Chapter
6
RELIGION
OF THE ANTICHRIST
In
review of previous chapters, Daniel’s dream dovetailed with
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in the sense that they both represented world
empires, except that Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdoms referred to Old
Testament empires, while Daniel’s kingdoms referred to New Testament
empires, having only one world empire that intersected both eras, and
that empire nailed Jesus to a cross at the request of the Jews. After
the man of lawlessness is appointed pope of the Vatican in the city of
Rome (some say his name will be Peter the Roman), he will stage his
assassination, counterfeiting Jesus’ resurrection by asserting to rise
from the dead to make his deception seem even more believable. Then he
will migrate to Jerusalem in attempt to smother a Christian revival that
will originate in Jerusalem, wherein millions of people will be saved
from this evil and perverse generation. After rising from the
Vatican’s abyss of Catholicism (the truly dead) and sitting on his
infamous throne in Jerusalem, the antichrist will take Israel hostage,
posing as the Jewish messiah and savior of the world.
Since
Catholics believe in the continuous sacrifice of the Son of God, the
bread and wine miraculously turning into the flesh and blood of Christ
at the blessing of the priest, this pope will pretend to become the very
personification of their religion by presuming to sacrifice himself. He
will claim the world is eating the flesh and blood of his own body after
his false resurrection, and they will worship him for it. Thus he will
incite unbelieving Israel to extend his antichristian influence
throughout the world, attempting to stamp out Christianity once and for
all, which has also been a Jewish sentiment for millennia, by
implementing his mark for the purpose of identifying, isolating and
exterminating both Christians and believing Jews. This statement,
“Once was, now is not and will come,” in Rev 17:8, is therefore
referring to a religion that once dominated the world, Catholicism,
persisting through the ages and then reappearing as a world religion at
the end of the age.
The
Bible speaks of the church as the bride of Christ in Rev 19:7-8, “Let
us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb
has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and
clean, was given her to wear. (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts
of the saints)" NIV. If the true church is the bride of Christ,
then the false church must be the whore of Babylon. This chapter
revolves around a catfight between these two women, both claiming to be
the bride of Christ, one proving she is His bride by being martyred for
their faith in Jesus, while the other attempting to prove she is His
bride by martyring them. Daniel 12:3 says, “Those who have insight
will shine bright like the brightness of the expanse of heaven….”
Normally it would be obvious to all who is who, but the world will fall
under the delusions of Satan, delineating this word “insight” to
mean those who are able to break his spell through the power of God.
Revelation chapters thirteen and seventeen hold many similarities with
the Vatican and the Jewish Talmud, proving that the Roman Catholic
Church will one day mix its doctrines with the orthodox Jewish Talmud to
create a new religion of the antichrist, whom the Bible calls the great
whore of Babylon. Just the fact that God uses a prostitute to analogize
the antichrist’s religion reeks of Catholicism in that the Catholic
Church claims to be the one and only true expression of Christianity,
though it worships demons as a matter of faith in its many false
doctrines that it has tragically designed to funnel money into this
corrupt religious institution.
On
the one side, Satan from desperation will attempt to use his antichrist
to quell the world revival that is originating in Jerusalem. The
antichrist will be a religious man, who will persuade the nations
surrounding Israel to let them rebuild their temple, so that Israel for
the first time in two thousand years will finally be able to worship the
God of the Old Testament the way their ancestors did in the days of King
Solomon. He will do this in order to get peoples’ attention off divine
worship and onto ancient Jewish traditions by attempting to brainwash
the world into believing that rebuilding the Jewish tabernacle of old
covenant worship caused the Christian revival. Since he made that
happen, he will attempt to convince the world that he is the Christ and
thus be solely responsible for this worldwide spiritual awakening. If he
can establish a connection between himself and the revival, he can begin
regulating it, humanizing it and running it into the ground, until he
morphs it into yet another religion as he has done so many times
throughout the ages.
