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· The stoning of Stephen the first martyr · The Followers of The Way fled with the Gospel and Saul the persecutor became Paul · The dual beast of revelation 13 and it’s worldwide feast on blood and souls · Nero, following the brutal beast from the sea or political world, escalated the binging on blood Actually, that day they dragged Stephen to court, the Hebrews once again received God’s genuine Gospel against their will, through the dreadful circumstances they themselves created and which the Holy Spirit used to UNFURL His Truth right in front of the faces, (Acts 7:44-50!) Yet, they still refused to accept the Spiritual Kingdom to which God called them once again, (Jn. 16:13.) “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears!” Stephen reacted. He willfully insisted to convey God’s whole message to them. “You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers [the old Israelites] did… Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of Whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers. You, like them, have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it!” (Acts 7:50-60.) When they heard this admonition, “they were cut to the heart.” They were deeply convicted by the Holy Spirit of the stubborn sin to continually reject God’s Savior, thereby actively blaspheming against Him. Still, firmly under control of the evil one, they again decided to harden their hearts. Instead of falling to their knees before the mercy throne of The Lord Jesus Christ, they “gnashed their teeth,” (Luke 12:9-12.) Tragically, the spiritually dead Sanhedrin was unaware of what was happening in the spirit world. Demons must have been dancing with joy while they continually steered the thoughts and decisions of those malicious murderers; but the angels of God were also watching. Silently, Emanuel (the ever-present God with us,) and His angels were all around Stephen, (Mt. 1:21-23.) Maybe the angels unsheathed their swords, as they would have defended Stephen if God gave the command. It is likely that they were saddened, as they were the only ones in this assembly who heard the Holy Spirit pray with ‘groans which cannot be uttered,’ as He ‘made intercession’ for Stephen ‘according to the will of God,” (Rom. 8:26.) Those religious Hebrew temple masters were also unaware of the fact that the God Whom they were attacking, was rising from His Divine throne in heaven to receive His first, New Testament Covenant martyr into His eternal Kingdom of heaven – [Rom. 8:26-27; Acts 7; 8:1; Heb. 1:14; 1 Chron. 21:16.] Only Stephen, completely possessed by the Holy Spirit, ‘gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God...’
THE STONING OF STEPHEN, THE FIRST MARTYR, (ACTS 7:44-60.) Jesus’ disciple Stephen seriously warned the temple masters, “GOD DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS, [SO HE IS NOT SERVED BY PRIESTS] AS IF HE NEEDS ANYTHING!” This also nullifies ALL churches and clergies, (Acts 7:44-60; 17:24-25!) They rose furiously from their seats to denounce this great truth. And on hearing that Stephen ‘saw the heavens opened,’ they “cried out with a loud voice, [‘Blasphemy! Blasphemy!’] They stopped their ears and ran at him with one accord, casting him out of the city to stone him...” They flung Stephen to the ground next to a heap of stones that were stacked on the place of execution. Then, silence suddenly fell upon the mob. They were watching Stephen closely to anticipate his answer. Probably, they were waiting for him to plead for mercy — and to confess his “blasphemy” while crying out that he now denies this strange Christ! But Stephen, laying defenselessly at their feet, his face in the dust, did not attempt to escape or to reason with them again. He willingly submitted to his fate; knowing he would soon see Jesus. Stephen knew that death by stoning was not an instant form of execution. Stoning was meticulous, ceremonial murder. The stones were large enough to kill, but not big enough to kill instantly. Stoning is a terrible ordeal of agonizing pain and splattering blood and flesh; slowly building up to a terrible, lingering death. So that the blood of God’s martyr would not splash on their fine ceremonial temple robes, the Sanhedrin and the rest of the priesthood began to meticulously take off their fine, religious garments to “lay down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul,” (Acts 7:57-60.) This reverent act proves that Saul was the ringleader of those demonic