Did You Know...???

Why should Second Coming Christ have to come in the flesh anyway?? This was my first thought as I studied about God's second appearance. And as always, I got an answer. Check this out:





GOD'S PROPHESY:
Dan. 7:25 "He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and TRY TO CHANGE THE SET TIMES AND THE LAWS..."


HISTORICAL EVIDENCE:
"Not only is the name "Easter" incorrect, but also the time of the feast... This is exactly what happened when Easter Sunday was instituted by Constantine's Church. The passover dispute between the Western Church and the more Scripture-adhering believers of the Near East was finally settled by Constantine's Council of Nicaea in the year 325, where it was decided that Easter was to be kept on Sun-day, and on the came Sun-day throughout the world and that "none should here-after follow the blindness of the Jews." Prior to that, Polycarp, the disciple of the Apostle John, had learned from the apostle himself that the 14th Abib was the Scriptural day of the year, which had been legislated in the Old Testament to determine the onset of the Passover, which Jesus kept the night that He was betrayed."

I grew up celebrating Easter and Sunay worship like many of you, but when I learned how God knew that His law would later be changed I felt SO deceived! And why would I want to follow festivals instituted by man, if I know that the only way to obey God is by following His commandements! I don't want to be punished, you know what I mean?? And check this quote out:

"But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible isn't it curious that non-Catholics who profess to take their religion directly from the Bible, and not from the Church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Yes, of course, it is inconsistent; but this change was made about fifteen centuries before Protestantism was born, and by that time the custom was universally observed. They have continued the custom, even though it rests upon the authority of the Catholic Church and not upon an explicit text in the Bible. That observance remains as a reminder of the Mother Church from which the non-Catholic sects broke away - like a boy running away from home but still carrying in his pocket a picture of his mother or a lock of her hair."
-(The Faith of Millions, Rev. John A. O'Brien; p.400)


So this whole time, have I been following the Christ of the Bible? Or the Christ that I grew up knowing from church? I was upset for believing a lie this whole time, but at the same time relieved to finally know the TRUTH found in the Scriptures. So, Christ had to come a second time...to re-establish His commands that we may follow and receive eternal life by!