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 history of “religion”, more specifically, Christianity, is powerful, surprising and even shocking.

“Shocking” because so much of it has been erased by a hidden hand.

Biblical Christianity teaches that Judaism was given by God to prove the fallen state of mankind and its need for a Savior.  As a religion, it is impossible to follow perfectly and, therefore, showed that no one can be right before God, or earn their way into Heaven.

Romans 3:10-12
¹⁰ as it is written:

“None is righteous, no, not one;
¹¹  no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
¹² All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”

English Standard Version (ESV)

The Bible teaches that the perfect Son of God became imperfection so that, through Him, those that loved Him could attain the perfection necessary to stand in the Presence of God.

II Corinthians 5:21
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the Righteousness¹ of God in Him.

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Jewish leadership betrayed their nation and colluded with their Roman tyrants to put one of their own to death.

Astoundingly, it is a relationship that remains to this day: traitor Jews in positions of prominence who turn their backs on the people in order to be empowered by their Roman masters.  Rome is only too eager to have her Jewish minions grovel to receive both the limelight and the blame for her tyranny and corruption.

As the military empire of Rome declined, a religious empire took its place.

In 313 A.D., Emperor Constantine (along with his temporary rival, Licinius) signed the Edict of Milan ending the persecution of Christians.

In 380 A.D., Emperor Theodosius I made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire with his Edict of Thessalonica.  This caused a great many pagans to intermingle their practices with Christianity such as prayer to the dead, holy pilgrimages, and reliance upon “religious experts” (clergy).

Justinian I reigned as Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565 A.D.  In 534 A.D., he instituted what has become known as “Justinian’s Decree” or “Justinian’s Code” which firmly cemented the Bishop of Rome as, “Pope”, “Bishop of Bishops” and “Corrector of Heresies”.

In 538 A.D., Justinian broke the siege of the Goths around Rome, deposed their Pope—Silverius—and emplaced his own—Vigilius—via military escort, as Pontifex Maximus.

As the power of the Roman religion grew under the guise of “Christianity”, Christians who still had access to the Scriptures decried it as heretical with the reinstitution of a priesthood (now required to be celibate), prayer to angels, the supplanting of Messiah Jesus with His mother and “indulgences” (release from certain sins by payment).

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Christians like the Albigensians, the Waldensians and the Vaudois were, in turn, horribly persecuted by Rome.  The target of Rome’s original Crusades, they were chased into the Alps and, when caught, brutally tortured and murdered; men, women and children.  Any Bibles found were immediately burned.

The Papacy outlawed the Word of God, only allowing it to be kept by clergy in Latin.  Christianity remained in darkened ignorance of its own Scriptures for a thousand years until the Protest of Augustinian monk, Martin Luther in 1517 A.D.

Prior to this, when Christians were found with Bibles, they were eradicated in flames.  Such was the end of men like Jan Hus, Jerome of Prague and many of John Wycliffe’s dedicated Lollards.

However, what made Luther’s protest infinitely more powerful than those of Wycliffe or Hus was an invention that occurred just a few years before and a few days ride southwest of him: that of Johannes Gutenberg’s movable type printing press.

It was caused by Pope Leo X (Giovanni de Medici) exploiting the ignorance of the people and bilking them out of wealth they didn’t have, under the guise of saving their souls!  He sent his most dedicated servants (at that time), the Dominicans, to frighten the masses with hellfire, then tell them they could pay their way out of it for themselves and even their dead loved ones via an “indulgence” that went to fund the Medici Pope’s lascivious and licentious parties.  While peasant parents, devastated by sickness and disease that claimed the life of their little boy gave Dominicans their last ducats thinking Leo would accept them as Vicar of Christ and release their boy from Purgatory, he was actually releasing naked little boys from the deserts of his parties to be enjoyed by his guests.

In response to this, an outraged Father Martin Luther posted a referendum on such “indulgences” with 95 pointed paragraphs.

When he submitted his 95 Theses, which he had nailed to the doors of All Saints Cathedral in Wittenberg on All Saints Day (November 1^st, 1517), to his leadership in Rome, copies had arrived well before his original!

