Assembly of AHAYAHA
Followers of The Way
The Cross
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*Important
Disclaimer: This is NOT necessarily
an issue of sin or eternal salvation, but rather, of
honoring and praising The Almighty, worshipping Him in
Spirit & TRUTH so as not to blaspheme Him with
pagan/idol/Satanic names, words, calendars & "holy" days
(i.e. holidays/etc.), symbols/images, etc....
*SOURCE: https://ahnsahnghong.com/en/church-of-god/origin-of-cross/ IMPORTANT LINKS: Discover Who The Cross Represents... What Bible Scholars Know About The Cross... Many people regard the cross as a symbol of The Way (Acts 9:2; 19:9; 19:23; 24:14; 24:22), but it is originally a pagan idol. Long before The Way, the cross had been used as a blatant pagan symbol. The New Testament written in the Apostolic Age has no record of the cross as a symbol of The Assembly of The Way. The apostles clearly rejected the worship of idols and taught that the wicked idolaters will not inherit the realm of AHAYAHA (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). How then did the cross come to be associated with The Way (aka "Christianity")? ORIGIN OF THE CROSS The cross is not a symbol of faith which first appeared after the crucifixion of AYASHAYA, but originated from ancient Babylon. According to "Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words" (by W.E. Vine, pub. by Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1996, p. 138), it is noted that "the shape of the latter [right-angle intersecting 2-beamed cross looking like a capital "T" or lower-cased "t"] had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as the symbol of the pagan idol Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) in that country and in adjacent lands, including Egypt." Chaldea was the central territory of Babylon. In Babylon, "T," the initial of the pagan idol Tammuz, was used as a religious symbol to worship him. This was propagated to neighboring countries, and the cross is found in the relics of ancient countries such as Egypt and Assyria. The custom of worshipping the cross continued even after the Roman Empire was established, and is glaringly ubiquitous all over the world today. INTRODUCTION OF THE CROSS INTO THE CHURCH BY PAGAN INFILTRATION INTO THE ASSEMBLY OF THE WAY As The Way (Acts 9:2; 19:9; 19:23; 24:14; 24:22) was infiltrated by pagan influences that introduced pagan "Church" & "Christian" ideas, the use of the cross in Christian worship began in the days of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Before he legalized Christianity, due to heavy persecution within the Roman Empire, the cross was actually used as an instrument to execute followers of The Way. Under such circumstances, it was blasphemous anathema for believers in AYASHAYA to beautify or venerate the cross, which was in fact a terrible instrument for the penalty of death. They never would have used it as a symbol for their faith as it was on the contrary a well known symbol of shame, death, torture, punishment, insult, horror, and the most extreme form of dehumanizingly humiliating disrespect to any individual or group of people. The Roman pagans who infiltrated The Way (Acts 9:2; 19:9; 19:23; 24:14; 24:22) set up the cross for pagan Church/Christian idol worship approximately 300 years after AYASHAYA was crucified & resurrected, during the time of Emperor Constantine. According to "Baker's Dictionary of Theology" (by Everett F. Harrison, pub. Baker Book House, 1973), it is a historical fact that "the public use of the cross was adopted by the [pagan] Christians as a symbol at the time of Constantine. For The Way [aka "early Christians"], surrounded by crucifixion as a grim fact of common experience, there was no danger of beautifying the cross by sentiment." However, there was a change after Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity. The Assembly of The Way (Acts 9:2; 19:9; 19:23; 24:14; 24:22) was rapidly secularized as a result of preferential treatment toward those who believed in AYASHAYA The Messiah (who was as a matter of scientific fact and forensic evidence executed by crucifixion but then resurrected in 3 days), and corrupt Roman Catholic leaders accepted pagan ideas and symbols in the name of evangelizing more pagans. The cross was one of them. They thought that the cross was a reminder of the crucifixion of AYASHAYA to the pagan converts who regarded the cross image as sacred, and so they brought the cross into places of worship (hence committing idolatry). Besides, they deified Mary, the mother of AYASHAYA, for those who worshipped pagan goddesses, and let them worship saints and martyrs on behalf of various foreign pagan idols. The pagan ideology and symbols were introduced in this way and took a firm position over years, decades, centuries, & now millennia. People all over the world were deceived (Revelation 12:9) into trusting that these pagan idol symbols and ideas were somehow biblical and true ways to honor The Almighty, not realizing the horrific blasphemously Satanic pagan nature of such things. In A.D. 431, crosses were placed in chambers of pagan churches, and after that, it was even set up on top of pagan church towers. According to "Harper's Book of Facts" (pub. Harper & Brothers, 1895), it is a matter of fact that "crosses in [pagan] churches and chambers were introduced about 431; and set up on steeples about 568." VENERATION OF THE CROSS IS IDOLATRY The cross had nothing to do with the faith in the Apostolic Age. Rather, it was an idol