Lots of stuff. The first service I got into how December 25th is the date, and there's really

good evidence that that really is the date, a date of his birth. But in this one, I want to go

through how St. Nicholas turned into Santa Claus. Now, there's some holidays you cannot redeem

like Halloween. It's like pagan from the core, but this one, there's some really good stuff. So,

the church was born into a one-world anti-Christian government, the Roman Empire. It's like pagan from the core, but this one, there's some really good stuff. So the church was born into a one-world anti-Christian government, the Roman Empire.

It's like, ah.

And Jesus tells his before, you know, he goes up into heaven, he says,

and you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you,

and you should be witnesses under me, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the othermost parts of the earth.

By the way, the word witness means martyr.

And so, 11 of the 12 apostles were martyred, and the Christianity spread.

And so the red is the Roman Empire, and then you got the white as Christianity, and they're

risking their lives, they're spreading Christianity, and it eventually takes over the whole

known world there at the time, and then spreads to Japan and Syria and all around.

Anyway, did you know Syria was the first country to completely be Christian?

He was evangelized by the Apostle Paul.

The name Christian was first used in Syria, right?

And then unfortunately, they got invaded and so

or. But here we have Roman Emperor Pliny, Roman governor, Pliny the Younger, writing to Emperor Trajan

111.11 AD. I ask them if they are Christians. If they admit it, I repeat the question,

threatening capital punishment. If they persist, I sentence them to death. And there's Emperor Trajan.

If anyone denies he's a Christian and actually proves it by worshipping our gods, he shall be

...