Where The
Churches Went Wrong: The Deception of the Ages
By Sherry Shriner
http://www.sherryshriner.com
[Illuminati News, Dec 23, 2004]
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It’s
always been a battle zone. The war of the denominations and who is the
most doctrinally correct. The Baptists were sure they were the only
one’s who had religion and God right, everyone else was wrong. The
Lutherans, Methodists, Catholics, Pentecostals, Episcopalians,
Presbyterians, Messianic temples and everyone else were and are the
same. With over 27,000 different sects and branches of religion today,
exactly which one has it all right?
None of them.
We have a different branch and different denomination for every
disagreement imaginable over theology. If religion is man's attempt to
find God, theology is the foundation the religion is based on. And
that's where the problem is because somewhere God has been replaced by
man's attempt to define Him.
Years ago I kept wondering what the real church was. What did the
apostles really preach? What were the real beliefs back then compared to
what they are now? What exactly was the early church and what did they
believe? It was this journey to find the truth from Yahweh that so much
of today's deceptions would be revealed to me by Him.
When you start to search and seek Him for answers the most obvious
things will start to stand out to you. The most glaring is the obvious
distinction that there are two different gospels. The one the apostles
taught and the one being preached today in the churches. When you study
the early church you realize that the churches today resemble almost
nothing like the early ones.
When you take this even further you will begin to realize that not only
do the teachings of today resemble nothing of what the apostles taught,
there are two different Saviors presented.
The Church of the Apostles
It was James who led the early Apostles and it was Peter upon whom the
church would be built. Yet today you wouldn't know it or even think it.
Walk into any assembly anywhere and the Pauline doctrines are dominant.
Why does it matter? Because Peter and Paul are night and day. Peter was
an apostle with a mantle from Yahweh to build His church, and he did,
but the latter Pauline Christians rejected it and took over
Christianity. Paul was a self-proclaimed apostle, whom the apostles
rejected as an apostle, but accepted as a brother.
There were blatant disagreements and arguments between Paul and the
Apostles. There were only 12 apostles, not 13. “And on the wall of the
city had twelve foundations; and in them the names of the twelve
apostles of the Lamb” Rev.21:14. In the beginning there were 12, and at
the end there are 12. There never have been 13. And it was Paul who
created the offices of leadership to vilify himself as an apostle.
When does the light go off that Paul was a wolf? How much information
does anyone need that this self-proclaimed apostle was a snake? Yahweh
has not appointed an apostle since the twelve. Period. Even in the codes
you will not find anyone as an apostle. Just prophets and watchmen. The
office of apostle has been closed.
After 300 years of persecutions, most of the apostolic doctrines had
been destroyed and lost. They were ultimately replaced with little
resistance from the newer believers with a compromise of Mithraic
paganism that had been introduced by Paul. It took 300 years for Satan
to destroy the early church and persecute Yahweh’s believers so he could
implement his own strategy to infiltrate and overpower the church with
himself. And he did it as Mithra, and through Mithraism.
Early Christians
The first believers were called Judahites. At that time, there were two
groups of Jews, the Judahites and the Edomites. The Edomites were
hybrids and Cain's seed and had mixed with the Judahite Jews making up
more notably the Pharisee branch. Perverting and legalizing the
Pentateuch i.e. Old Testament/Torah was of great importance to them and
they kept its laws, keeping the sabbath and performing circumcision as a
sign of the Covenant. Yet they tortured the legalisms of the law to
benefit themselves in social status and wealth.
Belief in Yahushua as the Messiah was spreading largely among the
Judahites who referred to themselves as People of the Way or simply
Judahites, and those who adopted the belief in the Messiah and His
teachings were also adopted in and referred to as Judahites as well.
This sect within the Judahites believed Jesus/Yahushua was the promised
Messiah. He was not popular and incited much anger from the legalist
Scribes and Pharisees because He had tried to make people aware of the
real application and intent of the law of the Torah which had been
watered down by the infiltrating alien hybrid and Edomite Jews and
misapplied putting the people into bondage. The legalists had taken over
and led the people into error and oppression while claiming it was the
truths in the Torah law. They manipulated it and used it to benefit
themselves, and Yahushua tried to lead the people back into the real
intent and truths of the Torah provoking much wrath against Him for
doing so.
From the time Moses had received the laws from Yahweh, the entire Jewish
social system had been laid down in the Torah. The Torah, among other
things, states that all are equal and that no person may oppress or
exploit another, that all have the right to be free and to be
independent masters of their own fate. It was their Constitution and
Bill of Rights.
