Beit HaEmet Brit Chadashah

A Warning to All Who Call Themselves "Christian"

The Creed of the Constantinople Church is the Christian legacy established by Emperor Constantine. It was overtly designed to end all things Jewish, but covertly ended obedience to the Scripture's (O.T.) Torah, with its outline of beliefs for the true followers of Yahuah Elohim.

Most folks are simply not aware that although wildly popular today, the term "Christian" is the brainchild of the Roman Emperor Constantine, and further still does not originate in the New Testament Scripture as we have been led to believe. Most Protestant Christian Churches as we know them today HAVE NOT made a true break-off from their Roman Catholic mother church. They maintain much of her DNA to the foundational tips of their toes.

While it is true that each denomination has some unique truths more in line with Scripture, they also sustain their own spin on many of the mother church's pagan traditions. But still, most Christian church members of varying denominations either don't study church history, don't want to know the truth, or are purposely left in the dark by their church leaders. For the fact remains that most of their foundational doctrines were put in place through the decrees of the Roman Emperor Constantine, first at the Council of Nicea and later at the Council of Laodicea; and have no positive relevance to the true prophetic Messiah of Scripture, Yeshua, or to their eternal reward.

The details found in the Creed of the Constantinople Christian Church reveal the thoughts and sentiments of their leader, Constantine, Emperor of Rome, framer of Christianity. It demanded full cooperation of the church with its bishops, cardinals and teachers. This Creed reveals how it was that the entire Tanakh (OT) containing the Torah (law), the sacred Hebrew names of the Father Yahuah and His Son, Yeshua, the Hebrew calendar of Scripture were all reduced to rubble.

Yahuah's Years commencing in spring and its months signaled by New Moons, Sabbaths counted from the New Moon, and yearly kadosh (set-apart) Feast Days of YAHUAH, were all denounced and relegated to the trash bin, right along with the Yahudim (Jews) themselves, during their long Roman captivity.

This Creed boldly identifies that the Torah and all its teachings had not ended at the time of our Messiah's Crucifixion, but were eliminated by Constantine, himself 300 years later, in the name of proclaiming His new religion called Christianity.

So it was that at that time, in order to be at peace with the Roman Emperor Constantine, one was required to accept his new religion called "Christianity," his new god, "Jesus Christ," along with his solar calendar, unbroken week cycle, Sunday worship days, and the Babylonian pagan holidays of Easter and Christmas.

Constantine's Creed

From the Church of Constantinople, A.D. 325:

"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, and propitiations, and fasts and New Moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and 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."

— Profession of Faith, from the Church of Constantinople, Stefano Assemani, Acta Sanctorium Martyrum Orientalium at Occidentalium, Vol. 1, Rome 1748, page 105

The Original Latin Text:

"Renuntio omnium mores, ritus, legalisms azymos panes Hebraeorum et sacrificia ex agnis, et solemnitatibus ceteris Hebraeorum sacrificia, vota, appetitiones, purgationes, sanctificationibus procurationesque et ieiunia et in kalendis et in sabbatis et superstitiones, et hymnis, et canticis, et observationibus, et synagogam eorum..."

Historical Context: The Quartodecimen

From the time of the crucifixion of Yeshua the Messiah to the days of Constantine, a period of approximately 300 years, the Messiah's true followers were called Quartodecimen (fourteeners) by the Romans. This was because they continued to keep Passover according to the 14th day of the First Lunar Month (Abib) in spring according to the astro-luni-solar calendar. But the Messiah's true followers called themselves Natsarim (Nazarenes).

After A.D. 325, these Quartodecimen/Natsarim were compelled under penalty of death to recant and join the Roman Catholic holy communion of Christianity.

Stunningly, the term "Christian" did not exist prior to that date, and neither did the name "Jesus Christ." All references to the "early church" are referring to either the true believers of the Messiah, or to the new developing Roman Church. All were required to adopt a set of customs, beliefs and rules that are completely absent from Scripture.

Subsequently, special creeds were drafted, in which the Scripture believer had to sign on the dotted line or swear an oath...

