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Vanity Fair! Revelation 2:13

Jesus said Antipas is my faithful martyr! Antipas was the Bishop of the church at Pergamos during the reign of Roman Emperor Domitian. The Apostle John ordained Antipas as Bishop of the church at Pergamos. Antipas was burned inside an idol which was a bull shaped copper structure. His crime was casting out demons worshipped by the local population! Some of the hero’s of the Faith are listed in Hebrews Chapter eleven! Stephen was a faithful martyr listed in the Book of Acts! Antipas was most likely a Greek who converted to Christianity. Antipas is the shortened name of Antipater. Remember that was the name of one of Alexander the Great successful Generals. (397-319 B.C.). Remember Herod the Great was known by this name! Jesus will avenge the blood of the Saints! Why did Jesus call Pergamum Satan’s Seat? Even Ephesus with all of its advantages with the Great Temple and bustling port, could not match the importance of the once royal seat of the Attalids! Situated on a scenic acropolis Pergamum was embellished with the largest number of Greek and Roman Temples in the whole of Asia Minor! Examples are Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Demetia, Dionysis and Aphrodite. On another site was housed the largest Aesclepium of the Empire. Its library of two hundred thousand volumes rivaled the renowned library in Alexandria! The eminent Doctor Galen was among her favorite sons! Roman Emperors came to seek healing at the famous Aesclelpium!  Aesclepium was honored as the god of healing in the classical world. When the cult of “Dominus et Deus”, was initiated at Pergamum, the great Basilica was erected, adding to the rostrum of numerous idol Temples! The visitor today Bergama (Turkish name of the present day city), will see the immense structure at the edge of the bustling center. Basilica became the monument of vice and cruelty! Every citizen was forced to burn a few grains of incense here and worship the Emperor of Deus. Then they would proceed to their preferred practice a common syncetistic act which never lacked its double-faced devotees! For anyone who refused to submit to this profane practice death was imminent! Where as the Temple of Zeus was referred by the early Christians as the “Seat of Satan”, the appellation was later transferred to this center where some Christians felt compelled to pay obeisance! Source: Thomas Cosmades   Comment: Remember God’s church was established in the midst of all this evil! The venerable Polycarp followed Antipas in martyrdom! Christ and his Cross was raised up over “Satan’s Seat”, to defeat Satan the eternal enemy of man! This battle rages on today between the One True God and the millions of the gods of men! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Just Say, “Caesar is Lord!”

Reply; “Eighty six years I have served Christ, and He never did me any wrong! How can I blaspheme my King who saved me?” Polycarp who was a disciple of the Apostle John was burned at the stake in 156 A.D. in Smyrna Turkey. Remember the message Jesus gave to the church in Smyrna some 60 years earlier? Revelation 2:9– “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, but thou art rich and I know the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” Another Caesar Constantine about 150 years after Polycarp bowed his knee and confessed Jesus Christ as Lord! Christianity then became the official religion of the Roman Empire! Recently thousands of Christians have been martyred across the world before being asked, “Just say Mohammad is Lord!” Who is your Lord? My Bible says, “One day every knee must bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!” For you make that one day today! Thankyou. James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Muslim War Victory Campaigns (History)

Muhammad’s campaigns–Arab Wars 634-750 A.D. Conquests of Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Armenia. Under Rashidun; Conquest of Syria 637, Conquest of Armenia 639. Conquest of Egypt 639. Conquest of North Africa 652. Conquest of Cypress 654. Under Umayyads; Conquest of North Africa 665. First Arab siege of Constanople 674-678. Second Arab siege of Constanople 717-718. Conquest of Hispania 711-718. Conquest of Georgia 736. Conquest of Crete 820. Conquest of southern Italy 827. Conquests of Persia and Mesopotania 633-651. Conquest of Transoxiana 662-751. Conquest of Sindh (Pakistan and India) 664-712. Conquest of Hispania 711-718. Conquest of Septimania 719-720. Attempts to conquer Caucasus 711-750. Conquest of Nubia 700-1606. Incursions into southern Italy 831-902. Conquest of Anatolia 1060-1360. Byzantine–Ottoman Wars 1299-1453. Further conquests 1200-1800. Decline and collapse 1800-1924. The Safavid Empire ended with the death of it’s last ruler Ismail III who ruled from 1750 until his death in 1760. The Mughal Empire struggled with exhausting wars with the Maratha, internal strife, corruption, and revolts and fractured after 1719. The remaining loyal Mughal territory shrank throughout the next century and a half at the hands of the expanding British Empire and was finally absorbed into the British Raj in 1857. The last surviving Muslim Empire, the Ottoman Empire, collapsed in 1918 at the hands of the British Empire and it’s allies in the aftermath of World War I. On March 3, 1924 the institution of the Caliphate was abolished by President Mustafa Ataturk as part of his reform in creating Turkey as a secular state from the remnants of the collapsed Islamic multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire. Thankyou. James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com

Arab Spring?

Muammar Gaddafi ruled Lybia for 40 years! Hosni Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years! During their reign no United States Consulate was ever attacked and no Diplomats murdered and their staff! When news of Gaddafi’s murder reached the State Department Hillary Clinton laughed and mocked Gaddafi as can be seen on video. Who is laughing now? Russia is smarter than our current Obama administration! Russia learned the hard lessons during their 10 years in Afghanistan with a loss of 50000. troops! Why does Russia support Assad? They have learned that in Islam you must have one strong Dictator to control all the Islamic radical terrorists that otherwise would rise up and create more chaos! The Obama policy has allowed the springing of thousands of radical terrorists that are now free to create chaos and a destabilizing force in the entire region. With Turkey military action against Syria and Iran pursuing atomic weapons we now have a formula for crisis! We need an American leader who will support our only Democratic ally Israel in the region and to understand the realities of Islam to stabilize the region! Michael savage has many insights into these realities and if you can get past his rough presentations he will help you see through the wisdom in today’s complicated world! Thankyou. James Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com