For instance, every person is entitled as a matter of right to social
security. This means that people are entitled to be supported by the
community not only when they fall on hard times but also to maintain
their independence as independent breadwinners for their families. For
example, the community had to provide backup funds to those who needed
them and they had to be provided as and when required. To prevent people
being exploited through their need these funds had to be provided
without charging interest and such loans were cancelled every seventh
year if the borrower had been unable to repay them.
The country's wealth and this applies particularly to productive
capital, belongs to all equally and had to be shared among everyone.
This equal and fair distribution of the community's wealth was to be
updated at regular intervals.
The role of those who were rich is seen to be that of administering
their wealth and money on behalf of and for the community and not that
of getting rich at the public’s expense.
The laws of the Torah (books of Moses) were to be followed and applied
by the Judahites as a matter of law in their daily lives. However it was
these laws the rich detested and had the intent of the laws changed to
suit themselves thereby oppressing the people and getting rich off this
oppression. Yahushua tried to reinstate the intent and purpose of the
laws and have them applied correctly. This is why the rich and powerful
rose up against Him and His teachings of the law.
After Yahushua died and arose, His apostles continued in the example He
had set, observing the feasts, the laws, and the Commandments. Nothing
was to be changed. The sacrificial laws had been fulfilled with the
ultimate sacrifice of the Son of the Most High, but the other laws of
the Torah were to be observed. And this is where churchianity replaces
and redefines the law with grace and begins outright disobedience to
God's laws.
Most in the churches today believe that the Old Covenant, the Laws of
the Torah and Moses were done away with after Yahushua arose from the
dead. This isn't true.
The New Covenant, the New Testament, transformed the Old Testament, it
didn't abolish it. The two reconcile each other. The one doesn't replace
the other. Some commands of the law were transformed by their
fulfillment while others were superceded by the Words of Yahweh Himself.
This was true in the Old Covenant also when Solomon’s Temple superceded
the ancient tabernacle.
For instance, it was Yahushua's sacrifice that fulfilled the
requirements of and for a sin offering. Other commands were
re-prioritized instead of abolished. The Biblical Holy Days/Festivals
(especially Passover) weren’t abolished but took on new meanings. If you
wonder why we don’t stone people any more it’s because the penalties for
our sins were executed already in Yahushua's death. So as you see, the
New Covenant doesn’t abolish the Old Covenant, it upholds it! What still
stands is clean and unclean foods, keeping the Sabbath, and other
tenants of the laws that the churches have thrown out and ignored over
time. As believers it is our responsibility to let the Holy Spirit write
the Old Covenant Laws on our hearts so that we know what to obey and how
to obey it. He will guide and direct us.
A lot of people feel a yearning today that they should be celebrating
the feasts and moving away from abominable foods. This is by the Holy
Spirit's guidance. Yahweh is trying to lead those who seek Him into the
way they should go just as the New Covenant said would happen. We need
to heed His Spirit and follow His guidance. It isn't a messianic vs.
protestant vs. catholic thing, it's just being led by Him and following
Him. Divisions and denominations aren't of Him when we are supposed to
be unified as one. Leave the churches if they're not preaching and
teaching His truths and follow Him yourself if you have to.
Some points to consider:
· Yahushua's teaching at the Sermon on the Mount was not a new doctrine.
It simply brought to light the true, deeper, spiritual meaning of the
Old Covenant commands that He said are still valid.
·The entire Old Covenant Law teaches, as Yahushua did, that we are to
love Yahweh by keeping His commandments.
· The Law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Yahushua
Ha Maschiyach.
· Think of being "Not under Law" as not under legalistic observance of
the Old Covenant with its Mosaic commands written in stone.
· Think of "under grace" as under the renewed covenant with the Mosaic
commands written on our hearts by the Spirit who also provides us the
strength (grace) we need to overcome the law of sin and death.
· The New Covenant still has the Old Covenant commands as its
foundation. The difference is that now we have His Spirit to write those
Laws on our hearts and empower us to obey.
· The festival commandments are important because in them we rehearse
Yahweh’s plan of redemption. Since Yahweh’s plan of redemption isn’t
complete there’s still much to learn from the feasts.
· It was always Yahweh’s intent for us to have His Law (Torah) written
on our hearts, thus providing empowerment and motivation from within.
· Men have always been saved by grace through faith. However, the error
of the New Covenant believers at the beginning was in forcing the
Gentiles to follow the letter of the Law to EARN salvation and
justification apart from the work of FAITH. This matter was settled by
the apostles in Jerusalem and as noted in Acts chapter one.
