Every individual I’ve ever heard claim to be “Pro Choice” was a disingenuous liar.  They had something to gain from purposefully misrepresenting the argument.

Abortion easily boils down to “life at conception” verses “sex without consequences”.  Any other argument is subterfuge.

I wanted to get, for you, an up-to-date description of what abortion does to an unborn child; the tearing limb-from-limb, the burning with chemicals, the shredding with blades like an abattoir.

To my extreme disgust, no combination of words in any query from even “trusted” engines like “Duck Duck Go” would give me anything less than page after page of pro-slaughter propaganda.

After four pages, a few impotent “heroes” were offered: all Catholic.

From my files I pulled a report from retired life activist Jill Stanek on the George Tiller¹ of Albuquerque, Curtis Boyd.  It was published by the Roman Catholic cheerleader “LifeSite” and appears to have been taken down (not surprisingly).

Abortionist: The Baby is Still Alive When I Pull on the Arm and Remove It
Jill Stanek
LifeNews.com
17 November 2013

Why don’t those who support abortion believe what abortionists say about it?

For example, abortionist Curtis Boyd, who runs late-term clinics in Dallas and Albuquerque, made a “jarring admission” during an interview with WFAA in 2009:

“Am I killing?” Boyd said.  “Yes, I am.  I know that.”

During questioning in court in 1997 regarding his opposition to the Nebraska Partial Birth Abortion Ban, late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart testified:

Attorney for the Defense: In that situation… are you… when you pull on the arm and remove it, is the fetus still alive?

Carhart: Yes.

Late-term abortionist Warren Hern’s website, on third trimester abortions:

At this point, termination of pregnancy is considered a far more dangerous procedure and carries with it serious risks of complication.

UPDATE: Thank to Wendy for digging this up.

I have made a career out of showing that the gas-lit lie—that the Roman Catholic Church is “Pro Life”—to be an abomination, and that Rome lives and thrives upon the blood and tears of children.  I guess if I were to give one specific citation out of thousands of articles and videos it would be my third book, Eaters of Children.

In regards to what is “safe Christianity”—“Christian leaders” and “evangelists” who are in no way what-so-ever a risk to the Whore drunk on the blood of the Saints—the McDowell family does an excellent job of promoting a Biblical Gospel completely devoid of the warnings you need to grow and protect yourself.  Because of that, they remain popular and successful in the cage that Satan and his Jesuits have provided for their pets.

I don’t mean to disrespect their evangelism or be unduly harsh: only the McDowells can say whether they have broken the Watchman on the Wall compact for their own personal gain.

Ezekiel 33:1-9
1 The Word of the Lord came to me:
2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, ‘If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman,’”
3 “‘and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people,’”
4 “‘then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.’”
5 “‘He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself.  But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.’”
6 “‘But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his sin, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’”
7 “‘So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel.  Whenever you hear a Word from My Mouth, you shall give them warning from Me.’”
8 “‘If I say to the wicked, “O wicked one, you shall surely die”, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his sin, but his blood I will require at your hand.’”
9 “‘But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his sin, but you will have delivered your soul.’”
English Standard Version²

But when YouTube recommended to me Sean McDowell interviewing “Pro Life” advocate Scott Klusendorf under the title “Responding to the Toughest Pro-choice Arguments” I was intrigued.

I do respect both Sean McDowell and Scott Klusendorf for their efforts.

Arguing With Christians

At one point, the discussion turned towards the need to convince “Christians” that abortion is “wrong”.

To me, arguing “abortion” with “Christians” is the least of my concerns because I would think that is a small target audience but Klusendorf claimed that most “Christians” are for abortion.

That is actually a misunderstanding.

Most religionists who think they are “Christians” are for abortion.

If you claim to be a Christian, then you value the Bible.  If you value the Bible, this argument is over before it started.

And yet, Scott Klusendorf began this segment throwing away the central tenet of the Biblical “Pro Life” argument!

Klusendorf: “If you simply trot out Psalm 139 a skeptical critic will simply say ‘That’s a poetic passage we can’t take THAT literally’.  Okay, I’ll give him that…”

I do not overtly dismiss Psalm 139:15 as “poetic”:

Psalm 139:1-16
Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart
To the choirmaster.  A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from Your Presence?
8 If I ascend to Heaven, You are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, You are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there Your Hand shall lead me,
and Your Right Hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to You;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with You.

13 For You formed my inward parts;
You knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are Your Works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your Eyes saw my unformed substance;
in Your Book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
English Standard Version³

If this is only “poetic” why does YHWH appear to quote this to affirm Jeremiah’s ministry to him?

Jeremiah 1:1-5
1 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
2 to whom the Word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
4 Now the Word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,”
“and before you were born I consecrated you;”
“I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
English Standard Version⁴

Isaiah said the same about his ministry which was an interesting one: he was commissioned to warn the southern kingdom of Judah that she would follow the northern kingdom of Israel into captivity (falling to Assyria in 722 BC) because of her apostasy.  Judah’s fall to Babylon is predicted as is the restitution of the remnant, which YHWH calls “Israel” (yet another reason to understand there are no “ten lost tribes”).

Isaiah 49:1-6
The Servant of the Lord
1 Listen to me, O coastlands,
and give attention, you peoples from afar.
The Lord called me from the womb,
from the body of my mother he named my name.
2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in the shadow of His Hand He hid me;
He made me a polished arrow;
in His Quiver He hid me away.
3 And He said to me, “You are my servant,”
“Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;”
“I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;”
“yet surely my right is with the Lord,”
“and my recompense with my God.”

5 And now the Lord says,
He who formed me from the womb to be His servant,
to bring Jacob back to Him;
and that Israel might be gathered to Him—
for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God has become my strength—
6 He says:
“It is too light a thing that you should be My servant”
“to raise up the tribes of Jacob”
“and to bring back the preserved of Israel;”
“I will make you as a light for the nations,”
“that My Salvation may reach to the end of the Earth.”
English Standard Version⁵

These examples are not singular to the Old Testament.  Paul says the same about his Apostleship.  By the way, the false gospel Paul is excoriating the Galatians over is Judaizing.  It is the Book of Galatians that absolutely destroys “Christian Zionism”.

Galatians 1:1-17
1 Paul, an Apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, the One raising Him from the dead,
2 and all the brothers with me, to the [ecclesia: gathering, fellowship] of Galatia.
3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the Will of our God and Father,
5 to whom be the glory forever and ever.  Amen!
6 I wonder that you are so quickly being transferred from Him having called you by the Grace of Christ to another gospel,
7 which is not another; only there are some troubling you and desiring to pervert the Gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we, or an angel out of Heaven, should announce a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed.
9 As we have said before, and now I say again, If anyone announces a gospel to you beside what you received, let him be accursed.
10 For do I now persuade men or God?  Or do I seek to please men?  For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a slave of Christ.
11 And, brothers, I make known to you the Gospel preached by me, that it is not according to man.
12 For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it , but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For you heard my way of life when I was in Judaism, that with surpassing zeal I persecuted the [ecclesia, “congregation”, not “church”] of God and ravaged it.
14 And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my ancestors.
15 But when God was pleased, “He having separated me from my mother’s womb” and having called through His Grace,
16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood,
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.
Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993⁶

Even more powerful is the Gospel account of John the Baptist leaping in his mother’s womb at the voice of her cousin Miriam.

Luke 1:39-45
39 And rising up in these days, Mariam went into the hill country with haste to a city of Judah.
40 And she entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.
41 And it happened, as Elizabeth heard Mariam’s greeting, the babe in her womb leaped, and Elizabeth was filled of the Holy Spirit.
42 And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb!”
43 “And why is this to me that the mother of my Lord comes to me?”
44 “For behold, as the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leaped in exultation.”
45 “And blessed is she believing, because there will be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.”
Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993

Exodus 21

McDowell: “What about Exodus 21…?”

Two men are fighting near a pregnant woman.  Someone runs into the pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely.

Most translations infer that if either the mother or child is harmed, the Lex Talionis punishments apply; when there is no harm, a fine must still be paid.

One translation stands out, implicitly stating “miscarriage” and implying the death of the child and then following with “only a fine need be paid”.

That is the 1952 Revised Standard Version, the brainchild of Luther Allan Weigel, the (then) Dean of Yale Divinity.  Biola University lauds him as an “outstanding Christian educator” and “ecumenical pioneer”.

He was one of the principal founders of the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.  For four decades he chaired the committee which brought into being the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

The Revised Standard was a revision of the unpopular American Standard Bible.  The “American Standard Bible Committee” was formed in 1930 and Weigel was “elected” chair.  According to Biola, “Roman Catholic scholars” were added in 1966 but their secret influence was apparent long before then.

Once Weigle added the Apocrypha to his Revised Standard Version in 1957, it was openly accepted by Rome and Constantinople.

When Weigle spoke at the dedication of the RSV memorial room at the Interchurch Center in New York City in 1964, he proudly pointed out the authorized Catholic publication, with the imprimatur of Cardinal Cushing of the Boston Archdiocese.  Conversations with representatives of the Greek Orthodox Churches led to the acceptance of the RSV as the “Common Bible” of all three branches of Christianity: Protestant, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. ~ Biola

Weigel brought in “Hebrew scholar” Harry Orlinsky, a practicing Jew best known for translating a “gender-free Torah“.  With the help of Orlinsky, the Revised Standard presents miracle prophecies such as the virgin birth in Isaiah 7:14—

Isaiah 7:14
14 So, The Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold! The virgin will conceive and will bring forth a son; and she shall call His Name Immanuel.
Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993⁷

—as no miracle at all—

Isaiah 7:14
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Imman′u-el.
Revised Standard Version

Luther Weigel was born on September 11^th, 1880.

Interestingly, this is the same “Biola University” where McDowell is an “Associate Professor in the Christian Apologetics program at Talbot School of Theology”.

That is the same Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, where McDowell’s father, Joslin “Josh” McDowell, received his Masters of Divinity.

In 2021, the (then) 81 year old McDowell made some non-descript remarks about the Jesuit Machine fad that is “Critical Race Theory”.  After making the generic remarks that were basically solid, truthful statements, a firestorm erupted in which the elder McDowell said his remarks did not reflect his remarks, groveled profusely at the altar of Race and “stepped back” from preaching for a “season of listening”.

The pay-walled Billy Graham magazine “Christianity Today” had the full breakdown.

Known by the acronym CRT, critical race theory has become controversial among Christian conservatives and political conservatives alike.

McDowell told Christian counselors that CRT “negates all the biblical teaching” about racism—because it focuses on systems rather than the sins of the human heart and said today’s definition of “social justice” is not biblical.

“There’s no comparison to what is known today as social justice with what the Bible speaks of as justice,” he said.  “With CRT they speak structurally.  The Bible speaks individually.  Make sure you get that.  That’s a big difference.”

He went on to say not all Americans have equal opportunities to succeed.

“They don’t, folks,” he said in his speech.  “I do not believe Blacks, African Americans, and many other minorities have equal opportunity.  Why?  Most of them grew up in families where there is not a big emphasis on education, security—you can do anything you want.  You can change the world.  If you work hard, you will make it.  So many African Americans don’t have those privileges like I was brought up with.”

He added that the Bible only focuses on individual sin, not structural sin.

McDowell’s comments were first noted on social media by Christian college professor Aaron New.  After New drew attention to those comments, a recording of McDowell’s speech was removed from the AACC website, where all the speeches and presentations at the conference are offered for sale. …

After being contacted by Religion News Service, McDowell issued a statement on social media apologizing for his remarks, saying they do not reflect his own beliefs. He said his comment about minority families “does not reflect reality.”

“Racism has kept equality from being achieved in our nation,” he said. …

On Wednesday, McDowell, 82, announced that he was stepping back from ministry and speaking engagements in the aftermath of his comments at the conference to enter a “season of listening.”

“At a recent conference, I made comments about race, the Black family, and minorities that were wrong and hurt many people,” he said. “It breaks my heart to know what deep pain I have caused.”

“Dr. Aaron New” followed up his outrage with:

Apparently he also claims “social justice is our next epidemic.”

.@josh_mcdowell Can you confirm and/or explain?

Because this is…… absolutely horrible.

— Aaron New (@DrAaronNew) September 18, 2021

To his credit, “Josh” McDowell overcame a physically abusive father and a sexually abusive family caretaker to come to Christ.

In both instances, McDowell was encouraged to give blanket, unsolicited “forgiveness”.

I have dealt, at length, with this mostly malignant, unBiblical heresy that McDowell fully promotes.⁸

There are now three, successful generations of McDowell evangelists and despite all of their Biola University training (or because of it), not a one condemns the Roman Catholic Church as the Fourth and Final Beast of Daniel, the Whore drunk on the blood of the Saints from Revelation.

The very thing that caused “Josh” McDowell to “step back” from ministry, “social justice” was created by an Italian Jesuit who specialized in South American political insurgency, Prospero “Luigi” Taparelli.

Sean McDowell recently published a video on his popular YouTube channel where he and his son, “Scottie” addressed the Atheist 10 “Non-Commandments”.

It is a master-stroke in Jesuit mockery: lies founded on deception.  As a bold monument to the success of their malignant matrix, the third “Atheist Commandment” states “The Scientific Method is the most reliable way of understanding the natural world.”

As my latest book, Disciples of Ra, shows conclusively, neither “science” nor “medicine” follow the Scientific Method.  The McDowells simply accept this false premise and carry on the age-old dodge that “religion” is “at odds” with “science” but “here is your unworkable work-around: faith!”

In the video, “Scottie” is proudly wearing his Biola University t-shirt whilst his father sports some kind of Euro-military-grunge jacket over top of a t-shirt promoting “THE BATMAN”.

I am conflicted by this.

I do appreciate a high-profile Christian unafraid to be somewhat “secular”; usually the more publicly pious a Christian is, the more skeletons and demons they are hiding.

But high-profile Christian leaders and teachers must be extremely circumspect in everything they do.

James 3:1
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
English Standard Version

“THE BATMAN” is the title of a 2022 Warner Brothers comicbook reboot which I have shown at-length is a movie as Catholic as it is blasphemous and malignant to the common person.

“…that her child depart from her…”

Exodus 21:22-25 is crystal clear when read from Textus Receptus-based translations.  Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus translations are NOT trustworthy.

Perhaps most clear is the 1599 Geneva Bible—

Exodus 21:22-25
22 Also if men strive and hurt a woman with child, so that her child depart from her and death follow not, he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband shall appoint him, or he shall pay as the Judges determine.
23 But if death follow, then thou shalt pay life for life.
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
1599 Geneva Bible

“The Church”

McDowell: “How has the church and the Jewish community been consistently pro life?”

Klusendorf: “Most of your mainline Protestant churches are pro-abortion, as they are favorable towards gay marriage and trans ideology.”

Few statements could be a more resounding proof of something I’ve been saying for many years now: that is that organized religion is one of the most powerful weapons Satan wields in his ongoing agenda to take as many of us with him as he can.

The Most Dangerous Anti-Establishment Movement in History! Johnny Cirucci, 11 February 2016

Jesus referred to Himself in the Gospels as “son of man“ (Son of Man) 82 times and once more proclaimed by Stephen as he was being illegally put to death by enraged Jews in Acts 7:56.

And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the Right Hand of God.”

In Biblical numerological patterns, eight is often symbolic of new beginnings, two is a witness and three is strength, completeness and inner-circle.

The common understanding of “son of man” is Jesus was constantly self-deprecating.  One might even claim “he” (He) was making it clear “he” (He) was not God.

After his death, his followers decided that Jesus had been divine.  This did not happen immediately; as we shall see, the doctrine that Jesus had been God in human form was not finalised [sic] until the fourth century.  The development of Christian belief in the Incarnation was a gradual, complex process.  Jesus himself certainly never claimed to be God.  At his baptism he had been called the Son of God by a voice from heaven but this was probably simply a confirmation that he was the beloved Messiah.  There was nothing particularly unusual about such a proclamation from above: the Rabbis often experienced what they called a bat qol (literally, ‘Daughter of the Voice’), a form of inspiration that had replaced the more direct prophetic revelations.  Rabbi Yohannan ben Zakkai had heard such a bat qol confirming his own mission on the occasion when the Holy Spirit had descended upon him and his disciples in the form of fire.  Jesus himself used to call himself ‘the Son of Man’.  There has been much controversy about this title but it seems that the original Aramaic phrase (bar nasha) simply stressed the weakness and mortality of the human condition.  If this is so, Jesus seems to have gone out of his way to emphasise [sic] that he was a frail human being who would one day suffer and die.¹

That’s Karen Armstrong, “former Roman Catholic nun”, “Dame of the British Empire” and “Fellow” of the “Royal Society of Literature”.  Armstrong is 79 and never married.

Unfortunately for her, none of her accolades or convent experiences showed her how to read a non-Catholic Bible.

All you need to do is pick up on the interplay between Jesus and devout or pious Jews.

Matthew 9:1-8
1 And entering into the boat, He passed over and came to His own city.² 2 And, behold!  They were bringing a paralytic lying on a cot to Him.  And seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “Be comforted, child.  Your sins have been forgiven you.”
3 And, behold, some of the scribes said within themselves, “This one blasphemes.”
4 And seeing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?”³ 5 “For what is easier, to say, ‘Your sins have been forgiven you’; or to say, ‘Rise up and walk?’”
6 “But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on Earth⁴ to forgive sins”, then He said to the paralytic, “Rising up, lift up your cot and go to your house.”
7 And rising up, he went away to his house.
8 And seeing, the crowds marveled, and they glorified God who gave such authority to men.
Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993

There is much controversy in the field of apologetics regarding the existence of miracles.  A “miracle” can be defined as Divine suspension and/or intervention of/in the natural order.  Such intervention is extremely rare and what better reason for YHWH to directly intervene in His Own natural order than to validate the Identity of His Son?

If you miss this interplay, the very threats on His Life for “blasphemy” will accent the incident!

John 8:31-59
31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in My Word, you are truly My disciples,”
32 “and you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.”
33 They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone.  How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.”
35 “The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.”
36 “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
37 “I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill Me because My Word finds no place in you.”
38 “I speak of what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.”  Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,”
40 “but now you seek to kill Me, a man who has told you the Truth that I heard from God.  This is not what Abraham did.”
41 “You are doing the works your father did.”  They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality.  We have one Father—even God.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I came from God and I Am here.  I came not of My Own Accord, but He sent Me.”
43 “Why do you not understand what I say?  It is because you cannot bear to hear My Word.”
44 “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him.  When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
45 “But because I tell the Truth, you do not believe Me.”
46 “Which one of you convicts me of sin?  If I tell the Truth, why do you not believe me?”
47 “Whoever is of God hears the Words of God.  The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
48 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.”
50 “Yet I do not seek My Own glory; there is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.”
51 “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My Word, he will never see death.”
52 The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon!  Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps My Word, he will never taste death.’”
53 “Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died?  And the prophets died!  Who do You make Yourself out to be?”
54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My Glory is nothing.  It is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’”
55 “But you have not known Him.  I know Him.  If I were to say that I do not know Him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know Him and I keep His Word.”
56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My Day.  He saw it and was glad.”
57 So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am.”
59 So they picked up stones to throw at Him [to kill Him], but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the Temple.
English Standard Version⁵

What’s more, “son of man” (Son of Man) is actually an allusion to the beloved Prophet Daniel and his powerful vision of the four great beasts that complemented Nebuchadnezzar’s dream which he interpreted in Daniel 2.  His vision in Chapter 7 culminated in beholding a Divine Messiah with a very special title.

Daniel 7:13-14
13 I was looking in the night visions.  And behold!  One like the Son of Man came with the clouds of the heavens.  And He came to the Ancient of Days.  And they brought Him near before Him.
14 And dominion was given to Him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.  His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993

Looks like Dame Karen the unmarried former nun (and all like her) are wrong on all counts.

But there is another incident that humiliates Dame Karen and the skeptics even more and Jesus again alluded to Daniel with it.

Jesus was run through multiple illegal trials and the Jewish authorities were desperate to convict Him and put Him to death but they had nothing.

That is, until He gave them exactly what they were looking for.

Mark 14:53-64
53 And they led Jesus away to the High Priest.  And all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together to him.
54 And Peter followed Him from a distance, to the inside of the court of the High Priest.  And he was sitting with the under-officers, also warming himself near the light.
55 And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin sought testimony against Jesus, to put Him to death.  And they found none.
56 For many falsely testified against Him, but the testimonies were not identical.
57 And standing up, some falsely testified against Him, saying,
58 We heard Him saying, “I will throw down this temple made with hands, and through three days I will build another not made with hands.”
59 And neither in this was their testimony identical.
60 And standing in the middle, the High Priest questioned Jesus, saying, “Do you not answer?  Nothing?  What do these testify against you?”
61 But He was silent and answered nothing. [Isaiah 53:7]  Again the High Priest questioned Him, and said to Him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
62 And Jesus said, “I AM!  And you will see the Son of Man sitting off the Right Hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the Heaven.” [Psa. 110:1; Dan. 7:13]
63 And tearing his garments, the High Priest said, “Why do we still have need of witnesses?”
64 “You heard the blasphemy.  What does it seem to you?”  And they all condemned Him to be liable, even of death.
Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993⁶

If Jesus of Nazareth never claimed to be God He would never have been put to death.

These were not the only times Jesus made coded allusions to Daniel (who was, in his day, pointing back towards Christ).

Matthew 18:21-22
21 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?  As many as seven times?”
22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times!”
English Standard Version

Most would call this extravagance or exaggeration on behalf of Jesus, making the point that there is no end to forgiving a brother when the injure you and repent of it with you—which it is—but as with so many powerful passages it has a deeper, second meaning.

The allusion is to Daniel Chapter 9, more commonly known as “the Seventy Weeks of Daniel”—a prophecy so important it could be considered the most important of Messianic Promises.

Daniel 9:21-27
21 And while I was setting my prayer in order, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, touched me in my severe exhaustion about the time of the evening sacrifice.
22 And he enlightened me and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I have now come out to give you skill in understanding.
23 At the beginning of your prayers the word came forth, and I have come to explain it.  For you are greatly beloved.  Then understand the matter and pay attention to the vision:
24 Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people, and as to your Holy City, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for wickedness, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
25 Know, then, and understand that from the going out of a word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks and sixty two weeks.  The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction.
26 And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself.  And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.  And its end shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, and war shall be until the end.
27 And he [He] shall confirm a [the] covenant [Covenant] with the many for one week.  And in the middle of the week he [He] shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease.  And on a wing of the altar will be abominations that desolate, even until the end.  And that which was decreed shall pour out on the desolator.
Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993

“Seventy times seven” is a specific reference to Daniel 9:24 in which Gabriel tells Daniel just when to expect Messiah to appear!

Daniel 9:24
24 Shivi’im heptads [“seventy sevens”] is decreed upon thy people and upon thy Ir Kodesh (Holy City), to restrain the peysha (transgression), and to make an end of chattat (sin), and to make kapporah for avon, and to bring in Tzedek Olamim (Everlasting Righteousness), and to seal up the chazon and navi, and to anoint the Kodesh HaKodashim.
Orthodox Jewish Bible

There have been several interpretations of Daniel’s “Seventy Weeks”.  Perhaps the best known comes from a problematic source: Robert Anderson and his 1894 book The Coming Prince.

Sir Robert Anderson KCB [Knight Commander of the Royal Order of the Bath] (29 May 1841 – 15 November 1918) was the second Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police [also known as “Scotland Yard”], from 1888 to 1901.⁷

The Ripper

In his 1976 book Jack The Ripper: The Final Solution, journalist Stephen Knight implicated Robert Anderson as being involved in the Scotland Yard coverup of the Ripper murders.

But more directly associated were the Queen’s personal physician Sir William Gull and the then-Prime Minister of England, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3^rd Marquess of Salisbury (simply known as “Lord Salisbury”).

Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, known “lovingly” as “Prince Eddy” was a typical “Royal”: he had nothing to do but indulge his every urge and “learn the arts”.  Even that requirement of his effort was forced upon him by his mother, “Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India”.

“Prince Eddy’s” main past-time was “Turkish baths” and homosexual sex with young men but he found time to fall in love with a poor and illiterate Irish Catholic woman named Annie Elizabeth Crook.  Crook resembled Albert Victor’s mother and he clung to her for stability, quickly siring an illegitimate daughter by her, Alice Margaret, on 18 April 1885.  Albert Victor would go on to marry Crook in both Anglican and Catholic ceremonies.

Yet try as they might to keep it secret, they were unable to and the scandal threatened to destroy the “House of Windsor”.

The Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701 restrict succession to the throne to the legitimate Protestant descendants of Sophia of Hanover who are in “communion with the Church of England“.^[1]  Spouses of Catholics were disqualified from 1689 until the law was amended in 2015.⁸

Both the Roman Catholic Church and the British Royals turned to Freemasonry for a solution and it was a vicious one.  Both Annie and Eddy were kidnapped by police disguised as “ruffians”.  The Queen’s personal physician, our Freemason William Gull, lobotomized Annie and Albert Victor was kept in seclusion.

Unfortunately, Annie had a friend—Mary Jean (“Marie Jeanette”) Kelly—who had nursed little Alice Margaret.  She was poor and would moonlight as a prostitute to supplement her living and she saw this as an opportunity to blackmail the artist who had put the two together, Walter Sickert, and, ultimately the “Royal family”.

Kelly was aided by several other poor women, all prostitutes.  The Royal Freemasons, enabled by their “brothers” in Scotland Yard, to include Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Charles Warren, tracked down the women.  Each was drugged and then brutally murdered with each body grotesquely left with Freemasonic symbolism such as entrails tossed over the left shoulder.

Unfortunately for her, the fourth victim (Catherine Eddowes) wasn’t even a blackmailer.  She had occasionally used the surname of a lover, John Kelly, and had been mistaken for Mary Kelly.  Kelly was ultimately hunted down and her body was carved the most viciously of all.

In his 2013 book The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality, my friend John Hamer states that William Gull had an accomplice: Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill.

Prior to the 1888 murder-spree, Spencer-Churchill had been the Tory Leader of the House of Commons and then Chancellor of the Exchequer (Britain’s top financial official).

He was a Freemason and the father of future Prime Minister Winston Churchill; also a Freemason.

In another effort to the newest of never-ending slaughters, the “Global War on Terror”, Skull and Bones Bush President No. 43 (not to be confused with Skull and Bones Bush President No. 41, bracketing their CIA cocaine buddy William Jefferson [Rockefeller] Clinton), stated of Churchill:

He said, “History will be kind to me — for I intend to write it.”  (Laughter.) History has been kind to Winston Churchill…

[Shriner Freemason] Franklin Roosevelt … once wrote to [Churchill], “It is fun to be in the same decade with you.” [Wounded, maimed, raped, mentally and emotionally ruined not included, combined death tolls of the second Roman Catholic Thirty Years War, “World Wars 1 & 2” just short of ONE BILLION human beings.] …

He was a prisoner in the Boer War, a controversial strategist in the Great War.  He was the rallying voice of the Second World War, and a prophet of the Cold War.

