1. Biblical Church History
Following the Hand of God and the Hand of Satan

2. P e r g a m o s
Revelation 2:8-11 c A.D.
“Much Marriage”

3. P e r g a m o s
I. The Commission
Rev. 2: 12

4. (Rev 2:12) And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

5. P e r g a m o s
II. The Character
Rev. 2: 12b

6. (Rev 2:12) And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

7. Smyrna
Pergamos
Power of His Word
Proxy of His Word
“Much Marriage ”

8. P e r g a m o s
III. The Commendation
Rev. 2: 13

9. (Rev 2:13) I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

10. (Rev 2:13) I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

11. (Rev 2:13) I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

12. P e r g a m o s
IV. The Condemnation
Rev. 2: 14-15

13. (Rev 2:14-15) But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

14. The Pollution of Balaam
Smyrna
Pergamos
The Pollution of Balaam
“Much Marriage ”

15. P e r g a m o s H 2 key Elements of this Doctrine
Eating things sacrificed to Idols
Committing fornication
The Historical Application (90AD)
They allowed themselves to get involved in the worship of idols.
They took part in the sexual fornication at the Love Goddess Temple in forms of worship

16. Numbers 22-24

17. (Num 25:1) And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
(Num 25:2) And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
(Num 25:3) And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
(Num 25:4) And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
(Num 25:5) And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.

18. (Num 25:6) And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
(Num 25:7) And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
(Num 25:8) And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
(Num 25:9) And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

19. P e r g a m o s H The Prophetical Application
The children of Israel have come to the plains of Moab after defeating the Amorites
The king of Moab is worried by this and sends for the prophet Balaam
He offers an abundance of things in exchange for Balaam to curse the Israelite people

20. P e r g a m o s H
Balaam wants all the things offered him by Balak so that every time he opens his mouth to curse them he ends up blessing them
So he tells Balak the only way for these people to be cursed and die is for God to do it.
The book of Numbers does not record the conversation, but through Revelations we know that Balaam taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel

21. P e r g a m o s H
This stumbling block was for the Moabite women to seduce the men of Israel through fornication and to cause them to bow down to their gods and sacrifice to them
The same thing has repeated itself when Constantine married the church to the Pagan form of worship. The devil no longer wanted to try to curse the church; he will get the church to curse itself

22. (1Co 10:6-8) Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

23. P e r g a m o s H Doctrine of Balaam
The Eucharist is nothing more than the doctrine of Balaam in a mystery form.
This is the church period where the teaching entered the church, that the Priest, in the midst of the service that came to be called the Mass, has the mystical ability to transform the bread and the wine of the communion into the literal Body and Blood of Christ. And that’s how you actually “receive” Christ

24. THE EUCHARIST

26. P e r g a m o s H The Catholic Encyclopedia says…
“In the celebration of the Holy Mass, the bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ. Its is called transubstantiation, for the Sacrament of the Eucharist the substance of bread and wine do not remain, but the entire substance of bread is changed into the body of Christ, and the entire substance of wine is changed into His blood, the species or outward semblance of bread and wine alone remaining.”

27. 1414 As sacrifice, the Eucharist is also offered in reparation for the sins of the living and the dead and to obtain spiritual or temporal benefits from God.

28. 1365 Because it is the memorial of Christ's Passover, the Eucharist is also a sacrifice…In the Eucharist Christ gives us the very body which he gave up for us on the cross, the very blood which he "poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."

29. 1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: "The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different." "And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and offered in an unbloody manner this sacrifice is truly propitiatory.

30. 1413 By the consecration the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real, and substantial manner: his Body and his Blood, with his soul and his divinity (cf. Council of Trent: DS 1640; 1651).

31. 1375It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ's body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament…The priest, in the role of Christ, pronounces these words, but their power and grace are God's. This is my body, he says. This word transforms the things offered…The power of the blessing prevails over that of nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed

32. 1374 The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.“ In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained." "This presence is called 'real' - by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present."

33. The Priest says in Latin “This is My Body” or “Hoc est enim Corus Meum
The Priest says in Latin “This is My Body” or “Hoc est enim Corus Meum.“ At this point they believe that the bread and wine transform in to the actual literal body and blood of Christ

34. Hocus Pocus

35. P e r g a m o s H Why does God call this “idolatry” in Rev. 2:14?
When the wafer is consecrated by the priest, it is then call the “Host”
Because it is now (Supposedly) become Christ therefore must be worshiped.

36. 1418 Because Christ himself is present in the sacrament of the altar, he is to be honored with the worship of adoration. "To visit the Blessed Sacrament is . . . a proof of gratitude, an expression of love, and a duty of adoration toward Christ our Lord" (Paul VI, MF 66).

