1917_The_Finished_Mystery_Text

It is an abomination for a professing Christian toput forth his heart's best endeavors except in theservice of God.Ezekiel 8:12.Then said He unto me, Son of man, hast thouseen what the ancients of the house of Israeldo in the dark, every man in the chambers ofhis imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth usnot; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.—These departures from True Christian belief arecarried on "in the dark." (John 3:19.) Every tare,imitation Christian, has his own peculiar beliefsand practices in "the chamber of his imagery,"his mind. Because God knows how to deferretribution until the Day of Judgment (2 Pet.2:9), these unwise ones delude themselves thatthe All-Seeing One does not see. Those notfamiliar with the Divine Plan of the Ages, seeingthe conditions of savage war trending into worsethings, apparently have the delusion that theLord has forsaken the earth.Ezekiel 8:13, 14.He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again,and thou shalt see greater abominations thatthey do. Then He brought me to the door ofthe gate of the Lord's house which was towardthe north; and, behold, there sat womenweeping for Tammuz.— Tammuz means"perfect (tam) by burning" (muz). He was aheathen god whose death was lamented annuallyby women idolaters. He was the god of fireworship, the same as Molech, to whom childrenwere burned alive. He types the eternal-tormentpurgatoryGod, who perfects (supposedly) by thefires of purgatory. The women weeping for himtypify the once-virgin churches, who honor thealleged hell-fire god and lament the ones in thefire. There is a unity of heathen religions withapostate "Christianity" which stamps them all aspagan. The original heathen god was Nimrod,"the mighty hunter" of Gen. 10:8-14, where isrelated the origin of Babylon and Ninevah.Nimrod led men and women from the truereligion of devout Noah into gross sensuality andneglect of the worship of Jehovah. He was