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Mystery Babylon is Revealed – How is it that you cannot Discern the Signs of the Times?
Mystery Babylon is Revealed – And the Elect shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
When Mystery Babylon is revealed, the Great Whore will be destroyed, and God’s Elect will be persecuted for three and a half years.
Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
This fourth Beast is also the final kingdom on earth before the return of Christ the Messiah.
Dan 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour ( or make accusations against) the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
This last and short lived kingdom will definitely change the daily events for everyone. He will accuse the world of following false gods, and ironically he will be partially correct.
Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
At the end of this Great Tribulation Christ returns, and thus fulfills the prophecy hidden to most in the Lord’s prayer. Thy Kingdom come thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven (Math 6:10).
Dan 7:13-14 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Mystery Babylon is Revealed through the beast and false prophet.
This demonically inspired Beast will change the laws of God, and will demand to be worshiped as god. Also note the period of time given unto the beast, it is three and one half years, which represents the time of the Great tribulation.
When the great whore system is exposed and taken out of the way, Christianity will also suffer tremendously, at the hands of the fourth Beast system.
The great whore has a desire for absolute world domination, but it will not come to fruition.
Her reign of terror will soon come to an abrupt and violent end, as her services will no longer be required when Mystery Babylon is revealed, who is the one that gave birth to her.
Satan will no longer operate through the Great Whore system secretly. He will declare himself to be the god of this world, and through the Beast demand to be worshiped as such.
Only seven kings fully reign with the Beast for the entire three and one half years of his kingdom, at which time the Two witnesses will confirm the covenant of Christ (Rev 13:15).
These seven kings, will give their kingdom and power unto the Beast and are a part of the fourth and final evil kingdom on earth, before Christ’s second coming. (Rev 17:17; Dan 7:7-8; 7:23-24).
The Beast will make war with the Saints and he overcomes them, he also has power over all tribes, tongues and nations (Rev 13:7-8). The only ones he will not have power over, are those who are Born Again through the Holy Spirit.
The fact that there are saints alive during this time known as The Great Tribulation, proves that the Rapture or Gathering of the Saints unto Christ, has not yet happened.
Also we notice that the Beast does not have power over all peoples. The all that he does have control over represents all of a certain type. Those that worship the Beast, are the ones not sealed by Christ.
Babylon is synonymous with confusion, and Jerusalem is known as the city of confusion (Isa 24:10).
The Great Whore has taken by force and stolen that which is not rightfully hers, believing she is invincible, but this will soon change (Deut 28:13, 15, 25, 28, 44, 48, 63).
When Mystery Babylon is revealed, the Great Whore will be destroyed by this master of deception. It will be easy for Satan to expose the great carnage that the Great Whore system has produced, which he created. Through lying signs and wonders Satan will convince the world that he is their long awaited messiah.
As judaism and world zionism will be exposed for the great carnage and deception they produced, so to will the religion of christianity be crushed. The judeo-christian deception will be realized for what it is, self-righteousness and hypocricy.
Only the true followers of Christ will endure faithfully until the end.
Isaiah 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Many claim to know God, but as a result of the false teachers they surround themselves with, they are generally unwilling or unable in most cases to think for themselves. They would rather listen to men that claim a god given right to have authority over them and the gospel.
2 Tim 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables
That time is now! Sound doctrine is almost unheard of in these last days; however the fables are indeed plentiful.
Mark 7:6-7 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
This phenomenon of following the doctrines of men has also become the guiding force unto darkness, that dominates much of christianity.
Col 2:8-9 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
2 Thess 2:9-12 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Christianity in large part has also become just another false religion. When the doctrines and teachings of men supersede the true message, which is the Good News of the Gospel of Christ, what is left is simply deception.
False Christianity and all other religions, feebly attempt through various works to obtain righteousness. This is a feat that is impossible on our own; through Christ we are made righteous, and it is His truth that sets us free (John 8:32; Rom 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24).
1 Cor 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
We can allow the spirit of Gods truth to take up residence with in us, and come out of darkness (John 12:46).
