SECOND COMING CHRIST

Christ Ahnsahnghong

Jesus Establishes the New Covenant Truths

Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ established the New Covenant and set the example of being baptized, and observing the Sabbath day on Saturday, the Passover with bread and wine and all the Feasts of God. Through all of these teachings, Jesus created the foundation for the Church of God—the Early Church that apostles John, Peter, and Paul attended.

Passover

“When the hour came ... he said to them, ‘I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. ... And he took bread ... and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ ... he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.’”
- Luke 22:14–20

Baptism

“When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: ‘You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.’ Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry.”
- Luke 3:21–23

Sabbath Day

“He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. … He began by saying, ‘Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.’”
- Luke 4:16

Feasts of God

“On the last and greatest day of the festival [of Tabernacles], Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’”
- John 7:37–38

After His ascension, the disciples continued to keep and preach the New Covenant. And the number of Christians grew exponentially (Ac 2:38–47).

After the Apostolic Age, lawlessness began to seep into the church and divided it into two—the Eastern Church and the Western Church. The Eastern Church continued to keep the Sabbath and the Passover. However, the Western Church deviated from Christ’s teachings. It began to keep Sunday service and accepted sun worship from the Roman religion.

Roman Emperor Constantine abolished the Sabbath day by issuing the decree of 321, which made Sunday a holiday. He called it the “venerable day of the Sun,” making Sunday the official day of rest. All of Rome worshiped the sun god on Sundays, and eventually so did Christians.

Additionally, the Eastern and Western churches couldn’t agree on whether to keep the Passover at the appointed time or at a time of their choosing. Roman Emperor Constantine brought the issue to the Council of Nicaea, where the appointed time for the Passover was changed to the same day as the Day of Resurrection. Then the Day of Resurrection was renamed Easter.

After the abolishment of the Sabbath day and the Passover, the church became more and more secularized, making it more difficult, and eventually impossible, for Christians of the Early Church to keep the truth. Churches instituted man-made traditions instead of keeping God’s teachings. And for more than a thousand years no one kept the New Covenant of Christ.

Council of Nicaea

In A.D. 325, Roman Emperor Constantine led the Council of Nicaea to settle disputes between the Eastern and Western churches. Constantine replaced Christ's Passover (the Feast celebrated on the 14th day of the month of Nisan) with a celebration on the same day as the Resurrection, which was renamed Easter.

Easter

Eostre was the pagan goddess of fertility. Ancient Chaldeans worshiped her around the same time as the spring equinox. During the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325, the celebration of Easter replaced the observance of the Passover.

Sunday Worship

Sunday was designated as the “venerable day of the sun” and was the common day for worshipping the sun god. It has no roots in Christianity as a weekly worship day.

Christmas

On December 25, ancient Romans celebrated the birth of the unconquered sun. The Roman Catholic Church then branded it as a “Christian” holiday to attract more pagans to the church.

Idolatry

The “T” cross was used to represent the god Tammuz, which Chaldean priests wore on their garments. In the Roman Empire, it was regarded as a protector. It made its way into Christianity once the church became secularized after A.D. 313.

The Protestant Reformation served as a turning point in religious history. Protagonists like Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin exposed the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church that dominated Europe and pushed for the reform to more biblical teachings.

The movement sparked a wave of Christian denominations. While these new churches may have reformed some ideas, none of them restored the lost truth and the faith of the Early Church given by Jesus Christ: the Sabbath day, the Passover, the Feasts of God and much more. Instead, even these new institutions clung to the old teachings of the Roman Catholic Church: Sunday worship, Christmas, Easter and idolatry.

Martin Luther

John Calvin

Hulrych Zwingli