On
the other side, God using His church, will shine His light in the eyes
of pure evil and expose his wickedness to the world, so that Satan has
no choice but to manifest himself in human flesh as the man of
lawlessness in attempt to take care of business. Instead of using force
to stamp out competition to his throne, the man of lawlessness will
first try deception. Originally seated in Rome the antichrist will move
his empire to Jerusalem where all the action is transpiring. He will
masquerade as Israel’s messiah in attempt to create religious
confusion and take charge of the Christian revival. When he ambles into
the Jewish holy of holies, the priests will reject him as their messiah,
defeating his grandiose plan to delude the unbelieving into accepting
him as God of the Bible, attempting to seduce them into believing that
he is the return of Jesus Christ in the flesh. When his plan fails, it
will mark the beginning of Christian mass-genocide on the grandest scale
imaginable, precipitating the judgment of God and forever marking the
end of human governments, and initiating the manifestation of God’s
eternal kingdom on the earth. Only a replica of Christ would even
attempt to enter the Jewish temple that serves as a mere copy of the
heavenly one, being the reason Jesus never entered the Jewish temple
2000 years ago, since He is the very substance of life and truth.
These
will be times of great deception and confusion, but those with a remnant
of the Spirit will discriminate the motives of Satan from the true words
of God. Once the temple is built, he will proclaim himself as Israel’s
messiah and will enter the most holy place without permission of the
high priest. They will react explosively with religious fervor at the
blatant audacity of such blasphemy, and will physically extricate him
from their temple in front of the whole world. As a result of publicly
humiliating his monstrous ego, he will unleash a supernatural
malevolence against Christians, both Jews and gentiles. At the moment of
extraction, Satan will enter the man of lawlessness on the spot, who
will turn his tactics from deception to murder. The economic system of
martyrdom and the institution of the mark of the beast will be
implemented with the goal of eliminating defectors from his kingdom, and
since Christians are the only ones who are willing to resist him to the
death, the mark will be aimed directly at them.
One
of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me,
"Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who
sits on many waters. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery
and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her
adulteries.” Rev 17:1-2 NIV
Italy
is a peninsula. To say that Rome sits on many waters is an
understatement.
For
the New International Version to describe the antichrist as a prostitute
that commits adultery, paints a picture of a married woman selling her
body to other gods, but this is not an accurate depiction of the
antichrist, based on what the rest of Scripture says about him. The
whore of Babylon is not spiritually married to God. It makes it sound
like she is Israel, who in under God’s eternal covenant made to
Abraham, the only nation that is married to God, who is therefore the
only nation that is capable of committing spiritual adultery against
Him. While it is true that Israel will be involved in the identity of
the great whore of Babylon, it will not be true of all Israel, for she
will be divided in thirds, between Christina Jews, Orthodox Jews, and
Zionist Jews. It is this one third of Christian Jews who will lead the
great endtime revival. They will be the 144,000 as spoken in Revelation
chapters 7 and 14. Jerusalem is the center of the world. It befits
Jerusalem to be the spiritual battleground of human souls. The Talmudic
(Zionist) Jews are the descendents of the historical Pharisees, the
religious people that delivered up Jesus for crucifixion. Israel was the
only nation with whom God initiated a covenant, promising He would never
stop being their God, and they would never stop being His people. They
were hardly faithful, but they were never divorced. In Israel’s case
their disobedience and unbelief is an accurate depiction of spiritual
adultery.
To
apply the analogy of spiritual adultery to the Catholic Church, however,
is not a match, because the Catholic Church has never been under God’s
covenant, though I am sure they would disagree. She has self-proclaimed
for centuries to be the one and only true Christian Church, yet she has
fabricated her own covenant with God, but God has never acknowledged
their covenant, hence she cannot be married to God. He wants people to
obey His word, but what has the Catholic Church done? They have set the
conditions of their own obedience by inventing their own religion
instead of obeying the Scriptures. The fact that the Catholic Church is
not under God’s covenant, but under their own pseudo covenant is the
difference between fornicating with other gods, and committing adultery
against the true God of heaven. She worships demons through her many
liturgical incantations, amounting to ceremonial witchcraft. That is why
the NASB is a more accurate translation when it uses the word
“immorality” as opposed to the NIV’s “adultery” to describe
the spiritual idolatry of the great harlot. This is an important
distinction.
The
NASB says in Rev 17:2, “With whom the kings of the earth committed
acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk
with the wine of her immorality.” The word immorality carries the
connotation that the Catholic Church was never married to Christ, and is
hence fornicating with other gods. She is incapable of committing
spiritual adultery with the God of heaven, because she is not married to
Him as is Israel. Being intoxicated with the wine of her immorality
refers to their method of communion that transforms the bread and wine
into the body and blood of Christ, which is the height of blasphemy.
