Last updated Nov. 20, 2002.

Caesar is Pope!!

Pope Constantine was born Flavius Valerius Constantinus at Nis on Feb. 27, 280, in what is now Serbia, son of the commander Constantius Chlorus (later Constantius I) and Helena a camp follower and Balkan barmaid. Constantius became co-emperor in 305.

Following the example of his father and earlier 3rd-century emperors, Constantine in his early life was a solar henotheist, believing that the Roman sun god, Sol, was the visible manifestation of an invisible "Highest God" (summus deus), who was the principle behind the universe. This god was thought to be the companion of the Roman emperors. Constantine's adherence to this faith is evident from his claim of having had a vision of the sun god in 310 while in a grove of Apollo in Gaul. 

As a youth Constantine was sent to the palace of the infamous Roman Emperor Diocletian to learn the tricks of the trade as they say. At that time Christianity was growing by leaps and bounds throughout the Empire. The Christians were outstanding citizens but the Emperors saw them as a  threat to the empire for ONE reason: they refused to acknowledge the divinity of the Emperors or call Caesar "lord."

During the early days of Rome the people hated kings. Rome was a Republic. This human divinity idea came from the Pharaohs. Egyptian rulers were considered gods by their subjects and when Julius Caesar conquered Egypt he brought this idea back to Rome. 

Emperor Diocletian (245 — 313).

Beginning in the year 303, the pagan Roman Empire made one last great attempt to exterminate Christianity. This persecution, under the Emperor Diocletian, began on the 23rd of February (303 A.D.), that being the day the Roman Terminalia was celebrated, and the cruel pagans boasted that they would finally put a termination to Christianity

Diocletian began by sacrificing to the pagan gods to make his war against the Christians a success:

" . . . In the first, while Diocletian was sacrificing in public, the chief interpreter of the victims' organs reported that he could not read the future in them because of the hostile influence of Christians standing around. Diocletian burst into a rage, insisting that all in his court should offer sacrifice, and sent out orders to his army to follow suit." (Ramsey MacMullen, Constantine, p.24). "

The local demons having failed him, Diocletian then consulted the most powerful shrine of augury and divination in the world. This was the Oracle of Apollo in Delphi, Greece. His priests brought him back more bad news: it quit working too....This caused him to fly into an uncontrollable rage and he ordered the holocaust to commence immediately:

Oracle of Apollo in Delphi, Greece, quit working after the Resurrection of Christ. Apollo was another name for Sol Invictus or the sun god.

Fire, racks, swords, wild beasts, crosses, poison and famine were made use of to kill the Christians. Invention was exhausted to devise tortures against those who would not deny Christ and acknowledge Caesar as "lord" and burn incense to his image.

The lives of Christians during that time consisted of persecution above ground and prayer underground. This is know in history as the era of the martyrs. 

The main target of the pagans was the New Testament . . . and the histories of Christ. All of the great books portraying the Mount of Olives as the site of the Resurrection were systematically  destroyed.  

Even the books written by pagan authors were destroyed because they would reveal a lot about the doctrines and practices of the Apostolic church.

There were millions of Christians and many of them had copies of the New Testament. Only about 5,000 manuscripts have survived from that time and the oldest is dated around 350 A.D.

Eusebius tells us that there were innumerable histories of the Life of Christ and the early church. Only one account survived this persecution. If any had survived we would have known exactly when Jesus was born.

"Hence by recent authors also, there are, as I have said, demonstrations without number, which we may carefully read, very able and clear, written in argumentative form in defense of our doctrine, and not a few commentaries carefully made upon the sacred and inspired Scriptures, showing by mathematical demonstrations the unerring truthfulness of those who from the beginning preached to us the word of godliness" (Preparation for the Gospel, Bk. I, ch. III, p.7.)

Rome was systematically destroying Christian history so that the next generation of believers would have no idea what their parents believed.

Jesus said that the Christians  were the salt of the earth and the light of the world:

"Ye are the salt of the earth . . . Ye are the light of the world . . (Matthew 5:13-14)"

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition . . . and now ye know what witholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way (II Thessalonians 2:3-6)."

Even Eusebius was imprisoned and it is a miracle that any of his writings have survived. His close friend and mentor Pamphilus was martyred during this time.

This persecution lasted 10 years and was ended by the victory of Constantine, and his Edict of Milan (313 A.D.).

Pope Constantine fought against Scots and Picts in Britain.

Constantine joined his father in making war on the Scots and Picts in Northern Britain. Since the days of Agricola, Rome never gave up her ambition of making slaves of those freedom loving people. When his father died in 306, Constantine was proclaimed Emperor by his soldiers at York.

