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You’re listening to Trinity Foundation Radio. I’m your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 15. The title of this episode is The Jesuits and the COVID Pandemic. And I’ll be discussing that topic today with two guests, Greg Bentley and Stuart Quint. Both of them are from Berean Beacon. I wanted to have them on because I think they’ve done some fascinating work over the past couple of years, bringing out that important connection between the Jesuits and the COVID Pandemic response. And that side of the COVID Pandemic has been almost completely ignored. But they have brought this out and I think they’ve gotten some really interesting information that you’re going to enjoy today as we play the interview.

So without further ado, let’s get started with our interview.

Steve Matthews: Hello, I’m Steve Matthews with the Trinity Foundation. Thanks for joining me today. Today I also have two guests here with me. We have Greg Bentley and Stuart Quint, both of whom are with Berean Beacon. And welcome to the program.

Greg and Stuart: Thank you.

Steve Matthews: Well, it’s great to have you here. And I think we’ve got a really important topic. And I think a topic that will be very interesting to our listeners here today. We’re going to be dealing with the Jesuits and their involvement with the COVID Pandemic. But before we get into all of that interesting material, I wanted to give both of you an opportunity to introduce yourselves and also if you like, maybe say a few things about your ministry, the Berean Beacon.

Greg Bentley: Okay, well, my name is Greg Bentley. And I’ve been involved with the Berean Beacon for probably close to 25 years. I had met Richard Bennett, who started the ministry out in Portland, Oregon, back in the late 90s. And since then, you know, obviously, Richard has passed on and he kind of passed the baton on to myself and Stuart. We’ve been doing the best we can to maintain his legacy of not only reaching Roman Catholics with the Gospel but also exposing Catholicism for what it truly is and carrying on the work of identifying various aspects of the church and its corruption and its involvement in our present day.

Stuart Quint: I’m Stuart Quint. I was also saved by grace out of Roman Catholicism. Richard Bennett was an amazing man. You can read his story on bereanbeacon.org, saved out of Rome after 22 years as a priest of Rome, one of the most die-hard evangelists I would say I ever met. I mean, he really loved people.

I would just also say, and you know, it’s interesting, Greg shared with me a couple of articles that I didn’t know existed where he was actually talking about Jesuit tactics of all things. And I would also say kind of looping in this conversation, Richard was very adamant up until the day he died that he thought Pope Francis, the Jesuit Pope, is actually the most dangerous pope that we would ever face because of the Jesuit connection being officially on the throne of the Vatican.

Steve Matthews: I think that’s a great point. And of course, Berean Beacon and Richard Bennett, are names and an organization that would certainly be familiar to those who follow the Trinity Foundation. I know Richard Bennett spoke at least one of our conferences I know sometime back, and I know that the Trinity Foundation has also published some of his articles as Trinity review. So that’s, I’d say, his name and of course, Berean Beacon. They’re certainly not strangers to those of us with the Trinity Foundation. So it’s a real honor and a privilege for me to have both of you here with me today and I have a chance to talk to you about this very important topic.

So we’re going to be talking here about the Jesuits in their involvement with the COVID pandemic. But what I thought, maybe before we dive into their involvement with this COVID pandemic, maybe just lay some groundwork and talk a little bit about the Jesuits themselves. So who are the Jesuits and why is it that Christians should be concerned to know something about them?

Stuart Quint: Okay. Why don’t I start with that? I think Greg is going to provide more of the contemporary COVID context to see much more of the expert on that than I.

So the Jesuits, so we know about the Reformation, you know, Mark Luther, John Calvin, and many, many others that recognized they needed to return to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And as a consequence, steering away from Roman Catholic doctrine.

And so as a consequence in around 1540, you have this crazed, fanatic Spanish soldier, actually a Basque soldier named Ignacio de Loyola, who comes back from the battle wounded. And over time, he develops this constitution, he develops this small following which grows into this thing called the Society of Jesus or the Jesuits. And indeed, the name is deceptive because they are as far away from the teaching of Jesus Christ as you can imagine. We’ll get to that in a second.

And basically, through that time, the Pope of Rome recognized their efforts, their dedication, their fanaticism and their ruthlessness. And so they become in effect what historians have called the army of the Counter-Reformation.

So the Reformation was to bring people out of the superstition of Rome and to the Gospel of Jesus Christ while the Jesuits were doing just the opposite. And to this day they still do that.

And one of the things that’s why I could, Steve, is I’m going to be a little bit politically incorrect or maybe not theologically incorrect, but politically incorrect. So just like God has used the mouth of a donkey or used a false prophet like Balaam at times to proclaim his truth. So he can use other people. I’m going to quote from C.S. Lewis, who by the way, just for the record, has a lot of bad theology. But there’s one thing that I think is very appropriate for his conversation on Jesuits. So he wrote a book called The Screwtape Letters, which is a fictional conversation between an older demon and a younger demon. One of the things they talk about is, well, how is it that we can be so effective with scaring people and manipulating them? One of the ways he talks about it is, “Well, if we can convince people we don’t exist, Satan doesn’t exist, and then we can just do our mischief.” And I think that’s very applicable to the Jesuits today. In fact, back to Richard, in the new article that Greg shared with me last night, Richard specifically mentions the willful cover-up of many academics on the history of Jesuits.

Let’s get into some examples. There’s a Canadian historian who quotes from I believe, 1580 to 1931. So about 300 plus years, 81 countries banished the Jesuits from their shores. It was illegal for them to be in these nations. Why? That’s a very radical measure unless indeed they were threats.

And then you go through history, and I mean, we can talk about different examples, but they got involved in things like the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. They were involved in the government of China. I was reading some quotes just fairly recently about how some of the leading Jesuits, like Alphonse de LaGuardia, and others, were bragging about how we can rule from France to China, and nobody’s going to know about it. And people might say, “Well, that sounds like a bunch of conspiracy theories.” Go read history. Go read books. I mean, I’ve got a book, for instance, from the Secretary of the Navy that Richard had gotten, written back in the 1800s. And he talked about how this is a real threat in the United States, let alone in Europe, let alone elsewhere. So not only was it in England, you have a holiday called Guy Fawkes Day when the Jesuits attempted to blow up the English Parliament back in the 1600s. They didn’t come back until the 19th century.

So these are small examples, but it’s a very serious group. They’re still around. And the biggest example today is Pope Francis.

And let me just give you three criteria. So when we talk, well, what do you mean by Jesuits? Because you get people who are, let’s just say in the alternative conspiracy theory stuff, and they can get really lost. That’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about history. We’re talking about what’s actually going on today. So three criteria.

One is they’re Jesuit. And Pope Francis, he’s very open. He’s a Jesuit.

The second is, they study at Jesuit institutions or educational institutions. There are many of them, including in the United States, but also in Europe and Canada. And we say that Pope Francis, yes, he studied at Jesuit institutions.

The third, and I think this is very critical, is to look at their behavior. Look at what they do. Look at what they say and compare it with official Jesuit teaching, such as a spiritual discipline of loyalists, such as Lugory, Bellamine, and some of these other teachers that are Jesuit teachers that are officially recognized by Rome. And you’ll see that they’re around. I’ll give you just two quick examples and I’ll start talking.

So today we have the Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Draghi. Mario Draghi was the former head of the European Central Bank before he became Prime Minister of Italy. Mario Draghi studied at a Jesuit college. He doesn’t say that he’s a Jesuit, but if you read history and you read the official Jesuit documents, they talk about, well, you don’t need to tell someone if you’re a Jesuit, let alone a Catholic, if it’s advantageous to you. But let’s just say that equivocation, AKA, lying, is a major part of the Jesuit order. And that is how they’ve been able to infiltrate.

So Mario Draghi has just said recently, “If you’re over 50 and you’re not vaccinated, you’re no longer a part of society. You don’t deserve to be in society. You can’t work, you can’t eat.”

That’s ruthless. And that’s a very Jesuit perspective or attitude if you will. It’s an aura of superiority, of dominance of power. And if you don’t obey, you’re nobody. So that’s one example.

The second example is our neighbor to the north, Justin Trudeau. He went to a Jesuit school. He’s been involved, and he’s had actually several scandals, but the most recent one is one with a charity called WE.

So this is a very good case study and it’ll loop into Greg’s stuff. So Justin Trudeau, first of all, went to a Jesuit high school in the province of Quebec, by the way, as did his father. Now one of the things, and this is another thing about the Jesuits is they say, “Oh, well, we’re not so religious. We just have a historical background of being founded by Jesuits, but we’re actually a secular school.”

Well, that’s very interesting because we see in the case of Justin Trudeau how it’s so easy for him to use things like, again, equivocation about, you know, you look at what he said even a few years ago compared to where he is now that he’s turned out to be a big type. You look at the scandal with the WE charity, $900 million. The family that founded this charity has strong ties to the Jesuits. Okay, this isn’t a theory. These are facts. It’s documented.

And then depending, and there are some different schools about it, well, who was really Justin Trudeau’s father? Pome say, oh, Pierre Trudeau. Pierre Trudeau also went to that same prestigious Jesuit school. But some would say, and I don’t know what the answer is, but some would say that his true father might have been Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro. We have a translator whose father knew Fidel Castro in Cuba. He would be actually a very strong Jesuit. So whatever way you look, you see Justin Trudeau has these same tight connections. And when you look at his behavior and what he’s doing and the lust for power and the arrogance, the domination, and, “If you don’t submit, I will crush you.”

Look at these poor truckers, for example, and the people who supported them. Their bank accounts were canceled. That is very much of a Jesuit example.

Steve Matthews: Well, thank you, Stuart, thanks so much for sharing it. It’s some fascinating history and you can see how that comes right on up to the present, just from the headlines here just in the last few weeks. So yeah, thank you for laying that groundwork.

Now what I wanted to do here next is talk a little bit about some articles that have been published by the Berean Beacon. These are items that both you and Greg have written. The Berean Beacon published three articles specifically on prominent scientists associated with the US pandemic response. In all three of these men, we’re talking here about Anthony Fauci, about Francis Collins, and about Robert Redfield. They all have Jesuit ties. So I wouldn’t maybe have you just speak about these gentlemen, speak about these ties, how you may think they’re Jesuit ties, maybe perhaps have influenced some of the policies and things that they have pushed.

Greg Bentley: My research early on in the pandemic, what I was discovering actually started with a lot of photographs of Bill Gates that were floating around, and he was flanked by two men. One was Anthony Fauci, the other was Francis Collins. And no one would have been really talking about these characters. And then when I looked into it, I found that these are Jesuit-trained practicing Roman Catholics. Francis Collins professes to be evangelical. But you see through his beliefs and his practice that he’s not an evangelical Christian.

One of the things that I want to clarify too, a lot of times the term Jesuit goes out as if it’s a separate organization from the Catholic Church, but it’s actually part of the Catholic Church, the Roman priest, the religious orders within the Roman Catholic Church and the Jesuit order is just one of those and there’s the Carmelites, you know, and there’s Dominicans and so forth. So we have various orders, priestly orders and it’s just the Jesuits had specialized in the propagation of schools and higher learning institutions and that’s how they were going to influence society in their Counter-Reformation agenda.

So these men that are involved at the high levels in the US government, they were trained, especially Dr. Anthony Fauci and Robert Redfield who was the former head of the CDC, these guys were all trained in Jesuit universities and they both, their Jesuit background as being key and the factor in their positions, in their studies and their influence and what they do. So they’re really motivated by their religious belief system. That’s why I feel that the evangelical church needs to wake up to see this because the Roman Catholic agenda is much different than what we find as Christians in the Scripture.

So it’s a very dangerous connection when you see these religiously driven individuals with a mantra of “the end justifies the means” being ingrained into their brains in their Jesuit basically starting off in grammar school like Anthony Fauci and working all the way up to George Washington where they’re getting their medical degrees.

Would you have anything more to say on that, Stuart?

Stuart Quint: I just wanted to add that I was thinking of a quote by Ignatius de Loyola who said, “If the Church tells me that black is white and white is black, I will submit to the Church because it’s the Church.” I mean I’m paraphrasing that but I think what you brought as a really important point, think about Fauci with the masks, think about the 60 Minutes interview, “O we don’t need masks!” Then oh one mask, two masks, five masks. I mean that, we can make light of it but when you look at the context of as you said Greg, the Jesuit education and then you look at what they actually teach, it’s really striking that again it’s this absolute obedience and it’s, you know, leave your mind at the door and submit to us, and if you don’t there are consequences.

Greg Bentley: Okay, I just want to also emphasize with Francis Collins, you know, professing to be the evangelical Christian, early before he was appointed as the director of the NIH, the National Institutes of Health, overseeing actually Dr. Fauci, he had started an organization called BioLogos which is a scientific organization that he used for religious purposes. He was using it to pretty much dumb down the evangelical church and counter the work of some of the ministries like Answers in Genesis which were exposing the lies of evolution, and he was trying to convince the Church that evolution actually works, its way could be accepted as the evangelical teaching, and eventually that spilled over into his view of human life and the use of aborted fetal tissue.

So I always refer to this guy as an organ harvesting person, they’re actively involved in this, it’s just wicked, it’s right from his lips, he uses fetal tissue and what he’s doing is just beyond the pale when you consider that he’s flouting around as an evangelical getting reformed men involved in his work and trying to convince churches to go along with this process, so that’s I just wanted to emphasize that about Francis Collins.

Steve Matthews Yeah and just going back, in fact, you had co-authored a piece on Francis Collins titled Who Is Dr. Francis Collins and Should You Be Concerned?, and one of the points you made in there you said it’s not the least surprising that the Pope in 2009 appointed Dr. Francis Collins to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Greg Bentley: Exactly. And that should raise a red flag for any Protestant. However, the evangelical church has completely lost sight of who the Antichrist is. And it’s actually from being misled through a wrong understanding of end times and failure to remember what those who went before us knew and proclaimed that the Vatican, the office of the Pope is the Antichrist. And once you have that in the proper perspective, and then you have a leader, actually a government employee who has the National Institutes of Health having an office in the Vatican you start wondering why are our taxpayer dollars going to fund a guy to have vacations to meet with the Antichrist? This is how a Christian should see this. But they’ve been blinded by their Jesuit Futurism which is the forerunner to modern dispensational theology. So that has been the agenda there. But his work in the Vatican is well known you can go online and you find all kinds of pictures of Francis Collins surrounded by bishops and cardinals and grinning ear to ear as they give each other awards for their experimentations in human embryo research and trans-humanism. They’re not keeping this a secret from the people, it’s just the people are not performing their due diligence, they’re not studying to be approved. They’re just ignoring reality.

Steve Matthews Yeah and that’s a great point that you make there, Greg. I know you and I were talking before we came on to do the program here today about that very topic. And I had told you that there was a time in my life and I wasn’t so much focused on on eschatology. I thought, Well, that’s kind of something you can kind of leave out there but the longer that I’ve been a Christian and the more that I study and the more that I study the scriptures themselves and also look at the events that go on in our world around us I come to realize eschatology is actually pretty important. And we have the road map that’s given to us in the Word of God but yet so many evangelicals have been pulled off to one side or another. You mentioned Jesuit futurism, that whole idea that the Antichrist is coming into the future that’s something that was developed by the Jesuits, as Stuart was talking about the Counter-Reformation.

And even Preterism, the idea that the Antichrist is somebody that’s already come that we’re not going to have to deal with the Antichrist, is also a Jesuit construct. But both of them are opposed to what the Scriptures teach about the identity of the Antichrist.

Greg Bentley: I think that really has set the stage for operation COVID-19. It was almost played out to the exact letter of their plans. They got the Church off guard, got them out there fantasizing movies about being able to get zapped up into the sky before anything bad happens to you, and they fail to recognize or care to get involved in the social issues of our day and fighting against evil. And that’s what the Church was doing for centuries, this protest against the evils of the Roman Catholic religious orders with their whole involvement and the mingling and the politics of nations. People stood up and pushed back against that like Stuart was saying earlier. They (the Jesuits) were banned from 83 nations over the past 400 years. Why was that? Because they didn’t like the way they looked? No, it’s because of what they’ve been doing, what they were doing to society, fomenting wars, and causing strife and division among nations. It’s clearly the work of the Antichrist.

Steve Matthews It’s one of the reasons why I really wanted to have both of you on because it’s wonderful to hear someone has that correct perspective of eschatology. And when you understand that you can analyze this stuff that’s going on with COVID, and then we’re talk in a couple minutes the Great Reset. And you can see the Antichrist influence in these things. And once you have those proper glasses, the biblical glasses of the identity of the Antichrist, you can’t unsee this stuff.

Stuart Quint: I just like to add something if I could. Those are really good points. Two things. One is you actually have the Catholic Archbishop Vigano who was a former ambassador of the Vatican in the United States. A couple of times in interviews he has commented, “The Jesuits know about the popular version of eschatology in the West, and they’re playing with it.” So I think to your point, and also to what Greg, to what you’re saying before about this passivity, this is something that the Vatican is using to its advantage. And especially when you read one of the encyclicals that Pope Francis had written about COVID, and you very clearly see in there this agenda of basically step aside, and by the way it’s not just about COVID, it’s about climate change, it’s about destroying national borders, it’s the new economy, I mean it’s taken right off this, and you’re going to talk about this in a minute, but right out of the Great Reset, I mean, he’s singing off the same song sheet so to speak. So yeah, I think when we look at our brothers and sisters in ages past, I think the other issue is Antinomianism the idea that today many Christians think the Ten Commandments were buried at the Cross and that it doesn’t matter as opposed to God’s law. For the Christian, it is actually something precious. It doesn’t save us, but it does give us direction as to God’s character and how He wants us to act, especially in society, especially because of these big problems that we’re facing today.

Steve Matthews: Those are great points, Stuart. Thanks so much for bringing that up. And maybe now what we can do since we were hinting a little bit here about the Great Reset and all this, let’s let’s talk some about the Great Reset. There’s the article out there. Let me get that here in front of me. Patient endurance needed for the coming Great Reset. So let’s maybe talk a little bit it. So what is the Great Reset? What’s the Jesuit angle on this?

Stuart Quint: Okay I can start, and Greg you could you can chime in as you like. I think that the second question asked is actually very interesting. So the Great Reset, you’ve heard of Davos and the World Economic Forum which is basically this big grouping of CEOs. It’s not just government officials, it’s CEOs. It’s even actors and other so-called notable people in society that have gotten together and decided that they have an agenda. You might hear of the globalists or the world elites. I don’t know if that comprises all of them but it is a face at least of what they think, and more significantly, what they want to impose upon the rest of us “eaters” as some of them actually call the rest of humanity.

That article goes through it, but basically, some of their platforms, what they want to impose, they want to impose a fourth industrial revolution on society so things like more official intelligence, surveillance, look at the social credit system in China.

By the way, we talked about Canada before, a lot of the issues over the truckers and the freedom convoy. People are too narrowly focused on the mandates. it’s not just about the mandates, it’s about putting in something called the digital ID. You saw people whose bank accounts, entire bank accounts, your investments, your insurance, were all canceled at the stroke of a keystroke just because you had a political view or a worldview that conflicted with the government, and because you wanted to protest even though your constitution allows for peaceful protests. That’s the sort of stuff they’re moving.

There’s also what I call a Woke agenda which is destroying the biblical, the battle of Genesis. God says, one man one woman to have kids, have dominion and fill the earth. Well, the Woke agenda is completely diametrically opposite of it. And that’s also in there. And when you look at it at the end of the day for Christians, it is a very big threat, if you will call it that, and I’d call it that, to not just the Christian worldview but the Church of Christ because it’s saying the government is your God. And the government, by the way, includes these corporations. It’s actually more of a fascist corporatist model where they want to monitor everything you do, and if you step out of line, you get cut off. Their famous quote is, “You will owe nothing and you will be happy.” Which completely flies in the face of private property established in the Scriptures.

Were the Jesuits involved? Well, it’s interesting. I’ll give you one small example. I gave you Draghi, I gave you Trudeau, the quote of Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum who says, “Fifty percent of the Canadian cabinet is infiltrated by our people. Trudeau is one of them.” It turns out Klaus Schwab actually got his doctorate from a school in Germany that was founded by Guess Who? The Jesuits. And this is part of the issue. So again people can say, “Well Jesuits, you’re chasing conspiracy theory.” Where did they study? Look at their actions. Look at how they comport themselves.

I won’t go there unless you want me to, but there’s some stuff from France’s Macron who happened to go to a Jesuit school. Do you hear the theme? Greg just said it. Set up these schools and universities, people come in, they think they’re getting this great education, but what else are they getting? And then if they’re implementing it, you know the old phrase, right? If it looks like a, walks like a, talks like a, smells like a, it is.