They dress it up with a big word – transubstantiation – to make it
seem more believable, but it is a hoax. According to the above verses,
Catholicism has an idolatrous affair with demons through their rendition
of communion.
And
he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven
heads and ten horns. And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet.
And adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand
a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her
immorality, and upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery,
BABYLON
THE GREAT
THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND
OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
And
I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood
of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered greatly (Rev
17:3-6 NASB).
This
mother of harlots is the false bride of Christ, who holds a caldron
dripping with the blood of the saints that she sips in communion with
the demons she serves, established as queen of harlots over the kingdoms
of the earth. God detests the doctrines of Catholicism that have led the
church to commune with demons, and in the last days they will direct the
world to replace the bread and wine with the flesh and blood of the
saints! The Bible speaks of the spirit of error in 1John 4:6, “We are
from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does
not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of
error” NASB. Jesus said in John 16:1-3, “All this I have told you so
that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue; in
fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is
offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have
not known the Father or me” (NIV). You just heard Jesus say the
Catholic Church does not know God. Those who murder His saints are not
the children of God, and martyrdom is the legacy of Catholicism.
This
theory is not something you need to believe, since it has already
happened. We all know that Hitler systematically murdered the Jews along
with many people of other groups during World War II, yet it is a little
known fact that the groundwork for his anti-Semitism had already been
laid before he came to power by the Catholic Church. There is a
complaint on the Internet that every political argument eventually leads
to Hitler. They even give it a name, Godwin's law. Now that they have
giving it a name they expect us not to talk about Hitler anymore, but he
keeps coming up for good reason. He is still on everyone’s mind
because what he did is destined to happen again during World War III in
exactly the same manner.
In
a mass meeting in Straubing on 8 August 1923, Pieper [an ordained
Catholic priest] further fleshed out his vision of the full
compatibility between Nazi racial anti-Semitism and the Catholic faith:
Beneath
religion comes the elevated holy ideal of Fatherland, which means the
unity of all German comrades of blood, fate and Volk [race]… He also
desires that what he created should remain pure. We must attack anything
that damages our racial unity. For that reason the racial standpoint of
National Socialism corresponds completely with Christianity. It is
therefore in the spirit of Christ that we must proceed against the Jews.
Pieper
made his position even clearer in a widely publicized mass meeting in
Regenburg on 25 August 1923, wherein he insisted on the morality of
keeping Jews separate from Germans… “It is the duty of each race to
keep itself pure from foreign pollutants. Therefore anti-Semitism is not
un-Christian, but rather a command!” (Hastings; page 128)
Roth
[another Catholic priest] contended that full-fledged racial
anti-Semitism was, for Catholics and Christians, the only principled
response to the destructive moral and cultural impact of the Jews as a
result of their biological makeup:
Certainly
the Catholic Church stands above races and nations, but the Catholic
idea stands first and foremost against immorality; and when immorality
and race combine, then the Catholic idea stands against that race…. An
anti-Semitism conceived on this basis is not only allowed for the
Christian, but rather obligatory…. The Jewish race must be eliminated
from public life because it exercises, as a result of its very nature, a
demoralizing influence on our religion and our Volk [race]. (Hastings;
page 122)
In
answer to the world’s prayer for spiritual guidance during the most
tumultuous time in human history, Catholicism is destined to rise from
the ashes of mediocrity to resume its former glory during the Dark Ages.
The antichrist will be at its helm, but the false prophet will be the
political and economic entity resembling Hitler that will execute the
antichrist’s plan to eliminate faith in Jesus from the earth. However,
there will be one significant difference. Hitler murdered the Jews who
did not believe in Jesus, but the antichrist will use the Mark of the
Beast to flesh out both Jews and gentiles who practice faith in Jesus.
In other words, the “Final Solution” will be literally reenacted!
There will be one other difference. Those in concentration camps wore a
mark on their arm in World War II, but those with the mark will be on
the other side of the fence in WWIII, condemned not by Hitler or by the
antichrist, but by God. The mark stands for their vote to exterminate
Christians from the earth as a measure of saving their own skin from
destruction.
