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This Scripture is describing the Muslim invasion and destruction of North Africa.

By 300 A.D., North Africa was the most important province of the Roman Empire and was teeming with cities:

By the third century, there were five or six hundred cities. Two hundred of them were in the rich farmlandsof northern Tunisia. In places there were no more than six or eight miles apart, and in the valley of the RiverBagradas (Medjerda) there was almost a kind of ribbon development along the main road from Carthage toTheveste (Tebessa). (Raven, Rome in Africa, p. 101).

Carthagethe second largest city in the western Roman Empirewas the center of the Roman province of Africa and a majorbreadbasket of the Empire.

By 300 A.D., Christianity was the dominant religion in North Africa as paganism was just about to be completely overthrown:

By this time Christianity had taken a firm hold in North Africa. The Church had survived persecution underSeverus, Decius, and Valerian, and was ceasing to be the religion of a poor minority. In contrast to theemptiness of pagan literature of this period there were the vigorous works of Cyprian, Arnobius, andLactantius. The Church was making its impact felt on all classes and in the farthest corners of the Romanprovinces in Africa. (Frend, The Donatist Church, p. 3)

Naturally, the Roman Emperors were insanely jealous that more and more people were not worshipping them as divinities.

In 303, the last great Empire wide pagan persecution began and North African Christians were ordered to hand over the Scriptures tobe burned.

This last pagan persecution was in the planning stage for at least 40 years prior to 300 A.D., as a very friendly ecumenical moodprevailed among the pagans:

In the Roman cities the Emperor's orders appear to have been carried out firmly but not without tact. For theprevious forty years Christians and pagans had lived side by side in relative peace. The Church hadbecome almost an established institution. At Cirta (modern Constantine), the capital of the province ofNumidia Cirtensis, the magistrate told Bishop Paulus to produce the lectors who were responsible forlooking after the Scriptures. The reply was 'Everybody knows them'. At Apthungi (modern Henchir Souar, inTunisia), the chief magistrate, the Duumvir Alfius Caecilianus, and the bishop Felix appear to have been onfriendly terms, and indeed the official did not know of the existence of the Emperor's edict until he was told itby the Christians themselves. (Frend, The Donatist Church, p. 4).

The main target of the pagans was the New Testament . . . and the histories of Christ....All of the great books portraying the Mount ofOlives as the site of the Resurrection were systematically destroyed.

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Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns.The land is like thegarden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothingescapes them. (Joel 2:3).

Christian North Africa circa 300 A.D.

Christian North Africa had

millions of Christians, andCarthage was the most

important city, with apopulation of over

500,000.

Carthage was the main city in Roman NorthAfrica.

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Constantinean "Christianity" began in 313

The last great persecution ended when Constantine became Emperor of the West. Together with Emperor Licinius, he issued anedict of toleration called the Edict of Milan.

This edict of toleration did not apply to Christians who would not join his new imperial "Christianity."

This edict excluded many of the North African survivors of the persecution. Those surviving Christians referred to people whohanded over the Scriptures as traditores (traitors) and insisted on their rebaptism.

The North African Christians were first condemned a the Council of Arles for rebaptizing those who handed over the Scripturesduring the persecution.

Later they were also condemned by Emperor Constantine at the Council of Nicea.

Donatus Magnus (circa 273-355) was a GREAT Christian leader who ordered the rebaptism of traditores (traitors) who turned overthe Holy Scriptures to the pagan magistrates. He was the Saint Martin Luther of North Africa:

Very little is known about this remarkable man, who in Africa came to hold a position not unlike thatachieved by his contemporary, Athanasius, in Egypt. In Donatus' case the Catholic damnatio memoriae hasbeen particularly effective. His literary works have not survived, we know little of his background, hispersonal appearance, his friendships, and his way of life., We do know that he was a great orator and

leader of men; wherever he went the enthusiasm was such as to be remembered fifty years after his death.In an age when religious controversy took something of the place occupied by ideological conflict inproviding an outlet for popular discontent, Donatus was a dominating figure. (Frend, The Donatist Church, pp.153-154).

Many of the BISHOPS who attended the Council of Nicea were traditores and Donatus demanded that they be rebaptized beforeadmittance to the Christian Congregation.

