1) An altar to another god to worship, the god of jeaslousy. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. Ezekiel 8:5
...and they worshipped the beast, saying,
Who is like unto the beast? Revelation 13:4
2) They have carved images in the temple to other gods. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. Ezekiel 8:9,10
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. Revelation
13:15
3) The
people-Weeping for Tammuz - 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. Ezekiel 8:14
....and all the world wondered after the
beast. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that
dwell in heaven. Revelation 13:3,6
4) Sunday instituted in place of Sabbath
(Only becomes Mark of the Beast when mandated by law at the end of time).
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 worshipped the
sun toward the east. Ezekiel 8:16
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: And that no man might buy or sell, save he
that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name. Revelation 13:15-17
*TAMMUZ- was the sun god in Babylon of vegetation and death and rebirth. See how Tammuz is a counterfiet to the real God. * Christ-Creator of all, including the sun. Tammuz, the sun god. ..thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Psalm 74:16 * Christ was the promised seed. Tammuz was the vegetation god. Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: Acts 13:23 * Christ was crucified and resurrected. Tammuz was the deity of death and rebirth. Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. Acts 4:10 TAMMUZ, the counterfiet to Christ in Ezekiel like the beast in Revelation.