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The great ecumenical potpourri which characterizesAmerican Protestantism today is closer to what the Scripturesreveal as Mystery Babylon the Great, than to the ecclesia Christspoke of to his disciples. Mystery Babylon religion according tothe Bible is composed of abominations, filthiness, and spiritualfornication. It is also described as the habitation of demons, and ahold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hatefulbird. Certainly not a very complimentary description given by theSpirit of God.God's people then are commanded to come out of this unholyamalgam so that they will not be made partaker of her sins andplagues. The Lord God is said to be strong who judges her.The modern theonomists spend a great deal of time trying toprove that Mystery Babylon fell in A.D. 70. They do this forseveral reasons:1. If Mystery Babylon fell in A.D. 70, it certainlycannot be in existence now, nor at any time in the future.2. If Mystery Babylon is not now in existence, nor cominginto existence, we do not have to worry about it, either tooppose it, or to separate from it.3. The predicted apostasy in II Thessalonians is also then nowpast. That apostasy, and the Man of Sin, all referred tosomething that happened around A.D. 70 so again it has nobearing on the church today.4. Roman Catholicism then, is not the great historicalapostasy the Reformers said it was. In fact, RomanCatholicism can become a co-belligerent with us (ReformedTheonomists and Evangelicals) to fight secular humanism.
5. The great hodge-podge, unholy, amalgam of the
following movements then has nothing whatsoever to do
with Mystery Babylon religion but is a help to fight evil and
atheism: groups such as Evangelization 2000, Charismatic
Renewal, Ecumenical Evangelism, Campus Crusade,
Promise Keepers, Full-Gospel Christian Businessmen, the
National Association of Evangelicals, Inter Varsity, Inter-
Religious Federation for World Peace, Vision 21st Century,
Lumen 2000, Reaching the World 2000, National
Association of Religious Broadcasters, Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association, National Council of Churches,
World Council of Churches, Dominion Theology, Opus
Dei, Fatima Crusade, Vatican II, with all the various interfaith
dialogues now going on between Lutheranism and The
Vatican, United Methodism and the Vatican, United
Presbyterianism and the Vatican, Southern Baptists and the
Vatican, the Vatican and the Eastern Orthodox, and the
various inter-religious dialogues between Roman
Catholicism and Judaism, Protestantism and Islam, and
other joint efforts at ecumenical cooperation; have anything
whatsoever to do with the rise of Mystery Babylon the
Great for, according to the theonomist, it already fell and
disappeared off the earth in A.D. 70.
Needless to say, we do not accept such a romanized
eschatology. In fact, what some men see as the ideal
theonomy — the church governing the state in Medieval
times - we see as the domination of false religion. What
some would even call a "Reformed" theonomy, we see as
much closer to the very papal theocracy, from which the
Reformers DELIVERED us!
We extol the Reformation and the BREAKUP it caused
to the Papal theocracy at that time. The Reformation
DELIVERED Europe from a persecuting "theocracy"
and all the attendant evils which accompanied it.
Modern "Reformed" theonomy, like the modern
charismatic movement, has proven to be catch-all for many
strange views. All these strange ideas and teachings are
united to set up the kingdom of God in America today. This
kingdom is going to be set up using the sword and the pen;
using political coalitions; preaching, courageous lies, and
by every means possible. How one is to differentiate this
agenda from a papal agenda, particularly a Jesuit one, I
have not been able to discover.
According to the Scripture Satan is at work to set up His
false church. Therefore one must distinguish between the
false and the true church. Any old religion does not
necessarily qualify as a true church.
According to the Apostle Paul, Satan has beguiled those
who preach another Jesus; those who receive another spirit;
and those who accept another gospel (II Cor. 11:4). Paul
also warns that there are some who are "false apostles,
deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of
Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his
ministers also be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness" (II Cor. 11:13-15).
This false religious amalgam will culminate in Mystery
Babylon religion trying to dominate the earth. Rome is
certainly central to this unholy conglomerate. The true
believer is to stay separated from MYSTERY CONFUSION,
and if for some reason he has become mixed up in it, he
is to come out of it.
This great ecumenical hodge-podge is the glory of men;
but the target of God's righteous judgment. God calls his
people to come out of this ecumenical CONFUSION, so
that they will not be subject to the judgment which He
intends to bring upon it.
The battle for truth and righteousness is primarily personal
and theological. It is not sociological and cultural as Rome has
always taught, and as many, who have swallowed Rome's line,
are teaching today. Today the battle to save America is seen
primarily as political and cultural; theology is shunted aside.
When theology is ignored the purported cause of truth is then
skewed. The door is opened to idolaters to become cobelligerents
in the battle. Then idolatry must be ignored, so that the fight
against some other imagined foe, can then take place. So
then a false theology of Mariolatry becomes acceptable, at least
for awhile, until some other enemy is defeated. In this way true
biblical theology goes out the window and the devil's logic
becomes acceptable.
This is the reason why America will never be brought back
to even a semblance of righteousness, by the agenda of the socalled
"Christian Coalition." Righteousness is built upon the
TEN commandments, not seven or eight commandments. Roman
Catholicism ignores the first and second commandments. Some
Reconstructionists ignore the ninth commandment. So any
theonomy produced by such a coalition as we have today in
America, will have to be based on SEVEN commandments not
the TEN commandments.
The battle for truth can never even be prosecuted, much less
WON, by considering idolaters and mariolaters as co-belligerents
in the battle for truth. The true battle for truth cuts down imageworship
and Mary worship. And indeed, sees this smashing of
idolatry in all its forms, as absolutely ESSENTIAL if any victory
is to be won in the spiritual realm.
The Reformers proceeded on two main fronts in
establishing the Reformation in Europe: they put an end to
all images and image-worship, and called for the abolishing
of the Mass. In fact, in Strasbourg, Bucer started the whole
movement toward Reform by having the city council
abolish the Mass. Farel tossed out the images wherever he
found them. Zwingli abolished the mass and images in
Zurich. Calvin and Luther abolished the mass and images.
Bullinger and Beza also opposed images and even went
further and called for the end of all genuflecting, kneeling at
communion, and standing at the reading of the Scriptures.
Yet today all these reforms are forgotten, and common
cause is made with mass-mongers, image-worshippers, and
mariolaters, to supposedly "save" America. The Reformers
viewed the salvation of Europe in terms of getting rid of all
these evils. Today, the modern charismatic, theonomist, and
Christian "conservative," can see the salvation of America
while retaining all these evils. How can these things be?
The amazing thing about the issue of idolatry and
Mariolatry is the attitude of Rome toward these evils. Rome
not only does not oppose the worship of Mary and Images,
but teaches that those who do OPPOSE Mary worship are
guilty of blasphemy.
A writer in the Fatima Crusader, who calls himself
Brother Michael of the Holy Trinity, who writes under the
Imprimatur of Archbishop Benedict To Varpin, given on
June 5, 1995, states candidly:
Who are those who might commit this offenceagainst the Immaculate Heart of Mary... In the firstplace and in general, the Protestant sects who refuse toreceive the dogma defined by Pope Pius DC and whohave continued to maintain that the Blessed Virgin was conceived with the stain of original sin and even personal sins.1
He calls this the first blasphemy against Mary. He continues:
The Second blasphemy: ... the majority of Protestants
(who) also reject the perfect and perpetual virginity of Mary
"before, during and after giving birth".
The Third Blasphemy: Although they theoretically
accept the Divine Maternity of Mary defined at the Council
of Ephesus, they refuse to recognize Her as the Mother of
men in the Catholic sense, which implies Her coredemption
and Her role as Mediatrix of grace.
The Fourth blasphemy concerns the perversion of
children by enemies of Our Lady whereby they strive to
inculcate indifference, scorn, or even hatred for the
Immaculate Virgin, and the Fifth One by which they outrage
Her in Her holy images. These last two sins are only the
logical consequence of the first three... the obstinate rejection
of Catholic theology on the holy images, is a long way from
having disappeared.2
Here in the Fatima Crusader, in the summer edition of 1995,
we have an up-to-date article on not only a defence of Mariolatry
and Images; but a statement to the effect, that those who refuse
Mariolatry and Image worships are BLASPHEMERS! Yet
America is going to be saved by joining with such error. How
can any kind of theonomy be set up working with those who
break the law of God, and not only break it, but call those who
seek to keep it, BLASPHEMERS! ?
It is interesting to note that the two key Southern
Baptists who signed the recent Accord between
Evangelicals and Roman Catholics, later withdrew their
names. They did this, not because they had charged their
minds about the Accord, but because they had received so
much flak from certain ministers within the Southern
Baptist Convention
Chuck Colson said that he hoped their step would
"eliminate the misunderstandings, and allow us to get on
with the important work of DEFENDING THE TRUTH IN
TODAY'S RELATIVISTIC CULTURE" 3 (emphasis
added). This is the great emphasis today: defending the
truth in modern culture.
We believe there is an even more important, and more
pressing, issue today: defending the truth against the
modern church. Surely this is more important. As Cowper
wrote: "when a nation is to perish in its sins; 'tis in the
church the leprosy begins."
What is called the "church" today is a great hodgepodge
of apostate ministers, idolatrous priests, and those who
compromise with them. No culture will ever be saved by an
apostate, idolatrous church. Until we recognize this fact,
every effort to "Christianize" the culture will be absolutely
futile.
Christ calls upon the Laodicean church to repent. This
is the call which must go forth today. For until the church
repents of its sins, the culture certainly cannot repent.
This generation in America needs to be saved from a lot
more than a relativistic culture. It needs to be saved from a
relativistic religion. Even in some of those churches which
claim to be biblical there is still a lot of undetected
relativism.
For instance, when a church can work together with the
idolatrous system of Romanism, is that not treating the
Second Commandment relatively? When some
reconstructionists, who would want to be called reformed in
their theology, say it is courage to tell an outright lie in
certain circumstances, is this not treating the ninth
commandment as relative and not binding?
As America prepares to enter the third millennium of
the Christian era, it is singularly cursed with relativism in
the church, not just in the culture. This accursed relativism
is the MAIN REASON why the culture is lost in sin, and
why the nation continues to flounder spiritually. There is no
way that this nation can ever be helped, while the "church"
treats God's inspired ABSOLUTE TRUTH dialectically, or
works with those who do.
The visible "church" flounders today, in a bog of little
games (like the Promise Keepers), without ever REALLY
addressing its tepid spiritual state before the thrice holy God
of the Bible. The grotesque compromise of this generation
(in which Bible-believers sign accords with idolaters), is
without doubt, one of the MAIN problems which afflicts
America today.
In fact, we could say, that of all the problems facing
America today, this is undoubtedly the greatest of all. The
compromise of God's people with the great prostitute
church of Mystery Babylon religion, is the worst evil
afflicting America today. For every other evil flows from
this one.
The Lord Jesus Christ said that if the salt has lost its
savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for
the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. There
is only one thing that keeps a culture from total corruption
and that is the salt. i.e. Christ's disciples. If these ones lose
their savor, which means to become sluggish in mind, or
play the fool, they are good for nothing. When the church
conies to be identified with idolatry and apostasy, the
culture in that nation goes down into total putrefaction.
If the true believers then, refuse to separate from this
apostate prostitute church, they also lose their ability to
preserve the culture. This is the point we have reached in
America today.
We are going to have to learn that any old harlot religion will
not meet God's holy standard. We cannot join with every
religious whore and expect God to, accept us. He will judge us
instead.
We believe that one of the main reasons why, some in the
Reformed Camp, do not address the evil of compromise, is
because of the false idea of theonomy which they have accepted,
and which DENIES the rise of Mystery Babylon religion. One
does not need to separate from something that is not there.
It is certainly a lot easier on the conscience, and as far as
going outside the camp and bearing Christ's reproach is
concerned, it is much easier to just say Mystery Babylon religion
(Confusion) fell in A.D. 70; so we do not have to worry about it
at all in 1996. It is much easier to make common cause with
some old whorish religion of idolatry to save America, than it is
to take a stand against the harlot religion of antichrist and
SEPARATE TOTALLY from her. Until we recognize that this is
the COMMAND of Almighty God Himself, there will never be
any trace of a revival of truth and righteousness in our time.
References
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1. Brother Michael of the Most Holy Trinity, "The Fatima
Crusader," Summer, 1995, p. 19.
2. Loc.cot.
3. The Servant, Denver, Colorado, Vol. 10, No. 12, p. 1.
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The Ambition of the Papacy
The Papacy has never pretended to be out for anything
but the absolute control of the world. (Augustine's papal
theonomy has now become a Reformed theonomy.) Rome
does not attempt to hide the fact that it is the only true
"Church" to which all others must return, and which God
has ordained should rule the earth both temporally and
ecclesiastically.