Some
may question the notion that the Catholic Church is the whore of
Babylon, but there are some things we know for certain that will
determine this to be more than mere conjecture. The most glaring poof is
in the fact that the prostitute is a woman. She’s not a woman because
she’s a prostitute, but because she is the pseudo wife of the lamb. In
order for her to be a counterfeit bride of Christ, she must be a
Christian religion; otherwise the analogy would not fit. This rules out
Islam, which is not a Christian religion by any stretch of the word. God
doesn’t see Islam as a prostitute of Christianity any more than the
descendents of Esau are God’s chosen people, who mostly compose the
Islamic Middle Eastern countries. Their religion does not even pretend
to worship the God of the Bible. Their God is Ala, who is not connected
to the Bible at all. So, Islam could not possibly be the whore of
Babylon by definition that the religion of the antichrist must
counterfeit the God of the Old and New Testaments. Islamic religions may
hate Christianity and for that reason they have a motive for martyring
Christians and they may well do so. They may have knocked down a couple
of our towers and killed a few thousand Americans, and they may call us
the great Satan, but that does not make us Babylon any more than it
makes them the great prostitute.
In
contrast, Catholicism has claimed for centuries to be the only true
Christian Church, essentially claiming to be the bride of Christ, which
would make her an unfaithful prostitute in worshipping demons throughout
the centuries by their demon inspired doctrines. God has made a covenant
with Israel (which is essentially what marriage is), making Israel His
bride of the Old Testament. God called Israel a prostitute in Ezekiel
chapter sixteen, and used the same word in Revelation seventeen to
describe this satanically controlled religious establishment of the
Catholic Church. Therefore, the great whore of Babylon by definition
must either be Israel or a religion that practices Christianity as its
core theology, or both. In fact, it is both. That is, in the last days
Catholicism will join forces with unbelieving Zionist Jews, attempting
to exterminate a Christian revival that will begin in Jerusalem! The one
thing they have in common is that they both hate the anointing of the
Holy Spirit, which is the essence of the gospel. When Jesus walked the
earth, the Pharisees hated His teachings because He contradicted them on
every level, but mostly they were jealous of His anointing.
In
the days of Jesus’ flesh the Pharisees immediately recognized the
intrinsic value of laying their hands on someone and seeing them healed
as the greatest moneymaking racket they could ever contrive, but there
was no way they were going to throw a rope around Jesus and harness His
power, and God certainly wasn’t about to give it to them, so they
stewed in their jealousy, wanting nothing more than to see Jesus hang
from a cross. If they could have laid their hands on this kind of power,
they would have charged exorbitant prices to heal the people, but Jesus
healed them for free, and it drove the Pharisees crazy, but what
bothered them the most was His rising popularity and the word He
preached, which in no way resembled the teachings of the Pharisees
regarding the Old Testament manuscripts. Catholic priests nowadays are
laying their hands on little boys and they are getting anything but
healed. The Catholic Church is the modern-day replica of the Pharisees,
who made up doctrines to simulate spiritual powers that only the priests
could perform. Did you know that there is no place for priests in the
new covenant? They are obsolete with Jesus as our great high priest.
Nevertheless, the satanically controlled religion of Catholicism turned
communion into a requirement of salvation, claiming that an ordained
Catholic priest had to bless the Eucharist or the bread and wine would
not transform into the body and blood of Christ. I’ve got news for
them; the bread and wine do not transform into the body and blood of
Christ even with the blessing of the priest.
The
Roman Catholic Church for centuries has proclaimed itself to be the one
and only true Christian church, claiming that if anyone is not a member
of their religion, they have no other destiny but the eternal flames of
hell. This doctrine supported their moneymaking business of religion,
making them possibly more unfaithful to God in the new covenant than
Israel was in the old. Moreover, the Vatican claims to be its own
country, though it is seated in the city of Rome within the nation of
Italy. It also believes itself to be a country seated next to Christ.
Rev 18:7-8 says, “In her heart she boasts, `I sit as queen; I am not a
widow, and I will never mourn.' Therefore in one day her plagues will
overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire,
for mighty is the Lord God who judges her” NIV. She claimed she was
not a widow, claiming that her husband is not dead, referring to Christ,
but her real god is Satan, who is hardly alive!