With the Jesuitical spin of “controversial strategist”, what Skull and Bones Bush 43 was actually saying is that “First Lord of the Admiralty” Churchill was personally responsible for the slaughter of 2,000 men, woman and children on board the RMS Lusitania.  At the same time (1915), Churchill was also responsible for the deaths of a quarter of a million human beings for his “Gallipoli campaign”.  It was a resounding slaughter for the British, French and Russian “Allies” against the Ottoman Turks and yet Churchill rose [was elevated] to Prime Minister for the bigger slaughter of “World War II”.

Churchill had, in fact, used his family influence to give himself an adventurous “taste of danger” and he survived with some stories to tell.

The two take-aways from that are:

1. Even people with adventuresome stories in their resumes can still be compromised, cowardly killers.
2. It’s fun when you have to use your blue blood to experience danger, have tea served to you and come right back home. That’s not how it works for the common men who die or get maimed just so that those same Elite can get even more wealthy.

Plausible Deniability

Knight did state that, if Robert Anderson had participated in the brutal “Ripper” assassinations, it was in the cover-up and he took no active part in the grisly murders.  Given Anderson’s position as a deputy chief law enforcement officer, this is no mark of integrity.

As for poor Stephen Knight, John Hamer states:

In the late 1970s, a researcher and author, Stephen Knight, managed to obtain limited access to the ‘Ripper’ files but discovered that there were many gaps in the records.  Despite this, he still managed to unearth new leads and information based upon which he wrote a book ‘Jack the Ripper – the final solution’.  Unfortunately before publication, many of the more incriminating parts were ‘stolen’ and in those days, before personal computers were commonplace, he had no back-ups or copies as protection. After the book was eventually published, minus the more incriminating information, he published another book.  ‘The Brotherhood’ which exposed the gross corruption and illegality prevalent in the freemasonic movement and shortly afterwards he was dead – allegedly poisoned, but of course no arrests were ever made.⁹

Knight was 33.

The Coming Prince

Do the allegations against Robert Anderson mean his deciphering the Seventy Weeks prophecy in Daniel 9 can not be trusted?  We must approach it with the proper skepticism because Anderson’s computations make a very strong case.

The critical point of the prophecy is “when to start the clock” but there is an even more important point missing by men like William Miller, Master Mason founder of Seventh Day Adventism: “What kind of clock do we use?”

When Miller repeatedly prophesied the return of Jesus Christ based upon Daniel 8:14—in direct contravention of Christ’s warning Matthew 24:36—he used the purposefully convoluted calendar of Jesuit Christopher Clavius.  As a quick aside, the phrase “nor the Son” placed at the end of “no man knows the day or the hour” is not found in reliable manuscripts and Desiderius Erasmus did not include it in his Textus Receptus (the foundation of the 1611 Authorized Version).

“Know therefore and discern that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks: it shall be built again with street and moat, even in troublous times.”^[17]

Now it is an undisputed fact that Jerusalem was rebuilt by Nehemiah, under an edict issued by Arta-xerxes (Longimanus), in the twentieth year of his reign.  Therefore, notwithstanding the doubts which controversy throws upon everything, the conclusion is obvious and irresistible that this was the epoch of the prophetic period.  But the month date was Nisan, and the sacred year of the Jews began with the phases of the Paschal moon.  I appealed, therefore, to the Astronomer Royal, the late Sir George Airy, to calculate for me the moon’s place for March in the year in question, and I thus ascertained the date required — March 14^th, B.C. 445.

This being settled, one question only remained: Of what kind of year does the era consist?  And the answer to this is definite and clear. That it is the ancient year of 360 days is plainly proved in two ways.  First, because, according to Daniel and the Apocalypse, 3 ½ prophetic years are equal to 1, 260 days; and, secondly, because it can be proved that the 70 years of the “Desolations” were of this character; and the connection between the period of the “Desolations” and the era of the “weeks” is one of the few universally admitted facts in this controversy.  The “Desolations” began on the 10^th Tebeth, B.C. 589 (a day which for four-and-twenty centuries has been commemorated by the Jews as a fast), and ended on the 24^th Chisleu, B.C. 520.

Having thus settled the terminus a quo of the “weeks,” and the form of year of which they are composed, nothing remains but to calculate the duration of the era.  Its terminus ad quem can thus with certainty be ascertained.  Now 483 years (69 x 7) of 360 days contain 173, 880 days.  And a period of 173, 880 days, beginning March 14^th, B.C. 445, ended upon that Sunday in the week of the crucifixion [6 April 32 A.D.], when, for the first and only time in His ministry, the Lord Jesus Christ, in fulfillment of Zechariah’s prophecy, made a public entry into Jerusalem, and caused His Messiahship to be openly proclaimed by “the whole multitude of the disciples.” (Luke 19)¹⁰

It should be noted that not even the best translations available, which are mostly Erasmus Textus Receptus derived such as the 1611 Authorized Version, do not handle the pronouns in verse 27 with proper understanding.

Daniel 9:25-27
25 Know, then, and understand that from the going out of a word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks and sixty two weeks.  The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction.
26 And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself.  And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city [“City”: there’s only one Jerusalem] and the sanctuary [“Sanctuary”: there were two Temples but each was unique in its day serving a single, unique purpose just as the Tabernacle of Moses and Aaron did].  And its end shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, and war shall be until the end.
27 And he [He: the Messiah!] shall confirm a covenant [THE Covenant!] with the many for one week.  And in the middle of the week he [He] shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. [Messiah will stop the sacrifice by fulfilling it with His Own!]  And on a wing of the altar will be abominations that desolate, even until the end. [Here’s the tricky part: Messiah fulfilled the Sacrifice and cursed the Temple but the Antichrist Romans ended the Sacrifice in 70 A.D.]  And that which was decreed shall pour out on the desolator. [Even though Rome carried out Messiah’s Curse, she did it of her own accord, not for Him.  She shall drink twice the cup from which she forced upon others—Revelation 18:6.] Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993

When Christ Openly Referenced Daniel, It Was STILL Coded!

Matthew 24:1-25
1 And going out, Jesus left the Temple.  And His disciples came to show Him the buildings of the Temple.
2 But Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things?  Truly I say to you, ‘There will not at all be left one stone on a stone which in no way will not be thrown down.’”
3 And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be?”  And, “What is the Sign of Your return and of the end of the age?”
4 And answering, Jesus said to them, “See that not any leads you astray.”
5 “For many will come in My Name, saying, I am the Christ.  And they will cause many to be led astray.”
6 “But you are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars.  See, do not be terrified.  For all things must take place, but the end is not yet.”
7 “For nation will be raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines and plagues and earthquakes against many places.”
8 “But all these are a beginning of throes.”
9 “Then they will deliver you up to affliction, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My Name’s Sake.”
10 “And then many will be offended, and they will deliver up one another and will hate one another.”
11 “And many false prophets will be raised and will cause many to err.”
12 “And because lawlessness shall have been multiplied, the love of the many will grow cold.”
13 “But the one who endures to the end, that one will be kept safe.”
14 “And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the Earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end.”
15 “Then when you see the Abomination of Desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the Holy Place (the one reading, let him understand),” [Dan. 11:31; 12:11—references by Green which should include 9:27]
16 “then let those in Judea flee on the mountains;”
17 “the one on the housetop, let him not come down to take anything out of his house;”
18 “and the one in the field, let him not turn back to take his garment.”
19 “But woe to the woman having a child in womb, and to those suckling in those days!”
20 “And pray that your flight will not be in winter nor on a Sabbath.”
21 “For there will be great affliction, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.”
22 “And except those days were shortened, not any flesh would be saved.  But on account of the Elect, those days will be shortened.”
23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ!’ Or, ‘Here!’  Do not believe.”
24 “For false christs and false prophets will rise up.  And they will give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the Elect.”
25 “Behold, I tell you beforehand.”
Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993¹¹

There have been many guesses as to what Jesus is referencing but those who believed in Jesus as the Christ were given a clear sign during the Zealot rebellion of 68 A.D.

In 66 A.D. the Roman Procurator Gessius Florus was annoyed at the paucity of tax returns.  He made up what he felt was the difference with wealth he forcibly stole from the Temple treasury.

This incited the Zealots to revolt and forced Gessius Florus to flee.

It is a fascinating twist that the Zealots were areligious and had nothing but disdain for the Temple and the Priesthood.

The nation was split amongst several factions so the Zealots recruited Idumeans (Edomites, the children of Esau) to bolster their numbers.

According to the Jewish historian Josephus (who defected to the Romans when they arrived two years later) there was a great slaughter, even within the Temple, defiling it, starting with leading citizen Zacharias ben Baruch.

It is at this point that a direct quote by Josephus is again in order:

“These men trampled upon all the laws of men and laughed at the laws of God.  And as for the oracles of the prophets, they ridiculed them as the tricks of a juggler.”

“There was a certain ancient oracle of those men, that the city should then be taken and the sanctuary burnt, by right of war, when a sedition should invade the Jews, and their own hand should pollute the temple of God.”

[My Personal Note]: I find this last quote interesting.  What prophecy was Josephus talking about?  I do know, though, as we read in the Olivet Discourse in Mark 13, Matthew 24, and Luke 21, that Jesus did prophesy that the temple would be destroyed in language rather similar to this.¹²

Next, Legate of Syria, Cestius Gallus, brought the XII Legion to besiege Jerusalem.  Surprisingly, he underestimated the defenders and lost as many as 6,000 soldiers in his failure.

This encouraged the Jews to fortify their positions as Emperor Nero dispatched Vespasian to Palestine.

Vespasian brutally and methodically crushed his way towards Jerusalem but he, too, was interrupted by the death of Nero on 9 June 68 A.D.  Rome was embroiled in a leadership struggle that saw four men ascend the throne: Galba (who was assassinated), Otho (committed suicide), Vitellius (murdered by Vespasian supporters) and then Vespasian, himself, who ruled from 69 to 79 A.D.

All of this turmoil, much of it focused on the Temple, provided followers of Christ multiple opportunities to heed His Warnings and flee the city before it’s fiery end in 70 A.D.

Beyond Chapter 9, verse 27, there are two more references in Daniel to Temple desolation.

Daniel 9:27 seems clearly to be concerning the Temple’s destruction in 70 A.D. by the “people of the prince to come”.  Just ask any Pope if his lineage includes the military Roman Empire and he’ll just smile.

The reference in Daniel Chapter 12 seems as if it could be related to the crimes of Seleucid ruler (Seleucus I, one of Alexander’s four succeeding generals) Antiochus IV Epiphanes, his suppression of Judaism, profaning the Temple and successful revolt by Levite Priest Mattathias and his son Judas Maccabeus.

11 And from the time the regular sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that desolates set up, a thousand, two hundred and ninety days shall occur.

The dates between Antiochus’ sacrifice to Zeus in the Temple and the cleansing of the Temple by Maccabeus is attested by outside sources to be close enough for a precise fulfillment (depending upon who sets what date and does which counting).

Daniel Chapter 11 involves the kings of the North and South.  It is the king of the North who also defiles the Temple.

Daniel 11:31-32
31 And forces will stand away from him, and they will profane the Sanctuary, the fortress.  And they shall remove the regular Sacrifice, and they will place the abomination that desolates.
32 And he will defile by flatteries those who do evil against the Covenant.  But the people who know their God will be strong and will work.
Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993¹³

The key to the identity of the King of the North can be found in phrases like “defile by flatteries” and how the King of the North contrives war with the King of the South by the two sitting at the same table. [Daniel 11:27]

The purpose of the Tabernacle and first two Temples was to provide a conduit from YHWH to the people through the Levitical Priesthood but it was not a direct conduit and one that required strict regulations of cleansing and hierarchy.

Paul repeatedly explained in several passages that the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ turns each Believer into their own Temple, capable of direct interaction with YHWH by His Blood! [I Corinthians 3:9, 3:16-17, 6:19, II Corinthians 6:16, Ephesians 2:21]

The King of the North is the Papal Antichrist, the same Antichrist predicted by Jesus who would speak in His Name, as all Popes blasphemously claim when they pronounce “Ex cathedra”, “from the Chair”.

II Thessalonians 2:1-4
1 And, brothers, we entreat you, by the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together to Him,
2 for you not to be quickly shaken in the mind, nor to be disturbed, neither through a spirit, nor through speech, nor through letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ has come.
3 Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, because that Day will not come unless first comes the falling away, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 the one opposing and exalting himself over everything being called God, or object of worship, so as for him “to sit in the temple of God” as God, proclaiming that he himself is God. [Dan. 11:36; Eze. 28:2] Jay P. Green’s Literal Translation 1993

There was no “chair” in the Holy of Holies.  It was blasphemy for the High Priest to sit in the Sanctuary.

But all Popes are conveyed with great pomp in their “Throne of Saint Peter”.

Some of them, like Eugenio “Pius XII” Pacelli, reveled in it repeatedly.

There can never be a physical Abomination of Desolation because Messiah cursed the City and Sanctuary—

Matthew 23:37-24:2
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it!  How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”
38 “See, your house is left to you desolate.”
39 “For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Chapter 24

1 Jesus left the Temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the Temple.
2 But He answered them, “You see all these, do you not?  Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
English Standard Version¹⁴

—never to be rebuilt—

Galatians 2:18
18. If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.
Berean Standard Bible

The Abomination of Desolation is the destruction of Christ’s Sacrifice by deception.  The Papal Son of Perdition—a title of betrayal the Papacy shares with Judas Iscariot (John 17:12, Authorized Version)—claims it is the “Vicar of Christ on Earth”.¹⁵

There are many soul-traps laid out by the Catholic Church, not the least of which is “Mary, Mother of God, Co-Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix, the Queen of Heaven”.  Interestingly, the Apostle Paul had already defeated the majority of these traps that were also shared by the Jews of his day in the letter to the Hebrews¹⁶: worship of angels, prayers to the dead, wrongfully equating Jesus as equal to a Priest when He is the High Priest, King of kings and Lord of lords. [Revelation 22:13]  That is why the Roman Catholic Church suppressed the Bible for a thousand years and tortured anyone “unauthorized” to have one, found with one.

Daniel Demoted

There are only two men in Scripture to be given the special title of “beloved” by God.  One is John the Apostle.  The other is the Prophet Daniel.  John and Daniel are the premier sources for both the identity of Jesus of Nazareth as Christ and Papal Rome as Antichrist.

As a result, modern “Judaism” refuses to acknowledge Daniel amongst the Prophets and it is he who will condemn them before the King of kings.

Human beings broadly desire communion with the intransient (to interact with spirits).  Many would consider this common, innate desire proof that inter-dimensional agencies (“angels”, “demons” and God) exist.  “Why do so many people in so many places all want to interact with spirits?  Our souls must drive us to it.”

Christians do have an answer to this question: that we have been created by God with a hole in our souls and hearts that only Jesus Christ can fill.

Acts 17: 22-34 (King James 3, Literal)

Addressing the Areopagus
[Both a rock formation outside Athens and governmental body.]

22 And standing in the midst of the Areopagus, Paul said, “Men, Athenians, I see how you in everything are gods-fearing ones;”

23 “for passing through and looking up at the objects of your worship, I also found an altar on which had been written,”

“TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.”

“Therefore, not knowing Him whom you worship, I proclaim this One to you.”

24 “God, the One who made the world and all things in it, this One being Lord of Heaven and of Earth, does not dwell in temples made by hand,”

25 “nor is served by hands of men, as having need of anything.  For He is giving life and breath and all things to all.”

26 “And He made every nation of men of one blood, to live on all the face of the Earth, having determined fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,”

27 “to seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and might find Him, though indeed He not being far from each one of us.”

28 “For in Him we live and move and exist, as also some of the poets among you have said,”

“‘For we are also His offspring.’”

29 “Therefore being offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Deity is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and the imagination of man.”

30 “Indeed, therefore, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,”

31 “because He set a day in which ‘He is going to judge the inhabited Earth in righteousness,’ by a Man whom He appointed; having offered faith to all, having raised Him up from the dead.” [Psa. 9:8]

32 “And hearing of a resurrection of the dead, the ones indeed ridiculed, but said, ‘We will hear you again concerning this.’”

33 “And so Paul went out from their midst.”

34 “But some men believed, joining themselves to him, among whom also were both Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.”

The trap of “New Age” is the idea that there is no such thing as a negative spiritual experience.  It is like inviting a toddler to swim in a swamp filled with alligators.

There are many stories of bad experiences where victims were duped or tricked by something they thought they knew or they thought was friendly towards them; a dead loved one, perhaps — something that knew their personal details to gain their confidence.

This is why their god is the great voyeur with a single “all-seeing” eye.

Not surprisingly, Jesuits have been on the forefront of this deadly deception.

None other than Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is considered the “father of the New Age”.

What is particularly disturbing about all of this is that the Club of Rome is being spiritually driven-spiritually as in occultism.  On pages 151 and 152 of Mankind at the Turning Point, Aurelio Peccei reveals his pantheistic/New Age beliefs, talking about man’s communion with nature and the transcendent and using the term “noosphere” in referring to the collective field of intelligence of the human race.  This uncommon expression cannot be found in a dictionary.  By use of the term “noosphere” Peccei gives himself away as a student of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest (now deceased) whose occult ideas and writings, I would later discover, have had a deep impact on the New Age movement.  In fact, Chardin is one of the most frequently quoted writers by leading New Age occultists. ~ Gary Kah¹

Promoted lovingly as “Teilhard”, de Chardin was exceptionally dangerous, encouraging non-Christians that all will “ascend to the Omega Point” regardless of their path and none need to fear making decisions that will lead them to eternal damnation.

Pierre de Chardin has a long history of malignant and Satanic deception in Jesuit warfare against Christ and the Bible.  When critics of Darwinian evolution began to question the “fossil evidence” for “mutating from ape into man”, de Chardin utilized Jesuit relic aging techniques [notice how this article from the appropriately-named “Vice” calls this practice “Christian”] to create a phony “Missing Link” known as “Piltdown Man”.

Malignant minions of Satan like Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are the one inviting foolish experimenters to take LSD and ayahuasca to close their eyes and enter the “Age of Aquarius”.

But what they all eventually find is broken dreams at best, damnation and ruin at worst.

Genesis 17:1-14
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.”
2 “And I will make My Covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying:
4 “As for Me, behold, My Covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.”
5 “No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.”
6 “I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.”
7 “And I will establish My Covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting Covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.”
8 “Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
9 And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My Covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.”
10 “This is My Covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised;”
11 “and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the Covenant between Me and you.”
12 “He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.”
13 “He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My Covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting Covenant.”
14 “And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My Covenant.”
New King James Version [capitalization corrections added]

The Jews corporately denied Yeshua as their Messiah and He cursed the religion His Father gave them that was meant to prepare them for Him (and do nothing more).

Mark 13:1-2
1 Then as He went out of the Temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!”
2 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

This was fulfilled by the Roman invasion of Judea by Titus Vespasian in 70 A.D.

Apparently, there is a forgery in the Annals of Josephus that embellishes how “gold in the Temple, when it caught fire, melted into the cracks of the stones and Roman soldiers tore them apart to get at it.”  As usual, this wasn’t necessary.  An order came directly from Cesar to level the Temple and the city with a few exceptions.

Now as soon as the army had no more people to slay or to plunder, because there remained none to be the objects of their fury, (for they would not have spared any, had there remained any other work to be done,) Caesar gave orders that they should now demolish the entire city and temple, but should leave as many of the towers standing as were of the greatest eminency; that is, Phasaelus, and Hippicus, and Mariamne; and so much of the wall as enclosed the city on the west side.  This wall was spared, in order to afford a camp for such as were to lie in garrison, as were the towers also spared, in order to demonstrate to posterity what kind of city it was, and how well fortified, which the Roman valor had subdued; but for all the rest of the wall, it was so thoroughly laid even with the ground by those that dug it up to the foundation, that there was left nothing to make those that came thither believe it had ever been inhabited. This was the end which Jerusalem came to by the madness of those that were for innovations; a city otherwise of great magnificence, and of mighty fame among all mankind.

The “Wailing Wall”, worshipped by Jews as a remnant of the Temple has been “debunked” as a portion of the Roman Antonia Fortress.

The Jews, themselves, made this horrible promise to Pilate that the execution of this innocent Rabbi was on them and their children!

Matthew 27:15-26
15 Now at the Feast the Governor was accustomed to releasing to the multitude one prisoner whom they wished.
16 And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
17 Therefore, when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you?  Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”
18 For he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy.
19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that just Man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.”
20 But the chief Priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
21 The Governor answered and said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?”

They said, “Barabbas!”

22 Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?”

They all said to him, “Let Him be crucified!”

23 Then the governor said, “Why, what evil has He done?”

But they cried out all the more, saying, “Let Him be crucified!”

24 When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person.  You see to it.”
25 And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children.”
26 Then he released Barabbas to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.

The foundation of Judaism was their Temple where all their sins were regularly (but incompletely) “atoned for” by the Levitical Priesthood.

Yet the Mosaic law of animal sacrifices was an imperfect model of the One Sacrifice of the Son of God.

Romans 8:1-8
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh [sinning as our bodies or “flesh” tell us to], but according to the Spirit.
2 For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of sin and death.
3 For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His Own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh [a man], on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh [thinking they can earn their way into Heaven by strictly obeying the Law of Moses, but that is impossible], but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded [believing you can earn your way into Heaven by good works] is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

There was a heresy amongst early Christians that said, “You can only be Saved if you have Jesus and you are Jewish” (keeping the Law, requiring circumcision to enter Heaven!) and Paul vehemently attacked these “Judaizers”.

Galatians 3:1-14
1 O foolish Galatians!  Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the Truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? [By His crucifixion, His Perfect Nature was punished for our sins.] 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law [perfectly obeying the Law of Moses which is impossible], or by the hearing of faith? [Salvation is a free Gift by faith in Christ, Ephesians 2:8-9] 3 Are you so foolish?  Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so many things in vain — if indeed it was in vain?
5 Therefore He [Jesus of Nazareth] who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith? — [the Son, as a limited man, had faith in His Father to empower Him] 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” [Abraham was not a “Jew” though he is accounted as the first Jew amongst Israel!] 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. [This is critical: anyone who makes a decision to accept Jesus Christ, regardless of their lineage, ethnicity or religion becomes a child of Abraham and those who don’t accept Jesus are not “Jews”.] 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”
9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. [There are no “promises” to “Jews” through Abraham. Jesus of Nazareth is his Promise!] 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”
12 Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

In this same letter to the Christians in Galatia, Paul specifically attacks circumcision as “proof” of being Saved.

Galatians 5:1-6
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. [If you’re trying to earn your Salvation by being a perfect Jew, you won’t succeed and the easier, more perfect Path will be unavailable to you!] 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole Law. [Once you start down this path of earning your Salvation, you are locked into a way that will only bring you death and damnation!] 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by Law; you have fallen from Grace. [You are damned and condemned!] 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

It is amazing how many Christians have fallen for the charade that is “modern Israel”.  Meanwhile, their own Bibles say that they are blaspheming their Savior when they promote the Jesuit heresy that “Jews” even exist and that they have special “promises” that transcend the fact that 1) they killed their Messiah 2) they still deny Him.

BLASPHEMY.

You may respond, “But the Bible says there will be a third Temple and the Levitical Priesthood will once again have animal sacrifices!”

But does it?

Recently, I came across the following news:

St. Bernadette’s relics to begin first tour to U.S. in Florida in April – Catholic News Service

MIAMI (CNS) — The relics of St. Bernadette, the Marian visionary of Lourdes, France, will tour the United States for the first time.

The visit will begin in South Florida at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Miami, with a morning welcome Mass April 7.  The next day the relics will visit St. Bernadette Church in Hollywood, Florida, then return to Our Lady of Lourdes Church.

On April 11, Monday of Holy Week, Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami will celebrate an evening Mass at the church, which will be followed by a candlelight procession. The relics will stay at Our Lady of Lourdes until April 18, Easter Monday, when a multilingual farewell Mass will be celebrated.

The relics will go to two other Florida dioceses, Palm Beach and St. Petersburg, and then zigzag across the country to 23 other dioceses, visiting 34 churches, cathedrals and shrines. The last stop is St. Bernadette Church in Los Angeles July 31-Aug. 4. …

The Vatican has granted a plenary indulgence for those visiting the relics during the tour. During the Miami stay, Masses will be offered daily at Our Lady of Lourdes along with “le geste de l’eau,” the water of Lourdes.

Mainstream sources tell us these “relics” have been used in “Christian” worship for centuries.  In that, acknowledging that the use of relics are perverse, pagan and occultic splatters all of Christendom.

Christianity – Relics and saints | Britannica

The cult (system of religious beliefs and rituals) of the saints emerged in the 3^rd century and gained momentum from the 4^th to the 6^th century.  The bones of martyrs were believed to provide evidence of God’s power at work in the world, producing miracles and spectacles of the effectiveness of faith.  The martyrs had imitated Christ even unto death, and the remains of their holy bodies were thought to be points of contact between earth and heaven.  On the model of Christ’s Incarnation, the bones of martyred saints embodied God’s salvific power and thus became the centre of active cults.  Relics were installed in basilicas or in special churches called martyria.  The tombs of martyrs, on the margins of cities and towns, attracted pilgrims and processions.  Legends described the prodigious virtues of martyrs and saints, as well as the dreams or visions that revealed the resting places of still more powerful relics.  Each discovery (inventio) promised new and effective signs of divine redemption.  Returning from distant places, especially Rome, pilgrims brought relics to their home churches.  Thus, during the 8^th century, bones and other relics were moved from southern Europe to the north and west.

A “Christian” venerates the “relics” of “Saint” Maria Goretti.  Karen Callaway/Catholic New World

Obviously, it is Roman Catholicism that makes these “relics” a vital part of its rituals.

Even more offensive is the concept that there are Catholic “martyrs” when it is Rome that has slaughtered more Christians than any other empire (military and religious Rome).

The Business of Relics (itakehistory.com)

Religious relics were an important part of the spiritual life of Medieval Christians.  The word relic derives from the Latin word “reliquiae” meaning “remains”.  There were two types of relics: the actual physical remains of a saint or an object that came in contact with the saint during his or her lifetime.  The veneration of saints and their relics is as old as Christianity, and it developed alongside the new religion during those formative first centuries.

By spinning these practices as “Christian”, the crimes of Rome can also be spun regardless of how they fly in the face of reality.  Whilst Popes like Innocent III sent French, Italian and Spanish soldiers to slaughter European Waldensian and Albigensian Christians in Europe, today, Catholic Crusades are “Christian” and these “Christians” mercilessly victimize Muslims and Jews.

Another tactic to legitimize deception is to state “early Church Fathers all did it!”  Rarely will that follow a citation of specifically what “Father” and why they are even considered a “Father”.

Baptist scholar Dave Hunt noted that this is a tactic often used by the Vatican.

To enhance their power they [devious Catholic clergy] issued a host of false documents which purported to be the writings of early Church Fathers and decrees of early synods. One self-serving theme of these forgeries was the claim that the popes had inherited “innocence and sanctity from Peter” and could not be judged by any man.¹

It is human nature to lose sight of the intransient, spiritual nature of our relationships with Christ and focus on the transient and the physical.

From there, heresies and misperceptions run rampant.

One of the first attacks upon the new Christians (shortly after Christ ascended) was that of Simon the sorcerer who sought to purchase the Power of the Gospel for manipulation and self-aggrandizement.

Acts 8:9-25
9 But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great,
10 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.”
11 And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time.
12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the Name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.
13 Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done.
14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,
15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
16 For as yet He had fallen upon none of them.  They had only been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
17 Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
18 And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,
19 saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
20 But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the Gift of God could be purchased with money!”
21 “You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the Sight of God.”
22 “Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.”
23 “For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by sin.”
24 Then Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.”
25 So when they had testified and preached the Word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the Gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

Many Christians are unaware that Simon was a Believer.  He saw the Holy Spirit as “magic” to be wielded for his own fame but the Spirit empowers us only when we empty ourselves and seek to be used by Him for His Purposes.

The Catholic Church has fabricated “relics” to hold the same power.

Relics have a dangerous appeal to the human mind.  Even though we are commanded to believe, have faith, and put our trust in Jesus, the flesh always want to have proof or a connection to God; to have something palpable that can be touched or felt and that have “magical powers”.  The trap is that your faith mutates into a fixation on the physical that you erroneously believe connects you to God when it should be a simple but intimate relationship very similar to a marriage (which is why the Apostle John frequently uses marriage metaphors in his writing).  Our Israelite forebears regularly fell into this trap and it was always encouraged by the paganism of Middle Eastern cultures from Canaan to Egypt.

As if the destruction of souls wasn’t enough for Rome, she capitalizes further on the practice by bilking foolish Catholics into spending hard-earned money on utter fraud.

Martin Luther, himself, complained that there were so many pieces of “Christ’s cross” being traded by clergy he could build a mausoleum out of them all.

Even today, a quick online search will find the hair of the “Virgin Mary” for $2,000 or pieces of clothing supposedly worn by Peter and Paul for a couple hundred more.  For the one that is in need of more “blessings”, there’s an opportunity to acquire 50 relics for only $12,850 (Important Antique Reliquary 50 Relics True Cross 12 Apostles 4 Evangelists Theca | eBay).

If your schooling hasn’t yet destroyed your capacity for critical thought, and you realize that the “heart of Saint Cecelia” was actually last-year’s prize-winning freeze-dried turnip, mainstream media will gladly jump in to finally do its job and mock those ridiculous “Christian” beliefs.

The Weird and Fraudulent World of Catholic Relics (vice.com)

For centuries, some Christians have venerated the bodies and possessions of saints, but more often than not, there’s no way to tell whether something is St. Peter’s skull or a really old potato.

In the Sicilian region of Italy, in the town of Palermo, on the mountain dubbed Pellegrino, nestled inside a cave, inside a church, inside a small shrine, lie the bones of Saint Rosalia.

Her story is rare in the annals of Catholic sainthood, as she wasn’t martyred in a particularly grisly way.  Instead, when she was a young teenager, Rosalia devoted herself to Christ and lived as a hermit in a cave until dying, of natural causes, in 1160.  There, her bones lay for centuries, until a plague struck Palermo in 1624.  Residents began having visions of “the Little Saint,” and a hunter, looking for any kind of cure, went to her cave, dug up her bones, and paraded them through the streets.  The plague miraculously ceased. That was good enough to get her sainthood, turn her former abode into a place of worship, and for Sicilians to get on their knees and pray to this particular set of bones.

Just one problem: The bones in Saint Rosalia’s shrine belong to a goat.

And yet, as proof that Rome secretly runs both sides of the game, the same entertainment super-powers that mock “Christian” paganism delivers it up with millions of dollars of polish for adoration.

In 2018, Marvel comics and Disney wowed us all with the $400 million movie Avengers: Infinity War (which went on to gross $2 billion at the box office alone).  The ultimate super-villain “Thanos” (played by Josh Brolin from behind millions in computer graphics imaging, “CGI”).  Thanos seeks to re-assemble the 6 “Infinity Stones” and wield them to murder half of all the universe so that we can finally have relief from over-population and get lots of free carbon credits.  The question remains, “Where to put them all once you’ve got ‘em??”

Oddly, Marvel and Disney just happened to rely upon a Roman Catholic relic for the solution!

Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet looks eerily similar to a Catholic relic (aleteia.org)

The Infinity Gauntlet has been shown to be the most powerful object in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, if not the comics world as well. All of Marvel’s future films are bound to be touched by its influence and the events of the last two movies. What many of the fans who pack the theaters may not know, however, is that the real-life inspiration for the fictional glove of power appears to be a Catholic one.

When it comes to utilizing the power of the Infinity Gauntlet, intention matters. Now, thanks to a revelation by Curiosmos, we’re learning that this intention may be a commentary on religion, as a striking similarity has been noticed between the Infinity Gauntlet and the reliquary containing the incorrupt hand of the 16th-century Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Avila.

According to historical records, St. Teresa of Avila’s body was exhumed nine months after her death, when it was first observed that her body did not decay. Even though the passage of time had rotted her clothing, her remains were incorrupt, just as they had been when she died.

Relics from the Spanish saint were distributed for veneration, but her hand was stolen in 1936 by Francisco Franco, the Spanish military dictator. Franco reportedly took the relic with him everywhere he went and even slept with it on his nightstand.

The relic was recovered by nuns after Franco’s death in 1975. From there, the relic traveled to several convents until it found a permanent resting place in the Iglesia de la Merced, in the city of Ronda. It is now housed in a safe, locked room, set behind gilded silver and encrusted with jewels.

While it is still unconfirmed by Marvel that this relic was the influence of the most powerful object in the MCU, from a visual comparison, it seems likely that the Infinity Gauntlet, which harnesses the power of creation, has its roots in Catholicism.

It’s actually not so odd when you find out that powerful Jesuits like Leo OʹDonovan (chosen by rabidly-pro abortion Catholic “President” Joe Biden to give his “invocation”) ran the Disney Company from 1996 to 2007.

“The Human Stain” New York City Premiere After Party. Left-to-right:
Harvey Weinstein, Jesuit Priest Leo O’Donovan, Nicole Kidman, Guiseppe Cipriani.

The revelation that there is a “Saint Corona, the patron saint of pandemics” follows with less shock and (hopefully) far more cynicism.

Saint Corona

German cathedral prepares showcase for relics of Saint Corona, patron of epidemics | TheHill

A German cathedral is digging out its collection of relics related to “St. Corona,” the little-known patron saint of surviving epidemics, amid the global coronavirus outbreak.

Reuters reported that the Aachen Cathedral in Germany had already been planning to showcase relics and a shrine of St. Corona as part of an exhibition of gold craftsmanship, but has now accelerated those plans after the coincidentally-named outbreak began.

“We have brought the shrine out a bit earlier than planned and now we expect more interest due to the virus,” said a cathedral spokeswoman.

“Like many other saints, Saint Corona may be a source of hope in these difficult times,” added the head of the cathedral’s relics trove in a statement to Reuters.

A 14th-century painting of Saint Corona by the Master of Palazzo Venezia Madonna. Wikimedia/Statens Museum For Kunst

If you’ve read Johnny’s latest book, The Disciples of Ra!, the process of being “tested” and getting told that (even though you feel perfectly healthy) you have the “coronavirus” and must seclude yourself just as Jesuit founder Ignatius Loyola did.  As former Jesuit-trained Catholic President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said in 2012, “We’re all Jesuits now!”

Perhaps if you’re still feeling ill, you could always touch a relic or sleep with one to be healed!

Talking about those minions, you may find that most of them were trained by Jesuits.  One of the most important examples is one of the leading members of the White House Covid-19 Response team, “Dr.” Anthony Fauci.

Video: Dr. Anthony Fauci Addresses His Fellow Jesuit Educated Graduates – USA East Province (jesuitseast.org)

13 May 2020 – Regis High School alumnus Dr. Anthony Fauci, class of ‘58, recently record a video for the high school’s graduates of 2020.

Dr. Fauci has been a familiar face during the coronavirus pandemic because of his role as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In addition to being a Regis graduate, Dr. Fauci is also an alumnus of the College of the Holy Cross, class of ‘62.

“I became immersed in the intellectual rigor of a Jesuit education,” said Dr. Facui in the video. “Importantly, certain tenets of the Jesuit tradition have sustained me throughout my life and career.

I assume that back in 2018, if he were to be in Canada, he’d be in awe as one of his master’s arms toured the Maple Leave.  Cirucci Team host and investigative journalist Hawkeye keenly mentioned that just after Xavier’s arm crossed Canada, the Humboldt Broncos bus crashed after 5 p.m. on 6 April 2018 — 7 April, Francis Xavier’s birthday, in Rome. (Humboldt Broncos bus crash – Wikipedia).

Centuries-old arm of St. Francis Xavier touring Canada | CTV News

The severed arm of St. Francis Xavier, a Catholic missionary who died more than 400 years ago, is on a tour of Canada.

The arm and hand of the saint — which is said to have blessed and baptized thousands — has begun a one-month, tour of Canada, with the first of 15 stops held Wednesday at Notre-Dame Basilica in Quebec City.

This is first time the relic, which the Church considers sacred, has been put on display on Canadian soil. …

After St. Francis Xavier died in China in 1552, his corpse did not decompose.  The Catholic Church says the “incorruptibility” of Xavier’s body is a sign he was a saint.

Another of Xavier’s arm bones is kept at a church in Macau.  The rest of his remains are in a tomb in Goa, India, a former Portuguese colony where Xavier spent many years doing missionary work.

The right arm was severed from the rest of the saint’s remains in 1614 and encased in a silver reliquary before being sent to Rome.  The arm is normally kept on display at the Church of the Gesu in Rome, one of the first churches of the Jesuit Catholic order.

The Second Council of Nicaea in 787 decreed that every Catholic Church should contain a “relic” in their altar.  As 7^th Day Adventist Professor Walter Veith said in one of his lectures, dead bones are part of the foundation of every Catholic Church.  Supposedly, this is the organization whose leader is the “vicar of Christ” on Earth, and yet repeatedly, its teachings contradict with everything the Bible teaches.

Jesus said we should worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24) and the Lord is not the God of the dead, but of the living (Mark 12:27).  The Old Testament is filled of examples that proof that one of the attributes of God is jealousy (Exodus 34:14).  That means, He’s not willing to share your worship and veneration with anything or anyone, let alone a piece of bone.

Jesus also said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

There are no shortcuts.

Who Is The Antichrist? – Catholic Answers, Inc

Perhaps that’s because “Google” was “born” on the same day (September 27^th) that the Company of Loyola¹ were consecrated by Alessandro “Pope Paul III” Farnese² to become the inversely-named “Society of Jesus”: the Jesuits.³

Above it is an ad from “Lion & Lamb Ministries” but when you click on the ad it brings you to a general home page that doesn’t answer your question.  Instead you are encouraged to indulge in several false doctrines such as the “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”^{4, 5, 6}, “Dispensationalism”⁷ / “Zionism”^{8, 9}, Futurism^{10, 11}, etc.  These are heresies fabricated by the Catholic Church and her masters of deception, the Jesuits, to specifically obscure Rome as the answer to this question.

Third from the top might surprise you if you don’t know all the “facts”.  It’s from “Amazing Facts” and does disclose Rome as the Fourth and Final Beast, however, “Amazing Facts” is the Seventh Day Adventist ministry of Doug Batchelor.

Today, Adventists are the last Protestants in existence.  Sadly, only a handful of their preachers take even their own religion seriously, such as Professor Walter Veith.

As reward for his dedication, Veith has been marginalized by his religion’s hierarchy and banned from most Adventist forums.¹²

If Rome controls all media (and it does), you may wonder if Doug Batchelor has had some help and perhaps you might get the answer you seek if you’ve seen Batchelor’s teaching on “Heaven” and “Hell”.

In it, without explanation, he dresses in a suit split down the middle half black and half white.

The answer can be found in the alternating black and white floor tiles of any Masonic Hall.

In fact, Adventism was founded by Freemason William Miller who humiliated “Protestant” Christians by predicting the return of Jesus Christ in 1843.  When Christ didn’t appear, Miller re-predicted His Return the year following!

Miller was a member of “Morning Star No. 27” Lodge, the same Lodge was implicated in the disappearance of Freemason whistleblower Captain William Morgan in 1826.

There are no specific descriptions of the devil in the Christian Bible but most scholars consider Isaiah 14 to contain metaphors about the Great Adversary and verse 12 calls him the “shining son of the dawn”.¹³

Morning Star No. 27 Lodge has been erased from existence but there was such a Lodge founded in Poultney, Vermont, in the year 1807.¹⁴

It was both telling and appropriate for Batchelor to wear his super-villain costume when preaching on the “temporary” nature of Heaven and Hell as it is a Luciferian doctrine designed to encourage the Fallen that their punishment won’t last forever¹⁵ and to likewise dishearten the Saved as to their fleeting rewards.

A New Testament word search¹⁶ of “Eternal Life” or “Eternal Salvation” proves this categorically wrong and, given the damage it does, perhaps even heretical.

But when the Kindness and the Love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His Mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His Grace we should become heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life. ~ Titus 3:4-7

So who is the Antichrist?

Today, answers range from an artificial intelligence super-computer¹⁷ to a Muslim madman.

Christians live in a cloud of confusion but was there a time when the identity of the Antichrist was clear?

Any serious study should bring up this passage:

Now, brethren, concerning the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the Day of Christ had come.

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the Man of Sin is revealed, the Son of Perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God. ~ II Thessalonians 2:1-4¹⁸

Has there been a “falling away”?

Do we exist in a civilization where deception is the rule, not the exception?

Who is the “Man of Sin”?

He is also the “Son of Perdition” and that title is only mentioned in one other place.

When Jesus prays for His disciples, He calls the one disciple, Judas, who betrays Him by that same name.

The Antichrist, therefore, is someone intimately acquainted with Jesus Christ and the Gospel Message yet betrays and mocks Him.

And while He was still speaking, behold, a multitude; and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him.

But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” ~ Luke 22:47-48

The office of the Papacy clearly fulfills this prophecy and it is filled with men of the most debased and debauched natures.

In Rome, a de Medici was sitting in the Papal Seat; Giovanni di Lorenzo de´Medici (“Pope Leo X”). …

In 1488, Giovanni de Medici’s father, Lorenzo il Magnifico (“Lorenzo the Magnificent”), ruler of the Province of Florentine, prevailed upon his relative, Giovanni Battista Cybo (Pope Innocent VIII) to make his son a cardinal, which Cybo did.

Having bought Giovanni the cardinalcy at such a young age (13) he was forbidden to wear the insignia or deliberate as Cardinal for another 3 years.

In 1513, de Medici was “elected” Pope.  Clearly a political decision, after it was made, the College of Cardinals realized de Medici had never been ordained a priest.  This minor oversight was rectified on a date that proved the Papacy was far more “Roman” than “Christian” — the Ides of March (the 15^th) of that same year — the date memorialized as the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Medici maintained and even increased his lavish lifestyle which included the sexual perversions of the upper class.  Pope Leo was well-known as a “lover of boys”.

Leo X was said to have invited guests to lavish banquets with up to 65 courses at which little boys jumped naked out of puddings.

It was no secret Leo was “a lover of boys” who possessed also “an insatiable love of pleasure”.

Like Pope Paul II, Leo loved parades and his passion was to travel around Rome at the head of a long procession featuring panthers, jesters, and a white elephant called Hanno a gift from the King of Portugal.

Scholar Joseph McCabe said Leo was “a coarse, frivolous, cynical voluptuary, probably addicted to homosexual vice in the Vatican”.

Leo spent much of his childhood in numerous abbeys which, like many monasteries since the time of Leo III (795-816), had become homosexual haunts.

Even before he became pope, Leo X allegedly had been a practicing sodomite.

On the day of his election, Leo suffered from chronic ulcers [venereal skin ulcers, not of the stomach] and had to be carried into the conclave on a stretcher.

Not a few remarked that the ulcers had been caused by his “boyish predilections” … ~ D. Christie Sinton¹¹³

Medici was far from unique as a corrupt, immoral and depraved Pope.

Most Catholics go through life and never hear a word of reproach for any pope or member of the clergy.  Yet the recorded history of the lives of the clerical hierarchy bears no resemblance to its modern-day portrayal, and the true stories of the popes in particular are among the most misrepresented in religious history.

The Catholic historian and Archbishop of New York, John Cardinal Farley (d. c. 1916), subtly admitted that the “old legends of their dissolute lives may be partly true…that they didn’t sternly insist upon sexual virtue and injustice was a general license of the papal court, but it is probable that moral improvement was at the vanguard of their thinking” (Catholic Encyclopedia, Pecci ed., 1897, iii, p. 207).  The real character of the popes as a rule has been so falsely represented that many people don’t know that so many popes were not only decadent but were also the most savage and perfidious of military strategists ever known.  Cardinal Farley added this comment:

“The popes were temporal rulers of the civil territory and they naturally had recourse to force the re-establishment or extend the States of the Church until the conclusion of peace was confirmed … their attempts to purify particularly the Duchy of Rome caused them considerable distress and the need to resort to violence, but always on the side of mercy … lives were lost in the service of truth but the legal basis for the Christian Church to hold and transmit properties for the benefit of revenues was given to them [the popes] by Emperor Constantine in 312.” (Catholic Encyclopedia, Pecci ed., ii, pp. 157–169)

The comments of the cardinal warrant our attention, for within them rests a little-known story of the leaders of the Christian religion [not] and reveals that today’s presentation of popes as incorruptible moral oracles is untrue.  The hidden history of doctrinal foundations that permitted a papal alliance with conflict and licentiousness, and to what degree decadence among the clergy is “partly true”, provides for an extraordinary story — one that has no precedent or parallel in the history of world religions. ~ Bushby¹¹⁴

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Sergius III (? – 911) was accused of ordering the murders of his predecessor Pope Leo V and Antipope Christopher in prison. It is said that his mistress was the young Marozia (later to become a powerful Roman noblewoman), and it was their son who became Pope John XI in 931.¹¹⁵ ~ Shell Harris

Octavianus, the son of Alberic II, became Pope John XII in 955 AD.  “Former”, “former” Jesuit Malachi Martin said this about Octavianus —

John XII, perjured himself, breaking his oath to the … Emperor … he stole the Treasury of the Popes and fled to Rome’s enemies … was deposed by a Holy Synod and replaced by Pope Leo VIII … then the apostate returned to Rome, evicted Pope Leo VIII, cut off the nose and tongue and two fingers of the Cardinal-Deacon, flayed the skin off Bishop Otger, cut off the hands of Notary Azzo, and beheaded sixty-three of Rome’s clergy and nobility. … During the night of May 14, 964, while having illicit and filthy relations with a Roman matron, he was surprised in the act of sin by the matron’s angry husband who, in just wrath, smashed his skull with a hammer and thus liberated his evil soul into the grasp of Satan. …” ~ The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, Malachi Martin, p. 126¹¹⁶

Australian “entrepreneur” Tony Bushby is a vicious critic of Christianity and, as such, he (like his innumerable brethren) defames Christendom with the sins of Rome.^xxxv  This is a purposeful propaganda conflation and the culprits usually behind it reside in Rome!  Knowing that her sins are many, she seeks to use them to her advantage.^xxxvi

Bushby adds this on Octavianus —

…he opened his inglorious career by invoking pagan gods and goddesses as he flung the dice in gambling sessions. He toasted Satan during a drinking spree and put his notorious mistress/prostitute Marcia in charge of his brothel in the Lateran Palace (Antapodosis, ibid.).

He “liked to have around him a collection of Scarlet Women”, said the monk-chronicler Benedict of Soracte, and at his trial for the murder of an opponent his clergy swore on oath that he’d had incestuous relations with his sisters and had raped his nuns (Annals of Beneventum in the Monumenta Germaniae, v).¹¹⁷

Rome has done an excellent job covering the tracks of the true power players. Whilst truth-seekers focus on names like Soros, Rockefeller and Rothschild (urged on by well-placed propagandists), the names they should be looking in to escape them^xxxvii — names like de Medici, Orsini, Colonna, Aldobrandini, Breakspear (alternately Breakspeare), Farnese…and Borgia. ~ Secret History, Cirucci¹⁹

One of Ireland’s greatest Protestant preachers, Henry Grattan Guinness, confirms this and elucidates two more parallels.

The face of the man of sin is the face of a false apostle, the dark face of a Judas.

Written upon the wall of the temple, in letters of light, just above the proud, false, central figure, is the name “son of perdition.”

The man of sin is a Judas, a secret enemy while a seeming friend a “familiar friend,” yet a fatal foe who betrays with a kiss and a “hail, master!”

There are several features in this portrait which I must ask you specially to notice.

Observe the place occupied by the man of sin the “temple” or house of God.

This is not, and cannot be, any Jewish temple.

Paul, who uses this expression in his prophetic portrait of Romanism, employs it both in Corinthians and Ephesians with reference to the Christian Church.

In the second Epistle to the Corinthians, writing to Gentile Christians, he says, “Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them.”

In Ephesians he calls the Church “a holy temple,” a “habitation of God through the Spirit”; and he would never have applied it to the Jewish temple, which, with all other Jewish things, he regarded as mere shadows of Christian realities.  To Paul emphatically the temple of God was the Church of Christ.

This is the temple in which his prophetic eye saw the man of sin seated.  It is no question of his bodily location in any structure of wood and stone, but of something far higher.

The temple of God is that “spiritual house” in which He dwells.  It is built of “living stones,” of true believers.

It is here that the man of sin was to usurp the place of God.

This is the “mystery,” the dread danger, the deadly evil, predicted by the Apostle.

It is no person in a temple of stone, but a power in the Christian Church.

Observe next the character of the man of sin.

He is at once an imitation of Christ, and a contrast to Him.  He occupies His position, but is totally unlike Him, and opposed to Him.  He has usurped His place and His prerogatives; but, so far from truly representing Him, he represents His great enemy.

As Christ acts for God, so the man of sin acts for Satan, who indeed produces him for this very purpose.  His coming is “after the working of Satan.”

Christ and he are antagonistic powers: the power of light, and the power of darkness; the majesty of heaven, and the might of hell.

And as the Son of God humbled Himself, so the “man of sin” exalts himself.

There is infinite self-abasement in the one, the Divine nature stooping to humanity; and infinite self-exaltation in the other, the human and satanic assuming to be Divine.

Observe here that it is not asserted that the man of sin will say that he is God, but that he will show himself as such.  The words are, “He as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” or is Divine, or a Divine being (ἀποδεικνύντα ἑαυτὸν ὅτι ἔστιν Θεός).

There is no article here before the name God.  The expression indicates that the man of sin would show himself by acts and professions to be possessed of superhuman and Divine dignity, authority, and power.

Observe the position of the man of sin.

Notice the word καθίσαι, “sitteth,” and connect with it κάθισμα, a seat, a word which occurs three times in the New Testament.  It is used twice with reference to the seats in the temple of those who sold doves, who turned the house of God into a house of merchandise and den of thieves; and once in the sentence, “the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.”

From κάθισμα comes “cathedral,” the “bishop’s seat,” and also the expression ex cathedra; as when we say the pope speaks ex cathedra, or from his seat, officially.

There, in that exalted cathedral position, and claiming to represent God, the man of sin was to act and abide as the pretended vicar, but real antagonist, of Christ, undermining His authority, abolishing His laws, and oppressing His people.

Observe the words, “who opposeth.”

It is possible effectually to oppose another without being his avowed antagonist; so the professions of the predicted power might be friendly, while his actions would be those of an opponent of the gospel of Christ.²⁰

In March of 2000, Karol Józef “Pope John Paul II” Wojtyła, now a Saint of the Catholic Church, gave a special Mass in Israel to “honor children”.

As we now are aware of the millions of children who have been violated, raped and even murdered by Catholic clergy, the hypocrisy is palpable.

Perhaps, most appropriately so, Wojtyła sat in a chair with an inverted cross and clutched a hideous crozier (crucifix²¹ staff).

Although mainstream media refused to report on the event, it was not lost upon the Catholic faithful.

The location for the children’s Mass in Israel was the village of Korazim.  This, too, was perfectly appropriate.²²

“Woe to you, Chorazin!  Woe to you, Bethsaida!  For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.” ~ Matthew 11:21

UPDATE: 20 November 2019

II Thessalonians 2:1-4 discusses the Papal Antichrist and verses 5 through 12 are just as obscured as they discuss his system.

Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?

And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.  For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he²³ who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.

And then the Lawless One²⁴ will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His Mouth and destroy with the brightness of His Appearance.

The coming of the Lawless One is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the Truth²⁵ but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

It is natural, but wrong, to assume that, because the Antichrist is being “restrained”, that which restrains him is good.

Today, most “Evangelicals” preach that the Restrainer is the Holy Spirit, but if that’s so, why didn’t Paul write that?  He was being obtuse to spare himself and the early Christians from even more harm than they were already suffering.

The military Roman Empire needed to fall away so that the religious Roman Empire could take its place.

Although Emperors from Julius Caesar on demanded to be worshipped as gods, they never claimed they were the God of the Hebrew (and later) Christian Scriptures (Bible) but their replacements all did: the Popes.

Most of the church fathers held to this view.^[1]  Under this view, Paul didn’t want to say this outright, because this would have led to persecution for the Church in the first century.  On this view, the masculine singular (“he”) would refer to the Roman emperor, while the neuter pronoun (“what”) would refer to the Roman government.

For instance, Preterist Gary DeMar holds that this passage likely refers to the Roman Empire, while the restrainer might refer to King Agrippa, who stopped further killing of Christians after the death of James and tried to stop the Jewish War in AD 66.^[2]

However, we do not hold to this view.  For one, the Roman Empire did not “restrain” the Antichrist.  Specifically, under the Preterist view, Emperor Nero was the Antichrist, and he governed over the Roman Empire!  Moreover, King Agrippa did not restrain Nero in any way.

Second, Daniel and Revelation see human government as pushing for the rise of the Antichrist—not restraining him.

Third, the Roman Empire fell in the fifth century AD, so this “restrainer” would have no meaning for today.  As Thomas writes²⁶, “Elimination of this solution is sealed when we remember that the Roman Empire has long since ceased to exist, and the appearance of Christ or the lawless one has yet to take place.”^[3] ~ Evidence Unseen

The “we” above is actually an “I”: author James M. Rochford of Peoria, Illinois.

He discredits this interpretation, not with facts, but with association.

Preterism is the idea that the Antichrist has come and gone and that all of Bible Prophecy has been fulfilled, which calls into question the judgment of the un-Godly and the existence of the Millennial Kingdom.

You’ll never guess where it came from.

With Rome so clearly depicted as the 4^th and final Beast of both Daniel and Revelation, Jesuits needed to disconnect Christians from that interpretation and they used Preterism and Futurism to do it.

Preterism is the idea that most of prophecy has already taken place.  It was concocted by a Jesuit.

Preterism was first advanced in 1604 by Jesuit Luis de Alcasar to destroy the Reformed Protestant teaching that the papacy was Mystery Babylon, the Great Whore and the historical Antichrist.

