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Meet
the first Pope!!
Insignia of Pagan and Papal
Rome.
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Pope Constantine I (306
— 337).
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The Bible Code!!
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Pope
Constantine was born Flavius Valerius Constantinus at Nis on Feb. 27,
280, in what is now Serbia, son of the commander Constantius Chlorus
(later Constantius I) and Helena a camp follower and Balkan barmaid.
Constantius became co-emperor in 305.
Following
the example of his father and earlier 3rd-century emperors, Constantine
in his early life was a solar henotheist, believing that the Roman sun
god, Sol, was the visible manifestation of an invisible "Highest
God" (summus deus), who was the principle behind the universe.
This god was thought to be the companion of the Roman emperors. Constantine's
adherence to this faith is evident from his claim of having had a vision
of the sun god in 310 while in a grove of Apollo in Gaul.
As
a youth Constantine was sent to the palace of the infamous Roman Emperor
Diocletian to learn the tricks of the trade as they say. At that time
Christianity was growing by leaps and bounds throughout the Empire.
The Christians were outstanding citizens but the Emperors saw them as
a threat to the empire for ONE reason: they refused to acknowledge
the divinity of the Emperors or call Caesar "lord."
During
the early days of Rome the people hated kings. Rome was a Republic.
This human divinity idea came from the Pharaohs.
Egyptian rulers were considered gods by their subjects and when Julius
Caesar conquered Egypt he brought this idea back to Rome.
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Emperor
Diocletian (245 — 313).
Emperor
Diocletian began the last great pagan persecution of the Church
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Beginning in the year 303,
the pagan Roman Empire made one last great attempt to exterminate
Christianity. This persecution, under the Emperor Diocletian,
began on the 23rd of February (303 A.D.), that being the day the
Roman Terminalia was celebrated, and the cruel pagans boasted
that they would finally put a termination to Christianity
Diocletian
began by sacrificing to the pagan gods to make his war against
the Christians a success:
" .
. . In the first, while Diocletian was sacrificing in public,
the chief interpreter of the victims' organs reported that he
could not read the future in them because of the hostile influence
of Christians standing around. Diocletian burst into a rage,
insisting that all in his court should offer sacrifice, and
sent out orders to his army to follow suit." (Ramsey MacMullen,
Constantine, p.24). "
The
local demons having failed him, Diocletian then consulted the
most powerful shrine of augury and divination in the world. This
was the Oracle of Apollo in Delphi, Greece. His priests brought
him back more bad news: it quit working too....This caused him
to fly into an uncontrollable rage and he ordered the holocaust
to commence immediately:
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Monument to the
power of the Risen Christ!!
Oracle of
Apollo in Delphi, Greece, stopped working after the Resurrection
of Christ. Apollo was another name for Sol Invictus or
the sun god.
All over the world,
shrines of divination like this stopped working after the Resurrection
of Christ. |
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Fire,
racks, swords, wild beasts, crosses, poison and famine were made
use of to kill the Christians. Invention was exhausted to devise
tortures against those who would not deny Christ and acknowledge
Caesar as "lord" and burn incense to his image.
The
lives of Christians during that time consisted of persecution
above ground and prayer underground. This is know
in history as the era of the martyrs.
The
main target of the pagans was the New Testament . . . and the
histories of Christ. All of the great books portraying the Mount
of Olives as the site of the Resurrection were systematically
destroyed.
Even
the books written by pagan authors were destroyed because they
would reveal a lot about the doctrines and practices of the Apostolic
church.
There
were millions of Christians and many of them had copies of the
New Testament. Only about 5,000 manuscripts have survived from
that time and the oldest is dated around 350 A.D.
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The blood
of the martyrs was the seed of the Congregation.
By being "faithful
unto death" Christians were defeating paganism in the Roman
Empire.
From
303 — 313, Christian bodies and books were systematically
destroyed during this last great pagan persecution. |
Eusebius
tells us that there were innumerable histories of the Life of Christ
written by the Christians. Only one account survived this persecution.
If any had survived we would have known exactly when Jesus was born.
"Hence
by recent authors also, there are, as I have said, demonstrations
without number,
which we may carefully read, very able and clear, written in argumentative
form in defense of our doctrine, and not a few commentaries carefully
made upon the sacred and inspired Scriptures, showing by mathematical
demonstrations the unerring truthfulness of those who from the beginning
preached to us the word of godliness" (Preparation for the
Gospel, Bk. I, ch. III, p.7.)
Rome
was systematically destroying Christian history so that the next generation
of believers would have no idea what their parents believed. Jesus said
that the Christians were the salt of the earth and the light of
the world:
"Ye
are the salt of the earth . . . Ye are the light of the world"
(Matthew 5:13-14).
