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JUSTINIAN’S TREACHEROUS ROLE IN THE UPROOTING OF THE ARIAN VANDALS

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JUSTINIAN’S TREACHEROUS ROLE IN THE UPROOTING OF THE ARIAN VANDALS

In his  deadly campaign using persecution to force pagans, Jews, and those they classified as “heretics,” to convert to Roman Catholicism, Justinian had help in this abominable work:

“John of Ephesus [not the John the beloved] was employed in this apostolate [yes, they called this activity an ‘apostolate’!]. He boasts that in 546 A.D. he gained 70,000 pagans in Asia Minor, including nobles, rhetoricians and physicians, and many in Constantinople. Tortures discovered these men, and scourging and imprisonment INDUCED them accept instruction and baptism.

“A Patricius named Phocus, hearing that he had been denounced, took poison. The Emperor ordered that he should be buried as an ass is buried. The pious [?] Emperor paid all the expenses of this Christian mission [!], and gave to each of the 70,000 Asiatics the white garments for their baptism and a piece of money.

“Other heretics were given three month’s GRACE. All magistrates and soldiers had to SWEAR that  they were Catholics. – ‘Studies in the Early Papacy,’ Dom John Chapman, p.222. London: Sheed and Ward, 1928, NY, Benziger Brothers.

The Vandals: “Justinian’s cherished aim was the reconquest of Italy by the Empire, but in order to succeed in this it was necessary to secure his rear by OVERTHROWING THE VANDALS and resuming possession of AFRICA.  – ‘The Barbarian Invasion of Italy,’ P. Villari, Vol. 1. p. 197.

“A PRETEXT for BREAKING HIS OATH OF PEACE with the Vandals soon presented itself. The Vandal government had oppressed the Roman Catholics  just as the Emperor, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE PAPACY, had oppressed the Arians. But when Hilderic came to the Vandal throne he, through the INFLUENCE OF HIS CATHOLIC WIFE, had restored the Roman clergy to their ancient privileges, and this has so displeased the Vandal leaders that Gelimer, a zealous Arian, had dethroned and imprisoned him, and reigned in his place. ‘A strong appeal was thus made to the piety [?] of the Emperor to deliver the true Catholic Church of the West out of the hands of the Barbarian heretics.’  -‘Medieval and Modern History,’ P.V.N. Myers, p.62. Boston. 1897.

“Justinian wavered for a time, fearing to attack this warlike Vandals, but a CATHOLIC BISHOP assured him of victory, claiming ‘he had seen a vision, in which commanded that the war should immediately undertaken. ‘It is the will of Heaven, O Emperor!’ exclaimed the bishop’- Ibid, p. 63.  (From “Facts of Faith,” Christian Edwardson. pp. 41, 42. Southern Publishing Asso., 1943.

Continued Monday. Have a blessed and restful Sabbath starting sunset tonight. Bless all, NMF 

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GOOD-BYE HERULI, HELLO EMPEROR JUSTINIAN

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GOOD-BYE HERULI, HELLO EMPEROR JUSTINIAN

First, the last thoughts of the prophesied end of the Arian Heruli kingdom, then to how and why Justinian, then emperor of Eastern Rome, is called “the Son of the Church,” that is, the Church of Rome, not  Christ’s church:

The historian “Hodgkin points out that this coming of the archbishop to meet the Ostrogoths was STAGED so as to ‘impress vividly on the minds of both Italians and Ostrogoths that Theodoric came as a FRIEND of the Catholic Church.’ -‘Italy and Her Invaders,’ Vol.III, book 4, pp. 234, 235. Hodgkin further states that the Roman clergy were PRIVY to a terrible secret plot of murdering the followers of Odovacar all over Italy.(Ibid, 225, 226).

“The Heruli disappeared from from history. Thus the FIRST of the ‘three horns’ of Daniel 7:8 was ‘plucked up by the roots,’ and history leaves no room for doubt that the Papacy THROUGH its allies engineers this act because of its opposition to Arianism.

The Emperor Justinian.”Before passing on to the next power  destroyed by the Papacy we shall briefly state the CONDITION of the Roman Empire at [that] time.

“Justinian had finally ascended the throne of Constantinople as the Emperor of the East, 527 A.D. [The Roman Empire was divided into Eastern and Western Rome]. He was a SHREWD POLITICIAN, and in his effort to extend his rule over the WHOLE of the Roman Empire he realized his need of securing the COOPERATION of the HIGHLY ORGANIZED Catholic Church, for it was directed by a single head (the pope), and worked as a UNIT all over the [Roman] empire, while the Arian nations STOOD SEPARATELY, without a central organization, and hence they were weak.

Then too, the Arians were VERY WEALTHY, and if Justinian could conquer them IN THE NAME OF ‘THE TRUE CHURCH,’ he could confiscate their property and thus secure means to carry on his many wars. We read:

“Justinian (527) ….already meditated ….the conquest of Italy and Africa.’ – ‘Decline and Fall,’ Edward Gibbon, ch. 39, par. 17. “Justinian felt that the support of the Pope was necessary in reconquering the West [i.e., the Western Roman Empire].  – ‘History of Medieval Europe,’ L. Thorndike, Ph.D., p. 133, Cambridge, Mass.: 1918.

“Justinian spared nothing in his efforts to conciliate the Roman Church, and we find inserted with evident satisfaction in Justinian’s CODE PONTIFICAL LETTERS, which praised his efforts to maintain the peace of the Church and the unity of religion [Roman Catholic].” – ‘Cambridge Medieval History,” Bury, Gwalkin, and Whitney, Vol. II, p. 44, NY, 1913.  
More to follow,  NMF. 

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 Beginning and End of the Dark Ages   

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA

Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN

 Beginning and End of the Dark Ages   

The end of “a time, and times, and half a time” is the the time of the end” of Daniel 12:9.

From Facts of Faith by Christian Edwardson, pp. 52-60, Southern Publishing Association, Nashville 8 TN, 1943:

      “The little horn of Daniel 7: 8, 25, was to reign for ‘a time and times and the dividing of time.’ This same ‘time, and times, and half a time’ is also mentioned in Revelation 12: 14,

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Heruli Uprooted; Two More ‘Horns’ to Go

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA

Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN – Part 28  

Heruli Uprooted; Two More ‘Horns’ to Go;

Justinian’s Role, Hidden Agenda and MO Revealed

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

    A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Attributed to Mark Twain