Many people following the Messianic faith like to say that Constantine introduced the changes in worship as the Lord prescribed, the ones that the modern churches follow today, for example, a Sabbath different from the one that the Lord established. While that Roman emperor may have had a hand in formalizing such changes, it was Antiochus Epiphanies, a type of an anti-Christ, who first instituted the changes, even before our Lord was born. The following is an excerpt from https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Maccabees.html. Antiochus backed down in the face of Jewish opposition to his effort to introduce idols in their temples, but his son, Antiochus IV, who inherited the throne in 176 B.C. resumed his fathers original policy without excepting the Jews. A brief Jewish rebellion only hardened his views and led him to outlaw central tenets of Judaism such as the Sabbath and circumcision, and defile the holy Temple by erecting an altar to the god Zeus, allowing the sacrifice of pigs, and opening the shrine to non-Jews.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:12:56 +0000
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