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EXCERPTS TAKEN FROM: REVELATION 13 STUDIES By Nyron Medina.The Sunday Veneration Head: 142 A.C.B to 325 A.C.B.

a. The first head is the Sunday-Veneration head Nicea.
b. The Sunday Veneration head spans the first period when Sunday exaltation was developed and presented to the churches in the Roman Empire. This is between 142-325 A.C.B.
c. It was primarily the bishops or leaders of a head church in the city of Rome at a certain time, ratified Sunday, the first day of the week, as having some form of mysterious import.
d. By developing a theology that rejected the 14th of the first lunar month as the church’s custom to eat the Passover bread and drink the wine; leaders in the church, in Rome, made Friday, the sixth day of the week, of the first month of eah year, as the day to recognize the death of Christ, disregarding the date of the 14th, and thus whatever day it fell on each year. Every Saturday or seventh day that followed the Friday, chosen by the leaders in the church of Rome and was eventually made a fast day, denigrating the seventh day Sabbath. And the following Sunday or the first day of the week, that disregards the 16th of the first lunar month of each year as the date on which Jesus was resurrected, was exalted as the day on which to eat the Passover bread and drink the wine. This particular day was made a holy day by the leaders of a church in the city of Rome.
e. This new Good Friday ( as now called ), Glorious Saturday, and Easter Sunday became the new defining image of the church in Rome as against the other churches in the Roman Empire, and was decreed by various bishops of that head church in Rome.
f. It was this so-called Catholic Holy Week with its Passover Sunday that was used as a means of undermining the seventh day Sabbath of every week, especially when a Sunday Eucharist, or Sunday eating of bread was then made a weekly affair.
g. During this period, the churches slowly began to keep Sunday for the Eucharist, while the Sabbath was yet kept, but depreciated by various writers, and by a fast being decreed on the Sabbath.
h. Various writers called “church fathers”, used a variety of terms to call Sunday, to exalt it has having a certain mysterious regard. It was called “the eight day”, it was first called the “Lord’s day”, it was touted as the day (not date) upon which Jesus resurrected; it was even called the beginning of a “different creation”.
i. Sunday worship was an ideology (Sundayism). It started as a theology of the Holy Week and then was eventually legislated as the first Sunday Law in the Roman Empire in 321 A.C.B., eventually in 325 A.C.B., in the Council of Nicea the Holy Week with its Passover Sunday was legislated for all to follow or face penalty from the State. After this, almost all the churches in the Roman Empire adopted this Holy Week causing the 14th of the first lunar month as the Passover to disappear.
j. The exaltation of the first day of the week, Sunday, as against the seventh day Sabbath of YHWH by the pastors of the particular church in Rome did irreparable damage to the psyche and thus to the image of these bishops. They developed overreaching and unbearable arrogance and exaltation to the point of Lucifer’s claim to be God with God, thus they became the seat of Lucifer which he gave to them. All this developed the first head of the Papacy.

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