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According to the Catholic, The CROSS or THAU SEAL or MARK of God's people."
There was nowhere in the Bible that says the LETTER “THAU” or CROSS is the SEAL of the LIVING GOD nor the MARK of God’s People.
Even you read the verse they use in EZEKIEL 9:4 a hundred times. It was not talking about the seal of God nor a seal of God’s true servants.
It merely said:
Ezekiel 9:4 “And the LORD said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS OF THE MEN WHO SIGH AND GROAN OVER ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THAT ARE COMMITTED IN IT." [ESV]
Ezekiel 9:6 “KILL OLD MEN OUTRIGHT, YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENS, LITTLE CHILDREN AND WOMEN, BUT TOUCH NO ONE ON WHOM IS THE MARK. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.”
This is just a commandment to put markers on the foreheads of the people who sigh or groan (other translation said: “distressed and troubled” [GNB]) over all the abominations committed in Jerusalem, and to avoid being killed, for the commandment was clear that the people without this mark will be killed. Just a form of recognition and not actually mentioning anything about being the true servants of the living God. There was no mention of what type of MARK it is, it simply said: “PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS”.
But to the CATHOLIC, it is the LETTER “THAU” from which in the ancient times look like the CROSS that JESUS was CRUCIFIED is the MARK OF THE LIVING GOD.
No mentioned of the LETTER “THAU” as MARK in the NEW TESTAMENT, there was no record from the BIBLE that the CROSS is the SEAL of the LIVING GOD and was used as a MARK on the foreheads of the FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIANS.
Though passages mentioning the CROSS in this manner:
1 Cor 1:18 “For the WORD OF THE CROSS, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.” [Douay Rheims Bible]
This does not refer to the literal CROSS by which Christ was crucified but this:
1 Cor 1:18 “FOR THE MESSAGE ABOUT CHRIST'S DEATH ON THE CROSS is nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved it is God's power.” [Good News Version]
Therefore:
WORD OF THE CROSS = “THE MESSAGE ABOUT CHRIST'S DEATH ON THE CROSS”
It was talking about Christ’s Death, and not the piece of wood from which he was nailed to death.
If the “THAU” or the “CROSS” is really the SEAL of GOD, why Jesus and the Apostles are silent about this? And they did not even mentioned this in the early writings that they actually marked a LETTER “THAU” or a CROSS upon the FOREHEADS of the EARLY CHRISTIANS, before or even after Jesus Christ ascended to heaven.
And where the idea that the SEAL is the LETTER “THAU” came from? The book of the Catholoic has this to say [EMPHASIS MINE]:
“Among the Romans the cross never had the symbolical meaning which it had in the ancient Orient; they regarded it solely as a material instrument of punishment. There are in the Old Testament clear allusions to the Cross and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. THUS THE GREEK LETTER T (TAU OR THAU) APPEARS IN EZECHIEL (IX, 4), ACCORDING TO ST. JEROME AND OTHER FATHERS, AS A SOLEMN SYMBOL OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST—"MARK THAU UPON THE FOREHEADS OF THE MEN THAT SIGH"…” [CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA]
Let us requote that portion:
“THUS THE GREEK LETTER T (TAU OR THAU) APPEARS IN EZECHIEL (IX, 4), ACCORDING TO ST. JEROME AND OTHER FATHERS, AS A SOLEMN SYMBOL OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST—"MARK THAU UPON THE FOREHEADS OF THE MEN THAT SIGH".
The CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA said that there is a GREEK LETTER “THAU” appears in EZEKIEL 9:4, and that is according to JEROME and other FATHERS (it means other CHURCH FATHERS).
The culprit of this idea is JEROME [347 – 420 A.D.] and other CHURCH FATHERS, like ORIGEN [182 – 254 A.D.] and TERTULLIAN [160-225 A.D.] as other Bible Commentary said like the PULPIT BIBLICAL COMMENTARY.
Origen and Tertullian lived during the 2nd to 3rd Century, and JEROME during the 4th to 5th Century. They were not among the FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIANS nor they are the APOSTLES of JESUS CHRIST.
It was their interpretation of EZEKIEL 9:4 which from the book written around 593-571 B.C. became the basis of this idea. The CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA confirmed that it was according to them – JEROME and other CHURCH FATHERS…not according to JESUS nor the APOSTLES.
Was JEROME and any CHURCH FATHERS INFALLIBLE?
One Catholic Apologist has this to say:
“But ST. JEROME (Like any CHURCH FATHER) does not have the final authority in the Church, HE’S NOT INFALLIBLE” [The One-Minute Apologist, Dave Armstrong, page 9]
This book is certain by saying that JEROME and any CHURCH FATHER does not have the FINAL AUTHORITY in the CATHOLIC CHURCH, because he is not INFALLIBLE…meaning JEROME and any CHURCH FATHERS are not INFALLIBLE,
And if they are not INFALLIBLE can they interpret the BIBLE?
