Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Brexit, Globalism, New World Order, Nigel Farage, Westphalian World Order on May 28, 2019| 4 Comments »
European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
There’s an old joke in politics that says a gaff is defined as when a politician accidently tells the truth. That’s not a bad definition. Generally, those in high office are masters at concealing their true beliefs and motives.
But every now and then, the mask slips. Barak Obama famously accused rural Americans of bitterness and of clinging to their guns and religion.
Posted in Roman Catholicism, Uncategorized, tagged Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Dispensation, Eschatology, Historicism, Preterism, Rome's Pedophilia Scandals on May 26, 2019| 2 Comments »
Demonstrator holds up sign in front of Pope Francis during his visit to Ireland, August 2018. Will Oliver (EFE)
“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”
– Revelation 18:4
The headline in the Detroit Free Press was as familiar as it was appalling: “5 Catholic priests charged in Michigan sex abuse investigation.” “Does this never end?,” I thought to myself upon reading it. The answer, it would seem, is no.
Indeed, investigations revealing the horrifying scale of the sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church-State have become something of a commonplace in recent years. Time would fail me were I to even attempt to cover, if but briefly, the scandals that have occurred just here in America, let alone try to talk about those in other countries.
As I read through the article – please note, the piece in the Detroit Free Press is, in parts, quite graphic, as it contains language from the affidavits connected with the case; in reading them one is reminded of what the Apostle Paul said to the Ephesians when he wrote to them concerning deeds about which it was shameful even to speak – I kept thinking about the passage in Revelation, where the voice from heaven warns God’s people to come out of Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Harlots, that is to say, the Roman Church-State (RCS), “that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.”
But not only did I think about unspeakable wickedness of the RCS, but also about the thunderous silence that emanates from the pulpits of even Bible believing Protestant churches concerning the predations of Rome against the most vulnerable of her people. If you think I’m overstating the case, as yourself this, When was the last time you heard a sermon from the pulpit about Antichrist, about Mystery Babylon, and about the work these tools of Satan are doing right in front of our faces? When was the last time you hear a Protestant minister publicly point out the sins of the Roman Church-State or warn his flock about the dangers of this false church?
The answer, most likely, is never.
Jesus enjoined his disciples to go into all the world and to teach all the things he had taught them. Paul said he was innocent of the blood of all men, because he did not fail to teach the Ephesians the whole counsel of God. Since part of the whole counsel of God is the Bible’s teaching about Antichrist and about Mystery Babylon, when ministers to fail to teach about these topics, or to teach about them falsely, the necessary conclusion is that they – and I’m taking here not about liberal ministers who long ago abandoned any pretense of teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but those who would be considered conservative and Bible-believing – are blood guilty for their failure to properly instruct both their congregations and the unbelieving world.
Antichrist is alive and well, and the evil fruits of his evil doctrines are splashed across the headlines all over the internet, yet we Christians remain silent. Why is this? Ignorance is likely one reason. But perhaps more than ignorance, it is out of fear that we remain silent. Fear that we will be rejected. Fear that we will give offense. Fear that me will not hear us and will not like us. Fear of losing our jobs and fear of being censored on the internet. Fear that we will be called haters and intolerant. Fear of being banned from Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.
To all this, Jesus says “Fear not.” It is he who is our king, and it is to him that we owe our allegiance. It is he who warned his disciples not to fear those who could kill the body only, that is to say, other men, but to fear him who can destroy body and soul in hell, that is to say, God.
With this in mind, let us take a closer look at today’s Scripture passage, Revelation 8:4, and see how it relates to the horrible headlines of sex abuse in the Roman Church-State that we so often see.
Posted in Abortion, Uncategorized, tagged 2020 Presidential Campaign, Abortion, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, John Robbins, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Pat Robertson on May 19, 2019| 4 Comments »
Pro-choice supporters protest in front of the Alabama State House in Montgomery on May 14, 2019.
REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry
“What angers me about the GOP’s attempts to turn the United States into a far-right Christian theocracy is how dishonest they are about it. At least be forthright about your desire to subvert and dismantle our democracy into a creepy theological order led by a mad king.”
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D) New York, Twitter, 5/17/19
It seems as if America is on course for an abortion show down. A sort of Roe v. Wade version of pistols at noon.
In January of this year, the first shot in the latest iteration of the ongoing abortion war fired by the New York State Legislature when it passed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). If ever a bill was fast tracked, this one certainly was. According to Wikipedia, the bill was introduced into the New York State Legislature on January 9, 2019, passed by both houses on January 22, and signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo that same evening.