The strange thing today is that many Protestants seem to
think that Rome has now given up her global pretensions.
This is why all kinds of ecumenical overtures and dialogues
are being pursued, and why accords can be signed.
However, some Roman Catholic writers, are still
concerned about Rome's political and social ambitions.
Jean-Guy Vaillancourt, a Roman Catholic professor of
Sociology at the University of Montreal, states:
Papal control over the laity is not an end in itself butrather a means to attain certain goals, some of which arepolitical and economic rather than purely and uniquelyreligious. Since it is unlikely that the Vatican willabandon in the near future its preoccupation with,economic and political power... it seems ratherinevitable that manipulative means of control willcontinue to be part of the standard operating policies ofthe Roman Catholic Church.1
Vaillancourt then gives eight main spheres of operation
in which Rome works to achieve the dominion she desires,
and which she hopes will enable her to control the world:
1. ECOLOGICAL POWER, which is based on the physical
control of material environmental conditions. An example of
this is the use of territory, buildings, or real estate to control
people.
2. REMUNERATIVE POWER, based on material or
nonmaterial rewards or compensations. An example of this is the
way Pius XII Foundation uses its funds to support some lay
activities and not others.
3. COERCIVE POWER, based on physical or psychic
violence. Examples of this are burning at the stake, torture,
imprisonment, banishment, blackmail, removal from office,
denouncement.
4. SOCIAL POWER, based on the use of structural
organizational mechanisms such as Catholic Action
congresses, peer-group pressures, rumors, social ostracism,
use of the mass media, nepotism and selective recruitment.
5. LEGAL POWER, juridically founded, or simply based on
bureaucratic and administrative norms. An example of this is
the rule of secrecy. Another is censorship.
6. TRADITIONAL POWER, based on the use of traditional
symbols, rituals, ideas, and sentiments. The cementing of loyalty
through the Mass of a torch-lit procession would be an example
of this kind of power.
7. EXPERT POWER, based on professional, technical, or
scientific or purely rational arguments. An example of this
would be the recourse to commission experts to bolster one's
position. The Pope's speeches and encyclicals would be another
example of this kind of power.
8. CHARISMATIC POWER, based on, exemplary or ethical
prophecy. Examples of this are calls for social justice and
equality used extensively in recent years.2
We could add at least two other sources of power to
Vaillancourt's eight. Symbolic Power based on the
"sacraments" of Romanism which keep many in submission to
the "church." . Spiritual Power by which it holds the deluded
masses in check, and also in fear, by teaching the lying fiction of
Purgatory.
Because of these powers, which are at work all the time, in
countries all over the globe, the Papacy can control large
segments of populations, and through this control it can pressure
governments to follow the Vatican line. This occurs in many
different countries in the world in 1996.
The Papacy, as a monolithic structure, wields enormous clout
politically in many countries at the present time. Roman
Catholicism, because of its global nature, is eminently qualified
to overcome the resistance of almost any government, at any
time, on those issues which it raises. It sees itself as the
handmaiden of God, and believes its destiny is to fulfill the will
of God. It views itself as the millennial hope of mankind. Time
means very little to the aspirations of the Papacy. In its timeless
effort, it views its opponents as those who temporarily hinder its
progress, but who must give way, sooner or later, to the triumph
of the Papacy.
As Dr. Walter Montano, the converted Roman Catholic
priest noted, Rome regards herself as:
A perfect society, judge in its own cause, omnicompetentand self-sufficient. Anything that furthers its interestspolitical or social, as well asreligious, is considered to be according to the will of God.3
It moves through history like a cumbersome giant. Forcing
its will when it can; pleading its cause when it cannot. Viewing
itself as originated by Christ, calling Peter the first Pope, and
viewing all others as enemies at worst, and prospects at best.
Never conceding to be in error and viewing itself as the sole
repository of the truth. Men may come and go, opponents may
come and go, but the church moves on unhindered to its manifest
destiny.
The Roman Catholic "church" is like an absolute monarchy.
The ecclesiastical hierarchy exercises complete power over the
individual. It operates without elections while trumpeting out its
deceptive praises of democracy. Only the Pope is elected, but
even he must be chosen from the college of Cardinals all of
whom are APPOINTED not elected. So it operates an elite
closed-shop of only those appointed by their overseers. It rules
according to the model of an absolute despotism with the Pope
the supreme despot.
Roman Catholics may oppose the will of their church, and
they do in many countries, but that does not make the church
democratic, or even representative, nor does it CHANGE its
goals or teachings one iota. The "church" recognizes that it may
go through lean times in certain countries, but it remains poised
to regain control whenever and wherever it can. Poland is a good
example of how the church was imprisoned by a government for
a time, but soon regained control again. It outlived its communist
captors.
This is what makes Rome so unique. This is what destroys all
other pretenders. Only Rome can qualify as the
great antichristian usurper and pretender. Other aspirants all
fall by their own weight.*
Rome has centered its activities, in a great measure,
upon both England and America in the past century. These
were the two most Protestant nations on the earth, and two
of the most powerful nations on earth, in the past century or
so. Rome has sent more Jesuits to these two countries than
any other countries in the world.
One has only to glance at these two countries NOW, to
see the great changes which have occurred in them over the
past 100 years. These two once-Protestant nations are now
well on their way to becoming overrun by the Papacy. They
have been subject to an unbelievable amount of Vatican
propaganda in this century. This propaganda has had an
enormous effect on the Protestant Churches if nowhere else.
Even those, who purport to be evangelicals, are now
succumbing to the pious platitudes of Rome.
In 1975, here in the United States, the Pastoral Plan of
Action was set forth by the American Roman Catholic
bishops. This pastoral plan (it had very little
* A rebuilt Babylon in the Middle East can scarcely meet
one of the elements of Mystery Babylon. Such elements as
drunken with the blood of the saints; the great city which
reigns over the kings of the earth; All nations have drunk of
her fornication; in her was found the blood of the prophets,
and of the saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth;
she is the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird.
to do with the pastorate) was set in motion to enable the
Roman Catholic "church" to become much more deeply
involved in the politics of the United States. The formidable
machinery of the "church" was put in gear ostensibly to
fight abortion, but really to use the issue of abortion to
enable the American Roman Catholic "church" to mobilize
politically.
Just how well they have succeeded can be seen in the
fact that the reconstructionists, the conservatives, the
charismatics, some evangelicals, and even the neofundamentalists
have all been taken in by Rome's crusade.
This is seen in the resolution passed by the PCA against the
Evangelical-Roman Catholic Accord. The PCA stated its
case against the works-religion of Roman Catholicism quite
clearly but then added at the end:
The Presbyterian Church in America commendsthe Roman Catholic Church for its principledopposition to some of our national sins and believesthat it is altogether proper for members of this churchto be co-belligerents with Roman Catholics in thesesocial and political endeavors.4
This is really a strange statement coming from men
who are supposed to know theology. Surely one of the most
heinous national sins America is guilty of in this generation
is idolatry. In our study Apostasy and Optimism we dealt
with how much God's Word has to say about idolatry and
the judgments of God which fall upon idolaters. I cannot
make common cause with idolaters, for if I do, I bring
myself under the judgment of God.
The fundamentalists of the Moral Majority sought to
become co-belligerents with Rome. They soon found
out that Rome merely used them for its own advantage. One
writer pointed out after the rise of the Moral Majority:
None of us who has ever worked extensively withfundamentalist churches, or lived among fundamentalistsever took the claim that the Moral Majority was afundamentalist organization seriously. One characteristiccommon among fundamentalists is a keen sense ofindividualism... They strongly resist the "herding" thatcharacterizes other major denominations such as the CatholicChurch...In contrast, the Catholic Church with its keen sense oforganization acquired over a two-thousand-year history,found the organization of the fundamentalists a relativelysimple task [to take over] by providing the entireorganization infrastructure, including the organization of thefifty autonomous state chapters and the organizations in the435 congressional districts, with few exceptions.5
He later added: "The far more experienced and autocratic
Catholic Church found the fundamentalists easy prey."6
Rome has been on the job of either ruling the world, or trying
to rule it, for the past 1600 years; so not only were the
fundamentalists** of the Moral
** The use of the word "fundamentalists" here is the popular use.
Falwell and his Moral Majority NEVER represented TRUE
fundamentalism. Falwell represented Neo-Fundamentalism
which refused to accept the strict separatist position of historic
Majority easy prey, but the charismatics, the evangelicals,
and the reconstructionists as well.
Rome has now used the issue of abortion to become a
co-belligerent with those of the Reformed Faith. How tragic
that some of our Reformed brethren cannot see the larger
issue of papal power and papal manipulation.
Rome is working to gain respectability among
Protestants. But she has not given up one of her false
doctrines, or practices, to achieve her ends.
There is a battle against abortion to be fought today in
America, but there is an even larger WAR to be prosecuted
against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places. The war against evil can NEVER be prosecuted,
much less won, by joining with those whose allegiance is
not to Christ. Those who preach another gospel, the Holy
Spirit of God states, are to be ANATHEMA not cobelligerents!
Lehmann noted that the avowed objective of the Roman
Catholic "church" was to destroy the political and social
order that arose out of the Reformation. He said that
Rome's determination since the Reformation, was to replace
the Protestant social order with a hierarchical confederation
** fundamentalism and so was able then to work with
Mormons, Roman Catholics, Jews, and anyone else to
"save" America. We believe that America needs to be
saved from Mormonism, Romanism, Judaism and all the
other false cults and religions as well, if it is ever to be
truly SAVED! And even if America goes down into
complete oblivion, people still need to be saved from
Mormonism, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, liberal
Protestantism and a host of other false religions!
of states, similar to what had existed before Protestantism
disrupted the authoritarian order of the medieval papacy.
This is also exactly what some theonomists would like
to do. They desire to achieve what the papists and the
Jesuits would like to achieve: a return to medievalism and
an end of the Protestant Reformation.
Make no mistake, the reason why Rome is now
considered a co-belligerent with the Presbyterian Church in
America, in their combined "cultural struggle" is because
certain men in the PCA have embraced the false idea of
medieval theonomy. The impact this pipedream has had
upon some Christians enables them to view the GREAT
ANTICHRISTIAN APOSTASY of Roman Catholicism as
a co-belligerent in their battle to save America; and in doing
so to tacitly discard the very thing — the Reformation —
that brought their church into existence.
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1. Vaillancourt, J. P., Papal Power, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1980, p. 175.
2. Ibid., p. 268.
3. Montano, Walter M., Behind the Purple Curtain,
Cowman Publications, Los Angeles, California, 1950, p. 99.
4. The 23rd General Assembly of the PCA, "Response to
Evangelicals and Catholics Together."
5. Mumford, Stephen D., "The Catholic Church and Social
Justice Issues," The Humanist, July/August, 1983, p. 9.
6. Loc. cit.
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The Vatican has a worldwide network not only of those
connected officially to the Vatican workforce, but millions
of loyal sons and daughters all over the world, to carry out
her program and plan to take over the world for the Papacy.
The Legion of Mary, the Cult of Fatima, and Opus Dei, to
name a few, are all out for one thing only, to make the Pope
the ruler of the world.
Studies on the Mossad,* the secret police of Israel,
show that this organization can count on the help of loyal
Jews all over the world. When the Mossad needs help in its
assassinations, it can call upon the Jews of that particular
city where the assassination is to take place, for
information, places to stay, fronts to be set up, money, and
contacts, and anything else which is needed to carry out the
contract.
Opus Dei works in the same way to further the cause of
the Vatican. Opus Dei supplies loyal henchman when
needed to carry out the plans of the Vatican in just about
any country of the world except in those states which are
totally Islamic.**
* See By Way of Deception, Insider's Portrait of the
Mossad by Claire Hoy and Victor Ostrovosky, p. xi.
** It was the chairman of the board of one of the largest
companies in America who was the liaison between Gerry
Adams of the IRA and President Clinton. He used his
powerful political clout to get the representative of a
gangster outfit three thousand miles away an audience with
the President of the United States. The only real connection
between these two men was their Roman Catholic faith.
Opus Dei, of course, works to control a country for the
Vatican, using modern means of financial clout and political
intimidation rather than assassination. Michael Walsh, who is
himself a Roman Catholic, in his work on Opus Dei tells how
Opus Dei worked in Spain: "When Opus members controlled the
economy of Spain they developed private industry at the expense
of the public." 1 The interesting thing here is not what was
developed; but the fact that Opus Dei controlled the entire
economy of Spain.