Luther’s benefactor, Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, knew his favorite monk was in danger of mercenaries paid by the Vatican to murder him.  Frederick shut Luther up in Wartburg Castle for his own protection, and Luther was forced to pass the time using the manuscripts of his friend Desiderius Erasmus to translate the Bible into colloquial German in order to give the Word of God back to the people.

But much to the consternation of the Inquisition (at the time led by the Dominicans, but turned over to the Jesuits a few years hence), these Bibles could not be burned faster than the Gutenberg press was able to print them.

To make matters worse, Luther’s example was being followed by other upstart priests such as William Tyndale, who wrote his translation in his native English.  Although Tyndale was betrayed and executed by Henry VIII for his “crimes” against a Church Henry eventually broke from, Tyndale’s dying exclamation, “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes!” would be shown by how Henry later ordered the Tyndale Bible to be chained to the altars of every church in England.

Now, to the Papacy, the Bible was more dangerous than ever.

A new tactic was arrived at and coined by Henry’s Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York and Primate of England, Thomas Wolsey, as “learning against learning”.  This new approach sought to discredit the Bible and all who revered it.

It was an agenda to re-write our very reality and it has had nothing less than fiendish success.

“Science” mocks Christianity and the Bible by indoctrinating students everywhere with that which doesn’t even qualify as “science”.

An entire spectrum from Darwinian evolution to astronomy overtly defies the Scientific Method—

* make an observation
* compose an hypothesis about the observation
* isolate the variables and conduct an experiment in a sterile environment to replicate the observation
* have a trusted peer replicate the experiment to prove or disprove

Humanity has turned over both its past and its cosmology—its very reality—to “experts” who refuse to adhere to their own disciplines.  As a result we are all oblivious slaves with the key to our freedom sitting right in front of us, yet no one reaches for it.  It is an invisible key which only reappears through the power of skepticism: refusal to trust anyone in “authority”.

Within 15 years of Martin Luther’s revolution to reform Christianity, a “Counter-Reformation” was born to undo and discredit the effort.

It was spear-headed by a Spanish Basque nobleman and Templar² mystic called Íñigo López de Loyola who would later become known as Ignatius Loyola.

Loyola’s fanaticism shocked even the most dedicated Catholics and he was twice imprisoned by the Inquisition but Alessandro Farnese (Pope Paul III) shrewdly saw Loyola’s usefulness.  By 1540, Loyola (along with fellow Spaniard Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta—later “Francis Xavier”—and Frenchman Pierre Lefevre—“Peter Faber”) had organized the Knights of the Virgin Mary which Farnese cunningly ordained as the “Society of Jesus”.

They were and are unrivaled in their dedication to the Papacy and, in fact, have put many a Pope to death for failing to maintain their ruthless standards.  Manipulation, murder, extortion, sexual deviancy, toppling governments, instigating or betraying revolutions, exploitation of the confessional—the ends justify the means for Pope Paul’s shock troops.  They were soon given the sarcastic nickname “Jesuits” for jesuita or “Are you Jesus-like?”

Disguise and infiltration are their specialty, as is shown by the re-branding of Guy “Guido” Fawkes as the embodiment of rebellion against tyranny, illustrates.  A Jesuit plot to blow up the House of Lords on the 5^th of November, 1605, in order to murder Protestant King James I, his queen and his son, was betrayed (some suggest by the Jesuits, themselves, in a Machiavellian move for sympathy).  Under the instruction of Jesuit Provincial Henry Garnett, Fawkes was found guarding the entrance to the basement where the gunpowder had been stockpiled.

The use of Fawkes’ visage as the representation of resistance also shows just how much the Jesuits manipulate the very fabric of our existence.

But the examples of Jesuit control don’t end there.

Jesuit-trained Roman Catholics hold the key positions of power all over the world from the U.K. to the E.U. to the U.S.  The list is so expansive and extensive it staggers the mind and makes examples hard to sift through.  Here are just a very few—

