FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
lesser god, and was guided by that fact when he produced his version
of the Scriptures. For instance, he eliminated the verse in 1 John 5:7,
which says: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” These altered
manuscripts were prepared into Bibles for the newly formed Roman
Catholic Church, and it was out of Eusebius’ translation, that the Latin
Vulgate Bible emerged (a revision of the old Latin version translated
from the Greek Septuagint), written by Jerome (382-404), which
became the official Bible for all Roman Catholics. All other versions
were banned, discarded, and destroyed.Emperor Theodosius (378-398) made Christianity the official State
religion, and church membership was mandatory. This forced
conversion brought many heathens, idol worshipers, and pagans into
the Church. Soon these pagans succeeded in getting statues of
Semiramis and Nimrod into the Church, as the Babylonian system of
‘mother and child’ worship eventually evolved into the Madonna and
child symbol (prominent at Christmas), and referred to them as the
Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus. The halos around their heads were
symbolic of the sun. Confessionals were established, just as they were
in Babylon, and soon the Church began to grow in power.Several Christian sects and semi-Christian orders criticized the
Catholic Church, and taught from the original manuscripts, which they
guarded with their lives, in order to insure the survival of God’s word.The Waldenses were founded in 1170 by a rich merchant from Lyons,
in southern France, called Peter Waldo. He separated from the Catholic
Church, and sold all of his possessions. He taught from the non-Latin
version of the Bible, and said that the Catholic Church wasn’t the
Church of Christ, and referred to them as the World Church mention in
the Book of Revelation. The Christian movement spread to Spain,
northern France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary, and Switzerland.
The Anabaptists and Lollards were two groups which sprang from the
Waldenses.The Anabaptists was the name for various groups from the radical
branch of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. They were
active in Germany, Holland, and Switzerland, and were nicknamed the
‘rebaptizers’ because they rejected the idea of infant baptism, which