Walsh, who at one time was a Jesuit, and is still a loyal son
of the "church" also notes that the spirit of Opus appeals to the
present Pope. "He can hardly have been indifferent if, as it is
alleged, Opus money was sent for the support of Solidarity in
Poland." 2
He also states that Opus received funds from conservative
U.S. foundations which with money from the CIA, opposed the
unions that had brought Allende to power in Chile. He also
claims that General Juan Carlos Ongania, dictator of Argentina
from 1966-1970 seized power after a religious retreat sponsored
by Opus Dei.
He also notes:the German Catholic aid-agency Adveniat graduallyreplaced the CIA in the 1970's as the helpmate of militaryregimes, and that Adveniat was controlled by bishopssympathetic to Opus.3
He later adds that the Opus-CIA links were documented in
the American Journal Mother Jones, July 1983. The Opus,
Fatherland, and Liberty, were all fused with Pinochet's secret
police, which was CIA funded. The CIA also funded the Chilean
Institute for General Studies which was an Opus 'think tank.'
He proceeds to show that Opus of course, denies all
such allegations and denies that it has anything to do with
politics. In fact, the organization borders on a secret society
for Walsh claims that one of Escriva's "prevailing concerns
was that of the secrecy of the organization." 4
Again, though there is no proof for the charge that Opus
Dei is involved in assassinations, there have been many
questions raised in connection with certain murders. In
November of 1985 "a Munich court prevented the
publication of a book which "falsely" alleged that certain
Opus members had worked with right-wing death squads in
Chile." 5 Some are not so sure that the allegations were
false.
Certainly Camilo Torres, a Colombian Roman Catholic
priest was shot in February of 1966. Torres was a radical
priest, who championed the cause of social justice, in a
country dominated by one of the most repressive Roman
Catholic dictatorships in the world. The officer, in charge of
the brigade which killed Torres, became a general and
assisted in editing an Opus-linked magazine in Bogota.
Opus money is also all tied into the IOR which is the
Institute for the Works of Religion. This bank began in
1887 as a means of aiding the Vatican enterprises around
the world. "It is located inside Vatican City...which puts it
outside Italian banking law." 6
Michele Sindona was a consultant to this bank. When
he was indicted, and called to testify, he died from drinking
poisoned coffee on March 22, 1986. 7 Roberto Calvi, a one
time associate of Sindona, the head of the Ambriosano
Bank was found hanging under London's Blackfriars
Bridge on June 18, 1982.8
Walsh closes this chapter in his book with this question:
If indeed Opus can dispense large sums, then the fatalvisit of Calvi to London may reflect the banker's belief thatOpus could bail him out. Both Signora Calvi and his sonhave claimed that he was expecting Opus to mount a rescueoperation. They have said that he was thinking of going toSpain: instead he came to England. Was it because hebelieved the center of Opus's financial operations was in theCity of London?9
Calvi's death was ruled a suicide but it could well have been
murder.
Rome can command an incredible amount of support from all
quarters around the globe when it needs help. Richard Hammer in
his book The Vatican Connection, even recounts the tale of
Marcinkus and the appeal to the Mafia for help in counterfeiting
a billion dollars to help out the Vatican in the Sindona debacle.
The Mafia was ready to help the Papacy without question.
Even Ronald Reagan was ready to help the Papacy when he
could. He said at a speech before the National Catholic Education
Association:
I am grateful for your help in shaping American policyto reflect God's will... And I will look forward to furtherguidance from his holiness Pope John Paul II during anaudience I will have with him in June. 10
The involvement of the Papacy in Bosnia and Croatia again
shows the power which the Vatican wields. The Vatican was one
of the first "states" to recognize the breakaway moves of Croatia
from the former Yugoslavia. Then the United States backed up the
Vatican in recognizing Croatia. Bosnia was also quickly
recognized as a Muslim-governed country even though a
large part of the population was Serbian. These hasty moves
resulted in a bloodbath with the Serbs receiving most of the
blame in the Vatican-dominated press of the western world.
The news media, of course has NEVER once referred to
the massacres carried out by Croatia during World War II.
The Serbian Orthodox Church, in exile in London, put the
number massacred at around 1,200,000. A recent book,
written by a Jewish writer, examines the strange case of
Kurt Waldheim; former secretary-general of the United
Nations, who was in Croatia during the time of the
massacres.
Herzstein claims that there are about 3 years missing
from the dossier of Waldheim and that little was done to
find out why. He was installed as Secretary General of the
United Nations, one of the most powerful positions in the
world, a loyal son of the "church" of Rome, without so
much as a question about his participation in the Kozara
massacre.
Croatia was, and is, an example of theonomy. Here the
"church" ruled and massacred for three years. Multiplied
thousands of Serbian Orthodox Christians were massacred
during the theonomy of Pavelic. The Roman Catholic
priests were on hand to make forced conversions to set up
their idea of the kingdom of God on earth. Those involved
in these massacres were shielded from justice by certain
people in the American armed forces. Herzstein relates that
when the Yugoslavs tried to get their hands on Oskar
Turina, the man involved in the Kozara massacre, the
Americans stalled. They demanded more evidence against
thenotorious Roman Catholic Croatian Ustasha leader.
Herzstein notes:
Finally on April 26, 1948, U.S. authoritiesinformed the Yugoslav mission in Vienna that "Turinahad departed from the U.S. Zone of Austria for anunknown destination." If he ever showed up again, theAmericans promised, they would be happy toreconsider Yugoslavia's extradition request. In fact, theAmericans had helped Turina to make his way to Italy.From there, he left Europe. Some sources claim heeventually took up residence in Argentina, whileothers say he settled in the United States. 11
Most of the Nazi war criminals, and the Ustasha
murderers, all escaped via Italy, using Vatican supplied
passports. It was important that Turina not be turned over to
the Yugoslavs for had he been allowed to testify the
"Yugoslavs might have learned something they had no idea
of at the time — that Kurt Waldheim had been involved in
the notorious Kozara deportations." 12
It is nothing short of amazing to read how deeply the
tiny Vatican state is involved in so many countries of the
world in 1996. The massacres and wars of Rome are still
going on in Rwanda and Burundi. Others are just ending in
Angola, Mozambique and the North of Ireland. Still others
are continuing in Croatia and Bosnia. Rome is deeply
involved in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico and indeed just
about every country south of the Rio Grande.
As Mumford points out:
The Church, in effect, controls most governmentsin Latin America and many in Africa,and the Philippines. Authorities in these countries liveunder constant intimidation by the Church, which canthreaten to bring about the downfall of a regime byarousing its citizens. 13
We saw this first hand in Malawi. The president of
Malawi when we first went there was a Presbyterian. He
was a good leader of his people. Rome did not like his rule.
He fought with Rome and expelled 5 Roman Catholic
priests from Malawi. But others were there to stir the people
up to riot. He has since been deposed.He dared to fight with
Rome; and found out that his opponent was much more
powerful than he had ever imagined. Rome got the United
States to intervene. Dan Quayle came over to Malawi and
then reported back, as Rome wanted him to do, that Malawi
was not a democracy. So Rome, the greatest opponent to
democracy which has ever cursed this planet, was able to
dupe the United States into getting rid of her opponent in
Malawi.
Rome wants now to control North America as she has
controlled South America for so long. In fact, while her
hold on South America may be slipping somewhat, her
inroads into North America are growing.
Walsh admits that in South America Rome is not in as
secure a position as she once was. He outlines the way
Rome likes to dominate countries:
In the past, the Catholic Church in many countries,particularly Latin American countries... has beenclosely involved with the State, appearing to give theState divine authority over those it governed. Thepresence within a country of a papal nuncio; hisattendance, and that of other prelates, at Stateoccasions; State recognition of religiousfestivals - these and many other signs havedemonstrated that the State has the blessing of theChurch and that the Church legitimizes the State. 14
This is the future for America if she continues on the
road she is now traveling. When Rome makes her claim to
legitimizing the State, as she does in Chile, she also seeks
the government's help in making other churches
illegitimate. More than 120,000 evangelicals recently
marched in Chile protesting the strong-armed repression by
the Roman Catholic "church" in that land.
In Brazil, Leonel Franca wrote his most important book
The Church, the Reformation, and Civilization in defence
of the counter-reformation and also to attack Protestantism.
His book was immensely popular when it first came out,
but lost some of its luster, as the poorer classes in Brazil
turned more and more toward the "people's churches" and
away from the monolithic idea of the Roman Catholic
church.
However, as Walsh points out, as the poorer classes
became more affected by Marxism, the upper classes
became ever more intransigent in their defence of the
Roman Catholic church. This is where the strength of
Roman Catholicism now lies in Latin America.
The intellectual Roman Catholics of the upper classes
in Latin America never viewed the Cold War as a
confrontation between east and west; they viewed it,
according to De Broucker, as a "confrontation between
North and South." 15 With wave after wave of legal, and
illegal emigrants, from all over Latin America now
swamping North America, it is not difficult to see who is
winning in this confrontation today. Latin American
irredentism is helping the "church" to take over North
America without a shot being fired.
It is interesting to notice the difference between Roman
Catholic writers and Protestant writers today. The Roman
Catholic writers NEVER apologize for Rome or her
authority. Protestant writers on the other hand are always
seeking to minimize the very things in which Roman
Catholic writers glory.
So while Protestants minimize the Vatican and the
power of the Pope, the Roman Catholics always stress the
power of the Pope and the Vatican. So while they may
criticize certain things about Rome at the present time as
Martin, Walsh, Strojie, and others do, they do not criticize
what they believe is the true Catholicism and the true
papacy.
In fact, Malachi Martin claims away too much for the
Pope and the Vatican. He brags on the depth of knowledge
that the Papacy has access to, and even attributes the source
of that knowledge to something supernatural. He writes:
Further he (the Pope) does not need to use his
imagination because, as the man who now sits at the
governing center of the universal, age-old and deeply
experienced Roman Catholic Church -- and the center
of the world's oldest chancery -- John Paul is privy to
the closest thing there is in practical terms to racial
memory and wisdom. Besides, he has the sources of
knowledge and enlightenment denied to ordinary
mortals. He is far more deeply aware of plans -in-themaking
and of things to come than many a government
or managerial body — NEW BORN BABES when
compared to the Vatican in memory and experience —
that is attempting to direct human affairs along, the
paths of evolutionary globalism. (emphasis added)16
When Martin states that the Pope has sources of
knowledge and enlightenment denied to ordinary mortals,
he is obviously attributing to the Pope, some kind of supramortal
or supernatural knowledge and wisdom which he
believes the Pope possesses. So not only does the Pope
have access to knowledge, from all over the world through
his faithful henchmen, he also has the benefit of
supernatural wisdom and enlightenment according to
Martin.
Apparently from everything else that Martin writes, and
the Pope's personal motto "totus tuus" totally yours,
referring to his total devotion to Mary, this supernatural
wisdom of the Pope then must come from the immaculate
heart of Mary. However, when one studies the bloody
history of the Papacy, he might be excused for thinking that
any supernatural help the Pope receives comes from a much
lower personage. But it is interesting to notice, in the midst
of all kinds of changes and decay within Romanism, that
the Pope, as a person, is receiving more and more attention
and accolades, than at any time since the days of Innocent
III.
Malachi Martin certainly sees the trend toward
globalism not only in society but in the church. He believes
that there can only be ONE MAN who is capable of
governing this global church and he is according to Martin,
the Pope of Rome. He points out that only Rome has been
involved in world affairs for the past 2000 years and that
Rome and the Pope do not take this historical pedigree
lightly.
Martin states:It took the papacy and its institutionalorganization, the Roman Catholic Church, almostthe whole of two thousand years to attain, in theconcrete order, its status and condition of ageoreligion. It took all the ups and downs of 264pontificates for the political philosophy and goals of thatgeoreligion to be purified and purged of the cultural andcivilizational accretions that along the road impeded thedevelopment of papal and Roman Catholic geopolitics.At the close of two thousand years since Paul (theApostle) expressed the worldview of a genuine georeligion,the 263rd successor to the obscure Great Fisherman reignsand governs in Rome as the titular head of that georeligionhoused in a genuinely geopolitical structure. For John Paul IIis not only the spiritual head of a worldwide corpus ofbelievers but also the chief executive of a sovereign state thatis a recognized member of our late-twentieth-century societyof states. With a political goal and structure! Yes, with ageopolitical goal and structure. For in the final analysis, JohnPaul II as the claimant Vicar of Christ DOES CLAIM TO BETHE ULTIMATE COURT OF JUDGMENT on the societyof states as a society. (emphasis added) 17
Many may take Rome lightly today, but Rome does not take
herself lightly, nor does she hesitate to intrude anywhere she can
get a foothold. As Satan's false church, she counts on the help of
the Archdeceiver himself to further her ambitions to take over the
world, and put the Vicar of Christ - the Antichrist, as this is what
Vicar of Christ really means, the one in place of Christ ~ upon
the throne of his desired dominion.