Steve Matthews: So you said you had some information you could get into a little bit? You picked my curiosity. What were you gonna say?

Stuart Quint: I literally just dug this up like the last day, but Macron in France, and again, do your own research. So first of all it is a fact that he went to his high school in Amiens, France, a Jesuit school, point one.

Point two, is that’s where he met his teacher, he was 15 she was 40, and they got married. She left her husband and three kids for this guy. So right away, like what’s going on? But there are some interesting quotes, where Macron talks about, “I want to rule France like Jupiter.” I think the Greek god Jupiter. He makes these declarations as if he’s laying down his loyalty to Rome which is very significant when you look at French history. Remember the French Revolution, remember even Napoleon, and again, there were a lot of bad things that happened in those times. Part of that reaction was it was a reaction against the tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

So now you come back to today, and interestingly enough, in 2018 Macron won an award for helping the unity of Europe. In 2016 Pope Francis got this award. And it’s interesting how though he’s not out there officially preaching Roman Catholic doctrine and yet, look at his associations. And of course, look at the tyranny. Look at sending police and armored cars against these protesters. It’s the same attitude as Mario Draghi with the, “Oh, you don’t get this vaccine?” which is killing people. And Greg can get into that if he wants. But you look at this, and again, it’s this heavy-handedness. It’s the Jesuit approach.

You look at what they did in places like Paraguay, and even Croatia back during the Second World War where there were 700,000 victims, people who crossed the Vatican, lots of Orthodox Serbs and others. And again, you see that spirit coming out. I mentioned Trudeau, I mentioned Macron, mentioned Draghi. That’s what we’re starting to dig up. It’s a serious issue for Christians today.

Covid vaccines

Steve Matthews: You mentioned the vaccines. I didn’t have a specific talking point about the vaccines but I think it’s probably something that’s least worth mentioning here.

A headline in the New York Times says Pope calls coronavirus vaccinations an ethical obligation. We see this heavy pushing of vaccines from a number of Jesuits, of course, Pope Francis, but Fauci and some of these other guys here in the United States. And I just wanted to find out what are your thoughts about the vaccines. Do you have anything that you want to comment on regarding that?

Stuart Quint:Well, most of our research has not been on the evidence of what’s in the vaccine. We’ve always been relying on the doctors and the scientists who are out actually uncovering that the best they can. And there’s quite a few today. I have a few links on the Berean Beacon website to those that we feel confident that these are men and women of truth. But what I can say personally is that it’s a lie. The whole COVID agenda and the whole vaccine agenda is the promotion of a lie. And I’ve told many individuals it’s either you believe in COVID or you believe in Christ. And those that have gone down the not trusting in the truth, the way in the truth, they’ve fallen prey to believing lies. And these lies tend to stack upon lies. And it goes right back to the father of lies because basically, they’re forcing a vaccine agenda for a vaccine that you have a 99.8% survival rate. There’s no really need to be vaccinated.

There’s no evidence that the vaccine actually prevents the spread of the disease. You’re seeing that now coming out. People with the vaccine are getting the flu or COVID or whatever you want to call it. So you just have to wonder well why? Why are they forcing this substance into people’s bodies? And I think time will tell. There are quite a few experts out there on the stump already. And I had to encourage people to actually do their due diligence and start looking at the work of Dr. Malone, Dr. McCullough, to find out, what Dr. Zelenko says, what their views are on what this is going to be doing to people.

So I did I don’t want to speculate what it’s actually going to do or what’s in it because honestly I personally do not know. But I do know that it is a lie. So whatever they’re doing, even the insert on the vaccine bio boxes is completely blank. So the populace is completely clueless, and informed consent is completely shunned. So I would say, stay away.

Steve Matthews: So maybe to just build on that a little bit, one of the big issues that Christians, not just Christians, everybody, but Christians especially have to face and have had to face are these vaccine mandates. Joe Biden famously got up there and he lectured Americans saying his patience is wearing thin with the unvaccinated people. And he announced that he’s going to issue these vaccine mandates where everybody, if it’s a large employer of 100 people or more, that they have to be vaccinated. Of course, that was rejected by the Supreme Court. However the Supreme Court did uphold the vaccine mandate for the medical field, people in the medical field. So Christians have had to face this issue. It’s like, do I take this jab? Or do I lose my job?

I was curious, how would you maybe advise someone, a Christian who’s facing that situation? What would you say to them?

Greg Bentley: I would say lose your job. The door will open for God’s provision in your life in another venue. And any organization, any job that would require that — and that is a leeway into another area that I’ve been studying, and that’s that’s actually out there for all the world to see. It’s called the Council For Inclusive Capitalism. And it’s actually headed by the papacy. So here you see global corporate leaders front and center standing next to Pope Francis. So when you see how these corporations are motivated and pressured mostly through monetary means most likely, and you see that the Vatican is directly involved in these banking institutions and corporations that are leading people into forcing them to vaccinate or terminate.

So I would encourage the Christian person to look to God, to trust in God alone, and step back and look at what the Christians that came before us have done. People were put to death for rejecting the Eucharist as being God incarnate! So it’s a small price to pay for standing on truth. And God will provide an opportunity for them. He says “I won’t forsake you.” So He’s not going to leave you alone. He says, “My children don’t beg for bread.” So I would encourage the Christians to step away from those jobs, and trust in the Lord and He’ll direct them.

(For the record, my wife Tess and I stood against the vaccine mandates when we lived in Guam during the pandemic. We were blessed to associate with a Facebook group of like-minded people called, "Guam Freedom Coalition." And we fellowshipped with them not just in cyberspace, we took part in actual local street demonstrations protesting against vaccination mandates. Most of them are Christians. In unity there is strength. And we waited till the Philippine government's Covid vaccination passport requirement to enter the country was dropped. A requirement of a vaccine passport to enter the Philippines would have blocked us. We had no intention of compromising our convictions about not taking the vaccine.)

Steve Matthews: Greg, I when you were we’re talking about the Council for Inclusive Capitalism. I remember reading about that. I’ve got an article here. This is from December 2020. This headline says, “The Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican, a new alliance of global business leaders launches today.” And when I read that, I don’t know if it’s the right reaction, but part of me just wanted to laugh out loud because these guys are so obvious! I mean, it’s not even like they try to hide it. They’re not even remotely subtle. It’s just like they’re showing this big giant flag saying, “Yeah, we’re the Antichrist!” It’s unbelievable but yet it seems like very few people actually pick up on this stuff. And who’s behind this? It’s the Vatican! And all these other people of what I say have not such a great reputation.

Greg Bentley: I was just going to say there’s a strong delusion being poured out across the world that they just cannot see this.

Stuart Quint: I just like to add that I think Steve, what you’re also picking up on is, that people come back to End Times, they put (the Book of) Revelation in a box. They’re waiting for the Left Behind Series. They’re waiting for, “Hi, this guy’s name is Nikolai, he’s the Antichrist. Okay good. Game on.” And in the meantime, we can just go to sleep. First of all, that’s not how John opens Revelation. He says, “You read this book, you’ll be blessed.” I am quoting Jesus Christ.

But I think coming back to Greg’s comments, “What do you do if your job is threatened?” I would go a step further, and this relates to what you just said, Steve, about the Council For Inclusive Capitalism, I actually think when we look at Revelation 17, 18, and 19, it talks about getting out of Babylon. And you see Babylon, one chapter talks about the religious side, and while primarily it would appear to be talking about the Vatican, but you could also throw in any false religious system that is not of Christ.

The next chapter talks about the economic side, kings doing business with Babylon, the goods, and the souls that were bought and sold. I believe part of the application, is something I personally am struggling with right now, trying to figure out we need to find ways to start getting ourselves out of this corporate Catholic Jesuit whatever you want to call it Great Reset economy while we still have time to get ready. And what do I mean? It could be simple things like how to grow food. You can feed your family on a quarter of an acre or a tenth of an acre, or even just by growing bean sprouts to some extent in your apartment if that’s what you have to do.

I mean, it sounds really basic, but I think a lot of our problems are we’re so focused on governments, some of us are focused on the Vatican, but remember, the Vatican also has its clause in the corporations. They’re not elected. They’re the ones that are funding all this, the Great Reset, or the not-so-Great Reset, and they’re also enabling. And we can argue are the Jesuits the main driver or the A driver, whatever. But they’re a key player, there’s no doubt about it. And you can see it and the strategies and the behaviors of these different leaders, it stinks of Jesuitism. So when you look at that you say, “Okay, what can I do?” And I think Greg’s point about trusting God first of all. Go look for another job. But I think secondly is maybe we just need to be thinking more about getting out of the corporate sector, and start thinking about how can you work your own business or small business with people that are like-minded.

And here’s the other thing too. We may be forced to do that because if they do bring in like the digital ID and then the vaccine passport or social credit, listen, if you don’t bow down to Ceasar and burn your pinch of incense, you’re gonna be cut off anyways. So this might be an application of getting out of Babylon.

Steve Matthews: That’s a great point. I really appreciate you making that point. Stuart, I agree with you completely. I think as Christians we really do need to be serious about finding ways that we can begin to separate from this system, because it looks like right now, at least here in the United States, maybe we dodged a bit of a bullet with the Supreme Court saying okay you don’t have to get this vaccine, but you don’t know when that might change. These guys aren’t going to give up.

Greg Bentley: I was saying I think they’re waiting for the official approval of the vaccine right now all the vaccines made available in the United States are just under emergency use that cannot be mandated by law it’s just they could be you’ve be tricked into taking it. But once they go to full approval that’s when we have to step back and see where this is going to go and how it’s going to erupt, and what we as the Church will do to stand up against it. I think it’s just a matter of time.

Stuart Quint: If I could chime in and Greg, have you talk about it. One of the things of Dr. Collins and BioLogos is they’ve been part of the official propaganda campaign for evangelicals. Maybe you want to talk a little bit about that.

Greg Bentley: Yeah, they had early on in the plandemic, they had put out a statement they wanted the evangelicals to sign. You can find the links on our website to the BioLogos website. But they wanted people, the pastoral leadership, to sign on to their agenda of social distancing, mask-wearing, and vaccine propagation. And what I found really interesting is having been around Richard Bennett early on when his ministry started, he was exposing the evangelicals and Catholics together the work that was started by Father Neuhaus and Chuck Colson basically to unify Roman Catholics together under political guise. Richard did a marvelous job in exposing that, and it really kind of helped keep the remnant of the Church in America steadfast.

But now we’re seeing that taking shape in the form of scientific ecumenism and that’s where Francis Collins fits the bill on whether he was pre-ordained by the Catholic Church to carry out this agenda or not, but he certainly has used religion to bring in science. I call it scientific ecumenism because in the end result, everyone is being drawn toward the Vatican as the head of this unified scientific group.

We have the Vatican scientists out there with their superstitions and lies just as in the Dark Ages. So I kind of see this as Dark Ages 2.0. You have the same flat earth, now you got flat curves, and you’ve got throwing salt over your shoulder and garlic around your neck or wearing masks and standing six feet apart it’s the same superstition. It’s not backed up by science. It’s backed up by lies and superstition.

Steve Matthews: Alright, well let’s move on here a little bit. We already talked about some of the people like Emmanuel Macron or Justin Trudeau. There are some other people though that have Jesuit ties that have also had a good deal to do with the pandemic response. For instance, a couple of governors, Gavin Newsom. He graduated I believe from Santa Clara University. That’s a Jesuit school. And also Andrew Cuomo. He went to Fordham, he was a graduate of Fordham. Donald Trump. A lot of people don’t think about this but Donald Trump did attend Fordham I believe for two years. He did not graduate from there, but he did attend there. And also I was compiling a list of some people and one I left off after I sent it to you is Joe Biden. I mean, Joe Biden did not go to a Jesuit school but he does I believe attend a Jesuit parish in Georgetown, the Georgetown area of Washington DC. And he attended that same parish, called Holy Trinity, when he was a vice president as well. Do you have anything that you’d like to throw out there about any of those gentlemen?

Greg Bentley: Well I would say about Biden was obvious to me as a former Roman Catholic and having our family Bibles, the big Dewey Rheims stacked Bible leather bound with little brass hinges on it, that’s where he swore in his oath, on a Dewey Rheims Bible right after he attended Mass. So you see all the players in this whole theater. They’re all Roman Catholic. Most are Jesuit-trained. I found there was a really good dialogue between John MacArthur and Gavin Newsom that took place back when Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco, and Newsom came out, and he even from his own mouth told him what a good Catholic he is and that he went to a Jesuit school. So they’re not even hiding their backgrounds. It’s just for some reason Christians are not talking about their backgrounds.

And I really think it just comes back to you. Once you see who the Antichrist is, you’re going to talk about it.

Richard wrote a wonderful article called the Antichrist in our midst. And he did a presentation on that, you can find it on our website. And that’s really the issue at stake. Here we have displayed for all the world to see and yet people are not seeing it, and it’s because of their Jesuit influence and Futurism Dispensational theology.

Steve Matthews: Stuart did you have anything you wanted to add about that?

Stuart Quint: You mentioned Newsom and he’s not unique in this. He tells everybody to wear masks and social distancing and limit the number of people at parties, and then you find a picture of him having a holiday meal with 25 people and nobody masked, etc. You’ve heard of this, “It’s for thee not for me.” That looks a lot like this principle called detachment where I’m above you or I don’t need it. It’s part of the equivocation about, “Well, I don’t really need to tell you the truth because I’m better than you. The goal that I have is more important than the truth.” Or, “I don’t need to conform to that law because there’s a higher law.”

This is moral theology actually somewhat related to what Thomas Aquinas had written about the idea of situational ethics but only taking it to real extremes. So again, I just want to point that out as we’re not just, “Oh because you went to a Jesuit school.” That’s a very shallow conclusion. No, look at the behaviors, and look at what actually has been taught in history.

I just want to add one other thing which I think you might find of interest. There’s some controversy about what happened in November 2020, and who should be occupying the White House. I won’t get into that. But there is a historical precedent that directly involves the Jesuits. It was in Russia, 1605 – 1606, a person called Dimitri, or known in Russian history as the false Dimitri. Ivan the Terrible was was Tsar of Russia. He killed one of his sons. The other one didn’t want to have anything to do with the throne after that. And so this runaway monk comes to Poland, and the Jesuits find this guy, and they say, “Guess what?” And so they have the Polish officials to dress him up and say, “We’re gonna pretend that he’s the son of Ivan the Terrible.” They sent him back to Russia. The people are convinced that he is the Tsar. He became Tsar for a year and a half. The Jesuits almost took over Russia at that time. It’s very little known history, but that is a fact!

That shows you the power of the Jesuits I mean and the cunning and the ruthlessness. People don’t know history. They’ve done a brilliant job of removing themselves from history. People think, “Oh, they’re just the nice parish priest on the corner, or there’s a few of them running around in a monastery” or whatever. Think again. Go look at the facts. Do your research. They are real.

Steve Matthews: Yeah I was going back to something, Stuart, that you had written in your article about, “Who are the Jesuits? And should you be concerned today?” And I think you made a very good point in there. You said, when considering the Jesuits, we should avoid extremes. One extreme is to give the Jesuits too much credit and stoke needless irrational panic. However today we see another extreme that is more common. Many ignore or underestimate the impact of the Jesuits in history and today. And I think that’s the approach that both of you have used here. I think this is the correct approach. I mean it’s not like we’re trying to see a Jesuit behind every bush, but we have to acknowledge these guys are out there, and they have a very significant influence on what goes on. And all of us have been affected by it. I mean there’s not a man woman or child in the United States and probably just about anywhere in the world that has not been affected by the Covid pandemic, and maybe even more specifically the response to it.

Stuart Quint: You know, Steve, I was thinking about Ephesians 6:10. Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, it’s against powers, principalities, the wickedness in high places. It’s a spiritual war. Satan is the ultimate enemy, but if we have Christ with us – first of all we got the victory with God through Christ. Secondly, it’s a lot easier when you’re in a struggle to recognize who the enemy is. It’s a lot easier when you know who he is and what he’s trying to do. And you don’t need to panic, there’s no reason to panic, but at the same time be aware. Because you look at things like media. Why is there so much propaganda? How could people be so outright liars? How can they say, “Well you need to come ask on but I don’t”? What about all the corruption? What about the money? In a sense we shouldn’t be surprised, but I think for the Christian it should give us hope. First of all, we need to act as children of light not of darkness. We need to be honest. We need to see the lies for what they are and stand on the truth. But I think secondly also is try to help other people. I mean, there are so many people it’s really sad when you hear about kids particularly. I mean, I now know so many dropouts who are like 15, 14, 13 because of all these lies. And I think as Christians part of our duty is to love our neighbor. And part of that is looking for people who’ve really been banged up, and there’s a lot. And I think part of it is helping them see, “You’ve been lied to.” But guess what? There is truth, and the truth is found in Christ, and you need to be with Him.

So, we do need to recognize the enemy. He is a ruthless enemy, that is Satan, and he has his minions in the Vatican, Jesuits, whoever. But we also have the opportunity to minister in the love and power of Christ, and actually, what they’ve meant for evil, God has meant for good.

Steve Matthews:Yeah, we’re not to have fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness. The King James says reprove them and the new King James says expose them. And that’s really both of you gentlemen have done a tremendous job of that and continue to do that and I really appreciate your work so much. Do either of you at this point have anything else you’d like to add to our discussion?

Stuart Quint: If I could, there is one thing actually that’s on my mind, on my heart. Richard Bennett was all about sharing the Gospel, and loving people. Sure, he especially loved Catholics, but he loved all kinds of people. And we wanted to continue to uphold that mandate. And part of that includes as you said, reproving darkness or exposing darkness.

I think one of the things that I’ve seen and Greg can speak even more authoritatively I think than I can, but I’ve been involved somewhat in local initiatives to fight back against the COVID tyranny, and again we’re not politicians, that’s not we’re not saying – “oh make politics your full time thing” – that’s not what we’re saying. But there is a point where you at least need to take a stand in Christ on issues that affect us.

One of my concerns is I believe that there’s a big temptation for some, I’ll call it salvation by patriotic activism. So I mentioned this guy, Archbishop Vigano, who actually has said some very good things in support of the truckers against the COVID tyranny, against Pope Francis, and we would absolutely agree on those issues. Another guy I can think of as the attorney Tom Renz who is doing heroic stuff with exposing the vaccine injuries on the DoD data amongst other things. But I would appeal to men like these and others. Salvation does not come by good deeds. It does not come because you took the right position. And it’s not because we’re better people, we’re not. We’re all sinners. Our righteousness is filthy rags. Salvation is only in Christ alone. It is not through Mary. It is not through the sacraments or the saints. There is no purgatory. It’s Christ alone. It’s what He did once and for all in the cross. You need to reckon with that. You need to ask God to open your eyes and go to Him. And it’s not that Christ is saying I don’t want to deal with you because your sins are too ugly. Just the opposite. He went to the cross to save you and me. That’s what he did with all of us. He can do that for you too. Please do not be deceived. Yes, your activism is great but it’s not going to save you. It’s not going to grant you eternal life. You need Christ. Only Christ can do that. Only faith in Him. Only repentance in Him. That’s the only way to eternal life.

Greg Bentley: That’s a great ending with a good Gospel presentation. And one thing I like to add is what the Gospel is not. And I’ve heard this so often since the start of the scam coming from the popular churches these days is that, “Oh, everything is going from bad to worse. You don’t want to miss the Rapture because you’re going to face the wrath of God. So ask Jesus into your heart and you won’t miss the Rapture.” And I find that such a confusing message to anyone that would hear something like that because here they are trusting in their work, and they got to pray some prayer to somehow not miss the Rapture. It’s really set the Church off on the wrong path. I think what really needs to be brought out these days is the true Gospel as Stuart has presented. So we need to have our Gospel straight that it’s by faith alone, and we need to see who the Antichrist is. And these were the two hallmarks of the Reformation. It brought in maybe a couple of hundred years of liberty around the world with many battles in between, but for the most part, liberty prevailed. Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. And now we’re going in the opposite direction. So we need to have the true Gospel so people truly get saved, and people involved by the Spirit, and that liberty would be restored. That’s my prayer and my hope.

This is yet another transcription of a podcast by ex-Roman Catholic priest Richard Bennett.

Truly the world is thoroughly enamored with Pope Francis. Whether it’s on television, the radio, Internet news sites or YouTube videos, Pope Francis is presented as the likable hero of our day. What most people don’t know is the stage on which Francis performs. Without the papal platform, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, from Argentina, would be unknown to most people in the world.