What Scholars Had To Say About Preterism

Henry Alford (an Anglican Greek scholar)

“The praeterist view found no favour and was hardly so much as thought of in the time of primitive Christianity.  Those who lived near the date of the book of Revelation itself had no idea that its groups of imagery were intended merely to describe things then passing, and to be in a few years completed.  This view is said to have been first promulgated in anything like completeness by the Jesuit Alcasar, in his “Vestigatio Arcani Sensus in Apocalypsi” (1604).  Very nearly, the same plan was adopted by Grotius.  The next great name among this school of interpreters is that of Bossuet the great antagonist of Protestantism.”

Charles Hodge

Also dismissing the Jesuit-Romanist Preterist approach, Charles Hodge noted that the preterists of his time for the most part were German Rationalists.

“[they] were German interpreters who, denying any real prediction of the future, confine the views of Daniel and John to their contemporary history”.

He lists some of the liberal scholars such as Ewald, DeWette and Lucke, who not only denied the predictive element in Scripture but also denied the inspiration and authority of the Word of God. ~ Bulletin for Biblical Christianity Today, Dr. Ronald Cooke⁵⁵⁶

Preterism wasn’t accepted by large groups of Protestants and an alternative interpretation of the End Times was put forth.

Futurism is more appealing in that it acknowledges that much of prophecy is yet future.  However it distracts from the 4th Beast and paints the anti-Christ as a man who suddenly appears just before the Tribulation and who stands alone, apart from any organization or system.

It, too, was fabricated by a Jesuit. ~ Illuminati Unmasked, Cirucci²⁷

The military Roman Empire did restrain the religious empire that spawned the Antichrist.

This takes care of the second critique, as well.

The idea that the Roman Empire fell “in the 5^th century” is, therefore, the most important; either as a flaw or ultimate fulfillment as Daniel and Revelation repeatedly mention four empires:

1. Babylon
2. Medo/Persia
3. Greece
4. Rome

If Rome disappeared then the Bible is obsolete and of no use to us, but if Rome lives on then the Bible is far more accurate than “Evangelicals” give it credit for.

Mr. Rochford has been a Board of Trustees President of the “children’s charity” Kiwanis International, an organization that promotes pilgrimages to Fatima and Vatican City.

The capitalization of pronouns is not evident in the original languages of Scripture and modern English language Bibles erroneously capitalize the “he” of II Thessalonians 2:6-7, making the choice for you who the “restrainer” is.

However, even trusted older translations like the King James, although getting II Thessalonians right, fail to capitalize the pronouns of Daniel 9.

Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the Holy Mountain²⁸ of my God, yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering.  And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand.  At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:”

“Seventy weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.”

“Know therefore and understand,
That from the going forth of the command
To restore and build Jerusalem
Until Messiah the Prince,
There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
The street shall be built again, and the wall,
Even in troublesome times.”

“And after the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
And the people of the prince who is to come
Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.”

“The end of it shall be with a flood,
And till the end of the war desolations are determined.”

“Then he [He] shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;
But in the middle of the week
He²⁹ shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.”

“And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate,
Even until the consummation, which is determined,
Is poured out on the desolate.”

“Then he [He] shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;
But in the middle of the week he [He] shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.” ~ The Seventy-Weeks Prophecy of Daniel 9:20-27

Daniel 9 maintains a “Chiastic” structure or pattern of “A, B, B, A”.

Who is it that confirms the Covenant with Israel then “breaks” (fulfills) it?  —The Christ, not the Antichrist!

The Temple is forever cursed.

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!  How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!”

“See!  Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

Then Jesus went out and departed from the Temple³⁰, and His disciples³¹ came up to show Him the buildings of the Temple.  And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things?  Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” ~ Matthew 23:37-24:2

It will never be rebuilt.

Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?”

“We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law³² but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified.”

“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin?  Certainly not!  For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.  For I through the Law died to the Law that I might live to God.  I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.  I do not set aside the Grace³³ of God; for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died in vain.”

For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. ~ Galatians 2:11-21

That the “restrainer” was the Roman Empire was not lost on Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, more popularly known as “Tertullian” (approximately 155 – 240 AD).

Again, in the second epistle he addresses them with even greater earnestness: “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor be troubled, either by spirit, or by word,” that is, the word of false prophets, “or by letter,” that is, the letter of false apostles, “as if from us, as that the day of the Lord is at hand.  Let no man deceive you by any means.

For that day shall not come, unless indeed there first come a falling away,” he means indeed of this present empire, “and that man of sin be revealed,” that is to say, Antichrist, “the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or religion; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, affirming that he is God.  Remember ye not, that when I was with you, I used to tell you these things?  And now ye know what detaineth, that he might be revealed in his time.  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work; only he who now hinders must hinder, until he be taken out of the way.”⁷⁴⁵³  What obstacle is there but the Roman state, the falling away of which, by being scattered into ten kingdoms, shall introduce Antichrist upon (its own ruins)?  “And then shall be revealed the wicked one, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish.”⁷⁴⁵⁴³⁴

Nor was it lost to John Chrysostom of Antioch.

One may naturally enquire, what is that which withholdeth, and after that would know, why Paul expresses it so obscurely.  What then is it that withholdeth, that is, hindereth him from being revealed?

Some indeed say, the grace of the Spirit, but others the Roman empire, to whom I most of all accede.

Wherefore?

Because if he meant to say the Spirit, he would not have spoken obscurely, but plainly, that even now the grace of the Spirit, that is the gifts, withhold him.  And otherwise he ought now to have come, if he was about to come when the gifts ceased; for they have long since ceased.  But because he said this of the Roman empire, he naturally glanced at it, and speaks covertly and darkly.  For he did not wish to bring upon himself superfluous enmities, and useless dangers.  For if he had said that after a little while 389 the Roman empire would be dissolved, they would immediately have even overwhelmed him, as a pestilent person, and all the faithful, as living and warring to this end.  And he did not say that it will be quickly, although he is always saying it—but what? “that he may be revealed in his own season,” he says,

“For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work.”  He speaks here of Nero, as if he were the type of Antichrist.  For he too wished to be thought a god.  And he has well said, “the mystery”; that is, it worketh not openly, as the other, nor without shame.  For if there was found a man before that time, he means, who was not much behind Antichrist in wickedness, what wonder, if there shall now be one?

But he did not also wish to point him out plainly: and this not from cowardice, but instructing us not to bring upon ourselves unnecessary enmities, when there is nothing to call for it.  So indeed he also says here.  “Only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way,” that is, when the Roman empire is taken out of the way, then he shall come.  And naturally.  For as long as the fear of this empire lasts, no one will willingly exalt himself, but when that is dissolved, he will attack the anarchy, and endeavor to seize upon the government both of man and of God.  For as the kingdoms before this were destroyed, for example, that of the Medes by the Babylonians, that of the Babylonians by the Persians, that of the Persians by the Macedonians, that of the Macedonians by the Romans: so will this also be by the Antichrist, and he by Christ, and it will no longer withhold.  And these things Daniel delivered to us with great clearness.

“And then,” he says, “shall be revealed the lawless one.”  And what after this? The consolation is at hand.  “Whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of His mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of His coming, even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan.”

For as fire merely coming on even before its arrival makes torpid and consumes the little animals that are afar off; so also Christ, by His commandment only, and Coming.  It is enough for Him to be present, and all these things are destroyed.  He will put a stop to the deceit, by only appearing.  Then who is this, whose coming is after the working of Satan, “With all display all power,” but nothing true, but for deceit.  “And lying wonder,” he says, that is, false, or leading to falsehood.³⁵

Rome is full of “signs and lying wonders”.

Apparition Apprehensions

In 1916, three Portuguese children were herding sheep when an angel appeared to them on multiple occasions at Cova da Iria (“Irene’s Cove”) just outside of Fátima.  Lucia dos Santos was 9 and her cousin Francisco Marto was 8.  Francisco’s sister, Jacinta Marto, was 6.  The angel taught them how to pray¹⁷²² and “sacrifice” on behalf of sinners.¹⁷²³

On May 13, 1917, Lúcia described seeing a lady “brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun”.  While they had never spoken to anyone about the angel, Jacinta divulged her sightings to her family despite Lucia’s admonition to keep this experience private.  Her disbelieving mother told neighbors as a joke, and within a day the whole village knew.^[6]  Further appearances were reported on June 13 and July 13.  In these, the lady asked the children to do penance and Acts of Reparation and make personal sacrifices to save sinners.  According to Lúcia’s account, the lady also confided to the children three secrets, now known as the Three Secrets of Fátima.

The children subsequently wore tight cords around their waists, performed self-flagellation using stinging nettles, abstained from drinking water on hot days, and performed other works of penance.^[6]~ Wikipedia¹⁷²⁴

Despite their claims, they were ridiculed by some and the apparition they saw promised to give them powerful prophecies on the 13th of the month, in October of 1917.

Between May and October of 1917, always on the 13^th of the month, the children received three secrets.  Lucia eventually disclosed them from the Convent where she became a nun.  Francisco and Jacinta died just a few short years later in the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918-20.

It is important to note that October 13th 1307 is established by the Luciferian Elite as the day Pope Clement V collaborated with France’s King Philip IV and suppressed the Vatican Treasury guardians—the Knights Templar.¹⁷²⁵

Sister Lucia wrote her account much later in life under orders from the Bishop of Leiria.  In 1940, she sent her recollection to Pope Pius XII.

Well, the secret is made up of three distinct parts, two of which I am now going to reveal⁴.

The first part is the vision of hell⁵.

Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth.  Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear.  The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent.  This vision lasted but an instant.

How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to Heaven.  Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror.

We then looked up at Our Lady, who said to us so kindly and so sadly: “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go.  To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart⁶.” ~ Fátima In Lucia’s Own Words: Sister Lucia’s Memoirs¹⁷²⁶

The second secret stated that a very important country would stand in the balance between “good” and “evil”: Russia.

The war⁷[World War II] is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the pontificate of Pius Xl⁸.  When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign ⁹ given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father.

“To prevent this, I shall come¹⁰ to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays.  If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church.  The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.  In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.  The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me¹¹, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world¹².” ~ Sister Lucia’s Memoirs¹⁷²⁷

When Sister Lucia released her memoirs, Papal authority had passed from Pius XI to Pius XII.

May 13th is celebrated as the first apparition of Mary in 1917 and that was the day the Jesuits made an attempt on the life of John Paul II.  He survived after having been shot 4 times and accounted it as a miracle from Our Lady of Fátima.

After the assassination attempt of 13 May 1981, it appeared evident that it was “a mother’s hand that guided the bullet’s path”, enabling “the Pope in his throes” to halt “at the threshold of death” (Pope John Paul II, Meditation from the Policlinico Gemelli to the Italian Bishops, Insegnamenti, XVII, 1 [1994], 1061).  On the occasion of a visit to Rome by the then Bishop of Leiria-Fátima, the Pope decided to give him the bullet which had remained in the jeep after the assassination attempt, so that it might be kept in the shrine.  By the Bishop’s decision, the bullet was later set in the crown of the statue of Our Lady of Fátima.  ~ Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican Secretary Of State¹⁷²⁸

Catholics everywhere awaited with great anticipation for the third secret.

After the nearly-successful attempt on John Paul II’s life (a Pole named Karol Józef Wojtyła), there were 3 more¹⁷²⁹.  It was then that the secret was finally released.

The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fátima, on 13 July 1917.

I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.

After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’.  And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father’.  Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions.  Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.  ~ Sister Lucia’s Memoirs¹⁷³⁰

The future Benedict XVI (then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) was chosen to give the Doctrinal Response.  Even he seemed unenthused.

A careful reading of the text of the so-called third “secret” of Fátima, published here in its entirety long after the fact and by decision of the Holy Father, will probably prove disappointing or surprising after all the speculation it has stirred.  No great mystery is revealed; nor is the future unveiled.¹⁷³¹

But what was noteworthy is that witnesses claim something did show up on October 13th, 1917.  From some accounts, it didn’t look like Mary.

“Miracle of the Sun”

On the 610th anniversary^ddd of the Templar suppression, Mary appeared to three children as well as anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 Portuguese, depending upon which report you believe.

It had been raining but, as the miracle goes, the rain suddenly stopped and there were two visions—one of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus^eee, seen only by the 3 children of whom only 1 survived into adulthood.

The rest of the people there saw a UFO.

While the rain had stopped, dark clouds continued to obscure the sun, which suddenly bursts through them and is seen to be a soft spinning disk of silver. …

O Seculo (a pro-government, anti-clerical, Lisbon paper):

— the sun O Dia (another Lisbon daily, edition of 17 October 1917):

At one o’clock in the afternoon, midday by the sun, the rain stopped.  The sky, pearly grey in colour, illuminated the vast arid landscape with a strange light.  The sun had a transparent gauzy veil so that the eyes could easily be fixed upon it.  The grey mother-of-pearl tone turned into a sheet of silver which broke up as the clouds were torn apart and the silver sun, enveloped in the same gauzy grey light, was seen to whirl and turn in the circle of broken clouds. …

The light turned a beautiful blue, as if it had come through the stained-glass windows of a cathedral, and spread itself over the people who knelt with outstretched hands.  The blue faded slowly, and then the light seemed to pass through yellow glass.  Yellow stains fell against white handkerchiefs, against the dark skirts of the women.  They were repeated on the trees, on the stones and on the serra. …

Ti Marto (father of Jacinta and Francisco):

We looked easily at the sun, which for some reason did not blind us.  It seemed to flicker on and off, first one way, then another.  It cast its rays in many directions and painted everything in different colors—the trees, the people, the air and the ground.  But what was most extraordinary, I thought, was that the sun did not hurt our eyes.  Everything was still and quiet, and everyone was looking up.  Then at a certain moment, the sun appeared to stop spinning.  It then began to move and to dance in the sky until it seemed to detach itself from its place and fall upon us.  It was a terrible moment.

Dr. Almeida Garrett, PhD (Coimbra University):

…The sun’s disc did not remain immobile.  This was not the sparkling of a, heavenly body, for it spun round on itself in a mad whirl.  Then, suddenly, one heard a clamor, a cry of anguish breaking from all the people.  The sun, whirling wildly, seemed to loosen itself from the firmament and advance threateningly upon the earth as if to crush us with its huge and fiery weight.  The sensation during those moments was terrible.  ~ Apparition of 13 October 1917, EWTN¹⁷³²

Christian author and researcher L.A. Marzulli has suggested that this was an introduction to the “coming great deception”¹⁷³³ (an “alien disclosure”) and we will see shortly that, if the aliens have an official religion it is Roman Catholicism.

But there has been another purpose exposed for the Fátima apparition and that has been for the Pope to extend the olive branch of “peace” to the Religion of Pieces.

The Blue Army

Did you know that Our Lady of Fátima has an army? —A blue army.

The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima, now mostly known as the World Apostolate of Fátima, is a public international association of the Christian faithful that has as its general purpose “the promotion of the authentic teaching of the Roman Catholic Church and the strict adherence to the tenets of the Gospel; the personal sanctification of adherents through faithful adherence to the Message of Fátima and the promotion of the common good by the spreading of that Message of Fátima”.  ~ Wikipedia¹⁷³⁴

—And they’re recruiting muslims.

Islam is an Arabic word that can be defined as “to make peace.” …  over the centuries, Muslims have engaged in tremendous wars with Christians and Jews.  It would seem that there is little hope for peace.  However, Heaven’s Peace Plan, involving Our Lady, is evidenced at Fatima, Portugal as well as other places around the world.

The Moors once occupied Portugal.  The village of Fatima was given the Islamic name of the well-loved Princess of the nearby Castle of Ourem.  She died at an early age after marrying the Count of Ourem and converting to Catholicism.  Baptized with the Christian name of Oureana, she was named at birth “Fatima,” like many other Moslem girls, in honor of the daughter of Mohammed.  Of his daughter, Fatima, the founder of Islam, Mohammed, said: “She has the highest place in heaven after the Virgin Mary.”

It is a fact that Moslems from various nations, especially from the Middle East, make so many pilgrimages to Our Lady of Fatima’s Shrine in Portugal that Portuguese officials have expressed concern.  The combination of an Islamic name and Islamic devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is a great attraction to Moslems.  God is writing straight with crooked lines, as we will see.  Fatima is a part of Heaven’s Peace Plan.  It is hope for the world.

In the Koran, the holy name of the Blessed Virgin Mary is mentioned no less than thirty times.  No other woman’s name is even mentioned, not even that of Mohammed’s daughter, Fatima.  Among men, only Abraham, Moses, and Noah are mentioned more times than Our Lady.  In the Koran, Our Blessed Mother is described as “Virgin, ever Virgin.”  The Islamic belief in the virginity of Mary puts to shame the heretical beliefs of those who call themselves Christian, while denying the perpetual virginity of Mary.  Make no mistake about it, there is a very special relationship between the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Moslems! ~ Fr Ladis J. Cizik, Blue Army National Executive Director¹⁷³⁵

There are many questions surrounding the apparition at Fátima.  Why would it choose a location so easily identified by muslims?

Is the apparition of Fátima a cunningly-divined hoax for the political power of uniting Catholicism with Islam?

* Only the children saw “Mary”, even during the October event in 1917.  Two of them died shortly thereafter and the third was controlled from a convent.  She even admits she was directed to reveal what she saw by Catholic authorities.

* There were supposedly 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria that day in 1917 yet evidence is extremely sparse with only a handful of eyewitness accounts existing. ~ Illuminati Unmasked, Cirucci³⁶

It is a terrible thing to be so close to Christ in the Catholic religion yet barred from accepting Him as Savior.

All the more can we therefore feel the emotion with which He reaches out to all Catholics—

And I heard another Voice from Heaven saying, “Come out of her, My People, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.  For her sins have reached to Heaven, and God has remembered her wicked deeds³⁷.  Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.” ~ Revelation 18:4-6

The corruption of King Solomon’s rule, followed by the foolishness of his successor son, Rehoboam caused a civil war which split the nation of Israel into a Northern Kingdom (“Israel”) and a Southern Kingdom (“Judah”).  Judah maintained Jerusalem as its capital and Israel adopted Samaria as its capital.

Both fell under God’s Judgment for apostacy.  Both received Prophets who warned them.

Chart of Israel’s and Judah’s Kings and Prophets, Jonathan Petersen, Bible Gateway

In both cases, the Prophets sent by God were ridiculed, persecuted, punished, imprisoned and sometimes killed.

Between 732 and 740 B.C.¹, the Kingdom of Assyria began a 20-year conquest of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

A century later, the Southern Kingdom fell.

In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon defeated Pharaoh Necho at the Battle of Carchemish, and subsequently invaded Judah.  To avoid the destruction of Jerusalem, King Jehoiakim of Judah, in his third year, changed allegiances from Egypt to Babylon. ~ Wikipedia

The populations of both were carried into captivity.  In violation of the Law of Moses (Deuteronomy 7:3), the Children of Israel were forced to inter-mingle and inter-marry with their pagan neighbors.  It was a cunning military tactic which diluted the national identity of conquered nations and inhibited them from rebelling against their captors.  It is the real reason Western nations have been inundated with immigrants by traitors in their own governments, both legal and illegal aliens.  While angry citizens aim their ire at the immigrants, the real culprit is Rome.

Babylon was a kingdom empowered by the Devil’s Simulation; a Luciferian system based upon sexual perversion and suffering of the innocent.  It was a system that maintained the strictest secrecy and power through to this very day until I exposed it with my latest book, Eaters of Children.

Kings honored the Satanic source of their authority in many ways.  One of them was to ritually castrate young boys.

The “mother goddess” has taken on many forms through the centuries, “Columbia” being one of the more recent versions.

What has been consistent, however, has been the connection to debauchery, fixation on reproduction and proof of dedication by causing the innocent to suffer.

These are all foundational to the Devil’s Simulation.

In Greece, the mother-goddess Cybele was honored in such fashion.  The most iconic example of blood-sacrifice to Cybele was the slaughter of a bull upon her altar, known as the Taurobolium.

The consort of Cybele was Attis, a youth who was so dedicated to her that he cut off his own genitals in her service.

The voluntary or involuntary castration of young men became a key part of pagan rites.

Such boys were presented to kings as cowed servants, guaranteed not to interfere with royal harems.

These abominable practices go back to the dawn of “civilization”.³

Across the centuries it was learned that court “eunuchs” could also be employed as minstrels known as “castrati” (singular, “castrato”). …

With good reason is the practice known by an Italian term. It wasn’t until 18615 that the practice was finally outlawed in Italy but it continued to be openly “tolerated” and secretly encouraged by the Vatican at least until 1959.

Thousands of boys were mutilated regularly, ostensibly to give them singing voices unattainable any other way but most never sang after they were victimized. ~ Eaters of Children, Cirucci, CreateSpace, Sept. 11, 2017, pp. 7, 8

Rather than inflict this crime upon their own populations, kings would often take the children of nations they captured.  This is likely what happened to the Prophet Daniel and his comrades Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah (who were given the Babylonian names Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego).  Out of respect for God’s servants, Scripture makes no mention of this but it is almost certain that Daniel would not have been placed in close proximity of the King and under the authority of the Chief Eunuch unless he was one himself.  It was a terrible price to pay but it also put Daniel in position to become one of the most powerful men in the world at his time.

The Book of Daniel explains that God sent King Nebuchadnezzar a powerful, disturbing dream.  He sought an explanation from his soothsayers but their usual procedures of taking what was known and putting an unverifiable spin upon it angered him.

… in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams, and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.  Then the king gave the command to call the magicians and the astrologers and the sorcerers and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams.  So they came and stood before the king.  The king said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream.”

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever.  Tell your servants the dream, and we will tell the interpretation.”

The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The command from me is firm: If you will not make known to me the dream with its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces and your houses shall be made a dunghill.  But if you tell the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor.  Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation.”

They answered again and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will tell the interpretation.”

The king answered and said, “I know of certainty that you are bargaining for time, because you see that the command from me is firm: If you will not make known to me the dream, there is but one decree for you.  For you have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me until the circumstance is changed.  Therefore tell me the dream so that I know that you can tell me its interpretation.”

The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can tell the king’s matter, inasmuch as no great king or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician or astrologer or Chaldean.  Also, it is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no one else who can tell it before the king, except the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.  Therefore the decree went out that the wise men should be slain.  And they sought for Daniel and his companions to be slain.

Then Daniel answered with discretion and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.  He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree from the king so urgent?”  Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.  Then Daniel went in and desired of the king that he would give him time in order that he could tell the king the interpretation.

Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, so that they might ask for compassion from the God of Heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. ~ Daniel 2:1-17, Modern English Version

Daniel beseeched God to give him understanding of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and it was granted to him.  He bravely used it to proclaim YHWH as the one, true God before the most powerful man in the world.

Daniel answered in the presence of the King and said, “The secret which the King has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot tell the king.  But there is a God in Heaven who reveals secrets and makes known to King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days.  Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed are these:”

“As for you, O king, your thoughts came into your mind upon your bed about what would come to pass hereafter, and He who reveals secrets makes known to you what shall come to pass.  But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living man, but for the purpose of making known the interpretation to the king, and that you might understand the thoughts of your heart.”

“You, O king, were watching, and there was a great image.  This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you.  And its form was awesome.  This image’s head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.  You watched until a Stone was cut out without hands which struck the image upon its feet, which were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.  Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors.  And the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found.  But the Stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole Earth.”

“This was the dream.  Now we will tell its interpretation before the king.  You, O King, are the King of kings.  For the God of Heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.  Wherever the sons of men dwell, or the animals of the field, or the fowl of the heavens, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all.  You are the head of gold.”

“After you, another kingdom inferior to you shall arise, and a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the Earth.  And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, for iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, it shall crush and shatter all these.  As you saw the feet and toes, partly of potters’ clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided.  But there shall be in it some of the strength of the iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.  As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.  Whereas you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not cleave to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.”

“In the days of these kings the God of Heaven shall set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed.  And the Kingdom shall not be left to another people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.  Inasmuch as you saw that the Stone was cut out of the Mountain without hands and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the King what shall come to pass hereafter.  And the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.” ~ Daniel 2:27-45, Modern English Version (some capitalization added for clarity and to correct disrespect)

United Church of God

Christian and secular historians are nearly unanimous in their explaining the four major kingdoms:

* Head of Gold: Babylon
* Chest and Arms of Silver: Medo / Persia
* Belly and Thighs of Bronze: Greece
* Legs and Feet of Iron and Miry Clay: Rome (and no-human allies)

What they have been quiet about is how the military empire of Rome transformed into the religious empire which rides world power just as the Bible predicted.

“After this I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and fearful, and exceedingly strong; and it hath iron teeth very great, it hath consumed, yea, it doth break small, and the remnant with its feet it hath trampled; and it [is] diverse from all the beasts that [are] before it; and it hath ten horns.” ~ Daniel 7:7, Young’s Literal Translation

The four beasts of Daniel’s vision in Chapter 7 are the same as those of Nebuchadnezzar in Chapter 2.  Note the “great iron teeth” of the fourth beast.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the Great Harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the Earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the Earth were made drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

Then he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.  The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filth of her sexual immorality.  On her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

When I saw her, I marveled greatly.  Then the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel?  I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.  The beast, which you saw, was, and is not, and is to ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to destruction.  Those who dwell on the earth whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and is to come.”

“Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits.  They are also seven kings.  Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while.  Concerning the Beast who was, and is not, he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to destruction.”

“The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom yet, but they will receive authority as kings for one hour with the Beast.  These are of one mind and will give their power and authority to the beast.  These will wage war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings.  Those who are with Him are called and Chosen and Faithful.”

Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the Harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.  These ten horns and the Beast which you saw will hate the Harlot; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh, and burn her with fire.  For God has put in their hearts to fulfill His Will, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the Words of God are fulfilled.  The woman whom you saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the Earth.” ~ Revelation 17, Modern English Version (some capitalization added)

The seven hills of Rome are so legendary even “user-edited” Wikipedia acknowledges them with a special entry.

The split of the fourth kingdom is also easy to define in history.

Charlemagne’s crowning made the Byzantine Emperor redundant, and relations between the East and the West deteriorated until a formal split occurred in 1054.  The Eastern Church became the Greek Orthodox Church by severing all ties with Rome and the Roman Catholic Church — from the pope to the Holy Roman Emperor on down. ~ Dummies.com

The scandals in the “Eastern Rite” / Orthodox Church seem not as well-covered as those of the Catholic Church.

Orthodox clergy are allowed to marry before being ordained but not afterward.

This may have reduced the number of scandals but they still exist.

Thirty-two years old, struggling with severe mental illness, the man turned in desperation to his church, the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco.

But soon after the man implored the Rev. Michael Rymer to be his “spiritual father” and guide him through his troubles, the priest allegedly seduced him without revealing that he had been exposed to HIV, court records show.

The priest allegedly entangled the mentally ill parishioner in a long-running, illicit relationship, offering religious salvation while inflicting sexual abuse.

“I was going to Father Michael when I was in my worst state,” the man later testified.  “When I would go to him to help me, he would help me, and afterward he would take advantage of me.  That was his method of continual operation over and over again.”

Over a 14-year-period, several church officials learned that the priest was HIV-positive, and they suspected he was having sex with his parishioner, according to court records.  But they did not report Rymer’s misconduct.

