Hello John and Doves,
On the summer solstice,
Sunday, June 21, this year there will be another "ring of
fire" annular solar eclipse. It follows the one on
December 26, 2019. Seen by the same areas of people
in the Middle East, India and China/Southeast Asia.
June 21,
2020 is 29 Sivan on the Hebrew calendar - 29 Sivan is
the day traditionally believed to be the day that the
elders of Israel sent out 12 men - one from each of the
12 tribes - to check out the Land of Israel before for
some 3 million Jews entered the new land. Their
mission was to see how they could take the land and if
they could take the land. This was 'the season' of
the first ripe grapes. The first ripe grapes were
harvested in June in ancient Israel.
https://archive.gci.org/articles/harvest-seasons-of-ancient-israel/
Harvest
Seasons of Ancient Israel | GCI Archive
After 40 days, these
spies came back and said they didn't want to enter the
land for fear of the giants that lived there and the
cities were all fortified. Because they didn't trust
God, they ended up wandering in the wilderness for 40
years. This story is recorded in Numbers 13.
The chabad.org has 1
Tammuz starting on the evening of June 22. The
sighting of the new moon. The "ring of fire" solar
eclipses ushers in the month of Tammuz.
A "ring of fire" annular
solar eclipse is a "special kind of solar eclipse.
It occurs when a new moon is furthest away from the Earth
on its elliptical orbit - basically the opposite of a
"supermoon" - so it doesn't cover the sun's disk
completely....Observers will see a ring around the sun for
a maximum of about one minute....99% of the sun will be
obscured, so it's almost a total solar eclipse.
Unlike most annular solar eclipses, it's expected to go
pretty dark before the "ring of fire" is visible, and
there may be odd animal behavior and some points of light
around the moon called "Baily's beads".
https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/space-astronomy/how-to-see-solstice-ring-of-fire-eclipse-sun
A
Rare 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse Is Happening This June
— Here's What You Should Know | Travel + Leisure
It is interesting that
this 2nd "ring of fire" shows up at the start of the month
of Tammuz.
Tammuz was a
Sumerian/Babylonian god. The letter T in Babylon was
'tau' - it looked like a cross. "It was the initial
of Tammuz... What does the worship of Tammuz have to
do with the sign of the cross? According to
historian Alexander Hislop, Tammuz was intimately
associated with the Babylonian mystery religions begun by
the worship of Nimrod, Semiramis, and her illegitimate
son, Horus. The original form of the Babylonian
letter T was T (tau), identical to the crosses used today
in this world's Christianity. This was the initial
of Tammuz. Referring to this sign of Tammuz, Hislop
wrotes:
"That mystic Tau was
marked in baptism on the foreheads of those initiated into
the Mysteries...The Vestal virgins of Pagan Rome wore it
suspended from their necklaces, as the nuns do now...There
is hardly a Pagan tribe where the cross has not been
found...The X which in itself was not an unnatural symbol
of Christ, the true Messiah, and which had once been
regarded as such, was allowed to go entirely into disuse,
and the Tau, T, the sign of the cross, the indisputable
sign of Tammuz, the false Messiah, was everywhere
substituted in its stead. (The Two Babylons, 1959,
p. 198-199, 204-205)
https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/20619/eVerseID/20619/
Ezekiel
8:14 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary
The prophet Ezekiel was
shown the abominations involving the worship of
Tammuz: "Then said He unto me, Son of man, hast thou
seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the
dark, every man in the chambers each at the shrine of his
own idols? for they say, the Lord seeth us not; the
Lord hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me,
Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater
abominations that these. Then he brought me to the
door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the
north; and behold, there sat women weeping for
Tammuz. Then said He unto me, Hast thou seen this, O
son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see
great abominations than these. And He brought me
into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at
the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and
the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their
backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces
toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the
east...Therefore will I also deal in fury....."Ezekiel
8:11-18
The walls of Jerusalem
were breached by King Nebuchadnezzar in the month of
Tammuz. Then the Jews were carried away into captivity to
Babylon and the Temple and city destroyed.
It is written that after
the violent death of Nimrod, various myths and religious
ceremonies were created to honor him. He eventually
was resurrected as the Babylonian god Tammuz. His
death and resurrection was a copy of the coming true
Messiah's and the women weeping for Tammuz in Jerusalem
that Ezekiel was shown by the Lord was for
Nimrod's/Tammuz's death, which the Lord called an
abomination. The Lord destroyed Jerusalem for this evil
and other abominations which the people did.
In Hislop's book, The
Two Babylons, he writes about how the initiates into the
cult of Tammuz would experience supernatural and magical
manifestations that were presided over by the priests of
Tammuz. There might be shaking, lights on the walls,
or darkness that would 'envelop them as a manifestation of
the presence of Tammuz'.
The Antichrist is given
power by Satan - "This man (the lawless one) will come to
do the work of Satan with all power and false signs and
wonders. He will use every kind of evil deception to
fool those on their way to destruction, because they
refuse to love and accept the truth that would save
them." 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10
Will the month of Tammuz
have some prophetic significance in The Revelation?
Will the god, Tammuz? I wrote about other
'mythological' gods in my 22 Mar 2020 letter to
Doves: "The Riders of the Pale Horse"
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2020/chance322-1.htm
The
Riders of the Pale Horse
Many interesting and
significant things occurred in the month of Tammuz:
Joshua stops the sun
(Joshua 10:1-5)
Ezekiel receives his
"Chariot" vision (Ezekiel 1:4-26
Jerusalem's walls were
breached by King Nebuchadnezzar
Golden calf offered by the
Jewish people
Smashing of the first
Tablets by Moses
The daily sacrifices in
the Holy Temple were discontinued.
Walls of Jerusalem
breached by the Roman army.
The Roman general
Apostomus burned the Torah and placed an idol in the Holy
Temple.
Is 'prophecy' finished
with the month of Tammuz or is there more to come?
Is this second ring of
fire on the summer solstice a sign or omen? And it's
a new moon - New Moons are a shadow of the things that are
to come. Colossians 2:16-17
In the Talmud (Sukkah
20a): An eclipse of the sun is a bad omen for the
world.
Hopefully, the Rapture is
in our near future before the ring of fire ushers in
Tammuz.
Pray for the peace of
Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance