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Religion
of the Antichrist
In
review of previous chapters, Daniel’s dream dovetailed with
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in that they both represented world empires: Nebuchadnezzar’s dream referred to Old
Testament empires, while Daniel’s dream referred to New Testament
empires. There was one kingdom that intersected both eras, and
that kingdom nailed Jesus to a cross at the request of the Jews. After
the man of lawlessness is appointed Pope of the Vatican in
Rome, he will stage his
assassination, counterfeiting Jesus’ resurrection by asserting to rise
from the dead, attempting to give credence to his deception. After rising from the Vatican’s
abyss of Catholicism, attempting to obfuscate a Christian revival, his
efforts will fail, so the Beast will burn the antichrist's city with his
own hands, and he
will migrate to Jerusalem to smother the Great Endtime Revival that
will have its origins in Jerusalem, by which millions of people will be saved
from this satanic world empire. Sitting on his infamous throne
in Jerusalem, the antichrist will take Israel hostage, posing as the
Jewish messiah and savior of the world.
Since
Catholics believe in the continuous sacrifice of the Son of God with the
bread and wine miraculously turning into the flesh and blood of Christ
at the blessing of the priest, this Pope will pretend to become the very
personification of their religion by presuming to sacrifice himself. He
will claim the world is eating the flesh and blood of his own body after
his false resurrection, and they will worship him for it. Thus he will extend his antichristian influence
throughout the world, attempting to stamp out Christianity once and for
all, which has also been a Jewish sentiment for millennia, by
implementing his mark for the purpose of identifying, isolating and
exterminating both believing Jews and gentiles. This statement,
“Once was, now is not and will come,” in Rev 17-8, refers to a
religion that once dominated the world, persisted through the ages and then
reappeared to dominate the world again at
the end of the age.
The
Bible speaks of the church as the bride of Christ in Rev 19,7-8, “Let
us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb
has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and
clean, was given her to wear. (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts
of the saints)" NIV. If the true church is the bride of Christ,
then the false church must be the whore of Babylon. This chapter
revolves around a catfight between these two women: the true and the
false church. Both claim to be
the bride of Christ, one proving it through signs and wonders, "and
they did not love their life even when faced with death" (Rev
12-11), while the other tried to prove it by martyring them. Daniel 12-3 says, “Those who have insight
will shine bright like the brightness of the expanse of heaven….”
Normally it would be obvious to all who is who, but the world will fall
under the delusions of Satan, delineating this word “insight” to
mean those who are able to break his spell through the power of God.
Revelation chapters thirteen and seventeen hold many similarities with
the Vatican and the Jewish Talmud, suggesting the Roman Catholic
Church will one day mix its doctrines with the orthodox Jewish Talmud to
create a new religion of antichrist, whom the Bible calls the great
whore of Babylon. Just the fact that God uses a prostitute to analogize
the antichrist’s religion reeks of Catholicism in that it claims to be the one and only true
Church,
though it worships demons as a matter of faith in its many practices that
were tragically designed to funnel money into its coffers.
On
the one side, Satan from desperation will attempt to use his antichrist
to quell the Christian revival that originated Jerusalem. The antichrist
will be a religious man, who will persuade Israel's enemies to let them rebuild their temple, so that Israel for the first
time in two thousand years will finally be able to worship the God of
the Old Testament the way their ancestors did in the days of King
Solomon. He will do this in order to get peoples’ attention off divine
worship and onto ancient Jewish traditions by brainwashing the world
that the Jewish tabernacle is the essence of
Christian faith. That way he can claim credit for this worldwide
spiritual awakening. If he can establish a connection between
himself and the revival, he can begin regulating it, humanizing it and
running it into the ground, until he morphs it into yet another religion
as he has done to every spiritual awakening throughout the ages.
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On
the other side, God using His church, will shine His light in the eyes
of pure evil and expose wickedness in the world, so that Satan has no
choice but to manifest himself in human flesh as the man of lawlessness. Instead of using force to stamp out
competition to his throne, he will first try
deception. Originally seated in Rome the antichrist will move his empire
to Jerusalem where all the action is transpiring. He will masquerade as
Israel’s messiah in attempt to create religious confusion and take
charge of the Jewish revival, but when he ambles into the Jewish holy of
holies, the priests will reject him as their messiah, defeating his
grandiose delusion as God of
the Bible, who attempted to seduce the world to believe that he was the
return of Jesus Christ in the flesh. When his plan fails, it will mark
the beginning of Christian mass-genocide on the grandest scale
imaginable, precipitating the judgment of God and forever marking the
end of human governments, and initiating the manifestation of God’s
eternal kingdom on the earth. Only a replica of Christ would even
attempt to enter the Jewish temple that serves as a mere copy of the
heavenly one, being the reason Jesus never entered the Jewish temple's
Holy of Holies 2000 years ago, since He is the very substance of life
and truth.
These
will be times of great deception and confusion, but those with a remnant
of the Spirit will discriminate the motives of Satan from the true words
of God. Once the temple is built, he will proclaim himself as Israel’s
messiah and will enter the Most Holy Place without permission of the
high priest. They will react explosively with religious fervor at the
blatant audacity of such blasphemy, and will physically extricate him
from the temple in front of the whole world. As a result of publicly
humiliating his monstrous ego, he will unleash a supernatural
malevolence against Christians, both Jews and gentiles. At the moment of
extraction, Satan will enter the man of lawlessness on the spot, who
will turn his tactics from deception to murder. The institution of the mark will be
instituted with the goal of eliminating defectors from his kingdom, and
since Christians are the only ones who are willing to resist him to the
death, the mark will be aimed directly at them.
One
of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me,
"Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who
sits on many waters. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery
and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her
adulteries.” Rev 17-1,2 NIV
Italy
is a peninsula. Therefore, to say that Rome sits on many waters fits the
description.
For
the New International Version to describe the antichrist as a prostitute
that commits spiritual adultery, paints a picture of a married woman selling her
body to other gods, but this is not an accurate depiction of the
antichrist, based on what the rest of Scripture says about him. The
whore of Babylon is not spiritually married to God. It makes it sound
like she is the true Church, which is under God’s eternal covenant
originally made to Abraham, the father of Israel, the only nation that is married to
God (read Hosea). Israel is therefore the
only nation that can commit spiritual adultery against God. While it is true that Israel will be involved in the identity of
the great whore of Babylon, it will not be true of all Israel, for she
will be divided between Christian Jews and unbelieving Jews. Jerusalem is the center of the world. It befits
Jerusalem to be the spiritual battleground of human souls. The Talmudic Jews
believe in a way of the historical Pharisees, the
religious people that delivered up Jesus for crucifixion. Israel was the
only nation with whom God initiated a covenant, promising He would never
stop being their God, and they would never stop being His people. They
were hardly faithful, but they were never divorced. In Israel’s case
their disobedience and unbelief is an accurate depiction of spiritual
adultery.
To
apply the analogy of spiritual adultery to the Catholic Church, however,
is not a match, because the Catholic Church has never been under God’s
covenant. She has self-proclaimed
for centuries to be the true Christian Church, yet she has
fabricated her own covenant with God, but He never acknowledged
their covenant, hence she is not married to Him. God wants people to
obey His word, but the Catholic Church has set the
conditions of its own obedience by inventing its own religion
instead of obeying Scripture. The fact that the Catholic Church is
not under God’s covenant, but under their own pseudo covenant is the
difference between fornicating with other gods, and committing adultery
against the true God of heaven. She worships demons through her many
liturgical incantations, amounting to ceremonial witchcraft. That is why
the NASB is a more accurate translation when it uses the word
“immorality” as opposed to the NIV’s “adultery”. This is an important
distinction.
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The
NASB says in Rev 17-2, “With whom the kings of the earth committed
acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk
with the wine of her immorality.” The word immorality carries the
connotation that the Catholic Church was never married to Christ, and is
hence fornicating with other gods. She is incapable of committing
spiritual adultery with the God of heaven, because she is not married to
Him as is Israel. Being intoxicated with the wine of her immorality
refers to their method of communion that transforms the bread and wine
into the body and blood of Christ, which is blasphemous.
