reversals. If we pray to Him, He will overturn and reverse every evil situation we are experiencing. Many of God’s people experienced the joy of hearing the reversal of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court. Many have mourned and prayed for years for this to take place. Now, with God’s help, we have seen victory in this particular situation. There is still a lot left to do, but this is a great start. There is so much more to do to reverse the idols and perversions of our society. This month of Tammuz is a great time to observe that our One True God will always overturn evil.
THE THREE WEEKS
Notice that the mourning of Israel lasts for three weeks. This is to give us all time to participate. You do not have to be Jewish. If you are a believer, you are in the family. Pray for the things that must be reversed in the earth during the month of Tammuz. YHVH will hear and answer our prayers. Mourn. Fast. Pray. Keep your eyes open. See.
Know that Yeshua Messiah is at the Right Hand of God interceding for us right now. It is a great time of being reminded that idol worship and pagan practices are strictly forbidden. Pray for the eyes of the deceived to be opened. Many do not even understand what they do is pagan. Our nation has lived in this shame for so long that many cannot know what they are doing. This is a time to be turning, repenting, fasting and praying because we clearly have the ear of our Beloved. He is listening as we begin the “seeing” that is aassociated with the month of Tammuz. We must SEE the harm we do to ourselves when we do not follow God’s best ways to live.
OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE THE GOLDEN CALF
Now, I look at what is happening worldwide. As the Jewish people begin their three week time of fasting and mourning for the atrocities committed against their people, I see the very things they are praying against happening. As they repent of the sins of the nation which brought on the acts of idolatry, I see the golden calf of America rising up. I can see the people gathering around this calf. It was made from the material blessings which came to us from God.
Those material blessings are now disappearing. They disappear because of our idol worship. Be it money, power, our own traditions over God’s, or even the self-worship of a mislead culture. The government has turned into a BIG FAT golden calf. It claims to bestow fertility and blessings on the whole nation. America has put their faith in the golden calf of the government instead of God.
A NEW GOLDEN CALF
This is very wrong and so deceptive. When Jesus spoke of end-times, the thing He stressed was God’s people needed to be careful not to be deceived. The people in America have already allowed this new golden calf to tear down our churches. They have infiltrated them with false worship and abominations to God. Not just our churches, but every institution originally established with godly princibles.
This new type of golden calf is destroying our freedom and deceiving our children about what is right and wrong. Our defenses have always been so strong, but now they are breaking down right before our eyes. We are in danger of violating everything sacred and good. We must open our EYES and SEE.
Like those shattered tablets of the Law, we are letting our hope and freedom be destroyed. It happens because we have fallen for false worship and ungodly beliefs. May God help us all.
EZEKIEL OBSERVED FOUR ABOMINATIONS
Keep in mind that an abomination is any act which God’s people do to provoke God. Study Ezekiel’s vision. You will find he saw four abominations in the Temple. He saw this before the Glory of God moved first to the threshold, then left altogether.
Those four abominations were: 1) false image of a fake god which provokes jealousy from the REAL God. 2) Un-ordained, self-proclaimed priests doing secret pagan worship in a secret hidden place. 3) The women at the North Gate weeping for the false god Tammez. 4) 25 men in worship to the rising sun with their backs facing God’s altar. They have turned their backs on God and the ways that He has given for them to live.
Do any of theses abominations seem familiar in any way to how America is operating today?
We learn that the REAL God (who is very slow to wrath and punishment) is angry. He concludes the only way to turn his people’s hearts back around is to punish them with his wrath. This is an end-time vision. It is a vision for the days of the destruction of the Temple in Israel as well. Think about the fact that WE ARE TODAY’S TEMPLE. Will we let idol worship destroy us?
Are we ready to face this wrath that God has surely promised to pour out? It is definitely a fit time for mourning.
WHAT IS THE SUBJECT OF YOUR MOURNING?
God’s people of today, should be mourning the abominations of our country toward God. As an opposite act to how the pagans mourned the death of Tammuz, God’s people should be mourning too. They should be mourning the death of the faithfulness to God from our own people. They have turned their backs to his altar.
Have we come to the place in our society where pagans of our culture have more faith than God’s people? On this day in Israel’s history the wall of Jerusalem was breached. It happened just before the destruction of the Temple. When I read about walls being breached my ears perk up. I cannot help but see a picture in my mind of what happened to the southern border wall in America.
The month of Tammuz is noted for being the time when Moses returned from the mountain with the Ten Commandments. It was then that he found the people worshipping the golden calf. I have begun to see our own government as a golden calf. Certain sectors of our society have decided to worship government instead of God. They put the government up as a true source, whether that is the case or not. Many seem to think everything they do or say or want depends upon the decisions of the government.
Have they forgotten The One True God? Every government of heaven and earth is subject to Him.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT SUSTAIN YOU FROM GOD’S WRATH
The government isn’t going to sustain you when the wrath of God begins. God’s jealousy against this type of idol worship is great. He wants us to live His ways, not the ways our government is pushing night and day in order to produce more chaos and division. They only want what makes it easier for them to set up more global power.
God has our best interest in mind. He loves us. God wants to look after us. However, the golden calf of elected officials keep trying to interfere with this process. Never in the history of mankind has it been harder for a person to be a Christian. Christian martyrs are dying today right and left, but the news isn’t telling anyone about it. They are only feeding us the propaganda they want us to hear. All of it is fear-based. Our God is bigger than those fears.
GOD IS GREATER THAN ANY OF OUR TROUBLES
This is what Ezekiel had to tell the captives of Babylon. It came forth when they came to him for advice. His vision is a message that is also good for us today. As the three weeks of mourning progress, another thing being mourned is how the stone tablets containing God’s laws were broken into pieces. This is the month when Moses saw the golden calf. All idols must be destroyed.
