Awesome JILL, thank you , Awesome Jill hmmm sounds like you got a name JILL lol. Much love and HUGS dear friend!

 "When Christianity is tied to governments, the biblical challenge to the world suffers. During this period the hierarchy of the church solidified and became a kingdom of this world."

What truth!  I went over alot of this in Humanities recently and did marvel over this period.  I am not as good at historical details but am aware of these things you have written and they do clarify what's happened historically with the church. I thought during this time...the world or Rome or Catholicism couldn't destroy the church so it integrated itself into it. Satan never gives up but that still doesn't make him a winner in any way; he is Always defeated by the blood that cannot be mingled with.

Correct , one teaching rabbi Jesus has said was to keep watch at all times, feed my sheep, this was meant not only physically feed and gaurd the sheep but to litterally do what is expected from Jesus and not let the One or Satan grab a foothold. Thanks Kim for your replies :)

You are welcome!  this is very good information to know...we can see through time satan's devices to destroy God's church, but what is more marvelous than his efforts is how it is that God's church is never and cannot be destroyed!  Slay me, and I will only love more; crucify me, and the blood of the saints is seed!  Try to deceive me if it's possible, and God will gloriously raise up a standard of the Truth in Zion!  His Church lives on, and not by the power of any pompous religious State....

But, We the Church do Testify, to the Eternal Power of Grace...
That forever delivers sinful man from the power of sin's disgrace...
That moves in us by heaven's will, for the sake of Christ above...
That keeps Zion forever alive by the power of His blood....
Not by might or the power of man, that works to only negate,
The priceless Truth of Christ in you, the mysterious work of Grace.
No mortal man or religious State can claim the Church their own,
What's born of God belongs to Him, to him and him alone....
No Pope, no Priest assigned by man owns any of heaven's ware,
But in God's Church, his spiritual priests, do tend his temple with care,
Of which ye are, you saints of his, whose Spirit your heart does bare,
The temple of the Living God, it's you, the blood bought share.

       "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a Salvation?"
                                                              (Hebrew 2:3)

                  Thanks for Excellent Teaching.... preachergirl,  Kim S