EZEKIEL

and YHWH’s

Judgment

for the

Good News

PEOPLE

VOLUME XXXIII

Christian History

EZEKIEL and YHWH’s

Judgment for the

Good News People

Volume XXXIII--Christian History

by

an unworthy servant

And you shall know the truth,

and the truth will make you free.

(John 8:32)

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Contents

Volume XXXIII--Christian History

CHAPTER PAGE

- Cover Page 1

- Title Page 2

- Contents 3

- Publisher’s Preface 5

Part AAAAA--Christian History

526 History of Christian Sun Worship I 6

527 History of Christian Sun Worship II 19

528 History of Christian Sun Worship III 27

529 History of Christian Sun Worship IV 38

530 History of Christian Sun Worship V 49

Part BBBBB--Grecian Sun Worship

531 Greek Philosophy or the Scriptures? 62

532 Christian Greek Sun Worship I 74

533 Christian Greek Sun Worship II 87

534 Christian Greek Sun Worship III 96

535 Christian Greek Sun Worship IV 110

536 Three Bad Spirits 116

Part CCCCC--A Case Study

537 Jehovah’s Witnesses 127

Part DDDDD--An Overview of the Christian Problem

538 The Great Historic Mysteries 140

539 The Great Historic Deceptive Frauds I 151

540 The Great Historic Deceptive Frauds II 160

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Chapter 526--History of Christian Sun Worship I

Mystery Babylon, The Whore and Mother of Harlots

A preceding chapter herein briefly mentioned the Apostle Yohanan’s vision about a symbolic woman named “Mystery Babylon” (Rev 17:1-18). This influential woman sits on seven mountains (Rev 17:9)--which just happens to be an important attribute of the city of Rome (“The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia,” p. 738).

In fact, NT scholar Bart D. Ehrman has a picture in “The New Testament A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings” (p. 437) of a fascinating coin minted in 71 CE with a woman sitting on the seven hills of Rome. Obviously, this coin lends considerable clarification of what the Revelation had in mind.

As outlined heretofore, that word “mystery” (which is a secret symbol or sign) appears (in Rev 17:5, 7) to identify this woman and link her to some very bad, false worship. Specifically, it identifies sun worship by the sign and symbol of sun worship (yes, Sunday worship is the woman’s sign, just as the Seventh day Sabbath is a sign for YHWH’s people, as proven herein--Ex 31:13-17; Ezek 20:12, 20).

Many students of the Word are acutely aware of this woman’s existence and what all she has done in terms of control over the earth and the slaughtering of believers over the ages. So there is no reason to go into these things at this time. Suffice to say, this woman is an extremely bad one.

A study of her attributes and accomplishments, in tandem with a review of world history for the last 2,000 years, makes it abundantly clear that this Babylonian woman has clear linkage to the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant Christians have been well aware of this connection for at least 500 years. They have often written about it in very plain language.

In the early days of the Protestant Reformation, when thousands of Protestants were being tortured and executed at the hands of Rome, martyrs would testify of this fact (of Rome’s identification) at their trials and as they were burned alive on the stakes (per “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs” and other early Protestant writings as well).

Since modern Protestants have this historic past available to them for study and contemplation, one has to stop and ponder how in the world that they would lose sight of it in the context of the current ecumenical movement (as described elsewhere herein). Moreover, this pathetic history of Rome, as seen by Yohanan, brings out a couple of other interesting points which even Protestants have failed to recognize.

Harlot Daughter Churches

First, please observe that this whore woman has whore daughters. The one thing that must be said about Protestant Christianity is that it came out of Rome. This writer can think of no Christian Church that does not link to Rome (directly, indirectly or by descent).

Apparently, they all do. She was and is the mother church of all of Christianity (to evidently even include the Eastern Orthodox groups to some extent, though they would argue otherwise).

In effect, what Yohanan was beholding was not then just the whore religious church (riding the beast [Rev 17:3], which includes its various economic, monetary, political, social, etc systems as well--as described in this work); but in fact, he was beholding an entire harlot, sun worship system (even as divided as it has been over the last 400-500 years, in the context of religious freedom).

One should not be so naive and stupid enough to suppose that Rome and her harlot Protestant daughters (in the form of the World Council of Churches and various ecumenical groups) are ever lurking in the background over “all” affairs of this world.

The May 7, 1997, “European” reported that the Vatican had requested observer status at the World Trade Organization (which oversees the international commercial and economic systems) in Geneva so that the Pope could keep watch over it. The Roman Church has always been political and totally involved in everything that the world’s people are doing.

While the Protestant Reformation provided a temporary setback to her vast, secular powers, it certainly did not end them. In the old days, the Vatican chose and crowned (by the Pope) the secular heads of Europe (the kings). She still operates behind the scenes and pulls strings constantly in the democratic political arenas to have her way.

And here in the age end, the daughter churches (Protestants) are rapidly returning to their mother in the form of the previously mentioned ecumenical movement--as students of truth are well aware. So, very quickly, this huge sun worship system will become united once more into one mass under the leadership of the Pope.

The deadly wound imposed upon the Roman Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation is being healed here in the early 21st century. Things are coming together for a one world religion--as outlined in a preceding chapter.

The Amalekites, Revisited

Many people wish to condemn and criticize to no end the Illuminati and other internationalists who effectively own the West in today’s capitalist culture. These fools totally ignore the reality that these parasites have been allowed into power and maintain their positions of wealth because Christendom allows it. Christians control the West--which is correctly called the Christian West.

Therefore, even this system of evil exists with Christian authority, blessings and wishes (and quite often, Christianity, in some form, shares in the money plunder by these evil people).

Many of these parasites in the Christian West (but not all of them) are Amalek-Edomite bankers/masters (who were assessed in former chapters). Amalekite bankers/masters are in virtual control in the United States and White British Commonwealth. Their roots and experience go back 2,500-2,600 years ago to the system set up and established by Nebuchadnezzar to effect his sun worshipping world government.

Nothing has changed in the last 2,500-2,600 years. The Amalek-Edomites learned about international banking, commercialism and internationalism, either in sun worshipping Babylon, or from the Jews (probably Kenite and/or Canaanite Jews) who did learn of it there and brought it back to Palestine. Now, these Amalekites have proceeded to move on and gain power in the secular sun worship world.

And tragically, for history, these same Edomite parasites and non-Edomite sun worshippers are all still around, doing the same things today--just as they were in ancient Babylon. The history of the sun worship religion supporting and allowing this false system will be addressed in succeeding comments.

Cain, Revisited

The previously described false sun worship could go all of the way back to Cain, noted earlier, as possibly being the original Zoroaster. Consequently, it seems to be quite old. Darrell W. Conder quoted an ancient Jewish legend that Cain became a great leader of men into wicked courses. He taught men to rebel and to wage war (“Mystery Babylon The Great,” p. 5).

Moreover, Kain taught them to make idols of gold, silver, pearls and precious gems and taught them his own Satanic religion, using magic, which he called the mysteries of the sun, moon, and the heavens (“Mystery Babylon The Great,” p. 5). By the terms of this thinking, Cain would have been the first agency (after Satan, in his work in the Garden of Eden) to teach sun worship to the Adam kind.

Stephen’s Remarks Revisited

Some former attention was also devoted to the remarks made by Stephen in the NT when he was on trial for his life. He made mention of the fact that The MOST HIGH had abandoned (given up) the House of Yisrael “to worship the host of heaven” (because of her sins--Acts 7:42). The host of heaven is defined as including the sun, moon and stars (Deut 4:19; 17:3).

As written by Moshe, it would appear that The MOST HIGH turned the sun, moon and stars over to the heathen peoples for them to worship at a very early time (Deut 4:13-19). In fact, C. J. Koster, in the “Final Reformation” (p. 5), quotes the “Good News Bible” as saying “the sun, the moon, and the stars... Elohim has given these to all other peoples (in contrast to Yisrael) for them to worship” (Deut 4:19).

The rebellion of Kain and his likely turn to early sun worship may have prompted The ELOHIM to just abandon the people following in those wicked ways of Cain. Certainly, if it didn’t happen with Cain, it happened just after the flood with the rebel Nimrod, previously discussed. Perhaps that is the background for Deuteronomy 4:19. In any case, it is a most fantastic revelation.

Assuredly, it means that there was to be a religious differentiation between the ultimate people of Yisrael, as opposed to the peoples of other nations and classifications. The true worship of The MOST HIGH, in the context of the Hebrew faith outlined in the Scriptures, is for Israelites. Conversely, non Israelites have been given the sun, moon and stars to worship--perhaps from the time of Cain and/or later Nimrod.

Question, is it conceivable that with Christianity, The SUPREME “changed” His mind on this decision which He apparently made in earlier ages? It’s highly unlikely.

Of course, much of the so-called civilized world, certainly from Noah’s time to Stephen’s time, had indeed worshipped principally the sun god and his consort, the moon goddess. In a state of rebellion against YHWH’s pronouncement, the House of Yisrael was to follow suit.

House of Yehudah Not Included

In the context of Stephen’s critical remarks, just outlined, the House of Yehudah was not included. This is a most revealing text when one reviews the history of Yisrael. Actually, it was initially and primarily the House of Yisrael, which grossly adopted outright sun worship in the days of the incredibly wicked King Achav (I Kg 16:30-32).

Achav very quickly popularized the worship of the sun god Baal and Baal’s consort, the moon goddess Astarte/Ashtoreth (known as Ishtar to the Babylonians, Isis to the Egyptians and Eostre/Eastre/Easter to the Anglo Saxons--per Maurice Cannay’s “An Encyclopedia of Religions” and Funk and Wagnalls’ “Standard Desk Dictionary,” as outlined before).

This pagan sun worship persisted in the House of Yisrael to her removal by the Assyrians, c700 BCE (and actually on even to our time in 2003 CE, in the context of Christianity). It is also true that evil, depraved sun worship became entrenched in the House of Yehudah for a period before the Babylonian conquest, as well, despite the efforts of kings like Hizkiyahu and Yoshiyahu to stomp it out.

Incidentally, this situation was evidently brought out by Yirmeyahu. In his condemnation of Jerusalem (before the exile), he noted the evils of the people in worshipping the host of heavens (Jer 8:2, see also Jer 10). Thus, while it was factually true that sun worship gained a foothold in the divided House of Yehudah (along with Yisrael), the reality remains that the Babylonian exile eventually appears to have cleaned up much of it.

Yehudah Changed

After the exile, the practices and customs of sun worship (so prevalent in the Houses of Yisrael and Yehudah, in the divided kingdom days) never seemed to be a question in Yehudah. True, the Jews were a proud, vain, wicked lot in the NT writings, but sun worship did not seem to be their problem or an issue of any significance with them after the exile, as opposed to before the Babylonian captivity.

Assuredly, the 70 years of Babylonian captivity not only helped remove much or all of the wicked sun worship from Yehudah, but it made the people considerably more conscious of the Sabbaths, which were signs for the people to know The ELOHIM (they took the Sabbaths to heart and became very dedicated on them--perhaps even more so than was the Scriptural position).

Second Temple Judaism, whatever its shortcomings were, was a far cry different reality than its sun worship predecessors in both Yehudah and Yisrael, before Nebuchadnezzar and the Jewish exile.

But the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians was to be a type, sign or example of what was to later fall upon the sinning House of Yisrael peoples (Ezek 4:3). Thus, Yirmeyahu (Jer 8:2) was one more prophet to link this false, sun worship to the House of Yisrael in the age end. In other words, the House of Yisrael will go through the same motion which Yehudah went through with her exile.

This coming conquest of Yisrael will do for the Israelites what the Babylonian exile did for Yehudah. It will get rid of the sun worship present (in the form of Christianity) and the surviving Israelite people in the millennium will take to heart (in the New/Renewed Covenant) the importance of the Tanakh Sabbaths and festivals.

The situation prevailing in Yehudah, in the days of Ezra and Nechemyah, was an ante-type of what is to come with Yisrael.

Sun Worship Was The Norm

With the fact that the House of Yisrael was given over to the practice of sun worship, as was the earlier non-Israelite, civilized, Adamic nations (Deut 4:19), it is important to understand that it means that the entire Western civilization for the last 2,700 years has been locked in evil sun worship.

Obviously, these House of Yisrael people in Stephen’s time of the first century CE were then practicing sun worshippers (just like they are currently).

Of course, the student of truth can spend some time researching the question of the sun worship religion and culture and find from the available historical records that the so-called Adam kind has pretty well been sun worshippers for perhaps much of the last 6,000 years. By the way, some records are available on this issue in the world today, although one must work hard to find them.

While records from the pre-flood era are largely in question (except for the Tanakh), one can find secular records from the time of Nimrod on and particularly from early Babylon which reflect the pervasiveness of ancient sun worship in the entire civilized world of Adam for the last 4,400 years.

Yes, the ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Greeks and Romans were all sun worshippers, as noted before.

In Stephen’s day, and during the age of the Apostolic Assembly, Europe, the British Isles, North Africa and most of Asia were all sun worshippers, although operating under different names among the different cultures and peoples (Baal worship in Phoenicia, Mithra in Persia, Rae and Osiris in Egypt, Serapis in Alexandria, Zeus in Greece, Chrishna in Southeastern Europe, Asia Minor and the East, etc. Druid sun worship became the norm in Britain).

Beyond the significant presence of sun worship among the Adam kind, it must be observed that sun worship was also present among the uncivilized behemah and chaiyah humanoids, but to a substantially lesser degree. As discussed in prior chapters, these non Adamic peoples were more prone to follow extremely primitive religions--like the worship of sticks, stones, animals and dead ancestors.

To whatever extent these primitive peoples came into contact with sun worshipping Adamites, they began to adopt some of the sun worship practices of the Adam kind and incorporate them into their primitive religions.

This phenomenon especially occurred with the chaiyah humanoids, where their religions were substantially more advanced into sun worship than what one finds among the more backward and primitive behemah humanoids.

The Role of Constantine I

This background then takes the student of truth to the age of Constantine I in the early fourth century CE. By the time that Constantine arrived on the world scene, Christianity was already an established religion; but not a global, ruling religion. It was one faith among many, then found in existence--not only in Rome, but throughout the Roman Empire.

Perhaps when Constantine came to Rome, Christianity was significantly persecuted and oppressed by the state (starting with Nero, as alleged in numerous early Christian writings)--likely because of the deeds of its founders (to be profiled in the following chapters) and because Christianity has always been quite active politically to create problems for the secular leadership and state, as elsewhere discussed herein.

With this propensity for politics, the Christians inevitably invited persecution (until church and state were later effectively merged into one organism under Constantine).

In comments on “The Capital of the World,” Chuck Missler wrote that the three centuries preceding Constantine (under the emperors Nero to Diocletian) were years of Christian persecution which drove the church underground (but interestingly enough, more Christians were killed by Christians [to force uniformity] in the first 100 years after the Council of Nicea in 325 CE than the prior 300 years under pagan Rome--Jul-Sep 2003 “Petah Tikvah,” p. 8).

However, by 313 CE, Christians numbered about one-half of the empire’s population, despite being underground (Mar 1998 “Personal Update,” p. 5). Consequently, this was the situation all over the civilized Roman Empire when Constantine I came to power as emperor in late c312 CE with his military victory at Milvian Bridge in Italy.

Hence, before Constantine’s seizure of power, Christianity was not a significant religion of any importance from the standpoint of rulership over the state, despite the large numbers of Christians living in the empire.

The Diversity, Revisited

Preceding chapters discussed the great diversity in Christianity in those early formative years in the first, second and third centuries CE. As was pointed out in those presentations, the early Christian Church (before the arrival of Constantine) was a can of worms and Pandora’s box of many divisions and differences and much confusion.

The Christian world was not just one Christianity and one Christian Church. It was a world of many “Christianities” and many different Christian entities--all separate and divided, and all vying for power and persuasion over the people (much like the condition found in Christendom in the 20th and early 21st centuries).

Per the scholarship of Dr Bart D. Ehrman of the University of North Carolina and others, the holders of these many different and divergent views worked hard at putting their particular positions over--even to the point of preparing forged documents or altering existing documents (as described in former chapters).

So the Christian world which Constantine took over had a host of divergent and different Christian Churches, all vying for power and persuasion over people. Yet, despite these many differences, the resulting Babylonian confusion, and the (alleged) persecution from the state, Christendom was present and in some numbers in much of the empire.

Constantine and his Cross

Just before the famous battle at Milvian Bridge, as cited above, the conquering Constantine allegedly saw a cross in the sky and words telling him to conquer and kill his enemies under the sign of that cross. With his victory, Christianity and the heathen cross gained immediate credibility and popularity.

Incidentally, Darrell W. Conder quotes a popular pagan representation of this cross event (from Gibbons) which reported that Constantine had a vision of the sun-god Mithra or Apollo on the eve of his victory and not a Christian cross at all (“Mystery Babylon The Great,” p. 215).