With the removal of
the salt and light through persecution, the world became a very dark place.
This is what St. Paul was referring to when he refers to the let or hindrance
that was holding back the manifestation of the Antichrist system:
"Let no man
deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there
come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed
the son of perdition . . . and now ye know what witholdeth that he
might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the
way (II Thessalonians 2:3-6)."
Even
Eusebius was imprisoned and it is a miracle that any of his writings
have survived. His close friend and mentor Pamphilus was martyred during
this time.
Pope Constantine changed
the PLACE of the Resurrection of Christ!!
Constantine knew from experience that the great power of the
Christian message came from the preaching of the Resurrection of Christ. Immediately
upon assuming the purple, he set about to insidiously undermine and then
eliminate this cardinal doctrine.
For 300 years the Christians were accustomed to visit the Mount of Olives
in Jerusalem and they came back filled with zeal for their Risen Lord.
They also saw the total ruins of the Temple in exact fulfillment
of the words of Jesus. This made them invincible to all the threats and
arguments of the pagans. Constantine set about to change this:
"Believers in Jesus all congregate
from all parts of the world....that they may worship at the MOUNT
OF OLIVES opposite the city....TO THE CAVE that is shown there"
(Eusebius, Proof of the Gospel, Bk. VI. ch. 18)."
The Empty Tomb on the Mount of Olives
The
Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem was the site of the death
and Resurrection of Christ.
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The
Resurrection of Christ is the great central Doctrine of Christianity.
It is the ROCK and pillar that support the entire structure. St.
Paul said:
"And
if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your
faith is also vain (I Cor. 15:14)."
And again:
"But
now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits
of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man also
came the resurrection of the dead, For as in Adam all die, even
so in Christ shall all be made alive (I Cor. 15:20-22)."
In
the year 326, Constantine sent his mother Helena to Jerusalem
to discover the spot that he had foreseen as the place
of Jesus' Resurrection. This was the site of the temple of Venus
on the West side of Jerusalem. He ordered the temple torn down
and a church constructed on the site. This is called the church
of the "Holy" Sepulchre to this day.
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Church
of the Holy Sepulchre, former site of the Temple of Venus
Church
of the Holy Sepulchre, former site of the Temple of Venus. |
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In the year
326, Constantine sent his mother Helena to Jerusalem to discover
the spot that he had foreseen as the place of Jesus' Resurrection.
This was the site of the temple of Venus on the West side of Jerusalem.
He ordered the temple torn down and a church constructed on the
site. This is called the church of the Holy Sepulchre to this
day.
This is the WRONG
location because it was located within the city of Jerusalem and
Jesus died outside the city walls.
Since ALL the
books on the correct time of Jesus' birth were destroyed, Constantine
was able to pull this off. Dec. 25 was the BIG day for the
pagans. It was the Winter Solstice and was named Dies Natalis
Invicti or The Birthday of the Unconquered SUN.
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Pope
Constantine changed the TIME of the Resurrection of the Lord!!
In 325, he presided
over the Council of Nicaea which changed the time of the Lord's Resurrection
to the Sunday following the Passover. This was to coincide with the
old Roman festival of Easter which usually fell about a week after
Passover when the moon rose after midnight.
Pope
Constantine changed the TIME of our Saviour's birth to Dec. 25
Town of Bethlehem where Jesus was born in the
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Another great
destination for the Christians was the town of Bethlehem where
Jesus was born:
"They
(prophets) foretold the wondrous fashion of his birth from
a Virgin, and—strangest of all—they did not omit to name Bethlehem
the place of his birth, which is today so famous that men
still hasten from the ends of the earth to see it, but shouted
it out with the greatest clearness (Eusebius, The Proof
of the Gospel, Bk. 1, p. 2)."
Since ALL the
books on the correct time of Jesus' birth were destroyed, Constantine
was able to pull this off. Dec. 25 was the BIG day for the
pagans. It was the Winter Solstice and was named Dies Natalis
Invicti or The Birthday of the Unconquered SUN.
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Pope
Constantine united Christianity and State
After
changing the TIME and PLACE of the birth and Resurrection, the third
strike of Satan against the Gospel was the marrying of this false Christianity
with the State. He made Christianity the State religion or united
church and state. This was the last straw — marrying the pure bride
of Christ with the dirty politics of the Roman Empire.
Jesus
had said long ago to another representative of pagan Rome named Pontius
Pilate:
"My
kingdom is not of this world: If my kingdom were of this world, then
would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews:
but now my kingdom is not from hence (Matt. 18:36)."
Constantine
knew plenty about fighting. He was a rough-neck Roman soldier all his
life!!
Pope
Constantine entered the church though baptism.