murderers. Saul, who would later become the born again Paul, quietly “consented to Stephen’s death” as he guarded the clothes of those who would commit this atrocious murder before his eyes. Saul, too, was a staunch adherent of the unpitying Rabbinic Law, and a fanatical leader in the Hebrew pursuit of ‘a kingdom of god now’ here on earth. Saul was personally overseeing Stephen’s murder because he zealously fought for the Judaist, National vision of a restored Israeli state; eventually free from Roman oppression, and firmly cast in the concrete of the ousted temple order and its polished, ceremonial laws, (Heb. 8:13; chapters 7-10.) [Paraphrased from the example of a recent religious stoning.] By now, Stephen probably got to his feet, just to be kicked down on his knees before the Sanhedrin. Maybe, they allowed him to stand facing them — or they could have buried him to his waist in the ground to magnify his helplessness. Most likely, he looked them straight in the eye as he calmly waited for the first stone to tear into his flesh. It would have been the ‘honor’ of the high priest to cast the first stone. “For God! Do it for God!” the audience would have chanted; eagerly awaiting their turns to throw stones at Stephen. Stephen must have instinctively covered his face with his arms as the high priest calculatedly turned the stone in his hand before hurling it at him. Possibly, the stone hit him in the head; stunning him and knocking him to the ground; followed by a loud cheer from the crowd. But as they did not wish to kill Stephen quickly, the first stone probably struck him in the chest. In devilish unity, the mob would have loudly congratulated the high priest with that ‘excellent shot.’ Those closest to him joyfully tapped him on his back and shoulders, and hugged him in brotherly fashion. The second in charge of this murder then got his chance. And then another. And another. With short intervals, after shouting more abuse, they hurled more stones at Stephen in the Name of God. Each blow drew blood; forcibly tossing Stephen’s body vulnerably to and fro. With each strike, the crowd would have applauded Stephen’s demise, while ecstatically jumping and shaking their fists in victory. They tried to inflict the maximum amount of pain and humiliation before killing him; cheering one another on, making their murder of Jesus’ innocent disciple into a brilliant religious feat. As Stephen collapsed, the stones began to come at him with greater verbosity; mashing his flesh and crushing his bones.
Saul stood completely unaffected while Stephen probably groaned in pain with last breaths; instinctively cradling his face in his arms as the stones slowly thrashed him into the ground. Saul, without twitching a muscle in remorse or choking on the smell of dust and blood, calmly watching from the sideline, listened to the beastly, bloodthirsty cries and curses of his fellow religionists, which mingled with their praises to God and the muffled sound of the stones that were pounding Stephen’s blood-soaked body to a pulp. Not even the dying man’s prayer could soften Saul’s religious heart of stone. Still trying in vain to cover his face, the dying man sobbed through blood-soaked lips, “Lord, receive my spirit! Do not charge them with this sin!” More and more stones rained on him until Stephen slipped away. Eventually, his tortured body grew totally limp. As his innocent blood seeped into the dry dirt underneath him, his breath slowly left him. Stephen ‘fell asleep’ in the undeserving soil of Israel - which, under the Old Testament Covenant, was that great country of God, which would claim millions more lives in the ages to come, in Israel’s futile effort to preserve their OUSTED religion, which Jesus completely crushed at the cross on Golgotha, (Heb. 8:7,13; chapters 7-10; John 19:28-30!) Maybe Saul did not know that Jesus had forewarned His disciples, saying, “They will put you out of the synagogues; [and churches; all their religious systems.] Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service,” (Jn. 16:1-4.) In Saul and his religious companions’ minds, they sincerely believed they were ‘offering God service.’ After all, they were diligently protecting their Kingdom-Now vision for Israel. Even if it took a thousand crusades, they would relentlessly pursue them all, and murder every one of Jesus’ Followers of this so-called “sect, known as “The Way” — they so hated that resurrected Man Jesus, Who dared to call Himself the Christ of the world! – [Acts 24:14; 28:22.]