* Donald John Trump, current U.S. President, trained by the Jesuits at Fordham before he transferred to the clandestine “public” Jesuit college, the University of Pennsylvania.
* Trump’s predecessor, President Barack Obama, was trained in Chicago to be a “community organizer” by Jesuit Father Greg Galluzzo.
* Emmanuel Macron, President of France, is Catholic; he ran against “far Right xenophobe” Marine le Pen who was taught by her father Jean-Marie le Pen to blame all of Roman Catholic France’s woes on the Jews.  Jean-Marie learned this while at Saint Francis Xavier boarding school in Vannes.
* Macron was sexualized by his 6^th grade teacher while attending La Providence Jesuit high school in Amiens.  He would go on to marry her.
* Speaking of deviant sex and corrupt control, the current Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is the far-Left Catholic son of a previous far-Left Jesuit-trained Catholic Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.  There’s an excellent chance that he’s actually the biological son of thrice-Jesuit-trained Communist Catholic, Fidel Castro.
* José Manuel Barroso; 11^th President of the European Commission, was trained by the Jesuits at Georgetown as was former President Bill Clinton.
* Former President of the European Council (plans European policy), staunch Dutch Leftist Roman Catholic Herman Van Rompuy, was raised from his youth at Jesuit Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege (Grammar School) in Brussels.
* In fact, the entire European Unification movement is an overt attempt to reinstitute the medieval “Holy Roman Empire” and was founded by Jesuit Seminarian (as was the secret Bilderberg power meetings) Jozef Retinger.
* America wields her terrible military might through Jesuit-trained Roman agents from Secretaries of State like Alexander Haig through Leftist Roman Catholics like Leon Panetta who held both Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA.
* The Pentagon is a mirror image of the Farnese family castle in Caprarola, Italy and its foundation was laid on September 11^th, 1941—just a few months prior to the “surprise attack” of Pearl Harbor.

* When truth-seekers ask Google “Which families secretly control the world?” Google answers, “DuPont, Astor, Kennedy³, Rockefeller and Rothschild”.  Carefully omitted from any search are the names Farnese, Orsini, Borgia, Aldobrandini, Breakspeare, Colonna and Medici.  Each have held positions in Rome as Bishops, Cardinals and Popes.  This becomes less of a surprise when you find out that Google was “ordained” the same day Alessandro Farnese ordained the Jesuits: September 27^th.
* Donald Trump was put into office by Jesuit-trained Goldman Sachs strategist Stephen K. Bannon who got his marching orders directly via a Vatican visit in 2014.
* Trump has installed even more Jesuit-trained Roman Catholics than his Jesuit-trained predecessor (no mean feat); from his Chief of Staff and former Secretary of “Homeland Security”, Marine Corps General John Francis Kelly (Georgetown) to the current Secretary of “Defense”, Roman Catholic Marine Corps General James Mattis.  Mattis is known as the “warrior monk” because he’s gone his entire life without getting married.  Normally, this is just a personal oddity but, given the role of sexual deviancy in the halls of power, quite disconcerting.
* The Central Intelligence Agency was founded by a Roman Catholic Knight of Malta, William Donovan, and often run overtly by Catholics from Walter Bedell Smith to William Casey to William Colby to the “Drone Executioner”, John O. Brennan.
* The same is true of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; founded by devout Roman Catholic Charles Joseph Bonaparte (great grand-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte) and its many Catholic Directors from Opus Dei member Louis Freeh to James Comey, infamous for giving both Hillary Clinton and suspected pedophile John Podesta a clean bill of health.
* The Pentagon is dominated by Roman Catholics (many of them Jesuit-trained) from former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Martin Dempsey to the current Chairman, chosen by “Democrat” Barack Obama and maintained by “Republican” Donald Trump, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford (Georgetown).
* Even the Texas (Connecticut) Bush ruling dynasty has its Jesuits in the woodpile, despite claiming to be Protestants—from Knight of Columbus and former Governor of Florida, John Ellis “JEB” Bush to maternal patriarch George Herbert Walker (namesake for both Bush Presidents), who lived with the Jesuits at Stonyhurst in England.
* Whether Democrat or Republican, the Jesuits rule behind the scenes and few choke-holds evidence this better than Speaker of the House of Representatives.  Far-Left Jesuit-mentored Catholic Nancy Pelosi resided over the ram-rodding of socialized medicine and her successor, Jesuit-trained (Xavier) “Conservative” John Boehner did nothing to jeopardize it.  His Roman Catholic successor, former altar boy Paul Ryan has also stayed the course.
* When plausible deniability is needed by Rome, her agents wait until they step down from office to “convert” to Catholicism; from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
* Although Newt’s “conversion” may be presented as a “surprise” the Catholicism of his third wife, Callista, isn’t.  She’s such a stalwart Catholic she was made Ambassador to the sovereign city-state of the Vatican.