1 Cor 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy,which temple ye are.
Or we can be deceived into thinking that the spirit within us is light, when in actuality it is darkness (John 1:5; Luke 11:35).
2 Cor 11:3-4 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Many religious people believe they are obeying god, but are in fact just obeying the spirit of the god of this world (Eph 2:2; 5:1-11; Col 3:1-14).
As a result of loving the pleasures of this world more than God, these create a god for themselves based on whatever their evil desires are.
Here is a link to the series that exposes the False Christian teachers and there many strange doctrines. False Teachers – link
By denying the power of the one and only True God, these unstable souls are ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of truth (1 Cor 2:11-14; Eph 2:2-10).
Many in the Christian faith, as it were, know of Jesus, but they do not have a personal relationship with the Creator of all Things.
They are justified, so they think, by the laws and commandments of men. They blindly trust that their teachers are men of God, and the path that is laid out for them through these men is the right one.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may know the will of God (Romans 12:2).
Christianity should never have become just another religion. It is not at all about what we can do for ourselves, but what Christ has done for us on the cross. Without a transformational change to exhibit this change, we do not even have a true knowledge of Him.
Christianity involves a walk with Christ wherein we receive His Holy Spirit. It is through the Spirit thatwe can be saved, and have the testimony of Christ written in our hearts and minds (Rev 6:9; 12:11; 12:17; Heb 10:16).
While the Great Whores deception is intoxicating, it will pale in comparison to that of the deception that her Mother produces.
Mystery Babylon the Mother of Whores, will dwell in and control spiritually, both the false Christ and the false prophet. They will represent the greatest deception the world has ever seen, even surpassing that of the Great Whore (2 Thes 2:8-12; Rev 13:11-14).
Mark 13:22 For false Christs and a false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
The correct interpretation of the averse above is a false Christ and a false prophet shall rise. This is in reference to the last days, a time of great deception unlike any other when Mystery Babylon is revealed.
It is during this Great Tribulation that is for a period of three and a half years, that a great and final battle will be waged for the eternal destiny of the souls of mankind.
Mystery Babylon is Revealed to be the mother of all deception and idolatry
When Mystery Babylon is revealed, Satan will introduce to the world his false Christ, and false prophet of deception. This is a representation of The Unholy Trinity, Satan the Beast and the false prophet.
Rev 18:2-3 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
There is a huge difference between being drunk, and drinking or partaking in something.
Rev 17:2 …and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
In the study the Great Whore, this is detailed. Click here and here.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,
In Rev 18:3, the word drunk means to partake of, therefore the words have drunk refer to partaking in her wrath.
In Rev 17:2, what we are looking at is a world intoxicated with idolatry, and oblivious to this fact.
The verse below should clarify this difference. Simply stated all that partake in this Mystery Babylon deception, who worship Satan and the Beast are condemned to hell (Rev 14:9, 11; Rev 15:2; Rev 19:20).
Rev 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Those that have involvement with the worship and following of this Beast system led by Satan will suffer the wrath of God. The wine of this Mystery Babylon system represents Satan’s false religion. As the Mother of Harlots, or Whores, Her fornication represents idolatry, which is worship of anyone or any thing other than God.
Here are a few other notable differences between the Great Whore and the Mother of Whores – Mystery Babylon is Revealed
Rev 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Mystery Babylon the Great is destroyed by the hand of God. The Great Whore is destroyed by the ten kings, as God puts it into their hearts to do so (Rev 17:16-17).
Rev 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
The kings lament after the destruction of Mystery Babylon, and all of the merchants of the earth weep for her, but no one weeps when the Great Whore is destroyed.
Rev 13:7-8 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Power over kindreds, and tongues, and nations but not all people
Satan, or the Mother of Whores, accomplishes that which her daughter the Great Whore did not. All that are not sealed through Christ will succumb to the seduction, entrapment and ultimate goal of the Mystery Babylon deception; the deceived will worship him and the Beast he controls (Rev 13:8).
