In AD 312, the Roman Empire is up for grabs. Its previous emperor, Diocletian, divided the realm between two senior and two junior emperors, but the complex arrangement has collapsed. The successors are at one another’s throats. Young general Constantine, son of Constantius, one of Diocletian’s co-emperors, has military successes under his belt, but now he faces a formidable veteran with a larger army and a better strategic position. What shall he do?
Constantine realizes that he needs help from a power greater than himself, but who or what? He has his doubts about the traditional Roman gods. He prays earnestly that the true God, whoever that may be, will “reveal to him who he is, and stretch forth his right hand to help him.”
He does not know it yet, but that prayer will change the course of Christian history as well as of western civilization. Later he will tell his friend Bishop Eusebius the incredible story of that hour. When Eusebius reports it in his history, he admits it is hard to believe.
What happens that is so hard to believe? Constantine suddenly sees a bright cross of light emblazoned against the noonday sky and upon it the inscription: “In hoc signo vinces” —“In this Sign Conquer.”
It brings Constantine the assurance he needs. He accepts this as the answer to his prayer and orders his soldiers to inscribe crosses on their shields. Encouraged by his vision in the heavens, he hurls his troops against his rival Maxentius at Rome’s Milvian Bridge. Surprisingly, Constantine is victorious. Maxentius is among those who drown in the Tiber.
Afterward Constantine does not forget to whom he owes his victory. For close to two hundred and fifty years, since AD 64 when Nero initiated violence against it, the Christian church has been a persecuted minority in Roman lands. Only a few years earlier, between 303 and 311, it suffered through Diocletian’s savage “Great Persecution.” Now Constantine issues orders that the Christian church is to be tolerated just as other religions are. Although he does not make Christianity the official religion of the empire, Constantine bestows favor on it, builds places of worship for Christians, and presides over the first general church council. He becomes the first emperor to embrace Christianity and will be baptized on his death bed—waiting so late for fear his duties as emperor might cause him to sin after he receives the solemn rite, blotting out its efficacy.
Writing Constantine’s biography, Eusebius will describe him as God’s gift to a suffering church. His Greek account will give the quote simply as “Conquer by this.”
For the first time in its short history, the church can worship and grow without constant fear of deadly persecution.
—Dan Graves
Jerry Eusebio gave girl in church a rose. But chivalry was dead and he got condemned for it by angry father….true Portuguese story.
LISTEN AND HEAR…….DON’T TURN A BLIND EYE OR A DEAF EAR…
this is portuguese leader of the world speaking
U Portuguese believers give 10% like the muslims do. save your church or it will go bankrupt and they will build a mosque
If KL was a bad guy he would be dead by now. He lives in a hellish alley…but his mom prays every day for him. and he prays for forgivness of sins
KL is gonna put the candle under the mary sign on church to scare away the Satanists obsessed with the number 13
Article #13
“You who dress your walls, and let your fellow-creatures go bare, what will you answer to the judge?”
https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/incontext/article/basil
This is for richest man in Portugal
480 million dollars could build your Portuguese Cultural center….save church and rebuild Notre Dame…stara dama what are u saving for? the apocalypse?
Américo Amorim’s widow continues to stand as the only Portuguese in Forbes billionaires list, with a fortune of 4.8 billion dollars.
watch the gas prices and the 911 scam on newsfeed
Braveheart Luis kept church safe on 13th black sabbath…1 man and his son against a Satanic army…
other cuz tony lives in a hellish alley 2…he got wedding dollar bill ticket…..2021 if we gotta learn by the marine corps numbers
The Wedding Band, the one-off cover band featuring Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo, Ugly Kid Joe vocalist Whitfield …
Kirk Hammet is wearing 2001 kubrick space shirt
Psalm 37:28 For the LORD loves justice and does not abandon the faithful.
When the unjust are destroyed,
and the children of the wicked cut off,
this is what happens when u try to rape lady justice
read la furtado’s book about the attempted rape…mahdi’s intervention is another story
Allahu Akbar!!! Praise Mahdi!!
mr. “king of kings” thought he was gonna get some pussy
Psalm 84:11 Better one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere.
Better the threshold of the house of my God
than a home in the tents of the wicked.
sodomized and shot dead…he showed no mercy…let none come upon him in hell
Fiery wrath of God…consumed Gaddafi in anger
mad dog
Spell it backwards, see what you get.
Mad dog, a creative new insult