This is very plausible because the cross has always been a sun image from antiquity. Consequently, it matters not one iota of exactly what Constantine saw or if he even saw anything at all. The Christian sign of the cross was a sun worship sign which was already known and respected by the sun worshipper Constantine at once.

Incidentally, these remarks on Constantine need some further comment. While Constantine I was a Roman by citizenship and a sun worshipper by religious faith, he most likely was an Israelite of the lost tribes of Yisrael in the flesh (possibly even a fleshly Yehudahite), just as was true with the Roman centurions, as discussed previously.

Constantine I was assuredly one of the great ante-types of the coming age end Beast man (Constantine II), who also might be a racial Yehudahite (perhaps a miscegenated Yehudi) and an Israelite of the lost tribes.

In a quotation from “Babylon Mystery Religion,” the above cited Jul-Sep 2003 “Petah Tikvah” (p. 8) noted that in one year following the Catholic Council of Nicea, the so-called Christian leader Constantine had his own son (Crispus) put to death; and still later, he suffocated his wife Fausta in an overheated bath. So Constantine could be very brutal and cruel.

Catholicism Became a World Religion of Power

Hence, for one of the most important problems Constantine faced, as he embarked on his path of making Christendom a popular world enterprise, he had to deal with the Christian divisions and diversity.

He and his Christian Church colleagues undertook the task of making all of the Christian Churches into one coherent and unified organism (which was the original goal and effort of Simon Magus in the beginning, to be discussed in some detail in the succeeding chapters).

With the benefit of the several church councils and the power of the Christian sword, these unification efforts were achieved, as will be demonstrated in comments to follow.

Next, with Constantine’s accession to power, he made Roman Catholic Christianity a world ruling religion when he de facto married church and state in the Roman Empire (c 312-325 CE). Theodosius II (378-398 CE) made the church-state connection the official, legal position of the empire during his reign.

At some point in this time frame (when the religious church was married to the secular state/when the woman started riding the beast, per Rev 17:3), an ante-typical fulfillment of the great tribulation was to start and last for the next 1,260 years. Furthermore, it might be that an ante-typical fulfillment also commenced of the 1,290 days/years of having the abomination of desolation set up.

Perhaps, this marriage of church and state was a sample (or ante-type) of the ultimate abomination of desolation. It could be that these 1,260 and 1,290-year prophecies were to last until the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of Britain and/or perhaps as late as the time of Oliver Cromwell (1648 and the peace of Westphalia).

Darrell W. Conder quoted a Catholic scholar and priest named Dr John F. Sullivan, who wrote about the times that his church availed herself of rites and ceremonies adopted from pagans so that the church and her clergy could be all things to all people, in order that they might gain all for “Christ” (“Mystery Babylon The Great,” p. 146).

Simultaneously, the church began her process of completely transforming herself into a total sun worship religion by adopting many of the remaining sun worship practices and customs of the old sun worship cults. Actually, this process facilitated the outreach to the pagan sun worshippers; since, all of a sudden, they could be good Christians--all the while that they could continue to practice their old sun worship customs.

Almost from the beginning of this new religious state (of the developing Holy Roman Empire), the ruling powers began to enforce Christian Catholicism on the masses under threat of death (this helped to eliminate the diversity and differences). They either accepted the ruling Catholic Church or they were dead. Of course, most quickly became Christians and accepted the power of Rome.

Constantine’s Actions

On March 7, 321 CE, Constantine issued his famous Sunday edict which established the venerable day of the sun (Sunday) as a mandatory rest day throughout the empire, in defiance of the Scriptural command to work that day (per the code of Justinian, Book 3, Title 12, Law 3, in Corpus Juris Civilis, v. 2, p. 108).

This law was easy to impose on the empire because all of the old sun worshipping cults worshipped on Sunday, as noted earlier. To mention again Gerald L Berry, in “Religions of the World” (p. 56)--he wrote that “Since Mithra was a sun-god, Sunday was automatically sacred to him--the ‘Lord’s Day’ --long before Christ. On December 25th...there were elaborate rituals and celebrations.”

Since Mithra is a variant of Krishna (“Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time,” p. 38), it is clear that both Sunday and Christmas are important to Chrishnaism (which evolved into Christianity).

As outlined previously, Constantine oversaw the establishment of the solemnity of Easter as a Christian festival at the expense of the Scriptural Passover which was effectively abolished in Christendom in 325 CE at the Council of Nicea.

In “Fossilized Customs” (p. 13), the formerly quoted Lew White takes the view that many of the pagan customs came into the Christian Church as a result of this Council of Nicea. In fact, White argues that the nominative title Catholic or Universal became attached to the Roman Christian Church at Nicea.

White must be incorrect here because Ignatius of Antioch used the phrase “Catholic Church” for the Christian Church as early as 100 CE (“The Oxford Companion to the Bible,” p. 122). Since the word catholic means universal, the better option here is that Simon Magus used it for the church at its beginnings in Rome (c42-67 CE, to be established in later comments).

And Later

Per a former remark, Constantine’s successors in about 364 CE (or possibly in 336 CE) passed an edict at the Council of Laodicea, prohibiting rest on the Seventh day Sabbath (Canon 29 from Bishop Hefele’s “History of the Councils”).

Actually, this late date is a possible date for the official start of the 1,260 years of great tribulation and perhaps the 1,290 years of the set up of the abomination of desolation (although the case can also be made for these events to occur during the work of Theodosius II, as cited above).

Though Christianity was an obvious, Sunday keeping religion from her inception, it is evident that she had not completely adopted all of the sun worship features which she would eventually adopt after the rise to power of Constantine and the effective marriage of church and state.

Thus, the Councils of Nicea and Laodicea and others further imposed more sun worship customs over the years. Consequently, the truth has been that Christianity has adopted more and more of the practices of sun worship over the years, instead of getting rid of them over time.

Now, For a Twist

Previous chapters herein have discussed at some length the calendar problem within worldly Christianity and the work of various groups (like the Holy Roller, Sardis and Christian Identity elements) to go out of their way to try to incorporate some ridiculous and stupid calendar alterations into their worship and faith.

Attention was directed at the thinking of Christian Identity preacher Peter Peters and his theories in support of a solar calendar and his ideas of five annual sabbaths (on the Passover, as calculated on a count from the spring equinox; and alleged sabbaths on or near the two solstices and two equinoxes).

In terms of the Holy Roller captain of the ship in NE Washington, he keeps the Scriptural festivals on a solar basis and blames the Jews for the change of the Seventh day Sabbath to Sunday.

Both of these Christian leaders were discussed at length earlier. There is no need to completely repeat those remarks. But what is important to note is that both of these men blame the Jews and allow or imply that the Jews somehow influenced Constantine the Great to alter the calendar and the Scriptural festivals in someway.

As pointed out earlier, it is absolutely amazing and enough to blow a sane person’s mind, but these Jew haters come along and launch an attack upon Constantine and the early Catholic Church (which were admittedly very profoundly evil) and then blame the Jews and Judaism for all of the evil present with Constantine and the early Catholic Church.

The Jews are simply not responsible for the gross wickedness, sin and paganism found in Christianity. The people who led the way in this depravity were all Christians--who were Judaism haters. They were sun worshippers and their theology was always predicated upon historic sun worship.

The Jews are responsible for a lot of things. But they are not responsible for the sun worship now present in Christianity.

Historical Views

One of the interesting features about this transformation with Constantine and later is that it has been recognized and reported on in the literature and writings of the Western Christian civilization for centuries. Most writers, who have chosen to write upon this subject, have decided to cast this transition in the context of a merging of “true” Christianity with paganism and/or with the old sun worship theologies.

In “Come Out of Her My People” (p. 2-3), C. J. Koster wrote about this phenomenon and quoted several sources outlining this so-called historical merging. From the “Oxford Classical Dictionary” (p. 233), Koster found that “Constantine combined veneration for the ‘Unconquered Sun my companion’ with that of Christ.”

Koster quoted Franz Cumont’s “Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism” (p. 288) which said that “The vague deism of Constantine strove to reconcile the opposition of helioatry (sun worship) and Christianity.”

Quoting Legge’s “Forerunner and Rivals of Christianity” (p. 118-119), C. J. said that early philosophers like Pliny and Macrobius declared the Sun to be the one supreme god concealed behind the innumerable lesser deities of the Greco-Roman pantheon and that even Christianity could not hold out against the flood (of these gods/religions). Thus, the Catholic Church compromised with the beliefs of the sun cults.

From John Ferguson’s “The Religions of the Roman Empire” (p. 56), Koster noted that “Constantine’s god was a fusion of the Unconquered Sun and Christ the Victorious.” The writer of “Come Out of Her My People” (p. 3) himself concluded that there was a merging or “assimilation of Sun-worship with the New Testament Belief.”

Writer George H. McKnight was quoted by Darrell W. Conder as saying that when paganism was superseded by Christianity, the older religion was by no means obliterated (“Mystery Babylon The Great,” p. 181).

Conder also quoted E. J. Waggoner that when Christianity prevailed over the pagans, it worshipped in the same temples, with the same rites to a certain extent and actually abrogated the local worship of one of the multitudinous deities of paganism (“Mystery Babylon The Great,” p. 181).

To demonstrate the accuracy of Waggoner’s remarks, Conder noted a whole array of former pagan temples that became Christian Churches. For example, the Parthenon in Athens became a church of the Virgin Mary, the temple of Theseus became a church devoted to St. George and so forth (“Mystery Babylon The Great,” p. 181).

It Didn’t Start With Constantine

Regarding the above comments from different sources, it should be noted that the prevailing modern view seems to be that Christianity was or is the religion of the Scriptures and was thus pure and good before Constantine’s time. But then, in the 4th century CE, Constantine came along and corrupted it into the Catholic Church by merging it with the old sun worship cults.

The writer of this study at hand has a different view. Christianity, in the 1st to 4th centuries (CE), always seemed to have been a mixture of some good and much bad. It always had a lot of sun worship theology present (from day one).

In the Jan-Feb 2000 “Intelligence Newsletter” (p. 4), Christian defender Earl Jones quoted author Sir James Frazer who said that “By the year 200 A.D., Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ, had all but disappeared. The question we must ask ourselves is how did this happen?”

Both Frazer and Jones are on the right track (though neither of them probably knew it). The original faith taught by YESHUA admittedly was gone by 200 CE. Actually, the evidence is that the original faith never was found in Christendom. So Frazer’s question can be answered in a unique way. This and succeeding chapters herein will assess it.

In the vein of truth, Christianity historically was a sun worship faith (from day one)--much like the old sun cults and other false, pagan religions in the Western civilization. It never was a force for good that followed the teachings of The MESSIAH.

It always was a sun worship faith (although there may be a few good teachings in Christendom with some Scriptural support). The only thing that happened under Constantine (in 313 CE) is that it grew much worse in outright sun worship.

Most of Man’s Religions Seem to Have Some Good

Most of man’s religions have “some” good in them. They are not all, totally, 100% bad in all respects (i.e. even today, the sun worshipping Mormons are noted for teaching against tobacco and caffeine and practicing “some” good deeds toward each other). This was true with the old sun cults which taught a lot of humanism--some of which might appear to be good, to the extent that it conforms to YAH’s laws.

The same is true with most of the other worldly religions--like Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism and so forth. All of these religions are not totally bad. All of them teach, preach and advocate various forms of humanism and for people to do good deeds for other people.

It’s just that with the advent of the sun worshipper Constantine, the merging of any remaining truth with pagan sun worship took a pronounced acceleration with the result that the surviving Christian religion (and culture) was even more identifiable as a sun worship faith. There’s not much good left today in sun worship Christianity.

Chapter 527--History of Christian Sun Worship II

Early Christianity Under Simon Magus

So, if Christendom cannot be traced to the Scriptures (Old or New Testaments), and if it was in existence in Rome for about three centuries before Constantine I arrived on the scene to make it a world religion (as suggested in the previously cited comments by Chuck Missler and others), questions must inevitably be raised about where, when and how Roman Christianity came into being at its first inception.

For these answers, one must turn to the previously mentioned Simon Magus of Samaria (Acts 8:5-24). Per Clement of Rome (to be later addressed), Simon’s parents were Antonius and Rachael, a Samaritan (“Simon Magus,” p. 31). Simon had lived in a Samaritan village called “Gittha” and came to Rome during the reign of the emperor Claudius, 41-54 CE (“Simon Magus,” p. 24, 29)

If there was a clandestine merger or combining of sun worship and the so-called true faith of the Scriptures, as there was during NT times, then that merger, assimilation and/or combining started happening in the first century CE, evidently by Simon Magus, perhaps as early as c42 CE (after Simon relocated to Rome from Samaria), and continuing by Magus up to c64-67 CE in Rome (when Magus was killed).

Before leaving Palestine, Simon gained one of his most important disciples (and his personal whore) in the form of a woman prostitute named Helen who came from Tyre (“Simon Magus,” p. 8). Thus, she was likely an Edomite Phoenician. A former chapter mentioned both Simon and Helen in the sense that his followers made statutes of them to worship (does this sound like Gee-Zeus and Mary?).

Though Magus seemingly organized his formal Catholic Christian Church in Rome (c50 CE, per Darrell W. Conder in “Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time,” but more likely by 42 CE), it might be possible that he visited Pergamos after leaving Samaria and before reaching Rome.

Pergamos was one of the apparent centers of the Babylonian Mysteries in the first century BCE and early part of the first century CE (Rev 2:13).

As a minimum, Simon visited Alexandria before reaching Rome where he perfected his studies in magic and where he studied under John, a Hemero-baptist (“Simon Magus,” p. 31). At an early time (evidently before he even arrived in Rome), Magus was accused of being a murderer, an occult worker and a magician who could call up demons to do his bidding (ibid, p. 33).

The historic Irenaeus (in “Against Heresies,” i, 16, in the “Ante-Nicene Fathers”) wrote that Simon appeared among the Jews as the Son; in Samaria as the Father; and among other nations as the Holy Spirit. Thus, it would seem to be that the Catholic theories on the Unscriptural trinity may have started with Simon Magus, himself.

The Mysteries

Since the Roman Church was merged with so many of the Babylonian Mysteries, it appears that Simon had these teachings on the Mysteries at a very early time and was responsible for promoting them in developing Christianity, as will shortly be proven.

There is an alternative view on where Simon became indoctrinated in the Mystery Religions. In “Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time” (p. 131-132), Darrell W. Conder suggests that the Mystery Religions had a hold on the Samaritans in the first century CE.

Conder quotes Dr James Hastings’ “Bible Dictionary” that “Samaria was a country in which a sort of bastard Judaism came into contact with the old Syrian and Phoenician religions and the newer Hellenic paganism. All of these different elements are present in Simon’s system.”

Hastings also goes on to confirm that the Samaritans did indeed hold the religious beliefs of the sun and moon, and the worship of Baal and Astarte (“Mystery Babylon The Great,” p. 206). Yes, they were sun worshippers--just like modern Christians.

In terms of a background on this amalgamation of religions, it started when the Assyrians settled peoples from five nations in old Samaria--Babylon, Cuthah (which probably supplied most of the people, per quotes from Josephus and “Pesikta De-Rab Kahana”), Ava, Hamath and Sepharvaim (II Kgs 17:24). These persons brought with them their own respective religions/gods from the five nations (II Kg 17:29).

Fairly soon, a priest from the former House of Yisrael came and taught them his religion--which surely consisted of a blend or mixture of the old Hebrew faith with the Baal sun worship that was common in the House of Yisrael (II Kg 17:27-28).

As cited earlier, at least one evil priest of Yehudah took up with the Samaritans in the days of Nechemyah (Neh 13:27-28). Later, more apostate Jews settled in Samaria in the time of Alexander the Great (“Josephus, The Essential Writings,” p. 200).

Also, as mentioned earlier, the Ethiopian book of Enoch (v. 72) and other sources indicate some presence of Amalek-Edomites (with their very warped worship of Satan/Lucifer) among the Samaritans in the early days following the Jewish return to Palestine from the Babylonian exile.

Furthermore, previous remarks mentioned the writings of Ben Sira, Shimon Yeshua, who said that he abhorred the Edomites (perhaps around 190 BCE). He laid out his hatred against them and the Philistines in the sense of a comparison or link with “the foolish people who dwell in Sichem” in Samaria (Ecclus 1:25-26, quoted in “A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ,” v. I, p. 7, division 2).

Per the earlier discussion, it is unclear what Ben Sira meant (only a comparison or something else)? But it might be correct to interpret his words as allowing for some evil Edomites and (remnants of the) Philistines inhabiting Shechem of Samaria in his day. Hence, it is possible that he knew of some Edomites and Philistines in Samaria. Obviously the Samaritans had a pathetic blend of many religions as well as some teachings about the true Hebrew faith.

Writer Colin Deal of Rutherford College, NC actually suggests that this condition explains the spiritual aspects of the six men/husbands involved with the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4:18 (Deal makes it that the five husbands were the gods that the pagans brought with them to Samaria, and that the sixth man was the Jewish faith which the Samaritans acquired, but without a covenant/marriage relationship).

