Now you may be asking why I picked such a specific date, in this case, 1891, as the time when liberty began to wane, and collectivism and world government began their rise. I chose this date not at random, but due to an important papal encyclical published that year by Pope Leo XIII called Rerum Novarum. The literal Latin translation of Rerum Novarum is “new things.” But in this case, the literal translation lacks the true sense of this Latin expression. The meaning behind these words in Latin, and this traces all the way back to Roman times, is “revolution.” Now Americans may hear the terms “revolution” or “new things” and be reminded of George Washington, 1776, and Fourth of July fireworks. But for the Romans and for Leo XIII, “revolution” was a word freighted with negative connotations. One can see this in the official Vatican translation of the encyclical, where “Rerum Novarum” is brought over into English as, “That spirit of revolutionary change.”
So just what were these “new things” that put a bee in Antichrist’s bonnet?
Liberty, technological development, and widespread rising standards of living brought about by the Industrial Revolution, which itself was a by-product of the Protestant Reformation’s biblical doctrines of limited government and free market economics, a political and economic mix that John Robbins referred to as constitutional-capitalism in his book Ecclesiastical Megalomania.
Now Christians and, at least in America, probably even many Roman Catholics, view economic and political liberty in a positive light. But to Antichrist and his minions, they are unbearably awful, for they represent the total defeat of their incompetent and evil political and economic theories, the results of which can be seen in the poverty and oppression of the Middle Ages. For that matter, one need look only at the poverty and oppression found throughout Catholic-dominated Latin America to see the fruit of Rome’s political and economic theories.
The link between the economic thinking of both Pope Francis and Joe Biden has something of a track record. Back in 2014 while serving as Obama’s Vice President, Biden defended Pope Francis’ obvious socialism in his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium “as a practicing Catholic.”
Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis first published work, was so stridently socialist that Rush Limbaugh called it “pure Marxism.”
The Wall Street Journal said this of Evangelii Gaudium, “Using unusually blunt language, he [Pope Francis] sharply criticized the market [ that is to say the biblical] economy.”
In his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, the Pope once again took aim at free markets and free nations, blaming market economics for a variety of ills and calling for world government as a solution. Quoting Benedict XVI who was himself quoting John XXIII, Francis wrote,
To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago.
Laudato Si’, 175, emphasis added
Worth noting, Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign website gave his blessing to the Pope’s encyclical. Biden wrote, “In his encyclical, Laudato Si, Pope Francis directed the global community to raise awareness about the growing climate change crisis.”
In 2019, the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) ran a story titled “Would Pope Francis back the Green New Deal?” The longish article never really gets around to answering the questions directly. But one gets the distinct sense from reading the piece that the author thinks the answer is “yes.”
At one point, the article cites Creighton University [a Jesuit school] theologian Richard Miller saying of the Green New Deal, “It reflects what Francis is up to.”
For once, I agree with the Jesuits. The Green New Deal, with all its proposed destructions of economic and political liberty, fits right in with the Pope’s evil encyclical. In fact, one could describe the Green New Deal as the American edition of Laudato Si’, which, if Congress ever manages to pass its provisions, it would be the death of what remains of our God-given, Constitutionally guaranteed liberties.
In his book The Jesuit Kulturkampf in the United States, Part One, Ronald Cooke made the point that the Jesuits’ goal, “is nothing less than the destruction of the United States of America, as a Protestant Christian nation” (59). Cooke is entirely correct in his assessment, although many, if not most, American Protestants in 2022 would consider such a statement to be wild conspiracy theory.
Here, I am reminded of the words of Charles Spurgeon, who wrote,
It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. If there were to be issued a hue and cry for Antichrist, we should certainly take up this church on suspicion, and it would certainly not be let loose again, for it so exactly answers the description.
The Apostle Paul, writing to the Corinthians, said, “[W]here the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” One implication of this statement is that where liberty does not exist, the Spirit of the Lord is not present. The Church of Rome has made war on spiritual, political, and economic liberty for over a thousand years. Liberty is not present in Rome, and neither is the Spirit of the Lord, but rather the spirit of tyranny and oppression and ignorance and fear.
As Christians, let us cry out against the evils of Rome, including the evil of its globalist climate change agenda. Whether it comes from the Pope or his designated representative in the White House.
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The Protestant Reformation did not free men from the spiritual tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church. It kept the same Roman Catholic Filioque God of Carolingian Frank Charlemagne, and kept the Protestants in bondage to the Augustinian theology of the Trinity. Filioque is not the true God, it is a Carolingian heresy, and every Protestant is a slave of Charlemaagne (742-814).
It completely freed men from the tyranny of Rome by teaching that sinners are justified, declared righteous in God’s sight, by belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ alone.