37. 1378Worship of the Eucharist
1378Worship of the Eucharist. In the liturgy of the Mass we express our faith in the real presence of Christ under the species of bread and wine by, among other ways, genuflecting or bowing deeply as a sign of adoration of the Lord. "The Catholic Church has always offered and still offers to the sacrament of the Eucharist the cult of adoration, not only during Mass, but also outside of it, reserving the consecrated hosts with the utmost care, exposing them to the solemn veneration of the faithful, and carrying them in procession

38. P e r g a m o s H Why does God call this “idolatry” in Rev. 2:14?
When the wafer is consecrated by the priest, it is then call the “Host”
Because it is now (Supposedly) become Christ therefore must be worshiped.
If the doctrine of transubstantiation is false than what are you worshiping?
WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAN IDOLATRY.

39. WHERE IS THE ROOTS AND ORIGIN OF THE EUCHARIST?

40. P e r g a m o s H
Church historian Will Durant says that the belief in transubstantiation as is practiced in the Roman Catholic church is
“…one of the oldest ceremonies of primitive religion.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia admits…”Mithraism had a Eucharist, but the idea of a sacred banquet is as old as the human races and existed at all ages and amongst all peoples.”
Catholic Encyclopedia Vol

41. P e r g a m o s H
In Egypt, a cake was consecrated by a priest and was supposed to become the flesh of Osiris. It was then eaten, and wine was taken as part of the rite.
Encyclopedia of Religions, Vol.2,76
The wafer used in the Eucharist is round with IHS engraved on it on one side, and many have a large "+" engraved on the other side.
The round disk "sun" wafer IHS symbol of Isis, Horus & Seb, eaten as food for the soul. Some wafers also had a large "+" sign engraved on them as well to symbolize Baal.

43. P e r g a m o s H
On the altars in Egypt was a sun shaped wafer made of unleavened bread. They were consecrated by the priests and magically became the body of their sun god Osiris, through ‘transubstantiation’. They then ate their God as a form of ‘Eucharist.’
Catholic Explanation In reality, it is a faulty Latin transliteration of the Greek contraction "Jesus", and was later rationalized to Iesus Hominum Salvator = Jesus Savior of Men (mankind).

44. P e r g a m o s H
Catholic missionaries were surprised when they first came to Mexico… “when they witnessed a religious rite which reminded them of communion..an image made of flour..after consecration by priest, was distributed among the people who ate it..declaring it was the flesh of deity.”
William Prescot, History of the Conquest of Mexico, Vol3

45. P e r g a m o s H
Hastings’ Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics has a whole section in it, entitled—”Eating the god”
And it shows how this whole idea of transubstantiation was common among many nations, and tribes and religions long before the time of Christ.

46. P e r g a m o s H
This teaching did not come from the Bible! It came right out of what was going on in Rome as part of their pagan worship at the time of Constantine…That was passed down to them from the Tower of Babel.
Eating the literal body and drinking the literal blood of Christ in not communion it’s cannibalism

47. P e r g a m o s H
Alexander Hislop on the origin of the word “cannibal”…(from Baal worship and the offering of human sacrifices)…
“When ‘the fruit of the body’ was thus offered, it was ‘for the sin of the soul’..the priest of Nimrod or Baal were necessarily required to eat of the human sacrifices; and thus it has come to pass the ‘Cahna-Bal’, the ‘Priest of Baal’, is the established word in our own tongue for a devourer of human flesh. Hislop, The Two Babylons, 332

48. P e r g a m o s H
Even the form of bread used in the Roman Catholic is right out of Baal worship!
The “host” (from the Latin word meaning “victim” or “sacrifice”) is made in a round shape.
The Catholic Encyclopedia tells you that in the 4th century, St. Epiphanius first mentions the fact that there bread was in a round shape.
Vol. 7 p.491

49. P e r g a m o s H
Hislop says,
“The round wafer, whose roundness is so important an element in the Romish Mystery…is only another symbol of Baal, or the sun”
Hislop, The Two Babylons, 163

50. WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY IN COMPARISON TO THIS DOCTRINE?
THE EUCHARIST
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY IN COMPARISON TO THIS DOCTRINE?

51. (Lev 17:10) And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

52. (Deu 12:16) Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
(Gen 9:4) But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

53. (Act 15:20) But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

54. ROME’S RESPONSE

55. (Mat 26:26-28) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

56. (Joh 6:55) For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
(Joh 6:54) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
(Joh 6:55) For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
(Joh 6:56) He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

57. BIBLE’S RESPONSE

58. (Joh 10:7) Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
(Joh 15:5) I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

59. (Joh 10:14) I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
(Joh 3:3-4) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

60. (Joh 6:55) For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
(Joh 6:54) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
(Joh 6:55) For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
(Joh 6:56) He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

61. (Joh 6:63-64) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

62. P e r g a m o s H
“If any one saith that the Mass a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God…let him be anathema.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 10 p.6
The Catholic Encyclopedia says, “Christ…commanded that his bloody sacrifice on the cross should be daily renewed by an unbloody sacrifice of his Body and Blood in the Mass under the simple elements of bread and wine. Vol. 10 p.13 “Mass, Sacrifice of.”

63. (Heb 10:10-12) By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

64. B. The Progression of the Nicolaitans
Smyrna
B. The Progression of the Nicolaitans
“Much Marriage ”