The End Time Church: From the Cathedrals to the Catacombs

By Dan L. White

Copyright 2021 by Dan L. White, all rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (WEB) which is in the public domain.

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Chapter 102

Who were those Evil “Judaizers”?

Practically everybody has heard of them. They’re notorious, ignominious, and even detestable.

Who are they?

The “Judaizers.”

In 325, when he changed the Passover/Unleavened Bread Feast to what became Easter, Constantine called the “Jewish crowd” “detestable.”

“It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their hands with enormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with blindness of soul. … Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Saviour a different way.” (Eusebius, https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iv.vi.iii.xviii.html)

The different way that Constantine received was the Roman way with Roman holy days, Roman government, and Roman doctrines, all renamed to look Christian.

In 365, 28 years after Constantine’s death, the Council of Laodicea of the Roman Church made this decree.

“Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord’s Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be “Judaizers”, let them be anathema from Christ.” (Council of Laodicea, 29th Canon).

Who were those detestable “Judaizers”, Christians who kept the Bible Feasts and Sabbath, instead of Constantine’s holy days and sabbath, which are not in the Bible?

Acts 1
1) The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Yeshua began both to do and to teach,
2) until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
3) To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
4) Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

Christ told the apostles not to leave Jerusalem but to wait there until the Father’s promise arrived.

Luke 24
49) Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”
50) He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
51) It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.
52) They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
53) and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

After He ascended, the disciples went to the Temple, where they continually praised God.

For ten days.

That means they observed two weekly Sabbaths in the Temple. The high times of the Temple were the Sabbath and Feasts, so they observed the Sabbaths in the Temple. Had they not observed the Sabbath there, they would have been kicked out of the Temple.

Then –

Acts 1 (cont.)
12) Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.
13) When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
14) All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Yeshua and with his brothers.
15) In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,

The 11 apostles, all cited by name, and the rest of the 120, including Mary, Yeshua’s mother, were “commanded” to wait in Jerusalem.

Until when?

Until the Feast of Shavuoth, or Pentecost.

Acts 2
1) Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Then, on that Bible festival, after waiting for 10 days, the Father sent the Holy Spirit to His people.

Why did God wait 10 days to send His spirit to His people?

He waited 10 days until Pentecost –

Because He observes the Bible Feasts. The Father gave them, He planned them, and they show His plan for mankind. No surprise, then, that God the Father observes the Bible Feasts, as He did there with that Pentecost when He sent His Holy Spirit on that day.

When Yeshua told His disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the promise, He was commanding them to keep the Bible Feast of Pentecost. Had they not kept Feast of Pentecost, they would not have been in the first flock.

Of course, they all kept the Feast of Pentecost, anyway, along with the other Bible Feasts.

Those 120 people were all of one mind, “with one accord.” They had heard and lived with the Master for 42 months, except for Mary and his brothers, who had known Him His whole life. They knew what He did on the Sabbath and Feasts, and they did the same. So when Pentecost came, they were keeping it, as Christ had always done. They were all with one accord, all keeping the Bible Feast.

If Christ had spent 3½ years teaching them not to keep the Feasts, why would He tell them to wait until Pentecost? If the Feasts were done away, why would the Father wait until the Feast day to send the Holy Spirit? If the disciples had been taught by the Master to hate the Feasts, why were they all still keeping them?

But according to Constantine’s teaching, and that of the Roman Church, they were all “Judaizers”. Yet these “detestable” Christians, were the first to receive the spirit of Christ.

Acts 2
4) They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

These people had enormous spiritual understanding, as a supernatural gift from God. Do you really think they were deceived about the Sabbath and Feasts, which they kept? Were they just unconverted Judaizers, heading for hell for obeying God’s written instructions?

God did not first pour out His spirit to the Romans, who kept the winter solstice festival and the spring fecundity festival. God chose to first give His spirit to Israelites who were keeping His Feast day. That’s a very important fact. The Judaizers were the ones who were first filled with the fire of the spirit, not the Romans.

Then, of all things, the Master did not rebuke the “Judaizers.” Instead He multiplied them.

Acts 2
41) Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
42) They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
43) Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
44) All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
45) They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
46) Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
47) praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

The flock of Christ multiplied from 120 to three thousand people, in one day –

The day of the Feast of Pentecost.

They all continued in the apostles’ teaching, which included obeying the Sabbath and Feasts. Christ did not reject these “Judaizers”, as Constantine did, but Christ performed many wonders among them. And day by day the Lord added to the flock, from all those people who had come to Jerusalem –

For the Feast.

Acts 6
7) The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Okay, we’re way beyond three thousand now. The disciples were multiplied exceedingly. That multiplied multitude even included a number of priests.

That brings up an interesting question.

When those priests came into the First Flock, did they immediately switch from the Sabbath to Constantine’s Sunday? Did they switch from Pentecost and the Bible Feasts to Constantine’s Roman feasts, which became Halloween, Christmas and Easter? Were these priests converted into Constantine Christians?

Hardly. The First Flock was created on a Feast day. If the Christian priests forsook the Feasts, they would be denying the birth of the Flock.

These priests were “obedient to the faith” – Judaizers!

One of the First Flock “Judaizers” was Stephen. As he was being stoned to death, the Son of Man granted Stephen a rare vision.

Acts 7
55) But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly