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A Short History Lesson
Among Christians Yahshua as a historical person remains totally removed from Judaism and the first century Jewish culture and practice. Here are some common errors that Christians commit: Yahshua was a Christian not a Jew and he attended a church on SUNday, not a synagogue on Shabbat; Yahshua started a new religion called Christianity, and it replaces Judaism; and he came to do away with the Law and establish a new way of salvation by grace. All these statements are totally false but yet held dear to every Christians and are taught by every church. Most Christians have a religion about “Jesus” but do not practice the religion of Yahshua. He never went to church, and never celebrated Xmass or Easter. He kept the Shabbat, the Feasts of YHWH, ate kosher food, wore tzitzit, a head-covering, tefillin, and prayed in the Temple and synagogues. His faith and practice were Jewish to the core.He was killed by the Romans as a political threat as a devout Jew loyal to the heritage of his faith.
Christians never bother to ask themselves, “How did Yahshua view the Torah?” Due to their perverted view of Torah, they view the Torah as some works-related legalistic salvation and not the Divine wisdom given by a loving Father to His children (Yisrael). Those wanting to understand Torah must never reject the Jewish people and Judaism because Yahshua can never be alienated from Judaism, the Jewish people, and the Torah. Christians are guilty of killing Yahshua by destroying his links to his people and his faith. Yahshua never came to destroy or replace Judaism and the Torah, he came to properly interpret the Torah and revitalize the faith of the Jewish people. Unfortunately, his voice has been silenced and replaced by theologians, seminaries, and Bible colleges who continue to perpetuate the lies of the anti-Nomian Church fathers.
Christianity is not some creation of “Jesus” 2,000 years ago but is a patchwork of ancient motifs, legends, myths, and pagan practices found throughout the world centuries before Yahshua and Second Temple period Judaism.The true history of Christianity begins with the “conversion” of the Roman emperor Constantine and the Council of Nicea in 325 C.E. this event marks the true birthday of the person called “Jesus”.The Council of Nicea was the attempt of Constantine to unify the various competing cults into one universal “Catholic” church, controlled by Constantine and Rome.Rome claimed ultimate authority due to its establishment by the rock Peter.The statue of Jupiter in Rome was renamed St. Peter and the other gods of cults were turned into the apostles and other saints. The first edict in favor of the 'Venerable Day of the Sun" (Sunday) was made at the Council of Nicea. Until this time, both followers of the Messiah and Jewish people generally observed the seventh day Shabbat, according to the commandment.
It was at the Council of Nicea that the names of “Jesus” and “Christ” were put together for the first time in the phrase “Jesus Christ”or “ Christ Jesus”, uniting the two into one, Jesus representing the Hesus of the Druids, Joshua of the Jews,Horus/Iusa of the Egyptians, and IES/Iesios of the Dionysians/Samothracians, and Christ representing the Krishna/Christos of India, the Messiah of the Jews, and KRST of Egypt, among others.The name “Jesus Christ” NEVER appears in Greek or Latin prior to the Council of Nicea.Thus, all the pagan deities where unified into a single person in “Jesus Christ”.
Nicea, with its theological anti-Judaism, laid the groundwork for anti-Semitic legislation of later church councils. The Council of Antioch (341 CE) prohibited Christians from celebrating Passover with the Jews. The Council of Laodicea in the same century forbade Christians from observing the Sabbath.Christians were also forbidden from receiving gifts from Jews or matzah from Jewish festivals and "impieties."
Excerpts from the letter of the Emperor (Constantine) to all those not present at the council. (Found in Eusebius, Vita ConsL, Lib 11118-20)
· "When the question relative to the sacred festival of Easter arose, it was universally thought that it would be convenient that all should keep the feast on one day; for what could be more beautiful and more desirable than to see this festival, through which we receive the hope of immortality celebrated by all with one accord and in the same manner? It was declared to be particularly unworthy for this, the holiest of festivals to follow the customs (the calculation) of the Jews, who had soiled their hand with the most fearful of crimes, and whose minds were blinded in rejecting their custom, we may transmit to our descendants the legitimate mode of celebrating Easter; which we have observed from the time of the Saviour's passion (according to the day of the week). We ought not therefore to have anything in common with the Jews, for the Savior has shown us another way; our worship following a more legitimate and more convenient course (the order of the days of the week): And consequently In unanimously adopting this mode, we desire, dearest brethren to separate ourselves for it is truly shameful for us to hear them boast that without their direction we could not keep this feast How can they be in the right, they who, after the death of the Savior; have no longer been led by reason but by wild violence, as their delusion may urge them? They do not possess the truth in This Easter question, for in their blindness and repugnance to all Improvements, they frequently celebrate two Passovers in the same year. We could not imitate those who are openly in error. How then, could we follow these Jews who are most certainly blinded by error? For to celebrate a Passover twice in one year is totally inadmissible. But even if this were not so it would still he your duty not to tarnish your soul by communication, with such wicked people (the Jews). You should consider not only that the number of churches in these provinces make a majority, but also that it is right to demand what our reason approves, and that we should have nothing in common with the Jews."
Dr. Henry R. Percival's "The Nicean and post Nicean Fathers". Vol. XIV Grand Rapid: Erdmans pub. 1979, pgs. 54-55 :
· "Already during the second and third centuries the 'Church Fathers' unleashed a cruel discrimination campaign against the Jews and anything Jewish including the Torah or the Law of Moses. In his book Our Father Abraham, Marvin Wilson states: "Furthermore the Church Fathers taught that the unfaithfulness of the Jewish people resulted in a collective guilt which made them subject to the permanent curse of God."
