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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.
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>>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.
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>>"AND ANOTHER SIGN
APPEARED IN HEAVEN: BEHOLD,
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A GREAT, FIERY RED DRAGON..."
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>>YOU KNOW, I WISH I COULD JUST
GIVE YOU A FANCIFUL THEORY HERE,
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BUT THE BIBLE TELLS
US WHO THE DRAGON IS.
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THE DRAGON IS THE DEVIL.
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>>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.
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>>"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
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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
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BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN.
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>>ALL THROUGH THE LIFE AND
MINISTRY OF CHRIST SATAN TRIED
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TO DISRUPT JESUS' PLANS TO
PROVIDE SALVATION FOR HUMANITY.
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>>"BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR
TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS BRUISED
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FOR OUR INIQUITIES; THE
CHASTISEMENT FOR OUR PEACE WAS
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UPON HIM, AND BY HIS
STRIPES WE ARE HEALED."
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>>AT VARIOUS POINTS THEY
KICKED HIM OUT OF SYNAGOGUES
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AND WANTED TO
PUSH HIM OFF A CLIFF.
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>>THEY TRIED TO SILENCE HIM.
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THEY TORTURED HIM
TO DEATH PUBLICLY.
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>>SATAN'S SCHEME TO DERAIL THE
PLAN OF SALVATION WAS UTTERLY
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SHATTERED WHEN
JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD.
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>>"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,
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THE NEW CHRISTIANS. HE
DID MUCH OF THIS THROUGH
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THE CRUEL POWER
OF IMPERIAL ROME.
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>>"NOW WHEN THE DRAGON SAW THAT
HE HAD BEEN CAST TO THE EARTH,
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HE PERSECUTED THE WOMAN WHO
GAVE BIRTH TO THE MALE CHILD."
00:12:04.12\00:12:08.32
>>CHRISTIANITY WAS A STRUGGLING,
SMALL, PERSECUTED MINORITY THAT
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DIDN'T HAVE OFFICIAL STATUS IN
THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THERE WERE
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A SERIES OF PERSECUTIONS,
SOME OF WHICH WERE QUITE SEVERE.
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>>ONE OF THE ROLES OF RELIGION
IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS TO
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ENSURE THE
WELL-BEING OF THE STATE.
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THE IDEA WAS THAT IF THE GODS
WERE WORSHIPED PROPERLY THEN
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THEY WOULD FAVOR THE EMPIRE
AND IF THEY WERE WORSHIPED
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IMPROPERLY THEN THEY
WOULD - YOU KNOW, BAD THINGS
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WOULD HAPPEN TO THE EMPIRE
AS THE RESULT OF DIVINE WRATH.
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>>THEY DO NOT WANT TO SACRIFICE
TO THE GODS AND THE GODS,
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AT THAT POINT,
INCLUDE THE EMPEROR.
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>>SO IT'S EASY TO CONSIDER THESE
PEOPLE RELIGIOUS SCAPEGOATS.
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BASICALLY, IF SOMETHING'S GOING
WRONG, PROBABLY IT'S BECAUSE
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THERE ARE CHRISTIANS AROUND WHO
ARE REFUSING TO GIVE THE GODS
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THEIR PROPER DUE.
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>>WELL, OF COURSE YOU HAVE
TO PUNISH THEM AND PUNISHMENT
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MEANT, YOU KNOW,
MOST OF THE TIME, DEATH.
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>>WHAT PEOPLE THOUGH WAS THAT
CHRISTIANS GATHER TOGETHER, ALSO
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SEEMED TO MAKE LOVE WITH
THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
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>>BECAUSE THERE WERE RUMORS
ABOUT THEM THAT THEY COMMIT
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INCEST BECAUSE THE CHRISTIANS
USED TO CALL THEMSELVES BROTHER
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AND SISTER AND THEY USED
TO EAT THE FLESH OF CHRIST.
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>>PEOPLE HEARD, APPARENTLY, THAT
CHRISTIANS WERE EATING CHILDREN.
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>>SO WHEN PAGANS HEARD ABOUT
THIS THEY THOUGHT THE WORST,
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RIGHT? THEY ASSUMED THE WORST.