The
beast that you saw was and is not, and is about to come up out of the
Abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth will
wonder, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the
foundation of the world, when they see the beast, that he was and is not
and will come. Rev 17:8 NASB
This
statement: “Was and is not, and is about to come,” is an accurate
description of Catholic Church history. The reason the world is
astonished at the beast is that people will be surprised when they see
Catholicism rise to its former glory and its pope regain his former
status as a world religious leader. Rome once was the greatest city in
the world even while Jesus walked the earth, being the nation that
crucified Him. It has been since destroyed, but like the Vatican located
within its borders, it too will regain its former glory in the last
days, only to be destroyed again later. Jerusalem also fits this
description as a city that once was, then ceased to be a sovereign
nation for many centuries, and now at the end of the age has suddenly
regained its sovereignty, and will host the antichrist’s kingdom.
Since the fall of Rome, the Vatican reigned supreme throughout most of
the New Testament era, stationed in Rome as the most prevalent Christian
religion in the world, making Rome by far the longest lasting empire of
all time. If they called Catholicism’s greatest hour the dark ages,
what will they call the times that are almost upon us? Catholicism is
not a world power, but it was, and it will be reinstated to its former
glory in the last days. In that sense both Rome and Jerusalem, were and
are not and will come.
Here
is a mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which
the woman sits. And they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the
other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain for a little
while. And the beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth,
and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction. Rev 17:9-11
NASB
The
most popular interpretive location of these seven mountains is Rome. The
names of the hills are: Palatine (traditional site of the city’s
founding), Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Quirinal, and
Viminal. This information is located in the “American Heritage
Dictionary” under: Seven Hills of Rome. There are many other cities
that have been built on seven hills, but the dictionary only associates
one city with seven hills. For the book of Revelation to mention a city
built on seven hills and surrounded by many waters is strong evidence
that Rome is indeed the great whore of Babylon. Jerusalem is also known
to be built on seven hills, and since Jesus Himself prophesied that the
antichrist would one day step into the Jewish temple at the end of days,
suggests that the abomination of Rome will one day make his way to
Jerusalem. There is one other fact about the Jewish temple that has
something in common with the city of Satan. Both the Vatican and Rome
claim to be countries in their own right, situated in the nation of
Italy. This seems analogous to the Old Testament Jewish tabernacle,
where the Vatican represents the Holy of Holies, Rome represents the
holy place, while Italy represents the outer court.
The
Catholic Church fits the description of the great whore of Babylon in
almost every way, with its wine of immorality, sitting on many waters,
martyring the saints and accumulating wealth, but there is one trait
that is not characteristic of the Catholic Church. Revelation 17
describes this religious whore as one that has blasphemous names written
on it. Rev 13:5 says, “And there was given to him a mouth speaking
arrogant words and blasphemies.” This does not conform to the
characteristics of the Catholic Church; instead, it better fits the
description of the Jews’ blasphemous Talmud, suggesting that the
antichrist will mix his catholic religion with Judaism to make a new
religion as a composition of the two.
The
king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above
every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He
will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has
been determined must take place. He will show no regard for the gods of
his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god,
but will exalt himself above them all. Instead of them, he will honor a
god of fortresses; a god unknown to his fathers he will honor with gold
and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. He will attack the
mightiest fortresses with the help of a foreign god [the false prophet]
and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them
rulers over many people and will distribute the land at a price.
Dan 11:36-39 NIV
In
the Scripture above, when it says, “He will attack the mightiest
fortresses with the help of a foreign god,” it is referring to the
false prophet (Rev 13:11-17) when it says, “He will honor those who
acknowledge him.” This is referring to the ten horns of the beast (Rev
17:12,13), who are the giant moneylenders of the world, who finance his
ambitions to enslave the people in his one-world religion, his one-world
government, and with their help, his one world economy. The Jewish
Talmud is an extremely blasphemous document especially against Jesus
Christ and Christians. Following are some excerpts of the Talmud (taken
from http://www.talmudblasphemy.com/talmud_tidbits.html):
1.
" Sanhedrin 105ab: "Jesus fornicated with his jackass.
2.
" Gittin 57a: "Jesus is in hell and is being punished by being
boiled in semen. Christians are boiled in dung.
3.