The sad thing is that those Americans whom one would
expect to understand the nature of SPIRITUAL WARFARE do
not seem to have a clue. As Leonard Ravenhill wrote on another
subject to be true, yet just as suited to this one:
"we wrestle not." Ravenhill was pointing out that the Christian
wrestles not against flesh and blood but against principalities
and powers etc., but noted pungently that the description of
modern Christians could be summed up in the fact that THEY
WRESTLE NOT PERIOD! THERE IS NO SENSE OF SPIRITUAL
WARFARE AT ALL!
There is only one common thread which binds all of
these organizations, operations, countries, and individuals
together: the Roman Catholic "church". This mammoth
socio-politico-religious octopus has had its tentacles
around the world for centuries. It is not about to let go in
1996 or any time soon.
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1. Walsh, Michael, Opus Dei, Harper San Francisco,
1992, p. 146.
2. Ibid., p. 129.
3. Ibid., p. 132.
4. Ibid., p. 119.
5. Ibid., p. 131.
6. Ibid., p. 156.
7. Loc.cit.
8. Loc.cit.
9. Ibid., p. 159.
10. Given in a Speech before the National Catholic
Education Association, April, 1982.
11. Herzstein, Robert Edwin, Waldheim: The Missing
Years, Arbor House/William Morrow, N.Y., N.Y.,
1988, p. 205.
12. Loc.cit.
13. Mumford, Op.cit., p. 23.
14. Walsh, Op.cit., p. 175.
15. De Broucker, Jose, Dom Helder Camara, Collins,
London, 1977, p. 76.
16. Martin, Malachi, The Keys of this Blood, Simon and
Schuster, N.Y., N.Y., 1990, pp. 343-344.
17. Ibid., pp. 374-375.
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Repudiating the Reformation in America Today American public opinion is being increasingly influenced by
Jesuit philosophy. What is even more troubling is that the socalled
"Christian Right" is also being riddled with Jesuit ideas.
The Reformation was a blow to the world aspirations of the
Vatican. Since the Reformation, Rome has had one main task to
complete: the destruction of the Protestant Reformation.
The attack upon the Reformation started immediately in the
Papacy. The Council of Trent met to formulate the plans of the
Counter-Reformation, a fact, sad to say, most Protestants do not
even know today. The Counter-Reformation was spearheaded by
the Jesuits.
But some real blows to the Reformation have come from
within the ranks of its own churches. As far back as 1820 in
England, certain men within the Anglican Church started what
was called the Tractarian Movement. The Tractarians bewailed
"the Reformation as a blunder."1 In 1867 another English
publication called The Reformation "an unmitigated disaster, a
change brought about by a conspiracy of adulterers, murderers,
and thieves."
On the other side of the issue, Bible-believing Protestants
have been warning about the back-to-Rome movement for more
than a hundred years. Bishop J. C. Ryle writing in 1868 noted:
"We live in momentous times. The ecclesiastical horizon
on every side is dark and lowering. The steady rise and
progress of extreme Ritualism and Ritualists are shaking
the Church of England to its very center." 2
He also prophetically stated:
"A sapping and mining process has been going on under ourfeet, of which we are beginning at last to see a little. WESHALL SEE A GOOD DEAL MORE BY AND BY.* At therate we are going, it would not surprise me if within fiftyyears the crown of England were no longer on a Protestanthead, and High Mass were once more celebrated inWestminster and St. Pauls." 3The publishers of Ryle's reprint wrote:"It is solemn to note that on February 2, 1960, a serviceof Requiem Mass was held for the late Earl of Halifax inWestminster Abbey." 4
The work to tear down Protestantism has gained momentum
in the past few decades. In 1977, David Watson said at the
National Evangelical Anglican Congress in Nottingham, that the
Reformation was "one of the greatest tragedies that ever
happened to the church." 5 He believes that God has profound
sorrow over such separation of Christ's body.
In 1987, in New Orleans the Charismatics proclaimed:We knocked the giant (of Protestantism) down in l977 inNotre Dame; we must now chop off his* It is also important to note that Prince Charles has been to see
the Pope and has no interest in continuing the Protestant
Succession. Since Charles and Diana went to see the Pope their
marriage has spiralled out of control. Ryle's prophetic words
sadly have been all too well fulfilled in once-Protestant England.
head in 1987 so that disunity among Roman Catholicsand the denominations will never appear again.6
J. I. Packer, who signed the recent Accord, also wants
an end to the disunity caused by the Reformation. He
writes:
Do I see renewal in the Roman Catholic Church? Asa Protestant for whom major elements of officialCatholicism represent Christianity skewed, I reply that Ido. It is as these... streams of renewal continue to flow,AND HOPEFULLY CONVERGE, that the CatholicChurch will give most to the rest of Christendom...(emphasis added)7 Very few voices in America have been raised in
defence of the Reformation in recent years. Those men who
have national exposure on television, have either remained
silent, or led the charge against the Reformation.
Dr. Gordon Girod, of the Reformed Christian Hour, was
one of the few who did raise his voice in defence of the
Reformation.
He recounted the following incident:
A group of ministers from various Protestant
denominations were recently met together. They were
discussing the question of mergers among the churches
— which is being discussed everywhere of late. One
after another spoke favorably of the ecumenical
movement aimed at uniting all Christendom in one
great world-wide church. But this raised other
questions. If it be true that all disunity is sin, then the
Protestant Reformation must also have been sin. This is
exactly the position Rome has taken through the years:
the Protestant Reformation was sin. At last one man raised
this question. He asked, "Do you think the Protestant
Reformation was sin? 8
Girod then proceeded to lay out the meaning and
importance of the Protestant Reformation.
The Reformation means that, especially through Luther and
Calvin, the doctrine of personal salvation was recovered
from the Bible. This is what we have lost today... Consider
the second principle of the Reformation, the authority of the
Scripture... This position made Protestantism what it is...
What do we find now? The Bible is a fallen oracle in
Protestantism... When the Bible is debased, the foundations
of the pulpit are shaken. This is what has happened to a
major segment of Protestantism. The third principle of the
Reformation concerned the real nature of the church... the
Reformers sacrificed external unity of the church for truth.
They put truth first and unity second. Until we are prepared
to accept their scale of values we will never be able to make
our way out of the maze of ecumenical confusion.9
There will be no getting out of the maze of ecumenical
confusion on the part of those who follow a theonomic agenda.
For that agenda is a repudiation of the Reformation.
Girod then goes to the real heart of the whole matter:
In fact, the whole meaning of Luther's stand is that he
possessed a burning passion for truth. When will the men
of our generation acknowledge that truth is always
primary? If we have not the truth, we have nothing.
If we would learn from the Reformation at all we must
ask anew this question:
How much value do we really put on truth? 10
The answer to Girod's question today would be: not
very much at all. Far too many Protestants are content to
play into the hands of Rome today, and help her to
overthrow what is left of the Reformation in this
generation.
Roman Catholic writers have for years been lamenting
the tragedy of the Reformation. This tragedy according to
the Jesuits, the Roman Catholic writers, and the modern
reconstructionists, was the break up of papally controlled
Europe. The task, for both the Jesuits, and the
reconstructionists, even if it is a long one, is to
RECONSTRUCT once again a replica of medieval Europe
under the control of the "church."
Both the Jesuits, and the reconstructionists, hope to
make the Charismatic Movement, and the political Right in
the United States, handmaidens to the ultimate restoration
of the "Church" into the place of power and dominion. The
ecumenical wing of evangelicalism and ecumenical
evangelism are also part of the over-all mix.
Pat Robertson, one of the leaders of the political
Right, likes to emphasize his idea of the 'Kingdom Now'
which is really only another form of dominion theology
or theonomy. Robertson, along with the
reconstructionists, may pretend that this is an original idea,
but it is really only a repristination of the old Jesuit line.
Rome has always taught that the church is to rule this
world. The Jesuits, went everywhere to conquer the world,
for the church of Rome, not for Christ. They were the
spiritual equivalent of the paratroopers, or the Green
Berets, for the Vatican. They are now
seeking to reconstruct the glories of medievalism once
again. They plan to do this by working to take over
America, and then with the power of America behind the
Vatican, to take over the rest of the world.**
The Jesuits of the present time are much more
ecumenical than their predecessors, but their view of the
role, and authority, of the "church" is the same. Malachi
Martin, in his book on the Jesuits sings the praises of the
early Jesuits, even though he has serious questions about
some modern Jesuits.
There was no continent Jesuits did not reach; noknown language they did not speak and study, or, inscores of cases, develop; no culture they did notpenetrate, no branch of learning and science they didnot explore; no work in humanism, in the arts, inpopular education they did not undertake and do betterthan anyone else; no form of death by violence they didnot undergo — Jesuits were hanged, drawn andquartered in London; disemboweled in Ethiopia; eatenalive by Iroquois Indians in Canada; poisoned inGermany; flayed to death in the Middle East; crucifiedin Thailand; starved to death in South America;beheaded in Japan, drowned in Madagascar; bestializedin the Soviet Union. In that first four hundred years theygave the Church ... 243 martyrs...They lived among and adapted to Chinesemandarins, North American Indians, the brilliantroyal courts of Europe, the Hindu Brahmans of** We see this in cameo already in Haiti, Croatia, Bosnia,
and the North of Ireland where the United States has
enforced, or tried to enforce, the Vatican line.
India, the "hedgerow" schools in penal Ireland, theslave ships of the Ottomans, the Imamas and Ulema ofIslam, the decorum and learning of the Oxford dons,and the multi-primitive societies of sub-Saharan Africa.11
Martin adds that the Jesuits were known as "the Pope's
men," and their first main targets were the new Protestant
churches of Europe. He says that "Precisely, the vital issue
at stake between the (Roman) Catholic Church and the
leaders of the Protestant revolt --Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII
of England -- was the authority of the Roman Pontiff and
the preeminent primacy of his Roman Catholic Church." 12
He then adds: "They Were giants, but with one purpose: the
defense and propagation of papal authority+ and papal
teaching." 13
What Martin fails to say is that many times the Jesuits
were up to the crafty ears in political intrigue. Much of the
opposition to the Jesuits was directed against them as a
result of their involvement in murders and assassinations,
carried out as Martin even admits, to establish the authority
of the Pope and the primacy of the papacy.
They did not go to tell people about Christ they went to
take over the country for the Pope of Rome. This is their
aim today in the United States. It has not changed one iota.
He also fails to note that the Jesuits did not produce
anything like what the Protestant Puritans produced in
North America. South America is the great monument
+ He now claims that the Jesuits have left this purpose and
are pursuing their own agenda, particularly in Central and
South America.
to the Jesuits. Yet in 1996, many Roman Catholics in Brazil
STILL cannot tell the difference between the sea goddess
Iemanja and the Virgin Mary.
Protestant missionaries brought light and hope to millions all
over the world, and DELIVERED them from their sea-goddesses
and animistic mythology, and the corruption that such pagan
superstition brought with it. The Jesuits, for all their zeal and
learning, left the pagans very much as they had found them. Their
MAIN TASK, as Martin clearly stated:
was to overthrow the Protestant Reformation whereverthey could, and to establish the authority of the Pope andthe primacy of the Papacy.++14
As L. H. Lehmann, the converted Roman Catholic priest
noted:
All the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church since (theReformation) have been directed to the work of Counter-Reformation — to re-establish the political and social orderof pre-Reformation times... The political and social orderthat resulted from the Reformation, both in Europe andAmerica, is regarded by the Roman Catholic Church aspagan and anti-Christian. 15
++It would be almost humorous, if it were not so sad, when
one reads about the eye-bulging indignation which some writers
have toward the Protestant Ascendancy in Britain. The Protestant
Ascendancy is considered an anachronism in this day of
ecumenical equality. However, the Primacy of the Papacy which
really means the Roman Catholic Ascendancy is considered the
very paragon of ecumenism.
The incredible scenario at the present time is that some
Protestants, evangelical, Reformed, and Charismatic, are
working with Rome in her efforts at Counter-Reformation.
They have been sucked into a theonomic agenda which is
an all out attack upon the Reformation.
No one will ever build a perfect state before the return
of Christ; and certainly Roman Catholicism and the Pope
will NEVER PRODUCE ONE, or HELP TO PRODUCE
ONE.
