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...and fails completely.

  • Rome burns Jerusalem to the ground
  • Over 580,000 Jews are killed
  • Both Jews and Christians are forbidden to enter the ruins of Jerusalem

Timeline of Early Christianity

Constantine the Great

Edict of Thessalonica

ERA OF PERSECUTION

The Great Jewish Revolt

66 - 70 CE

313 CE - Edict of Milan

380 CE (Greece)

200 Years (almost)

Eventually, Christianity become a powerful force in the Roman Empire

Constantine was so amazed by his victory that he legally recognized Christianity

The Roman Empire had controlled

Judea (Israel) for over 120 years, since the time

of Julius Caesar

Emperor Theodosius made Christianity the official religion of the Empire in 380 CE

He also banned all non-Christian practices (like the Olympics), and began persecuting non-Christians...

The Edict of Milan banned any Roman, across the Empire, from persecuting a Christian

In the year 66 CE, the Jews fought a bloody war to take back control of their homeland from Rome

Legend says Constantine was influenced by his mother, who was secretly a Christian

Within 4 years, the Roman armies had completely destroyed Jerusalem, killed thousands of Jews, and exiled thousands more

"Arch of Titus", Rome

...by destroying their temples, killing their priests, and imprisoning their followers.

130 - 300 CE

312 - 313 CE

100 - 130 CE

325 - 380 CE

66 - 70 CE

Bar Kokhba Revolt

Council of Nicea

Constantine the Great

The results were:

  • Nicene Creed (statement of beliefs)
  • Jesus and God are the same thing
  • Standing up during prayer
  • The official date of Easter

130 CE

312 CE - Battle of Milvian Bridge

325 CE (Turkey)

100 CE - Romans rebuild Jerusalem as a Roman city, builds statues of Zeus over the Holy Temple

Emperor Constantine was losing a civil war against a rogue general

Early Christianity had many competing ideas about what they should believe (like Gnosticism)

In the sky, Constantine saw a vision of the cross with the words "By This Sign, Conquer"

Emperor Constantine tried to fix this by inviting 1,800 bishops to get together and decide on ONE belief

130 CE - Simeon Bar Kokhba says he (not Jesus) is the Messiah that will destroy the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.

He raises an enormous army to finally defeat the Romans once and for all...

The two armies met at Milvian Bridge, in Rome; Constantine's army was half the size of his enemy

He ordered his soldiers to draw the symbol on their shields...and they won

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