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

In December of 1998, Congress began impeachment proceedings against William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.

In January of 1999, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton committed the American military to a 500 year old religious conflict between Bosnian muslims and Serbian Christians in the former Yugoslavia…aiding the Islamists against their Orthodox foes.

The action was sold to the American people as necessary due to inhuman atrocities created by Serbian “ethnic cleansing”, but a decade later it emerged that Albanian muslims self-inflicted “cleansing” on innocent locals:

Eve-Ann Prentice, a British journalist who covered the Kosovo war for the Guardian and the London Times, testified during Slobodan Milosevic’s trial in the Hague. He said that rather than being driven out by the Serbs, “The KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army] told ethnic Albanian civilians that it was their patriotic duty to leave because the world was watching. This was their one big opportunity to make Kosovo part of Albania eventually, that NATO was there, ready to come in, and that anybody who failed to join the exodus was not supporting the Albanian cause.” ~ Rewarding Terrorism, Deception in Kosovo, Andy Wilcoxson, World Net Daily

Even the “atrocities” were hotly contested at the time as nothing more than contrived provocations for war:

…in Belgrade, Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the NATO commander, and Gen. Klaus Naumann, chairman of the NATO military council, were sitting with President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia. They came brandishing a plastic portfolio of color photographs documenting a massacre of Albanians three days earlier by Serbian security forces in the Kosovo town of Racak.

They also came with threats of NATO air strikes.

This was far from their first encounter with the Serbian leader, but this time, they recalled, they found a newly hardened man with a bunker mentality.

“This was not a massacre,” Milosevic shouted. “This was staged. These people are terrorists.”

When General Clark warned him that NATO would “start telling me to move aircraft,” Milosevic appeared infuriated by the prospect of bombings. He called the general a war criminal. ~ How a President, Distracted by Scandal, Entered Balkan War, Elaine Sciolino and Ethan Bronner, New York Times

This is the same Wesley Clark that later spilled the beans on similar plans for the Middle East—plans that ran as far back as 1991 to destabilize governments and overturn them with the help of radical Islam…

Note that Syria and Iran are on the doorstep of this policy.

The Bosnian War didn’t do much for Christian Serbs but it was a tremendous boon to the Religion of Peace—by the way, National Guardsmen that should be home digging citizens out of weather emergencies are still deploying on this mission today!

Mike Scruggs noted for the Tribune Papers (archived here) that this was a war that created a terrorist haven in the heart of Europe:

For 78 days in 1999, we bombed Christian Serbia and their forces in Kosovo, ostensibly as a humanitarian move to prevent Serbian ethnic cleansing of Kosovo’s Albanian population. Our real motive was to cripple the troublesome anti-multiculturalist Serbs and to enhance our standing with the oil-rich Muslim world. We bombed bridges, selected buildings, railroads, even passenger trains, and other targets in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Unfortunately, the Chinese Embassy was also hit. According to John Pilger, writing in the Guardian, many of the bombs dropped from a relatively safe altitude (for us) of 15,000 feet, also hit schools, hospitals, and homes. Total Serbian dead amounted to about two thousand. Pope John Paul II described the bombing as an “act of diabolical retribution.” Many conservative and liberal American leaders agreed, but the Serbs eventually had to yield to our more advanced technology and vastly superior force. …

The results of our alliance with the KLA and establishing an Albanian base of Muslim power in Kosovo have been horrific. The Albanians have driven 277 thousand Serbs from Kosovo. Hundreds have been murdered. Thousands have been robbed and brutalized as their homes and property were destroyed. Muslim multiculturalists have destroyed 135 Orthodox churches, monasteries, and shrines. All this was done under the noses of UN security forces.

Bill Clinton’s great military achievement was a humanitarian disaster, and it established a dangerous Muslim foothold in Europe that is exporting terror and crime.

Unfortunately for Milosevic and the Christians of Serbia, their most important ally, Russia (lead at the time by Boris Yeltsin) was weak and unable to do much more than pick up the pieces for the embattled nation.

At that time, I was completely sold on Russia and Vladimir Putin standing as “good Christians” against the “New World Order”.  I foolishly yet prophetically called Putin “Constantine rising”.  At the time, I didn’t understand who really ran the “New World Order” nor that the same power—Rome—equally controlled Russia.

As the blinders came off, I would write in April of this year—

I was recently sent an interesting video professing to show the Rector of Saint-Petersburg State Agrarian University, Victor Alekseyevich Efimov, giving a class purportedly to members of Russia’s Federal Security Service (Федеральная Служба Безопасности “FSB”).  I thought that, although I had to trust the poor English subtitles and couldn’t verify where Efimov was, it was well worth trying to get through.

I’m glad I did.

Within 20 minutes it was clear to me that the Jesuits and Rome have far more control in Russia than what I had thought beginning with their favorite domain; Intelligence.

One need look no further than the flag of the FSB to know that the Dragon of Rome and her soldiers are secure there.  On a field of a Maltese Cross (the symbol of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, a.k.a. the Hospitallers, a.k.a. the Knights of Malta) sits the Imperial Russian crest which has the two-headed eagle of Freemasonry.

More specifically, the two-headed eagle is a Templar insignia which was adopted by the Freemasons.

It shows the two faces of the Imperial Roman Eagle and bespeaks of how Rome and her secret societies have conquered mankind by stealth and deception; putting a kindly, gentle face of lies towards us but a ravenous parasitic face of satanic feudal domination towards those “in the know”.

Having seen a post-Soviet Russia reborn in Christian culture, I had hoped that it signaled the one nation left that stood against the Great Whore of Babylon but such is not the case.

Russia’s Christian virtues and everything else of significance—from her industry to her military, from her banks to her intelligence agencies—are dominated by the second leg of iron in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream; Orthodoxy.

This was proven quite succinctly just in the past few weeks as a completely needless “anti-terrorism” law was concocted by the Duma and dutifully signed by the KGB Colonel, himself.  It strikes—not at the phantasm of “radical Islam” created by Intelligence Agencies—but directly at who Rome hates the most: Protestant Evangelicals.

I wrote in July—

In 2012, the Christian Post reported that the Orthodox Church had guaranteed President Putin would step up to protect Christians around the world.

The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church has told Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this week of the urgent situation Christians are facing around the world in persecution hot spots, and has asked him to use his power to aid their situations.

RT online reported that Metropolitan Hilarion, foreign relation chief of the Russian Orthodox Church presented evidence and statistics that stated, “Every five minutes one Christian was dying for his or her faith in some part of the word.”

Christians face persecution in many nations; from church demolition in Afghanistan and bombings of churches in Iraq, to the violence against Christians taking place in rebellious towns in Syria.

After delivering the facts, Metropolitan Hilarion asked Putin to make protection and defense of Christianity around the globe a major part of his foreign policy.

And, as reported by Interfax, Putin replied, “You needn’t have any doubt that that’s the way it will be,” assuring Hilarion that Russian foreign policy would defend Christians from persecution abroad.

But the bloodletting of Christians continues unabated.

In fact, as a result of the so-called “War on Terror”, Protestant Evangelical Christians are being persecuted in Russia, as well.

This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin approved a package of anti-terrorism laws that usher in tighter restrictions on missionary activity and evangelism.

Despite prayers and protests from religious leaders and human rights advocates, the Kremlin announced Putin’s approval yesterday.  The amendments, including laws against sharing faith in homes, online, or anywhere but recognized church buildings, go into effect July 20.

Though opponents to the new measures hope to eventually appeal in court or elect legislators to amend them, they have begun to prepare their communities for life under the new rules, reported Forum 18 News Service, a Christian outlet reporting on the region.

Protestants and religious minorities small enough to gather in homes fear they will be most affected.  Last month, “the local police officer came to a home where a group of Pentecostals meet each Sunday,” Konstantin Bendas, deputy bishop of the Pentecostal Union, told Forum 18.  “With a contented expression he told them: ‘Now they’re adopting the law I’ll drive you all out of here.’ I reckon we should now fear such zealous enforcement.” ~ Christianity Today

As I’ve already reported to you, at length, organized religion is the most deadly weapon used against a healthy Christian Faith.  Slowly, Evangelical Protestants are awakening to this danger and returning to their roots by joining in their homes as the first Christians once did.

In Russia, this is now illegal.

The bloom is most certainly off the Russian rose—for me and it should be for you.

Since then, I have come across some fascinating information that shows who the real target was of the Jesuits running the Clinton Administration.

Yes, at a basic level, Rome still despises Orthodox Christians and revels in slaughtering them.

At the very top, however, Orthodoxy as well as any other Roman run-off like the Anglican Church is all completely co-opted and controlled by Rome.

The Romans secretly running the United States did, indeed, wish to punish the Orthodox “heretic” Christians of Yugoslavia.  They also sought to create a bastion for “radical Islam” in Europe.

From 1992 to 1995, the Pentagon assisted with the movement of thousands of mujahedin and other Islamic elements from Central Asia into Europe, to fight alongside Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs.

The Bosnia venture appears to have been very important to the rise of mujahedin forces, to the emergence of today’s cross-border Islamic terrorists who think nothing of moving from state to state in the search of outlets for their jihadist mission. …

As part of the Dutch government’s inquiry into the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995, Professor Cees Wiebes of Amsterdam University compiled a report entitled “Intelligence and the War in Bosnia”, published in April 2002.  In it he details the secret alliance between the Pentagon and radical Islamic groups from the Middle East, and their efforts to assist Bosnia’s Muslims.  By 1993, there was a vast amount of weapons-smuggling through Croatia to the Muslims, organised by “clandestine agencies” of the USA, Turkey and Iran, in association with a range of Islamic groups that included Afghan mujahedin and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah.  Arms bought by Iran and Turkey with the financial backing of Saudi Arabia were airlifted from the Middle East to Bosnia—airlifts with which, Wiebes points out, the USA was “very closely involved”.