They dress it up with a big word – transubstantiation – to make it
seem more believable, but it is a hoax. According to the above verses,
Catholicism has an idolatrous affair with demons through their rendition
of communion.
And
he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven
heads and ten horns. And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet.
And adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand
a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her
immorality, and upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery,
BABYLON
THE GREAT
THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND
OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
And
I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood
of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered greatly (Rev
17,3-6 NASB).
This
mother of harlots is the false bride of Christ, who holds a caldron
dripping with the blood of the saints that she sips in communion with
the demons she serves, established as queen of harlots over the kingdoms
of the earth. God detests the doctrines of Catholicism that have led the
church to commune with demons, and in the last days they will direct the
world to replace the bread and wine with the flesh and blood of the
saints! According to their tradition, the priest receives both the bread
and the wine, but the parishioners receive only the bread. Scripture has
this religious harlot imbibing a cup of wine, elucidating the fact that
God holds the leaders of the Catholic Church accountable for the evils
perpetrated against the truth and against those who were faithful in
Christ for the last two millennia.
The Bible speaks of the spirit of error in 1John 4-6, “We are
from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does
not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of
error” NASB. Jesus said in John 16,1-3, “All this I have told you so
that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue; in
fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is
offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have
not known the Father or me” (NIV). You just heard Jesus say the
Catholic Church does not know God, for martyrdom is the legacy of Catholicism.
This
theory is not something you need to believe, since it has already
happened. We all know that Hitler systematically murdered the Jews along
with many other people groups during World War II, yet it is a little
known fact that the groundwork for his anti-Semitism had already been
laid before Hitler came to power, and it was laid by the Catholic
Church. There is a complaint on the Internet that every political
argument eventually leads to Hitler. They even give it a name, Godwin's
law. Now that they have giving it a name they expect us not to talk
about Hitler anymore, but he keeps coming up for good reason. He is
still on everyone’s mind because what he did is destined to happen
again in exactly the same manner.
In
a mass meeting in Straubing on 8 August 1923, Pieper [an ordained
Catholic priest] further fleshed out his vision of the full
compatibility between Nazi racial anti-Semitism and the Catholic faith:
Beneath
religion comes the elevated holy ideal of Fatherland, which means the
unity of all German comrades of blood, fate and Volk [race]… He also
desires that what he created should remain pure. We must attack anything
that damages our racial unity. For that reason the racial standpoint of
National Socialism corresponds completely with Christianity. It is
therefore in the spirit of Christ that we must proceed against the Jews.
Pieper
made his position even clearer in a widely publicized mass meeting in
Regenburg on 25 August 1923, wherein he insisted on the morality of
keeping Jews separate from Germans… “It is the duty of each race to
keep itself pure from foreign pollutants. Therefore anti-Semitism is not
un-Christian, but rather a command!” (Hastings; page 128)
Roth
[another Catholic priest] contended that full-fledged racial
anti-Semitism was, for Catholics and Christians, the only principled
response to the destructive moral and cultural impact of the Jews as a
result of their biological makeup:
Certainly
the Catholic Church stands above races and nations, but the Catholic
idea stands first and foremost against immorality; and when immorality
and race combine, then the Catholic idea stands against that race…. An
anti-Semitism conceived on this basis is not only allowed for the
Christian, but rather obligatory…. The Jewish race must be eliminated
from public life because it exercises, as a result of its very nature, a
demoralizing influence on our religion and our Volk [race]. (Hastings;
page 122)
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In
answer to the world’s prayer for spiritual guidance during the most
tumultuous time in history, Catholicism is destined to rise from
the ashes of mediocrity to resume its former Dark Ages glory.