The papal system stands unrivaled as a monolithic, institutional, religious system throughout the world, yet it appears friendly and inviting. The papacy has immense wealth, worldwide dominion, and dictates its faith to millions. As the largest organization on earth, it shows superb skill in its many endeavors. The papal system is an elitist, priestly, bureaucratic machine. It is so powerful that even the Pope himself must conform to its rule or face the consequences.

An example of this is what happened or appeared to have been the murder of Pope John Paul I, Albino Luciani, in September 1978, only 33 days after his election. At that time, the Catholic News Service, Zenith, reported that Cardinal Ratzinger said,

“His death was totally unexpected. John Paul I seemed to enjoy good health.”

Ratzinger would have also known about the abnormal deaths of other popes. For example, the many alleged murders of popes include:

Stephen VII from 896 to 897 AD, strangled.
Stephen IX, 939 to 942, mutilated.
John XII, 955 to 964, was murdered.
Benedict VI, 973 to 974, strangled.
John XIV, 983 to 984, starved to death or directly murdered.
Gregory V, from 996 to 999 AD, poisoned.
Clement II, 1046 to 1047, poisoned.
Damasus II, 1048, murdered.
Pope Pius XI, assassinated.
Later in 2013, Ratzinger then Pope Benedict XVI appeared to have been forced to resign.

Now an overview of the history of the papal system. In the fourth and fifth centuries, as the Gospel was watered down to accommodate pagan worship, philosophical schools and Gnostic speculations, the true worship of God and the inner conviction of the Holy Spirit was enveloped by a spirit of worldliness. Pagan cultic practices were assimilated into what was called the Church, which was becoming merely an externalized form of Christianity, alien to Scripture, devoid of authentic spiritual life and experience. The history of the Vaudois, the Waldensians, and the Paulicians, shows that what was called “Church” was more and more separating itself from true biblical faith. Thus it was becoming a vicious persecutor of any who stood for the truth revealed in the New Testament.

From the beginning of Christian times, the Gospel had produced an internal unity among the believers. However, the substitution of ritualism for the Gospel produced merely an external, visible unity for an institutionalized system. The fallacious clergy-laity division spawned an emergent, priestly, episcopal, authoritarian order of parochial dominion. This further devolved into an established hierarchy of ruling clergy, lording it over the flock of God.

By the end of the fifth century, these so-called priests presumed to mediate between God and man. These men had replaced the early pastors of the Gospel who had simply taught the Scripture. The Church no longer was the fellowship of believers in Christ Jesus, united by the Gospel. Rather, for the most part, it was rapidly becoming a system dominated by a hierarchy of bishops and elders.

Before this, in 330 AD, the emperor Constantine removed the seat of the empire from Rome to Constantinople. This marvelously enhanced the power of this developing Roman system. The barbarian invasions of the Western Roman Empire helped immeasurably to build the emerging structure of what would become the papal system.

Then, by religious assimilation, the bishop of Rome cemented his place as the unifying force that held a corrupt society together. From the decaying, confused ruin of the Western Empire, the Vatican system emerged triumphant by appropriating the prerogatives of the Caesars. In addition, it asserted itself as above presidents, prime ministers, and kings of the world. It has the main spiritual authority, subject to none of them.

Beginning in the fifth century, continuing through several successive centuries as new tribes of people desired to become Christian, and the papal system received these new peoples as they were. As the true Gospel of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, had been abandoned, there was no call to repent and believe. It simply baptized to receive people from the tribes into what was called the Church, and their names were inscribed in its registers. This is in total contrast to the Scripture where there is an absolute connection between the Spirit and the Word of God, and not between physical water and grace.

Coming to new birth, as seen in the New Testament, is by the Holy Spirit through the instrument of God’s Word. Thus, the Apostle Peter proclaims being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. Nonetheless, the papal teaching of alleged rebirth by water baptism, which started in those early centuries, still continues in the system to the present day. Thus, the papal code of canon law, canon 849 states, and I quote,

Baptism, the gateway to the sacraments and necessary for salvation by actual reception or at least by desire, is validly conferred only by a washing of true water with the proper form of words. Through baptism men and women are freed from sin, are reborn as children of God, and, configured to Christ by an indelible character, are incorporated into the Church. (Ref: https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann834-878_en.html#TITLE_I.)

We saw already that in the fifth century, men called priests presumed to mediate between God and men. In Scripture, before the all holy God, an individual is saved by his grace alone. Scripture is crystal clear in Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, For by grace are you saved through faith. And that, not of yourselves, is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

It’s in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus that God shows the exceeding riches of his grace. That He alone saves is the whole meaning of divine grace.

Attempting to imitate saving grace from the late fifth century, the papal system began to claim that its sacraments were necessary for salvation. It took many centuries for this sacramental system to be fully developed into seven sacraments. As we see today, the official teaching states the following quote,

The Church affirms that, for believers, the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation.

This is the guiding policy of the papal system. Thus on Sunday, May 3, 2015, Pope Francis strictly obeyed the Vatican’s guiding policy regarding the sacraments. He said, quote,

Jesus is the vine. Through him, we are the branches. And through this parable, Jesus wants us to make us understand the importance of remaining united to Him. Grafted by baptism in Christ, we’ve freely received from Him the gift of new life. We’re able to remain in vital communion with Christ. We must remain faithful to our baptism and grow in friendship with the Lord Jesus through prayer, listening and docility to his word, reading the Gospel, participation in the sacraments, the Eucharist and Reconciliation.

Emperor Justinian, who was from 527 to 565 AD, was the one, more than anyone else, to establish the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome as head of the system. He did it in a formal and legal manner by bringing purely ecclesiastical edicts and regulations under the control of civil law. The historian, Frum, summarized what took place, quote,

One of Justinian’s great achievements was the regulation of ecclesiastical and theological matters, crowned by the imperial decretal letter, ceding the Bishop of Rome in the Church as the head of all the holy churches, thus laying the legal foundation for papal ecclesiastical supremacy.

Emperor Justinian’s decree did not create the office of the Pope, but rather it set the legal foundation for advancement in ruling power by the Bishop of Rome. The emperor wished to allay the demise of the imperial empire, thus ecclesiastical unity was imposed. Consequently, the Bishop of Rome became the head of the empire’s church. Then the title of Pope began to fit the one who sat as Bishop of Rome, who now is free to use the civil sword of coercion, given him by Justinian’s decree. Formerly ecclesiastical unity came by the moral persuasion of the Gospel and the Scripture to save individuals who then would be salt and light to their civil societies.

Thus it was in the eighth century that civil power came within the grasp of the papacy. As the power of the system grew, so did the immoral lives of both those who led the system and the men and women who were under its control.

The year 1073 was a turning point from the centuries of gross immorality. Rigorous discipline now became the norm of the papacy. Reaching above the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of papal minds continued to clutch at total dominion, both ecclesiastical and civil. By this time, the line of Charlemagne had grown too weak to keep papal ambitions in check.

Pope Gregory VII, also known as Hildebrand, was ambitious beyond all who had preceded him. He was convinced that the reign of the Pope was in fact the reign of God on earth, and he determined to subject all authority and all power, both spiritual and temporal, to the chair of Peter. It was Gregory VII who envisioned what was to become the vast structure of the papal system. His goal was to be the supreme ruler and judge of all leaders, both church and state. It’s with Gregory’s astute grasp of the notion and his crushing ambition coupled with the enormous wealth that the Roman Catholic Church by then possessed, that made its implementation possible.

These shrewd enactments began to bear fruit even during Gregory’s own rule from 1073 to 1085. Pope Innocent III, 1198 to 1216, and Boniface VIII, 1294 to 1303, put the final touches to the papal system’s spiritual and temporal power.

Pope Innocent III proclaimed a crusade against the Albigenses and offered to all who would engage in it the pardon of all sins, to get to heaven without passing through purgatory. It was a war perpetrated with unimaginable cruelty. Whole villages and towns were indiscriminately butchered. Thousands were burned at the stake, while others were subjected to the most hideous torture. The history of these horrendous deeds of cruelty and murder is established by numerous accounts.

Pope Boniface VIII was stubborn, ambitious, intelligent vain, unscrupulous. He believed deeply that the pope was literally the vicar of Christ on earth, and that he held extraordinary powers. Anyone who opposed him opposed God, therefore must certainly be wicked. He is most famous for a statement in his papal bull called Unum Sanctum.

We declare, say, define and proclaim to every human creature that they by necessity for salvation, are entirely subject to the Roman pontiff.

Seventy-five popes, one after another, from Pope Innocent III to Pope Pius VII, approved of torture, murder, burning at the stake, and the confiscation of the property of believers in the horrific six centuries of the Inquisition. The papacy inflicted excruciating torture and cruel death on true believers.

Then comes the Reformation. The Reformation in the sixteenth century greatly restored the biblical faith that had been proclaimed by the apostles. Not only was biblical faith restored, but right across Europe the papal system was devastated. The men of the Reformation were such as Luther at Wittenberg, Erasmus, Colle at Oxford, Billney Latimer, Cartwright, Cambridge, Le Fevarin, Feralic, Paris. (I’m not sure if all these names are spelled correctly.) These leaders of the Reformation were highly trained men of that generation. In some instances, as Baysa and Tyndale, they ranked high as men of letters. The Reformation was a glorious spiritual awakening.

The primary response of the Roman Catholic system to the biblical faith of the Reformers was the counter-Reformation. It was advanced principally through the political and educational influence of the Jesuit order. The Jesuits, in an uncompromising and militant manner, led a movement to restore the Roman Catholic system to the position it had had before the Reformation.

The Jesuits’ intention, then and now, is to indoctrinate populations. Populations that are not grounded in the Bible are notoriously superstitious and servile to all the notions of sentimental religion and mysticism because they do not have any sure knowledge of God through Jesus Christ and his written word. Jesuit mysticism has a great appeal for them. To such people adrift in spiritual darkness, the Roman Catholic system offers both the spiritual authority of the Pope, his visible rituals and potent psychological conditioning.

By the mid-17th century, the Jesuit order had thousands of members across Europe. Their mission, then and now, has been undermining confidence in the Bible as the word of God, and the extirpation of the effects of the Reformation. Over the next few centuries, they became the papacy’s most powerful force to subvert Western culture from Christian biblical principles and liberties. The Jesuits have had a strong political influence on Catholic monarchies across Europe. They’ve led the main counter-Reformation efforts for four centuries by upholding papal authority, restoring the sacramental system and promulgating a compelling version of Roman mysticism and superstitions to many nations that had been touched by the biblical principles of the Reformation. Much of what papal Rome has achieved since the Reformation and in modern times has been due to the planning, strategy and fanatical dedication of the Jesuits.

Devastating economic strategies have also been advocated by the papal system. For example, Pope Francis, a Jesuit, published a document called Joy of the Gospel. Among many other topics, he wrote about economics. One of his statements concerning wealth declared that not to share one’s wealth with the poor is to steal from them and to take away their livelihood. It’s not our own goods which we hold, but theirs. In fact, Pope Francis flagrantly refutes private property and Western economic principles. Applied economic principles give stability and well-being to societies. Thus, factually, the papal system’s economics is worse than Marx’s.

In conclusion, the lesson to be learned. The papal system arose under the imperial Roman Empire and survived the empire’s demise. In 537 AD, Justinian gave the legal base for it to acquire civil power, which it did, throughout the course of the next ten centuries. Its temporal power was arrested by the recovery of the Bible and the Gospel during the Reformation of the 16th century. It was held at bay by the Puritans of the 17th and 18th centuries. Nevertheless, it survived the demise of the Holy Roman Empire to become a sovereign nation in the 20th century and is now set to continue as a major power player in 2015. (And continues to be so in 2023.)

Currently, Pope Francis is the visible head of the Roman Church, but the papal system is still the power behind the throne. The papal system is nothing less than the satanic counterfeit of the true Christian Church. Indeed, it is the mystery of iniquity.

The true Christian Church is the great revelation of God, which had its full manifestation in the person of the Christ of God. Thus, Scripture proclaims:

(Hebrews 1:1-3) “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, {2} Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; {3} Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;”

Thus it is that the true Christian is focused on the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and not on any system. As we behold the power, wisdom, and goodness of the heavenly Father, we also behold the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ. For as the mediator, he has the nature and perfections of God in himself. The Lord Jesus Christ alone reconciles us to God by the full legal satisfaction for our sins, made by his substitutionary death on the cross. There is absolutely no church system that can redeem a soul by ritualized, sacramental actions, nor can we justify ourselves before God by religious works that are always stained by imperfect performance, tainted by self-focused motives.

A soul will have no peace with God while striving to save itself by any means that God does not accept. It is only the Lord Jesus Christ’s atoning work of shedding his blood on our behalf that meets the demands of an all holy God and his perfect law. It is by simply trusting upon Christ as the Lamb of God that we are saved, by believing on him we are delivered from the universal penalty of the second death and have assurance before God that we are accepted in him.

This is the only way of salvation that God the Holy Spirit testifies as being validated by him in the consciences of men. Thus his word expresses it,

Psalms 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

How trivial and vain are the promises of the papal system compared to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ who is revealed as the chiefest among ten thousand.

Were it not for the recovery of the absolute authority of the Bible alone and the Gospel of grace in salvation during the reformation of the 16th century, the papal system might still be undetected. In spite of the papal system being so rampantly displayed in the world today, the Holy Spirit still convicts individual men of their sin before a holy God, and sends them repentance unto life in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:8,9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

The true believer is thus accepted in the beloved in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace.

The frightening words of the Lord in Matthew 7:21 are to ring in the ears of those who have spent their whole lives believing in the papal religious system.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

No person by merely acknowledging Christ’s authority or believing in his divinity, professing faith in his perfection and in the infinite merit of his atonements, shall have any part with God in his glory, but only he who for salvation solely believes on Jesus Christ. The Lord put the command to believe in a nutshell when he said, “This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.” Likewise, the Apostle Paul and Silas declared, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved and your house.”

The Gospel of Jesus Christ stands, and so also does his call on your life. Do you personally know Christ Jesus? The water of life is offered to you in the abundance of grace, which far surpasses the evils of sin. Thus the Lord’s call in Scripture says,

The Spirit and the bride say, come, and let him that hears say, come, and let him that is a thirst, come, and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely.

Once you, as a convicted sinner, believe on Christ Jesus alone, by grace alone, through faith alone, as your only surety and refuge before the all holy God. You find yourself not only freed from your sins, but made to reign in life.

Romans 5:17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

That was from the Apostle Paul.

Those who receive the abundant grace given by Christ are not only redeemed from the dominion of death, they live in reign with Christ as they are sanctified daily, through his word, by the Holy Spirit, and by constant fellowship with him. With him, they shall reign forever and glorify him for all eternity. Believe on him alone, and you will be secure in him, to the praise of the glory of his grace, his free gift to us in the Beloved.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Another quote from the Apostle Paul.

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This is a transcript from an audio podcast by former Irish Catholic priest, Richard Bennett.

Exposing Pope Francis and the Roman Church

Not only does the Roman system conceal its own wickedness, it exalts the glory that the world gives to Pope Francis, truly amazing as the world wonders after him. That man of sin who claims to be the Holy Father and Head of the Lord’s Church mocks our Lord and our Heavenly Father. The exposing of current documented facts about the Roman Church and its Pope including their practice of pedophilia, and child abuse need to be exposed.- Richard Bennett

Welcome to the program. It’s a difficult topic and it’s really necessary that you listen so that we can implement what we document in this video.

The Roman church has paraded all its glory before the world as Pope Francis came to the United States of America in September 2015. We have to see just what was presented to the world to make it look as if the Roman church is a genuine church.

If the Roman church is accepted as a genuine Christian church, it has dire consequences for individual believers and for nations. This is seen in history, and we could give many examples, but I give just a few in my own Ireland in 1172.

The pastors of the Christian church all over Ireland, and the people of the Catholic church accepted the Roman Catholic church as a genuine form of Christianity. And that meant the end of the true Christian faith in Ireland in 1172.

Now it was done with murderous intent by Pope Alexander III and King Henry II of England. With military might the people were forced to submit to the church of Rome, and they did so. How different it would have been if they had been willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the Gospel of grace. How different it could have been. But they submitted to accept the Roman church as if it were the true church and if it were genuinely Christian. And that meant for the most part the end of true Christian faith in Ireland.

To this day, there is a lot of good Christian work going on in Ireland, and there has been even in the north for many many years. And in the south there are a lot of Christian works now. But for the most part, it is ruled by Rome. And it is horrendous to see all the artifacts of Rome with statues of Mary and the saints, and all in the different cities and towns as you travel across that nation. That was in Ireland in 1172.

In somewhat a similar way in Poland in the 1560s. Beginning in the 1560s, the Jesuits entered Poland. Poland had become reformed with true biblical faith from the time of the Reformation. It was very very widely accepted biblical faith and true Christian life. And the Jesuits came in the 1560s. They started to found colleges, and they started to influence the different rulers and princes in Poland, and got into educational facilities, and they started to form colleges right across Poland. And so in a matter of years, the Roman Church was accepted as the true church. And for the most part, the Christian faith that had come from the Reformation was lost in Poland. And we could give far more details on that, but that’s just an overview. And it breaks your heart to see what happens when the Roman Church is accepted as a genuine church.

In a similar way from 1600 to 1610 the Jesuits were the foremost in the Counter-Reformation in Hungary. And they set about successfully reconverting people from the Christian faith back to Romanism. And the golden age of biblical faith in Hungary was lost in a similar way that it had been lost in Poland and in Ireland. And so it has been in many other nations. We could give many other examples, but that just illustrates the point. And many other nations have been the same. And it has often been the same with a Jesuit or Jesuits leading the field. The Jesuits have been known to be shrewdly intellectual and dramatically Roman Catholic in how they implement Romanism in a country.

And now we have another Jesuit, Pope Francis. He makes no bones about the fact that he was trained as a Jesuit, and he still is very much a Jesuit and acts very much like a Jesuit, and was very much as a Jesuit that he paraded the glory of the Roman Church for all the people to see in the United States of America in September 2015. He made the pump and the glory of Rome to be seen coast to coast by television and newscasts and over the Internet. And you can still see on the Internet his message to Congress in speaking in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and on and on. You can see these messages as they are still there on the Internet. Pope Francis is presenting the Roman Church as if it were a genuine Christian Church, and the world bowing down to it, and people accepting Romanism who did not accept before that it was a genuine church.

I want to read the exact words of what the New York Times said about this visit. It is significant because there are many many other news agencies who have similar statements regarding the Pope’s coming to the United States. So I quote from the New York Times:

“Welcome with a fanfare of trumpets and a chorus of amens, Pope Francis introduced himself to the United States on Wednesday with a bracing message on climate change, immigration, and poverty that ranged from pastoral to political. On a day that blended this splendor of an ancient church with the frenzy of a modern rock star, Francis waded quietly but forcefully into some of the more polarizing issues of American civic life.

The lauding of Francis by the New York Times and on other news agencies lauded him and his Church, the ancient Church as the New York Times called it there. But it is the acceptance of Romanism that has taken place in the United States of America.

With Pope Francis, it appeared as if nothing was too lofty or beyond his insight or judgment, and nothing too lowly mortal to reach that he could reach out in his mercy. It was as if unseen hands were secretly orchestrating him. Crowds chanted homage and acclamation to the Roman pontiff. To all appearances, the world was wondering after Pope Francis in great admiration for his power, his policy, and his pomp. Very few people tried to comprehend the truth of who Francis is and of the institution that he directs. Very few even bothered to analyze what he said. And it is for us to show just exactly what he said and what his institution is so that we are not taken in as were people of old, people who accepted Romanism and then paid the consequences in their own personal life, in their families, and in their nations. So we must analyze some of the things that happened, and analyze Romanism itself.

We start, for example, with the Pope at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. On September 24th, Francis offered prayers for the hundreds of Muslim pilgrims killed during Islam’s Hijah saying,

“I would like to express two sentiments for my Muslim brothers and sisters, my sentiments of closeness in the face of tragedy, tragedy that they suffered in Mecca. In this moment I give assurances of my prayers, and I unite myself with you all. I pray to the Almighty God all merciful.”

But you can see that this is in accord with the official teaching that Francis accepts of his Roman church, where he and his church accept the Muslim faith. Officially it’s in paragraph 841 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis’s acceptance, an expression of unity of faith with Allah of Islam is an abomination before the one holy true God. The Lord God commands us in his Word,

Exodus 34:14  For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

Isaiah 42:8  I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

You cannot say you’re Christian if, at the same time, you’re uniting in prayer with Allah in praying as if it was one God. There is only one true God, God the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. There is none other. And for the pope to pray to this other god and unite himself with Muslims is an abomination before God! And it is blasphemy. And so it is that we see the wickedness of this Roman system that they see Muslims as one in faith with themselves. They do the same with the Buddhists and the Hindus. It is heartbreaking that anybody could think that this church is Christian when it does that sort of thing.