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I’m with Denis Diderot.. “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
Revelation 17:1-6 “I will show unto you the judgment of the great whore”
Scripture teaches that Christ is the bridegroom and the Church is the bride of Christ and hence the Church is symbolically represented as a woman. A Church that prays to dead saints or bows down before statues and kisses the foot of such statues etc, is guilty of idolatry and is being unfaithful to what is supposed to be their one true love being God. So God refers to an idolatrous Church as a harlot and a whore which is guilty of adultery and fornication. This Babylonian woman who has “fallen” signifies that “Mystery Babylon” represents a globally supported Church that has fallen away from her true lover, Jesus Christ, and from Bible truth and God’s law. (Ezekiel 16:26-32; Jeremiah 3:1-25)
“that sitteth upon many waters:”
The following scripture reveals how this water is symbolic of an area with people from all nations and how literal Babylon was built over water. The Apostle John through Jesus is showing parallels between literal Babylon and spiritual Babylon. (Revelation 17:15)
“2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
This refers to all her false doctrines that have spread to kingdoms all over the world that have become intoxicated (deceived) by these false doctrines. (Jeremiah 51:7)
“3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman”
A “woman” when symbolic in scripture ALWAYS represents a Church. You will see scripture frequently refer to a Church as “she” or “her” as in a woman. Remember that God’s Church is His people regardless to if it is Old Testament or New Testament and so God’s people in the Old Testament are His Old Testament Church. Here are a few scriptures demonstrating this very important point. Note that last one that reveals very clearly that the Church is the bride of Christ and hence a woman. See various scriptures.
“sit upon a scarlet”
The colour scarlet represents sin (Isaiah 1:18) as she is a sinful kingdom that is guilty of idolatry and fornication and thought to change the law of God that defines what sin is. (Daniel 7:25) She thought that she had the authority to change the law of God and I am really surprised that anyone would think that they could change the law of God that defines what sin is (1 John 3:4) and why Jesus died for us. See quotes.
“coloured beast,”
Many are not aware that a beast symbolically in scripture simply represents a kingdom just as many nations today have an animal that represents them. So a scarlet coloured beast is a sinful kingdom. (Daniel 7:17; 7:23]
“full of names of blasphemy,”
She has many blasphemous practices and claims. (See Quotes and Adam Clarke’s Commentary on Daniel 7:25)
“having seven heads and ten horns.”
For seven headed beasts in ancient mythology see Isaiah 27:1. See Daniel 7:24; Revelation 12:3; 13:1; Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 12:3 in regards to the ten horns.
“4 And the woman [Church] was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold”
These are the official Vatican colours. Note that the robes of the Old Testament Priests also had the colour blue which represents God’s law. Remember that God says this is a sinful kingdom and so the colour blue was very interestingly excluded. (Exodus 28:4-6; Numbers 15:38-40) It is understood that the tablets of the Ten Commandments were cut from the clear blue sapphire seen on mount Sinai (Exodus 24:10), which makes up the very throne of God (Ezekiel 1:26, 10:1). So, the Ark of the Covenant in the most holy apartment of the sanctuary, the throne of God’s presence (the Shekinah glory), contained the blue sapphire tablets of the Ten Commandments.
“and precious stones and pearls,”
It is a well known fact that the Vatican is filthy rich unlike America that has a mounting and out of control debt.
“having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY,”
There are very few people who understand what originated from this mystery Babylonian religion and where many of the traditions of the Papal religion really started.
“BABYLON”
We find God calls the Papal Church Babylon because she has a tremendous amount of paganism that has come from literal Babylon. See the origin of sun worship for detail. There will be of course those who find it hard to acknowledge the truth here and will deny that paganism is in their Church but the Roman Catholic Church themselves even acknowledge that this is the truth. Note the following Catholic quotes.
“THE GREAT, THE MOTHER”
The Catholic Church calls herself the Mother Church because most of the main stream Churches today originated from the Protestant reformation when these Protestants discovered from scripture that the Papal Church was the antichrist power. Some claim that mystery Babylon represents all false religion but not so as she is a mother as in “one” and those that came from her are the daughters. Together they would represent many false religions with paganism but the mother is one. Note the following quotes.
