Abraham Lincoln blamed the cause of the American Civil War on Rome!

The following quotes are from the book, “Fifty Years in the Church of Rome” by Charles Chiniquy, who was a priest in the Roman Catholic Church for 25 years and later left the Roman church and became a Presbyterian pastor. He was a close friend of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and had several personal interviews with him. The following are quotes from Abraham Lincoln during one of his talks with Charles Chiniquy. Read http://www.biblebelievers.com/chiniquy/cc50_ch61.html for the entire text. The emphasis in bold and comments in italics are mine.

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This is the continuation of The Last Prophecy: An Abridgment of Elliott’s Horae Apocalypticae.

An Election. The Faithful Distinguished Amidst Increasing Apostasy, A.D. 300-400.

IT IS OBVIOUS that the earthquake had past, inasmuch as it is said in the first verse that “The winds should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea;”and in the twelfth verse of the next chapter, the sun, moon, and stars are spoken of as again having shone forth. Still further proof is this that the earthquake, spoken of in our last lecture, was a symbolic scene, and not “the great day of the Lord’s second personal coming.”

In continuance of this sixth-seal vision, the Apostle saw four destroying tempest-angels under temporary restraint; the command being given from the angel of the Lord to “hurt not” anything on the Roman earth for a certain time. The intent of this figure is explained in his unintentional manner by Gibbon, when, speaking of the Gothic invasion, he says, “The threatening tempest of barbarians, which so soon subverted the foundation of Roman greatness, was still repelled or suspended on the frontiers.” When so great a revolution in favor of Christianity had just taken place, we naturally feel inclined to ask why such a judgment should now be threatened? In seeking a reply to this, we are brought to a deeply interesting subject of inquiry, namely, what had been the progress of vital and spiritual religion when the outward and professing Church was thus exalted and fostered?

We have to look into the state of things and feelings in the now Christianized empire; and, first, as to the change effected in the temporal position of Christians at this period. The cross, once so despised, was now everywhere had in honor; justice was done to the memory of the martyrs, and their righteousness was acknowledged in public edicts. The living confessors of Christ were restored from mines and dungeons, and brought in triumph to their homes. Instead of caves, vaults, and catacombs in which to worship God, there arose in all directions magnificent churches, and the services were celebrated with much pomp and outward solemnity. Instead of apostasies, which had not been unfrequent under the late terror of persecution, candidates were now daily added to the throngs who crowded round the churches for baptism; and at the festivals of Easter and Whitsuntide, these newly baptized neophytes, in their white vestments, appeared in groups round each Christian edifice. The professing Church Catholic began to be assembled in general councils under imperial sanction, at which representatives attended from every province and tongue in the great empire. The palace gates were open to the holy delegates. The Emperor bowed down before them in respectful deference, prepared to render to them both the watchful care of a father and the dutiful obedience of a son. On a medal struck at that era appeared a Phoenix, all radiant with the rising sunbeams, representing the empire as risen into new life and hope.

Such being the outward prosperity of the Christian Church, can we wonder at its general exultation, or at the high-raised expectations then formed of Rome’s future prospects, now that it had become a Christian nation? Nor was this expectation altogether unnatural. The remarkable tranquility which prevailed throughout the empire, immediately consequent upon Constantine’s establishment of Christianity was recorded as the token of predicted latter-day blessedness. They thought they were become, as Israel of old, God’s covenanted people — that both the present and future temporal blessings promised to Israel would attach to them; and, forgetting the warnings that Antichrist must first come, even some of the most eminent of the bishops spoke of these glories as about to be realized.

“What so many of the Lord’s saints and confessors,” said Eusebius, “before our time desired to see, and saw not, and to hear, and .heard not, — that behold now before our eyes! It was of us the prophet spake when he told hon w the wilderness and the solitary place should be glad, and the desert rejoice and blossom as the lily. Whereas the Church was widowed and desolate, her children have now tn exclaim, Make room! enlarge thy borders! the place is too strait for us. The promise is now fulfilling, ‘In righteousness shalt thou be established; all thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children.’” So, too, with respect to other prophecies in his Commentary on Isaiah.

Such were the hopes of the professing Church. Can there be a greater contrast than existed between this prospect and that seen by the Apostle in the true perspective of future events? “I looked and saw four tempest-angels,” or four destroying agents or powers, holding back the four winds indeed, but only for a time; and then ready at the word of command to let them go: this temporary restraint, it seemed, having soon to be withdrawn, and the Roman earth to be then desolated. But wherefore?

So the question rises as to the state of religion in this fourth century, and whether indications had already arisen of unfaithfulness to their Christian profession on the part of the newly converted proselytes from the Roman world to the Christian Israel.

I purposely so apply this term “Israel,” because by it the Christian Church is evidently designated in the Revelation. To those who have observed what has been before noticed relative to the temple in the Apocalyptic vision, this name will not appear out of character. A high priest in Israelitish dress, an Israelitish altar, an Israelitish temple, will almost of necessity imply a correspondent Israel for the congregation. And as the former has been before shown to be symbolic of the Christian Church in the Apocalyptic scenery, so must the latter be explained, not of the literal Israel, but of the professing Christian Church. In the Church of Christ converted Gentiles were engrafted into the flock of the believing Israel, and are so spoken of in several places in Scripture. For example, by St. Peter the temple, sacrifices, and priesthood are all spoken of figuratively as designative of the Church of Christ. “Ye are an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices;” and again, “A royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people.” So too St. Paul to the Gentile Christians of Galatia: “If ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise;” and again, “As many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and on the Israel of God.” (Gal. 6:16) In the Epistle to the Church in Philadelphia we read, “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God;”and some of the false professors of the gospel at that place are described and reproved as they ” who say they are Jews, and are not.” (Rev. 3:9, 12) Moreover, in that same address to a Gentile Church, it is intimated that such of them as shall overcome shall be citizens of the New Jerusalem; while at the close of this book it is distinctly implied that the ” Holy City ” shall only be for the twelve tribes of Israel. (Rev. 21:12) Further proofs to the same effect might be multiplied, but these will be deemed sufficient.

In accordance with these views, our own Church, in her Collect for Good Friday, uses the same language. After praying for Jews, Turks, infidels, and heretics, we are taught to say, “And so fetch them home, blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved amongst the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made one fold, under one shepherd, Jesus Christ;” — in other words, numbered amongst the 144,000.

We find that the angels were desired to “hurt not the earth, etc., until these 144,000 servants of God should have been sealed in their foreheads.” What division of Israel then was this, this 144,000 to be sealed out of all the tribes? It is clear there is a distinction here implied. The true translation from the Greek is not, “of the tribe of Simeon, — of the tribe of Levi,” etc.; but “out of the tribe of Simeon,” etc. If then the twelve tribes signified the whole professing Church, what meant this sealing out of them? We must view it as pointing to the true spiritual body of Christ’s elect people, undistinguished by man, but marked by the eye of the all-seeing God, however mixed up and involved they might apparently be in the world around them. Their interests and citizenship being in heaven, their affections are set on things above, in contradistinction to the worldly and the thoughtless, the lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, however these latter may be styled by a Christian name and enrolled in a Christian Church. And thus, “Hurt not — until the servants of God are safe,” intimated to the Apostle that all were “not Israel who were of Israel,” and that unfaithfulness was to be found in the body of men publicly recognized as the Church of believers.

And was that which was thus intimated to this servant of God in accordance with the actually existing state of things? We have seen that, after the overthrow of Paganism, the whole Roman Empire, with the emperor as head, became nominally Christian. No longer in any fear of persecution, men soon began to abuse the bounty of God. Hypocritical accessions to the faith were so numerous as to draw the notice of historians of the day; amongst others, of Eusebius, whom we found a short time before anticipating such glorious things for the Church. Arianism spread so fast that the saying, “Many are called, but few chosen,” was only too true, according to the concurrent teStimonies of living witnesses. More and more distinct, from this time, became the two bodies of nominal and real Christians; and henceforward, through the whole of the Apocalypse, this distinction is more clearly marked.

And here let me call your attention to a species of indirect evidence of much value, of which we shall find several instances in this part of Scripture. This principle has been termed allusive contrast. It may be thus illustrated. If, in the course of history, we read of any peculiar laws and penalties having been at any time enacted against certain specified crimes or habits, we feel at once that at that particular period there must have prevailed, to some extended degree, the habitual practice of the very evils which those laws were intended to correct. The description implies the corresponding opposite. So when Ezekiel spoke of the righteous man that “hath restored to the debtor his pledge,” and “spoiled none by violence,” etc., (Ezek. 18:7) it implied, by allusive contrast, that injustice and oppression characterized Judah in those days, and that violence and fraud were Special sins that then called for God’s rebuke.

Let us bear this principle in mind as we advance in the history of the sealed and unsealed Israel. We cannot doubt its having been the Saviour, the Angel of God, who gave the command, “Hurt not — till we have sealed the servants of God.” There is a description by St. Paul of the seal of God. It is said to bear this motto, “The Lord knoweth them that are his;”and, “Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” (2 Tim. 2:19) With this seal they were sealed in their foreheads, in token of their Lord’s approval of their open and consistent course of holy walk. Illuminated by the Saviour’s influence and registered in his Book of Life, they were thus marked as for himself; and this sealing was given to them individually, as. a preservative unto eternal salvation; and as a collective body, in token that a living succession of these sealed ones should be continued in all ages of the Church as the lights of the world and the witnesses for God.

The sealed ones are identified with the palm-bearing multitudes afterwards mentioned; and in this manner a glimpse is given in vision of their future blessedness. After coming out of a great tribulation, which was just then commencing, they are seen in perspective through the duration of time, in numbers numberless, with all their accumulated generations, safe arrived in the blessed presence of God. The palms they bore indicated their triumphant issue from the conflict; their white’ robes, washed in the blood of the Lamb, were emblems of their justification through faith in the atoning sacrifice of Christ. A welcome greeting sounded forth from the twenty-four representatives of the Church; and, from the angels, a united song of thanksgiving and praise to the Lamb, — the Author of his servants’ redemption. But we must not anticipate. More of these hereafter.

We might here ask, and not without reason, Did not all the Church consider themselves as being of the number of the elect — of those whom the Holy Spirit sanctified? Else, why were they called Christians? But this general supposition, so often wanting support in fact, did it not in itself show that even at that early time no small deception had been progressing? Must there not have been some Antichristian principle which had taken root, and had led men to imagine that, without any real vitality, there might be a religion which would be equally efficacious; some ceremonial system, which, while less strict inwardly, would be outwardly more formal, and would equally serve to conduct them to the same termination?

Now let us see if, at that very period to which we have advanced, we can find an explanation of this distinction we have made, or rather, which was made by the angel, as before mentioned.

An esteemed writer of Church history says of these times, i.e., just after Constantine had established Christianity, “There was much outward religion, but this could not make men saints in heart and life. The true doctrine of justification by faith was scarce to be seen, and that of real conversion very much lost, or eternal baptism placed in its stead.” Such is the testimony of many other able historians too numerous to be inserted here, but all telling the same story.

Our attention is particularly drawn by them to errors relative to baptism, which, partially in the third, but more eminently in the fourth century, became apparent, and may be considered as an essential development of the Antichristian apostasy. So far as the outward rite, all was in due order. Members were regularly admitted into the congregation of the visible Church by the bishops and presbyters. And thus far it was well. But we do not read of these newly baptized looking in faith to Jesus, as the soul’s Light and Life, whereby alone to secure the spiritual blessings shadowed out in the sacrament. We read nothing of this. But we do read that exaggerated and unscriptural notions widely prevailed of the virtue attached to the outward rate, as of itself sufficient to secure these blessings, i.e., when duly performed by the presbyter or priest, as it became the custom then to call him. Titles of honor had accumulated which led the way to these errors. One writer tells us that “baptism was called the seal, the illumination, the preservative, the investiture from corruption, the salvation.” A bishop of that time says, “It was the ransom to captives, the remission of offenses, the death of sin, the regeneration of the soul, the garment of light, the holy seal indissoluble, the chariot to heaven, the luxury of paradise, the procuring of the kingdom, the gift of adoption.” Not only was a magical virtue attached to it for the washing away of sin, but all evil was supposed to be averted by it, as by a charm. New ceremonies too were added. It is said the candidate turned to the west, while the priest uttered words of exorcism, by which it was supposed he was delivered from the power of the Prince of darkness; then to the east, to receive with the immersion the illumination of the Spirit. He was then enrolled in the church register as one of the number of the Christian Israel. A crown was borne by him in token of his victory over sin and the world; a white dress put on to denote one washed from sin and robed for immortality: in this he was led up to the altar, and received with psalmody, in foretaste of future hymnings of the blessed. When first admitted as a candidate he was called ” chosen,” now was further added the title of ” saint and faithful; “and so were called all who entered into the Church by baptism.

Another error likewise relative to baptism, which followed on those already named, was the practice of delaying the ceremony often till death was near. “This was done,” says Neander, “that men might the longer give themselves to sin; and yet in the hour of death, being purified by the magical annihilation of their sins, might be received into eternal life.” It was, in fact, what may be called “the extreme unction of that day.” We cannot but regret that Constantine the Great fell himself into this error.

One of the most fatal mistakes which the Church at that period committed was “the holding reserve relative to God’s written Word.” It was made part of a religious system to observe a close reserve, except to the baptized, relative to one of the most important doctrinal truths, viz., the propitiatory atonement of the Son of God, as the great object of justifying and saving faith.

Beyond all this, it had begun to be deemed allowable, for approved ends, to pervert Scripture. Silent and slow advance had been made towards this point, by permitting tradition to supersede the written Word. No wonder then that the only true source of light, life, and justification to the soul should have been forgotten. No wonder that there arose a superstitious exaltation of the ceremonial; that misapprehensions of the proper functions of the clergy prevailed; the communion table changed into an altar; the commemorative supper into something approaching to a sacrifice of the mass. So did Judaism mix itself up with heathenism, and, as we shall soon see, serve materially to help forward the Antichristian and apostatizing principle to a fuller development; one, indeed, the grand object of which was (and ever has it been followed out with admirable consistency by its designing originator, the master spirit of evil), that it should, within the Christian Church itself, while professedly exalting Christ and his institutions, practically set him aside out of its system, the priesthood, in one and all its offices, being substituted in his stead.

These were the great and growing evils which were marked out, in allusive contrast, by this significant action of the Apocalyptic angel. To these 144,000, and to these alone, were given the titles “called, and chosen, and faithful;”and these alone are said to have received God’s seal on their foreheads, even the seal of baptism by the Holy Spirit. The nominal Church took these titles in virtue of outward rites; the spiritual Church through the direct ministry and revelation of Jesus Christ, made to them by himself, and were enrolled by him in his own register, — the Book of Life. Instead of an outward charm against evil, the Lord is himself their guard: “Hurt not the earth, till my servants are safe.” Instead of white garments before men, they have the angel pointing them out as the blessed company who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb, and are received, but not until after a victorious conflict, with the triumphant emblem of palms in their hands, into the heavenly presence, amidst the hymnings of angels and their own hosannas of praise to their Saviour and God. Nor should we omit to notice that the professing Church, moreover, had its palmbearing; a practice already become customary. On the Sunday preceding Easter, the congregations used to go forth with palms and with hosannas to give greetings to their bishops and presbyters, the authors of their supposed salvation; and not without similar anticipations of future happiness, to place their palms on the altar and hymn Alleluias.

We have noticed Constantine as amongst those who fell into the error of deferring baptism until the immediate prospect of death. It will be interesting, before we conclude, to hear the account of this great man’s last hours. The history is given by Eusebius. On finding his health declining, Constantine gathered the bishops round him, and declared his wish to have the rite of baptism administered, as that whereby all the sins of his past life were to be cleansed and washed away. “This,” said he to them, “is the time so long looked for by me, thirsting and praying that I might partake of the salvation of God. This is the time for my enjoying the seal that confers immortality. I had wished to have partaken of this washing in the Jordan, where the Saviour was baptized as an example to us; but God, who knows what is best, has ordered that it should be here. Now then let there be no hesitation. If the Lord of life and death will that my life be prolonged, and it be once settled that I be numbered amongst His people, I promise I will lay down to myself a rule of life becoming.” Then they, after the usual ritual, imparted to him the holy mysteries. ” And thus Constantine, alone of Roman emperors, in the Church of the martyrdom of Jesus, was regenerated and made perfect; and, having the divine seal impressed upon him, he rejoiced “in spirit, and was filled with heavenly light. Then, after the other ceremonies, he put on a dress of white, bright as the light; for he would no more touch the purple; and raising his voice, he thanked God, and spoke of his happiness as having been thought worthy of eternal life. Then having admitted some of the generals and captains of his troops, as they wept around him, and wished him years of prolonged life, he answered them that he had now been made partaker of that which was the true life; that none but himself could be aware of the blessings he had received; and that he was fain to depart, and not delay his passage to God! All this took place at the Whitsuntide festival; and on Whitsunday itself, at the noontide hour of the day by the sun, Constantine was received up to his God.”

It is clear that the writer of the foregoing account had, as well as Constantine, imbibed in no small degree some of those pernicious errors. Eusebius was Bishop of Caesarea in A.D. 313. He was the intimate friend of Constantine, and wrote his life. He opposed the doctrines of Arius. He also wrote an Ecclesiastical or Church History, from which we often make extracts in these lectures.

Continued in Revelation 7:9-17. The Palm-Bearing Vision

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Dissolution Of The Pagan Firmament — Constantine Establishes Christianity.

AS THE LANGUAGE of this passage is very highly figurative, it may be well to call in mind what has been said relative to the figures used in this book, and the meaning attached to them. A few examples from other parts of Scripture will illustrate the subject.

When Joseph dreamed that the sun, moon, and stars made obeisance to him, his father and brethren at once understood that the paternal government was intended by the sun; and so of the other parts of the family. Jacob answered, “Shall I, and thy mother, and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee?” (Gen. 37:10) These eleven brethren were to be rulers, or rather founders of kingdoms, or heads of distinct tribes.

We find in Jeremiah the symbol of an earthquake. The prophet saw in vision the destruction of the Jewish kingdom by the Babylonians. “I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. — For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black — The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks.” (Jer. 4:23-29) So also in Ezekiel, prophesying of the overthrow of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, “When I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.” (Ezek. 32:7) In Zephaniah, speaking of the destruction of Judah, “The great day of the Lord is near, a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress.” (Zeph. 1:14) In Isaiah, prophesying of the overthrow of Babylon by the Medes, “The day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger; the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.” (Isa. 13:9)

Again, for the hiding in dens and rocks of the earth, look to Hosea treating of Shalmanezer’s attack upon Israel: “They shall say to the mountains, Cover us: and to the hills, Fall on us,” (Hos. 10:8) i.e., not to crush, but to hide them.

Have not these quotations anticipated the explanation of the text?

When St. John looked from the altar and its crowd of white-robed martyrs to the landscape, which he had before seen all tranquil, what met his eye? Agitation and trouble. Lo, a great earthquake! The mountains and island rocks sink beneath the shock. The sun becomes black, and the moon blood-red, as in a total eclipse. The stars fall from heaven like figs from the tree during a windy tempest. Kings, warriors, freemen, slaves, all appear in flight, and seek to find shelter in caves and holes. Then goes forth a cry, “Hide us from Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.”

Could St. John have doubted the import of these emblems, familiar as he was with Scripture and Scripture symbols? Surely he must have foreseen a revolution of no common kind. No partial change — only such a change as the entire destruction of heathenism before the progress of Christianity could be implied.

Did, then, such a change, in fact, take place at this period of time as will warrant the application?

When the time came that God would deliver his people Israel out of the hand of their oppressor in the land of Egypt, Moses was. born. (Acts 7:17-20) Again, when about to deliver them out of Babylon, Cyrus was raised up. (Isa. 44:28) So, when about to raise his Church to a state of power, Constantine appeared.

Constantius, father of Constantine, died at York, in our own country, and appointed ” Constantine the Great ” as his successor. This prince was already known as a favorer of the Christians, while yet Maxentius was in possession of Rome — the son of the persecuting emperor, Maximian. Ere Constantine (A.D. 306) bore down against Maxentius, he avowed his belief in and his adherence to Christianity. We are told (and before his death he asserted it) that on his march toward Rome, as the sun was declining, there appeared suddenly in the heavens a pillar of light in the form of a cross, with this inscription, “In this overcome.” Constantine immediately adopted the cross as his ensign; that object of hatred to the Pagans was seen “glittering on the helmets, engraved on the shields, and interwoven into the banners of his soldiers.”2 The emperor’s own person was adorned with it. Moreover, there was displayed on his principal banner this once accursed emblem, above which was set a crown of gold and gems, and the initials of Him who suffered on the one and now wears the other were inscribed upon it.

“By this ensign thou shalt conquer.” Well was the promise fulfilled to Constantine. Army after army, emperor after emperor, were routed, and fled or perished before the warriors of the cross. The terror of Maxentius and that of his army, in their flight over the Milvian bridge across the Tiber, is portrayed in sculpture, which may still be seen at Rome on the arch of Constantine. Similar was the terror of the other two commanders, Maximin and Licinius. As memorials of the persecution just before, the two joint emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, had medals struck of themselves, in the characters of Jove and Hercules, destroying the hydra-headed serpent monster, Christianity! Their successors had adopted these titles. When Maxentius went forth to battle, he went fortified by heathen oracles, and in the character of “the champion of heathenism” against “the champion of the cross.” Again, when Maximin and Licinius were about to engage in battle, the former vowed to Jupiter that, if successful, he would extirpate Christianity. Licinius again, haranguing his soldiers, ridiculed the cross, and staked the falsehood of Christianity on his Success. In the hour of danger and death, however, his boldness forsook him. ” Licinius,” says Gibbon, “dreaded the power of the consecrated banner, the sight of which animated the soldiers of Constantine with invincible enthusiasm, and scattered terror and dismay through the adverse legions.”

The dying terrors of these persecutors have been recorded. A dark cloud brooded over the death-beds of Maximian and Diocletian; the former of whom, oppressed by remorse, is said to have strangled himself, and the latter to have died raving mad. Galerius, from an agonizing death-bed illness, sent to entreat the Christians to pray for him; and Maximin confessed his guilt in his last moments, and called on Christ to compassionate his misery.

Thus did a sense of the wrath of the Crucified One, the Lamb of God, now seated in glory, lie heavy upon them. When, then, we combine these terrors of the death-bed with those of the lost battlefield, in which all ranks, high and low, must have participated, routed, flying, and perishing, there was surely that in the event which answered to the symbols of the vision, wherein kings and generals, freemen and slaves, appeared fleeing from the face of Him that sat on the throne of power, even from “the wrath of the Lamb.”

This was the first shock of the earthquake. The sun of the Pagan power had been darkened; but all the stars of the Pagan firmament had not yet fallen, nor had the Pagan firmament itself passed away.

When Constantine first triumphed, he at once gave liberty to the Christians to exercise the rites of their worship, but heathenism was still tolerated. When he became sole emperor, however, he issued edicts for the entire suppression of Pagan sacrifices and the destruction of Pagan temples, and no toleration was allowed for any but Christian worship. His successor followed up the same object, and attached penalties to the public profession of Paganism. Before the century ended the stars of Pagan power were fallen. Its heaven, or political religious system, had vanished; and on the Roman earth its institutions, laws, rules, and worship had been all but annihilated. Pagans were now obliged, in fear of death, to seek for dens and caverns wherein to hide their devotions, as appears from the history of the reign of Theodosius.

The passage of Scripture on which we are now commenting has been by many supposed to refer to the day of judgment; and indeed there appears a strong resemblance here to the phraseology used in describing the terrors of that awful day; but a closer examination will show a marked discrepancy between them.

The clearest passage in the Bible descriptive of the final judgment is in 2 Pet. 3:10: “The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat: the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up;” and the Apostle adds, “We look for new heavens and a new earth,” etc. Nothing of this is said in our text. In such a conflagration the sun would not be black as sackcloth, nor the moon become blood-red; still less could the stars fall on the earth. St. Peter speaks of a real destruction, a real conflagration, an end of the earth. A passage somewhat similar to this of the sixth seal occurs also in the sixteenth chapter, but still not exactly alike. In the sixth seal the earthquake is said to be great: in the sixteenth chapter, “such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great;” accompanied, moreover, by division of Babylon into three parts. And while in the sixth seal men fly and hide themselves, and express great fear of God and of the power sent by him, in the sixteenth chapter, after the earthquake they blaspheme God, when the plague of hail follows. It appears then, that there is a lesser earthquake and a greater described, naturally alike in some things, but differing much in others. Gibbon says, “The ruin of the Pagan religion is described by the sophists as a dreadful and amazing prodigy, which covered the earth with darkness, and restored the ancient dominion of chaos and of night.”4

The question may be asked, Was it from Constantine sitting on his throne, or from Christ on the throne of heaven, that the runaways are supposed to hide themselves? The passage will admit of either sense. It may mean, Hide us from this conqueror, who with the banner of the Lamb of God is coming to destroy us. But we have seen enough in the repentance, remorse, and terror expressed by the dying persecutors to justify in preference the other construction. We cannot fail to mark what a contrast is thus presented between the deaths of the martyrs of Jesus and those of their persecutors. Truly we would say. in reviewing it, “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.” Sin is, and has ever been, the only sting of death. Thanks be to God, who gave them the victory through Christ Jesus.

Continued in Revelation 7:1-8. The Sealing Vision

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Last Pagan Persecution Of The Church, Diocletian. A.D. 303-311.

A SCENE QUITE DIFFERENT from any that he had yet contemplated met St. John’s eye on the opening of the fifth seal. It is no longer the Roman earth which he sees before him, but the symbolic temple-court, from whose altar proceed, — not the voices of living worshippers, presenting their sacrifices for atonement, or thanksgiving and free-will offerings, but the cries of departed and martyred saints, who had been slain for their testimony to the word of God.

We have brought the history down to that division into four parts by Diocletian which terminated the Roman Empire as it had hitherto been constituted. The era is one famous in Roman history. His four immediate predecessors had kept the empire in existence, and even helped, in some degree, towards its elevation; yet was this emperor considered as the founder of a new empire, and a triumph was decreed to him at Rome in the year A.D. 303. Here, then, for the present, we must turn from the history of the Roman world to take a survey in retrospect of the persecutions that had passed on the Christian Church during three centuries, before we notice the persecutions which marked the reign of Diocletian.

I adverted before to the spread of religion in the year A.D. 96, in the sketch of what must have passed before St. John’s view in Patmos. Small as was its first beginning, Christianity had made considerable progress. Its founder had taught his disciples to expect that so it would be; but he had at the same time warned them that hatred and persecution from the world would mark its course: “In the world ye shall have tribulation.”

The first imperial persecution was in the reign of Nero. This cruel tyrant, having himself set fire to Rome, laid the odium of it on the Christians, in the hope that the hatred already existing against them would give currency to the charge. Fearful sufferings then ensued. Some of the condemned were covered with the skins of wild beasts, and in that disguise devoured by dogs; some were crucified; others burnt alive. “When the day was not sufficient,” says the historian, “for their tortures, the flames in which they perished served to illuminate the night.” Nero looked on for his amusement. In this persecution, it is said, St. Paul was beheaded and St. Peter crucified. These martyrdoms took place before St. John’s death.

The next great persecution was during the reign of Domitian. It originated more from jealousy than from wanton cruelty. Besides the charge of Atheism brought against the Christians, the sect were said to be seeking a kingdom. To hinder this, the emperor slew his own cousin, a Christian of the highest rank known; and summoned also the existing relations of Him who was regarded as the Christian’s king; but finding that these were but poor men, not looking for a temporal inheritance or earthly grandeur, be dismissed them with contempt; sending the last of the apostles, John, in banishment to Patmos.

In Trajan’s reign a law was for the first time issued against Christians because they were Christians. An old law was in existence which decreed that no god should be worshipped unless admitted and recognized as such by public authority. This edict Trajan was advised to enforce. He, however, mildly declared that no inquisition should be made for the Christians; but that, when brought before the magistrates in the regular course of law, if they should refuse to sacrifice to the gods, they must needs suffer.

This edict, intended to prevent the search for Christians, and so rather to favor them, had a contrary effect, as it pronounced the profession of Christianity illegal, and left it in the power of any governor or other person to persecute them; and so it proved. Numbers were added to the martyr band, and many more souls gathered under the altar. Amongst others, Ignatius, the venerable Bishop of Antioch, joined his brethren there before this reign had closed. In writing to the Church of Smyrna he says, “Wherefore have I given” myself up unto death, to fire, to sword, to wild beasts? The nearer I am to the sword, the nearer to God. When I am among the wild beasts, I am with God. In the name of Jesus I undergo all, to suffer together with him.” A little time after, in the great amphitheater of Rome, to which city he had been sent for execution, he was thrown to wild beasts amidst the exultations of assembled myriads.

Again, in the reign of the second Antonine, after a time of rest, persecution recommenced, and every form of cruel torture and death was exhibited to the Christians. Amongst other sufferers, Polycarp and Justin Martyr were; executed; and they too went to their waiting brethren. Many also of the confessors of the faith at Lyons met the same fate.

An interval elapsed, and then oppression of the Church began afresh in the reign of Septimius Severus, which specially fell on the Churches of Africa and Egypt. Some boldly appealed against these persecutions, and many apologies for Christians, as these writings were called, were put forth.

Again, in the reign of Alexander, though that prince professed to respect the Christians and their morality, yet one and another laid down his life as the penalty of his faith in Christ; — among them, Hippolytus, Bishop of Porto. Maximin renewed the royal edict, and specially directed his persecution against the bishops and pastors.

Hitherto these unjust measures had been carried out against one Church here, and another there; but Decius determined upon crushing Christianity. His edict compelled inquisition to be made for them, and decreed torture and death to all Christians. Great now was the consternation. The Church had lost its first zeal and love. There were those who dared not to confess their creed, yet would not apostatize. Bribes of money were offered to and accepted by the magistrates, and thus the conflict was spared to the offerers. The sword of the Goths struck down this persecuting emperor, and left his cruel work to be continued by his successor, Valerian, whose aim, in like manner, was against the bishops and presbyters, and the worshiping assemblies of Christians. Then Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, was added to the noble army of martyrs.

Valerian, who followed in the same course, was cut down by the Persian sword; and his son, Galienus, trembling under his judgments and fearing the Christians’ God, issued the first edict of toleration, A.D. 261. Their churches and burying-grounds were restored, and their worship allowed to have place unmolested.

Such, briefly, is the history of persecution up to the reign of Diocletian. During the reigns of four emperors who preceded him, viz., Claudius, Aurelian, Tacitus, and Probus, there was a respite. Churches were built, and worship in them legalised. Diocletian, we have seen, founded a new empire, and had his triumphal day at Rome, A.D. 303. Early, however, in that year, a secret council was held in the palace at Nicomedia between Diocletian and his partner on the throne, Galerius, to whom he had given the most easterly division of the empire. The destruction of Christianity was the subject. ” Perhaps,” says Gibbon, “it was represented to him that the glorious work of the deliverance of the empire was left imperfect so long as an independent people, i.e., the Christians, were permitted to subsist and multiply in it.” on the 23rd February an armed force destroyed the church of Nicomedia. This was the signal; and for a period of ten years the direst persecution that had yet taken place raged against Christianity.

Diocletian declared his intention of abolishing the very name of Christian. Their blood was shed mercilessly through the whole empire. This period is called the “era of martyrs.”

Before the ten years had expired, Diocletian, Galerius, and Maximian agreed to raise pillars as monuments to commemorate their success in the extirpation of Christianity. These pillars are still extant.

Whoever visits Rome may still see the Catacombs, and will be shown there the quiet resting-places of the bones and ashes of the martyrs of this season. Earthen vases, inscribed with the word blood, still show how precious was even this remembrance to their mourning friends. There, too, will be seen the larger cavities below, where the excavated and rude chapel served as a house of prayer, and where a faithful Church assembled far below the level of the city. The only public testimony then given by the people of Christ was in their martyrdom. In vain did Pagan power try to destroy the Holy Scriptures. Copies had so multiplied, and been so carefully hid, that inquisition for these failed.

But we would draw attention to the next clause in the text, “How long, O Lord, Holy One and true, dost thou not avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?”

This cry for vengeance seems scarcely in accordance with the feelings of the first martyrs, who “rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ.” But it is their cry in the ears of the survivors. It was said by the Lord of Abel, “The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground;”and the vengeance of God on his enemies and on the enemies of his people is often adverted to in the Epistles. Thus, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” (Rom. 12:19.) And for this requiting vengeance the Church in the third century was wont to look. Thus Marianus, an African martyr, “as if filled,” we read, “with a prophetic spirit, warned his persecutors and animated his brethren by proclaiming the speedy avenging of his blood.”

Year after year did they wail and long for some turn in their favor. From those long, narrow passages, on either side walled with their dead brethren and martyred children, as we before noticed, in the Catacombs of Rome, — from those subterranean houses of prayer, as they looked on the vases of blood drained from the death-wounds of all dear to them, their cry was wont to ascend to heaven. Did not the wailing souls almost seem to impeach the justice of God, and his other attributes: “How long, O Lord, holy, just, and true, dost thou not avenge our blood?”

“And white robes were given to each of them.”

Just as their condemnation in the view of their fellow-men is depicted by their being under the altar, so would their equally public exaltation and justification before the world be expressed in their being robed in white.

And so it was. The historian tells us that the Emperor Galerian issued an edict, agreed to by the two other emperors, confessing (at least by implication) that he had wronged the Christians, putting an end to the persecution, and entreating “that they would pray to their God for him.”3 This was indeed an act of justification not less applicable to the memory. of those gone before than to the character of those still surviving. It was a moral triumph of the Christian religion over Paganism. So while the three preceding seals showed the decline of the Roman Empire, this seal showed the corresponding decline of Paganism as a system.

These waiting souls were told that they should rest yet a little while till their brethren should have joined them. This probably referred to another line of witnesses, of whom more hereafter.

I have named Polycarp as one of the sufferers by martyrdom during this era. Unwilling to interrupt the narrative, I omitted to transcribe a passage from the Acts of his Martyrdom which is of much interest. “Having his hands tied behind him, and being bound to the stake, he looked up to heaven and said, ‘O Lord God Almighty, the Father of thy well-beloved Son, Jesus Christ, by whom we have received the knowledge of thee, I give thee hearty thanks that, at this day and hour, I should have a part in the number of thy martyrs, in the cup of thy Christ, unto the resurrection of eternal life; amongst whom may I be accepted this day before thee as an acceptable sacrifice. I praise thee, I glorify thee, my God and my Saviour.’”

Continued in Revelation 6:12-17. The Sixth Seal

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Oppression Of The Empire, Military And Civil, And By God’s Four Sore Judgments. Commodus to Diocletian, A.D. 180 — 284.

IN THE SECOND SEAL the emblematic horse and its rider again appears; but the color is seen changed from white to red — from the emblem of peace and prosperity to that of war and bloodshed. Moreover there is in the rider’s hand, instead of the Cretan bow, a great sword, a military emblem; and it is declared of him that he was “to take peace from the earth, and that men should kill one another.”