And now on a par with this, there is the moral evil of Roman Catholic priests, the child abuse that has continued coast to coast in America and in all the nations of the world, the phenomenon of the gross immorality of Roman Catholic priests. This has been seen. It is not just going back to 2002 when the Boston Globe was one of the first newspapers in the world and news agencies to make this problem known. I quote from the Boston Globe in 2002.

“From Canada to Australia South Africa to Hong Kong across Europe and Ireland, and to Pope Paul John II native’s Poland, clergy sex abuse cases and enduring cover-ups have proven to be a worldwide problem.”

And that problem continues. It doesn’t make the same headlines that it used to, but it’s still continues and has not abated. And the abuse is not about one nation or one country, it’s about an institution. And it’s worldwide, this child abuse, lies, and immorality.

And so I’d like to give some recent reports. In the United States, for example, NPR news wrote on their Internet webpage news concerning what was happening in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

August the 5th 2015. Monday’s deadline for filing claims has passed. The bankruptcy case of the Twin Cities archdiocese moved to its next stage. By the deadline, more than 600 claims have been filed including 407 alleged victims of clergy abuse.

And so in the Twin Cities in the United States, 407 clergy case abuses were revealed on June the 15th, 2015, the New York Times reported. The Archbishop of St Paul Minnesota and deputy bishop resigned Monday after prosecutors recently charged the archdiocese with having failed to protect youths from abuse at the hands of pedophile priests. So pedophile priests on the romp looking for victims as it were in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and this was reported in the New York Times on June 15th.

Now we’ll find that it’s worldwide. There is an organization that you should know about. You can find it easily on the Internet. It is SNAP, (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) the organization for those who have survived clergy abuse. It reports worldwide. In the United States abuses are taking place daily. and it documents them and gives you records. For example, we have in the quotation that I’m just going to read from the web page https://www.snapnetwork.org/:

SNAP makes known a movie detailing massive abuse cover-up in in Boston. The movie documents abuse from offices in Waltham, Massachusetts where there are floor-to-ceiling files of more than a hundred thousand pages of church reports, court documents, media reports, letters from mothers of victims, victims themselves, and even abusers detailing their crimes. The organization SNAP says, “How can you spend your workdays chronicling thousands of cases of Catholic priestly sexual abuse and still remain a Catholic? How can somebody read about these abuses and still remain a Catholic?

So SNAP that organization asked the question, and it is a very good question because how can anybody look as if this church were genuinely Christian or stay in a church that has this horrendous history? And the history continues day by day, nation by nation, across the world.

It is recognized and accepted by the Catholic Church itself that it is the Roman Catholic law that priests are not allowed to marry. That has been a root cause of all these things, the Roman Catholic law by which they have been forbidden to marry. And so it is that we have forced celibacy dominating, and men who are meant to marry and have children are forbidden to marry. And so the predictable outcome. It drives these men to illicit acts. Priest corrupt women, boys and girls, acts of fornication, adultery and sodomy and on and on it goes.

It is known that this law came about by a certain pope in history. It was the well-known Gregory VII, also known as Hildibrand, his name before he became pope in 1075. He issued a decree effectively barring married priests from ministries, a discipline formalized by the First Lateran Council in 1123. That quotation is actually from a Catholic webpage. It’s usCatholic.org who said that it was in 1075, that Pope Gregory issued a decree effectively barring married priests from ministry. And so it is that it’s a Catholic law and it has existed for 940 years.

Now it’s hinted that Pope Francis who changes a lot of traditions has been known to change a lot of things — he might indeed. Would he change this law? It’s very unlikely that he would. But there are financial reasons why he should. Because it not only horrendously disrupts families, leaves scars on people’s minds and consciences of young people who were abused, and horrendously breaks up families across the USA and different parts of the world. Its evil effects on society are still seen day by day. But financially it is also a huge burden on the Roman Catholic Church itself. So I’d like to quote from the Guardian newspaper.

Pope Francis has hailed US bishops for their handling of sexual abuse cases that have rocked the Catholic church for decades saying that they have shown courage throughout and regained the authority and trust which was demanded of them. Between 2004 and 2013, US dioceses paid 1.7 billion dollars in legal settlements.

1.7 billion dollars in legal settlements according to a report released last year by the US Conference of Bishops. And the same period it also paid 379 million in legal fees. So legal fees for cases taken against the Catholic church by the parents and victims and then the legal settlements going into 1.7 billion dollars has cost the Roman Catholic Church a lot. That doesn’t in any way match the horrific moral damage that has been done to families across this nation and families across the world.

My own Ireland is an awful example of what was called the Murphy Report. It was horrendous that Ireland was one of the worst nations for the amount of victims that had come from priestly child abuse. It is horrendous. And so it is that Pope Francis may rescind this law for financial reasons, though it is even unlikely that it would do that because they want to have their priests like robots, and they want to have them so that they can command them to do this and to do that. And if a priest were married, he would talk to his wife and have some little freedom or something, but they do not want any independence. They want their priests to be subservient to the Catholic church itself as they are in the present day. So it’s very unlikely that they would ever be allowed to marry.

The dogma of the Catholic Church says that they (the sacraments) transmit grace and bring life to a soul. I’d like to quote what Pope Francis said on May the 3rd 2015 regarding the sacraments of the Catholic church. He said,

“Jesus is divine and through Him we are the branches. And through this parable Jesus wants us to understand the importance of remaining united to Him. Grafted by baptism in Christ we are free to receive from him the gift of new life, and we’re able to remain in vital communion with Christ. We must remain faithful to baptism and grow in friendship with the Lord through prayer, listening and docility (easily taught) to His Word, reading the Gospel, participation in the sacraments, especially the Eucharist and reconciliation.”

So he focuses on the sacraments! Especially the Eucharist. That is the Mass and Communion and “reconciliation” is the modern name for confession, whispering your sins into the ear of a priest. That is not the way we get life. Life does not come transmitted by material physical sacraments. There’s only one mediator, and that’s Christ Jesus. And we come to God in Him to confess our sins and not to any church or any supposed ritual that would bring us God’s grace.

But this is horrendous, and this is the root cause of why the priests are so immoral. They are the ones closest to the Eucharist! They’re the ones closest to confession. They give confession and they could get a confession. They’re the ones closest to all these sacraments, and they’re the ones known for their immoral lives more and more, even more than the average Catholics are these priests known for their immorality. And they are so close to the sacraments. They’re the ones who dish out and work the sacraments.

It shows you that this is the root cause, that the Catholic Church does not have a Gospel. It turns people to look to rituals for salvation. And that is heartbreaking because we have sincere Catholics really believing that if you go and speak your sins into the ear of a priest and he will give you absolution you will be forgiven. That is not the way that sins are forgiven. It is official Catholic teaching. Let me read their official statement from their catechism.

The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the new covenant are necessary for salvation. Sacramental grace is the grace of the Holy Spirit given by Christ and proper to each sacrament.

How audacious can you get claiming that your sacraments are necessary for salvation and that they give you the Holy Spirit? It’s the Father who sends forth the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ the glorious Lord, not any ritualistic sacrament. This is an abomination before God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. And we are saved as it says in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 and 9:

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

The Catholic church has it of works, their own works called sacraments. And they do boast about their sacraments. This is horrendous! And it is something we are really horrified to read these exact words.

The riches of Christ Jesus are known as it says in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 7:

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Jesus Christ shows the riches of His grace by directly giving us forgiveness, giving us everlasting life as we trust upon his finished work and look to God only in Him to forgive our sins. He is the one who through the Holy Spirit sanctifies us day by day, and not any church, and not any religious ritual.

And so we see this teaching. One of the sacraments was highlighted and it was on the Vatican news webpage about the pope giving pre-special powers through the year of Jubilee to forgive the sin of having an abortion. And I’d like to read what this account says. Pope Francis specifically turned his attention to women who resorted to abortion and feared the scar of this agonizing and painful decision saying the forgiveness of God cannot be denied to one who has repented. For this reason, he writes:

I have decided to concede to all priests for the Jubilee year the discretion to absolve the sin of abortion to those who have procured it and who would with contrite heart seek forgiveness for it.

So Pope Francis gives permission to preach to forgive the sin of having had an abortion. And it is horrendous to think that he is a man with a pontifical heart on his head, and he thinks that he has the power to give priests who are below him permission to forgive sins of having an abortion. The official Catholic teaching says:

That is the official teaching of the Catholic Church in paragraph 1493 of the catechism, but that’s not the teaching of Scripture. In Scripture, we’re told that we look to God to forgive us our sins. As it says in Isaiah:

Isaiah 43:25  I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

First John chapter one verse nine:

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

It’s God who forgives us our sins! It is no ritual or man calling himself a priest. This is biblical truth, but for Catholics, it’s going to a priest. And this permission that he gave to priests to forgive sins is horrendous. And it is a blasphemy against God to presume that any human being sinful himself — and we see that these priests most of all are most sinful of those in the Roman system that they should propose that he could forgive people’s sins. We grieve over this and we look to Catholics, and dear Catholics looking at this program, I ask you to look on to Christ Jesus. As the Lord says in John’s Gospel chapter eight verse 36:

If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

Look to Christ Jesus and ask Him to set you free from this horrendous system, and come to a new life as you would trust in Christ and Christ alone.

And so it is that we document the immorality of the priests and the immorality of their teaching because it’s immoral to teach people a wrong way of salvation and say that sacramental grace comes through the sacraments. That is morally wrong and evil. And I think that Lord Acton, the quite well-known Acton, said it precisely of what Rome is. He said, “It is the fiend skulking behind the crucifix pretending to be Christian. It’s a fiend skulking behind the crucifix.”

We have a system claiming to be Christian that is like a fiend or a devil from hell. It is the lesson we learn, the evil that the Scripture speaks about when it talks about the mystery of evil, the mystery of iniquity, is not atheists, prostitutes, drunkards, and the like, but false religion. That’s what is at stake. The mystery of iniquity is a false religion teaching people a system that will lead them to hell. And we have seen that Francis’ teaching, like a church, is accomplished through physical things.
The first lie of Satan in the Garden of Eden was to convince Eve and then Adam that it was right to take of the fruit of good and evil, that they would know good and evil, the forbidden fruit, and they were to look upon a physical thing to give them understanding. They looked upon the fruit and added as if the physical fruit would give them the way to have knowledge and understanding. And of course, we know the consequences of that sin. Thus the Catholic church also looks to physical things and physical rituals as if they could give life.

And so we have the darkness cover the world as Pope Francis parades his teaching nation by nation. It’s not just that he came here to the United States, he’s been to many other countries, which I just read yesterday on the Internet, that Belfast and Ireland have invited him to come to their city in Northern Ireland, and on and on. Many other countries have invited him, and he has been to the Middle East, he’s been to many other countries of the world and he continues to parade Romanism as if it were respectable and to get the adulation of people. But that is what breaks your heart. It was the acceptance of Romanism in the United States of America. The United States, known for many years to be sound biblically, and to see people accept this horrendous system as if it were genuine, it breaks your heart. And when we know historically other nations and peoples who accepted Romanism as genuine, what it did to families, society, and nations as a whole. We must cry out to God and to know how to answer this abomination.

I think it is great that organizations that I’ve mentioned like SNAP allow you to see what’s going on in other countries. And there are other organizations like SNAP. And I would ask you to find out in your nation what organizations are making these horrors known.

(End of Richard Bennett’s main message.)

This is a talk from a podcast on the Berean Beacon website by former Roman Catholic priest Richard Bennett (March 10, 1938 – September 23, 2019.) After praying what my next project for this website should be, the Lord reminded me of Richard Bennett who served the Church of Rome as a priest for 22 years. I consider insiders who became born-again Christians to be the most reliable and accurate sources of information. I hope you read Richard Bennett’s life story.

I transcribed into text the main message of the first 34 minutes of audio from the 42-minute podcast to make it easier for us all to get Mr. Bennett’s message. The audio is hard to catch in some places.

Pope Francis shows his true colors

Welcome to the program.

Once Jorge Bergoglio was elected Pope, he chose the name Francis, after Saint Francis. Saint Francis was known to be soft-hearted and kind, a lover of nature, somebody who was humble and kind and unassuming. Thus it was that Pope Francis implied that he was going to be unassuming, kind humble and gentle. And this would be his image.

That has been the image that the media picked up on. It was amazing to see the media as they were announcing the Pope worldwide on radio and television and the media in newspapers, all showing the Pope as humble. He was the one who paid his own bill at the hotel after he was elected Pope. He went and personally paid his bill at the hotel where he had stayed during the papal conclave (a gathering of the College of Cardinals convened to elect a bishop of Rome, also known as the pope).

And then they showed that he was the one who insisted that he would not take up the regular apartment complex, the papal suite in the Vatican, but he would take up a much more humble one where he would be more accessible, showing that he was visible for people to see him and to know him. And so it was that he was making himself known to be kind and humble. And then he went to a great extent on television and really showed this to welcome back the previous Pope, Benedict the 16th.

Benedict the 16th had resigned with some disgrace and it was difficult for him to resign with the different rumors that were circulating. And now he was welcomed back into the Vatican, showing again that Francis the new Pope was kind and gentle and would welcome back even the aged and the one who had difficulties in the last months of his pontificate, Benedict the 16th. Was this not like a new Francis of Assisi?

However, there was a novel address that took place on the 19th of March, 2013. Pope Francis showed a different face. The new Jesuit Pope began to graphically display a genuine image while thousands of people crammed into St. Peter’s Square and literally millions watched by television and heard by radio across the world.

He said the following,

“Dear brothers and sisters, I thank the Lord I can celebrate this holy mass for the inauguration of my Petrine ministry.”

Francis the new Pope knew quite well what the Vatican declares is the position of the Pope and what the Petrine ministry means. It is in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 882. I’ll read the exact words:

So Francis knew that this power was now his, and he thanked God that he could celebrate “my Petrine ministry”. And notice the emphasis, my Petrine ministry. It was his, he was the one now in the position of supreme and absolute power, what is claimed for the Bishop of Rome as Pope. And this has always been the Vatican’s position going back many, many hundreds of years, and in particular from the 11th century under the well-known Hilderbrand Pope Gregory VII, this idea of the papacy had a man that goes back to the very position of Peter himself. This was emphasized. And it was to be the presupposition that they just won’t change. No matter the fact that Peter is never recorded to be in Rome, there’s no mention of him going to many cities. They insist that Peter went to Rome and now the Pope takes his position. This is the presupposition that they just will not concede, and is to give them stability in a tumultuous world of many things happening. The Vatican is to appear as stable, appear as stable because they claim no historical or theological grounds.

He then goes on to say why he is celebrating the Mass. Joseph was called to be the costos, the protector. The protector of whom? Of Mary, of Jesus. But this protection is then to extend to the Church. How does Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with unfaring presence and utter fidelity. These carefully chosen words give a distinct picture in the mind of the person who is listening. And then the Pope went to say these exact words:

“Let us protect Christ in our lives so that we can protect others so that we can protect creation. The vocation of being a protector, however, is not just something involving us as Christians alone, it has a prior dimension which is simply human involving everyone.”

So Francis insists that this idea of protection is a job for everyone, not just Christians, he says, but for everyone. It is amazing that this is a way that Francis very cleverly under the guise of protection is actually bringing in Catholic social dogma into his very first inaugural address. He is declaring that everyone has to look after creation, and everyone is responsible, and that implies that goods belong to everyone and that is official Vatican teaching. And it is this social duty that he is emphasizing.

So I like to read again his exact words. He said,

“Please, I would like to ask all of those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life and all men and women of goodwill. Let us be protectors of creation, protectors of God’s plan, inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.”

And this was required because he said again, quoting,

“There are Herods who plot death, wreak havoc and mar the countenance of men and women.”

Now he does not define who these “Herods” are, but he goes on to describe just how we are to protect.

And this next statement of his as I read the exact words is of uttermost importance. He said the following,

“To protect Jesus and Mary. To protect the whole of creation. To protect each person, especially the poorest. To protect ourselves. This is a service that the Bishop of Rome is called to carry out.”

That is quite amazing that anyone could say this, let alone someone claiming to speak as a Christian or claiming to speak as a Pope. It’s amazing how anyone in their right mind could say this, to protect Jesus with Mary. Jesus does not need to be protected! You just have to read the Scriptures. He’s King of King and Lord of Lords! To read the exact words of Scripture that glorify Jesus, He is the only Potentate, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. He needs no protection. So this idea of protecting Jesus with Mary is ludicrous, to say the least.

Then he goes on and he finishes his homily by praying,

“I implore the intercession of the Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, Saint Peter, and Paul, Saint Francis, that the Holy Spirit may accompany my ministry.”

Please notice he did not pray in the name of Christ to the Father. No, what did he do? He called up in prayer, dead saints. Now in scripture, it is emphatically said in the Book of Deuteronomy that we are not to call up the dead. We are to pray to God and God alone. We do not call up the dead to pray to them as if they were divine and could hear prayers. This is really an abomination that somebody who purports to be a Christian leader could pray to the dead and show no understanding of who the Lord Jesus Christ really is.

Following all of this, on March the 20th 2013, Pope Francis addressed religious leaders across the world. Among other matters, he stated:

“First of all, I thank my brother Andrew very much for what he said. Thank you very much. Thank you. It is for a cause of particular joy to me today with you, delegates of the Orthodox churches, the Oriental churches, churches and ecclesial communities of the West. Together with you, I cannot forget how much that counsel has meant for the road of ecumenism. For my part, I wish to assure you in the wake of my predecessors and of my determination to continue on the path of ecumenical dialogue. I ask you, dear brothers and sisters, to bring my cordial greetings and assurance of my remembrance in the Lord Jesus, to the churches and Christian communities He represented. I greet them cordially. Thank you all, dear friends belonging to other religious traditions. First of all, the Muslims who worship this one God living and merciful and call upon him in prayer, and all of you. I really appreciate your presence. In it I can see a tangible sign of the will to grow in mutual esteem, cooperation and common good of humanity.”

Again horrendous words, having esteem for the Muslims in prayer saying that they call upon God who is living and merciful. We know that the Allah of the Quran is not like that. It’s not the God of the Bible. But Francis, to please the Muslims, and to accumunize (compromise?) even with the Muslims, is willing to sacrifice biblical truth for the sake of false ecumenical dialogue. In this his Jesuitism. He was a shrewd Jesuit, putting forth his ecumenical goods, totally abhorrent before the God, the Holy God of Scripture.

Two days later on March the 22nd, Pope Francis spoke to a group of diplomats representing governments that have relationships with the Vatican. Again he showed his Jesuit sophistry. His speech began with the words:

Dear Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you again for all the work that you do along with the Secretary of State to build peace, to construct bridges of friendship and fraternity. Through you, I would like to renew to your governments my thanks for their participation in the celebrations on the occasion of my election. And my heartfelt desire to be a fruitful, a common endeavor.”

In his address, Pope Francis emphasized the fact that he was known as the pontiff, that is, the Builder of Bridges. And he said,

“In this work with governments, the role of religion is fundamental.”

That statement, the role of religion is fundamental in the work with governments, is exactly what the Roman Catholic Church claims in its Code of Canon Law. If you want to check the Code of Canon Law, it’s Canon 1405 that the Pope can judge “those who hold the highest civil office of a state.”

The blending of civil with religion has for many centuries been the policy of the Roman Church. It has been quite successful, disastrously so in many cases. The Roman Church by its position of being not only a religious system but also a civil system, it is also a government besides being a religious system, and she can use her position as a nation, a government to have a relationship in the civil order with other nations.

Thus, at the moment when he was speaking, Pope Francis, the Roman Church, had 179 legal agreements with nations of the world. Some of these go back a long time, particularly with some of the European and South American countries, and it can be seen that in nations where the Catholic Church has a civil position, it has been detrimental to the Christians there because the Vatican is claiming and using its power as a civil entity.

They have concordants with nations. A concordant is a guarantee in civil law that the Vatican can teach what is right religion and worship, and declare what is not right religion and worship. That they have a right to establish Catholic education, and a right to object to other education. That they have a right to insist that their laws on marriage and annulments are civilly accepted. Where these agreements are in effect, we have Christians being disbarred (or deprived) from having property in some nations, and things like Christian radio stations become legally impossible because the Vatican declares what religious system is acceptable in civil law!

