Revelation: The Bride, the Beast & Babylon Page #5

There's a third reason

And that is

the influence of sun worship

That creeps into the church

And when sun worship begins

to creep into the church,

Constantine can make use of that

To lead

to the exaltation of Sunday,

The day of the sun,

As being the day

that people should worship on.

This gradual departure

From god's law

over the centuries

Has become so widely accepted

That most are shocked

to learn that Sunday keeping

Has no foundation in the bible.

In - ad-313 Constantine

published the edict of Milan,

Establishing Sunday

as a day of rest.

The emperor's Sunday law

Had nothing to do

with Christianity,

It was actually to honor

the main Greco-roman sun god

Called Helios, or Apollo.

The emperor Constantine

became a convert to Christianity

And also, because he remained

partial to the sun god,

The emperor Constantine

Moved the day of worship

from Saturday the Sabbath,

As had been traditional

in Judaism, obviously,

To Sunday,

the day of the sun god.

And ever since Christian folks,

at least for the most part,

Overwhelmingly have held

their day of worship on Sunday

Rather than Saturday.

This is clear from another

edict of Constantine,

Given in - ad-321,

when the emperor ordered:

"On the venerable day of the sun

"Let the magistrates and people

residing in cities rest,

And let all workshops

be closed."

Notice, the edict

uses the word "sun," s-U-N.

It's also recorded

that Constantine the great

Made a law for the whole empire

That Sunday should be kept

as a day of rest.

Obviously, this change did not

infiltrate the church overnight.

History tells us that for decades

the seventh-Day Sabbath,

Together with Sunday,

were both observed as holy days.

The very, very early church

Clearly is still worshiping

on the Jewish Saturday

In the times of the apostles,

But by the mid

to late 3rd century,

That has largely been abandoned

Or is in the process

of being abandoned.

By the early fourth century,

in many parts of the roman world,

Christians are generally

worshiping on Sunday.

A lot of Christians,

during this period of time,

Would observe the Sabbath

And then on Sunday

they would have a service

Remembering the resurrection

And then they'd go

about their regular work.

It's during

the time of Constantine

In which the idea of transferring

the solemnity of the Sabbath

To Sunday is first expressed.

Centuries earlier

the prophet Daniel

Had foretold

a religious power would arise

That would think

to change times and laws.

Within the ten commandments

there's only one law

That is also a time: The Sabbath.

The doctrine of hellfire

Was also distorted

by pagan mythology.

In the book of revelation

The bible teaches that following

the great judgment day

The lost will be cast

into a lake of fire.

At that time,

each person is punished

According to what they deserve

And then they're totally consumed

and eternally perish.

"And do not fear those

who kill the body

"But cannot kill the soul,

"But rather fear him

who is able to destroy

Both soul and body in hell."

"For the living know

that they will die,

But the dead know nothing."

The priests

began to teach that hell

Was a place of eternal torment

ruled by the devil

And it began

at the moment of death.

The fallen church

was able to use

This frightful concept

of never-Ending torture

To terrorize and manipulate

both the king and the commoner.

Most tragic of all,

this false teaching

Portrays Jesus as some sort

of sadistic fiend.

It's encouraged

some atheists and agnostics

To challenge Christianity

And Christianity's idea

of a loving god

If he does something

That is worse

than even what Hitler did.

No matter

what somebody has done,

Is billions of years of torture,

Fitting the crime?

So there have been people

who have hated god

And have learned to hate god

because of this.

Another pagan concept

that infiltrated Christian thinking

Was regarding the afterlife.

Purgatory is the idea

that teaches that at death

Some people will enter

a temporary hellfire

Where they're purified

for heaven.

Purgatory's a halfway house,

Halfway, kind of,

between heaven and hell.

And the thing with purgatory

is you can escape from it.

As the mass says,

"consigned to flames of woe,"

It's filled with vermin,

it's filled with sulphuric smells,

It may be quite a bit

better than hell,

But it's no picnic either.

The church develops gradually

And, again, it grows

on the church by slow degrees,

The idea that anyone who dies

With their works

of satisfaction incomplete

Will probably

have to pay them off

In some place

of post-mortem suffering.

They are suffering

in order to be purified,

Purged from their sins

and offenses

Which they've committed in life.

Medieval people believed

Almost everyone

will be saved and redeemed,

Who is a baptized

member of the church.

But almost everyone will also

have to make satisfaction

For the sins

that they've committed

And that they haven't confessed

By spending some

time in purgatory.

So the real task then

Is to reduce

the time in purgatory.

Many people misunderstand

purgatory and hell.

There's an idea you can

get out of hell; You can't.

If you go to hell that's it.

There's no release.

You're very, very wicked

and you're just doomed.

But most people,

We have a lot

of bad things in us

So how can we

be made good for heaven?

We have to have it

purged out of us

And thus

you get the word 'purgatory'.

Therefore,

most Christians believe

That their relatives

are suffering in purgatory

And purgatory

is not a nice place.

You're there

for thousands of years.

The idea of purgatory

Dates back

centuries before Jesus' time.

Writings from Plato,

as early as 400 BC,

Help shed light

on where this concept

Of purification

and punishment came from.

However, purgatory

didn't become regarded

As an actual place

until centuries later.

Between 1160 and 1180-Ad-,

Theologians developed

the doctrine of purgatory

Le-ad-ing to the formal

acceptance of it

At the second council

of Lyons in 1274.

The church then offers

to support the dead in purgatory

By its prayers

and by attributing to people

The benefits of the sacraments,

especially the communion.

This is all perfectly orthodox.

The church believed

that this is doing good

And laypeople

seemed to be willing

To put large amounts

of money into it

And you have

An extraordinary

proliferation of institutions

Founded principally for priests

To say masses for the souls

of the departed,

Particularly

in the 14th and 15th centuries.

This doctrine was fabricated

To manipulate the masses

for financial gain.

People were willing to pay

huge amounts of money

To release a loved one

From the tortures of purgatory.

Of course, believers

could never really be sure

When someone left purgatory,

So the money kept flowing

Into the pockets

of corrupt priests.

The head of the church

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