The Counter-Oath: Accepting Rome

"I accept all customs, rites, legalism, and feasts [holidays] of the Romans, sacrifices. Prayers, purifications with water, sanctifications by Pontificus Maximus (high priests of Rome), propitiations, and feasts, and the New Sabbath "Sol dei" (day of the Sun, better known as 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."

The Council of Laodicea (A.D. 365)

Additionally, twenty years later, in approximately A.D. 365, the Council of Laodicea wrote in one of their canons:

"Christians must not Judaize [Yahudaize] 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 [Yahudaizers], let them be anathema from Christ."

— Council of Laodicea, Canon 29

Unfortunately, many Sabbatarians today, not knowing their history, continue to proclaim that the Sabbath of Scripture is unquestionably Saturday, the seventh-day of the pagan Roman calendar. Miss-quoting, they then claim that at the Council of Laodicea the sacredness of "Saturday" was changed to "Sunday." But this is not correct!

Rather, this quote is speaking of the Hebrew lunar Sabbath and not the new Roman calendar Saturday. Two unique days on two different time-measuring calendar models. Additionally, their assumption precludes that the calendar of Scripture from creation to that time, was based upon Roman principles.

The Great Calendar Deception

Julius Caesar's Calendar Reform (45 B.C.)

The problem with this is that the Romans did not even change their calendar from the lunar time-keeping system to the solar model until 45 B.C., when Julius Caesar eliminated the moon from the new Roman calendar. So this is simply not accurate according to Scripture. Something was changed, but it was NOT the sacredness of Saturday (Dies Saturnis) transformed to Sunday (Dies Solis)!

"In the mid-1st century B.C. Julius Cæsar invited Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, to advise him about the reform of the calendar, and Sosigenes decided that the only practical step was to abandon the lunar calendar altogether. Months must be arranged on a seasonal basis, and a tropical (solar) year used, as in the Egyptian calendar."

— Encyclopedia Britannica, "The Julian Calendar"

If you will notice in the second quote above, it says, "Christians must not Judaize by resting on THE SABBATH." This is because there were only two options represented, one of which Constantine had fully and utterly denounced as the Jewish Sabbath of the original Hebrew New Moon calendar, and the other was his new Sunday worship day called Dies Solis (Sunday), which caused the seventh-day of this planetary week to be Dies Saturnis (Saturday).

It is therefore, of the utmost importance that folks recognize that the Sabbath day of the Jews, referred to in this Creed, which Constantine bitterly hated and denounced, is NOT the same day of the same calendar the Jews keep today. This is because Constantine's traditional Christian views, as set forth in this Creed forced the Jews to give up the very truths that had tied them to the Torah, their Creator, and to the promise of the Messiah, who takes away the sins of the world. They have never returned to the true sacred calendar of Scripture to this day.

The true Sabbath, referred to in this historic document is referring to the Sabbath that was found "from one New Moon to another" in the Hebrew astro-luni-solar calendar. Nobody misunderstood what the Roman law required, because everyone knew that Sabbath referred only to the Hebrew calendar's seventh-day, while both Saturday and Sunday were only found on the pagan Roman calendar.

Anyone who had been keeping the Sabbath were either Judaizing because they were Messiah followers, or they were Jews who would have nothing to do with following the teachings of the Messiah or the New Testament.

Hillel II and the Jewish Compromise (A.D. 358)

Strikingly, neither of these groups ever kept Saturday as the Sabbath until after A.D. 358, when Hillel II, chief of the Sanhedrin created a calendar that would appease the Romans, and at the same time appear to keep the seventh-day Sabbath, and an all-together changed New Moon to commence their months, for the TRUE and ORIGINAL were no longer allowed.

"Declaring the new month by observation of the new moon, and the New Year by the arrival of spring, can only be done by the Sanhedrin. In the time of Hillel II [4th century A.D.], the last President of the Sanhedrin, the Romans prohibited this practice. Hillel II was therefore forced to institute his fixed calendar, thus in effect giving the Sanhedrin's advance approval to the calendars of all future years."

— The Jewish Calendar: Changing the Calendar, www.torah.org

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being Kohenim (Priests) for Me. Because you have forgotten the Torah of your Elohim, I also will forget your children."

