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>>"NOW A GREAT SIGN
APPEARED IN HEAVEN: A WOMAN
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CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, WITH THE
MOON UNDER HER FEET, AND ON HER
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HEAD A GARLAND OF TWELVE
STARS. THEN BEING WITH CHILD,
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SHE CRIED OUT IN
LABOR AND IN PAIN TO GIVE
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BIRTH...AND ANOTHER
SIGN APPEARED IN HEAVEN.
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BEHOLD, A GREAT FIERY RED
DRAGON. AND THE DRAGON STOOD
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BEFORE THE WOMAN WHO
WAS READY TO GIVE BIRTH,
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TO DEVOUR HER CHILD
AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN."
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>>A WOMAN, A
CHILD, AND A DRAGON.
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AT FIRST GLANCE THIS MIGHT
SOUND LIKE THE INGREDIENTS FOR A
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FRIGHTENING FAIRY TALE.
IN FACT, THE TROUBLING SCENES
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THAT YOU JUST WITNESSED ARE PART
OF A TRUE AND POWERFUL PROPHECY
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GIVEN TO THE APOSTLE
JOHN NEARLY 2,000 YEARS AGO.
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WHAT DOES THIS PROPHECY,
FOUND IN REVELATION 12 TELL US?
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DOES IT POINT TO SOME EVENT THAT
HAPPENED THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO
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OR DOES IT DESCRIBE THINGS THAT
ARE GOING TO TAKE PLACE IN THE
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NEAR FUTURE? AND
WHO DO THE WOMAN, THE
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DRAGON, AND THE CHILD REPRESENT?
JOIN US NOW AS WE JOURNEY DEEP
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INTO A WORLD THAT FEW HAVE EVER
SEEN, BUT ALL ARE A PART OF.
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REVELATION: THE BRIDE,
THE BEAST, AND BABYLON.
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(MUSIC) >>IN THE
LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE,
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REVELATION, THE APOSTLE JOHN
WAS SHOWN A VISION OF A GREAT
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STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND
EVIL, A PROPHECY OF A BATTLE
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THAT HAS BEEN RAGING BEHIND THE
SCENES SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME.
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THE SECRETS BEHIND THIS PROPHECY
HAVE BEEN SHROUDED IN MYSTERY
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FOR CENTURIES, UNTIL NOW.
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FROM THE KINGDOMS AND THE RULERS
THAT HAVE FALLEN AROUND THE
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WORLD TO THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT
STOOD UP TO FIGHT FOR WHAT THEY
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BELIEVED IN, THIS IS THE STORY
OF CHRISTIANITY, THE SEARCH FOR
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TRUTH, AND THE FOUNDATION
FOR THE FAITH OF BILLIONS.
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>>"NOW A GREAT SIGN APPEARED IN
HEAVEN: A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE
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SUN, WITH THE MOON UNDER HER
FEET, AND ON HER HEAD A GARLAND
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OF TWELVE STARS...THEN BEING
WITH CHILD, SHE CRIED OUT IN
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LABOR AND IN PAIN TO GIVE
BIRTH...AND THE DRAGON STOOD
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BEFORE THE WOMAN WHO
WAS READY TO GIVE BIRTH,
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TO DEVOUR HER CHILD
AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN."
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>>MANY BIBLE SCHOLARS AND
HISTORIANS HAVE STUDIED THIS
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PROPHECY OVER THE YEARS
AND AGREE THAT THE PROPHECY OF
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REVELATION 12 POINTS TO AN EVENT
KNOWN AS "THE MASSACRE OF THE
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INNOCENTS" WHICH
OCCURRED IN FIRST CENTURY JUDEA.
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>>IN THE DECADES LEADING UP TO
THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, THE ROMAN
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EMPIRE HAD CONQUERED THE WHOLE
MEDITERRANEAN WORLD, INCLUDING
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JUDEA, AND AT VARIOUS POINTS IN
THAT HISTORY THEY HAD DIFFERENT
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PEOPLE RULING OVER IT.
TWENTY YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS
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BORN YOU HAVE KING
HEROD, A CLIENT KING FOR ROME.
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YOU KNOW, WE HAVE DOCUMENTS
ABOUT HIM OUTSIDE THE BIBLE
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THAT TELL US THAT
HE WAS VERY CRUEL.
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HE WAS CAPABLE OF
KILLING HIS OWN SONS.
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HE WAS RUTHLESS AND YOU WOULDN'T
WANT TO GET ON HIS BAD SIDE.
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>>HEROD WAS VERY ANXIOUS WHEN
A SMALL DELEGATION OF WISE MEN
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FROM THE EAST CAME TO JERUSALEM
ANNOUNCING THEIR SEARCH
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FOR THE NEWBORN
KING OF THE JEWS.
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>>WHY WOULD HEROD
BE UPSET ABOUT THAT?
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BECAUSE THAT WAS HEROD'S TITLE
AS BESTOWED UPON HIM BY THE
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ROMAN EMPIRE:
"KING OF THE JEWS."