… for all the Clinton officials’ concern about Islamic extremists in the Balkans, they continued to allow the growth and movement of mujahedin forces in Europe through the 1990s.  In the late 1990s, in the run-up to Clinton’s and Blair’s Kosovo war of 1999, the USA backed the Kosovo Liberation Army against Serbia.  According to a report in the Jerusalem Post in 1998, KLA members, like the Bosnian Muslims before them, had been “provided with financial and military support from Islamic countries”, and had been “bolstered by hundreds of Iranian fighters or mujahedin…[some of whom] were trained in Osama bin Laden’s terrorist camps in Afghanistan”. ~ How We Trained al-Qa’eda, Brendan O’Neill, The Spectator

More importantly, there is a reason why Bosnia is in Ignatius Loyola’s “little black book”: in the not-too-distant past it was a haven for Bible-believing Christians as they tried to preserve pure doctrine through the Roman Dark Ages.

As I research the sequel for my book Illuminati Unmasked, I have found an excellent resourse: Edmund Broadbent’s 1931 epic The Pilgrim Church.

In it, Broadbent carefully chronicles the true underground Church prior to the Reformation.

Some of those Christians emigrated to Bosnia where they were persecuted by both of Nebuchadnezzar’s legs of iron.

Byzantine persecution drove many of the believers westward into Serbia, and the strength of the Orthodox Church in Serbia pushed them further, into Bosnia.  They continued active on the eastern side of the Peninsula and in Asia Minor.  In 1140 supposed Bogomil error was found in the writings of Constantine Chrysomalus and condemned at a synod held in Constantinople.  The teaching objected to was, that Church baptism is not efficacious, that nothing done by unconverted persons, though baptised, is of any value, that God’s grace is received by the laying on of hands, but only in accordance with the measure of faith.  In 1143 a synod at Constantinople deposed two Cappadocian bishops on the charge of being Bogomils, and in the following century the Patriarch Gemadius complained of their spread in Constantinople itself, where, it was said, they got into private houses and made converts.  Their churches continued in Bulgaria.

As late as the 17th century congregations known as “Pavlicani” (Paulicians)^[31] remained in Philippopolis and other parts of Bulgaria reaching even North of the Danube, who were described by the Orthodox Church as “convinced heretics” and who condemned the Orthodox Church as idolatrous.  Then came Franciscan missionaries from Bosnia and laboured with much zeal among them, in spite of many dangers from the wrath of the Orthodox clergy.  Taking advantage of the persecution suffered by the Paulicians at the hands of the Orthodox Church, the missionaries gradually persuaded them to put themselves under the protection of the Roman Catholic Church and so won them for Rome.  Long after this, however, they continued some of their former practices, especially their custom of meeting together for a meal in common, but they were little by little assimilated to the Roman practice, received images into their churches, and are now known as Bulgarian Catholics in contradistinction to the Bulgarians generally, who are either Orthodox, or Pomaks, that is, descended from ancestors forcibly converted to Mohammedanism.

It was, however, in Bosnia that their greatest development took place.

In the twelfth century they were already very numerous there, and spread to Spalato and Dalmatia.  Here they came into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.  The title of the rulers of Bosnia was Ban, the most eminent of these being Kulin Ban.  In 1180 this ruler was addressed by the Pope as a faithful adherent of the Church, but by 1199 it was acknowledged that he and his wife and family and ten thousand Bosnians had joined the Bogomil or Patarene heresy, otherwise churches of believers, in Bosnia.  Minoslav, Prince of the Herzegovina, took the same stand, as did also the Roman Catholic Bishop of Bosnia.  The country ceased to be Catholic and experienced a time of prosperity that has remained proverbial ever since.

There were no priests, or rather the priesthood of all believers was acknowledged.  The churches were guided by elders who were chosen by lot, several in each church, an overseer (called grandfather), and ministering brethren called leaders and elders.  Meetings could be held in any house and the regular meeting-places were quite plain, no bells, no altar, only a table, on which might be a white cloth and a copy of the Gospels.

A part of the earnings of the brethren was set aside for the relief of sick believers and of the poor and for the support of those who travelled to preach the Gospel among the unconverted.

Pope Innocent III, with the help of the King of Hungary, brought such pressure to bear on Kulin Ban that, at a meeting (1203) between the Pope’s envoys and the Ban, accompanied by the magnates of Bosnia, at Bjelopolje, “the White Plain”, where Kulin held his court, the Bosnian leaders agreed to submit to the Roman Church, promised never again to relapse into heresy, but to erect an altar and a cross in each of their places of worship, and to have priests who should read the Mass and listen to Confession, and administer the Sacrament twice a year.  They agreed to observe fasts and holy days, that the laity should cease to undertake spiritual functions, and that those who ministered in spiritual matters should be the clergy only, who would be distinguished from the laity by wearing cowls and being called brothers, and that when these elected a Prior, they would apply to the Pope for confirmation.  Heretics were never again to be tolerated in Bosnia.  Though, under pressure of the threat of war, the Ban and rulers of the country made such an agreement, the people entirely refused to accept it or to be bound by it in any way.

Brethren in Bosnia had intercourse with their fellow-believers in Italy, in the South of France, in Bohemia, on the Rhine, and in other parts, reaching even to Flanders and England.  When the Pope declared a crusade against the Albigenses, and Provence was being wasted, fugitives found refuge in Bosnia.  Bosnian and Provencal elders consulted together on matters of doctrine.  Rumours were current that the spiritual movements in Italy, France, and Bohemia, were all connected with a “heretical Pope” in Bosnia.  This was only imaginary, as no such person existed, but it showed that a strong influence went out from Bosnia.  An Italian Inquisitor, Reniero Sacconi, living in the reign of Kulin, who, having been himself a “heretic”, knew more about them than most, calls them the Church of the Cathari, or pure-living, a name used from before the time of the Emperor Constantine, and says they extended from the Black Sea to the Atlantic.

The peace which Kulin Ban purchased by yielding to Rome was not of long duration, for he could not compel his people to observe its terms.

On his death (1216) the Pope appointed a Roman Catholic Ban, and sent a mission to convert the Bosnians.  The churches of the country, however, increased the more, and spread into Croatia, Dalmatia, Istria, Carniola and Slavonia.  Some six years later the Pope, despairing of converting the Bosnians by other than forcible methods, and encouraged by the success of his crusade in Provence, ordered the King of Hungary to invade Bosnia.  The Bosnians deposed their Roman Catholic Ban and elected a Bogomil, Ninoslav.  For years the war went on, with varying fortune.  Ninoslav yielded to circumstances and became a Roman Catholic, but no change in their rulers affected the faith and confession of the great bulk of the people.  The country was devastated, but whenever the invading armies withdrew, the churches were found still existing, and the industry of the people quickly restored prosperity.  Fortresses were erected throughout the country “for the protection of the Roman Catholic Church and religion”; the Pope gave the land to Hungary, which long ruled it, but its people still holding to their faith, he at length called a crusade of “all the Christian world” against it; the Inquisition was established (1291), and Dominican and Franciscan brothers competed in applying its terrors to the devoted churches.¹

Another excellent source has been the writings of Luciferian Helena Blavatsky.

Very often real truth is the treasure that erupts from one evil entity fighting with another.

In this case, it is Blavatsky outing the atrocities of Rome as the great Harlot enabled Islam against the Christians of Serbia and Bosnia—116 years before Bill Clinton’s treasonous war.

But is it merely Pagans and heathen that the Catholics persecute, and about whom, like Augustine, they cry to the Deity, “Oh, my God! so do I wish Thy enemies to be slain”?  Oh, no! their aspirations are more Mosaic and Cain‐like than that.

It is against their next of kin in faith, against their schismatic brothers that they are now intriguing within the walls which sheltered the murderous Borgias.  The larvæ of the infanticidal, parricidal, and fratricidal Popes have proved themselves fit counsellors for the Cains of Castelfidardo and Mentana.  It is now the turn of the Slavonian Christians, the Oriental Schismatics — the Philistines of the Greek Church!

His Holiness the Pope, after exhausting, in a metaphor of self‐laudation, every point of assimilation between the great biblical prophets and himself, has finally and truly compared himself with the Patriarch Jacob “wrestling against his God.”

He now crowns the edifice of Catholic piety by openly sympathizing with the Turks!  The vicegerent of God inaugurates his infallibility by encouraging, in a true Christian spirit, the acts of that Moslem David, the modern Bashi‐Bazuk; and it seems as if nothing would more please his Holiness than to be presented by the latter with several thousands of the Bulgarian or Servian “foreskins.”  True to her policy to be all things to all men to promote her own interests, the Romish Church is, at this writing (1876), benevolently viewing the Bulgarian and Servian atrocities, and, probably, manoeuvring with Turkey against Russia.  Better Islam, and the hitherto‐hated Crescent over the sepulchre of the Christian god, than the Greek Church established at Constantinople and Jerusalem as the state religion.  Like a decrepit and toothless ex‐tyrant in exile, the Vatican is eager for any alliance that promises, if not a restoration of its own power, at least the weakening of its rival.  The axe its inquisitors once swung, it now toys with in secret, feeling its edge, and waiting, and hoping against hope.  In her time, the Popish Church has lain with strange bedfellows, but never before now sunk to the degradation of giving her moral support to those who for over 1200 years spat in her face, called her adherents “infidel dogs,” repudiated her teachings, and denied godhood to her God!²

As I continue to dig, I have found one thing remains consistent: the Great Harlot may bite off an ear or cut off the arm of one of her wayward children but she never waivers from attacking with full ferocity those who fully serve God.

