THE PAPACY'S FEARFUL
LIES
Pope Francis heads up an institution founded on
lies, so it is little surprise that his messages during the recent trip to
America were filled with the same. Rome's lies include the papacy itself, the
priesthood, the sacraments, Mariolatry, purgatory, and “holy relics”. There is
not a hint in Scripture that Peter had “supremacy” over the apostles or that he
was otherwise any kind of “pope”. It was a wretched lie from its inception. For
hundreds of years, the popes used forgeries such as the Donation of
Constantine, a shameless lie claiming that Constantine gave the bishop of Rome
supremacy “over all the churches of God in the whole earth”, granting him a
crown, and donating to him “the city of Rome, and all the provinces, places and
cities of Italy and the western regions”. Pope Hadrian I (778) used this lie in
his dealings with Charlemagne. It was used by other popes until it was publicly
exposed as a lie during the Reformation. Then there were the Decretals of
Isidore, used by Pope Francis' brother in scarlet, Nicholas I, to claim that
popes “hold the place of God on earth”. These ancient lies have never been
renounced by the papacy. By holding the office, regardless of how “humbly”,
Francis agrees with its foundational lies, so it is no surprise that his
messages are filled with more lies. Consider his message at St. Patrick's
Cathedral in New York City, September 25. First, there was his whitewash of the
Catholic Church's “clergy sex abuse scandal”. Addressing his fellow priests, he
said: “[Y]ou suffered greatly ... by having to bear the shame of some of your
brothers who harmed and scandalized the Church in the most vulnerable of her members”.
The “some” actually amounts to thousands of priests who used their positions of
trust to commit filthy acts with children, mostly boys. A 2004 study by John
Jay College found 11,757 allegations of sexual abuse involving 5,148 priests,
and the report only pertained to about half of the priests in the U.S. By then,
the Catholic Church had already spent $1 billion settling lawsuits and
providing “treatment” for its filthy priests, and the report observed that “the
end is nowhere in sight”. The pope also lied in his address at St. Patrick's by
addressing Muslims as “brothers and sisters”. Muhammad blasphemously denied
that Jesus is the Son of God who died for man's sins. The Quran says, “Warn
those who say, 'Allah has fathered a son.' They do not have any proof about
that and neither did their fathers. It is a terrible thing that comes from
their mouths. They say nothing but lies” (Surah 18:4). Instead of calling
Muhammad and his people brothers and sisters, the pope should rather state that
the “proof” Muhammad demanded is the virgin birth, sinless and unique life,
vicarious atonement, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, all based on
amazing prophecies written down before He was born. If Jesus Christ is not the
Son of God, there is no such thing as evidence. But then, the pope doesn't
believe the gospel of salvation by the free grace of Christ without works, so
he has no truth with which to confront any false religion. Another lie that the
pope spoke at St. Patrick's was the lie that Mary hears and answers prayer. He
said, “Let us commend to our Lady the work we have been entrusted to do”. Its
vain protestations aside, Rome's doctrine of Mary is a blasphemous usurpation
of Christ as sole Saviour and Mediator, and this fact alone should impel every
Bible-believing Christian to renounce the papacy in no uncertain terms. The
very fact that plain speaking about the Roman Catholic Church is so rare among “evangelical”
Protestants and Baptists is irrefutable proof of end-time apostasy and of the
rapid building of the one-world “church”.
IS ROME THE HARLOT OF
REVELATION 17?
For a thousand years and more, Baptists,
Protestants, and fundamentalists identified Rome with the Harlot of Revelation
17. At the end of the NINTH CENTURY, “Tergandus, Bishop of Treves, called the
Pope antichrist, yea, a wolf, and Rome, Babylon” (Martyrs Mirror, 5th English
edition, p. 240). In THE ELEVENTH CENTURY, Berenger of Tours denounced Rome's
dogmas and maintained that the Roman Church was the See of Satan (George Faber,
The History of the Ancient Vallenses and Albigenses, 1838, p. 159). THE
WALDENSIANS, throughout most of their long history, identified the pope as the
Antichrist. The Waldensian treatise titled the Noble Lesson, dated 1100 AD,
stated: “Antichrist, the predicted murderer of the Saints, hath already
appeared in his true character, seated monarchally in the seven-hilled city”.
In the 13th CENTURY, the BOHEMIAN BRETHREN held that “the Church of Rome is not
the Church of Jesus Christ, but an assembly of wicked men, and the whore that
sits upon the beast in the Revelation. ... They declare the pope to be the head
and ringleader of all errors” (Peter Allix, Ancient Churches of Piedmont, pp.
242-259). English Bible translator WILLIAM TYNDALE identified the pope as the
Antichrist in his treatise The Practice of Prelates and in the preface to the
1534 edition of his New Testament. All of the REFORMATION leaders considered
the pope the antichrist, including John Huss, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and
and their successors. The religious harlot of Revelation 17 is aligned with the
antichrist (compare Rev. 17:3 - Rev. 13:1), and like the antichrist it has two
aspects: historic and prophetic. In 1 John 2:18, the apostle said, “Little
children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come,
even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time”.