THE FOLLOWERS OF THE WAY FLED WITH THE GOSPEL AND SAUL THEIR FIERCEST PERSECUTOR BECAME PAUL As seen, Saul, one of the most bloodthirsty persecutors of Jesus’ Followers of The Way, “consented to Stephen’s death,” (Acts 8:1-40.) Years later, he confessed under trial to king Agrippa, “I was a Pharisee… and thought I must do contrary to the Name of Jesus of Nazareth, (Acts Chapter 26.) From Jerusalem, I shut up His Followers of The Way in prison, (Acts 9:1-2;) having authority from the chief priests, and I voted against them to be put to death, [These were NOT ‘CHRISTIANS,’ who were still totally nonexistent until decades later at the last part of 1 A.D.] And I punished them often [for boldly preaching the Truth of Jesus,] and compelled them to blaspheme [against Him.] I was exceedingly enraged against them and even persecuted them in foreign cities. So also during Stephen's burial, I made havoc of the assemblies of The Way; entering EVERY HOUSE, [as they fellowshipped in their homes NOT in nonexistent churches,] and dragging off men and women to prison, (Acts 8:3.) But those who were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, [and also most of the apostles,] went everywhere still preaching the Word…” In reality, the Followers of The Way accomplished exactly the opposite of what Saul and the rest of the murderous priests intended! ► Jesus’ True Word, genuine water baptism, and baptism of fire through persecution, (Mt. 3:12,) tremendously enlarged the home-fellowship or ecclesiastic area of evangelism, and God greatly honored their faithfulness; saving thousands of diligent souls from everywhere around Israel. ► Yet, during and after the time detailed in Acts Chapters 7-9, the harlot and the beast, (or religion and politics, as described in Revelation Chapters 17 & 18;) NOT understanding the complete provision that Jesus made for His spiritual body of believers to carry out His commission, also thought they could devastate God’s Spiritual Kingdom by detaining His “called out assembly” or “ecclesia,’ which means the home gatherings of The Followers of The Way — NOT “church ,” that nonexistent clergies forced into Scripture! (Acts 17:24-25.) ► Instead of pulverizing the Followers of The Way physically, emotionally, and spiritually, all those multilevel persecutions kept them at Jesus’ feet. In utter reliance upon God, they fled with the Word to NOT ONLY save their lives, but to obey Jesus’ commission to “go into all the world to preach His Gospel to anyone who would listen... and teaching them everything HE had said,” (Mt. 28:18-20.) Readers Digest wrote in ‘Jesus and His Times,’ ‘”the fury of Saul and those like him had an effect they did not anticipate, for it caused the Word of God to be carried wherever the scattered Followers of The Way went… And so, communities of Followers of The Way [NOT THE CHURCH that did not even exist yet,] were established among the Hebrews, Greeks, and at Antioch, Alexandria, Damascus, and many other cities…”
► During that time God intervened on the road to Damascus to turn Saul the Slayer into Paul Follower of The Way, (Acts 9:3-19.) And “immediately [after he found his feet in Jesus,] Paul preached Christ in the synagogues; that He is the Son of God, (Acts 9:20-31.) Those in Jerusalem were amazed and asked, “Is this not Saul who destroyed The Followers of The Way who call on Jesus’ Name, and he came here to bring them bound to the chief priests?” But Paul increased in strength and confounded the Hebrews in Damascus; proving Jesus IS The Christ. In Jerusalem, when the temple priests plotted to murder Paul, Jesus’ disciples helped him to [escape at night...] But [everywhere he went,] he spoke boldly in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and disputed with the Hellenists, who also wanted to kill him. But disciples brought him to Caesarea and Tarsus...” ► While Saul who became Paul called for absolute purity of faith in Christ and genuine acceptance of Him — as still seen in His Epistles, which he originally wrote to The ecclesias or home-gatherings of The Followers of The Way, (Gal. 5:1-6,) Hellenists were mainly Jerusalem Hebrews who accepted Roman polytheism or the belief in many so-called pagan ‘gods;’ mingled with ousted Judaism (Hebrews 8:7,13,) and the truth of Jesus Christ. A few decades later those Hellenists became The Jerusalem Council. By the time many Followers of The Way came under deceptive Roman Catholic/Judaist church control, (as described in Acts 11:26,) the Jerusalem Council had grown into a mighty, religious, satanic institution.
