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1 STARS STEEPLES CRESCENTS and

2 CROSS-EYED FISH

5 Luke 12:32 (KJV) 32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

6 Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock Or, very little flock, το μικρον ποιμνιον. This is what some term a double diminutive, and, literally translated, is, little little flock. Though this refers solely to the apostles and first believers, of whom it was literally true, yet we may say that the number of genuine believers has been, and is still, small, in comparison of heathens and false Christians. A Commentary and Critical Notes. Adam Clarke s Commentary

7 Matthew 7:13-14 (KJV) 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

8 FEW

9 MANY

12 No Cross, No Crescent, No Star, No Steeple

13 Not even a Cross-Eyed Fish.

14 WHY ARE WE DIFFERENT?

16 Leviticus 26:1 (KJV) 1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

23 Saint Augustine of Hippo AD

24 Pythagoras 570 BC Pythagorean theorem

25 Pythagoreans Celebrate Sunrise painting by Fyodor Bronnikov ( )

26 Vesica Pisces (Jesus Fish)

27 Vesica Pisces (Ichthys, Jesus Fish, Mandorla) Source = This symbol, called the vesica pisces (piscis) or Jesus fish, has an unusual history. Used almost exclusively today to denote membership in the Christian religion, the symbol once held a very different meaning (even to the early Christians who adopted it). The word usually found inscribed within, IXOYE (Ichthus), is Greek, meaning fish.

Vesica Pisces (Ichthys, Jesus Fish, Mandorla) Source = http://symboldictionary.net/?p=1127 The emblem became significant to Christians after St.

28 Vesica Pisces (Ichthys, Jesus Fish, Mandorla) Source = The emblem became significant to Christians after St. Augustine, who extracted the word from the acrostic prophecy* of the Erythraean Sibyl, and applied the kabbalistic technique of notarikon (acrostic) to the word to reveal Jesus Christ, God s son, savior.

29 Pythagoras 570 BC

31 DAGON Fish God of the Ancient Philistines

32 Dagon Humiliated Before the Ark of the Covenant 1 Samuel 5

33 Catholic Saint in the Mandorla (Almond Shape/Womb)

36 Deuteronomy 4:19 (KJV) 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

37 Amos 5:25-26 (KJV) 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

38 Acts 7:43 (KJV) 43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

39 REMPHAN? CHIUN? MOLOCH? REALLY?

40 Exodus 28:34 (KJV) 34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. Exodus 39:24 (KJV) 24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

41 1 Kings 7:42 (KJV) 42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars; 2 Chronicles 3:16 (KJV) 16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

44 Did these symbols origins perhaps begin with the Pomegranates in the Priesthood and Temple?

48 Steeples, Spires, & Cupolas

49 Illustration of Ezekiel 8:16

57 2 Kings 23:11 (KJV) 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

58 So What? Who cares if Christmas & Easter and other traditional Christian practices and their Religious Symbols have pagan origins? God knows our hearts are really focused on him, right?

59 On the way home from work a man stops by a bar

61 Honey, you know I love you. It s OK, because I was thinking of YOU the entire time!

62 Exodus 34:14 (KJV) 14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

63 Deuteronomy 12:29-32 (KJV) 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

64 No Cross, No Crescent, No Star, No Steeple

65 Biblical Christians/Followers of the Way are DIFFERENT DIFFERENT IS GOOD.

THE PRACTICE AND PLACE OF TRUE WORSHIP BIBLE TEXT

THE PRACTICE AND PLACE OF TRUE WORSHIP BIBLE TEXT : Deuteronomy 12:1-32; John 4:19-24 LESSON 137 Senior Course MEMORY VERSE: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in