This theory by Deal is interesting and could have some merit, though this writer believes that the mixed Samaritans may have had more than five religions in their mixture (although this five could represent five forms of the sun god--for example, possibly Baal/Bel, Marduk, Chrishna, Mithra and Zeus). Surely, this mess was mixed with some aspects of the true Hebrew faith (thus, an ante-type of Christianity).

This background gains some credence when viewed from the perspective that the woman of Samaria was allegorically Christianity and that the NT Samaritans were allegorically Christians. These connections have been briefly allowed in earlier comments and will be described more fully in later presentations. Certainly, there is much symbolism present with the woman and the Samaritans.

Simon Was Informed

From this material, Darrell Conder concluded that Simon Magus had a basic knowledge of the Mysteries and its mixture with other faiths when he lived in Samaria (as is true with Christendom). This mix was only enhanced by Simon on his visit to Egypt (and/or Pergamos). When he came to Rome, he would have found fertile ground to propagate his version of this Samaritan mixture of religions.

Otherwise, the previously cited Eric V. Snow quoted various authorities to show that Simon Magus was likely the leader of the Dositheans, an unorthodox, possibly Gnostic-influenced, Samaritan group that continued to play a role in Samaritan history (article on “Is Christianity a Fraud? Round Two,” p. 45).

The very fact that the apostles even had some dialogue and contact with Simon (Acts 8:5-25) suggests that they must have initially believed that he was a religious Jew and a racial Israelite, although he was correctly not an Israelite at all. His ancestry will be assessed shortly in succeeding remarks. At least, Simon must have been holding himself out to be a Jew and may have tried to pose as a racial Israelite.

His later colors developed showing that he had a bad spirit--making it questionable to what extent he could have been a religious Jew, if at all. In any case, Simon surely had a basic exposure to Judaism and likely absorbed some of it. It is also manifest that with his contact with the apostles, he gained some further knowledge of the Messianic aspects of the Nazarene sect of Judaism.

With his additional extensive training and understanding of the sun worship Mysteries, he had the intellectual knowledge and comprehension to merge all of these different and conflicting beliefs into a completely new theology. Thus, this linkage could explain why the Mysteries quickly became entrenched in early Catholicism, to be assessed shortly herein.

G. R. S. Mead, Revisited

Some years ago, a man named G. R. S. Mead made a comprehensive survey of Simon Magus which he published in a book entitled “Simon Magus” (as has been quoted above and in former chapters). To assess the life of Magus, Mead addressed three sources--the New Testament (Acts 8), the Christian Church fathers and traditional knowledge (mainly from Clement of Rome).

As discussed in an earlier chapter, either Simon himself or some of his disciples wrote some of the early Christian writings (it is unclear which ones). But since Simon Magus was often confused with both Peter (correctly Kefa) and Paul (correctly Shaul), it is possible that some of their writings could have had his touch. As a minimum, he was a Gnostic and probably did do some editing and altering of the Greek New Testament.

Importantly, Simon soon started his own religion--probably in Palestine and certainly upon leaving Palestine (which grew into the Catholic Christian Church, as will be shortly established). Mead (p. 22) says that he sought to steal away disciples (from other religious faiths) by the use of magic and deception (proselytizing has been the story of Christianity, from day one).

His followers were called Simonians at an early time (evidently, initially in Samaria, where he seems to have started his religious work and where he commenced collecting followers, both before and after he left Samaria). Per Justin Martyr, c141 CE, Simon Magus and his Simonian followers in Rome were called Christians (to be discussed later herein).

Mead (p. 39) adds that almost all of the Samaritans became Simonians or followers of Simon Magus. Whether this conversion of Samaria happened before Simon left or later, as his new religion began its world-wide evangelistic campaign, is unclear. But in time, it appears that many of the Samaritans did indeed become Catholic Christian Simonians (but not all--since the old Samaritan faith continued with a presence there).

While he was intimate with Helen, it appears that Simon actually went to some trouble to keep that fact a secret from his followers (Mead, p. 25). Perhaps this situation with Simon was to pave the way for the later Catholic priests to be celibate; whereas some of them have had their own whores (like John Paul II) or have been queers (as many of them are faggots in the modern Roman Catholic Church, as proven earlier).

More on Simon

Based upon the early writings which mention Simon, it would appear that he personally had either some likeness to or at least identification with the sun god Zeus (Mead, p. 26, 74). Clearly, the long haired Zeus look meant that Simon would have also looked like the long haired Serapis, a Zeus counterpart of Alexandria.

Furthermore, there is some question about who all Simon may have pretended to be. Apparently, there are some records suggesting that at one time he claimed to be the Palestinian “Jesus,” plus being Shimon Kefa (to be assessed later). Also, it might be that he tried to connect himself to the long haired Chrishna and/or Apollonius in some fashion (discussed earlier and to be broached in some detail shortly).

Because of the Scriptural strong stand against long haired men, discussed earlier, it is a certainly that if Magus had long hair, he grew it after his encounter with the Apostolic Assembly people in Acts 8. If he had had long hair then, he would have had to cut it to even attempt to fool the Messianic people. Long hair would have condemned him as a fraud at once and severed any possibility of linkage to the Apostolic Assembly.

As a minimum, he believed in a plurality of gods (Mead, p. 34) which was to later form the basis of the Christian trinity (in fact, the previously cited Colin Deal, quoting Irenaeus, charges that Simon Magus was the person who introduced the “triune god concept” --presumably to his followers).

Finally, to repeat an idea expressed in previous comments, the point was made that Simon taught that many of the narrations of the Scriptures were allegorical. He was opposed to the dead-letter interpretation of the Word (Mead, p. 80). With this background, it is no wonder that Christians can read so much nonsense into the Book, all the while that they ignore its literal words.

Otherwise, Simon Magus’ presence and work in Rome have been acknowledged and described by a whole host of historians, writers and scholars over the years. Numbers of prominent Christians and historians have written at length about Simon Magus and his presence in Rome as early as the time of Claudius (41-54 CE)--like Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Epiphanius and Jerome.

Were it not for the bold insistence (via tradition and not factual proof) of the Roman Catholic Church people that their church was founded by the Apostle Shimon Kefa (whom the Greek NT calls Petros [or Simon Peter in the KJV]), the view of history would have quickly connected the Universal Church to Simon Magus. Thereafter, no one would have had to later dispute the prevailing Catholic tradition.

Regardless, there is much historical information on Simon Magus in Rome which can be sought out and studied (as was done by Mead, above, and by others). In “Mystery Babylon The Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth” (p. 204-212), Darrell W. Conder offers an outstanding outline on the history of Magus in Rome.

Conder’s position in his book was that there were “two” Christian Churches in Rome. One was the proper NT type, actually founded in Rome by the Apostle Shaul (Rom 1:15; 15:19-23). The second and bad Christian (Catholic) Church was founded around the same time by Simon Magus. Per Conder, the Apostle Shimon Kefa was never in Rome and had no role to play in the establishment of either of these entities.

In the “Wine of Roman Babylon” (p. 7), Mary E. Walsh also argues that the Scriptures reveal two churches--one true and one a counterfeit. Mary’s remarks focus on the Roman Catholic Church as being the false counterfeit church. Though she doesn’t name the Seventh-day Adventist faith as the true one, it is obvious that she is writing from that perspective since her book was published by that church.

While Ms. Walsh has it right that the Roman Catholic Church is a counterfeit and is bad (actually, a sun worship group and mother of harlots--the Protestant Churches), there is little good in the Seventh-day Adventists (other than that they keep the Sabbath, distinguish between clean and unclean meats and observe a few of the commandments relating to man’s duties to each other, like prohibiting stealing, lying, adultery, murder, etc).

This writer would agree with Mr. Conder that Simon Magus started his version of Christianity in Rome, but would disagree with him that there was a second (good) Christian Church in Rome (though Conder later changed his ideas on this theory). If there was a second Christian Church in Rome, it apparently was one of the Chrishna Christian Churches (as will be shortly discussed below). The religion of the OT and/or the NT was not Christianity and never has been in the historical framework.

Many Protestant Christians insist on trying to believe that there was a good, early, Christian Church, which was contaminated by Constantine and the Roman Catholic Church in the fourth century CE (as outlined earlier herein). This is not true at all. Christianity was a pagan, sun worship faith from day one. It never was a good organization or faith.

Assuredly, Christendom never ever represented anything from the Scriptures. The Apostolic Assembly was not Christian and never had been. It was a Messianic Jewish group known as the Nazarene sect of the Hillel Pharisees of the Jews.

More on Simon In Rome

With training in Samaria and Egypt (and perhaps Pergamos) in the Mysteries, Simon Magus was right at home in Rome with the presence of the Babylonian Mysteries in the existing Mithraism and other sun worship cults.

Importantly, Darrell Conder reports that the earlier sun god Mithra was called “the Peter” (“Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time,” p. 26, 34, quoting Barbara G. Walker’s “The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths & Secrets,” p. 663) who bore the keys of the kingdom of heaven as a part of the Egyptian Mysteries, as briefly touched upon in a prior chapter.

Also, Conder quotes Hippolytus (from Legge’s “Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity”), 3rd century CE, that Simon wrote a book called “The Great Announcement,” which equated “Jesus Christ” with the sun, moon and pagan gods--Dionysus, Adonis and Attis (“Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth”).

Thus, with the introduction of his book in Rome, Simon quickly became known as “the Peter, or interpreter of the Mysteries” (ibid, p. 206, “Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time,” p. 49, 141). Please note that this word “Peter” was not a name, but was a title in the context of the sun worship Mystery religions. This title had been obviously known and used among the old sun worship cults (like Mithra) by the time Simon Magus received it/adopted it.

Capitalizing upon his book’s success, Simon quickly organized his own brand of the Mysteries and incorporated major portions of the then existing sun worship beliefs into his fresh brand of sun worship and quite naturally applied the name Christian to his new, Roman, Universal (Catholic) Church (as deduced from comments by “Encyclopedia Britannica,” to be shortly discussed).

Thus, Simon drew upon several sources for his eventual Catholic Christian Church. He initially left Samaria with some knowledge of Judaism, the Nazarene faith of the Apostolic Assembly, Gnosticism and the Mystery religions then practiced in Samaria. In Egypt (and/or Pergamos), he added more from Gnosticism and the sun worship Mysteries to the mix. In Rome, he incorporated some ideas from Mithraism which was very popular in Italy.

Next, Magus clearly added a huge portion of Chrishnaism’s brotherhood of man and Christian humanism to his concoction--perhaps while in Egypt, Pergamos or Rome. These Chrishna beliefs must have impressed Simon, as he adopted them extensively for his own church. This motion will be assessed in some detail in comments to follow.

In mentioning the strong influence of Chrishnaism upon Simon’s church, it must be noted that Chrishnaism was strongest in the East, where also Greek sun worship prevailed. It is interesting that the older, Greek, sun worship faiths had much in common with Chrishnaism (especially in humanism and the brotherhood of man). Some believe that Hinduism (including Chrishnaism) came out of the Greek sun cults.

Using Jewish Writings

At some point in time, Simon and/or his immediate followers commenced a process of using various Jewish writings as documentary source documents for developing Catholicism (either in Greek translations or Simon and/or his assistants translated and altered them from Hebrew and Aramaic into a Greek format to suit their own purposes).

If the Septuagint (or at least, the Septuagint Pentateuch) was in existence, Simon surely started using it (after all, the OT does provide a history of the world and Adam which could have served Simon as a basis for what was happening in the first century CE). Because the Jews were maintaining the OT in a Hebrew format, there were obvious limitations upon what all Simon could have altered in the Greek OT.

But he would have had far more freedom with other writings. In the first century, there was a host of Apocrypha and NT period writings in existence. Many of these were absorbed and used by Simon and his crowd over the years. Clearly, in the sense of documentation for his church, these writings would have been useful. Above all else, the distorted and/or altered NT writings would support his Chrishna Christian ideas.

Those writings, not in Greek, were assuredly translated into Greek to serve the Greek religiously oriented faith Simon was generating. Once any of these writings were in possession by Simon and/or his people, they could, of course, alter them at will to serve their own purposes.

The historical record and evidence is massive that Simon, himself, and/or his immediate successors, took possession of the Scriptures almost from the beginning to use to propagate their new faith. In saying this, the point must be made that in terms of the OT, the prevailing Gnostic beliefs would have nullified any aspect of obedience to it. But Simon’s work must have possessed it as a part of its body of literature.

Finally, in their greatest work of deception, Simon and his helpers/successors chose to model their faith around YESHUA The MESSIAH of Palestine, Who might have been a known figure in some religious circles of the Roman Empire from c30 to 70 CE. Certainly, the work of the Apostolic Assembly was known and its success must have impressed Simon (starting from his run-in with Shimon Kefa in Samaria in c31 CE).

At some point in time, Simon Magus the Peter became the Apostle Simon Peter who was supposed to be Shimon Kefa of the NT. Whether Simon started this belief personally or not is unclear. The better option is that once both Shimon Kefa and Simon Magus were dead, this linkage could have been more easily accomplished by Simon’s immediate followers in Rome--after 67 CE.

This seizure of the Scriptures should not surprise anyone. It is a well known fact of history and reality that one religious group may use writings of another group or even attach some importance to religious people of other groups. For example, the Muslims not only respect the OT, Avraham and the OT prophets, but they claim that YESHUA of the NT was a mighty prophet of Allah.

The same reasoning applies to the factions of Hinduism (including Chrishnaism). Many of these Eastern religions have accorded respect and support for the Jewish Scriptures and personalities (including YESHUA of the NT). But in all of these instances, YESHUA became just one more of the polytheistic gods of these pagan religions and not A Unique PERSON (as He was).

Chapter 528--History of Christian Sun Worship III

More on the Chrishna Christians

Since the previously discussed, effeminate, long haired Apollonius of Tyana was already an established first century teacher of Chrishnaism, which was being promoted as Christianity in the Roman Empire (especially in the East), something moved Simon Magus to apply the name Christian to his work. Therefore, Simon was not singular in using the name “Christian” for his Roman Catholic followers.

Clearly, the historical record shows that the work of Apollonius was very successful in creating many Christian (a follower of the sun god “Chrishna, Christos or Christ”) believers and groups in the first century in portions of the Roman Empire in a loose, poorly supervised confederation (where the different groups had local autonomy)--particularly in its Eastern leg, to include Greece, Syria and Asia Minor.

But the evidence is massive that there was an absence of a powerful, central, dictatorial authority (as envisioned by Simon for his Catholic Church) in the Chrishna Christian Churches in the East, as founded by the effeminate, long haired Apollonius of Tyana.

Possibly, it was this situation in the East which gave rise to the huge number of different Christian groups and beliefs in the second and third centuries CE, as discussed in previous chapters.

A former chapter quoted writer Jim Myers who said that by the year 170 CE, there were over twenty different forms of Christianity in the Roman world and that they collectively held a diverse body of doctrines. The works of Dr Bart D. Ehrman of the University of North Carolina were cited to demonstrate that indeed the pre-Constantine Christian world was a mass of diversity and confusion.

James D. G. Dunn

An article by Jeffery L. Sheler on the “Days of the Martyrs,” in the Apr 16, 2001, “US News & World Report” (p. 44-45) offered some incisive findings on the diffusion problem in early Christianity.

Sheler quoted Karen King of the Harvard Divinity School on the conclusions from the Nag Hammadi texts (mentioned elsewhere herein) and the previously quoted James D. G. Dunn, a theology professor at the University of Durham, England.

King said that the ancient Nag Hammadi writings declare “a much more diverse Christianity than we had ever suspected.” King went on to suggest that some early Christian writings revealed that the death of the Christian “Jesus” offered no “saving” value at all to some Christian communities and that they “were not looking for his return.”

Dunn offered his conclusions on the Christian Church in the second and third centuries CE by charging that its most important shortcoming was the “failure to realize that the biggest heresy of all is the insistence that there is only one ecclesiastical obedience, only one orthodoxy.”

Therefore, it would seem that Dunn recognizes that primitive Christianity (in the first century CE) was very diverse with many different beliefs and practices--some of which came to be called heresies in later centuries (as was broached in previous chapters herein), like Gnosticism, Montanism (of the second century--when certain Christians claimed to be prophets with messages from heaven), Monarchianism (of the second and third centuries--which denied the “divinity of Jesus”), Arianism (of the fourth century--which claimed that “Jesus could not be God”), etc (Apr 16, 2001, “US News & World Report,” p. 44).

Incidentally, when Constantine took power over Rome and began to use the Catholic Christian Church to glue his empire together, he and his Roman Catholic colleagues started to work at once to get rid of all of the diversity (as noted earlier). The church quickly began establishing an orthodoxy of only one way. Everything else was labeled as heresies (which invited the death penalty for adherents).