In that time, the number of connections I’ve made that have proved to be worthwhile are so small as to be negligible.  Allies have turned out to be enemies and enemies have turned out to have some damn smart things to say.

In their desire to disseminate disinformation and to pit “learning against learning” (the Counter-Reformation tactic of sowing truth with lies) it was actually an incognito Jesuit priest who alerted me to the Jesuit World Order.  It took me a while to sniff him out but his pushing of Jesuit doctrines like Zionism, Dispensationalism, Futurism and the Pre-Tribulation Rapture helped me to know that his inexplicable racism wasn’t just a personal dysfunction but confirmation of his true agenda.

While Papal insurgents like Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily and Walid Shoebat, the reformed “terrorist”, pushed Barack Obama’s birth certificate and supposed muslim background, the reality of his past is that he is a CIA fabrication ¹ who learned to be a black Communist from the best; the Jesuits in Chicago like Greg Galluzzo.

The “Jewish-run” New York Times very carefully screens Galluzzo as a “former” Jesuit (no such thing) who learned activism from Jewish Communist Saul Alinsky.

The Romans have slithered a long way down from putting out their own legions and now never make a stand unless there’s a patsy Jew standing in front of them—and if there isn’t enough anti-Semitism slamming their target they make sure to have their trolls, operatives and coadjutors stir it up.

Galluzzo ran the so-called “Gamaliel Foundation” that taught disenfranchised blacks in Chicago how to be malcontent Communist “community organizers”.  When it comes to “who?” founded Gamaliel, no one seems to know, (not Wikipedia nor anyone else) they simply state “when” (1968) and move on, pretending that they’ve answered your question.

We can answer that question at the same time that we answer “Who really runs Chicago?” — with the location of the Gamaliel offices on La Salle Street.

La Salle Street is named after Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, the Roman Catholic patron saint of rabble-rousers — I’m sorry … “teachers” (same thing). [quote: “The Church played a central if not exclusive role in the establishment and encouragement of the university.”]

Not to go down a rabbithole but while in Chicago Obama met the man that would eventually pen his “autobiography” for him; Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers.  This was uncovered by an outstanding investigative journalist named Jack Cashill.  One wonders how Jack is able to get his work published regularly by sites like Joseph Farah’s WorldNetDaily until one learns that Jack is a good Franciscan-trained Catholic.

One also wonders how William Ayers can go from an unpunished true “domestic terrorist” to teaching your college student how to be like him until one learns how Rome and her Jesuits own “higher education” and always have.

But the Good Lord has a sense of humor and the good news is that, by “coincidence”, I just happened to live right down the street from that very same incognito Jesuit — “Eric Jon Phelps”.  I would not have been able to sniff him out had I not broken bread with him, and his family, on several occasions.

—That’s right; his family.  The man is an incognito Jesuit with a wife and children.

I know what the Lord did for me with this “coincidence” of location, I wonder what He was doing for Eric and the Jesuits.

Someone’s Knockin’ At The Door, Somebody’s Ringin’ The Bell…²

I have something akin to a love/hate relationship with the Seventh Day Adventist Church (more like “love/intense annoyance”).

After the Jesuits woke me up to the Jesuit World Order (I really enjoy writing that), I latched on to the teachings of Seventh Day Adventists like Bill Hughes, Steve Wohlberg, Doug Batchelor and Professor Walter Julius Veith.

Professor Walt, by far, has the most to offer as a dedicated instructor on the topic of “Who rules the world from behind the scenes?”  The other men are good teachers but also pastors so they aren’t dedicated to their craft (sorry!³) the way Professor Walt is.

You know you’ve arrived when you get your own Wikipedia entry!

What I’ve found deeply frustrating, however, is that Walter Veith will zero right in on the Luciferian agenda in religion and reality and completely miss the fire in his own house due his blind sectarian zeal.

This is actually true of all the men I’ve mentioned; particularly Pastor Bill Hughes—again, solid men of Christ but fiercely sectarian and just as fiercely blind in that regard.

As a result of how they cling to the doctrines of men along with an honest examination of Scripture (who can really say they have the one true interpretation of all doctrines?!), they get ensnared in traps laid by the very Luciferians they are aware of and preach against.

Perhaps this is why I’ve not gotten a particularly warm reception from those ministries, this despite having taken the money and trouble to send copies of my book out to them.

I proceed with the desire to take the solid teachings of this sect and showing Adventists how to make them much, much better through freeing them from the chains of organized religion via an open examination of their own Luciferian origin.

Reformed

Counter-reformation: noun; coun·ter·ref·or·ma·tion \ˌkau̇n-tə(r)-ˌre-fər-ˈmā-shən\

1:  usually Counter–Reformation :  the reform movement in the Roman Catholic Church following the Reformation

2:  a reformation designed to counter the effects of a previous reformation

~ Merriam-Webster

All of the top major sources of information have a completely inadequate and even deceptive definition of the Counter-Reformation.  The above is the closest and it’s still deceptive.

Britannica puts so much effort into re-writing reality it’s embarrassing; “the Counter-Reformation was a ‘Catholic Revival’ attempt to ‘reform’ Catholic ‘criticisms’ even before the Reformation.”

This should come as no surprise given that all forms of popular media, both mainstream and “alternative” are completely controlled by Rome.

Nearly 140 years ago, James Aitken Wylie wrote—

When it is a Church or a nation that is to be overthrown, the battle is ordered in the same manner.  The first blow is levelled at that one great principle—for there is such in every society—which is its mainstay, and this cannot be better done than by sowing the seeds of diverse and strange doctrines.  The Sons of Loyola, now flocking to our shores, will not spare to sow such seeds.  We may not see that seed as it falls; its sowers will pass through the land at the dead hour of night; but such seed does not usually lie long under the clod, and the work of these sowers will speedily notify itself by the din—music how sweet to them—of our dissentions and wranglings, which will break out on all sides.

There are two institutions in especial to which the Jesuits will lay siege.  These are the Press and the Pulpit.  They will strain every nerve to possess themselves of both, and work them for their own ends.  The press of Great Britain is already manipulated by them to an extent of which the public but little dream.  Not a few newspapers have a Jesuit on their staff as editor, or “contributor,” or “reporter.”  The reporting force of the kingdom is, to a considerable extent, made up of Romanists; and the esprit de corps is such that a newspaper may, unaware to itself often, be influenced against a cause, or an individual obnoxious to Rome, although it may have no Romanist in its service.  There are names the Times dare not mention; there are causes, true and noble, it dare not advocate.  There are British authors as well as Irish farmers who are “Boycotted.”  The author speaks from documentary evidence when he. says, that the identical Jesuit has been traced through successive disguises in the journalism of the metropolis: now assailing violently in his own proper character of Papist; and now in the guise of a pious Methodist, whispering into the editorial ear, in oily phrase, how much he was pained by such and such an article in his columns, it was so lacking in the sweet grace of charity.  The whole English press of the world is supervised, and the word is passed round how writers, speakers, and causes are to be handled, so that everywhere its verdict may be the same, and applause or condemnation dealt out just as it may accord with the interests and wishes of Rome.⁴

So allow me to give you an unbiased definition of the Roman Catholic “Counter-Reformation”: a military agenda of subversion, deception, lies, insurgency, assassination and coups designed to destroy the Protestant Reformation by discrediting the Holy Bible and bring all humanity back under the autocratic and tyrannical authority of Rome.  It is spearheaded by the Vatican’s most diabolical and fanatical order; the Jesuits.

How successful has it been?

—In September of last year, a Jesuit Pope addressed the American people via a joint session of Congress for the first time in United States history.  He did so in a rotunda that mimics St. Peter’s basilica, which stands opposite a massive phallic obelisk just as the one outside St. Peter’s does.

The first part of this agenda took place immediately; a Spanish Basque noble named Ignacio López volunteered to be the Special Forces of this effort and “Ignatius of Loyola” founded the Knights of the Virgin Mary in 1534.  Six years later, Loyola would have his order sanctioned by a Farnese Pope—Paul III—but under the more deceptive name of “the Society of Jesus”.

As Jesuits rose in the ranks and proved their trustworthiness in the service of the Whore of Babylon, they would eventually take the Oath of Induction, also known as the 4^th Oath, the Blood Oath or the Oath of Extreme Unction and his Superior would preface the oath by acknowledging his mission thus far—

My son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man.  Among the Reformers, to be a reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant, and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope.

You have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace.  To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means.

You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in your power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family circle of Protestants and heretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliaments and legislatures, and the judiciaries and councils of state, and to be all things to all men, for the Pope’s sake, whose servants we are unto death.

The neophyte would confirm this and, with a dagger to his heart, held by the blade and a black crucifix in his off hand the crescendo of his oath promises—

…that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants’ heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.  That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.

Jesuits were then sent to the 4 corners of our flat Earth to enact this agenda of deception and subversion.

The Reformers had been doing all they could to put the Word of God into the hands of common men.  A full 150 years before Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the doors of All Saints Cathedral in Wittenberg, John Wycliffe—the Morning Star of the Reformation—had translated the Scriptures into English.  His Lollard followers did all they could to transcribe the Wycliffe Bible and pass them out and many Lollards paid for it by having the Wycliffe Bible tied around their necks to be burned together at the stake.

These efforts were slow and easily thwarted by the viciousness of Rome.