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>>AND HE ASKS HIS ASTROLOGERS
'HOW LONG IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
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THIS CHILD COULD
HAVE BEEN BORN AGO?
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AND THEY DETERMINE IT'S PROBABLY
BEEN TWO YEARS, AT MOST,
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SINCE THE CHILD
WAS BORN, MAYBE LESS.
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>>HE FINDS OUT FROM THE
PHARISEES AND THE SADDUCEES
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EXACTLY WHERE THIS CHILD IS
TO BE BORN AND HE FINDS OUT IT'S
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BETHLEHEM. AND HE
WORRIED ABOUT LOSING HIS
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THRONE AND HE HAS SUCH ANGER
AGAINST THIS CHILD HE SENDS IN
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THE SOLDIERS TO
TRY AND KILL JESUS.
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(MUSIC) >>THE
BIBLE TELLS US THIS
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BARBARIC ACT WAS
INSPIRED BY MORE THAN JUST THE
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TYRANNICAL
JEALOUSY OF AN OLD KING.
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MANY BIBLE SCHOLARS BELIEVE
THAT IT'S PART OF A MUCH BIGGER
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STRUGGLE THAT HAS SPANNED
THE AGES AND IS STILL HAPPENING
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TODAY. TO UNCOVER
THE SECRETS OF THIS
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PROPHECY WE'RE GOING TO
FIRST NEED TO IDENTIFY THE MAIN
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CHARACTERS: THE WOMAN,
THE CHILD, AND THE DRAGON.
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>>HE SAYS, 'THEN I SAW ANOTHER
SIGN, A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE
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SUN WITH THE MOON UNDER
HER FEET, AND ON HER HEAD
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A CROWN OF TWELVE STARS.
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>>LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
AT THE WOMAN. WE KNOW THAT SHE'S
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A SYMBOL OF
SOMEONE OR SOMETHING.
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DOES THE BIBLE TELL US
WHAT THIS WOMAN REPRESENTS?
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>>"HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES,
JUST AS CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH
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AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR HER."
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>>WE GATHER FROM THIS THAT THE
CHURCH IS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST.
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NOT ONLY IS SHE THE BRIDE
OF CHRIST, BUT IN A CERTAIN
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SENSE, SINCE NO
MAN HATES HIS OWN
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FLESH, THE
CHURCH IS JESUS' BODY.
00:10:06.70\00:10:10.87
>>VERY CLEARLY A WOMAN,
IN SCRIPTURE, REPRESENTS THE
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CHURCH. YOU HAVE A WOMAN AS
REPRESENTATIVE OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
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WE SEE THIS IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT, WE SEE IT IN THE NEW
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TESTAMENT. JESUS
COMES FROM THE PEOPLE OF
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ISRAEL AND THEN THE CHURCH GROWS
UP AS SOMETHING JESUS DEVELOPS.
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>>MOST IMPORTANTLY, THIS WOMAN
IS ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH TO A
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SPECIAL MALE
CHILD. WHO IS THE CHILD?
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>>WE HAVE A
COUPLE OF INDICATIONS:
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1) HE RULES WITH A ROD
OF IRON OVER THE NATIONS.
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THAT'S IN REFERENCE TO THE OLD
TESTAMENT WHERE, CLEARLY, GOD IS
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THE ONE RULING OVER THE
NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON.
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AND THEN IT SAYS HE'S
CAUGHT UP INTO HEAVEN -
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AND WHO IS
CAUGHT UP INTO HEAVEN?
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>>JESUS CHRIST, RIGHT? HE'S
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
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>>SO THESE TWO INDICATIONS
PRETTY DEFINITIVELY TELL US
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THAT THIS IS JESUS.
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>>NOW LET'S CONSIDER THE
ARCH VILLAIN IN THIS IMPORTANT
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PROPHECY: THE DRAGON.
00:11:05.03\00:11:09.23
>>"AND ANOTHER SIGN
APPEARED IN HEAVEN: BEHOLD,
00:11:09.26\00:11:11.97
A GREAT, FIERY RED DRAGON..."
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>>YOU KNOW, I WISH I COULD JUST
GIVE YOU A FANCIFUL THEORY HERE,
00:11:16.74\00:11:20.21
BUT THE BIBLE TELLS
US WHO THE DRAGON IS.
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THE DRAGON IS THE DEVIL.
00:11:22.61\00:11:25.41
>>BOTH THE OLD TESTAMENT AND
THE NEW TESTAMENT WHO TRIES TO
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DESTROY? THAT IS
SATAN, YOU KNOW, THE
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ANGEL - THE DEVIL - AND SO HE
ATTACKS AS SOON AS CHRIST COMES
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UPON THE FACE OF THE
EARTH - THE ATTACK IS THERE.
00:11:32.99\00:11:37.76
>>"SO THE GREAT
DRAGON WAS CAST OUT.
