This past Wednesday began the holiday of Lentclick here, 40 days of fasting that leads up to Easter.
For this tidbit, the focus is going to be on the marking of a cross in the foreheads of those who celebrate Lent on the day known as ‘Ash Wednesday.’
“That mystic Tau was marked in baptism on the foreheads of those initiated in the Mysteries, and was used in every variety of way as a most sacred symbol.” {Two Babylons pg 177}
The mark man receives is dependent upon which head he submits to. Messiah Jesus or man. The Tree of Life or the tree of knowledge. The head/mind of man is displayed in Scripture as his heart. The heart is also a picture of the throne of YHWH. Either YHWH can be enthroned in our hearts, with His name/character in our foreheads or we can be king of our hearts with the mark of the beast, the name of man in our heads.
Tav in the foreheads. Here is a perfect example of how the adversary counterfeitsclick here the Truth of the Scriptures. In Ezekiel 9, true believers are marked with a mark which in Hebrew is the word תו (tav).
Eze 9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel had gone on, from on the cherub where it was on it, to the threshold of the house. And He called to the man clothed in linen with the ink horn of a scribe at his loins.
Eze 9:4 And YHWH said to him, Pass through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and mark (tavah) a mark (tav) on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and are mourning over all the abominations that are done in her midst.
In ancient Hebrew the letter tav looked just like 2 crossed sticks.
The above verse is speaking of the mark of YHWH which is put on the righteous. The mark of the beast is a direct counterfeit of this markclick here.
The Douay Rheims (Catholic translation) Bible translated Ezekiel 9:4 as such:
Eze 9:4 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.
Secret Teaching of All Ages pg 45
“Candidates who successfully passed the Mithraic initiations were called Lions and were marked upon their foreheads with the Egyptian cross.”
Secret Teaching of All Ages pg 182
“The TAU cross was inscribed on the forehead of every person admitted into the Mysteries of Mithras. When a king was initiated into the Egyptian Mysteries, the TAU was placed against his lips. It was tattooed upon the bodies of the candidates in some of the American Indian Mysteries. To the Qabbalist, the TAU stood for heaven and the Pythagorean tetractys. The Caduceus of Hermes was an outgrowth of the TAU cross.”
“Mithra there, (in the kingdom of Satan,) sets his marks on the foreheads of his soldier”s (Tertullian. The Prescription against Heretics, Chapter 40.)
Tertullian certainly writes that Mithras marks (signat) his soldiers on the forehead, but what ’sign’? Some writers have even speculated that this mark was the mark of the “Beast of Revelations,” as the numerological value of the Sun is 666!…
“Mithratic…initiates…would henceforth have the Sun Cross on their foreheads. The similarity to the cross of ashes made on the forehead on the Christian Ash Wednesday is striking. Some have suggested this to be an example of the early Christians borrowing from the Mithratic cult; others suggest that both cults were drawing upon the same prototype” (Nabarz P. The mysteries of Mithras: the pagan belief that shaped the Christian world. p. 36).
In the Book of Revelation it is seen that the sacred Name is marked in the foreheads of the righteous
Rev 14:1 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion! And with Him were a hundred and forty four thousands, with the name of His Father having been written on their foreheads.
Rev 22:4 And they will see His face; and His name will be on their foreheads.
His Name is the Word
Rev 19:13 and having been clothed in a garment which had been dipped in blood. And His name is called The Word of God.
The Hebrew letter tav is a picture of two crossed sticks:
It’s meaning is covenant. The mark of YHWH is His covenant which is His Word (Isaiah 42:6; 49:8; Zechariah 9:11; Jeremiah 31:31; Matthew 26:28). The mark of the beast is a counterfeit, the covenant with death (Isaiah 28:15).
1Co 1:18 For the Word of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.
Believers look to the Word of the cross. The Word of the covenant. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17). Not by vision, not of images & symbols (2 Corinthians 5:7).
The covenant with YHWH is His Word which was cut with Abraham at Passover (Genesis 15) and eternally solidified at Passover when Messiah hung on the tree. The ‘covenant’ with the adversary was ‘cut’ in Genesis 3 at the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the ‘agreement’ of ‘ye shall not die’ was passed down through the ages via the mystery religions and was represented by the image of the cross.
The Pythagorean Triangle pg 235-236
“It is the opinion of Mr. Faber, whose learning and extensive researches into the hidden mysteries of antiquity are entitled to universal respect, that in the Book of Revelation ‘an important prophecy is most curiously and artfully veiled under the very language and imagery of the Orgies. To the sea-born Great Father was ascribed a threefold state: he lived, he died, and he revived; these changes of condition were duly exhibited in the mysteries. To the sea-born wild beast is similarly ascribed a threefold state: he lives, he dies, and he revives. While dead, he lies floating on the mighty ocean, just like Horus, or Osiris, Siva or Vishnu; when he revives, again like those kindred deities, he emerges from the waves; andwhether dead or alive, he bears seven heads and ten horns, corresponding in number with the seven art-preserved Rishis, and the ten aboriginal patriarchs. Nor is this all; as the worshippers of the Great Father bore his special mark or stigma, and were distinguished by his name, so the worshippers of the maritime beast equally bear his mark, and are equally designated by his appellation.’ (From Fab. Pag. Idol, vol iii. pg 643.)