All of that would change in 1439 when Johannes Guttenberg invented a printing press that used “movable type” metal inserts which dramatically sped up the printing process.  Less than 100 years later and less than 500 kilometers from Guttenberg’s home of Mainz, a young Augustinian monk named Martin Luther would fire the shot heard ‘round the world.

Luther’s Protest was taken by Rome the same way she took the protests of the Waldenses, John Wycliffe’s Lollards, Jan Huss, Jerome of Prague and many others; she sought to kill Luther and obliterate his following.

In 1521, Luther was called to stand before the Roman authorities lead by Johann Eck at the Diet of Worms.  It was demanded of the monk that he recant his charges of corruption against Rome, or else!  Knowing what lay before him, Luther stood firm; “Here I stand.  I can do no other.”

The Elector of Saxony, Frederick III, was aghast at Luther’s disobedience … publicly.

Privately, he adored the upstart priest and, on the pretense of dispensing “justice” kidnapped Luther and interred him in Wartburg castle for safe keeping.

They didn’t call him “Frederick the Wise” for nothing.

“Junker Jörg”

While at Wartburg, Luther (as “Junker Jörg” — a Knight named George) had a lot of time on his hands.  He put it to good use by having the new Greek and Latin translations of the Bible done by Desiderius Erasmus brought to him so that he could translate the New Testament into German, which he soon did.

When it was safe for him to return home, Luther then translated the Old Testament as well.

His followers quickly put these documents to the Guttenberg movable-type press and soon flooded the German countryside with the Word of God.

For the first time in her founding, Rome was hit with a threat she couldn’t stamp out or crush.  She was forced to take up a different tactic—one that was nothing less than satanic; to discredit the Bible even if it meant altering the very fabric of reality.

Sound incredible?  I’ll be writing more on this in the near future (Lord willing).

Forgotten Failures of Freemasonic Frauds

Another tactic of the Dragon and her satanic Special Forces—the Jesuits—was to seed Protestantism with apostate and heretical sects whose doctrines and leaders would be used to humiliate and discredit the movement.

This effort was particularly effective in the 19^th century when several movements were started by Jesuits’ faux-Protestant footsoldiers; the Freemasons.

The connection of Freemasonry to Mormonism is so profound, Wikipedia has an entry on it.  Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum and perhaps even their father were all Freemasons.  Mormonism differs so strongly from Protestant Christianity it’s considered by many to be a non-Christian cult; the “Jesus” of Mormonism not being the Jesus of Protestantism.

I contend these doctrinal differences are a purposeful agenda.

As I noted to you previously—

All of the early Mormon leaders were Freemasons and they were guided behind the scenes by Jesuits like Pierre-Jean de Smet ⁵

The Jesuit/Mason connection is always good for murder and mayhem and it’s not a stretch to imagine Brigham Young’s friend Pierre-Jean whispering in his ear before he urged fellow Mormons to massacre an innocent wagon train full of men, women and children at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

When you realize that the Jesuits were behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it’s not so surprising to find that the Mountain Meadows massacre occurred on September 11^th, 1857.

In his teaching titled “The New Age Agenda” Professor Walter Veith notes that all of the early astronauts were either Mormons or Masons (given the connection between Mormonism and Freemasonry it’s basically the same thing).

This is one of Professor Veith’s best teachings.

What Professor Walt fails to follow with is why the early astronauts were either Mormons or Masons: because space travel is impossible.  It is part of the elaborate Roman re-write of our reality designed to discredit Scripture.

Professor Walt is blind to some other connections even more devastating to Adventism but we’ll get to that in a moment.

Another offshoot of “Protestant Christianity” are the Jehovah’s Witnesses—they’re actually an offshoot of the founder of the Adventists!

There is much controversy over whether founder Charles Taze Russell was a Freemason (they buried the connections deep under a pyramid).  But with the help of author Fritz Springmeier we see connections to Russell’s beliefs, family and even repeated close geographic proximity to Freemasonry and Freemasonic “Temples”.

Too bad we also see that Fritz Springmeier is actually Victor Earl Schoof, government-trained domestic terrorist for Rome and one that used the nefarious origins of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to slander all of Protestantism—just like the Counter-Reformation wanted him to.

It is fascinating to note that, just before his death, Russell exhibited some extremely unusual behavior as was noted by his future replacement, Joseph Franklin Rutherford—

A few weeks ago he started on a trip to the Pacific Coast, preaching every evening, and traveling throughout the remainder of the night and of the day.  His last sermon he preached to the Congregation at Los Angeles; and being too weak to stand, he sat throughout the discourse.  He left Los Angeles Sunday evening on his return to Brooklyn, and rapidly grew weaker.  Seven hours before his death, addressing his traveling companion, Brother Menta Sturgeon, he said, “Make me a Roman toga.”

Using the bed sheets, Brother Sturgeon made a toga, which Brother Russell put on himself.  He stood erect for a moment, and then lying down on the couch in his Pullman drawing room, closed his eyes, thus in symbolic language speaking of death.  A great deal of the Bible is written in symbolic language, and it was quite appropriate that he should speak his last message in symbols.  It is interesting here to know what a Roman toga symbolizes: Augustus’ Poet Laureate, said, “It is by the toga that the royal nation is recognized.”

It is absolutely “appropriate” for the founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to die “in symbols”—particularly the symbols of Rome.

Let me agree again; it is “by the toga” that the power who rules behind the scenes “is recognized.”

Buh-Bahá’í

The Bahá’í religion was founded by Báb Ali Muhammad Shirāzi via a declaration he made in 1844—an important date and smack in the middle of this era of creating off-shoot cults.

Bahá’í is an Iranian monotheistic religion that prizes “unity” above all and seeks to unify all religions and peoples.  Does that sound like the agenda of another religion?

‘Pope Francis’ Calls for Collaboration With World’s Religions, Those Who ‘Meet God in Different Ways’ ~ Christian News.net

Shaykhism is an apocalyptic/messianic offshoot of Shi’a Islam that is considered to be the forerunner to Bahá’í.  There is an interesting note regarding the successor of “Mahdi” Sayyid Kazim:

Successorship

On the death of Sayyid Kazim on 31 December 1843, some Shaykhis went on to become Babis, some of whom later became Bahais, and the rest split into three factions. It is reported that before dying, instead of appointing a successor, he sent his disciples out to find the Promised One. One of his most noted followers, Mullá Husayn said:

“Our departed teacher insistently exhorted us to forsake our homes, to scatter far and wide, in quest of the promised Beloved…  Regarding the features of the Promised One, he told us that He is of a pure lineage, is of illustrious descent, and of the seed of Fatimah.  As to His age, He is more than twenty and less than thirty.  He is endowed with innate knowledge.  He is of medium height, abstains from smoking, and is free from bodily deficiency.”⁶

In 1844 Mullá Husayn, after meeting the Siyyid `Alí-Muhammad (the Báb) in Shiraz accepted him as the Mahdi. ~ Wikipedia

Fatimah plays a key role in Shi’a Islam:

According to Shi’a and non-Muslim scholars, Fatima Zahra was Muhammad’s only daughter.^[1]  The Sunni belief that he had other daughters by Khadijah denies Ali ibn Abu Talib the distinction of being Muhammad’s only son-in-law.  She is held in highest of esteem, as being the single most ideal example for all women; in terms of her purity and the eventual martyrdom of her son, she is considered to be the Muslim counterpart to the Christian Mary, mother of Jesus; indeed, one of her names is Maryam al-Kubrá, or “the greater Mary”.^[2] ~ Wikipedia

If you’ve seen the name before in Catholic circles, here’s why:

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 …

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 13th 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

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. ~ Illuminati Unmasked ⁷

Ex-Jesuit priest Alberto Rivera contended that both Islam and Fátima/Fatimah were heavily manipulated from the very beginning for Rome to wield the Scimtar of Islam, which makes it even more disturbing to see how she does this while hiding behind the “Shield of David”.

There are other indicators of a Freemasonic founding of Bahá’í such as the Luciferian/gnostic symbolism like Bahai’s 9-pointed star. [Trying to make “Bahá’í” possessive was just a bridge too far.]

Nine-Pointed Star

According to the Abjad system of Isopsephy, the word Bahá’ has a numerical equivalence of 9, and thus there is frequent use of the number 9 in Bahá’í symbols.^[8]  The most commonly used symbol connected to the number 9 is the nine-pointed star…  While the star is not a part of the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith, it is commonly used as an emblem representing “9”, because of the association of number 9 with perfection, unity and Bahá’.

The number 9 also comes up several times in Bahá’í history and teachings. On the significance of the number 9, Shoghi Effendi wrote:

“Concerning the number nine: the Bahá’ís reverence this for two reasons, first because it is considered by those interested in numbers as the sign of perfection. The second consideration, which is the more important one, is that it is the numerical value of the word “Bahá’”…
“Besides these two significances the number nine has no other meaning. It is, however, enough to make the Bahá’ís use it when an arbitrary number is to be chosen.”^[12]

Its use on gravestone markers was approved by Shoghi Effendi, then head of the religion, in 1944.^[13] ~ Wikipedia

Nine is, indeed, a number of “completion” … to Freemasons [WARNING: clicking on that link then clicking on “Home” put me in a pop-up spam loop.]—

NINE: Nine is a number representing wholeness and completion as expressed in the Royal Arch, one of whose meanings is the Vault of Heaven, and therefore is especially significant.

Possible references include: Three times three; three plus three plus three.

Sayings: Q. How shall I know you to be a Royal Arch Mason?
A:  By three times three.