“OF HARLOTS”
She is the mother of harlots since there were many Churches that came from the Catholic Church from the Protestant reformation that ignorantly took on some of her idolatrous pagan practices such as worshipping on Sunday in place of worshipping on the Sabbath day according to the Commandment that came from pagan Sun worship. Jesus emphasized very strongly that those who put traditions in place of His Commandments are Hypocrites. (Mark 7:6-9) View a shocking re-enactment video of what the Catholic Church typically did to those who kept God’s Sabbath rather than Sunday, which they implemented.
“AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH”
The Papal Church is guilty of some of the most abominable and evil crimes in history. See Catholic Church error for more.
“6 And I saw the woman [Church] drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus:”
The Catholic Church murdered and tortured over 50,000,000 Christian saints. Look up the Spanish inquisition for an example or read Foxes Book Of Martyrs.
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Cardinal Newman admits in his book that; the “temples, incense, oil lamps, votive offerings, holy water, Holidays, and seasons of devotion, processions, blessings of the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure (of priests, munks and nuns), images, and statues… are all of PAGAN ORIGIN.” -The Development of the Christian Religion Cardinal Newman p.359
The penetration of the religion of Babylon became so general and well known that Rome was called the “New Babylon.” -Faith of our fathers 1917 ed. Cardinal Gibbons, p. 106
“Confiding then in the power of Christianity to resist the infection of evil, and to transmute the instruments and appendages of demon worship to an evangelical use… the rulers of the church from early times were prepared should occasion arise, to adopt, or imitate, or sanction the existing rites and customs of the populace.” -Development of Christian Doctrine, Cardinal Newman. p. 372
Cardinal Newman lists many examples of things of “pagan origin” which the papacy brought into the church “in order to recommend the new religion to the heathen: “in order to recommend the new religion to the heathen:” “The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; holy water; asylums [hermitages, monasteries and convents]; [pagan] holy-days, processions, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images, . . . and the Kyrie Eleison.”–Cardinal J. H. Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, 1920 edition, p.373 [Roman Catholic].
“The [Catholic] Church took the pagan philosophy and made it the buckler of faith against the heathen. She took the pagan Roman Pantheon, temple of all the gods, and made it sacred to all the martyrs; so it stands to this day. She took the pagan Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday. She took the pagan Easter and made it the feast we celebrate during this season . . . The Sun was a foremost god with heathendom . . . The sun has worshipers at this hour in Persia and other lands . . . Hence the Church would seem to say, ‘Keep that old pagan name [Sunday]. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified.’ And thus the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday, sacred to Jesus”–William L. Gildea, “Paschale Gaudium,” in The Catholic World, 58, March, 1894, p. 809 [A Roman Catholic weekly].
“in order to recommend the new religion to the heathen:” “The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; holy water; asylums [hermitages, monasteries and convents]; [pagan] holy-days, processions, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images, . . . and the Kyrie Eleison.”–J. H. Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, 1920 edition, p.373 [Roman Catholic].
“The mighty Catholic Church was little more then the Roman Empire baptized.”– A. C, Flick, The Rise of the Mediaeval Church, 1909 edition, p. 148. From ancient Babylon came the cult of the virgin mother-goddess, who was worshiped as the highest of gods–see S. H. Langdon, Semitic Mythology, 1931 edition. This worship was taken over as Mary-worship by Rome. Heathen sun-worship on Sunday was likewise adopted by the Roman apostasy.
