The Horsemen of Revelation:( Continues) Over the centuries, persecution from the Roman authorities took its toll. This counterfeit church further compromised the faith under threat of death from the state. Roman Emperor Constantine combined the power of the state with the ecclesiastical structure and authority of the false church. This created a union of church and state with the ability to create order by squelching dissent. Thus Constantine and succeeding Roman emperors allied themselves with a deceptive religious system represented by the symbolic white horse of peace. Their mission was to conquer, in the name of Christ, all those who opposed them.A final great deception to come Christ’s prophecy of false teachers coming in His name, claiming He is the Christ but deceiving many, indeed came to pass. Church history is largely a story of teachings and practices of the counterfeit Christianity, with its system of beliefs and practices fundamentally different from what the early New Testament Church believed and taught. The story of those who held to or at Times recaptured the essence of true Christianity is not easy to follow through history. Today those who strive to practice the teachings that Christ put into His Church are few in comparison to the thousands of churches that call themselves Christian but are in fact descendants of the counterfeit movement begun in the first century. Christ said that “wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it . . . Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).Amen
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 03:17:55 +0000
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