The antichrist will be at its helm, but the false prophet will be the
political and economic entity who will execute the
antichrist’s plan to eliminate faith in Jesus from the earth. However,
there will be one significant difference: Hitler murdered the Jews who
did not believe in Jesus, but this time the antichrist will use the Mark of the
Beast to flesh out both Jews and gentiles who practice faith in Jesus.
That is, the “Final Solution” will be reenacted on the true Church. There will be one other
difference: those in Hitler's concentration camps wore a
mark on their arm, but those with the mark this time will be on
the other side of the fence, the mark standing for their vote to exterminate
Christianity.
Some
may question the notion that the Catholic Church is the whore of
Babylon, but there are some things we know for certain that will
determine this to be more than mere conjecture. The most glaring poof is the fact that the prostitute is a woman. She’s not a woman because
she’s a prostitute, but because she is the pseudo wife of the lamb. In
order for her to be a counterfeit bride of Christ, she must be a
so-called Christian religion; otherwise the analogy would not fit. That rules out
Islam, which is not a Christian religion by any stretch. God
doesn’t see Islam as a prostitute of Christianity any more than the
descendents of Ishmael are God’s chosen people, who mostly compose the
Islamic Middle Eastern countries. Their religion does not even pretend
to worship the God of the Bible. Their God is Ala, who is not connected
with the Bible at all. Islamic religions may
hate Christianity and for that reason they have a motive for martyring
Christians and they may well do so, but that does not make them the
great whore of Babylon.
In
contrast, Catholicism has claimed for centuries to be the one true
Christian Church, essentially claiming to be the bride of Christ, which
would make her an unfaithful prostitute in worshipping demons throughout
the centuries by their demon inspired doctrines. God has made a covenant
with Israel (which is essentially what marriage is), making Israel His
bride of the Old Testament. God called Israel a prostitute in Ezekiel
chapter sixteen, and used the same word in Revelation seventeen to
describe the great whore of Babylon, who then by definition
must be either unbelieving Israel or a religion that claims to be
Christ's Church but in practice is not. In fact, it is both! In the last days
Catholicism will join forces with unbelieving Jews, attempting
to exterminate a Christian revival that will begin in Jerusalem! When Jesus walked the
earth, the Pharisees hated His teachings because He contradicted them on
every level, but mostly they were jealous of Him.
In
the days of Jesus’ flesh the Pharisees immediately recognized the
intrinsic value of laying their hands on someone and seeing them healed
as the greatest moneymaking racket they could ever contrive, but there
was no way they could throw a rope around Jesus and harness His
power, and God certainly wasn’t about to give them His power, so they
stewed in their jealousy, wanting nothing more than to see Jesus hang on
a cross. If they could have laid their hands on this kind of power,
they would have charged exorbitant prices to heal people, but Jesus
healed them for free, and it drove the Pharisees crazy, but what
bothered them the most was His rising popularity and the words He
preached that diametrically opposed their godless religion. Catholic priests
are modern-day Pharisees,
who made up doctrines to simulate spirituality that only the priests
could perform,
laying their hands on little boys, but they were anything but getting
healed. There is no place for priests in the
new covenant. They were made obsolete with Jesus now as our Great High
Priest; we have no need for any other mediator.
Nevertheless, Catholicism claimed that an ordained
Catholic priest must bless the Eucharist for communion to
"work", that is for the bread and wine to transform into the
body and blood of Christ.
The
Roman Catholic Church for centuries has proclaimed itself to be the one
and only true Christian Church, claiming that if anyone is not a member
of their religion, they have no other destiny but the eternal flames of
hell. This doctrine supported their moneymaking racket,
making them possibly more unfaithful to God in the new covenant than
Israel was in the old. Moreover, the Vatican claims to be its own
country, seated in the city of Rome within the nation of
Italy.
Rev 18-7,8 says, “In her heart she boasts, `I sit as queen; I am not a
widow, and I will never mourn.' Therefore in one day her plagues will
overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire,
for mighty is the Lord God who judges her” NIV. She claimed she was
not a widow, claiming that her husband is not dead, referring to Christ,
but her real god is Satan, who is hardly alive!
