Hijacked by Replacement

As the Early Church, made up of both Jews and Gentiles, grew exponentially in the first and second century, the Roman government, in fear of their numbers and influence, leveraged severe persecution – that is, until Constantine came on the scene. 

During this time, the Roman Empire was having its own internal power struggles between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. When the Emperor of Rome died, there were two Caesars competing for rule of the Empire, Maxentius and Constantine. Constantine seized the opportunity to control all of the Empire by legalizing Christianity and absorbing the Christians into his armies, thus defeating Maxentius.

Constantine had no intentions of legalizing and enforcing the biblical architect of truth within government. He masterfully outlawed evil to hijacked good by organizing a universal religious system under the title of Christianity that would merge Christian concepts with paganism - an age ole’ strategy that works very well, assimilation + replacement = hijacked control!

Constantine married a woman named Theodora who was much like her predecessor, the harlot Semiramis. Together, they pay-rolled a new world clergy promising the Gentile leaders prestige, plump salaries and no taxation to organize and lead the people in the new Roman Church. 

These Gentile leaders rationalized and caved to the same assimilation rationale that the Pharisees and Sadducees did with both the Grecians and Romans. The promise of a career with honorable religious and political power would obviously give them a platform to make a greater impact for the God – this is the deceitful rationale bait behind assimilation. Constantine did not let any grass grow under his feet and did a total replacement of Christian concepts with pagan festivals and called them holy days or what we now call holidays,