Saturday Morning Blog with Pastor Williams (April)
Posted on April 1st, 2007 by TADCCBLOG
Pastor Williams will be active on the blog site this Saturday morning from 10 to 11am immediately following the WRJD 1410AM broadcast of “Christian Perspective Today”. Please suggest topics or questions for discussion.
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Easter was started to offset the Jewish influence. Emperor Constantine wanted to bring the different factions of Christianity together. This led to the first Ecumenical Council in 325 A.D. Before the first council Jewish Bishops from Jerusalem came to Pope (Bishop is what all the popes were called before the Catholic church influence of the faith) Silvester asking that Jerusalem become the center of Christianity since Jerusalem was the root of Christianity and also the relatives of Jesus served as Bishops of Jerusalem until 125 A.D.. Pope Silvester dismissed them. There was also one other thing that greatly spoke to the Jewishness of the Christian faith.
This was Passover. In some Bibles Acts 12:4 is translated as Easter. However the Greek word is Paschal which is translated from the Hebrew word Pesach which in the English is Passover. Since the time of Christ’s ressurection the church celebrated Passover. This was the greatest day of the year in Christendom. This is when Baptisms took place and all the people Baptized received new clothes. (Tradition carried on today of receiving new clothes.) This represented the new life in Christ Jesus. Whoever controlled this day in effect had the greatest influence in Christianity. Since most people did not have calendars they relied heavily on the church leaders to tell them when Passover would begin.
The Catholic Church (the word catholic means universal, which supposedly resulted from the ecumenical council whose purpose was to unite all the Christian factions.) wanted to wrest control of this day from the Jewish influence by changing the observance of Christ resurrection. The greatest observance of the year was changed to the formula of the first Sunday after the first full moon after the twenty first of March. This event was not known to the faithful before then. Now, Passover, an event that the church had observed since the resurrection of Christ Jesus declined in influence. Since the calendars days were different they backed into good Friday. Christ Jesus said He would be in the Body of the Earth for three days and three nights. Good Friday as the burial day does not give you three days and three nights — only two nights and two days. This now celebrated day was created to accomodate the new formula for celebrating the resurrection of Christ.
The sacred time of the Passover meal that Christ told us to do in remembrance lost its significance. It was now replaced by Rabbits and eggs which are symbols of fertility related to the fertility goddess Astarte.
Most of the references can be found in a book writte by Malachi Martin, The Fall of the Roman Church; The First Ecumenical Council.
Pastor Williams,
We view the 1st heaven when we look up to the sky. God, Christ Jesus and the heavenly angels dwell in the 3rd heaven. Who/what dwells in the 2nd heaven?
Heaven is where God’s creation abides. The first Heaven is here on earth. The same tree of life given in the Book of Revelation COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN is the same Tree of Life seen in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 3:24). Thus establishing the First Heaven as Being on Earth.
The second heaven is the air whereby the stars, sun and moon are. This is the territory given to satan when the Bible says he is the prince of the air (Ephesians 2:2) Also Christ Jesus beheld satan as lightening fall from heaven (Luke 10:18). When Christ Jesus made this observation satan had already been released from the Third Heaven.
The Third Heaven is where God the Father abides and where the Apostle Paul knew such a man caught up to the Third Heaven (II Corinthians 12:2).