I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but I would like some help with a deep theological question I have. In a Bible Study lesson I am taking, which I will just get right to it, claims that Satan's decepiton is the Sunday Worship. Clearly I am very sceptical about this and would like any answers on this particular subject. I have gone to another source and both of them seem to be against each other.
So is there any truth to these claims?
Let me tell you why this claim is made.
All Pagan religions had some form of sun worship and the sun god was the most prominent god in many of those religions. Israel was the only nation that worshiped the true God. When Israel rebelled against God, a lot of the time they participated in sun worship.
All false worship is an invention of Satan but sun worship seems to be his favorite and remember that Lucifer means "Light bearer". The sun is the brightest form of light in our universe.
You may wonder how sun worship correlates to sunday worship. Let me say here that I am in now way saying people who worship on Sunday are worshiping the sun. That would be a very false and judgmental statement. The correlation really comes from the transition from Sabbath worship to sunday worship which was legislated by Constantine the Great in 321AD and later on by the Council of Laodicea in 364AD. Constantine who was the emperor of Rome at that time was pagan and paganism was the religion of Rome. Main day of worship for the Pagan's was sunday which was named sunday because that was the day that the sun was worshipped.
When Constantine wanted to turn the empire of Rome to a Christian religion he tried to made the transition easier. So, all of the holy days of paganism which were to honor their gods, he turned the event into a Christian even to honor a Christian symbol. Sunday was no longer the main pagan day or worship to worship the sun but now the main Christian day of worship to honour God. What we call Christmas was the day when they celebrated the rebirth of the sun god but it is not celebrated as the birth of Jesus. Easter also was about the pagan god Ishtar and originally had nothing to do with easter eggs and stuff like that.
So originally what was the devils invention has been absorbed into most branches of Christianity and this is why you would hear folks making such statements.
I can show you from scripture that it was prophesied that Christianity would become corrupted. This prophecy is found in Daniel 2. In Daniel 2 God shows Nebuchadnezzar a dream which shows a summary of the history of the world powers that shall control the world, starting from his Kingdom up until the end of time. He seems an image, composed of different materials to represent this timeline. Each material represents something. So the first Kingdom was Babylon represented by the head of gold, then Medio Persia represented by the chest and arms of silver, then Greece represented by the belly and thighs of brass and then Rome represented by the legs of iron.
There is also a material which is different from all the others. All of the previous materials were metals. This material is clay and this is where I will focus now.
Dan 2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
Dan 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of
potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with
miry clay.
Daniel does not say what clay represents in this prophecy but we need to find out what it is to understand this. The scripture helps us here.
Isa_64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Jer_18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
These two scriptures show us that Potter's Clay is used as a symbol of God's people who at the time was israel. Potter's clay is pure, undefiled clay. Clay that is totally subject to the Potter. If anything is mixed with Potter's Clay it becomes Miry Clay. Now in Daniel 2:41 it started of as potter's clay and by the end of the verse it is called miry clay. So in that period, the clay has changed from being pure to being corrupt. But it is corrupted by the iron which is a symbol of Pagan Rome. The verse also says that there shall be in it the strength of the iron which means when this mixing takes place of paganism and Christianity, it is paganism that will change Christianity and not vice versa. So paganism has crept into the church and according to the prophecy, Roman Influence is going to be present until God establishes his kingdom.