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>>CHRISTIANS ARE PROGRESSIVELY
STRIPPED OF THEIR CIVIL OFFICES,
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THEIR MILITARY OFFICES, THEIR
BOOKS ARE CONFISCATED, THEIR
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CHURCHES ARE DESTROYED, THEY'RE
FORBIDDEN TO MEET, AND SO ON.
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ALL BECAUSE THERE'S AN
ANXIETY THAT THIS IS REALLY
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UNDERMINING THE
WELFARE OF THE EMPIRE.
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>>AS THE EARLY CHURCH SUFFERED
UNDER THIS WITHERING PERSECUTION
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OF ROME, THEIR LIVES BECAME
A POWERFUL TESTIMONY FOR TRUTH.
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WHILE THE PAGANS LIVED IN
CONSTANT SUPERSTITIOUS FEAR,
00:13:53.19\00:13:56.43
THESE CHRISTIANS
FACED TORTURE AND DEATH WITH
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A SUPERNATURAL PEACE.
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>>BASICALLY, WHAT NERO DID
WAS HE FED THEM TO THE LIONS.
00:14:01.87\00:14:04.61
HE HAD THEM TIED TO PILLARS, HE
PUT PITCH ON THEM, AND THEN HE
00:14:04.64\00:14:09.88
SET THEM ON FIRE AS HUMAN
TORCHES SO THEY COULD HAVE THE
00:14:09.91\00:14:12.35
FESTIVITIES
CONTINUE ON INTO THE NIGHT.
00:14:12.38\00:14:14.88
>>YOU KNOW, BEING STRETCHED,
PULLED INTO TWO, YOU KNOW,
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BEING KILLED BY GLADIATORS.
00:14:18.32\00:14:20.62
>>JUST ABOUT EVERY CREATIVE
WAY THAT YOU CAN DISPOSE OF
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CHRISTIANS.
00:14:25.46\00:14:27.46
>>WHEN FACING THE PAINFUL END OF
THEIR LIVES THEY OFTEN SANG AND
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REJOICED.
00:14:30.97\00:14:32.27
AS THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS PAID
THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR THEIR
00:14:32.30\00:14:35.20
FAITH, THEIR DYING PRAYERS AND
BLOOD ESSENTIALLY BECAME SEED
00:14:35.24\00:14:40.18
FOR THE NEW CHURCH.
00:14:40.21\00:14:41.91
>>PEOPLE ARE SO ENTHRALLED BY
HOW THESE CHRISTIANS ARE DYING,
00:14:41.94\00:14:48.22
THAT IMMEDIATELY THE
REACTION IS, 'SIGN ME UP.'
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>>AND SO THE CHRISTIANS SPREAD
LIKE WILDFIRE. THE MORE YOU
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KILLED THEM THE MORE
THEY STOOD FOR THEIR FAITH.
00:14:56.42\00:14:59.29
>>NOW, IT IS TRUE, AND I THINK
IT HAS TO BE EMPHASIZED, THAT
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THE EARLY CHURCH SPREADS DESPITE
THE VERY CONCERTED ATTEMPTS AT
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REPRESSION OF EXTREMELY
AUTOCRATIC AND POWERFUL EMPERORS
00:15:06.20\00:15:12.04
WHO SET THEMSELVES VERY
FIRMLY AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS
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AND YET THE
EARLY CHURCH SURVIVES.
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>>TERTULLIAN ARGUES WHENEVER
SOMETHING GOES WRONG - WHENEVER
00:15:16.81\00:15:19.95
THERE'S A FAMINE OR
WHENEVER THERE'S AN ILLNESS - A
00:15:19.98\00:15:22.88
PESTILENCE THAT SWEEPS THROUGH,
EVERYBODY SAYS, 'THE CHRISTIANS
00:15:22.92\00:15:25.95
TO THE LIONS' AND THEN HE SAYS
SNIDELY, 'AS IF SO MANY COULD BE
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FED TO SO FEW.' AND HIS POINT IS
THAT YOU CAN'T DESTROY US ALL.
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>>DURING THIS TIME OF
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH, CHRISTIANS
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ALL ACROSS THE ROMAN
EMPIRE, QUITE LITERALLY,
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WENT UNDERGROUND. THIS LABYRINTH
OF TUNNELS AND CHAMBERS
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BENEATH THE ROMAN CITIES
BECAME KNOWN AS 'THE CATACOMBS.'