When I was in Slovakia in the year 2000, and Slovakia became a country having a concordant with Rome, the believers there were horrified. They said,

“You do not understand what this means. It means that we will not be able to set up churches where we like. It means that if we go against the teaching of the Catholic Church, the police will turn up at our doors. This is a civil matter.”

I began to see, and I have a whole video on Vatican control through civil power, and it’s horrendous.

Now Francis knew well what was involved in his talking to leaders of government. And he knew well that he had in Argentina where he was the Cardinal since 1957, a civil agreement with the Church of Rome, and how that helped in civil law for the Catholic Church to increase, and to prevent other Christians, to prevent Christian churches from growing in Argentina. How clever was Francis in talking to these civil leaders in these religious terms addressing the civil leaders about how thankful he was to be able to work together with them! He was setting up, or willing to set up more and more agreements on the civil nature by which the Roman Church could take control in the nations. It’s frightening, and something that many people have no idea exists.

Then on April the 23rd 2013, Pope Francis was again anything but peaceful, humble and unassuming. In the sermon for that day, he said the following:

“In the reading today it makes me think of the missionary expansion the Church began at the time of the persecution and those Christians that went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch and proclaimed the Word. They had this apostolic fervor with them. And that is how the faith spread. But some at Jerusalem, when they heard this, became nervous and sent Barnabus. He saw that things were going well. And so the Church was a mother. The mother of more children of many children it became more and more a mother. A mother that gives us the faith, a mother that gives us an identity because it is not possible to find Jesus outside the Church. The mother Church that gives us Jesus gives us our identity that is not only a seal, it is a belonging. Identity means belonging. This belonging to the Church is beautiful. Think of this mother Church that grows with new children to whom she gives the identity of faith because you cannot believe in Jesus without the Church. Let me ask the Lord for this apostolic fervor that impels us to move forward as brothers, all of us forward.

It is really amazing and horrifying to see what the Pope said in these words. It is actually an official dogma of the Church that he was teaching. I like to read the official catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 181.

That summarizes what Pope Francis was saying. You must have the Church as mother otherwise you cannot have God as father. In Scripture it is totally different. The apostles said, believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved and thy house. Faith is God given, not Church given. The apostle Peter said,

2 Peter 1:1  Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

We obtain it. It is from God! It is not from any church. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. Scripture summarizes it. But Francis was insisting as does his papal Church that it’s the Mother Church that gives you your identity and gives you Jesus. No mother church gives anyone Jesus! Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. This is a strict sense of what the apostle Paul said in Galatians. If anyone preaches any other Gospel than what you have received, let him be anathema. This is accursed in Scripture, somebody giving a message of salvation that is not a message of salvation saying that Mother Church gives you Jesus.

It is shocking to read such things, but this is what Francis was doing in his very inaugural address. The system that professes to teach faith is teaching religion of trusting rituals and traditions that appear to be religious but are deceitful because they do not deliver what they say they do. This is emphatically contrary to what Scripture says. It is the gift of God. Faith is obtained as Peter said from God.

I’d like to say to you as we have shown these horrific statements of Pope Francis. What the Lord Jesus Christ said on the night before he died. He prayed that they may be one as thou, Father, art in me, and I am in thee, that they may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou has sent me. Jesus knew very well all whom he prayed for. He prayed for those whom the Father had given him in the words of the Gospel of John. Those who were born not of blood, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man but of God. Those who were born of God, it is God-given. Not any church given, it is God-given! They are the ones who believe.

This is the message I give to you today that you personally, as you watch this program, as you think of what Pope Francis has said, and you think of what really is the message. The message is believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved.

The Scriptures teach us that we must serve God acceptably and with Godly fear. God is all holy, and it is something to know that even in the New Testament He is spoken about as a consuming fire. He is not just going to let things pass as if it didn’t count. In a strict justice, He will come against those who teach incorrectly. Those who believe wrong doctrine end up just in their own deception, and they continue in the sins that they were hoping would be forgiven.

In his own day, the Lord Jesus, we could say with compassion and kindness and care, reached out even to the Pharisees. It is in John’s Gospel chapter 8. He said, “I say to you that you shall die in your sins. If you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins. If Francis himself, Pope Francis does not believe in Jesus Christ alone by the faith that God gives, he will die in his sins, and the same for all those that he teaches, and believe in rituals or sacraments, and not on the Lord Jesus Christ alone, they too will die in their sins.

You may say, “Well, I am a sincere Catholic, and I sincerely believe what my church teaches me. When the Pharisees were sincere and they believed what the Torah was supposed to have said to their religious leaders of Pharisees, they were sincere, and it didn’t make any difference. You will die in your sins.

This is a sobering message, and I say that to you. You may know that I was a Catholic for 48 years and 22 as a priest, and I spent many years in that system. I thank God for taking me out of it. I no longer substitute a church for rituals. I personally believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and by God’s grace, I have done that since 1985. It is God’s grace. It is not as Francis says, purporting Mother Church to give you faith. It is God who gives you faith.

It is mind-boggling to see and to read the exact words of Pope Francis. It is shattering to know that there are literally millions upon millions of people across the world who believe what the Pope teaches. All for a billion worldwide, at least on paper, are accepted to be Catholics. Millions in each nation that has any presence of religious sentiment in them. Millions. Does your heart not go out to them to give them the message that is saving and real?

You and I are, as Scripture said, dead in trespasses and sins. By nature, we were born as children of Adam, and by personal sin, we have added to that sin. But in face of all that, the true Gospel came. The Gospel that is the power of God unto salvation, in the words of the apostle Paul. While we are sinners, children of wrath, rebels against God, the all Holy God, we do not match up to His Holiness. We can, by His grace, turn in faith.

I did it, aged 48, and I praise God. And I have known of literally thousands of others, particularly as our DVDs go out, and we get more response from our DVDs, and I thank God for that. People hear the word of God and live. It is really glorious.

I would ask that as you listen to this program, and as later on you see it, you already know that you should send this to friends and that you make it known, this program known to others.

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This is up to 34 minutes and all of the main message of Richard Bennett’s 42-minute podcast. If you like, you can listen to Mr. Bennett’s entire talk on the Berean Beacon website.

Chapter 2 of the Book of Daniel is probably the easiest to understand of all the prophecies of Daniel, and the interpretation of it is probably the least controversial among Christians! The only people who may question the Book of Daniel are atheists and people who deny the Divine inspiration of the Bible. That’s because Daniel two is an outline of world history of the empires that existed hundreds of years after Daniel was alive. The Lord showed Daniel the empires that would follow the Babylonian empire. There is no way Daniel could have known or shared these things with Nebuchadnezzar unless God, Who knows the future, had revealed it. Because the prophecies of Daniel 2 were all fulfilled after Daniel which history clearly shows us, and because that proves the Divine inspiration of the Book of Daniel, unbelieving academics and scholars have tried to argue that Daniel chapter 2 was written much later than Daniel actually lived, and therefore Daniel could not have written it. They’re wrong. Who would you rather trust? The recorded Word of God or the opinion of some unbelieving academic? I choose the former. Jesus Himself gave credibility to the Book of Daniel when He said in Mark 13:14:

“But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:”

Jesus is talking about the latter half of Daniel 9:27 which says:

…and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

I taught Daniel 2 once during an evening Bible study to my Christian fellowship. I think most of them understood and appreciated it.

Daniel 2:1  And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

Nebuchadnezzar II, also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, (born c. 630—died c. 561 bce), second and greatest king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia (reigned c. 605–c. 561 bce). He was known for his military might, the splendour of his capital, Babylon, and his important part in Jewish history. (Source: Britannica)

I don’t like using BCE, before common era, and CE, common era. I’ll just stick with BC, before Christ, and AD, after Christ. I heard Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famous American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator say he also prefers to use BC and AD. 🙂

The second year of the King Nebuchadrezzar of the Book of Daniel was therefore 606 BC.

I hope you read the entire chapter 2 from your Bible on your own. I will sum up verses 2 – 30:

King Nebuchadrezzar had a dream he considered important and meaningful, but upon waking up, he couldn’t remember the dream. He therefore called his wise men, the magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell him what he dreamed. They of course could not. King Nebuchadrezzer wanted the wise men to tell him both the dream and the interpretation of it! He said if they could tell him the dream, he would know they would tell him the correct interpretation of the dream. When the wise men said there was no way they can tell the king his dream, Nebuchandresser then threatened them and their families with execution! This would have included the prophet Daniel and his Hebrew friends as well if they did not tell the king his dream. Daniel wasn’t in the kings presence at the time.

The wise men said,

Daniel 2:11  And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

The king then became furious and ordered all the wise men to be killed! Daniel found out about the king’s order from Arioch, the king’s captain, and went to the king to ask for time to learn both the dream and its interpretation. The king granted his request. Daniel then asked his Hebrew friends to pray that the God of Heaven reveal to him both the dream and the interpretation. Daniel received it by revelation that night and the next day told the king both the dream and the interpretation.

Nebuchadnezzer’s dream

Daniel 2:31-35  ¶Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

The interpretation

Daniel 2:36-38  This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.

The “image” Nebuchadnezzer saw was a statue of a man. The “head of gold” of the statue represented King Nebuchanezzer and his kingdom that ruled from 626 BC and ended 539 BC. Nebuchadnezzer was king during this time from 605 BC to 561 BC.

The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 612 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 539 BC, marking the collapse of the Chaldean dynasty less than a century after its founding. (Source: Wikipedia)

Daniel 2:39  And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

The second kingdom of Daniel 2:39 symbolized by the statue’s breast and his arms of silver and is the dual empire of Medo-Persia which is also known as the Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire. Persia was the stronger of the two, just as in the body one arm is stronger than the other!

Toward the end of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, the Persians began to become a powerful force and under Cyrus II Media was conquered in 549 b.c. and was combined with the empire of the Persians to form Medo-Persia. The combined strength of the Persians and the Medes led to conquest of Babylon in 539 b.c., with the resulting extension of their empire over much of the Middle East until the conquest of Alexander the Great in 331 b.c. (Source: Bible.org)

The third kingdom of Daniel 2:39 symbolized by the belly and his thighs of brass is the Greek empire founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC. Daniel lived to the beginning of the Medo-Persian empire but the Greek empire came 200 years later! The Greeks were interested in philosophy and religion or spiritual things. And it is held by the Greeks and by almost all religions that the seat of the spirit is in the belly. As Jesus said, “Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake He of the Spirit.)” (John 7:38,39)

In 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Achaemenid Persian Empire and began a series of campaigns that lasted for 10 years. Following his conquest of Asia Minor, Alexander broke the power of Achaemenid Persia in a series of decisive battles, including those at Issus and Gaugamela; he subsequently overthrew Darius III and conquered the Achaemenid Empire in its entirety.

The first empire was represented by the head of gold, Babylon. The second, the dual empire of Medo-persia represented by arms of silver. Two arms represented the dual kingdom. First Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon, but Cyrus let Darius the Mede be ruler of it in the beginning. The Bible tells me so!

Daniel 5:30-31 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. 31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

Next, the fourth kingdom:

Daniel 2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

The fourth kingdom represented by the legs or iron was the Roman Empire. Rome, the tough, iron-fisted kingdom which clamped down with iron military rule over the entire known world in the days before Christ, was one of the longest-reigning empires the world has ever known. For nearly one hundred years there were no major wars, no one even being able to muster a force against the Roman rule.The armies of Rome marched all over the known world which gives meaning to the legs of iron. Rome conquered the Greeks in 27 BC. In its decline it was divided into an Eastern and Western Empire. The Western Empire was ruled by Rome, and the Eastern Empire, ruled by Constantinople, was called the Byzantine Empire. So even the parts of the image itself symbolize the kingdoms of man, and this becomes extremely significant as we go on to the feet.

Daniel 2:41-43  And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

This brings us up to the present. Kings ruled the earth until the American Revolution and the French Revolution which brought democracy to the world. The iron rule of the Roman empire continued through the “Holy Roman Empire” by the iron rule of the popes of Rome and their control over kings. Personal liberty and freedom of conscience was suppressed. It’s still hated by the Pope and the Vatican till this day!

The clay can represent the democratic republics such as America which supposedly protects the rights of the individual. The iron may also represent dictatorships, both fascist and communist governments. Germany under Hitler was fascist and the Soviet Union was communist. Both were dictatorships. The people were suppressed. China is of course run by the Chinese Communist Party. There was some freedom when I visited China in 1998 and 1999, but nobody even then discussed politics! I wouldn’t want to visit China today.

Another interpretation of the iron and the clay, and this is my own personal interpretation: I think it may be symbolized by bones in person’s feet and the tissue covering the bones. This reminds me of so called democratic governments today. All nations of the world including democracies have a hidden dictatorial iron core of rule which is covered by the democratic (clay) process. GWB told the American people they had no say in his invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. It would happen no matter if the vast majority of the American people were against it. That’s democracy?

Daniel 2:44-45  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

The Stone cut out of the mountain without hands represents the Lord Jesus Christ. His coming will break in pieces the kingdoms of this world, the existing governments of man, and He will set up His kingdom on earth to replace them. This, I believe, is very close the time we are living in now! When will it happen? I’m not into date setting but I can’t see how the world can last much longer the way it’s going! I see judgements on nations that have legalized abortion and are promoting the LGBTQ agenda, judgements such as fires, floods, extreme heat in the summer, extreme cold and snow in the winter, tornados, hurricanes, and earthquakes. It was Obama who was the first American president that came out with his acceptance of gay people, and Biden has taken it to a whole new level promoting transgenerism. And besides abortion and the LGBTQ agenda, I’m hearing a lot more evil going on, things I cannot ennumerate in this article. If you have seen the “Sound of Freedom” you know what I’m talking about.

Let’s all be busy for the Lord in service to His Kingdom so we will not be ashamed at His coming!

Revelation 22:20-21  ¶He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

If you missed part 1, please read it before this.

by Sherman H. Skolnick
April 20, 2005

ACHTUNG!

If you have frayed nerves or a weak stomach, you should press DELETE now and take your nerve pills.

You may or may not well digest what you read here.

A well-informed author on the topic of the Vatican is reportedly coming out with a well-put-together book, showing that the late Pope John Paul 2^nd worked for the Nazi Gestapo in Poland during World War Two. He rounded up Polish Resistance Fighters and turned them over to the Nazis who had them shot, so the book contends. Some. however, survived.

Questions remain, of course. WHY did the author wait so long to come out with this book?

Some belatedly contend that secretive German funds possibly post-war surviving Nazis arranged for and financed the clandestine Conclave that installed Wojtyla as Pope John Paul 2^nd.

Remember: the Anglo-American Aristocracy financed the rise of Adolf Hitler as a bulwark against the Soviets.

Enforcers for the Vatican are called Jesuits. The head of the Jesuits, although he is NOT a person of color, is nevertheless called the BLACK POPE. Over the centuries, Jesuits, hiding behind royal court types with Jewish names, called hofjuden, sought to control if not topple various European monarchs, most of them Catholics.

So by Royal Order, Jesuits were banished from Spain, France, and a few other places. Hiding behind others, the Jesuits actually went underground, continuing to plot to control Monarchs. In America, the Jesuits have Hollywood hofjuden (Court Jews) as a front. Hollywood angers Christians by not showing films about non-Jewish holocausts.

Jesuits also hide behind aristocracy fronts, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR.

In his Inauguration speech in 1841, President William Henry Harrison directly angered the Jesuits.

He dared confront the Jesuits and then Pope, by proclaiming:

“We admit of no government BY DIVINE RIGHT, believing that so far as power is concerned, the beneficent Creator has made no distinction among men; that all are on an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern, is upon the expressed grant of power from the governed.”

Thirty-five days later, for the benefit if not actually arranged by the Jesuits and the British Monarchy, President Harrison was poisoned to death.

All told, SEVEN U.S. PRESIDENTS were assassinated from 1841 to 1963, as orchestrated if not actually arranged by the Jesuits and the British Monarchy. four by gunfire, three by poisoning.

Seldom more publicly mentioned, is that over the last two centuries and more, various Jesuits and Popes have labeled the Declaration of Independence as “wickedness”, and that Popular Government, provided by the U.S. Constitution with its Bill of Rights is a “satanic instrument”.

Are we Americans heading for Nazi doctrines if not actually here already?

It is documented beyond dispute, that Prescott S. Bush, Sr., father of George Herbert Walker Bush, and grandfather of George W. Bush, had instrumentally financed the rise of Adolf Hitler.

The term Homeland Security is an anglicized version of the abbreviated German term Gestapo.

Adolf Hitler, 1933,, and George W. Bush, 2000, and repeated in 2004, were installed in the highest office of their nation by arbitrary and corrupt powers.

The new Monarch in the Vatican, Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict 16^th, was immediately whitewashed by the liars and whores of the oil-soaked, spy-riddled, massive tax-cheating Monopoly Press. They described his past as his father was so Anti-Nazi that he had to move to another town.

Actually, Joseph Ratzinger was in the Hitler Youth and his family were apparently pro-Nazi.

Over the many years, Germany repeatedly attacked France. So French Catholics are appalled, if not angered, that Joseph Ratzinger is the first German Pope in over one thousand years.

Before the 1960 Election, John F. Kennedy spoke in Texas to a group of Protestant preachers. He said he is only nominally Catholic and that if elected, he will not bow down for the Vatican. Right there, such a bold statement was JFK’s Death Warrant. In 1961, shortly after being Inaugurated, President Kennedy reluctantly went along with a plan left over from the Eisenhower Administration, to attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

The Cuban strongman, Fidel Castro, was and is a Jesuit, hiding behind a left-wing label. Castro never disbanded the Catholic Church in Cuba. Under Vatican Canon Law, a Catholic leader of a nation, like JFK, that attacks another Catholic leader and nation, is subject to a Death Warrant.

What Catholic countries want a pro-Nazi Pope?

South America has many such. Included is heavily Catholic Argentina. Toward the end of World War 2, various Nazi war criminals, using Vatican-supplied passports and disguises, escaped down the “Ratlines” to Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and elsewhere in South America.

German submarines loaded with Nazi gold also arrived in South America. So the children and grand-children of escaped Nazis, with their fortunes, dominate the Catholic Church throughout South America. Pope John Paul 2^nd was viciously against so-called liberation theology of some South American and Central American archbishops, who sought to cater to the “shirtless ones”.

Such Catholic Church leaders were rooted out, in some instances, assassinated, apparently on the dictates of Pope John Paul 2^nd, ostensibly through his enforcer, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

Centuries ago, at the behest of the Vatican, was the bloody, horrible “Inquisition”.

• Does it still exist today? Yes, its existence since 1981 was, like centuries ago, to punish “heretics”. Its title is now something like Promoting The Faithful.
• And who has headed this latter day “Inquisition”? Why, none other than pro-Nazi Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict 16^th.
• Was it just a coincidence that Joseph Ratzinger was selected as the new Pope, April 19, 2005, a day before Adolf Hitler’s birthday?
• What is the result of part of the planet going back to rule by Nazis?

Recently, two of my friends have tried to sell me the theory that Satan’s New World Order is a Jewish-Masonic conspiracy. One friend says that it is, “run by globalist banksters, whom Jesus called the synagogue of Satan.” Another friend told me to check out a website by Timothy Fitzpatrick that tries to discredit the Jesuits, the Vatican, and the Black Pope as the true rulers of the world. Fitzpatrick calls it “the Jesuit conspiracy meme.” His article contains name-calling, false dichotomies, ignorance of true history, ignorance of the true character of the Catholic Church corporation, ignorance of the Counter-Reformation, ignorance of how the Jesuits operate, and just plain lies. And just who is Timothy Fitzpatrick? I can’t find his bio anywhere. He may be a Jesuit coadjutor!

But thanks to Fitzpatrick’s article, I was introduced to Sherman Skolnick, an investigative journalist from my hometown of Chicago. There must be something good about Skolnick because the long-time mayor of Chicago (1955 – 1976) Richard J. Daley, hated him for investigating judicial corruption! Daley was an Irish Roman Catholic democrat. From 1893, nine Irish Catholic mayors ruled Chicago!

“Sherman H. Skolnick (July 13, 1930 – May 21, 2006) was a Chicago-based activist. Skolnick’s investigations put Otto Kerner Jr. in prison for three years; and led to the resignation of two Illinois Supreme Court justices, Roy J. Solfisburg, Jr. and Ray Klingbiel, who, as Skolnick reported, had accepted bribes of stock from a defendant in a case on which they ruled.” (Source: Wikipedia)

I reject the Jewish-Masonic / International Bankers, conspiracy theory because that’s where I was at in my worldview for decades! Been there and done that. Yes, there are some Jews, some Zionists involved, and yes, international bankers, globalists, Masons and other members of secret societies have a role to play, but these guys aren’t at the very top of the pile of evil in my worldview. Mystery Babylon ruling world empires through the centuries up to the present day through the Popes of Rome, the Jesuits, and the Vatican makes a lot more sense to me from a biblical point of view. Rome was the last empire of Daniel chapters 2 and 7. The fourth empire ruled the earth, “Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.” – Daniel 7:22. The Lord hasn’t come yet. Conclusion: The Fourth Empire, Rome, is still ruling the earth. It’s officially called, “The Holy See”.