· Note, when asked how to obtain eternal life, Yahushua didn’t say
"Believe in me," he said obey the commandments [by implication, the Law
of Moses]. Which goes beyond the 10 written in stone, there were
originally over 600 of them covering social, dietary, financial, and
everyday living.
· It was always Yahweh’s intent that Gentile believers remain ONE with
their Jewish brothers. Satan entered and caused the division. The Spirit
wants to bring unity. We must come back to HIM as ONE and stop the
division and errors that has divided us over the centuries.
Paul, Satan’s Pawn: The Infiltrator and Deceiver
Paul, then known as Saul, acting on behalf of the rich Jewish oppressors
was a Jewish Edomite Pharisee who persecuted the Christians who were
renewing their knowledge of the laws and the application of the laws in
their daily lives. Disrupting the status quo, the rich oppressors and
legalists would have lost their foothold in making money off the poor if
the laws were to change and be followed correctly.
Paul said that he had had a `vision' and called himself a
believer in Yahushua however he preached not for but against the social
laws and against the social system of the Torah. He preached against
material independence, against social security, against freedom from
oppression and exploitation.
As Edomite Hillel had infiltrated and changed the Talmud to blindside
the Jews to accept oppression, Paul infiltrated the sect of the
believers and tried to undo what Yahushua and his followers had done,
while using the name of Yahweh to do it. Saul had been tutored by
Gamaliel, Hillel's grandson. Both had managed to master the art of
deception and lead the people of their time away from the truth of the
laws and into oppression.
Paul preached a political ideology to subvert the people and be able to
exploit them without hindrance to the status quo. Under the true laws,
exploitation was forbidden, but without the laws being applied, the rich
could continue to get rich off of the exploitation of the poor. And
that's what they did.
The Laws of the Torah gave the people freedom from oppression and
exploitation. And every time they wandered away from the laws, they
ended up oppressed and exploited, and back into slavery. Much of the
same way we as Americans are today. Our government exploits and makes
money off the people by unnecessary and inflated taxation, also through
exploitive legislation where the rich can become richer, and the poor
get poorer. These practices are outlawed in the social system laws of
the Torah. Neither has the wealth of America ever been divided out and
shared among its people. Our loans are loaded with interest, and there
is never forgiveness from unpaid loans. There is freedom in the laws of
God while there is slavery, exploitation and manipulation in the laws of
man.
It was Paul's teachings against the laws of Yahweh that brought him into
conflict with the Judahite believers. The entire area of Asia rejected
him. In Revelation the church of Ephesus was praised for recognizing
false prophets, yet Paul wrote a letter to the Ephesians as if they were
his followers. He could get no where with the Judahite Jews, so he
concentrated on gaining converts from gentiles (people who are not (Judahite
or Israelite) and who presumably knew nothing or little about the laws
of the Torah and who would thus be more likely to follow his teachings
without arguing about its content or aware of his deceptions.
Paul's letters (epistles) are the oldest part of the New Testament. It
seems that Paul's letters were written about 50 AD and the gospels about
70-100 AD. Paul's letters were never accepted by the early church. The
Apostles never mentioned him in their writings, only he includes some of
them in his. Yet today our New Testament, configured by a pagan, is
dominant with Paul's teachings.
What stands out is that no one before Paul wrote such letters and
taught such things as he did, and no one did so afterwards. His letters
give his own point of view and personal ideology and he gives them an
authority which they would not otherwise have had by means of a
self-proclaimed vision.
The gospels as a whole relate to the life and death of Yahushua but
Paul's letters seem to be more a vehicle for pronouncements directed
against observance of laws ensuring freedom, independence and equality.
It was the rejected Paul's teachings that were accepted and placed in
dominance after 300 years of persecutions wiped out the early church.
Even today the Gentile Christians' stories about the beginning of
Christianity differ from those of the Judahite Christians. It is the
versions of the Gentile Christians which were included in the Christian
Canon and became official doctrine. The Torah, Feasts, and Commandments
were replaced by the laws of laziness and lawlessness.
There is much to be revealed about Paul and you can read more about how
he infiltrated and deceived early believers at http://www.justgivemethetruth.com
But was there even a more hideous agenda to Paul than to subvert people
away from the teachings of Yahushua and His apostles?