Three Times Three, Under a Living Arch.
(note the three T’s in this expression, as also expressed visually in the Triple Tau sign)

In Royal Arch Masonry:

nine officers
nine raps
nine arches in the secret vault of Solomon under Temple Mount.
the nine-branched menorah
An association with the secret name of God

In the Thirty-Second Degree ( =  Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret)

the nonagon (nine-sided figure).  This is a primary figure of ritual in this degree. It contains within it, successively, a pentagon, a triangle and a circle.

Other connotations include: the High Priest (First of Nine); Joshua.

If the above 9-pointed star looks a lot like the so-called “Star of David” just with an extra triangle jammed in, that’s because it is.

The 6-pointed star is a gnostic, pagan/demonic symbol used to invoke sex magick (joining two pubic areas) as well as to symbolize the Luciferian mocking desire for “as above, so below”.

In Freemasonry, the intersecting of the compass and square are meant to call to mind the Luciferian desire to create a “paradise on Earth” and to “be like unto God” [Isaiah 14:14] with their mantra “as above, so below”. ~ Illuminati Unmasked ⁸

It was raised to prominence as part of the psychological operation that was the “refounding” of the modern state of Israel.

The Star (Shield) of David, also called Magen David, is a relatively new Jewish symbol.  Supposedly, it represents the shape of King David’s shield (but there is no rabbinic support for that claim).  The symbol is very rare in early Jewish literature. ~ Shamash: The Jewish Network

Prior to 1948, the national symbol for Judaism was the menorah.

The 8-pointed square-within-a-square has similar gnostic significance and, as a result, has been adopted in Islam.

The Freemason-founded Mormons call it “the seal of Melchizedek”.

Perhaps the best rendition of the Bahá’í star is this one which includes a flat Earth map.

Wikipedia used to contain a sanitized section on Bahá’í ties to Freemasonry under the entry Political objections to the Baha’i Faith.

It has since been expunged (I’m not sure how a Freemasonic founding of Bahá’í is a “political objection”).  Not even a sanitized account that mentions the ties but then “debunks” them is allowed.  Fortunately I found it archived here.

Bahá’í Ties To Freemasonry

Iranian critics of this faith have also accused the Bahá’í Faith of having ties to Freemasonry.  As Freemasonry was a secretive society originating from the West, many in Iran connected the movement with the introduction of foreign ideas into the country in order to undermine Iranian values. Claims were made that many of the earliest Freemason lodges, such as Malkom Khan’s faramush-khanih, which were founded in 1858, were linked to European lodges.  However, Freemasonry was brought to Iran by Iranians who had seen the movement in other parts of the world.

Specific accusations connecting the Bahá’í Faith to Freemasonry often include an assertion that Dr. Dhabih Qurban, who was a well-known Bahá’í, was also a freemason.  This assertion is based on an Iranian book publishing documents related to Freemasonry in the country; that book states that in specific pages of Fazel Mazandarani’s book on the Bahá’í Faith there are statements that Dr. Dhabih Qurban is a Freemason, but in fact Freemasony is not mentioned in the pages of the referenced Bahá’í book.  Furthermore, the Iranian book that is the source of the accusation includes a discussion between the Grand Master of the Great Lodge in Iran, and the Grand Master notes that “no Bahá’ís have become masons and this is repeated by others present with no-one disagreeing.”

The teachings of the Baha’i Faith expressly forbid membership in secret societies.  Shoghi Effendi, the guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, asked all Bahá’ís to remove their memberships from all secret societies, including the Freemasons, so that they can serve the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith without compromising their independence.

The Bahá’í prohibition against joining Freemasonry sounds suspiciously like the supposed war against the Masons waged by Rome—something I prove to the contrary in my book.

The Bahai Insider blog seems to have a little bit more to go on than the erased section from Wikipedia’s Political objections to the Baha’i Faith.

Dr. Dhabih Qurban, was a well-known Iranian Bahá’í and also a Freemason.  Moojan Momen tried to refute that no Baha’is were linked to the Freemasonry but his refutation with poor references has no value as the prominent Iranian Historian Abdollah Shahbazi has given numerous references that not only Dhabih Qurban but many other Baha’is were also active Freemasons. ~ Abdul Baha asks Manchester Baha’is to conceal their beliefs and act like Freemasons! Bahai Insider

If your browser has a translation capability I highly recommend you peruse Professor Shahbazi’s work on Freemasonry in Iran.

A Warning To My Adventist Brethren

I’ve saved the best for last.

On “the first Sabbath in August, 1833”, a Baptist preacher named William Miller began to speak out on how he had calculated the near-return of Jesus Christ based upon a shockingly flawed and deceptive interpretation of Daniel 8:14.

Daniel Chapter 8 is a vision that the Prophet Daniel was given regarding the kingdoms of Medo/Persia and Greece—we don’t have to wonder about this because the latter half of the chapter is the Archangel Gabriel explaining this to Daniel!

It is a difficult passage that states the span of time between the ceasing of sacrifices and the cleansing of the Temple would be two thousand, three hundred “days”—but, more accurately, “evenings and mornings” which is the Hebrew reckoning for a “day” that may not mean exact days.

One possible interpretation is that, due to the Mosaic practice of conducting a morning and evening sacrifice, the actual days should be half the prediction.  If that were the case, the span between Antiochus Epiphanes’ desecration of the Temple and its restoration under the Maccabees of 167 to 164 B.C. does work.

Even here there are problems because other passages connect the “little horn” with the office of the Papacy while Daniel 8:10-11 states that the little horn trampled under a number of the stars of Heaven (angels?) and magnified himself to the level of the Prince of Heaven (the Son of God?).  In verse 13 he tramples truth, itself!  That verse speaks to us today in ways that will rock your world.

There is no easy way to understand this passage, even with Gabriel’s help but that’s another rub; Gabriel is the herald of Jesus Christ yet there doesn’t seem to be an obvious connection to Christ in this prophecy—perhaps there actually is and it remains to be brought out.

One thing is sure; William Miller’s interpretation was way off:

Basing his calculations principally on Daniel 8:14: “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed”, Miller assumed that the cleansing of the sanctuary represented the Earth’s purification by fire at Christ’s Second Coming.  Then, using the interpretive principle of the “day-year principle”, Miller (and others) interpreted a day in prophecy to read not as a 24-hour period, but rather as a calendar year.  Further, Miller became convinced that the 2,300 day period started in 457 BC with the decree to rebuild Jerusalem by Artaxerxes I of Persia.  Simple calculation then revealed that this period would end in 1843.  Miller records, “I was thus brought… to the solemn conclusion, that in about twenty-five years from that time 1818 all the affairs of our present state would be wound up.”^[8] ~ Wikipedia

Although use of the day/year principle of prophecy interpretation is sound (and is actually critical in understanding Daniel 7:25 to speak of the Papacy rolling into her control of the United States—the Beast of the Land in Revelation 13) it simply doesn’t work under these parameters.

As the expected time of Christ’s Return came about, Millerites (early Adventists) went to all extremes in preparation for seeing their Savior; many sold all they had.  They were devastated when Jesus failed to appear.

This dashed hope came to be known as “The Great Disappointment.”  In his book When Time Shall Be No More, historian Paul Boyer offers an example of the deep despondency suffered by the Millerites.  In the words of one tragically disappointed believer: “Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted, and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I never experienced before….  We wept, and wept, till the day dawned” (page 81).

When Jesus did not return as expected, many who had hopefully waited for the return of their Savior threw off their faith completely.  Some refused to give up their hope and eventually replaced one delusion with another.  They would claim that Christ must have come invisibly in 1844, moving into the Holy of Holies in heaven to begin his “investigative judgment” of Christian lives.

Many simply returned to the churches out of which they had come, no doubt confused, distraught and embarrassed to have accepted something that was revealed to have been an empty fantasy.  Miller, having renounced his prophecy studies after the Great Disappointment, died in 1849.  Any remaining followers split up over differences of belief and doctrine.  Ultimately, a variety of groups arose from the ashes of the Millerite camp, including the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists.

Actually, the October 1844 debacle was the second great disappointment for followers of Miller’s chronology and prophecy blueprint.  He had previously announced that the coming of Jesus Christ would occur in about the year 1843.  The year came and went without Christ’s return.  Miller’s prophetic claim had failed and disappointed many people.

Then someone pointed out that he had neglected to take into account the transition from B.C. to A.D., so that his calculations were one year off.  Miller then moved the expected return of Jesus forward by one year, this time to Oct.  22, 1844.  But the great disappointment happened once again to the thousands of followers who had given away their possessions and waited in expectant belief — for nothing.  ~ The Great Disappointment, Grace Communion International

The disappointment of 1843 wasn’t devastating enough, it was contrived that computing the carry over from B.C. to A.D. required one add a year to humiliate Christians again?!  A true reckoning of the cross over from B.C. to A.D. subtracts a year because there is no “year 0”.

Not only are Jehovah’s Witnesses connected to this debacle, but Baháis is as well!

When it was clear that Miller was wrong, key Baháis ran to claim that the Báb was Christ returned in 1844.

Members of the Bahá’í Faith believe that Miller’s interpretation of signs and dates of the coming of Jesus were, for the most part, correct.^[15]  They believe that the fulfillment of biblical prophecies of the coming of Christ came through a forerunner of their own religion, the Báb, who declared that he was the “Promised One” on May 23, 1844, and began openly teaching in Persia in October 1844.^[16][17]  Several Bahá’í books and pamphlets make mention of the Millerites, the prophecies used by Miller and the Great Disappointment, most notably William Sears’ Thief in the Night.^[18][19][20] ~ Wikipedia

There are entire books written on validating this embarrassment from muslim and Bahá’í authors trying to cover for William Miller…why?