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"The
beast that you saw was and is not, and is about to come up out of the
Abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth will
wonder, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the
foundation of the world, when they see the beast, that he was and is not
and will come." Rev 17-8 NASB
This
statement: “Was and is not, and is about to come,” is an accurate
description of Catholic Church history. The reason the world is
astonished at the Beast is that people will be surprised when they see
Catholicism rise to its former glory and its Pope regain his former
status as a world religious leader. Rome once was the greatest city in
the world even while Jesus walked the earth, being the nation that
crucified Him. Its world dominance has since dissolved, but like the Vatican located
within its borders, it too will regain its former glory in the last
days, only to be destroyed. In the Dark Ages neither the Pope, nor any
of the priests ever rivaled against the king of any nation for power,
but worked side-by-side with the king to enslave the people in a
relationship iconic to the antichrist and the False Prophet. Jerusalem also fits this
description as a city that once was, then ceased to be a sovereign
nation for many centuries, and now at the end of the age has suddenly
regained its sovereignty, and will host the kingdom of antichrist. Since
the fall of Rome, the Vatican reigned supreme throughout most of the New
Testament era, stationed in Rome as the most prevalent Christian
religion in the world, together making Rome by far the longest lasting empire of
all time. If they called Catholicism’s greatest hour the Dark Ages,
what will they call the times that are almost upon us? Catholicism is
not a world power, but it was, and it will be reinstated to its former
glory in the last days. In that sense both Rome and Jerusalem, 'were and
are not and will come.'
"Here
is a mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which
the woman sits. And they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the
other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain for a little
while. And the beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth,
and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction." Rev 17,9-11
NASB
The
most popular interpretive location of these seven mountains is Rome. The
names of the hills are: Palatine (traditional site of the city’s
founding), Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Quirinal, and
Viminal (American Heritage
Dictionary under: Seven Hills of Rome). There are many other cities
that have been built on seven hills, but the dictionary only recognizes
one city with seven hills. Also, both the Vatican and Rome claim to be
countries in their own right, situated in the nation of Italy,
representing the outer court. This is
analogous to the Old Testament Jewish tabernacle located in Jerusalem,
the capital of Israel as the outer court.
The
Catholic Church fits the description of the great whore of Babylon in
almost every way, with its wine of immorality, sitting on many waters,
martyring the saints and accumulating wealth, but there is one trait
that is not characteristic of the Catholic Church. Revelation 17
describes this religious whore as one that has blasphemous names written
on it. Rev 13-5 says, “And there was given to him a mouth speaking
arrogant words and blasphemies.” This does not conform to the
characteristics of the Catholic Church; instead, it befits the Jewish blasphemous Talmud, suggesting that the
antichrist will mix his catholic religion with Judaism to make a new
religion as a composition of the two.
The
king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above
every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He
will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has
been determined must take place. He will show no regard for the gods of
his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god,
but will exalt himself above them all. Instead of them, he will honor a
god of fortresses; a god unknown to his fathers he will honor with gold
and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. He will attack the
mightiest fortresses with the help of a foreign god [the false prophet]
and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them
rulers over many people and will distribute the land at a price.
Dan 11,36-39 NIV
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In
the Scripture above, when it says, “He will attack the mightiest
fortresses with the help of a foreign god,” it is referring to the
false prophet (Rev 13,11-17) when it says, “He will honor those who
acknowledge him.” This is referring to the ten horns of the beast (Rev
17-12,13), who are the giant moneylenders of the world, who finance his
ambitions to enslave the people in his one-world religion, his one-world
government, and with their help, his one world economy. The Jewish
Talmud is an extremely blasphemous document especially against Jesus
Christ and Christians. Following are some excerpts of the Talmud (taken
from http://www.talmudblasphemy.com/talmud_tidbits.html):
1.
" Sanhedrin 105ab: "Jesus fornicated with his jackass.
2.
" Gittin 57a: "Jesus is in hell and is being punished by being
boiled in semen. Christians are boiled in dung.
3.