The Infiltration of Mithraism into Christianity: Two Different
Messiahs Portrayed
Mithraism is the cult of Mithra. It was created on its own virtue to not
only worship pagan beliefs and practices, but to pervert and mock future
religious practices that Satan knew Yahweh would incorporate into His
people.
It emphasized a personal faith, the conflict of good and evil, and the
reward of virtue and punishment of wickedness in the afterlife, the end
of the world and the powers of hell. The religion spread from Persia
through the Roman Empire from 68 BC until the 3rd century AD, becoming a
serious rival to Christianity, and yet those in the churches today are
barely even aware of its existence. If you ask most Christians today who
Mithra is most wouldn't have any idea. The church has kept that part of
its history silent and hidden when it's one of the major reasons so many
of our early brethren were killed.
Mithraism is said to have declined in the 4th century AD. but when you
look at the overwhelming evidence you'll soon realize it didn't go
anywhere, it infiltrated and was incorporated into the church and became
a large part of Christianity itself. That is why you won't hear much
about it from the church. They don't want you to hear or understand that
Christianity was changed. And that the churches we have today do not
resemble the churches of the early believers and what they lived and
died for. We've been sold down the river of deception for almost 1700
years.
Satan isn't always stupid. In fact he's very clever. Satan's Mithra was
a great and deceptive imitation.
Who was Mithra? He appealed to everybody and at one time was a dominant
god followed by almost every race and nation throughout the history of
mankind utilizing many different names such as Buddha, Horus, Krishna,
Odin, Quetzalcoatl, Baal, Ra (the sun god), Bel, Marduk, Apollo, and
about 15 others. Originating from Persia, he was both god and goddess as
a bi-gender god, both male and female. Almost all of these gods who
carried Mithra dogma have their birthdays on December 25, the birthday
of the "sun." Even today's Christians know Jesus's real birthday isn't
in December but October, yet for the sake of church tradition they go
along with it anyway.
Why?
The early church believers were persecuted and killed because they
wouldn't bow to the Sun-god worship and had to go underground to meet on
the Sabbath (Saturday), and yet today Christians all over the world meet
on Sun-god day to worship who?
Mithraism was established as far back as the early years after Adam and
Eve had left the garden among the pagan nations. In fact the bull motif
later adopted, (Mithra is depicted as standing on the bull, in the
process of slitting its throat) is a reflection of the Age of Taurus,
around 4500-2300 BCE. The sacred bull motif is found in numerous places
around the "known world" precisely during the Age of Taurus. The change
between the ages of Taurus and Aries is recorded even in the Bible, at
Exodus 12, where Moses institutes the sacrifice of the lamb or ram
instead of the bull. Mithra's slaying of the Bull was an act that became
as central to Mithraism as was the crucifixion to Christianity.
The bull represented rebirth, fertility and fecundity, with his blood
corresponding to the wine of the mysteries. The sacrifice of the bull
was reenacted in the Mithraic baptism, a mystery rite in which the
initiates were splattered with the blood. The initiate was then said to
have been "born again." In Mithraism, the slaying of the Heavenly Bull,
Mithra is essentially sacrificing himself, in order to save the world:
the bull appears to signify the earth or mankind, and the implication is
that Mithra, like Christ, overcame the world; but in the early Persian
writings Mithra himself is the bull, the god thus sacrificing himself
becoming a close mimickry and mockery of the real Messianic Sacrifice to
come in which God's Son would fulfill to redeem mankind.
Like the vast majority of the ancient gods, Mithra was never a "real
person." In actuality he was originally represented by non-human forms.
It is very significant to note that ancient Iranians themselves did not
represent the Sun-god in human form in the earliest times, and they used
to represent him by means of symbols. In one of the sepulchres of Darius
near Naqshi Rustam, Mithra is represented as a round disc (a UFO). Next
stage was that of human busts of Sun in later Mithraism. Today we see
Mithraic symbols more commonly known as Masonic or Illuminati symbols
such as the all-seeing eye or references to the sun and sun-god.
Mithra paganism has the following in common with the Jesus Christ of
today's churches:
* Mithra was born on December 25th. Although Jesus was born in October,
the churches today Celebrate Mithra's birthday being conned into
believing it was Jesus' birthday.
* Mithra’s birth was witnessed by shepherds and by Magi (wisemen) who
brought gifts to his sacred birth-cave of the Rock (to mock the wisemen
who would bring gifts to Jesus).
* He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
* He had 12 companions or disciples (although in Mithraism this was
represented by the 12 astrological signs).
* He performed miracles.
* He was buried in a tomb.
