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the CRUSADES. In addressing that mor- the Turnover Ceremonies of the AFP, 1 July
al equivalency, the president’s comment 2016, he mentioned that parts of Mindanao
was the most offensive to most Christians. especially Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga,
Borneo and other parts, were invaded
It is unfair to blame all Christians for the by the Muslims long before Magellan
CRUSADE and on the other hand when discovered the Philippines on March 16,
there is sever persecutions to Christians, 1521. To understand why the Muslims
it will bring spiritual blessings for true be- were already here in the Philippines
lievers in Christ. (PSALMS 119:71—72), before the Spaniards came, I would like
“It was good for me to be AFFLICTED so to briefly share what had happened.
that I might learn your decrees. The law
from your mouth is more precious to me Beginning in the first century, from Jeru-
than thousands of pieces of silver and salem to the Mediterranean world which
gold.” As I always say, Christians in gen- was under the Roman Empire, Christianity
eral in an affluent society focus on mate- spread out. The churches in the New
rial thing in this world not in Christ living Testament on whom the apostles wrote
holy lives according to Gods Word. Most letters for and the seven churches
Churches their gods are material things mentioned in the book of Revelation
and money and that is IDOLATRY! God were actual churches located in the Med-
will allow His own people to suffer af- iterranean world. But now you cannot
fliction because of the sin of IDOLATRY! trace Christianity there because it has
been converted to Islam. The big question
AFFLICTION means: Suffering, pain, is why and how did it happen?
distress, trouble, misfortune, tribula-
tion, trial, hardship, adversity, misery, There were no Church buildings for more
calamity, ailment, and sickness. I be- than 3 hundred years. There was no
lieve sever persecution is coming very well-organized Church then. During the
soon to purify our lives as Christians. intense persecution, the Church secretly
gathered together in small groups in caves
or in homes studying God’s Word.
LONG BEFORE MAGELLAN DISCOVERED
THE PHILIPPINES. In 313 AD, Constantine abolished
persecution and made Christianity the
State religion, forcing all people in his
Empire to be baptized while he himself
was the highest pagan priest. The Church
then become idolater mixing pagan religion
practices and doctrines.

This was the time when God allowed
Muhammad and his army to annihilate the
Catholic Church. The Muslims massacred
the idolater Catholics in the Mediterranean
world to fulfill God’s warning in Exodus
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte 20:1-5, to punish the children for the
sins of the fathers to the third and fourth
President Duterte is an intelligent man and generation that worship other gods. The
I do believe that he had an intensive re- total conversion of the Christian Church to
search on “TRUE CHURCH HISTORY”. Pres- paganism was on the third century A.D.
ident Rodrigo R. Duterte’s Speech during The mass destruction and the murders of
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