The priest’s alleged sexual abuse of his vulnerable parishioner seemed destined to remain a secret masked by a church hierarchy steeped in tradition rich with incense and icons.

But the man’s psychiatrists urged him to complain.  And with encouragement from a San Francisco-based watchdog organization that monitors sex abuse in the Eastern Orthodox Church, he filed a lawsuit accusing the priest of sexual battery and the church of negligence.

Rymer and the church have denied wrongdoing.  But after San Francisco Superior Court Judge Patrick Mahoney ruled that the church might face potentially high punitive damages, the defendants settled the case at a closed court hearing on Thursday from which members of the media and the public were excluded.

The man’s lawyers, Terry Gross and Monique Alonso, declined to comment but said in court papers that despite blatant evidence of clerical misconduct, “the Church deliberately turned a blind eye.” Carla Hartley and William Wilson, attorneys for the church, also declined comment but said in a brief that the church had acted appropriately.

Many Lawsuits Against Church

The Rymer case is the latest sex abuse settlement to roil the 1.5 million-member Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, part of the worldwide Eastern Orthodox Church, which split from the Roman Catholic Church in the 11th century.

In the past decade, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese has paid more than $10 million to settle sex abuse cases, according to the church.  The archdiocese faces pending lawsuits alleging sex abuse by priests in Texas, Florida, Illinois and Arizona.

Meanwhile, more than two dozen Greek Orthodox priests around the country have been criminally convicted, sanctioned by the church or sued for sexually abusing parishioners, according to the San Francisco-based watchdog group.  The organization is called Pokrov, for an Orthodox church icon that represents the protection of Mary, mother of God. ~ San Francisco Chronicle

Naming the Orthodox victim advocate group after an “icon” of the “mother of God” is an ominous sign that they will not receive justice.

Miriam was vessel that bore Jesus in His human form, God has no mother.  The “Mary” of Rome is the reincarnated “Semiramis”, “Isis”, “Cybele” and “Columbia” of the Devil’s Simulation.

In Greece, Orthodoxy openly runs government as it does secretly in Russia.  2005 saw the outing of some of its skulduggery.

Greece’s Orthodox church, buffeted by sex and corruption scandals, met in emergency session yesterday amid lurid claims that have included one newspaper publishing photographs of a 91-year-old bishop naked in bed with a nubile young woman.

Scrambling to resolve the worst crisis in the church’s modern history, the embattled spiritual leader, Archbishop Christodoulos, convened the rare meeting as allegations of skulduggery, sexual improprieties, trial rigging, drug and antiquities smuggling engulfed the institution.

“I humbly ask for forgiveness from the people and the clerics who, for the most, honour… the cassock they wear,” he said addressing the 102-member Holy Synod, the church’s ruling council.

“There is a lot that must be done to put our house in order,” he conceded before proposing a series of reforms.

Greeks have watched dumbfounded as allegations of their priesthood’s dissolute lifestyle have unfolded on their television screens.

Snatched tape-recordings, aired nightly, have revealed rampant homosexuality among senior clerics who, unlike ordinary priests, are under oaths of chastity.

The alleged debauchery has not been limited to monastic cells. Last week, claims emerged that Metropolitan Theoklitos of Thessaly, a leading churchman, had been arrested on suspicion of drug dealing in a police raid on a notorious nightclub in Athens.

The priest was reportedly rounded up with Seraphim Koulousousas, the archbishop’s former private secretary, also implicated in another “unholy affair” involving gay sex with a bishop. ~ The Guardian

In the shadow of the Acropolis, Greeks are witnessing a scandal-plagued showdown — involving allegations of drug-dealing bishops, bribe-taking judges and a mysterious fugitive — that could permanently sever the ancient bonds of church and state.

A series of stunning revelations has uncovered what seems to be a powerful criminal element within the leadership of the Greek Orthodox church.  Run by bishops accused of serious crimes, the ring is reported to exert control over Greek politicians and judges, and to have used the church’s almost unlimited powers to build a mafia-like hierarchy of wealth and corruption.

This week, the scandal threatened to reach the very top of this secretive church.  Archbishop Christodoulos, the 66-year-old leader of the church, has been accused of working with a convicted drug smuggler named Apostolos Vavilis, who is wanted by Interpol and believed to be hiding in Italy.  The archbishop said this week that the relationship is innocent, but police want to question Mr.  Vavilis about his role in the church, where he allegedly acted as an envoy at the highest levels.

The church, which for decades has seemed immune to criticism, has begun to be shaken.  During the ceremonial inauguration of a new Greek president on Saturday, half a dozen members of parliament stormed out of the legislature, and dozens more refused to stand, when the archbishop entered the chamber in his ceremonial headdress and carrying his sceptre.

“These are issues which must be confronted,” MP Fotis Kouvelis, one of the six who walked out, said in an interview in his office earlier this week.

“We believe the church has delayed in confronting these corruptions — consequently, there is a responsibility in the hierarchy of the church to answer for these events … for us, the only answer is a severance of the powers and responsibilities of the church from those of the state.”

A majority of Greeks now believe that the archbishop should resign, according to a poll this week, but it will not be easy to transform a church that is older, and in many ways mightier and wealthier, than the modern Greek state.

The Orthodox Church is a state religion, its 10,500 priests and 10,000 theologians paid government salaries similar to those earned by high-school teachers.  Its 81 bishops are far more powerful, earning tax-free salaries similar to those of cabinet ministers and at least twice again that much from fees for weddings, baptisms and funerals, from the rental of burial plots and from the construction and renting of apartments on church property (which is legal). ~ The Globe and Mail

Actually, Greece is to be commended.  Where Rome controls all the rest of world governments unbeknownst to their citizenry, at least Greeks know who really runs things.

Clearly, the Prophet Daniel knew what he was talking about.

As we’ve told you repeatedly, Rome likes to commit crimes hiding behind Jews.

Searches via the Roman-controlled internet are quick to substitute Jewish Orthodox scandals that are much more robust in the staggering secret control of government.

The Harlot of Babylon even controls our information.  It’s no coincidence that the founding of the world’s most powerful search engine, “Google”, is on the anniversary of the founding of the Jesuits: September 27^th.

As a result, if one tries to search “Google” for “Orthodox scandals” the primary results are from those committed by Orthodox Jews.

It is truly ironic that Rome gets her “Papal Court Jews” to so eagerly betray their own.  The Great Harlot emplaces Jews like “Dave Seaman” to be the acceptable name and face of the 2016 “PizzaGate scandal” and then use him to promote how the Jews at the New York Times have “outed” the criminal deviancy of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

But even when they are patsies, Rome’s Jews still get the same protections of any of her pedophiles.

Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes has refused a freedom of information request for details of child sex abuse prosecutions in the Orthodox Jewish community, amid questions over the veracity of his arrest figures.

The refusal coincides with the collapse of his most vaunted prosecution after appellate court judges ruled this week for a mistrial in the case of Baruch Lebovits, sentenced in 2010 to a maximum 32-year jail term.

Lebovits was convicted in March 2010 of abusing a 16-year-old boy.  The DA’s office said it is prepared to retry the case.  But victims’ advocates say his mistrial is a major setback in their efforts to encourage other child sex victims to risk community censure and come forward.  Advocate Joel Engelman said the decision was “extremely demoralising”.

Last month the Guardian reported that the DA was facing accusations that he has failed to tackle up the cover-up of abuse in Brooklyn’s Orthodox community – the largest Orthodox community in the world outside Israel.  Rabbinic leaders are accused of hampering efforts to uncover abuse, and many victims face intimidation and threats to prevent them pressing charges.

The Guardian and the Jewish Forward paper had submitted freedom of information (FOI) requests for details of cases.  But this week Hynes’s office informed the Forward that it was denying its request, because the close-knit nature of the Orthodox community meant disclosing the names of defendants would reveal the identities of the victims.  The DA’s spokesman, Jerry Schmetterer, confirmed that the Guardian’s request would also be refused on the same grounds.

The statement refusing the FOI request marks the first admission by Hynes that suspected child abusers from the Orthodox Jewish community receive exceptional treatment. ~ The Guardian

It’s quite courageous of The Guardian to post an ancillary story on the special treatment Jewish clergy receives from “secular” government.  What is missing, however, are the overwhelming number of stories showing who Catholic clergy get this treatment and more…about 20-to-1 more (both treatment and stories).  For that, you’ll need to get Eaters of Children.

Proving the Pedocracy has an absolute lock on all power positions even down to a big city District Attorney, the change of the guard in Brooklyn brought no change.

After initially facing up to 32 years in prison for eight counts of child sexual abuse, Baruch Lebovits walked out of Riker’s Island last week a free man.  He had served just under 16 months of total prison time.

That Lebovits, a cantor from the ultra-Orthodox Borough Park section of Brooklyn, was even convicted is seen as a victory considering the difficulty of prosecuting abuse in that community.  However, his release is disappointing, if not surprising, for those who hoped Brooklyn district attorney Kenneth Thompson would be the man to end decades of ultra-Orthodox sex abuse cover-ups.

Thompson beat out Charles Hynes for Brooklyn DA, ending a reign that last more than 23 years.  Towards the end of his time as DA, Hynes was scrutinized for his perceived unwillingness to prosecute crimes against the ultra-Orthodox, especially in regards to sexual abuse.  At best, his administration appeared exceptionally lax, and at worst, it willfully obstructed justice.  He was famously reluctant to release the names of convicted sex abusers in the Orthodox community.  His office let Rabbi Yehuda Kolko get away without jail time or registering as a sex offender.  Instead, Kolko received a plea deal that allowed him to plea guilty to child endangerment.  The DA claimed the alleged victims—first graders in Kolko’s class—were unwilling to testify, but chief of the Kings County sex crimes division, Rhonnie Jaus, publicly said that their parents had been willing to put the kids on the stand.  It was one of many cases that raised questions about Hynes’ willingness to prosecute ultra-Orthodox sex abuse.

Many critics of abuse and corruption in the ultra-Orthodox community hoped and believed Thompson would bring justice to Brooklyn.  For his part, Thompson openly criticized Hynes’ record on crimes committed by the ultra-Orthodox.  “Every community in Brooklyn has to be treated the same,” he said during a 2013 interview.  “When I become Brooklyn DA, I’ll make sure there’s equal justice for everyone, under the law.”

In fact, days after Thompson was elected last November, he requested that Hynes freeze any new ruling on the Lebovits case.  Thompson said he wanted to ensure a “full opportunity to review the Lebovits matter and participate in the decision to take the case to trial or dispose of it by way of a guilty plea.”  The Jewish Week reported that sources said Hynes was expected to dispose of the case with a lenient plea deal.  Ultimately, Thompson did the same, if not worse.

According to a transcript of the plea deal hearing from May 16, 2014 reviewed by The Daily Beast, Lebovits served even less time than was proposed during negotiations. ~ The Daily Beast

But when it comes to the rape and abuse of the innocent, Rome is still the reigning King.

—or, rather, “Queen”.

“Once Saved, always Saved” is a doctrine that is as pernicious as it is dangerous.  It assures Christians that they are not responsible for a daily Walk with Christ, to live out our relationship with Him.  Those who fall for it are encouraged to do nothing for the One who did everything for us.

It is a lie that may very well cost you your soul.

Yes, Salvation is a free Gift:

For by Grace you have been Saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the Gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. ~ Ephesians 2:8-9, New King James Version

—but it is a Gift that is delivered upon completion of your Earthly assignment.  Those who accept Salvation must maintain it through severe trials, perhaps even terrible death:

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.  But beware of men, for they will hand you over to the courts and scourge you in their synagogues; and you will even be brought before governors and kings for My Sake, as a Testimony to them and to the Gentiles.  But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say.  For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.”

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.  You will be hated by all because of My Name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be Saved.” ~ Matthew 10: 16-22, NASB

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Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be?  And what will be the Sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you.  For many will come in My Name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.  See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.  And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.  All these are the beginning of sorrows.”

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My Name’s Sake.  And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.  Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.  And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.  But he who endures to the end shall be saved.” ~ Matthew 24:3-13, NKJV

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So think clearly and exercise self-control.  Look forward to the Gracious Salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. ~ I Peter 1:13, New Living Translation (other translations say only “grace” but there is more clarity in this “parallel”!)

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Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the Heavenly Calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His House.  For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.  For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.  And Moses indeed was faithful in all His House as a servant, for a Testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ as a Son over His Own House, whose House we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the Hope firm to the end. ~ Hebrews 3:1-6, NKJV

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“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:”

“The One who holds the seven stars in His Right Hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this:”

“‘I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; and you have perseverance and have endured for My Name’s Sake, and have not grown weary.  But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.  Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.  Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.  To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the Paradise of God.’” ~ Revelation 2:1-7

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“‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.  He who overcomes will not be hurt by the Second Death.’” ~ Revelation 2:11, New American Standard Bible

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“‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.  To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the Hidden Manna, and I will give him a White Stone, and a new name written on the Stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’” ~ Revelation 2:17, New American Standard Bible

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“And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations—”

“‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—as I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the morning star.” ~ Revelation 2:26-28, New King James Version

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“He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the Book of Life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.” ~ Revelation 3:5, New American Standard Bible

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“He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the Temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the Name of My God, and the Name of the City of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God, and My New Name.” ~ Revelation 3:12New American Standard Bible

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“He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My Throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His Throne.” ~ Revelation 3:21, New American Standard Bible

Although this appears to be a reward for accomplishments, it is related to the keeping of Salvation (not earning it) by remaining faithful through terrible persecution.

Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, having the key to the Bottomless Pit and a great chain in his hand.  He laid hold of the Dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the Bottomless Pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished.  But after these things he must be released for a little while.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them.  Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the Word of God, who had not worshiped the Beast or his image, and had not received his Mark on their foreheads or on their hands.  And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.  But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.  This is the First Resurrection.  Blessed and holy is he who has part in the First Resurrection.  Over such the Second Death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. ~ Revelation 20:1-6, NKJV

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“He who overcomes will inherit these things, and (B)I will be his God and he will be My son.” ~ Revelation 21:7, New American Standard Bible

Those who do not bear fruit from the free Gift of their Salvation will lose their Salvation.

“I Am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.  You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.  Abide in Me, and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”

“I Am the Vine, you are the branches.  He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.” ~ John 15:1-5, New King James Version

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What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?  Can faith save him?  If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?  Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.”  Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.  You believe that there is one God.  You do well.  Even the demons believe—and tremble!  But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?  Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?  And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”  And he was called the Friend of God.  You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. ~ James 2:14-26, New King James Version

Editor’s notes: Martin Luther was an exceptional man for his age, perhaps in all of the history of Christendom.  He is often slandered as being an anti-Semite when, in truth, he responded with his usual energy and emotion to Jewish theological attacks upon the Gospel.  This treatise is clear proof of that, as is Luther’s human flaws.  He maintained some Catholic doctrines until very late in life (such as transubstantiation) and others he held to his death (such as the perpetual virginity of Mary).  These are easily forgiven in light of his critical role as a unique and learned Doctor of Theology.

Biblical Passages are linked in the New Living Translation which, although a flawed “paraphrase” renders the most readable English.  All students are required to dig deeper, use multiple translations and do original language word studies as often as possible.

“Therefore, I will cite from Scripture the reasons that move me to believe that Christ was a Jew born of a virgin, that I might perhaps also win some Jews to the Christian faith.  Our fools, the popes, bishops, sophists, and monks — the crude asses’ heads — have hitherto so treated the Jews that anyone who wished to be a good Christian would almost have had to become a Jew.  If I had been a Jew and had seen such dolts and blockheads govern and teach the Christian faith, I would sooner have become a hog than a Christian.”

“They have dealt with the Jews as if they were dogs rather than human beings; they have done little else than deride them and seize their property.  When they baptize them they show them nothing of Christian doctrine or life, but only subject them to popishness and monkery.  When the Jews then see that Judaism has such strong support in Scripture, and that Christianity has become a mere babble without reliance on Scripture, how can they possibly compose themselves and become right good Christians?  I have myself heard from pious baptized Jews that if they had not in our day heard the Gospel they would have remained Jews under the cloak of Christianity for the rest of their days.  For they acknowledge that they have never yet heard anything about Christ from those who baptized and taught them.”

A new lie about me is being circulated.  I am supposed to have preached and written that Mary, the mother of God, was not a virgin either before or after the birth of Christ, but that she conceived Christ through Joseph, and had more children after that.  Above and beyond all this, I am supposed to have preached a new heresy, namely, that Christ was [through Joseph, the physical] the seed of Abraham [again, to imply Christ’s conception was a mundane joining of Joseph and Mary].  How these lies tickle my good friends, the papists!  Indeed, because they condemn the Gospel it serves them right that they should have to satisfy and feed their heart’s delight and joy with lies.  I would venture to wager my neck that none of those very liars who allege such great things in honor of the mother of God believes in his heart a single one of these articles.  Yet with their lies they pretend that they are greatly concerned about the Christian faith.

But after all, it is such a poor miserable lie that I despise it and would rather not reply to it.  In these past three years I have grown quite accustomed to hearing lies, even from our nearest neighbors.  And they in turn have grown accustomed to the noble virtue of neither blushing nor feeling ashamed when they are publicly convicted of lying.  They let themselves be chided as liars, yet continue their lying.  Still they are best Christians, striving with all that they have and are to devour the Turk and to extirpate all heresy.

Since for the sake of others, however, I am compelled to answer these lies, I thought I would also write something useful in addition, so that I do not vainly steal the reader’s time with [200] such dirty rotten business.  Therefore, I will cite from Scripture the reasons that move me to believe that Christ was a Jew born of a virgin, that I might perhaps also win some Jews to the Christian faith.  Our fools, the popes, bishops, sophists, and monks — the crude asses’ heads — have hitherto so treated the Jews that anyone who wished to be a good Christian would almost have had to become a Jew.  If I had been a Jew and had seen such dolts and blockheads govern and teach the Christian faith, I would sooner have become a hog than a Christian.

They have dealt with the Jews as if they were dogs rather than human beings; they have done little else than deride them and seize their property.  When they baptize them they show them nothing of Christian doctrine or life, but only subject them to popishness and monkery.  When the Jews then see that Judaism has such strong support in Scripture, and that Christianity has become a mere babble without reliance on Scripture, how can they possibly compose themselves and become right good Christians?  I have myself heard from pious baptized Jews that if they had not in our day heard the Gospel they would have remained Jews under the cloak of Christianity for the rest of their days.  For they acknowledge that they have never yet heard anything about Christ from those who baptized and taught them.

I hope that if one deals in a kindly way with the Jews and instructs them carefully from Holy Scripture, many of them will become genuine Christians and turn again to the faith of their fathers, the prophets and patriarchs.  They will only be frightened further away from it if their Judaism is so utterly rejected that nothing is allowed to remain, and they are treated only with arrogance and scorn.  If the apostles, who also were Jews, had dealt with us Gentiles as we Gentiles deal with the Jews, there would never have been a Christian among the Gentiles.  Since they dealt with us Gentiles in such brotherly fashion, we in our turn ought to treat the Jews in a brotherly manner in order that [201] we might convert some of them.  For even we ourselves are not yet all very far along, not to speak of having arrived.

When we are inclined to boast of our position we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ.  We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord.  Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood, the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are, as St. Paul says in Romans 9[:5].  God has also demonstrated this by His Acts, for to no nation among the Gentiles has He granted so high an honor as He has to the Jews.  For from among the Gentiles there have been raised up no patriarchs, no apostles, no prophets, indeed, very few genuine Christians either.  And although the Gospel has been proclaimed to all the world, yet He committed the Holy Scriptures, that is, the law and the prophets, to no nation except the Jews, as Paul says in Romans 3[:2] and Psalm 147[:19-20], “He declares His Word to Jacob, His Statutes and Ordinances to Israel.  He has not dealt thus with any other nation; nor revealed his ordinances to them.”

Accordingly, I beg my dear papists, should they be growing weary of denouncing me as a heretic, to seize the opportunity of denouncing me as a Jew.  Perhaps I may yet turn out to be also a Turk, or whatever else my fine gentlemen may wish.

Christ is promised for the first time soon after Adam’s fall, when God said to the serpent, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall crush your head, and you shall bruise His Heel” [Genesis 3:15].  Here I defer demonstrating that the serpent spoke possessed of the devil, for no dumb beast is so clever that it can utter or comprehend human speech, much less speak or inquire about such exalted matters as the commandment of God, as the serpent does here.  Therefore, it must certainly have been a rational, highly intelligent, and mighty spirit which was able to utter human speech, deal so masterfully with God’s commandments, and seize and employ human reason.

Since it is certain that a spirit is something higher than a [202] man, it is also certain that this is an evil spirit and an enemy of God, for it breaks God’s Commandment and acts contrary to His Will.  Therefore, it is undoubtedly the devil.  And so the Word of God which speaks of crushing the head must refer also to the devil’s head; though not to the exclusion of the natural head of the serpent, for with a single word he speaks of both devil and serpent as of one thing.  Therefore, he means both heads.  But the devil’s head is that power by which the devil rules, that is, sin and death, by means of which he has brought Adam and all Adam’s descendants under his control.

This Seed of the woman therefore, because He is to crush the devil’s power, that is, sin and death, must not be an ordinary man, since all men have been brought under the devil through sin and death.  So He must certainly be without sin.  Now human nature does not produce such seed or fruit, as has been said, for with their sin they are all under the devil.  How, then, can this be?  The Seed must be the natural child of a woman; otherwise, it could not be or be called the seed of the woman.  On the other hand, as has been pointed out, human nature and birth does not produce such seed.  Therefore, the solution must ultimately be that this Seed is a true natural son of the woman; derived from the woman, however, not in the normal way but through a special act of God, in order that the Scripture might stand, that He is the Seed only of a woman and not of a man.  For the text [Genesis 3:15] clearly states that he will be the Seed of woman.

This is thus the first Passage in which the mother of this child is described as a virgin.  She is his true natural mother; yet she is to conceive and bear supernaturally, by God, without a man, in order that her Child may be a distinctive man, without sin, yet having ordinary flesh and blood like other men.  This could not have been the case had he been begotten by a man like other men because the flesh is consumed and corrupted by evil lust, so that its natural act of procreation cannot occur without sin.  Whatever conceives and bears through an act of the flesh produces also a carnal and sinful fruit.  This is why St. Paul says in Ephesians 1 [Ephesians 2:3] that we are all by nature children of wrath. [203]

Now this Passage [Genesis 3:15] was the very first Gospel message on Earth.  For when Adam and Eve, seduced by the devil, had fallen and were summoned for judgment before God, Genesis 3 [:9], they were in peril of death and the anguish of hell, for they saw that God was against them and condemned them; they would gladly have fled from him, but could not.  Had God let them remain in their anguish, they would soon have despaired and perished.  But when, after their terrible punishment, He let them hear his comforting promise to raise up from the woman’s Seed one who would tread upon the serpent’s head, their spirits were quickened again.  From that promise they drew comfort, believing firmly in that blessed seed of the woman which would come and crush the serpent’s head, that is, sin and death, by which they had been crushed and corrupted.

The fathers, from Adam, on, preached and inculcated this Gospel, through which they acknowledge the promised Seed of this woman and believed in Him.  And so they were sustained through faith in Christ just as we are; they were true Christians like ourselves.  Only, in their day this Gospel was not proclaimed publicly throughout the world, as it would be after the coming of Christ, but remained solely in the possession of the holy fathers and their descendants down to the time of Abraham.

The second promise of Christ was to Abraham, Genesis 22 [:18], where God said, “In your Seed shall all the Gentiles be blessed.”  If all the Gentiles are to be blessed, then it is certain that otherwise, apart from this Seed of Abraham, they were all unblessed and under a curse.  From this it follows that human nature has nothing but cursed seed and bears nothing but unblessed fruit; otherwise, there would be no need for all of them to be blessed through this Seed of Abraham.  Whoever says “all” excludes no one; therefore, apart from Christ, all who are born of man must be under the devil, cursed in sin and death.

Here again the mother of God is proven to be a pure virgin.  For since God cannot lie, it was inevitable that Christ should be the Seed of Abraham, that is, his natural flesh and blood, like all of Abraham’s descendants.  On the other hand, because He was to be the blessed Seed which should bless all others, He could not be begotten by man, since such children, as has been said, [204] cannot be conceived without sin because of the corrupt and tainted flesh, which cannot perform its function without taint and sin.

Thus the Word, by which God promises that Christ will be the seed of Abraham, requires that Christ be born of a woman and be her natural child.  He does not come from the earth like Adam [Genesis 2:7]; neither is He from Adam’s rib like Eve [Genesis 2:21-22].  He comes rather like any woman’s child, from her seed.  The Earth was not the natural seed for Adam’s body; neither was Adam’s rib the natural seed for Eve’s body.  But the virgin’s flesh and blood, from which children come in the case of all other women, was the natural seed of Christ’s body.  And she too was of the seed of Abraham.

On the other hand, this Word by which God promises his blessing upon all Gentiles in Christ requires that Christ may not come from a man, or by the act of a man; for work of the flesh (which is cursed) is incompatible with that which is blessed and is pure blessing.  Therefore, this Blessed Fruit had to be the fruit of a woman’s body only, not of a man, even though that very woman’s body came from man, indeed, even from Abraham and Adam.  So this mother is a virgin, and yet a true natural mother; not, however, by natural capacity or power, but solely through the Holy Spirit and Divine Power.

Now this Passage [Genesis 22:18] was the Gospel from the time of Abraham down to the time of David, event to the time of Christ.  It is a short saying, to be sure, but a rich Gospel, subsequently inculcated and used in marvelous fashion by the fathers both in writing and in preaching.  Many thousands of sermons have been preached from this Passage, and countless souls saved.  For it is the Living Word of God, in which Abraham and his descendants believed, and by which they were redeemed and preserved from sin and death and the power of the devil.  However, it too was not yet proclaimed publicly to all the world, as happened after the coming of Christ, but remained solely in the possession of the fathers and their descendants.

The Spirit extols this virginity, however, because it was needful for the conceiving and bearing of this Blessed Fruit.  Because of the corruption of our flesh, such blessed fruit could not come, except through a virgin.  Thus this tender virginity existed in the service of others to the Glory of God, not to its own glory.  If it had been possible for him to have come from a woman, he would not have selected a virgin for this, since virginity is contrary to the physical nature within us, was condemned of old in the Law, and is extolled here solely because the flesh is tainted and its built-in physical nature cannot bestow her fruit except by means of an accursed act.

Hence we see that St. Paul nowhere calls the mother of God a virgin, but only a woman, as he says in Galatians 3 [Galatians 4:4], “The Son of God was born of a woman.”  He did not mean to say she was not a virgin, but to extol her virginity to the highest with the praise that is proper to it, as much as to say: In this birth none but a woman was involved, no man participated; that is, everything connected with it was reserved to the woman, the conceiving, bearing, suckling, and nourishing of the child were functions no man can perform.  It is therefore the child of a woman only; hence, she must certainly be a virgin.  But a virgin may also be a man; a mother can be none other than a woman.