Consequently, it would seem that first century Chrishnaism, under Apollonius, was a very diversified configuration, without central direction and regimentation. Apollonius must have been quite a promoter and salesman for his brand of Babylonian Christian sun worship (which allowed much diversity and confusion in the different factions).

But that’s about all Apollonius was! Manifestly, he was no organizer, manager or strong leader--as apparently was true with Simon Magus in the Roman West.

Richard Hansen, Revisited

As discussed above and in former chapters, there has been much belief that there was an early Christian Church which was as white and pure as a bar of soap. Then, in the fourth century CE, Constantine arrived on stage to begin a process of incorporating many pagan beliefs into the then Christian Church. Of course, this is all bunk.

From the very beginnings of Christianity (by both Apollonius of Tyana and Simon), the entity was both divided and diverse with multitudes of theological interpretations from pagan sun worship. As Richard Hansen wrote, quoted earlier, the relevant features of all of the various existing religions in the Roman Empire were incorporated into a mixture that became the orthodoxy of Christianity.

Therefore, it never was a question of Christendom absorbing paganism. It was more of a condition where there was a merger of all of the old sun worship and pagan beliefs into a new movement called Christianity. Apollonius and particularly Simon Magus drew upon many different beliefs to make the eventual Christian religion.

And in fairness, it must be noted that surely Simon Magus played the primarily role in this merging of beliefs when he organized his Catholic/Universal brand of Christianity in Rome.

Simon Magus Moved in on the Work of Apollonius

Maybe because of Apollonius’ weakness, asceticism, and effeminacy, and clear linkage to Eastern Hinduism in Southeastern Europe and Asia Minor (which must have adversely affected the Chrishna Christian Churches in the East), Simon surely whet his appetite as he looked upon them and studied their theology (for his planned eventual conquest of them).

Anyway, the success of this Chrishna Christian motion must have impressed Simon and he perhaps began plotting and conniving at a very early time on how he could steal all of the followers away from Apollonius and absorb them into his own Catholic or Universal version of Christian sun worship. Perhaps this is why he used the name Christian and adopted so much of the Chrishna Christian doctrine for his own church.

Certainly, he started evangelizing these Chrishna Christians (and the other Grecian sun worshippers) at a very early time (to be covered below). As these Eastern Christians were basically sun worshippers (who had absorbed a little of Judaism and the Nazarene faith, as described elsewhere herein), they had much in common with Simon’s Catholic Christianity in Rome.

In time, both groups (the Roman Catholic Christians and the Chrishna Christians) began using many of the same Jewish writings (in a Greek form) as their alleged documented sources of faith. Whether these Eastern Christians picked upon some of these writings on their own and independently (of Rome) or not is unclear.

The better option is that these writing were used by Catholic missionaries and were introduced to the Easterners who gradually absorbed some of them over time. Certainly, after 70 CE, there would have been another powerful motivation to use these documents (to be discussed below in succeeding comments).

Please understand that in saying that the Catholic Christians and the Chrishna Christians began using OT and NT writings in support of their faith, it does not mean that they started practicing Judaism. They hated Judaism, the Torah and even The OT ELOHIM (as this was common for Gnostics).

But they came to use the Scriptures then (certainly, by the fourth century CE)--just as Christians use them today (writings to be carried around for show purposes, when their hearts are far removed from the words).

Certainly, they never obeyed any of the Tanakh. As far as the NT, some of it could be used out of context; and especially later, as those writings were altered and massaged in some manner to support Christian ideas on the brotherhood of man and humanism.

The Word Christian in the NT, Revisited

As commented upon in a former chapter, the NT itself reflects that this name “Christian” was applied three times by non-believers or outsiders to people of the Apostolic Assembly in the Greek NT (Acts 11:26; 26:28; I Pet 4:16). This first occurrence of secular people calling the NT election “Christians” happened in the East at Antioch--perhaps before 42 CE (Acts 11:26).

While deceitful and dishonest Catholic copyists, editors or translators may have placed these three references fraudulently in the NT, this writer has no problem with their presence since they can be understood in the context that the Apostolic Assembly was adequately identified in the NT as Nazarene Jews and the people using the Christian term were not believers themselves.

In fact, the presence of these three references proves that sun worshipping Chrishnaism or Christianity was already an established reality in at least in some areas of Cilicia, Syria and Asia Minor at a very early time (by 42 CE). As noted before, these remarks were perhaps used in the context of derision and disrespect and should not be considered seriously for people of truth.

Nevertheless, early sun worship Chrishnaism did have a few points in common with the Nazarenes (not many, but at least both were new religions with some teachings on duties to other people [humanism], concern over personal diet, the promises of a savior-redeemer and an afterlife, etc). This condition may have allowed uninformed and ignorant outsiders to erroneously confuse the two entities.

If the Eastern Chrishna Christians were using any of the Jewish Scriptures (OT or NT, either or both and even in a Greek presentation), this use would have just about cinched a supposed connection between the Jewish Nazarenes and the Chrishna Christians--at least, in the eyes of uninformed and disinterested third parties. They could have easily labeled both groups as “Christian” --while in a state of ignorance.

Simon and Early Chrishnaism

Assuredly, Simon Magus the Peter did not invent the words Christian and Christianity when he chose them for his Catholic Church in Rome--as they already had some presence and acceptance in the Roman Empire when Simon came along with his version of the Mysteries in c42-67 CE.

All that Simon did do was to capitalize upon the then success and presence of Chrishnaism and appropriate the name Christian for his own work--perhaps for devious purposes, as noted above (manifestly, Simon must have looked upon the loosely confederated and poorly supervised Chrishna Christians as a fertile field to proselytize to his own more powerful, dictatorial and centrally directed church).

Consequently, by 66 CE, there were two major groups of Christians functioning and in existence in the Roman Empire.

There was the larger definition of Christian groups (mainly in the East) which had been formed on the basis of the work of Apollonius. And second, there was the work of Simon Magus in Rome (in the West), who incorporated much or all of the sun worship Mysteries (including Chrishnaism) into his new faith, known as Catholic Christianity.

Probably, any Chrishna Christian believers or groups in Rome would have quickly gravitated to Simon and his work--along with some persons of the other sun cults.

A previous chapter quoted Bart D. Ehrman’s remarks on a man named Chrestus in Rome during the reign of Claudius (by 54 CE) who started a riot among some Jews (“The New Testament A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings,” p. 196). While the source of this story, Roman historian Suetonius, did not elaborate, there are several important implications in it.

Clearly, Chrestus was a person in Rome with that name or a worshipper of that name. To cause a riot among Jews, the inference is to some aspect of worship. Regardless, it is possible that Chrestus and/or Chrestus worshippers were an established reality in Rome at that early time when Simon Magus was there doing his thing.

Thus, it would appear that Chishnaism was in Rome to further motivate Magus. Or in fact, it is possible that this record is one of the first of the evangelistic efforts of Simon Magus and his early Christian religion. Possibly, Simon was going after some Jews, either to convert them to his religion or to cause them some trouble in some way.

A Third Force

However, with the Jewish-Roman War and the fall of Jerusalem (66-70 CE), a third force entered the arena to further complicate things. The Nazarene Jewish groups (discussed in a former chapter) were spread out in portions of the empire (and usually worshipping as Messianic Jews in Jewish synagogues or in private homes)--along with the two Christian definitions.

As suggested earlier, these Nazarene assemblies were made up of two or three types of people. In the first instance, they included the election generally and the very elect in particular as members. These elect categories of people were destined to receive salvation in the age then underway--either being translated in the flesh or being resurrected from the dead at YESHUA’s next coming, c70 CE.

But there were other people who were not qualified or eligible for redemption when YESHUA returned. First, in this category, there were surely a number of hanger-ons or people who had attached themselves to the different Nazarene groups, but whose hearts were never really in it. Certainly, this included the luke-warm people of the Laodicea Assembly and the others with problems in the other assemblies.

Most of these hanger-ons had many short-comings that would preclude them from ever being classified in the ultimate election. Probably, these persons fit into the category of the people involved in the “falling away” which occurred just before YESHUA returned for the election (II Thes 2:3; II Pet 2:1). These falling away people were persons who were thought to be full fledged members of the Apostolic Assembly.

However, they obviously had shortcomings (in faith and obedience) which would have precluded them from having their names written in the book of life. When Nero’s tribulation upon the Jews (to include the “Jewish” Apostolic Assembly) started in earnest in c66 CE, these hanger-ons soon abandoned any pretense of the faith. Probably, they constituted the falling away, as anticipated by Shaul.

Too Young?

In the third category (the second group of people left behind), there were other persons “probably” too young in age to be changed or translated when YESHUA returned. Thus, they were probably never really in the elect entity. Many of these individuals would have come into contact with the Apostolic Assembly through their parents, friends or relatives (perhaps in some cases as babies and small children).

In terms of the age factor just mentioned, this point has been previously discussed in the context of the election. This writer is suspicious that those persons, below the age of 30 (in 70 CE), were simply too young to experience redemption from the flesh (as suggested in previous comments). They would have been left on earth after YESHUA came for the election--to presumably grow in grace, knowledge, truth and maturity.

Now, it is manifest why Shaul would issue different instructions for the marriage of younger widows, as he did and as discussed previously. Those younger women, who evidently would not have been translated, would face the trials of continuing to live in the flesh on earth.

Manifestly, they needed a husband for all of the benefits to be derived from marriage. Actually, the same reasoning applies to the young men left behind. They would have needed wives. So, even late in the game (by 60-70 CE), it is logical that Shaul would have suggested marriage for young people.

The Same Today

Any examination of the character and personality of the early Seventh day Sabbath keeping NT assemblies in the NT quickly communicates that the majority of them had major problems (at least, by the time Yohanan wrote to them in Revelation, in c64-66 CE).

Thus, most of the Nazarene groups (especially, in the East at Corinth, Galatia, Laodicea, Ephesus, Pergamos, Sardis, Thyatira, etc) must have had numbers of people who were not a part of the election and would have been left on earth after the return of YESHUA in c70 CE.

Many of the young persons left behind may have tried to maintain their faith and belief in the context of the Ebionites (mentioned in an earlier chapter and to be further assessed later).

However, with the obvious split or division in the Apostolic Assembly in types of people present, many otherwise luke-warm and weak in the faith hanger-ons certainly remained on earth after 70 CE. Being weak, they would have scattered. Many would have sought new “religious” homes and people to fellowship with.

Assuredly, many of them and their teachings and beliefs would have gravitated to or amalgamated with the various Chrishna Churches elsewhere in the empire (with the few similar beliefs) that were perhaps not facing Nero’s great tribulation--which was primarily focusing upon the Jews and anything appearing Jewish, like the Apostolic Assembly. Allegedly, Catholic Christians in the West were also under persecution.

Surely, by 66 CE, the Chrishna and Simon Magus Christian worshippers were trying to put some distance between themselves and the Jews (to try to avoid the tribulation then in progress on the Jews).

The tribulation event surely must have motivated the various Christian groups (the Simonians in the West and the Chrishna followers in the East) to initiate definite action to separate themselves as much as possible from the Jews.

This must have been one of the reasons why that early Christian editors would have been busy editing and working to change the Hebrew NT into something with a Greek perspective, as discussed earlier.

However, the amalgamation and/or infusion of new people or new blood from the eventually removed Apostolic Assembly into the Chrishna Christian Churches (after 70 CE) must have had a doctrinal impact upon the resulting Chrishna Christian Churches--and particularly those in the East in terms of their traditions.

East-West Division

The fall out of this was that Simon’s Christian work in Rome became the power in the West and was obviously not affected much by this new blood, as was the separate Chrishna Christian Churches in the East. This division and the fact that the churches in the East were closer theologically to truth was brought out in a previous chapter herein which focused upon the Quartadecimancins.

These Quartadecimancins in the East insisted upon observing the annual Hebrew Passover on Aviv 14, in preference to the pagan Easter Sunday celebration being promoted by the Roman Catholic Church in Rome. This conflict became pronounced in the late second century (c150-190 CE). It demonstrated not only the division between East and West, but also the fact that the East was closer to truth.

Interestingly, the written records that have survived (the “Ante-Nicene Fathers”) suggest that the Christian Churches in the East had some alleged traditional knowledge linking their faith back to the first century and the work of the Apostle Yohanan.

Apparently, the basis of this traditional knowledge was from some of the weak, Messianic Jewish hanger-ons or young non-elected persons who were left on earth after 70 CE and who in time separated from Judaism or were forced out of the Jewish synagogues, as described in previous chapters.

Many of these people eventually amalgamated with the Chrishna Christians in the East, while some few did retain an identity and a measure of the true faith in the form of the Ebionites, as discussed above and in the former chapter on the Seven Assemblies (c70 to 600 CE).

The Writings

The best evidence is that the early NT writings were in circulation in the Apostolic Assembly in an authorized Hebrew form before 70 CE and the end of the Apostolic Assembly on earth. Likely, these valid, good writings (and possibly some false ones as well) fell into the hands of certainly Simon Magus’ Christian work in the West and likely, in time, the Chrishna groups in the East.

The best guess is that Simon’s Catholic Christians used some of these NT writings first (in a Greek format) before the Eastern Christians picked upon them (which likely happened after the Easterners were reached by Catholic missionaries).

But whatever writings were being used in the East, they quickly became the purview of Rome as well. So, if “some” of the Scriptures were used first in the East, they eventually came under the domain of Rome. In timing, it’s hard to say when the Christians in the East and/or the West first began using these Jewish writings. But the evidence is that it happened before 66 CE, especially in Rome.

Once Simon’s people and/or the Chrishna Christians gained possession of various Apostolic Assembly writings, the alterations, changes and modifications of NT writings commenced (and in Greek), as outlined earlier. However, in fairness, a point from a prior chapter must be recalled. The Eastern Christians were not as prone to make alterations and changes to the Scriptures as was true with the Catholics in the West.

As discussed in a prior chapter, the NT writings in possession of the Eastern Orthodox people seem to be more uniform and less distorted than those in the Catholic West. However, the Catholic writings in the West are generally far older in age than the Eastern texts.

One more reason for this phenomenon is that it’s possible that Rome did not successfully impose “all” of her adopted NT writings on the East until in later years--perhaps even as late as Constantine’s day in the early fourth century. By then, many of the NT alterations had already been accomplished by Catholic editors in the West.

Any NT writings in Hebrew falling into Catholic hands would have been quickly translated to Greek because of the basic Gnostic hatred of Hebrew and anything Jewish, as previously discussed. Plus, there was the impact of the Roman tribulation upon the Jews, which started in 66 CE. If the Catholics or Chrishna Christians had any Hebrew NT texts, they would have been hid or destroyed--certainly after 66 CE.

Also, if there were any authorized Greek translations made by the Apostolic Assembly, they, too, would have eventually become the property of developing Christianity. It is highly plausible that some Hebrew texts of NT writings remained in the possession of the Ebionites. If so, these writings were certainly eventually seized and destroyed by mad, Catholic, Jew haters over the succeeding centuries.

Rome Attacked Hebrew Writings

In later years (clearly after 70 CE), Rome had a habit of raiding, confiscating and burning any writings that appeared to be Jewish or Hebrew. While the Jews successfully hid and maintained some of their works, it appears that the Ebionites lost any NT Hebrew-Aramaic writings that they may have had in their possession (except possibly for the Hebrew text of Shem Tob’s Matthew, as described earlier).

The early Passover controversy also indicates that Simon’s Christian Church in the West tried to dominate and rule over the other Chrishna Churches in the East (evidently, as a result of Rome’s evangelistic and proselytizing campaigns). But they were partly unsuccessful until the arrival of Constantine in the fourth century.

The Roman Empire ruler Constantine was able to bring the Eastern Churches into line and make them all accept the supremacy of the Pope (the Peter) in the West--for a time, before the two factions split again in later years (starting in the sixth century and becoming reality in 1054 CE). Apparently, Constantine effected this 4th century merger almost immediately by dictatorial fiat since he was the empire’s dictator.

Other Conder Ideas

Darrell Conder offers his theory that Simon Magus’ early Christianity in Rome had a presence of the OT and Judaism in the context of Seventh day Sabbath keeping, observing the Scriptural feast days, etc (“Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time,” p. 142).

Conder claims that the early Roman Church quickly dispatched Catholic missionaries throughout the Roman Empire to teach Simon’s new blend of Judaism and sun worship (and to force all of the Chrishna believers to come under Rome’s umbrella--ed).

Bart Ehrman takes note of the reality that early Christianity was called a “superstition” in the Roman world, per another Roman historian named Tacitus at about 115 CE (“The New Testament A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings,” p. 196).

Tacitus and other early Roman sources used the term “superstition” to define any set of religious beliefs and practices that were antisocial, irrational, or motivated by raw fear of “divine vengeance.” Ehrman allows that some of these early Christian evangelists may have preached “fire and brimstone” against those who rejected their message. This sounds exactly like Christian evangelism through the ages.