If you have any neo-Nazi propaganda videos for me to see, I definitely will not see them. I believe antisemitic rhetoric is primarily fueled by the Jesuits to deflect blame from what they themselves are doing.

BALANCED VIEW OF POPES

Part One
by Sherman H. Skolnick
April 04, 2005

Having financial hang-ups, the spy-riddled, oil-soaked, heavily tax-cheating Monopoly Press cannot bring you a balanced view of any subject. If you are well informed, you certainly know that.

So, some will like what they read here. Others will not.

Before he became Pope, he was Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Some contend he was supportive of the rise of Adolf Hitler. For some years before, during, and after World War Two, he was Pope Pius 12th.

• Some authors accused him of being pro-Nazi. “Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII”, by John Cornwell,1999.]
• It is beyond dispute that after World War Two, Pius assisted wanted war-criminal Nazis to escape down the “Rat-lines” to the U.S. South America, and Croatia. [”Aftermath” by Ladislas Farago.]
• As a young man, he was a theater expert and actor. During his later career, was he just acting as well? During World War Two, he held a position in a facility of I.G. Farben, the Nazi poison gas factory, part of a chemical cartel. [For background, “The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben” by Joseph Borkin.]

Karol Wojtyla was a sort of chief assistant to the Bishop of Krakow, who being pro-Nazi, controlled fellow Poles with an iron fist and kept them submissive and docile for the benefit of the German occupation forces.

Later, far too many Poles claimed they knew nothing of the round-up of the Jews from the ghettoes and transporting them to concentration camp for slave labor for I.G. Farben.

Millions of Jews, labor leaders, and other “enemies of the State” were worked to death while being starved. Elderly and disabled Jews were quickly disposed of; they were of no use in the Nazi war factories.

Most Poles later either denied knowing of this when it was happening or claimed they did not participate in the crimes against humanity. Presumably, Wojtyla took the same position as his fellow Poles. In his later career, did anyone in the Monopoly Press ever dare ask him?

Then there is the story of another one. In 1978, in their secret Conclave, the Cardinals selected another Italian to be Pope, John Paul 1st. But, soon it became evident from a geopolitical and religious standpoint, they most likely made a wrong selection.

He soon enough let it be known that he was for modifying the Vatican position of absolute prohibition for Catholics to use birth control. In simple terms, he was against birthing more children than a couple could financially take care of. It was a reasonable, humane position to non-Catholics.

Furthermore, he was determined to put an end to the traditional Sicilian and Italian Mafia, jointly with certain corrupt Archbishops, and the American CIA, in using the Vatican Bank as a money laundry for stolen gold treasuries, dope money, illicit weapons deals, assassination funds, and superior counterfeit currency dealings, among other dirty, bloody business.

Some Italian editors dared demand that Pope John Paul 1st, do something about the Continental Bank of Chicago, the majority owners jointly being the Vatican and the Queen of England.

The bank, some Italian editors stated, was a laundry for the Mafia.

[As we dared point out publicly, the Chief Judge of the Chicago Federal Appeals Court, Walter Cummings, Jr., was a “man of trust” for the Vatican, and held a large block of shares, as nominee and front man for the Pope. Judge Cummings, a banker-judge, did NOT disqualify himself when his Continental Bank and their major clients were litigants in his tribunal. Guess who won in his crooked Court?]

[As predicted accurately by this writer, Continental Bank collapsed in 1984 and was taken over later by Bank of America owned jointly by the Jesuits and the Japanese underworld, the Yakuza.]

Thirty-three days after taking office, Pope John Paul 1st was poisoned with a cup of tea. It was a symbolic warning and death warrant by the Free Masons, the Jesuits, and Opus Dei, the super-fascist, super-secret group (by 2005, Opus Dei occupying their own large building in New York city). [More details of the plot against Pope John Paul 1st in the book “In God’s Name” by David Yallop.]

Thereafter, the Vatican secret Conclave of Cardinals put together a scheme, with the urging of the American CIA, to topple the Soviet government.

To understand the rationale, you have to have a good understanding of history. The Anglo-American Aristocracy financed the rise of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler, as a bulwark against the Soviets.

In the beginning, the Prussian/German Aristocracy was reluctant to finance Hitler.

With his background with the pro-Nazi Polish Bishop of Krakow, Wojtyla was a suitable and forceful Anti-Communist.

But he lacked humanity for Italians. In 1979, there was a terrible earthquake in the historically impoverished southern part of Italy. The destitute Italians demanded that John Paul 2nd, the new Pontiff, relieve some of their suffering, by sending them financial aid from his Mafia/American CIA controlled Vatican Bank. The Pope refused.

John Paul 2nd kept censored, as best he could, through his helpers, Vatican Intelligence, of the growing scandal of international swindler Michele Sindona operating through the Vatican Bank and the Vatican-owned Continental Bank of Chicago. [See “St. Peter’s Banker” by Luigi DiFonzo.]

Starting about 1980, the American CIA jointly with a deal with the bosses of Time Magazine, arranged tremendous secret financing for their paid-for Polish provocateur, Lech Walesa. As a leader of the Polish Solidarity Movement, Walesa stirred up the workers at the Lenin Shipyards at Gdansk.

As the Soviets understood it, Pope John Paul 2nd, by his statements and speeches, jointly with Western paid-for provocateur Lech Walesa, was stirring up fellow Poles in rebellion against the Moscow government. To the Soviets, Wojtyla was a rotten intermeddler, considering how many Soviet lives were lost in freeing Poland from the Germans.

In May 1981, a deranged supposed left-wing Turk, was grabbed after reportedly being the “lone assassin” attempting to kill Pope John Paul 2nd by shooting him in the abdomen right in Vatican Square.

Thereafter, two opposing spy shops released supposed details that the other side instigated the would-be assassin. The American CIA planted a flood of apparently phony details that the Bulgarian Secret Police were accomplices of the Turk in Italy and maybe even right in Vatican Square.

Various international inquiries tended to show the CIA stories had no basis.

On the other hand, the Soviets planted stories that seemed to have “legs”. The Soviets made a compelling case that the supposed deranged Turk was part of a RIGHT-wing Military group in Turkey financed by the American CIA.

These two versions tended to cancel each other out. Left unanswered were questions that the Polish Solidarity Movement was reportedly not receiving the funding promised them by the West.

So wounding Wojtyla right on the grounds of the Vatican, was perceived by savvy folks as a way of reminding the West to send more money to the Solidarity Movement. Or, maybe it was just a leftover warning for the Pope to be sure to keep covered up the Sindona scandal. After all, some claimed Sindona’s main efforts in accounting were to whisk huge Italian business funds out of Italy to escape the tax collectors. Or, wounding the Pope was a way for the southern Italians and the Sicilians to remind the Pontiff not to be so stingy refusing earthquake relief funds in 1979.

Compare the following with the position of the murdered Pope John Paul 1st regarding possibly modifying the Church’s position on birth control. When Pope John Paul 2nd visited Mexico, implicit in his statements was that he was urging Mexicans to go full speed ahead in fathering children.

Yet, Mexico City, for example, is over-populated with more than 32 million inhabitants. The authorities have no funds left for sanitation. So the streets in many poor sections become the toilet and dumping grounds. It makes for a terribly unhealthy situation. The Pope offered no remedy, only being interested in more members for his Church.

Over a number of years, Pope John Paul 2nd made apologies for various historical crimes of his Church.

For example, in 1492, Columbus landed in the new world. Thereafter, the Catholic Church committed terrible crimes against the natives of Mexico and Central America and black and other slaves. Five hundred years later, in 1992, Pope John Paul 2nd visited Central America and made apologies for the crimes of five hundred years previous. To some it was an idle gesture.

And the Pope visited a memorial to the Holocaust in Israel and made apologies there. To some, it was an idle, worthless ceremony.

Seldom mentioned in Pope John Paul 2nd’s efforts to topple the Soviet Union, was the more important purpose of the Vatican. That is, to smash, if possible, the Eastern Orthodox Church, a competitor if not enemy of the Vatican for more than a thousand years.

Some people conveniently forget a few things. Such as, Popes up to the beginning of the 19th Century, threatened to throw members out of the Church, excommunicate them, for daring to say the Earth is not flat.

That is, the Vatican was the headquarters of the Flat Earth Committee.

• Also, did any Pope ever urge scientific progress in medicines, healthcare, transportation, and communications?
• Or urge progress in laborsaving machinery so human beings would not be just above a pack animal?
• Why does it seem the Popes have their Church in full reverse gear instead of forward and progressive?

I believe the flood is a flood of lies.

When I was young, I would never have believed that my government would ever lie to me. When I was 18, if someone even suggested the government is lying about anything, I wouldn’t have believed it. I would have thought the source was parroting some communists to cast doubt on the credibility of the government. I trusted what the authorities had to say. That was before I got saved by the Lord Jesus Christ and knew the truth of the Bible. I came to realize that the government isn’t perfect. Governments are part of the world that Jesus Himself called evil.

John 7:7  The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John 17:15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Galatians 1:4  Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

Please don’t get me wrong. I believe governments are necessary. The heart of man is wicked. We need laws and law enforcers. Since I moved to the Philippines in June of 2023, I haven’t heard of any local crimes. I see people leaving their motorcycles with the engines running. I see unlocked bicycles. I also see guards and law enforcers carrying guns and rifles! Jesus said in Luke 11:21  “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:”

What I’m saying is we need to put our trust in the Lord most of all, base our thinking on the Bible, and not look to the government as our standard of morality. A new law in California forbids teachers from telling parents that their child is seeking to change his or her gender! School teacher Jessica Tapias lost her job for not obeying that law. I say to her, “Bravo!”

Christians should not obey authorities when laws are in violation of our morals and faith! We have a duty before God to protest evil to government authorities! Ecclesiastes 8:2 says, I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God. We must not obey ungodly orders from the government that violate Christian morality.

Sad to say, all governments use propaganda to control their people. The 1994 Rwanda genocide of the Tutsi people would have not happened without the cooperation and complicity of the common people! Authorities told them to kill the Tutsis, and that’s what they did. And the Catholic Church was complicit in the genocide but Pope Francis only apologized for 23 years later in 2017! And remember how the common German people were deceived by the wicked criminal Nazi government of Hitler. They believed Germany had a right to conquer and take over Europe. The same thing with the Japanese in World War II thinking they had a right to take over East Asia. They believed their emperor was a god and laid down their lives for him. Satan deceived them with a flood of lies which washed them away.

And of course, false doctrines and heresies abound in the world today. They are too innumerable to count. We must stay grounded in the Word of God lest we be led astray by something we hear on the news or social media. If you wondered why I’m not posting on this website everything I hear that sounds like an evil conspiracy, that’s why. I’m going to stick with what I know to be true. There’s a lot of disinformation on the Internet. Just remember how Alex Jones got in trouble for repeating falsehoods he heard about the Sandy Hook massacre.

Also remember, the government and medical facilities are not responsible for our health, we are! People vaccinated for Covid still became ill with Covid in spite of the fact the government said they would not if they get vaccinated. The governments of the world claimed the vaccine was “safe and effective” and yet I’ve heard many sad testimonials of vaccine injuries.

Doctors don’t always give us the right advice. Doctors on Guam gave my wife Tess contradictory advice about the joint pain in her knee. A doctor in the Philippines gave her an expensive shot that did absolutely nothing to heal her chronic pain. We are seeking the Lord for what is best.

What Bible commentator John Gill has to say about Revelation 12:15:

John Gill (23 November 1697 – 14 October 1771) was an English Baptist pastor, biblical scholar, and theologian. He was also the first Baptist pastor to write a commentary on the entire Bible. His interpretation of the prophecies of the Books of Daniel and the Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 are in agreement with most of his contemporaries who held to the Historicist school of interpretation. Sad to say not very many Christians today know what John Gill and his fellows had to say. Their voices have been drowned out by John Nelson Darby’s Futurism. Why would Darby be promoted over John Gill? Undoubtedly it was because of the insidious work of the Jesuit Order! The Jesuit’s plan is to bring the “separated brethren” back to the fold of the Pope. Will you follow them? I’m not.

John Gill calls the water as a flood from the mouth of the serpent of Revelation 12:15 false doctrines and heresies:

As the words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, (Proverbs 18:4); and doctrines, good or bad, may be so called; that flood of errors and heresies, which were poured in between the times of Constantine and the rise of antichrist may be here intended; such as the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ; the Nestorian heresy, which divided his person; and the Eutychian heresy, which confounded the two natures in him; and the Macedonian heresy, which took away the deity of the Holy Ghost; and the Pelagian heresy, which destroyed the grace of God, and set up the power of man’s free will: and this flood of errors and heresies may be truly said to be cast out of the serpent’s mouth; since the old serpent, the devil, is the father of all lies, and errors: and the above heresies are the doctrines of devils, and damnable ones; and were designed by Satan to destroy the souls of men, and ruin the church.

What Bible commentator Matthew Henry has to say about Revelation 12:15:

Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) was a British Nonconformist minister and author who was born in Wales but spent much of his life in England. He is best known for the six-volume biblical commentary Exposition of the Old and New Testaments.

This is thought to be meant of a flood of error and heresy, which was breathed by Arius, Nestorius, Pelagius, and many more, by which the church of God was in danger of being overwhelmed and carried away. The church of God is in more danger from heretics than from persecutors; and heresies are as certainly from the devil as open force and violence.

What Bible commentator Matthew Poole has to say about Revelation 12:15:

Matthew Poole (1624 – 1679) was an English Nonconformist theologian.

And the serpent; the devil, the old serpent, mentioned Revelation 12:9, being able no longer to execute his malice as a dragon, by the civil power of the heathen emperors, tearing Christians in pieces, but discerning the church secured by the special providence of God, went to work another way.

Cast out of his mouth water as a flood; corrupting the judgments of several persons, who, out of the abundance of error in their hearts, preached corrupt doctrine. Such were the followers of Arius, Nestorius, Eutyches, Pelagius, &c. The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, Proverbs 18:4. The mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things, Proverbs 15:28.

That he might cause her to be carried away of the flood; on purpose to ruin the church: and, indeed, such were the ill effects of these heresies, that he who is but meanly versed in the history of the fifth age, will see reason to adore the providence of God, that the Roman emperors, upon the sight of them, did not again turn pagans, and add their force to the malice of these pretended Christians against the sincerer part of the church.

Who or what is the “horn” of Daniel 7:21? A “horn” in the Book of Daniel is obviously a metaphor for something. Let’s see what that metaphor is by comparing Scripture with Scripture.

Daniel 7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

The horn must therefore represent some man.

Daniel 8:21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

There you have it! A horn, therefore, is some kind of ruler, a monarch, an emperor, or a dictator.

Most evangelicals today will tell you the horn of the Book of Daniel is the Antichrist. Early Protestant and Baptist Bible teachers will also say that it’s the Antichrist. But there was a major difference in how the Protestant Reformation leaders interpreted the Antichrist compared with evangelicals think of the Antichrist today. To a man, Protestant and Baptist Bible teachers up to the 19th century looked at Daniel 7:21 as a prophecy talking about the Popes of Rome, and not an unknown personage who will rise in the future.

Let’s see specifically what the early Protestant Reformation leaders and Bible commentators had to say about Daniel 7:21. They interpreted the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation with the Historicist view in mind, namely, is there an historical record that could possibly the fulfillment of the Horn of Daniel? The Historicist view differs from the Preterist view which says all prophecies of Daniel were fulfilled in Roman Empire. And it differs from the Futurist view Jesuit Ribera (1585) which says the prophecies of the Antichrist are yet to be fulfilled.

Commentary by John Gill, an English Baptist theologian (1697-1771)

I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints,…. The same little horn before described; not Antiochus Epiphanes (215 BC – 164 BC), who made war with the Jews, as many think; or the Roman Caesars, that persecuted the church of Christ, as others; nor Titus Vespasian (39 AD – 81 AD), who fought against Israel, as Saadiah; but antichrist, or the pope of Rome; and this refers to the wars of the popes with the Waldenses, which began in the year 1160, and continued long, and with the two witnesses at the close of their testimony, Revelation 11:7, this Daniel had a view of in vision; not while he was inquiring of the angel, but before, though not mentioned till now; and was a reason he was so very inquisitive about this little horn, because of its war with the saints, and its success, as follows:

…and prevailed against them: as the popes and their abettors did against the Waldenses and Albigenses, whom they slew in great numbers, and got the victory over; as the beast also, the same with this little horn, will overcome the witnesses, and slay them, Revelation 11:7.

Commentary by Adam Clarke, Irish Methodist theologian and biblical scholar, (1760-1832)

Those who make Antiochus the little horn, make the saints the Jewish people. Those who understand the popedom by it, see this as referring to the cruel persecutions of the popes of Rome against the Waldenses and Albigenses, and the Protestant Church in general.

You may not have heard of the theological term, “Dispensationalism,” or even if you have, you may not know how to define it. But even so, if you are a Bible believer and a follower of Jesus Christ, the chances are high that your views of the Endtime have been tainted by Dispensational doctrines.

What is Dispensationalism?

Dispensationalism is a method of Bible interpretation that was devised by John Nelson Darby (1800-1882), and later formulated by Cyrus I. Scofield (1843-1921), and is also known as Pre-millennial Dispensationalism. Although Darby was not the first person to suggest such a theory, he was, however, the first to develop it as a system of Bible interpretation and is, therefore, regarded as the Father of Dispensationalism.

Dispensationalism was promoted through the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible, which was published in 1909. Scofield’s Bible contributed to the spread of Dispensationalism because it included study notes written from a distinctively dispensationalist perspective.

The founding of Dallas Theological Seminary in 1924 by Lewis Sperry Chafer provided an academic institution for the training of pastors and missionaries in the dispensationalist tradition. The influence of the prestigious Dallas Theological Seminary together with the Scofield Reference Bible is the reason why American evangelicals were corrupted with the false doctrines of Dispensationalism!

The origin of Dispensational theory can be traced to three Jesuit priests.

(1) Francisco Ribera (1537-1591). He’s the guy that cooked up the doctrine of Futurism, namely that there is a gap of unknown time between the 69th and 70th Week of Daniel, and the 70th Week of Daniel is the final 7 years of the Endtime when the Antichrist makes a covenant or treaty with Israel, rebuilds their temple, breaks the covenant halfway into the 7 years, and persecutes everybody who doesn’t obey and follow him.

(2) Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) one of the best-known Jesuit apologists, who promoted similar theories to Ribera in his published work between 1581 and 1593 entitled Polemic Lectures Concerning the Disputed Points of the Christian Belief Against the Heretics of This Time. The “heretics” are Protestants, Baptists, and all Bible believers and followers of Jesus Christ who are not members of the Roman Catholic Church! Bellarmine was arguing against all basic Bible doctrines such as salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone.

(3) Manuel Lacunza (1731–1801). The writings of Ribera and Bellarmine, which contain the precedence upon which the theory of Dispensationalism is founded, were originally written to counteract the Protestant reformers’ interpretation of the Book of the Revelation which, according to the reformers, exposed the Pope as Antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church as the whore of Babylon.

What are the doctrines of Dispensationalism?

• A distinction between the Church and Israel.
• A distinction between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God.
• Support for the State of Israel.
• The world will be led by a one-world government and a one-world leader called “the Antichrist” who will promote a one-world religion.
• The Antichrist will probably be a Jew.
• The Antichrist makes a 7-year peace pact with the Jews which allows them to rebuild the Temple of Solomon.
• The Church will disappear in the “secret rapture” where all Christian believers vanish from the planet and that this rapture is “imminent.”
• The Rapture is then followed by a 7-year period called the “Great Tribulation.” A variation of this is the Great Tribulation will begin in the middle of the 7-year period.