Roman Catholic scholars, such as Malachi Martin,
picture the Reformation as a passing thing. According to
modern thinkers, writers, religious leaders, the best thing
that can now be done is to chop off the head of
Protestantism so that the disunity which it brought will
never appear among the denominations again. What we
have to do now, according to the charismatics, the
reconstructionists, the new-evangelicals, Malachi Martin,
the present Pope, and other writers, is to RESTORE,
RECONSTRUCT, and/or REVIVE the joys and wonders of
medievalism once again, and be done with the divisiveness
of the Reformation once and for all.
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1. McClintock and Strong; Cyclopedia of Biblical,
Theological, and Ecclesiastical Lit, Reprint, Vol. VII., p.
506.
2. Ryle, J.C., The Five English Reformers, Banner of
Truth Trust, Reprint, pp. 31-32.
3. Ibid., p. 6.
4. Loc.cit.
5. Semlyen, Michael de., Ecumenism, Dorchester House,
England, 1990, p. 6.
6. Cairns, Alan, Rome and the Bible-believer, 1987, p. 2.
7. Semlyen, Op. cit., p. 6.
8. Girod, Gordon, God is not Dead, Presbyterian and
Reformed Pub. Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1966, p. 46.
9. Ibid., pp. 43-44.
10. Ibid., pp. 45-46.
11. Martin, Malachi, The Jesuits, Simon and Shuster, N.Y.,
N.Y., 1987, p. 27.
12. Ibid., p. 28.
13. Ibid., p. 29.
14. Loc.cit.
15. Lehmann, L.H., Behind the Dictators, Agora Pub. Co.,
N.Y., N.Y., 1942, p. 20.
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Some theonomists like to sing the praises of medieval
times. Their ideal is to return to that golden time when the
papacy governed Europe and the "church" ruled the nations.
Malachi Martin likes to sing the praises of the middle ages
also. He rejoices in the papal theocracy of that era:
During the centuries when European unity was at itsheight and vibrant, Europeans housed their hopes andfound their believing trust beneath the domes andGothic spires of the churches they built. They calledthat whole territory by a kind of family name:Christendom; (Luther rightly called it Popedom) and inthe span of just a hundred years --between 1170 and1270 -- they built eighty cathedrals and major churches,the living symbols of the reality in their lives: theCatholic faith.Europe's protection was centered on its faith. Itsidentity was provided in the papacy. The unifyingprinciple of its civilization lay in its commonacknowledgement of the primacy of the Pope. 1
David Chilton, a theonomist, also rejoices in the
cathedrals Martin praises. So let us look in detail at what
the medieval Papal theocracy really produced.
In 1214 Innocent III launched his army of bloodthirsty
routiers in his crusade against the Albigenses whom he
believed to be heretical. He addressed himself to all the
faithful crusaders exhorting them to "fight strenuously
against the ministers of the old serpent." Meaning of
course, all dissenters from the papacy, many of whom were
true Christians. The murderous band of crusaders certainly
heeded his call for at Beziers they massacred "30,000 individuals
of every age, sex, and condition." 3
Innocent III was one of the most ambitious Popes who ever
served the papacy. He was also one of the most successful and
ambitious theonomists in the history of Popedom. He founded
the Dominicans, the Dogs of God as they were called in derision,
to help extirpate "heresy" which meant of course to kill
"heretics."
He was very active in promoting his idea of the "Church." He
launched fresh anathemas all the time against "heretics," upheld
the abominable practice of auricular confession, and actually
worked himself to death to try to stop the rise of independence
from the Papacy.4
His chief goal in life was to establish the absolute supremacy
of the Papacy. His pontificate culminated "in the temporal as well
as the spiritual supremacy of the Roman See." 5
He asserted without let up, that the Papacy was God's
ordained theocracy. Innocent the Third actually attained to a
theonomy and what a horrendous theonomy it was! May God
save us from such a theonomy in our time!
He took Britain and Ireland away from King John and placed
John under the Interdict. When John tried to defend himself he
was faced with assassination and war. He had to capitulate to the
Pope's demands and he had to deliver a "charter** testifying that
he sur-
** The Papacy, is at this very writing, trying to undermine the
Protestant monarchy in England and to reclaim Britain from
Protestantism, and the Protestant Succession, and so fulfill the
stipulations of this ancient charter.
rendered the kingdom of England and the Lordship of Ireland to
be held as fiefs of the Holy See."6
He subdued Constantinople in what the Roman Catholic
writer Ffoulkes called: "one of the foulest acts ever perpetrated
under the garb of religion in Christian times." 7 But his all
encompassing ambition was to establish the UNIVERSAL and
ABSOLUTE SUPREMACY of the Holy See of Rome. To this
end he spent his life. And to this end he perpetrated some of the
worst crimes and massacres in recorded history. Zoe Oldenburg
describes Pope Innocent Ill's campaign in Beziers in gruesome
detail. We merely give excerpts here and there from her
description from pages 115 to 121.
The extreme violence of the assault transformed acomparatively peaceful town into a city of the damned, all ina few minutes... In a few short hours the wealthy city ofBeziers was a city of bleeding mutilated corpses, andnothing else... 'Kill them all; God will look after His own,'The famous, too famous, remark, attributed to Arnald-Amalric... Whether Arnald had sufficient imagination tocoin a phrase of this sort... it remains true that the Crusaders'instructions at the sacking of Beziers do indeed seem tohave been 'kill them all.'After this, we read in the Chanson- 'this' being a reallyquite amazing outburst of sheer unbridled blood lust, sincein order to kill ALL the inhabitants of a major city even theroutiers and the most hardened fanatics must have had theirhearts in the business to a phenomenal degree... TheseCrusaders wasted no time singing a Te Deum as had beendone at the sack of Jerusalem, and still less in horrifiedregret at the spectacle of corpses piled upin their thousands - old men young girls, babies mothers,boys, all mingled together... to treat this brutal episode asjust another of those atrocities which crop up in war is acritical mistake... *Massacres such as that at Beziers areextremely rare... Even among the worst atrocities whichhistory has to show us through the centuries, massacres ofthis sort stand out as exceptions... and yet it is the head ofone of the leading monastic Orders in CatholicChristendom... Pierre des Vaux de Cernay (who) sees thiscollective punishment of an heretical city as a PERFECTLYJUST ACT. He rejoices that God willed the town'schastisement -confirmed by the fact that the tragedy hadtaken place on the feast of St. Mary Magdalene.8 (emphasisadded)
Zoe Oldenburg, who is a Roman Catholic writer, also tells of
the work of the Inquisition in her book, Massacre at Montsegur.
Certainly after reading her carefully documented work few could
praise the 100 years that Malachi Martin lauds with anything
approaching his enthusiasm.
In her chapter on the Inquisition she tells that the suppression
of heresy became a lot more vigorous from 1233 on. She
recounts the General Inquisition which took place on Good
Friday at Toulouse in 1235, with many confessions and many
arrests. She acknowledges that at Moissac there was an Auto De
Fe where 210 victims were executed. She tells of an old lady
who was seriously ill and almost blind who was
* Moody Press, in a recent book, numbers Innocent III with
other great Christian leaders! How far have we gotten from the
truth today?
tricked into giving her testimony to a Roman Catholic
bishop Raymond du Fauga, thinking she was giving it to a
Cathar Bishop. He even encouraged her to be steadfast in
her beliefs. When she answered that she would not renounce
her faith for that little portion of her life remaining to her,
the Roman Catholic bishop revealed his true identity and
pronounced her a heretic. Summary judgment was passed
upon the old woman who, unable to walk, was thus carried
in her bed to Pre-du-Comte, or Count's Field and burned at
the stake. Oldenburg then states:
This done, Pelhisson tells us, 'the Bishop, together withthe monks and their attendants, returned to therefrectory and after giving thanks to God and St.Dominic, fell cheerfully upon the food set beforethem.'9She then continues:This story might well have passed for a piece ofslander invented by those who disliked the Inquisition.Yet it cannot be doubted, for Pelhisson, as aDominican, could have had no possible motive forinventing it. All the same, it is so odd that it might havecome from a madhouse. The harshness ofcontemporary ethics cannot wholly explain it, and inany case the principal actor was not a brigand-knightbut a bishop. Not even fanaticism can account for awhole group of monks and clergy behaving quite sosavagely towards a helpless old woman. Surely, despiteher condemnation, she could at least have been left todie in peace, and burnt after her death?... Yet thechronicler rather congratulates the Bishop for hiscraftiness, and is not, one feels, lying when he refers to the monks' cheerfulness - as they returned to the refrectory toconsume the meal so providentially interrupted. 10
Here is a 20th century Roman Catholic writer trying to
come to grips with the Inquisition of her own church. She
cannot fathom the sheer depth of fanaticism which
motivated them to such acts of cruelty and barbarism.
She later recounts the horrendous massacre at
Montsegur of the Perfecti. A massacre which culminated in
the mass burning of hundreds of the Cathari in a common
fire, the smoke of which blotted out the surrounding
hillsides, and sent the stench of burning human flesh right
up through the entire valley.
We have by no means exhausted the wonders of this
century. At the Synod of Verona in 1184 the Inquisition was
formally organized. This was an organization which burned
thousands during the first years of its founding. Many
innocent people were burned at the stake on the terrified
testimonies of others who named them to escape
themselves. Oldenburg recounts this in her chapter on the
Inquisition.
Still in this glorious century of the building of all those
wonderful cathedrals (which David Chilton loves because
they have stood for centuries) Innocent IV issued his
infamous Bull De Extirpanda in 1252 in which he stated
that accused persons under the questioning of the "holy"
inquisitors "should be tortured, not merely to induce them to
confess their own heresy, but also to compel them to accuse
others."11
When one studies the history of the Waldenses he again
runs into that wonderful century of Martin's and that golden
age of Innocent III. The doctrines of the Waldenses were
spreading throughout Europe when Innocent (never was
a name so badly chosen except perhaps by Loyola when
he called his outfit the Society of Jesus) the most
bigoted of all popes determined to crush out the Waldenses —
exterminate the whole pestilential race - were his kind and
Christian words. The commission he gave to the authorities was
"to burn the chiefs of the Vaudois, to scatter the heretics
themselves, confiscating property, and consigning to perdition
every soul who dared to oppose the mandate."12
Joining with him was Dominic, the father of the Inquisition
who came up with that inexecrable dictum of Rome that "it was
a crime against God and the Church to keep faith with heretics."
13 Two greater rascals have never had so much power in this
world with perhaps the exception of Hitler and Mussolini. But
then these two also were regarded by the Popes as defenders of
the faith.
Peter Waldo was hounded from post to pillar and finally
ended up in Bohemia where he died in 1179. That was the same
year in which his beliefs were denounced at an ecumenical
council of Rome.
His beliefs demonstrate that the powers that be in 1179,
contrary to Malachi Martin's opinion, were far removed from
the gospel. Here is a brief summary of Waldo's beliefs for which
he and his followers were persecuted and massacred by Rome
for 7 centuries.
1. The Holy Scriptures are the source of faith and
religion without regard to the authority of the fathers
and tradition.
2. They hold to all the articles of the Apostle's
Creed.
3. They reject all temples, vestments, images, crosses,
pilgrimages worship of holy relics, and the Roman
sacraments.
4. They reject the papal doctrine of purgatory, and
prayers for the dead.
5. They admit no indulgences, nor confessions.
6. They deny the real presence of Christ in the
bread and the wine.
7. They denounce Rome as the "whore of Babylon,"
and deny obedience to the papal domination and
vehemently repudiate the notion that the pope has
any authority over other churches, or has any civil or
ecclesiastical sword. 14
Is it not wonderful to discover these true believers who
would have nothing whatsoever to do with that murderous
papal theonomy? But who were hunted, burned, massacred,
and persecuted because they would not recognize the
dominion of the papacy.
The persecutions of the Waldenses continued for
hundreds of years. Even when certain Protestant nations
after the Reformation appealed to the Dukes of Savoy to
stop their persecution, they did not.
In 1655 the persecutions raged again and this time the
Protestant powers of Europe intervened otherwise a
"complete annihilation of the Waldenses would have been
the result." 15 John Milton was stirred by the cruel treatment
these Christian people received at the hands of the Pope. He
got Oliver Cromwell to issue a warning to the bloody
persecutors which made them pull back from their gory task
of decimating the Waldenses. Europe has certainly had
many holocausts, carried out by Rome, but you would
never know it by reading modern history books.
The peaceful century of Malachi Martin was also
shattered in Ireland. In 1291 when the Provincial Chapter
met in June in Cork, tension between two factions exploded
into violence. Of this incident, the Worcester annalist, the
best source, narrates baldly, according to J A Watt,
"that the Irish friars came armed with a papal bull
(unspecified and not traced); a dispute having arisen
concerning this, they fought against the English friars;
and after many had been killed and wounded,
the English at length gained the victory." 16
The scandal of the battle of the friars brought the
English Minister-General to Ireland but he solved nothing.