Because of this extensive missionary work (outlined in prior comments), clashes soon arose between the Chrishnaism-Messianic Judaism mix seemingly present in Asia Minor and portions of the Eastern empire to create the Passover or Quartadecimancin controversy (described earlier), ultimately settled by Constantine some 150 years later.

While Conder’s theory on a presence of some Judaism within Christianity may be considered, there is a better view, as suggested above. At the start, it seems out of the question to attach any appreciable presence of Judaism or the OT to Simon’s work in Rome--in view of Simon’s tendencies for Gnosticism, discussed formerly.

Certainly, during Nero’s tribulation upon the Jews, the Roman Christians would have tried to divorce themselves from the Jews and anything Jewish.

Moreover, Simon Magus was a sun worshipper who was trained in the sun worship Mysteries. It is inconceivable that he would have ever allowed Seventh day Sabbath worship into his new organization (before he died c64-67 CE). It just makes no sense at all.

He may have had some part of the Old Testament in his possession (in a Greek form, probably as the Pentateuch of the Septuagint). But clearly, he never used it for his developing sun worship church.

Finally, the Passover-Quartadecimancin conflict (c150-190 CE) proves conclusively that Simon’s brand of Christianity in the West was devoted to sun worship festivals and not to any of the Scriptural feasts found in the Chrishna East.

Of course, the writings of Christian spokesman Justin Martyr (c141 CE, in Justin’s first apology) also prove the presence of Sunday worship as well as a good Friday crucifixion and a Sunday morning resurrection (Easter)--as already established facts of life and beliefs in the Christian West.

Conder’s Theory Can’t Be Right

Obviously, Conder’s theory on Scriptural (Jewish) festivals in the Roman Church has to be wrong. In other words, Sunday keeping and sun worship festivals were always a part of Simon’s Christian theology from day one (as the “Ante-Nicene Fathers” all communicate). They were already accepted Christian practices by the time Constantine came along in the fourth century CE.

Any observance of Scriptural festivals within Christianity has to have occurred in the East with the Chrishna worshippers. The missionary work of the Apostolic Assembly (c31-66 CE) spread Messianic Judaism throughout much of the empire and particularly in the East and in Asia Minor. So there would have been some exposure of this truth to the Chrishna Christians.

Most likely, Simon Magus’ missionary efforts were primarily directed at stomping out these Jewish beliefs and practices throughout the Roman Empire, probably from the very beginnings of the first Catholic missionaries going out from Rome (because of the incredible Catholic hatred toward anything Jewish).

However, the work of Simon and his immediate Catholic Christian followers failed in their missionary efforts to stomp out the Messianic Jewish theology in the East where some of those beliefs had been picked up and retained by the Chrishna sun worshippers (to persist until Constantine came along to crush them, as noted above).

In any case, this prevailing situation meant that the eventual Eastern Orthodox people were always more independent in thinking than their Roman Catholic cousins in the West. Perhaps this prevailing thinking was due to the original work of Apollonius in the vein of local autonomy and the lack of a central, all powerful, church government.

Chapter 529--History of Christian Sun Worship IV

More on Simon, The Peter

Simon Magus, the Peter or Interpreter of the Mysteries, was the Hierophant or Supreme Pontiff Peter and Holy Father in his newly organized Universal Christian version of the Mysteries, during the years c42-67 CE. Evidently, from the beginning, his followers were called Christians, as will be shortly established from “Encyclopedia Britannica.”

This work by Simon may have provided the impetus for Shaul (who did have clear connections to Rome and what was happening there) to write about some false apostles and deceitful workers, claiming to serve YESHUA The MESSIAH (II Cor 11:13). Shaul would have known about the developing Catholic Church and especially as she tried to use the Scriptures for her documentary support.

While many of the details seem lacking from the historical records, it has to be acknowledged that Simon, being a magician, must have worked many feats of magic and tricks to fool the dumb, Roman, sun worshippers into becoming his followers (see Acts 8:9). Darrell Conder mentions some of them, but the practice must have been wide spread and obviously very successful.

Conder notes that there were several reports on the death of Simon. The better view is that he gained the attention of the Emperor Claudius and was, hence, well known to Nero, Claudius’ successor. To convince Nero of his supernatural powers, he supposedly was killed while trying to fly through the air in Nero’s presence (evidently, sometime in the years 64-67 CE, when Shimon Kefa allegedly was killed in Rome).

Simon Magus had told Nero that he would rise again from the grave on the third day and apparently feigned death. As he was a magician (again, Acts 8:9 notes his sorcery and claim to be a great one), he could have easily faked his death with a view of later coming back to life to fool Nero and his colleagues.

Nero Was Intelligent After All

Though Nero Caesar (666 in Aramaic) was a homosexual fag and filled with incredible hate, he was no fool, contrary to the views of history and Christianity.

Nero determined that before burying the supposedly dead Simon (ostensibly killed while flying through the air--like the man on the flying trapeze?), he would take some definite measures to be sure that Simon was indeed dead, as claimed. He was not about to sit back and allow the magician, con-man Simon Magus to pull the wool over his eyes.

Thus, the emperor Nero decided that he would take some explicit steps to be certain that the supposedly dead Simon was indeed dead, as alleged. As a precautionary measure, Nero perceptively ordered Simon’s head cut off (“Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in End Time,” p. 208-209, quoting “The Gothic Image” by Emile Male, p. 297).

Certainly, the confidence swindler Simon never anticipated that Nero would think and act like he did.

It must have been quite a surprise (indeed a shock) to Simon when the executioner came with a drawn sword to finally do him in. Now, truly dead and minus his head, Simon was buried at the circus on Vatican Hill. Interestingly, this burial account dovetails with later Catholic tradition that the Catholic founder Peter is buried there--minus his head.

Perhaps it was this encounter with Simon Magus which turned Nero into a bitter opponent of the developing Catholic Christian Church, founded by Simon. Manifestly, Christian persecution started under Nero, as virtually all Christian historians agree. The question seems to be why?

As discussed earlier herein, there is every reason to believe that Simon’s Christianity in Rome and Chrishna’s Christianity in the East began to separate themselves from everything Jewish during Nero’s persecution of the Jews (which would have included the great tribulation upon the Nazarene Jews). Yet, something made Nero get mad at the Christians, and especially those in Rome. It might have been because of Magus.

While Christianity would later dabble in politics to perpetuate the continuing Roman persecution, it is probable that Nero turned on them immediately with the death of the crook Magus (if not before). The historical record is not clear to what extent that Nero correctly understood that, in Simon, he was dealing with a magician, a swindler and a con-man. But the emperor may have had this perception from the beginning.

If so, this might account for Nero’s quick turn to hate for especially Catholic Christians--perhaps as early as 64 CE when he burned Rome and allegedly blamed it on the Christians (“Columbia Concise Encyclopedia,” p. 590). But certainly, after the truly dead Magus did not subsequently come back to life in three days as promised, Nero turned against the Christians (which may have happened c64-67 CE).

More

Hippolytus later (3rd century CE) was to say that Simon “remains buried to this day” (“Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time,” p. 209, quoting Legge’s “Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity,” p. 178, 192).

But the surviving Roman Catholic Church was not content to allow this report of Simon’s death to persist long in the Roman Empire. They chose to invent a different version--certainly, by the time of Constantine.

Conder (ibid, p. 208) offers the Catholic version that while Simon Magus was trying to fly in the air, the “Apostle Peter,” on site, rebuked him and he fell to his death. Possibly, this Catholic position was based partly upon an early Christian pseudepigrapha writing, known as the “Apocryphal Acts of Peter.” It supposedly tells about some of the conflicts which the Apostle had with Simon Magus in Rome.

In Acts of Peter 5, there is a story of the death of Magus. The magician used his powers to leap into the air and fly like a bird over the temples and hills of Rome. The Apostle Kefa on site called on The HIGHEST to smite him in midair. The MOST HIGH did so and Magus fell and broke his leg in three places.

Seeing what happened to the con-man, the watching crowd rushed to stone him to death as an evildoer (“The New Testament A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings,” p. 422).

This whole episode seems to have set the stage for the Catholic Church to then go on and try to link its early history with the Apostle Shimon Kefa, instead of with Simon Magus the Peter or interpreter of the Mysteries (though Simon may have promoted the tie earlier).

There is another alternate view on the death of Simon which also goes to fuel some of the Catholic traditions on the alleged “Apostle Peter.” In “Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time” (p. 143), Conder suggests that Simon set up a prop to fool Nero by being crucified upside down. Supposedly, he was to die (feign death) quickly and be buried with a resurrection to life three days later.

Conder indicates that his plan went astray when Nero ordered Simon’s head cut off as a precautionary measure. In any case, this story of the death of Simon Magus was sufficient to fuel the Catholic position that the alleged Simon Peter founded the Catholic Christian Church and died in Rome.

Kefa Went to Babylon

As noted in preceding comments, the abundance of scholarship offers no explanation for the Apostle Kefa (known as Peter in Christendom) to even be in Rome at all. The Scriptural record and particularly his own writings communicate that he went to circumcised Jews in Babylon. There is no justification or logic for him to have ever been in Rome when that evangelistic field belonged to Shaul.

More substantive proof will be outlined in the following presentations to establish that the Apostle Shimon Kefa was not the Simon Peter buried under St. Peter’s Basilica on Vatican Hill and that the so-called statute of the Apostle Kefa in St. Peter’s is actually a statute of Simon Magus the Peter.

The Apostle Shimon and His Name Change

Earlier comments in prior chapters herein raised questions about how a Jew, with the good name of Shimon (Simeon in the KJV), could all of a sudden be faced with two name changes. In the first instance, YESHUA apparently did change his name (allegedly, to the Greek Cephas, per the KJV at Jo 1:42).

“Davis Dictionary of the Bible” (p. 624) suggests that this name Cephas is an Aramaic surname, meaning a rock. “A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature” (p. 432) offers about the same assessment by saying that Cephas was the Aramaic surname of Simon (correctly Shimon), while the Greek form is Petros--to be shortly described.

Thus, the view of these Christian scholars and most others as well is that YESHUA changed Shimon’s name first to the Aramaic Cephas and second to the Greek Petros. The only problem with this reasoning is that Cephas is not an Aramaic name. It is a Greek name and rendition or translation/transliteration of the Aramaic name Kefa or Kepa. Categorically, Cephas is not an Aramaic name. It is a Greek presentation.

Dr David Stern’s “Complete Jewish Bible” gives Cephas as Kefa, while Dr. George M. Lamsa’s “Holy Bible From Ancient Eastern Manuscripts” renders Cephas as Kepa. Therefore, Kefa/Kepa is the correct name. Kefa is an Aramaic name, meaning the “rock” (per Dr David Stern’s “Jewish New Testament Commentary,” p. 22).

This writer has chosen to recognize Kefa/Kepa as being the correct name. Hence, The MESSIAH gave Shimon the further name of Kefa/Kepa. The Apostle Shaul several times used this name for Shimon as well (I Cor 1:12; 3:22; 9:5; 15:5; Gal 2:9).

Yet, by some strange little quirk, the Greek NT also says that YESHUA changed Shimon’s name to Petros (Anglicized as Peter at Mk 3:16). Petros, like Cephas, means a rock or stone. Thus, the interesting thing is that the Greek NT seems to say that YESHUA changed the name of Shimon in two cases, to both Cephas and Petros.

But Problems Remain

There are some obvious problems with this NT belief. First, why would YESHUA even entertain the idea of attaching a Greek name or names to one of His disciples in Judea where Greek was a hated language. Obviously, if He did change Shimon’s name, He surely would have changed it only to the Aramaic Kepa/Kefa, as outlined in John 1:42 and as confirmed by Shaul.

With this change to the Aramaic, why in the world would The MESSIAH proceed to change Shimon’s name again? Why did He do it twice? Could He not make His mind up? Was He confused? While a Greek name seems totally out of the question, for reasons cited in a prior chapter, the name Cephas itself was Greek enough without going any further with another Greek name like Petros.

Obviously, there are some manifest problems with this traditional Christian story/myth. The better view might be that early Catholics may have edited those remarks (and numbers of other texts) to generate a belief that would support the Roman work and later death of their Simon, known as Peter, the interpreter of the Mysteries.

In other words, the Catholic Church, perhaps as a minimum, invented the name of Peter (Greek Petros) to attach to the Apostle Shimon (in order to help authenticate the belief that Simon the Peter was actually the NT Apostle Simon Peter). Cephas would also raise a question. But it’s proper presentation as the Aramaic Kepa/Kefa might make a person be suspicious that Kefa perhaps was a legitimate change.

The point of this NT confusion over the Apostle Shimon is that this instance, plus the several others described in previous chapters, builds an overwhelming case that there has been serious editing and/or alterations of an original NT story into a Greek version which is inconsistent with reality.

The NT Scriptures themselves communicate the presence of a correct, original version and later unauthorized editing or changes which make no sense at all (except in the case of Petros, it gave the Roman Catholic Church an excuse to argue that her church was started by the Apostle Shimon, rather than by Simon Magus).

The Early Writer--Clement of Rome

One of the historic Catholic popes was the previously mentioned Clement of Rome. The “Official Associated Press Almanac” for 1974 gives the list of popes. Per this source (p. 890), Clement served as pope from c92 to c101 CE, following Peter, Linus and Anacletus, in that order. “The Timetables of History” (p. 26) gives Clement’s dates as c88-97 CE.

Clement gained some fame because he wrote one of the earliest, still extant, writings of the so-called Christian Church fathers (which followed the Apostolic age). He was manifestly an early Christian. Some Christians allege that he knew both Kefa and Shaul and might have been the Clement mentioned in Philippians 4:3.

Per his later writings, he supposedly became acquainted with both the Apostle Shimon Kefa and Simon Magus at Caesarea Stratonis in Palestine (when they had their conflict in Acts 8). Supposedly, he attached himself to the Apostle Shimon Kefa at that time as his disciple (“Simon Magus,” p. 31).

This very suggestion by Clement (in his first writings from c70-90 CE, per “The Oxford Companion to the Bible,” p. 275) raises questions about the validity of his allegation of him being in Palestine (when Acts 8 took place). In any case, Clement supposedly learned of Simon Magus’ history from Aquila and Nicetas, adopted sons of a convert.

The encounter between Shimon Kefa and Simon Magus in Samaria evidently happened in about 31 CE (Act 8:18-24). Per Clement’s later words, he must have been a grown man by then (howbeit, a young man) because he says he became a follower or disciple of Simon Peter at that time (in apparent reference to Shimon Kefa).

If he was around 20 years old, as would seem logical, this means that he was born about 11 CE. This would put his death in Rome in c101 CE at about age 90. This is possible, but still one must wonder about it. Also, per the AP Almanac, Clement was supposedly a native of Rome. So one must next ponder how he came to be in Palestine to witness the confrontation between Shimon and Magus in c31 CE.

Deceiving the People

Perhaps in his early writings about Simon Magus the Peter and the Apostle Shimon Kefa (whom he called Simon Peter), Clement was trying to put some distance between Magus and Kefa to fraudulently fool the people--some of whom after 67 CE may have been suspicious that the Simon Peter buried in Rome (who founded the Catholic Church) was not the Scriptural Apostle Shimon Kefa of Judea and Babylon.

Maybe Clement was trying to justify and establish his discipleship with Simon Peter (as being the Apostle Shimon Kefa and not Simon Magus) and help establish his own role in Rome in founding the Roman Catholic Church and linking it to the Septuagint (at least the Greek Pentateuch portion of the Septuagint) and the prevailing Greek NT writings (which were probably then being reworked by Catholic editors).

Presumably, allegations that the two Simons were not the same could be downplayed and nullified by Clement when he went on record to say that he knew them both (and possibly he did know them both. Certainly he knew of them both in the historical vein). In any case, his words went on to authenticate the Catholic deception on Shimon vis-à-vis Simon Magus and Clement’s leadership role in the Church in later years.

In this sense, Clement was likely one of the key persons who engineered and set up the false theories floating around that Shimon Kefa was in Rome, was killed in Nero’s reign and was buried on Vatican Hill (at the site where St. Peter’s Basilica now stands).

Most likely, after 67 CE, some thinking persons may have begun to put two and two together to understand that Shimon Kefa was never in Rome and that the Roman Catholic Church was founded by Simon Magus the Peter who was killed and buried on Vatican Hill.

Much Deception Was Needed

Clement of Rome (as the Catholic Pope in c92-101 or c88-97 CE) would have had to do a lot in the form of lying and deceiving in order to make the world come to believe that the Scriptural Shimon Kefa was the founder of the Roman Catholic Christian Church.

Though this deception probably started earlier (when Magus was actually killed and buried on Vatican Hill, c64-67 CE), Clement obviously needed to nail it down in his day and further establish the ties between Catholic Christianity and the Scriptures. He perceptively saw what was needed to be done (from his viewpoint) and he did it.

Surely, by claiming to know both parties and by alleging that the real Shimon Kefa founded the Roman Church, it would pacify the people and defuse the lingering doubts and apprehension which they may have had over truth.