All so called “Christian-Zionists” are Dispensationalists. Famous Dispensationalists include Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, John Hagee, and Paula White. Just think what an influence these people have had on Christianity in America! Is it a good influence based on pure Bible doctrine? John Hagee tells us:

“As Christians, we are commanded by God to support Israel. We believe in the promise of Genesis 12:3 regarding the Jewish people and the nation of Israel. We believe Christians should bless and comfort Israel and the Jewish people. Believers have a Bible mandate to combat anti-Semitism and to speak out in defense of Israel and the chosen people.” – John Hagee

Hagee’s statement is based on Dispensationalism. The Bible tells me:

2 John 1:9  Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10  If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11  For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

The words, “God speed” in the King James Bible is a synonym for blessing someone. The Word of God tells us not to bless those who do not abide in the doctrine of Christ. If we do, we are partakers of their evil deeds. Does the modern state of Israel abide in the doctrine of Christ? Absolutely not. And yet, John Hagee is telling us to bless the ones who do not abide in the doctrine of Christ. Not only do they not abide in the doctrine of Christ, they curse Jesus Christ and reject Him!

Ask yourself, is God blessing America today? The liberals, atheists, and leftists are blaming America’s extreme weather, the current heat wave, destruction of houses by tornados, fires, and floods on “Climate Change.” I believe it’s much more to do with God’s judgments on America for her sins. One of those sins is America’s support for Israel due to dispensational theology.

Dispensationalists accuse Christians who do not support the modern state of Israel of holding the doctrine of “Replacement Theology.” This is a misnomer. The Church has not replaced Israel, the Church is the continuation of Israel!

March 1st, 2024 update: I consider this Bible study of the prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27, also known as the 70 Weeks of Daniel prophecy, one of the most important articles I have ever written. It’s something I didn’t fully understand until I sat down and did the math based on dates from history.

It’s important to know and understand this prophecy correctly because it’s arguably one of the most misinterpreted prophecies in the entire Bible! Why do I think so? Because the popular interpretation held by the vast majority of American evangelicals today says Daniel 9:27 is all about the Antichrist, and I and a relative minority of other Christians today say it’s all about Jesus Christ! I mean, how far away from the truth can you get but to attribute the work of Jesus Christ to Antichrist?! In Revelation 19:10 the Word of God says, “…the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy,” not the Antichrist, and not the modern State of Israel either, but all prophecy is Christ-centered, it’s all about Jesus Christ. Folks, if you get this wrong, your whole viewpoint of the Endtime will be tainted.

Nearly all contemporary students of Bible Endtime prophecy will answer the question of the title of this article with, “The Antichrist!” But did you know up till the end of the 19th century, Daniel 9:27 was considered a Messianic prophecy of the 7 years of Jesus and His disciples’ ministry of giving the Gospel to the Jews? This article is my best attempt to explain in my own words why the “he” of Daniel 9:27 is referring to Jesus Christ in as clear and concise a manner as I know how. Though I will explain in my own words, please understand I am only rephrasing what the many men of God, all the renowned Bible commentators of the first 400 years of the Protestant Reformation had to say about Daniel 9:27 and the 70th Week of Daniel. It’s by no means a new interpretation I cooked up in my head.

My hope and prayer is that the Holy Spirit will use your knowledge of history and what you read from the Scripture, what the Word of God actually says, to convince you that the 70th Week of Daniel is all about Jesus and His Apostles giving the Gospel to the Jews, and not about a future Antichrist ruling the earth during the last 7 years just before Christ returns.

Let’s start from the beginning of the 70 Weeks prophecy in Daniel chapter 9, one verse at a time.

Daniel 9:24  Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Verse 24 is all about the results of the Word of God becoming flesh to dwell among His creation of humanity.

• Seventy weeks = 70 sevens = 490 years
• “Thy people”, meaning the people of Israel
• “Thy holy city”, meaning Jerusalem
• “To finish the transgression”, meaning Christ took away the sins of the people of Israel by taking the punishment of those sins on Himself. 1 John 3:5: And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
• “To make an end of sins” meaning to abolish sins which our Lord Jesus did when He offered His spotless soul and body on the cross once for all. This verse can also imply the end of sin offerings. With that in mind, what would a rebuilt third Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem with resumed daily animal sacrifices mean? It would mean further rejection of the Blood of Christ as the final sacrifice for our sins!
• “To make reconciliation for iniquity” meaning to make atonement for iniquity which Jesus did by offering up Himself through His suffering and death. 1 John 1:7b: …the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• “To bring in everlasting righteousness” meaning the only true righteousness, the righteousness of Christ. Romans 3:22: Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
• “To seal up the vision and prophecy”. All prophecy is sealed up in Christ. The prophecies of the Old Testament are fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
• “To anoint the most Holy.” To anoint the Messiah, the Anointed One. This final phrase is probably the clearest and easiest to understand. The final Week, the 70th Week, is all about Jesus the Messiah!

Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

• “The going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem”, This commandment was given by King Artaxerxes I in the year 457 BC.
• “unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks”

Seven weeks = 49 years. Three score and two weeks = 62 X 7 = 434 years. 49 + 434 = 483 years. 483 years from 457 BC is 27 AD. There is no year 0. Jesus was born in 4 BC according to the Gregorian calendar. That means He was 30 years old when He started His ministry of the Gospel to the Jews in 27 AD. Year 27 A.D. was the start of the 70th Week!

• “the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times” This is referring to the first seven weeks. It took 49 years to rebuild the city and the wall. The Book of Nehemiah describes the troubling times. If the 70th Week began in 27 A.D. it ended in 34 A.D. the end of the Covenant with the Jews only, the start of the persecution beginning with the stoning of Stephen, and close to the beginning of the ministry of the Apostle Paul preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles.

November 4, 2024 update:
The other day when reading Acts chapter 7, I had a revelation! The stoning of Stephen marked the end of the 70th Week of Daniel, the proclamation of the Gospel primarily to the House of Israel by Jesus Christ and His Disciples. In the Bible the number seven is the number perfection. The very fact that the stoning of Stephen occurs in chapter 7 actually verifies that the 70th Week has come to completion!! In Acts chapter 8 the Apostle Philip shares the Gospel to an Ethiopian, a Gentile. The number 8 is the number of new beginnings!

Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

• “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off” meaning 434 years after the first 49 years when the city of Jerusalem was being rebuilt. Jesus the Messiah was indeed “cut off” or crucified only 3 years and some months after He started His ministry of preaching the Gospel to the house of Israel.
• “but not for himself” Jesus was executed not for any crime that He did, but for our crimes and sins against our Creator.
• “and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.” The “prince” here is General Titus, general of the Roman army. The “people of the prince” is the Roman army. The city and the sanctuary are Jerusalem and the Temple. The “war” was the Roman army crushing the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire that ended with the destruction of Jerusalem, the Temple, and the death of 1.1 million Jews in 70 A.D. The “desolations determined” are the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. Verse 26 is a paraphrase of the second half of verse 27.

Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

• “And he shall …” A pronoun is a word that stands for a noun. The noun most likely that defines the pronoun is the noun most often used that proceeds it. Verses 24 to 26 are all talking about the Messiah. Why would the “he” therefore be called the Antichrist?! Calling the “he” of verse 27 the Antichrist is the prevailing popular interpretation today. Antichrist is not referred to anywhere in the verses preceding it!!! The only candidate for “he” other than the Messiah is “the prince” of verse 26 who is mentioned only once. The prince of verse 26 can only refer to Titus, the Roman General whose army destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D. Titus later became emperor of Rome. He didn’t make any treaty with the Jews, he crushed their rebellion against Rome!
• References to Messiah in Daniel 9:24-27 are, “the most Holy” of verse 24, “Messiah the Prince” of verse 25, and “Messiah” of verse 26, three times in all. Messiah wins as the only reasonable candidate for the pronoun he, not the prince of the “people of the prince” in verse 26, and not a future Antichrist.
• “…shall confirm the covenant with many for one week”. Shall “confirm”, not “make” as modern English translations say. The Messiah confirmed a covenant already in existence, God’s covenant promise to the Jews. That’s why the definite article, “the” is used. Modern translations use the indefinite article. Jesus confirmed the covenant of grace through belief in God’s Word that God made with Abraham by preaching the Gospel to the house of Israel. This is the very same covenant of verse 4, “keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him”, and the same covenant mentioned by Paul in Galatians 3:17  And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ… One week is a period of 7 years which continued three and a half more years after Jesus died in the middle of the 7 years. It ended when persecution started with the stoning of Stephen and God raised up the Apostle Paul to take the Gospel to the Gentiles.
• “and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease” or in other words, the need for daily sacrifices and oblations for sins. Jesus’ death on the Cross was the cause of the end of such sacrifices. Do you think I’m reading something into this verse that’s out of context? I submit to you that reading into this text a future Antichrist breaking a covenant with the modern state of Israel is an outrageous violation of proper interpretation of Scripture! It’s what is known as “eisegesis” which means, “to lead into” or add something that is not there. I am giving you the “exegesis” method of interpretation. Exegesis means to “lead out of” or use only what the Scripture actually says, not add one’s biased interpretation to it.
• “and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” This is the second half of verse 26 rephrased. It’s all about the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D.

Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 are also all about the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D. Just think how an important event that was for it to be talked about in two verses of Daniel and three chapters of the Gospels! It meant the end of the Jewish religion as far as God was concerned! Any attempt to revive it by the building a third Temple would be an abomination in the eyes of God for it would mean further rejection of the Blood of Christ shed for our sins.

Pastor Chuck Balwin of Liberty Fellowship says the Book of Revelation is also all about the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. I don’t agree with Pastor Chuck. It’s pure preterism for him to teach that. He believes John wrote the Book of Revelation before 70 A.D. and I believe what most Bible scholars teach is that it was written much later, after 70 A.D. The Book of Revelation covers all the years from the Apostle John to the present and beyond. Full preterists say that ALL the prophecies of the Book of Revelation have been fulfilled! That interpretation contradicts everything I see in the news today. There’s still lots of suffering, weeping, and tears in the world due to sin and evil.

There is no gap of time between the 69th and 70th Week of Daniel. This is no indication there is supposed to be a gap in time. Some people refer to the so-called gap as a “parenthesis of time.” That’s absolutely false. If there was, Jesus would not have come the first time because the 70th Week was the beginning of Jesus’ ministry! Putting a gap between the 69th and 70th Week, and throwing the 70th Week into the undetermined future was a trick of Jesuit Francesco Ribera circa 1585 to attribute the 70th Week of Daniel to and endtime only Antichrist who is said to rule the earth for a final 7 years just before Jesus returns. Ribera wanted the Protestants to stop thinking of the Popes of Rome and the office of the papacy as the Antichrist by teaching that the Antichrist will rise just before the final 7 years of man’s rule on earth before the coming of Jesus Christ. But Ribera’s doctrine was rejected by the majority of Protestant Bible teachers until sometime in the 19th century when John Nelson Darby taught it in his dispensational doctrines. Ribera’s eschatology became wildly popular in the 20th century because C.I. Scofield promoted it in his Scofield’s Reference Bible. It was taught in the prestigious Dallas Theological Seminary which influenced many Baptist and Pentecostal churches.

I submit to you that calling the work of Jesus Christ in Daniel 9:27 the work of Antichrist is a serious sin and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit! I hope you see I am not talking about a minor hair-splitting theological doctrine, but something extremely important and serious. Those who teach the false Antichrist interpretation are repeating the lies of Jesuit priests. Sad to say some have invested decades of their lives teaching the demonic false Jesuit interpretation of the 70th Week of Daniel. May they wake up to the truth and either change their message or stop teaching any eschatological doctrines before they lead yet more souls astray.

If you don’t agree with this article about my explanation of Daniel 9:27, please ask yourself this question: Would you have thought this verse was talking about an Endtime Antichrist just by reading it on your own? I think not. You were led into it by some Bible prophecy teacher. There’s no way anybody can conclude the 70th Week is all about an Endtime Antichrist just from reading the passage on his or her own. We were led into it, myself included, by a prophecy teacher who taught us what he learned from another prophecy teacher.

Before anybody challenges me in the comments section, you should know I embraced the Futurist interpretation of the 70th Week of Daniel from when I was still young in Christ in 1973 all the way to 2014 when I read the truth from a brother named David Nikao Wilcoxson on his website. And since 2014, the 70th Weeks prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 has been a subject of intense study for me. I know what you believe about the 70th Week and why you believe it. It was taught to you like it was taught to me when we were young, and we had no reason to question it. We listened to what our pastor or Bible teacher taught us. If we thought he was a false teacher, we wouldn’t have listened to him in the first place. He may not have been false on everything, just this particular doctrine of the 70th Week. He may have been correct about everything else. Nobody’s perfect, right? I’m the first to admit that about myself. I don’t blame you for holding a false doctrine for decades as I did, but after you read this, if you don’t at least do your own research about it, you will be without excuse in the sight of God. And you will be especially accountable before God if you continue to teach the false Jesuit doctrine!

There is much more involved here than just the 70th Week of Daniel. The futurist interpretation of the 70th Week of Daniel is only one of several false doctrines of John Nelson Darby’s teaching of Dispensationalism! It took me time to connect the dots. If you can receive this article, please continue to study about all the other popular but false doctrines of the End-time that arose from Dispensationalism.

I often find inspiration for a new article or Bible study when I see someone post something on social media that I consider to be in error. We should be lovers of truth. When we see something not according to the Scriptures, we should want to correct in love those that are in error.

One of my friends wrote on Facebook:

On May 14, 1948 Israel was reborn as a nation after 2,000 years. No one can deny that this was truly a unique event in human history. Never have a people who lost their statehood later become a nation after such a long period of time! Furthermore, this was the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy!

I commented on that Facebook post, “Please give us the reference of that prophecy.”

He gave me several scriptures, but the only ones that could possibly apply are,

Zechariah 1:12 “Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?”

Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Zechariah 1:12 is clearly referring to the restoration of the Jews in the land of Israel a few years after the 70 years of captivity. Ezekiel was a contemporary of the prophet Daniel during their captivity in Babylon. Ezekiel 36:24 would clearly be referring to Israel’s restoration degreed by King Cyrus. The decree of Cyrus that the Jews can go back to Judah and Jerusalem and rebuild the temple was given about 537 BC. Israel was fully restored by the time of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Why then would someone take prophecies that were fulfilled by the time of Christ and say they were fulfilled 2000 years after Christ? This is one of the doctrines of John Nelson Darby’s dispensationalism! Dispensationalism makes a distinction between the Church and Israel. The Bible tells me the Church is a continuation of true Israel, the people of God.

The article “Was the Restoration of Israel in 1948 Prophetically Significant?” brings out a good point:

“…the implication of positing 1948 as the fulfillment of Bible prophecy: It means that Israel remains God’s covenant people. There is no way out of this. You cannot posit the events of 1948 as “prophetically significant” without thereby affirming that those events were in fulfillment of God’s covenant promises to Israel. If God’s covenant promises to Israel are / were being fulfilled, then, prima facie, Israel remains God’s covenant people. So, if the restoration of Israel in 1948 was prophetically significant, there is no question that Israel remains God’s covenant people today.”

I believe the Bible makes it abundantly clear that God’s covenant people today are only those who hold faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and their Lord Who died on the Roman cross for their sins to give them eternal life.

John 1:12-13 But as many as received him (Jesus, the Word), to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: {13} Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Galatians 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

The Book of Hebrews makes it clear that those in Christ Jesus are under a new covenant:

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Did God give the children of Israel the Land of Canaan unconditionally?

NO! It was conditional on their obedience!

Leviticus 18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

Leviticus 20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

I searched on the Internet for a meme that said the 1948 restoration of the state of Israel is not a fulfillment of prophecy. I couldn’t find any I liked as is, so I took one and modified it.

Did you know that the so-called Star of David is actually the symbol of the god Remphan?

In this article, I want to bring out things I learned from questions about the memes and articles that I post on social media. My friends who hold to the Futurist school of eschatology ask me interesting questions which cause me to think and do further research.

The “all the world” of Matthew 24:14

Matthew 24:14 “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

Is “all the world” the entire world? Is the “end” the end of the world?

I looked up what Bible commentator Adam Clarke (1760-1832) had to say about it. He writes:

In all the world, εν ολη τη οικουμενη. Perhaps no more is meant here than the Roman empire; for it is beyond controversy that πασαν την οικουμενην, Luke 2:1, means no more than the whole Roman empire: as a decree for taxation or enrolment from Augustus Caesar could have no influence but in the Roman dominions.

Luke​​ 2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

That sure sounds reasonable to me! We know from history that “all the world” of Luke 2:1 could not have included anything outside of the Roman Empire. How big was the Roman Empire? It didn’t even include all of Europe!

If the “all the world” if indeed limited to the Roman Empire, what is the “end shall come”? The context of Matthew 24 tells me it’s referring to the end of the Jewish religion, not the end of the world as many people think. The destruction of the Temple is the end of the Jewish worship of animal sacrifices.

“All the Tribes of the Earth” of Matthew 24:30

Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Does this refer to everyone on earth in the future just before the return of Christ? Of all the occurrences of the word tribe or tribes other than Matthew 24:30, they are all talking about the tribes of Israel and only the tribes of Israel. Can Jews determine which tribe they are from today? NO! Why not? Because all their genealogies were destroyed with the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD.

The “end of the world” of Matthew 24:3

Matthew 24:3  And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

This sounds like at least some of Matthew 24 is talking about the Endtime just before the return of Jesus, but what do the other two synoptic Gospels of Mark and Luke have to say?

Mark 13:4 Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?

Luke 21:7  And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?

Neither Mark nor Luke say “end of the world”, only Matthew does. A better translation would be “end of the age” meaning the Jewish age. Why can I say that? Because “these things” are clearly about the destruction of the Temple! The destruction of the Temple is the end of the Jewish religion of daily animal sacrifices for sin. The death of Jesus was the final sacrifice for our sins.

Mark 13:1-2 “And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

Jesus is clearly talking about the destruction of the Temple, not the end of the world.

The “abomination of desolation” of Matthew 24:15

Matthew 24:15  When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Popular contemporary eschatology says that the Abomination of Desolation happens in the middle of the final 7 years of man’s rule on earth just before the return of Jesus Christ. Is that what the Bible actually says? I’ve written many articles on this which I will not get into here. I just want to compare Matthew 24:15 with other Scriptures.

What verse in the Book of Daniel is Jesus referring to? The second half of Daniel 9:27!

…and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Abominations by whom? The armies of Rome! Make what desolate? Jerusalem and the Temple! Do you think I’m stretching the interpretation of the second half of Daniel 9:27 to say that? Luke 21:20 confirms it!

Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

How clearer can that be?! Luke 21:20 clearly defines the abomination of desolation of Matthew 24:15 as the Roman army which destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, and yet the vast majority of the English-speaking evangelical world thinks it’s all about and Endtime Antichrist setting up his image in a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem! That’s pure speculation on their part and is NOT based on Scripture!

Matthew 24:16 makes much more sense when you understand the abomination of desolation is talking about the Roman army.

Matthew 24:16  Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Who is Jesus talking to? His disciples! Why did He tell them to leave Judaea and flee into the mountains? To save their lives from death at the hands of the Romans!

Luke 21:20-22 “And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. {21} Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. {22} For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.”

As you can see in Luke 21, it adds more detail. Jesus added, “…let not them that are in the countries (outside Judaea) enter thereinto.” Meaning, don’t attempt to go to Judaea or Jerusalem when you see the Roman army going there or you’re apt to be killed! And who would heed Jesus’ warning? Only the believers, His disciples, not the unbelieving Jesus Christ rejecting Jews. They did just the opposite, fled to the Temple thinking they would be safe there, and were all killed.

The “Great Tribulation” of Matthew 24:15

Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

All famous popular Endtime teachers such as John MacArthur interpret the Great Tribultion as a future Endtime event. They fail to take the passage in context or compare it with the other two synopic Gospels.

Mark called it “affliction”.

Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Luke called it “days of vengeance”.

Luke 21:22 “For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.”

Affliction and vengeance on whom? The people of God? NO! It’s talking about God’s punishment on the Christ-rejecting Jews through the destruction of their city and their Temple!

Now let’s get away from the prophecies Jesus gave in the Olivet Discourse and discuss other controvesial words and their meanings.

The “Covenant” of Daniel 9:27

Daniel 9:27a “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease …”

We already talked about the latter half of this verse. The first half is even more important as it is, in my opinion, the most misinterpreted prophecy in the entire Bible! I wrote many articles on this website about Daniel 9:27 and the 70th Week of Daniel which I hope you will take time to read after this. This is a very brief summation about the meaning of the word Covenant in Daniel 9:27.

Popular contemporary eschatology interprets the Covenant of Daniel 9:27 as some kind of treaty the Antichrist makes with the Jews at the beginning of the final 7 years of Satan’s reign over the earth just before the coming of Christ. I summit to you that this is nothing but pure speculation! It’s actually a lie cooked up by Jesuit Francesco Ribera circa 1590 to put the Antichrist at the very end of time so that Protestant Christians will stop calling the Popes of Rome the Antichrist, and stop calling the office of the papacy the seat of the Antichrist!