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THAT SERPENT OF OLD, CALLED THE
DEVIL AND SATAN, WHO DECEIVES
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THE WHOLE WORLD; HE WAS CAST TO
THE EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WERE
00:11:44.93\00:11:49.14
CAST OUT WITH HIM."
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>>WHAT WE SEE HERE, IN THE
FIRST PART OF REVELATION 12
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IS A SYMBOLIC PORTRAYAL
OF THE AGE-OLD CONFLICT
00:11:56.34\00:12:00.18
BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN.
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>>ALL THROUGH THE LIFE AND
MINISTRY OF CHRIST SATAN TRIED
00:12:03.18\00:12:06.32
TO DISRUPT JESUS' PLANS TO
PROVIDE SALVATION FOR HUMANITY.
00:12:06.35\00:12:12.69
>>"BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR
TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS BRUISED
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FOR OUR INIQUITIES; THE
CHASTISEMENT FOR OUR PEACE WAS
00:12:16.00\00:12:19.73
UPON HIM, AND BY HIS
STRIPES WE ARE HEALED."
00:12:19.77\00:12:26.17
>>AT VARIOUS POINTS THEY
KICKED HIM OUT OF SYNAGOGUES
00:12:26.21\00:12:28.28
AND WANTED TO
PUSH HIM OFF A CLIFF.
00:12:28.31\00:12:30.58
>>THEY TRIED TO SILENCE HIM.
00:12:30.61\00:12:31.91
THEY TORTURED HIM
TO DEATH PUBLICLY.
00:12:31.95\00:12:34.55
>>SATAN'S SCHEME TO DERAIL THE
PLAN OF SALVATION WAS UTTERLY
00:12:34.58\00:12:38.62
SHATTERED WHEN
JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD.
00:12:38.65\00:12:45.03
>>"AND HER CHILD WAS CAUGHT
UP TO GOD AND HIS THRONE."
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>>WITH THE SON OF GOD NOW
PHYSICALLY BEYOND HIS REACH, THE
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DEVIL DIRECTED ALL OF HIS
FURY AT THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS,
00:12:53.44\00:12:57.27
THE NEW CHRISTIANS. HE
DID MUCH OF THIS THROUGH
00:12:57.31\00:13:00.98
THE CRUEL POWER
OF IMPERIAL ROME.
00:13:01.01\00:13:05.38
>>"NOW WHEN THE DRAGON SAW THAT
HE HAD BEEN CAST TO THE EARTH,
00:13:05.41\00:13:08.68
HE PERSECUTED THE WOMAN WHO
GAVE BIRTH TO THE MALE CHILD."
00:13:08.72\00:13:12.92
>>CHRISTIANITY WAS A STRUGGLING,
SMALL, PERSECUTED MINORITY THAT
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DIDN'T HAVE OFFICIAL STATUS IN
THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THERE WERE
00:13:17.36\00:13:20.83
A SERIES OF PERSECUTIONS,
SOME OF WHICH WERE QUITE SEVERE.
00:13:20.86\00:13:24.70
>>ONE OF THE ROLES OF RELIGION
IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS TO
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ENSURE THE
WELL-BEING OF THE STATE.
00:13:28.17\00:13:29.94
THE IDEA WAS THAT IF THE GODS
WERE WORSHIPED PROPERLY THEN
00:13:29.97\00:13:32.41
THEY WOULD FAVOR THE EMPIRE
AND IF THEY WERE WORSHIPED
00:13:32.44\00:13:34.88
IMPROPERLY THEN THEY
WOULD - YOU KNOW, BAD THINGS
00:13:34.91\00:13:37.71
WOULD HAPPEN TO THE EMPIRE
AS THE RESULT OF DIVINE WRATH.
00:13:37.75\00:13:40.78
>>THEY DO NOT WANT TO SACRIFICE
TO THE GODS AND THE GODS,
00:13:40.82\00:13:46.62
AT THAT POINT,
INCLUDE THE EMPEROR.
00:13:46.65\00:13:48.69
>>SO IT'S EASY TO CONSIDER THESE
PEOPLE RELIGIOUS SCAPEGOATS.
00:13:48.72\00:13:52.26
BASICALLY, IF SOMETHING'S GOING
WRONG, PROBABLY IT'S BECAUSE
00:13:52.29\00:13:55.30
THERE ARE CHRISTIANS AROUND WHO
ARE REFUSING TO GIVE THE GODS
00:13:55.33\00:13:57.77
THEIR PROPER DUE.
00:13:57.80\00:13:59.10
>>WELL, OF COURSE YOU HAVE
TO PUNISH THEM AND PUNISHMENT
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MEANT, YOU KNOW,
MOST OF THE TIME, DEATH.
00:14:01.24\00:14:03.91
>>WHAT PEOPLE THOUGH WAS THAT
CHRISTIANS GATHER TOGETHER, ALSO
00:14:03.94\00:14:09.88
SEEMED TO MAKE LOVE WITH
THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
00:14:09.91\00:14:13.48
>>BECAUSE THERE WERE RUMORS
ABOUT THEM THAT THEY COMMIT
00:14:13.52\00:14:15.92
INCEST BECAUSE THE CHRISTIANS
USED TO CALL THEMSELVES BROTHER
00:14:15.95\00:14:19.09
AND SISTER AND THEY USED
TO EAT THE FLESH OF CHRIST.
