Kingdom Parables

M. M. NINAN
"That they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality."
Honoring the memory of apostles and martyrs gave way to adoration.
They began to call these men ‘saints" and all other sinners. (The Bible
says that all Christians are saints) Then they began to pray to them (AD
375) and made them intermediary gods. This was an old concept where
a big God is approached through a lesser god. Mary became the carrier
of God and Mother of God. (AD 431) and from her evolved a sinless,
eternally virgin Queen of Heaven who never died and was taken to
Heaven where she now reigns sitting beside her son. The concept of the
virgin goddess as Queen of Heaven is as old as Nimrod the Great
Hunter, builder of Babel. Read also Jeremiah 44. Worship of pictures
and idols became an open practice in the churches. Of course there were
oppositions. But under the ruling power , the outer church went on.
Relics became the object of worship.
Lord’s supper became a sacrifice - the sacrifice has to go on every day
because the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross was not complete. People
will have to eat the flesh and drink the blood of this God to be made
holy for a while until it is digested.
Worship became liturgical with magical chants and music. It was just the
copy of any temple worship in any other religion except their names
were changed. Zeus became Jesus, Diana became Mary, Appolo became
Peter and so on. Idol worship and spiritual harlotry were here to stay. It
continues even today.
4.8 NICOLAITANS
Along with Balaam’s teachings came Nicolaitans. The trend of a spiritual
leader in early church now began to crystallize. Like all pagan religions a
special privileged class of clergy with all sorts of hierachial authority
began to evolve. To consolidate the position of priest even the basic
teaching of Christianity were manipulated until only the husk remained.
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