FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
Satan’s attempt to get rid of the Biblical teaching. Various religions,
cults, and sects, were established to alter the Holy Scriptures in order
to change them, and confuse the world.Although the Christians were persecuted, their faith in God stood fast.
John, the brother of James, the last of the disciples, was exiled to a
penal colony on the island of Patmos in 97 A.D. He was instrumental in
preserving our Holy Bible, by informing Christians which of the
manuscripts were genuine. These manuscripts were then hidden by
Christians in the cellars of the great monasteries.The Roman Catholic ChurchIn 305, the two Roman emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, stepped
down, and were succeeded by their deputies, Galerius and
Constantius. Constantius was then replaced by Maximinus Daia in the
east, and Severus in the west, and he sent for his son Constantine to
help him reclaim the throne. After Constantius died, Constantine was
proclaimed emperor by his father’s army, and he led them in a march
against Rome.On the evening of October 27, 312, he came face to face with the
legions of Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge on the Tiber River. As he
prepared to pit his small army against the military might of Rome, so
the legend goes, he vowed that if God would help him conquer Rome,
he would institute Christian rule. Eusebius wrote in The Life of
Constantine, that above the setting sun, Constantine and his troops
saw a cross in the sky, and above it were the words: “Hoc signo victor
eris,” which means: “In this sign you shall be victorious.” That night,
Christ appeared to him with the cross, and told him to use it as a
guardian. The next morning, he had this ‘sign of God’ placed on his
helmet, and the shields of his men.Eusebius was given this account by the emperor himself, years
afterward, but he didn’t write about it till after Constantine’s death.
Most historians never acknowledged this glorified account, and not
one man in his army of 40,000 ever mentioned it. Lactantius, a
Christian, a few years later, wrote that Constantine had a vision of
Apollo at the temple in Gaul, who instructed him to place the “celestial