Insults Against Mary, Sanhedrin 106a . Says Jesus' mother was a whore:
"She who was the descendant of princes and governors played the
harlot with carpenters." Also in footnote #2 to Shabbath 104b it is
stated that in the "uncensored" text of the Talmud it is
written that Jesus mother, "Miriam the hairdresser," had sex
with many men.
4.
Gloats over Christ Dying Young, A passage from Sanhedrin 106 gloats over
the early age at which Jesus died: "Hast thou heard how old Balaam
(Jesus) was?--He replied: It is not actually stated but since it is
written, Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days it
follows that he was thirty-three or thirty-four years old."
5.
Says Jesus was a Sorcerer, Sanhedrin 43a . Says Jesus ("Yeshu the
Nazarene") was executed because he practiced sorcery.
6.
Horrible Blasphemy of Jesus, Gittin 57a . Says Jesus is being boiled in
"hot excrement."
7.
Sanhedrin 43a. Jesus deserved execution: "On the eve of the
Passover, Yeshu was hanged...Do you suppose that he was one for whom a
defense could be made? Was he not a Mesith (enticer)?"
8.
Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim [a non Jew – particularly
Christians] is like killing a wild animal."
9.
Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be
killed," particularly Christian gentiles.
10.
Libbre David 37: "To communicate anything with a Goy about our
religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if
the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.”
11.
" Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is
permitted if she is at least three years of age.”
Rev
13-6 says, “And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to
blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, that is, those who dwell in
heaven.” Roman Catholicism may certainly be blasphemous in its
doctrines, in its rituals and in its services, but it does not
blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ, because they think they are
worshipping and serving Him. Nor would the Catholic Church blaspheme
those who dwell in heaven, because they believe they are going there.
Judaism is the religion of the Talmud, which is an extremely blasphemous
manuscript against the name of Jesus Christ and those who dwell in
heaven. This is nothing that
the Catholics would embrace, but something that Satan and his antichrist
would love to mix with the already blasphemous doctrines of Catholicism
(Rev 13-1; Rev 17-3). Therefore, the religious institution of the
antichrist will be a marriage between Roman Catholicism and the Talmud. Together, they are the very personification of
Revelation’s description of the great whore of Babylon, but
alone neither does well to describe the satanic government prophesied to
rise at the end of the age. The
antichrist will make Jerusalem an accomplice to Rome’s upcoming
atrocities. In addition to the analogy of the seven hills representing
Rome, it also represents seven kings, showing that the city of Rome is
one of seven nations administrating Satan’s world empire. The Vatican
is hence the eighth of seven kings (see Rev 17,9-13), and Jerusalem is
the eleventh of ten horns, which both claim to be countries in their own
right, though it is not really a country by definition;
nor does it contribute anything but a blasphemous religion (see Dan
2,40-43). According to the analogy, the Vatican spiritually weakened its
parent nation, making Rome a target for the nations to later destroy it. It
is the fate of everyone Satan uses to rise to power; he assimilates what
he wants and discards the remains.
Following
is a list of blasphemous Catholic doctrines that oppose the Scriptures:
1. The antichrist will be head of the Catholic Church. The pope will be a
homosexual and will betray his own religion. Dan 11-37 says, “Neither
shall he regard the God of his fathers [the popes before him], nor the
desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above
all” KJV. He will disregard the catholic faith by mixing it with the
teachings of the Talmud, but he will not disregard sex; rather, he will
disregard women. Fornication and adultery are rooted in rebellion, but
homosexuality and sex with children is associated with demons. For that
reason you can expect the antichrist to be a homosexual, for where there
are demons there will always be blasphemy and rebellion. It is one thing
to follow the natural inclinations of the flesh, but it is another thing
to follow unnatural desires spawned by demonic entities. God is not
happy when people show an indifference to him by following the natural
inclinations of the flesh, but He is incensed by homosexuality.