—Because William Miller was a Freemason.

Miller “resigned” in 1831 but this was long after he, himself, admits he received the interpretive “vision” of Daniel 8:14.

Looking for hints of Freemasonry (such as using the term “Brother” as a title) in William Miller’s biography, I came across the attempt to excuse his humiliating failure as something he was just tortured to do—

Mr. Miller succeeded in the accomplishment of his wishes, assisting according to his ability and known liberality.

He continued to make the Bible his daily study, and became more and more convinced that he had a personal duty to perform respecting what he conceived the Bible to teach of the nearness of the Advent [the Return of Jesus Christ].  These impressions he thus describes:

“When I was about my business, it was continually ringing in my ears, ‘Go and tell the world of their danger.’” …

“I prayed that some minister might see the truth, and devote himself to its promulgation; but still it was impressed upon me, ‘Go and tell it to the world: their blood will I require at thy hand.’”

[I find it odd that the Lord would communicate in Old English.]

“‘The more I presented it in conversation, the more dissatisfied I felt with myself for withholding it from the public.  I tried to excuse myself to the Lord for not going out and proclaiming it to the world.  I told the Lord that I was not used to public speaking; that I had not the necessary qualifications to gain the attention of an audience; that I was very diffident, and feared to go before the world; that they would ‘not believe me nor hearken to my voice;’ that I was ‘slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.’  But I could get no relief.”

In this way he struggled on for nine years longer, pursuing the study of the Bible, doing all he could to present the nearness of Christ’s coming to those whom circumstances threw in his way; but resisting the impressions of duty to go out as a public teacher.  He was then fifty years old, and it seemed impossible for him to surmount the obstacle which lay in his path, to successfully present it in a public manner.

Interestingly, this inability to speak powerfully in public (likened, not for lack of cheek, to Moses, himself) didn’t slow him from gaining power and prestige…exactly what one would expect from a Luciferian Freemason favorite.

His freedom to convene on the subject, and the ability with which he was able to defend his own views, and oppose those differing from him, had given him no little celebrity in his denomination in all that region; and some were rather shy in approaching him.  Elder T. [Truman⁹] Hendryx, a Baptist clergyman now in the State of Pennsylvania, who has kindly furnished the biographer with many original letters from Mr. Miller, thus speaks of his first acquaintance with him:

“My first acquaintance with Brother Miller was in the summer of 1881.  I had been requested to visit the Baptist church in Hampton, and concluded to go.” ~ Memoirs of William Miller by Sylvester Bliss, published by Joshua V. Himes, 1853, Boston, pp. 92-93

—And then there’s “Brother Miller”, titled as such like the good Freemason he was.  Of course we’re to take, “Brother” Hendryx in 19^th century Adventist speak but, sadly, it’s actually the same.

Here are important things to take into consideration regarding what could have been going on behind the scenes:

* the Jesuits are experts in Bible prophecy and even more adept at warping it to cover their tracks
* the day/year principle outs Rome as the Whore of Babylon the very Chapter before; the misapplication casts doubt on all applications
* Miller claimed to be a Baptist; a sect very high on the Jesuit hit-list

One would’ve thought that this humiliation would’ve been the death nell for the Millerites but with strange contortions of 1844 being “Investigative Judgment”, they carried on.  Again we must ask, “Why?”  Was there so much of value in what was left of the Millerite movement or was it a vehicle that the Puppet Masters wanted to continue to ride out?

One man who stayed after “The Great Disappointment” was James Springer White.

White met and married a young woman a year later, in 1845, and built the rest of the Seventh Day Adventist movement on her writings and visions—Ellen Gould Harmon, who then became Ellen G. White.

Ellen G. White is so highly venerated by Adventists it approaches the same Semiramis / Isis / “Mary” cult of Babylon / Egypt / Rome that they so effectively preach against.  The Banner at the top of the official web site of the Ellen White Estate is shocking.

It could easily have come from any Roman Catholic domain.

Un-real

The Jesuits and their Freemasonic henchmen have been busy from the beginning discrediting the Word of God with a literal re-write of our reality; just as Gabriel predicted to Daniel, “truth has been trampled upon”!

Darwin, dinosaurs, space travel, spinning globe Earth—all have been shockingly woven from the Reformation to this day and, sadly, the writings and “visions” of Ellen White contribute to it—despite her excellent warnings about Rome (perhaps because of them).

Do Adventists have such clear vision regarding the Fourth and Final Beast because the Beast gave that information to them to sweeten their Luciferian founding and resulting disinformation like the ability to visit other planets?

In the same way that NASA “astronaut” Mark Kelly handles his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, after the brain injury she received during the false flag of the Tucson mass shooting, it appears James Springer White “handled” Ellen to insure the best and worst information was circulated starting with a coverup of “the Great Disappointment” and rolling into space travel.

It is well known that many were expecting the Lord to come at the 7^th month, 1845.  That Christ would then come we firmly believed.  A few days before the time passed, I was at Fairhaven, and Dartmouth Mass., with a message on this point of time.  At this time, Ellen was with the band at Carver, Mass., where she saw in vision, that we should be disappointed, and that the saints must pass through the “time of Jacob’s trouble,” which was future.  Her view of Jacob’s trouble was entirely new to us, as well as herself.  At our conference in Topsham, Maine, last Nov., Ellen had a vision of the handy works of God.  She was guided to the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and I think one more.  After she came out of vision, she could give a clear description of their Moons, etc.  It is well known, that she knew nothing of astronomy, and could not answer one question in relation to the planets, before she had this vision. {1847 JW, WLF 22.6} ~ A Word to the Little Flock, James White¹⁰

A more controversial example (but one catalogued by the Ellen White Estate) was that of Miss Marion Concordia Stowell Truesdail (whose married name was Crawford).  After being a present during a vision Ellen states she had, Miss Truesdail later recounted it—

“Sister White was in very feeble health, and while prayers were offered in her behalf, the Spirit of God rested upon us.  We soon noticed that she was insensible to earthly things.  This was her first view of the planetary world.  After counting aloud the moons of Jupiter, and soon after those of Saturn, she gave a beautiful description of the rings of the latter.  She then said, ‘The inhabitants are a tall, majestic people, so unlike the inhabitants of earth.  Sin has never entered here.’  It was evident from Brother Bates’s smiling face that his past doubts in regard to the source of her visions were fast leaving him.  We all knew that Captain Bates was a great lover of astronomy, as he would often locate many of the heavenly bodies for our instruction.  When Sister White replied to his questions, after the vision, saying that she had never studied or otherwise received knowledge in this direction, he was filled with joy and happiness.  He praised God, and expressed his belief that this vision concerning the planets was given that he might never again doubt.” {EGWC 93.4} ~ Ellen G. White And Her Critics, p. 93

Jehovah’s Whitenesses: The Eye And The Obelisk

Jehovah’s Witnesses, after having been birthed by the Millerite movement, managed to put out their own failed prophecies to humiliate Christians with (their reputation for being a cult, notwithstanding).

Another odd, disturbing, parallel between Adventists and Witnesses is the idea that the Archangel Michael is a theophany ¹¹ of Jesus Christ.  This doctrine is ridiculous in light of Michael’s mention in the New Testament [Jude 9, Revelation 12:7], after the Incarnation of Christ yet both sects still cling to this belief.  Knowing what I know of the Luciferians, I trace this heresy to the idea that Lucifer is too powerful to be handled by anything less than the Son of God, Himself.  This is most assuredly not the case and not Scriptural.

In her writings, Ellen White made mention of the “all-seeing eye” of God which has no place in the Word of God but is quite prominent in Luciferian, gnostic and Freemasonic writing as Lucifer is the great voyeur who secretly watches.

There is need of each one in every school and in every institution to be as was Daniel—in such close connection with the Source of all wisdom that his powers will enable him to reach the highest standard of his duties in every line, that he may be able to fulfill his scholastic requirements, not only under able teachers, but also under the supervision of heavenly intelligences, knowing that the all-seeing, the ever sleepless Eye is upon him. {SpM 75.2} ~ Spalding and Magan Collection, p. 75

“Ever seek to exert a good influence, that God may approve of your works.  Remember you are forming a character for heaven or for destruction.  Oh, that you may form a good Christian character!  You are daily stamping a record of your life by your course of action here.  Let all your acts be such that you would not be ashamed to meet them in the judgment.  God’s eye never slumbers or sleeps.  This all-seeing eye is ever upon you.” {3MR 52.1} ~ Manuscript Releases, Vol. 3 [Nos. 162-209], p. 52

I saw that before the work of God can make any decided progress, the ministers must be converted. … A faithful record of all their works is daily made by the recording angels.  All their acts, and even the intents and purposes of the heart, stand faithfully revealed.  Nothing is hid from the all-seeing eye of Him with whom we have to do. {1T 468.1} ~ Testimonies For The Church, Vol. 1, p. 468

The grave of Charles Taze Russell is marked by a massive pyramid decorated with the Templar cross-in-crown surrounded by Roman laurels on each side.

Similarly, it has been noted that James Springer White had an obelisk mark his grave and that another marks Ellen’s.

As I note in my book, these obelisks are the phallus of Osiris—not very appropriate on the grave of a Christian prophetess and her husband.

The Creator Gets A Vote

As I told you before, military tacticians are taught “the enemy gets a vote” before plans are acted upon.

Despite these troubling aspects regarding the Seventh Day Adventist sect, I do not consider them a cult.  In fact, I consider Adventists—their Luciferian founding and bad doctrines included—to have been chosen by YHWH to carry the vessel of His Truth through this very Counter-Reformation PSYOP to today!