00:15:48.61\00:15:53.35
>>NOW, THE CATACOMBS
ARE IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND.
00:15:53.38\00:15:58.42
FIRST, MANY PEOPLE IMAGINE THAT
THERE ARE CAVES NATURALLY UNDER
00:15:58.45\00:16:01.42
ROME AND THAT CHRISTIANS
SIMPLY WENT INTO THEM.
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THE CATACOMBS, ALMOST WITHOUT
EXCEPTION, ARE NOT NATURAL
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CAVES. THEY WERE
EXCAVATED BY THE CHRISTIANS.
00:16:07.40\00:16:11.57
>>AND SO THE CHRISTIANS MADE
A WHOLE LABYRINTH UNDERGROUND.
00:16:11.60\00:16:15.77
>>SOMETIMES SERVICES
WOULD BE HELD THERE IN THE VERY
00:16:15.80\00:16:19.27
TOMBS OF THE MARTYRS.
00:16:19.31\00:16:22.74
>>THE SECOND POINT IS THE
VERY ACT OF BURYING YOUR DEAD IS
00:16:22.78\00:16:27.02
HUGELY SIGNIFICANT.
00:16:27.05\00:16:28.92
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN A
RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.
00:16:28.95\00:16:32.19
NOW, OF COURSE, THAT BELIEF
HAS SHIFTED AND CHANGED OVER THE
00:16:32.22\00:16:35.42
CENTURIES, BUT FROM ALL WE
UNDERSTAND, EARLY CHRISTIANS
00:16:35.46\00:16:38.06
BELIEVED THAT THEY WOULD
BE RESURRECTED IN THAT ACTUAL
00:16:38.09\00:16:41.63
BODILY FORM AND, THEREFORE,
THEY CHOSE TO BURY THEIR DEAD,
00:16:41.66\00:16:46.07
NOT TO CREMATE THEM.
00:16:46.10\00:16:48.54
THEREFORE, IF YOU ARE SEEN TO BE
BURYING YOUR DEAD, ESPECIALLY AT
00:16:48.57\00:16:50.81
TIMES WHEN THERE ARE INTENSE
WAVES OF PERSECUTION, YOU'RE
00:16:50.84\00:16:55.08
MORE OR LESS SAYING TO THE
POLICE, 'COME INVESTIGATE ME.
00:16:55.11\00:16:58.15
I MAY WELL BE A CHRISTIAN.'
>>IN A.D. 306 A NEW ROMAN
00:16:58.18\00:17:04.82
EMPEROR CAME INTO POWER AND
THINGS BEGAN TO RAPIDLY CHANGE.
00:17:04.85\00:17:09.22
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT WAS A
CAPABLE MILITARY LEADER AND A
00:17:09.26\00:17:13.43
SHREWD POLITICIAN.
00:17:13.46\00:17:15.56
>>SO CONSTANTINE HAD TO FIGHT A
SERIES OF CIVIL WARS IN ORDER TO
00:17:15.60\00:17:18.20
ACHIEVE HIS POLITICAL
AIM OF BECOMING EMPEROR.
00:17:18.23\00:17:21.20
AND THAT'S HIS OWN PERSONAL AND
POLITICAL AIM, IT'S GOT NOTHING
00:17:21.24\00:17:23.07
TO DO WITH CHRISTIANITY.
HE GOES DOWN FROM GAUL -
00:17:23.10\00:17:26.47
MODERN-DAY FRANCE - WHERE HIS
POWER BASE WAS, TO CONFRONT HIS
00:17:26.51\00:17:28.94
RIVAL, MAXENTIUS, IN ITALY.
00:17:28.98\00:17:31.18
>>CONSTANTINE MOVES DOWN
FROM THE NORTH AND YOU THINK OF
00:17:31.21\00:17:35.12
ITALY, THERE'S THIS LONG STRETCH
AND HE WINS ONE BATTLE AFTER
00:17:35.15\00:17:40.62
ANOTHER.