This golden calf, our present government, is taking every way that is godly in this nation and perverting it. They bring in their own forms of self-idolatry. We are going to need deep, deep intercession for this practice against Christianity. Godly people must rise up as Moses did in those ancient times. We must plead and beg God for mercy and forgiveness. Our sins must be covered. They must be turned around before the wrath of God is so strong we cannot undo all of the evil being done.
THE FAITHFUL MUST KEEP PRAYING
Those who are faithful are interceding. We all must be patiently interceding and waiting on The Glory of God to fall again. Remember when Moses came down from the mountain the second time? His face was so glorious that he had to hide it from the people. This is what happens when God’s people agree to return, obey, and receive God’s forgiveness and mercy. The Glory of God falls upon all of those who have kept God’s ways and interceded.
So, during this new month of Tammuz, be prepared to receive God’s Glory. Even if we are in the midst of pain and suffering. He will not forsake anyone who turns to Him and repents. During this time when many are praying for the rebuilding of the Temple, we who know Yeshua Messiah realize a greater Temple has already come. YHVH has built up living stones. Through repentance, baptism, and turning, we have received God’s Holy Spirit living inside our own bodies. The Body of Christ is the living Temple.
THE THIRD TEMPLE MAY NOT BE WHAT MANY THINK IT IS
This miracle of God’s Holy Spirit living within us has become The Third Temple. Because we have traveled further down this road than the devout Jews, we ask God to heal our bodies. We ask YHVH to bring us strength and endurance. It is so we can remain living and breathing temples joined together to bring Him worship and glory. In the month of Tammuz, Israel mourns the sins of their nation. So do we. Many of the nation of Israel pray for the restoration of the Temple. Believers all over the earth pray for the restoration of The Body of Christ. We know it is made up of all of our individual bodies (temples) filled with God’s Holy Spirit.
LAMENTING THE LOSS OF THE TEMPLE
In this time of mourning for ancient Israel, the daily offerings ceased. They could no longer be offered up because the Temple had been destroyed. The Jewish people remember this. They lament this fact. The time is coming when God’s Holy Spirit will stop working to call the people of the earth to God. The last sheep will enter the fold and the Good Shepherd will lay down in the gate to the sheepfold. We are at the end of that window of time right now.
Christians realize Yeshua Messiah restored the Temple with his death. His death, resurrection, and ascention allowed God’s Holy Spirit to dwell inside men’s hearts. Yeshua Messiah offered himself once for all.
So, Christians today stand as Moses did for The House of Israel. We must intercede for them to discover and receive God’s healing salvation. It is time to pray for deliverance by believing on the name of Yeshua Messiah. He has delivered God’s true people into a new Temple. This is a Temple that wasn’t made by the hands of mankind. It has been formed from the spiritual formation of God.
TIME TO KNOW, KEEP, AND PROCLAIM THE WORD
During this time of mourning, the Jewish people are remembering their history. One thing they recall is the day prior to Bar Kokhba’s revolt. It was a time when the Roman military leader Apostomus burned the Torah scroll. Can you imagine how tragic this was to the people? I hope you know how tragic this would be to us today.
Some arrogant, prideful, evil person actually burned the sacred words of God. These are the words they depended upon to live out their lives. It is a HUGE tragedy. This evil event struck fear into their hearts. They must have been appalled that this abomination had been allowed to happen.
Yet, here we are in an age where our own culture and people are trying to re-write the gospel. We possess the true and living word. It cannot be changed! Still, they desire to spin the gospel into some type of fairy tale proclaiming their ways instead of God’s ways. Do these people not know that they are mortal? They are not gods! Who gives them the right to pervert the Word of God. How can they decide on their own to feed trash to a nation that does not care to receive it?
Yet, every day the Church of God is being force-fed the evil perverted words of our culture. The fake priests who elected themselves have arrived. Their lies and falsehoods come from every corner of the earth. Attrocities land right in the middle of the schools of our children. Lies, lies, lies; every day and everywhere. God will not stand still for this forever. He has waited patiently for us to turn around. but it has not happened. Judgment is coming. It will come FIRST to The House of God.
IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE?
People need to wake up and mourn. Eziekiel’s prophecy is proclaiming a message. It says those who mourn, fast, and pray over the evil state of the world will be marked as children of God. Thier hearts will be seen by the Man In White Linen Carrying a Pen. This is God’s Servant who records our names into The Book of Life.
Mourn the abominations of the earth against God. Do not mourn only so you will be marked with His Holy Spirit and recorded into The Book of Life. That is wonderful, but mourn also because it is the righteous thing to do. Otherwise, the rest of Ezekiel’s prophecy will come to be. I speak of that part where angels are given swords. They are to go out and slay those who do not belong to God.
Tammuz is almost here. Believers have a duty to repent, turn, mourn, and to wait eagerly for the return of Messiah. In this time of waiting we will be given glimpses of God’s Glory. The Roe vs. Wade victory was a slight glimpse. There is so much more. Trust in YHVH who will sustain us and help us to survive the terrible things happening in the world. God’s wrath will not be leased upon those who are observing His times and keeping His calendar. Pray that we all may escape.
Know the Hebraic calendar reveals so much to Christians who are yearning to grow closer to God. This proves out more and more as we journey together toward the end of time as we know it. When you know the calendar of God, you can take comfort in the realization that every ending is a new beginning. We still have the very best of everything to look forward to!
Gail, thank you for sharing this. You certainly have me “digging in” and learning about the history of Tammuz. Great job of presenting the facts. You are a wonderful teacher.
Thank you Sandi. So glad you are enjoying these history lessons. God’s calendar teaches us so much.
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