A Catholic Cardinal has this to say:
“If you are not infallibly certain that you understand the true meaning of the whole Bible—and this is a privilege you do not claim—then, I ask, OF WHAT USE TO YOU IS THE OBJECTIVE INFALLIBILITY OF THE BIBLE WITHOUT AN INFALLIBLE INTERPRETER?” [Faith of Our Fathers, by James Cardinal Gibbons, page 137]
Cardinal Gibbon’s rhetorical question is certain, that without an INFALLIBLE INTERPRETER the OBJECTIVE INFALLIBILITY of the BIBLE will be of no use or will be useless.
So why we should trust JEROME and other CHURCH FATHERS then in giving interpretations of the Bible if they are capable of making mistakes for they are not infallible?
The CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA itself is showing the ERROR of JEROME and other FATHERS…
As we can read from the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
“THUS THE GREEK LETTER T (TAU OR THAU) APPEARS IN EZECHIEL (IX, 4), ACCORDING TO ST. JEROME AND OTHER FATHERS”
The GREEK LETTER “THAU” does not look like a CROSS (+) but a “T”
And the GREEK OLD TESTAMENT known as the SEPTUAGINT [LXX] does not show the GREEK WORD “THAU” or even a SINGLE GREEK LETTER “T” or “τ” in EZEKIEL 9:4 [SEE THE VERSE SHOWN BELOW]
The GREEK WORD “σημειον” o “sēmeion” which means MARK or a SIGN, a TRANSLATION of the HEBREW WORD “THU” [תּו] which also means DESIRE [JOB 31:35 DRB].
I will challenge the Catholic to show us another GREEK OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE existed apart from the SEPTUAGINT that we can CLEARLY SEE the GREEK WORD “THAU” or even the SINGLE LETTER “T” in EZEKIEL 9:4, to prove that JEROME and his colleagues were telling the TRUTH as the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA stated. That is a very important matter to look for.
If we are going to accept the INTERPRETATION of JEROME and other CHURCH FATHERS of EZEKIEL 9:4 to be an ABSOLUTE TRUTH, that the SEAL of the LIVING GOD is INDEED the LETTER “THAU” that LOOKED like the CROSS (+) and that is the SEAL of GOD’s TRUE SERVANTS.
What SHOCKING TRUTH we will discover????
If we are going to dig deeper in ANCIENT HISTORY, there was no record that the ANCIENT ISRAELITES prior to CHRISTIAN ERA ever used the LETTER “THAU” as a SIGN MARKED on THEIR FOREHEADS nor the FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIANS led by the APOSTLES.
You will be shocked to know to whom the letter “THAU” or this sign belongs to, let us read this book:
“The same sign of the cross that Rome now worships was used in the BABYLONIAN MYSTERIES, was applied by paganism to the same magic purposes, was honoured with the same honours. That which is now called the CHRISTIAN CROSS was originally NO CHRISTIAN EMBLEM AT ALL, but was the MYSTIC ‘TAU’ of the CHALDEANS and EGYPTIANS – the TRUE ORIGINAL FORM OF THE LETTER T – the initial of the name of TAMMUZ – which, in Hebrew, radically same as ancient Chaldee, as found in coins, was formed as in No. 1 of accompanying woodcut (Fig. 43); and in Etrurian and Coptic, as Nos. 2 and 3. That mystic TAU WAS MARKED IN BAPTISM OF THE FOREHEADS of those initiated in the Mysteries and was used in every variety of way as a most sacred symbol.” [ THE TWO BABYLONS, by Alexander Hislop, pages 197-198]
The ORIGINAL user of the LETTER “THAU” or “TAU” as a SIGN that was being MARKED on the FOREHEADS during BAPTISM, where the followers of TAMMUZ also known as the MYSTIC ‘TAU’ used by the CHALDEANS and EGYPTIANS.
Let us find out from the author of this Book who is TAMMUZ? Maybe he is one of God’s prophets among his chosen people, let us find out:
“Even where the sun was the favourite object of worship, as in BABYLON itself and elsewhere, at this festival he was worshipped not merely as the orb of day, but as GOD INCARNATE. It was an essential principle of the BABYLONIAN SYSTEM, that the SUN or BAAL was the one only God. When therefore, TAMMUZ was worshipped as GOD INCARNATE, that implied also that he was also the INCARNATION OF THE SUN.” [Ibid, page 96]
TAMMUZ is one of the BABYLONIAN GODS, and as stated by this book, he was also recognized as GOD INCARNATE similar to the CATHOLIC’S version of JESUS CHRIST which is also a GOD INCARNATED into MAN.
So the LETTER “THAU” is indeed the SIGN or SEAL of a GOD, but not the TRUE GOD of ISRAEL, but the PAGAN GOD of BABYLON, and it actually looked like a CROSS as you can see below the PICTURE of TAMMUZ with his CROSS:
How come a SIGN from the NAME of a BABYLONIAN GOD will be the SEAL of the LIVING GOD, the TRUE GOD?