00:17:40.66\00:17:41.79
>>AS HE WAS MARCHING WITH HIS
ARMY HE HAD A DREAM ONE NIGHT,
00:17:41.82\00:17:44.76
WHERE GOD CAME TO HIM AND TOLD
HIM "YOU WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN
00:17:44.79\00:17:48.63
AND PUT THIS SIGN ON YOUR
SHIELD AND YOU WILL CONQUER."
00:17:48.66\00:17:53.00
SHORTLY AFTER THAT HE ACTUALLY
HAD A VISION, WHICH HISTORY
00:17:53.03\00:17:56.81
TELLS US WAS SEEN BY HIS ARMY AS
WELL AS BY CONSTANTINE HIMSELF.
00:17:56.84\00:18:00.04
>>HE LOOKED UP TO THE SUN AND
HE SAW A CROSS OF LIGHT ABOVE IT
00:18:00.08\00:18:03.81
AND THE GREEK WORDS EN
TOUTO NIKA - BY THIS CONQUER.
00:18:03.85\00:18:10.55
>>THE STORY THAT HE HAD
HAD THIS DREAM DOES APPEAR AT A
00:18:10.59\00:18:13.96
RELATIVELY EARLY STAGE.
IT'S DESCRIBED BY EUSEBIUS.
00:18:13.99\00:18:16.59
THERE ARE DIFFERENT SOURCES.
00:18:16.62\00:18:18.16
THERE ARE DIFFERENT
VERSIONS, BUT IT DOES SEEM THAT
00:18:18.19\00:18:20.86
CONSTANTINE DOES SAY, 'I'VE
HAD THIS DIVINE ENCOUNTER AND AN
00:18:20.90\00:18:24.97
ANGEL HAS TOLD ME THAT IN
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS I WILL
00:18:25.00\00:18:27.37
CONQUER.'
>>CONSTANTINE COMMANDED HIS
00:18:27.40\00:18:31.21
TROOPS TO ADORN THEIR SHIELDS
WITH THE CHRISTIAN SYMBOL.
00:18:31.24\00:18:40.08
>>HIS OPPONENT THEN MOVES OUT
OF THE CITY TO FACE THE ONCOMING
00:18:40.12\00:18:43.89
CONSTANTINE WITH HIS ARMY, WHICH
HAS NOW BEEN TRAINED QUITE A BIT
00:18:43.92\00:18:46.86
BECAUSE THEY'VE ALREADY WON
SEVERAL VICTORIES ON THE WAY
00:18:46.89\00:18:49.19
DOWN FROM THE
NORTH - FROM MILAN DOWN.
00:18:49.22\00:18:52.29
HIS OPPONENT MOVES ACROSS THE
RIVER AT THE MUNION BRIDGE - HAS
00:18:52.33\00:18:58.13
CONSTANTINE AND HIS ARMY IN
FRONT OF HIM, THE RIVER AND THE
00:18:58.17\00:19:02.34
CITY BEHIND HIM. NOT A
GREAT SITUATION TO BE IN.
00:19:02.37\00:19:06.14
SO IF YOU DO NOT
BEAT THE ONCOMING ARMY,
00:19:06.17\00:19:08.58
YOU HAVE NOWHERE TO
RETREAT. SO HE LOSES.
00:19:08.61\00:19:11.51
>>SO FOR CONSTANTINE, WHO IS
CERTAINLY NOT YET A CHRISTIAN,
00:19:11.55\00:19:14.85
THIS IS A POWERFUL THING BECAUSE
HE, HIMSELF, BELIEVES 'THE
00:19:14.88\00:19:18.12
CHRISTIAN GOD HAS GIVEN
ME VICTORY. THE CHRISTIAN GOD
00:19:18.15\00:19:21.49
IS MORE POWERFUL
THAN THESE OTHER DEITIES.
00:19:21.52\00:19:23.59
>>I MEAN, IT IS CLEAR THAT
CONSTANTINE MADE THE SYMBOL OF
00:19:23.63\00:19:28.10
CHRISTIANITY PART OF THE
IMPERIAL STANDARDS AND THAT HE
00:19:28.13\00:19:30.73
FOUGHT UNDER THAT SYMBOL
AND HE WON. AND SO, BEING A GOOD
00:19:30.77\00:19:33.57
ROMAN EMPEROR HE
WOULD THEN THINK,
00:19:33.60\00:19:37.21
'YEAH, I GOT THE SIGN.