Insults Against Mary, Sanhedrin 106a . Says Jesus' mother was a whore:
"She who was the descendant of princes and governors played the
harlot with carpenters." Also in footnote #2 to Shabbath 104b it is
stated that in the "uncensored" text of the Talmud it is
written that Jesus mother, "Miriam the hairdresser," had sex
with many men.
4.
Gloats over Christ Dying Young, A passage from Sanhedrin 106 gloats over
the early age at which Jesus died: "Hast thou heard how old Balaam
(Jesus) was?--He replied: It is not actually stated but since it is
written, Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days it
follows that he was thirty-three or thirty-four years old."
5.
Says Jesus was a Sorcerer, Sanhedrin 43a . Says Jesus ("Yeshu the
Nazarene") was executed because he practiced sorcery.
6.
Horrible Blasphemy of Jesus, Gittin 57a . Says Jesus is being boiled in
"hot excrement."
7.
Sanhedrin 43a . Jesus deserved execution: "On the eve of the
Passover, Yeshu was hanged...Do you suppose that he was one for whom a
defense could be made? Was he not a Mesith (enticer)?"
8.
Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim [a non Jew – particularly
Christians] is like killing a wild animal."
9.
Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be
killed," particularly Christian gentiles.
10.
Libbre David 37: "To communicate anything with a Goy about our
religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if
the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.”
11.
" Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is
permitted if she is at least three years of age.”
Rev
13:6 says, “And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to
blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, that is, those who dwell in
heaven.” Roman Catholicism may certainly be blasphemous in its
doctrines, in its rituals and in its services, but they would never
blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ, because they think they are
worshipping and serving Him. Nor would the Catholic Church blaspheme
those who dwell in heaven, because they presume they are the ones who
are going there. Judaism is the religion of the Talmud, which is an
extremely blasphemous manuscript against the name and person of Christ.
This is nothing that the Catholics would embrace, but something that
Satan and his antichrist would love to mix with the already blasphemous
doctrines of Catholicism (Rev 13:1; Rev 17:3). Therefore, the religious
institution of the antichrist will be a marriage between Roman
Catholicism and the Talmudic Zionist Jews. Together, they are the very
personification of Revelation’s description of the great whore of
Babylon, but neither of them alone does well to answer the description
of Revelation 13 and 17. The antichrist will make Jerusalem an
accomplice to Rome’s upcoming atrocities. In addition to the analogy
of the seven hills representing Rome, it also represents seven kings,
showing that the city of Rome is one of seven nations administering
Satan’s world empire. The Vatican is hence the eighth of seven kings
(see Rev 17:9-13), which claims to be a country of its own, though it is
not really a country by definition; nor does it contribute anything to
Rome but a blasphemous religion (see Dan 2:40-43). According to the
analogy, the Vatican spiritually weakened its parent nation, making Rome
a target for the nations to later destroy. It is the fate of every
nation Satan uses to rise to power; he assimilates the life-force, and
then discards them.
Following
is a list of blasphemous Catholic doctrines that oppose the Scriptures:
1.
The antichrist will be head of the Catholic Church. The pope will be a
homosexual and will betray his own religion. Dan 11:37 says, “Neither
shall he regard the God of his fathers [the popes before him], nor the
desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above
all” KJV. He will disregard the catholic faith by mixing it with the
teachings of the Talmud, but he will not disregard sex; rather, he will
disregard women. Fornication and adultery are rooted in rebellion, but
homosexuality and sex with children is associated with demons. For that
reason you can expect the antichrist to be a homosexual, for where there
are demons there will always be blasphemy and rebellion. It is one thing
to follow the natural inclinations of the flesh, but it is another thing
to follow unnatural desires spawned by demonic entities. God is never
happy when people show an indifference to him by following the natural
inclinations of the flesh, but He is incensed by homosexuality.
Though
you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered
his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but
abandoned their own home-these he has kept in darkness, bound with
everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. In a similar way,
Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to
sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who
suffer the punishment of eternal fire. Jude 5-7 NIV
This
verse equates homosexuality with abandonment of angelic posts, causing
homosexuals to resemble demons when they leave the natural order and
crave unnatural desires of their own gender. Where there is
homosexuality there are demons; it is that simple. There is a steep
downhill grade that results from a person or a nation that exchanges the
freedom of serving God for slavery to the flesh, leading to unnatural
desires, which eventually leads to demon worship, and ultimately to
judgment. See also Romans 1:18-32.