It is a gross misconception that Christ came to bring believers outward prosperity and great physical comfort and wealth in this dark realm — although He promised to fulfill their every need. ► Yet, Jesus demonstrated in the parable of the talents that He will say to those who did their best with everything He entrusted to them on a multilevel, (spiritually, soulically, and physically,) “Well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a few things; I will make you steward over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord… [But those who neglected what they received, He will slam as follows,] “Even what unprofitable servants have will be taken away and they will be cast into [hell.]” (Mt. 25:21-28.) Still, The Lord is more concerned about our spiritual welfare and the “coming of His spiritual Kingdom” in the born again hearts and renewed minds of His disciples, (Mt. 25:1-13!) He will NOT light His Gospel in the spirits and minds (hearts and souls) of true believers, and place them in the ‘light.’ That would be living unproductively in this dark dimension, which cannot glorify God, (Mt. 5:11-16!) Instead, He places His ‘lights’ in darkness, to shine forth His Kingdom of grace in the lost souls of cursed, spiritually bound men and women, (Gal. 3:10-14.)
THE DUAL BEAST OF REVELATION 13 BEGAN IT’S WORLDWIDE FEAST ON BLOOD AND THE SOULS OF MAN On the road to Damascus, God livered Saul from the ranks of religious riot and murderous control. And Paul’s own baptism of fire began to portray the shocking deception and political power of the religious beast from the earth. For instance, when God used Paul and Barnabas to heal a cripple man in Lystra, the people wanted to worship Barnabas as Zeus, (father of the Greek gods,) and Paul as Hermes, (messenger of the gods – known to the Romans as Jupiter and Mercury.) “But… Paul and Barnabas tore their clothes and cried, ‘We also are men… Turn from these useless things to the Living God…’ [Yet] they could scarcely restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.” Then the secret agents of that instigating secret society, the Hebrew Sanhedrin, who knew Paul very well, arrived on the scene. They immediately began another slanderous campaign to sway public opinion, and once again, almost instantly, they changed the hearts and the minds of the multitudes, who then “stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead,” (Acts 14.) Such is the power of Satan’s underhanded, back-biting, secret agents of all sorts. One moment Paul was revered as a Greek ‘god; the next moment those people stoned him like a rabid dog and left him for dead outside the city! One moment the multitudes were shouting ‘Hosanna to the King,’ and only a few days later, under the same malicious influence of that secret society, they scourged and crucified Jesus for blasphemy against God and political revolt against Caesar. Officially, the brother of Peter – Andrew, who preached the Gospel to many Asiatic nations, became the body of Christ’s second martyr. ‘Foxes Book of Martyrs’ explains, “On arriving at Odessa, the governor of the country, named Egeas, threatened him for preaching against the idols they worshipped. Andrew, persisting in his [preaching, was eventually] crucified. He was fastened to the cross, not with nails but cords, that his death might be slower. In this situation he continued two days, preaching the greatest part of the time to the people, [until he finally died.]”
“Then Herod the king also stretched out his hand to harass the Followers of The Way. And he killed James the brother of John, (who asked Jesus to sit next to Him in His Kingdom in Mt. 20:20.) “Because Herod saw that it pleased the Hebrews, [the Judaist Sanhedrin,] he proceeded to seize Peter also,’ and threw him in prison.” Here, once more, we clearly see the manipulation and control of the bloodthirsty, religious harlot, (the rising christian church,) as she was already riding the political beast, (Acts Chapter 12’ Rev. 17:1-7!) However, an angel released Peter from prison, which so enraged Herod that he ordered the guards of the dungeon to be put to death. “Peter, after various miracles, retired to Rome, where he confounded the magic of Simon Magnus, a great favorite of Emperor Nero. This caused both Peter and Paul to be apprehended. During their confinement, [God saved] two of the captains of the guard and 47 other persons. After nine months in prison, Peter was brought forth for execution. “Peter was severely scourged, and crucified with his head downwards.” – [Foxe.] Eventually, all of Jesus’ genuine disciples succumbed to the fury of the Dual Beast. “At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas were [again] near being stoned to death by the enraged Hebrews; from whom they fled to Lycaonia. At Philippi, Paul and Silas were imprisoned and whipped; and both were again persecuted at Thessalonica. Being afterwards taken at Jerusalem, Paul was sent to Caesarea, but appealed to Caesar at Rome. Here he was imprisoned for two years… On Paul’s release, he was again arrested and finally beheaded by the order of Nero.” “About the same time James, Philip, Mathew, Mark, Matthias, Jude, Bartholomew, Thomas, and Luke also suffered martyrdom for the cause of Christ. John [the beloved disciple…] founded [home assemblies or ecclesias] at Smyrna, Pergamos, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea, and Thyatira, to which he directed the Book of Revelation [while imprisoned on the island of Patmos.] Being at Ephesus, John was ordered by the Emperor Domitian to be sent bound to Rome, where he was condemned to be cast into a cauldron of boiling oil. “But there [an astounding] miracle was wrought in his favor. The oil did him no harm, and Domitian, not being able to put John to death, banished him to Patmos, to labor in the mines, in A.D. 73… “John was the only disciple who escaped a violent death, and lived the longest of any, being nearly 100 years old at the time of his death.”