In 2012, “converted” Catholic Newt Gingrich was filmed receiving the very rare honor of a Papal Mass.

The man sitting right next to him (conveniently edited so that only his back was shown in the above video) was none other than “Evangelical” Televangelist Benny Hinn.

Few have done more harm to “Protestant” Christianity than Hinn.  Consequently, both the news media and Congress are proud to out him.

Only after they have done great harm to Christians do these Roman insurgents make headlines, such as frequent guest of conspiracy host Alex Jones, “Baptist” preacher Steven Anderson.

Given Anderson’s pull to put Christians to shame, it’s not a huge leap to call him an incognito Jesuit priest (and likely homosexual).

Equally, Benny Hinn and Rome go way back, as well.

Hinn has turned in his signature white suit for a high-collar black jacket, with a window for his white shirt underneath at the center.  He is also a very vociferous supporter of Jesuit-trained President Donald Trump.

Trump’s “Spiritual Advisor” is another Prosperity Gospel Preacher and Televangelist, Paula White (who lists her name as “Paula White-Cain”).

White was chosen to give Trump’s inaugural prayer, over which the Washington Post lamented—

White is known for embracing the prosperity gospel — the theology that God will bless true believers not just with eternal salvation but with material wealth here on Earth.  To many believers, the prosperity gospel offers hope and promise.  But to other Christians, it’s heretical; and to some, prosperity gospel preachers’ motives are suspect, especially when they seem to be enriching themselves by asking for money from their followers.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) launched an investigation in 2007 into spending by White and several other televangelists, but ended it three years later without reaching any conclusions.

Given how both Congress and these Televangelist charlatans answer to the same authority, we shouldn’t be surprised that Senator Grassley’s “investigation” ended “without reaching any conclusions”.

As I’ve chronicled for you in my latest book, the surest sign of corruption is when police, prosecutors and judges all refuse to do their jobs and politicians then provide smokescreens with “Commissions” and “Committees”.  If even Sherlock Holmes, himself, (the creation of Roman Catholic Freemason Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle) were to conduct a “Congressional Investigation” the end result would still be the same: nothing.  Legislatures write legislation.  They are bodies that have nothing to do with law enforcement.

From the very beginning, the seat of American power was owned by Catholics and named after Catholics.  The “Capitol” (named after Capitoline, one of the infamous seven hills of Rome) isn’t called “White House” for its color but in honor of Father Andrew White of the Society of Jesus.  Before it was “Washington, D.C.” it was known as “Little Rome on the Potomac” given that it’s gnostic architecture came from Catholic Freemason Pierre Charles L´Enfante.

Tying it all together in depravity, Hinn and Paula White were spotted in Rome holding hands, despite their respective marriages to other people.

Unfortunately, neither Charles Grassley nor the Washington Post were available so the reporting fell to the National Enquirer where it was sure to get it’s due respect.

No major news outlet thought the story was worth carrying but California’s Orange County Weekly did.

Perhaps, the reason media founded and run by Papal Knights like Henry Luce, William Randolph Hearst, John Paul Getty and Rupert Murdoch wasn’t interested in the explosive story was because of the even bigger story beneath it—

They found themselves in Italy because both were meeting independently with Vatican officials, according to White, who reportedly added, “We were never alone and were in the constant company of staff and other associates.” ~ OC Weekly

In an effort to cover up the very “un-Christian” adultery, two of Christianity’s most embarrassing and harmful “Protestants” admitted they go to Rome to receive instruction from the Jesuit Pope!

When invited to sit with another embarrassment to Christianity, Jim Bakker⁴ Paula White said that opposition to Donald Trump was opposition to God.

This is quite a statement from a Christian woman preacher given that Donald Trump is a pedophile who enables other pedophiles and has likely gone as far as to have sexually abused his daughter Ivanka (who is now a foundational part of American government).

Does Paula White believe in what she does?  Is she oblivious to the great harm she is being used to commit?

It’s certainly possible.  She, herself, is a victim of child sex abuse, apparently by her father, who committed suicide.