I'M ON THE RIGHT PATH.'
00:19:37.24\00:19:42.64
>>SO IF YOU'RE A PAGAN OR JUST
SOMEBODY WHO'S CONFUSED ABOUT
00:19:42.68\00:19:46.25
RELIGION, YOU'VE HAD HERE
THIS CLASH OF DEITIES AND WHO'S
00:19:46.28\00:19:52.35
EMERGED ON TOP?
THE CHRISTIAN GOD.
00:19:52.39\00:19:54.99
YOU CAN DRAW
YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.
00:19:55.02\00:19:57.76
>>GRADUALLY THE NATIONAL
SENTIMENT AGAINST CHRISTIANITY
00:19:57.79\00:20:01.43
BEGAN REVERSING. DURING
CONSTANTINE'S REIGN, CHRISTIANS
00:20:01.46\00:20:05.47
WENT FROM BEING A PERSECUTED
SECT TO OPENLY HOLDING
00:20:05.50\00:20:09.07
POSITIONS OF INFLUENCE IN
THE COURTS AND PALACES OF KINGS
00:20:09.10\00:20:12.34
AND GOVERNORS.
00:20:12.37\00:20:13.84
>>SO A LARGE PART OF THE
ELITES USED TO RUNNING THE SHOW
00:20:13.88\00:20:18.38
AUTOMATICALLY THEN BECOME
ALSO THE LOCAL BISHOPS, ETC.
00:20:18.41\00:20:24.32
YOU KNOW, BECOME CHRISTIAN - IT
WASN'T SUCH A BIG LEAP BECAUSE
00:20:24.35\00:20:27.66
MOST OF THEM ANYWAY BELIEVED
IN ONE SUPREME DIVINE BEING
00:20:27.69\00:20:30.96
WHICH HAD
DIFFERENT REPRESENTATIONS.
00:20:30.99\00:20:33.16
>>IF YOU WANT TO ADVANCE IN THE
ARMY OR IN THE IMPERIAL CIVIL
00:20:33.19\00:20:37.53
SERVICE, THERE'S EVERY INCENTIVE
TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE
00:20:37.57\00:20:41.84
ALL THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP ARE
CHRISTIANS. SO IF YOU WANT TO
00:20:41.87\00:20:45.71
ADVANCE IN THE HIERARCHY,
WHETHER IT'S MILITARY,
00:20:45.74\00:20:48.48
CIVIL SERVICE, OR JUST AT
COURT, PEOPLE BECOME CHRISTIANS.
00:20:48.51\00:20:53.15
>>IT BECOMES VERY ATTRACTIVE
BECAUSE CONSTANTINE'S EDICT OF
00:20:53.18\00:20:57.39
TOLERATION MAKES IT SO.
00:20:57.42\00:20:59.62
>>"CONSTANTINE CAN RIGHTFULLY
CLAIM THE TITLE OF GREAT, FOR HE
00:20:59.65\00:21:03.53
TURNED THE HISTORY OF THE
WORLD INTO A NEW COURSE AND MADE
00:21:03.56\00:21:06.66
CHRISTIANITY, WHICH UNTIL THEN
HAD SUFFERED BLOODY PERSECUTION,
00:21:06.70\00:21:11.13
THE RELIGION OF THE STATE."
00:21:11.17\00:21:13.20
>>AND SO, AS PEOPLE FROM AROUND
THE ROMAN EMPIRE ENTERED THE
00:21:13.23\00:21:16.94
CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THEY BROUGHT
WITH THEM MANY OF THEIR FORMER
00:21:16.97\00:21:19.94
PAGAN BELIEFS AND PRACTICES.
00:21:19.97\00:21:22.51
>>NOW THAT CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN
GIVEN THE STATUS AS A FULL LEGAL
00:21:22.54\00:21:25.58
RELIGION, THEN IT BECOMES
ATTRACTIVE SUBSEQUENTLY IN THE
00:21:25.61\00:21:30.22
NEXT GENERATIONS FOR A BROAD
NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THIS UPPER
00:21:30.25\00:21:34.79
ELITE. NOW THE
PERCENTAGE OF CHRISTIANS
00:21:34.82\00:21:38.93
IN THIS TOP TEN, FIFTEEN,
TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT, INCREASES
00:21:38.96\00:21:43.06
AND IT INCREASES DRAMATICALLY
IN THE TOP ONE TO TWO PERCENT.