that was introduced by pagan churches & pagan Christians and the infiltration as well as pagan secularization of The Way (Acts 9:2; 19:9; 19:23; 24:14; 24:22). Exodus 20:4-5 makes it very clear that we are not to make for ourselves any idols/graven-images in such a manner as to venerate/worship/bow-down-to. AHAYAHA strongly forbade His people to make idols and worship them in the second of the Ten Commandments. He also told His people not to make any idols for themselves or for serving AHAYAHA (Exodus 20:23). The Word clearly testifies that making idols is a thing detestable to AHAYAHA and to be cursed (Deuteronomy 27:15). Despite these warnings, the Israelites in the Old Testament times accepted idols like Asherah, which the surrounding pagans worshiped, and they combined the idols with their own faith after entering Canaan. They made various idols and worshiped them, always rationalizing it as an act of serving AHAYAHA. As a result, they were cursed and destroyed by The Almighty AHAYAHA (Jeremiah 2:27-28). Today, many pagan churches and pagan Christians repeat this foolishness over and over again. They accept the cross, which is a Satanic pagan symbol, as a symbol of their faith and set it up for veneration & worship. By doing so, they disobey AHAYAHA's clear command, "Do not make an image and worship it." Moreover, although they insist that the cross is merely a symbol, they cannot stop people from giving it special meaning; and it is an objective fact, evident even in countless movies where people enter into pagan churches and cathedrals, that people physically bow down in front of crosses, exactly as any pagan idol worshipper would in front of their pagan idol statue. PROPHECY ABOUT CROSS IDOL-WORSHIP IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL The Israelites' worship of the bronze snake... AHAYAHA prophesied about the worship of the cross. On the way out of Egypt to Canaan, the Israelites grumbled against AHAYAHA in the desert. As a result many people were bitten by venomous snakes and died (Numbers 21:4-6). The people later repented and asked for salvation. AHAYAHA taught them how to save dying people who had been bitten by the snakes. In Numbers 21:8-9, The Almighty AHAYAHA told Moses to make a snake and put it up on a pole so that anyone who was bitten can look at it and live. So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole so that when anyone was bitten by a venomous snake, they would be able to look at the bronze snake and not perish but live. So a miraculous, amazing thing happened: anybody who was bitten by a snake could live simply by looking at the bronze snake on the pole. However, it is important to realize where the actual power was (and always will be). It was NOT the bronze snake itself that had power, but The Word of AHAYAHA as He said, "Look at the bronze snake and live." However, as the years and decades passed, the people thought that the bronze snake itself had saved them and they worshipped it as idol-worshippers until the time of Hezekiah (4 Kingdoms/Reigns 18:3-4 in the Hebrew Greek Septuagint LXX; in the Talmudic Masoretic text this is 2 Kings 18:3-4). When Hezekiah broke down idols after keeping the Passover, he broke into pieces the bronze snake as well and called it "Nehushtan" meaning "a piece of bronze." He awakened the people to the fact that the bronze snake was nothing but an idol and was not to be worshipped. People all over the world still idolize the cross... The incident of the bronze snake was a prophecy about the work of salvation which AYASHAYA would accomplish on the cross. "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life." (John 3:14-15) AYASHAYA said that just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so He must be lifted up. Moses' lifting up the bronze snake was a prophecy that The Saviour AYASHAYA The Messiah would be lifted up on the cross; just as the dying people looked at the bronze snake and lived, mankind could be saved thanks to AYASHAYA's sacrifice on the cross and subsequent resurrection 3 days later. It was not the power of the bronze snake itself that saved the Israelites in the Old Testament times, but the people forgot the power of AHAYAHA's Word and worshiped the visible bronze snake instead. The same goes for today. The salvation of mankind is accomplished through the blood of AYASHAYA shed on the cross (Ephesians 1:7; 1 Peter 1:18-19); the cross itself can never give us salvation or the forgiveness of sins. Nevertheless, many people (knowingly or unknowingly) who claim to believe in The Almighty still revere and bow down in front of (and even wear) the image of the cross, failing to emphasize the sacrifice & resurrection of AYASHAYA The Anointed One, and not realizing the pagan idol worship that the "T-shaped" cross has always represented in veneration of the Satanic pagan idol Tammuz. When Hezekiah broke Israel's old idolatrous custom, AHAYAHA greatly blessed him, complementing that he held fast to The Almighty and kept the commands He had given Moses (4 Kingdoms/Reigns 18:6-7 in the Hebrew Greek Septuagint LXX; in the Talmudic Masoretic text this is 2 Kings 18:6-7). Likewise, today are richly blessed those who break down the idolatry of the cross and know the value of the New Covenant established through the sacrifice and resurrection of AYASHAYA The Messiah, which is the essence of salvation to which and more importantly to Whom we must pay attention... IMPORTANT LINKS: Discover Who The Cross Represents... What Bible Scholars Know About The Cross... |