“In order to attach to Christianity great attraction in the eyes of the nobility, the priests adopted the outer garments and adornments which were used in pagan cults.” -Life of Constantine, Eusabius, cited in Altai-Nimalaya, p. 94
“The Church did everything it couldto stamp out such ‘pagan’ rites, but had to capitualet and allow the rites to continue with only the name of the local diety changed to some Christian saint’s name.” -Religious Tradition and Myth. Dr. Edwin Goodenough, Professor of Religion, Harvard University. p. 56, 57
“From the foregoing, which treats merely of the more important solar festivals, it is clear that these products of paganism are as much in force at present … as they ever were, and that Christianity countenances, and in many cases has actually adopted and practiced, pagan rites whose heathen significance is merely lost sight of because attention is not called tot the source whence these rites have sprung. So heavy was this infiltration that Sir Samuel Dill exclaims: “Christianity is only a sect of the Mithraists.” -Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius, p. VII
“We know that Mithraism was a state religion of Rome at the time that the Christian church was established there. Evidently tenants of Mithraism such as Sunday worship and eating the wafer in the mass were adopted into Christianity at that time” -Jim Arrabito “666 & the Mark”
In Stanley’s History, page 40: “The popes filled the place of the vacant emperors at Rome, inheriting
their power, their prestige, and their titles from PAGANISM.”
“In short, sun worship, symbolically speaking, lies at the very heart of the great festivals which the Christian Church celebrates today, and these relics of heathen religion have, through the medium of their sacred rites, curiously enough blended with practices and beliefs utterly antagonistic to the spirit which prompted them.” -Sun Lore of All Ages, Olcott, p. 248
“Yet the cross itself is the oldest of phallic emblems, and the lozenge-shaped windows of cathedrals are proof that the yonic symbols have survived the destructions of the pagan Mysteries. The very structure of the church itself is permeated with (sexual symbolism) phallicism. Remove from the Christian Church all emblems of Priapic origin and nothing is left…” -The secret teaching of all ages by Manley P. Hall
“When the zealots of the primitave Christian Church sought to Christianize paganism, the pagan initiates retorted with a powerful effort to paganize Christianity. The Christians failed but the pagans succeeded. With the decline of paganism the initiated pagan hierophants transferred their base of operations to the new vehicle of primitive Christianity, adopting the symbols of the new cult to conceal those eternal verities which are ever the priceless possession of the wise.” -The secret teachings of all ages, Manley P. Hall p. CLXXXV
“…The world, cloaked with a form of righteousness, walked into the church. Now the work of corruption rapidly progressed. Paganism, while appearing to be vanquished, became the conqueror. Her spirit controlled the church. Her doctrines, ceremonies, and superstitions were incorporated into the faith and worship of the professed followers of Christ.” -The Great Controversy, p. 50
“The belief in miracle-working objects, talismans, amulets, and formulas was dear to Christianity, and they were received from pagan antiquity . . . The vestments of the clergy and the papal title of ‘pontifex maximus’ were legacies from pagan Rome. The [Catholic] Church found that rural converts still revered certain springs, wells, trees, and stones; she thought it wiser to bless these to Christian use then to break too sharply the customs of sentiment . . . Pagan festivals dear to the people, reappeared as Christian feasts, and pagan rites were transformed into Christian liturgy . . . The Christian calendar of saints replaced the Roman ‘fasti’ [gods]; ancient divinities dear to the people were allowed to revive under the names of ‘Christian saints’ . . . Gradually the tenderest features of Astarte, Cybele, Artemis, Diana, and Isis were gathered together in the worship of Mary”–Wil Durant, The Age of Faith, 1950, pp. 745-746.
Langdon tells us that Mary worship came from ancient Babylon where the virgin mother-goddess was worshiped under the name “Ishtar.” Elsewhere in the Near East, the mother-goddess was called “Astarte, Ashtoreth, Persephone, Artemis, [Diana] of Ephesus, Venus, and Isis.” This goddess, considered to be greater than any god, was called by these heathen the “virgin mother, merciful mother, Queen of Heaven, and my lady” [which is what "Madonna" means in Italian]. Langdon says she was often sculptured in mother-and-infant images, or as a “mater dolorom” [sorrowful mother] interceding for men with a wrathful god. And thus ancient paganism was brought into the churches and lives of Christians.–see S.H. Langdon, Semitic Mythology, 1931 edition, pp. 12-34, 108-111, 341-344. Laing mentions several other corruptions by which the mother-goddess was worshiped by heathens, that Rome adopted into Christianity: holy water, votive offerings, elevation of sacred objects [lifting of the host], the priest’s bells, the decking of images, processions, festivals, prayers for the dead, the worship of relics and the statues of saints.–see Gordon J. Laing, Survivals of Roman Religion, 1931 edition, pp. 92-95, 123-131,238-241.