For this reason, too, Scripture does not quibble or speak about the virginity of Mary after the birth of Christ, a matter about which the hypocrites are greatly concerned, as if it were something of the utmost importance on which our whole salvation [206] depended.  Actually, we should be satisfied simply to hold that she remained a virgin after the birth of Christ because Scripture does not state or indicate that she later lost her virginity.  We certainly need not be so terribly afraid that someone will demonstrate, out of his own head apart from Scripture, that she did not remain a virgin.  But the Scripture stops with this, that she was a virgin before and at the birth of Christ; for up to this point God had need of her virginity in order to give us the promised blessed seed without sin.

The third Passage is addressed to David, II Samuel 7[:12-14], “When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will raise up your Seed after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish His Kingdom forever.  He shall build a House for My Name, and I will establish the Throne of His Kingdom forever.  I will be His Father, and He shall be My Son.”  These words cannot have been spoken of Solomon, for Solomon was not a posthumous son of David raised up after his death.  Neither did God after Solomon (who during David’s lifetime was born and became king) ever designate anyone as His son, give him an everlasting kingdom, or have him build such a house.  Consequently, the whole Passage must refer to Christ.  We will let this Passage go for the present because it is too broad and requires so much in the way of exegesis; for one would have to show here that Christ accordingly had to be the son of a woman only in order to be called here God’s Child, who neither should nor could come out of an accursed act.

The fourth Passage is Isaiah 7[:14], “God himself will give you a sign.  Behold, a virgin is with child, and shall bear a son.”  This could not have been said of a virgin who was about to be married.  For what sort of a marvelous sign would that be if someone who is presently a virgin should bear a child within a year?  Such is the ordinary course of nature, occurring daily before our eyes.  If it is to be a Sign from God, therefore, it must be something remarkable and marvelous not given by the [207] ordinary course of nature, as is commonly the case with all God’s Signs.

It is of no help for the Jews either to try to evade the issue here and come up with this way of getting around it, namely: the Sign consists in the fact that Isaiah says flatly that the child shall be a son and not a daughter.  By such an interpretation the Sign would have nothing to do with the virgin but only with the prophet Isaiah, as the one who had divined so precisely that it would not be a daughter.  The text would then have to speak of Isaiah thus, “Behold, God Himself will give you a Sign, namely, that I, Isaiah, will divine that a young woman is carrying a son, and not a daughter.”  Such an interpretation is disgraceful and childish.

Now the text forcefully refers the sign to the woman, and states clearly that it shall be a sign when a woman bears a son.  Now it certainly is no sign when a woman who is no longer virgin bears a child, be it the mother of Hezekiah or whatever woman the Jews may point to.  The Sign must be something new and different, a marvelous and unique work of God, that this woman is with child; her pregnancy is to be the Sign.  Now I do not deem any Jew so dense that he would not grant God sufficient power to create a child from a virgin, since they are compelled to acknowledge that he created Adam from the earth [Genesis 2:7] and Eve from Adam [Genesis 2:21-22], acts which require no less power.

But then they contend that the Hebrew text does not read, “A virgin is with child,” but, “Behold, an almah is with child. [208]  Almah, they say, does not denote a virgin; the word for virgin is bethulah, while almah is the term for young damsel.  Presumably, a young damsel might very well have had intercourse and be the mother of a child.

Christians can readily answer this from St. Matthew and St. Luke, both of whom apply the Passage from Isaiah [7:14] to Mary, and translate the word almah as “virgin.”  They are more to be believed than the whole world, let alone the Jews.  Even though an angel from heaven [Galatians 1:8] were to say that almah, does not mean virgin, we should not believe it.  For God the Holy Spirit speaks through St. Matthew and St. Luke; we can be sure that He understands Hebrew speech and expressions perfectly well.

But because the Jews do not accept the Evangelists, we must confront them with other evidence.  In the first place, we can say, as above, that there is no marvel or sign in the fact that a young woman conceives, otherwise, we would have a perfect right to sneer at the prophet Isaiah, and say, “What women would you expect to conceive if not the young ones?  Are you drunk?  Or is it in your experience a rare event for a young woman to bear a son?”  For this reason that strained and farfetched answer of the Jews is just a vain and feeble excuse for not keeping silent altogether.

In the second place, grant that bethulah means virgin and not almah, and the Isaiah here uses almah, not bethulah.  All this too is still nothing but a poor excuse.  For they act as if they did not know that in all of Scripture almah nowhere designates a woman who has had intercourse (a fact of which they are perfectly well aware).  On the contrary, in every instance almah signifies a young damsel who has never known a man carnally or had intercourse.  Such a person is always called a virgin, just as St. Matthew and St. Luke here translate Isaiah.

Very well; to please the Jews we will not translate Isaiah thus: “Behold, a virgin is with child,” lest they be confused by the word “virgin,” but rather, “Behold, a maiden is with child.”  Now in German the word “maiden” denotes a woman who is still young, carries her crown with honor, and wears her hair loose, so that it is said of her: She is still a maiden, not a wife (although “maiden” is not the same word as “virgin”).  In like manner also, the Hebrew elem is a stripling who does not yet have a woman; and almah is a maiden who does not yet have a man, not a servant girl but one who still carries a crown.  Thus the sister of Moses is called an almah in Exodus 3 [Exodus 2:8] as is Rebekah in Genesis 24[:16, 43], when they were still virgins.

Suppose I say in German, “Hans is engaged to a maiden,” and someone should comment, “Well, then he is not engaged to a virgin.”  Why, everyone would laugh at him for vainly disputing about words if he thinks that virgin and maiden are not the same thing because they are different words.  This is true also in the Hebrew, when the Jews argue with respect to this Passage in Isaiah [7:14] and say, “Isaiah does not say bethulah, but almah.  I submit that among themselves their own conscience tells them this is so.  Therefore, let them say what they please, bethulah [210] or almah; Isaiah means a damsel who is nubile but still wears her crown, whom in the truest German we call a maiden.  Hence, the mother of God is properly called the pure maiden, that is, the pure almah.

And if I should have had to tell Isaiah what to speak, I would have had him say exactly what he did say, not bethulah, but almah, for almah is even more appropriate here than bethulah.  It is also more precise to say, “Behold, a maiden is with child,” than to say, “A virgin is with child.”  For “virgin” is an all-embracing term which might also be applied to a woman of fifty or sixty who is no longer capable of childbearing.  But “maiden” denotes specifically a young woman, nubile, capable of childbearing, but still a virgin; it includes not only the virginity, but also the youthfulness and the potential for childbearing.  Hence, in German too we commonly refer to young people as maidens or maidenfolk, not virginfolk.

Therefore, the text of Isaiah [7:14] is certainly most accurately translated, “Behold, a maiden is with child.”  No Jew who understands both German and Hebrew can deny that this is what is said in the Hebrew, for we Germans do not say “concepit, the woman has conceived”; the preachers have so rendered the Latin into German.  Rather, the German would say in his mother tongue, “The woman is with child,” or, “is heavy with child,” or, “is pregnant.”

But here in the Hebrew it does not say, “Behold, a maiden shall be with child,” as though she were not as yet.  It says rather, “Behold, a maiden is with child,” as though she has the fruit already in her womb and nevertheless is still a maiden, in order that you will have to notice how the prophet himself is amazed that there stands before him a maiden who is with child even before she knows a man carnally.  She was of course going to have a husband, she was physically fit and mature enough for it; but even before she gets to that she is already a mother.  This is indeed a rare and marvelous thing.

This is the way St. Matthew [1:18] construes this Passage when he says, “When Mary the mother of Jesus had been [211] betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with Child of the Holy Spirit,” etc.  What does this mean other than that she was a young maiden who had not yet known a man although she was capable of it, but before she knew the man she was with child, and that this was an amazing thing since no maiden becomes pregnant prior to intercourse with a man?  Thus, the Evangelist regarded her in the same light as did the prophet, and set her forth as the sign and wonder.

Now this refutes also the false interpretation which some have drawn from the words of Matthew, where he says, “Before they came together she was found to be with Child.”  They interpret this as though the Evangelist meant to say, “Later she came together with Joseph like any other wife and lay with him, but before this occurred she was with child apart from Joseph,” etc.  Again, when he says, “And Joseph knew her not until she brought forth her first-born son” [Matthew 1:25], they interpret it as though the Evangelist meant to say that he knew her, but not before she had brought forth her first-born son.  This was the view of Helvidius which was refuted by Jerome.

Such carnal interpretations miss the meaning and purpose of the Evangelist.  As we have said, the Evangelist, like the prophet Isaiah, wishes to set before our eyes this mighty wonder, and point out what an unheard-of thing it is for a maiden to be with child before her husband brings her home and lies with her; and further, that he does not know her carnally until she first has a son, which she should have had after first having been known [212] by him.  Thus, the words of the Evangelist do not refer to anything that occurred after the birth, but only to what took place before it.  For the Prophet and the Evangelist, and St. Paul as well, do not treat of this virgin beyond the point where they have from her that Fruit for whose sake she is a virgin and everything else.  After the Child is born they dismiss the mother and speak not about her, what became of her, but only about her Offspring.  Therefore, one cannot from these words [Matthew 1:18, 25] conclude that Mary, after the birth of Christ, became a wife in the usual sense; it is therefore neither to be asserted nor believed.  All the words are merely indicative of the marvelous fact that she was with child and gave birth before she had lain with a man.

The form of expression used by Matthew is the common idiom, as if I were to say, “Pharaoh believed not Moses, until he was drowned in the Red Sea.”  Here it does not follow that Pharaoh believed later, after he had drowned; on the contrary, it means that he never did believe.  Similarly when Matthew [1:25] says that Joseph did not know Mary carnally until she had brought forth her son, it does not follow that he knew her subsequently; on the contrary, it means that he never did know her.  Again, the Red Sea overwhelmed Pharaoh before he got across.  Here too it does not follow that Pharaoh got across later, after the Red Sea had overwhelmed him, but rather that he did not get across at all.  In like manner, when Matthew [1:18] says, “She was found to be with child before they came together,” it does not follow that Mary subsequently lay with Joseph, but rather that she did not lie with him.

Elsewhere in Scripture the same manner of speech is employed.  Psalm 110[:1] reads, “God says to my Lord: ‘Sit at My Right Hand, till I make Your enemies Your Footstool.’” Here it does not follow that Christ does not continue to sit there after His enemies are placed beneath His Feet.  Again, in Genesis 28[:15], “I will not leave you until I have done all that of which I have spoken to you.”  Here God did not leave him after the fulfillment had taken place.  Again, in Isaiah 42[:4], “He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he has established justice in the earth.” [213]  There are many more similar expression, so that this babble of Helvidius is without justification; in addition, he has neither noticed nor paid any attention to either Scripture or the common idiom.

This is enough for the present to have sufficiently proved that Mary was a pure maiden, and that Christ was a genuine Jew of Abraham’s seed.  Although more Scripture Passages might be cited, these are the clearest.  Moreover, if anyone does not believe a clear saying of His Divine Majesty, it is reasonable to assume that he would not believe either any other more obscure Passages.  So certainly no one can doubt that it is possible for God to cause a maiden to be with child apart from a man, since he has also created all things from nothing.  Therefore, the Jews have no ground for denying this, for they acknowledge God’s Omnipotence, and they have here the clear testimony of the Prophet Isaiah.

While we are on the subject, however, we wish not only to answer the futile liars who publicly malign me in these matters but we would also like to do a service to the Jews on the chance that we might bring some of them back to their own True Faith, the one which their fathers held.  To this end we will deal with them further, and suggest for the benefit of those who want to work with them a method and some Passages from Scripture which they should employ in dealing with them.  For many, even of the sophists, have also attempted this; but insofar as they have set about it in their own name, nothing has come of it.  For they were trying to cast out the devil by means of the devil, and not by the Finger of God [Luke 11:17-20].

In the first place, that the current belief of the Jews and their waiting upon the coming of the Messiah is erroneous is proved by the Passage in Genesis 49[:10-12] where the holy patriarch Jacob says: “The Scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a teacher from those at his feet, until the Siloh comes; and to him shall be the gathering of the nations.  He will bind his foal [214] to the vine, and his ass to the choice vine.  He will wash His Garments with wine, and His Mantle with the blood of grapes.  His Eyes are redder than wine, and His Teeth whiter than milk.”  This Passage is a divine promise, which cannot lie and must be fulfilled unless heaven and earth were first to pass away.  So the Jews cannot deny that for nearly fifteen hundred years now, since the fall of Jerusalem, they have had no scepter, that is, neither kingdom nor king.  Therefore, the Shiloh, or Messiah, must have come before this fifteen hundred year period, and before the destruction of Jerusalem.

If they try to say that the Scepter was also taken away from Judah at the time of the Babylonian captivity, when the Jews were transported to Babylon and remained captive for seventy years, and yet the Messiah did not come at that time, the answer is that this is not true.  For during the whole period of captivity the royal line continued in the person of King Jeconiah, thereafter Zerubbabel and other princes in turn until Herod became king.  For “scepter” signifies not only a kingdom, but also a hegemony, as the Jews are well aware.  Furthermore, they still always had prophets.  So the kingdom or hegemony never did disappear, even though for a time it existed outside of its territorial boundaries.  Also, never during the captivity were all the inhabitants driven out of the land, as has happened during these [215] past fifteen hundred years when the Jews have had neither princes nor prophets.

It was for this reason that God provided them at that time with the prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Haggai, and Zechariah, who proclaimed to them that they would again be freed from Babylon, in order that they would not think that this word of Jacob was false, or that the Messiah had come.  But for these last fifteen hundred years they have had no prophet to proclaim that they should again be free.  God would not have permitted this state of affairs to continue for such a long time, since He did not on that occasion permit it for such a short time.  He thereby gives ample indication that this prophecy [Genesis 49:10-12] must have been fulfilled.

In addition, when Jacob says here that the scepter shall endure until the Messiah comes, it clearly follows that this scepter not only must not perish but also that it must become far more glorious than it ever was previously, before the Messiah’s coming.  For all the Jews know full well that the Messiah’s Kingdom will be the greatest and most glorious that has ever been on Earth, as we read in Psalms 2, 72, and 89.  For the promise is also made to David that his throne shall endure forever [Psalms 89:4, 29, 36-37].  Now the Jews will have to admit that today their Scepter has now been nonexistent for fifteen hundred years, not to speak of its having become more glorious.

This prophecy can therefore be understood to refer to none other than Jesus Christ our Lord, who is of the Tribe of Judah and of the Royal Lineage of David.  He came when the Scepter had fallen to Herold, the alien; He has been King these fifteen hundred years, and will remain King on into Eternity.  For His Kingdom has spread to the ends of the Earth, as the prophets foretold [Psalms 2:8, 72:8-11]; and the nations have been gathered to him, as Jacob says here [Genesis 49:10].  And there could not possibly be a greater King on Earth, whose Name would be exalted among more nations, than this Jesus Christ.

It is true that some Jews do indeed feel how persuasive and [216] conclusive this Passage really is.  This is why they hunt up all sorts of weird ways of getting around it.  But if you will notice, they only ensnare themselves.  For example, they say that in this instance Shiloh does not signify the Messiah or Christ, and that therefore this Passage does not carry any weight with them.  It matters not whether he is called Messiah or Shiloh; we are concerned not with the name, but with the person, with the fact that he shall appear when the scepter is taken away from Judah.  No such person can be found except Jesus Christ; otherwise, the Passage is false.  He will be no mere cobbler or tailor, but a lord to whom the nations will be gathered; that is, His Kingdom will be more glorious than the Scepter ever was before, as has been said.

Equally futile is another subterfuge, when they say: The nations which are gathered to Him may well be only the Jewish nation, and Shiloh means a lord.  Be that as it may; I will not quarrel over what Shiloh means, although it does seem to me that it signifies a man who is prosperous, well-to-do, has plenty, and is generous.  From this comes the little word salve, which means copia [riches], felicitas [good fortune], abundantia [prosperity], an ample sufficiency of all good things, as it says in Psalm 122[:7], “Et abundantia in turribus suis” [“and prosperity within your palaces”]; that is, everything is full and sufficient and prospering, so that in German I might call shiloh well-being.

Now whether it signifies lord or whether it signifies well-being, prosper [prosperous], or felix [fortunate], at any rate it cannot be said to mean one of the former kings, princes, or teachers.  For “the Scepter of Judah” certainly comprises all those of the Tribe of Judah who have been kings or princes with the exception of this Shiloh, who here is singled out and preferred above all those who have wielded the scepter of Judah as someone [217] special, because Jacob says [Genesis 49:10] the Scepter of Judah shall endure until Shiloh.  What kind of talk would that be for me, to try make of Shiloh one of them who have held the Scepter of Judah and the nations, when the Passage here means that the Shiloh will come after all those others as a greater and more glorious King, and that He will have no successor.  Why would he not otherwise have said, “The Scepter of Judah shall endure forever, and not wait upon Shiloh”?

Therefore, it is the Kingdom of Christ which is here described in masterly fashion, namely, that before him many should wield the Scepter of Judah until He should come Himself and take it in His Own Hands forever, and that He would have no successor, nor would there ever be another king of the Tribe of Judah.  Thereby it is made clear that His Kingdom would be a spiritual kingdom, following upon the temporal kingdom; for no person can have an eternal kingdom who is himself mortal and reigns temporally.  Therefore, the Scepter of Judah did indeed endure from David down to Shiloh as something temporal, having a succession of mortal kings.  But now that Shiloh is come, the Scepter remains forever in the Hands of one Person; no longer does it involve a succession of kings.

From this it necessarily that this Shiloh must first die, and thereafter rise again from the dead.  For since He is to come from the Tribe of Judah [Genesis 49:10], He must be a true, natural man, mortal like all the children of Judah.  On the other hand, because He is to be a special king, distinguished above all who have held the Scepter of Judah before Him, and He alone is to reign forever, he cannot be a mortal man, but must be an immortal man.  Therefore, He must through death put off this mortal life, and by His resurrection take on immortal life, in order that He may fulfil this prophecy and become a Shiloh to whom all the world shall be gathered.  He is to be a truly living man, a king of the Tribe of Judah, and yet immortal, eternal, and invisible, ruling spiritually in faith.  But such sweet speech is still too exalted and difficult for the Jews.

But if they say: Well this Jesus of yours has never done what Jacob later says of this Shiloh, namely, “He will bind his foal to the vine, and his ass to the choice vine; he will wash his garments [218] in wine, and his mantle in the blood of grapes” [Genesis  49:11], then answer: A simpleton might perhaps take this to mean that this Shiloh would be so rich a king that in his day wine would be as common as water, used for washing clothes, etc.  From the foregoing, however, we have observed that this Shiloh is to reign forever, a single person, and that He has no heirs to follow Him.  All the prophets too say this.  Therefore, His Kingdom cannot be a temporal one, consisting essentially of mortal and perishable goods.

And if this does not compel the interpretation that the wine and vine must be spiritual, then the very manner and nature of the words and language must compel it.  For what sort of praise would it be to laud such a glorious kingdom above all kingdoms on these four grounds, namely, that its ruler binds his foal to the vine, his ass to the choice vine, and washes his garments with wine, and his mantle with the blood of grapes?  Could Jacob find no other praise than that which has to do with drinking?  Must such a king have nothing else than wine?  Again, is there nothing else praiseworthy in him but the fact that his eyes are redder than wine and his teeth whiter than milk? [Genesis 49:12].  What does it benefit a kingdom that its ruler has white teeth, red eyes, and binds a foal to a vine?

Assuming for a moment that these things are said concerning superfluous riches, why doesn’t Jacob say much more, such as: He will wash His Garments in balsam and myrrh?  That would be even more luxurious.  Who ever heard of anyone longing to wash his clothes in wine?  Again, why doesn’t he say: He will pasture his horses in the wheat?  Who ever heard of anyone wanting to tether his ass to a vine?  What is the point of an ass at the vine, and clothes in the wine?  The whole thing is sheer nonsense.  Wine ruins clothes, and the ass is better off with thistles than with a vine.  A vine would be better suited to a sheep; it could eat the leaves.  This seemingly ridiculous talk therefore forcibly compels a spiritual interpretation.

Then too, why does he praise him for his red eyes and white teeth?  Is there nothing else beautiful about his body than red eyes and white teeth?  What kind of praise is that for so glorious and great a king?  We usually praise great kings for their strong [219] and splendid physique, and above all for their great spirit, wisdom, graciousness, fortitude, power, and glorious deeds and virtues.  But in this case, only his eyes and teeth are praised; this sounds more like praise of a woman than of a man, let alone of such a king.

There can be no doubt that in these words the Spirit through Moses portrayed this person for us in the setting of a spiritual kingdom as it was to come into being and be governed.  This is not the time, however, to discuss this at length.  We have enough to do for the present in forcefully asserting against the Jews that the true Shiloh or Christ must have come long ago, because they been long since bereft of the kingdom and hegemony, and of prophets as well.  Here the clear text stands firm and testifies that the Scepter shall remain with the Tribe of Judah until the True King comes, when for the first time it shall really hold sway.

Thus, the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ squares perfectly with this prophecy.  For there was a hegemony among the Jews until He came.  After His coming, however, it was destroyed, and at the same time He began the Eternal Kingdom in which He still reigns forever.  That he was of the Tribe of Judah is unquestionable.  Because as regards His Person He was to be an Eternal King, it could not be that He should govern in a temporal and secular sense, because what is temporal will pass away.  Conversely, because He had to be David’s natural seed, it could not be otherwise than that He should be a natural, mortal, temporal, perishable man.

Now to be temporal and to reign eternally are two mutually contradictory concepts.  Therefore, it had to turn out that He died temporally and departed this life, and again that He arose from the dead and became alive in order that He might become an Eternal King.  For He had to be alive if He were to reign, because one who is dead cannot reign; and He had to die too if He were to shift from this mortal life, into which He necessarily had to enter to fulfil the Scripture which promised He would be the natural blood of David and Abraham.

So now He lives and reigns, and holds the exalted office of binding His Foal to the vine and washing His Garments in the red wine; that is, He governs our consciences with the Holy Gospel, [220] which is a most gracious preachment of God’s loving-kindness, the forgiveness of sins, and redemption from death and Hell, by which all who from the heart believe it will be comforted, joyous, and, as it were, drowned in God with the overwhelming comfort of His Mercy.  The Jews, however, will not listen to this interpretation until they first accept and acknowledge the fact that Christ must have come in accordance with this prophecy.  Therefore, we will let the matter rest until its own good time.

On the basis and testimony of this Passage [Genesis  49:10-12], another sensible argument is also to be proved, namely, that this Shiloh must have come at the time our Jesus Christ came, and that He can be none other than that selfsame Jesus.  The prophecy says that nations shall be gathered to or be subject to this Shiloh.  Now I ask the Jews: When was there ever such a man of Jewish ancestry to whom so many nations were subject as this Jesus Christ?  David was a great king, and so was Solomon; but their kingdom never extended beyond a small portion of the land of Syria.  This Jesus, on the contrary, is accepted as a Lord and King throughout the world, so that one may consider as fulfilled in him the prophecy from the second Psalm [v. 8], where God says to the Messiah, “I will give You the Gentiles for Your Possession, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for Your Inheritance.”  This had indeed come true in the person of our Jesus since the time when the Scepter was taken from the Jews; this is quite apparent and has never yet happened in the case of any other Jew.  Because Shiloh was to come when Judah’s Scepter was ended, and since that time no other has fulfilled these prophecies, this Jesus must certainly be the real Shiloh whom Jacob intended.

The Jews will have to admit further that the Gentiles have never once yielded themselves so willingly to a Jew for their lord and king, as to this Jesus.  For although Joseph was certainly a great man in Egypt, he was neither its lord nor its king [Genesis 41:40].  And even if he had been, Egypt was a mighty small thing compared to this kingdom which everybody ascribes to this Jesus.

Again, neither in Babylon nor in Persia was either Daniel [Daniel 5:29; 6:1-3] or Mordecai [Esther 10:3] a king, although they were men of power in the government.

It is amazing that the Jews are not moved to believe in this [221] Jesus, their own flesh and blood, with whom the prophecies of Scripture actually square so powerfully and exactly, when they see that we Gentiles cling to Him so hard and fast and in such numbers that many thousands have shed their blood for His Sake.  They know perfectly well that the Gentiles have always shown greater hostility toward the Jews than toward any other nation, and have been unwilling to tolerate their dominion, laws, or government.  How is it then that the Gentiles should now so reverse themselves as to willingly and steadfastly surrender themselves to this Jew, and with heart and soul confess Him King of kings and Lord of lords, unless it be that here is the true Messiah, to whom God by a great miracle has made the Gentiles friendly and submissive in accordance with this and numerous other prophecies?

The second Passage is Daniel 9[:24-27], where the angel Gabriel speaks to Daniel in the plainest terms about Christ, saying, “Seventy weeks are determined concerning your people and your holy city, that transgression may be finished, forgiveness sealed, iniquity atoned for, and everlasting righteousness brought in, and vision and prophecy fulfilled, and the most holy anointed.  Take notice therefore and know: from the going forth of the word to rebuild Jerusalem are seven weeks and sixty-two weeks until Messiah the Prince; the streets and the wall shall be built again in a troubled time.  And after sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, and they shall not be His.  But the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.  Its end shall come with violence.  And after the end of the war there shall remain the appointed desolation.  And He shall confirm the Covenant with many in one week; and in the middle of the week sacrifice and offering shall cease,” etc.

God help us!  This Passage has been dealt with so variously by both Jews and Christians that one might doubt whether anything certain can be derived from it!  Well this much at least we [222] will derive from it, namely, that the true Messiah must have come over one thousand and five hundred years ago, just as we hold that our Jesus Christ did.  The computation and exegesis we will postpone to the last, and for the first simply say: Neither Jew nor anyone else can deny that the angel Gabriel is speaking here of the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity; this took place under Nehemiah.

In the second place, Gabriel can surely be referring only to that destruction of Jerusalem which subsequently took place under the Roman emperor Titus about the thirtieth year after the ascension of our Lord.  For after Jerusalem was rebuilt there was no other destruction of the city, although it had been captured at the time of the Maccabees.  From this we draw the assured and incontrovertible conclusion that the Messiah of whom Gabriel here speaks must have come before the destruction [by Titus].  That, I think, is quite certain and sufficiently clear.

It is true that the Jews long ago began to feel the pressure of this mighty flood of evidence, and have anxiously defended their position with all manner of preposterous glosses.  They make of this Messiah something other than the true Messiah, as for example King Cyrus of Persia, whom Isaiah in chapter 45 [Isaiah 45:1] calls a Messiah, and who was slain by Tomyris, the Scythian queen. [223]  This and similar efforts are worthless excuses, capricious and unwarranted evasions, and therefore quickly disposed of as follows: These seventy weeks (says Gabriel) are to extend to the time of a Messiah of such a sort that in his time, when the weeks have elapsed, sin and iniquity shall be finished, forgiveness and everlasting righteousness brought in, and vision and prophecy fulfilled.

Now I ask them both, Jews and everyone else: Did such things come to pass in the days if Cyrus?  In the time of Cyrus and after him no more special righteousness was brought upon Earth than what existed before and since under other kings.  Moreover, in the days of David and Solomon the level of righteousness was much higher than at the time of Cyrus, but Scripture does not designate this as everlasting righteousness.  The righteousness of which Gabriel speaks must therefore be far superior to that which prevailed in the time of David, the most holy king, let alone to such righteousness as the pagan Cyrus had in his day.