— HoshaYAH (Hosea) 4:6

The Planetary Week: Paganism's Counterfeit

"This planetary week was paganism's counterfeit of the true Biblical week instituted by the Creator in the beginning of earth's history. In the counterfeit week, employed in ancient paganism, 'the venerable day of the Sun' was esteemed by the heathen above the other six days because it was regarded as sacred to the Sun, the chief of the planetary deities... Just as the true Sabbath is inseparably linked with the Biblical week, so the false Sabbath of pagan origin needed a weekly cycle. Thus we have found that the planetary week of paganism is Sunday's twin sister, and that the two counterfeit institutions were linked together..."

— Odom, op. cit., p. 243-244

This rebellious time-keeping system was first instituted in Babylon around 2,000 B.C. by Nimrod and his wife Semiramis. It was known as the birth of the pagan sun worship cult. A system that began to measure time 180 degrees in opposition to the Creator's preordained plan.

Years later, variations of this torch were carried by the Egyptians, and then the Romans, beginning with Julius Caesar, when the first draft of the Julian calendar was drawn for the purpose of eliminating the moon from time-keeping. It was later supported by Pope Sixtus, Victor, Bishop of Rome, and ultimately Emperor Constantine who enforced it through his clever invention of "Christianity."

Today, the entire world marches neatly to the beat of the rebellious Roman time system, and many varied churches under the Roman umbrella of Christianity, worshiping they know not who.

Signs Your Church Carries the DNA of Rome

If truth holds any value for you, please consider how one or more of the following points may reveal whether your Christian church carries any DNA of the mother Roman Catholic Church, connecting it with the Beast and its Mark. While we can't bring a change to the churches, we can change hearts one individual at a time, through a knowledge of the truth.

Like Constantine, its members call themselves Christians, even though this term did not exist until Constantine created a new god for the Roman Empire in A.D. 325.
Like Constantine, they worship Jesus Christ as the Son of God in place of YESHUA the true Messiah, who came in the name of His Father YAHUAH, written in Hebrew over 7,000 times in the Tanakh (O.T.).
Like Constantine, they worship the "Lord God" in place of YAHUAH Elohim, the Eternal Father.
Like Constantine, they follow the rhythm of the pagan Roman Gregorian calendar for all worship occasions.
Like Constantine, they identify either Saturday (Dies Saturnis) or Sunday (Dies Solis) as sacred, on the Roman calendar week cycle.
Like Constantine, they celebrate New Year's Day on January 1st in winter, instead of on New Moon day of Abib 1 in spring, as the Torah Scripture indicates.
Like Constantine, they DENOUNCE the New Year in spring, New Moons, lunar Sabbaths, and all sacred Feast Days of the Torah Scripture.
Like Constantine, they follow an unbroken seven day weekly cycle, instead of the one that starts and stops with each full New Moon.
Like Constantine, every month and day of the month is printed on a wall calendar with NO consistent synchronization to the lunar phases.
Like Constantine, they proclaim we are no longer under the Old Testament Torah Law, as it came to an end at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, but that we are under New Testament covenant of grace. Say what? (It was Constantine and not Yahuah who did away with all things Hebrew, including the Torah in A.D. 325.)
Like Constantine, they celebrate Christmas and Easter with or without all the traditional pagan festivities.
They teach that when you die you go directly to heaven or hell, when the Scriptures teach that all remain in their graves until the rewards are given at the return of the Messiah.
Like Constantine, your church does not recognize that the entire Roman calendar swap, may in fact be the MARK OF THE BEAST.

Historical Evidence: The Lunar Week and Sabbath

"The connection of the Sabbath with lunar phases, however, was (later) discarded by the Israelites..."

— The New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia, p. 135-136

"The introduction... of the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective of the relationship of the day to the moon's phases, led to a complete separation from the ancient view of the Sabbath."

— Encyclopaedia Biblica, 1903, p. 5290

"Even after Constantine's edict about Sunday [A.D. 321-324], it took another generation or two for the seven-day week to catch on throughout the empire."