NERO, THE BRUTAL BEAST FROM THE SEA OR THE POLITICAL WORLD, ESCALATED THE RELIGIOUS BINGING ON BLOOD Between 54 A.D. and 68 A.D., a few decades before the church was first established at Antioch during latter 1 A.D., (Acts 11:26,) Nero was the Caesar of the Roman empire. He arose to dreadfully accost Jesus’ Followers of The Way as the first political beast who functioned in tandem with the religious beast, (Revelation chapter 13.) In this case, the last-mentioned was the original Hellenist Jerusalem Council and the secret societies under their control, through whom the first Roman Catholic/Judaist church was eventually established at Antioch — totally against what God commanded, (Acts 17:24-25!) “Thus, the [home-to-home assemblies or ecclesias of The Followers of The Way] suffered their first [full-scale POLITICAL] persecution under Nero. Of course, just as all other christian church torture and murder on true believers in LATER YEARS, the religious leaders of the rising Roman Catholic/Judaist church already began to USE RULING GOVERNMENT AID IN THEIR ‘INQUISITIONS AND CRUSADES’ AGAINST TRUE BELIEVERS, who refused to submit to their church disobedience and dogmatic blasphemy against God! (Acts 7:44-50; 17:24-25.) HENCE IN Acts 2:46-47, false church clergies later on changed The Followers of The Way HOME ECCLESIAS into ‘temple worship,’ and God’s growth of The Way’s numbers, into ‘church growth.’ But all that was impossible as earlier on after the cross and Pentecost, Hebrew temple priests tortured and murdered Jesus’ Followers of The Way on sight, which ‘church’ DID NOT EXIST YET — never mind growing in truth like The Way did!] The barbarities Nero inflicted, (with the instigating Jerusalem Council behind him,) even scared Roman citizens. “He had some Followers of The Way sewed up in the skins of wild beasts and then attacked by [starving] dogs until they died. Others were dressed in shirts made stiff with wax, fixed to axletrees, and were set on fire in Nero’s garden… [Thousands] whose names have not been recorded, suffered. [Foxe.] ► The unknown writer of Hebrews 11:36-40 confirms, “[Christ’s Followers of The Way] were mocked, scourged, chained, and imprisoned. They were also stoned, sawn in two and slain by swords. They wandered in sheep and goatskins — destitute, afflicted, tormented. [Some even] fled to deserts, mountains, dens, and caves — but all obtained [wonderful] testimonies through their faith...” “Among other diabolical outrages, Nero ordered that the city of Rome should be set on fire… While the city was burning, he went up to the tower of Maecenas, played on his harp, sung the song of the burning of Troy, and declared that he wished the ruin of all things [Godly and thus holy] before his death…. Then he dropped the whole [fiasco] unto [the Followers of The Way — NOT upon church christians who did not exist before late 1 A.D.,] (Acts 11:26.) Nonetheless, the savagery of this monster remained useless in crushing the faith (of True Followers of The Way.)” [Foxe.]