Although the available evidence would suggest that this enormous subterfuge linking the NT Apostle Shimon Kefa with Simon Peter (Magus) was in clear evidence by Clement’s time, it could have started even earlier and perhaps with Simon Magus himself.

The burial site on Vatican Hill, where Simon Magus the Peter was buried, quickly developed a tradition that it was the burial site of the Apostle Shimon Kefa. Assuredly, the statute now in St. Peter’s Basilica (which purports to be a statute of Shimon Kefa) was one of the early statutes of Simon Magus, worshipped and adored by his Simonian followers (as discussed previously).

If these early Catholic Christians in Rome had a statute of Magus’ girlfriend Helen (as is entirely logical), they would have quickly accepted it as being a statute of Mary. All of this subterfuge could have started earlier; but certainly, by the time of Clement who undertook the task of tying it all down.

Whether Clement actually knew the real Kefa and/or Shaul or not remains a question mark. But certainly, he knew Simon Magus (as he admitted), who was known as the Peter in the developing Christian Mysteries in Rome. Surely, this Clement was a disciple of Simon Magus (and not the Apostle Kefa as he claimed to be). Manifestly, Clement played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Christian Church in Rome.

A Major Revelation on the Greek New Testament

Former chapters have discussed the incredible problems with the Greek New Testament with its hundreds of thousands of variations and inconsistencies. As outlined earlier, the evidence is massive that the Greek New Testament has been edited and changed over the years. And perhaps one of the most tragic records of this comes from G. R. S. Mead’s book on “Simon Magus.”

In this case, Mead, in “Simon Magus” (p. 34), offers an early quotation from the so-called Peter to Clement on certain passages of Scriptures (per the later writings of Clement). Allegedly, Peter said that there are falsehoods (lies) in the Scriptures which should never be explained to the people and that these lies are permitted for certain righteous reasons.

In giving some particulars, this “Peter” said that all passages in the Scriptures which speak against “God” (such as those outlining a plurality of gods and those that speak of “God’s hardening of men’s hearts”) are actually spurious additions, but this reality must be kept as an esoteric secret from the people (the esoteric ideas, interestingly, were a part of Simon’s Gnostic beliefs).

Since Peter and Simon Magus in Rome were actually one and the same, this conversation must have been between Magus, as the Peter, and Clement, his disciple. Manifestly, it is a real time bomb on the Greek New Testament. Now, all of the confusion and difficulties described in the prior chapters on the Greek New Testament make sense.

The evidence is most persuasive that Simon Magus and his disciples not only wrote some Christian books and edited others (as discussed in the previous chapters), but they deliberately wrote some lies into those writings--ostensibly for “righteous reasons,” as Simon Magus the Peter explained.

This quotation by Mead is an extraordinary admission of Catholic alterations of the Scriptures. While the early Christian Church fathers recorded it as from Peter the apostle, the truth is that it must be a remark made by Simon the Peter of the Mystery religions.

Clement of Alexandria, Revisited

The above discussed Christian Church “father,” Clement of Rome, should not be confused with the previously quoted Clement of Alexandria, who lived about a hundred years later (he died c215 CE). But like the earlier Clement, this Clement of Alexandria also played a crucial role in editing and altering the Greek NT as it developed over the years.

As described in a former chapter, this Clement of Alexandria wrote a friend or colleague in the second century and admitted that the Catholic Christian Church had deleted some major portion of the book of Mark because the views presented were inconsistent with the prevailing Christian faith.

Whether Clement personally did this altering or someone else is unclear. Actually, what matters is a recognition that it took place.

Also, as pointed out earlier, this Clement was a Gnostic and a devotee of the Greek philosopher Plato. Per the former comments, Clement and his student Origen (previously mentioned herein, in his role of preserving the Septuagint) combined Platonism with Christianity in the manner of the contemporary Neo-Platonism.

Certainly, the underlying philosophy of the modern Christian world is Neo-Platonism, as has been conclusively proven in the preceding chapters in this study.

In the sense that Clement, his student Origen and others were diligently at work in the second and third centuries in altering the Hebrew OT and any Hebrew NT writings in their Greek forms is indisputable. These alterations must have been made, at least in part, in an effort to justify and support Platonism, which was being incorporated into Christendom in the second century CE.

Beyond the many alterations in the now accepted Greek NT (as detailed in chapters heretofore), the point must be made again that there was a host of early “Christian writings” in existence which were pruned down to the current list of 27 books in the late fourth century CE. There were at least 34 so-called “gospels” alone.

Manifestly, the years 42 to 397 CE saw an enormous work by the Christians (certainly in the Catholic West and in the Christian East, as well, to some extent) to write, alter, change, delete and modify a huge assortment of so-called Christian writings (some of which were likely legitimate, with a background in the Hebrew of the Apostolic Assembly).

The Gospel of Thomas, Revisited

A former chapter discussed the situation with the Gospel of Thomas which was one of the huge array of so-called “gospel” stories in existence in the first to fourth centuries CE--ostensibly about the NT YESHUA. As outlined earlier, one of the ancient NT document finds was of a fragment from this book made in c200 CE. Clearly, it was a popular and well known early writing used by Christians.

As previously noted, the Gospel of Thomas was one of the books rejected from canonization by the Roman Catholic Church in its work of the late 4th century. There have been many theories floating around on why this rejection took place. But perhaps one of the most intriguing reasons on “why” was outlined by a writer named Glen Kimball, who was on the Coast to Coast AM radio program on June 12, 2000.

In Kimball’s discussion with the host Ian Punnett, he commented upon the case of the Gospel of Thomas and its rejection by the Roman Church. Glen suggests that Rome rejected it because it revealed that YESHUA established Apostolic authority with Yakov and not Kefa as the Roman Church was trying to convey to people at that time.

It has to be interesting that the context of Acts 15:13-29 and James 1:1 both clearly suggest that Yakov was a pillar and perhaps the main individual in Apostolic authority within the developing Apostolic Assembly. Clearly, Yakov was the nasi in the Jerusalem leadership (the term nasi was commented upon in a prior chapter addressing understanding).

Although Catholic authorities for some reason did not edit out all of these words about Yakov, they likely would have completely rejected the Gospel of Thomas if it conflicted with their efforts to establish Shimon Kefa as the primary, chief official of the Apostolic Assembly (which is suggested in Matthew 16:16-19 and John 21:7-19). Regardless of why, Rome did ultimately reject the Gospel of Thomas and many other books as well.

Menander

With the death of Simon Magus, he was initially succeeded by a man named Menander (obviously, around the period 64-67 CE--years before Pope Clement came along in 88 or 92 CE, as described above). The “Catholic Almanac” of 1980 gives the first Catholic Pope as being Simon Peter from c42 to c67 CE. He was followed by Linus, who became Pope in c67 CE and served until c76 CE.

Now, there would seem to be some confusion or question about how Menander could have succeeded Simon when the Catholic Church says that Simon was followed by Linus. There is a solution here which seems very obvious. It appears that the Amalekite practice of name changes surfaced in Catholicism at this time. Early on, the popes began a process of changing their names upon elevation to the Chair of Peter.

That’s why an apparent Amalekite named Giovanni Battista Montini could become Pope Paul VI and Karol Wojtyla could become Pope John Paul II. When the present pope dies, he will be replaced by someone who will change his name. In this sense, maybe Menander changed his name to Linus (if Menander did, in fact, serve as pope, as is likely).

More Samaritan Influence on Christianity

In the context of the death of Simon in Rome, “Encyclopedia Britannica” mentions remarks by Irenaeus, who spoke of Menander, the successor of Simon, as also being a Samaritan. Like Simon, Menander attained to the highest pitch of magic. His Christian doctrine is represented as being the same as that of Simon Magus.

As “Encyclopedia Britannica” (v. 25, p. 126-127, 14th ed, quoted by Conder, “Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time,” p. 211-212) outlined: “It is evident that the Samaritans were not to be outdone by the Jews... and that a bold bid was being made by the hated Samaritans for a world-wide religion, which should embrace pagans as well as Christians.”

Incidentally, the famous Christian apologist and centrist Justin Martyr (100-165 CE), discussed before, was likewise from Samaria, along with Simon Magus and Menander. Justin, educated in Hellenism, came to Rome by c141 CE and supposedly combated the influence of Marcion and Valentinus (“Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of a Christian Myth,” p. 259-273).

As outlined in former comments, Justin made his famous defense of Christianity (in the writings of the “Ante-Nicene Fathers”) at this early time (c141 CE) and reported Sunday worship and the belief in a Sunday resurrection--as both being well established beliefs in Christendom at this early age and long before Constantine came to power in the fourth century CE.

With his Samaritan background, Justin Martyr was obviously acquainted with the work of both Menander and Simon Magus. As briefly noted earlier, Justin said that the early Simonians in Rome were known as Christians (“Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time,” p. 207 and 211, quoting “Encyclopedia Britannica,” v. 25, p. 126, 11th ed). Justin noted that Menander and the later Marcion were both Christian followers of Simon Magus.

In his First Apology (“Ante-Nicene Fathers,” v. 1, p. 170), Justin likened the crucifixion, death, resurrection and ascension of Christianity’s Gee-Zeus with that believed by those who esteemed the sons of Jupiter (The Roman sun god, counterpart of Zeus).

Apparently, quoting Dr Ernest Martin (“The People That History Forgot”), Colin Deal, editor of the “End Time News” (Sep-Oct 2003), says that at first the followers of Simon Magus were called Simonians; then later they were called Gnostics; and finally they chose to be called Christians. In this vein, it might be possible to ascribe the whole Gnostic motion to Simon Magus or his early followers.

The problems with the Gnostics have been discussed in prior remarks and will receive further commentary in later chapters. For sure, their faith has had a tremendous impact upon Christianity over the years.

Some final points are relevant here from Martin’s “The People That History Forgot.” Much of this work by Martin focused upon the movement of people out of Samaria into Southern Europe. Martin recognized the fantastic tie between the Samaritans and early Christianity. But he went further in assessing the racial composition of the peoples of Italy and Southern Europe, and where they came from.

Specifically, Martin’s book traced the profound shift of Hamite people out of the Middle East (Babylon, Syria, Samaria, etc) into Italy and Southern Europe in the first century BCE to the time of Constantine. Obviously, these persons with a religious connection to ancient Babylonian sun worship brought their religious faith and ideas forward with them as they moved into Southern Europe.

With this backdrop, Martin easily built the case that when Simon Magus went to Rome, he found some people who were very near to his own race and temperament. Of course, these persons gladly accepted the Magus teachings on the (Babylonian) Mysteries without difficulty. As discussed in earlier chapters herein, the ties of Southern Europeans to the Cushites of ancient Babylon are clearly in evidence.

The Cushite Sabines of Babylon certainly ended up in Central Italy (though Sicily and much of Southern Italy were in Edomite hands). Also, some or many of the Sepharvaim (II Kg 17:24) of Samaria ended up on the Spanish peninsula to name it (in Hebrew, per the Targums, Sepharad is Hispania--Oba 1:20).

The racial ties of Southern Europeans to the Hamites generally and Cushites particularly are tremendous. There is no mistaking why Southern Europeans have so easily become Roman Catholic Christians. Just as Amalekite masters seem to have ruled these Hamites in Samaria, it appears that the same thing happened with the Catholic Church in Southern Europe, as will be discussed in the next chapter.

Chapter 530--History of Christian Sun Worship V

The Samaritan Founders of Christianity

As broached in the prior chapter, it has to be significant that three of the most important personalities in the development of early Christian sun worship all came from Samaria (and one must also wonder about the previously cited Clement of Rome, the later Pope, who claimed to have been in Samaria when Magus lived there).

A prior discussion in this study on the Samaritans noted their close linkage to the Amalek-Edomites.

Is it conceivable that Simon Magus, Menander and Justin Martyr could have all three descended from Amalek-Edomite masters who moved to Samaria and attached themselves to the Samaritans/Cushites and/or miscegenated with the Samaritans/Cushites at an early time (even Clement of Rome could be of the same fold)? Frankly, this course makes sense for reasons to follow.

Darrell Conder suggests that Simon Magus was totally corrupt (“Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time,” p. 136). His heart was certainly in the wrong place as the NT indicates. This description assuredly fits the genetic profile of the Amalekites whom are totally evil.

In fact, it is likely true that only the Amalekites are totally corrupt (evil) on earth (as maintained by the ancient Jews, as discussed earlier). It is probable that Conder has it right because there is every reason to believe that Simon Magus was a totally corrupt Amalek-Edomite (who secretly worshipped and served Satan).

As noted earlier, one of the established practices of each new pope is to change his name upon assuming the Chair of Peter. In background, this name change business is a favorite trick of the Amalekites for purposes of deception. Maybe, the Amalekite founders of the Catholic Church initiated the name change business--almost from its beginning (i.e., possibly Simon Magus tried to claim he was Shimon Kefa of the NT).

Murderers of the Righteous, Revisited

A previous chapter focused upon the murderers of all of the righteous from Abel to YESHUA, Himself, and on forward to the end of the age (Matt 23:30-39). The evidence is overwhelming that this system of evil has essentially involved Amalekite masters and other descendants of Kain and his father Satan over the years (and has very definite ties to Abimelech, the formerly described Canaanite bramble bush).

As previously elaborated upon, this precise system of wretchedness is the primary component of Mystery Babylon. Clearly, this system has been the murderers of the righteous for the last 2,000 years (Rev 17:5-6).

The Christian Miry Clay or Glue

Previous commentary outlined the ties which the woman of Samaria (Jo 4:4-30) had with Christianity and the ties that the NT Samaritans had with Christians in general. But as allowed above and earlier herein, there is still more to this linkage between Christendom and the earlier Samaritans.

Just as the Amalekites had, like flies, moved in on the mixed people of Samaria (as allowed in former comments), they did the same thing with Christianity. The Amalekites have organized and controlled Christendom--certainly from its beginnings in Rome with Simon Magus (who was evidently an Amalekite from Samaria). But there is still more on these ties!

While Mystery Babylon and the Beast power seem to involve all aspects of the current, Western, Christian civilization (religious, social, economic, monetary, political, governmental, etc), it is the generic Christian religion which holds the whole Babylonian system together. This system started, grew and matured under Christianity.

This evil system exists today only because Christendom has overseen its development and has allowed it to persist. Every person who wishes to cry and moan about the evils of this wretched Babylonian system should pause and note that if generic Christianity was unhappy with it, it would be terminated and abolished right now.

Manifestly, it is the Christian religion which is the glue or miry clay of the image in Daniel 2:43 (that holds this whole system together). Without the religious component, it would fall apart. In Daniel 2:43, please note that this system is mingled with the seed of men (from “enash,” which is the Aramaic presentation of the Hebrew “enosh,” “Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament,” p. 346-347).

This word “enosh” appears to be a general term for the male sex of all of the different created humans/humanoids--Adam, the behemah, chaiyah, nokri-nekar aliens, etc (Isa 24:6). It sometimes appears in the Tanakh in parallelism with Adam to spell out the Adam man specifically of the human/humanoid male classification (Job 7:17; 25:5; 36:25; Ps 8:5; 73:5; 90:3; Isa 13:12; 51:12; 56:2).

The Tower of Babel, Revisited

Besides this prophesy in Daniel 2:43 of the coming extraordinary miscegenation of humans/humanoids in the age end, there is also some evidence of this same prediction in Genesis 11:3 in the building of the tower of Babel (which is being repeated here in the age end, as discussed earlier).

In the days of Nimrod at Shinar, the people did make bricks (Hebrew levehnah, from lavan/laban, meaning white--thus, the dried bricks were white appearing). But there could be some enormous historical and prophetic possibilities in this remark. The “Endtime News” (p. 2) for Oct 2000 discusses the tower of Babel incident and notes that the words “Let us make brick” literally means “let us make ourselves Laban.”

So, while the people certainly were busy making mud bricks to build the tower, there could also be some great symbolism suggesting that they were miscegenating in the vein that the darker and/or Colored peoples were participating in an effort to become white.

This has always been one of the wishes of the Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and darker peoples of the earth. The mixed nokri/nekar, behemah and chaiyah humanoids have always wanted to miscegenate with Adamic White peoples so that their offspring might be whiter persons.

With this prevailing opinion, hope and aspiration among the darker and/or Colored persons in the days of Noah (both before and after the flood), is it not possible that the tower of Babel incident involved not only a physical building effort into the sky (for astrology purposes, per the “Endtime News”), but also a quest to become whiter in the genetics of offspring?

If this view holds true, it is highly likely that YHWH’s scattering of the people at Babel was also necessitated, in part, by the extensive miscegenation then underway. Since the tower of Babel event was prophetic of the end (outlined in former chapters herein), is it not evident that this prophesy is just one more which foretells of the coming age end miscegenation of the races?