We turn to history, and what find we for some ninety years after M. Aurelius to have been the state of Roman affairs?

Commodus began his reign well; but after a time changed his course of conduct and began a system of oppression and misrule, till at length in an insurrection he was assassinated. Pertinax succeeded, and in a month met a similar fate; then Julian, but was soon assassinated. Next came a four years’ civil war, which raged from east to west, and through which Severus fought his way to the throne — a throne established on the defeat and slaughter of his competitors, Niger and Albinus. Then came a fourteen years’ interval of internal peace (such as it was); but followed, on the accession of Caracalla, son and successor of Severus, by the murder of his brother and co-regnant emperor Gata; and then Caracalla’s own murder by Macrinus. A civil war ensued which crushed Macrinus and raised Elagabalus to the throne, who in his turn was assassinated. Then, after a partial interval of peace during the reign of Alexander Severus, came the murder of that prince. Civil wars followed against his murderer and successor Maximin, wherein two emperors, Gordian and his son, perished the same day in Africa. Next, Maximin himself and his son were murdered at the siege of Aquileia. Subsequently, Balbinus and Maximus, joint emperors, were put to death at Rome; and, not long after, the younger Gordian. Then came the destruction of the Emperor Philip and his son at the battle of Verona, which, in the year A.D. 249, decided the civil war between himself and Decius. Can the history of any other empire exhibit such a fifty years’ record of civil strife and bloodshed? Truly “peace was then taken from the Roman earth, and men had power given them to kill one another.” What followed for thirty or forty years was only an aggravation of the same evil, though with the accession of other evils noted in the next seals. “With Commodus’s death commenced a most disastrous period,” says Sismondi; it lasted ninety-two years, from A.D. 192 to 284. During that time thirty-two emperors and twenty-seven pretenders to the empire alternately, by incessant civil warfare, hurled each other from the throne.”

Having seen the evil, let us now examine its cause. By the great sword given to the rider or ruling power in the symbolic vision, we might, as this was a military badge, infer that the agency prefigured as causing all these calamities was a military agency. And on looking into history we shall find the idea correct. During the era of peace, prosperity, and triumph, described in our former lecture, the power of the senate and magistracy of Rome was predominant. To enforce the laws the military aid was useful and necessary, but it was kept in check by the civil authority. With Commodus began the fatal change. He first exalted the Praetorian guards and their Prefect to despotic influence. So great did their control become, that on occasion of his death they proceeded to sell the empire, as their right, to the highest bidder. This shows, as Gibbon says, that “the power of the sword” had begun its reign. The rule of the military became a pure despotism. In the reign of the first Severus the licentious Praetorian band that overawed Rome was quadrupled; and under his son-in-law, Plautian, to whom he gave the command, the city, we are told, was “made to tremble.” The senate he utterly set at nought, saying, “That he would have no such power come between him and his army;” and he bequeathed this maxim to his son, “Enrich the soldiery, despise the people.” The soldiery exercised supreme law, set up whom they pleased, put down whom they pleased, and murdered whom they would. “The sovereignty had passed into the hands of the legions.” These caused the imperial murders, and the civil insurrections and wars.

Dion Cassius, a historian of the time, speaks of this disastrous change from the former era of prosperity, peace, and triumph, continued down to the commencement of the reign of Commodus, in this manner: “It was a change from a golden age to one of iron;” and he paints, in strong colors, the then established military license and despotism as the great evil of the times.

Observe, now, it was by girding a man with a sword that he was admitted to the military profession among the Romans, none but a soldier being permitted to wear it. Further, to his chief generals, when appointed to the high office of the imperium, with power of life and death over the military, a sword was publicly presented, in token of it, by the emperor in person. So to the Imperial Lieutenants, invested with military command in the provinces, in a ceremony outside the walls of Rome; and to the Praetorian Prefect, in a ceremony inside the walls. Thus we read that the Emperor Trajan, on. presenting a Praetorian Prefect with this sword-badge of power, addressed him with the words: “Use this for me, if I rule well; if not, against me.” St. Paul too, you may remember, alludes to the custom: “He beareth not the sword in vain.” (Rom. 13:4) The symbolic sword-bearing rider may therefore represent generally the military power, whose, badge was the sword; or, more especially, the military generals, with power of the sword, whether Praetorian Prefects at Rome, or the Imperial Lieutenants of the provinces.

But military despotism could not be established in a country without other evils following soon in its train. The next two seals depicted graphically the great successive aggravations.

THE THIRD SEAL. — Hitherto I have omitted all critical arguments, considering it better to state the facts where I think them proved satisfactorily, than to go over the grounds by which such proofs have been arrived at. I must in the present lecture deviate, in some little measure, from this plan.

Most expositors have explained the emblems in this seal to mean famine. The color of the horse being black (opposed to the white, which symbolized prosperity and happiness), might seem at first sight to favor this solution; while the balance in the rider’s hand has been explained, in accordance with the view, to foretoken a time of such scarcity that bread should be eaten in each family during its continuance by measure.

It has been shown, however, that the Roman denarius, = eightpence of our money, was the daily wages for a man in the time of St. John; also that a choenix of corn, = one quart in measure, or two pounds in weight, was considered a day’s sufficiency of food for a man. And could it be a famine price when three times this amount of barley bread might be procurable by a laborer’s daily wage?

Nor, again, as to the balance in the rider’s hand, does it appear to be here used with reference to the measuring out of bread by a parent to his children, but in relation to the buying and selling of corn; in which relation it would always be necessary, and might as well be an indication of plenty as of famine. At this present time, on a baker’s monument outside one of the gates of Rome, a pair of balances appears sculptured as one of the designations of the trade.

Moreover, the charge “injure not” (if we take that rendering of the Greek phrase), said relatively to wine and oil, the two articles of consumption next most important to bread at the time and in the empire alluded to, all but precludes the idea of scarcity.

Notwithstanding, then, the black color of the horse, and the balance, this is not a famine scene.

No doubt the black color is figurative of distress and affliction in the Roman body politic; and to see what distress, we have only to look into the history of the times, and to compare the prophetic symbols.

It appears, then, from history, that at an epoch following some thirty years after that of the commencement of the second seal, an aggravation of taxation was established which pressed most heavily on every part of the Roman Empire; the object being, with the money raised therefrom, to support the licentious soldiery and the lavish and profligate military government.

From the time of Augustus there had been a difference between the taxation of the provincials of the Roman Empire and of the Roman citizens at Rome and in Italy. The provincials were obliged to pay tributes of produce in kind, of corn, wine, and oil; and also a capitation tax, i.e., a tax on each head. The taxation of the Roman citizens consisted of excise and legacy duties. About A.D. 215, the provincial taxation was most oppressively increased by the celebrated edict of Caracalla, which, with apparent Liberality, gave the provincialists the rights of Roman citizens, but of which the real intent was to add the burden of Roman taxation to the provincial, already too burdensome. The edict was compulsory, and its corrupt administration made it still more oppressive. Gibbon says, in recounting the history of Caracalla, “The great body of his subjects was oppressed by the aggravated taxes, and every part of the empire crushed under the weight of his iron sceptre.” Under Alexander Severus a check was attempted to the corrupt and oppressive fiscal system; but only partially, and in vain. He could not stop the evil. The soldiery, the real masters of the state, must be satisfied. “Am not I he,” said he to his mutinying troops, “who bestows upon you the corn, the clothing, and the money of the provinces?” He struggled nobly but vainly against the oppression of the age, and paid his life as a forfeit to his efforts. After his murder the evil increased. Italy soon shared the fate of the provinces. Gibbon, in speaking of the empire thirteen years after, under Philip, says, “The industry of the people was discouraged and exhausted under a long series of oppression.” The evil went on under Gallienus, Claudius, Aurelian, and Probus; until, in fine, Diocletian developed the system yet more fully, and increased the oppression and desolation of the provinces.

One main constituent of the provincial taxation, I have said, was that of produce in kind. Gibbon says, “We shall be too often summoned to explain the land tax, the capitation, and the heavy contributions of corn, wine, oil, and meat, exacted from the provinces for the use of the court, the army, and the capital.” So the very items specified in the Apocalyptic seal are noticed. And again, as if in illustration of the black color of the horse under it, “The evil, like a noxious weed, sprang up again with most luxurious growth; and in the succeeding age darkened the Roman world with its deadly shade.”

Let us now consider whom the rider, or governing power, was meant to indicate. Agreeable with what has been above said, it might seem to refer to the provincial rulers, by whatever name called; for to them was committed the exacting of the taxes. And the very words spoken from the throne, the seat of equity, in monition and rebuke to the rider, and also the badge of the balance that he bore in hand, is confirmatory of this. For sometimes, to prevent injustice, the price at which the governor should rate wheat and barley was prescribed, with a view to prevent injustice and oppression by the government at home. In one remarkable instance under the republic, the Cassian law, in its order to the Proconsul, was expressed literally thus: “A measure of wheat for a denarius!” So too with the justice-loving emperors: whether they did it successfully, like Trajan and the Antonines, or the reverse, as Alexander Severus. Again, as to the balance in the rider’s hand, it was an official badge of those who had the administration of justice in their hands; such as the Roman praetors and provincial governors. Under the old republic they were wont to have a balance over the magisterial chair, on coins struck in honor of their appointment to their high office; and sometimes also an ear of corn, with reference to their duty of collecting the corn produce. In imperial times the emperors had the supreme power; whence the ascription to them of the balance of justice. But the propraetors had it delegated to them. Nor ought we to omit that, in sending a provincial governor to his province, a horse was presented him for his use, and he went forth mounted from Rome.

Notwithstanding the monitions given them from time to time, the injustice of the Roman provincial governors was so notorious that they were called by M. Aurelius and Alexander Severus “robbers of the provinces.” Throughout what remained of the third century, whatever laws were made against extortion and injustice they may be looked upon as records of crime rather than preventives of its commission. A general internal wasting of the state resulted from it. The agriculture of the provinces was insensibly ruined, and preparation made for the terrible famine and pestilence which (as we shall see in the next seal) soon followed.

Can any picture, then, be more correctly, as well as graphically, drawn than the one before us? “When he opened the third seal, I beheld, and lo! a black horse; and he that sat on it having a pair of balances in his hand! And I heard a voice (from the throne) in the midst of the living creatures say, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choanixes of barley for a denarius; and see that thou wrong not with regard to the oil and the wine!”

There is yet one remark to be added relative to the price of the wheat specified in the prophecy. Owing to the adulteration of the denarius, then begun (a fact well known to numismatists), as well as to changes in the market price of grain, it will be found that “a choenix of wheat for a denarius” was the enunciation of the fair market price of wheat in the times of Alexander Severus, to which we refer the third seal.

In THE FOURTH SEAL Scripture is its own interpreter. The rider is Death! His badge Hades, or the grave. Four agencies of destruction were committed to him; and the horse on which he rode (still emblematic of the Roman Empire) appeared of a livid hue, — a symptom of approaching dissolution.

Well did the pictorial prophecy prefigure the misery of this period. About fourteen years after the death of Alexander Severus, beginning with the reign of Philip, about A.D. 248, Gibbon speaks of the twenty years of “shame and misfortune, of confusion and calamity,” that then ensued. And, all unconsciously speaking the voice of Scripture, he says that at that time “The ruined empire seemed to approach the last and fatal moment of its dissolution.” Yet more, in continued accordance with the prophecy, he depicts the agencies of destruction at work. The sword! “Every instant of time was marked, every province of the Roman world was afflicted, by barbarous invaders and military tyrants;” — the sword from without and the sword from within — Famine! “A general famine was a calamity of a more serious kind (i.e., than certain other calamities superstitiously ascribed to the era); the inevitable consequence of rapine and oppression, which extirpated the produce of the present and hope of future harvests.” — Pestilence too! Gibbon continues: — “Famine is almost always followed by epidemical diseases, the effect of scanty and unwholesome food. But other causes must have contributed to that furious plague, which, from the year A.D. 250 to 265, raged without intermission in every province, every city, and almost every family in the empire.” He adds, that during a part of that time 5000 persons died daily in Rome; and many towns that had escaped the hands of the barbarians were entirely depopulated. Speaking of the provinces he says, “We might suspect that war, pestilence, and famine, had consumed, in a few years, the moiety (half) of the human species.” (Note: The Merriam-Webster dictionary on my phone uses this sentence from Edward Gibbon as an example of usage of the word moiety.)

Does not this well answer to the prophetic picture: “Behold a livid horse! And his name that sat thereon was Death; and Hades followed after him: and power was given to him to kill with the sword, and with famine, and with the pestilence, and with the wild beasts of the earth.”

The fourth destroying agent specified has not indeed been yet alluded to, viz., wild beasts. But here, too, history is the verifier of prophecy. We have it on record that at an epoch twenty or thirty years after the death of Gallienus the multiplication of wild beasts of prey had arisen to such an extent in parts of the empire as to become a crying evil. Arnobius, the Roman writer, alludes to wild beasts as one of the plagues with which the land was then afflicted, viz., in A.D. 296, near thirty years after the death of Gallienus.

And this reminds me of the necessity of showing that in that thirty years’ interval the evils depicted had by no means passed away, though by the almost supernatural efforts of certain able emperors, attended by victories very remarkable in those terrible times, the actual dissolution of the empire was prevented. It was in A.D. 260, then, after the Emperor Valerian had been defeated by Sapor, king of Persia, and at length cruelly murdered, that Gallienus, his son, succeeded to the throne. During his reign the empire was broken by different usurpations into fragments. Of these, the most were ephemeral. But three of them maintained for several years each a part of the empire for himself, beginning in the several years A.D. 258, 261, and 263, viz., Odenatus and Zenobia in the East; Aurcolus in Illyricum; Posthumus in Gaul and Britain; while Gallienus himself ruled in Italy. A fact this very remarkable! For it exhibits the empire as at that time divided into four parts, just as the Apocalyptic verse (according to Jerome’s reading) represents the Roman Empire under the fourth seal; and those divisions precisely the same that Diocletian saw fit to establish by law afterwards.

After the death of Gallienus in 260, Claudius was elected, and made a struggle to raise the fallen fortunes of his country. He was, however, cut off by the pestilence five years afterwards, whilst engaged in fighting bravely against an immense army of Goths. So the sword and the pestilence were still doing their work.

Aurelian was next elected emperor. In continuing the war against the Goths, he found it necessary to cede to them the province of Dacia. Then came an irruption of the Allemanni. Three great battles were fought: the first near Placentia, which was accompanied by such loss on the part of the Romans, that the historians say, “The immediate dissolution of the empire was expected.” In the two others, the Emperor Aurelian was victorious, and thus the fate of the empire was suspended. But in the year A.D. 275, after setting out to repel a Persian invasion, he was assassinated by one of his own generals.

Had the color of the livid pale horse yet changed? or were the destroying agencies of the fourth seal yet stilled? Let Gibbon tell in few words what followed. “The strength of Aurelian had crushed on every side the enemies of Rome, but after his death they seemed to revive with an increase of fury and numbers.” In the following year the Alani spread themselves over Pontus, Cappadocia, Cilicia, and Galatia, and traced their course by the flames of villages. They were repulsed by the Emperor Tacitus; but he died afterwards suddenly, or was murdered; and so too his brother Florian, who succeeded him.

Under Probus, the next emperor, the Roman arms were victorious; and one condition of the peace that followed is remarkable. The barbarians were bound to supply them with 16,000 recruits. “For,” says Gibbon, “the infrequency of marriage and ruin of agriculture had affected the principles of population, and had not only destroyed the strength of the present, but interrupted the hopes of future generations.” After several victories in various parts of the empire over the Franks, and in Gaul and Egypt, in the year A.D. 281, all enemies seemed vanquished. Probus was honored with a triumph at Rome; but presently afterwards he was assassinated. Carus succeeded, and after several battles was killed — some say by lightning, some by assassination — A.D. 283.

Then followed civil war, three candidates fighting for the crown of the empire. One of them, Numerian, was murdered by Aper; and he again by Diocletian, who in a decisive battle defeated Carinus, and was elected emperor.

Then Diocletian divided the empire on system into four parts, under two chief and two subordinate emperors; deeming the empire too large and dangerously circumstanced to admit of the rule of one man. The empire, however, was still considered as one, and Rome as the one great capital of the whole empire.

I will only add the testimonies of three great historians, singularly illustrative of the accuracy of our prophetic picture as to the state of things at this period of time. One, Sismondi, says: “Diocletian put an end to a long period of anarchy. But such a succession of invasions and civil wars, and so much suffering, disorder, and crime, had brought the empire into a state of mortal languor, from which it never recovered,” adding, “the deserts spread with frightful rapidity.” Another, Niebuhr, speaking of the same time, relative to the plague in the reign of Probus: “The empire was suffering from general distress, and its condition very much like that which followed after the cessation of the black death in the Middle Ages.” Again, another, Schlegel, remarks: “The division of the empire amongst several sovereigns appeared then (in Diocletian’s reign) an unavoidable and necessary evil. In other words, the several parts and members of the vast body of the Roman Empire, which approached nearer and nearer its dissolution, began then to fall to pieces.”

Continued in Rev. 6:9-11. The Fifth Seal

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Prosperity and Triumph of the Roman Empire in the Era Next Following After the Visions in Patmos, Nerve to Commodus. A.D. 96-185.

THE SYMBOL of an animal is not unfrequently used in Scripture to represent a power or a nation. In Daniel we find it said, “The ram that thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. The rough goat is the king of Grecia (Dan 8:20); and accordingly on Persian coins a ram is still to be seen, and on Macedonian coins a goat, attesting the propriety of the emblems. Similarly on ancient coins of the Roman people a horse was stamped on the one side, and on the other Mars, the reputed father of Romulus and the Roman people, to whom the warrior horse was sacred. Hence the propriety of the horse in the visions of the first four seals to depict the Roman people or empire; while the colors white, red, black, and livid pale, figured its state at the time symbolized; and the riders the ruling agencies in that state, whether favorable or adverse.

In the first seal the color of the horse was white, indicating prosperity and triumph; and the rider had a laurel crown given him, the distinctive badge in St. John’s time of ruling emperors. So the vision indicated that new emperors would arise, in character quite contrasted with the then ruling emperor, Domitian, and would be the main causal agencies in the foreshadowed prosperity and triumph.

In further illustration of the imagery of this seal, there may be noted the frequent Roman custom, when an emperor was going to war, and success augured to him, of the senate striking a medal, whereon the emperor was depicted galloping forth on horseback, and striking down the enemy, with the motto underneath, “Augustus going forth.” Further, if success really attended him, the plan was to represent him on an arch going forth between trophies and captives; with Victory personified, either crowning him, or crown in hand preceding him. Such a medal was struck for Claudius when he conquered Britain.

Such being the purport of the symbols of the first seal, as we believe St. John must have read it, it is our part now to follow up his graphic prophecy by showing its historical fulfillment.

The date, as before observed, of St. John’s writing was A.D. 96: the Emperor Domitian then reigned, but died that same year, and was succeeded by Nerve. Trajan followed; next Adrian; and after him the two Antonines; until the accession of Commodus, A.D. 180.

In order to see whether the character of their reigns agreed with the figuration of the first Apocalyptic seal, turn we to Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, our best standard English work upon the subject, and peculiarly valuable as the testimony of an infidel. For, somewhat remarkably, his history commences with this very period.

He represents the period then as “a golden age” of prosperity, union, civil liberty, and good government; “unstained by civil blood, and undisturbed by revolution:” a period remarkable, both at its commencement and at its close, for very wonderful and almost uniform triumphs in war, whereby the glory of the empire was illustrated, and its limits extended; while the intermediate time was generally a time of profound peace. And he thus strikingly sums up the view: — “If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.” As to the causes of this happiness and prosperity, he adds, with reference to the five successive emperors whose reigns filled up the period, “The delight was theirs of beholding the general happiness of which they were the authors.”

We said that there were triumphs, too, indicated in the vision; for the rider “went forth conquering and to conquer.” It was the same in the history. We read even in the short reign of Nerva of a triumph over the Pannonians. More especially the reign of Trajan was memorable in history for its triumphs. Dacia, Armenia, Mesopotamia, and other provinces were then added to the Roman Empire. And though for some forty-three years afterwards there was for the most part honorable and happy peace, i.e., during the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, yet there were victories in the few brief wars that occurred; via, a victory gained over the Jews by the former, and some smaller ones over the frontier barbarians by the latter. These wars, says Gibbon, “just served to exercise the Roman legions.” After some sixty or seventy years, however, it appeared for a time as if the character of “conquering and to conquer” was about to change. The whole of the barbarian world, especially from the east and from the north, burst the frontier barriers, and sought to overwhelm the Roman Empire. The result, however, was to show the truth of the Apocalyptic symbol, “He went forth, not only conquering, but with the destiny that he should still (to the end of the first seal) conquer.” After one defeat at first, the Eastern war was ended in the capture of Artaxata, Seleucia, and Ctesiphon. Again, in the north, victory after victory attended the second Antonine, till the German barbarians were driven to their forests and reduced to submission. On occasion of the Trajanic and earlier series of victories, a column, still standing at Rome, was erected to Trajan; and on occasion of those of the latter times of the seal, another was erected to M. Antoninus.

But there is one symbol in the vision yet unexplained, and which to anyone conversant with Roman customs might appear strange. It is the bow in the hand of the rider. Romans were not wont to be so represented on medals. A javelin or sword was the weapon in their hands. How then, it may well be asked, can this be a Roman emblem? To solve this we must refer back to the time when the bow was first invented. The fable is that the Grecian god, Apollo, first discovered it, and then instructed the inhabitants of the island of Crete with its use. Subsequently the Cretans, of all the Grecian people, were most famous as archers; and their manufacture of bows, too, was in much repute. Cretan medals still extant illustrate this; and ancient military history, both Greek and Roman, strongly attests it. Hence the apparent Cretan significancy of the emblem in question. Let me add a further and curious confirmation of this from the still extant epitaph or epigram on the tomb of a Greek female. The epitaph consists of a set of emblems: a magpie, some wool, a cup, and a bow; with an express explanation of them to this effect: that the magpie sculptured was to mark the loquacity (talkativeness) of the deceased; the cup, her proneness to drink; the wool, her diligence in work; the bow, to signify that she was a Cretan! But how does this apply to the five Roman emperors, who succeeded one another, as we have seen, for the space of some eighty or ninety years? Observe, the crown did not descend then, as now, in hereditary succession from father to son. The reigning emperor might adopt his successor, who, in virtue of this adoption, was, according to the Roman law, regarded precisely as his son. This being so, Nerva adopted Trajan; he, Hadrian; Hadrian, Antoninus; who, in turn, adopted Marcus Aurelius. So indeed inscriptions still extant illustrate to us. There is one, for example, in honor of Marcus Aurelius, which reads thus: “To the Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of Antoninus Pius, grandson of Hadrian, great-grandson of Trajan, great-great-grandson of Nerva.” Thus they were to be all regarded as of Nerva’s family. What, then, was Nerva’s own country and extraction? Aurelius Victor, and our best-known modern historians after him, relate that Nerva was in respect of family extraction a Cretan!

Thus, then, is the enigma solved. Had a sword or javelin been pictured in the conquering rider’s hand, it would have indicated nothing peculiar or characteristic. But He who cannot err, and who knew that the very year this prophecy was given a foreigner in respect of extraction should for the first time govern Rome, with a distinctness peculiar to all these pictures, gave the precise badge to mark the country of his ancestry.

Continued in Revelation 6:3-8. Second, Third, and Fourth Seals

All chapters of The Last Prophecy: An Abridgment of Elliott’s Horae Apocalypticae

This is the continuation of The Last Prophecy: An Abridgment of Elliott’s Horae Apocalypticae.

IN OUR LAST LECTURE we mentioned these several points —

1st, That the writer of the Apocalypse was St. John.

2nd, The geographical position and state of religion in the Churches.

3rd, The state of Jerusalem at the time St. John wrote, now that its city, temple, and services had passed away, and given place to one spiritual structure.

4th, The expectation of an anti-Christian power, before that the Lord should again visit the earth.

5th, We saw the commencement of those two kingdoms, between which a long struggle was to go forward for supremacy: the one headed by the persecuting pagan Domitian, the last of the twelve Caesars; the other by St. John, the representative of Christ’s Church, and the last of the twelve Apostles, at that time suffering in exile.

In chapter 4. the scenery changes, or the Apostle’s eyes are directed from it to that of a very different character.

When Moses drew near to the burning bush the Voice said to him, “Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.” Let us, not without a deep reverential feeling as of being in the presence of God, survey with St. John what we have now read in description.

The first and the grandest object exhibited in the vision is Jehovah, King of kings, seated as Lord of all on the throne of the universe. As if to encourage the Apostle, there appeared round about the throne that well-known and lovely memorial of the covenant of mercy — the rainbow, in sight like unto an emerald. There were seen seven lamps burning before this throne, in allusion to the seven Churches or candlesticks, said in chapter 5 to be the seven Spirits of God; hence showing the influence of the third Person in the Trinity as the inspirer of what is holy and right in His people. Our Church adopts this idea in the hymn used in the ordination service —

“Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,
And lighten with celestial fire!
Thou the anointing Spirit art,
That dost thy sevenfold grace impart.”

We take the four living creatures round the throne to be the representatives of the Church then in Paradise, and for this reason; — they sung a song of thanksgiving, and the chorus was, “Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tribe, and nation.” Such likewise were the twenty-four elders seated round the throne. Habited as priests, on thrones, having crowns on their heads, they sung, “Thou hast made us to God kings and priests;” and afterwards joined in the chorus, “Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood.” We should therefore say all these glorified beings represented the Church in its triumphant state to be accomplished hereafter.

Some think the number twenty-four represented the twelve Patriarchs and the twelve Apostles; the one body as founders of the Jewish, the other of the Apostolic Church. To explain definitely what all those living creatures meant may be impossible; but, generally, we may judge by the song that they were “the spirits of the just made perfect.”

Such was a part of the company seen on this occasion; besides which we read there were angels attendant, in number ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, who united with these other spiritual intelligences in singing, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.” St. Paul, in his Epistle to the Hebrews, gives a lively description of this Church of Christ as begun on earth, and seen through all its prospective changes until it is lost in eternity. After showing how all the old saints lived by faith, and died, and are witnesses by which we are compassed about, he says, “Ye are come to Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, — To the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant.”

We come now to that part of the vision which relates to this Mediator. Around the throne was the concourse described as looking on; and, behold, there was a book in the hand of Him that sat on the throne: but it was closed and sealed. And when a strong angel proclaimed, “Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals?” not one of the assembled throng was able to stand forth. As St. John, the representative of the Church on earth, was weeping because no man was found worthy to open it, One of a higher nature stepped forth and took the book; and the elder said to St. John, “Weep not; the Lion of the tribe of Juda hath prevailed to open the book,” And when the SAVIOUR, — for he indeed it was, the Lamb as it had been slain — had taken the book, the whole angelic company burst forth into acclamations of praise, and heaven rang with the song, the new song, “Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals: for thou hast redeemed us to God, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests.”

Before we enter into the examination of the subjects contained in this book of the future, I would beg you to observe the scenery of the vision which appeared to surround St. John. This must be understood in order rightly to decipher the emblematic language of the Revelation.

The first scene remained stationary throughout, viz., the interior of a temple similar to the Jewish temple. In one place it is called the “temple of God;” in another, at a later stage of the prophecy, “the temple of the tabernacle of witness.” (Rev. 11:19; 15:5) In the innermost part there was the throne of God, and voices are described as proceeding from this throne.

Three divisions were noted in the Jewish temple: — 1st, the most holy place, in which was the divine glory and the ark of the covenant: 2nd, the holy place, separated by a veil from the most holy, and in which stood the golden altar of incense, seven-branched lamp, etc.: 3rd, a court with a great brazen altar for sacrifice, wherein the priests ministered, while the multitude worshipped at its entrance. There was also an outer court for proselytes. These places are variously alluded to in different parts of the Apocalypse. We have already looked with the Apostle into the innermost; for no veil now separated it from the holy place. (Compare Matt. 27:51; Heb. 9:8, etc.) In chap. 6:9, there is allusion to the altar: “I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain,” etc. In chap. 11:2, the outer court is referred to: “The court that is without the temple leave out, and measure it not.”

Further, as the Apostle looked round, landscape scenery broke on his view. Near him stood Mount Zion; and Jerusalem too, no longer a ruined heap, but a new and holy city bearing the much-loved name; — then, stretching far and wide, beneath and around, the miniature Roman world. Yet all was so placed that while Mount Zion and the temple appeared elevated above, the outer court seemed accessible to the inhabitants of the world below.

The object in view being to portray the future state of the Roman world, its changes and revolutions, decline and fall, together with the agencies that caused them, whether from within or without, and also to combine at the same time the history of the Church, adverse or prosperous, whether internally pure and holy, or verging towards apostasy, whether externally enlarged and protected, or persecuted and in distress — could any arrangement be better suited for the purpose than the one described?

To represent Christ’s worshiping Church, there was the symbolic temple. In its most holy place symbolizing heaven, was the enthroned Saviour, with the spirits of the just made perfect. In its holy place (or passage to the most holy), the spirituality of the Church on earth was figured out, as seen and judged by Christ; while the temple-court showed what was observable to the eye of beholders in its visible and outward worship; and the court without the temple, the Gentiles that truly or untruly might conform to Christianity. (Rev. 11:2) To depict the Christian body in its citizenship, there was the Mount Zion, its base on earth, its summit reaching towards heaven. Besides which, in order to represent the true Apostolic line of the Christian ministry, there was St. John in his representative character, present all through upon the scene to take his assigned part in the figurative drama as it proceeded.

In landscape around the heaven, with the sun, moon, and stars, symbolized, as we have noted elsewhere, the secular powers, whether exalted or cast down, shining or eclipsed. The atmospheric changes, storms of hail, overflowing rivers, etc., from without the landscape, might suitably figure foreign invasion; while its earthquakes depicted commotions and political revolutions within. There was furthermore a certain geographical resemblance to the Roman earth in the general landscape, with its four quarters, its frontier rivers, its inland seas, etc., which allowed for the visibly marking any particular place affected.

As to the book, it was probably a roll, a very common form amongst the Romans, and almost universal amongst the Jewish sacred books. It was written within and without. Thus, it would appear, additional particulars and details might be supplied without breaking the thread of the history. It was visibly sealed with seven seals — seals to be successively opened in order. On the breaking of the seventh seal there appeared seven angels with trumpets to evolve its events; each of which trumpets had its symbolic visions and peculiar history successively exhibited: all with correspondent writing or painting in the inside of the unfolding roll. Besides which there was superadded a writing on the outside, constituting a necessary and most important supplement to the prophecy. Once more, in evolution of the seventh angel’s trumpet, a succession of seven vials was announced as to be poured out on the earth, filled with judgment; the last of them detailing events that are still future, and reaching even to the period when the present dispensation shall close, and time shall be no more.

In the days of St. John there had been dramatic displays and acting at Rome with all that imperial power and wealth could impart of pomp and splendor. But, in the comparison, how poor and mean! The grandeur and dignity of this drama who can express? Its subject — nothing less than the conflict between the Church and the World to the end of the age; its moral — that however now the ungodly may prosper, and however scorned and persecuted the people of God may be, yet will success and glory be eventually transferred to the Church, and Christ shall reign for ever. And then such music, such actors, such an audience!

Let us observe also the difference between the way in which we regard events, seeing only the ejects, and the way in which they were revealed to St. John, with the secret springs and motives that originated them in the secret recess of the holy of holies, the Divine presence. As he beheld what passed in the inner temple, he would observe that nothing done on earth was there unknown or unobserved. Thither came up for a memorial the sins of its inhabitants, each with its call for judgment; thither, in striking contrast, whatever concerned the Church militant. Not a sigh could escape from its members, not a suffering vex them, but its vibration was heard and its perturbations felt there. Thither rose up the cries of the martyrs from beneath the altar; thither, as the sweet incense, the prayers and adorations of the saints. And mark the results! It was when the cry of his persecuted Church rose up that the sentence was given for the supremacy of the oppressing power to pass away. And, amidst all the judgments denounced against mere false professors in Christendom, provision was seen to be made that no real evil should assail the faithful.

We find in this book also much as to the ministry of angels. They are the actors throughout in the scenes described. They direct the tempests, sound the trumpets, pour out the vials, scatter the fire, gather the vintage; just agreeably with what is said of the angelic offices in other Scriptures.

St. John, we must bear ever in mind, was the representative of the true Church, or rather of its chiefest minister, at the time of each vision of the drama, as the drama went on. In this his character angels interpreted to him, and the saints of the Church triumphant showed their fellowship of spirit. Were not the words of our poet truly written —

Continued in Revelation 6:1, 2. The First Seal

All chapters of The Last Prophecy: An Abridgment of Elliott’s Horae Apocalypticae

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The Last Prophecy: An Abridgment of Elliott’s Horae Apocalypticae. An Introduction to Church History.

by Edward Bishop Elliott

Preface by Lutheran Librarian

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Preface.

THE FIFTH EDITION of the Horae Apocalypticae being almost exhausted, it has been suggested that now is a proper time to send out a Third Edition of the Abridgment.

It has no merit as to originality or research, being only intended to bring before those persons who have not access to the larger work the views which it contains in a simple form. Omitting the learned and elaborate arguments, the writer has kept almost verbatim to the text in Mr. Elliott’s work. Not many months before his lamented death he looked over the little book, and expressed an approval of it similar to that in his preface to the Second Edition, which is subjoined.

It was his express wish that the views he held as to future events should be but briefly touched on in the Abridgment. For references and authorities the reader must be referred generally to the Horae Apocalypticae itself, no fact being stated in the smaller book which is not fully verified there.

The Postscript — giving his latest thoughts on the unfulfilled portion of the prophecy — is placed at the end of the volume. It expresses his views as to how the events then passing verified his historical explanation of the Apocalypse, and furnished a key to the meaning of those prophecies yet unfulfilled.

To James Bateman, Esq., the writer is indebted for an interesting paper in the Appendix; and to the Rev. Christopher Bowen, late Rector of St. Thomas’, Winchester, for having kindly edited this Abridgment; which — if it shall please God to bless to the directing to further inquiry into prophetic truth, and the fuller study of those portions of His Holy Writ — the purpose designed by its publication will have been attained.

H. E. E.

Recommendatory Notice By The Author Of The “Horae Apocalypticae.”

HAVING BEEN REQUESTED by the writer of this Abridgment of the Horae Apocalypticae to revise it preparatorily to the issuing of a Second Edition, I have done so.

I can recommend it as faithful, correct, and well calculated, I think, to bring usefully before the minds of the young, for whom it was chiefly intended, those lessons in Church History, as well as in Prophecy, contained in the Horae Apocalypticae. The former — I mean the history of the Christian Church — is that which, nowadays more especially, must be considered an essential in education.

EDWARD BISHOP ELLIOTT.

