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

8. (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.

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

10. (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.

11. P e r g a m o s
V. The Counsel
Rev. 2:16

12. (Rev 2:16) Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

13. P e r g a m o s
VI. The Challenge
Rev. 2:17

14. (Rev 2:17) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

15. THE EUCHARIST

17. 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

18. P e r g a m o s H
This ability by the priest is know as transubstantiation.
The word means: “to change the substance”

19. 1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring… Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."

20. 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).

21. 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."

22. 1375 It 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

23. 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

24. Hocus Pocus

25. 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.

26. 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).

27. 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

28. 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.

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

30. 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

31. 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.

32. 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 Saviour of Men (mankind).

33. 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

34. 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.

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

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

40. P e r g a m o s H

41. (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.

42. (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.

43. (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.

44. ROME’S RESPONSE

45. (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.

46. BIBLE’S RESPONSE

47. (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.

48. (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?

49. (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.

50. (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.

51. I Corinthians 11:23-30

53. 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.

54. 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."

55. 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.

56. 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.”

57. (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;