This mingling or mixing of the seedlines of the different humans/humanoids has been discussed in prior chapters. Obviously, this mixing and miscegenation of the different human/humanoid creations has been one of the products of all of the world governments in history--to include Rome. One race of man and the brotherhood of man are long time goals of tyrants and beast men.

Therefore, the Roman Church has led the way in this race mixing. Clearly, the Catholic Church has always been physically in the hands and under the leadership of mongrelized peoples (descendants of Satan, Kain, Ham and Esau). Moreover, the strength of numbers in the Church of Rome has historically been found in Southern Europe, which is the geographic homeland of many of these same people.

The murderers of the righteous (in the context of the children of Satan, Kain, Ham, Esau, etc) have always been a primary component (and usually the leadership element) of Catholicism.

The Merger With the Old Sun Cults

Though much of the old sun worship culture was already in place before the work of Simon Magus commenced to found and establish Christianity in Rome, it is important to grant that Christendom quickly incorporated the old sun worship culture in Rome into the Christian definition.

In fairness, people like Simon and his successors Menander, Clement, Justin Martyr and others must all share in the linkage to the murderers of the righteous, as defined by YESHUA.

Therefore, the evidence seems conclusive that indeed Simon Magus, Menander, Justin Martyr and perhaps most or all of the historic founders of Christianity (to likely include Clement of Rome) and later primary leaders have actually been descendants of Kain, probably often via the Amalek-Edomite definition.

In the case of Simon Magus and his Samaritan colleagues, it seems very likely that they were descendants of Amalek-Edomites--who had miscegenated, mixed and amalgamated with the Samaritans (Cutheans or whatever) in past ages. And whether the Amalekites actually amalgamated with the Samaritans matters little or not since the evidence is massive that they did live in the Samaritan geographical territory.

And since the term Samaritan came to be a geographical designation, the Amalekites living there would have been called Samaritans--just like the Cutheans.

Likely, it was these Amalekite Samaritans who terrified the Jewish workers building the Second Temple and who were the murderers of the righteous over the years. This must include Simon Magus, Menander and Justin Martyr (and maybe Clement of Rome, as well).

In this religious confluence of the murderers of the righteous, it must be noted that the mother Roman Catholic Church is the primary agency, although there have been some of her daughter Protestant groups who also joined in to become murderers (like John Calvin and his colleagues who murdered Michael Servetus in 1553).

In any case, the Roman Catholic hierarchy has always been made up of essentially descendants of Kain.

Though some powerful Amalekites have held key positions in Catholicism, much of the leadership has included different Edomites from Ireland and Sicily and other Edomites and Hamites in general from Southern Europe and elsewhere. Rome became virtually synonymous with the descendants of Satan/Kain.

Incidentally, it might be significant that Second Temple Judaism sometimes linked Rome with the Edomites, as discussed previously. But with the birth and development of Christian Rome, Rabbinic authorities began to associate Edom with Christianity (“Encyclopaedia Judaica,” v. 6, p. 379).

Amalekite Masters-Bankers, Revisited

As elaborated upon in previous chapters, it could well be that Amalek-Edomite bankers were established as parasites in early Rome, just as they have continued to be established in the Western civilization over the centuries. In that context, it would make perfect sense for intelligent and informed, religious Jews to tie the Edom appellative to Rome.

In view of the great preponderance of evidence linking Simon Magus, Menander, Justin Martyr and other early Christian leaders to the Amalek-Edomites of Samaria, it would likewise make perfect sense to allegorically identify Christianity as allegoric Edom. The historic evils of both groups are well established in history. Correctly, Edom could be symbolically associated with either Rome or Christendom or both.

There is another feature on this theme which must be pointed out. Just as it was true that Christianity was founded by apparent Amalek-Edomites from Samaria, the evidence is massive that any number of popes and leading Catholic bishops have actually been “secret” racial Amalekites (or at least, other descendants of Kain) over the years (like Pope Gregory VI, Anaclet II, Paul VI, etc, as discussed previously).

Amalekite masters have a genetic capacity to gravitate to the top of Satanic evil in this present worldly situation. It’s hard to fathom that once they established the Roman Catholic Church that they would not continue to rule over it (maybe not in all situations, but certainly often or in many instances). This is not to say that all popes have been Amalekites, but many assuredly have been.

With the enormous linkage of other Edomites to Ireland, Sicily and Southern Italy and of Hamitic peoples in general in Southern Europe (which is heavy Roman Catholic land), these generic Edomites and Hamites have obviously occupied key leadership roles in the Roman Church with some regularity from time to time (to include occupying the so-called “Chair of Peter”).

Rome’s Ties to Satan

Consequently, it’s not hard to perceive that indeed the Roman Catholic Church has had very close ties to the descendants of Satan-Kain from its inception by Simon Magus in the first century CE. This organization has been manifestly Satanic and Hamitic from day one.

The present Pope, John Paul II, another descendant of Satan-Kain (likely an Amalekite as his mother was apparently a Khazar Jewess), is aged and in declining heath. He won’t last long into the future. The best guess is that he will be succeeded at some point in time by a new Pope, perhaps to be called Sixtus VI (Sixtus I through V have served in prior years and VI is next in sequence).

A most plausible case can be made that this coming Pope (or a soon later one) will be a racial Amalekite. He will become the two horned beast of Revelation 13 (as noted earlier). It’s hard to fathom that any other person could be the murderer of the righteous--except an Amalekite, Kenite or Canaanite descendant of Satan.

A prior chapter pointed out that with the conclusion of WWIII, it appears that some of the now ruling Amalekite international bankers will lose much of their power in the global arena. And this will especially include those clear Amalekites posing as Jews.

But there are many evil Amalek-Edomites out in the world posing as Christians. Some of them may come to the front under the Beast government and especially when the Beast man turns against the Jews in Palestine near the end of his rule. For sure, the fall of the Christian West to the Russians and their Third World allies will not mean the end of Amalekite oppression against the righteous.

YESHUA In Samaria

The early Christian linkage to Samaria has another feature which is most fascinating. The Apostle Yohanan wrote about the time that YESHUA went through the geographical province of Samaria and met a woman at Yakov’s well, probably near or just after Pentecost, in a Sabbath year and four months before the harvest, as mentioned previously (Jo 4:4-42).

This woman was a harlot of types (the ante-type of Christianity, as mentioned earlier) because she had had five former husbands and was then shacked up with another man who was not her husband (which could refer to her religious affiliations as well as her physical reality). She was a gross liar in that she lied about the husbands and perhaps her descent from Yakov whom she claimed was her ancestor.

Could these remarks from the woman be the start of Christian replacement or displacement theology (interestingly, some 100 years later, the famous Christian apologist Justin Martyr, a Samaritan and likely Amalekite, told Trypho the Jew that the Samaritans [Christians in allegory] often claimed to be of Israelite origin, though they were not Israelites, per the “Ante-Nicene Fathers;” see also Ezra 4:2, as cited earlier)?

In the ensuing dialogue with the woman, she correctly noted that YESHUA was a Jew and Jews had no dealings with Samaritans (Christians). Later, the disciples also were surprised that He would actually talk to a Samaritan. He similarly noted the differences between His (true) religion and the false faith of the Samaritans (or Christians).

The MESSIAH perceptively said that the Samaritans (Christians) didn’t know what they worshipped, while the Jews did know because “salvation was of the Jews.” Going on, He added one most extraordinary remark. He charged that those who worship Ha AV (the father) must worship Him in spirit and in truth (Jo 4:24).

This little comment is far reaching because Protestant Christians have argued for centuries that all that counts in worship is their sincerity and so-called heart feelings. They believe that this constitutes true worship when “their hearts are in the right place.”

Since Protestant Christians mean well in their hearts, they believe that they have been granted a license or privilege of disobeying YAH’s Torah and by following sun worship practices of Sunday, Christmas, Easter and so forth. After all, their hearts are supposedly in the right place.

In other words, Sabbath days, fastings, circumcision and physical aspects of worship are unimportant and can be stomped upon, as long as Christians have the right attitude and so-called Christian love (whatever that is).

But this study makes the point that no person can have the right attitude when he or she is in contempt and rebellion toward YHWH and His laws. If individuals will not obey simple physical commands, how is it possible that they can obey more complex, discreet and complicated laws, dealing with subjective feelings and measurements--like loyalty, compassion, and justice?

Christians say that they have the right mental attitude and that they have love in their hearts, never understanding that love involves deeds, fruits and actions of obedience (as I, II, and III John all prove). So, how is it possible to procedurally worship in false, pagan sun worship and then claim to be worshipping in truth, as YESHUA stipulated to this woman?

More From Samaria

However, the Samaritan woman was interested. So she went and told other people about This ADAMITE from Galilee. As both YESHUA and the woman were in Samaria, it seems evident that she probably went to people in that area. Some of her listeners were interested and believed. Thence they came and sought Him out to listen to Him in person.

Just as Philip also later preached in Samaria (Acts 8:5), as discussed in a preceding chapter, it is certain that some Israelites lived there. Surely, the people seeking Him out were Israelites, as per His commission. Perhaps this was the reason that He chose to stay with them two days. Since a thousand years is like unto a day (Scripturally), does not this two days translate to 2,000 years in terms of prophecy?

Although YESHUA’s visit with the woman and the people of that area was all true and happened as Yohanan wrote it, there is much symbolism present. Manifestly, the woman of Samaria was Christianity--which was to come upon the global stage to murder the righteous (per Matt 23) and be the harlot that she has proven to be during the past 2,000 years (per Rev 17).

Since Simon Magus likely started or started thinking about his Christian, sun worship religion/theology in Samaria, Christendom clearly has a Samaritan historical basis--which is interesting in view of Christendom’s allegorical links to Samaria (as proven in preceding commentary).

While Christianity never had SALVATION or understood truth; and though this harlot woman taught false worship, lies and distortions; she did go out unto the world and talk about SALVATION. Her talking for the next 2,000 years motivated “some” (Israelite?) people to seek YESHUA out to learn firsthand what His message was all about (Jo 4:42).

Most or all of the election today have first learned about The MESSIAH from pagan, sun worshipping Christianity, as bad as it is. As these called-out people have learned about Him and sought Him out, they have turned or ultimately will turn from the sun worship of this wicked woman. Truly, the people of YHWH YESHUA must worship in spirit and in truth!

Early Sunday Worship

Thus, there is every reason to believe that Christian Sunday worship was established in Rome at a very early time--evidently by Simon Magus, himself, around 42-67 CE. All that Constantine did on this issue was to come along and enforce it as a Christian rite throughout the Roman Empire in 321 CE with his famous Sunday edict, outlined beforehand.

While it is difficult to be sure what all Simon Magus did in the establishment of Christianity, there appears to be many good reasons to believe that almost immediately he began absorbing some part of the Chrishna faith, then making head-roads into Europe, along with the likely incorporation of much of the just mentioned Babylonian Mysteries, in general, as discussed previously.

This Christian link with Chrishnaism is so profound that it is even conceivable that Simon Magus might could have been identified with Apollonius of Tyana in some circles (described before), who seems to deserve credit for the propagation of Chrishnaism in Southeastern Europe and Asia Minor.

While Apollonius evidently outlived Simon, it is significant that both of them were instrumental in establishing Christian sun worship in the Roman Empire. The work they did was very similar, though Simon’s work was apparently to have the most impact upon the Western civilization for the next 2,000 years.

From its initial inception, Christianity was correctly a sun worship faith--just one of the many such sun worship faiths in the giant Roman Empire. In that context, it had to compete with the other cults for proselytes and support. Perhaps it was extensively persecuted and oppressed by the early ruling Roman authorities who identified with the other cults--principally those of Mithra and Serapis.

Yes, Christendom Replaced the Old Sun Worship Religions

A former chapter outlined the Christian proposition that the Christian Church somehow displaced or replaced the Yisrael of the Scriptures--at least, in all instances of good, blessings, benefits, promises, rewards and so forth; while the word Israel means the Jews for all bad, evil, curses, punishment etc.

Of course, this is called Christian replacement or displacement theology. It is very popular within generic Christianity. Almost all Christian sects and groups have bought into it. However, the past many chapters in this production should by now have completely proven how utterly ridiculous and false replacement/displacement theology really is. In a word, it is “absurd.”

Yet, there is an interesting aspect about replacement or displacement which does have some application in a strange and unique way to Christendom. It has absolutely nothing to do with Yisrael, but its linkage to Christianity is most profound and extraordinary. That option will now be presented in the succeeding discussion.

The Prevailing Sun Cults

In terms of world (secular) history, it is interesting to note that the whole civilized world (the Roman Empire) was significantly practicing sun worship under the different names when Constantine took over and effectively imposed Christianity by force (c312-325 CE), as noted above.

However, from available historical records, the old, world-wide sun worship cults seem to have vanished completely about that time. So virtually over-night, all of these major, old, sun worship societies disappeared into the thin air and were never heard of again, after c 312-325 CE.

Where did all of these sun worshippers and their cults go? The truth is that they became immediate Christians (under the threat of death from Constantine’s sword). Constantine’s legacy seems to be that he eliminated all of the sun worship competition from sun worship Christianity in the West (not completely in the East, where some of it has remained).

He and his successors got rid of the recognized Mithra, Zeus, Serapis, Baal, etc cults, leaving only the Christian sun worship cult. In his abolishment of most of the old sun cults, he transferred any of their remaining sun worship ideas to the Christian cult--making it more acceptable to the collective sun worship masses.

An Early Transition

In terms of recorded history, the civilized world’s religion became Christianity (in the form of the Universal Roman Catholic Church) almost immediately with no evidence of any transition whatsoever.

It’s almost as if the globe was full of recognized sun worshippers in 312 CE because the world’s major, important religions were all of the old sun worship variety. And then, almost at once, they were all gone (except for the few in the East--like Zoroastrianism and Chrishnaism). Surely, the student of truth must be concerned and wonder what happened on this immediate transformation.

In a book on “History of Romanism,” the author, Dr. Dowling, wrote: “There is scarcely anything which strikes the mind of the careful student of ancient ecclesiastical history with greater surprise than the comparatively early period at which many of the corruptions of Christianity which are embodied in the Romish system took their rise.”

Darrell W. Conder, in his book “Mystery Babylon and the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Time” (p. 47), said that “history clearly tells us is that the Babylonian Mystery Religion is almost identical to Christianity” and that the old Worldwide Church of God was “not much different from the first century Samaritans whose religion consisted of about one-third ‘Judaism,’ and two-thirds Mithraism.”

Going on, Conder (ibid, p. 110) relates that sun worshipping “Mithraism was the dominant form of the Babylonian Mysteries present in Rome when the Christian Church was founded, and Christianity clearly and indisputably reflects it.” Eric Snow, previously quoted, tries to argue that Mithraism was not dominant in the first century CE Rome and quotes David Ulansey (“Is Christianity a Fraud? Round Two,” p. 49-53).

But Snow’s remarks won’t hold up with the host of authorities which agree with Conder. Regardless of how dominant Mithraism was in early Rome, the fact that it was there and that its teaching and doctrines became a part and parcel of developing Christianity is enough without having to argue and debate the exact extent of the early Mithra presence.

The Wise Hadrian, Revisited

While Christian Mithra worship was popular in Rome, Christian-Gnostic Serapis (Zeus-Nimrod) worship prevailed in Egypt (especially, in the Alexandria area) even at an early time in the history of Christianity. This reality was brought out in a most revealing letter the Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138 CE) wrote to his brother-in-law Servanius, previously mentioned herein.

Hadrian wrote: “Egypt, which you praised to me so warmly, my dear Servanius, I found altogether frivolous, unstable, and shifting with every breath of rumor.

“There those who worship Serapis are Christians, and those who call themselves bishops of Christ are devoted to Serapis. There is in that country no ruler of the synagogue of the Jews, no Samaritan, no Christian priest, who is not astrologer, soothsayer, or apothecary.

“Even the renowned (Catholic) patriarch, when he comes to Egypt, is compelled by some to worship Serapis, by others to worship Christ... Their one god is money. Him, Christians, Jews, and Gentiles alike, adore” (“Mystery Babylon The Great,” p. 223, quoting Biggs, “The Origins of Christianity”).

Yes, Christianity Replaced or Displaced

Effectively, Christianity “replaced or displaced,” however it is to be characterized, all of the old sun worship religions and cults then in the Roman Empire. This happened almost at once under Constantine in most of the empire, except largely in the East where Chrishnaism and Zoroastrianism were both well established.

Therefore, in terms of the old sun worship cults, it appears that Chrishnaism and Zoroastrianism only remain with numbers to this day in 2003 (and primarily, in the East). However, even this prevalence of the old cults in the East is slowly changing here in the age end. The last several years have seen a number of Hare Krishna and Eastern devotees gain acceptance and disciples in the Western Christian civilization.

Consequently, when one looks at secular history, there is the reality that the civilized world was full of the old sun worship religions before 312 CE. With Constantine’s accession, almost all of them vanish into the wind to be replaced and/or displaced by (sun worshipping) Christendom.