It was a long way from the Highlands to the Tiber and Constantine knew that old Sol Invictus was not as invincible as in former days. He  was always on the lookout for new "gods" that would help him to achieve his burning ambition of ruling the world.

It was then that his so-called conversion to Christianity came about. 

In 312, on the eve of a crucial battle against Maxentius, his rival in Italy, Constantine is reported to have dreamed that Christ appeared to him and told him to inscribe the first two letters of his name (XP in Greek) on the shields of his troops. The next day he is said to have seen a cross superimposed on the sun and the words "in this sign you will be the victor" (usually given in Latin, in hoc signo vinces). 

Labarum of Constantine which he affixed to the shields of his soldiers.

Constantine then defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, near Rome. The Senate hailed the victor as savior of the Roman people. Thus, Constantine, who had been a pagan solar worshiper, now looked upon the Christian deity as a bringer of victory. 

Persecution of the Christians was ended, and Constantine's co-emperor, Licinius, joined him in issuing the Edict of Milan (313), which mandated toleration of Christians in the Roman Empire. As guardian of Constantine's favored religion, the church was then given legal rights and large financial donations.

This ended the first stage of the Roman war on the saints and commenced the second.

Pope Constantine changed the PLACE of the Resurrection of Christ!!

Constantine knew from experience that the great power of the Christian message came from the preaching of the Resurrection of Christ. Immediately upon assuming the purple, he set about to insidiously undermine and then eliminate this cardinal doctrine.

For 300 years the Christians were accustomed to visit the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and they came back filled with zeal for their Risen Lord.

They also saw the total ruins of the Temple in exact fulfillment of the words of Jesus. This made them invincible to all the threats and arguments of the pagans. Constantine set about to change this:

"Believers in Jesus all congregate from all parts of the world....that they may worship at the MOUNT OF OLIVES opposite the city....TO THE CAVE that is shown there" (Eusebius, Proof of the Gospel, Bk. VI. ch. 18)."

The Empty Tomb on the Mount of Olives!!

Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem where Jesus rose from the dead.

The Resurrection of Christ is the great central Doctrine of Christianity. It is the ROCK and pillar that support the entire structure. St. Paul said:

"And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain (I Cor. 15:14)."

And again: 

"But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead, For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive(I Cor. 15:20-22)."

In the year 326, Constantine sent his mother Helena to Jerusalem to discover the spot that he had foreseen as the place of Jesus' Resurrection. This was the site of the temple of Venus on the West side of Jerusalem. He ordered the temple torn down and a church constructed on the site. This is called the church of the Holy Sepulchre to this day. 

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, former site of the Temple of Venus.

This is the WRONG spot because it was located within the city of Jerusalem and Jesus died outside the city walls.

Dec. 25, feast of Dies Natalis Invicti was the biggest day of the year for the sun worshiping pagans.

After changing the TIME and PLACE of the birth and Resurrection, the third strike of Satan against the Gospel was the marrying of this false Christianity with the State. He made Christianity the State religion or united church and state. This was the last straw — marrying the pure bride of Christ with the dirty politics of the Roman Empire.

Jesus had said long ago to another representative of pagan Rome named Pontius Pilate:

"My kingdom is not of this world: If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence (Matt. 18:36)."

Constantine knew plenty about fighting. He was a rough-neck Roman soldier all his life!!

Writing of the 30th anniversary of the ascension of Constantine he pays particular attention to the number 10 and the number 30:

"Again the triad combined with the decade, and performing a threefold circuit of tens, produced that most natural number, thirty. For as the triad is in respect to units, so is the number 30 in respect to tens...."(Eusebius, Oration to Constantine).

Eusebius associated the number 30 with the MONTH having 30 days and the MOON was created to rule the MONTH and the NIGHT. So this empire of Constantine had much to do with darkness and the NIGHT:

What Eusebius was telling the initiated who knew the Scriptures was that 1 plus 2, plus 3, plus 4 equals 10. In other words, right before their eyes, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome were culminating in this Empire of Constantine which would exist until the Second Coming of Christ!!

"For the unit is the tenth of ten, and ten units make up a decade, which is itself the limit, the settled goal and boundary of units; it is that which terminates the infinity of number the term AND END of units" (Eusebius, Oration to Constantine)."

And that Constantine's Empire was not the Empire of Christ . . . but was the 10 toed, 10 horned evil empire of the book of Daniel and Revelation. This was the beginning of the evil Empire that John saw in a vision over 200 years earlier:

"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and TEN horns, and upon his horns 10 crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy (Rev. 13:1)."

This was the same ten horns that Daniel saw upon the Roman wild beast over 500 years earlier: 

"After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beast that were before it; and it had TEN horns (Daniel 7:7)"

The number 10 also stands for apostasy, division, wars and captivity. Shortly after King Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem, he became involved in Baal worship or sun worship and he lost 10 tribes out of the 12 tribes of Israel:

"And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself in a new garment; and they were alone in the field. Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him and rent it in pieces: And said to Jeroboam, Take thee TEN pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give TEN tribes to thee" (I Kings 11:29-31).