Prior to this
time, a person entered the church through conversion or the
new birth. Baptism followed salvation. Constantine
waited until just before his death to be baptized because he believed
that baptism washes away sins and makes one a Christian. To this very
day, all his followers have used that same door:
"Holy
Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to
life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which
gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed
from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ,
are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission:
"Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word."
(Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1997, Part Two, Article
1.)
In
the 30 years that Constantine reigned, the Roman Catholic system was
fully developed. The 2 big festivals: Christmas and Easter with entry
through baptism instead of the new birth, union of church and state,
and the false time and place of the Lord's birth and Resurrection
have continued right down to our time.
The
Great historian Eusebius hit the nail right on the head. He said in
coded language that only the believers could understand that this
empire of Constantine was the culmination of the 4 heathen Empires
of antiquity namely, Babylon,
Persia, Greece, Rome and that it was
the FINAL ANSWER of Satan to the Gospel of Christ and it would remain
unchanged until Christ's Second Coming!!
Writing
of the 30th anniversary of the ascension of Constantine he pays particular
attention to the number 10
and the number 30:
"Again
the triad combined with the decade, and performing a threefold circuit
of tens, produced that most natural number, thirty. For as the triad
is in respect to units, so is the number 30 in respect to tens...."(Eusebius,
Oration to Constantine).
Eusebius
associated the number 30 with the MONTH having 30 days and the MOON
was created to rule the MONTH and the NIGHT. So this empire of Constantine
had much to do with darkness and the NIGHT:
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What
Eusebius was telling the initiated who knew the Scriptures was that
1 plus 2, plus 3, plus 4 equals 10. In other words, right before their
eyes, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome were culminating in this Empire
of Constantine which would exist until the Second Coming of Christ!!
"For
the unit is the tenth of ten, and ten units make up a decade, which
is itself the limit, the settled goal and boundary of units; it is
that which terminates the infinity of number the term AND END of units"
(Eusebius, Oration to Constantine)."
And that Constantine's Empire was not the
Empire of Christ . . . but was the 10 toed, 10 horned evil empire of
the book of Daniel and Revelation. This was the beginning of the evil
Empire that John saw in a vision over 200 years earlier:
"And I stood upon the sand
of the sea, and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven
heads and TEN
horns, and
upon his horns 10
crowns,
and upon his heads the name of blasphemy (Rev. 13:1)."
This was the same
ten horns that Daniel saw upon the Roman wild beast over 500 years earlier:
"After this
I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and
terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it
devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet
of it: and it was diverse from all the beast that were before it;
and it had TEN
horns (Daniel
7:7)"
The number 10 also stands for
apostasy, division, wars and captivity. Shortly after King Solomon built the
Temple in Jerusalem, he became involved in Baal worship or sun worship and
he lost 10 tribes out of the 12 tribes of Israel:
"And it came to pass at
that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the
Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself in a new garment;
and they were alone in the field. Ahijah caught the new garment that was
on him and rent it in pieces: And said to Jeroboam, Take thee TEN
pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold I will rend the
kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give TEN
tribes to thee" (I Kings 11:29-31).
Jeroboam was no better than Solomon because he set up 2 golden calves: one
at Dan
in the north and another at Bethel in the south in order to keep the people from going to
Jerusalem to worship:
"Whereupon the
king took council, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them,
It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel
which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one
in Dan and the other in Bethel" (I Kings 12:28-29)
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Dan and Bethel became the
2 new rival centers to Jerusalem. |
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In the Old Testament Dan and
Bethel became the 2 new rival worship centers to Jerusalem answering
to Rome and Constantinople in the New Testament times.
These are the
so-called 10 lost tribes of Israel who went into captivity in
Assyria about 250 years later. Only the tribe of Benjamin remained
with Judah.
Pope
Constantine set up a new Capital about 1,000 miles to the east.
This is called the "Orthodox" church to this day. Thus
Rome and Constantinople became 2 new rival "church"
headquarters in opposition to Jerusalem.
Rome
and Constantinople became the 2 new "church" headquarters!!
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Rome and Constantinople became
the 2 new "church" headquarters instead of Jerusalem.
When Constantinople
fell to the Turks (1453) the Orthodox church moved to Russia and the
bitter competition continues right down to our own day with the Vatican
enlisting the help of the U.S. military to fight her ancient rival.
That is what Fatima is
all about.
Editor's Notes
In
the Old Testament, Satan's religion was called BAAL worship or sun worship.
Baal was placed in charge of sun worship while his deputy Allah was
in charge of moon worship. He was the main opponent of Moses when he
led the chosen people out of Egyptian bondage.
BAAL fought against Joshua when
he tried to bring the chosen people into the promised land. Baal fought
against Samson, Gideon, Deborah, David, Jehoshaphat, Elijah, Ezra, Nehemiah,
and ALL the Old Testament saints.