00:14:19.12\00:14:22.86
>>PEOPLE HEARD, APPARENTLY, THAT
CHRISTIANS WERE EATING CHILDREN.
00:14:22.89\00:14:28.80
>>SO WHEN PAGANS HEARD ABOUT
THIS THEY THOUGHT THE WORST,
00:14:28.83\00:14:31.13
RIGHT? THEY ASSUMED THE WORST.
00:14:31.17\00:14:32.57
>>CHRISTIANS ARE PROGRESSIVELY
STRIPPED OF THEIR CIVIL OFFICES,
00:14:32.60\00:14:35.70
THEIR MILITARY OFFICES, THEIR
BOOKS ARE CONFISCATED, THEIR
00:14:35.74\00:14:38.71
CHURCHES ARE DESTROYED, THEY'RE
FORBIDDEN TO MEET, AND SO ON.
00:14:38.74\00:14:41.84
ALL BECAUSE THERE'S AN
ANXIETY THAT THIS IS REALLY
00:14:41.88\00:14:44.48
UNDERMINING THE
WELFARE OF THE EMPIRE.
00:14:44.51\00:14:48.88
>>AS THE EARLY CHURCH SUFFERED
UNDER THIS WITHERING PERSECUTION
00:14:48.92\00:14:52.35
OF ROME, THEIR LIVES BECAME
A POWERFUL TESTIMONY FOR TRUTH.
00:14:52.39\00:14:57.83
WHILE THE PAGANS LIVED IN
CONSTANT SUPERSTITIOUS FEAR,
00:14:57.86\00:15:01.16
THESE CHRISTIANS
FACED TORTURE AND DEATH WITH
00:15:01.20\00:15:04.13
A SUPERNATURAL PEACE.
00:15:04.17\00:15:06.57
>>BASICALLY, WHAT NERO DID
WAS HE FED THEM TO THE LIONS.
00:15:06.60\00:15:09.34
HE HAD THEM TIED TO PILLARS, HE
PUT PITCH ON THEM, AND THEN HE
00:15:09.37\00:15:14.61
SET THEM ON FIRE AS HUMAN
TORCHES SO THEY COULD HAVE THE
00:15:14.64\00:15:17.08
FESTIVITIES
CONTINUE ON INTO THE NIGHT.
00:15:17.11\00:15:19.61
>>YOU KNOW, BEING STRETCHED,
PULLED INTO TWO, YOU KNOW,
00:15:19.65\00:15:23.02
BEING KILLED BY GLADIATORS.
00:15:23.05\00:15:25.35
>>JUST ABOUT EVERY CREATIVE
WAY THAT YOU CAN DISPOSE OF
00:15:25.39\00:15:30.16
CHRISTIANS.
00:15:30.19\00:15:32.19
>>WHEN FACING THE PAINFUL END OF
THEIR LIVES THEY OFTEN SANG AND
00:15:32.23\00:15:35.66
REJOICED.
00:15:35.70\00:15:37.00
AS THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS PAID
THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR THEIR
00:15:37.03\00:15:39.93
FAITH, THEIR DYING PRAYERS AND
BLOOD ESSENTIALLY BECAME SEED
00:15:39.97\00:15:44.91
FOR THE NEW CHURCH.
00:15:44.94\00:15:46.64
>>PEOPLE ARE SO ENTHRALLED BY
HOW THESE CHRISTIANS ARE DYING,
00:15:46.68\00:15:52.95
THAT IMMEDIATELY THE
REACTION IS, 'SIGN ME UP.'
00:15:52.98\00:15:58.19
>>AND SO THE CHRISTIANS SPREAD
LIKE WILDFIRE. THE MORE YOU
00:15:58.22\00:16:01.19
KILLED THEM THE MORE
THEY STOOD FOR THEIR FAITH.
00:16:01.22\00:16:04.16
>>NOW, IT IS TRUE, AND I THINK
IT HAS TO BE EMPHASIZED, THAT
00:16:04.19\00:16:06.59
THE EARLY CHURCH SPREADS DESPITE
THE VERY CONCERTED ATTEMPTS AT
00:16:06.63\00:16:10.97
REPRESSION OF EXTREMELY
AUTOCRATIC AND POWERFUL EMPERORS
00:16:11.00\00:16:16.84
WHO SET THEMSELVES VERY
FIRMLY AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS
00:16:16.87\00:16:19.14
AND YET THE
EARLY CHURCH SURVIVES.