Constantine was FURIOUS that anybody would withstand him, and actually contemplated invading North Africa with his legions.

From then on, the Vatican referred to the Christians of North Africa as DONATISTS. We see this again at the time of the Reformationwhen the Reformed Christians were called LUTHERANS or Protestants instead of Catholic Christians.

Emperor Diocletian (245-311).Reigned from 284 to 305.

Roman Emperors Diocletian and Galeriusordered all the Christians in North Africa to

hand over the Scriptures for burning.

They were also ordered to burn incense tothe statues of the Caesars.

Many refused to give up the Scriptures and

worship Caesar, so Christian blood flowedlike a river.

Emperor Galerius 302-311.Reigned from 305-311.

Pope Constantine (306-337).

Emperor Constantine presided over theCouncil of Nicea in 325.

He condemned the surviving Christiansin North Africa because they refused to

join his new "Christian" Roman Empire.

From then on, North African Christianswere called DONATISTS after apopular Christian leader named

Donatus.

Icon of the Council of Nicea.




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Augustine was appointed bishop to destroy the North African Christians!!

Despite the terrible persecution under the Emperors, Christianity rapidly recovered in North Africa, so Augustine was appointed abishop in Hippo Regius to fight them with pen and ink.

Even though the North African Christians claimed to be the true Catholics, Augustine derisively referred to them as DONATISTS.Augustine had an intense HATRED for those uncompromising Christians who refused to join the Constantinean church:

Now let the proud and swelling necks of the heretics raise themselves, if they dare, against the holy humilityof this address. Ye mad Donatists, whom we desire earnestly to return to the peace and unity of the holyChurch, that ye may receive health therein, what have ye to say in answer to this? You are wont, indeed, tobring up against us the letters of Cyprian, his opinion, his Council; why do ye claim the authority of Cyprianfor your schism, and reject his example when it makes for the peace of the Church? (Augustine,Against theDonatists, Book II, ch. III).

Every trick in the Roman arsenal was used to make the Christians conform but most of the them remained steadfast adherents ofApostolic Christianity.

Despite the multiplicity of words written against them, the Christians still held steadfast to the Scriptures and the Lord kept adding tohis African Congregation.

Augustine was the most powerful and influential teacher of the Latin church. He was the originator of the Filioque and most of thefalse doctrines that emerged from that church can be traced right back to him.

Some of these false doctrines include:

Augustine also laid the groundwork for the use of DISGUISED mercenaries in the age long Vatican war against the saints. Some ofthese DISGUISED mercenaries include:

Pope Gregory I sought Emperor Mauricius' help against the North African Christians

Augustine of Hippo Regius (354-430).

Augustine was a bishop in HippoRegius from 395 to 430.

A prolific writer, his main job wasto convince the survivors of the

Diocletian persecution to join thechurch of Rome.

He derisively referred to the NorthAfrican Christians as

DONATISTS.Thagaste in present day Algeria was the

birthplace of Augustine.

Augustine's Confessions.

Augustine derisively referred to the

North African Christians asDONATISTS.

Many of his writings are locked up inthe secret archives of the Vatican.

He should be considered the realfather of Islam.

Ruins of Hippo Regius.

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Despite all the efforts of Augustine, the Christian faith continued to grow and Pope Gregory I was alarmed at its increase.

Here is a quote from The Donatist Church:

By 596 the situation had become even less favourable. A further letter from the pope to Columbus (notChristopher) repeats the story of the spread of Donatism, but in August Gregory wrote to the EmperorMauricius himself. The Imperial commands against the Donatists were being disregarded 'by carelessnessor connivance'. The bribes of the Donatists 'so prevail in the province that the Catholic Faith is publicly put

up for sale'. The exarch, far from taking action himself, was complaining of bishops who brought thesethings to his notice. The emperor's personal assistance was requested, 'to issue strict orders for thepunishment of the Donatists and to arrest with saving hand the fall of the perishing'. Whether this appealwas successful or not we do not know. Except for Bishop Paulus' repeated effort to have his case heard inRome, there is no further literary record of Donatism. We are left with the impression of the movementresurgent and triumphant in southern Numidia, and then there is silence. (Frend, The Donatist Church, p. 312).