This report was initiated by the outstanding research of “Doc” Felipe Robles.

UPDATE FROM DOC, 31 December 2019:

Pentecostal Benny Hinn Says Catholics Have More Miracles, Credits Eucharist

II Thessalonians 2:5-12 (New King James Version)
⁵ Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
⁶ And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
⁹ The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
¹⁰ and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
¹¹ And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
¹² that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

If you read the NKJV, the translators capitalize the pronouns in verse seven clearly leading all to believe “the restrainer” is the Lord.

But is that accurate?

The King James version was based upon the highly-reliable Textus Receptus manuscripts.  The New King James, however, was not a modern English update of the KJV.  Critical changes to Scripture were made.  Although the 1982 preface to the New King James states the intent is only to take the Elizabethan language¹ and make it understandable in modern English, the translators failed to mention that changes would be made according to the Septuagint and even Jerome’s Latin Vulgate!

Other translations are noticeably different.

II Thessalonians 2:5-12 (New American Standard Bible)
⁵ Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
⁶ And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.
⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
⁸ Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
⁹ that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
¹⁰ and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
¹¹ For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
¹² in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

So who is “the Restrainer”?  Does this help us understand who anti-Christ will be?  What is the “strong delusion”?

Often, it is assumptions that lead to biased and incorrect exegesis of Scripture.  Such is frequently an error of the Western mindset.  A Buddhist saw tells us—

If you wish to know the truth, hold no opinions.²

Daniel’s 70 Weeks

A similar confusion of pronouns can be found in an even more important passage; Daniel’s “70 Weeks”—the Prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27.

Sadly, there are no English translations that show this Prophecy in its clarity.

Daniel 9:24-27 (New International Version)
²⁴ “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
²⁵ “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’  It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
²⁶ After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.  The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.  The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
²⁷ He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’  In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering.  And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

In one of the most important passages of Scripture are mixed two seminal yet diametrically-opposed figures; the Anointed Messiah and the Destroyer—the anti-Messiah (although not equal in power).

The key to interpretation is found in the final verse.  The one who puts an end to the sacrifice and offering must be evil, mustn’t he?  The “covenant” must be a future, 7-year covenant, mustn’t it?

In Scripture, there are only two Covenants—the first is the Covenant between YHWH and His People given by Moses.  It was a Covenant His People could not keep [Acts 15:7-11], one that was only meant to hold them and point them toward a new Covenant [Galatians 3:19-24].  This New Covenant was radically different from the old—rather than written on tablets of stone and impossible to keep, this One would be written on the hearts of God’s People and they would keep it out of love for Him! [Jeremiah 31:31-34]

In this light a literal reading of the Prophecy produces a radically different interpretation.

Daniel 9:24-27 (Young’s Literal Translation)
²⁴ ‘Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
²⁵ And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader [is] seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times.
²⁶ And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end [is] with a flood, and till the end [is] war, determined [are] desolations.
²⁷ And he hath strengthened a covenant with many — one week, and [in] the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.’

There are flip-flopping contrasts floating between verses 26 and 27; first Messiah arrives at the appointed time but is “cut off”.  Then, anti-Messiah comes (from the anti-Messiah people) and will destroy the Sanctuary and make desolate with a “flood” (flooding waters often are a Biblical metaphor for many people).  Contrasting again, Messiah will re-affirm the Old Covenant but only for a single “week” (7 years).  Halfway through, He will cause the sacrifice to become obsolete and impossible to continue both physically and spiritually.

John 2:13-22 (Modern English Version)
¹³ The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
¹⁴ In the temple He found those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting there.
¹⁵ When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen.  He poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.
¹⁶ He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away!  Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”
¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
¹⁸ Then the Jews said to Him, “What sign do You show us, seeing that You do these things?”
¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
²⁰ Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
²¹ But He was speaking concerning the temple of His body.
²² Therefore, when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them.  And they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

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Matthew 23:37-24:2 (Modern English Version)
³⁷ “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not!”
³⁸ “Look, your house is left to you desolate.”
³⁹ “For I tell you, you shall not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Chapter 24

¹ Jesus departed from the temple and was leaving when His disciples came to show Him the temple buildings.
² Jesus answered them, “Do you not see all these things?  Truly I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another that shall not be thrown down.”

