Hi Pastor John,
Christian ceremonial worship reminds me of what we have been studying in the OT, the Sin of Jeroboam. It’s written, I believe, “the sin of Jeroboam, where with he caused God’s people to sin”. It is the 16th major event in the OT, according to your OT outline.
If you cross out Jeroboam’s name and insert Constantine, it may read some what like this, “The sin of Constantine, wherewith he caused God’s people to sin.” As we know, Jeroboam set up false gods in Dan and Bethel, erected a temple to replace the temple in jerusalem, along with substituting his own feast days, and he made men priests who were not Levites. Jeroboam wanted to secure his place as king, and so he invented a religion that he thought would pacify the people. And it did. He made it so easy for God’s people to worship, but by partaking of it, they were actually sinning against God. That’s how I see God’s people partaking of the religious system called Christianity. Christianity is a NT version of Jeroboam’s sin, and we know who wants to king now.
The readings from the father and Son book have been wonderful! I can’t remember, ever, a time that I heard this truth so clear.
Billy M