The rise of Islam to destroy the North African Christians!!

By the year 600, the Lord's Congregation was triumphant over all her enemies. North Africacomprising over 600 citieswas therichest part of the Roman Empire. The city of Rome itself was dependent on North Africa for her daily bread. With the rise of Islam,Europe became permanently separated from the Continent of Africa.

After conquering all of North Africa, the Arabs crossed into Spain in 711. Their main target in Spain was the Goths, who baptized bytriune immersion, and refused to join the church of Rome.

Pope Gregory I (540-604).Reigned from 590 to 604.

By the time of Pope Gregory I, theChristians of North Africa continued to

multiply.

The Pope was ALARMED, and despite theirbitter rivalry, he asked Emperor Mauricius

for military help.

Coin of Emperor Mauricius (539-602).

Reigned from 582 to 602).

Muhammad (570-632).

Muhammad began his bloody career of

conquest around the year 630.

Beginning around 660, his successorsconquered Egypt and later invaded

North Africa.

Millions died by the sword of Islam andthe whole province became a

wilderness.

The Arabs showed no mercy to theChristians of North Africa.

The Arabsconqueredall of NorthAfrica anddestroyed

trueChristianity.




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In 711, they invaded Spain in order to destroy the Goths.

The Arabs stayed in Spain unto January 1492, when Portuguese Christopher Columbus was about to follow a map to the NewWorld.

This allowed for the redeployment of the Spanish army to the New World just in time to block the English, French and Dutch

colonization.

In 674 the Arabs lay siege to Constantinople

Only 50 years after the founding of Islam by Mohammad, a huge Arab army . . . and NAVY . . . attackedConstantinople....Conquering Constantinople required a huge number of ships which you would not normally associate with desertdwellers.

A knowledge of combined operations by land and sea was necessary for the conquest of Constantinople. Also a knowledge ofsiegecraft and the use of battering rams and powerful catapults.

It so happens that the first besiegers of Constantinople were DESERT DWELLING Arabs. The first siege began in 674 and lasted for5 years. The Arab besiegers were almost completely annihilated by the Eastern Romans.

The Arabs destroyed true Christianity in North Africa. In 711, the Arabs invaded Spain andslaughtered the Christians.

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

The Moors surrendered to Ferdinandand Isabella in January 1492, after

occupying Spain for 781 years!!

Portuguese Columbus sailed inAugust 1492.

The surrender of the Moors freed upthe Spanish army for redeployment to

the New World.

Surrender of Moors in January 1492.

Constantinople was surrounded on3 sides by water.

Constantine had a fantastic eye forterrain.

Anybody attacking Constantinoplewould need a powerful land army and a

well equipped NAVY.

The first besiegers were DESERTdwelling ARABS!!

A virtually impregnable city.

Muawiyah I (602-680) led

Caliph Muawiyah I surrounded Constantinople with ahuge Arab army and navy.

Everybody associated the Arabs with the DESERT.

Mecca is in the DESERT of Saudi Arabia.

Old Rome was quickly turning these sand dwellers intosailors.

Roman Emperor Constantine IV led the heroic defenseof the city. Emperor Constantine IV (652-




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The Eastern Romans had a secret weapon called Greek Fire. It was somewhat like napalm and actually burned on the water. It wasthe ancient world's equivalent of the atomic bomb.

The besiegers were barbecued with this Greek Fire: and the siege was a total failure, with thousands of Arab casualties:

The Saracen ships carried heavy siege engines and huge catapults; but the fortifications along the

Marmara and the Golden Horn were proof against their assaults. The Byzantines, moreover, possessed asecret weapon. To this day we are uncertain of the composition of 'Greek fire'. Whether it was sprayed overan enemy vessel or poured into long, narrow cartridges and catapulted against its objective, the resultswere almost invariably catastrophic: the flaming, oil-based liquid floated upon the surface of the sea,frequently igniting the wooden hulls of the ships and causing an additional hazard to those who tried to

jump overboard. For long the Muslims refused to admit defeat; only after the fifth year did the batteredremnants of the Saracen fleet turn about and head for home. In 679 Muawiya sulkily acceptedConstantine's offer of peace, which demanded the evacuation of the newly-conquered Aegean islands andan annual tribute. A year later he was dead. Constantine, on the other hand, was at the height of hispopularity. He had inspired his subjects with the morale to withstand five years of siege by a power hithertoconsidered irresistible, and in doing so he had saved Western civilization. Had the Saracens capturedConstantinople in the seventh century rather than the fifteenth, all Europeand Americamight be Muslimtoday. (Norwich,A Short History of Byzantium, p. 101.)

