Humbly we deserve nothing yet; God has dignified us in grace more than we can possibly imagine. The fundamental flaw of humans is ever thinking that we know something separate from God. You know nothing without God, no; not one thing.
Evil to Good?
I've recently heard some preachers say that God takes evil things and makes them good. I almost threw up. God is the originator of everything and has made everything good. I wonder what their interpretation would be of this Scripture?
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
— Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)
Pagan Holidays
There are a lot of Pegan holidays that came in early in the Church, one of them was Easter the other Christmas. However, you can be sure that Jesus nor His Apostles celebrated these holidays. However, even Polycarp a disciple of John the Apostle never celebrated Easter, he celebrated Quartodecimanism or Passover on Nissan 14, the day Christ was Crucified.
🕊 What Is Quartodecimanism?
Quartodeciman means “fourteenth” in Latin. This tradition observed the death of Christ (Passover) on the 14th day of Nisan, the date from the Hebrew calendar when Jesus was crucified — regardless of the day of the week it fell on.
Polycarp and other Christians in Asia Minor followed this practice because they received it directly from the Apostle John, according to multiple early sources.
📜 Historical Record: Polycarp vs. Anicetus
A famous account is found in the writings of Eusebius (Ecclesiastical History, Book 5, Chapter 24):
“When the blessed Polycarp was at Rome in the time of Anicetus, they disagreed a little about certain other things, for neither could Anicetus persuade Polycarp not to observe what he had always observed with John the disciple of our Lord… nor could Polycarp persuade Anicetus to observe it… though Anicetus yielded to Polycarp in respect and allowed him to celebrate the Eucharist in his church.”
This clearly shows:
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Polycarp kept the 14th of Nisan according to the apostolic tradition.
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He did not celebrate Easter Sunday as standardized later by Rome.
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There was mutual respect, even in disagreement.
⛪ Later Development: Council of Nicaea (AD 325)
It wasn’t until the Council of Nicaea that the Roman Church officially standardized Easter to be celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox, detaching it from Passover. This was part of Constantine’s agenda to unify Christian practices — and suppress Jewish customs in Christian observance.
✅ Summary
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Polycarp did not celebrate Easter Sunday as the Western Church later did.
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He celebrated Passover on the 14th of Nisan, based on apostolic tradition.
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His observance was rooted in obedience to the Apostle John.
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The modern Easter celebration came much later and was not the practice of the earliest Christians in Asia Minor.
Changing the Bible & Christianity
Some people are so rooted in paganism that they do not want to give it up. We see many things were compromised when Rome legalized Christianity. Any thinking person would have to understand that corruption was rampant here. Everything about the Bible and Christianity changed once Satan figured out how to corrupt it with ego.
If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them
The Roman Empire must of felt helpless. The Christians were everywhere and growing expedientially. There was nothing they could do to stop it. Christians were healing the sick, giving sight to the blind and many powerful works were letting the common man understand that God is with the Christians. The Christians powers of reasoning, observation and study were enhanced through the Holy Spirit. However, Satan figured out that instead of warring with them; join them and infect them from within. Grow like a virus from within the Church until they become unrecognizable to any original Christian. Bring in Pagan worship and let ego rise silently, quietly, and easily.
Ego Destruction & Man Made Religion
Sadly, true Christianity died out with Polycarp and all the direct disciples of the Apostles. There are remnants left that tried not to give into the ego but ultimately the hour of darkness spoken of by our LORD had overtook them. You can imagine this as a slow process taking a hundred years or more. It's amazing that we even have a Bible today. The darkness was creeping in even as the Book of 1 John was being written. Look at what John writes here;
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 1 John 2:18
Just imagine after John died, then his disciple #Polycarp. The changes that started to take place were ego driven, satanic, and just plain wrong! It was no longer Jew's persecuting Christians, it was so called Christians persecuting the Jews and trying to remove any Jewishness out of Christianity which was just plain wrong. All the Apostles were Jews, Jesus Christ Himself came as a Jew.
The Darkness Where No Man Can Work
Since the death of Polycarp and other very early Christians, you can bet that is when the darkness began. It even got darker when Rome legalized them and infected them with Pagan culture. Think of all the horrible things done in the name of Christianity which were completely opposite of the early Christian faith. Be honest, do not take up the sword, do not steal, observe the commandments of God, yes all of this became a thing of the past. Now it was all about their ego as Christians and their darkness was great. There is a story that Jesus told His disciples that we would do well to understand.
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. John 9:1-7
Understand The Darkness
This darkness started when Christianity changed. There is no early Christian that would recognize Christianity today. Why? Because the early Christians lived God's commandments. All of them! They did not believe in lip service but believed in LIVING THE WORD OF GOD! They saw amazing things, they were given amazing power. So what did they do? They would recite the Laws of God when they met together, they would make vows of honesty and truth. They would make vows to the Law's of God to follow and do them every day! They were committed to following the commands of Jesus Christ. This was a system no one could beat! So they had to join it and institute new customs, methods, innuendos that would slowly divide and conquer. Make cute pagan things seem good and adopt that into #Christianity.
No Man Can Work
When you have a compromised faith then eventually infiltrates into your literature. You can almost imagine them changing things as soon as Polycarp was in the grave; and change they did. It was disgusting, it was awful and now let me shine a light on it for you my dear Elect that want to know what the WORD of God says. Let' Jesus smear the mud into your eyes so that you can see.
How The Darkness Began
Like all darkness it began in hatred. Yes, so-called Christians hated the Jews and they wanted to pull out any kind of Jewism from the Christian Faith. However, the true Christian faith came from the Jews as I have pointed out. It all began with THE LORD'S DAY! It is so important for you to understand this. You know how everyone today is saying that Jesus Rose on a Sunday? That is a LIE! I can prove this to you my fellow Elect 100% and I will do so in the next post. Text were changed, dates and times were changed, I will show it all to you. Let the Light Shine!
#apostate #theLordsDay #theSabbath