The Adventists are the last true Protestants and their teaching on Rome, Futurism, Preterism, the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, Dispensationalism and Zionism are peerlessly accurate.  That’s why Jesuit-trained and managed Bill Clinton targeted the Branch Davidians for slaughter.

In the way that the gallows Haman built for Mordechai eventually executed him and his entire family, the Roman Luciferians were too smart by half when they created the Milleriate movement to humiliate Christians with.

I’ve told you this before—we Christians have been intimidated and lied to about why we don’t need to fight for Truth.  We’re told “satan owns the globe” and, therefore, there’s no sense trying to stand up to him.  We should just sit in a corner and wait for the Pre-Tribulation Rapture to beam us out.

There will be no “Pre-Tribulation Rapture.”

We own the Earth.  It was given to Adam to steward as a son of God.  Adam’s sin surrendered that authority for his children (who are all sons of Adam, sons of a man) but the Son of God, Jesus Christ won it back for us—for all who surrender to Him.

If our adversary “owns” anything it is the parasitic system that he built which he uses to usurp and control our Earth.

…the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.  And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan!  For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’” ~ Matthew 4:8-10 (NKJV)

Although he masquerades as an angel of light [II Corinthians 11:14], our adversary is the very father of lies [John 8:44].  His entire empire is built upon them.  Without lies, falsehoods and propaganda, the chains fall off.

It’s that simple.

As a result, he has invested a sizable portion of all the wealth he has stolen and hoarded into buying pawns and traitors to Christianity to shore up the matrix we live in.

Enter Hendrick “Hank” Hanegraaff and the “Christian Research Institute”.

I grew up (spiritually), immersed in the Matrix of the Final Beast.  I came to Christ at a Calvary Chapel—a movement that has strong ties with Rome.  I spent the next ten years of my Christian Walk learning from Dr. Chuck Missler—a man born of the military/industrial complex who has put a great amount of effort into fooling Believers with Rome’s doctrines.  These doctrines include everything from the ball-Earth, heliocentric, cosmic accident of our supposed cosmology to a future Dispensationalist role of the fabricated nation of “Israel”; from the “Pre-Tribulation Rapture” to first Russia and now Islam replacing Rome as our greatest threat (all fabricated distractions from the Whore of Babylon, the Fourth and Final Beast).

One of my first experiences with Hank Hanegraaf and the “Christian Research Institute” was in concern over their attacking my virtual Jesuit mentor, Chuck Missler.  Of course, they weren’t attacking Missler on the critical issues taught by Rome like Dispensationalism or distracting Believers from understanding the “Holy Roman Empire” to be the Final Beast, they were simply attacking “Koinonia House” on teaching the importance of prophecy.

This is an old trick.

In the field of subversion and counter-intelligence, you can plant your agents deep into the enemy’s camp by having them seem to out other agents.  In reality, CRI’s “critique” of Missler also helps Rome!  Prophecy is critical to understanding our environment and also an important factor in discerning who runs the system of Mystery Babylon—the hidden control of all banks, militaries, intelligence agencies, media and governments.

SUPPRESSED

The Company of Loyola—the Jesuits—is a military organization (their commander is the “Superior General”) that specializes in assassination, subversion and gathering intelligence.  An excellent example of this is the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773.  After 200 years of Jesuit plots in their countries, even Catholic nations were demanding the Pope disband his special forces.  Although Clement XIII attempted to in 1767, he was murdered before he could sign the concordat.  His successor was able to publish a Papal Bull—Dominus ac Redemptor on 21 July 1773—and he languished in extreme pain and even premature decomposition before finally dying of aquetta poisoning.

Were they actually suppressed?  One late author says “No!” and he has built a shockingly brilliant case.  Frederick Tupper Saussy, in his Rulers of Evil, noted that Sun Tzu’s Art of War was published in 1772.  It was “translated” by a Jesuit named Jean Joseph Marie Amiot although neither East nor West had any recollection of the nebulous “Sun Tzu”.  It is far more likely that this book (required reading in America’s war colleges) was a publicizing of a Jesuit strategy so brilliant they would emerge in total control of all world affairs.

As the fourteenth Superior General, Michael Angelo Tamburini, is reputed to have told the French Duc de Brancas, Philippe II, in 1720, “See, my lord, from this room—from this room I govern not only Paris, but China: not only China, but the whole world, without any one knowing how ‘tis managed.”

It is no coincidence that Father Amiot was Qianlong Emperor Aisin Gioro Hongli’s personal astronomer: “Don’t worry about looking up, my king.  I will tell how the Earth is round.”

In Chapter XIII of The Art of War, we learn—

The Use of Spies

…what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge. …

6. Knowledge of the enemy’s dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

7. Hence the use of spies, of whom there are five classes:

(1) Local spies;
(2) inward spies;
(3) converted spies;
(4) doomed spies;
(5) surviving spies.

8. When these five kinds of spy are all at work, none can discover the secret system. This is called “divine manipulation of the threads.” It is the sovereign’s most precious faculty.

9. Having local spies means employing the services of the inhabitants of a district.

10. Having inward spies, making use of officials of the enemy.

11. Having converted spies, getting hold of the enemy’s spies and using them for our own purposes.

12. Having doomed spies, doing certain things openly for purposes of deception, and allowing our spies to know of them and report them to the enemy.

13. Surviving spies, finally, are those who bring back news from the enemy’s camp.

MEDICI LEARNING

CRI continues to pretend-attack fellow Papal agents like Missler and his Jesuit insurgent friend Hal Lindsey.

For a public Christian, Lindsey’s personal information has been expunged from the internet.  But when you are able to pull anything up it is at direct odds with his stellar moral and ethical reputation.

Hal appears to be on his fourth wife.  The book that put him on the “planet”—The Late, Great Planet Earth—was actually written by a Lesbian, radial Left activist and United Church of Christ “minister” Carole Carkeet Carlson (she also wrote several of David Jeremiah’s books for him, too, but don’t ask Wikipedia who she is).  If you want to know where Hal’s heart is, just follow his daughters…to Jesuit Gonzaga University.

Hanegraaff’s own personal life is also invisible across the vast internet, outside of his being born in the Netherlands and having twelve children with his wife Kathy.

A “Google” search of “hank hanegraaff netherlands catholic” lists the entire first page (or subsequent pages for that matter) completely devoid of anything negative.

It sure helps to have friends in extremely powerful places.

His Wikipedia entry says volumes because it says nothing—

Personal life

Hanegraaff was born in the Netherlands and raised in the United States since childhood. He and his wife Kathy have twelve children.  They lived in Southern California^[12] but are now living in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[1]

Having twelve children is an astounding number of offspring and, certainly, a family plan that fits very much in line with Catholic doctrine.

If you follow the Wikipedia footnote, it takes you right to the Christian Research Institute!  —Certainly an objective, critical source, there.

A blog connected to alternative media investigative journalist Anthony J. Hilder claims that Kathy is Hanegraaff’s second wife and he has a daughter by his first!  Indeed, Hendrick has been a busy man.

Although Wikipedia doesn’t have much to say about Hanegraaff, it does have an interesting article on Dutch Catholicism.

The Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands (Dutch: rooms-katholiek kerkgenootschap in Nederland (RKK)), is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, Dutch Conference of Bishops, and curia in Rome.  The Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht, currently Willem Jacobus Eijk, is Primate (bishop) of the Netherlands.

Although the number of Catholics in the Netherlands has decreased significantly in recent decades, the Dutch Catholic Church is today the largest religious group in the Netherlands.  Once known as a Protestant country, in 2007 the Netherlands was only 16.8 percent Dutch Protestant (down from 60 percent in the early 20th century; defections primarily due to rising unaffiliation).  There are an estimated 3.992 million Catholics (31 December 2013) in the Netherlands, 23.7 percent of the population^[6] down from more than 40 percent in 1970’s.

That would put Hanegraaff’s family in midst of a burgeoning boom for Rome; perhaps eager to be sent on a mission to America or at least providing a very appealing background for Hendrick to be chosen for use after he got here.

Hanegraaff employs a powerful Jesuit tactic when arguing; having memorized vast portions of Scripture, he can throw out copious amounts in debate whether they’re related to the topic or not and the immediate reaction of any Christian is to be humbled by the reference of God’s Word.

For a “Bible Answer Man” Hanegraaff’s secret past is a dark one.  He has been accused of plagiarizing D. James Kennedy’s 1970 book Evangelism Explosion for his 1987 book Personal Witness Training, and Kennedy was a close friend.

CRI is based in Rancho Santa Margarita, California and there are some interesting articles about Hanegraaff in the Los Angeles Times.

For instance, Hanegraaff took over the Bible Answer Man from Dr. Walter Martin but after Walter’s death, the Martin family began to show public displeasure with Hanegraaff’s decisions—

Relatives of the late Walter Martin, founder of the Christian Research Institute, based in Rancho Santa Margarita, contend that Hank Hanegraaff has departed from the organization’s mission of debunking unusual religious claims.  And they are demanding his resignation.

Hanegraaff, 50, was the handpicked successor to Martin, who retired in 1979.  But in recent years, the Martin family has been troubled by Hanegraaff’s leadership.

After a public rift with Hanegraaff in 1996, Darlene Martin, the widow of Walter Martin, resigned from the institute’s board. Last October, the family sent Hanegraaff a letter detailing objections to his leadership. ~ Elaine Gale, LA Times, 15 April 2000

Do you get the feeling that Hank is a bit of an interloper?  Perhaps “insurgent” is a better word.