Revelation 1, 2, 3. St. John in Patmos.

View of the Infant Church, A.D. 96. — The Seven Churches of Asia Minor.

WHAT IS THE CHURCH? Where was the Church of England before Luther? Where was the Church in the Middle Ages, etc.? These are the sort of questions by which some may be perplexed, and, for want of a little knowledge of the history of former times, may be silenced.

I propose therefore to give a course of lectures on Church History, connecting it with the prophecies of St. John in the Book of Revelation, and so with early Roman history. I begin from the Apostles’ time: and hope to outline the principal events (such at least as may suit my purpose) down to the present day.

One object I wish to bear specially in view, viz., to prove that the Reformation in England was not a schism; that Popery was not the first religion of England, but rather a system forced upon her, grafted on to our ancient Apostolic Church, and only pruned away by the Reformers. Would that not a fiber of doubtful origin had been left!

In the Acts of the Apostles we have the history of the Churches which they founded, as Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, Galatia, Colosse, etc. “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.”

The Churches were congregations of faithful men gathered together, whether in public buildings,(Acts 3:1) in the open air,(Acts 16:13) or in private houses.(Col. 4:15) Amongst these, the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper were faithfully administered, and men ordained as pastors — bishops, elders, and deacons. To these ordinations various allusions are made in the Epistles. Mention is also made of several persecutions of the infant Church raised by Pagans, and of errors which early infected the congregation.

It was during one of these early persecutions that St. John, the only surviving Apostle, was banished by Domitian, the reigning Roman emperor, to Patmos, an island in the Archipelago, now called Patino. There it pleased God to reveal to him the future destinies of the Church in a series of visions. This series is called the Apocalypse, or Revelation. It is upon these visions I propose to comment.

ST. JOHN opens with a passage from his own history, and designates himself as the writer of this book. As if he said, “I, John, who was the companion of the Lord Jesus, who heard his words, saw his miracles, was witness of his transfiguration, shared in his privations and beheld his sufferings, — I, who leaned on his breast at his last supper, stood by his cross of agony, received from him the legacy of his afflicted mother, heard his parting word and dying groan, — I, who saw him at the grave, and conversed with him after his resurrection, — I, who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that I saw, — — I have again seen him, and declare unto you from him that ‘Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things that are written therein.’ I, John, who also am now become your brother and companion in tribulation, was in the isle called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

Sixty years had well-nigh run their course since this beloved disciple had seen at the Mount of Olives a cloud receive the Lord from the sight of his disciples, — since he and they had heard the angelic question, “Why stand ye here gazing up to heaven?” and heard the promise, “That same Jesus, whom ye saw go into heaven, shall so come in like manner from heaven.” Year by year had they and the Church looked and longed for the accomplishment of this promise. Other prophecies had been fulfilled; those specially which related to Jerusalem. The Jews had neglected every warning. In vain there were great sights seen, and earthquakes felt, famine and pestilence doing their work, wars and rumors of wars desolating their country, false Christs, wonders in heaven above, and signs on the earth below, — signs even in the sanctuary, as if to force on them consideration of the prophecies against them. Even just after Paul in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and James in his Epistle, had sent a last remonstrance to them, the war began; then the siege, and with it those horrors foretold by the Saviour.(Matt. 24:5-28.)

The Christians suffered not. Following the plain command, when they saw “the abomination that was to make desolate,” spoken of by Daniel,7 i.e., the Roman army, — approach, they fled, and so escaped destruction. The history of this siege is given by Josephus, himself a Jew, and authenticated by the emperors Vespasian and Titus. The memorial of its truth is still standing at Rome, namely, the arch of Titus, on which is sculptured the table of shew-bread, the book of the law, and the seven-branched candlestick. This told, and tells at Rome, the story of the conquest. But where was Jerusalem’s temple? Not a vestige to give response. Where the beautiful city, its towers and fortresses? Desolate and destroyed! Blood-stained ruins and rubbish alone remain.

What then had taken Jerusalem’s place? what the places of her altar and her temple?

It has been said by Jesus, “The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed, — which is indeed the least of all seeds; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches.”(Matt. 13:31)

From a small and despised beginning a better dispensation had been striking its roots far and wide; with a temple whose worship is spiritual, and whose High Priest and sacrifice is Christ himself, the Lamb of God; whose members are God’s elect children of grace, gathered by degrees out ’ of the world; — now, perhaps, despised, persecuted and scattered; but at the appointed time to form a company, a glorious body, some to come with their Lord, some to meet him at his coming.

Mighty were the efforts made by Satan to stop the progress of this religion, but in vain. Persecution hindered it not; “the blood of the martyrs proved the seed of the Church;”and however severely treated, the cause seemed still to strengthen.

Let us observe what was the state of this increasing body, when from the rocky summit of his “island prison” the Apostle, with a mixture of joy, sorrow, and anxiety, had looked round on the coast of Asia, and then on the shores of Thrace and Greece, with their gulfs, their islands, and their bays.

His eye would rest on the sites of Christian Churches; first, those of Asia Minor, where Timothy had labored and fallen asleep, and the faithful Antipas had been martyred, and where Polycarp still lived a witness for Christ; — these under St. John’s own superintendence. Then, the Macedonian and Greek Churches of Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, and Corinth. He knew that in the far west on one side, and on the south and east towards the other, there arose from Christian congregations the incense of prayer and praise to the Lamb of God. There was a little band gathered fondly round the ruins of Jerusalem, where the aged Simeon presided. One at Antioch, with its faithful bishop, Ignatius. There were the Churches of Alexandria and Egypt, founded by St. Mark; of Cyprus, where labored Barnabas; and that of Crete, “set in order by Titus.” His mind’s eye would catch the break of light in Spain, Gaul, and in our own islands, even the British group. It would turn to Rome, that Church where Paul and many others had sealed their testimony by martyrdom, and where the leaven had reached even to the palace of royalty; for some of the household, and even of Caesar’s relatives, had there professed the Christian faith. Clement, whose name St. Paul mentions as in “the book of life,” fearless of persecution, presided over its Church. Another Clement, cousin to the emperor, had just been executed for conscience sake; and his wife, Domitilla, in a desolate island now endured exile.

Persecution, however, was not the worst enemy the Apostle knew to be at work to injure the rising Church. Corruption had begun within: some had erred from the faith, and false tradition had been mixed with the pure word of God. The Gnostics, — a sect of whom one division denied the humanity, and another the divinity of Jesus, — had sprung up like a noxious weed in the congregations; and in one way or other Christ Jesus had been superseded in his character of man’s only Mediator, Atonement, and Righteousness. The enemy had already largely sowed the tares amongst the wheat.

St. John knew that one notable enemy would arise, mentioned by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Thessalonians as “the man of sin to be revealed.” St. John calls him Antichrist. I say notable, because his profession was unlike that of other impostors, who said, “I am Christ.” The word Antichrist is a word expressing a Vice- Christ; — indeed, made to express it: one who, acting as usurper in the professing Church, would be in effect Jesus Christ’s superseder in it. Such, in some sort, was the nature of the Gnostic heresy; for its chief professors, while confessing Jesus Christ openly, practically set him aside; declaring themselves to be the wisdom, power, and salvation of God. St. John’s first Epistle is directed mainly against these erroneous views.

This dreaded Antichrist was evidently the same power foretold by Daniel as the little horn of the fourth Beast, or Roman Empire, and which was to be the great enemy of Christ and his saints. This little horn was to rise not till after the empire’s division into ten; whence it was well understood in the Church that till this empire was divided the reign of Antichrist should not be developed.

Nor indeed, notwithstanding Rome’s apparent glory, were symptoms wanting which to a discerning eye might seem to indicate the possibility of Rome’s fall or disruption being not so very distant. The population were alienated from their rulers, being disgusted with their tyranny, vice, and folly. Fierce barbarian hordes, especially those at the north of the empire, were hovering on the frontiers; and had more than once shown their power by defeating the Roman legions.

From this view we may suppose that the holy Apostle retired with joy, anxiety, and grief; — joy that the Saviour’s Church was extending; sorrow that the seed was sown within it which might after a while issue in the apostasy of Antichrist; and anxiety to know how long the time should be till the kingdom of the Lord he loved should be established. We doubt not earnest prayer would mingle with his meditations not unfrequently. The Redeemer had given his promise, “I will send my Spirit, and he will show you things to come;” so would the exiled prophet plead the promise; and in answer to such prayer, and in fulfillment of such promise, may we not believe that the revelation was given. “I was in the Spirit,” he writes, “on the Lord’s day. And I heard behind me a great voice saying, ‘I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.’” It was the voice of Jesus; and he gave this injunction, “Write the things which are, and the things which are to happen after them.” These things then were written to be read; and the blessing was pronounced beforehand, “Blessed are they that read the words of the book of this prophecy.”

St. John seems to have been then abstracted from all that was around him; and though himself in the isle of Patmos, the scenery he describes is Jewish. He sees a temple, and the interior of it is open to his view. There are seven lamps burning: Jesus Christ, habited like the high priest, though with marks of divinity attaching to him, overseeing all.

These lamps are explained to be emblematic of the seven Churches then in Asia Minor; and throughout the Revelation we shall find Jewish scenery and emblems, all familiar to St. John as a Jew, used to show forth the Christian Church. The seven stars are said to be the angels or chief pastors of the Churches. It is well to mark these emblems, as again and again they occur through the book we are about to study.

It is not my intention to enter upon the practical lessons that may be derived from the exhortations to these Churches, if personally applied, and which would furnish rules for living and dying applicable to the children of God to the end of time: the warnings and encouragements being as signposts to keep each in the right way on his pilgrimage heavenwards; and the object held forth that we shall, if we overcome, “inherit all things, and dwell in the temple of God to go no more out.” However useful and pleasant this, my present purpose is to follow St. John, and to show what the things were then existing, before proceeding to show what was to follow. These Churches, I imagine, were specimens of the whole state of religious society and practice then in existence, with the mixture of good and evil, tares and wheat; — the budding of that evil which St. Paul had stated would go on working until it ended in general apostasy.

The promoter of all this mischief, hidden and subtle, and undiscernible on earth, is shown to be the devil. He is described with his mimic synagogue (Rev. 3:3) as at work to injure the growing good. He is designated as the instigator of persecution, “Behold Satan shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried.” Again, he is called “the devil, the old serpent, and Satan, which deceiveth the nations;” (Rev. 12:9; and 20:2, 3.) and in the same chapter, “the accuser of the brethren.” It is only a repetition of the power attributed to him in other Scriptures, “the father of lies,” “the roaring lion seeking whom he may devour,” “a murderer from the beginning,” “the enemy that soweth tares.” Moreover, he remains in his enmity unchanged, and has had six thousand years of experience in his dealings with man to increase his devilish wisdom. Who could withstand him if it were not for power stronger than his, and that the power of an almighty, all-seeing, ever-present God? St. John shows in his Epistles that an antagonistic Power would finally conquer him: “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” (1 John 3:8) The call, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches,” shows us that the instructions and warnings given to them were to apply to all that should ever after hear or read them. The distinct blessing pronounced on “those that hear and keep the words of this prophecy” or teaching shows that it is our duty to study and diligently lay them to heart, both for encouragement and warning.

There is a very marked connection between the promises to the seven Churches and the blessings described as belonging to the saints in the New Jerusalem at the close of the Revelation. Thus to the faithful ones in the Ephesian Church it was promised, “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God;” while in the description of the New Jerusalem it is said, “On either side of the river was there the tree of life;” (Rev. 22:2) and, “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life.” (Rev. 22:14) To the conquerors in the Church of Smyrna, “He that overcometh shall not be hurt by the second death,” a promise correspondent to that, “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power.” (Rev. 20:6) To the victorious at Sardis it was said, “They shall walk with me in white; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life:” the former of which was seen by St. John as fulfilled when he beheld the multitude clothed in white, with palms of victory in their hands; (Rev. 7:9) and again is mentioned at the end of the Revelation, when to the Bride, the Lamb’s wife, was given to be “arrayed in white,” which white robe “is the righteousness of the saints:” (Rev. 19:8) the latter refers to those whose names will be found written in the book of life at the last and final judgment. (Rev. 20:12 — 15) A similar correspondency exists with regard to the promise to the Laodicean Church, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne;”and that to the New Jerusalem, “They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” (Rev. 20:4; 22:5)

Thus, he that gave the promise at the beginning gives the picture of its realization at the end. How consolatory to those who are struggling forward, engaged in withstanding publicly the inroads of evil in the Church and in spreading abroad the Gospel; or having to bear in private the scorn and persecution of the cross, often unseen save in the narrow sphere of daily life, contending against inbred corruptions of the heart, and endeavoring to bring the thoughts into subjection to the obedience of Christ; — how consolatory, I say, to know that the victory will assuredly be given, and that the final end will be blessedness.

And so the scene passed away. The messages were sent and reached the ears of thousands; — a message in each case direct from God, and sent to each Church by the appointed minister: God thus recognizing the ministerial order and office. And what may have been the effect? Probably that which every faithful minister finds to be his experience in the congregation where he delivers his message, viz., “some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.” Eighteen hundred years have gone since then. We have the list of warnings and promises to read; but where are those to whom they were first sent? And, when a few more years shall have passed away, Where will those be to whom we now reiterate them?

Continued in Revelation 4, 5. View of Scenery As It Appeared to St. John

All chapters of The Last Prophecy: An Abridgment of Elliott’s Horae Apocalypticae

One of the frequent visitors of this website shared with me a chapter of a book entitled “The Revolutionary Movement: A Diagnosis of World Disorders” by John Findlater and published by Lutheran Library.org. It gives insights into the book of Revelation I never heard before. Yes, you can call it another interpretation but so are all the other commentaries I have read about the book of Revelation. This one, however, is based on Historicism and is undoubtedly more accurate than interpretations based on Futurism. I think we will fully understand the Book of Revelation only after chapter 22 has come to pass and we are together with our Lord Jesus in His Kingdom.

Heavenly Light

THE REMARK OF A FRIEND that, liking greatly to converse with Christians who often read the Book of the Revelation, he yet tried to give as wide a berth as possible to any who claimed to be able to expound it, was not so paradoxical as might at first sight appear. For in that Book, as in the realm of Nature around us, there are elements of two vastly different kinds, some perfectly intelligible to every reasonable being, others whose constitution and meaning are wrapped up in the deepest mystery. We speak of those earthly things as the plain facts and the mysteries of life. But in the things of the Book of the Revelation there is a third class also, belonging in part to each of those two categories though it cannot fairly be said to lie between them. It is composed of the mysteries whose unfolding is the main purpose of the Book — the mysteries it does in fact reveal to every sincere Christian believer. This third class is made up of the facts of faith.

If then in closing these articles we can link up some of the facts of faith as they appear in the Book of the Revelation with some of the plain facts of life, our brief study may be to our great advantage.

The divisions of the Book into chapters and verses is comparatively modern, made for convenience’ sake. It does not belong to the original. Yet in it these divisions seem to correspond wonderfully well with its subject matter.

Its habitual readers must have noticed there are broader divisions also. At the beginning there are three chapters which constitute the prologue of the Book. And the three chapters at the end form its epilogue. The former deals with things existing at the time the Apostle John wrote the Book. The latter relates events to take place subsequent to the coming again of Christ with power and great glory. The intervening sixteen chapters contain a prophetical survey of the course of the Christian Church between those two termini.

Attentive readers of the Book can scarcely have failed to observe that these sixteen chapters are themselves divided up, at the end of the eleventh, into two fairly equal portions. For in the eleventh chapter, as again in the nineteenth, the future coming of our Lord to take possession of the kingdoms of this world is expressly foretold. If then we now assume hypothetically this division of this the main part of the Book, it is to be observed that, whereas in the first half (chaps. 4 to 11) we read of the opening of the seven seals and under the seventh seal the sounding of the seven trumpets, in the second half (Chaps. 12 to 19) we hear seven mighty angels uttering their great voices and under the seventh great voice the pouring out of the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth, which in the expending complement the fury of the Divine vengeance on disobedient and evil men.

A close comparison of the two halves with one another will leave little or no doubt that, from different angles, they give two views of the same subject. But the full force and meaning of this can be felt only when each pair of symbols — a seal and a great voice; a trumpet and a bowl — is set side by side. It will then be seen that every pair relates to one and the selfsame subject, usually presenting two different chronological parts, and in one case two antithetical parts. Let them be briefly stated here: —

Such is the skeleton framework of the building whose plans are given in the main portion of the Book of the Revelation. It is but a skeleton, consisting of two rows of pillars, one on what may fitly be called the eastern side of the building and the other on its western. Or it might be termed a twofold sketch of the Church of Christ, from two quite different points of view outlining the things which would befall it from the end of the first century till the still future return of our Lord. The first portrait presents the Church as being primarily Israelite in character, and only secondarily Gentile. The innumerable multitude of Gentile martyrs follow, both in the divine order of precedence and in point of time, the hundred and forty-four thousand of the twelve tribes of Israel. But in the New Testament is not this the view of the Church uniformly presented, as consisting of a Hebrew nucleus with a Gentile body surrounding that nucleus? A close study of the Apostolic Writings cannot fail to create what further study will but help to deepen — an impression that this is the truly divine order of the Church’s constitution. The seals and trumpets appear to foretell the lot of the Church so constituted up to the time when Christ will come again to take possession of the kingdom.

In Chapters 12 to 19 we see the Church from a very different point of view. The narrative opens with the birth of the man child. As to the meaning of that Bishop Newton has noted a most significant fact, perhaps decisive even. The Emperor Constantine was converted to Christianity in 313 A.D., just 280 years from the time when the Church received the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. Now, “as the time of gestation from the conception to the birth of a child is known to be 40 weeks or 280 days”, says Bishop Newton, “so, according to the prophetical reckoning of a day for a year, from the first rise of our Saviour’s kingdom in 33 A.D. to the year 313 was exactly 280 years If this is the true interpretation of Rev. 12., it suggests several things — that the Emperor Constantine, in his capacity of protector of the Christians, was Heaven-sent; that his term in that office was but short; that his successors in office adopted a different policy — Chapter 13. tells of the rising of the first beast from”out of the sea“, followed by the rising of the second beast, also called”the false prophet“, from”out of the earth“, indicating that the early promise of Constantine’s time had been nipped in the bud; that under his successors the nominal church became officially perverted, while the real Church was driven out”into the wilderness”; and that the view of the official church given in this second half of the prophecies concerning it shows how it sank to the status of one of the kingdoms of this world.

To put those two views of the Church side by side again — we have the history of its eastern face presented in Chapters 4 to 11, showing the vicissitudes through which it must pass in its original and diviner character; and in Chapters 12 to 19 we trace the course it was to follow and did follow on the western front, where it adopted a policy of earthly sensual devilish wisdom, and became just the reverse of all our Saviour intended it to be.

Our space limits do not permit any detailed survey of the facts of faith embodied in this main portion of the Book. But there is a historical interpretation of the meaning of “the seven bowls of the wrath of God” which will greatly interest most readers and ought not to be omitted. In the year 1701 the Rev. Robert Fleming, then a minister of the Church of Scotland in London, published a little book entitled “Rise and Fall of the Papacy”, giving an exposition of the meaning and application of the Seven Vials or Bowls. In it Mr. Fleming, having explained the previous stages of the execution of God’s wrath upon the Latin Church up to that time (1701), from Rev. 16:8-9 (the pouring out of the Fourth Bowl upon the sun) drew “a conjecture” that the French Monarchy, the mainstay of the papacy for about a thousand years, would be extinguished not later than the year 1794 — that is, 1260 years from 534 A.D., when the Emperor Justinian had appointed the Bishop of Rome chief spokesman of the whole Christian Church, Many years after Mr. Fleming had gone to rest from his labors that “conjecture” was verified to the letter.

The outpouring of the Fifth Bowl “upon the throne of the beast” was due, he thought, to culminate in 1848 — in retrospect seen as one of the most memorable years in European history, when the Pope, dreading the revolutionary forces threatening him on all sides, fled from Rome disguised as a lackey. That period, covered by the Fifth Bowl, appears to terminate in 1870, the very year in which the Pope’s Temporal Sovereignty was extinguished.

In the next period (Sixth Bowl) God’s judgment’s on the Moslem Power are executed. As to when the Turkish Caliphate would be abolished, Mr. Fleming has no conjecture. But he has stated his full conviction that immediately after its destruction the agents of “mystical Babylon” would succeed in creating a great League of Nations germane with “their idolatrous and spurious Christianity” — a League aiming at complete dominion over the whole world. Then, says Mr. Fleming, “when the forces of this apostate confederacy shall have been brought to that place of battle which is called Armageddon — that is, the place where there will be a most diabolically cunning and powerful conspiracy against Christ’s followers — then immediately will the seventh angel pour out his vial, to their utter ruin and destruction.”

Heaven’s multitudes then lift up their voices (Rev. 19:6-9 ), “saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth. Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready.

“And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 135″And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are bidden to

THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB.”

Crime scene in Philadelphia, one of the most Catholic cities in the USA. Philadelphia consistently ranks above the national average in terms of crime, especially violent offenses.

It’s been 10 years since I first posted this article. A Catholic priest read it and didn’t like it! He wrote a comment in the comments section. Please read what he wrote and my reply. Just scroll down until you see it.

In the list below, 41 (82%) of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world are in Roman Catholic Latin America areas. The 5 American cities in the list all have a heavy Roman Catholic influence. New Orleans, St. Louis, and Baltimore were founded by Roman Catholics. So if you add the 5 American cities to the 41 Latin American areas, it results in 92% of the most violent cities in the world under Roman Catholic influence.

And why are these cities so violent? They are all economically depressed. Consider the fact that Roman Catholic nations tend to be poor whereas Protestant nations have prospered economically. Protestant Northern Europe is definitely better off than Southern Europe which has a stronger Roman Catholic influence.

Of all the Roman Catholic countries I know of, only Poland is doing well economically. The reason I think is because Poles are hard-working people. All of my grandparents were born in Poland! I had the opportunity to visit Poland for 3 weeks, and I loved it. It’s a clean and beautiful country and its infrastructure was much better than Russia at the time (1997) in spite of the fact it was dominated by Soviet Communism from 1945 to 1989.

The United States of America was strongest economically when Protestantism was strongest. Can you see the relationship? Since a flood of Roman Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Poland, and Latin America, Roman Catholic influence in the American government is stronger, and the economy is weaker!

Is the Roman Catholic church secretly controlling American politics? If you don’t think so, explain why President Obama wants to change the immigration laws to give citizenship to illegal Mexican immigrants. They are mostly Roman Catholics! The more Catholics in America, the more the Roman Catholic Church gets to influence the vote!

The source of this list was taken from http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2013-11?op=1

1. San Pedro Sula, Honduras had 169.30 homicides per 100,000 residents.
2. Acapulco, Mexico had 142.88 homicides per 100,000 residents.
3. Caracas, Venezuela had 118.89 homicides per 100,000 residents.
4. Distrito Central, Honduras had 101.99 homicides per 100,000 residents.
5. Torreón, Mexico had 94.72 homicides per 100,000 residents.
6. Maceió, Brazil had 85.88 homicides per 100,000 residents.
7. Cali, Colombia had 79.27 homicides per 100,000 residents.
8. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico had 72.85 homicides per 100,000 residents.
9. Barquisimeto, Venezuela had 71.74 homicides per 100,000 residents.
10. João Pessoa, Brazil had 71.59 homicides per 100,000 residents.
11. Manaus, Brazil had 70.37 homicides per 100,000 residents.
12. Guatemala, Guatemala had 67.36 homicides per 100,000 residents.
13. Fortaleza, Brazil had 66.39 homicides per 100,000 residents.
14. Salvador (and RMS), Brazil had 65.64 homicides per 100,000 residents.
15. Culiacán, Mexico had 62.06 homicides per 100,000 residents.
16. Vitoria, Brazil had 60.40 homicides per 100,000 residents.
17. New Orleans, United States had 56.13 homicides per 100,000 residents. 36% Catholic
18. Cuernavaca, Mexico had 56.08 homicides per 100,000 residents.
19. Juárez, Mexico had 55.91 homicides per 100,000 residents.
20. Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela had 55.03 homicides per 100,000 residents.
21. Detroit, United States had 54.63 homicides per 100,000 residents. 32.5% Catholic
22. Cúcuta, Colombia had 54.29 homicides per 100,000 residents.
23. São Luís, Brazil had 50.16 homicides per 100,000 residents.
24. Medellin, Colombia had 49.10 homicides per 100,000 residents.
25. Kingston, Jamaica had 48.48 homicides per 100,000 residents.
26. Belém, Brazil had 48.23 homicides per 100,000 residents.
27. Cape Town, South Africa had 46.04 homicides per 100,000 residents.
28. Cuiabá, Brazil had 45.28 homicides per 100,000 residents.
29. Santa Marta, Colombia had 45.26 homicides per 100,000 residents.
30. Recife, Brazil had 44.54 homicides per 100,000 residents.
31. Valencia, Venezuela had 43.87 homicides per 100,000 residents.
32. Chihuahua, Mexico had 43.49 homicides per 100,000 residents.
33. San Juan, Puerto Rico had 43.25 homicides per 100,000 residents.
34. Goiânia, Brazil had 42.01 homicides per 100,000 residents.
35. Port-au-Prince, Haiti had 40.10 homicides per 100,000 residents.
36. Victoria, Mexico had 37.78 homicides per 100,000 residents.
37. Pereira, Colombia had 36.13 homicides per 100,000 residents.
38. Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa had 36.02 homicides per 100,000 residents.
39. Maracaibo, Venezuela had 35.44 homicides per 100,000 residents.
40. St. Louis, United States had 35.39 homicides per 100,000 residents.
41. Baltimore, United States had 35.03 homicides per 100,000 residents.
42. Curitiba, Brazil had 34.08 homicides per 100,000 residents.
43. Oakland, United States had 33.10 homicides per 100,000 residents.
44. San Salvador, El Salvador had 32.48 homicides per 100,000 residents.
45. Macapá, Brazil had 32.06 homicides per 100,000 residents.
46. Durban, South Africa had 30.94 homicides per 100,000 residents.
47. Monterrey, Mexico had 30.85 homicides per 100,000 residents.
48. Belo Horizonte, Brazil had 29.74 homicides per 100,000 residents.
49. Brasilia, Brazil had 29.73 homicides per 100,000 residents.
50. Barranquilla, Colombia had 29.41 homicides per 100,000 residents.

The Philippines is a Roman Catholic nation and I hear crime is higher in the capital, Manila, but crime in the provinces (countryside) is thankfully low. Businesses that make a significant amount of money all have armed guards who act as greeters at the entrances. Armed guards are certainly a good deterrent against crime! Since moving from Guam to the province of Northern Samar Philippines in June 2023, I have yet to hear of any robberies or any theft at all! Crime in Guam is not as high as in the mainland USA, but higher than here. People leave their motorbikes on the streets with the keys in the ignition, and they’re still there when they return. My nice bike in Guam was stolen though it was tied to a tree with a cable. The thief cut the cable with a cable cutter and left the cut cable on the ground. 🙁 Guam is also predominately Roman Catholic due to Spanish influence. All of the Micronesian islands are Catholic with a few Protestant churches.

“Now Jehoshaphat [Ed.: the godly king of the southern kingdom of Judah] had riches and honor in abundance, and joined affinity [Ed.: i.e., he made an alliance] with Ahab [Ed.: the wicked king of the northern kingdom of Israel].

…And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead [Ed.: to fight against the king of Syria]? And he [Ed.: i.e., King Jehoshaphat] answered him, I [am] as thou [art], and my people as thy people; and [we will be] with thee in the war. [Ed.: The Syrians won this battle, and mortally wounded King Ahab.]

[Ed.: Upon returning safely to Jerusalem after losing the battle, King Jehoshaphat was confronted by Jehu the son of the preacher-prophet Hanani.] And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer [Ed.: i.e., prophet, preacher] went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? Therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

…And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.” (II Chronicles 18:1, 3; 19:2; and 20:35-37)

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?” (II Corinthians 6:14)

The Holy Bible makes it very clear that King Jehoshaphat of Judah was a godly ruler who “sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments”, “whose heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD”. (See II Chronicles 17:3-6) However, King Jehoshaphat made the same mistake that his father Asa, king of Judah, had made, i.e., he made alliances with the WRONG people – with “unbelievers”. (King Asa of Judah had earlier been condemned by the prophet Hanani for seeking military assistance from the King of Syria rather than seeking assistance from the LORD!) King Jehoshaphat’s first mistake was a military alliance with wicked King Ahab of Israel – a mistake that cost the lives of a number of King Jehoshaphat’s soldiers – and brought about the disapproval of the LORD! King Jehoshaphat’s second mistake was a joint shipbuilding venture with wicked King Ahaziah of Israel – a mistake that cost Jehoshaphat time, effort, and resources when the LORD “broke” his ships! Indeed, both Jehoshaphat and his father, Asa, had made the mistake of “unequally yoking” themselves “together with unbelievers”!

Are some believers today making the same mistake that Jehoshaphat and Asa, kings of Judah, made, i.e., “yoking” themselves “together with unbelievers”? The answer to that question is “yes”. Today we see a number of Bible-believing Christians joining themselves together [i.e., forming “alliances”] with Roman Catholics [who believe a “different gospel” than the true Gospel found on the pages of the Holy Bible]! These Bible-believing Christians make alliances with Roman Catholics for various social and moral causes – or, to “fight the New World Order (N.W.O.)”. These Bible-believing Christians at times even join themselves together with Knights of Columbus or members of Opus Dei – two organizations that are controlled by the Jesuit Order [the top player in the N.W.O.]! These Bible-believing Christians, by making such ungodly alliances with “unbelievers”, are (1) showing a gross ignorance of history; and, (2) much worse, they are disobeying God’s command that we be “not unequally yoked together with unbelievers”! Don’t these Bible-believing Christians realize (1) that a number of popes have condemned the very freedoms that we Americans cherish; (2) that a “good” Roman Catholic must place his primary loyalty to the Pope of Rome, a foreign potentate; (3) that Jesuits, Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta, and members of Opus Dei all have their primary loyalty to the Black Pope [i.e., the Jesuit Superior General] through the Pope of Rome; and, (4) that powerful, influential, and wealthy Roman Catholics in much of Europe during the early stages of World War II betrayed their countries when they helped evil men to set up Fascist dictatorships? Do Bible-believing Christians really believe that God will bless their alliances with “unbelievers”?

This is the continuation of The Jesuit Order – The Society of Jesus – By Darryl Eberhart

There’s a ton of information in this material compiled by Darryl Eberhart! Please keep him in your prayers. He’s weak in health, paralyzed on his right side from a stroke, and probably cannot walk.

V. Quotations by Jesuits, from Jesuit publications, and about Jesuit publications

(Sometimes with my amplification [enclosed in brackets] added within the quotation, and/or my comments added following the quotation):

NOTE: This is the BEGINNING of excerpts of quotations made by Jesuit “doctors” and scholars that were taken from Henry Hadley Norris’ book, “Principles of the Jesuits”.

Ed. comment to the preceding quote: So suicide, in some cases, can be honorable and commendable, according to this Jesuit!

Ed. comment to the preceding quotation: According to Jesuit Stephen Tolet and Jesuit Francis Fagundez, it is OKAY for sons to kill their parents – or to turn their parents over to the Inquisition to be burned to death – if those parents are trying to deliver their children from the Roman Catholic religion – a religion which is more pagan than Christian, having numerous unscriptural doctrines and practices, some of which are drawn straight out of the old Babylonian mystery religion – and/or to deliver their children from a Church-State system that has tortured and murdered millions of innocent Christians via “holy” crusades, and “holy” Inquisition, etc.!

Ed. comment to the preceding quotation: This means that rulers [i.e., governments] and their agents – unless the pope of Rome specifically permits them – are not allowed to punish the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church- State living within their national boundaries, no matter how heinous a crime that any member of the Roman Catholic clergy may have committed against a citizen of that nation! Any government – especially a national government that has Roman Catholicism as its official State religion – that dares to prosecute and sentence a Roman Catholic priest for a heinous crime (without the express permission of Papal Rome), risks the wrath of the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State!

Ed. comments to the preceding two quotations:

(1) This is exactly what occurred during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England [queen: 1558-1603]. In 1570 Pope Pius V issued a papal bull deposing Queen Elizabeth I. (Her crime: She was a Protestant “heretic” ruling England – a ruler who refused to obey the pope of Rome and to bring England back under his “temporal power”.) This papal bull had the effect of releasing English Roman Catholics from any oath they had taken to support and defend their ruler, Queen Elizabeth I – and, of course, the annulling of such oaths was designed to embolden English Roman Catholics to rise up and overthrow their ruler!

(2) What follow are the words of Pope Pius V: “We do out of the fullness of our Apostolic power declare the aforesaid ELIZABETH [Ed.: Queen Elizabeth I of England], being a Heretic, and a favorer of Heretics, and her adherents in the matters aforesaid, to have incurred the sentence of anathema, and to be cut off from the unity of the Body of Christ. And moreover, we do declare her to be deprived of her pretended title to the kingdom aforesaid, and of all dominion, dignity, and privilege whatsoever…and we do command and interdict all and every noblemen, subjects, people, and others aforesaid, that they presume not to obey her or her monitions, mandates, and laws; and those who shall do the contrary, we do strike with the like sentence of Damnation.” (May 3, 1570)

(3) Thus a pope of Rome – controlled by his boss, the Jesuit Superior General – can annul the oaths taken by Roman Catholic subjects to their ruler or to their government or to their Constitution! Let us ponder the great danger here of having Roman Catholics in powerful and influential positions within a government that suddenly finds itself anathematized by Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome, with the annulling of all oaths that they have sworn to support and defend that particular government (or, its Constitution)! (We must never forget that the oath that an American Jesuit, or an American Knight of Malta, or an American Knight of Columbus, who is in the U.S. government, has sworn to the Roman Catholic Church-State or his religious order takes precedence over – in fact, supersedes – the oath he took to defend the U.S. Constitution!)

Ed. comment to the preceding quotation: What unmitigated gall is this “idea” that Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome has some sort of “divine right” to (1) cause “regime change”; (2) to assassinate rulers who do not follow Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome’s instructions or who oppose her objectives; and, (3) to foment sedition, revolutions, and/or civil war within a nation that is not “playing ball” with Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome!

Ed. comments to the preceding quotation:

(1) Numerous popes of Rome, “by the word” of their mouths, commanded Roman Catholic rulers and their agents, to execute millions of innocent people – men, women, and even children – through the so-called “holy” Inquisition – and through so-called “holy” crusades. (Papal Crusades – using professional armies – were launched, “by the word” of popes, against Bible-believing Christians, falsely called “heretics”. One example of this is the Albigensian Crusades of the early 13th century – a crusade where professional Roman Catholic armies succeeded in wiping out almost the entire population – men, women, and children – of Bible-believing Albigensian Christians in southern France!)