* After three days he rose again (of course no one witnessed this).
* His resurrection was celebrated every year (although he was never a
real person).
* Mithra was called "the Good Shepherd."
* He was considered "the Way, the Truth and the Light, the Redeemer, the
Savior, the Messiah."
* He was identified with both the Lion and the Lamb.
* His sacred day was Sunday, "the Lord's Day," hundreds of years before
the appearance of Christ.
* Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become Easter,
at which time he was resurrected.
* His religion had a Eucharist or "Lord's Supper."
* Mithra performed the usual assortment of miracles: raising the dead,
healing the sick, making the blind see and the lame walk, casting out
devils. As a Peter (son of Petra) he carried keys to the kingdom of
heaven. (3)
* His triumph and ascension to heaven were celebrated at the spring
equinox (Easter), when the sun rises toward its apogee.
In all to the Babylonians (Romans), Mithra became the god of light and
truth, the god of mediation between god and man. He was to his
worshippers;
* The creator of life.
* Mediator between man and the higher gods.
* God of light.
* All-seeing one.
* Guardian of oaths (covenants).
* Protector of the righteous in this world and also in the next.
It was the Mithra cult that was the leading rival of Christianity in
Rome, and more successful than Christianity for the first four centuries
of the “Christian” era. In 307 A.D., the emperor officially designated
Mithra “Protector of the Empire.” Some resemblances between Christianity
and Mithraism were so close that even St. Augustine declared the priests
of Mithra worshipped the same deity as he did.
Mithra was born on December 25, called “Birthday of the Unconquered
Sun,” which was incorporated into the church in the 4th century A.D. as
the birthday of Christ.
Before returning to heaven, Mithra celebrated a Last Supper with his
twelve disciples, who represented the twelve signs of the zodiac. In
memory of this, his worshippers partook of a sacramental meal of bread
marked with a cross This was one of the seven Mithraic sacraments, the
models for the Christians’ seven sacraments . It was called mizd, latin
missa, in other words, English mass. Mithra’s image was buried in a rock
tomb, the same sacred cave that represented his mother’s womb. He was
withdrawn from it and said to live again.
Like early Christianity, Mithraism was an ascetic, anti-female religion.
Its priesthood consisted of celibate men only . Was Paul a Mithraic
priest?
Women were forbidden to enter Mithraic temples. The women of Mithraic
families had nothing to do with the men’s cult, but attended services of
the Great Mother in their own temples of Isis, Diana or Juno. Anahita
was the Mother of Waters, traditional spouse of the solar god whom she
bore, loved and swallowed up. She was identified with the Anatolian
Great Goddess Ma. Mithra was naturally coupled with her, as her
opposite, a spirit of fire, light and the sun.. Her “element,” water,
overwhelmed the world in the primordial flood, when one man built an ark
and saved himself, together with his cattle, according to Mithraic myth.
What began in water would end in fire, according to the Mithraic
eschatology. The great battle between the forces of light and darkness
in the Last Days would destroy the earth with its upheavals and
burnings. Virtuous ones who followed the teachings of the Mithraic
priesthood would join the spirits of light (Illuminati) and be saved.
Sinful ones who followed other teachings would be cast into hell with
Ahriman and the fallen angels.
Where others fall short believing Christianity mimmicked and copied
Mithraism, they cannot see that it was Mithraism itself that was created
to mimmick and copy the coming Messiah and church. But even worse what
happened was that Christianity would then incorporate Mithraic paganisms
perverting the truth faith.
Led by whom? Paul. Paul quotes from Mithraic sculptures when he cites,
"And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that
spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ" I Cor. 10:4
Paul often quoted from Mithraic dogma, the Hillel inspired "Mithraic"
Talmud, or misquoted the Old Testament. And yet the church ignores all
the warning signs that he wasn't whom or what he portrayed himself to
be.
During the fourth century it was the church itself led by Mithraic
Constantine that incorporated Mithraic beliefs and doctrines into the
church, making them doctrines and traditions. Following 300 years of
persecutions, there weren't many early Christian believers left to
protest and resist the intrusion and takeover of Mithraism into the
church. They had all died refusing to accommodate it.
Constantine the Great was an avid Mithra worshiper and his devoted
mother Helena, a great worshipper of Ishtar, ‘My Lady’ the Queen of
Heaven. It was Constantine who transferred most of the doctrines and
tenants of Mithraism, as well as the shrines and temples into the
Christian Church after his 'conversion' to Christianity in 312A.D. He
didn't abandon his occult practices after his conversion, he brought
them into the church and then had the church write new Scriptures to
incorporate them into the church doctrines.
