Mystery Confusion

Introduction

I believe it was Thomas Babington Macaulay who first said that Rome is a like lamb when she is in the minority. That she is like a fox when she gains equality, and she is like a tiger when in the majority. Some may question the validity of such similes.

In this brief study I look at how the System of Rome has worked in the United States where she has always been in the minority and then I look at El Salvador where she was decidedly in the majority. The reader can then weigh the validity of Macaulay’s discernment.

When I speak of Rome, I am speaking of the System of Roman Catholicism as it operates out of the Vatican State. There are obviously many different types of Roman Catholic clergy. In this study the readers will see Roman Catholic priests who fought alongside the Marxist Revolutionaries, some others who opposed them, some who participated in the armed struggles to help defenseless women and children, others who remained aloof. The readers will see Roman Catholics being killed and they will see Roman Catholics doing the killing.

It is this seemingly confused picture which mystifies many people today. In this study I try to cast some light on the confusion. The System of Rome is out to control the world. How this System works in different countries to achieve this goal, is the theme of this study.

Ronald Cooke
RR 3, Box 486
Max Meadows, VA 24360
June 1, 1999.

Mystery Confusion

The religious world is marked by confusion today. Ecumenical religion has sought to unite all religions into one harmonious whole. At first the ecumenists sought only to unite all “Christians,” liberal Protestants, Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Pentecostals, Evangelicals, and Reformed.

As the “Christian” ecumenical movement gained momentum it began to look beyond “Christianity” in its universalism. Overtures to various other world religions began to be made until the great meeting at Assisi in 1986. At this meeting, presided over by the Pope of Rome, close to two hundred different religions met for prayer and mutual fellowship.

The upshot of the various triumphs of ecumenicity has been the confusion generated among those who are dragging their feet in this glorious pilgrimage to Nirvana. Millions of “conservatives” in their various religions are not impressed with the trade-offs made to achieve unity. So that while liberal Jews may join with “Christians,” Orthodox Jews are more intense than ever in keeping Judaism free from outside Gentile contamination.

Liberal Muslims may meet and talk of unity but millions of militant Muslims are more determined than ever to make their states totally Islamic. Liberal Roman Catholics may have various ecumenical services with Protestants and Jews, but conservative Roman Catholics recoil in horror from updated-masses, ecumenical services, and what they see as the destruction of historic Roman Catholicism. Liberal Protestants may meet with Jews and Roman Catholics and Muslims, but fundamental Protestants repudiate such compromise as unscriptural and decidedly anti-scriptural. So that although much attention is given by the modern news media to all the great unity meetings and the wonderful ecumenical spirit, there are millions in all religions who are not impressed.

The amazing anomaly in all of this is that the Protestant militant opposers of ecumenicity seem to come in for the harshest criticism by the news media and by television. Modern humor is directed more against fundamental Protestantism than any other religion. All in the Family depicted Archie Bunker as a white ignorant Protestant who was bigoted toward all other religions and races. He was supposedly a Christian who was away behind in every aspect of life.

The same animus is NOT directed toward other religions. When bearded, hatted, Orthodox Jews are embroiled in controversy, as they often have been in recent years, there is scarcely a word of negative criticism directed toward them, and they are NEVER made the butt of humor.

They are praised for their strict allegiance to the Jewish laws and the general public is told that they are interested in returning Israel to a Jewish state where Old Testament laws would once again govern the people. In other words, excuses are made for their sometimes violent behavior, and explanations are given as to why they act in such a manner.

When militant Muslims kill hundreds of people in places like the Sudan, the news media quickly inform the American public that Muslims in the United States believe in living peaceably with their neighbors, and they all repudiate such violence. In the United States news media very little is ever reported about TOTALLY Islamic states or the intention of Islamic militants to create Totally Islamic nations, or in other words Islamic theonomies!

So a confused picture comes across in the news media when modern religion is the subject. Few people today know that Mystery Babylon the Great means Mystery Confusion the Great.

The System of Rome is at the core of Mystery Babylon the Great. This religious conglomerate has grown throughout church history, and is the avowed enemy of God’s elect people. In every era since Paul first wrote about the Mystery of Iniquity the great system of the Man of Sin has been growing and expanding. It expands because the majority of people do not “RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.” For this very rejection of the truth they are sent a strong delusion so that all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (II Thess. 2.10-11)

Calvin’s comment on this passage is illuminating:

He (Paul) speaks of the WORKING or EFFICACY of Satan, and alludes particularly to this when he adds WITH SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS, AND WITH ALL DECEIT. And certainly, if this is to be contrasted with the kingdom of Christ, it must consist partly of false doctrine and deceptions and partly of false miracles. The kingdom of Christ consists of the doctrine of truth and the power of the Spirit. Satan therefore puts on the mask of Christ for the purpose of opposing Him in the person of his vicar, but at the same time, however, he chooses weapons with which to attack Christ directly. Christ by the doctrine of His Gospel enlightens our minds to eternal life; Antichrist, trained under the direction of Satan, deals destruction to the ungodly by his godless doctrine… and confirms poor worthless creatures in their error by his delusions…

Without any doubt we have a notable demonstration of this in the Papacy. No words can express how foul is the abomination of the papists, how massive and shameful are their superstitions, and how far removed their ravings are from common sense. None who have even a moderate acquaintance with sound doctrine can think of such depravity without the utmost horror. How then, does the world gape in astonishment at them, unless it is because men have been blinded and turned into dunderheads.¹ *

* It is surely interesting to note how many men call themselves Calvinists today who completely repudiate John Calvin’s position on the papacy.

Dunderheads surely then must abound today. For millions of those who are supposedly saved and know the truth, apparently believe the lie at the same time. CONFUSION is the hallmark of this generation when it comes to an understanding of the gross errors, superstitions, blasphemies, and goals of the Vatican and the pope today. This confusion is generated in many ways in many countries. In the North of Ireland the Confusion is generated by violence and terror; in the United States it is produced by the propaganda of Rome and the Ecumenical Movement.

One of the main areas of confusion in the United States is the propaganda promoting the “Christian Social Order.” In the following chapter the involvement of the Roman Catholic System in general, and the Jesuits in particular, in setting up this social order, are examined.

References

1. Calvin, John, New Testament Commentaries, Vol. 8., Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Ml, pp. 407-408. (Reprint 1979).

(To be continued.)