►► Some sources say that Nero died by suicide in late 68 A.D. after he allegedly murdered Paul. But it is impossible that Paul died before the church was erected in Antioch some time after Nero, (Acts 11:26,) because Paul was actively withstanding the Jerusalem Counsel, the erection of the false church itself, (Galatians 2:11-14,) and its myraid of false dogmas, practices, and even church denominations that certainly did NOT spring up directly after many Followers of The Way were deceived to join the new-built ‘church,’ (Acts 11:26; 7:44-50.) Just one example is what Paul wrote to the ecclesia of remaining Followers of The Way after the church was established, (see 1 Cor. 1:13-17!) And even to the end of the Book of Acts, Paul was still preaching the truth, (which church clergies often bungled to discredit him — as we still see in the Bible today. So, still contending with antichrist Jews to the end, Paul apparently “dwelt two whole years in his own rented house and received all who came to him; preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ will all confidence; no one forbidding him [any longer,]” (Acts 28:17-31!)
A marvelous wonder of God’s True Word is that during all the inhumane suffering of The Followers of The Way and afterward, they continued to preach and live in the True Gospel to glorify God. Nearly all of them met their violent deaths while singing praises to their Savior King, the Lord Jesus Christ, and God delivered many high-ranking Romans as well as ordinary Roman citizens through their testimonies. “And so, many Roman and other Followers of The Way also had to endure the uncontrolled fury of Nero and the Jerusalem Council. Simon of Jerusalem was crucified as a political activist just like Jesus was, for also speaking against the Kingdom-Now theology. Flavia, the daughter of a Roman senator, was banished to Pontus; and a cruel law was made that no [Follower of The Way…] should be exempted from punishment without renouncing his or her belief in the risen Christ.” - [Readers Digest, ‘Jesus and His Times.’] ► Nero and his religious Roman and Hebrew friends, (the Hellenists,) also accused the Followers of The Way of things like ‘indecent nightly meetings, [as they had to meet secretly or be arrested;] having a rebellious demon, [and so being declared “enemies of the State” as the so-called “Ana Baptists” during the Protestant Reformation.] They were even called ‘cannibals,’ [but these were actually schisms of The Way that in later years converted to Roman Catholicism, and participated in the breaking of bread as the “literal flesh and body of Christ” as the Roman Catholic dogma of Transubstantiation still teaches.] As seen, those mad accusations against the genuine ecclesias or home gatherings of Followers of The Way, which could not be eradicated by persecution, still surface in many of christianity’s some 50,000 false church denominations! Just as during the slandering of Jesus and Stephen’s names before their executions, “the persecutions on Followers of The Way multiplied the number of [secret societies that infiltrated the assemblies of believers and operated as] informers to church clergies and government agents. Many, for the sake of gain, swore away the lives of the innocent. When [Followers of the Way] were brought before the magistrates, a test was proposed, when, if they refused to take the oath, or if they confessed themselves [Followers of Christ,] the death sentence was immediately pronounced against them. However, The Lord commanded in Matthew 5:34-37, ‘Swear not at all… let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes..’]” [‘Jesus’ Times, Readers Digest.]
When God finally called John the Beloved home, the public era of the body of Christ known as The Followers of The Way, (the bravest, boldest disciples of all time,) ended. Those who saw Jesus Christ; those who sat under His teaching – those who witnessed His death, resurrection, ascension, and the outpouring of His Spirit, and shared in His suffering through His baptism if fire, all finally fell asleep in Him, (Mt. 11:12.) All those sincere Followers of The Way have played their parts in history, and they excelled magnificently in glorifying Christ, their Spiritual King. Their seeds were sown; their labor of love for God and man was done. Although millions would follow in their footsteps, as a whole, the body of Christ was not, even until today, manifested in all God’s Truth and Will as shortly after Jesus' ascension. Hence, Paul wrote in Rom. 8:18-39, “I consider that the sufferings of this present world are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us…” “We… eagerly wait for the… redemption of our [mortal] bodies… [at the coming of Christ.] What then, shall we say of these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? …Neither death nor life, nor angels nor [demons]… nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come… nor any [other] created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God, [If we keep to our choice to remain] in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rev. 11:15; 19:7-9; 1 Ths. 4:16-17.)
Read Part 2 AGAIN: Jesus’ baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire; Martyrs at the gates of Hades CONTINUE TO PART 3, The Roman Catholic Assault from Within the Midst of Jesus’ Assemblies
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