If this be true, and the arguments adduced in its support appear sound and conclusive, the above mystical ceremony of sealing the redeemed may be taken from the custom of marking the aspirant with a permanent badge of initiation, which may be an indelible token of his acceptance. This mark or badge in India and Egypt was the Tautic Cross; and it still appears amongst the hieroglyphics of the Brahmins, and profusely on the monuments of Egypt, where most of the deities bear it conspicuously about their persons. In the Dionysiaca, or the mysteries of Bacchus, the mark was a leaf of the ivy or vineclick here. There is a pointed reference to it in the divine command given to Moses in the wilderness, when many of the Israelites had been initiated into the disgusting mysteries of Baalpeor: ‘Take all the heads of the people and hang them up;’ referring to the princes of the tribes, who were directed to hang all those who had been thus initiated. Boothroyd translates the original thus: ‘Take all the heads of the people, and let them slay those men who have worn the badges of Baal-peor.” {Baal-Peor traces back to Saturn whose image is the hexagramclick here}
The Cross & the Name
In the wilderness Yisrael was healed through looking upon the serpent on a pole. This was a figure of being saved through ‘looking’ upon the Messiah on the cross/tree.
Num 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it on a pole; and it happened, if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
Joh 3:14 And even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
Joh 3:15 that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Exo 14:13 And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid. Take your stand and see the salvation of YHWH, which He will prepare for you today. For as you see the Egyptians today, you shall not continue to see them again forever.
Luk 3:6 “and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” Isaiah 40:3-5
Isa 52:10 YHWH has bared His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
How was His arm revealed? On the cross.
Isa 53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of YHWH revealed?
Gen 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place YHWH Will See; so that it is said until this day, In the mount of YHWH it will be seen.
Gen 22:14 ויקרא אברהם שׁם־המקום ההוא יהוה יראה אשׁר יאמר היום בהר יהוה יראה*׃
*Literally, in/on the mountain YHWH will be seen.
Joh 8:56 Your father Abraham leaped for joy that he should see My day, and he saw, and rejoiced.
Joh 8:57 Then the Jews said to Him, You do not yet have fifty years, and have You seen Abraham?
Joh 8:58 Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came to be, I AM!
On the mountain YHWH will be seen. Yerah’eh is in the Niphal stem 3rd person masculine singular future tense. Truly YHWH will provide HIMSELF as a lamb in the place of Isaac (mankind).
Gen 22:7 And Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, My father. And he said, Behold me. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood! But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Gen 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will see to the lamb for Himself, for a burnt offering. And the two of them went together.
הר האלהים (the Mountain of Elohim) has the gematria of 296. This is equivalent to לאור גוים (For a light of the nations). This links the Messiah on the cross on the Mountain of Elohim to Light which points to the Menorah. This will be seen in more detail below.
Isa 49:3 and said to Me, You are My servant, Israel, You in whom I shall be glorified. This verse is referring to Messiah as Yisrael, the Olive treeclick here
Isa 49:6 And He said, It is too little that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You for a light of the nations, that You may be My salvation (Heb. Yeshuah) to the end of the earth.
Isa 42:6 I, YHWH, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;
Luk 2:32 a Light for revelation to the nations, and the Glory of Your people Israel.
Isa 40:5 And the glory of YHWH shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of YHWH has spoken.
How was His glory revealed?
Joh 8:28 Then Jesus said to them, When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM; and from Myself I do nothing; but as My Father taught Me, these things I speak.
Joh 19:19 And Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross. And having been written, it was: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Joh 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all to Myself (John 8:28 Messiah states this is how they will know He is ‘I AM’).
Joh 12:33 But He said this, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.
Joh 12:34 The crowd answered Him, We heard out of the Law that The Christ remains to the age. And how do You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?
Joh 12:35 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, that darkness not overtake you. And the one walking in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Joh 12:36 While you have the Light, believe into the Light, that you may become sons of Light. Jesus spoke these things, and going away He was hidden from them.
Joh 12:37 But though He had done so many miraculous signs before them, they did not believe into Him,
Joh 12:38 so that the Word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, “Lord, who has believed our report? And the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?” Isa. 53:1
Joh 12:39 Because of this they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,
Joh 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes” and “has hardened their heart,” “that they might not see with the eyes” and “understand with the heart,” “and be converted,” “and I should heal them.” Isa. 6:10
Joh 12:41 Isaiah said these things when he saw His glory, and spoke about Him.
The pictographs of יהוה speak of Him being revealed through the nails in His Hands
Joh 20:27 Then He said to Thomas, Bring your finger here and see My hands, and bring your hand and thrust into My side, and be not unbelieving, but believing.
Joh 20:28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, My Lord and my God!
The Cross (tav) is linked with His Name
Eze 9:4 And YHWH said to him, Pass through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and mark (tavah) a mark (tav) on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and are mourning over all the abominations that are done in her midst.
Rev 14:1 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion! And with Him were a hundred and forty four thousands, with the name of His Father having been written on their foreheads.
Rev 22:4 And they will see His face; and His name will be on their foreheads.
His Name is the Word
Rev 19:13 and having been clothed in a garment which had been dipped in blood. And His name is called The Word of God.
We are marked by the Name/Word/Jesus
Rev 7:3 Do not harm the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, until we seal the slaves of our God on their foreheads.
Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of those having been sealed: one hundred forty four thousands, having been sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel:
Rev 14:1 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion! And with Him were a hundred and forty four thousands, with the name of His Father having been written on their foreheads.
The counterfeit is the name/word/covenant of the beast
Rev 13:17 even that not any could buy or sell, except the one having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom: Let the one having reason count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man and its number is six hundred and sixty six.
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