00:16:19.17\00:16:21.58
>>TERTULLIAN ARGUES WHENEVER
SOMETHING GOES WRONG - WHENEVER
00:16:21.61\00:16:24.75
THERE'S A FAMINE OR
WHENEVER THERE'S AN ILLNESS - A
00:16:24.78\00:16:27.68
PESTILENCE THAT SWEEPS THROUGH,
EVERYBODY SAYS, 'THE CHRISTIANS
00:16:27.72\00:16:30.75
TO THE LIONS' AND THEN HE SAYS
SNIDELY, 'AS IF SO MANY COULD BE
00:16:30.79\00:16:36.02
FED TO SO FEW.' AND HIS POINT IS
THAT YOU CAN'T DESTROY US ALL.
00:16:36.06\00:16:41.06
>>DURING THIS TIME OF
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH, CHRISTIANS
00:16:41.10\00:16:44.37
ALL ACROSS THE ROMAN
EMPIRE, QUITE LITERALLY,
00:16:44.40\00:16:47.74
WENT UNDERGROUND. THIS LABYRINTH
OF TUNNELS AND CHAMBERS
00:16:47.77\00:16:53.38
BENEATH THE ROMAN CITIES
BECAME KNOWN AS 'THE CATACOMBS.'
00:16:53.41\00:16:58.15
>>NOW, THE CATACOMBS
ARE IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND.
00:16:58.18\00:17:03.35
FIRST, MANY PEOPLE IMAGINE THAT
THERE ARE CAVES NATURALLY UNDER
00:17:03.39\00:17:06.29
ROME AND THAT CHRISTIANS
SIMPLY WENT INTO THEM.
00:17:06.32\00:17:09.09
THE CATACOMBS, ALMOST WITHOUT
EXCEPTION, ARE NOT NATURAL
00:17:09.12\00:17:12.26
CAVES. THEY WERE
EXCAVATED BY THE CHRISTIANS.
00:17:12.29\00:17:16.43
>>AND SO THE CHRISTIANS MADE
A WHOLE LABYRINTH UNDERGROUND.
00:17:16.46\00:17:20.64
>>SOMETIMES SERVICES
WOULD BE HELD THERE IN THE VERY
00:17:20.67\00:17:24.14
TOMBS OF THE MARTYRS.
00:17:24.17\00:17:27.61
>>THE SECOND POINT IS THE
VERY ACT OF BURYING YOUR DEAD IS
00:17:27.64\00:17:31.88
HUGELY SIGNIFICANT.
00:17:31.91\00:17:33.78
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN A
RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.
00:17:33.82\00:17:37.05
NOW, OF COURSE, THAT BELIEF
HAS SHIFTED AND CHANGED OVER THE
00:17:37.09\00:17:40.29
CENTURIES, BUT FROM ALL WE
UNDERSTAND, EARLY CHRISTIANS
00:17:40.32\00:17:42.92
BELIEVED THAT THEY WOULD
BE RESURRECTED IN THAT ACTUAL
00:17:42.96\00:17:46.53
BODILY FORM AND, THEREFORE,
THEY CHOSE TO BURY THEIR DEAD,
00:17:46.56\00:17:50.93
NOT TO CREMATE THEM.
00:17:50.97\00:17:53.40
THEREFORE, IF YOU ARE SEEN TO BE
BURYING YOUR DEAD, ESPECIALLY AT
00:17:53.44\00:17:55.67
TIMES WHEN THERE ARE INTENSE
WAVES OF PERSECUTION, YOU'RE
00:17:55.70\00:17:59.94
MORE OR LESS SAYING TO THE
POLICE, 'COME INVESTIGATE ME.
00:18:00.04\00:18:03.14
I MAY WELL BE A CHRISTIAN.'
>>IN A.D. 306 A NEW ROMAN
00:18:03.18\00:18:09.75
EMPEROR CAME INTO POWER AND
THINGS BEGAN TO RAPIDLY CHANGE.
00:18:09.78\00:18:14.16
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT WAS A
CAPABLE MILITARY LEADER AND A
00:18:14.19\00:18:18.36
SHREWD POLITICIAN.
00:18:18.39\00:18:20.53
>>SO CONSTANTINE HAD TO FIGHT A
SERIES OF CIVIL WARS IN ORDER TO
00:18:20.56\00:18:23.13
ACHIEVE HIS POLITICAL
AIM OF BECOMING EMPEROR.
00:18:23.16\00:18:26.13
AND THAT'S HIS OWN PERSONAL AND
POLITICAL AIM, IT'S GOT NOTHING
00:18:26.17\00:18:28.00
TO DO WITH CHRISTIANITY.
HE GOES DOWN FROM GAUL -
00:18:28.04\00:18:31.41
MODERN-DAY FRANCE - WHERE HIS
POWER BASE WAS, TO CONFRONT HIS
00:18:31.44\00:18:33.88
RIVAL, MAXENTIUS, IN ITALY.
00:18:33.91\00:18:36.11
>>CONSTANTINE MOVES DOWN
FROM THE NORTH AND YOU THINK OF
00:18:36.14\00:18:40.05
ITALY, THERE'S THIS LONG STRETCH
AND HE WINS ONE BATTLE AFTER
00:18:40.08\00:18:45.55
ANOTHER.