Conflict was to break out again in "particularly virulent
form later." 17
It is not only in the persecutions and massacres, which
dominated the European scene in the Middle Ages, but also
in the pathetic religion of the times that the real darkness of
these times is seen in all its stark reality. Religion was little
more than a hideous nightmare throughout most of Europe
before the Reformation.
Bishop J. C. Ryle describes the spiritual condition of
England before the Reformation with these words:
John Hooper was born in 1495 and died in 1555...Thesixty years of his life take in one of the most eventfulperiods of English history. It would be IMPOSSIBLETO EXAGGERATE the difference there was betweenEngland in 1495 and the same England in 1555. In areligious and moral view, the country was turned upsidedown. When Hooper was born, the EnglishReformation had not begun, and the Church of Romeruled England undisturbed. When he died, theReformation had struck such deep root, that neitherargument nor persecution could overthrow it.(emphasis added)Ryle then gives several proofs for this conclusion.(a) Before the Reformation, one leading featureof English religion was DENSE IGNORANCE. Therewas among all classes a conspicuous absence of allknowledge of true Christianity. A gross darknessoverspread the land, a darkness that might be felt. Notone in a hundred could have told you as much about thegospel as we could now learn from any intelligentSunday School child...(b) But this is not all. Before the Reformation,another leading feature of English religion wasSUPERSTITION OF THE LOWEST AND MOSTDEGRADING DESCRIPTION. Of the extent to whichthis was carried few, I suspect, have the smallest idea...The blind led the blind, and both fell into the ditch. In aword, the religion of our ancestors, before Hooper'stime, was little better than an organized system ofVirgin Mary worship, saint worship, image worship,relic worship, pilgrimages, almsgivings, formalism,ceremonialism, processions, prostrations, bowings,crossings, fastings, confessions, absolutions, masses,penances and blind obedience to the priests. It was agrand higgledy - piggledy of ignorance and idolatry,and service done to God by deputy. (emphasis his)19
Ryle then gives several examples of the gross
impostures by which the ignorant and superstitious people
were bilked out of their money by the trickery of the priests.
According to him, the vial of blood which was supposed to
be Christ's was actually the blood of a duck which was
changed every week to keep it fresh. The face of a statue
which was supposed to change miraculously from stern to
relaxed to smiling according to the offering which was given,
whether copper, silver, or gold, was found to have been manipulated
by wires from behind, by the priest.
(c) One thing more yet remains behind. Beforethe Reformation another leading feature of Englishreligion was WIDESPREAD UNHOLINESS ANDIMMORALITY. The lives of the clergy, as a generalrule, were simply scandalous, and the moral tone of thelaity was naturally at its lowest ebb... The consequencesof shutting up herds of men and women in the prime oflife, in monasteries and nunneries, were such that I willnot defile my reader's minds by dwelling upon them.(emphasis his)20Ryle then concludes this section in his work by stating:I want English people to understand from what theReformation delivered us. Before we make up ourminds to give up Protestantism and receive back Poperyand monasticism, let us thoroughly understand whatwas the state of England when Popery had its own way.My own belief is that never was a change so loudlydemanded as the Reformation, and that never did mendo such good service to England as Hooper and hisfellow labourers, the Reformers. In short, unless a mancan disprove the plain historical facts recorded in thepages of Fox, Fuller, Strype, Burnet, Soames, andBlunt, he must either admit that the Pre-Reformationtimes were bad times, or be content to be regarded ASA LUNATIC! (emphasis added)21
But Ryle is certainly not alone. Some dismiss his
observations because they regard him as biased toward
the Protestant Reformation. So it is instructive then to read
the modern Harvard scholar as he describes the religion in
France in the Middle Ages. A. N. Galpern writes as follows:
The importance that most men and womenattached to their own funeral rites helps to show that(Roman) Catholicism at the end of the Middle Ageswas in large part a cult of the living in the service ofthe dead. 22
He then spends eight pages telling of the prayers for the
dead, the masses that were to be said for the dead, the
lighting of candles for the dead, and the involved
instructions that were to be followed for days, months, and
even years if the dead person had been rich enough to buy
such services from the church. He recounts how the saints
and the Virgin Mary were called upon continually for help.
The saint's superabundance of merit enabledthem to intercede with God for the living and thedead, and filled the treasury from which the Popedrew indulgences... All the attributes of the saintswere united in the person of the Virgin. Everytestator invoked her by formula, as "the gloriousVirgin Mary," but some were more precise andintimate. To the squire Nicolas Goujon, who used thechivalric idiom, she was "his well-beloved motherMary dame and mistress."... Even if a Christian couldnot be certain of an immediate welcome to thecommunity of saints on high, he could have faith thatMary's gentle hand would guide him throughpurgatory and toward the ultimate goal. 23
He also recounts one of the pilgrimages which were
undertaken periodically by the faithful in these days.
A company of men who had gone on pilgrimage tothe Holy Land in 1532 made their last stop of the returntrip at Voulton, fulfilling a vow. Everywheretownspeople venerated small statues of the Virgin inniches of buildings and on street corners. One Pietastood at the end of the alley in Troyes known as the ruede la Chausson. According to a Protestant observer thestatue was ordinarily dressed in silk clothes. Especiallyon Sundays, a lamp burned before it. "Great andenormous idolatries were committed there daily." Trulyevery (Roman) Catholic was a ward of the Virgin. 24
When one reads this catalogue of ritualism and idolatry,
and the gross darkness of the people, how could he not be
thankful for the Reformation? Yet there are multitudes of
ministers, scholars, and church leaders who want to return
us to this hideous spiritual darkness and to these
unscriptural and antiscriptural practices, in America today.
May God deliver us from a return to medievalism. May He
deliver North America from the primacy of the Pope, from
the reconstructionism of the Jesuits, and from the renewal
of the charismatics, is our pietistic prayer!
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1. Martin, Op.cit., p. 354.
2. McClintock and Strong, Cyclopedia of Biblical,
Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature Reprint Vol.
IV., p. 591.
3. Loc.cit.
4. Loc.cit.
5. Loc.cit.
6. Loc.cit.
7. Loc.cit.
8. Oldenburg, Zoe, Massacre at Montsegur, Dorset Press,
N.Y., N.Y., 1959. pp. 115-121.
9. Ibid., p. 291.
10. Ibid., pp. 291-292.
11. McClintock and Strong, op.cit., p. 598.
12. Ibid., Vol. 10, p. 855.
13. Loc.cit.
14. Loc.cit.
15. Ibid., p. 856
16. Watt, J. A., The Church in Two Nations,
Cambridge University Press, London, England,
1970, p. 182.
17. Ibid., p. 183.
18. Ryle, op.cit., p. 41.
19. Ibid., pp. 42-43.
20. Ibid., p. 44.
21. Ibid., pp. 46-47.
22. Galpern, A. N., The Religions of the People in
Sixteenth-Century Champagne, Harvard University
Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1976, p. 20.
23. Ibid., p. 43 ff.
24. Ibid., p. 51
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This recent Evangelical-Roman Catholic Accord is just
one more step in a long line of dialogue and betrayal.
The amount of ecumenical activity today is absolutely
staggering. The drive to unite "Christendom" (really
Popedom) has been greatly accelerated in the past few years.
However when one examines the participants closely he will
see that the unity aimed at is NOT the unity of John 17 but the
unity of Revelation 17. The great blasphemies and errors of the
Papacy have all been tied into Mystery Babylon the Great by
almost every biblical commentator who has ever lived.
Certainly the Reformers viewed the Papacy as Antichrist and
IT WAS THIS VERY VIEW WHICH LED THEM, and those
who followed them, in their REVOLT from Rome. As we have
pointed out, in more detail, in our other study Antichrist and
Optimism, THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO REFORMATION
AT ALL if the Reformers had accepted the novel ideas of the
modern Reconstructionists.
In fact the Reformers could not have been reconstructionists
in their theology for they set about to DELIBERATELY
WRECK the papal theocracy of the Middle Ages, the very ideal
of modern theonomists both Jesuit and Reformed.
If they had not been at least, partially successful in
deliberately shattering the evil theocracy of the Papacy, WE
WOULD ALL BE IN THE DARK AGES STILL! Why can
otherwise intelligent men not see this truth today?
The papacy pretends to be the great defender of human rights
and democracy in the world today but is in fact, still the great
enemy of the truth that it hasbeen for centuries. We know that
a lynch mob is a democracy in action, but we also recognize
that the constitution of the United States is one of the best
documents which man has produced.
Rome of course does not agree. Reconstructionists do
not agree either. The Reconstructionists, like Pat Robertson
and others, want to set up a theonomy in the United States.
Rome's idea of the church ruling in the middle ages, is very
similar to Pat Roberston's desire now to have the church
ruling in the United States.
We believe that man is a depraved sinner so no
theonomy can be achieved. The Constitution of the United
States while not being perfect nevertheless has checks and
balances built in to it, which is about the best that man can
hope for before the return of Christ. Certainly, the
Constitution of the United States should NEVER be
bartered away for a Jesuit-sponsored theonomy.
Rome hates the Constitution of the United States and
has shown that, in various attacks on it, both open and
subtle. Certainly the most open one which we have read was
in the Jesuit Magazine, "America."
An Irish Roman Catholic priest said:
The honest fact is that I just don't understand thereverence, not to say adoration, which every bodyhere seems to pay to the "Americun Constitooshun." Iwant to hear some American get up and shout: "Giveus justice. Give us decency. And to hell with theAmerican Constitution. 1
The bald faced deception of Rome is indeed a marvel to
behold. Here was a priest pretending to care about decency
and justice and he had just come from a country whose own
constitution set up the Roman Catholic Church in a place of
privilege and treated all Protestants as second class citizens.
This is always the problem with any kind of theonomy.
Who determines the meaning of decency and justice and
even more importantly; the meaning of truth? Malachi
Martin shows us who he thinks can determine the truth for
us. He says of Pope John Paul II:
It sets them apart (all those who believe indemocratic principles) from the Holy Father, becausedemocratic principles cannot take precedence overdivine revelation... it is axiomatic for John Paul that noone has the right — democratic or otherwise -- to amoral wrong; and no religion based on divinerevelation has a moral right to teach such a moralwrong or abide by it.2
This is the same position the reconstructionists also
take today. Rushdoony claims error has no rights. The only
trouble with such a position is: who determines who is right
and who is in error?
The very pope who teaches that no one has a
democratic right to a moral wrong certainly believes that he
has a papal, and autocratic right, to a moral wrong which is
just as bad or EVEN WORSE than a democratic right! He
practices Mariolatry and idolatry which are heinous moral
wrongs to Bible-believing Protestants. His "church" not
only teaches these morals wrongs, but also teaches
officially under an archbishop's Imprimatur, that those who
oppose these moral wrongs are blasphemers!
Mariolatry is nothing but idolatry. It is a breaking of
God's holy moral Law as it is given in the second
commandment. So the very man who wants to determine
for me, what is morally right and morally wrong, is completely
at sea himself. He engages in breaking God's second
commandment every where he goes on earth, thus inviting
God's righteous judgments down upon him, and his followers,
for three and four generations! If God's REVELATION is true!
We add those last words advisedly. For while the Pope
speaks piously of divine revelation taking precedence over
democratic principles, he engages in the worship of Mary
every where he goes, thus rejecting divine revelation
himself. Rome categorically rejects the second
commandment; thus rejecting divine revelation. Many
modern Christians also learn the second commandment in
this way: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
They leave out the DIVINE REVELATION of God's
righteous judgment upon idolatry and the truth DIVINELY
REVEALED that this continues to the third and fourth
generation of idolaters. HOW MANY "CHRISTIANS"
REALLY BELIEVE THIS TODAY?
Idolatry brings with it the judgment of God for three or
four generations. Therefore it is exceedingly difficult to
right the ship of State when idolatry flourishes in a nation.
And it is impossible to have any kind of "theonomy" when
idolaters are an integral part of the plan to try to inaugurate
it.
Why can those who want to work with Rome, to set up
the kingdom of God on earth, not see that God's Word is
directed FIRST to God's people? We cannot even get the
church right today much less society. If those, who are in
God's true church, as I am sure Packer, Bright, Colson, and
Pat Robertson would all claim to be, why do they then work
with idolaters to set up the kingdom of God on earth? If
these great Christian leaders wink at idolatry and mariolatry,
and purgatory, thus in essence throwing out the second
commandment of God's law which deals with idolatry; and
throwing out the ninth commandment which deals with
lying; (Purgatory is one of the greatest lies ever told) how in
the name of truth could anyone ever get a nation right. If
men, like J. I. Packer and Bill Bright, who have studied the
bible all their lives, cannot even take God's holy law
seriously, how can any society ever take it seriously, and be
governed by that law?
