http://www.newagegod.com/SABmedia/shabat7.htm----How, then, did Christians begin to worship on Sunday, the FIRST day of the week, in place of Saturday, the SEVENTH day of the week?

As a TIME/SPACE traveller, Jesus could truthfully say such things as "Before Abraham was, I am", and "I come from above," and "I go to prepare a place for you"...and return from our Age to tell the Bible Copyists what to put in the "Torah Codes"!

With two years experience actually doing Bible "Torah Codes" on his own computer, Dr. Holt is of the opinion Yeshua ben Miriam [Jesus Christ] is the One responsible for these codes!

There is no record in the "Gospel Pesher" in Acts of Jesus ever authorizng a change from the Seventh day Sabbath to Sunday, although about 60 AD one particular Sunday was celebrated as a sort of EASTER! For More on Bible Codes

How, then, did Christians begin to worship on Sunday, the FIRST day of the week, in place of Saturday, the SEVENTH day of the week? ANSWER: It seems that Gentile Christians by the end of the first century were, some of them, celebrating the first day of the week as a holiday or "play day" IN ADDITION TO keeping the SEVENTH DAY Holy by strict Jewish and Essene rules...Of course these Sunday holidays were more enjoyable than the Saturday Sabbaths. After the destruction of Jerusalem around 70 AD, and another Jewish revolt around 135 AD, Gentiles, and especially Romans had another reason for disliking Saturday Sabbaths...it reminded them of Jews and Jewishness, and they by then detested anything Jewish! However, it was not until after the Emporer Constantine the Great chose to make Christianity the STATE RELIGION of his Empire, that any attempt was made to TRANSFER any of the sacredness of the Seventh day Sabbath to Sunday, the FIRST DAY. This was by Constantine's REQUEST, not by any ACTION of the Church originally...a REQUEST by a man who was a SUN-WORSHIPPER!

Mr. Ian Wilson, of Bristol, England, in 1984 completed one of his many successful books tracing what we then knew about Jesus... The book was published by HarpurSanFrancisco in 1988... Ian Wilson is a historian not a theologian, so he writes very clearly about the Emporer Constantine and his real religious preferences!

Shown in the book are these two medals struck in Constantine's honor, the left in 313 AD and the right in 315 AD...He is paired with Solar Invictus, the Sun God on the left, and still has the Sun's horse on right.

A small chi-rho is on helmet.

On page 161 of Jesus: the Evidence is this picture of Jesus from about the time of Constantine..."Jesus as sun god, riding in the solar chariot...Third century mos -aic from the Mausoleum of the Julii, discovered during excavations beneath the high altar of St. Peter's, Rome."

Ian Wilson adds.."This is another indication of the synthesis of pagan and Christ- ian thinking. ...To any original Jewish follower of Jesus such a representation would have been unthinkable."

From page 163..."Portrait of Jesus, from fourth-century Roman mosaic discovered in 1963 at Hinton St Mary, Dorset, England..Only the Chi-Rho monogram identifies the portrait as Jesus; otherwise ...the pagan god Apollo..This is one of several examples of how, by the time of Constantine the Great, the concept of Jesus was far removed from ..a human Galilean Jew.".

If it were not for the discovery of the Holy Shroud of Turin preserved for many centuries by the Eastern Church, not Rome, we might still today be worshipping a "Jesus" who looks like a GREEK GOD, as well as on the day of the SUN!

The picture on the right is of the Council of Nicaea of 325 AD... According to accounts that survive, it was Constantine himself who decided on the wording of a document which made "Almighty God" of a person who never claimed to be more than "the Son of God" and our High Priest precisely because he was human like we are. .. Those who wouldn't sign the document Constantine preferred were banished!

"Jesus: the Evidence" pg. 160 "...eleven years after winning the battle at the Milvian Bridge [before which Constantine saw his "vision" of the cross victorious: R.H.] Constantine murdered his already vanquished rival Licinius, former Emporer of the East; he then killed his wife, by having her boiled alive in her bath, and his own son - hardly the action of a true follower of Jesus.".... ......Pg. 162 "It was only when he was approaching death that he asked for, or was accepted for, Christian baptism. .....As was still the custom, he received this naked, thereafter renouncing forever the purple of his imperial rank." ......About the Council of Nicaea Ian Wilson writes: Pg. 168 "Exactly what swayed Constantine in that crucial moment we shall probably never know. There can be little doubt that for him the deification of a man was nothing particularly special......He had had his father Constantius deified, would be accorded the same honour after his own death, and would surely have expected Jesus to be a superior entity in the divine hierarchy." ......Same page..."Perhaps not unexpectedly, all but two of the most die-hard Arian loyalists signed......But from the none too truthful face-saving letter Eusebius of Caesarea sent back to his home diocese, it is clear how uneasy he felt about the extent to which he had compromised the fundamental principles of what had been taught about Jesus......Other signatories, who were equally swayed into aquiescence by their awe of the forceful Constantine, felt exactly the ame......Only on returning home did Eusebius of Nicomedia, Maris of Chalcedon and Theognis of Nicaea summon the courage to express to Constantine in writing how much they regretted having put their signatures to the Nicene formula: 'We committed an impious act, O Prince', wrote Eusebius of Nicomedia, 'by subscribing to a blasphemy from fear of you'."...."Although no gospel regarded Jesus as God, and not even Paul had done so, the Jewish teacher had been declared Very God through all eternity, and a whole new theology would flow from this. A fourthcentury sarcophagus preserved at San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome ludicrously depicts the Trinity as three bearded men side by side, and a beardless Jesus officiating at the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden...Jesus, with his Jewish abhorrence of any representational images, would surely not have approved of this." [One of many recurring themes in the Torah Codes, the Bible Computer Codes, is how the "Church" has disregarded the Commandment regarding worshipping images...in these codes, even the crucifix is an idol..R.H.]

Here is the picture that makes the Trinity of Nicaea "plain" so that the peasants can "understand" how 3=1 and 1=3...The 3 old men on the left include Jesus, but Jesus at the same time is on the right between Adam & Eve..To not believe this is heresy!

The Sunday Law of Constantine March 7, AD 321 The Latin original is in the Codex Justiniani (Codes of Justinian), lib.3, title 12, lex. 3. Here it is in English:     "All judges and city people and the craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable Day of the Sun.    Country people, however, may freely attend to the cultivation of the fields, because it frequently happens that no other days are better adapted for planting the grain in the furrows or the vines in trenches. .....So that the advantage given by heavenly providence may not be the occasion of a short time perish." Joseph Cullen Ayer, A Source Book for Ancient Church History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), div.2, per.1, ch.1, sec.59, g, pp. 284,285. Apollo, the "Sun God" of Greece and Rome

Although the Early Roman Catholic Church claims to have made the change from Sabbath worship to Sunday worship on their own authority, this may be no more true than that it was the "Church" who "invented" a "Trinity" of three Persons Who "rule" the Universe! If you skipped "How Jesus became God" [Council of Nicea] Return Here Or to return to the TOP of this page: Click Here  

What the Emporer Constantine and his puppet Church did not count on, was that Yeshua ben Miriam [Jesus Christ] was indeed still alive, and able to travel through TIME /SPACE and keep the Church under surveillance!

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