In fact most of the Christian churches were built over the top of
shrines and temples of Mithraism. In 1954 when rebuilding the bombed
ruins of St. Paul’s cathedral, another shrine of the cult god Mithra was
unearthed in the ruins.
To show the validity of this change over without conversion, consider
this worship decree issued by the Emperor Constantine in the year 321
AD., which was some nine years after his supposed conversion.
Constantine, Emperor Agustus, to Helidus: "On the venerable day of the
sun let the magistrates, and the people residing in cities rest, let all
workshops be closed. In the country, however, persons engaged in
agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits".
Note here the day mentioned; ‘The venerable day of the sun’, the special
day dedicated to the cult sun-god, Mithra, the first day of the week,
SUNDAY! This was the first recorded blue Sunday law. In short,
Constantine had never given up worshipping on his beloved ‘venerable day
of the sun’, the day totally dedicated to the sun-god Mithra, the ‘son
of the sun-god’.
Constantine threw out the truths of the early church and assimilated
them with Mithraism, thereby creating two Messiahs: The God of Mithra,
which would become the dominant deity of the church then, and still is
today, and the God of the early believers. Which one are you following
today?
Mystery Babylon The Great
I have been stating for the past 2 years that Paul was a government
agent infiltrating Christianity because I kept feeling led into that
area. I just couldn't prove it. I couldn't find the missing link until I
stumbled on Mithraism. I had seen it before but had ignored it all
together as a clever imitation by Satan to confuse men. Until I recently
took a closer look at it and realized it was more than attempt to
confuse men, it had completely overpowered and replaced Christianity.
And that was the link I had been looking for and kept overlooking.
Mithraism operated back in the early church days the way the Masons do
today. It was an elite cult for the men of high social circles and a god
of the military forces. At the time of Christ it had permeated the Roman
government. Mithra was the god of light, just as the god of Masonry is
today. Saul-Paul's father was a Roman government official. There's no
doubt he was involved in the sect of Mithraism, and having Jewish/Edomite
blood, Saul-Paul had established himself in the sect of the Pharisees of
the Jews. He had dual citizenship among the Romans and the Jews.
Paul was the instrument to merge Mithraism with Christianity and
overthrow the original church the apostles had built. Now before you
scream heresy, let me assure you if you read this through you will
realize the deception of the churches today. If you're celebrating
Christmas and Easter and celebrating the Sabbath on Sunday then you need
to read this. No, I'm not a Seventh Day Adventist or any religion, I
hold to none. I seek only the Father and the truth in the Most High God.
When we study the future Blue Beam Project that is going to be used to
bring the Antichrist to power, you can't overlook the striking
similarities of Mithraism. Is Maitreya (another name for the coming
Antichrist) going to be the modern day Mithra? Seems like it.
Remember, as I just stated above one of the earliest Persian symbols for
Mithra was a flying disc (UFO) and an all-seeing eye (symbol of the
NWO).
Traditions of Man
In retrospect, it would have been a very easy switch from Mithraism to
Constantine’s form of 'so called’ Christianity, as their doctrines and
tenants were very similar. Only the name of the god Mithra had to be
changed to Christ, and the day of worship to be changed from Saturday to
Sunday. There was also a little rearranging in other things, but all in
all the amalgamation was relatively easy because most of the doctrines
and teachings of Mithra were transferred and assimilated into the
church. Not to make it easier for the pagans to accept Christianity, but
to infiltrate and pollute Christianity with a false messiah.
In his edict of Milan, issued in 313AD., a year after his supposed
conversion, toleration and equality were proclaimed to other cults and
religions within the state, however anyone who persisted in observing
any other day than their ‘venerable day of the sun’, the state promoted
day, were actively persecuted, therefore any Sabbath keeper had to go
underground.
The seven Mithraic sacraments were adopted (retained in Catholicism to
this day) and Christmas and Easter, Mithraic holidays were also brought
in.
The female companion cult to this male’s only religion was a dedication
to the fertility goddess, Ishtar, the Queen of heaven, or Magnus Mater.