Two dominant elements brought into Christianity from paganism by Rome were Sun worship symbols and the religious practices of ancient Babylon] “The solar theology of the Chaldaeans [Babylonians], had decisive effect . . . [upon the] final form reached by the religion of the pagan Semites, and following them, by that of the Romans when [the Roman emperor] Aurelian, the conqueror of Palmyra, had raised ‘Sol Invictus’ [the invincible sun-god] to the rank of supreme divinity in the Empire”–The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 11, pp. 643, 646-647. From Palmyra he transferred to the new sanctuary the images of Helios [the sun-god] and Bel, the malaise patron god of Babylon–see Cumont, The Oriental Religions In Roman Paganism, 1911 edition, pp. 114-115, 124.
“The [Catholic] Church took the pagan philosophy and made it the buckler of faith against the heathen. She took the pagan Roman Pantheon, temple of all the gods, and made it sacred to all the martyrs; so it stands to this day. She took the pagan Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday. She took the pagan Easter and made it the feast we celebrate during this season . . . The Sun was a foremost god with heathendom . . . The sun has worshipers at this hour in Persia and other lands . . . Hence the Church would seem to say, ‘Keep that old pagan name [Sunday]. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified.’ And thus the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday, sacred to Jesus”–William L. Gildea, “Paschale Gaudium,” in The Catholic World, 58, March, 1894, p. 809 [A Roman Catholic weekly].
“The removal of the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople in 330, left the Western Church, practically free from imperial power, to develop its own form of organization. The Bishop of Rome, in the seat of the Caesars, was now the greatest man in the West, and was soon [when the barbarians over-ran the empire] forced to become the political as well as the spiritual head.”–A.C. Flick, The Rise of the Mediaval Church p. 168.
“Whatever Roman elements the barbarians and Aryans left . . . [came] under the protection of the Bishop of Rome, who was the chief person there after the Emperor’s disappearance . . . The Roman Church in this way privily pushed itself into the place of the Roman World-Empire, of which it is the actual continuation; the empire has not perished, but has only undergone a transformation . . . It [the Catholic Church] is a political creation, and as imposing as a World-Empire, because [it is a continuation of] the Roman Empire. The Pope, who calls himself ‘King’ and ‘Pontifex Maximus’ [the title of the Roman Emperor in the time of Christ], is Caesar’s successor.”–Adolf Harnack, What is Christianity? 1963, pp. 269-270.
“Long ages ago, when Rome through the neglect of the Western emperors was left to the mercy of the barbarous hordes, the Romans turned to one figure for aid and protection, and asked him to rule them; and thus, . . . commenced the temporal sovereignty of the popes. And meekly stepping to the throne of Caesar, the vicar of Christ took up the scepter to which the emperors and kings of Europe were to bow in reverence through so many ages.”–American Catholic Quarterly Review, April, 1911.
[Speaking of the time, about 500 A.D., when the Roman Empire was crumbling to pieces:] “No, the [Catholic] Church will not descend into the tomb. It will survive the Empire . . . At length a second empire will arise, and of this empire the Pope will be the master–more then this, he will be the master of Europe. He will dictate his orders to kings who will obey them”–Andrea Lagarde, The Latin Church in the Middle Ages, 1915, p. vi.
“From the foregoing, which treats merely of the more important solar festivles, it is clear that these products of paganism are as much in force at present… as they ever were, and that Christianity countenances, and in many cases has actually adopted and practiced, pagan rites whose heathen significance is merely lost sight of because attention is not called to the source whence those rites have spring. So heavy was this infiltration that Sir Samuel Dill exclaims: “Christianity is only a sect of the Mithraists.” -Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. P. vii
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