Most bizarre of all, both Messiah and anti-Messiah work together to fulfill the Prophetic Divine Will!

It was intended for Messiah to re-affirm the Old Covenant with His 7-year ministry (beginning at His Baptism by John).

Halfway through His Ministry, traitorous Jewish leaders intent on killing anyone who threatened their power, seditiously worked with real power in Judea to have the Anointed One murdered without just cause (“not for Himself”).

A short time later, the people of the coming anti-Christ devastated Jerusalem and leveled the Temple down to its last foundation stone—Romans.

Gessius Florus loved money and hated Jews.  As Roman procurator, he ruled Judea, caring little for their religious sensibilities.  When tax revenues were low, he seized silver from the temple.  As the uproar against him grew, in A.D. 66, he sent troops into Jerusalem who massacred 3,600 citizens.  Florus’s action touched off an explosive rebellion—the First Jewish Revolt—that had been sizzling for some time.

Launching the Revolt

The Jewish Revolt began—and met its bitter end—at Masada, a hunk of rock overlooking the Dead Sea.  The Romans had built a virtually impregnable fortress there.  Yet the atrocities of Florus inspired some crazy Zealots to attack Masada.  Amazingly, they won, slaughtering the Roman army there.

In Jerusalem, the temple captain signified solidarity with the revolt by stopping the daily sacrifices to Caesar.  Soon all Jerusalem was in an uproar, expelling or killing the Roman troops.  Then all Judea was in revolt; then Galilee.

Cestius Callus, the Roman governor of the region, marched from Syria with twenty thousand soldiers.  He besieged Jerusalem for six months, yet failed.  He left six thousand dead Roman soldiers, not to mention weaponry that the Jewish defenders picked up and used.

Emperor Nero then sent Vespasian, a decorated general, to quell the Judean rebellion.  Vespasian put down the opposition in Galilee, then in Transjordan, then in Idumea.  He circled in on Jerusalem.  But before the coup de grace, Nero died.  Vespasian became embroiled in a leadership struggle that concluded with the eastern armies calling for him to be emperor.  One of his first imperial acts was to appoint his son Titus to conduct the Jewish War.

Crushing the Revolt

By now, Jerusalem was isolated from the rest of the nation, and factions within the city fought over strategies of defense.  As the siege wore on, people began dying from starvation and plague.  The high priest’s wife, who once basked in luxury, scavenged for crumbs in the streets.

Meanwhile the Romans employed new war machines to hurl boulders against the city walls.  Battering rams assaulted the fortifications.  Jewish defenders fought all day and struggled to rebuild the walls at night.  Eventually the Romans broke through the outer wall, then the second wall, and finally the third wall.  Still the Jews fought, scurrying to the temple as their last line of defense.

That was the end for the valiant Jewish defenders and for the temple.  Historian Josephus claimed that Titus wanted to preserve the temple, but his soldiers were so angry at their resilient opponents that they burned it.  The remaining Jews were slaughtered or sold as slaves.

The Zealot band that took Masada held it for at least three more years.  When the Romans finally built their siege ramp and invaded the mountain fortress, they found the defenders dead—they had committed suicide to avoid being captured by foreigners.

Results of the Revolt

The Jewish Revolt marked the end of the Jewish state until modern times.  The destruction of the temple also signified a change in the Jews’ worship…³

Confirmed

Understanding the Romans as the people of the anti-Christ is the key to unlocking the proper understanding of these passages.  The Romans would later become “Holy Romans”, mutating just as Daniel predicted into a Beast very different from the three previous Beasts (empires) given to both Daniel and Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel 7:1-8 (Modern English Version)
¹ In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his mind while on his bed.  Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
² Daniel spoke and said: I saw in my vision by night the four winds of the heaven striving upon the Mediterranean Sea.
³ Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse from one another.
⁴ The first was like a lion and had eagle’s wings.  I watched until its wings were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
⁵ Another beast appeared, a second, like a bear, and it raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth.  And they said to it, “Arise, devour much flesh.”
⁶ After this I looked and there was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a fowl.  The beast also had four heads.  And dominion was given to it.
⁷ After this I saw in the visions at night a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong.  And it had great iron teeth.  It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet.  And it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
⁸ I considered the horns, when there came up among them another little horn before whom three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots.  And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

This Fourth and Final Beast was unlike the previous three because she would control in secret.  This way, she would spread tendrils across civilization.