The siege turned out to be a total failure, with thousands of Arab casualties.

The 2nd Arab siege of Constantinople occurred in 717

The proud Arabs were very bitter about their failure to take Constantinople. The tried again in 717 with a new Caliph.

Roman Emperor Leo III led the heroic defense of the city:

For forty years the setback at Constantinople rankled with the Umayyad caliphs in Damascus. It remainedinconceivable within Islamic theology that the whole of humankind would not, in time, either accept Islam orsubmit to Muslim rule. In 717 a second and even more determined attempt was made to overcome theobstacle that hindered the spread of the Faith into Europe. The Arab attack came at a time of turmoil within

the first Arab siege ofConstantinople.

685).

Greek Fire was hotter than the desert sun andscorched the Arab besiegers.

Greek Firescorched theArab Papal

mercenaries.

Greek Fire was a potent secret weapon of thedefenders of Constantinople.

Caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz(682-720).

Caliph Umar II tried to revenge the disastrous defeatof the 1st siege of Constantinople.

Emperor Leo III led the heroic defense of the city.

This siege also turned into a disaster and the Arabsentered into a reluctant detente with the Roman

Emperors.

Emperor Leo III (685-741).




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the empire. A new emperor, Leo III, had been crowned on March 25, 717; five months later he found anarmy of 80,000 men dug in the length of the land walls and a fleet of 1,800 ships controlling the straits. The

Arabs had advanced their strategy from the previous siege. It was quickly realized by the Muslim generalMaslama that the walls of the city were invulnerable to siege machines; this time there was to be a totalblockade. The seriousness of his intentions was underlined by the fact that his army brought wheat seedwith them. In the autumn of 717 they plowed the ground and planted a food supply outside the walls forharvesting the following spring. Then they settled down to wait. A foray by the Greek fire ships had somesuccess but failed to break the stranglehold. Everything had been carefully planned to crush the infidels.(Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. p. 13).

It seems that all of JEHOVAH's creation was at war with the Muslims because on their way home an undersea volcano erupted anda storm destroyed most of the fleet.

Constantinople finally fell to the Muslim Turks in 1453

Thanks to the Muslims, Old Rome was finally able to eliminate her Eastern rival in 1453. After fighting heroically for 1000 years, theEmpire finally came to an end.

Millions of Muslims are worshipping a deadly demon named Allah!!

The God of the universe is a Triune being composed of 3 divine persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Never in the Bible does Godever call Himself by the name Allah.

God is called JEHOVAH, Eloihim, El Shadai, Adonai, Emmanuel, etc., etc., but never is HE referred to by the name of ALLAH....TheHebrew and Arabic languages come from the same common root.

The only similarities between Islam and true Christianity is this: Islam borrowed the one day of rest in seven from true Christianityand the Muslims follow Apostolic Christianity in forbidding the use of images!!

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Rome versus Constantinople

Constantine XI (1449- 1453).Considered the last Roman

Emperor.

The Latin church fought ferocious battles tooverthrow the Eastern Roman Emperors.

Finally in 1453, they used the Ottoman Empireto conquer Constantinople.

After that defeat, the Orthodox church movedto Russia, and Moscow became known as the

3rd Rome.

Sultan Mehmet II (1449-1481).Conqueror of Constantinople.

Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

Millions worship a deadly demonnamed Allah, never realizing that their

religion was started by the Vatican,

Islam is the Western leg of the RomanEmpire as foretold by Daniel the

Prophet.

"Stoning the devil" in Saudi Arabia.




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References

Crowley, Roger. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. Hyperion, New York, 2005.

Frend, W.H.C. The Donatist Church. A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa. Oxford University Press, London, 1952.

Norwich, John Julius.A Short History of Byzantium. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997.

Raven, Susan. Rome in Africa. Routledge, London & New York, 1993.

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