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The Vatican’s Political and Cultural Influence

Posted in Eschatology, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 16, 2024| 1 Comment »

U.S. President Joe Biden, right, greets Pope Francis ahead of a working session on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Energy, Africa-Mediterranean, on day two of the 50th G7 summit at Borgo Egnazia, southern Italy, June 14, 2024.

Many Christians entirely miss the political and cultural influence of the Vatican, even when it’s reported publicly, even when it’s held up right in front of their faces. 

Consider how many influential Americans the pope has met with just recently.

Note well that the papal audiences described above are just with Americans and held over the past month. If you follow the news at all, you’ll know that these are not just ordinary Americans but individuals at the very top of the political and cultural pyramid. 

In recent days, the Pope has also addressed the G7 and met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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Does the Bible Admonish Christians to Stand with Israel?

Posted in Zionism, tagged , , , , , on April 21, 2024| 2 Comments »

Christian Zionists Pastor John Hagee and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pose in Washington D.C. at a Christians United for Israel conference, April 15, 2024.

“For those of us who are believers, it’s a Biblical admonition to stand with Israel.”

  • Mike Johnson, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Does the Bible admonish Christians to stand with Israel?  According to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson, the answer is, yes.  And millions of American Evangelicals agree with him due to the Premillennial Dispensationalist eschatology popularized by the Scofield Bible and well-known dispensationalist preachers such as John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI).

In a recent post on X, John Hagee said we are on the verge of the Gog Magog war” and expressed concern that the Democrats were urging Israel to “de-escalate” its war against Hamas.  He indicated that he would fly to DC and meet with lawmakers.  Apparently, Hagee got his way as he met with House Speaker Mike Johnson, who helped Congress rob the American people and send $26.3 billion more in tribute to Israel on top of the untold billions of dollars Americans have already sent to that nation and like will send in the future. 

Why do men such as Mike Johnson and John Hagee believe there’s a Biblical “admonition” to stand with Israel?  Usually, it starts with a quotation from Genesis 12, “I [God] will bless those who bless you [Abraham] and I will curse him who curses you.” For Christian Zionists such as Johnson and Hagee, this always means sending more American tax dollars to support Israel.  But it can also mean lending moral support to Israel to continue its aggressive and deadly policies such as the ongoing bombing of civilians in Gaza and urging Israel not to deescalate.  The tens of thousands of dead Gazan civilians are not enough to satisfy Hagee’s blood lust.  God requires more bombing. 

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It’s the Vatican

Posted in Immigration, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Migrant caravan, Tapachula, Mexico, October 30, 2023 (AP Photo/Edgar Clemente).

“It’s the Vatican.”

That was my short tweet post on “X.” 

So just what was that all about?  It was in response to a post from Scott Adams, best known publicly as the artist behind the comic strip Dilbert. 

Adams seems to be on the conservative side of things politically and has struck me as an observant and intelligent individual.  He’s also honest enough to admit when he makes a mistake. Adams was a hard-core pro-vaxer but has backed off his position in light of the evidence that the Covid vax is indeed exceptionally dangerous.

I say all that as a lead-up to Adams’ post, the one to which I responded.  See below.

Adams was on target with his comments.  Very obviously, the goal of our immigration policy is the destruction of the United States.  What our forefathers built up from 1620 until now, in the words of Isaiah, is being devoured in our presence by the treasonous immigration policies of the Biden Regime.

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Antichrist’s Immigration Treason

Posted in Immigration, Romanism and Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 7, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The looming expiry of Title 42 is expected to bring an influx of migrants to the southern US border.

Your land, strangers devour it in your presence.

  • Isaiah 1:7

When I was a kid, I remember going on a snipe hunt.  A snipe, we were told, was this somewhat mysterious beast that came out at night, and it was our job to catch one.  The problem was nobody seemed to really know what a snipe looked like.  That’s a bit of a problem.  Because if you don’t know what you’re looking for, you can’t recognize it, even if it’s standing right in front of you.  Unsurprisingly, our search for the mythical snipe, while it was a lot of fun, ultimately proved fruitless.

The contemporary Protestant church is much like we kids were on our snipe hunt.  Books are written about Antichrist and some people seem to know who he is or was.  The preterists will tell you Antichrist has long since come and gone in the person of the emperor Nero.  We have nothing to fear from him in the 21st century.  The futurist school, which dominates in our own time, sees Antichrist as having not yet come. While preterism and futurism come to very different conclusions about the identity of Antichrist, they have this one thing in common, there is no current Antichrist.    

Actually, preterism and futurism have something else in common:  They were both developed by the Jesuits during the counterreformation to take the heat off the pope, whom the reformers almost to a man had identified as the Antichrist, man of sin, and son of perdition of the Scriptures.  This stance, identifying the office of the papacy as the Antichrist, is one facet of the Protestant school of prophetic interpretation known as historicism. 

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Reformation Day Thoughts, Part 1: The Papal Antichrist and Contemporary Confusion

Posted in The Reformation, tagged , , , , , , , on October 24, 2021| 1 Comment »

Martin Luther as Hercules Germanicus by Hans Holbein, 1523. “In the picture, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Duns Scotus and Nicholas of Lyra already lay bludgeoned to death at his feet and the German inquisitor, Jacob van Hoogstraaten was about to receive his fatal stroke. Suspended from a ring in Luther’s nose was the figure of Pope Leo X,” The Reformation Room.

There is no other Head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God.

  • Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 25.6

“I have no idea who Antichrist is.”  I don’t remember anything else about the sermon.  I don’t even recall the name of the man who preached it.  But I do remember it was on a Sunday morning in December 2006 that I heard those words, “I have no idea who Antichrist is,” come from the pulpit of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. 

I case you’re wondering, no, it wasn’t D. James Kennedy who made that comment.  It was a guest preacher, whose name escapes me.

It’s just as well I don’t recall the man’s name who uttered those words.  For it seems to me that what he said that Sunday could well be said by most of the professing reformed church, both in 2006 and in 2021.  No one, it seems, has any idea who Antichrist is. 

It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma, to borrow a turn of phrase from Winston Churchill.  Or at least that’s how it seems to most Christians today. 

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Come out of Her My People: Revelation and the Roman Church-State’s Ongoing Pedophilia Scandals

Posted in Roman Catholicism, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on May 26, 2019| 2 Comments »

 

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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.

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