And further, when Gabriel says here that the city of Jerusalem shall be rebuilt in seven weeks, and that afterward the Messiah shall be cut off after sixty-two weeks, how can that apply to King Cyrus, who was slain before the seven weeks began, or — if their calculation is correct — at any rate before Jerusalem was rebuilt?  How can the Messiah be someone who was slain before the rebuilding of Jerusalem, and then was cut off sixty-two weeks later after Jerusalem was rebuilt?

So now we have it; their defense is fallacious, and the Passage cannot be interpreted in terms of Cyrus.  Since Scripture designates no one as Messiah after Cyrus except the only One, and since such great and exalted qualities cannot be attributed to any temporal king, we conclude — and thus mightily overcome the error of the Jews — that the true Messiah came after the rebuilding of Jerusalem and prior to its destruction.  For no Messiah was put to death before the destruction of Jerusalem except our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we call Messiah, that is, Christ, or the Anointed One.  For this reason we will now examine the text, and see how exactly it conforms to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now among those who are well versed in Scripture there is no doubt whatever that Gabriel is speaking here not of the normal week of seven days, but of year-weeks, in which seven years comprise one week.  Scripture commonly employs such terminology.  Therefore, the seventy weeks [Daniel 9:24] amount altogether to four hundred and ninety years.

If we now reckon from Christ’s thirtieth year [Luke 3:23] backward through the Greek and Persian kingdoms for four hundred [225] and ninety years, we arrive exactly at the twentieth [Nehemiah 2:1] and last year of Cambyses, the third king or the second king in Persia after Cyrus, that Cyrus who permitted the building of the Temple at Jerusalem, II Chronicles 36[:22-23], and Ezra 1[:1-3].  However, more than forty-six years later Cambyses, and after him Darius Longimanus (who had previously vowed to do so [I Esdras 4:43]), permitted the building of the city of Jerusalem, which was done under Nehemiah.  All this is set forth in the books of Nehemiah and Ezra.  Thus, if we take the seventy weeks as beginning with Nehemiah’s departure from Persia [Nehemiah 2:1-11], that is, about the seventh year of Darius Longimanus, it corresponds exactly with our Christ.

Now Gabriel says [Daniel 9:24], “Seventy weeks (that is, four hundred and ninety years) are determined concerning your people [226] and your Holy City.”  This is as if we were to say: Your Nation of the Jews and the Holy City of Jerusalem have yet four hundred and ninety years to go; then they will both come to an end.  As to what shall actually transpire, he says that transgression will be finished and forgiveness sealed and iniquity atoned for and everlasting righteousness brought in, and vision and prophecy fulfilled, that is, that satisfaction will be made for all sins, forgiveness of sins proclaimed, and the righteousness of faith preached, that righteousness which is eternally valid before God.  This it is to which all the prophets and the whole of Scripture bear witness, as Paul in Romans 1[:17] and Peter in Acts 2[:38-39] testify.  For before it there has been nothing but sin and work-righteousness, which is temporal and invalid in the Sight of God.  I know of course that some invariably interpret the little Hebrew word “Hathuth” here as “sins”; I have taken it to mean “forgiveness” — as Moses sometimes does, and as it is used in Psalm 51[:7] — not without reason.

Next he shows when the period of seventy weeks begins, saying [Daniel 9:25], “From the going forth of the word to rebuild Jerusalem (that is, at the time of Nehemiah, in the twentieth year of Cambyses), until Messiah the Prince (that is, until the baptism of Christ in the Jordan), are seven weeks (that is, forty-nine years, during which Jerusalem was rebuilt in a troubled time, as the book of Nehemiah [2-6] teaches) and sixty-two weeks” (that is, 411 years after Jerusalem was rebuilt).  This makes altogether [227] sixty-nine weeks, that is 483 years.  There is still lacking one week, that is, seven years, to make the total of seventy weeks, or 490 years.  He then shows what is to happen in that selfsame week, saying [Daniel 9:26]: “And after sixty-two weeks (note that this if after the first seven weeks of troubled rebuilding) Messiah shall be cut off (this did not happen at the beginning of the last week, but right in the middle of it, for Christ preached for three and one-half years, and Gabriel uses the term ‘cut off’, that is, taken from this life into the immortal life through death and His resurrection).  And they shall not be His” (that is, those who crucify Him and drive Him from this world will no more belong to Him and be His People, but He will make unto Himself another people).  Gabriel explains this and tells how they will not go unpunished for it, saying [Daniel 9:26]: “And the people of a prince who is to come (that is, Titus, the Roman emperor) shall destroy the city and that which is holy, and its end shall come with violence (that is, it shall be destroyed with force and fury, as by a flood).  And after the end of the war there shall remain the appointed desolation.”  (All of this happened just that way.  Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed with frightful severity, and to this time have never come into the hands of the Jews or been restored to the former position of power despite the earnest efforts made in that direction.  The [228] city today is still the ruin it was before, so that no one can deny that this prophecy and the actual situation before our eyes coincide perfectly.)

“And He shall confirm the Covenant with many in the one week” [Daniel 9:27].  (This is the period of three and one-half years during which Christ himself preached, plus the succeeding three and one-half years of apostolic activity).  During these seven years the Gospel (which is God’s covenant with us, that through Christ he will be merciful toward us) received its greatest impetus.  Since that time it has never been so pure and mighty, for shortly thereafter heresy and error came to be mingled with it.  “And in the middle of the week the sacrifice and offering shall cease” [Daniel 9:27] (that is, the law of Moses will no longer prevail), because Christ, after preaching for three and one-half years, will fulfill all things through his suffering, and thereafter provide for the preaching of a new sacrifice, etc.

Now let someone tell me: Where will one find a prince, or Messiah, or king, with whom all this accords so perfectly, as with our Lord Jesus Christ?  Scripture and history agree so perfectly with one another that the Jews have nothing they can say to the contrary.  They certainly are painfully conscious of their destruction, which is immeasurably greater than any they have ever endured.  They cannot point to any transgression so great that they would have merited such punishment (because they feel it is not a sin that they crucified Jesus, and that they committed greater sins before that but suffered less punishment).  It would be unthinkable that God would leave them so long without prophets unless they were finished and all Scripture fulfilled.

But there are still more prophecies, as for example in Haggai 2[:9], where God says of the rebuilt Temple, “The splendor of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former,” which is also very conclusive; and Zechariah 8[:23], “In those [229] days ten men of all languages of the Gentiles shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying: We want to go with you; for we have heard that the Lord is with you,” etc.  There are many more, but it would take too long to discuss them all clearly and at length.  For the present the two prophecies just cited are enough for a beginning.

If the Jews should take offense because we confess our Jesus to be a man, and yet true God, we will deal forcefully with that from Scripture in due time.  But this is too harsh for a beginning.  Let them first be suckled with milk, and begin by recognizing this man Jesus as the true Messiah; after that they may drink wine, and learn also that he is true God.  For they have been led astray so long and so far that one must deal gently with them, as people who have been all too strongly indoctrinated to believe that God cannot be man.

Therefore, I would request and advise that one deal gently with them and instruct them from Scripture; then some of them may come along.  Instead of this we are trying only to drive them by force, slandering them, accusing them of having Christian blood if they don’t stink, and I know not what other foolishness.  So long as we thus treat them like dogs, how can we expect to work any good among them?  Again, when we forbid them to labor and do business and have any human fellowship with us, thereby forcing them into usury, how is that supposed to do them any good?

If we really want to help them, we must be guided in our dealings with them not by papal law but by the law of Christian love.  We must receive them cordially, and permit them to trade and work with us, that they may have occasion and opportunity to associate with us, hear our Christian teaching, and witness our Christian life.  If some of them should prove stiff-necked, what of it?  After all, we ourselves are not all good Christians either.

Here I will let the matter rest for the present, until I see what I have accomplished.  God grant us all his mercy.  Amen!

A listener and contributor to my program, Tony, sent me an e-mail recommending a teaching by Rob Skiba that gave away nothing on what Tony and I know as the “Jesuit World Order” but none-the-less Tony considered the teaching “critical” and “outstanding”.

I assume Tony felt that way because of a vein that runs through all good Christians; we respect and revere the “Hebrew roots” of our Jewish Savior and we wish to please Him by disciplined living.  That is the appeal of Judaising and it is a dangerous trap that our Roman foes exploit to the fullest.

Heirs of the Promise

Whether it’s reverence for the Bible or respect for our “Hebrew roots”, the Dragon of Rome has zeroed in on our emotions of warmth and exploited them to the fullest in order to cover her tracks.

I remember like it was yesterday one of my final meetings with supposed Jesuit foe Eric Jon Phelps and my desperate attempts to rationalize the negative aspects of his mission such as needless enflaming of racial hatred¹ or his insistence that modern Israel still has a future prophetic role to play.  I now know the reason is what Cardinal Thomas Wolsey called “Learning Against Learning”; the Counter-Reformation tactic of mixing truth with lies.  Eric Jon Phelps is an undercover Jesuit—he even has a family under false pretenses (a crime for which he will answer to when he stands before Christ).

Questioning “Eric” on his Dispensationalism, I asked him about the 144,000 or Revelation 7.  “Eric” insisted that he took the Bible literally.  This is a cunning tactic that is meant to instantly gain the high ground amongst Fundamentalist Christians who revere the Word of God.

After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the Earth, holding the four winds of the Earth, that the wind should not blow on the Earth, on the sea, or on any tree.  Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the Seal of the Living God.  And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the Earth and the sea, saying, “Do not harm the Earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”  And I heard the number of those who were sealed.  One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:

of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the Throne, and to the Lamb!” ~ Revelation 7:1-10 (NKJV, some capitalization added to denote uniqueness)

Have these sealed servants received their special commission based upon their bloodlines?

If so, why are the tribes of Dan and Ephraim not mentioned?  Do they have a special curse upon them, transferred by blood?

It is impossible to trace ancestors of the tribes today, will God perform a miracle for this purpose?  Is it necessary?

Seventh Day Adventist Pastor Doug Batchelor has an excellent and compelling teaching ² on this that explains each of these concerns; he calls the number a literal “Special Forces” for Christ while the listing of tribes is symbolic.

For the details of this teaching, go here.

NOTE: I love the Adventists’ for their insights (they are the only Protestant sect today) but it is quite obvious and clear to us non-Adventists that the Seal of God is not their legalistic definition of a Saturday Sabbath.  Such are the pitfalls of organized religion; both truth and tradition are institutionalized.

* the 12 apostles did not come one from each Tribe, setting the precedent for a spiritual definition of “Children of Israel”
* historically, the 12 Tribes were very different in population but those listed in Revelation 7 and 14 are exactly 12,000 of each
* depending on how you count Joseph’s sons, Jacob’s two adopted grandsons, the Tribes can equal 12, 13 or 14
* the Miracle of Christ’s Sacrifice extends Grace to any person who believes; “Jews” are now defined by the spirit in their heart and not the flesh of their lineage (Romans 2:28-29)
* “12” is the number for building.  Pastor Doug states “Twelve is a perfect number for building, because it is one of the most versatile numbers.  It can be evenly divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and of course 12.”
* this seal does not mean only 144,000 are Saved as verse 9 follows with the multitude worshipping the Lamb at His Throne
* the names appear to be aligned, not by birth, but by the significance of what they mean in order to reaffirm the Gospel!

1.         Judah means                “I will praise the Lord”
2.         Ruben means               “He has looked on me”
3.         Gad means                  “Given good fortune”
4.         Asher means                “Happy am I”
5.         Naphtali means           “My wrestling”
6.         Manasseh means         “Making me to forget”
7.         Simeon means             “God hears me”
8.         Levi means                  “Joined to me”
9.         Issachar means            “Purchased Me”
10.       Zebulun means            “Dwelling”
11.       Joseph means              “Will add to me”
12.       Benjamin means          “Son of His right hand”

“I will praise the Lord for he has looked on me and granted good fortune.  I am happy because my wrestling, God is making me to forget.  God hears me and is joined to me.  He has purchased me a dwelling and will add to me, the Son of His Right Hand.”

What Is Sin?

Here we have a bit of a translational problem; a definition of “sin” can be found in I John 3:4 but that all depends upon which translation you read.

Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. ~ NKJV

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. ~ NASB

Despite it’s bad reputation for inaccuracy, the NIV comes a little closer.

Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. ~ NIV

The King James appears to render this passage quite differently.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. ~ KJV

I neither like nor recommend the King James as its Shakespearian English is needlessly confusing.  It’s also a favorite translation of those desiring to sound righteous.  What I do recommend is serious scholarship; do exactly as I have done above.  Check multiple translations whenever possible and do original language word studies frequently.

What Is “the Law”?

If “sin” is “transgression of the Law”, then the next logical question is, “What is the Law?”  Does this mean that by eating shrimp, not covering my head or cutting the lawn on Saturday I’m sinning?

Perhaps a better question is, “Are the 613 Mitzvot of Moshe (the do’s and don’ts within the Law of Moses) what we mean by ‘the Law’?”

A careful examination of Scripture reveals something astounding: there appears to be more than one “Law”—the 10 Commandments or “Moral Law” verses the “Ceremonial Law”.

The “Moral Law” was written by the Finger of God on tablets of stone (even the second copy; Deuteronomy 10:1-5). (Exodus 31:18, 32:16)

The “Ceremonial Law” was written by Moses and placed in a Book as a testimony of Israel’s fleshly tendencies. (Deuteronomy 31:9-29)

The “Moral Law” was placed in the Ark. (Exodus 25:16, Deuteronomy 10:1-5, I King 8:9)

The “Ceremonial Law” was placed beside the Ark. (Deuteronomy 31:24-26)

The “Moral Law” is necessary for ordered living, pre-existed us (I John 3:8), is written in our hearts (Romans 2:15) and will stand forever. (Psalm 111:7-8)

The “Ceremonial Law” was necessary to explain the Plan of Salvation and was fulfilled by the Sacrifice of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. (Matthew 5:17-18, Matthew 27:51, Acts 15:10-11, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:23-25, Ephesians 2:14-15, Hebrews 9:6-15)

The Sabbath

Failure to differentiate between the “Moral Law” and the “Ceremonial Law” can lead to the reverse of the Judaisers’ heresy; the idea that Christ rendered all Law obsolete.

The effective counter remains “But what about murder and adultery mentioned in the Ten Commandments?”  It’s clear that Christ’s sacrifice gave us freedom, not anarchy.

In fact, on the Sermon on the Mount, Christ took the Commandments and increased their jurisdiction beyond action and into your very thoughts and yearnings. (Matthew 5:21-30)

There is also a “Royal Law” which James says is still in effect—

If you really fulfill the Royal Law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.  For whoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.  For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.”  Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.  So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.  For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy.  Mercy triumphs over judgment. ~ James 2:8-13New King James Version (NKJV, some capitalization added for uniqueness)

Enterprising students of Scripture have noticed that all of the first 10 Commandments are explicitly and clearly reaffirmed in the New Testament with the exception of the 4^th.

Conversely, the listing of sins which merit damnation go beyond the 10 Commandments—

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived.  Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ~ I Corinthians 6:9-10

Consequently, confusion (perhaps some rendered purposefully) still exists amongst Christians regarding the Commandment to, “keep holy the Sabbath Day”.

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.  In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.  For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. ~ Exodus 20:8-11 NKJV

To make matters more confusing, the first Christians appeared to gather for fellowship and worship on “the first day of the week” (Acts 20:7-8) in honor of the day that Christ rose from the dead. (Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2-6, Luke 24:1, John 20:1)

Should Christians keep the Sabbath and should it be kept on the seventh day of the week?

The first concern with that issue is, “What is the seventh day of the week?”

For some in the Christian tradition, the first day of the week is named in accordance with the creation tale in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, where one of the first things God did was say “let there be light, and there was light.”

Not every culture has Sunday as its first day, and notable exceptions are found in the Slavic languages, where Sunday is the last day of the week and is not named in honor of the sun.  For example, in Hungary Sunday is called Vasárnap and means “market day,” and in Old Russian, where Sunday was sometimes called “free day.” ~ Today I Found Out

Monday or Sunday first day of the week?

The first day of the week varies all over the world.  In most cultures, Sunday is regarded as the first day of the week although many observe Monday as the first day of the week. According to the Bible, the Sabbath or Saturday is the last day of the week which marks Sunday as the first day of the week for many Jewish and Christian faiths, while many countries regard Monday as the first day of the week.

According to the international standard ISO 8601, Monday is the first day of the week ending with Sunday as the seventh day of the week.  Although this is the international standard, countries such as the United States still have their calendars refer to Sunday as the start of the seven-day week. ~ TimeAndDate.com

The moment we begin to push a strict understanding of even when to observe the Sabbath, we are in danger of the sins of legalism and pride.

One can make the case that pride was the beginning of all sin and rebellion against God (Isaiah 14:12-14), and as a result, is the worst of sins.

The traditions of the Ceremonial Law are significant, but only in as much as they create a beautiful picture of our Savior and His Redemption for us.  Without Him, they are completely without substance.  Amongst the Ceremonial Law are the marking of Sabbath days, the strict keeping of which leads to the deadly sin of pride—

In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the Circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.  And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us.  And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the Cross.  Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.  Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations — “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” which all concern things which perish with the using — according to the commandments and doctrines of men?  These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. ~ Colossians 2:11-23

But are those Sabbath Days different from the Sabbath (as our Adventist brethren claim)?

If there is an important passage that needs a testimony in Scripture, we can expect it to be mentioned at least twice—for as the testimony of two or more is found, so is an issue resolved. (Matthew 18:16)

Who are you to judge another’s servant?  To his own master he stands or falls.  Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike.  Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.  He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it.  He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.  For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.  For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord.  Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.  For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.  But why do you judge your brother?  Or why do you show contempt for your brother?  For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. ~ Romans 14:4-10 (NKJV)

It is an absolute fact that one can be nourished in their relationship with Christ by voluntarily keeping a Sabbath, but only if that is their intent, because that was clearly His Intent—

Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain.  And the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

But He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him: how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him?”

And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.  Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.” ~ Mark 2:23-27

Unfortunately, the reality of this issue appears to be that the vast majority of Christians exercise no discipline in this matter and a very small minority of Christians push a fanatical adherence to the legalistic side of it.

As with every issue of guilt and emotion where there is no clarity of thought or balance, the Dragon has stepped up to excite the paranoia of the devoted into believing that a specific, mandated day of rest will be the ultimate evil brought by her iron grip.

Given that the Inquisition never died, it was simply put into the hands of Rome’s American puppets, there are far more serious issues to be concerned about.

New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows

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The questions of “sin”, “guilt”, “salvation” and “relationship with one’s Creator” have the power to inspire men to superhuman feats of inspiration or make them devolve into unspeakable actions of subhuman barbarism.

Christianity has been blamed for most of those barbaric crimes but the real culprit has been Chaldean paganism.  Babylonian sun worship was the foundation of the pagan beliefs of the Roman empire but on the order of Emperor Theodosius I via his decree Cunctos populos in 380 AD, Christianity became the state religion of Rome.

The same entity that executed the Savior now hijacked His Name to metamorphose into a Beast that masqueraded as a lamb but spread terror like a dragon.

From the Crusades to the Inquisition, this Dragon began to paint the Cross on unspeakable crimes, not the least of which was to torture and murder Christians!

This Beast now rules the world in secret, commanding all of the banks, militaries, intelligence agencies, governments, news media and even the entertainment industry.

She appears unstoppable: impossible to combat on your own.

—but is she?

True Christianity has nothing to do with organized religion.

Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old?  Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’  The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes.  So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” ~ John 3:3-8

“I Am the Way the Truth and the Life.  No man comes to the Father but through Me.” ~ John 14:6

It is a personal relationship with the God/man Jesus Christ which saves, which is the foundation for real Christian Faith.

Organized religion has not only destroyed this, it has been the vehicle through which the dumbing down and re-education of Followers of Christ has been almost completely successful.  Doctrines dreamed up by the Dragon now all but unanimously run the halls of today’s “Christian” churches.

Christians have been warned not to congregate in “sacred” or “holy” places because the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ has made them all obsolete.

Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?  If any man destroys the Temple of God, God will destroy him, for the Temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. ~ I Corinthians 3:16-17

In keeping with pagan practice, the most “holy” cathedrals are built upon cemeteries or may even have remains of the dead hidden or cemented into their halls.  Some are not even hidden.

Christians file in like sheep for the slaughter to be put to sleep by incompetents at best and wolves masquerading as shepherds at worst.  It’s as easy to turn your soul over to an “expert” as it is your body to a doctor but doing either without thinking or research can result in the death of both.

Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Killing 225,000 People Every Year ~ Joseph Mercola

Christians are oblivious to the dangers surrounding them because they check the box for an hour every Sunday and believe they have safeguarded the souls of themselves and their families but the reality is that they are being spoon-fed poison from the very Beast they were warned to stay away from; the Whore of Babylon—

I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as Heaven, and God has remembered her wicked deeds.  Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to what she has done; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her!  To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’  For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong!” ~ Revelation 18:4-8

From Preterism (Biblical prophecy is already fulfilled) to Futurism (Biblical prophecy has not yet been fulfilled), the “Pre-Tribulation Rapture” to Zionism and “Dispensationalism” (the doctrine that God is dealing separately with Christians and Jews), today’s supposed “Protestant” churches walk in lock-step, feeding their flocks disinformation fabricated by the Company of Loyola.

Anne Chamberlain of the Idaho Observer wrote a phenomenal column showing the twisted history of Dispensationalism and the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. Scofield’s involvement in “questionable financial transactions”⁵⁴⁸, jail time⁵⁴⁹ and abandonment of his Catholic wife and children⁵⁵⁰,⁵⁵¹ have been corroborated by the author. [italics suspended]

In 1767, a Chilean-born Catholic Priest, Manuel de Lacunza y Diaz came to Imola, Italy, when the Jesuits were expelled from Spain because of their brutality. There he claimed to be a converted Jew named Rabbi Juan Jushafat Ben-Ezra. Under that alias, he wrote a 900 page book titled, The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty. Lacunza theorized that the Church would be taken to be with the Lord to escape the reign of Antichrist in the last 3-1/2 years of the age, some 45 days before Jesus’ final return to Earth. During that 45 days (while the Church was in heaven), God would pour out His wrath upon the wicked remaining on Earth.

In 1828, “Glory and Majesty” was translated into English by a radical cultist London preacher named Edward Irving. Lacunza’s views could have died there, for most in England saw Irving as a heretic.

At the same time Margaret MacDonald from Port Glasgow, Scotland, claimed she received divine revelations from God about a rapture. According to MacPherson, Miss Margaret had occultic ties, including a friendship with a girl who was into psychic powers and automatic writing. She sent her vision in a letter to Irving and, shortly thereafter, her revelation showed up in print. In September, 1830, The Morning Watch, a periodical put out by Irving’s church, published, “Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in the Apocalypse.”⁽¹⁾ …

About the same time as Margaret Macdonald’s vision, John Nelson Darby was playing with the dispensationalist idea of dividing history into ages or “dispensations.” Many prophecy teachers of today credit John Darby with the origin of these teachings because he was a well-educated man who authored many books. In fact, Darby went to see Margaret and her family shortly after she gained notoriety for her vision, and in later years, claimed them as his own. …

On at least one occasion Darby went to Saint Louis and met with Presbyterian minister James H. Brookes (1830-1897), Scofield’s mentor and a key leader in the Niagara Bible Conferences. The conferences were held annually from 1876 to 1897, initially in different resort locations around the U.S. and, as of 1883 at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario—the Queen’s Royal Hotel. It was there that the fundamentalist movement was born and solidified. It then began to shape the Christian landscape in the United States and laid the foundation for “Premillennialism,” the foundation for Christian Zionists. …

At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Cyrus I. Scofield (1843-1921), a Michigan native, lied about his age in order to enlist in the Confederate Army in 1861, where he served in the 7th Tennessee infantry for a year.

In 1866 he married a Roman Catholic girl named Leontine Cerre. They had two girls, Abigail and Helene.

According to sweetliberty.org⁽³⁾, as a young con-artist in Kansas after the Civil War, Scofield met up with John J. Ingalls, an aging Jewish lawyer/senator. Pulling strings both in Kansas and with his compatriots back east, Ingalls assisted Scofield in gaining admission to the Bar and procured his appointment as the federal attorney for Kansas. Scofield committed perjury when he took his oath, stating that he had never voluntarily borne arms against the United States. He was forced to resign after six months because of questionable financial transactions.

By 1877, Scofield was making a living on swindles and schemes and writing bogus checks. Ingalls and Scofield became partners in a railroad scam which led to Scofield serving time for criminal forgery.

In 1879, while he was in prison, a group of Christian women who had a jail ministry witnessed to Scofield and he made a profession of faith in Christ. He then began to study the writings of John Darby and embraced Darby’s theology about the rapture and the need for Jews to resettle the land of Israel…

In 1877, Scofield had deserted his first wife and his two daughters and left them destitute. According Wikipedia, this was “perhaps because of alcoholism,” but Joseph Canfield⁽³⁾ asserts: “The very sudden quashing of the criminal charges without proper adjudication suggests that Scofield’s career was in the hands of someone who had clout never available to either Ingalls, Pomeroy, or anyone of the Choteau Clan. But, the career was to be of such a nature that Leontine, the Catholic wife, had to go.”

Scofield then took as his mistress a young girl from the St. Louis Flower Mission. He later abandoned her for Hettie Hall von Wartz whom he married in 1884. Leontine filed for divorce in 1881, finalized in 1883, listing “abandonment” as a reason. ~ Anne Wilder Chamberlain, the Idaho Observer⁵⁵²

Scofield craftily changed the Islamic invader of Israel—Magog (Ezekiel 38 & 39)—into Russia. Although the Scythians, identified by Josephus as their descendents, eventually migrated to Ukraine and the Steppes of Russias this was only one stop in their historical heritage and they now live everywhere in the world. Their original home, however, is modern Turkey.⁵⁵³,⁵⁵⁴

Jesuit priest Manuel Lacunza, a.k.a. “Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra” was, indeed, a principle theologian behind changing Protestant perceptions of the End Times and pulling Rome out of the spotlight and pushing Israel into it. ~ Illuminati Unmasked ¹

Preterism and Futurism are no different.

With Rome so clearly depicted as the 4th and final Beast of both Daniel and Revelation, Jesuits needed to disconnect Christians from that interpretation and they used Preterism and Futurism to do it.

Preterism is the idea that most of prophecy has already taken place.  It was concocted by a Jesuit.

Preterism was first advanced in 1604 by Jesuit Luis de Alcasar to destroy the Reformed Protestant teaching that the papacy was Mystery Babylon, the Great Whore and the historical Antichrist.

~ Illuminati Unmasked ²

Futurism is more appealing in that it acknowledges that much of prophecy is yet future but it distracts from the 4th Beast and paints the anti-Christ as a man who suddenly appears just before the Tribulation and who stands alone, apart from any organization or system.

It, too, was fabricated by a Jesuit.