Though she does not fulfill this prophecy in its finality, every feature of the
religious Harlot of Revelation 17 is found in the Roman Catholic Church. She
has ridden through history upon the back of kings, is clothed in gorgeous robes
of scarlet and purple and decked in expensive attire. She sits on seven hills,
is full of abominations, and has a golden cup. She is drunk with the blood of
the martyrs, and the inhabitants of the world are indeed drunk with the wine of
her fornication, referring to the multitudes that blindly follow Rome's
doctrines of devils.
U.S. NAVY FOUNDED TO
PROTECT AMERICA FROM MUSLIM SLAVERS
Between 1801-1815, the newly formed United
States of America fought the Barbary Wars against Muslim slavers based in
Tripoli, Tunis, and Algeria. From the 16th to the 19th century, the slavers
captured an estimated one to 1.25 MILLION white Europeans (Robert Davis, Muslim
Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean). The Muslim pirates had seized
American merchant ships and enslaved the crews for ransom. Most of the men were
pressed into hard labor and kept “in extremely poor conditions that exposed
them to vermin and disease”. The Muslim Barbary states also demanded tribute
from the American government in exchange for not attacking its ships. This
piracy began immediately after America gained its independence from Britain in
1784. Two years later, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of America's
founding fathers, were sent to London to negotiate with Tripoli's ambassador,
Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. When asked why the Muslims attacked nations that “had
done them no injury”, Adja replied, “It was written in their Koran, that all
nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the
right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman
who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that
the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his
share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor
held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth, which usually struck such
terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once” (Thomas Jefferson
Papers, Series 1 1651-1827, Library of Congress). Note that the Barbary pirates
cited the Koran as their authority for attacking and enslaving anyone who is
not submitted to Allah. In 1795, America paid $1 million for the release of 115
sailors, an amount that was one-sixth of the U.S. budget. The pirates demanded
an annual payment of the same amount. When Thomas Jefferson was elected
America's second president in 1801, he and his fellow citizens were of no mind
to accept bullying and blackmail. The U.S. Navy was built to protect America
against Muslim pirates. One of the most memorable acts of the Barbary War was
in 1805 when a force of eight U.S. Marines and 400 Greek and Arab mercenaries,
led by U.S. Navy Lieutenant William Eaton, traveled across 600 miles of desert
from Alexandria, Egypt, to capture the city of Derne (or Derna) on the shores
of Tripoli. This is memorialized in the U.S. Marine Hymn. By 1816, the Barbary
states were forced to cease attacking American and British ships, and the deed
was accomplished by force of arms.
ISLAMIC STATE HAS
EXECUTED MORE THAN 10,000 PEOPLE
The
following is excerpted from “ISIS has killed more than 10,000”, Breitbart.com,
Sep. 25, 2015: “The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has executed more than 10,000
people, including women and children, in Iraq and Syria since the jihadist
group declared a 'global caliphate' in June 2014, reports Daily Mail Online.
'The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which has secret sources
inside ISIS territory, said 3,207 have been killed in that war-torn country,'
notes the article. 'Another 7,700 were executed in Iraq, according to the Iraqi
Observatory for Human Rights [IOHR], which tracks ISIS violations.' 'The
soldiers and civilians who have been beheaded, shot dead, drowned, blown up,
stoned to death and thrown off buildings for violating ISIS's twisted laws all
contributed to this mammoth death toll,' it adds. 'The figure does not include
the thousands more who have been killed in battle and suicide bombings--or the
innocent people mown down by ISIS extremists as they tried to flee.' SOHR told
Daily Mail Online that it keeps a tally of the terrorist group's executions
after its activists have verified them from local sources on the ground. ...
'The slaughter of up to 1,700 cadets at Speicher army camp in Tikrit, Iraq, was
not included in the overall death toll because it occurred on June 12, 2014, a
few weeks before ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi declared the caliphate,' it
adds. 'Neither was the massacre of 5,000 Yazidi people in Iraq's Sinjar
province last August because they were shot down by ISIS fighters as they tried
to escape.'”
NOT SUCH BUMBLEBEES
The following is from CreationMoments.com, Dec.
30, 2014: “Scientists have long known that honeybees communicate the location
of nectar sources to their nest mates. The language that many species use has
even been deciphered. At the same time, it was long accepted that bumblebees
did not communicate the location of food resources to their nest mates. After
all, it is astonishing enough that a supposedly simple creature like the
honeybee had mastered the advanced skill of communication, but can even simpler
bees communicate? Research reveals that there are at least several species of
bumblebees and other stingless bees that communicate among themselves. As might
be expected, the languages differ from species to species. One species of
bumblebee reports her find to her nest mates by running zigzag over the combs
and bumping into her nest mates. This leads them to check out the quality of
the nectar she just returned. If she has brought several good loads in, they
join her in bringing in more. Other species lay scent trails to the food
source. When a member of another species finds a good source, she communicates
to her nest mates through a series of pulsing buzzes. As she communicates the
height of the source by the speed of the pulses, she performs a circular dance
that communicates the rest of the instructions. The Bible is accurate when it
says that the entire creation can offer God praise. The languages may differ;
the form of communication may not even look like communication to us. But now
we know that since communication is a gift from God, even so called simple
creatures can be given the gift by their Creator”.
—DC