Now, instead of enforcing her will by posting soldiers on every street corner, she would co-opt the soldiers and officials of each nation she conquered and they would do her will in secret!

Daniel’s vision was in perfect harmony with the dream he interpreted for King Nebuchadnezzar in Chapter 2 of a great statue which had a head of gold (Babylon), a torso of silver (Medo/Persia), loins of brass (Greece), legs and feet of iron (Rome).

Notice how the teeth of the Final Beast were the same material as the legs in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream: iron.

But this new “Holy Roman Empire” knew she had been predicted in Scripture and went about wiping off her bloody fingerprints, leaving only faded clues behind.

The 1517 Reformation initiated by Martin Luther gave new light which explained that the entire office of the Papacy was anti-Christ.

The theme became very popular in the late Middle Ages among the Fraticelli, Wycliffites, and Hussites, who identified the popes with the Antichrist soon to be overthrown.  Luther was unwittingly in line with these sectaries, with one significant difference, however.

Whereas they identified particular popes, because of their evil lives, with Antichrist, Luther held that every pope was Antichrist even though personally exemplary, because Antichrist is collective: an institution, the papacy, a system which corrupts the truth of Christ.

That was why Luther could repeatedly address Leo X in terms of personal respect only a week or so after blasting him as Antichrist.⁴

The Jesuit-run Counter-Reformation began immediately upon Luther’s break.  Unable to destroy the movement by the brute force of the Inquisition’s burning pyres and instruments of torture, they embarked upon a new strategy to compromise and discredit Scripture.

Again, the keepers of Truth became an underground minority.

Despite their creation by Freemason William Miller, Seventh Day Adventists remained as the sole keeper of the torch of Luther.

Adventist scholar Uriah Smith confirmed these interpretations for us in the 19^th century.

Commenting on the prophecy that the little horn should “wear out the saints of the Most High,” Barnes, in his Notes on Dan.7:25, says: “Can any one doubt that this is true of the papacy?  The Inquisition, the persecutions of the Waldenses, the ravages of the Duke of Alva, the fires of Smithfield, the tortures of Goa, — indeed, the whole history of the papacy, may be appealed to in proof that this is applicable to that power.  If anything could have worn out the saints of the Most High, — could have cut them off from the earth so that evangelical religion would have become extinct, — it would have been the persecutions of the papal power.  In year 1208 a crusade was proclaimed by Pope Innocent III against the Waldenses and Albigenses, in which a million men perished.  From the beginning of the order of Jesuits in the year 1540 to 1580, nine hundred thousand were destroyed.  One hundred and fifty thousand perished by the Inquisition in thirty years.  In the Low Countries fifty thousand persons were hanged, beheaded, burned, or buried alive, for the crime of heresy, within the space of thirty-eight years from the edict of Charles V against the Protestants to the peace of Chateau Cambresis in 1559.  Eighteen thousand suffered by the hand of the executioner in the space of five years and a half, during the administration of the Duke of Alva.  Indeed, the slightest acquaintance with the history of the papacy will convince any one that what is here said of ‘making war with the saints’ ([Daniel 7] verse 21), and ‘wearing out the saints of the Most High’ (verse 25), is strictly applicable to that power, and will accurately describe its history.”  (See Buck’s Theological Dictionary, art., Persecutions: Oswald’s Kingdom, etc., pp.107-133; Dowling’s History of Romanism; Fox’s Book of Martyrs: Charlotte Elizabeth’s Martyrology; The Wars of the Huguenots; The Great Red Dragon, by Anthony Gavin, formerly one of the Roman Catholic priests of Saragossa, Spain; Histories of the Reformation, etc.) …