Roman Catholicism is an idolatrous religion and as such
invites the judgment of God upon it as REVEALED in the
second commandment. Therefore the only thing that Rome
will produce, despite her anti-abortion rhetoric, is the
judgment of God upon anybody or any nation, who
becomes subservient to her idolatrous religion.
As we move toward the twenty-first century we have
many strange ideas and strange bed-fellows floating around.
The Roman Catholic idea of theonomy is much the same as
the Reformed idea of theonomy. In certain teachings they
are exactly the same.
Rushdoony and North both advocate the telling of lies if
it is in a good cause. Their position is exactly the same as
the Jesuits. The telling of lies in a good cause is the
standard Jesuit position on lying. The championing of Jesuit
casuistry by the modern Reformed theonomist is just
another proof of the strange mixtures which are out there
today in the modern "church."
G. Gordon Liddy was trained by the Jesuits at Fordham.
He believes in the Jesuit teaching that the end justifies the
means. In fact, his part in the Watergate break-in was
justified on this very basis. The sad thing is that such Jesuit
ideas are now being promulgated by those who claim to be
Evangelical and Reformed.
The Jesuit teaching on lying is given by the old Jesuit
instructor Gury; here is how he taught it:
Florine makes this confession: I have lied, but Idid not believe I was sinning, because I wasconstrained by a very grave motive; it was to excusemy cousin, and save him from severe chastisement.Question. Can Florine be excused from sin, and isher action commendable?Answer. She ought to be excused from the sin oflying... Moreover she has acted well... because it issufficient, in order to be meritorious, that the end inview should be good in principle... Do not say that anobject materially bad is opposed to the divine will;because though it is opposed to the primary divine will,it is not opposed to the secondary one... God indeed, byhis consequent will, wants man to do what he feelsuncontrollably obliged to do.3
In this piece of Jesuit casuistry we see, that the end
justifies the means, and that God's revealed will is set aside,
and an appeal made to his consequent or secret will. We
also note that if a depraved man has the urge to do, what he
uncontrollably feels he is obliged to do, that this is all right
and that God wants him to do this.
This is what puzzles William F. Buckley, Jr., who is a
"conservative" Roman Catholic. He demonstrates that the
casuistry of the Jesuits is still going strong today.
William F. Buckley, Jr., noted in his syndicated
column, that the Rev. Charles Curran was forbidden to
teach Roman Catholic theology at a Roman Catholic
university. Buckley wrote that when Curran was teaching
courses on morality he had presented the idea of
"proportionate reason." Buckley wrote:
Unless we laymen have missed something, that
(proportionate reason) means that if the girl is
devastatingly attractive, it is more understandable if you
take her to bed. Under the doctrine of proportionate
reason we would be entitled to assume that pedophile
priests who traveled unchecked, especially in the
archdiocese of Santa Fe, are to be understood...because
of the irresistible attraction to them of young boys, even
as the bishop who was supposed to protect his flock,
and his religion, was fornicating away, though perhaps
he desisted during Lent. *
Buckley finds it particularly distressing that the
religious group to which he belongs, not only will not
really address the issue of sodomy, which is rampant
among its own priests, but that some would actually try
to justify it on the basis of the Jesuit casuistry of
"proportionate reason." Buckley apparently is
seemingly unaware that "proportionate reason" is just a new
term for an old Jesuit trick: directing the intention, the
central issue of which is to make sinning easier on the
conscience.
The Jesuit use of "directing the intention" and "mental
reservation" were both exposed by Charles Hodge in his
theology. The Jesuits have used various subterfuges to
justify the most vicious crimes, and sins, in the past; and to
cover up their evil intentions in the present.
Lying in a good cause is not the only idea the theonomist
has gotten from the Jesuits. He also has got the idea of using
force to overthrow governments, which the Jesuits conspired
to do in England.
Bellarmine the Jesuit wrote:
It is not permitted to Christians to tolerate an infidelor a heretical king if that king tries to lead his subjectsinto heresy or infidelity; but it is the Sovereign Pontiff,who has the care of religion... It is the sovereign Pontiffwho should judge if the king must be deposed or not. IfChristians have not formally deposed Nero, Diocletian,Julian the Apostate, Valens, Arian etc., IT ISBECAUSE THEY WERE NOT POWERFULENOUGH! (emphasis added)5
This is what North teaches. Naive twentieth-century
Christians may think that such teachings originated from the
modern theonomists but they did not. Such teachings
originated from the Jesuits and were promulgated to help
the dark idolatrous system of the bloody papacy to take over
the world.
The Jesuits have come a long way indeed in this
generation in America. A recent sports telecast, in which
Boston College was one of the teams, referred to them as
the great Jesuit school in the northeast. The Jesuits have
gained complete acceptance where they were once despised.
They have been able in the past generation, to foist their
ideas of the rule of the church into the very heart of
America today. The theonomists, wittingly, or unwittingly,
have helped to make the teachings of the Jesuits acceptable
to a large section of the Reformed camp in America today.
The question which MUST be asked and answered
remains: can any real theonomy -- THE RULE OF GOD'S
LAW -- be built with the help of those who break God's
law? How can any system of government, based upon the
law of God, be built by those who repeatedly break the very
laws upon which the system is supposed to stand?
References
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1. America, July, 1963.
2. Martin, The Keys of this Blood, Op.cit. p. 287.
3. Bert, Paul, The Doctrine of the Jesuits, Bradbury & Co.,
Boston, Mass., 1881, p. 72.
4. Buckley, William, Richmond News, March 18, 1993.
5. Bert, Op.cit. p. 79.
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Jesuit Theonomy and the State Perhaps some need to rethink their wholehearted acceptance
of Jesuit theonomy before they are completely overwhelmed by
it. As the various Roman Catholic priests are being charged as
pedophiles, and perverts, it is interesting to note what is
happening in many of the subsequent court proceedings.
The Jesuits have taught for centuries that an "ecclesiastic"
has the RIGHT to escape trial by the civil courts of the land. This
Jesuit teaching is being pushed hard at the present time in
Canada and the United States. The Jesuits maintain that an
"ecclesiastic" is not subject to trial by state courts.
The Jesuit Gury spelled out in detail more than one hundred
years ago the Jesuit position on state law. He wrote:
Quest. Are ecclesiastics obliged to obey civil laws? Ans.
No; not the laws in force which are contrary to their
profession, or to their sacred canons.
Ferdinand de Castro Palao said no less clearly: An ecclesiastic, as
such, being exempted from lay jurisdiction, it follows certainly
that he cannot be condemned by a lay judge.
Busenbaum: The clergy being exempted by divine right
from civil authority, civil laws cannot bind them directly or
by compulsory force; it follows that the secular (law)
cannot punish them.
Dicastille: that the clergy must be exempted from layauthority even in temporal things, is evident, becausenobody is under subjection to one who has no jurisdictionover him... They are exempted from the lay power, notonly by canonical, civil, and human rights, but also bydivine rights.1
This is the reason why many Roman Catholic priests,
now charged with sodomizing young boys all over Canada
and the United States, are kept from coming to trial. The
"Church" teaches, and believes, that the civil courts do not
have any jurisdiction in this matter. According to the
"Church" the particular overseers can deal with this matter.
If it were not for the so-called secular state NONE of
these priests would ever be tried for their alleged crimes.
Some obviously have been tried in various places, but many
more have thus far escaped court trials and public
disclosures of their evil doings.
Lindsey Tanner wrote an article for the Associated
Press entitled "Catholic Church investigates pedophile
Priests." In this article it was pointed out that:
in 1988, the bishops' conference issued a nationalpolicy recommending that dioceses follow CIVILLAW and remove priests from parishes whencomplaints arise.2
This, of course was only a recommendation, many dioceses
are still stonewalling as of this writing.
The stalling tactics by the local Roman Catholic
Diocese here in Altoona, are in sharp contrast to how
Protestant ministers fare when they run afoul of the law.
The local cases dealing with Roman Catholic priests, who
allegedly have sodomized young boys, have all been sealed
from the public. However, a Lutheran minister was
arraigned publicly for allegedly passing out obscene
materials to minors. There was no one with the power
apparently, to keep his case from the public even though his
crime was not as serious as sodomy.
God has ordained the STATE not the church, to execute the law.
The State has the responsibly to punish evil-doers and uphold the
law. The Jesuits put the Roman Catholic priest above the law of the
land. They have worked, and are now working, to get the State to join
forces with their apostate religion, to shield the law-breaking priests
of Rome
The sealing of the indictments here in Pennsylvania of
Roman Catholic priests, who have sodomized young altar
boys, furnishes us a very up-to-date view of how theonomy
DOES NOT WORK! The men bringing these suits, were
only young boys when the alleged abuse took place. In the
face of the stonewalling tactics of the Diocese, allowed by
the state courts, they are, one by one, dropping the suits.
Some of them have gone on record as saying that they want
to get on with the rest of their lives. They cannot keep
waiting for trials which never occur.
The local case involving one of these priests has
remained sealed to the public, causing several related
articles to appear in the Altoona Mirror. The reporter
covering the case has asked several times why the public
cannot get access to what is going on behind closed doors.
No answer has been forthcoming as of this writing.
The Diocese has maintained right along the Jesuit
position: the State has no jurisdiction over the church
records concerning the accused priest. So it has refused to
give the courts, and the prosecuting attorney, access to
records relating to the case. Several times the court applied
for the records only to be turned away each time.
The strange tactics of Rome demonstrate what happens
when "ecclesiastics" believe they are above the law. Rome
believes that the state only receives its legitimacy from the
"church." Therefore the priests are not subject to civil law.
This is a cameo of theonomy.
All this proves that in Pennsylvania, we still need the
secular state to protect our children from the predatory
priests out there prowling for them. For if the "church"
ruled here; it would be even worse than it is now. At least at
the present time, the possibility still remains, that those
religious people who break the law, might still be called to
account for their actions. Think of what it would be like if
the Roman Catholic dioceses had more power than they
already have.
The State is ordained of God and has an important
function to fulfill in the overall government of God. This is
especially true when an apostate religion seeks to dominate
the state.
The State, which punishes evildoers and upholds the
law, is ordained of God; idolatrous religion is REBELLION
against God. It makes for a corrupt society whenever an
idolatrous and apostate religion is so entwined with the
government, as in some Latin American countries, as to
render the state incapable of upholding the law.**
** In a documented case scores of workers were paid and
then gunned down mercilessly after the nut harvest was
over in rural Brazil. As of this writing more street children
have been gunned down and cleared off the streets by the
police. The church has the backing of the government to
keep family planning information from the people. So the
excess people are cleared off the streets by government
sponsored death squads when important dignitaries come to
the city. Abortion is not the only way to kill unwanted
children. You can gun them down too.
Henry Alford had an interesting observation on the
restraint of evil mentioned in II Thess. 2:7. Many modern
writers take the restrainer mentioned in this passage to be
the Holy Spirit. The older writers usually took the word
translated "restrain" to refer to the power of the Roman
Empire. Alford believed that it signified the God-ordained
state which helps to restrain evil. So that when the state
breaks down in its God-appointed role justice disappears.
Alford wrote:As the Fathers took them (katechon -- the Greekterm for the power which holds back evil, andkatechoon -- the Greek word for the person whorestrains evil) of the Roman Empire and Emperor,standing and ruling in their time, repressing theoutbreak of sin and enormity, — so we have beentaught by history to widen this view, and understandthem of the FABRIC OF HUMAN POLITY, andTHOSE WHO RULE THAT POLITY, by which thegreat up-bursting of godlessness is kept down andhindered... seeing that as often as these outbursts havetaken place, their course and devastations have beenchecked by the knitting up again of this fabric oftemporal power: seeing that this power wherever theseeds of evil are most plentiful, is strictly a COERCIVEpower, and that there only is its restraining hand able tobe relaxed, where the light and liberty of the Gospel areshed abroad: seeing that especially has this temporalpower ever been in conflict with the Papacy, restrainingits pretensions, modifying its course of action,witnessing more or less against its tyranny and its lies.(emphasis his)3
As Alford noted: it is only where the gospel has made a great
impact that the coercive power of the state can be relaxed. So that
only in Protestant countries can any real liberty be experienced.