2.
Their version of communion is the doctrine of demons, where the bread
and wine are miraculously transformed into the body and blood of Christ
at the blessing of the priest. This is more than just an innocent and
misguided doctrine; it is spiritual treason. The arrogance it would take
to institute a doctrine like this is incomprehensible, but to perpetuate
such blasphemy throughout the ages exponentially compounds the
theological infraction. The Bible teaches that Jesus offered His body
once for all time, stating this many times throughout the New Testament,
according to the following passages of Scripture.
Rom
6:9-10 For we know that since Christ was raised from the
dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The
death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he
lives to God. NIV
Heb
7:27-28 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to
offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the
sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he
offered himself. NIV
Heb
9:12,24-26 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats
and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own
blood, having obtained eternal redemption. For Christ did not enter a
man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered
heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence. Nor did he enter
heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters
the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Then
Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the
world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do
away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. NIV
Heb
10:10-14 And by that will, we have been made holy through
the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day
every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again
he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when
this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down
at the right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies to be
made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever
those who are being made holy.” NIV.
It
is these verses that make the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation so
blasphemous, being so diametrically opposed to Scripture and to the holy
sacrifice of Christ. Note that in the verses above the key word is once.
If Jesus conquered death and placed it under His feet, then why does the
bread and wine need to transform into the body and blood of Christ every
time they take communion? Doesn't that constitute offering His flesh
more than once? The Bible teaches that we are redeemed through faith in
Jesus' blood sacrifice that He offered once for all time. Nowhere in the
Scriptures does it indicate that God has given authority to men to offer
the body of His Son.
Nevertheless,
those who don’t have the reverence for God to treat Jesus’ sacrifice
as holy, but prefer to make it their business to defile the blood of the
covenant by which they were sanctified and, “…crucify to themselves
the Son of God, and put Him to open shame.” NASB. The blessing of the
priest at communion is the incantation of a sorcerer. Rev 2:20 says,
“Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman
Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess… By her teaching she misleads
my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to
idols [communion]” NIV. Then Rev 18:3,6 states, “For all the nations
have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings
of the earth have committed acts of immorality [idolatry] with her…
Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according
to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for
her.” NASB.
3.
Sacrifices and the worship of Idols. There are many people within the
Catholic Church who love God, and for that reason they should disavow
the Catholic faith and go elsewhere that teach the true doctrines of
Christianity. Mk 12:33,34 says, “To love him with all your heart, with
all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your
neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and
sacrifices." When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to
him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God."” NIV. Jesus
said of the scribe in these verses that He was not far from the kingdom
of God, but how far was he from describing the doctrinal precepts of the
Catholic faith that embrace the teachings of sacrifice as a means of
finding favor with God? For example, Absolution is the power endowed to
catholic priests to forgive sins. This is blasphemous! Even the
Pharisees knew that. They said about Jesus in Mark 2:7, “Why does this
fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God
alone?" NIV. The Pharisees were evil and wicked, but no one could
criticize them for their lack of knowledge of the Old Testament. What
they lacked was love and empathy and a heart to serve God, which Jesus
tried to pound into them, but it was like trying to pound a square peg
into a round hole. The majority of catholic priests are the equivalent
of modern-day Pharisees. Another example of false sacrifice is
indulgence, where a Catholic priest requires money to deliver a loved
one from purgatory. All their religious offerings and sacrifices are
made to idols of their own making, but God does not accept them; their
sacrifices are hence offered to demons, making Catholicism the religion
of witchcraft.
4.
Their worship of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary’s statement to
Catholicism is found in Jn 2:5, “His mother said to the servants,
"Do whatever he tells you"” NIV. Mk 3:31-35 says, “Then
Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone
in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him,
"Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you."
"Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Then he looked
at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my
mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister
and mother" NIV. Jesus had only one real mother; the brothers and
sisters and mothers that will be added to Him in heaven are not blood
related, but spiritual. Nevertheless, this seriously downplays Mary's
role as a figure of deity. The Catholic Church treats her as though she
were somewhat equal with God because of her matronly role with Christ.