00:18:45.59\00:18:46.76
>>AS HE WAS MARCHING WITH HIS
ARMY HE HAD A DREAM ONE NIGHT,
00:18:46.79\00:18:49.69
WHERE GOD CAME TO HIM AND TOLD
HIM "YOU WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN
00:18:49.72\00:18:53.60
AND PUT THIS SIGN ON YOUR
SHIELD AND YOU WILL CONQUER."
00:18:53.63\00:18:57.93
SHORTLY AFTER THAT HE ACTUALLY
HAD A VISION, WHICH HISTORY
00:18:57.97\00:19:01.80
TELLS US WAS SEEN BY HIS ARMY AS
WELL AS BY CONSTANTINE HIMSELF.
00:19:01.84\00:19:05.04
>>HE LOOKED UP TO THE SUN AND
HE SAW A CROSS OF LIGHT ABOVE IT
00:19:05.07\00:19:08.81
AND THE GREEK WORDS EN
TOUTO NIKA - BY THIS CONQUER.
00:19:08.84\00:19:15.55
>>THE STORY THAT HE HAD
HAD THIS DREAM DOES APPEAR AT A
00:19:15.58\00:19:18.95
RELATIVELY EARLY STAGE.
IT'S DESCRIBED BY EUSEBIUS.
00:19:18.99\00:19:21.59
THERE ARE DIFFERENT SOURCES.
00:19:21.62\00:19:23.16
THERE ARE DIFFERENT
VERSIONS, BUT IT DOES SEEM THAT
00:19:23.19\00:19:25.86
CONSTANTINE DOES SAY, 'I'VE
HAD THIS DIVINE ENCOUNTER AND AN
00:19:25.89\00:19:29.96
ANGEL HAS TOLD ME THAT IN
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS I WILL
00:19:30.00\00:19:32.37
CONQUER.'
>>CONSTANTINE COMMANDED HIS
00:19:32.40\00:19:36.20
TROOPS TO ADORN THEIR SHIELDS
WITH THE CHRISTIAN SYMBOL.
00:19:36.24\00:19:45.08
>>HIS OPPONENT THEN MOVES OUT
OF THE CITY TO FACE THE ONCOMING
00:19:45.11\00:19:48.88
CONSTANTINE WITH HIS ARMY, WHICH
HAS NOW BEEN TRAINED QUITE A BIT
00:19:48.92\00:19:51.85
BECAUSE THEY'VE ALREADY WON
SEVERAL VICTORIES ON THE WAY
00:19:51.89\00:19:54.19
DOWN FROM THE
NORTH - FROM MILAN DOWN.
00:19:54.22\00:19:57.29
HIS OPPONENT MOVES ACROSS THE
RIVER AT THE MUNION BRIDGE - HAS
00:19:57.33\00:20:03.13
CONSTANTINE AND HIS ARMY IN
FRONT OF HIM, THE RIVER AND THE
00:20:03.16\00:20:07.27
CITY BEHIND HIM. NOT A
GREAT SITUATION TO BE IN.
00:20:07.30\00:20:11.07
SO IF YOU DO NOT
BEAT THE ONCOMING ARMY,
00:20:11.11\00:20:13.51
YOU HAVE NOWHERE TO
RETREAT. SO HE LOSES.
00:20:13.54\00:20:16.44
>>SO FOR CONSTANTINE, WHO IS
CERTAINLY NOT YET A CHRISTIAN,
00:20:16.48\00:20:19.78
THIS IS A POWERFUL THING BECAUSE
HE, HIMSELF, BELIEVES 'THE
00:20:19.81\00:20:23.05
CHRISTIAN GOD HAS GIVEN
ME VICTORY. THE CHRISTIAN GOD
00:20:23.08\00:20:26.42
IS MORE POWERFUL
THAN THESE OTHER DEITIES.
00:20:26.45\00:20:28.52
>>I MEAN, IT IS CLEAR THAT
CONSTANTINE MADE THE SYMBOL OF
00:20:28.56\00:20:33.06
CHRISTIANITY PART OF THE
IMPERIAL STANDARDS AND THAT HE
00:20:33.09\00:20:35.66
FOUGHT UNDER THAT SYMBOL
AND HE WON. AND SO, BEING A GOOD
00:20:35.70\00:20:38.50
ROMAN EMPEROR HE
WOULD THEN THINK,
00:20:38.53\00:20:42.14
'YEAH, I GOT THE SIGN.
I'M ON THE RIGHT PATH.'
00:20:42.17\00:20:47.58
>>SO IF YOU'RE A PAGAN OR JUST
SOMEBODY WHO'S CONFUSED ABOUT
00:20:47.61\00:20:51.18
RELIGION, YOU'VE HAD HERE
THIS CLASH OF DEITIES AND WHO'S
00:20:51.21\00:20:57.29
EMERGED ON TOP?
THE CHRISTIAN GOD.
00:20:57.32\00:20:59.92
YOU CAN DRAW
YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.