For those who believe, and receive the gospel, have disciplined
themselves. Wherever a people have not come under the
influence of the true gospel all kinds of state power is needed to
curb evil. As the idolatrous religion of Roman Catholicism
comes more and more to the fore in the United States today,
more and more laws are needed to try to stem the tide of iniquity
that a lawless, idolatrous, religion ALWAYS PRODUCES!
Alford also rightly saw, that the Inquisition which Rome
inflicted upon the world for five centuries would have still been
going on in his day, had not certain states finally got enough
power to stop the "church's" torture, massacre, and murder. Only
as states emerged from the long, dark, night of medievalism,
were they finally able to get enough strength to stop the
juggernaut of the Spanish Inquisition, which had been spawned
by the theonomy of idolatrous Romanism.
As Bishop J. C. Ryle cried out: why in the world would any
one want to go back to Popery after enjoying the blessings of
Christ? Is it because these people have never really enjoyed the
blessings of the gospel that they can so easily go back to popish
bondage?
Ryle's words need to be printed up in the Senate of the
United States, in the Oval Office, in the House of
Representatives, and in all the offices of these befuddled
evangelicals today: "Let us think twice before we help to bring
back the reign of Popery."4
References
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1. Bert, Op.cit., pp. 80-81.
2. Panama City Herald, July 24, 1993, p. 7A.
3. Alford, Henry, Greek New Testament, Vol. III, p. 69.
4. Ryle, op.cit., p. 72.
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Is America headed for Revival? For a spiritual
reconstruction? Or is it headed down into even deeper
apostasy? Certainly no one can answer such questions
glibly or categorically. There are some good signs here and
there. There are some bad signs in other places. So to try to
even hazard a predictive guess is not an easy matter. There
are really only two possible future scenarios for the
Christian as far as America is concerned: 1. America is
going to be reconstructed by the Christian Coalition and
when fully Christianized will then begin the task of
Christianizing the world. Or, 2. The apostasy and spiritual
declension will continue and the country will sink further
into Romanized paganism, and at some point the Lord will
return to claim His Church.
Very few people see America going down into total
apostasy. Ever those who are now looking for the Lord's
Return also are looking for a revival and a return to biblical
Christianity. Many are praying to this end.
It is interesting to note that Joseph Mede, writing in
1627 in his The Key of Revelation, put forth the idea that
Gog and Magog did not represent Russia and the northern
Asiatic kingdoms but rather represented North America. He
believed that North America would rise up to battle the
saints. He proceeded to state that the American coalition
would lose:
They shall not succeed and prosper in theirattempts; they shall not be able to hurt the church andcity of God, but shall be destroyed in anextraordinary manner, by fire from heaven.1
It is surely quite remarkable that this man, (writing first
in Latin) could have foreseen what he calls "this new
apostasy and rebellion against God and His Christ."2 For
when he was writing North America was primarily Puritan
and Protestant. Whether Mede knew something no one else
did, or merely hazarded a guess, one thing is certain:
America is indeed characterized by apostasy today. Without
a doubt there is a superficial Protestantism which sees
nothing wrong with the idolatry of Romanism or the
garbled sounds of tongues. Rome now claims some 60
million adherents in the United States of America and about
15 million adherents in Canada.
Is there any real opposition to the gross idolatry which
these 75 million people represent in North America today?
No, there is not. The few who do oppose Rome today and
seek to witness to the truth, as it is in Christ, and against the
idolatries and errors of Rome, are looked upon as the lunatic
fringe by North American society.
One of the more ominous signs in America today is the
resurgence of Roman Catholicism. It is not so much that
Rome is growing through immigration and large families,
but that Rome has now been welcomed into some
evangelical circles officially. When Protestantism lost its
biblical basis and became liberal it lost its ability to refute
Romanism and to set forth the truths of the Scriptures. It
became totally apostate.
Eric Bogosian in his book Sex, Drugs, and Rock and
Roll gives his view of American culture today. It is very
interesting to notice the parallel that can be drawn from his
description of America today and the church in America
today.
Bogosian wrote:
As a nation we sit at a huge rock concert singingalong to some well-known anthem of cloyingsentiment. We love the feeling, the togetherness, therighteousness of the cause. As we watch the eveningnews or read the daily tabloids, we are shockedtogether, we are pleased together, we are entertainedtogether, we are saddened together. Unfortunately,when the concert is over, we get back in our cars, drivehome, and go to bed. Its only rock and roll.3
This paragraph could just as easily be applied to the
religious scene in America today as well. In many a church
we sit at a huge religious concert (even with rock music)
singing some well-known modern me-too song. We love
the feeling, the togetherness, the righteousness of our cause.
We watch the evening news, read the daily papers, and a
few church magazines, we are shocked together, pleased
together, entertained together, and saddened together. But
when the service is over, we get back in our cars, drive
home, and go to bed. Its only a church service.
It was C. H. Spurgeon who wrote that Calvin and
Luther did not merely go home and put on their night caps
and go to bed and hope that things would be better in the
morning. They challenged the powers of darkness openly.
Their main challenge, believe it or not, (in spite of
Montgomery Boice and a host of others just like him) was
issued against Roman Catholicism.
They fought with the beast of Papal Theonomy to
liberate Europe and the world from such a persecuting
dominion. Had it not been for them and others like them we
would all still be dominated by an outrageous Vatican
theonomy. It is difficult to get this truth across
today in America. The cacophony of voices ignorant of church
history drown out the truth. On top of these the education that
most people receive today is from Hollywood and rock musicians
all of which are guaranteed to addle the brain and make godly
thinking impossible.
The North American "church" has been deeply influenced by
Hollywood, which no matter what else may be said, is decidedly
antichristian in its outlook and in its productions. North
American "church" people are also sunk deeply in the mire of
modern music with its decidedly brothel beat.
When you add the bad influence of the false church; the poor
influence of men who know, the truth but have compromised it
for one reason or another; the garbled influence of those involved
in the charismatic movement which, Associated Press religion
writer Briggs claimed, brought about the involvement of
evangelicalism with Romanism; you will find that there are very
few salutary influences reaching "church" people in this
generation in North America. Let us face it honestly, the
influence of biblical truth is very, very, limited in this
generation.*
* We see this played out personally in our school. Most of our
students come from biblical backgrounds but we get some who
come whose chief influences have been like those described
above. They usually end up leaving for they do not appreciate
biblical truth. They cannot bring themselves to believe that the
MAJORITY of professing Christians in this generation are
completely under the spell of wrong and bad influences. It
boggles their minds to find out that some teachers actually
believe that idolatry is wrong and compromise with idolatry is
also wrong!
For that reason there is very little knowledge of Protestant
church history for where there is little biblical truth there is also
little in the way of historical truth.
The tragedy of this hour in America is the gross ignorance of
millions of men in the church concerning church history in
general and the martyrs of the Reformation in particular. At a
recent men's retreat, where there were close to 100 men gathered,
I asked how many knew who Latimer and Ridley were? Five
hands were raised. I then asked how many knew who the
Covenanters were? One hand was raised.
One out of almost one hundred men and this in a group
whose knowledge of church history would be better than one
hundred men asked the same question in the street. So what does
this say about the knowledge of church history in America
today?
Men in the modern church can tell you all about the players
on their favorite teams but they know little or nothing about the
heritage which has brought them the gospel, and their freedom of
worship. So if those who are supposed to be Christians do not
know who Latimer and Ridley were, or why and how they died,
it should be obvious then that the Pope's celebrating of the mass
on his recent visit to America should be received without a word
of protest, and why accords of betrayal can be signed without
bothering millions of professed believers!
The ignorance of church history today is indeed mindboggling.
If the men in America today do not know anything
about entire groups, such as the Reformers and the Waldenses,
how could they ever form a true opinion about the errors and
persecutions of Rome?
If I do not know that the major English Reformers
were all martyred - burned at the stake ~ by Rome for not
accepting the Roman Catholic sacrament of the Mass, I can
hardly be expected to get too excited about the celebration of the
Mass today. And this is exactly where we are in North America
today. The prevailing opinion, as demonstrated by the Promise
Keepers, and the charismatics, is that Roman Catholics just
celebrate communion a little differently than we do.
This is why I believe that there is a great apostasy in
America today far deeper then most people realize. For there is
no basis, no ground, no foundation upon which theological issues
can be decided. As Patton noted seventy years ago:
More than he is aware, undoubtedly, the unlearned reader isindebted to the controversies which he treats with suchscant consideration for his ability to see upon the face ofScripture the meaning which he reads into it.4
As time goes by he loses completely the ability to come to a
proper exegesis of Scripture. For up-to-date false prophets
influence his interpretation of Scripture by denying the
interpretations which the Reformers and the martyrs put forth.
The modern ecumenists put forth a religion which denies any
difference at all between Romanism and Protestantism.
Consequently the unlearned reader today is swallowed up in
eclecticism and an Ail-American religion of good-will, goodworks,
and universal salvation.
Therefore no one will say a word about the Pope or the Mass
which he celebrates for the religion he espouses is the same
religion which millions of Americans, who are not Roman
Catholics, also espouse. An amiable religion to which almost any
one of goodwill can subscribe, and which demands almost
nothing in the way of allegiance.
Error ALWAYS FLOURISHES IN SUCH A MILIEU!
This is what is happening now in North America. Men in
the church know just about everything concerning sports,
politics, work, and pleasure, but almost nothing about a
hard-won exegesis of Scripture, or about church history in
which the battles of exegesis and exposition of Scripture
were fought. After all if we are all going to heaven when we
die why worry about such things? Therefore I no longer
expect such people to take a stand for they do not KNOW
ENOUGH TRUTH to refute error and so are sadly
INCAPABLE of taking any kind of stand in the evil day of
which the Apostle Paul speaks.
There are millions in North America today (Canada and
the United States) who go through little liturgies and
litanies every Sunday without ever questioning whether
such things are scriptural or not. Or whether or not they are
idolatrous. These people may be adamantly opposed to
abortion but not opposed in any way to wrong worship or
idolatry. Yet if the Bible is true, this is the greatest sin of
all, for it breaks the first and second commandments.
The Scripture near the end of its revelation states
categorically: "Little children keep yourselves from idols."
As Farrar noted "Idols are always a fatal hindrance to, the
attainment of truth. Sooner or later they that make them
become like unto them, and so do all who put their trust in
them." 5 Idolatry is a heinous sin before God yet it is
seldom mentioned in this sinful and idolatrous generation.
I believe in a sovereign God. I believe that He is able to
revive His work. But I believe that it is going to take the
preaching of the truth to enlighten minds and hearts and
to overthrow the idolatrous nature of worship in this
day and time. We must lift up Christ as an all-sufficient Saviour
and the ONLY Mediator between God and men. It is an uphill
task but certainly not impossible.
However, even though I believe in the possibility of God
sending a great spiritual awakening, I cannot predicate my
ministry upon such a hope. I must minister the Word of God
faithfully amid the apostasy, worldliness, idolatry, and
compromise of this generation. This is what every faithful
servant of God has had to do down through history. He labors in
the Word and prays for God to move. He then leaves the outcome
to God.
We believe that the only hope for America, or any other
country, is the preaching of the gospel of redeeming grace and
teaching the whole counsel of God. We need to lift up the
trumpet and sound out the great truths of the Scriptures without
apology and without compromise: salvation by grace ALONE;
justification by faith ALONE; the only rule for faith and practice
the Bible ALONE; the only Mediator between God and men
Christ ALONE; everyone who preaches a false gospel is to be
ANATHEMA not welcomed upon our platforms. We need an
uncompromising, exclusive, biblical, Spirit-empowered message
to replace the anemic, lukewarm, man-centered, romanized
message of today. This romanized message, this all-American
message does not have enough truth in it to save a mouse never
mind a nation!
As the love of many grows cold; as the great falling away
invades the visible church, as lukewarmness and religious form
take over, denying the very power of godliness, we are
nevertheless to carry on and to occupy until Jesus comes. When
we begin to see these things we are to lift up our heads for the
coming of the Lord draws near. Christ Himself warned us:
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your
hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and
drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and so that day
come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come
on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that you may be
accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall
come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
Until the Lord returns we must lift up our voices like
trumpets, and wield the sword of truth with sledgehammerlike
blows against the curse of the papacy, and those who
want to romanize the truth. Amen and Amen!
References
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1. Newton, Thomas, Dissertations on Prophecies,
London and Philadelphia, 1835, p. 594.
2. Loc.cit.
3. Bogosian, Eric, Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll,
Harper, Collins, N.Y. N.Y. 1950, p. xvi.
4. Patton, Francis L., Fundamental Christianity,
MacMillan Co., New York, N.Y., 1926, p. 110.
5. Farrar, Fredic, History of Interpretation, Baker
Book House, Reprint, p. xii.
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