The RHA, widely considered the nation’s most liberal abortion law, changed New York’s abortion laws in the following ways:
In Virginia, a bill was introduced earlier this year that would have greatly liberalized abortion in that state. When asked in a radio interview about the whether the bill would allow a fetus surviving abortion to be killed, Governor Ralph Northam created a major controversy with his answer that lent support to allowing such an infant to die.
In sharp contrast to New York and Governor Northam, just this week the Alabama State Legislature passed, and the governor signed, what is viewed as the nation’s most restrictive abortion law. The Alabama law makes it a felony offense for doctors to perform or attempt to perform an abortion, allows no exceptions for rape of incest, but does permit abortions in the event the mother’s life is at risk.
But while Alabama’s law is the most restrictive state-level abortion statute, other states have recently enacted legislation that will have the effect of significantly reducing abortions. In 2019 five states – Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio – have passed heartbeat bills, legislation designed to prohibit abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Utah and Arkansas voted to limit abortions to the middle of the second trimester. Together with Alabama, this makes eight states in 2019 that have taken legislative action to restrict abortion.
Very clearly, when it comes to abortion America is a deeply divided nation.
With a majority conservative Supreme Court, it may well be, as several legal commentators have suggested, that state-level Republican legislators and governors have passed and signed into law these bills with an eye to challenging Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion in all fifty states.
If these laws are challenged in court, as they surely will be, it is entirely possible that the challenges could begin working their way through the federal court system just as the 2020 presidential election is coming to a head. If that happens, abortion could become the lightening rod of the 2020 presidential election.
Below are a few of my observations on brewing conflict.
Posted in Politics, Presidential Campaign 2020, Roman Catholicism, tagged 2020 Presidential Campaign, Antichrist, Capitalism, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Joe Biden, John Robbins, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Social Teaching on May 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden thinks Americans have an “obligation” to foot the medical bills of illegal aliens. Now where did he get that idea? AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
“I think that anyone who is in a situation where they’re in need of health care, regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for.”
– Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Candidate
It seems like only yesterday that Antifa thugs were smashing windows in Washington D.C. to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration, and here we are talking about the 2020 presidential campaign. My, how time flies. And here I am, a year and a half before the November 3, 2020 vote talking presidential politics.
Not that I mind terribly much. As readers of this space know, I’m a bit of a political junkie. Always have been. In fact, politics is one of the ways the Lord led me to faith in Christ. That probably sounds a bit odd, so let me explain.
Posted in Rome Watch, tagged Antichrist, Pope Francis, Rome and World Government on May 9, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Pope Francis addresses joint session of Congress, September 2015.
I like the alternate media, don’t get me wrong. I have great respect for those who, with little fanfare and even less pay, put themselves out there as bloggers and YouTubers, as Podcasters and independent journalists. As a blogger myself, I suppose you’d expect me to say that.
But while the alternate media has done some wonderful work in educating people on how the world really works, as opposed to how the mainstream corporate media wants you to believe it works, the subject of the Papacy and the Roman Church-State is rarely discussed.
Posted in Foreign Policy, Politics, Roman Catholicism, The Reformation, tagged Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Christian Zionism, Israel, Zionism on May 5, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence. Fred Reed rightly criticizes these neo-conservatives for their belligerent foreign policy and tendency to conflate U.S. interests with those of Israel, but misses the mark when recommending an alternative.
“Pence A Christian? POMPEO?: There Are Christians Who Love and Christian Who Hate,” a recent article by veteran journalist and commentator Fred Reed caught my eye this week. Reed, a gifted and independent-minded columnist, takes an approach to politics that can, I think, fairly be described as Libertarian.
As to his religions background, in his biography on his website he writes, “In general my family for many generations were among the most literate, the most productive, and the dullest people in the South. Presbyterians.” That said, in reading him over the years, my sense is that he has rejected the faith of his forebears and now seems rather hostile to the Presbyterianism of his family. Writing about the Catholic churches of Mexico, he commented in one column, “In any of these them (sic), before Protestantism cast its drab cloak of half of the faith, a traveler could enter and understand everything he saw.” In the same column, he has high praise for Russian Orthodox ceremony as well.
All that said, Reed has a wonderful talent for exposing the many nonsensical pieties which in our time are presented to the public as the very height of wisdom. In his article Reed – the author has a penchant for ribald language, which I have edited out as both unnecessary and inappropriate for this blog – makes many spot on observations about the anti-Christian foreign policy espoused by supposedly Christian government officials. On the other hand, some of his statements are wide of the mark. My comments are interspersed.
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