00:20:59.95\00:21:02.82
>>GRADUALLY THE NATIONAL
SENTIMENT AGAINST CHRISTIANITY
00:21:02.86\00:21:06.53
BEGAN REVERSING. DURING
CONSTANTINE'S REIGN, CHRISTIANS
00:21:06.56\00:21:10.53
WENT FROM BEING A PERSECUTED
SECT TO OPENLY HOLDING
00:21:10.57\00:21:14.14
POSITIONS OF INFLUENCE IN
THE COURTS AND PALACES OF KINGS
00:21:14.17\00:21:17.41
AND GOVERNORS.
00:21:17.44\00:21:18.91
>>SO A LARGE PART OF THE
ELITES USED TO RUNNING THE SHOW
00:21:18.94\00:21:23.45
AUTOMATICALLY THEN BECOME
ALSO THE LOCAL BISHOPS, ETC.
00:21:23.48\00:21:29.38
YOU KNOW, BECOME CHRISTIAN - IT
WASN'T SUCH A BIG LEAP BECAUSE
00:21:29.42\00:21:32.72
MOST OF THEM ANYWAY BELIEVED
IN ONE SUPREME DIVINE BEING
00:21:32.75\00:21:36.02
WHICH HAD
DIFFERENT REPRESENTATIONS.
00:21:36.06\00:21:38.23
>>IF YOU WANT TO ADVANCE IN THE
ARMY OR IN THE IMPERIAL CIVIL
00:21:38.26\00:21:42.60
SERVICE, THERE'S EVERY INCENTIVE
TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE
00:21:42.63\00:21:46.90
ALL THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP ARE
CHRISTIANS. SO IF YOU WANT TO
00:21:46.94\00:21:50.77
ADVANCE IN THE HIERARCHY,
WHETHER IT'S MILITARY,
00:21:50.81\00:21:53.54
CIVIL SERVICE, OR JUST AT
COURT, PEOPLE BECOME CHRISTIANS.
00:21:53.58\00:21:58.21
>>IT BECOMES VERY ATTRACTIVE
BECAUSE CONSTANTINE'S EDICT OF
00:21:58.25\00:22:02.58
TOLERATION MAKES IT SO.
00:22:02.62\00:22:04.82
>>"CONSTANTINE CAN RIGHTFULLY
CLAIM THE TITLE OF GREAT, FOR HE
00:22:04.85\00:22:08.66
TURNED THE HISTORY OF THE
WORLD INTO A NEW COURSE AND MADE
00:22:08.69\00:22:11.79
CHRISTIANITY, WHICH UNTIL THEN
HAD SUFFERED BLOODY PERSECUTION,
00:22:11.83\00:22:16.26
THE RELIGION OF THE STATE."
00:22:16.30\00:22:18.33
>>AND SO, AS PEOPLE FROM AROUND
THE ROMAN EMPIRE ENTERED THE
00:22:18.37\00:22:22.07
CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THEY BROUGHT
WITH THEM MANY OF THEIR FORMER
00:22:22.10\00:22:25.07
PAGAN BELIEFS AND PRACTICES.
00:22:25.11\00:22:27.64
>>NOW THAT CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN
GIVEN THE STATUS AS A FULL LEGAL
00:22:27.68\00:22:30.71
RELIGION, THEN IT BECOMES
ATTRACTIVE SUBSEQUENTLY IN THE
00:22:30.75\00:22:35.35
NEXT GENERATIONS FOR A BROAD
NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THIS UPPER
00:22:35.38\00:22:39.92
ELITE. NOW THE
PERCENTAGE OF CHRISTIANS
00:22:39.95\00:22:44.06
IN THIS TOP TEN, FIFTEEN,
TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT, INCREASES
00:22:44.09\00:22:48.20
AND IT INCREASES DRAMATICALLY
IN THE TOP ONE TO TWO PERCENT.
00:22:48.23\00:22:51.93
THAT'S THE REAL CHANGE.
THAT IS WHEN CHRISTIANITY REALLY
00:22:51.97\00:22:55.44
BECOMES THE CHRISTIANITY IT
IS TODAY. BECAUSE NOW THE PEOPLE
00:22:55.47\00:23:00.08
WHO'VE BEEN RUNNING THE
SHOW, THEY ARE NOW CHRISTIAN.
00:23:00.11\00:23:04.15
>>OVER TIME, CHURCH LEADERS
BEGAN TO EMBRACE THE REGAL ROBES
00:23:04.18\00:23:07.68
AND FLAMBOYANT CEREMONY THAT
WAS PART OF THE PAGAN RELIGIONS
00:23:07.72\00:23:11.79
AND IN PLACE OF THE SIMPLE
COMMANDS OF GOD, THEY BEGAN TO
00:23:11.82\00:23:15.26
TEACH SUPERSTITIONS
AND MAN-MADE TRADITIONS.
00:23:15.29\00:23:18.69
NOW, INSTEAD OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH CONVERTING THE HEATHEN
00:23:18.73\00:23:22.26
WORLD, THE PAGANS
WERE CONVERTING THE CHURCH.