Incidentally, the Protestant Reformation, which came along some 1,260 years later (in the 16th-17th centuries), had a golden opportunity to clean up the pagan sun worship present in universal Catholicism. Instead, they kept the bulk of it (as even the reformer Martin Luther acknowledged). Consequently, Protestantism is just more sun worship.

The difference is that Protestant sun worship is not as bad or pronounced as Catholic sun worship. In other words, the difference is only in degrees. This is like comparing Republicans and Democrats in modern America. Both are bad and corrupt. The difference is only in degrees. Admittedly, the Democrats are the worst. But the Republicans are not far behind.

More Proof

This incredible replacement or displacement of the old sun worship cults by Christianity is also amply established by some more most fascinating Scriptures which even Christians have some knowledge of--but largely, don’t understand or appreciate. This reality surfaces when one recognizes that this entire world and all of its (worldly) systems have been historically turned over to Satan for his dominion.

This Satanic rule over earth was brought out when YESHUA ended His fast of 40 days and 40 nights to be tempted by the Adversary. Satan (the real sun god) came to Him and proposed to give Him all of the kingdoms of this earth if He would just bow down and worship him (Matt 4:1-11). There is no contrary hint or suggestion at all as to who then had spiritual rulership over this worldly system.

As outlined in a former chapter, the Adversary was the deity of this world and YESHUA acknowledged that fact. Of course, this whole world and all of its kingdoms belonged spiritually to Satan. Thus, The MESSIAH called him the “prince of this world” (Jo 12:31). Shaul verified the same thing when he alluded to Satan as “the god of this world” (II Cor 4:4, KJV).

Since this world and its kingdoms, systems and glory had been usurped by the Devil in ages past (when Adam began worshipping him), it is manifest that his religion of sun worship (since he is the classic sun god or day star--Isa 14:12, discussed elsewhere) would prevail in all of the kingdoms and systems of this earth, until such time as YESHUA returns to terminate this Satanic rule and establish His millennial kingdom.

Nothing New Under the Sun?

It’s hard for most people to grasp and understand. But the truth is that sun worship has been around and has dominated the globe; certainly, for several thousand years, and perhaps up to 6,000 years if it did, indeed, start with Satan/Cain, as is very plausible.

Yes, four thousand years ago and later during the days of Ezra and Nechemyah or even much later when YESHUA was born in Bethlehem around 5 BCE, one could go into almost any town or city in the so-called civilized world and find a sun worship temple (identified with its obelisk image, bell tower and stained windows) for worship on Sunday morning, face the East and be told about the merits of the brotherhood of man and the need to do good deeds to and for each other.

These Sunday worshippers had special holidays called Easter (practiced with sunrise ceremonies and with Easter bunnies, eggs, etc) and Christmas (complete with ham dinners, Christmas trees and mistletoe), New Years (in the dead of winter), Halloween, All Saints and All Souls Days and May Day. They enjoyed their fellowships and get-togethers--to surely include periodic outings and Sunday picnics.

They were filled with pride and vanity and liked to brag and boast about their achievements, whenever they got together for fellowship and so-called love feasts.

Moreover, they had a vast host of ceremonial practices, rituals and procedures--like processions, priests with long flowing robes, confessionals, communion, baptism (by sprinkling or pouring) and on and on. They used images in worship (pictures, statutes, golden calves, etc) which they imagined to reflect their sun god and his attributes.

Furthermore, they prayed long, drawn out prayers to their sun god, whom they called Esus, Zeus (Sous), Chrishna, Gawd or Lard and proudly welcomed any and all opportunities to get up in front of their sun worship brethren and give a testimonial about what all the sun god had done for them. Many were Pentecostals/Charismatics (complete with gibberish and wild fanaticism).

The writer of this study at hand has spend some time and effort trying to ascertain, identify and learn about the practices, procedures and methods of both ancient and modern sun worship. The most impressive thing about sun worship is that it hasn’t changed much in the last five or six thousand years, depending upon when it got its start.

The Essence

Consequently, most of Adam’s habitation of planet earth has been under the spiritual oversight of the day star (sun god) Satan for many long ages (though Adam was granted physical dominion/governorship over the earth, as discussed in a prior chapter, but Adamites have consistently rejected the worship of YHWH and chose to instead follow Satan--making the Devil the deity of this world).

Quite naturally, with Adam’s devotion, worship and service, Satan’s sun worship religion prevailed all over the globe in the form of the old sun worship cults (which generic Adamites have traditionally worshipped).

When Christendom replaced or displaced these old sun groups (under Constantine I), it is obvious that Satan continued his spiritual dominion and rule over the kingdoms of earth; but thereafter, in the form of Christianity. Sunday worship, Christmas, Easter, the brotherhood of man and the practice of doing good deeds to and for each other has continued unabated from the old sun cults right into Christianity.

From the time of Constantine I, Christianity has been a world ruling religion; or as a minimum, the world’s most influential religion. No other worldly faith, not even Islam, can begin to approach Christendom’s power and influence over all global affairs for the last 2,000 years.

The bottom line is that Churchianity did replace and/or displace something--not Yisrael of the Scriptures, but the old sun worship religions of Adam. What a tragedy it is that the civilized, Western world has been so fully mesmerized and indoctrinated that it has been totally ignorant of some of the most important changes and transitions among men in the last 6,000 years.

A Final Word

The above presentation on Christian history is what this writer can best understand from the available records. Certainly, it is essentially correct. But one of the difficulties in studying Christian history is much like taking a historical look at the JFK murder or the federal government’s attack on the Davidians at Waco. The people in power have went all out to destroy truth forever.

There have been so many lies, acts of deception, destruction of records, altering of documents, hiding of truth and other manipulations and dishonesty that it is a very difficult process to come along in later years and piece together what really happened, based upon the meager records still available (which survived without a deliberate Christian effort to destroy, alter or tamper with them in some manner).

Chapter 531--Greek Philosophy or the Scriptures?

Some Definitions

There are two patterns of thinking which have dominated the human minds of Israelites and possibly many Adamites and the Adam kind for most of the past 2,500-2,600 years, as allowed in previous chapters--Greek philosophy versus the Hebrew Scriptures.

This chapter will assess those two concepts which actually play into the vein of a contrast and/or a conflict between two different approaches to life. To address this issue, some definitions are now appropriate.

Funk & Wagnalls’ “Standard Desk Dictionary” (p. 493) says that philosophy means “1. The inquiry into the most comprehensive principles of reality in general, or of some sector of it, as human knowledge or human values. 2. The love of wisdom, and the search for it. 3. A philosophical system; also a treatise on such a system. 4. The general laws that furnish the rational explanation of anything: the philosophy of banking. 5. Practical wisdom; fortitude...”

“The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia” (p. 663) is more specific in saying “(Gk, = love of wisdom), study of the ultimate reality, causes, and principles underlying being and thinking. Western philosophy, dating from c600 B.C., when the Greeks established inquiry independent of theological creeds, is divided into five major branches” --metaphysics, logic, epistemology, ethics, and esthetics.

Metaphysics inquire into the nature and ultimate significance of the universe, holding reality to subsist in thought (idealism), in matter (materialism), or in both (dualism). Logic is concerned with the laws of valid reasoning.

Epistemology investigates the nature of knowledge and the process of knowing. Ethics deal with the problems of right conduct. And aesthetics attempts to determine the nature of beauty and the criteria of artistic judgment.

More From Columbia

Columbia then went on to define the three major periods of philosophy. First, Classical (Greek and Roman) philosophy emphasized a concern with the ultimate nature of reality and the problem of virtue in a political context. In the classic period, “virtually all of the problems of philosophy were defined by the Greeks Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.”

These three men were the “towering figures of classical philosophy.” Per Columbia, Socrates started the ball rolling on Greek philosophy, but his student Plato was the man who really put it over. Aristotle was a student of Plato. So all three of these alleged giants of Greek philosophy connect together.

The second period involved medieval philosophy; which, in the West “was virtually inseparable form Christian thought.” Modern philosophy (the third period) started with the Renaissance of the 17th century. It attempted to give the new emerging science a philosophical basis and thus paved the way for empiricism.

There was also a mention by Columbia of Eastern philosophy which is founded upon the various Eastern religions. Thus, it would appear that the Eastern philosophy is defined and established by the Eastern religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, etc). In other words, in the West, the human mind formulates and conceives man-made philosophy; while in the East, philosophy is still attached to religion.

The Message

Without going any further and without even bothering with the words and thinking of people historically since about 600 BCE, when Greek philosophy first surfaced, it is plain enough that the very idea of human philosophy is at a total variance from the Hebrew Scriptures and Hebrew teachings of reality for believers.

Starting with Classical Greek philosophy, in the days of Socrates and forward, Western man has turned away from the theological creeds of the Scriptures to establish his own ideas, thinking and concepts of morality, creeds, values, ethics, and even truth and reality. Yet, to the Hebrew followers of YHWH YESHUA, it is the Scriptures which establish and define all of these subjects.

Per the Word, there is no allowance for the human mind to contemplate, think about, address and/or consider any of these themes, apart from the Scriptures. As sorry and evil as the Eastern religions are, it is fascinating that these people of Satan-Kain do have brains enough to tie their philosophy on life to their religions.

But in the West, the idea of a religious tie to philosophy started breaking and coming apart in ancient Greece. This doesn’t mean that the ancient Greek sun worship faiths ended and were replaced by Greek philosophy. Actually, they both co-existed and complemented and respected each other (and this dual system eventually came to encompass much of the Roman Empire).

This meant that a Greek sun worshipper could study and focus upon Greek philosophy without interfering in his religious life. In other words, the Greek sun worship faiths simply didn’t have all of the answers. Therefore, man-made Greek philosophy filled the gaps and complemented the religion.

Perhaps this dual system set the stage for the development of the situation described in a prior chapter on Life and the Torah where the sun worshipper could be a full fledged sun worshipper at his church on Sunday mornings; and yet, in the secular sense, be able to lead his life however he wanted to for the rest of the week.

In other words, there was a demarcation between worship and living one’s secular life. This environment allowed Greek philosophy to rush in and establish how the Greek sun worshipper must live his secular life. Hence, the sun worship cults could maintain, teach and perpetuate their stupid worship rituals (for their Sunday morning worship ceremonies); and Greek philosophy would regulate the rest of the week.

Of course, this line of separation or differentiation between religious worship and living one’s secular life simply did not seem to exist in most or all of the Eastern cultures, nor was it present in the Hebrew culture, prevailing in Palestine among the Israelites (where religion and the secular lives were all one and the same with no separation or distinction).

The Problem in Second Temple Days

Therefore, among the Jews, and particularly religious Jews in Palestine, there was quite a conflict or war of sorts between the proponents of Greek philosophy and believers in the Hebrew Scriptures.

As outlined in a former chapter, the Number 3, 1999, issue of “Discovering the Bible” (p. 8) quoted the Talmud as saying-- “A Rabbi asked, ‘Since I have learnt the whole Torah, may I study Greek philosophy?’ In reply the verse was quoted, ‘This book of Torah shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt mediate therein day and night’ (Joshua 1:8), and the remark was added, ‘Go and search at which hour it is neither day or night and devote it to Greek philosophy’” (Mem. 99b, from “Everyman’s Talmud,” p. 136).

In other words, the true believer could focus his heart, mind and attention on one or the other. He could either be a follower and believer in YHWH and the Tanakh; or he could, alternatively, reject the Book; and instead, turn to Greek philosophy to find the answers to existence, life, reality, truth, justice, honor, character, ethics, morality, etc.

The Talmud outlined the approach followed by religious Jews. The Torah should be studied to ascertain all of the answers to those questions and concerns of life and existence. There was nothing to be gained by studying man-made Greek philosophy.

The Western Merging of the Two?

Of course, there was an eventual merging of the two ideas in the vein of Christianity and human philosophy and reasoning during the period of medieval philosophy (when the Roman Catholic Church ruled the Western, civilized world with an iron fist and set the standards of all so-called truth and reality for the thinking and ideas of so-called human beings under her control).

Now, if Rome had the right concepts of truth and reality, one might argue that the merging was not that bad. Actually, if Rome had the right concepts, there would have been no merging of the two because the Scriptures would totally and completely establish truth, righteousness and reality. There would be no need to even address human philosophy (which was the approach in the Talmud).

In any case, Rome did choose to merge the two into a new spirit or thinking, and it was called medieval philosophy (as Columbia noted, per the above comments). So, how did this merging come about?

Answer

While Greek philosophy simply never made inroads among religious Jews in Palestine, it was in style in most of the old Greek and Roman Empires in Second Temple days (where the old sun worship faiths allowed it to exist). In Alexandria, Athens, Rome, etc, Greek philosophy was the thinking of educated and wealthy people.

Even some Jews, especially in the Diaspora, adopted Greek philosophy and tried to merge it into their Hebrew roots (in the sense of Hellenism). The Jewish Greek philosopher Philo illustrates this condition. Philo was a Jew (supposedly, although the case can be made that he racially was probably of the seedline of Satan-Kain in some aspect). Yet, Philo was totally devoted to Greek philosophy--specifically Platonism.

Quite naturally, when Apollonius of Tyana came along in Eastern Europe and Asia Minor in the first century CE, he presented his blend of Greek philosophy and Eastern Chrishnaism to the people. Many responded and soon there were a number of diverse and different Christian (Chrishna) groups functioning in the Roman Empire.

With the arrival of Simon Magus in Rome, probably by 42 CE, he was already in the process of incorporating all of this mass of Babylonian confusion into his own brand of Christianity. Apparently, it would be safe to conclude that both Apollonius and Simon were students of Greek philosophy and were determined to combine it with their own religious views.

Of course, it was entirely logical that the views first of Apollonius and second of Simon reached Alexandria, Egypt which was a fertile field for philosophical speculation.

Indeed, it probably is true that the Torah was translated into the Greek Pentateuch in Alexandria by Hellenistic Jews in the last couple of centuries BCE. Then, there was Philo and his Hellenistic associates who were busy trying to present a merging of the Hebrew Scriptures and Greek philosophy. The views of both Apollonius and Simon would have been right at home in this climate.

Gnosticism, Revisited

It is this merging of the Scriptures and Greek philosophy which gave rise to the previously mentioned Gnosticism. Probably, here is a good place to further define and comment upon Gnosticism since it has so profoundly affected Christianity.

“Webster’s New World Dictionary” (p. 597) says that a Gnostic is “of or having knowledge...a believer in Gnosticism.” For Gnosticism, this source adds that it is “a system of belief combining ideas derived from Greek philosophy, Oriental mysticism, and, ultimately, Christianity, and stressing salvation through gnosis.” For gnosis, Webster notes Greek knowledge-- “positive, intuitive knowledge in spiritual matters.”

Thus, the whole basis of Gnosticism starts with Greek philosophy. It is a system of belief predicated upon knowledge. This simple definition explains at once why Gnosticism is so fundamentally opposed to the Torah and the concept of obedience as constituting righteousness. It also explains the totality of Christianity which is manifestly Gnosticism totally and completely.

Judaism predicates salvation upon works of obedience. The Scriptures define salvation as an unmerited gift of grace from the sacrificial death of The MESSIAH. Christianity says that salvation comes from knowledge--specifically, knowledge that one is saved through the Christian Church (that is, by obeying the process of having or gaining the knowledge of salvation as dispensed by the Christian Church).

Actually, for the past 2,000 years, it has not been the knowledge dispensed by the generic Christian Church; but rather, the knowledge dispensed by a particular denomination or faction within the broader Christian Church. For centuries, it was the Roman Catholic Church. Later, with the development of the separate Orthodox and Protestant Churches, the process became tied to denominationalism.

Therefore, each denomination has its own special knowledge which a believer must accept as the path to salvation (like stand up in a meeting, speak the words “I believe in Gee Zeus,” walk or run down a Christian Church aisle to a Christian altar, mutter some Holy Roller gibberish, be baptized, have Christian hands laid on one’s self, and so forth--none of which have any basis at all in the Scriptures in the vein of salvation).

Of course, denominationalism has been historically strong in communicating this needed knowledge for salvation. But it must be allowed that the modern spirits of ecumenicalism and toleration have slowly been chipping away at the exclusiveness of the different denominations. Some Christians are now beginning to move toward a general Christian knowledge and not a particular denominational knowledge.

While it is true that salvation comes to the Christian through one of these acts of works or deeds (and not from anything in the Book), it is more importantly true that the whole process involves the presence of certain knowledge and the mental acceptance of that knowledge by the believer. Hence, each Christian denomination has its own brand of the knowledge of the steps involved to have salvation within that group.

So, despite the works involved, the Christian process is still one involving knowledge (which is basically Gnosticism). Even the so-called saved Christian operates and exists on the premise of having the needed knowledge. Thus, virtually all Christians cannot state why they believe that they are saved. But rather, they dogmatically assert that they are saved because they know it (from possessed knowledge in their minds).<