The Catholic mind sees her as someone who can hear and answer prayer;
however, these verses teach us that Mary is no different from other
women who believe in Jesus. Mary believed in Jesus; she was like any
other woman who trusted Christ for her salvation. Mary is common among
women of faith, though special in her bloodline. Her flesh has since
decayed, leaving only her faith in Christ significant in eternity, which
makes her equal with all of God's children. God does not acknowledge
prayers to Mary; therefore, again they are praying to an idol.
5.
The catholic priest addressed as father is a direct contradiction to the
Scriptures. Matt 23:9 says, “And do not call anyone on earth `father,'
for you have one Father, and he is in heaven” NIV. Jesus apparently
spoke these words as a prophesy to Catholic priests in the future who
would require their congregation to call them Father, thus indicating
that He knew Catholicism would rise up soon after His departure to
replace His truth with their religion. Jesus in this verse is entreating
His people not to adhere to the Catholic faith, since no one can call
their minister Father with a clear conscience after Jesus sternly
forbade them.
6.
The catholic priest is required to remain celibate. 1 Tim 4:1-5 says,
“The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the
faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such
teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been
seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to
abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with
thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything
God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received
with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and
prayer” NIV. The apostle Paul is saying that Catholicism is not a
legitimate religion, but is an institution that originated from the
abyss. Both this verse and the one before it have Catholicism stamped on
them with a prophetic message not to participate in their forged
doctrines, perpetuated by demons. This passage address the fact that
Catholic priests are not allowed to marry, and that no Catholic is
allowed to eat meat of Friday (with fish as the exception – hence
Friday night fish fry). These demands seem relatively harmless and could
be potentially beneficial, except that it doesn’t end that way. For
example, Catholic priests are called to remain single so they can devote
more time to the word of God and prayer, but many waste their time
having sex with children. Likewise, fasting from meat once a week is
probably a healthy dietary plan, except they turned it into a
requirement, which tempts the parishioners to believe they are finding
favor with God by complying with the Catholic doctrine. Jesus paid with
His own blood to set us free of these foolish ideas and all we want to
do is invent new ways to put ourselves back in bondage (see Act
15:19-29).
7.
Jesus condemned the sacrifices of repetitious prayer (chanting). Matt
6:7,8 says, “And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans,
for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be
like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him” NIV.
Chanting in the Catholic Church is integrated into their liturgy as an
essential part of their weekly ceremonies. Chanting lyrics can be found
in their doctrinal theology, and in their various books of chants.
Therefore, because chanting comes from a book and not from the heart, it
goes unheard, and because they believe in it, it is witchcraft. God is
interested in what you have to say to Him from your heart, not from a
book of chants. God doesn't care about your religion; He just wants you
to tell Him what is on your mind.
8.
Washing your hands before eating as a religious doctrine. Matt
15:2,3;7-9 say, 2,3 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the
elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!" Jesus
replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of
your tradition?” 7-9 “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he
prophesied about you: "`These people honor me with their lips, but
their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings
are but rules taught by men.'" NIV. Do you think Jesus condemned
the Pharisees for washing their hands before eating? No, in fact it is a
good idea for reasons of personal hygiene; your doctor will conquer.
Where your doctor and the Pharisees part ways, though, is in the
conviction that hand washing is a means of finding favor with God. This
is what Jesus was addressing as a blasphemous teaching, because it has
nothing to do with the state of your heart. Don't you think you could
scrub your cuticles and hate your brother at the same time?
What
good is these man-made doctrines, and all the fabricated doctrines that
allow you to live any way you want, while giving liberty to ignore the
will of God? The worship of Mary and the other idolatrous teachings of
the catholic faith, Purgatory, the Sacrament, the Eucharist, and the
implications of Baptism (the error of infant baptism that ensures the
salvation of a child, regardless of what kind of person he or she
becomes as an adult) are only some of the tenants of the Catholic Church
that were simply invented. They are independent of a relationship with
Christ through faith in the truth. All these doctrines have one thing in
common: they do not address the state of the heart, which is God’s
main concern. In other words the doctrines of the Catholic faith do not
encapsulate a relationship with God. There are some Catholics who are
born again Christians, but they believe in Jesus in spite of their
religion. You cannot find support for any of the mentioned doctrines in
the Holy Scriptures.
James
R. Wuthrich
jimwuthrich@yahoo.com
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