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The Constantine Government established The Council of Nicaea In 325 AD.

To ensure freedom from prosecution, Constantine forced the early church to say the following:
“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all the other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspirations, purifications, sanctifications, propitiations, fasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths, superstitions, hymns, chants, and observances, and synagogues. Absolutely everything Jewish, every Law, rite, and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Cain and the leprosy of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be an anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.”
~ Stefano Assemani, Acta Sanctorium Martyrum Orientalium at Occidentalium, Vol.1, Rome 1748, pg 105

Furthermore, any follower of the “Jewish Messiah” who wished to join this “holy community” was compelled to adopt a different set of rules and customs. Subsequently, special creeds were drafted, to which the Christian would have to swear such as:

I accept all customs, rites, legalism, and feasts of the Roman’s [pagans] sacrifices, prayers, purifications with water, sanctifications by Pontificus Maxmus (high priest of Rome), propitiations, and feasts and the NEW SABBATH — “ SOL DIE” (Sunday) — all new chants and observances, and all the foods and drinks of the Romans … in other words, I absolutely accept everything Roman, every new law, rite and custom of Rome and the New Roman Religion.”

Additionally, in approximately 363 AD, the Council of Laodicea wrote, in one of their canons.
‘Christians must not ‘judaize’ by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather, honoring the Lord’s Day (Sunday])
… but if any shall be found to be Judaizers, let them be anathema [against] from Christ.”
~ Ancient Epitome of Canon XXIX.

A Christian shall not stop work on the Sabbath, but on the Lord’s Day.
~ Theodore Balsamon*.

* Balsamon, also known as Theodore IV, was the Patriarch of Antioch from 1185 to 1199. He was a canonist in the Church of Constantinople and remained a resident in Constantinople throughout his patriarchate.0 Balsamon was the principal Byzantine legal scholar of the medieval period and a law chancellor to the patriarch of Constantinople. He preserved the world's knowledge of many source documents from early Byzantine political and theological history through his commentary.

Here the Fathers order that no one of the faithful shall stop work on the Sabbath as do the Jews, but that they should honour the Lord’s Day, on account of the Lord’s resurrection, and that on that day they should abstain from manual labour and go to church. But thus abstaining from work on Sunday they do not lay down as a necessity, but they add, “if they can.” For if through need or any other necessity any one worked on the Lord’s day this was not reckoned against him.

Note: Protestants are included as they still observe the holidays and sabbath of Rome, as in “are you going to church this coming Lord’s day”.

Concerning Antiochus Epiphanes…
He set up an image of Zeus in the Temple which was the Abomination of Desolation spoken of in Daniel 11. For 3 years, he continued to desecrate the Temple. These were the new laws that Antiochus set up:

• Thou shall profane the Sabbath
• Thou shall change the set times (festivals) and laws
• Thou shall set up idols
• Thou shall eat unclean animals
• Thou shall not circumcise
• Thou shall forget Torah

3 years and 2 months later, the Temple was taken back and rededicated.
This is known as the Feast of Dedication, or Festival of Lights, or Hanukkah.

What’s really is ironic…..these laws were created by an antichrist Antiochus, and are the same things Constantine would later repeat and this is what people want to live by today. Totally going against YAHWEH’s Word. People today are living under laws created by Antiochus and Constantine; an antichrist.

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