Among the biggest persecutors of the Jews were Justin Martyr and Origen but there are many other well known names. In year 325 C.E., Constantine adopted 'a Paganized form of Christianity' as the official religion of the Eastern Roman Empire, called Byzantium. He made official what had already started happening in the second and third centuries, the total divorce from the Jews and anything connected with them, including the Torah. It was at that time that what they call 'the New Testament' today was canonised. Until then, the only Scriptures were the TaNaK. Some Scriptures were purposely changed and manipulated in order to support the total disconnection of the Church from its Jewish roots.
One of the trademarks of the Constantinic Era, is that he changed the Scriptural seasons and Feasts to Roman Solar feasts and Holidays. He also set himself to be the head of the State Church. Constantine was a sun worshipper until the day of his death. He was never born again, and yet the whole Church fell into his trap. In the book of Daniel, (Daniel 7:25), we read that the Anti -Christ will change the times and the seasons. Constantine was a type of Anti Christ. He forbade anyone to celebrate Passover and instead instituted Easter, a feast and a name derived from the Babylonian goddess lshtar. He also changed the day of rest to the Sun's day instead of the Shabbat, (Friday night to Saturday night), because he was a sun worshipper that worshipped his "god" the sun on the Sun's day. The Roman never had a seven day week tell it was forced on them. Their calendar had a eight and ten day cycle in it.
The Nazarenes fell into his trap because Constantine, a Sun Worshipper, commanded the persecution against Christians to cease. Until then, believers were being thrown to the lions for their Jewish Faith. Persecution was tremendously fierce during the time of the Roman Empire against every one of the New Jewish Faith. The Sect of the Nazarenes, the followers of the Jewish Messiah, was a Jewish Sect.
So when Constantine declared a "peace treaty", the followers of the Nazarenes, exhausted by the persecution against them, welcomed the "peace treaty" and thus compromised the keeping of the Elohim of Yisrael's Sabbath for the Sunday Worship of Constantine. A compromise that has cost the lives of far more people than if the persecution would have continued against the NazarenesThe Christian's in the Roman Empire departed from being a SECT of Judaism and became a sect of the Pagan Roman Church. All Protestant Churches are sects of the Catholic Church, not the Nazarenes.
The Paganism in Constantine's State Church has affected the salvation of millions in Christianity until this day. It has deceived millions of people into believing that they are still following Jesus Christ of the Jewish SECT of the Nazarenes. When one follows the Religion of the Roman Empire be it Catholic or Protestant, one continues to worship dead saints (all hollows eve), use idols (the cross), observe pagan holidays, and honor the day of the Sun-god. Their Pagan worship their statue of their Virgin goddess Easter continues as before and people also keep all the Babylonian Holidays that honor the Sun, Moon and Stars as gods, just as the ancient Egyptians and Romans did. Christians believe they have salvation from following the tradition of the Pagan Roman Church that became the Roman Catholic Church and her daughters, the Protestant church.
It was Constantine who abolished the 7 Day Worship and instituted Sunday observance in it's place. The Roman Protestants Christians think they are following the Hebrew Bible in their Pagan Sunday Worship of the Roman Empire. The Roman Catholic Church never did accept the TaNaK. They burnt it and any Protestant who was caught reading it in Europe where the State religion ruled the masses, was killed. They give historical prove in all of their writings to discredit their Protestant Daughters who claim that they are not part of her, The Protestants are still truly subordinate to most of the teachings of the Roman Church under Constantine. Such as Sunday and the Roman Pagan Holidays. The Catholic Church has Historical Prove that they changed the Day of Worship from the 7th Day Rest of the Elohim of Yisrael to the Sun's day to Worship on in honor of the Sun God of the Roman Empire.
· "In the Catholic Mirror, Sept. 23, 1983 Cardinal Gibbons stated, "The Catholic Church by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday." The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p.50 3rd edition says, "Question 51; Which is the Sabbath Day? Answer 51; Saturday is the Sabbath Day. Question 51; Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Answer 51; We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (AD 336), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."
· Henry Tuberville, D.D., An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine (R.C.), p. 58, "Question: How prove you that the Chruch hath power to command feasts and holydays? Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church. Question: How can you prove that? Answer: Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the Church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin: and by not keeping the rest [of the feasts] by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power."
· Mgr. Segur, Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today, p. 213, "It was the Catholic Church which, by the authority of Jesus Christ, has transferred this rest to the Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord. Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] church."
· Father T. Enright, C.S.S.R. in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas - also in History of the Sabbath p.802 said, "I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' The Catholic Church says : "No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.' And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church70; It's the MARK of our authority to overrule God's law."
· Question Box, by Conway, 1903 Edition, pp. 254, 255, "Question: What Bible authority is there for changing the Sabbath from the seventh day of the week? Who gave the Pope the authority to change a command of God? Answer: If the Bible is the only guide for the Christian, then the Seventh-day Adventist is right in observing the Saturday with the Jew... Is it not strange that those who make the Bible their only teacher should inconsistently follow in this matter the tradition of the Church?"
You must be shocked by reading this short history lesson. Perhaps this is the first time you have read any of the history of your “Christian” faith. You can check any history book on this subject and find out that what you have read is true. What will you now do with the information?