00:23:22.30\00:23:26.27
>>THERE'S A TRAIN COMING OUT OF
THE FIRST CENTURY REPRESENTED BY
00:23:26.30\00:23:29.94
DOCUMENTS WE HAVE IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT THAT DEMONSTRATE, KIND
00:23:29.97\00:23:33.21
OF, THE SHAPE OF THE CHURCH
THERE, GOING INTO THIS LONG DARK
00:23:33.24\00:23:38.21
TUNNEL OF THE SECOND THROUGH
FOURTH CENTURIES AND THEN COMING
00:23:38.25\00:23:41.42
OUT IN THE FOURTH CENTURY, OF
THIS LONG DARK TUNNEL, AND THE
00:23:41.45\00:23:44.85
TRAIN OF THE CHURCH THAT COMES
OUT IS SO DIFFERENT THAN THE
00:23:44.89\00:23:48.19
TRAIN OF THE CHURCH THAT GOES
IN, YOU SAY, 'WHAT HAPPENED?'
00:23:48.22\00:23:52.96
>>IN A.D. 391, BY THE ORDER OF
EMPEROR THEODOCIOUS THE FIRST,
00:23:52.99\00:23:59.20
CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE
OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION OF ROME.
00:23:59.23\00:24:03.24
WORSHIP AT PAGAN TEMPLES WAS
OUTLAWED AND ALL OTHER RELIGIOUS
00:24:03.27\00:24:06.84
PRACTICES CEASED.
00:24:06.88\00:24:08.61
>>YOU'RE TRYING TO
CHRISTIANIZE AN EMPIRE.
00:24:08.64\00:24:11.05
YOU'RE TRYING TO
CHRISTIANIZE A PAGAN CULTURE.
00:24:11.08\00:24:16.72
THE OLD BASILLICAS WERE
BASICALLY PAGAN TEMPLES -
00:24:16.75\00:24:21.52
PUT A CROSS OVER IT.
PUT IN PAINTINGS OF BIBLICAL
00:24:21.56\00:24:24.79
SCENES, PUT IN BIBLICAL
HEROES AND SAINTS AND MARTYRS.
00:24:24.83\00:24:29.73
>>CHRISTIANS ARE VERY PURPOSEFUL
AND INTENTIONAL ABOUT TAKING
00:24:29.76\00:24:33.37
OVER PAGAN TEMPLES AND THERE'S
A NOTABLE CHURCH LEADER WHO
00:24:33.40\00:24:37.37
ACTUALLY WRITES, IN A TREATISE
THAT SURVIVES, HE WRITES A
00:24:37.41\00:24:42.08
REBUTTAL OF PAGAN
ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANITY.
00:24:42.11\00:24:45.41
PART OF HIS EVIDENCE IS, HE
SAYS, 'YOUR VERY OWN PLACES OF
00:24:45.45\00:24:48.28
WORSHIP ARE NOW
CHRISTIAN PLACES OF WORSHIP.
00:24:48.32\00:24:50.55
WE HAVE TAKEN THEM OVER. WE
HAVE CLEANSED OUT THE IDOLATRY.
00:24:50.59\00:24:53.42
WE HAVE SANCTIFIED THEM AND WE
HAVE MADE THEM PLACES WHERE THE
00:24:53.46\00:24:56.12
ONE TRUE GOD IS WORSHIPED.
WHAT CLEARER EVIDENCE COULD YOU
00:24:56.16\00:24:59.06
WISH THAT YOUR WHOLE
SYSTEM OF BELIEF IS FALSE?
00:24:59.09\00:25:02.10
WHERE ARE YOU GODS THAT THEY'RE
ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN?'
00:25:02.13\00:25:05.30
SO CHRISTIANS, ACTUALLY
DELIBERATELY, AT TIMES, AND
00:25:05.33\00:25:08.17
PURPOSEFULLY AS A STRATEGY,
TAKE PAGAN, NOT ONLY PLACES, BUT
00:25:08.20\00:25:13.11
RITUALS OR IDEAS AND, AS THEY
THINK, SUBVERT THEM TO ADVANCE
00:25:13.14\00:25:18.08
THE CAUSE OF, YOU
KNOW, SPREADING CHRISTIANITY.
00:25:18.11\00:25:21.62
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW IS THE EXTENT
TO WHICH THEY THINK THIS THROUGH
00:25:21.65\00:25:24.52
AND SAY, 'WELL, AT WHAT POINT IS
IT LEGITIMATE TO DO THIS AND AT
00:25:24.55\00:25:27.66
WHAT POINT DO WE, PERHAPS, BEGIN
TO BE TAKING ON OTHER IDEAS?'
00:25:27.69\00:25:32.39
>>THE SPEED WITH WHICH THE EARLY
CHURCH TOBOGGANED INTO APOSTASY
00:25:32.43\00:25:36.36
WILL TAKE YOUR
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00:28:13.56\00:28:17.23
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