What then is the covenant of Daniel 9:27? Verse 4 of the same chapter tells us what it is!

Daniel 9:4 “And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;”

The covenant of verse 4 is clearly talking about the covenant God made with Abraham, the covenant of grace based on faith, belief in the Word of God.

Genesis 15:6  And he (Abraham) believed in the LORD; and he (the LORD) counted it to him for righteousness.

The “he” of Daniel 9:27, meaning the person who confirms the covenant is therefore none other than our Lord Jesus Christ! This is by no means my private interpretation. It’s exactly what the Protestant reformers taught about Daniel 9:27. It’s a Messianic prophecy talking about the ministry of Jesus and His disciples over a period of 7 years, the 70th Week of Daniel. I wrote extensively about this is many articles and won’t repeat it here except to say the Apostle Paul confirms this fact in Galatians 3:17:

Galatians 3:17 “And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ…”

Confirmed in Christ is the same as confirmed by Christ. See also, What is “The Covenant” of the Book of Daniel?

The “Beast” of Revelation Chapter 13

Revelation 13:1 “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.”

Popular contemporary eschatology says the Beast is the Antichrist, but Daniel chapter 7 uses the word “beast” as a metaphor for governments or empires.

Daniel 7:3 “And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.”

A study of Daniel chapter 7 and a little knowledge of history tells us these four great beasts were the Babylonian, Medo-Persia, Greek and Roman empires. It makes a lot of sense to me to identify the Beasts of Revelation 13 as empires.

There are two Beasts in Revelation chapter 13.

Revelation 13:11 “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”

Some say the first Beast, the one with the head that received the wound unto death, and his deadly wound was healed, is the revived Roman empire under leadership of the Vatican and Jesuit Superior General. I believe that. Some say the Beast that came up out of the earth that speaks like a lamb is the American empire. Maybe so. It’s not the purpose of this article to try to prove that.

If you want to associate the Beasts of Revelation 13 with an individual, that’s OK with me as long as you associate his empire with him. If you do, it would be a succession of individuals that represent the Beast the same as a succession of popes represent the Antichrist.

I would definitely say the Beasts of Revelation 13 are here today and have been with us for a very long time, before any of us were born.

Any additional topics and any suggestions on how to improve this article are appreciated.

I first posted this article in 2015. Today I showed it to my wife Tess, and she was surprised I never told her about it before! I said, “There’s probably a lot more I haven’t shared with you yet, things I learned the first 67 years of my life before we met.”

Daniel chapter 2 is an amazing prophecy of the history of the world from the time of Daniel and the kingdom of Babylon to the present day. King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream which he cannot interpret and cannot even remember, but God shows both the dream and the interpretation to his servant Daniel!

In the dream King Nebuchadnezzar sees an image, a statue of a man with a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly of brass, legs of iron, and feet part of iron and part of clay.

Daniel 2:32  This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33  His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
34  Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

We know from history this is a prophecy of the last four major empires on Earth. The first was Babylon which is the head of gold, the second with the breast and his arms of silver, was the dual leadership empire of the Medes and the Persians, the third, the belly of brass, signified the Greek empire (the Greeks like to eat!) and the fourth, the Roman Empire which started off pagan and later in the 4th century adopted the face of Christianity while continuing pagan practices and persecuting true Christians.

Does Rome secretly rule the world today? According to the Bible, the last empire continues on to the very end till it is destroyed with “a stone was cut out without hands” — Jesus Christ and His return to earth! This means that the fourth and last kingdom of Rome must be covertly ruling the world this very day! Rome’s rule is represented as iron — a dictatorship. But what of the clay? My pastor David taught me it represented democracies, democratic forms of government while the iron today represents dictatorships such as North Korea and Communist China. But are so-called democratic nations truly practicing a government based on the will of the majority of the people? Or are they really covert dictatorships or oligarchies ruled by an elite few who ostensibly support the democratic process of giving people a choice in elections? No matter which party wins, long-term policies often do not change. Are the elite keeping an iron control of policies no matter what the people choose? All my research tells me so! I think any honest researcher would agree with this.

Now to come to the point of this article: On June 1, 2015, while talking about the iron and clay of Daniel chapter two with a friend, he remarked, “The clay is covering the iron!” Suddenly I saw the iron and the clay in a new light! All democratic governments have an iron dictatorial core which the common people do not see! They can’t see it because it is hidden behind the democratic process, the clay which covers the iron control of the elite! Remember that though the majority of the American people were against the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, President Bush basically told them they had no choice in the matter. Call that a democracy?

Please understand this is merely an interpretation of the iron and clay of the feet of Daniel 2:34. My scientist friend, Dr. John Gideon Hartnett liked it, and posted it on his website: Iron and clay in the toes of Daniel 2 image

If you think you have a better interpretation of the Iron and Clay, please share it in the comments section below.

In this article, I hope to show that the “fourth beast” also called the “fourth kingdom” of Daniel 7 continues to this very day, and to suggest it is ruling the world covertly through agents of the Roman Catholic Church, also known as the “Holy See”.

Daniel 7:19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes (the Pope), and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

All good Bible scholars agree that the Fourth Beast or Kingdom is ROME!

This beast with the “great iron teeth” corresponds to the legs of iron in the Daniel 2 image and is, of course, Rome. This great and terrible beast of force and power “devoured and brake in pieces” all the known, civilized world of its day. And yet so magnificent was the Roman concept of law, so noble their ideas and ideals, so learned their language and literature, that they were to influence all cultures and civilizations to come. This truly diverse beast literally “stamped the residue” of civilizations with the imprint of its culture!

The 10 horns are the final 10 kingdoms that evolve out of, or from the breakup of the Roman Empire, and are just the same as the 10 toes of the image.

Nobody denies that Western Civilization comes from Rome and Roman law and its traditions.

Daniel 7:22 makes it crystal clear that the Fourth Kingdom continues, “Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom”.

In other words, the Fourth Kingdom continues to the very end until the coming of Jesus Christ to rule on earth. We know from history that though the Roman Empire seemed to die with the invasion of the barbarians from Germany, it again revived and became the “Holy Roman Empire” under the Popes. Could the revival of the Roman empire under the Popes be one interpretation of “his deadly wound was healed” of Revelation 13? And though Rome lost most of its temporal power when Pope Pius VI was attacked in 1798 (Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_and_the_Catholic_Church#Papal_confinement ) , do you think it is outside of the realm of possibility that the Popes and Rome have slowly and covertly regained that temporal power since then? They had over 200 years to do it! If the Vatican did indeed regain its temporal power over the world, wouldn’t it be yet another fulfillment of the prophecy “his deadly wound was healed”? I believe it is.

Several people have told me, “Not Rome!” even though Daniel 7 and other Scriptures make it clear that the 4th and final kingdom of man continues to the very second coming of Jesus. If the Fourth Kingdom is Rome and the Fourth Kingdom continues to the very end until Jesus returns to take over and rule the earth, the Fourth Kingdom must be ruling the world today! So the only question that remains is, what represents the Fourth Kingdom today? I believe it’s still Rome, the Vatican, that is ruling the world covertly. Though most contemporary Christian leaders would not agree with that, all the Protestant reformers of the 16th and 17th centuries did. I can prove that from their writings. What I am trying to teach is no different from what the Protestant reformers already thought about the Roman Catholic church. You can read their books on this website.

Also see The Vatican, The Pope, The Jesuit Order & Their Quest For Global Governance

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– by Dr. Ronald Cooke

Foreword by the webmaster

I once had a hard copy of this booklet sent to me from a visitor to this website. I lent it to my Baptist pastor hoping he would read it and learn that all the Endtime prophecy stuff he learned in Baptist seminary was bunk and based on Jesuits doctrines. I’m thankful that the pastor himself confesses he is weak in Endtime prophecy and therefore doesn’t teach it from the pulpit. If he did, I wouldn’t be going to his church. Though it’s been over a year now, I don’t think my pastor read it for if he did I’m sure he would have said something to me about it. Before I lent the booklet to the pastor, I scanned the pages to make sure I have a copy. This article is the introduction only. I hope it inspires you to do your own research, and especially so if you don’t agree with what Dr. Cooke is saying.

The emphasis in bold in the text are mine. The images at the beginning of the chapters are not the original images in Dr. Cooke’s book, they’re my own idea.

INTRODUCTION

In closing off this series of Tracts our desire has been to look at how the different errors and deceptions of this present evil age culminate in what the Bible calls Mystery Babylon the Great. Demonstrating that the god of this age has been working in the “church” since Paul wrote his epistle to the Thessalonians mentioning the truth that in his day, the “mystery of iniquity was already at work.”

I do not know what the future holds as far as my life on earth is concerned. My life is now drawing to a close. I have no idea what my future ministry holds for me, nor how long it will continue. But I can, and DO, look at what has occurred in my lifetime, and what is occurring at the present time.

Almost all my American friends are FUTURIST in their eschatology. All my teachers, every last one of them as far as I know, at Trinity College and at Talbot Seminary, were FUTURISTS. As I am now getting older, if not old, many of my friends have already died, and ALL my teachers at Trinity and Talbot, have all died. I think of them still and remember what they taught concerning the Antichrist-the BEAST-of Revelation. They all taught that he would be a coming world dictator who would not appear until after the church was raptured.

I listened with patience to all my teachers at Trinity and at Talbot, who taught me fifty years ago. They warned about the terrible Man of Sin, the last great world dictator who would arise at the very end of the age. They never told me, this view was first set forth by the Jesuit, Francisco Ribera, in 1590.

I have read several works by the Reconstructionists who, taking the Preterist approach to the book of Revelation dismiss Antichrist as a man who existed in the first century of the church, but who has long since disappeared off the face of the earth and so affects NO ONE in America or the world today. This view was first set forth by the Jesuit Luis Alcasar, in 1604. So the two Jesuit views of Antichrist have had a very great impact upon the church in America over the past generation. The view that the Protestant Reformers and Puritans had of the Antichrist has been dismissed both by the Futurist and the Preterists.

I have wrestled with eschatology for more than fifty years. I am not dogmatic on the details of prophecy. There are many details that I have great difficulty fitting into a complete system. However, where the Scriptures reveal clearly the meaning of symbols then I follow what the Scriptures reveal in those areas. In this tract I am looking at the revival of Jesuit teachings in England and America over the past two hundred years. I am also looking more at the impact of the Jesuit eschatologies on American Christianity in my lifetime, than at any complete end-time scenario.

While the Preterists have dismissed the Beast of Revelation as a man who appeared in the first century and then disappeared in AD 70; and the Futurists are still looking for their Man of Sin in the future: the Papal Man of Sin has had an enormous impact in these United States of America in the twentieth century and also in the beginning of the twenty-first century. Regardless of the disagreements over the details of prophecy, it cannot be denied that the Papal Man of Sin has had a profound influence in the United States of America during the past century.

The changes that have occurred in Bible-believing circles have been nothing short of incredible. The teachings, exploits, events, and people that I write about here have profoundly affected this great nation negatively. While multiplied millions of Bible-believers read the prophetic fiction, based upon a Jesuit teaching, and while many others dismiss the Man of Sin entirely from their theology now; the Roman Catholic Church-State has moved into the vacuum created by these two Jesuit views, and filled it with the errors and deceptions of sacerdotalism (the belief that priests act as mediators between God and humans) and sacramentarianism (the doctrine that observance of the sacraments is necessary for salvation and that such participation can confer grace.). The Roman Catholic Church-State also now completely dominates conservative politics in the United States. It pushes its cultural struggle to set up a “Christian Social Order” in America today, which really means a Jesuit Social Order, not a Protestant Christian Social Order. In fact, the Roman Catholic Church, spearheaded by the Jesuits, has been working for more than a hundred years to dismantle the historic Bible Protestant culture of America that arose out of its Puritan beginnings.

When I first came to America, sixty years ago, Bible-believing Christians including Billy Graham, looked upon Roman Catholicism as one of the great evils in the world. Billy Graham, himself said, around that very time, that he looked upon Islam, Roman Catholicism. and Communism as the three great evils facing Christianity. But that all changed in the next few decades, not just with regard to the stance of Billy Graham, but with regard to almost all other evangelicals in North America.

Billy Graham, however, continued to warn his audiences of a coming secular superman, while inviting Roman Catholic clergy to participate in his evangelistic services. Later, Roman Catholic priests would be appointed to serve as counselors to handle Roman Catholics who responded to his invitation. Such people were encouraged to go back to the Roman Catholic System. So while Billy Graham, both in his preaching, and in his hook, Approaching Hoofbeats, continued to warn his audiences of a coming secular world dictator, he failed to warn his audiences of the evils of the ANTICHRISTIANITY which were then affecting his own ministry, and which continued to affect his ministry right up until he retired.

In fact, he not only failed to warn his audiences of the Papal Man of Sin, he ended up openly fellowshipping with the Papal Man of Sin on several different occasions while continuing to warn his audiences of the future Man of Sin which did not affect them in any way at all. And still has not affected them to this present hour.

In 1960 Pope John Paul XXIII set in motion Vatican II. Pope John was looked upon as a kindly man who opened the doors of the Roman Catholic Church and initiated single­handedly the modern ecumenical movement in the Vatican. He was so well-liked, so jovial, and so outgoing, that even John R. Rice (deceased, a Baptist evangelist and pastor and the founding editor of The Sword of the Lord, an influential fundamentalist newspaper) said he thought he was a born again Christian. Certainly in America, if not in other places, the Roman Catholic ecumenical movement received a great impetus from Vatican II, and from Pope John. Billy Graham certainly welcomed ecumenism, and with other New Evangelicals, and Christianity Today, began to make the push that would culminate later in the proclamation that Roman Catholics are also Christians, and the Roman Catholic Church is a sister Christian Communion.

In 1967, the Pope declared Mary (who has been dead for almost 2000 years) to be the Mother of the Church. The Charismatic movement soon invaded Duquesne, Notre Dame, and other Roman Catholic universities. When the Charismatics met at Notre Dame they said they had brought the “giant” of Protestantism down, and when they met later at New Orleans they said that they had brought down the giant of Protestantism at Notre Dame, and now they needed to chop off his head so that a division among the churches would never occur again.

The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) was formed in the decade of the 1970’s. It was supposed to be based upon the Westminster Confession of Faith. But one of the first things the founders did was to remove the phrase from the old Confession, that referred to the Pope as “the Antichrist, the man of sin and son of perdition who exalts himself in the church against Christ.” It was not long after this that the General Assembly went on record declaring that the Roman Catholic Church could be considered a “CO-­BELLIGERENT” in the battle to save America from the secular humanists. The PCA, now includes reconstructionists who teach contrary to the original Westminister Confession, that Antichrist arose and fell in the first century of the Christian era. So while men who call themselves REFORMED, but who are not REFORMED at ALL, DISMISS Antichrist to a time now past, they at the same time fellowship with the Papal apostasy in the PRESENT. Dr. James Kennedy, enamored with the Jesuit teaching that The Man of Sin arose and fell in the first century AD. began to use Roman Catholic speakers at his cultural conferences. Calvin College would have forums which included Roman Catholic priests. Westminister Theological Seminary, and Gordon-Conwell College and Seminary, turn out graduates who became outspoken advocates for Roman Catholicism.”

World Magazine, which claims to be “Reformed” would help to celebrate the first twenty-five years of the late pope’s pontificate, with many articles and pictures, all praising the false prophet and his demonic Mariolatry. Surely an unprecedented first for a self-confessed “truly Reformed” magazine to do.

In the later part of the twentieth-century C. S. Lewis came to be praised by many Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Reformed, and Charismatics as the greatest apologist for Christianity in the twentieth century. His books were plugged by the Christian School movement and sold in about every Christian bookstore in America. He was a man who believed in that enduring fiction of popery-PURGATORY. He wrote about PURGATORY thus denying the salvation that Christ accomplished for all those who believe in Him. (For through this man Jesus is preached unto us the forgiveness of sins.) A man, who denies the forgiveness of sins, and who teaches the blasphemous fiction of Purgatory, and who regards the substitutionary atonement of Christ as silly, although later he said it was not as silly as he once thought, is not an apologist for biblical Christianity. However, the fact that he was so recognized by so many Christians, merely shows what Christianity is to millions of people in America today.

** Among others. Gordon Conwell turned out Scott Hahn who is now an outspoken agent of Rome. He teaches in a Roman Catholic school and appears regularly on the Roman Catholic TV channel. Robert Sungenis, a graduate of Westminster, has edited two large volumes attacking Reformation Protestantism.

Some Evangelicals, for the first time, sought to convince the world that Roman Catholics did not need to be saved. They also sought to convince the world that the Roman Catholic Church was a sister Christian Communion.

If we can set an arbitrary date, we can say that from around 1910 wheels were set in motion that culminated in ECT (Evangelicals and Catholics Together) I. The combined efforts of the new evangelicals, charismatics, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, the Promise Keepers, the Bill Gaither Musical Extravaganzas, Purpose Driven life conferences, Billy Graham rallies, Campus Crusade leadership, Christian Right political conferences, Pat Robertson, the Jesuits, the Pope of Rome. C. S. Lewis writings, Mel Gibson’s idolatrous movie, interfaith forums and dialogues, and just about every effort imaginable has been made over the past 100 years to PROMOTE the fiction that the Roman Catholic System is now a sister Christian Communion. Such a Promotion of the Roman Catholic System was crowned with success in A D 2000 when the Congress of the United States voted to give the Pope of Rome, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor.­ This was done as the scandal of priestly pedophilia was breaking around the world. Demonstrating again, what Sir Robert Anderson noted, that otherwise intelligent people are completely deceived by the papal Man of Sin.

A lot of theological drivel then began to appear under the banner of “Reformed” writing which was not reformed at all. In fact, it championed the Roman Catholic position on justification by works, and some “Reformed” men began to praise the dark ages from which the true Reformed men delivered the church.

One of the questions I run asking in this little tract is: “Are all these promotions of Roman Catholicism mere accidents, or chance happenings, or is there a concerted effort by certain people – a conspiracy if you like – to DEPROTESTANTIZE the United States of America, and bring the ‘church’ here under the control of the Papal Man of Sin?” Has there been a combined effort in the field of prophecy to remove the last vestiges of the Protestant position on the Antichrist and replace it with the Jesuit positions? I believe that the Jesuits have been at work in America for centuries. But they stepped up their efforts in the twentieth ­century to bring this great nation to the feet of the Roman pontiff. Our study is limited. However, we do try to present enough material to at least make people think and perhaps even awaken a few people from their sleep. For as the Apostle Paul said,

That knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent. the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sex and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lust thereof. (Romans 13:11-14).

In this study, we are looking primarily at the theological conspiracy against the Lord and His body, the true Church. It would take an encyclopedia, and more, to cover every aspect of this great satanic conspiracy. All we can do in this study is look at one division of theology: Eschatology. Perhaps others then can build upon this study and produce a more profound one, to continue to overthrow the Great Beast of Rome, which reigns over the kings of the earth, and over the great men of the earth, who are all deceived by the superstitions and sorceries (literally Pharmacies*) of the ongoing historical conspiracy of Mystery Babylon the Great.

* The Greek verb PHARMAKEO from which the noun form is taken means sone who mixes poisons (Revelation 18:23) The last great apostate conglomerate headed by Rome produces a deadly theologically poisoned mixture that all the nations of the world drink to their everlasting damnation.

Ronald Cooke
4923 E. Lee Hwy
Max Meadows, VA 24360 August 30, 2013

Continue to the next chapter: THE JESUIT CONSPIRACY AGAINST HISTORIC BIBLE PROTESTANTISM

Chapter Titles

1. THE JESUIT CONSPIRACY AGAINST HISTORIC BIBLE PROTESTANTISM
2. THE EXISTENCE OF A CONSPIRACY
3. THE BIBLE REVEALS THE EXISTENCE OF CONSPIRACIES
4. JESUIT ESCHATOLOGY AND THE AMERICAN PULPIT
5. BIBLICAL EXEGESIS AND THE BEAST OF REVELATION
6. ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE’S THE BIBLICAL SYMBOL OF THE ANTICHRIST IS A WILD BEAST
7. THE CONSEQUENCES OP THE JESUIT ESCHATOLOGIES IN AMERICA TODAY
8. THE THESIS OF THE JESUIT FRANCISCO RIBERA
9. THE CULTURAL STRUGGLE
10. THE EFFECTS OF THE JESUIT CULTURAL STRUGGLE UPON THE UNITED STATES TODAY
11. THE JESUITS AND ECUMENISM
12. EVANGELICALS AND THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT

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