— Calendar, David Ewing Duncan, p. 47

"The invention of the continuous week was therefore one of the most significant breakthroughs in human beings' attempts to break away from being prisoners of nature [time beaconed by the ordained sun, moon, and stars] and create a social world of their own."

— The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week, Eviator Zerubavel

"Most theologians and some scholars assume that mainstream Jewish society, at the time of Jesus... was practicing a fixed seven-day week, which was the same as the modern fixed [Roman planetary cycling] seven-day week. This is extremely doubtful. The change, from a lunar to a fixed week, was brought about by the power and influence of Rome."

— Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance

"The [early] Hebrews employed lunar seven-day weeks, which ended with special observances on the seventh day, but none the less were tied to the moon's course."

— Rest Days, Hutton Webster, p. 254-255

"The Sabbath depending, in Israel's nomadic period, upon the observation of the phases of the moon, it could not, accordingly be a fixed day [planetary day of the modern Roman cycling week]."

— The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 10, p. 590

"The present Jewish calendar was fixed [to the Roman planetary weekly cycle] in the fourth century."

— Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Letter by Louis Finkelstein to Dr. Leroy E. Froom, Feb. 20, 1939

"There was a distinct break between the Old Testament requirements... dealing with the Sabbath worship... They [Constantine and the Nicaean council] wanted to show that Christianity was distinct from Judaism... The other thing that we should remember, too, is that our calendar that we follow, including Seventh-day Adventists, is not only a calendar that was devised by the Catholic Church, but also it is a calendar that's based upon the SOLAR YEAR, not the lunar year and the Jewish calendar that was observed in the time of Christ follows a lunar [lunisolar] calendar. So the great irony is that even the Seventh-day Adventists themselves are not worshiping on exactly the same Sabbath day as the Jews of the time of Christ."

— Patrick Madrid, Catholic University Professor, EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network, Jan 5, 2006

Conclusion: Come Out of Babylon

Have we been dead wrong most of our lives with regard to our desire to be a Christian, and denounce the continual viability of the Torah (law of the OT), with its perfect calendar system set forth at creation—the divine 364-day cycle ordained by the sun, moon, and stars? YES, because we did not know better! But folks, every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

For it has been written for all to see in this Creed of Constantine as recited by the Church of Constantinople that the ancient priesthood—the righteous line from Adam through Enoch, Noah, Shem, Abraham, and the Zadokite priests—kept Yahuah's perfect calendar in accordance with the Torah. It was Yahuah Elohim our Creator's sacred calendar, with its 364 days divided into four perfect seasons of 91 days each, and its Sabbaths that fall on the same dates every year, that Constantine urgently desired to eliminate. He replaced it with his own chaotic Julian calendar based on pagan Roman astronomy. The true calendar was not the one the Jews were later coerced to adopt and utilize to this day.

The faithful in Roman captivity at the time of Constantine were required to give up YAHUAH'S perfect TORAH calendar—the 364-day Enoch/Zadokite system with its unchanging weekly Sabbaths, its four sacred seasonal festivals, and its divine synchronization with the heavenly luminaries. The Hebrew/Jewish/Semitic people have never to this day returned to YAHUAH'S ordained time-keeping model—the same calendar kept by Enoch who "walked with Elohim," by Noah in the ark, and by the Zadokite priesthood for more than 4,000 years before Constantine's deception.

"BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN..."

— Hazon (Revelation) 18:2

"...COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, LEST YOU SHARE IN HER SINS, AND LEST YOU RECEIVE OF HER PLAGUES."

— Hazon (Revelation) 18:4

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. WHY? Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being Kohenim (Priests) for Me. Because you have forgotten THE TORAH (LAW) of your Elohim, I also will forget your children."

— HoshaYAH (Hosea) 4:6

"Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe?
Expediency asks the question: Is it politic?
Vanity asks the question: Is it popular?
But conscience asks the question: Is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular,
but one must take it simply because it is right."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

May our conscience win out over politics and popularity that we may be obedient to Yahuah in all things He prescribes? May He have compassion upon us all as we wake up from our slumber and follow Him out of these false organizations and into His full light of truth in preparation for His impending judgment and Second Coming. For His call is to COME OUT!

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