DID JESUS OBSERVE LENT? - Herman L Hoeh - February 1982

Herman L Hoeh

Where and when did the custom of observing Lent originate? Here are amazing FACTS about this 40-day period of penitence that will surprise you! Believe it or not, Lent was observed 2,000 years before Jesus was born! It was still being observed during the lifetime of Jesus and in the days of the apostles. Yet Christ did not institute it and he never observed it! The 12 apostles never observed it! The Church Jesus built never observed it. How, then, did Lent - a 40-day period of fasting and penitence enter the Christianity of our Western world? Isn't it time we pause to ask ourselves why we observe the customs we do? We may have supposed Lent was taught in the Bible. But have we ever looked into the Bible to see what the Bible really says? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library