00:21:43.10\00:21:46.80
THAT'S THE REAL CHANGE.
THAT IS WHEN CHRISTIANITY REALLY
00:21:46.84\00:21:50.31
BECOMES THE CHRISTIANITY IT
IS TODAY. BECAUSE NOW THE PEOPLE
00:21:50.34\00:21:54.88
WHO'VE BEEN RUNNING THE
SHOW, THEY ARE NOW CHRISTIAN.
00:21:54.91\00:21:58.88
>>OVER TIME, CHURCH LEADERS
BEGAN TO EMBRACE THE REGAL ROBES
00:21:58.91\00:22:02.48
AND FLAMBOYANT CEREMONY THAT
WAS PART OF THE PAGAN RELIGIONS
00:22:02.52\00:22:06.59
AND IN PLACE OF THE SIMPLE
COMMANDS OF GOD, THEY BEGAN TO
00:22:06.62\00:22:10.06
TEACH SUPERSTITIONS
AND MAN-MADE TRADITIONS.
00:22:10.09\00:22:13.50
NOW, INSTEAD OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH CONVERTING THE HEATHEN
00:22:13.53\00:22:17.07
WORLD, THE PAGANS
WERE CONVERTING THE CHURCH.
00:22:17.10\00:22:21.07
>>THERE'S A TRAIN COMING OUT OF
THE FIRST CENTURY REPRESENTED BY
00:22:21.10\00:22:24.74
DOCUMENTS WE HAVE IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT THAT DEMONSTRATE, KIND
00:22:24.77\00:22:28.01
OF, THE SHAPE OF THE CHURCH
THERE, GOING INTO THIS LONG DARK
00:22:28.04\00:22:33.01
TUNNEL OF THE SECOND THROUGH
FOURTH CENTURIES AND THEN COMING
00:22:33.05\00:22:36.22
OUT IN THE FOURTH CENTURY, OF
THIS LONG DARK TUNNEL, AND THE
00:22:36.25\00:22:39.65
TRAIN OF THE CHURCH THAT COMES
OUT IS SO DIFFERENT THAN THE
00:22:39.69\00:22:42.99
TRAIN OF THE CHURCH THAT GOES
IN, YOU SAY, 'WHAT HAPPENED?'
00:22:43.02\00:22:47.76
>>IN A.D. 391, BY THE ORDER OF
EMPEROR THEODOCIOUS THE FIRST,
00:22:47.76\00:22:54.00
CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE
OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION OF ROME.
00:22:54.04\00:22:57.91
WORSHIP AT PAGAN TEMPLES WAS
OUTLAWED AND ALL OTHER RELIGIOUS
00:22:57.94\00:23:01.58
PRACTICES CEASED.
00:23:01.61\00:23:03.35
>>YOU'RE TRYING TO
CHRISTIANIZE AN EMPIRE.
00:23:03.38\00:23:05.78
YOU'RE TRYING TO
CHRISTIANIZE A PAGAN CULTURE.
00:23:05.81\00:23:11.45
THE OLD BASILLICAS WERE
BASICALLY PAGAN TEMPLES -
00:23:11.49\00:23:16.26
PUT A CROSS OVER IT.
PUT IN PAINTINGS OF BIBLICAL
00:23:16.29\00:23:19.53
SCENES, PUT IN BIBLICAL
HEROES AND SAINTS AND MARTYRS.
00:23:19.56\00:23:24.47
>>CHRISTIANS ARE VERY PURPOSEFUL
AND INTENTIONAL ABOUT TAKING
00:23:24.50\00:23:28.10
OVER PAGAN TEMPLES AND THERE'S
A NOTABLE CHURCH LEADER WHO
00:23:28.14\00:23:32.11
ACTUALLY WRITES, IN A TREATISE
THAT SURVIVES, HE WRITES A
00:23:32.14\00:23:36.81
REBUTTAL OF PAGAN
ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANITY.