“The prince of the covenant” unquestionably refers to Jesus Christ, “the Messiah the Prince,” who was to “confirm the covenant” one week with his people. Dan. 9:25-27.  The prophet, having taken us down to the death of Tiberius, now mentions incidentally an event to transpire in his reign, so important that it should not be passed over; namely, the cutting off of the Prince of the covenant, or in other words, the death of our Lord Jesus Christ.  According to the prophecy, this took place in the reign of Tiberius.  Luke informs us (3:1-3) that in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, John the Baptist commenced his ministry.  The reign of Tiberius is to be reckoned, according to Prideaux, Dr. Hales, Lardner, and others, from his elevation to the throne to reign jointly with Augustus, his step-father, in August, A.D. 12.  His fifteenth year would therefore be from August, A.D. 26, to August, A.D. 27.  Christ was six months younger than John, and is supposed to have commenced his ministry six months later, both, according to the law of the priesthood, entering upon their work when they were thirty years of age.  If John commenced in the spring, in the latter portion of Tiberius’s fifteenth year, it would bring the commencement of Christ’s ministry in the autumn of A.D. 27; and right here the best authorities place the baptism of Christ, it being the exact point where the 483 years from B.C. 457, which were to extend to the Messiah the Prince, terminated; and Christ went forth proclaiming that the time was fulfilled.  From this point we go forward three years and a half to find the date of the crucifixion; for Christ attended but four Passovers, and was crucified at the last one.  Three and a half years from the autumn of A.D. 27 bring us to the spring of A.D. 31.  The death of Tiberius is placed but six years later, in A.D. 37.⁵

Who Is The Restrainer?

Now with the proper understanding we can return to our original question.

It was well understood be even “Church Fathers” like Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, (c. 155 – 240 AD)—better known to us as “Tertullian”.

Dealing with the eschatological section of Paul’s first Epistle to the Thessalonians, Tertullian asks: ‘What archangel’s voice, what trump of God, is now heard, except it be forsooth in the entertainments of the heretics?  ‘He also points out that in the second Epistle to the Thessalonians Paul bids them not be troubled by false prophets, who teach that the day of the Lord is at hand.  For that day shall not come, unless there first comes a falling away, and the appearance of Antichrist.  The Antichrist cannot, however, come until he who now hinders shall be taken out of the way.  The ‘one who now hinders’ is the Roman Empire.  ‘What obstacle is there but the Roman state, the falling away of which, by being scattered |^p210 into ten kingdoms, shall introduce Antichrist upon (its own ruins.)’⁶

The anti-Christ office of the Papacy could not materialize unless the military office of the Roman Empire first disappeared.

Learning Against Learning

So if the early Church knew Rome was the 4^th and Final Beast, and Protestants knew the Papacy was the anti-Christ, why isn’t it common knowledge today?

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. …

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 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 …

Ribera’s commentary laid the foundation for the greater 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 Need^{557 7}

Perhaps such a complete accomplishment seems impossible—no organization on Earth could so thoroughly control the understanding of almost all Christendom … could it?

“Unless those days were shortened, no one would be saved.  But for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.  Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe it.  For false christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.  Listen, I have told you beforehand.” ~ Matthew 24:22-25 (Modern English Version)

UPDATE 29 March 2017, 01:31 PM, EST

The dichotomy and contrast between the old Mosaic Covenant and new Covenant in Messiah Jesus Christ can clearly be seen in this passage from Jeremiah where even physically circumcised Jews are called “uncircumsized”—

Jeremiah 9:25-26, (Modern English Version)
²⁵ The days are surely coming, says the Lord, that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised—
²⁶ Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the wilderness who clip the hair on their temples; for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.

The meaning is clear: true Faith in YHWH (through His Son) is a radical change of the heart.  Righteousness is kept from within, not by memorization, legalism or rote.

1.  Perhaps “Shakespearian” would be better as King James I gave his Bible to Francis Bacon to edit and Francis Bacon was a Gnostic (the Freemason of his day) who was probably William Shakespeare.
2. Kindness: A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents, translated by Sarah Conover, Eastern Washington University Press (2001), p. 32
3.  A.D. 70 Titus Destroys Jerusalem, Christianity Today, Issue 28: 100 Most Important Events in Church History, 1990
4.  Here I Stand: The Life of Martin Luther, Roland H. Bainton, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, New York (1950), p. 111
5.  Daniel and the Revelation, Uriah Smith, Review and Herald (1897), pp. 156-157, 269-270
6.  The Theology of Tertullian, R.E. Roberts, Epworth Press, London (1924), p. 161 [digital] 7.  Illuminati Unmasked, Johnny Cirucci, CreateSpace (2015), pp. 185-186, 187