(2) Papal Rome tried to “wash her hands” of the murder of millions of Bible-believing Christians and Protestants by saying that it was the State that carried out the executions. It is true that the State (through Roman Catholic sheriffs and various Roman Catholic magistrates, etc.) carried out the executions for the Roman Catholic Inquisitors; however, these Roman Catholic officials of the State did so based upon the orders of Roman Catholic prelates and Inquisitors, knowing that if they refused, they too would be called before the Inquisition!

(3) Concerning Papal Rome’s allegation that the pope of Rome is the successor of [the Apostle Simon] Peter: The Roman Catholic Church falsely claims “apostolic succession” of its popes from [the Apostle Simon] Peter, and also falsely claims that Peter was the first Bishop of Rome (i.e., the first pope). Many writers have disproved these Roman Catholic allegations. Peter was not the first Bishop of Rome; in fact, he never was a “bishop” at Rome. (The apostle Paul, in his letter – his epistle – to the church at Rome, doesn’t even mention Peter!) It is far more likely that the popes of Rome can trace their “apostolic succession” to Simon Magi, a magician and sorcerer, rather than to the Apostle Simon Peter!

Ed. comment to the preceding quote: This quote brings to my mind the following Bible verse found at the end of the book of Judges (Chapter 21, Verse 25): “In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.” (Note: See also Judges 17:6.) Well, the LORD GOD Almighty has already set the “standards” for what is right and wrong in His Holy Word (the Bible), and His standards are the ones that ought to govern our actions – and not our own personal “preferences” or opinions!

NOTE #1: This is the END of excerpts of quotations made by Jesuit “doctors” and scholars that were taken from Henry Hadley Norris’ book, “Principles of the Jesuits”.

NOTE #2: After reading portions of Henry Hadley Norris’ book, “Principles of the Jesuits”, concerning the “moral maxims” and principles of the Jesuits – a book which uses excerpts from the very writings of various Jesuit “doctors” and scholars – I quickly came to the conclusion that these “moral maxims” of the Jesuits should more properly be termed the “amoral maxims” – or the “immoral maxims” – of the Jesuits.

…In 1890 ‘Civilta Cattolica’ again turned its attention to the Jews in a series of articles republished in pamphlet form…aimed at exposing the activity of the Jews in the formation of the modern liberal nation-state. The author charged that ‘by their cunning’, the Jews instigated the French Revolution [Ed.: of 1789-99] in order to gain civil equality… [Ed.: The JESUIT pamphlet stated that] the Jews were ‘the race that nauseates’; they were ‘an idle people who neither work nor produce anything; who live on the sweat of others’. The pamphlet concluded by calling for the abolition of ‘civic equality’ and for the segregation of Jews from the rest of the population.” – John Cornwell (“HITLER’S POPE: The Secret History of Pius XII”; Penguin Books; 2000; Page 28) [Ed.: “The Jews” did not instigate the French Revolution of 1789-99. A JESUIT front group, the Illuminati, instigated the bloody French Revolution.]

VI. A sampling of expulsions of Jesuits from various nations

(hopefully listed chronologically according to the 1st year of expulsion by various nations; in some cases the monarch who ordered the expulsion is listed):

1579, 1581, 1586, and 1602 – Elizabeth I, Queen of England

1604 – James I, King of England [This was the 5th expulsion of the Jesuits from England!]

1614 – Japan

1618 – the Kingdom of Bohemia

1716, 1783 – China

1719 – Peter the Great of Russia

1759 – King Joseph I of Portugal [He believed the Jesuits attempted to assassinate him in 1758.]

1764 – King Louis XV of France

1816 – Russian Czar Alexander I [He expelled the Jesuits from Moscow and St. Petersburg.]

1820 – Russian Czar Alexander I [He expelled the Jesuits from all of Russia.]

1820, 1835, 1868 – Spain

1834 – Portugal [2nd expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal]

1848 – Switzerland

1848, 1859 – Italy

1872 – Guatemala

1872 – German-Prussian Empire

1873 – Mexico

1874 – Brazil

1875 – Ecuador and Columbia

1880, 1901 – France [2nd and 3rd expulsions of the Jesuits from France]

1884 – Costa Rica

1901 – Portugal [3rd expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal]

NOTE: The Jesuits were expelled from England five times! The Jesuits were also expelled three times from predominantly Roman Catholic Spain, three times from predominantly Roman Catholic Portugal, and three times from predominantly Roman Catholic France! The Jesuits were also expelled numerous times from various predominantly Roman Catholic countries in South and Central America. Why were the Jesuits expelled so many times from so many nations of the world? Let us here repeat a quotation by Canadian author and historian J.E.C. Shepherd that was given earlier in this newsletter – a quotation that provides us with the answer:

VII. A sampling of leaders whom the Jesuits and their agents plotted against, and/or attempted – but failed – to assassinate – at least initially

(hopefully in chronological order):

NOTE: It is important to remember, when reading this sampling of various leaders against whom the Jesuits and their agents plotted, that Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome hates (with a purple passion) civil and religious liberty – and strives to have a “monopoly” on religion in any nation where she has sufficient power and influence to force the State to make Roman Catholicism the official State religion (to the exclusion of all others)!

1571, 1583, 1586, and 1588 – Queen Elizabeth I of England: These years all saw failed attempts by the Jesuits to remove Queen Elizabeth I of England from her throne through Jesuit-instigated plots of assassination and/or rebellion in order to restore the pope’s “temporal power” in England. (Queen Elizabeth I was a strong Protestant ruler who opposed Jesuit efforts to place her beloved people once again under papal tyranny and despotism. Queen Elizabeth I had greatly angered the Jesuit Order by expelling the Jesuits from England in 1579.)

1582 – William I, Prince of Orange and Duke of Nassau: The first attempt on the life of William I, Prince of Orange was made by a Jesuit “tool” by name of John Jauregay, who was under the direction of a Jesuit who went by the name of Juan de Ysunka. On May 18, 1582 Jauregay shot a ball at point-blank range that penetrated just below William’s right ear. William I miraculously survived this attempted assassination, and Jauregay ended up getting hacked to death by a number of William’s dinner guests. (William I, Prince of Orange would two years later finally meet his end at the hand of an assassin, Balthazar Gerard [one book has “Gerhard”] – another Jesuit “tool” – who shot him with three poison-tipped bullets. William of Orange was greatly hated by the Jesuits because he had broken the pope’s “temporal power” over Holland.)

1857 – U.S. President James Buchanan: An attempt was made to poison President Buchanan to death on February 23, 1857 at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C. (Thirty-eight individuals died as a result of arsenic poison that was put in the sugar that was placed at the tables where President Buchanan and his supporters sat.) President Buchanan barely survived the poisoning, and did so only because he informed his doctors that arsenic had probably been used in this attempt to assassinate him. This attempt on President Buchanan’s life was the result of his refusal to make war on those southern states that were threatening to leave the Union – thus temporarily thwarting the Jesuits’ efforts to foment the American Civil War in order to split the Union. (President Buchanan was also a strong advocate of States’ rights!)

1866, 1879 and 1880 – Czar Alexander II: Unsuccessful attempts by Jesuit “tools” to assassinate Czar Alexander II were made in all three of these years. The Jesuits wanted Alexander II dead because he had twice broken diplomatic relations with the Papacy, and because he had supported the Union during the American Civil War of 1861-65. (Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome had supported the Confederacy.) Alexander II had sent part of the Russian fleet to U.S. shores and had placed those ships under the direct command of President Lincoln. This action kept France and England from coming in on the side of the Confederacy – and thus helped Lincoln to preserve the Union! (“Tools” of the Jesuits succeeded in assassinating Alexander II in 1881.)

VIII. A sampling of leaders assassinated by Jesuits and their agents

(hopefully in chronological order):

NOTE #1: We should remember, when investigating any “murder scene” – including the assassination of a head of State or other powerful leader – to take note of which individual – or individuals (i.e., a group or organization) – had the motive, the means (which sometimes includes having sufficient finances), and the opportunity to organize and carry out the murder. To “pull off” the assassination of a head of State or of a powerful leader often requires at least one or more of the following: (1) lots of money, e.g., for buying off some individual or individuals on the “inside” – such as one or more of the guards of the leader, and/or for paying the salaries and bonuses of professional “hit men”; and/or (2) the ability to get one or more of your men into an “inside” position or positions to help break down or eliminate security surrounding the leader; and/or (3) professional intelligence-gathering capabilities and/or the necessary technical skills to overcome at least part of the high-level security system surrounding the leader, especially of a head of State; and/or (4) experience in such high-level, sophisticated assassination operations. (“Lone-nut” assassins seldom possess few – if any – of the above capabilities!)

NOTE #2: It is also important to remember, when reading this sampling of various leaders assassinated by Jesuits and their agents, that Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome hates (with a purple passion) civil and religious liberty – and strives to have a “monopoly” on religion in any nation where she has sufficient power and influence to force the State to make Roman Catholicism the official State religion to the exclusion of all others! The Jesuit Order also doesn’t care much for any head of State or powerful leader doing the following: (1) expelling the Jesuits and/or Roman Catholic prelates from a particular country; (2) opposing Jesuit and/or the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State’s plans and/or operations within a particular country, province, or region; (3) reducing the power and/or influence of the Jesuit Order and/or of the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church- State in a particular country, such as interfering with Roman Catholic control of all or part of the education system; and/or (4) giving religious liberty to all the citizens in a nation where the Roman Catholic Church-State previously had a monopoly on religion, i.e., Roman Catholicism was at one time the State religion, etc. Thus it is often easy to identify the Jesuit and/or Papal “motive” for the assassination of a head of State or powerful leader.

1572 – Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, leader of the French Huguenots: Coligny was murdered on August 24, 1572 (at the beginning of the St. Bartholomew’s massacre). (Coligny was hated by the Jesuits because he was a major stumbling block to the Jesuits’ plans for destroying religious liberty in France, exterminating as many French Protestants as possible, and restoring the pope’s “temporal power” to all of France.)

1584 – William, Prince of Orange [a former principality of Western Europe]: He was shot to death with three poison-tipped bullets by a Jesuit “tool” by name of Balthazar Gerard [one book has “Gerhard”]. (William of Orange was hated by the Jesuits because he had broken the pope’s “temporal power” over Holland, and because he had given refuge to persecuted Jews in Europe.)

1589 – King Henry III of France [king: 1574-89]: He was stabbed to death by Jesuit agent Jacques Clement. (King Henry III was hated by the Jesuits because he had tried to thwart the Jesuit-led Catholic League’s plans for exterminating French Protestants.)

1610 – King Henry IV of France [king: 1589-1610]: He was stabbed to death by a Jesuit agent, the monk François Ravaillac. (This was Jesuit “payback” for his “Edict of Nantes” of 1598 that had granted religious liberty to all French citizens.)

1769 – Pope Clement XIII [pope: 1758-69]: He was poisoned to death the night before he was scheduled to sign a Papal decree officially suppressing the Jesuits.

1774 – Pope Clement XIV [pope: 1769-74]: He was poisoned to death by Jesuit agents 14 months after he had “forever” abolished the Jesuit Order.

1825 – Czar Alexander I of Russia [czar: 1801-25]: He was poisoned to death by Jesuit agents. (This was Jesuit “payback” for his expulsion of the Jesuits from all of Russia in 1820.)

1841 – U.S. President William Henry Harrison: This U.S. president, despite robust health upon assuming office, died only 35 days later – poisoned to death with arsenic by agents of Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome because he had spoken out against “government by divine right” – thus greatly offending the Jesuit-controlled, despotic “Divine Righter” monarchs of Europe.

1850 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor: This U.S. president was in good health when he was poisoned to death with arsenic by agents of Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome because he had refused to authorize an invasion of Cuba. (The Jesuits and Papal Rome had hoped that such an American invasion of Cuba would provide the “excuse” for a number of despotic European monarchs to declare war on the young American Republic!)

1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln: This U.S. president was shot in the back of his head. (This was Jesuit “payback” for his preservation of the Union, and his refusal to take loans with exorbitant interest from Jesuit-controlled European bankers during the American Civil War, etc.)

1872 – Mexican President Benito Pablo Juarez: This courageous Mexican president was poisoned to death by Jesuit agents. (This was Jesuit “payback” for his expulsion of 200 Jesuit priests from Mexico, and for his breaking of the pope’s “temporal power” in Mexico.)

1881 – Czar Alexander II of Russia [czar: 1855-81]: He was killed by a bomb. (This was Jesuit “payback” for the Czar’s support to President Lincoln and the Union during the American Civil War of 1861-65, for having twice broken diplomatic relations with the Papacy [in 1866 and in 1877], and for trying to give more freedom to the Russian people.)

November 22, 1963 – U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy: This U.S. president was shot to death in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. (This was Jesuit “payback” for numerous reasons: threatening to splinter the CIA “into a thousand pieces”, making efforts to end American military involvement in the Vietnam War, and making efforts to end the Cold War, etc.)

1978 – Pope John Paul I: This courageous pope was poisoned to death in 1978 by Jesuit-controlled P2 Masons for several reasons: he was making preparations to launch an investigation into “irregularities” at the Vatican Bank; he was preparing to transfer many P2 Masonic Roman Catholic prelates out of their positions of power inside the Roman Catholic Church-State; and, he wanted make some “changes” in the operations of the Jesuit Order – and to challenge their “doctrinal deviations”. (Two books that have been written about the murder of John Paul I are: “In God’s Name” by David A. Yallop, and “The Murder of John Paul I” by Vance Ferrell.)

IX. A sampling of some famous and/or infamous leaders who have had Jesuits as “top advisors” and/or as their “father-confessors”:

(1) Emperor Ferdinand II [emperor of the Holy Roman Empire: 1619-1637]: JESUIT priest William Lamormaini was the “father-confessor” to Ferdinand II for much of the Thirty Years’ War [1618-1648] – a war instigated by the Jesuits with the goal of exterminating Protestants from off the face of the European continent.

(2) King Louis XIV of France (born-died: 1638-1715; king from 1643 to 1715): JESUIT priest François de la Chaise was the “father-confessor” – and a top advisor – to King Louis XIV. It was La Chaise – the Jesuit “father-confessor” – who had bragged about how he had used the confessional box to finally break King Louis XIV’s reluctance to abolish the Edict of Nantes of 1598 that had granted religious liberty to all Frenchmen – and to begin the slaughter of thousands of French Protestants. (La Chaise had told King Louis XIV during confession that Louis, in order to expiate his sins, should “root out all ‘heretics’ from his kingdom”. Louis, upon receiving the advice and instructions of his “father-confessor”, sent out French troops in 1685 to ruthlessly massacre thousands of innocent French Protestant Huguenots – men, women, elderly, and children – who had falsely been labeled as “heretics”!)

(3) King James II [King of England and Scotland: 1685-1688]: JESUIT priests Edward Petre and John Warner were “father-confessors” to King James II. These two Jesuit “father-confessors” urged King James II, according to author John Daniel, “to restore the power of the Roman Catholic Church [Ed.: in England], and make himself an absolute monarch”. (The Jesuits love to work with dictators and absolute monarchs!)

(4) Napoleon Bonaparte (born-died: 1769-1821; also known as Napoleon I; emperor of France from 1804 to 1815): One of his top advisers was the JESUIT priest Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes. Sieyes became a member of the “Directory” in France, and helped to orchestrate the coup d’état in 1799 that made Napoleon Bonaparte “First Consul”. (Fomenting and orchestrating revolutions, coup d’états, and wars are “specialties” of the Jesuits!)

(5) King Edward VII of England (born-died: 1841-1910; king from 1901 to 1910): One of his top advisers was the JESUIT priest Bernard Vaughan. According to author Albert Close: “King Edward [Ed.: VII] came under the powerful influence of the JESUIT, ‘Father’ Bernard Vaughan. He was often in his company with Sir Ernest Cassel, according to the Press.”

(6) Benito Mussolini (1883-1945; Italian dictator; Fascist prime minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943): One of his top advisers was the JESUIT priest Pietro Tacchi-Venturi, whom Mussolini “often consulted on important matters”. (Note: JESUIT Don Luigi Sturzo, chief of the Roman Catholic Party in Italy, helped bring Mussolini to power.)

(7) Fidel Castro (Born 1926; Cuban Communist dictator): This JESUIT-trained Communist dictator had as one of his top advisers, JESUIT priest Armando Llorente. (Fidel Castro spent eleven years in Roman Catholic boarding schools, seven years of which were at JESUIT institutions!)

NOTE: Please remember that the above is but a SMALL sampling of the many emperors, kings, queens, princes, etc., who have had Jesuits as their “father-confessors” and/or as top advisors!

X. Secrecy

The Jesuit Order is an extremely dangerous organization-society for a number of reasons. The first reason is their ability to keep many of their immediate – and long-term – goals secret, even from most of their membership. (Most lower-level Jesuits often have no idea of the “big picture”, of the part that they, as individuals, may be playing in the overthrow of governments, the assassination of heads of State, and the fomenting of wars and revolutions.) Please carefully consider the following quotations:

Compare the secrecy of the Jesuit Order described by Roman Catholic Bishop Palafox with a statement about “secrecy” made by an American Roman Catholic, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

XI. Total Blind and Slavish Obedience:

Another reason why the Jesuit Order is such an extremely dangerous organization-society is the total blind, slavish obedience that is required of all members of the order to the Jesuit Superior General and to all superiors within the Jesuit hierarchy. Please carefully consider the following quotation by Karl Theodor Griesinger, which is found in his book “The Jesuits” (1883): “All who belong to the Society [Ed.: of Jesus] were bound to this supreme chief [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuit Superior General]…blindly to obey, without delay, without exception, without investigation, even without inward doubt, all his orders with as perfect punctuality as if they were the dogmatic laws of the [Ed.: Roman] Catholic Faith, and, like a living corpse, to carry them out as tools with no will of their own, and with entire abnegation [Ed.: i.e., renunciation] of all moral perception.”

XII. Absolute Dictatorship:

Another reason why the Jesuit Order is such an extremely dangerous organization-society is that the head of “The Society of Jesus”, i.e., the Jesuit Superior General – the “Black Pope” – is an absolute dictator – an absolute monarch. He answers to no secular or ecclesiastical ruler (including the “White Pope”). Please carefully consider the following quotations:

XIII. Jesuit Maxims (or “Excuses” – or Loopholes) for Sins and Crimes:

Another reason why the Jesuit Order is such an extremely dangerous organization-society is found in Jesuit “maxims”, such as “The End Justifies the Means” and “For the Greater Glory of God”. Using such “maxims”, any member of the Jesuit Order can “justify” (or, excuse) any crime and/or sin, including murder, regicide, genocide, suicide, theft, fornication, adultery, etc.

Under the Jesuit “maxims” of “Mental Reservation” and “Equivocating Oath”, any member of the Jesuit Order may falsely swear an oath to an earthly government or military service – or bear false testimony – or commit perjury.

When one reads the “principles” of the Jesuits, as found in their constitutions and various writings, one finds that all sins and crimes can be – and have been – committed and “excused” in the service of the Jesuit Order.

XIV. Bible Verses and Passages (from the Authorized King James Version) with Special Applications to the Jesuits:

I have read a number of Bible verses that I believe one could apply to the Jesuit Order. Here are four of them:

1. [Ed.: The Lord Jesus Christ is speaking]: “For many shall come in My name [Ed.: i.e., in the name of Jesus Christ], saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” (Matthew 24:5)

Why do some folks who “interpret” this Bible verse assume that these many folks “saying, I am Christ” are claiming that they personally are “Jesus Christ”? Rather, might the above verse be referring to folks who come in Jesus Christ’s name, “saying” that Jesus is indeed “Christ”? Since Jesus Christ is here addressing Christians, how could “nut cases claiming to be Jesus Christ” be capable of deceiving Christians? Might not a more reasonable explanation for this capacity to deceive Christians be the explanation that these folks, who are saying that Jesus is “Christ”, are deceivers (and “wolves in sheep’s clothing”) “in the very midst of the Church itself”? In other words, these deceivers are “pretend (i.e., phony) Christians”!

Two of the names used by the Jesuit Order in the past have been the “Society of JESUS” and the “Company of JESUS”. How many people have been deceived during the past four plus centuries by those Jesuits coming in JESUS’ name and professing that JESUS is “ Christ”?

2. [Ed.: The Lord Jesus Christ is speaking]: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte [Ed.: i.e., someone who has been converted to another person’s religion], and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” (Matthew 23:15)

This verse reminds me of the Jesuits’ missionary efforts in China, where they allowed their Chinese “converts” (i.e., proselytes) to mix their heathen belief system with Roman Catholicism, a religious system that has drawn some of its own doctrines and practices from pagan religions.

3. [Ed.: The Lord Jesus Christ is speaking]: “They shall put you [Ed.: i.e., believers in Christ] out of the synagogues [Ed.: this Greek word can also mean “an assembly” or “a congregation”]: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.” (John 16:2)

Yes, thousands of Roman Catholics were put out of the Roman Catholic Church – i.e., excommunicated – by the Jesuit-controlled, monstrous “holy” Inquisition! (Many of these Roman Catholics were murdered by their own Church for their failure to believe in “transubstantiation” – that is, that Christ’s literal Body and Blood are actually “present” in the Eucharistic Host during the Sacrifice of the Mass.) Many thousands of Biblebelieving Christians outside the Roman Catholic Church were tortured and murdered by the Jesuit-controlled, monstrous “holy” Inquisition, whose agents believed that torturing and murdering so-called “heretics” was doing “God service”! (Many tens of thousands of Jews, Muslims, Orthodox Christians, independent Bible-believing Christians, and Protestants were also murdered by Roman Catholic armies that believed that they were doing “God service”!) Of course, all of this torture, murder, and mayhem can be “justified” by the Jesuit “maxims”: “The End Justifies the Means” and “For the Greater Glory of God”.

Important Note: Lest anyone think that this record of torture, mass murder, and mayhem only occurred centuries ago, please consider this: Two Jesuit prelates, Aloysius Stepinac and Ivan Saric, respectively the archbishops of Zagreb and Sarajevo, planned and choreographed a brutal religious genocide in the Roman Catholic Fascist State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945 that took the lives of up to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians! (This “Vatican Holocaust”, as author Avro Manhattan called it in his book, “The Vatican’s Holocaust”, occurred less than 70 years ago!)

4. [Ed.: The Apostle Paul wrote]: “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of [Ed.: i.e., a devotion to] God, but not according to knowledge.” (Romans 10:2)

While the Apostle Paul was “aiming” the above statement at his follow Israelites according to the flesh, his statement could also be applied to many Jesuits – and many Roman Catholics – who in the past tortured and murdered – or who instructed others to torture and murder – so-called “heretics”! Yes, in their “zeal of [or, devotion to] God”, they carried out the most heinous “crimes against humanity”!

If the Jesuits – and the popes – and the priests, monks, and friars of other Roman Catholic orders – and the Roman Catholic laity – had truly known and obeyed the ENTIRE counsel of God as found in the Holy Bible, they would never have carried out the torture and mass murder of millions of innocent men, women, and children – and committed many other heinous “crimes against humanity” – “in the name of [Jesus] Christ” and “for the greater glory of God” – because “the end justifies the means”.

XV. Conclusions:

First, to answer the questions that I asked earlier in the “introduction” section: 1. Yes, the Jesuit Order – at its higher levels – is the most evil organization the world has seen over the past 4½+ centuries. (Its evil is greatly compounded by the fact that it has often done its evil in the name of Jesus [Christ], claiming that their evil deeds were done “for the greater glory of God”!)

2. The Jesuit Order was expelled from numerous countries (including predominantly Roman Catholic countries) over the centuries because Jesuits were constantly mixing themselves up in the political affairs of various nations, frequently fomenting wars and revolutions, assassinating or attempting to assassinate various heads of State, and carrying out many other seditious, nefarious, and sinister activities to the great harm of many citizens of numerous nations.

3. Yes, the Jesuit Order and the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State are responsible for fomenting many wars and revolutions, such as World War I and World War II. They are also responsible for fomenting the Thirty Years’ War [1618-48], the French Revolution [1789-99], and the American Civil War [1861-65]. (NOTE: The French Revolution was fomented by a Jesuit front group, the Illuminati. The American Civil War was fomented by a Jesuit front group, the Knights of the Golden Circle, and by Jesuit-controlled high-level Freemasons on both sides of that conflict.)

4. Yes, the Jesuit Order is the greatest threat to civil and religious liberty that the world has seen over the past 4½+ centuries. (Numerous popes have condemned all the freedoms that we Americans cherish. A good example of this papal hatred of liberty is the “Syllabus of Errors” promulgated by Pope Pius IX in 1864.)

5. Yes, agents of the Jesuit Order have been responsible for assassinating many heads of State over the centuries. (Their victims include, for example, William of Orange, Kings Henry III and Henry IV of France, Czars Alexander I and Alexander II of Russia, President Abraham Lincoln, and Mexican President Benito Pablo Juarez.)

6. Yes, the Jesuit Order does sit at the very top of the “New World Order (N.W.O.)” “pyramid”. (It controls, for example, the Papacy, the highest levels of Freemasonry, the Knights of Malta, and the higher levels of the Knights of Columbus, and the highest levels of Opus Dei – and the numerous subgroups controlled through these powerful and influential organizations.)

7. Yes, the Jesuit Order, through its control of various secret societies, does control the International Intelligence Community. [Note: The Jesuit Order places Jesuit-controlled high-level Freemasons – and Jesuit-controlled Knights of Malta – in key positions in the top intelligence agencies in the world. The Jesuit Order’s control of the International Intelligence Community allows it to spy upon the citizens of various countries, to carry out assassinations (using military personnel from “Special Operations”, Mafia hit men, and other paid assassins), and to cause “regime change” whenever “necessary” in various parts of the world, etc.]

8. Yes, the Jesuit Order, especially through its wealthy, powerful, and influential Knights of Malta, controls the International Banking Community. (NOTE: Some folks say that “the Jews” control the International Banking Community, and point to such folks as the Rothschilds. The Rothschilds indeed have a Jewish background; however, they are agents of Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome, and they bear the title of “Guardians of the Vatican Treasury”!)

Secondly, we Americans must never forget that the Jesuit Order is a “dagger” pointed at the very heart of America’s Constitutional Republic! Yes, the Jesuits and Papal Rome urged despotic European monarchs to meet at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, and at Verona, Italy in 1822, to plan the destruction of the American Constitutional Republic – and to fight against popular, representative government wherever it might appear! High-level Jesuits later met in Chieri, Italy in 1825 to “fine-tune” those plans for destroying the American Constitutional Republic and any other government that might arise, desiring to give freedom to its people. The bloody American Civil War of 1861-65 was one of the “fruits” of those three sets of meetings. When the Jesuits, Papal Rome, and the despotic European monarchs failed in their plans to divide the American Constitutional Republic into two separate nations, they reverted to “Plan B”, i.e., to concentrate nearly all governmental power into the Central/Federal government in the USA, and to begin the incremental process of eroding our God-given Rights as spelled out in the U.S. Constitution and its “Bill of Rights”. This war against our Constitution and our God-given Rights and liberties has been going on for quite some time, and our enemies have made tremendous progress! Indeed, Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome is preparing to soon pound the “final nails” into the coffin of the U.S. Constitution and the American Constitutional Republic!

XVI. Final Quotation (to consider):

“Do you wish to excite troubles, to provoke revolution, to produce the total ruin of your country? Call in the JESUITS; raise up again the monks; open academies, and build magnificent colleges for these hotheaded religionists; suffer [Ed.: i.e., allow] those audacious priests, in their dictatorial and dogmatic tone, to decide on affairs of State.” – Abbé M. De La Roche Arnauld (Former Jesuit)

XVII. What should we do?

1. We need to learn as much as possible, as quickly as possible, about this Jesuit Order that poses a grave threat to our civil and religious liberty. We should obtain as many books as possible that tell the “hard truth” about the Jesuit Order, read them, and then share them with others.

2.We should visit Internet websites to read articles dealing with the Jesuit Order and the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State. (See item #14 in Section XVIII for such websites.) If we find any articles that we particularly like, then we should make printed copies of them to share with others. We should also let lots of folks know about such Internet websites.

3. We should listen to broadcasts that deal with the Jesuit Order and the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State, such as “The Investigative Journal” (hosted by Greg Szymanski), “Biblical Truth in History and Prophecy” (hosted by Eric Jon Phelps), and “Inquisition Update” (hosted by Tom Friess). We can listen to these broadcasts “live” on the First Amendment Rights Media network on Internet website: www.libertyradiolive.com. (Information on broadcasts times can be found by visiting Internet website: www.firstamendmentradio.com.) NOTE: If you like these broadcasts, then please tell as many folks as you can about them! You can also listen to past broadcasts by visiting the “archives” section of First Amendment Rights Media network.

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IV. Quotations about the Jesuits

(Of a general nature; sometimes with my amplification [enclosed in brackets] added within the quote, and/or my comments added following the quote):

“The Company [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuits], which went forth to restore Catholicism, became at length the corrupter of all morality…” – Andrew Steinmetz (“History of the Jesuits”; 1848)

“The JESUITS dominate the Vatican.” – Abbé Fremont

“The organization of the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Hierarchy is a complete military despotism, of which the Pope is the ostensible [Ed.: i.e., apparent; seeming] head; but of which, the Black Pope [Ed.: i.e., the Superior General of the JESUIT ORDER], is the real head. The Black Pope is the head of the order of the JESUITS, and is called a General [Ed.: more specifically, the Superior General]. He not only has command of his own order, but [Ed.: also] directs and controls the general policy of the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Church. He [Ed.: i.e., the Black Pope, the JESUIT General] is the power behind the throne, and is the real potential head of the Hierarchy. The whole machine is under the strictest rules of military discipline. The whole thought and will of this machine, to plan, propose and execute, is found in its head. There is no independence of thought, or of action, in its subordinate parts. Implicit and unquestioning obedience [Ed.: i.e., blind obedience] to the orders of superiors in authority, is the sworn duty of the priesthood of every grade…” – U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris (“Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”; 1897; Page 29)

“The JESUITS are a military organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power – power in its most despotic exercise – absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man [Ed.: i.e., the General of the JESUITS]. JESUITISM is the most absolute of despotisms: and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses…

The [Ed.: Superior] General of the JESUITS insists on being master, sovereign, over the sovereign. Wherever the JESUITS are admitted they will be masters, cost what it may… Every act, every crime, however atrocious, is a meritorious work, if committed for the interest of the Society of the JESUITS, or by the order [Ed.: i.e., at the command] of the [Ed.: JESUIT] General.” – Napoleon I, emperor of France (a.k.a. Napoleon Bonaparte; born-died: 1769-1821)

“The JESUIT ORDER is an association of highly organized warrior priests. They are politicians first and foremost and have been expelled from virtually every country they have had the opportunity to corrupt and destroy. Their modus operandi is political and educational infiltration and subversion and the fomenting of wars and revolutions in order to weaken and mold the target country into submissive pliability, to then be used to carry out their purpose of global ecclesiastically backed dictatorship. The United States is no exception to this.” – C.T. Wilcox (“The Transformation of the Republic: The Origins of the Religious Hi-Jacking of the American Government and the Truth Behind the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”; 2005; p 8)

“Indeed, for two centuries, all the French kings, from Henry III to Louis XV, would confess to JESUITS. All German emperors after the early seventeenth century would confess to JESUITS, too. JESUITS would take the confessions of all Dukes of Bavaria after 1579, most rulers of Poland and Portugal, the Spanish kings in the eighteenth century, and James II of England [Ed.: king of England: 1685-88].

The sacrament of confession kept JESUIT information channels loaded with vital state secrets. It also furnished the Society [Ed.: of Jesus – i.e., the JESUIT ORDER] an ideal vehicle for influencing political action.” – F. Tupper Saussy (“Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge About Governing Bodies”; 2001 First HarperCollins Edition; Pages 63, 64)

“Above all things, JESUITS are ‘confessors’. Their services unto the royalty were urged as a ‘need’, as they became assigned to hear the confessions of the aristocrats, emperors, kings, queens, princes, princesses, [Ed.: “royal”] mistresses, those in every level of government – they all revealed their secret plans, their intimate sins, their inner-most thoughts, as their lives became virtually an open book to the JESUITS. [Ed.: What an intelligence-gathering system!]

…Through various means of diplomacy, JESUITS worked their way into offices of State, climbing up to be the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations. But it was ‘religion’ and its sacred duties of hearing the confessions of their penitents, and being their religious ‘wise’ guides, that was the key to their success. Without the ‘need’ of a religious confessor, the history of the JESUITS may have been quite different. And the JESUITS made very sure that it was they who filled that need as confessors [Ed.: especially to the rich and power elite] instead of the other orders of priests, by providing a most attractive policy of leniency as an enticement for their penitents.” – John Daniel (“The Grand Design Exposed”; 1999; Pages 67, 68)

“The JESUITS function like the Papacy’s secret worldwide police. They are very secretive and go to great lengths to keep their operations secret. They tell no one that they are JESUITS. To all outside appearances, they appear as normal people.” – Bill Hughes (“The Secret Terrorists”; 2002; Pages 9, 10)

“There was no disguise they (the JESUITS) could not assume, and therefore, there was no place into which they could not penetrate. They could enter unheard the closet of the Monarch, or the Cabinet of the Statesman. They could sit unseen in Convocation or General Assembly, and mingle unsuspected in the deliberations and debates.