Though
you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered
his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but
abandoned their own home-these he has kept in darkness, bound with
everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. In a similar way,
Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to
sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who
suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 5-7 NIV
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This
verse equates homosexuality with abandonment of angelic posts, causing
homosexuals to resemble demons when they leave the natural order and
crave unnatural desires of their own gender. Where there is
homosexuality there are demons; it is that simple. There is a steep
downhill grade that results from a person or a nation that exchanges the
freedom of Christ for slavery to the flesh, leading to unnatural
desires, which eventually leads to demon worship, and ultimately to
judgment. See also Romans 1,18-32.
2.
Their version of communion is the doctrine of demons, where the
bread and wine are miraculously transformed into the body and blood of
Christ at the blessing of the priest. This is more than just an innocent
and misguided doctrine; it is spiritual treason. The arrogance it would
take to institute a doctrine like this is incomprehensible, but to
perpetuate such blasphemy throughout the ages exponentially compounds
the theological infraction. The Bible teaches that Jesus offered His
body once for all, stating this many times throughout the New
Testament, according to the following passages.
Heb 7-27,28
Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer
sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins
of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he
offered himself. NIV
Rom 6-9,10 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. NIV
Heb
9-12,24-26 He did not
enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most
Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal
redemption. For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only
a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us
in God's presence. Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and
again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year
with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer
many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once
for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of
himself. NIV
Heb 10,10-14
And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of
the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest
stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the
same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest
had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the
right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made
his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever
those who are being made holy.” NIV.
It
is passages like these that make it crystal clear that the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation
is blasphemous, for it diametrically opposes Scripture and the sacrifice of
Jesus body on the cross. Note that in the verses above the key word is once.
If Jesus conquered death and placed it under His feet, why then does the
bread and wine need to transform into the body and blood of Christ
whenever they take communion? Doesn't that constitute offering His flesh
more than once? The Bible teaches that we are redeemed through faith in
Jesus' blood sacrifice that He offered once for all time. Nowhere in
Scripture does it indicate that God has given anyone authority to offer
the body of His Son after He was offered.
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Nevertheless,
there are those who don’t have the reverence for God to treat Jesus’
sacrifice as holy, but prefer to make it their business to defile the
blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified and, “…crucify
to themselves the Son of God, and put Him to open shame.” NASB. The
blessing of the Catholic priest at communion is an incantation of sorcery.
Rev 2-20 says, “Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate
that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess… By her teaching
she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food
sacrificed to idols [communion]” NIV. Then Rev 18-3,6 states, “For
all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality,
and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality [idolatry]
with her… Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her
double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice
as much for her.” NASB.
3.
Sacrifices and the worship of Idols. There are many people within
the Catholic Church who love God, and for that reason they should
disavow the Catholic faith and go elsewhere that teaches the true
doctrines of Christianity. Mk 12-33,34 says, “'To love him with all
your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and
to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt
offerings and sacrifices.' When Jesus saw that he had answered
wisely, he said to him, 'You are not far from the kingdom of
God.'” NIV. Jesus said of the scribe in these verses that He was
not far from the kingdom of God, but how far is the Catholic Church from
the kingdom of God? Absolution
is the power endowed to catholic priests to forgive sins. This is
blasphemous! Even the Pharisees knew this. They said about Jesus in Mark
2-7, “Why does this fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming! Who can
forgive sins but God alone?" NIV. The Pharisees were evil and
wicked, yet no one could criticize them for their lack of knowledge of
the Old Testament. What they lacked was love and empathy and a heart to
serve God.
Another example of false sacrifice is indulgence; the Catholic Church
sold licenses to sin.
All their religious offerings and sacrifices are made to idols of their
own making, but God does not accept them; their sacrifices are hence
offered to demons, making Catholicism the religion of witchcraft.
4.
The worship of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary’s statement to
Catholicism is found in Jn 2-5, “His mother said to the servants,
"Do whatever he tells you"” NIV. Mk 3,31-35 says, “Then
Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone
in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him,
"Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you."
"Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Then he looked
at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my
mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister
and mother" NIV. This seriously downplays Mary's
role as a figure of deity. The Catholic Church treats her as though she
were somewhat equal with God because of her matronly role with Christ.