00:23:36.85\00:23:40.15
PART OF HIS EVIDENCE IS, HE
SAYS, 'YOUR VERY OWN PLACES OF
00:23:40.18\00:23:43.02
WORSHIP ARE NOW
CHRISTIAN PLACES OF WORSHIP.
00:23:43.05\00:23:45.29
WE HAVE TAKEN THEM OVER. WE
HAVE CLEANSED OUT THE IDOLATRY.
00:23:45.32\00:23:48.16
WE HAVE SANCTIFIED THEM AND WE
HAVE MADE THEM PLACES WHERE THE
00:23:48.19\00:23:50.86
ONE TRUE GOD IS WORSHIPED.
WHAT CLEARER EVIDENCE COULD YOU
00:23:50.89\00:23:53.80
WISH THAT YOUR WHOLE
SYSTEM OF BELIEF IS FALSE?
00:23:53.83\00:23:56.77
WHERE ARE YOU GODS THAT THEY'RE
ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN?'
00:23:56.80\00:23:59.90
SO CHRISTIANS, ACTUALLY
DELIBERATELY, AT TIMES, AND
00:23:59.93\00:24:02.84
PURPOSEFULLY AS A STRATEGY,
TAKE PAGAN, NOT ONLY PLACES, BUT
00:24:02.87\00:24:07.78
RITUALS OR IDEAS AND, AS THEY
THINK, SUBVERT THEM TO ADVANCE
00:24:07.81\00:24:12.75
THE CAUSE OF, YOU
KNOW, SPREADING CHRISTIANITY.
00:24:12.78\00:24:16.28
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW IS THE EXTENT
TO WHICH THEY THINK THIS THROUGH
00:24:16.32\00:24:19.19
AND SAY, 'WELL, AT WHAT POINT IS
IT LEGITIMATE TO DO THIS AND AT
00:24:19.22\00:24:22.32
WHAT POINT DO WE, PERHAPS, BEGIN
TO BE TAKING ON OTHER IDEAS?'
00:24:22.36\00:24:27.03
>>THE SPEED WITH WHICH THE EARLY
CHURCH TOBOGGANED INTO APOSTASY
00:24:27.10\00:24:31.03
WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY.
00:24:31.07\00:24:37.27
>>THE STORY ISN'T OVER.
00:24:37.31\00:24:39.17
FOR MORE THAN A THOUSAND YEARS
THE PAGAN APOSTASY WITHIN THE
00:24:39.21\00:24:42.41
CHURCH WOULD LEAD TO DECEPTION,
PERSECUTION, TORTURE, AND MASS
00:24:42.44\00:24:47.88
DEATH ACROSS EUROPE AND
IT WOULD ALL BUT EXTINGUISH
00:24:47.92\00:24:51.09
THE FLAME OF HOPE.
00:24:51.12\00:24:53.12
BUT THE LIGHT WOULD NOT GO
OUT AND THE REVOLUTION OF FAITH
00:24:53.15\00:24:56.69
WOULD CHANGE THE
COURSE OF HISTORY FOREVER.
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00:26:12.43\00:26:14.64
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00:26:14.67\00:26:19.37
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00:26:19.41\00:26:23.35
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00:26:23.38\00:26:27.65
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00:26:34.99\00:26:38.76
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00:26:38.79\00:26:52.01
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00:26:52.04\00:26:53.94
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00:26:53.98\00:26:57.78
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00:26:57.81\00:27:00.48
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00:27:00.52\00:27:02.88
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00:27:02.92\00:27:05.75
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GOES ON FOR A GOOD DISTANCE, SO
00:27:05.79\00:27:09.92
IT'S A BIGGER CITY
THAN WHAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME.
00:27:09.96\00:27:11.73
THIS HISTORIC EVENT IS CALLED
'THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS'
00:27:11.76\00:27:14.23
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00:27:14.30\00:27:16.26
WE'RE ABLE TO PULL IT OFF IN
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00:27:16.30\00:27:19.63
THE EVENT BUT ALSO DOES IT IN A
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00:27:19.67\00:27:23.04
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00:27:23.07\00:27:26.14
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00:27:26.17\00:27:30.38
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00:27:30.41\00:27:34.35
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