There was no tongue they could not speak, and no creed they could not profess, and thus there was no people among whom they might not sojourn, and no Church whose membership they might not enter and whose functions they might not discharge. The could execrate [Ed.: i.e., sharply denounce] the Pope with the Lutheran, and swear the Solemn League with the [Ed.: Scottish] Covenanter.” – J.A. Wylie (“The History of Protestantism”; Vol. 2; Page 412)

“The JESUIT dresses in all garbs, speaks all languages, knows all customs, [Ed.: and] can blend into any situation or set of circumstances. He is present everywhere although not always recognizable. The JESUITS in recent days have been to the forefront of Liberation Theology and have been prominent in revolutionary activity from Poland to the Philippines, from South America to South Africa.” (Quote from the Preface to the 1997 Edition of “The Jesuits in History” by Hector Macpherson)

“The term ‘JESUIT’ has become synonymous with terms like deceit, chicanery, infiltration, intrigue, subversion…many organized JESUITS have been justly described as treacherous, traitorous workers, seducing many in the service of the Roman Pontiff [Ed.: i.e., the pope] away from national allegiance…” – J.E.C. Shepherd (“The Babington Plot”; 1987; p 9) “The JESUIT ORDER, therefore, stands before us as the embodiment of a system which aims at temporal political domination through temporal political means, embellished by religion, which assigns to the head of the [Ed.: Roman] Catholic religion – the Roman Pope – the role of a temporal overlord, and under shelter of the Pope-King, and using him as an instrument [Ed.: i.e., a tool], desires itself the domination over the whole world.” – Count von Hoensbroech (German nobleman and ex-Jesuit; “Fourteen Years a Jesuit”; 1911)

“…If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top, head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT General] are one and the same person.” – James Parton (American historian)

“Both Freemasonry and the Society of Jesus [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT ORDER] are (a) humanist religious orders, (b) secretive, (c) fraternal, (d) socially conscientious and politically active… Both [Ed.: of these] orders (e) hold Tradition, Reason, and Experience in equal if not greater esteem than the [Ed.: Holy] Bible, (f) employ carefully structured programs of Gnostic visualization to achieve an everincreasing knowledge of the ‘divine’, (g) condone ‘the end justifies the means’, and (h) require absolute obedience, secured by blood oath, to a hierarchy of superiors culminating in the Jesuit [Ed.: Superior] General…” – F. Tupper Saussy (“Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge About Governing Bodies”; 2001 First HarperCollins Edition; p 121)

“The Rothschilds were JESUITS who used their Jewish background as a façade to cover their sinister activities. The JESUITS, working through Rothschild and [Ed.: financier Nicholas] Biddle, sought to gain control of the banking system of the United States.” – Bill Hughes (“The Secret Terrorists”; 2002; Page 24)

“Aware that the Rothschilds are an important Jewish family, I looked them up in [Ed.: the] Encyclopedia Judaica and discovered that they bear the title ‘Guardians of the Vatican Treasury’… The appointment of Rothschild gave the BLACK PAPACY [Ed.: i.e., the hierarchy of the JESUIT ORDER] absolute financial privacy and secrecy. Who would ever search a family of orthodox Jews for the key to the wealth of the Roman Catholic Church?” – F. Tupper Saussy (“Rulers of Evil”; 2001 First HarperCollins Edition; Page 160)

“The JESUIT ORDER has very effectively used traitorous Jews as their agents to carry out awful crimes against humanity. So many things have been done by Jews who were being used by the JESUITS. [Ed.: The Bolshevik reign of terror in Russia in the early 20th century is a good example. Most of the Jews in the Soviet Politburo were murdered after being used by the Jesuits.] When the whistle is blown and someone cries foul, the Jew is left holding the bag and is blamed, while the JESUIT ORDER walks away clean. This has been the case time after time through the last 400 years.” – Bill Hughes (“The Enemy Unmasked”; 1st Edition, 2004; p 32)

“Through the school systems, where the Society of Jesus [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuit Order] concentrates so much of its energies, the JESUITS have been enabled time and time again to infiltrate governments with the premise that what is good for the Vatican is good for any and all nations of the earth… Particularly is this obvious in the civil services; in newspaper editorials; state and foreign departments of Canada, Britain, the United States, and indeed all nations where JESUITISM has been granted a free hand in their order of ‘Separate Schools’, or the right to supervise and control the public schools.” – J.E.C. Shepherd (“The Babington Plot”; Wittenburg Publications, Toronto, Canada; 1987; Page 17)

“For over 200 years, the goal [Ed.: of the JESUITS] has been the complete destruction of the United States Constitution.

…In the religious arena, the goal of the JESUITS is to wipe out any trace of Protestantism and other religions, and to restore worldwide domination by the pope.” – Bill Hughes (“The Secret Terrorists”; 2002; Page 138)

“The JESUITS…are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff [Ed.: i.e., pope] of Rome for emperor…that’s their ideal… It is simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination – something like a universal serfdom with them [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] as masters – that’s all they stand for. They don’t even believe in God perhaps.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881; Russian novelist) (Statement made in 1880)

“The JESUITS have a long, sordid, murderous, and twisted history, as many writers on them have shown. Malachi Martin and Peter McDonough, two modern Roman Catholic writers, have both written long tomes on the JESUITS. As Martin demonstrates, the JESUITS have been at the forefront of the war to make the world a Roman Catholic dominion.” – Dr. Ronald Cooke (“The Jesuit Kulturkampf in the United States”; 2008; Page 17)

“My history of the JESUITS is not eloquently written, but it is supported by unquestionable authorities, [Ed.: and] is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuits’ reinstatement as a religious order by Pope Pius VII in 1814] is indeed a step toward darkness, cruelty, perfidy, despotism, [Ed.: and] death. …I do not like the appearance of the JESUITS. If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of Loyola’s [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT ORDER].” – John Adams (1735-1826; 2nd President of the United States) [Ed.: This quote is taken from a letter written by John Adams to Thomas Jefferson in 1816.]

“…The JESUITS are the only religious order in the Church of Rome…which has lain under the ban of the [Ed.: “White”] Pope, or which has been expelled from any country because of its interference in politics. Hence we may expect to find that to obtain political power forms a main feature in the plans of the Society [Ed.: of Jesus – i.e., the JESUIT ORDER].” – M.F. Cusack (Ex-nun of Kenmore; author of the book “The Black Pope”; 1896)

“The JESUITS, at one time, were so evil that they were actually suppressed by the pope of Rome. The Roman Catholic kings of Europe began to turn against the JESUITS who were working in their kingdoms to foment revolution. They began to expel the JESUITS from their kingdoms. These were Roman Catholic kings, and yet they wanted the JESUITS out of their countries. The pressure began to mount all over Europe on the papacy to do something to rein in the evil influence of the JESUITS.” – Dr. Ronald Cooke (“The Jesuit Kulturkampf in the United States”; 2008; Page 20)

“The JESUITS didn’t mind various [Ed.: Roman] Catholic versions of the Bible – they themselves made the Douay-Rheims. But they hated one Bible with a bloodthirsty passion: THE KING JAMES BIBLE [Ed.: emphasis in original]! They vowed to destroy it!” – David W. Daniels (“Did The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible?”; 2005; Page 111)

“The JESUITS have executed deeds of regicide many times over – assassination being, next to poisoning, the most favored method of choice. Volumes of such JESUIT crimes could easily be compiled, ad nauseam. History reveals that in almost every instance, the real cause of seditions, tumults, revolutions and disorder in France, Spain and Portugal was to be found with the JESUITS!” – P.D. Stuart (“CODEWORD BARBELON: Danger in the Vatican: The Sons of Loyola and Their Plans for World Dominion…”; Lux-Verbi Books, London; 2008; Page 56)

“The favorite policy of the JESUITS [is] that of assassination.” – U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris; “Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”; 1897; Page 19)

“I would remind you of Webster’s definition of a JESUIT: ‘a designer, an intriguer’. If the Church of Rome prevailed, the pope would be the universal king. …The JESUITS are here [Ed.: in America] to plot and scheme and, if possible, take from us the noble heritage of our civil and religious freedom. The rules of the JESUIT ORDER justify theft, licentiousness, lying, false-witness bearing, suicide, and the murder of parents and other relatives. The greatest crimes in history committed against individuals and nations have been committed by the JESUITS. …Wherever JESUITS are [Ed.: found], they have the torch to burn, the sword to slay, [Ed.: and] the inquisition to torture. They are the enemies of [Ed.: Bible-believing] Christianity. They live for conquest, fortune and glory.” – B.C. Oggel (American clergyman)

“…Wherever a totalitarian movement erupts, whether Communist or Nazi, a JESUIT can be found in the role of ‘advisor’ or leader; in [Ed.: Communist] Cuba Fr. Armando Llorente and in Argentina the neo-Nazis are led by Fr. Menvieille.” – Emanuel M. Josephson (American physician and historian; 1968)

“The presence of the JESUITS in any country, Romanist or Protestant, is likely to breed social disturbance.” – Henry Palmerston (1784-1865; British statesman & prime minister)

“The [Ed.: British] East India Company was a major subsidizer of the JESUIT mission to Beijing [Ed.: China]. The JESUITS, in turn, interceded with oriental monarchs to secure lucrative commercial favors for the company, including monopolies on tea, spices, saltpeter (for explosives), silks, and the world’s opium trade. Indeed…the [Ed.: British East India] Company appears to owe its very existence to the Society of Jesus [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS].” – F. Tupper Saussy (“Rulers of Evil”; 2001 First HARPERCOLLINS Edition; Page 167)

“All these things cause the Father-General [Ed.: of the JESUITS] to be feared by the Pope and sovereigns… A sovereign who is not their [Ed.: the JESUITS’] friend will sooner or later experience their vengeance.” – Luigi Desanctis (Official Censor of the Inquisition)

“There is a Masonic Propaganda group, number two…known as the ‘P-2 Club’, with its headquarters being in Rome. …The P-2 Club is a propaganda society of the world’s elite which includes high-ranking Roman Catholic prelates and, of course, JESUITS.” – John Daniel (“The Grand Design Exposed”; 1999; Page 169)

“The Society of Jesus [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuit Order] is the enemy of man. The whole human race should unite for its overthrow. …For there is no alternative between its [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuit Order’s] total extirpation, and the absolute corruption and degradation of mankind.” – Robert J. Breckinridge (Pastor; author)

“There can be no shadow of doubt that the JESUITS and the Anglo-Romanist party in Britain have gained great influence over the Cable Services, Press Agencies, B.B.C., and chief newspapers of Great Britain…” – Albert Close (“Jesuit Plots from Elizabethan to Modern Times”; Page 169) [Ed.: The same thing (i.e., a JESUIT takeover of the press, the media, and the publishing industry) has also happened here in the USA!]

“[Ed.: The JESUITS] are the deadly enemies of civil and religious liberty. Nothing that stands in their way can become so sacred as to escape their vengeance…

Because of this, a sense of both duty and security demands that the history and character of this skilled and powerful adversary [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT ORDER]…should be understood; as also [Ed.: should be understood] the causes which have led to the expulsion of the JESUITS from every country in Europe, the public odium which has rested upon them for many years, their long continued disturbance of the peace of nations, and the final suppression and abolition of their society [Ed.: in 1773] by one of the best and most enlightened of the popes [Ed.: i.e., Pope Clement XIV].” – R.W. Thompson (Ex-Secretary, American Navy) [Ed.: The Jesuit Order was reinstated – restored – as a Roman Catholic order by Pope Pius VII in 1814.]

“But we recognize in the Roman Catholic priesthood, and the JESUIT brotherhood, two distinct political organizations, united in purpose and using religion as a mask for political purpose, as they always have done in all ages and countries.” – J. Wayne Laurens (American historian; author of the book “The Crisis: Or, the Enemies of America Unmasked”)

“It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country – the United States of America – are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic JESUIT priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated most of the wars of Europe.” – Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834; French statesman and general; served in the Continental Army under General George Washington)

“The JESUITS arrived in North America with the early French settlers in Canada. They have been at work ever since to overthrow Protestantism in North America. Canada – in many ways – is already gone; and the United States is following close behind.” – Dr. Ronald Cooke (“The Jesuit Kulturkampf in the United States”; 2008; Page 22)

“Today they [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] are stronger in the United States than they ever were in any of the countries of Europe which expelled them as a menace to the government.” – Jeremiah J. Crowley (Irishman; ex-priest in the Roman Catholic Church; author of the book “Romanism: Menace to the Nation”) (Statement made in 1912)

“The present cultural struggle in the United States is JESUIT-inspired, and is obviously helping to Romanize [Ed.: i.e., to make Roman Catholic] rather than ‘Christianize’ this country.” – Dr. Ronald Cooke (“The Jesuit Kulturkampf in the United States”; 2008; Page 12)

“…The Protestants of earlier times looked upon the JESUITS as the greatest opponents of truth and righteousness that the world has ever seen.

…Whereas the Protestant evangelicals of the present time…[Ed.: do not] know anything about the long history of the JESUITS, who since their inception have had one main goal in view: the destruction of everything connected to the Protestant Reformation.” – Dr. Ronald Cooke (“The Jesuit Kulturkampf in the United States”; 2008; Page 20)

“This society [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT ORDER] which has dared to appropriate to itself the Name, which is above every Name, by calling itself ‘The Order [Ed.: or, Society] of Jesus’ deserved rather from the nature of its doctrines and from the work it has done in the world to be called the Order of Satan.” – McKinley Ash (“The Antichrist”; Page 81)

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III. Quotations dealing with the history of the Jesuits

(Most of them, hopefully, in some sort of chronological order; and sometimes with my amplification [enclosed in brackets] added within the quotation, and/or my comments added following the quotation):

“On 27 September 1540, in a private reception hall of the Palace of the Popes on Vatican Hill, Rome, eleven men of aristocratic birth [Ed.: including Ignatius Loyola], met with Pope Paul III [Ed.: pope: 1534-1549] who gave approval of their [Ed.: JESUIT] Order. That beginning was to become the most loyal and most efficient organization [Ed.: that] the Roman Catholic Church has ever spawned.

…In the agreement to rescue [Ed.: Papal] Rome [Ed.: i.e., the Roman Catholic Church-State] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism [Ed.: during the Protestant Reformation], and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [Ed.: had] ‘usurped’ during the Middle Ages, [Ed.: Papal] Rome now ‘sold’ the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT ORDER]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS’] hands.” – John Daniel (“The Grand Design Exposed”; 1999; Page 64)

“…The Roman Inquisition…had been administered since 1542 by the JESUITS.” – F. Tupper Saussy (“Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge About Governing Bodies”; 2001 First HARPERCOLLINS Edition; Page xviii)

“Between 1555 and 1931 the Society of Jesus [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT ORDER] was expelled from at least 83 countries, city-states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversive plots against the welfare of the State, according to the records of a JESUIT priest of repute [Ed.: i.e., Thomas J. Campbell]. …Practically every instance of expulsion was for political intrigue, political infiltration, political subversion, and inciting to political insurrection.” – J.E.C. Shepherd (Canadian historian; “The Babington Plot”; 1987; Page 12)

“In 1560 the Senate of Venice forbade the JESUITS to confess women [Ed.: i.e., to hear confession from women], because they made use of confession for purposes of immorality… Many boys and girls are first made to eat of the tree of the knowledge of evil in the confessional.” – A. Robertson (“The Roman Catholic Church in Italy”; 1903; London; p 162) [Ed.: The confessional has been the seed of much evil. Charles Chiniquy, a Catholic priest for 25 years, exposed the debauchery of the confessional in his book, “The Priest, the Woman, and the Confessional”. To order it by credit card, please call Chick Publications at 1- 909-987-0771.]

“The JESUIT General, in control of the Monarchs of France, mass-murdered the French Protestant Calvinists including their great leader, Admiral Coligny [Ed.: starting with the St. Bartholomew’s Massacre in Paris, France on August 24, 1572].” – Eric Jon Phelps (“Vatican Assassins”; 1st Edition, 2001; Page 102)

“The Babington Plot [Ed.: a conspiracy that was “hatched” in 1580] was probably the greatest of the many plots of the pope and the JESUITS during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and [Ed.: King] James I designed to bring about the downfall of Protestant England, the overthrow of the Reformation in England, Scotland and Ireland, and to place some other claimant upon the Throne who would be acceptable to [Ed.: Papal] Rome, and committed to bring the English in submission to the sovereignty of [Ed.: Papal] Rome.

Between 1569 and 1605 (of Gunpowder Plot infamy) there were no less than eleven great plots against Elizabeth and English Protestantism, working toward assassination, rebellion and invasion. Each is known by the name of the leader of the treachery: Ridolfi, Sanders, [Ed.: Pope] Gregory XIII, [Ed.: JESUIT priest] Campion, [Ed.: JESUIT priest Robert] Parsons, [Ed.: the Duke of Guise, [Ed.: Cardinal] Allen, Throgmorten, Parry, [Ed.: Anthony] Babington, [Ed.: Pope] Sixtus V, [Ed.: King] Philip II of Spain, Yorke, Walpole, Southwell, and Guy Fawkes.

…There can be no doubt whatsoever but that the Pope of Rome was very much interested as well as vitally involved in all of these attempts.

…The Babington Plot [Ed.: to invade England, to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, to incite rebellion, and then to place Roman Catholic Mary Stuart on the throne] took its name from Anthony Babington, a young English gentleman…but the real brains behind the conspiracy were the pope [Ed.: i.e., Gregory XIII], Cardinal Allen, the JESUITS, and the Roman Catholic priest named John Ballard…” – J.E.C. Shepherd (“The Babington Plot: Jesuit Intrigue in Elizabethan England”; Wittenburg Publications, Toronto, Canada; 1987; Pages 118, 123)

“It is impossible to read Elizabethan history [Ed.: i.e., the history surrounding Queen Elizabeth I of England; born-died: 1533-1603; queen: 1558-1603] except in the context of an army of JESUITS, masters of deceit, treachery, treason, infiltration, subversion, assassination, insurrection, civil war and coercion, plotting for the good of the papacy, and the defeat of all the Pope’s foes anywhere in the world.” – J.E.C. Shepherd (“The Babington Plot”; 1987; Page 20)

“Eight years before the attempted [Ed.: Spanish] Armada invasion [Ed.: of 1588], JESUITS were seditiously active plotting the overthrow of the English government. By using different disguises, aliases, and secret codes, to illegally slip in and out of England, JESUIT Robert Parson [Ed.: several books have “Parsons”], in 1580, had led and then later organized a mission to bring other JESUITS into England to engage in a work of subversion. When the [Ed.: attempted] invasion [Ed.: by the Spanish Armada] failed, these masters of intrigue [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] turned to another bizarre scheme. Known in your encyclopedia under the subject, ‘The Gunpowder Plot’ – thirteen [Ed.: Roman] Catholic noblemen and five JESUITS formed a conspiracy devising a plan to explode 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellar of the House of Lords and kill King James I, and members of the [Ed.: House of] Commons as they assembled for the opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605. Their plan was to blow up the Parliament building and out of the chaos [Ed.: to] incite the people into a full insurrection.

…But before the date [Ed.: that] it [Ed.: i.e., the stack of 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellar] was to be detonated, the explosives were discovered, leading to the arrest of all those involved. …Of the five JESUITS involved, two escaped, one died in prison, and two were convicted and executed.” – John Daniel (“The Grand Design Exposed”; 1999; Pages 76, 77)

“This Protestant, Bible-believing, man of God [Ed.: i.e., William, Prince of Orange] is the Father of Religious and Political Liberty. He broke the Pope’s Temporal Power over Holland, protected the Anabaptists and Mennonites who refused to take up the Sword of Just Defense against the Spanish armies of [Ed.: King] Philip II, and gave refuge to the persecuted Jews of Europe. He was murdered [Ed.: in 1584] by an assassin having been sent by the JESUITS, Balthazar Gerard, in obedience to the bloody JESUIT Oath.” – Eric Jon Phelps (“Vatican Assassins”; 1st Edition, 2001; Page 108)

“In 1589, King Henry III of France was stabbed to death by a JESUIT assassin named Jacques Clement. …This ended the dynasty of the House of Valois.” – Eric Jon Phelps (“Vatican Assassins”; 1st Edition, 2001; Page 127)

“[Ed.: In 1594 the French Parliament ordained that]: “…All the priests and scholars of the [Ed. JESUIT] college of Clermont, and others calling themselves the SOCIETY OF JESUS, as being corrupters of youth, disturbers of the public peace, and enemies of the king and State, should depart in three days from their house and college, and in fifteen days out of the whole kingdom [Ed.: of France].” (This quote was taken from page 399 of Vol. 2 of J.A. Wylie’s “The History of Protestantism”.)

“Known as Henry of Navarre [Ed.: i.e., King Henry IV of France], being the first of the Bourbon kings, he brought religious liberty to France with his Edict of Nantes – thus outraging the JESUIT ORDER… After several attempts [Ed.: on King Henry IV’s life], the JESUITS finally assassinated him at point blank range [Ed.: in 1610] with one of their fanatical, remorseless tools, [Ed.: the monk François] Ravaillac.” – Eric Jon Phelps (“Vatican Assassins”; 1st Edition, 2001; Page 129)

“The whole frightful responsibility for this terrible Thirty Years’ War [Ed.: 1618-1648] must rest upon the [Ed.: Holy Roman] Emperor Ferdinand II, and his teachers, rulers, and bosom friends – the SONS OF LOYOLA [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS].” – Karl Theodor Griesinger (“The Jesuits”; 1873)

“The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought almost exclusively on German soil…but before the war ended, it involved most of the nations of Europe. The underlying cause of the war was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German Catholics – with the JESUITS and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends. When the war was over it had totally wiped out the German economy leaving behind a wasteland where one half (some historians say even two thirds) of the population were dead.” – John Daniel (“The Grand Design Exposed”; 1999; Page 77)

“The sixth and last event to be considered is the barbarous Irish Massacre, with its 23 October 1641 launching date – the date that also celebrates the Catholic feast of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the JESUITS.

…Again the plot is instigated by the JESUITS, priests, and friars, who excite the ignorant Irish Catholic people to a frenzy to commit the most unheard of cruelties. In far away France, Cardinal Richelieu, the French minister, had promised the [Ed.: Irish Catholic] conspirators a considerable supply of men and money. In one stroke, [Ed: Roman] Catholics rose up against their peaceful and unsuspecting Protestant neighbors, and spared no age, no sex, nor condition. Led on and declared by their fanatical priestly leaders, that no Protestant should be suffered to live any longer among them, adding that it was no more sin to kill a Protestant than to kill a dog, and that the relieving or protecting them was a crime of the most unpardonable nature.

The onslaught raged on, and when it had run its course, one hundred and fifty thousand Protestants lay mutilated, butchered, and dead.

…For the unbiased researcher, history reeks of the butchery of Romanism, where whole cities and populations were unmercifully wiped out, just because they worshipped God in a manner that was different from Roman Catholicism.” – John Daniel (“The Grand Design Exposed”; 1999; Page 78)

“The JESUIT ORDER at last reached the pinnacle of its power and prestige in the early eighteenth century [Ed.: i.e., the early 1700s]. It had become more influential and more wealthy than any other organization in the world. It held a position in world affairs that no oath-bound group of men has ever held before or since… ‘Nearly all the Kings and Sovereigns of Europe had only JESUITS as directors of their consciences [Ed.: i.e., as confessor-priests, “father-confessors”], so that the whole of Europe appeared to be governed by JESUITS only.’” – Boyd Barrett (Ex-Jesuit) (1927; using a short quote by Jesuit Cordara) [Ed: The Jesuit Order is just as powerful today as it was back in the early 1700s – and probably much wealthier!]

“We have remarked to our deep regret that our admonitions to them [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] to serve God and not to mix themselves up with other matters, especially secular and political, as well as many other measures, have been almost powerless and of no effect. …Our predecessors [Ed.: i.e., previous popes] had to undergo much vexation on that account. Pope Innocent XI, driven by necessity, went so far as to forbid the society [Ed.: of Jesus – i.e., the JESUIT ORDER] to receive and invest novices. …Further, [Ed.: Pope] Innocent XIII was compelled to threaten them [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] with the same punishment, and [Ed.: Pope] Benedict XIV closed the visitation of the inspection of the houses and colleges in the dominion of…the most faithful King of Portugal…” – Clement XIV [pope: 1769-74]

“…We abolish and do away with forever their [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS’] statutes, habits and customs, decrees and Constitutions, even when sealed by oath or Apostolical Confirmation: so that from this day hence the ‘Society of Jesus’ no longer exists.” – Clement XIV [pope: 1769-74] (Statement made in 1773)

“…That the name of the company [Ed.: i.e., the Society of Jesus – the JESUITS] shall be, and is forever extinguished and suppressed… [Ed.: This Papal Decree of Suppression shall] forever and to all eternity be valid, permanent, and efficacious.” – Clement XIV [pope: 1769-74] (From his Papal Decree suppressing the JESUITS in 1773) [Ed.: Some authors claim that this decree was a Papal Bull – Papal Rome claims it was a “Brief” – but no matter which it was, a Roman Catholic pope officially banned this Roman Catholic religious order for all eternity! This suppression and abolition of the Jesuits did not last “to all eternity”. Less than 50 years later, the Jesuits were “reinstated” (some believe, by force). Pope Clement XIV had previously carried out a four-year investigation into the workings of the JESUITS. He listed eleven other popes who had tried to curb the excesses of the JESUITS. Fourteen months after issuing his Papal Decree suppressing the JESUITS, Pope Clement XIV was poisoned to death by them.]

“They [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] were abolished by papal bull in 1773 at the demand of France, Spain, Portugal, Parma, Naples and Austria. They are, however, still to be found everywhere, and they hold considerable property in England. A modern writer justly calls them the ‘Black International’.” – Lady Queenborough (1933)

“Alas, I knew they [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] would poison me; but I did not expect to die in so slow and cruel a manner.” – Clement XIV [pope: 1769-74] [Ed.: Clement XIV made this statement in 1774 shortly after he had been poisoned by the JESUITS as “payback” for his suppression of the JESUIT ORDER in 1773.]

“[Ed.: JESUIT Adam] Weishaupt established the [Ed.: modern version of the] Illuminati [Ed.: in 1776] specifically to be a front organization behind which the JESUITS could hide. After being [Ed.: formally] abolished by [Ed.: Pope] Clement XIV in 1773, the JESUITS used the Illuminati and other organizations to carry out their operations. Thus, the front organizations would be blamed for the trouble caused by the JESUITS.” – Bill Hughes (“The Enemy Unmasked”; 1st Edition, 2004; Page 23)

“Why would the JESUITS use their implacable enemy, the Jews, to further their designs for world dominion? The JESUITS never do anything out in the open where they can be exposed. If they are recognized as the culprits, they will be blamed and suffer the consequences, but if they can use someone else as the ‘cause of the world’s problems’, especially an enemy they can destroy in the process, then they have simultaneously accomplished two of their objectives. The Jewish people are the perfect scapegoat. Since the Rothschilds are JESUIT agents operating under a Jewish cover, using them in forming the Illuminati back in 1776 effectively throws the onus of this conspiracy on the Jews. The Rothschilds are certainly not the only JESUIT agents that operate under a Jewish front. [Ed.: The Jesuits will use persons of any race, sex, or religion as their agents.]

The following sources [Ed.: Bill Hughes lists a number of books at the end of this paragraph] indicate that [Ed.: JESUIT] Adam Weishaupt and the Rothschilds were the brains and the wealth behind the French Revolution [Ed.: of 1789-1799].” – Bill Hughes (“The Enemy Unmasked”; 1st Edition, 2004; Pages 29, 30)

“They [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] have so constantly mixed themselves up in court and state intrigues that they must, in justice, be reproached with striving after world dominion. They cost kings their lives, not on the scaffold, but by assassination, and equally hurtful as the society of Illuminati [Ed.: a JESUIT front group]; they [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] were the foremost among the crowd, at all events, who applauded the murder scenes in Paris [Ed.: France, during the French Revolution of 1789-1799].” – Austrian Archduke Maxmilian Francis (1815)

“Without exception, every chief actor in the French Revolution [Ed.: of 1789-1799] was either JESUIT-educated, a Catholic prelate, or a member of the Illuminati Order [Ed.: a JESUIT front organization] where within the Jacobin Club they would come together to conspire and carry out the ‘Great Work’ – which in the open system of the Jacobins was the reflection of the complete hidden system of the Illuminati – and in back of the Illuminati were the hidden JESUIT ‘masters’.

…Most [Ed.: of the leaders of the French Revolution of 1789-1799] had been educated and trained under JESUIT tutelage. Names like Voltaire, Diderot, Turgot, Condorcet, d’Alembert, Desmoulins, and Robespierre were all inspired JESUIT college students rallying behind their instructors’ Enlightenment cause. No wonder there was no true opposition to the movement from the JESUIT camp. Remember well! The French Revolution is nothing less than a prototype of what the whole world is soon to be plunged into.” – John Daniel (“The Grand Design Exposed”; 1999; Pages 212, 213, and 262)

“The JESUITS, [Ed.: JESUIT Adam] Weishaupt, and the Rothschilds managed to cast the blame for the French Revolution [Ed.: of 1789-1799] on their front organization, the Illuminati!” – Bill Hughes (“The Enemy Unmasked”; 1st Edition, 2004; Page 31)

“I [Ed.: i.e., author Jack T. Chick] questioned Dr. [Ed.: Alberto] Rivera about the briefings he received in the Vatican when he was a JESUIT priest. I asked him if he was briefed on how the Vatican planned to take over the United States. He told me [Ed.: that] his indoctrination [Ed.: i.e., his training as a JESUIT] went back [Ed.: into American history] to the time of the Pilgrims. Because of the knowledge of the Inquisition and the slaughter of Christians by the Roman Catholic system, the early immigrants in America began passing laws to keep JESUITS out of this country and to outlaw the Mass…to protect themselves from a Vatican takeover. These were Christian communities deeply concerned about the ‘whore of Revelation’ [Ed.: i.e., the “whore” described in chapter 17 of the book of Revelation in the Holy Bible].

JESUITS began arriving in America as early as the second group of Pilgrims. They used different names with identifications. They were followed years later when the Vatican sent multitudes of Catholic families from England, Ireland, and France – posing as Protestants – into the colonies. These were ‘plants’. They were holding secret Masses in defiance of the laws. In those days, no Roman Catholic was to hold any position in civil government. The JESUITS made sure this part of our history was erased and removed.

The next major move by the JESUITS was to destroy or control all the Christian schools across America. Throughout the years, JESUITS, working undercover, have gotten into special committees on school boards to remove the emphasis of the Bible and replace it with psychology as found in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius de Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Society. Later, [Ed.: Roman] Catholic schools and universities sprang up all across the nation under the JESUITS. Today, they probably outnumber all the Christian schools and colleges put together.

The third stage was to move into the courts and legislation…to take over as judges and lawyers in order to manipulate the Constitution in their favor until it could be changed. Once this was accomplished, the thrust was into politics to capture the political parties. Then [Ed.: the JESUITS moved on to] the military and the newspapers. Even back in the time of Lincoln over half the newspapers in the United States were controlled by the Vatican.” – Jack T. Chick (“Smokescreens”; 1983; Pages 75 and 76)

“[Ed.: American Secretary of the Navy R.W.] Thompson pinpointed exactly who would be the agents used by the monarchs of Europe to destroy the republic of America, namely, the JESUITS of [Ed.: Papal] Rome! Since 1815 there has been a continual assault on America by the JESUITS to try to destroy the constitutional rights of this great nation. [Ed.: Many constitutional rights were “set aside” by Supreme Court interpretations of the 14th Amendment of 1868, and these rights continue to be “set aside” under the guise of fighting the “war on terrorism”.]

The famous inventor of the Morse code, Samuel B. Morse, also wrote of this sinister [Ed.: JESUIT] plot against the United States.” – Bill Hughes (“The Secret Terrorists”; 2002; Page 7)

“The Russian emperor, Alexander [Ed.: i.e., Czar Alexander I], was currently compelled to issue a royal decree in 1816, by which he expelled them [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] from St. Petersburg and Moscow. This proving ineffectual, he issued another [Ed.: royal decree] in 1820, excluding them [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] entirely from the Russian dominions.” – R.W. Thompson (Ex-Secretary, American Navy; “The Footprints of the Jesuits”; Pages 245, 246)

“The Monroe Doctrine was America’s response to the JESUITS’ Congresses of Vienna [Ed.: in 1814-15] and Verona [Ed.: in 1822]. America would consider it an act of war if any European nation sought colonial expansion in the Western Hemisphere. The JESUITS have been able secretly to attack and infiltrate America to accomplish exactly what the Monroe Doctrine was stated to protect against. They [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] have been able to get away with it because it was done with utmost secrecy and under the façade of being a church.

…The Monroe Doctrine challenged any advance on America by Europe. However, [Ed.: U.S. President James] Monroe did not really understand that the crafty JESUITS would not initially use the force of arms to gain their objectives. They [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] would use cunning, craftiness, and utmost secrecy. They would appeal to men’s basest points. They would plant their agents in positions of wealth and power [Ed.: such as in the courts, the U.S. Congress, and U.S. Intelligence agencies] and then use their influence to gain their great prize – the subversion and destruction of every Protestant principle as outlined in the Constitution of the United States.” – Bill Hughes (“The Secret Terrorists”; 2002; Pages 16, 17)

“By 1815, the JESUITS [Ed.: through their agents, the Rothschilds] had complete control over England. If a leader did not do as he was told, money would be used to kill, smear [Ed.: character assassination is a favorite tactic of the JESUITS], destroy, blackmail, or just drive from office. …What was done in England is being done in many countries today.” – Bill Hughes (“The Enemy Unmasked”; 1st Edition, 2004; Page 37)

“During this Congress [Ed.: of Verona, Italy in 1822], it was decided that America would be the target of JESUIT emissaries and that America was to be destroyed at all costs. Every principle of the [Ed.: U.S.] Constitution was to be dissolved and new JESUITICAL principles were to be put into place in order to exalt the Papacy to dominion in America.” – Bill Hughes (“The Secret Terrorists”; 2002; Page 14)

“In 1828 an organization in Vienna [Ed.: Austria] was formed which was called the ‘Saint Leopold Foundation’. The plan was then, to operate under the mask of religion, which would insure its safety from any governmental interference and they [Ed.: i.e., the Divine Righters – the despotic European monarchs who, guided by the JESUITS, had formed the Holy Alliance in 1815 at the end of the Congress of Vienna] hoped to accomplish by intrigue and innuendo what could not be done by bullets and bayonets.

The Hapsburg family of Austria was the most powerful Roman Catholic ruling family in Europe and consequently the most cruel, despotic and reactionary, and had the American people not been so absorbed in the upbuilding of the Republic, they would have detected the hypocrisy of this ‘holy’ fraud – the Saint Leopold Foundation. [Ed.: The Knights of Columbus and other Roman Catholic organizations in the USA are the successors, beneficiaries, and offspring of the Saint Leopold Foundation.]

One of the Hapsburg brothers, Prince Rudolph, was a member of the Roman Curia, the Cardinal Rudolph Hapsburg of Olmutz. It was easy for the JESUITS of the Vatican to operate through him as the agent for the [Ed.: Saint Leopold] foundation funds which poured into the United States in a stream of gold. Nor did the Vatican furnish all the funds. They were most likely furnished by the ‘high contracting parties’ of the Holy Alliance [Ed.: in accordance with the provisions of] the ‘secret treaty of Verona’ [Ed.: Italy, in 1822]. In short, the immense sums [Ed.: of money] distributed among the bishops and archbishops of the [Ed.: Roman] Catholic Church in this country in establishing bishoprics in cities where none existed, were used solely as gigantic POLITICAL SLUSH FUNDS [Ed.: emphasis is in the original] to corrupt and ultimately destroy the government and ‘set up a monarchial’ one instead [Ed.: i.e., in its place].

One year after the Saint Leopold Foundation had been established, it received the recognition and blessing of the pope.

…[Ed.: Foreign immigrants from Roman] Catholic Europe, especially from Ireland, then began pouring into this country from every nook and cranny of that poverty-stricken continent; in many cases, their passages [Ed.: across the Atlantic Ocean] being advanced from this ‘slush fund’. The Roman [Ed.: Catholic] bishops of every large city from New York to San Francisco then began massing the foreign [Ed.: immigrants’] vote.

…The massed Roman [Ed.: Catholic] vote in the cities placed the balance of political power in the hands of the Roman [Ed.: Catholic] bishops and priests. Intimidation has always been the ‘big stick’ when any man in public office presumed to oppose the advance of these ecclesiastical ‘bosses’. With the rapidly increased foreign immigration, these agents of the [Ed.: JESUIT-controlled] Divine Righters of Europe (operating through the JESUITS and their lay agents) have made progress beyond their wildest dreams. City councils, state legislatures, and even Congress have been browbeaten and bribed.

