Babylonian priests invented the Missa, or Mass, serving a round, sun-shaped wafer of bread. Wine, the symbol for atoning blood, took a back seat in the Whore's religion just as the disk of bread in a Catholic Mass is served to all while few sip. Satan knows that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. This wafer is still emblazoned with the first letter of the names of the Egyptian Trinity: HIS - Horus, Isis, and Seb - the Mother, the Child, and the Father of the gods.

Each of the seven sacraments of Mithrasism, including Confession and the Eucharist, were incorporated into Roman Catholicism. The Church usurped the pagan use of wax candles, incense, and holy water too, interesting in that one of Thyatira's definitions is: "unceasing sacrifice of perfume." To this day, the sacrifice of the Mass, with its odorous incense, remains an ordinance within the RCC.

Mithraism had its own Trinity, Mithras, Rashnu, and Vohu Manah, another legacy of the Whore's teaching. In Catholicism, Mary was elevated to divine intermediary, being called the Mother of God and the Queen of Heaven - Satanic concepts all. It was one of the Devil's most effective counterfeits, replacing our Spiritual Mother with an earthly woman. It all began with the mother-and-child cult of Nimrod and his wife/mother Rhea/Semiramis. It took many forms over the centuries, but the basic ingredients were the exalted mother, often a virgin, who gave birth to the son of a god who died and then rose from the dead. The scenario gave rise to a plethora of fertility cults like Jezebel's, many of which are condemned in Scripture. Worship involved ritual sex which devolved over time into temple prostitution. In these Babylonian religious cults Mother Earth, called Rhea, Ishtar or Asherah, was impregnated by the sun during the spring equinox, the Catholic Easter, giving birth nine months later at the winter solstice, the Catholic Christmas. The "Hail Mary" mindset of Catholicism is a direct derivative of these pagan schemes. It was first instituted into Roman Catholicism in 431 CE, in complete violation of Yahuweh's scriptures.

There is so much more. For a fascinating look at how much of Jezebel's paganism came to be Roman Catholicism, see Alexander Hislop's classic The Two Babylons. This treatise traces the false religion's Babylonian roots and drops the Whore's legacy squarely in the lap of the Roman Catholic popes, many of whose rites and traditions stem directly from Satan's mystery religion. Although Hislop's methodology has erroneously come under fire in recent years due to the fact that his sources are no longer extant, it's enough to make you give up Catholicism, in addition to Sunday worship, Christmas, and Easter. A more current study was written by Lew White called Fossilized Customs. Lew is a Messianic Yahudi, Hebrew scholar and etymologist. I also recommend Richard Rives' Too Long Under the Sun, but my favorite is Come Out of Her My People by the late C.J. Koster. Matthew Coover's The Real Messiah does an excellent job of using Scripture to strip Yahushua of the Whore's religious apparel, too.