BAAL was totally defeated by the
Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Mount of Olives in 33 A.D., but
he refused to admit defeat and moved to Rome to carry on the battle against
God's New Testament chosen people — the TRUE Christians.
We will now meet 3
key people that Satan used to establish his religion at Rome in order to
destroy true Christianity. The first one was a depraved
high priest of the temple of Baal in Syria named Elagabalus. He was
made Emperor of Rome while a boy of 14.
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Emperor
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Elagabalus
was high priest of Baal in Syria and later became Roman Emperor.
He established the cult of Sol Invictus Elagabal in Rome. He was
a depraved monster even by Roman standards and was finally murdered
by his troops.
"Emperor
Elagabalas, the crowned high priest of Sol Invictus, sacrificed
to the sun god every morning. During these daily rites, for
which he stood in front of the altar, the amplissimuss sacedos
wore typically Syrian robes ornamented with precious stones.
It may be that he examined the entrails
of young children which had been sacrificed....."(Gaston
H. Halsberghe, The Cult of Sol Invictus), p.85)
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The second person in this demonic
trinity was Emperor Aurelian:
Emperor
Aurelian (270—275) |
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Emperor Aurelian
considered Sol Invictus Elagabal too foreign or Eastern
for Roman tastes and so he Romanized it by dropping the Elagabal.
He established a college of high priests which later evolved into
the Roman College of Cardinals which elects every pope.
He made Sol Invictus
the state religion of the Roman Empire. He was also murdered by
his soldiers.
"....
Therefore Aurelian established a new college of high priests,
under the name Pontifices Dei Solis." (The Cult
of Sol Invictus, p. 155).
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Pope Constantine is the last in
our unholy trinity. He united this pagan Sol Invictus cult with
Christianity or what was left of Christianity after the last great pagan
persecution:
Pope
Constantine I (306—337) |
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"But it was during
the rule of Constantine the Great that the cult of Deus Sol
Invictus reached extraordinary heights, so that his reign was
even spoken of as a Sun Emperorship. Constantine was the personification
of Deus Sol Invictus on earth, and could consider the statue
of the sun in the Forum bearing his name as a statue of himself"
(The Cult of Sol Invictus, p. 167)
The
great church historian Eusebius called this man the COUNTERFEIT
COIN.
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"But it was
during the rule of Constantine the Great that the cult of Deus Sol
Invictus reached extraordinary heights, so that his reign was even
spoken of as a Sun Emperorship. Constantine was the personification
of Deus Sol Invictus on earth, and could consider the statue of the
sun in the Forum bearing his name as a statue of himself" (The
Cult of Sol Invictus, p. 167)
The
great church historian Eusebius called Constantine the COUNTERFEIT
COIN.
Dies Natalis Invicti or the
birthday of the Unconquered Sun was the BIG day for this cult. Constantine
called this day (Dec. 25) the birthday of Christ. None of these 3
devils lived to a ripe old age and Constantine died at age 57 most probably
from the effects of poison.
Some of the works of the great
church historian Eusebius are available online at the Christian
Classics Ethereal Library. Go to the site and do a word search. You will
not find Preparation for the Gospel or Proof of the Gospel
there. In those books, written before Pope Constantine, Eusebius used the
titles: Jesus, Lord Jesus and the Lord Jesus Christ frequently. After the
ascension of Pope Constantine however you will not find the Name JESUS any
more. He used titles like God, Sovereign, Most High, etc., etc. which could
be used by pagans to refer to their gods. Eusebius knew that the real Jesus
was excluded from this 10 toed evil Empire of Constantine.
Vital Links
Eusebius
and Constantine
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The
Four Heathen Empires
References
Alföldi, Andreas (Andrew). The Conversion
of Constantine and Pagan Rome. Oxford, 1948 and 1969.
Eusebius Pamphili, (260 —
340), Preparation for the Gospel, Proof of the Gospel,
Ecclesiastical History, Life of Constantine, Oration to Constantine,
etc., etc. Grand Rapids, Baker Book House, 1981.
Baynes, Norman, H., Constantine the
Great and the Christian Church, London, 1934.
Burckhardt, Jacob, The Age of Constantine
the Great, Pantheon Books Inc., New York, 1949.
Halsberghe, Gaston, H., The Cult of
Sol Invictus, E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1972.
Kee, Alistair, Constantine Versus Christ:
The Triumph of Ideology, SCM Press, London, 1982.
Martin, E. L. Secrets of Golgatha,
ASK Publications, Portland, Oregon, 2000.
MacMullen, Ramsey, Constantine,
The Dial Press, New York, 1969.
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