…The Saint Leopold Foundation is a great JESUIT Spy System which is not confined to the ecclesiastics of the Roman [Ed.: Catholic] Church, but embraces every element of society… Nor, indeed, is it restricted to Roman Catholics, for the JESUITS do not hesitate to use non-Catholic tools whenever it is possible. In fact, they [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] prefer them [Ed.: i.e., non-Catholics], for in this way attention is distracted from them. In case of failure it is always preferable to use non-Catholics. [Ed.: The JESUITS often use “Protestant” Freemasons, papal “court Jews”, and various JESUIT front groups, such as the Illuminati, to carry out the JESUITS’ sinister and nefarious operations – thus shifting the blame onto others for their own nasty deeds!]

The priest of every parish in this country is the kingpin in this web of spying, and reports regularly to his bishop every item of interest – directly or indirectly; and in turn, the bishop to his archbishop, the archbishop to the cardinal, and the cardinal to the pope. The confessional box is the Roman [Ed.: Catholic] clearinghouse, whereby the Pope keeps his finger on the pulse of the world.

…The Leopoldines are honeycombed in every avenue of civic, state and national life. There are, to begin with, the police departments of the various cities, ninety percent of whom I may, I think, conservatively say, are Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. They are always at the beck and call of the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] hierarchy. Their chief duty as ‘Catholic citizens’ is to obey their bishops and the Holy See [Ed.: i.e., the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church-State] ‘as God himself’. [Ed.: Sadly, many Roman Catholic Americans, especially those in orders that have “secret” oaths, give their primary loyalty to the Roman Catholic Church- State. In other words, their loyalty to despotic, JESUIT-controlled Papal Rome takes priority over their loyalty to the U.S. Constitution or any State constitution.]

Then there are their JESUIT college graduates in every state, who are especially trained as expert spies.

…The principal branches of the Leopoldines [Ed.: remember that Burke McCarty’s book was published first in 1924], still operating in this country under various titles, are: The German Catholic Central Verein, with headquarters in St. Louis and Detroit; The Third Order of St. Francis…; The Catholic Laymen’s Council; the League of the Sacred Heart, and the Catholic Women’s Council. These organizations are all branches of the Leopoldines’ Spy System.

…This great Spy System penetrates every avenue of social life. The field of journalism has been invaded until a Roman Catholic sits at many important editorial desks of great newspapers, from coast to coast. [Ed.: 20th century examples of media control by Papal Rome are: William Randolph Hearst and Henry Robinson Luce – both of whom, according to author and researcher Eric Jon Phelps, were JESUIT-controlled Knights of Malta.] They fill the reportorial staffs and other departments in the front offices – and it goes without saying that the presses, composing rooms and other mechanical departments are dominated by them.

These [Ed.: Leopoldine] Spies are members of all the important commissions, public works, school boards, library boards, housing commissions, naturalization departments, and are even active members of ‘Americanization’ Committees.

…On every textbook committee selected to pass on books to be used in our public schools, sits a Roman [Ed.: Catholic] priest, or his personal representative. He is there for the purpose of seeing to it that every truth derogatory to the Roman Catholic Church is eliminated and every thing that will in any way reflect credit upon that institution is incorporated. This explains why it is that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has been carefully suppressed so that the extent of the knowledge about this greatest of all tragedies of the history of our country does not exceed these words: ‘President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre, April 14th, 1865, by an actor named John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson was immediately sworn into office.’” – Burke McCarty (“The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”; first published in 1924; Pages 74-79 of the 1999 Larry Harrison Edition)

“Let us examine the operations of this Austrian Society [the St. Leopold Foundation], for it is hard at work all around us, yes, here in this country [Ed.: i.e., the USA]… With its headquarters in Vienna [Ed.: Austria], under the immediate direction and inspection of [Ed.: Austrian Prince] Metternich, …it makes itself already felt through the [Ed.: American] Republic. Its emissaries are here. And who are these emissaries? They are JESUITS. This [Ed.: Roman Catholic] society of men, after exerting their tyranny for upwards of two hundred years, at length became so formidable to the world, threatening the entire subversion to all social order, that even the Pope [Ed.: i.e., Clement XIV], whose devoted subjects they [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] are, and must be, by the vow of their society, was compelled to dissolve them [Ed.: in 1773].

They had not been suppressed, however, for fifty years, before the waning influence of Popery and Despotism required their useful labors to resist the light of Democratic liberty, and the Pope (Pius VII) simultaneously with the formation of the Holy Alliance [Ed.: in Europe], revived the order of the JESUITS in all their power. [Ed.: Pope Pius VII restored the Jesuit Order in 1814 in exchange for his release from prison.]

And do Americans need to be told what JESUITS are? If any are ignorant, let them inform themselves of their history without delay; no time is to be lost; their workings are before you in every day’s events; they are a secret society, a sort of Masonic order with super added features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous. They are not merely priests, or priests of one religious creed; they are merchants, and lawyers, and editors, and men of any profession, having no outward badge (in this country [Ed.: i.e., the USA]) by which to be recognized; they are about in all your society. They can assume any character, that of angels of light, or ministers of darkness, to accomplish their one great end, the service upon which they are sent, whatever that service may be.

They [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] are educated men, prepared, and sworn to start at any moment, and in any direction, and for any service, commanded by the general of their order [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT Superior General, the “Black Pope”], bound to no family, community, or country, by the ordinary ties which bind men; and sold for life to the cause of the Roman Pontiff.” – Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872; American inventor of the telegraph; author of the book “Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States”)

“[Ed.: U.S. President] James Buchanan was poisoned [Ed.: on February 23, 1857] and almost died. He lived because he knew that he had been given arsenic poisoning and so informed his doctors. He knew that the JESUITS [Ed.: had] poisoned [Ed.: U.S. Presidents] Harrison and Taylor [Ed.: with arsenic]. The JESUIT ORDER fulfilled their oath again that they would poison, kill, or do whatever was necessary to remove those who opposed their plans. [Ed.: U.S. President Buchanan had temporarily thwarted JESUIT plans to split the Union when he refused to attack those southern states that had expressed a desire to leave the Union.] From 1841 to 1857, we saw that three [Ed.: U.S.] Presidents were attacked by the JESUITS as outlined in the Congresses of Vienna, Verona, and Chieri. Two died and one barely escaped [Ed.: death]. They [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS] allow nothing to stand in their way of total domination of America, and the destruction of the [Ed.: U.S.] Constitution.” – Bill Hughes (“The Secret Terrorists”; 2002; p 39)

“…The JESUITS have not yet killed me [Ed.: i.e., President Abraham Lincoln]. But they would have surely done it when I passed through their most devoted city, Baltimore [Ed.: Maryland, in February of 1861], had I not defeated their plans, by passing incognito a few hours before they expected me…

The Pope and the JESUITS, with their infernal Inquisition, are the only organized powers in the world which have recourse to the dagger of the assassin to murder those whom they cannot convince with their arguments or conquer with the sword…

New projects of assassination are detected almost every day, accompanied with such savage circumstances, that they bring to my memory the massacre of St. Bartholomew [Ed.: i.e., the slaughter of French Protestant Huguenots in August of 1572] and the Gunpowder Plot [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT conspiracy to murder King James I of England and members of Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder in 1605]. Our investigation [Ed.: i.e., of the assassination plots made against President Abraham Lincoln] indicate that they come from the same masters in the act of murder, the JESUITS…

So many plots have already been made against my life, that it is a real miracle that they have all failed, when we consider that the great majority of them were in the hands of skillful Roman Catholic murderers, evidently trained by JESUITS. …The JESUITS are so expert in those deeds of blood, that Henry IV [Ed.: King of France, who was assassinated by the JESUITS on May 14, 1610] said that it was impossible to escape them, and he became their victim, though he did all that could be done to protect himself. My escape from their [Ed.: i.e., the JESUITS’] hands, since the letter of the pope [Ed.: i.e., Pope Pius IX] to [Ed.: Confederate States of America President] Jeff Davis has sharpened a million of daggers to pierce my breast, would be more than a miracle.” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th President of the United States; as told to his friend Charles Chiniquy; Pages 292, 294, 299, and 302 of the 1985 Chick Publications’ Edition of Chiniquy’s book “50 Years in the ‘Church’ of Rome”)

“The awakening of the president [Ed.: i.e., Lincoln] and the North [Ed.: i.e., the Union] came on the morning of April 12, 1861 with the firing on Fort Sumter [Ed.: in South Carolina]. [Ed.: Confederate States Army Brigadier] General Beauregard [Ed.: 1818-1893], JESUIT leader of the military operations, sent this opening shot of the rebellion. Beauregard was a professed Romanist and sprung from a distinguished family of JESUITS.” – C.T. Wilcox (“The Transformation of the Republic: The Origins of the Religious Hi-Jacking of the American Government and the Truth Behind the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”; 2005; Page 150)

“The [Ed.: American] Civil War [Ed.: of 1861-65] was not a ‘homespun’ affair. It was the result of the same upheavals that have changed the face of Europe. The promises and active help of the European empires and the Church of Rome along with the JESUIT ORDER had stiffened the resolve and attitude of the Southern leaders, some of whom were quite willing to see the monarchic principle triumph in North America.” – C.T. Wilcox (“The Transformation of the Republic”; 2005; Page 8)

“This [Ed.: American Civil] war [Ed.: of 1861-65] would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the JESUITS. We owe it to popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons. Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and the North on the question of slavery, neither Jeff Davis [Ed.: President of the Confederate States of America] nor anyone of the leading men of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North, had they not relied on the promises of the JESUITS, that under the mask of Democracy, the money and arms of the Roman Catholic, even the arms of France, were at their disposal if they would attack us. I pity the priests, the bishops and monks of [Ed.: Papal] Rome in the United States, when the people realize that they are, in great part, responsible for the tears and the blood shed in this war. I conceal what I know on that subject from the knowledge of the nation, for if the people knew the whole truth, this war would turn into a religious war, and it would at once take a tenfold more savage and bloody character. It would become merciless as all religious wars are. It would become a war of extermination on both sides. The Protestants of both the North and the South would surely unite to exterminate the priests and the JESUITS, if they could hear what Professor [Ed.: Samuel F.B.] Morse [Ed.: U.S. inventor of the telegraph] has said to me of the plots made in the very city of Rome [Ed.: by the Papacy and the Jesuits] to destroy this Republic, and if they could learn how the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] priests, the nuns, and the monks, which daily land on our shores, under the pretext of preaching their religion, instructing the people in their schools, taking care of the sick in the hospitals, are nothing else but the emissaries of the Pope, of Napoleon, and the other despots of Europe, to undermine our institutions, alienate the hearts of our people from our Constitution, and our laws, destroy our schools, and prepare a reign of anarchy here [Ed.: in the USA] as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, in Spain, and wherever there are any people who want to be free.” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th President of the United States; as told to his friend Charles Chiniquy; from pages 296 and 297 of the 1985 Chick Publications’ Edition of Chiniquy’s book “50 Years in the ‘Church’ of Rome”)

“The JESUITS, with their ‘Holy Alliance’ of [Ed.: European] despots, conspired to overthrow Protestant republicanism, especially the Federal Government of these United States of America. For our government had been established upon the principles of the Bible of the English Reformation, the Authorized King James Version of 1611. Those principles were embodied in the Protestant documents known as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of rights. Therefore, pursuant to the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Council of Trent [Ed.: of 1545-1563] and JESUIT Oath, this ‘heretic nation’ was to be overthrown…

…The method [Ed.: for overthrowing the American Constitutional Republic] was threefold. First…America must be invaded by foreign immigrants, Irish Roman Catholics especially; secondly, civil war must be incited resulting in the annihilation of the White Protestant and Baptist Southern culture; and lastly, the Protestant Constitution must be modified resulting in the centralization of power in Washington, D.C.

…Such was the plan. The following is how it was accomplished. The JESUITS, using Scottish Rite Freemasonry, first divided the country into geographical sections, North and South, with the Missouri Compromise. The Freemason used to that end was the centralist, Henry Clay. The JESUITS then brought in thousands of Irish Roman Catholics and settled them predominantly in Northern cities. In the 1820s British Secret Service agents under JESUIT control then fomented ‘the anti-slavery agitation’… Then a new political party, consisting of the centralizing, old Federalists, was created in the North called ‘the Republican Party’. The JESUITS used it to intensify the anti-slavery agitation with the Lincoln-Douglas debates. …Meanwhile, the JESUITS with their Freemasonry created the radical secessionists in the South. They would hotly promote the withdrawing of the Southern States from the Union. Two Freemasons who were radical secessionists were John C. Calhoun and Robert Toombs.

…The JESUITS, in control of the ‘Radical Red Republican Party’ insured the election of [Ed.: Abraham] Lincoln by disrupting the Democratic convention in Charleston with their Masonic tools, Stephen Douglas in particular…

…The JESUIT ORDER…had used the high Freemasons of America to cut the nation in half, cause hatred and discord between the Northern and Southern peoples using ‘the anti-slavery agitation’, and then ignited a war of annihilation against the Protestant peoples of the South pursuant to the evil Council of Trent!

…The purpose [Ed.: of inciting the American Civil War of 1861-65] was to destroy the primarily Protestant States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia while only lightly afflicting the primarily Roman Catholic States of Louisiana and Florida. …Hundreds of thousands of foreign mercenaries were hired [Ed.: by the North] ‘to extirpate the White Southern heretics from the face of the whole earth’. In addition to eleven thousand Germans, the JESUITS used hundreds of thousands of their most devoted Irish Roman Catholics to ransack the South just as they had done in Germany during the ghastly and nightmarish Thirty Years’ War [Ed.: in Europe, 1618-48]. [Ed.: Thousands of Irish Roman Catholic troops deserted from the Union Army after the publication of Pope Pius IX’s letter of support to Jefferson Davis in 1863.]

…The JESUITS would control both sides of the conflict [Ed.: i.e., the American Civil War of 1861- 65] as they did during the Napoleonic Wars. They controlled the radicals in the North, particularly Thaddeus Stevens in the House, Charles Sumner in the Senate and Freemason Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War. They also controlled the leadership in the South, particularly [Ed.: Confederate President] Jefferson Davis and Judah Benjamin, the Secretary of War.” – Eric Jon Phelps (“Vatican Assassins”; 1st Edition, 2001; Pages 304-309)

“…The death [Ed.: i.e., the assassination] of Abraham Lincoln…was instigated by the ‘Black’ pope, the [Ed.: Superior] General of the JESUIT ORDER – camouflaged by the ‘White’ pope, Pius IX [Ed.: pope: 1846-78] – aided, abetted and financed by other ‘Divine Righters’ of Europe – and finally consummated by the Roman [Ed.: Catholic] Hierarchy and their paid agents in this country [Ed.: i.e., the USA] and French Canada on ‘Good Friday’ night, April 14, 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C.

…In closing, I [Ed.: i.e., Burke McCarty, author of the book “The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”] will leave it to my reader to decide whether I have proven my contention in the beginning of this book that the assassination of [Ed.: President] Abraham Lincoln [Ed.: in 1865] and four other [Ed.: U.S.] Presidents is but a part of the great conspiracy which was outlined in the secret Treaty of Verona [Ed.: in Italy in 1822] to destroy this, the most formidable Republic. [Ed.: And, that I, Burke McCarty, have proven]:

[1.] That the execution of this conspiracy in Lincoln’s case was delegated by the Pope of Rome to the JESUITS, aided and abetted by the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] priests of Canada and Washington, D.C., in the United States, and by their lay agents, the Leopoldines.

[2.] That instead of the use of bullets and bayonets, their method has been, and is still, to destroy from within by the subversion of all of the free institutions upon which this Republic is based.

[3.] That the [Ed.: JESUIT-controlled] Church of Rome has established a separate citizenship to promote its teachings and [Ed.: has done so] by its enormous wealth, a large proportion of which has been obtained by unconstitutional and illegal appropriations from public funds; that with this wealth (over two and a half billion dollars worth of church and other religious property, for the most part exempt from taxation) it has by a system of intimidation and bribery corrupted our free press and is in control of every avenue of publicity, so that the American people remain in almost total ignorance of its pernicious activities, which, if not curtailed, will succeed in accomplishing its object in these United States.” – Burke McCarty (“The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”; 1924; Pages 57, 260, and 261 of the 1999 Larry Harrison Edition)

“But if anyone has still any doubts about of the complicity of the JESUITS in the murder of Abraham Lincoln [Ed.: in 1865], let him look at the very elaborate plan of escape prepared by the priests of Rome to save the lives of the assassins and the conspirators.” – Charles Chiniquy (1809-1899; Ex- Roman Catholic priest; this quote was taken from page 313 of the 1985 Chick Publications’ Edition of Chiniquy’s book “50 Years in the ‘Church’ of Rome”)

“The JESUITS killed [Ed.: U.S. President Abraham] Lincoln [Ed.: on April 14th, 1865] and buried the evidence.

…There is not in the large collection of official condolences received by the United States Government upon the death of Abraham Lincoln, coming from every civilized country in the world, one word from the Pope of Rome. And this in view of the fact that the Pope was King of the Papal States and had more subjects in the United States than any other ruler in Europe.

[Ed.: Pope] Pius IX by his silence at this time, made a confession of his guilt in letters of fire – unquenchable fire – which brands him and his JESUITS with the brand of Cain in the hearts and minds of the American people, when they shall have been given a full knowledge of their (the JESUITS’) responsibility in the conspiracy of destruction of this popular government on that Good Friday night in Ford’s Theater, April 14, 1865 [Ed.: where President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth].” – C.T. Wilcox (“The Transformation of the Republic: The Origins of the Religious Hi-Jacking of the American Government and the Truth Behind the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”; 2005; pp 12 and 250)

“It would seem that the JESUITS had had it in mind, from the beginning of the war [Ed.: i.e., the American Civil War of 1861-1865], to find an occasion for the taking off [Ed.: i.e., the assassination] of Mr. Lincoln.

…These facts, as developed on the trial of the conspirators before a military commission, and on the trial of [Ed.: arch conspirator] John H. Surratt two years later [Ed.: in 1867], before a civil court…show conclusively the hand of [Ed.: Papal] Rome [Ed.: and especially the JESUIT ORDER] in this stab at our nation’s life [Ed.: i.e., the attempt to decapitate the leadership of the USA on April 14th, 1865, when Lincoln was mortally wounded].” – U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris; “Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”; 1897; Pages 41, 19)

“[Ed.: Courageous Mexican President Benito Pablo Juarez] was the most dreaded enemy of the Society of Jesus [Ed. i.e., the JESUIT ORDER] while hating the Temporal Power of the Papal Caesar [Ed.: i.e., the pope] in Rome. He…expelled 200 JESUIT priests [Ed.: from Mexico]. …In 1872 he died at his desk, a victim of ‘the poison cup’.” – Eric Jon Phelps (“Vatican Assassins”; 1st Edition, 2001; Page 319)

“Alexander [Ed.: i.e., Czar Alexander II of Russia] had progressed well with his great reforms and had attached his signature to a Constitution to be adopted by Russia. The next day [Ed.: i.e., March 13th, 1881] a bomb was thrown at his carriage, which killed and wounded a number of Cossacks, who accompanied the carriage. The Emperor in deep sympathy left the carriage to look at the dying men, when a second bomb blew him to pieces.” – Arno Gaebelien (“Conflict of the Ages”; Publisher: The Exhorters; Page 85) [Ed.: Czar Alexander II had greatly offended the JESUITS and Papal Rome by supporting the Union during the American Civil War. He had sent part of the Russian fleet to U.S. shores, and had placed those ships under the direct command of President Abraham Lincoln.]

“Although first published in Russia in 1903, ‘The Protocols of Zion’ had their origin in France, and date from the Dreyfus Affair, of which the JESUITS were the chief instigators. …These ‘Protocols’ of supposedly Jewish leaders are not the first documents of their kind fabricated by the JESUITS.” – Leo H. Lehmann (“Behind the Dictators”; 1942; Page 15)

“The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its JESUITS in the starting of two world wars…” – Edmond Paris (“The Secret History of the Jesuits”; 1975 Chick Publications’ Edition; Page 9)

“After the JESUITS had launched the Bolshevik Revolution and concluded the bloody [Ed.: Russian] Civil War in 1922, that same year a ‘Relief Mission’, led by American JESUITS, was sent into the U.S.S.R. by order of JESUIT General Ledochowski. [Ed.: Edmund] Walsh, the Jesuit who founded the School of Foreign Service at [Ed.: JESUIT] Georgetown University, and led the mission as an expert on the internal affairs of the Soviet Union, appointed JESUIT-trained Joseph Stalin as the Secretary of the Communist Party.

During the 1930s, while [Ed.: JESUIT-trained] Freemason Stalin was outraging the world with his Purges murdering millions of his own countrymen, the [Ed.: JESUIT] Order pretended to be the foe of the very communism it had created and perfected on its Reductions in Paraguay [Ed.: in the 17th and 18th centuries]. The Society of Jesus [Ed.: i.e., the JESUIT ORDER] launched the illusion of its ‘worldwide systematic warfare against the common enemy of Christianity and civilization’, all the while financing it through its Papal Knights on Wall Street manning the Federal Reserve Bank and the Chase Manhattan Bank.

After the [Ed.: JESUITS’] Second Thirty Years’ War [Ed.: Phelps is referring to World War I and World War II], Francis Cardinal Spellman would continue to campaign against ‘godless Jew communism’ throughout the Black Pope’s Cold War during which the Inquisition’s International Intelligence Community was perfected and subordinated to the Papal Caesar [Ed.: i.e., the pope] in Rome.” – Eric Jon Phelps (“Vatican Assassins”; 1st Edition, 2001; Page 393)

“…By a ‘providential’ synchronism, when [Ed.: Italian dictator Benito] Mussolini seized power in Italy thanks to don Sturzo, [Ed.: who was a] JESUIT and chief of the Catholic party, [Ed.: then it was at that same time that] Monseigneur Seipel, a JESUIT, became chancellor of Austria. He held that position until 1929, with an interregnum of two years, and, during those decisive years, he led the Austrian interior politics on to the reactionary and clerical road; his successors followed him on that road which led to the absorption of that country into the German block. The bloody repression of working-class uprisings earned him [Ed.: i.e., JESUIT Seipel] the nickname ‘Keine Milde Kardinal’ – the ‘Cardinal without mercy’.” – Edmond Paris (“The Secret History of the Jesuits”; 1975 Chick Publications’ Edition; Page 139)

“In the early days of May (1936), [Ed.: German Knight of Malta Franz] von Papen entered into secret negotiations with Dr. Schussnigg (Austrian Chancellor) working on his weak point [Ed.: i.e., he was a devout Roman Catholic] and showed him how advantageous a reconciliation with [Ed.: Nazi leader Adolf] Hitler would be as far as the Vatican’s interests were concerned; the argument may seem odd, but Schussnigg was very devout, and von Papen was the pope’s chamberlain [Ed.: i.e., a high official in certain royal courts].

Not surprisingly, it was the [Ed.: pope’s] secret chamberlain [Ed.: in Germany – i.e., Knight of Malta Franz von Papen] who led the whole affair, which ended, on the 11th of March 1938, with the resignation of the pious Schussnigg (pupil of the JESUITS), in favor of Seyss-Inquart, chief of the Austrian Nazis. The following day [Ed.: March 12, 1938], the German troops entered Austria and the puppet government of Seyss-Inquart proclaimed the union of the country to the [Ed.: Nazi German Third] Reich. The event was welcomed by an enthusiastic declaration of Vienna’s archbishop, Cardinal Innitzer (a JESUIT).” – Edmond Paris (“The Secret History of the Jesuits”; 1975 Chick Publications’ Edition; Page 139)

“The JESUITS…installed puppet dictators throughout Europe [Ed.: in the decade prior to, and during, World War II (1939-45)]. They were:

[1.] Bavarian Germany and the Third Reich – [Ed.: Adolf] Hitler [Ed.: born-died: 1889-1945] [Ed.: Hitler was put into power by JESUIT-controlled German Knight of Malta Franz von Papen and other influential German Roman Catholics, such as Monsignor Ludwig Kaas, a leader of the German Roman Catholic Center Party.]

[2.] Italy – [Ed.: Benito] Mussolini [Ed.: born-died: 1883-1945] [Ed.: JESUIT Don Luigi Sturzo, chief of the Catholic Party in Italy, helped bring Mussolini to power.]

[3.] ‘Vichy’ France – [Ed.: Henri Philippe] Petain [Ed.: born-died: 1856-1951]

[4.] Spain – [Ed.: Francisco] Franco [Ed.: born-died: 1892-1975]

[5.] Austria – [Ed.: JESUIT-trained Arthur] Seyss-Inquart

[6.] Poland – [Ed.: Hans] Frank

[7.] Slovakia – [Ed.: JESUIT] Priest [Ed.: Monsignor Jozef] Tiso [Ed.: who was first to send Jews to Auschwitz]

[8.] Croatia – [Ed.: Ante] Pavelitch [Ed.: alternate spelling: Pavelic] [Ed.: and]

[9.] Belgium – [Ed.: JESUIT-trained Leon] Degrelle.

All these Roman Catholic, JESUIT-controlled, Jew-hating dictators were loyal to the greatest war criminal of all, Papal Caesar [Ed.: i.e., Pope] Pius XII and his master, JESUIT [Ed.: Superior] General Wlodimir Ledochowski.” – Eric Jon Phelps (“Vatican Assassins”; 1st Edition, 2001; Page 478)

“The German author Walter Hagen gives also this discreet information: ‘The JESUITS’ [Ed.: Superior] General, Count Halke von Ledochowski, was ready to organize, on the common basis of anticommunism, some collaboration between the German Secret Service and the JESUIT ORDER.’

As a result, within the SS Central Security Service, an organization was created, and most of its main posts were held by [Ed.: Roman] Catholic priests wearing the black uniform of the [Ed.: Nazi] SS.

The JESUIT ‘father’ Himmler [Ed.: i.e., the uncle of Heinrich Himmler] was one of its superior officers.” – Edmond Paris (“The Secret History of the Jesuits”; 1975 Chick Publications’ Edition; Page 168)

“…Kurt Heinrich Himmler [Ed.: was] chief of the Gestapo [Ed.: i.e., the secret police force of the German Nazi state], which meant he held in his hand the essential reins of power of the [Ed.: Nazi] regime. Was it his personal merits which earned him such a high position? Did Hitler see in him a superior genius when he compared him [Ed.: i.e., Heinrich Himmler] to the creator of the JESUIT ORDER [Ed.: i.e., Ignatius of Loyola]? It is certainly not what the testimonies of those who knew him imply, as they saw in him nothing more than mediocrity.

Was that ‘star’ [Ed.: of Heinrich Himmler] shining with a borrowed ‘brightness’? Was it really Kurt Heinrich Himmler, the ostensible [Ed.: i.e., apparent] chief, who actually reigned over the Gestapo and the secret services? Who was sending millions of people, deported for political reasons, and Jews to their death? Was it the flat-faced nephew or [Ed: was it] the [Ed.: Jesuit priest] uncle, the former Canon at the Court of Bavaria, one of [Ed.: Jesuit General] Ledochowski’s favorites, a Jesuit ‘father’ and superior officer of the [Ed.: Nazi] SS?” – Edmond Paris (“The Secret History of the Jesuits”; 1975 Chick Publications’ Edition; Page 168)

“The [Ed.: Nazi] SS had been organized by [Ed.: Heinrich] Himmler according to the principles of the JESUIT ORDER. The rules of service and spiritual exercises prescribed by Ignatius de Loyola [Ed: i.e., the founder of the JESUIT ORDER] constituted a model which Himmler strove carefully to copy. Absolute obedience was the supreme rule; every order had to be executed without comment.” – Walter Shellenberg (Chief of the Nazi Sicherheitdienst [SD]) [Ed.: Blind obedience to orders is a maxim of the Jesuit Order.]

“…[Ed.: Roman] Catholic priest, Fr. Jozef Tiso [Ed.: a JESUIT monsignor], ruler of Slovakia’s Nazi puppet regime of 1939-45…sent that tiny country’s Jewish population of 70,000 to the extermination camps in [Ed.: German-occupied] Poland.” – Dave Hunt (“A Cup of Trembling”; Harvest House Publishers; 1995; Page 191)

“Once [Ed.: Croatian Roman Catholic dictator Ante] Pavelic took power, [Ed.: JESUIT] Archbishop [Ed.: Aloysius] Stepinac issued a Pastoral Letter ordering the Croatian clergy to support the new Ustasha State. The involvement of [Ed.: Roman] Catholic clergy either in active participation or in blessing the Ustashi-run holocaust [Ed.: of 1941-45] is well documented. One Franciscan monk, Miroslav Filipovic, headed the Jasenovac concentration camp for two years, during which time he directed the extermination of no less than 100,000 victims, mostly Serbian Orthodox. [Ed.: JESUIT] Archbishop Stepinac headed the committee which was responsible for forcible ‘conversions’ to Roman Catholicism under threat of death – and was also the Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the Ustashi Army, which effected the slaughter of those who failed to convert [Ed.: to Roman Catholicism]. [Ed.: JESUIT Archbishop Aloysius] Stepinac was known as the ‘father-confessor’ to the Ustashi, and continually bestowed the blessing of Holy Mother Church [Ed.: i.e., the Roman Catholic Church-State] upon its members and actions.” – Dave Hunt (“A Woman Rides the Beast”; Harvest House Publishers; 1994; Page 302)

“Two JESUIT prelates, Aloysius Stepinac and Ivan Saric, respectively the archbishops of Zagreb and Sarajevo, planned, choreographed, and orchestrated the mass murder of up to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians in the Roman Catholic Fascist State of Croatia from 1941 through 1945. Roman Catholic Ustashi killer units, often led and urged on by Franciscan priests, monks, and friars, brutally tortured many of their victims prior to murdering them. This religious genocide was one of most barbaric examples of mass murder seen in the 20th century.” – Darryl Eberhart (Editor of ETI & TTT Newsletters; January 18, 2010)

“Avro Manhattan was a world-renowned authority on the Roman Catholic Church and the almost total control they have of politics throughout the world. He was a writer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He has laid the blame for the Vietnam War [Ed.: c. 1957-75] directly at the feet of the JESUITS and the papacy.” – Bill Hughes (“The Enemy Unmasked”; 1st Edition, 2004; Page 94)

Continued in Quotations about the Jesuits

All sections of The Jesuit Order – The Society of Jesus – By Darryl Eberhart

Foreword by the webmaster

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TACKLING the TOUGH TOPICS (TTT) FACING AMERICANS TODAY!

“The Jesuit Order – The Society of Jesus” // Issue #81

(A Tale – and Trail – of Assassination, Brutality, Cunning, Deceit, Deception, Espionage, Expulsion, Genocide, Hatred, Inquisition, Mass Murder, Prevarication, Sedition, Subversion, Torture, Treason, and Wickedness)

By Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT Newsletters // Internet website: www.toughissues.org

PERMISSION IS GIVEN TO COPY. Originally published in a 27-page paper version: December 18, 2009 Updated and greatly expanded version: January 21, 2010

I. Introduction:

The Jesuit Order – a.k.a. the Society of Jesus, the Order of Jesus, the Sons of Loyola, and “the Company” (it was once called “the Company of Jesus”) – was founded in 1534 by Ignatius Loyola. It was officially recognized as a Roman Catholic religious order by Pope Paul III in 1540. Jesuits are famous as educators, and as “father-confessors” to emperors, kings (and their mistresses), queens, princes, princesses, high-ranking military officers, and many of the powerful and wealthy elite of the world. Jesuits are also infamous as seducers of women in the confessional, murderers of kings, makers of sedition, organizers of coup d’états, infiltrators of Protestant denominations, instigators of massacres, and fomenters of wars and revolutions. Numerous books have been written about the Jesuit Order. Some of these books contend that many of the men at the higher levels of the Jesuit Order have been – and are – very evil men! Let us carefully consider the following questions, which I hope to answer in the “conclusions” section of this newsletter:

1. Is the Jesuit Order – at its higher levels – the most evil organization that the world has seen over the past 4½+ centuries?

2. Why has the Jesuit Order been expelled from so many countries, including from many predominantly Roman Catholic countries, during its history?

3. Are the Jesuit Order and the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State responsible for fomenting many wars and revolutions, such as World War I and World War II?

4. Is the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State the greatest threat to civil and religious liberty that the world has ever seen?

5. Have agents of the Jesuit Order been responsible for assassinating numerous heads of State over the centuries?

6. Does the Jesuit Order, which controls the Roman Catholic Church-State, the Knights of Malta, the highest levels of the Knights of Columbus and of Opus Dei, and the highest levels of Freemasonry, etc., sit at the very top of the New World Order (N.W.O.) “pyramid”?

7. Does the Jesuit Order, through its control of various secret societies, such as high-level Freemasonry and the Knights of Malta, control the International Intelligence Community?

8. Does the Jesuit Order, through its control of the wealthy, powerful, and influential Knights of Malta – and other “agents” on the Jesuit payroll – control the International Banking Community?

Surely inquiring minds would like answers to the above questions. Please carefully read and consider the “definitions” found in the next section, and the numerous quotations dealing with the Jesuit Order that are found within this newsletter.

Important Note: The intention of this TTT issue is to expose many of the evil deeds carried out on the instructions of higher-level members of the Jesuit Order – including the General of the Order – and the resulting harm, mayhem, and death that the Jesuit Order’s actions and operations have brought to many peoples and nations. (The Jesuits have “justified” – or “excused” – these evil deeds with their “maxims” of “the end justifies the means” and “for the greater glory of God”!) The reader should keep in mind that lower-level Jesuits (especially those of the first three degrees) know little to nothing of the evil that goes on at the higher levels of the Jesuit Order. (The same can be said for most Roman Catholics, i.e., they know little to nothing of the evil that goes on at the higher levels of the Jesuit Order – or at the higher levels of the Papacy itself!) Unfortunately, these lower-level Jesuits – due to the blind obedience that they are required to give to all superiors in their order – are merely “tools” in the hands of their superiors; and these lower-level Jesuits often carry out various operations and activities for the sinister intermediate – and long-range – “goals” of the Jesuit Order – goals about which they know little to nothing!

II. Definitions:

NOTE: Please read the “definitions” in this section prior to reading the rest of this newsletter. I believe that these “definitions” should help most readers to better understand the many quotations used within this newsletter – and also to better understand some of the reasons why Jesuit agents and/or their hired “hit men” assassinate heads of State – and even some popes!

“Abbé” (Per Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition; Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2006): “A French title of respect, given to a priest, minister, etc.”

“Ad hominem” (Per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; William Collins + World Publishing Co., Inc.; 1974): “[Literally, to the man]: Appealing to one’s prejudices rather than to reason, as by attacking one’s opponent rather than debating the issue.”

