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Armageddon and the International Sunday Law - God's Holidays

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<strong>and</strong> some of <strong>the</strong>m have I followed. For seven of my family werebishops <strong>and</strong> I am <strong>the</strong> eighth, <strong>and</strong> my kinsmen ever kept <strong>the</strong> daywhen <strong>the</strong> people put away <strong>the</strong> leaven. Therefore, brethren, I whohave lived sixty-five years in <strong>the</strong> Lord <strong>and</strong> conversed withbrethren from every country, <strong>and</strong> have studied all holy Scriptuream not afraid of threats, for <strong>the</strong>y have said, who were greater thanI, ‘It is better to obey God ra<strong>the</strong>r than men.’” "Source: Polycrates,Letter to Victor, Bishop of Rome, quoted in Eusebius’Ecclesiastical History v. 24. 2-8; translated by Kirsopp Lake, Vol.1 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949), pp. 505,507, 509.John <strong>the</strong> Revelator still observed Passover, on <strong>the</strong> very day ofPassover, well after <strong>the</strong> cross. John learned this from JesusHimself. See Luke 22:14-20. John would have been observingPassover <strong>the</strong> way Jesus taught <strong>the</strong>m to at <strong>the</strong> Last Supper, withunleavened bread <strong>and</strong> unfermented grape juice, instead of slaying<strong>and</strong> eating a lamb. Notice that Polycrates said, “It is better toobey God ra<strong>the</strong>r than men.” Polycrates said this because <strong>the</strong> earlyChristians were already being threatened for observing Passoveron <strong>the</strong> 14 th day of <strong>the</strong> first month.The following quote is from The History of Protestantism by <strong>the</strong>Rev. J. A. Wylie, LL.D. This quote shows that <strong>the</strong> earlyChristians still observed Passover <strong>and</strong> that it was <strong>the</strong> CatholicChurch who did away with Passover, changing it to Easter.“While <strong>the</strong> ‘living oracles’ were neglected, <strong>the</strong> zeal of <strong>the</strong> clergybegan to spend itself upon rites <strong>and</strong> ceremonies borrowed from<strong>the</strong> pagans. These were multiplied to such a degree, thatAugustine complained that <strong>the</strong>y were ‘less tolerable than <strong>the</strong> yokeof <strong>the</strong> Jews under <strong>the</strong> law.’ [4] At this period <strong>the</strong> Bishops of Romewore costly attire, gave sumptuous banquets, <strong>and</strong> when <strong>the</strong>y wentabroad were carried in litters. [5] They now began to speak withan authoritative voice, <strong>and</strong> to dem<strong>and</strong> obedience from all <strong>the</strong>32

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