The Catholic mind sees her as someone who can hear and answer prayer;
however, these verses teach us that Mary is no different from other
women who believe in Jesus. Mary believed in Jesus. Her flesh has since
decayed, leaving only her faith in Christ significant in eternity,
giving her common standing with all God's children. God does not acknowledge
prayers to Mary; therefore, they are praying to an idol.
5.
The catholic priest addressed as father is a direct contradiction to the
Scriptures. Mat 23-9 says, “And do not call anyone on earth `father,'
for you have one Father, and he is in heaven” NIV. Jesus apparently
spoke these words as a prophesy to Catholic priests in the future who
would require their congregation to call them Father, indicating that He
knew Catholicism would rise up soon after His departure and replace His
truth with their religion. Jesus in this verse is entreating His people
not to adhere to the Catholic faith, since no one can call their
minister Father with a clear conscience after Jesus sternly forbade
them.
6. The catholic priest is required to remain celibate. 1Tim 4,1-5 says,
“The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the
faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such
teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been
seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to
abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with
thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything
God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received
with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and
prayer” NIV. Both this verse and the one before it have Catholicism stamped on
them with a prophetic message not to participate in their forged
doctrines, perpetuated by demons. This passage address the fact that
Catholic priests are not allowed to marry, and that no Catholic is
allowed to eat meat of Friday (fish being as the exception – hence
Friday night fish fry). These demands seem relatively harmless and could
be potentially beneficial, except that it doesn’t end that way. For
example, Catholic priests are called to remain single so they can devote
more time to the word of God and prayer, but many waste their time
having sex with children. Likewise, fasting from meat once a week is
probably a healthy dietary plan, except they turned it into a
requirement, which tempts the parishioners to believe they are finding
favor with God by complying with the Catholic tenets. Jesus paid with
His own blood to set us free of these foolish ideas and all we want to
do is invent new ways to put ourselves in bondage (see Act
15,19-29).
7. Jesus condemned the sacrifices of repetitious prayer (chanting). Mat
6-7,8 says, “And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans,
for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be
like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him”
NIV. Chanting in the Catholic Church is integrated into their liturgy as
an essential part of their weekly ceremonies. Chanting lyrics can be
found in their doctrinal theology, and in their various books of chants.
Therefore, because chanting comes from a book and not from the heart, it
goes unheard, and because they believe in it, it is witchcraft. God is
interested in what you have to say to Him from your heart, not from a
book of chants; He doesn't care for your religion.
8.
Washing your hands before eating as a religious doctrine. Mat
15-2,3;7-9 say, 2,3 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the
elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!" Jesus
replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of
your tradition?” 7-9 “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he
prophesied about you: "`These people honor me with their lips, but
their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings
are but rules taught by men.'" NIV. Do you think Jesus condemned
the Pharisees for washing their hands before eating? No, in fact it is a
good idea for reasons of personal hygiene; your doctor will concur.
Where your doctor and the Pharisees part ways, though, is in the
conviction that hand washing is a means of finding favor with God. This
is what Jesus was addressing as a blasphemous teaching, because it has
nothing to do with the state of your heart. Don't you think you could
scrub your cuticles and hate your brother at the same time?
What
good are these man-made doctrines, and all the fabricated doctrines that
allow people to live any way they want, while ignoring the will of God?
The worship of Mary and the other idolatrous teachings of the Catholic
faith, Purgatory, the Sacrament, the Eucharist, and the implications of
Baptism (the error of infant baptism that ensures the salvation of a
child, regardless of how the person lives as an adult)
are only some of the tenants of the Catholic Church that were simply
invented. They are independent of a relationship with Jesus Christ through
faith in the truth. All these doctrines have one thing in common: they
do not address the state of the heart, which is God’s main concern.
The doctrines of the Catholic faith do not encapsulate a
relationship with God. Some Catholics are born-again
Christians, but they believe in Jesus in spite of their religion. You
cannot find support for any of the mentioned doctrines in the Holy
Scriptures.
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