"Whereupon the king took council, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Dan and the other in Bethel" (I Kings 12:28-29).

Dan and Bethel became the 2 new rival centers to Jerusalem.

In the Old Testament Dan and Bethel became the 2 new rival worship centers to Jerusalem answering to Rome and Constantinople in the New Testament times.

These are the so-called 10 lost tribes of Israel who went into captivity in Assyria about 250 years later. Only the tribe of Benjamin remained with Judah. 

Pope Constantine pushed Jerusalem out of the loop.

Pope Constantine set up a new Capital about 1,000 miles to the east. This is called the "Orthodox" church to this day. Thus Rome and Constantinople became 2 new rival "church"  headquarters in opposition to Jerusalem.  

Rome and Constantinople became the 2 new "church" headquarters instead of Jerusalem.

When Constantinople fell to the Turks (1453) the Orthodox church moved to Russia and the bitter competition continues right down to our own day with the Vatican enlisting the help of the U.S. military to fight her ancient rival. That is what Fatima is all about.

About 150 years after Pope Constantine, the western part of the Empire went into captivity to the Gothic barbarians and the world entered the long dark night of the DARK  AGES with only ended with the Glorious Reformation about 1260 years later!!

The Vatican against the Orthodox Church by Avro Manhattan

In the Old Testament, Satan's religion was called BAAL worship or sun worship. Baal was just another name for Satan himself or his top deputy. He was the main opponent of Moses when he led the chosen people out of Egyptian bondage.

BAAL fought against Joshua when he tried to bring the chosen people into the promised land. Baal fought against Samson, Gideon, Deborah, David, Jehoshaphat, Elijah, Ezra, Nehemiah, and ALL the Old Testament saints.

BAAL was totally defeated by the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Mount of Olives in 33 A.D., but he refused to admit defeat and moved to Rome to carry on the battle against God's New Testament chosen people — the TRUE Christians.

We will now meet 3 key people that Satan used to establish his religion at Rome in order to destroy true Christianity.

The first one was a depraved high priest of the temple of Baal in Syria named Elagabalus. He was made Emperor of Rome while a boy of 14. 

Elagabalus was high priest of Baal in Syria and later became Roman Emperor. He established the cult of Sol Invictus Elagabal in Rome. He was a depraved monster even by Roman standards and was finally murdered by his troops. 

"Emperor Elagabalas, the crowned high priest of Sol Invictus, sacrificed to the sun god every morning. During these daily rites, for which he stood in front of the altar, the amplissimuss sacedos wore typically Syrian robes ornamented with precious stones. It may be that he examined the entrails of young children which had been sacrificed....."(Gaston H. Halsberghe, The Cult of Sol Invictus), p.85)

Emperor Aurelian (270—275)

Emperor Aurelian considered Sol Invictus Elagabal too foreign or Eastern for Roman tastes and so he Romanized it by dropping the Elagabal. He established a college of high priests which later evolved into the Roman College of Cardinals which elects every pope. 

He made Sol Invictus the state religion of the Roman Empire. He was also murdered by his soldiers.

".... Therefore Aurelian established a new college of high priests, under the name Pontifices Dei Solis." (The Cult of Sol Invictus, p. 155).

Pope Constantine I (306—337)

"But it was during the rule of Constantine the Great that the cult of Deus Sol Invictus reached extraordinary heights, so that his reign was even spoken of as a Sun Emperorship. Constantine was the personification of Deus Sol Invictus on earth, and could consider the statue of the sun in the Forum bearing his name as a statue of himself" (The Cult of Sol Invictus, p. 167)

The great church historian Eusebius called this guy the COUNTERFEIT COIN.

Dies Natalis Invicti or the birthday of the Unconquered Sun was the BIG day for this cult. Constantine called this day (Dec. 25) the birthday of Christ.  None of these 3 devils lived to a ripe old age and Constantine died at age 57 most probably from the effects of poison.

Some of the works of the great church historian Eusebius are available online at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Go to the site and do a word search. You will not find Preparation for the Gospel or Proof of the Gospel there. In those books, written before Pope Constantine, Eusebius used the titles: Jesus, Lord Jesus and the Lord Jesus Christ frequently. After the ascension of Pope Constantine however you will not find the Name JESUS any more. He used titles like God, Sovereign, Most High, etc., etc. which could be used by pagans to refer to their gods. Eusebius knew that the real Jesus was excluded from this 10 toed evil Empire of Constantine.

Eusebius and Constantine

The Four Heathen Empires