The moon was her planet as in Moon day, our Monday, as the next largest
orb in our heavens. At the first full moon of spring in the northern
hemisphere, that is at the end of our March, in Babylonian times the
pagan son of the sun-god, Demuzi, or Tammuz, the forerunner of Mithra,
descended into the nether world, to be rescued by his mother/lover,
Ishtar, the fertility goddess, and on being rescued participated in an
act of human procreation. Rabbits and eggs were symbols of this
fertility rite. Little round cakes, the equivalent of our hot cross
buns, were also baked in honour to this Ishtar, the Queen of Heaven. The
evidence of this is found in Jeremiah’s time
Jer.7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and
the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and
to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to
anger. See also Jer.44: 17-19.
These practices were merged into the church to where today we have a
combination of both the pagan Mithraism and Queen of heaven worship via
the Protestant Easter and the Catholicism celebration of Mary.
In the northern hemisphere the winter solstice falls on December 22/23,
thus making this time the sun’s most weakest point of the year, so it
was then reckoned to be the time of its yearly death. But then after
this point the sun then became stronger, so the ancients considered that
it was the time of rebirth and hence declared a few days after as being
the birthday of the sun (son), that is, Mithra’s birthday! The day
chosen being December 25, the most important date on the Babylonian
calendar year. If you are celebrating Christmas, it is not the Lord
Jesus's birthday you are celebrating but Mithra's. And the argument "the
Lord knows my heart" won't work either because Yahweh hates the
traditions of men! You are worshipping another god, and another gospel.
Why? Because you're following after the traditions of man and ignoring
Yahweh's Required Feasts altogether.
Mithra’s cave-temple on the Vatican Hill was seized by Christians in 376
A.D.. Christian bishops of Rome pre-empted even the Mithraic high
priest’s title of Pater Patrum, which became Papa,(or Pope) First there
was Mithra copying the coming Messiah. Now, we have Christianity taking
over Mithra, copying and assimilating the pagan aspects of Mithraism.
Both would become assimilated into each other creating a false and
delusional mystery cult religion. And not only that, what today is
located on Vatican Hill? The Vatican. There are 7 hills in Rome, and the
Vatican was built on top of a Mithra temple, just as other churches had
been built on top of ancient Mithra temples.
And we still have it in today's secret occult societies. The sun became
the mysterious ‘all seeing eye of Mithras’, and astrology prediction
became an important part of the cult. We see this even today with
Illuminati symbols of the all-seeing eye and their dependency of
astrology. What the church dropped, the occult kept. We have Mithra in
both our church and government. The all-seeing eye is a symbol on our
dollar bill.
Many of the Roman Emperors who embraced this mystery cult god included;
Nero, Commodus, Septimus, Aurelain, Julian the Apostate, and Dioclethian,
to name only a few who were all faithful followers of Mithra. For it was
he who promised to be the ‘Protector of the Faithful’, which would be
very important to a soldier, and also as a ‘guide to the souls’ of men.
Thus these Emperors added divine names to their own, such a ‘Dias’ or
devout, ‘Felix’ or blessed, ‘Invictus’ or invincible, to make legitimate
their claims of ruling by divine right. A practice the Roman Catholic
papacy would adopt.
Naturally the true and faithful to Yahushua could not possibly bow to
this form of sun-worship, so they were persecuted. Do you understand
that? The Early Christians would not bow to the sun-god yet today's
Christians are bowing every Sunday to it!
Complete Counterfeit Christianity
Most people who dig into the history of religions have it completely
backwards. No surprise. But the truth is out there for those who seek it
from the Lord. When Adam and Eve fell, the only hope mankind had was to
be redeemed. And from the time of the fall, Yahweh knew what He would do
to redeem it.
Adam was told how mankind would be redeemed. That the Messiah was to be
born of a virgin to become, the Lord of the Covenant, the ‘Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world’, who was to die and be in the grave
for three days and then be resurrected. Adam knew the attributes of God
and His plan of salvation and was told all this by God Himself and it
was his bounded duty to pass it on verbally to all his offspring, and
they on to theirs, so that by the time of the Assyrians, all these
gospel truths were well known. Abraham knew them all well!
Hasn't it always stood true that God will do nothing lest He reveal it
unto His servants the prophets’. . Amos 3:7?
We know Satan heard Yahweh's plan of redemption for mankind as He
revealed it to Adam. Because he set about to prepare the biggest
counterfeits he could come up with to negate Yahweh's plans! Satan had
plenty of time to prepare, and put into motion the best counterfeits he
could come up with, so that when the real messiah did come, no one would
recognize Him for the real Messiah that He was.
It was the pagan cult of mystery that became a complete and blatant
counterfeit piece of work that Satan had perfected in substituting the
‘son of the sun-god’, Mithra, for our Lord and Savior the Lord Jesus
Christ, the only true Lord of light and truth, the only true Mediator,
and the only true God of the Holy Covenant. It was truly one great
counterfeit job, and the results are still with us to this day.