And the BOOK OF EZEKIEL even mentioned ‘TAMMUZ’ and called him a FALSE GOD as we can read here:
Ezekiel 8:12-15 Then God said to me, "Son of man, do you see what the elders of Israel do in the dark? EACH MAN HAS A SPECIAL ROOM FOR HIS OWN FALSE GOD. They say to themselves, 'The LORD cannot see us. The LORD left this country. Then he said to me, "IF YOU COME WITH ME, YOU WILL SEE THESE MEN DOING EVEN MORE TERRIBLE THINGS!" THEN GOD LED ME TO THE ENTRANCE TO THE LORD'S TEMPLE. THIS GATE WAS ON THE NORTH SIDE. I SAW WOMEN SITTING THERE AND CRYING. THEY WERE SAD ABOUT THE FALSE GOD ‘TAMMUZ!’ God said to me, "SON OF MAN, DO YOU SEE THESE TERRIBLE THINGS? COME WITH ME AND YOU WILL SEE THINGS THAT ARE EVEN WORSE THAN THIS!" [ERV]
What happened to JEROME and the other CHURCH FATHERS? How could they think that EZEKIEL 9:4 refers to the LETTER “TAU” which is actually the SIGN of the FALSE GOD TAMMUZ. It was already mentioned in Chapter 8, how God himself hates the act of worshiping these FALSE GODS…
Were they blind for not seeing how GOD HATES the FALSE GODS that was being worshipped during that time, and specially mentioned “TAMMUZ” in those verses?
How could GOD will allow the LETTER “TAU” to be used as his SEAL for the TRUE SERVANTS of GOD, if this SEAL was used by the PAGANS as the SEAL or SIGN of a BABYLONIAN GOD?
There is no way God will allow his chosen people acquire things related to Babylonian worship.
So you might say, what’s the problem? It is just a sign that we used no big deal.
It was not a small deal in the Bible:
Revelation 13:15-16 “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. AND HE CAUSETH ALL, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, RICH AND POOR, FREE AND BOND, TO RECEIVE A MARK IN THEIR RIGHT HAND, OR IN THEIR FOREHEADS:” [KJV]
The Prophecy mentioned a MARK that will be FORCED to be given by the BEAST on the THE RIGHT HAND or FOREHEAD of all sorts of PEOPLE whether they are SMALL and GREAT, RICH and POOR, FREE AND BOND or a SLAVE.
Was this the SEAL of the LIVING GOD? Or the PEOPLE that will be saved on JUDGMENT DAY?
Read this:
Revelation 14:8-11 “Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, FALLEN IS BABYLON THE GREAT, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality. A third angel followed the first two angels. This third angel said in a loud voice, "GOD WILL PUNISH ALL THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND THE BEAST'S IDOL AND AGREE TO HAVE THE BEAST'S MARK ON THEIR FOREHEAD OR ON THEIR HAND. They will drink the wine of God's anger. This wine is prepared with all its strength in the cup of God's anger. THEY WILL BE TORTURED WITH BURNING SULFUR BEFORE THE HOLY ANGELS AND THE LAMB. AND THE SMOKE FROM THEIR BURNING PAIN WILL RISE FOREVER AND EVER. THERE WILL BE NO REST, DAY OR NIGHT, FOR THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND ITS IDOL OR WHO WEAR THE MARK OF ITS NAME." [ESV]
Those who received the MARK from the BEAST will SUFFER ETERNAL DAMNATION and PUNISHMENT to the LAKE OF FIRE or the SECOND DEATH [Revelation 21:8]…this is not a small thing that we should take for granted…
If you have a MARK of a BABYLONIAN GOD ‘TAMMUZ’ which is the LETTER “TAU” or the “CROSS”, you are pretty sure to end up in the LAKE OF FIRE…because the BEAST MENTIONED is related to the WOMAN sitting on the BEAST with SEVEN HEADS and TEN HORNS, the GREAT HARLOT which bears the NAME BABYLON THE GREAT:
Revelation 17:3-5 “And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a WOMAN sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "BABYLON THE GREAT, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations." [ESV]
Indeed the details MATCHES and made SENSE…the GREAT BABYLON – the WOMAN in REVELATION who is SITTING on the BEAST of COURSE will use the MARK from BABYLON, and as we have revealed – the LETTER “TAU” or the “CROSS” the SIGN of BABYLONIAN GOD “TAMMUZ”.
Never it will be called the SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD, for it was already clear from the BIBLE that the SEAL of the LIVING GOD is the HOLY SPIRIT [Eph 1:13]. The SEAL that originated from the TRUE GOD and not from a FALSE GOD.
The LETTER “TAU” or the CROSS is the SEAL or MARK on the RIGHT HAND and FOREHEAD from the GREAT BABYLON – the APOSTATE CHURCH – the GREAT HARLOT mentioned in Revelation.
The MARK or SIGN you will never wished you’ll have, for it is the SIGN of the PEOPLE that will be PUNISHED in the LAKE OF FIRE on JUDGMENT DAY….
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