“Ad hominem [attack]” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “An ‘ad hominem attack’ occurs when one attacks his opponent’s character, background, past sins or indiscretions, associations, intelligence, scholarship, etc., rather than honestly debating the topic or subject of discussion, writing, etc. This has frequently been the standard ‘tactic’ used by so-called ‘liberals’, ‘social engineers’, secret societies, cults, etc. – and by those attempting to defend the bloody history and/or the unscriptural, manmade doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church-State! It is the old ‘attack the MESSENGER’ rather than honestly debate the MESSAGE. Some folks call it ‘character assassination’. It is a favorite ‘tool’ and tactic of the Jesuit Order.

Roman Catholic apologists, including Jesuits, have great difficulties trying to debate any ‘opponent’ who has a good knowledge of both church history and the Holy Bible. Thus, their primary weapon of ‘debate’ must generally revert to an ‘ad hominem’ attack of their ‘opponent’.”

“Ad majorem Dei gloriam” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “‘Ad majorem Dei gloriam’ is a phrase in Latin (meaning ‘to [i.e., for] the greater glory of God’) that the Jesuits use to ‘justify’ – to excuse – any evil, sin, or crime (e.g., murder, treason, perjury, stealing, etc.) that they or their agents commit in order to advance the interests of the Jesuit Order and/or of the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State. Another phrase that the Jesuits use to ‘justify’ and excuse their evil, sins, and crimes is ‘the end justifies the means’.”

“Alexander I, Czar of Russia” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Alexander I was born in 1777, and was assassinated by the Jesuits (by means of the poison cup) in 1825. He was the czar of Russia from 1801 to 1825. Czar Alexander I expelled the Jesuit Order from all of Russia in 1820. (He had earlier expelled the Jesuits from Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1816.) For these ‘crimes’ against the Jesuits – and because Czar Alexander I had been tolerant of all religious sects in Russia – he was hated by the Jesuits. There was yet another reason why the Jesuits hated Czar Alexander I. Author E.H. Broadbent tells us that in 1812 Czar Alexander I had ‘encouraged the establishment of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Russia, giving it special privileges…’ Broadbent also tells us that Czar Alexander I had told visitors to St. Petersburg that he ‘had never seen a Bible until he was forty years of age, but when at that time he was directed to it he devoured it’. The Jesuits eventually succeeded in murdering this good Bible-believing Russian Czar who wanted to get God’s Holy Word (the Bible) – in the Russian language – into the hands of the Russian people!”

“Alexander II, Czar of Russia” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Alexander II was born in 1818, and was czar of Russia from 1855 to 1881. He was assassinated in 1881 by agents of the Jesuits, who threw hand-made bombs at him as he rode through St. Petersburg. His proclamation in 1861 had resulted in the emancipation of 23 million serfs. Because the Jesuits had fomented the Polish rebellion, Czar Alexander II revoked Papal Rome’s Concordat with Russia. He also twice broke diplomatic relations with the Papacy (in 1866 and in 1877).

Relatively few Americans are aware of the fact that Czar Alexander II helped to preserve the American Union at the time of the American Civil War of 1861-65. Because France and England were preparing to intervene militarily on the side of the South (the Confederate States of America), Czar Alexander II sent part of the Russian fleet to U.S. shores, placing those Russian naval vessels under the direct command of President Lincoln. In doing so, Czar Alexander II was sending a clear message to France and England that if they intervened militarily on the side of the Confederacy, then Russia would intervene militarily on the side of the North (the Union). Since the Papacy and the Jesuits supported the Confederacy, and since they wanted to divide the Union into two separate nations, they never forgave either President Lincoln or Czar Alexander II. Both of them were assassinated by agents of the Jesuit Order.”

“Black Pope” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The term ‘Black Pope’ is an Italian nickname for the Jesuit Superior General, the man who is the commander-in-chief of the ‘Society of Jesus’ (i.e., the Jesuit Order). He is the real power ‘behind the throne’ of the Papacy; and he is also the master of all these: his Jesuit Order, the Knights of Malta, the highest levels of the Knights of Columbus, the highest levels of Opus Dei, and the highest levels of Freemasonry – and of all the subgroups that he controls through these powerful and influential organizations. Two of the most powerful subgroups under the control of the ‘Black Pope’ are the International Intelligence Community and the International Banking Community.”

“Black Pope” (Per U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris, author of the book “Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”; 1897; Page 29): “The organization of the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Hierarchy is a complete military despotism, of which the Pope is the ostensible [Ed.: i.e., apparent; seeming] head; but of which, the Black Pope [Ed.: i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuits], is the real head. The Black Pope is the head of the order of the Jesuits, and is called a General [Ed.: more specifically, the Superior General]. He not only has command of his own order, but [Ed.: also] directs and controls the general policy of the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Church. He [Ed.: i.e., the Black Pope] is the power behind the throne, and is the real potential head of the Hierarchy. The whole machine is under the strictest rules of military discipline. The whole thought and will of this machine, to plan, propose and execute, is found in its head. There is no independence of thought, or of action, in its subordinate parts. Implicit and unquestioning obedience to the orders of superiors in authority, is the sworn duty of the priesthood of every grade…”

“Booth, John Wilkes” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “American actor John Wilkes Booth was born in 1838, and was shot to death in 1865. In 1860 Booth had been initiated into the Knights of the Golden Circle, a Jesuit ‘front group’. John Wilkes Booth, a convert to Roman Catholicism, had as his ‘spiritual director’ the Jesuit priest B.F. Wiget. Booth shot and mortally wounded President Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14th, 1865; however, he did not act alone. There were at least nine other [low-to-mid-level] conspirators, and most – if not all – of them were also members of the Jesuit-controlled Knights of the Golden Circle. A 12-man Military Commission [i.e., Court] tried eight of the conspirators in the Lincoln assassination, and sentenced four of them to be hanged by the neck until dead.”

“Boucher, Charles” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Charles Boucher was one of the Roman Catholic priests in Canada who helped Lincoln-assassination-arch conspirator John Harrison Surratt (a Jesuit trained Roman Catholic) to hide out in Canada until he could safely sail to England. Another Roman Catholic priest in Canada who helped Surratt was LaPierre.”

“Calumniator” (Per Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language): “One who slanders; one who falsely and knowingly accuses another of a crime or offense, or maliciously propagates false accusations or reports.”

“Calumny” (Per Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language): “Slander; false accusation of a crime or offense, knowingly or maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; false representation of facts reproachful to another, made by design, and with knowledge of its falsehood…)

Ed. comment to the preceding two definitions: A number of Jesuit writers simply love to use the word “calumny” to describe any truthful statement about the nefarious and sinister activities of the Jesuit Order – past or present, and the word “calumniator” to describe various persons telling the truth about the nefarious and sinister activities of the Jesuit Order – past or present.

“Casuistry” (Per Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language): “The science or doctrine of cases of conscience; the science of resolving cases of doubtful propriety, or of determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do, by rules or principles drawn from the scriptures, from the laws of society, or from equity and natural reason.”

Ed. comment to the preceding definition: The term “Jesuit casuistry” is found in books written about the Jesuit Order. When one reads writings of various Jesuit “doctors” and scholars concerning “cases of conscience”, the “resolving [of] cases of doubtful propriety”, and the “determining [of] the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do”, one notices that Jesuit “doctors” and scholars, in their “Jesuit casuistry”, provide so many “escape clauses” and “loopholes” in their writings that they are able to justify (i.e., to excuse) – and to permit – just about every sin and crime, to include murder, treason, perjury, stealing, etc. Many of the Jesuits’ opinions found in their writings on “casuistry” contradict the clear teachings of the Holy Bible!

“Clement XIII, Pope” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Carlo della Torre Rezzonico was born in 1693, and was assassinated in 1769. He was pope from 1758 to 1769. He was poisoned to death in 1769 by the Jesuits the night before his scheduled signing of a papal document that would have suppressed the Jesuit Order.”

“Clement XIV, Pope” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Lorenzo Ganganelli was born in 1705. He was pope from 1769 to 1774. He was poisoned to death in 1774 by the Jesuits as ‘payback’ for having signed a papal document in 1773 abolishing the Jesuit Order ‘forever’. He is reported to have stated before he died: ‘Alas, I knew they [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuits] would poison me; but I did not expect to die in so slow and cruel a manner.’”

“Concordat” (Per Dave Hunt, author of “A Woman Rides the Beast”; Harvest House Publishers; 1994; Page 521): “[Ed.: A concordat is] a treaty or agreement defining relationships and duties between the Vatican and secular governments. This is only possible because Vatican City, unlike any other city on earth, is recognized as a state on a par with secular nations and thus able to enter into politico-religious agreements and exchange ambassadors with them.”

“Confession” (Per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language; Meaning #3): “The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest; the disburdening of the conscience privately to a confessor; sometimes called auricular confession.”

“Confessional” (Per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): “The seat where a priest or confessor sits to hear confessions; a confession-chair.” [Ed.: Author and former Roman Catholic priest Charles Chiniquy at times referred to the “confessional” as the “confessional-box”. A more modern term would be the “confessional booth”.]

“Confessor” (Per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language; Meaning #3): “A priest; one who hears the confessions of others, and has power to grant them absolution.”

Ed. comments to the preceding definition:

(1) The Jesuit Order made sure that Jesuit priests became the “father-confessors” to emperors, kings, the mistresses of emperors and kings, queens, princes, princesses, revolutionary leaders, top military generals, and the rest of the “higher levels of society”. (The “confessional” is no doubt the greatest intelligence-gathering system ever devised by man! The “confessional” is also a great system for controlling and directing people of power and influence!)

(2) James Aitken Wylie, in his book “The Jesuits: Their Moral Maxims and Plots”, tells us: “The Jesuits are famous as confessors. The reason is obvious. The confessional is a ‘window’ through which to explore the secrets of families and neighborhoods. It [Ed.: the confessional] will be diligently worked in Scotland, and the whole land searched out by the quiet probing of its far-reaching antennae. These strangers [Ed.: i.e., Wylie is referring to the Jesuit priests who were coming to Scotland] will soon know better than ourselves the social and moneyed condition of our aristocratic families, the estates that may be secured on advantageous terms; the rich widows and dowried young ladies, whose persons they [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuits] may deposit in a convent, and their wealth in the coffers of the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Church. …The confessional is a device for emptying purses as well as [Ed.: for] relieving burdened consciences.”

“Congress of Vienna” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The ‘Congress of Vienna’ was held from 1814 to 1815 in Vienna, Austria. Various European monarchs (‘Divine Righters’) got together at the urging of Papal Rome in order to plan the destruction of the American Constitutional Republic. European monarchs (again at the urging of Papal Rome) met at Verona, Italy in 1822 for ‘Part II’ of the secret meetings for planning the destruction of America. Later, high-level Jesuits met in 1825 at Chieri, Italy to ‘fine-tune’ the plans for destroying the American Constitutional Republic. The bloody American Civil War of 1861-1865 was one of the ‘fruits’ of those sinister plans made at these three secret meetings in the early 19th century.”

“Croatia” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Croatia is a country in southeastern Europe. It was once part of Hungary, and then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; and in 1918 it became part of Yugoslavia. In 1941 Nazi Germany set up a puppet Fascist regime in Croatia under the leadership of Roman Catholic Ante Pavelic and two Jesuit prelates, Aloysius Stepinac and Ivan Saric, respectively the archbishops of Zagreb and Sarajevo.”

“Divine Righters of Europe” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The ‘Divine Righters of Europe’ is an expression used by Burke McCarty in her book ‘The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln’. (I suspect that other writers of her era used the same expression. It was no doubt derived from the expression, ‘the Divine Right of Kings [and Popes’].) The Papacy and European monarchs together ruled Europe for many centuries with an iron fist, based upon the idea that all authority to rule comes from God through the Papacy! Thus, the ruler of the State could do whatever he wanted – no matter how evil – without any accountability to earthly authority, with the sole exception of his accountability to the pope of Rome, who had the power to crown or dethrone him. The pope, likewise, could do whatever he wanted – no matter how evil – with no apparent accountability to any earthly authority. (Note: For the past 4½+ centuries – with the exception of several decades – the ‘Black Pope’ – the Jesuit Superior General, has, from behind the scenes, ruled the ‘White Pope’.) Burke McCarty also refers to these ‘Divine Righters of Europe’ as the ‘enemies of freedom’. The ‘Divine Righters of Europe’ (in the 19th century) hated religious liberty, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, ‘popular, representative government’, and ‘separation of church and State’. In other words, the ‘Divine Righters of Europe’ (in the 19th century) considered the liberties and freedoms cherished by Americans, along with the American form of ‘popular, representative government’ with its ‘separation of church and State’, to be a ‘most pestilential error’ and a ‘virus’ that, if left unchecked, would ‘spread’ to Europe.

‘Divine Righter’ European monarchs, at the urging of the Papacy, and under the guidance of the Jesuit Order, met twice in the 19th century in order to plan the destruction of the American Constitutional Republic: first at the Congress of Vienna (Austria) in 1814-15; and then at Verona, Italy in 1822. High-level Jesuits later met at Chieri, Italy in 1825 to ‘fine-tune’ those plans for the destruction of the American Constitutional Republic.

The Jesuit-fomenting of the American Civil War of 1861-1865 (with the intent to split the American Constitution Republic into two separate nations) was no doubt a key element in the Divine Righters’ planned destruction of America; however, President Abraham Lincoln, with help from Czar Alexander II of Russia, thwarted the Jesuit-Papal plans to divide the Union. For daring to oppose and to bring to naught these Jesuit-Papal plans to split the Union in two, both President Abraham Lincoln and Czar Alexander II would be brutally assassinated by agents of Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome.”

“Freemasonry” (Per I.A. Sadler, author of the book “Mystery, Babylon the Great”; the Cromwell Press; 2003; Pages 175-181): “Freemasonry is another branch of the Babylonian Mysteries, which has survived under different names from the time of the fall of open pagan worship in the 5th century. …Freemasonry is just as ripe for manipulation by the Jesuits and the Church of Rome, that it may be used for the purposes of [Ed.: Papal] ROME, as any Protestant denomination. [Ed.: Freemasonry has been manipulated by the Jesuits for several centuries.] …In Britain and the USA, Freemasonry appears as a ‘Christian’ organization. However, this is a most dangerous pretense, for the true god of Freemasonry is Lucifer, who is Satan appearing as an angel of light. …Both Freemasonry and the Church of Rome [Ed.: at their highest levels] worship the same god… Masonic ceremonies implicitly deny the sufficiency of Scripture. … [Ed.: Freemasonry] is particularly strong in many Baptist churches in the USA… Those in the lower levels of Freemasonry know nothing about the higher and even more secretive degrees.”

“French Revolution, The” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The bloody French Revolution of 1789-1799 was planned, fomented, and orchestrated by a Jesuit front group called the ‘Illuminati” (whom some folks falsely believe is a Jewish-led group). The ‘Illuminati’ had been set up on May 1, 1776 by Jesuit Adam Weishaupt – a man who had taught Roman Catholic Canon Law at the Jesuit College at Ingolstadt in Bavaria (southern Germany).”

“Harris, Thomas M.” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris was a member of the 12-man Military Commission [i.e., Court] that in 1865 tried eight of the conspirators in the Lincoln assassination. (Most, if not all, of the lower-to-mid-level conspirators in the Lincoln assassination were members of a Jesuit-controlled front group called the Knights of the Golden Circle.) Harris wrote a book about the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln, entitled ‘Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln’. (Harris’ book was published in 1897.) Brigadier General Harris’ participation on the 12-man Military Commission that tried eight of the Lincoln-assassination conspirators gave him access to direct testimony concerning Papal Rome’s vile conspiracy to murder Lincoln, making him highly qualified to write on that topic. He died in 1906.”

“Harrison, William Henry” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “William Henry Harrison was born in 1773, and was assassinated in 1841 – only 35 days after taking office. This former U.S. general became the 9th President of the United States in 1841, and was in robust health upon assuming office. However, in his inaugural address, he spoke out against ‘government by divine right’ – thus putting himself at odds with the ‘divine righters’ in Europe (i.e., with Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome and the despotic European monarchs who together had made plans to destroy the American Constitutional Republic at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, and at Verona, Italy in 1822). Top-level Jesuits later finetuned those plans for destroying the American Republic at Chieri, Italy in 1825. Author Burke McCarty tells us that President Harrison ‘died from arsenic poisoning, administered by the tools of [Ed.: Papal] Rome’.”

“Heretic” (Per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language): “1. A person under any religion, but particularly the Christian, who holds and teaches opinions repugnant to the established faith, or that which is made the standard of orthodoxy. In strictness, among Christians, a person who holds and avows religious opinions contrary to the doctrines of Scripture, the only rule of faith and practice. 2. Any one who maintains erroneous opinions.” “Heretic(s)” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “(As concerns historical ROMAN CATHOLIC use of this term): ‘Heretic(s)’ is a label frequently applied by Papal Rome to those individuals or groups that have dared in the past – or who dare even today – to question either (1) papal temporal power and/or authority, or (2) any of the unscriptural doctrines and practices based solely upon ‘tradition’ that have been promulgated by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church-State, such as ‘transubstantiation’, ‘indulgences’, ‘purgatory’, ‘Mass cards and prayers for the dead’, ‘papal infallibility’, ‘worship of images’, ‘mandatory celibacy for priests and nuns’, ‘auricular confession to an authorized priest’, ‘apostolic succession’, and various aspects of Papal Rome’s ‘Mariolatry’. Papal Rome has, in past centuries, also applied the label of ‘heretic’ to those individuals possessing, printing, or distributing Bibles.”

Ed. comment to the preceding definitions of “heretic”: It is easy for corrupt church officials to “label” a group of Bible-believing Christians (even the population of an entire region or province) as “heretics”, and then to send armies to crush them and to loot their property! The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church-State, i.e., Papal Rome, labeled the Bible-believing Albigensian and Waldensian Christians as “heretics” prior to sending armies to crush them!

“Illuminati” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The modern version of the Illuminati (whom some folks falsely believe is a Jewish-led group) was formed on May 1, 1776 by Jesuit Adam Weishaupt, who had previously taught Roman Catholic Canon Law at the Jesuit College at Ingolstadt in Bavaria (southern Germany). Jesuit Adam Weishaupt PRETENDED to leave the Jesuit Order so that he could set up a Jesuit front group called the ‘Illuminati’. This Jesuit front group, the Illuminati, planned, fomented, and orchestrated the bloody French Revolution of 1789-1799. By using this Illuminati front group, the Jesuit Order was given a great degree of ‘plausible deniability’ about the key role that it had played in the French Revolution.”

“International Banksters” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “‘International Banksters’ is an expression that I use to describe the Jesuit-controlled financial cabal that controls the leaders and governments of many nations on this planet. Some people allege that ‘the Jews’ run international banking; however, my research has shown me that Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome is by far the number one financial entity in the world! Jesuitcontrolled Papal Rome rules the financial world through the Vatican’s banking and financial interests (in Rome, throughout Europe, and in the USA), through the wealthy Jesuit-controlled Knights of Malta Order, and through many other Jesuit-controlled financial subgroups.

As Dr. Stanley Monteith, on page 58 of his book ‘Brotherhood of Darkness’ (2000), tells us: ‘Some sincere people believe that the Jews, or the Jewish bankers, are behind the world conspiracy. There are many clues that lead people to that conclusion, but I can assure you that the evidence has been planted to divert attention away from the truth.’ (End of quote)

Indeed, some folks like to point to the Rothschild banking dynasty as proof that ‘the Jews’ run international banking; however, one of the titles of the Rothschilds, according to author F. Tupper Saussy, is ‘Guardians of the Vatican Treasury’. Some folks would argue that the Rothschilds should be labeled as ‘Court Jews’ of Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome.

Some would also argue that the Knights Templar Order was the first international banking cabal. It is worth noting that when the Knights Templar Order was suppressed (i.e., it was officially dissolved by Pope Clement V in 1312), the Knights of Malta (a Roman Catholic order controlled today by the Jesuit Order) ‘absorbed’ some of the great wealth of the Knights Templar. Many of the world’s richest bankers have been Jesuit-controlled Knights of Malta.

The Jesuit-controlled international banksters have fomented and orchestrated – and helped to finance – many of the revolutions and wars of the last three to four centuries (including two world wars) – and have profited nicely from the maiming and murder of millions of people.”

“Jesuit” (Per Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language): “One of the Society of Jesus, so called, founded by Ignatius Loyola; a society remarkable for their cunning in propagating their principles.”

“Jesuitic” or “Jesuitical” (Per Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language): “[1.] Pertaining to the Jesuits or their principles and arts. 2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating.”

“Jesuitically” (Per Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language): “Craftily.”

“Jesuitism” (Per Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language): “[1.] The arts, principles and practices of the Jesuits. 2. Cunning; deceit; hypocrisy; prevarication; deceptive practices to effect a purpose.”\ Ed. comment to the preceding four definitions: English is not the only language that equates the word “Jesuit” – and words derived from it – with “cunning; deceit; hypocrisy; prevarication; [and] “deceptive practices to effect a purpose”!

“Jesuit Order, The” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The Jesuit Order was founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola, and was officially approved as a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Paul III in 1540. The primary goals of this order are (1) to roll back the Protestant Reformation and the freedoms that it brought to many of the inhabitants of this planet; (2) to enhance the temporal power and prestige of the Papacy (and its ‘White Pope’); and (3) to rule despotically over the governments of the world through the Papacy. The head of the Jesuit Order is the Jesuit Superior General – the ‘Black Pope’ – the real power behind the Papal throne. The Jesuit Superior General is also the master of all these: his JESUIT ORDER, the Knights of Malta, the highest levels of the Knights of Columbus, the highest levels of Opus Dei, and the highest levels of Freemasonry – and of all the numerous subgroups that he controls through these powerful and influential organizations. The Jesuit Order is infamous for infiltrating governments and other religious denominations, fomenting revolutions and wars, assassinating heads of State, and subverting nations. I believe that it is almost impossible to understand European history and Church history (of the past 4½+ centuries) without a good understanding of the Protestant Reformation and the Jesuit-led Counter-Reformation.”

“Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor” (Per Eric Jon Phelps, author of “Vatican Assassins”): “A Jesuit temporal coadjutor is someone who performs service or duties for the Jesuit Order, but who is not a Jesuit priest. This person may be of any race, religion, or sex.”

“Knights of Columbus” (Per Jeremiah J. Crowley, author of “Romanism: A Menace to the Nation”; The Menace Publishing Co.; 1912; Pages 154-157): “The Knights of Columbus, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, February 2, 1882, by Rev. M. J. McGivney, curate of St. Mary’s Church…an adroit feature of this organization, to which Roman Catholics only are eligible, is the initiative service of four degrees…they work in collusion with the Hierarchy, and are heart and soul in politics. This fact is well known to political machines and non-Catholic politicians, whose candidates must receive the approval of [Ed.: Jesuit-controlled Papal] Rome and the Knights [Ed.: of Columbus] before they dare nominate them for either dog pound or presidency. The Knights of Columbus’…principle business is politics – Jesuitical politics.”

“Knights of Malta” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The Jesuit-controlled Knights of Malta is a Roman Catholic religious-military order headquartered in Rome with, and under the command of, the Jesuit Superior General. Much of the wealth of the Knights Templar Order, when it was dissolved in 1312 by Pope Clement V, was given to the Knights of Malta. Many Jesuit-controlled Knights of Malta have held top-level positions in various governments, in the world’s foremost intelligence agencies, in international banking, and in the publishing world. A number of Jesuit-controlled Knights of Malta continue to hold such powerful and influential positions. According to author and researcher Eric Jon Phelps, the following heads of the Central Intelligence Agency have all been Knights of Malta: William Donovan (head of the OSS – the predecessor to the CIA), Allen Dulles (who was also a high-level Freemason), John McCone, William Casey, William Colby, George Tenet, and Leon Panetta.”

“Knights of The Golden Circle” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret society controlled by the Jesuits (i.e., it was a Jesuit front group) that helped, along with Jesuit-controlled high-level Freemasons on both sides of the conflict, to foment the American Civil War of 1861-65 that took the lives of up to 620,000 American soldiers (combined total dead from wounds and disease from both sides) and possibly up to 50,000 civilians. John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot Abraham Lincoln on April 14th, 1865, was a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, as were many of his fellow conspirators.”

“La Chaise, Pere” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “François de la Chaise was born in 1624, and died in 1709. He became a Jesuit priest, and later was the Jesuit ‘father-confessor’ to French King Louis XIV. In 1685 La Chaise advised Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes that had earlier (in 1598) granted religious liberty to all the citizens of France. Jesuit La Chaise also urged Louis XIV to exterminate as many French Protestant Huguenots as possible, thus leading to the slaughter of many thousands of innocent French Protestants!”

“Lamormaini, William” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “William Lamormaini was a Jesuit priest, and one of the father-confessors to Ferdinand II (Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1619 to 1637). Jesuit Becan had been the father-confessor-advisor to Emperor Ferdinand II before Lamormaini took that important position. Both of these Jesuit father-confessor-advisors constantly urged the emperor to exterminate the Protestants within his realm. Indeed, the blame for the carnage of the brutal and bloody Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) that decimated much of Central Europe can be laid directly at the feet of the Jesuit Order. As German historian Karl Theodor Griesinger stated in 1873: ‘The whole frightful responsibility for this terrible Thirty Years’ War must rest upon the Emperor Ferdinand II, and his teachers, rulers, and bosom friends, the Sons of Loyola [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuits].’”

“LaPierre” [or, La Pierre or Lapierre] (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “LaPierre was one of the Roman Catholic priests in Canada who helped John Harrison Surratt (a Jesuit-trained Roman Catholic who was an arch conspirator in the Lincoln assassination) to hide out in Canada until he could safely set sail for England. (Charles Boucher was another Roman Catholic priest in Canada who provided assistance to arch conspirator Surratt.)”

“Lincoln, Abraham” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809, and was assassinated in 1865. He became the 16th U.S. President in 1861. As a young lawyer in Illinois, Lincoln had successfully defended a Roman Catholic priest, Charles Chiniquy. (Chiniquy had been framed by agents of Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome for a crime he did not commit. False testimony had been given by the sister of a Roman Catholic priest named Lebel, who had promised her some land if she would bear false witness against Chiniquy.) The Jesuits never forgave either Lincoln or Chiniquy, and would later orchestrate the conspiracy to decapitate the leadership of the USA on April 14th, 1865, when President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, and Secretary of State William H. Seward barely survived a savage knife-attack by Lewis Payne. (Most, if not all, of the lower-to-midlevel conspirators in the Lincoln assassination were members of the Jesuit-controlled Knights of the Golden Circle.) Here are some of the primary reasons why agents of the Jesuits conspired to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: (1) Lincoln had preserved the Union, thwarting Jesuit and Papal plans and efforts to divide it; (2) Lincoln had refused loans (with exorbitant interest rates) from Jesuit-controlled European bankers during the American Civil War of 1861-1865; and, (3) Lincoln wanted to bring the southern states back into the Union under kind and generous terms – something that agents of Jesuitcontrolled Papal Rome strongly opposed.”

“McCarty, Burke” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Ms. Burke McCarty was a former Roman Catholic who had the great courage to write about the involvement of Papal Rome and the Jesuit Order in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Her book, entitled ‘The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln’, was published in 1924. Burke McCarty stated: ‘In all the bloody history of the Papacy, perhaps in no one man, as in Abraham Lincoln, was there concentrated such a multitude of reasons for his annihilation by that [Ed.: papal] system.’ She spent over seven years researching the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln before writing her book. Ms. McCarty documents in her book how the ‘Divine Righters in Europe’ (i.e., the despotic European monarchs), with the blessings of the Papacy, made plans for the destruction of the American Constitutional Republic.”

“Meade, George Gordon” (Per Abraham Lincoln, as told to his friend Charles Chiniquy; from page 298 of the Chick Publications’ edition of Chiniquy’s book “50 Years in the ‘Church’ of Rome”; 1985): “But it is evident that his [Ed.: i.e., Union Army Major General George G. Meade’s] Romanism superseded his patriotism after the battle [Ed.: of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July of 1863]. He [Ed.: i.e., Major General Meade] let [Ed.: i.e., allowed] the army of [Ed.: Confederate General Robert E.] Lee escape when he could easily have cut his retreat and forced him to surrender after losing nearly the half of his soldiers in the last three days’ carnage.

When [Ed.: Major General] Meade was to order the pursuit [Ed.: of General Lee’s Confederate army] after the battle [Ed.: of Gettysburg], a stranger came in haste to the headquarters, and that stranger was a disguised Jesuit. After ten minutes’ conversation with him, Meade made such arrangements for the pursuit of the enemy that he escaped almost untouched with the loss of only two guns [Ed.: i.e., two artillery pieces – two cannons].”

“Morse, Samuel F.B.” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Samuel F.B. Morse was born in 1791, and he died in 1872. This American artist and inventor of the telegraph traveled to Europe, where he learned of Papal plots to destroy the American Constitutional Republic. These sinister plots so alarmed Morse that he wrote two books attempting to warn the American people about the Papal and Jesuit conspiracy against America. One of them, ‘Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States’, was published in 1835. Samuel Morse personally warned Abraham Lincoln about these Papal and Jesuit plots to destroy the American Republic.”

“New World Order, The” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The New World Order (N.W.O.) is basically the ‘blueprint’ for despotically ruling the world via a one-world economy, a one-world government, and a one-world religion. The real master of this coming N.W.O., who may continue to operate from behind the scenes, is the ‘Black Pope’ (i.e., the Jesuit Superior General). Since he controls his own powerful Jesuit Order, the wealthy Knights of Malta, the top levels of Freemasonry, and the Roman Catholic Church-State, he is clearly the most powerful man in the world today. The one-world religion will most likely be headed by the Roman Pontiff (i.e., the ‘White Pope’), although the ‘Black Pope’ will continue to be the real power behind the papal throne – as he has been for centuries. When the ‘game plan’ for the N.W.O. is fully implemented, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly – as well as the Right to keep and bear firearms – will all be relics of the past. No dissent will be tolerated, and dissenters will be terminated with ‘extreme prejudice’. One of the first acts of this N.W.O. will be the launching of another modern-day [Papal] Inquisition.”

“New York City Draft Riots” (Per Abraham Lincoln, as told to Charles Chiniquy; from page 299 of the Chick Publications’ edition of Chiniquy’s book “50 Years in the ‘Church’ of Rome”; 1985): “The New York [Ed.: City draft] riots [Ed.: of July 13-16, 1863] were evidently a Romish plot from beginning to end. We have the proofs in hand that they were the work of [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Bishop [Ed.: John] Hughes and his emissaries. No doubt can remain about the bloody attempts of [Ed.: Jesuit-controlled Papal] Rome to destroy New York [Ed.: City], when we know the easy way it was stopped. I wrote to Bishop Hughes, telling him that the whole country would hold him responsible for it [Ed.: i.e., for causing the New York City draft riots] if he would not stop it at once. He then gathered the rioters [Ed.: mostly Roman Catholic Irish immigrants] around his palace, called them his ‘dear friends’, invited them to go back home peacefully, and all was finished! So Jupiter of old used to raise a storm and stop it with a nod of his head!”

“Papal Rome” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The government of the Roman Catholic Church-State, whose headquarters is presently in Rome, Italy.”

“Paris, Edmond” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Frenchman Edmond Paris is the author of several books about Vatican and Jesuit fomenting of wars. Paris, who was born a Roman Catholic, outlines in detail the Vatican’s geopolitical maneuvering before and during World War I and World War II in his two books entitled ‘The Secret History of the Jesuits’ and ‘The Vatican Against Europe’. He also wrote about the slaughter of up to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians by the Roman Catholic Ustashi in Fascist Croatia in the 1940s in his book ‘Convert or Die’. Paris stated the following about Jesuit and Papal responsibility for fomenting two world wars: ‘The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the starting of two world wars – a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict.’”\ “Pavelic (or, Pavelitch), Ante (or, Anton)” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Ante Pavelic, the Roman Catholic dictator of Fascist Croatia in the 1940s, along with his two Jesuit ‘buddies’ (Roman Catholic prelates Aloysius Stepinac and Ivan Saric – respectively the archbishops of Zagreb and Sarajevo), choreographed a brutal genocide that took the lives of up to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians – men, women, and children. (Many of those Serb Orthodox Christians were brutally tortured prior to being murdered.) The Croatian Roman Catholic hierarchy provided maximum support to Croatia’s brutal Fascist regime during World War II. At the end of World War II the Jesuitcontrolled Vatican helped this arch war criminal, Ante Pavelic, along with many other Fascist and Nazi war criminals, to hide out in Roman Catholic monasteries and convents throughout Europe – even in the city of Rome – until they could be safely moved to other countries (such as Argentina) via the ‘Vatican Ratlines’.”

“Petre, Edward” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Jesuit priest Edward Petre was a fatherconfessor- advisor to English King James II (an open Roman Catholic who ruled England from 1685 to 1688). (Note: Jesuit John Warner was also a confessor priest to King James II.) Petre was appointed to the Privy Council during the reign of King James II. The actions taken by King James II (at the urging of his two Jesuit father-confessors) in his attempts to bring England back under Papal Rome’s authority alienated many English Protestants and even some English Catholics. The uproar became so great that Parliament, fearing the outbreak of a civil war, offered the throne to James’ daughter Mary and her husband, William, Prince of Orange – who accepted. Both King James II and Jesuit Edward Petre then went into exile in France in 1688.”

“Principles of the Jesuits” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “‘Principles of the Jesuits’ is a book written by Henry Hadley Norris that was published in 1839 in London, England. After a brief introduction describing the Jesuit Order’s early origins, its four classes of members, various Jesuit principles, etc., the author then provides a collection of excerpts from the writings of various Jesuit ‘doctors’ and scholars. When one reads these quotations taken from the works of Jesuit ‘doctors’ and scholars concerning ‘cases of conscience’, the ‘resolving [of] cases of doubtful propriety’, and the ‘determining [of] the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do’, one quickly notices that these Jesuit ‘doctors’ and scholars provide so many ‘escape clauses’ and ‘loopholes’ in their writings that they are able to justify – to excuse – and to permit – just about every sin and crime imaginable, to include murder, treason, and the turning in of one’s parents to the Inquisition to be burned, etc.”

“Probabilism” (Per Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition; Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2006): “2. R.C.Ch. [Ed.: i.e., Roman Catholic Church] the principle that in matters concerning which there is more than one probable opinion, it is lawful to follow any one of them” [Ed.: Many Jesuit “doctors” and scholars have written concerning “probabilism”. The book, “Principles of the Jesuits” by Henry Hadley Norris, provides numerous examples of Jesuit writings on “probabilism”.]

“Rivera, Dr. Alberto” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Alberto M. R. Rivera was born in 1935 in Spain. Alberto Rivera became a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest. According to author Eric Jon Phelps, Rivera spent 27 years in the Jesuit Order. He later became a born-again, Bible-believing Christian. Dr. Rivera helped to expose some of the sinister activities of the Jesuits, such as their infiltration of Protestant denominations. There were a number of attempts on Dr. Rivera’s life; he died of cancer on June 20, 1997, having been, according to his wife Nury, poisoned. [Ed.: The Jesuits often use the “poison cup” to eliminate their enemies!]