Today there are many who claim Jesus Yahushua was a copy of Mithra when
it is the other way around. It was Mithra who was created and set up
through every pagan religion throughout the nations to mimmick what
Yahweh would do
This mimmickry has traveled through the ages into even our churches of
today. It never went anywhere, just disguised itself and assimilated as
the Jesus of the Bible into our churches. Are they really worshipping
Yahushua?
What does the Bible call today's churches? MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT ,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Rev. 17:5).
Babylon is America, harlots are the churches. They have prostituted the
truth for lies.
If you are worshiping the Jesus of the churches, you are worshipping
another Savior. If you are celebrating the traditions and dogma of the
churches today you are worshipping another gospel. How can I say this?
Because God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if you are
not following the example both He and His Apostles set, then you are not
following HIM. If you are not celebrating His feasts, keeping His Torah
laws and observing His commandments you are not HIS but the clever
counterfeit of the ages himself, deceptive Mithra i.e. Lucifer.
Most churches today justify Pauline teachings as to why they believe
what they do. Paul was a false apostle. And when you realize that
everything changes. You can get back into the truth of what faith in
Yahweh really is instead of the lies you've been spoon fed from Paul.
The law never ended, sure the cumbersome aspects of it were replaced and
nullified, but there’s more to the law than most realize. They simple
claim the law was replaced by grace and sweep it under the rug without
realizing it’s Yahweh Himself they’re sweeping under the rug. Jesus
fulfilled the law He didn’t cancel it or replace it with Pauline
doctrines.
There was no stop in God's plan for mankind. In the Book of Revelation
it even says that in the New Jerusalem people will be celebrating the
feasts. So why aren't you now? Why is the majority of churchianity
following Mithra traditions and feasts rather than Yahweh's?
What's been lost is for people to question why they believe what they
do. They follow church after church instead of just seeking Yahweh
Himself. They blindly accept what their pastors and leaders tell them
because it's just what they've done all their lives and to think
otherwise goes against the brainwashing of the religious establishment.
The fear of questioning is put into them instead of following the
commands to be Berean and search the Scriptures for ourselves. You can't
protect yourself from error if you don't seek Yahweh Himself for the
truth. Man should never replace Him. To place your pastor as your
teacher instead of Yahweh you are bordering on idolatry. Because we are
to seek Him, not man.
We have gone from generation to generation in Spiritual limbo because
man has replaced Yahweh in every church. Doctrines, theologies and
ideologies, have all replaced HIM.
No I am not messianic, or whatever title of religion there is out there.
I hold no religious affiliation. My only affiliation is in Yahweh. The
Messianics would do well to realize they don’t have to spend all their
time trying to tell everyone “what Paul really meant” and just admit he
was a false apostle. Then they wouldn’t have to waste so much of their
time combating his contradictions.
Mithraism never went anywhere. It is alive and well today. Most will
embrace Mithra as the False Prophet when he arrives with the name of
“Jesus and Maitreya.” He will even look as the pictures of Jesus we’ve
seen. He will mimmick and copy him so well it will be the deception of
the ages to overcome. You’ve been forewarned. And the Beast Prophets in
place today as pastors in our congregations and churches will embrace
him and declare him as the son of God. And they will work in collusion
with this False Prophet to deceive the world into worshipping the
Antichrist as the Father, as God Himself.
Most of the churches today are teaching false doctrines and being led by
false shepherds.
Get out of the deception. Get back into Yahweh.
References..
(See, Francis Legge, Forerunners and the Rivals of Christianity at 2,
271; S. Angus, The Mystery-Religions at 168)
(See, Salomon Reinach, Orpheus at 73)
(See, Homer Smith, Man and His Gods at 1294.
(See, S.H. Hooke, The Siege Perilous at 89; Franz Cumont, The Mysteries
of Mithra at 1605.
(See, E.O. James, The Ancient Gods at 250)
(See, Homer Smith, Man and His Gods at 130, 201).
(See, Francis Legge, Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity at 2, 261)
.(See, Wolfgang Lederer, The Fear of Women at 36)
9. (See, Franz Cumont, Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism at 54,
65)10.
(See, Franz Cumont, The Mysteries of Mithra at 138)
(See, John Holland Smith, The Death of Classical Paganism at 146)
.(See, Homer Smith, Man and His Gods at 252)
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