Lent is a period of six weeks that was constituted by the Catholic church, where fasting and weeping was done for those six weeks before Easter.

The fasting really originates from the pagan worship of Tammuz.

Ezekiel 8:14-15 New  (NKJV)

¹⁴ So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the Lord’s house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

Who was Tammuz?

Tammuz was the son of Nimrod who died at the age of 40 years (killed by a wild pig while hunting), because he was proclaimed to the messiah of the world (by his mother Eastre, Ishtar  or Ashtoreth, and his father Nimrod).

Reviving of Tammuz’s dead spirit:

The Canaanites, Babylon, Sidon and other nations that derived from Nimrods or Ham’s lineage, decided to forge a 40 days of fasting and weeping for the bringing back of Tammuz’s dead spirit, through chanting and other demonic rituals.

The celebration of Easter was the climax where the women involved in the ritual of baking cakes, sexual orgies, pouring wine for the queen of heaven, and they also became impregnated by this evil energy of Tammuz, aiming at the spiritual goal of reviving the evil act where Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and Evil, using the woman’s female attribute as a  tool that hinders man from doing what God commanded him to do….

Genesis 3:17-18  (NKJV)

¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

The First Council of Nicæa in Rome, spoke and constituted Lent as a period of fasting for forty days, in preparation for Eastertide or Easter.

Lent (Latin: Quadragesima: Fortieth) is a solemn religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday.

Through Lent the suffering of Jesus is highlighted and depicted via images, and the prayers done during this period must focus on His suffering.

The Stations of the Cross, a devotional commemoration of Christ’s carrying the Cross and of his execution, are often observed and are the main focus during the fasting of lent.

The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer for Easter through prayer, using the help of the stations of the cross, showing and depicting the victory of Tammuz (the cross) over the Jewish Messiah who died on the cross.

They masked the fasting of Tammuz by making it look like a biblical fast, the Catholic church declared that it was the 40 days fasting that Jesus did.

Yet when the biblical 40 days of fasting that Yeshua did fell in the month of Elul (Autumn time), which concludes with the the 40th day falling on Yokippur (The day of Atonement).