To counter Roman Catholic allegations that Alberto Rivera was a fraud, Sidney Hunter compiled information in a book, ‘Is Alberto for Real?’, that proves that the accusations made by Dr. Rivera against Papal Rome and the Jesuit Order are true! (This book examines and answers the 12 most frequently made charges against Dr. Rivera; it can be purchased via credit card by calling Chick Publications at 1-909-987-0771.)

Sidney Hunter tells us: ‘…[Ed.: Roman] Catholics who know the facts of their church seldom attempt to refute what [Ed.: Dr.] Alberto [Ed.: Rivera] says about the [Ed.: Roman] Catholic Church [Ed.: and the Jesuit Order]. Therefore, their attacks against him come primarily in the form of relentless character assassinations [Ed.: i.e., ad hominem attacks].

…Though many have tried over the last 10 years [Ed.: this book was compiled in 1988], none has successfully refuted the claims that Dr. [Ed.: Alberto] Rivera has made against the Roman Catholic Church [Ed.: and the Jesuit Order].’ (End of quote)

The numerous books that I have read on the Roman Catholic Church, and especially on the Jesuit Order, have convinced me that Dr. Alberto Rivera, ex-Jesuit priest, was definitely “for real”! His statements and comments about the Jesuit infiltration of various Christian denominations, the intentions of Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome to subjugate the United States and the rest of the world under the Pope (via a despotic one-world government and a one-world religion), etc., have been corroborated by many other authors. Some of these authors are: Avro Manhattan, Edmond Paris, Hector Macpherson, Eric Jon Phelps, F. Tupper Saussy, C.T. Wilcox, Dave Hunt, Jack T. Chick, John Daniel, David W. Daniels, and Bill Hughes.”

“Saric, Ivan” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Jesuit Ivan Saric, Archbishop of Sarajevo, was one of two Jesuit prelates (the other was Aloysius Stepinac) who planned and choreographed the slaughter of up to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians in Fascist Croatia from 1941-45. As early as 1934 Jesuit Ivan Saric was a Croatian Ustashi leader.”

“Stepinac, Aloysius” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Jesuit Aloysius Stepinac, Archbishop of Zagreb, was the Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the torture-loving, mass-murdering Ustashi Army in Fascist Croatia during World War II. He and his friend, Jesuit Ivan Saric, Archbishop of Sarajevo, choreographed ‘the Vatican’s Holocaust’ in Fascist Croatia from 1941-45 that took the lives of up to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians – men, women, and children – many of whom were brutally tortured prior to being murdered.”

“Stepinac, Aloysius” (Per Dave Hunt, author of the book “A Woman Rides the Beast”; Harvest House Publishers; 1994; Page 302): “[Ed.: Jesuit] Archbishop [Ed.: Aloysius] Stepinac headed the committee which was responsible for forcible ‘conversions’ to Roman Catholicism [Ed.: in Fascist Croatia] under threat of death – and was also the Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the Ustashi Army, which effected the slaughter of those who failed to convert [Ed.: to Roman Catholicism]. [Ed.: Jesuit Archbishop] Stepinac was known as the ‘father-confessor’ to the Ustashi, and continually bestowed the blessing of Holy Mother Church [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State] upon its members and actions.”

“Surratt, John Harrison” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Jesuit-trained John Harrison Surratt (a Roman Catholic and an arch conspirator involved in the Lincoln assassination) died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1916. The majority of the conspirators were Roman Catholics, including John Wilkes Booth. The plot to assassinate Lincoln was ‘hatched’ in the home of Mary Surratt (John H. Surratt’s mother) – a home which was frequented by Roman Catholic priests from the Washington, D.C. area. (Mary Surratt was a devout Roman Catholic whose father-confessor was Jesuit B.F. Wiget – who also happened to be her son John’s mentor.)

After Booth mortally wounded President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, the manhunt for the conspirators ensued. John Harrison Surratt, with assistance from Roman Catholic priests in the USA and Canada, was able for quite some time to elude capture. Two Roman Catholic priests in Canada, Charles Boucher and LaPierre, hid Surratt and helped him to set sail for England. Surratt later arrived in Rome, where he became a member of the Pope’s personal bodyguard, a Zouaves military unit. When U.S. officials came to Rome to arrest Surratt, he was able to ‘escape’ from the papal guards who were escorting him. U.S. officials caught up with Surratt in Egypt, and brought him back to Washington, D.C. for a civil trial (in 1867) for his part in the Lincoln assassination conspiracy. Jesuits from Georgetown attended the trial, and helped to ‘sway’ the jury in favor of the defendant. Thus, despite overwhelming evidence of John Harrison Surratt’s guilt, the result of the trial was a ‘hung (i.e., deadlocked) jury’.

Upon his death in 1916, arch conspirator John Harrison Surratt was honored for his devoted service to Papal Rome (i.e., to the Roman Catholic Church-State) with a ‘Solemn High Requiem Mass’ – officiated by three Roman Catholic priests!”

“Taylor, Zachary” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Zachary Taylor was born in 1784, and was assassinated in 1850. This former U.S. general became the 12th President of the United States in 1849, and served for 16 months. The Jesuits and Papal Rome, who would later foment the American Civil War, had their agents in the USA trying to get President Taylor to authorize an invasion of Cuba. (Taylor refused!) Such an invasion would have given three Roman Catholic European countries (i.e., Spain, France, and Austria) and England the opportunity to declare war on the USA and to destroy the young American Constitutional Republic. (Papal Rome and a number of European monarchs had made plans to destroy the American Constitutional Republic at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, and at Verona, Italy in 1822. Top-level Jesuits ‘fine-tuned’ those plans at Chieri, Italy in 1825.) President Taylor had also drawn the wrath of the Jesuits and Papal Rome by speaking out strongly about preserving the American Union – a Union that the Jesuits were working overtime to split!

Author Burke McCarty tells us that ‘on the 4th of July [Ed.: in 1850] arsenic was administered to him [Ed.: i.e., President Zachary Taylor] during a celebration in Washington… He went in perfect health in the morning and was taken ill in the afternoon about five o’clock – and died on the Monday following, having been sick the same number of days and with precisely the same symptoms as was his predecessor, President [Ed.: William Henry] Harrison.’”

“Thirty Years’ War” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The Thirty Years’ War took place from 1618 to 1648. It was basically a ‘war of annihilation’ against the Protestants in Central Europe, with a large portion of the war orchestrated by Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II (reigned 1619-37) at the constant urging of his two Jesuit father-confessor-advisors (Becan and Lamormaini). The Thirty Years’ War decimated much of Germany, as well as other areas of Central Europe. Indeed, the blame for the carnage of the brutal and bloody Thirty Years’ War can be laid directly at the feet of the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order. As German historian Karl Theodor Griesinger stated in 1873: ‘The whole frightful responsibility for this terrible Thirty Years’ War must rest upon the Emperor Ferdinand II, and his teachers, rulers, and bosom friends, the Sons of Loyola [Ed.: i.e., the Jesuits].’”

“Tiso, Monsignor Jozef” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Jesuit monsignor Jozef Tiso was the dictator of Fascist Slovakia during World War II, and was responsible for the murder of Jews and Protestants. (According to author Edmond Paris, Monsignor Tiso had the distinction of being the first dictator in Europe ‘to deport the Jews’.)”

“Ustashi” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The Ustashi were ‘[Roman] Catholic Actionists’ – i.e., the Roman Catholic militia in pre-World War II Croatia [which was then a part of Yugoslavia]. The Ustashi were basically a Roman Catholic ‘fifth column’ located inside Yugoslavia. (Will the Knights of Columbus serve as a Roman Catholic ‘fifth column’ inside the USA if agents of Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome attempt to set up a totalitarian Roman Catholic Fascist Police State in this country?) Ustashi assassins shot to death King Alexander of Yugoslavia on October 9, 1934 during his official visit to France.

Author Avro Manhattan tells us the following about the Roman Catholic Ustashi: ‘[Ed.: Croatian Roman] Catholic religious orders gave total and continuous support to the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Ustashi [Ed.: militia – and later the army of the Fascist State of Croatia]. Before the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (1941) their convents were hiding places for the Ustashi terrorists, [Ed.: where they] concealed Ustashi presses, and were depositories of Ustashi subversive literature and even of hand grenades, guns and dynamite.

The Ustashi carried out their [Ed.: pre-World War II terrorist] activities screened by members of [Ed.: Croatian Roman Catholic] religious orders, male and female. Nuns prepared uniforms, emblems and medical equipment for Ustashi detachments.’ (End of quote)

The Ustashi would later become the military forces of the Roman Catholic Fascist State of Croatia during World War II. Ustashi military units, frequently led by Franciscan priests, monks, and friars, carried out a vicious and brutal genocide against innocent Serb Orthodox Christians (men, women, elderly, and children) that took the lives of up to one million Serbs. Jesuit Aloysius Stepinac, Archbishop of Zagreb, was the Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the torture-loving, mass-murdering Ustashi Army killer units. He and his friend, Jesuit Ivan Saric, Archbishop of Sarajevo, planned, choreographed, and orchestrated ‘the Vatican’s Holocaust’ in Fascist Croatia from 1941 through 1945.

Avro Manhattan wrote a book, ‘The Vatican’s Holocaust’, that documents this Roman Catholic genocide against innocent Serb Orthodox Christians in Croatia during World War II.”

“Vietnam War, The” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The official dates for the Vietnam War are c. 1957-1975. The major combatants were: initially, French military forces versus Communist insurgents; after the defeat of the French, it was the military forces of the South Vietnamese government and the military forces of the United States of America versus the military forces of the Communist Viet Cong (located inside of South Vietnam) and the military forces of Communist North Vietnam. (Note: The greatest American involvement in this war took place from 1965 through 1969.)

The Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State was responsible for the Vietnam War. Author Avro Manhattan stated: ‘The role played by the [Ed.: Jesuit-controlled] Vatican in the Vietnam War (1956- 1976) was not only important, it was decisive. …Since without the Vatican such a war would have never occurred.’ (End of quote)

Avro Manhattan also tells us: ‘Initially, the Vietnam conflict had nothing to do with the USA. …It had been a problem dealing exclusively with French colonialism. The defeat of France during the Second World War (1940-1945) had inspired Indo-Chinese national aspirations for ultimate independence from French Imperialism throughout Asia.

…The [Ed.: Jesuit-controlled] Vatican opposed the move [Ed.: for an independent Vietnam] since it wished to retain and to control the former French colonies; to that effect it plotted the setting up of a Vietnam controlled by Vietnamese [Ed.: Roman] Catholics [Ed.: who were a small minority]. …[Ed.: The Jesuit-controlled Vatican] plotted for a territorial split which divided the country into North and South.’ (End of quote)

Avro Manhattan and other authors have also pointed out that U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War resulted largely from the oppression of the Buddhists (approximately 90% of the population) in South Vietnam by the Roman Catholics (approximately 10% of the population), led by Roman Catholic President Diem and his two fanatical Roman Catholic brothers – one brother headed the Secret Police, and the other brother was the Archbishop of Hue (a city located in the central portion of Vietnam on the South China Sea).

Manhattan tells us: ‘…It was the [Ed.: Jesuit-controlled] Vatican, with the help of the U.S. Catholic lobby headed by Cardinal Spellman, that initially propelled [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Diem into power [Ed.: in South Vietnam]. The powerful trio, namely [Ed.: Pope] Pius XII, Cardinal Spellman, and John Foster Dulles, were behind the setting up of a semi-totalitarian regime in South Vietnam from its inception.’ (End of quote)

Manhattan tells us the following about South Vietnamese President Diem: ‘President Diem was a fanatical [Ed.: Roman] Catholic who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist. He transformed the presidency into a virtual [Ed.: Roman] Catholic dictatorship, which he used to crush his religious and political opponents with the utmost ruthlessness.

He [Ed.: i.e., President Diem] persecuted non-Catholics, and particularly the Buddhists. By his discriminatory methods he caused the disruption of the [Ed.: South Vietnamese] army and the [Ed.: South Vietnamese] government. This eventually was to lead to the USA’s military intervention in South Vietnam.’ (End of quote)

One source lists U.S. casualties in the Vietnam War as follow: Number of Americans killed: 58,167. 365,000 Americans were wounded. More than 2000 are missing-in-action.”

“Weishaupt, Adam” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Adam Weishaupt was born in Ingolstadt, Bavaria (southern Germany) in 1748. In 1775 he became a professor at the Jesuit College at Ingolstadt in Bavaria, where he taught Roman Catholic Canon Law. Jesuit Adam Weishaupt PRETENDED to leave the Jesuit Order in order to set up the modern version of the ‘Illuminati’ (a Jesuit front group) on May 1, 1776. (Note: Some folks falsely believe that members of the Illuminati are controlled and led by Jews. They are not! It is the Jesuit Order that controls ‘the Illuminati’.) Jesuit Adam Weishaupt died in 1811 in the good graces of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he had given a lifetime of faithful service.”

“Wiget, B.F.” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Jesuit B.F. Wiget was the father-confessor of Mary Surratt, in whose home the plot to assassinate Lincoln was hatched, and was the mentor of her son, John Harrison Surratt (an arch conspirator in the Lincoln assassination). Jesuit Wiget was also a ‘spiritual director’ of John Wilkes Booth, who shot President Lincoln.”

“World War I” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The official dates for the First World War are 1914-1918. The major combatants were: the United States of America, Great Britain, France, and Russia (the Allies) versus Germany and Austria-Hungary (the Central Powers). (Note: More than eight million troops were killed in this war!)

The Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State played a major role in fomenting World War I. Author Edmond Paris tells us: ‘What were the Hapsburgs [Ed.: Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire] supposed to do [Ed.: after hearing the statement of Pope Pius X in 1913 that Austria-Hungary should have punished the Serbians]? [Ed.: The answer: They were to] chastise Serbia, an Orthodox [Ed.: Christian] nation. The prestige of Austria-Hungary, of those Hapsburgs who, with the Bourbons of Spain, were the last supporters of the Jesuits…would have greatly increased. For [Ed.: Jesuit-controlled Papal] Rome, the affair became one of almost religious importance; a victory of apostolic monarchy over Czarism could be considered a victory of [Ed.: Papal] Rome over the schism of the East.’

The ‘kickoff’ of World War I occurred when Austria and Serbia commenced hostilities on August 2, 1914.

One source lists U.S. casualties in World War I: Number of Americans killed: 116,516.”

“World War II” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “The official dates for the Second World War are 1939-1945. The major combatants were: the United States of America, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union (the Allies) versus Germany, Italy, and Japan (the Axis).

The Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State played a major role in fomenting World War II by putting Roman Catholic dictators (many of whom hated Jews) into power all across Europe during the 1930s. For example, Roman Catholic Adolf Hitler was put into power by Jesuit-controlled Knight of Malta Franz von Papen, Monsignor Ludwig Kaas (a head of the German Roman Catholic Center Party), and other influential Roman Catholics. (Hitler’s Nazi SS was modeled after the Jesuit Order, and had Roman Catholic priests in top positions within the SS Central Security Service.) Roman Catholic Benito Mussolini was put into power in Italy by Jesuit Don Luigi Sturzo, chief of the Catholic Party in Italy. (Mussolini had as one of his top advisers, Jesuit Petre Tacchi-Venturi.)

The Jesuit-controlled Vatican signed Concordats with both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. A Jesuit monsignor, Jozef Tiso, was made dictator in Fascist Slovakia. In Roman Catholic Fascist Croatia, Roman Catholic Ante Pavelic became dictator, and with the help of two Jesuit prelates – Aloysius Stepinac and Ivan Saric – carried out the extermination of up to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christians from 1941 to 1945. Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome supported all these Roman Catholic dictators throughout World War II.

At the end of the war, Jesuit-controlled Papal Rome helped many of the worst of the Nazi and Fascist war criminals to escape to other countries via the ‘Vatican Ratlines’.

One source lists U.S. casualties in World War II as follow: Number of Americans killed: 405,339. (There were over 25 million military deaths and over 47 million civilian deaths – including 6,000,000 Jews – during World II – the ‘fruit’ of this Jesuit-Vatican-fomented war.)

Ed. comment to the preceding two definitions: French author Edmond Paris, who was born a Roman Catholic, tells us: “The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the starting of two world wars – a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict.”

Continued in Quotations Dealing with the History of the Jesuits

All sections of The Jesuit Order – The Society of Jesus – By Darryl Eberhart

Elizabeth II at Her Coronation Service, June 2, 1953

This is the next chapter of the book, The Foundations Under Attack: The Roots of Apostasy – By Michael de Semlyen

D. The Monarchy In Peril

[November 30, 1995 marked the day Her Majesty the Queen attended a Service of Commemoration at Westminster Cathedral to mark the Centenary of the building of this spiritual center of Roman Catholicism in Britain. In doing so Her Majesty belied the declaration above as well as her Coronation Oath. Her attendance was intended to underline ecumenical reconciliation and unity. In fact it symbolised the continuing retreat of the Protestant identity of our nation and anticipated the likely imminent removal of the Act of Settlement and the resulting constitutional redundancy of the monarchy. It was the latest in a series of events in the ecumenical process that, step by step, was and is pulling up the historic roots of the Protestant Throne.]

1993 – The Year of the Maastricht Treaty and the “Annus Horribilis” – “Is it Time for a Conversion of England?”

“1993 may turn out to have been a fateful and historic year in the long tale of Christianity in this country,” wrote Roman Catholic columnist, Paul Johnson, in the Catholic Herald. “I am coming to believe that the days of the Anglican Church are numbered and that most of its worshippers will return to the true faith of their distant medieval forebears.”

Mr. Johnson and other zealous Catholic commentators had good reason for such confidence. In 1993, for the first time since the Reformation, the spurious sacrament of “penance” and the hearing of confessions began again within the Palace of Westminster. Previously the Roman Catholic Primate, Cardinal Basil Hume, had preached before Her Majesty the Queen, the first time that a Catholic prelate had done so since the seventeenth century. The protest of over two thousand Church of England clergy, who were concerned by the insult done by the multi-faith worship at the Commonwealth Day Service to the unique claims and inviolable supremacy of the Lord Jesus Christ, was ignored by the Queen. On April 21, 1993, the Queen’s birthday, a High Mass took place at Westminster to receive Junior Social Security Minister, Ann Widdecombe, “crossing the Tiber” from the Church of England to the Roman Church.

There were other high-profile conversions that year and there have been several since, including most significantly the Duchess of Kent, the Queen’s cousin by marriage, as well as Princess Diana’s mother, Mrs Shand Kydd; Conservative Ministers, John Selwyn Gummer and Alan Clark, and the then Sunday Telegraph Editor, Charles Moore. All these conversions or desertions from Canterbury to Rome, in an ecumenical climate in which it wasn’t supposed to matter (and for the majority of people today it didn’t and doesn’t), had been very public and had received extensive press coverage. Without question, public opinion was being managed and manipulated by grossly unbalanced coverage of religious conversions in the media. An illustration of this was Prince Philip’s reversion back to Greek Orthodoxy from the Church of England which attracted no press coverage whatsoever.

“Annus Horribilis”

In that same year, 1993, the fortieth anniversary of the Queen’s reign and her “annus horribilis,” the prince of Wales’ adulterous relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles surfaced in the media. Mrs. Parker- Bowles was by then amicably divorced from staunch Roman Catholic, Andrew Parker- Bowles, “Silver-Stick in Waiting to Her Majesty the Queen”, and it seemed that there was a campaign in the press to legitimise her relationship with the Prince. It was widely believed at that time (1996) that both the Queen and the Prime Minister favoured changing both the Royal Marriages Act (1772), and the Act of Settlement (1701), so that the heir to the throne, if divorced, can remarry, and he or she can be married to a Catholic if that is the choice.

The departure of the royal family from their constitutional identity and duty as faithful Protestants had been seen in their fraternising with Roman Catholics. Prince Charles had attended Mass on more than one occasion with Catholic friends and was prevented from participating in the Pope’s private Mass only by command of the Queen. Princess Diana’s closest friends seemed to be Roman Catholics. They included Mother Teresa, with whom according to press reports, she has a special rapport, Rosa Monckton, wife of Sunday Telegraph Editor, Dominic Lawson, Lucia Flecha de Lima, wife of the Brazilian Ambassador and James Gilbey of the “Squidgy telephone tape.” At the end of 1992, the tabloid newspapers reported that the Princess was taking instruction from a Dominican Priest, at a secret Oxford address, to convert to the Roman Catholic faith. With the Princess so open to such influence and with Camilla Parker-Bowles’ children attending Catholic schools, it is hardly surprising that Prince William very nearly found himself in the one house at Eton College with a Roman Catholic house-master.

Prince Charles had made it known that his allegiance was not to the Protestant faith, but to all faiths. It would be impossible for him to swear exclusively to maintain the Protestant religion in his realm given that by his bedside he kept a rosary given to him by the Pope. As the Sunday Telegraph reminded its readers in providing this information:

Maastricht and Monarchy – The Nation’s Loss of Direction

It was also in 1993 that the Maastricht Treaty was signed and the EEC became the European Union. This treaty effectively laid the Crown-in- Parliament at the feet of those who rule in Brussels. Despite John Major’s professed Euro-scepticism the reality was that, in spite of the opt-out, the Treaty committed Britain to ever-closer union, with federalism sure to follow. The conveyor-belt “process” of Maastricht, inevitably leading to total abdication of sovereignty, can be stopped only by the exercise of massive and unprecedented political will. Meanwhile the desired expression of the will of the people for a referendum has been brushed aside, and no amount of rational and passionate argument, nor warning signs, nor adverse publicity, nor bad behaviour or breaches of trust experienced with our European partners, seem able to restrain the compulsion to merge and abandon our independence and identity. The recent rejection of the proposed European Union Constitution by the French and Dutch people has made little difference to the process. The British people have had no say, and the EU Constitution is being implemented, by stealth, anyway. If the process is completed, and we are integrated into a federal Europe, sovereignty will no longer rest with the people of these islands, nor with their Queen, who will simply be a citizen of Europe like the rest of us; and her Parliament will be seconded to the European State. In fact all this has already happened. The reality is concealed from the people, until the EU Superstate fully reveals itself as a fully legal entity.

There is today a collapse of moral and political confidence in Britain and a loss of faith in our institutions the like of which we have not seen before. The Church of England, increasingly intent on following the fashions of the world and the lunacy of “political correctness,” has lost the trust and regard of the people and seems destined for disintegration. The police service and the courts of justice have repeatedly been discredited or maligned, and the modest proportion of corruption or fraud that has actually been detected in the business world is on an unprecedented scale. The young have scant respect for their elders, reverence towards anything is rare, and “there is no fear of God before their eyes .” (Romans 3:18) The mounting crime wave and the sheer nastiness of so much criminal (and other) behaviour are deeply worrying for all of us.

There is now no national consensus on virtually any issue, “one- nation” polity is impossible with no general agreement that we should remain a sovereign and united kingdom. Patriotism is widely despised and loyalty to our institutions unfashionable. The one great certainty that marked the fourth consecutive Conservative Administration was that the Maastricht Treaty, which seemed to have had most of the Cabinet and Opposition leaders mesmerised, had to be forced into law. Tony Blair and his “New Labour” government have carried on in the same vein, whisking the Amsterdam and Nice Treaties through Parliament and signing the proposed Constitution without consulting the people; and there is a sense in which events seem to have been orchestrated—so swift and relentless has been the assault on the nation’s institutions, not least the monarchy and the Protestant Throne.

The Religious Dimension

The predominant religion of the confederation will be Roman Catholicism and its spiritual head will be the Pope. At the time of Maastricht, among the European leaders who were most influential in furthering the federalist agenda were Jacques Delors and Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, both Jesuit educated, as well as German Chancellor Kohl and Prime Minister Felipe Gonzales of Spain, also devout Catholics. These four leaders were products of the Roman Catholic Social Movement, which believes that “there is no nobler task than the unifying of our continent.” The concept of European Unity was championed by the founding fathers of the EEC —Monnet, Gaspari, Spaak, Adenauer, and Schuman. Konrad Adenauer, first Chancellor of West Germany, was Privy Chamberlain to the Pope, and declared in 1953 that “Germany had a divine mission to save Western Europe.” Robert Schuman, founder of the Franco-German Coal and Steel Federation, was the leading visionary, who pointed ahead to a federation of Europe. His cause for Sainthood is in process of advancement in the Vatican. The European Union from its inception, was an idea in the mind of the Vatican to re-Catholicise the continent of Europe and into the bargain re-Catholicise this country.

Departure from Biblical Christianity

When, at her Coronation Service, Her Majesty the Queen took the Bible handed to her by the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Moderator expressed that which lies at the very heart of Protestantism and at the heart of the institution of the Monarchy—the recognition of the authority and supremacy of Scripture:

Her Majesty then promised “to maintain to the utmost of her power the Laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel and the Protestant Reformed religion established by law.” Then laying her hand on the Holy Gospel she added: “The things I have here before promised I will perform and keep. So help me God.

Her Majesty, who at her Coronation promised “to maintain to the utmost of her power the Laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel and the Protestant Reformed religion established by law” visits Pope John Paul II, wearing black, which is symbolic of the Anglican Church’s submission to the Church of Rome.

In other words, the Queen committed herself, and the Crown-in- Parliament to upholding the statutes and laws of Holy Scripture and the Christian faith. However during her reign, we have seen the royal assent given to radical legislation totally opposed to Christianity as revealed in Scripture, and plainly fostering immorality. Bills facilitating divorce, legalising abortion and homosexuality, and “liberating” adultery and pornography laid the basis of today’s moral crisis in our society. “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3) There are signs that we are reaping the whirlwind of God’s righteous anger and judgement, so very apparent in the devastation brought about by collapsing family values, which have been experienced by the Queen herself.

Church leaders do not speak for God from Scripture as they once did, but God’s Word is not silent about what has happened in our land. What we are seeing unfolding at breath-taking speed is the withdrawal of the grace and blessing of God that many of us had come to take for granted as the inevitable result of our national apostasy.

The History of Christianity in Britain – Misrepresented

At his inauguration, Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, said that Augustine had brought Christianity to the British Isles from Rome. This is not true; rather it is simply ecumenical propaganda. There is a wealth of evidence that Christianity had taken root in these islands at the end of the first century, and saints of Christ such as Alban and Patrick were martyred or persecuted for the sake of the gospel centuries before Augustine arrived to enforce papal supremacy in A.D.596.

The rule of Rome was established after a century of opposition from indigenous Christians at the Synod of Whitby in A.D.664. The church in Ireland retained its freedom for nearly 500 years, and sent out another saint, Columba, to evangelise Scotland and Northern England from his community base in Iona. Henry II was commissioned by the Pope to invade Ireland and bring the Christians there under papal control, which was accomplished at the Synod of Cashel in A.D. 1171.

Britain’s Christian Heritage

Our forefathers who carefully drafted the Bill of Rights and the Act of Succession were at pains to protect and defend the Biblical Christianity rediscovered at the Reformation and thus consolidate the basis of our parliamentary and individual freedoms. They saw the Roman Papacy as a proven threat to the safety and liberty of the realm and the practice of Roman Catholicism as an affront to true New Testament Christianity. This was apparent in the Sovereign’s Coronation Oath sworn by every monarch up to the time of King George V:

At that time, memories of the burning of godly men, who would not compromise their faith in Christ and the infallibility of Scripture (such as Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley at Oxford and George Wishart in Scotland), were still precious to the majority of the people and their children at school. Relativism had not taken root, nor had tolerance stretched the bounds of morality beyond the limits of Scripture. Truth really mattered. Our great Christian heritage, firmly guarded by the national church and enshrined in the 39 Articles and the other great Protestant Confessions of faith, was treasured by the whole nation. Reminders of the wonderful deliverances from papal power were included in the Prayer Book, and are still to be found in the preface to the Authorised Version of the Bible.

England had repeatedly experienced plots, conspiracies and assaults against both Throne and State carried out by the Jesuits in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Ridolphi Plot, the Babington Plot, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, and numerous other attempts to advance popery during the time of the Stuart kings culminated in the “Glorious” and bloodless Revolution and to the securing of the Protestant Throne in 1688.

The Jesuits, ever zealous in their conviction that the end, of establishing the rule of Rome, justifies whatever the means, went underground. They were banned from nearly every country in Europe including our own, until they were able to re-emerge just before the launch of the Oxford Movement in the 1830s. The success of the Tractarians and the man described by previous popes as the founder of the ecumenical movement, Cardinal John Henry Newman, in building up the “High Church” or Roman Catholic wing of the Church of England, sowed the seeds for the departure of the denominational structures from true Christianity in the twentieth century. Vatican II, in the early 1960s, convinced and continues to convince many Protestants that Roman Catholicism had changed and was looking for agreement and compromise. This is not so. Cardinal Basil Hume claimed that the Roman Church “possesses all of God’s revealed truth and all the means of grace and will not accord that status to others.” Gullible Christians longing for unity have swallowed a red herring. The dogmas of the council of Trent, which pronounced anathemas on “the heretics” of the Protestant Reformation, were upheld by Vatican II. The language has changed but not the substance. Protestants have become “separated brethren”, but “subsidiarity,” a Jesuitical term of “Vaticanspeak” first used in the pontificate of Pius XI early in the last century, can mean whatever those at the center of power choose it to mean. “The single market” and the “social chapter” are also concepts that derive from Roman Catholic social thinking. This does not bode well for our future freedoms.

The Faith that Made Britain Great

As a nation we have turned our backs on God and denied and squandered our great Christian heritage—the faith that won us the freedom to read the Bible (and indeed any other book) and that so many martyrs sacrificed their lives to defend; the religion that sent missionaries out to all comers of the world, winning countless souls and laying the foundation of the greatest empire the world has known; the Christianity that withstood the constant threat of papal Rome and gave us our Protestant Reformed Throne and national identity. That faith given to us by the grace of God maintained the freedom and safety of the realm. Under King George VI, when that freedom was threatened by Nazi Germany, the nation was repeatedly called to prayer. Several times during the Second World War, just as at the time of the Spanish Armada, “the people of the book” cried out to Almighty God for His deliverance. He has always answered the nation’s prayers and these islands have long been free from invasion by an alien power.

The Way Forward

As the government continues to yield powers to Brussels in the Maastricht “process;” as the proposed Constitution is implemented without the people’s consent; as the Monarchy and the established Church together with their shared Protestant Reformed identity crumble; and as the moral landslide gathers momentum; once again as a nation we need to repent and cry out to Almighty God for mercy and deliverance. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Prov. 29:18) We need to look to Scripture to rediscover, as the Reformers did, the simplicity of the Gospel, repentance and the promise of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. … There is no fear of God before their eyes. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;.” (Romans 3:10-12, 18, 23-25)

Martin Luther, who saw corruption and depravity all around him, found the answer of individual salvation, free and totally unearned, which in the past has resulted in corporate and national blessing, in such verses of Scripture from the third chapter of the book of Romans.

For those who understand what God has done for this nation in the past, the implications of Parliament’s decisions to sign both the Treaty of Rome and the Treaty of Maastricht transcend economic considerations. In addition, the prospect of revision of the Coronation Oath, as well as of the Act of Settlement and the Royal Marriages Act, threatens to further undermine our national identity, as well as the freedoms that we cherish. It is imperative that we remember the lessons of history and respect the prudence of our forefathers in protecting posterity. “O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.” (Psalms 44:1) Let us pray that God will stay the hand of the politicians, and grant the people of the British Isles the opportunity to decide these things; and in His mercy He will give them the wisdom to once more “ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.” (Jeremiah 6:16)

I was raised in a Lutheran church, but it was not until I was about 23, and read “Steps to Peace with God”, a tract by Billy Graham, that I desired to know the Lord Jesus Christ. I went through the “steps” and began my life with Christ.

Throughout my walk, I always had a fear of God, as I was raised with that, and I always wanted to please Him. However, I also thought of Jesus as my friend, causing my relationship to be casual. Something was missing—a certain intimacy was just not there. There was no desperation to know Him—there was no hunger for His Word—I would read it, simply because I knew that I should, but I would get nothing from it. I presumed that somehow this was my fault—I must have had some great sin that was in the way. I began to ask the Lord to show me what I had done and why I was not desperate.

One night, not long ago, I went to the home of a fellow sister in the Lord to study the Word together, and, while she had been called to the telephone, I asked the Lord again to show me what was wrong. He showed me myself in a fire, and His pulling me out. I thought of Zechariah 3:2, which says in part, “…is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?” I was horrified at my response, which I saw next. Saying, “Thanks, Lord,” I stood up, brushed myself off, and went on my merry way. This was much too casual. I could see that there was pride there, but I didn’t know the root of it. Still I knew that somehow, this was at the heart of that which was the obstacle.

From this point on, I thought I needed a revelation of hell—a fuller understanding of what I had been saved from. I began to pray earnestly for this. What I received instead was a revelation of the cross.

I suddenly had part of what I’d asked for—a hunger for the Word of God. I began to read the gospel according to John, where I began to “hear” the doctrine of election coming through. I understand that I did not save myself, and my salvation had nothing at all to do with the “steps” I had followed back when I was 23. Once I understood this, the Word opened up even more, and I began to see more. James 4:6, which says in part, “…God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” suddenly opened up to me, and I understood what that meant as well.

I understood that even repentance wasn’t possible without Him, as He had to first show me what I needed to repent of, He had to turn my heart to Him in brokenness. It was His goodness that led to my repentance, as it says in Romans 2:4 (“…the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance…”). This was what I needed to finally destroy my pride and rid myself of any notion that I had saved myself.

In my life I have gotten married, I have given birth to children, I have lost a parent, I have “walked” with the Lord Jesus for fourteen years, but nothing has ever impacted my life as knowing that He chose me. Knowing He is sovereign assures me that He WILL do all that He has promised. I know that He doesn’t have to depend upon me for anything—not even to respond toward my own salvation— and this gives me peace I have never known.

Nothing in my life will ever be the same.

Acknowledgements

This book has taken a long time to write. It grew out of ‘All’s Well’ or Sound the Alarm, a booklet about the wellbeing of the church which was distributed in the early 1990s. I want to thank the many supporters of Spirit of ‘88/ Dorchester House Publications and others who offered suggestions and constructive criticism and have given much encouragement over the years. Most especially, I would like to thank Ralph Brockman and Jean Shepherd who have faithfully prayed throughout that time.

I would also like to single out Richard Bennett, a special brother in the Lord, who has helped me a great deal on a number of issues. Also to Lynn, Richard’s wife, who has given me wise advice and much encouragement as well. I owe a lot, too, to Derek Owers, who had much to do with the writing of the third section of the book.

For editing the text I am extremely grateful to Barbara Merz (and members of her church) who also so willingly helped me a great deal with research. Without Barbara’s help, it is difficult to know by when I could have finished this book.

Michael de Semlyen

September 2006

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