Francisco Ribera (1537-1591) of Salamanca, Spain, published a 500 page commentary on the grand points of Babylon and Antichrist, the object being to set aside the Protestant teaching that the Papacy is the Antichrist. In his commentary, he assigned the first chapters of Revelation to the first century.  The rest he restricted to a literal three and a half years a the end of time.  He taught that the Jewish temple would be rebuilt by a single individual antichrist who would abolish the Christian religion, deny Christ, pretend to be God, and conquer the world.⁸

According to Schaff:

The events of the Apocolypse from ch. 4 to the close lie beyond the second advent of Christ. … [he was joined by] Lacunza … another Jesuit, who wrote under the name of Ben-Ezra “On the coming of the Messiah in glory and majesty,” and taught premillennial advent…

Ribera’s commentary laid the foundation for the greta structure of Futurism, which would be built upon and expanded by those who followed.  Ribera’s teaching was further popularized by Robert Bellarmine (1544-0621), an Italian cardinal and the most renowned of all Jesuit controversialists.¹⁰

After accepting the Jesuits’ Futurist System (and the Preterist System…) millenarian Protestants no longer saw Rome as a present but only a distant future threat.¹¹  We should also mention Irving’s system saw no hope of victory over the present forces of evil except “by the brightness of his coming” in the second advent. With no hope, why try to conquer all things for Christ? ~ Death of the Church Victorious, Ovid Need⁵⁵⁷

~ Illuminati Unmasked ³

THE SOLUTION

Centralization is the key to all satanic agendas.  It was attempted at the Tower of Babel but foiled by the confusing of tongues.

As long as Jesus Christ is not asserting His dominance over His Creation, decentralization is necessary; this includes the need for nations to be separate and for states, municipalities and communities to be separate.  It’s also why America has become a tyranny governed by a very small number of people.  All roads in America lead to Washington DC and Washington DC gets her marching orders from Rome.

As the final assertion of the Dragon’s authority, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Rome’s first Jesuit White Pope, addressed the American people from the Capitol Rotunda in late September of 2015.  He stood between two fascii.

Immediately behind Bergoglio were Jesuit-recognized via honorary degree, devout Catholic Joe Biden (“Democrat” leader of the Senate) and Jesuit-trained at Xavier, devout Catholic John Boehner (“Republican” leader of the House).  Behind them were two more fascii—a battle axe surrounded by a bundle of rods which symbolizes “rule of one”: Roman Fascism.  The fascii are wrapped in laurel; the ancient Roman symbol for victory by the sword.

Before Rome demanded that her pagans become Christians, she was viciously persecuting followers of The Way.

Christians were gathering in homes with friends and family, teaching each other the Scriptures and fellowshipping in love.

We must return to this ideal if we are to be free…and we must learn this lesson fast as total oppression looms on our horizon.

HOW TO

Start by gathering friends and family on a day and time of your choosing.

Be unorthodox in how you make your selection so that you can maximize participation of anyone interested.

Traditionally, the Faithful have gathered on the Sabbath, but which day should that be?

Our beloved brethren in the Seventh Day Adventist movement are the sole remaining Protestants, diligently teaching the dangers of Rome, the Jesuits and their doctrines.

They are, however, needlessly legalistic and some are quite fanatical about a Saturday Sabbath.  Such legalism is unbiblical—

One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike.  Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.  He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.  For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.  For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

But you, why do you judge your brother?  Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt?  For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. ~ Romans 14:5-10

What is important is that all you do, especially if observing a Sabbath, you do to enrich your relationship with Jesus Christ.  There is no other purpose in any Christian activity for Christ is the substance of all we do—

Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day⁴—things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. ~ Colossians 2:16-17

Share responsibility for teaching and encourage those who aren’t comfortable to teach anyway.  There is no better way to learn the Scriptures then when you must teach them.

Also, by sharing the teaching responsibility, new people can bring new perspectives based upon where their passions and current focuses lie.

Make sure you include worship.  It’s as easy as pulling up songs on the computer complete with lyrics for everyone to sing to.  Many can be found as videos on the internet.

Perhaps most importantly is fellowship and encouragement.  There will be debates but never let them turn into arguments.  Only when someone questions a foundational tenet of Salvation should they be confronted.  All other concerns can be ended with “Let’s agree to disagree.”

As an Italian, I’d like to recommend what early Believers did: share food and drink!  Nothing breaks the ice like breaking bread.

If you get so big that you’re bothering neighbors it’s time to break up into smaller groups.  Christian persecution in the West will be here soon enough without rabble rousers mislabeling news to maximize anger and paranoia.  Very often, stories about governments shutting down Bible studies are nothing more than Christians being ignorant with gatherings that have grown to become a public nuisance.

Trust me, when persecution comes, you won’t want everyone in town knowing what you’re up to.

In the meantime, fight the Machine: stay at home.  Study, worship and fellowship free from the chains of the Dragon the way Christ intended…and be responsible for your own soul!

If so, the two legs have been at war since their splitting within the Holy Roman Empire.

For generations, the Papacy has sought to co-opt Orthodoxy with both the carrot and the stick.  She will frequently hold up various meetings with Orthodox Patriarchs as proof that she has won—

But this only proves that, despite Orthodoxy being heavily infiltrated with Jesuit operatives like “Brother Nathaneal” she does NOT have a lock on controlling her sister.

Rightly do our Russian brothers and sisters distrust anything from America.  Milton Kapner, a.k.a. “Brother Nathaneal”, is no different.  How a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Jew ends up as an Orthodox priest preaching constant hatred of Jews via an extremely popular YouTube channel from Moscow can only be explained with three letters: CIA (which stands for “Catholic Intelligence Agency”).

Kapner is no different than another fabricated Papal/Intelligence asset, Anwar al Awlaki, the CIA lackey.

Al Awlaki wasn’t born in Pakistan or Iraq, he was born in good ole New Mexico, USA.  Where else do all vicious jihadis come from?  He even had a mosque in Virginia and dined at the Pentagon 2 weeks after 9/11.  He’s been the central figure in everything from the underwear bomber to the Fort Hood shooting…the first one.

As imam at a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia (2001–02), al-Awlaki spoke with and preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers, who were al-Qaeda members.^[21]  In 2001, he presided at the funeral of the mother of Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who later e-mailed him extensively in 2008–09 before the Fort Hood shootings.^[22][23]  During al-Awlaki’s later radical period after 2006–07, when he went into hiding, he was associated with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted the 2009 Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner.^[24][25][26]  Al-Awlaki was allegedly involved in planning Abdulmutallab’s attack. ~ Wikipedia

Certainly, someone like that could be a wealth of information, either of supposed terror plots or of collusion between “terrorists” and our own intelligence agencies.

Sadly, he’s beyond our reach as he was (apparently) killed by a drone strike conducted in Yemen without Yemeni permission and without due process for the execution of an American citizen.

It was the culmination of years of [“]painstaking[”] intelligence work, intense deliberation by lawyers working for [“]President[”] Obama and turf fights between the Pentagon and the C.I.A., whose parallel drone wars converged on the killing grounds of Yemen.  For what was apparently the first time since the Civil War, the United States government had carried out the deliberate killing of an American citizen as a wartime enemy and without a trial.

Eighteen months later, despite the Obama administration’s effort to keep it cloaked in secrecy, the decision to hunt and kill Mr. Awlaki has become the subject of new public scrutiny and debate, touched off by the nomination of John O. Brennan, Mr. Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, to be head of the C.I.A.

The leak last month of an unclassified Justice Department “white paper” summarizing the administration’s abstract legal arguments — prepared months after the Awlaki and Khan killings amid an internal debate over how much to disclose — has ignited demands for even greater transparency, culminating last week in a 13-hour Senate filibuster that temporarily delayed Mr. Brennan’s confirmation.  Some wondered aloud: If the president can order the assassination of Americans overseas, based on secret intelligence, what are the limits to his power? ~ Mark Mazzetti, Charlie Savage and Scott Shane, NY Times

Don’t worry!  John O. “Drone Executioner” Brennan, educated by the Jesuits at Fordham, was indeed confirmed.  In fact he was sworn in, not by “President” Obama, but by “President” Obama’s mafioso handler (another good Catholic); Joseph “Plugs” Biden…on a Constitution minus the Bill of Rights.

Either this man really is a clown and a fool or his white and black gloves are telling you that he’s been indoctrinated in the Jesuitical, Freemasonic Gnosticism of “good is evil and evil is good”.

It’s no stretch to imagine that Milton “Brother Nathaneal” Kapner has a similar, sinister, secret lineage.

Sadly, the “IT’S THE JEWS!” ploy has worked extremely well in Russia, thanks to the elevating of puppet Jews again and again to positions of prominence by the Roman Knight of Malta bankers and masters.  “The Family” of oligarchs that ruled Russia and still rule in Ukraine are mostly Jews installed by the Papists for an extremely effective smokescreen.  Very few Russians know of the extreme hatred the Vatican has for Russia and Russian Orthodoxy but it encompasses everything from the repeated assassinations of the Romanovs to the “October Revolution” that ushered in a Georgian Jesuit priest named Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili.  He was used by the Papacy to slaughter forty million good Russians and Ukrainians (many of them were starved to death) and many more were enslaved and imprisoned.  You knew him as “Joseph Stalin”.

Read my book.

The renewing of the Cold War has been part of the Papal “strategy of containment” dreamed up by another Catholic Intelligence insurgent, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a dear friend of another devout Polish Catholic, Karol Wojtyla.

Wojtyla was a key figure behind putting cyanide and Zykon B into the hands of the Nazis to help efficiently slaughter as many Jews as the West would give them time for (and they certainly did what they could), but you knew him better as “Pope John Paul II”.

From Ioseb dze Jughashvili (“of the Jewish people”) to Moses Mordecai Marx Levy (“Karl Marx”), the Papacy and her satanic Special Forces, the Jesuits, have picked Jews to hide behind to conduct their despicable agendas again and again.

Don’t worry, though, when it comes to outing a Jesuit/CIA agent like “Brother Nathaneal”, we have the hard work of “Pastor Steven Anderson”, a clown himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz8g3fArSNY

Anderson is a Jesuit priest whose mission it is to lampoon proud, independent American Protestants and to “blow cover as cover” for himself and Kapner by muddying the waters with his antics.

It’s all part of the web of lies woven by the Jesuits that is so ruthless it included a “Superior General” who sacrificed hundreds of loyal priests to imprisonment and death just to attain more power.

I got into this somewhat in a previous column on another “Protestant” imposter, Hank Hanegraaff, the Papal Answer Man.

In spite of all of this, there is hope for Russia and for the East.

Although Orthodoxy is no less a veil than Catholicism in achieving the personal relationship with Jesus Christ which saves souls, its resurgence since the fall of Communism has sparked a renewed adherence to Christian virtues in Russia.

As the Founder of the Christian Faith has already told us, “He who is not against us, is for us.” (Mark 9:40, Luke 9:50)

Well, according to Daniel 9, there are one or two minor events that need to occur before Christ returns like the appearance of the anti-Christ, his 7-year covenant with Israel, the Tribulation and the Abomination of Desolation.

Hey…I’m only human.

Have you put serious thought into the idea that Christ’s Return in immanent?

An accounting for how we live our lives is guaranteed.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.”

“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My Sake will find it.”

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?  Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”

“For the Son of Man is going to come in the Glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds.” ~ Matthew 16:24-27, NASB (capitalization added to correct disrespect)

As I continue to try and alert the Body of Christ to the real dangers attacking them, I’m finding that the majority of “Christian” ministries aren’t interested in truly feeding the Flock.

Status quo is lucrative and safe.  Real Truth is neither.

However, it states very clearly in Ezekiel 33; a watchman who sees danger and keeps his mouth shut to it, is personally responsible for the harm he or she does.

But let’s talk about some of these events that are supposed to occur before the Return of Christ; particularly the desecration of the Temple—the Abomination of Desolation.

What is truly disconcerting is how many Christian leaders are telling their flocks that they have no need to prepare for difficult times ahead.  They misquote I Thessalonians 5:9 “the Church is not appointed to Wrath” as proof that Christians will not endure the Tribulation.

This is a heretical misuse of what Paul is saying.  Simply examining just the second half of the verse explains why and more context destroys using it in such a manner completely.

…let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.  For G-d has not destined us for Wrath, but for obtaining Salvation through our L-rd Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. ~ I Thessalonians 5:8-9, NASB (capitalization and abbreviation added for clarity and to correct disrespect)

Clearly, Paul considers the Wrath of G-d to mean the damnation of the soul.

Trial and tribulation are a guaranteed part of Christian living.  Any “Christian” who isn’t enduring tribulation should fear for their very Salvation.

His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech!  Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You.  By this we believe that You came forth from G-d.”

Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?  Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone.  And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.  These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world!” ~ John 16:29-33 NKJV, (abbreviation added for respect)

I have warned you repeatedly to prepare.

The Rapture Isn’t Coming For You, But These Things Are

Prior to the complete fabrication of the “pre-Tribulation Rapture” in 1830 by John Nelson Darby, all of Christendom’s greatest minds were teaching that the Body of Christ will endure the anti-Christ and his Tribulation.

Cyrus Scofield was a convicted felon abandoned his Catholic wife in order to immortalize Darby’s heresy seemingly clear of Jesuit influence (which I uncover in my book).  His Scofield study Bible is responsible for several grievous heresies in Christendom such as;

1. The pre-Tribulation Rapture.
2. Dispensationalism; YHWH only deals with Believers or Israel separately.
3. “Magog” identified as Russia; to include incredibly bankrupt argument that descendents of Rosh sound like “Russia”.
4. Misplaced fixation on the secular prosperity of Israel; how can the Prodigal Son come home if you keep sending him money?

Although one would think giving too much help to political Israel isn’t in the same class as sowing dangerous disinformation in the Body of Christ but it has spawned heretics like John Hagee¹ who claims that Israel is without condemnation because Yeshua never claimed to be their Meshiach.

Hagee actually seeks out charlatans like Benny Hinn to encourage them as they fleece the Flock.

ABOMINABLE

Christians know that a key event will occur to signal the end of our era; the Abomination of Desolation.

“Therefore when you see the Abomination of Desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.  Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house.  Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.  But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!  But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.  For then there will be a great Tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.  Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the Elect those days will be cut short.” ~ Matthew 24:15-22, NASB (capitalization added for clarity of unique events or groupings)

The Abomination of Desolation has to do with a desecration of “the Holy Place”: the Temple.

This is confirmed by Daniel in regards to what happened to the first Temple.  It was desecrated by the Greek Emperor Antiochus IV (Epiphanes)—

Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice.  And they will set up the Abomination of Desolation. ~ Daniel 11:31

Around 168 BC, Antiochus Epiphanes responded to a Jewish revolt in brutal fashion; he slew the High Priest, Jason, murdered tens of thousands of Jews—men, women and children—and erected an image of Zeus that looked like him inside the Temple.  Some accounts say he also slew pigs inside the Temple to further subjugate the Israelites.

As a result, Christians have been waiting for countless generations to see a third Temple erected in Jerusalem to fulfill this prophecy.

But what if we’re looking in the wrong direction?

In Revelation 13, a beast rises up out of the sea and is given all power and authority by the Dragon (satan).

Another beast rises up out of the earth and the beast of the sea gives the beast of the earth authority to slay anyone who doesn’t worship the beast of the sea nor take his mark.

The beast of the sea receives a deadly head wound but miraculously (magically?) comes back to life.

The beast of the earth creates an image of the beast of the sea and brings it to life.  How is that possible?

The word “image” is εἰκών (eikṓn), Strong’s NT 1504:

(from 1503 /eíkō, “be like”) – properly, “mirror-like representation,” referring to what is very close in resemblance

Did the beast of the earth create a clone of the beast of the sea?

Does the beats of the earth have advanced technology and a terrible military that he wields on behalf of the beast of the sea?

The Temple, itself, is nothing more than a type of the Son of G-d—through it, mankind is made righteous and able to stand in His Perfect Presence.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”  The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”  But He was speaking of the Temple of His Body.” ~ John 2:19-21 NASB, (capitalization added for clarity and respect)

Cloning is a demonic fact of our existence.  Arrogant, unscrupulous “scientists” do it regularly now.

The Book of Genesis repeatedly states that the organisms created by YHWH reproduce “after their own kind”.  What happens when this Divine process is abrogated?  What life force animates such a being?

We receive an inclination by what happened in Korea, two years ago.  A cloned cow attacked its creator, Professor Park Se-pill of Jeju National University.  It broke 5 of his ribs and cracked his spine.

Is it possible that the Abomination of Desolation will be an attempt to clone the Body of Jesus Christ and animate it with satan, himself?

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the Apostasy comes first, and the Man of Lawlessness is revealed, the Son of Destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the Temple of G-d, displaying himself as being G-d. ~ II Thessalonians 2:3-4, NASB (capitalization added for precision, abbreviation added for respect)

There are relics that could very well have traces of Christ’s DNA.  One of them is the Shroud of Turin.  Although hotly contested as to its legitimacy, many sincere Christians and even secular scientists believe the image of the shroud was imparted to it in a manner that changed its molecular density and made it three-dimensional.

Today, the Shroud is controlled by Rome.

The Lance of Longinus—also known as the Spear of Destiny—is supposedly what the Roman soldier used to insure Christ was dead by thrusting into His Side.  Legend states that any who wield the spear can not be defeated.  Many speculate that it, too, is held by the Vatican.

TWO BEASTS REVEALED?

Revelation 13:1-4 tells us that a beast rises out of the sea with 10 horns and 7 heads.

The sea is often used in Scripture to speak of people, so this beast rises in popularity to represent a great many people around the world.

Of its seven heads, one had receives a terrible wound but is healed and comes back to life.

Is Rome this beast and is Jorge Mario Bergoglio—now “Pope Francis”—this final head?

Bergoglio, himself, has stated shortly after taking office that he’ll be “dead in two or three years.”

This coincides perfectly with the astounding astronomical signs I mentioned in my previous column.

The second beast that empowers the first rises up out of the earth.  If it’s not rising up out of the people, what is it rising up from?

In Genesis 6 we read of creatures that are not created “after their own kind” but result from an aberrant joining of man and angel.  The offspring are the נְפִילִים (naphal) or “fallen ones” but the Greek Septuagint translates them γίγαντεσ, gigantes which means “earth born”.

During Barack Obama’s Middle East Apology Tour in 2009 (where he went to great lengths to apologize for America), while visiting Egypt, some remarked how similar he looked to Egyptian Pharaohs like Akhenaten.  As researchers began to dig deeper, they started to ask, “Is Barack Obama a clone of an Egyptian Pharaoh?”

Revelation 13:7 tells us of the beast that rises from the sea;

And it was given unto him to make war with the Saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all tribes, and tongues, and nations.

As Foxe’s Book of Martyrs can attest, no power has tortured and murdered Christians like that of Rome.

But my book attests that, truly, Rome is the authority that rules the world from behind the scenes.  The banks in London, slave labor in China and military might of America—all are controlled by the Jesuits.

Through the CIA, the Jesuits have unleashed the Sword of Muhammad—a sword they created—and now wield it against Christians all throughout the Middle East, enacting a literal genocide upon them.

While Western Christians sit back fat, dumb and lazy, waiting for the third Temple to arise and/or the Rapture to come take them, are the two beasts of Revelation 13 already upon us?

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WHY JONAH DIDN’T LIKE THE ASSYRIANS

The Assyrians were a brutal Canaanite people who’s practices in conquest made you want to not be conquered by them. They skinned captives and hung their remains on the walls of their cities. The Bible records that they took pleasure in ripping open pregnant women to personally slaughter their babies (Samaria was the capital of the Northern Kingdom “Israel” until it was conquered by the Assyrians).

Samaria will be held guilty,
For she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword,
Their little ones will be dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant women will be ripped open. ~ Hosea 13:16

The Assyrians were not Jews nor did they keep the Mosaic Law. They practiced all kinds of perversion which actually precipitated many of the “don’ts” in the Torah. They were precautions given by God before entering the Promised Land.

When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. ~ Deuteronomy 18:9

Leviticus 18:1-23 lists all sorts of sexual perversions, incest, homosexuality, bestiality and the like. The verses after my reference above (Deuteronomy 18:9-14) lists demonic worship that included casting infants into bonfires and calling on spirits through divination, orgies and narcotics.

WHAT GOT JONAH?

Jonah was no-more swallowed by a whale than Adam and Eve ate an apple. These are extrapolations and conventions that have been passed down through the ages that have no basis in the original passages.

The original Hebrew of Jonah 1:17 is dag gadôl or “fish, great” but the Septuagint translation into Greek implied more of an unusual aspect to the creature; kêtei megalô from the root “ketos”.

Keto (Ancient Greek: Κητώ, Kētō, “sea monster”) — Latinized as Ceto — is a primordial sea goddess in Greek mythology, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus. … As a mythological figure, she is most notable for bearing by Phorcys a host of monstrous children, collectively known as the Phorcydes. …

This goddess should not be confused with … various mythological beings referred to as ketos (plural ketea); this is a general term for “sea monster” in Ancient Greek. ~ Ceto, Wikipedia

This is the same term Jesus uses to recount what happened to Jonah and relate it to Himself in Matthew 12:40.

LIFE INSIDE A SEA MONSTER

The Bible states that a great sea monster swallowed the prophet Jonah but did not devour him. If we take this literally (and we should) this was probably a rather unpleasant experience.

There is actually a man who suffered a very similar fate (perhaps what he suffered was a bit of poetic justice given the barbarism of whaling):

True Tales Of Terror On The High Seas

The records of the British Admiralty testify that James Bartley, an apprentice seaman on a whaler, was swallowed by a whale in February, 1891, some two hundred miles east of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

It was his first whaling voyage and he was aboard the whaling ship Star of the East.

The lookout spotted a huge sperm whale half a mile off the port bow and gave the cry “There she blows!” The ship’s sails were slackened and soon her small boats were lowered. A deadly race began between the Star of the East and the immense whale.

Young James BartIey was in the first longboat to reach the side of the prey. They crept up from the rear, so near that the harpooner leaned over and rammed his weapon deep into the whale’s vitals. As the stricken beast sought to free itself of the harpoon, Bartley and the other oarsmen rowed frantically to get out of reach of the massive flukes, the two-pronged tail which threshed the water to foam in the whale’s agony.

The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive. Then an ominous slacking in the line signaled the monster was going to surface. But where?

The oarsmen readied themselves to pull for their lives. Without warning there was a splintering crash which sent the longboat spinning into the air. The whale thrashed about wildly, snapping at the men and the wreckage with its huge jaws as the water turned to a bloody froth before he sounded again.

Another longboat picked up the survivors of this encounter, but two men were missing – one of them the young apprentice, James Bartley.

The wind now deserted the Star of the East and for hours she lay becalmed, wallowing in a light swell.

Shortly before sunset, the now dead whale floated to the surface a few hundred yards from the ship. In a longboat, the crew hastily fastened a line to the whale and the winch brought it to the ship’s side. The hot weather climate made it imperative that the whale be cut up at once. Having no means of raising it to the deck, the men took their flensing spades and peeled off the blubber as they slipped and slid along the immense back of this giant mammal.

Late that night, working by lantern-light, the tired crewmen removed the stomach of the whale and slowly winched it to the deck for flensing. They were startled to notice movement inside the large sack, movement that looked like something living and breathing. The captain called the ship’s doctor who made an incision in the tough flesh. And out slid the doubled up missing sailor, James Bartley, as if he were suffering from severe stomach cramps. He was alive, but unconscious.

The doctor ordered Bartley drenched with sea water, a treatment which restored his consciousness but not his reason, for he babbled incoherently.

Confined to a cabin for several weeks and bound so he could not injure himself in his wild flounderings, Bartley gradually regained his senses. Within a month he was able to relate what had happened to him in his terrifying experience.

Bartley said that as he was cast into the water from the long boat he saw a tremendous mouth open over him and he screamed as he was engulfed by it. He then felt sharp stabbing pains as he was swept across the teeth and then slid feet first down a slimy tube that carried him to the whale’s stomach. He could breath, but the hot, fetid odor soon rendered him unconscious and the last thing he remembers was kicking as hard as he could at the soft, yielding stomach. Finally, he lapsed into unconsciousness until he again came to his senses almost a month later.

As a result of his fifteen hours inside the whale’s stomach, Bartley lost all the hair on his body and was blind for the rest of his life. His skin was bleached to an unnatural whiteness that gave the appearance of being bloodless, although he was healthy.

James Bartley never made another trip to the sea and settled down to shore life as a cobbler in his native city of Gloucester, England. He died eighteen years after his remarkable survival and terrifying adventure.

On his tombstone in the churchyard at Gloucester is a brief account of his experience at sea and a footnote, which says: James Bartley -1870-1909 – A Modern Jonah.

THE STAGE WAS PRE-SET

It is interesting to note that one of the most important gods of the kingdom that bordered the Mediterranean Sea was Dagon, the fish god. Assyrians could’ve seen this as a cooperative effort with their god or, given Jonah’s dedication to the God who so terrified his sailing companions, proof of YHWH’s Supremacy.

Some scholars like Alexander Hislop believe that the worship of Dagon is reflected in modern sects like the Catholic Church with at least one example being quite striking:

WHO WAS JONAH ON A MISSION FOR?

YHWH is the Chess Master. He always has economy of energy and when He does something there are layers to it that take generations to unravel, sometimes never.

When Jonah was chosen it was just as much for his benefit as the Ninevites. Many people miss a similar lesson when reading the Parable of the Prodigal Son. There are two sons who learn hard lessons about compassion and mercy in Luke 15.

Jonah’s spiritual and emotional immaturity is glaring through the end of Chapter 3 and all of Chapter 4 and the Lord must continue to teach him what “compassion” really means.

How many of us could stand to learn that lesson…?

—A friend asked me this question:

Dina: Why is the “O” left out of Lord?

Johnny: Dina, after seeing so many Christians who have lost respect for the Name of God (“G-d”), I have adopted the tradition of our Orthodox Jewish brethren who hyphenate the Name out of deep reverence and respect. There was great fear at the chance of having written the Name incorrectly and then having to blot out or erase the Name. In this way, there was a cushion of safety.

Before Christ, Jews were so reverential they sometimes would simply say “ha Shem” for “the Name”. After the Son of G-d put a Name and a Face on His Love, Christians got too familiar and now have no reverence.

One of the most ancient manuscripts—the Magdalene Papyrus—a snippet of the Gospel of Mark actually abbreviates the Name of Jesus (the English equivalent would be something like “J-s”).

Next time a Christian writes “OMG!”, perhaps you could share this with them.

Dina: I understand what you’re saying and the history behind it however I was introduced to the Lord and I do have reverence for Him. I have no fear in writing His Name wrong, He has changed my life and I could never forget that!! The bible states God, Jesus…..not G-d or J-s……thanks for sharing.

Johnny: You’re welcome, Dina. I would only add that your English translation fails to abbreviate His Name. My example of an early text in the original Greek proves just the opposite. There is no such thing as a “perfect” English translation…not even the vaunted “King James” (which I hate) which mentions “unicorns” and calls Passover “Easter”.

I am not trying to convince you to adopt this tradition, just something to think about. ~ Johnny