Doctor Martin’s wife, Darlene confirmed this in a chilling letter to the editor.

After reading your article “Casting Stones” (April 15), I am writing to clarify several issues.

First, my husband, Walter Martin, never “handpicked” anyone to succeed him at Christian Research Institute and “The Bible Answer Man” radio program.

This claim was handed to me by someone I thought I could trust as I approached the lectern at my husband’s memorial service.

I read it for the first time—aloud—while standing in front of 1,500 people.  It took me completely by surprise and put me in a very awkward position.  I wish to take this opportunity now to apologize for allowing this statement to stand for so many years.

At the time of my husband’s death, I believed Hank Hanegraaff was a man God could mold into a strong Christian leader, one who could play a positive role in leading CRI.  I supported him loyally for six years before I came to see he was not the man I believed him to be.

Secondly, one of our family’s main objections to Hanegraaff’s continued leadership is his mistreatment of fellow Christians.  He has left a trail of wounded people behind him since the takeover of CRI in 1989.  The testimonies against him include those who are his “right-hand” people, people who worked closely with him.

Hanegraaff has called repeatedly for accountability in other Christian leaders and should be held accountable himself.

DARLENE MARTIN, San Juan Capistrano

Hanegraaff Wasn’t “Handpicked”, LA Times, 30 April 2000

Hendrick Hanegraaff wasn’t acting like a very good Christian but he sure does act like an excellent Jesuit.

BANKSTERS’ RULE

Since the suppression of the Templars (the first usury bankers, founders of modern banking) in 1307, the Papists have learned to never allow their own faces/names to be placed upon their machinations—especially their criminal financial exercises.  Instead they hide behind scapegoats and their number one favorite targets are the Jews.

Sadly, they’ve always found Jews interested only in self-aggrandizement, willing to be enriched and targeted in the process, or even malignant Jews who knowingly give their own race a bad name because they are true Luciferians.

The Bank of Italy was launched by Amadeo Peter Giannini in California.  After it’s shocking success, Americans began to get angry with both Rome and Italian immigrants.

The name was changed to “Bank of America” (just like the Jesuit magazine is “America magazine”).  Giannini used his money to found 20th Century Fox but put two Jews up front: Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck.  Zanuck and Schenck immediately produced a movie about the Rothschild banking dynasty called The House of Rothschild which was so effective in stirring hatred against Jews it was used in Nazi propaganda.  Were Zanuck and Schenck really that self-loathing or were they merely Jewish faces behind a Papal plot?

SWARMS OF LOCUSTS

In his 2002 book Swarms of Locusts (pp. 116-119), Michael Bunker has a lengthy section on Hank.

Hundreds of thousands of “Christians” listen to Hank Hanegraaff, specifically because he claims to have the answers when it comes to Christian doctrine. …

In CRI’s statement entitled “What Think Ye of Rome? (part 2)” on Catholicism, CRI states that Roman Catholicism only “compromises” the biblical doctrines of justification, the sufficiency of Christ’s atonement, the authority of the Bible, and total depravity!  CRI accuses the other cults of DENYING these doctrines, but allow that the Catholics only “compromise” them. How can that be?  How can TOTAL DEPRAVITY be “compromised” but not denied?  Does CRI have a problem understanding the word TOTAL or the word DEPRAVITY?  How can the doctrines of justification and the sufficiency of Christ’s atonement on the Cross by “compromised” without denying them?

CRI states that:

“…no matter how theologically deviant Catholicism might be ‑ even if in some respects apostate ‑ it certainly does possess a structural or foundational orthodoxy, reflected in its adherence to the ancient ecumenical creeds …” (ibid, CRI)

In a fundraising letter dated 6/7/95, Hanegraaff stated that any obstacles between Protestants and Catholics should not stand in the way of cooperation in areas where we share mutual interests and concerns.  Sounds like Chuck Colson’s, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” to me.

Hanegraaff is also a self-proclaimed Charismatic.  He was ordained by Chuck Smith’s Calvary Chapel:

“Despite Hanegraaff’s 1993 anti-charismatic book, Christianity in Crisis, CRI is not to be trusted when dealing with the charismatics either.  In an interview printed in the 5/93 Charisma magazine, Hanegraaff admitted that he himself is a charismatic and that more than half of the CRI staff are charismatics as well!  He said, ‘Spiritual gifts are not an issue at CRI.  We have never made a single anti-charismatic statement on our show.’” (Biblical Discernment Ministries, article on Hank Hanegraaff, revised 3/98) …

It is easy enough to trace the Jesuitical fingerprint back from Hank Hanegraaff to Ignatius of Loyola himself.  Hanegraaff is the product of Calvary Chapel, which is the product of the Neo-Pentacostal/Charismatic movement, which is the product of the Pentacostal movement, which is the product of the Ignatian/Arminians John Wesley and Charles Finney, who are the product of Jacobus Arminius, who is the product of Luis de Molina, who is the product of Ignatius of Loyola.

Do you wonder why Hanegraaff vociferously denies that the Catholic Church is HARLOT of Romans 17, and that Rome is the city that sits on “seven mountains”?

“Rome has not changed its heretical character…  If Hank Hanegraaff wants to look upon Rome with some favor and refuse to look upon it as the great anti-christian religious harlot that it is, that is his prerogative, but he is deceiving his listeners when he claims that old-fashioned Protestant and Baptist views on this matter are ‘extremist’ or unscholarly.” (David W. Cloud, 2000, Identifying the Whore)

Can you see why the last days Great Deception is considered GREAT?  When the armies of Jesuitical evangelism swarm the globe, they have a veritable buffet of “Catholic-Light” theology to offer.  Whether a new “convert” chooses a more austere, formalistic institution to attend, or a more emotional Charismatic church to frequent ‑ he will be thoroughly indoctrinated in Arminian theology in short order.

When it comes to the official CRI position on the Catholic Church, Michael Bunker isn’t exaggerating; it’s downright cozy—

IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A CULT?- A Mixed Bag

While Protestants continue to disagree over the issue, CRI firmly maintains that Roman Catholicism is a religious system which includes both orthodox biblical Christianity and elements of unbiblical or “cultic” doctrine and practice.  In other words, we recognize that Roman Catholicism historically has affirmed the essential teachings of the Bible, while also teaching doctrines which are inconsistent with that affirmation and which seriously compromise the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.  We acknowledge in Roman Catholicism the presence of many genuine brothers and sisters in the Lord, while also recognizing that many of those within Roman Catholicism worldwide appear to be lost.

“Is Roman Catholicism a Cult” is not the most important or the easiest issue to prove (which is why it’s the one CRI addressed).  But even when cornered by callers to his radio show on Catholic doctrine that is questionable, he attacks their sources and dodges the issue.  I used a short clip on my show Resistance Rising and it’s quite clear who Hank works for.

CRI is fully aware of powerful accusations that they serve Rome; the issue is avoided with the usual Christian-speak that’s as soothing as the stare of Kaa the snake from Jungle Book.

IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A CULT?- To Speak the Truth

We take this stand fully aware that many are going to criticize us for it. In fact, Catholics will take issue with us because we are critical of many of their teachings.  Protestants label us because we don’t strongly criticize Roman Catholicism.  In fact, there have been some Protestants that have even accused CRI of being Jesuit-controlled!  Well, our concern, is not to please men, but to speak the truth in love.  Obviously we are not in any way controlled by the Roman Catholic church…

Obviously.

LETIGIOUS LECHERY

For the “Bible Answer Man”, Hanegraaff isn’t too keen on obeying Biblical restrictions on lawsuits—

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?  Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?  Do you not know that we shall judge angels?  How much more, things that pertain to this life?

If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge?  I say this to your shame.

Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?  But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!

Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another.  Why do you not rather accept wrong?  Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?  No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren!

~ I Corinthians 6:1-8, New King James Version

A best-selling Christian author and radio evangelist known as the “Bible Answer Man” has filed a defamation lawsuit against a longtime critic who had accused him of being under investigation for mail fraud.

Controversy surrounding Hank Hanegraaff’s Rancho Santa Margarita-based Christian Research Institute arose earlier this year after he sent out an urgent fundraising letter, saying that a “bizarre error” by postal workers caused donations to be thrown away.

Critic and former Christian Research Institute employee Bill Alnor, a journalism professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, posted a story on his online magazine, the Christian Sentinel, saying that Hanegraaff was the focus of a federal mail-fraud investigation.

According to Hanegraaff, that was never true. Citing Alnor’s “escalating personal attacks,” he filed suit this week in Orange County Superior Court because, he said, Alnor’s allegations have “crossed the line.”  He is seeking unspecified damages. ~ Evangelist Sues Critic Over Charge, Kimi Yoshino, LA Times, 2 April 2005

It’s not the first time someone has accused Hank Hanegraaff of illicit or illegal behavior.  In fact, previous accusations rather shockingly include criminal behavior worthy of a full law enforcement investigation—

Christian Research Institute’s Hank Hanegraaff had been accused of financial fraud and other criminal activities.  A lawsuit was filed (“wrongful termination suit”) on March 7, 1994, in Orange County Superior Court, California.  The suit alleged that Hendrik (Hank) Hanegraaff, president of CRI, was guilty of numerous ethical lapses, financial theft, tax fraud, and a shocking list of other criminal activities and deceptive practices.  The plaintiffs also charged CRI and its president and officers with violation of the federal racketeering act, defined as a criminal conspiracy or a “combination.” ~ Brad Sparks, Biblical Discernment Ministries, 22 April 1996

Amazingly, Hanegraaff was only investigated by a religious insider group and not the FBI.

After complaints from former employees, a Southern California evangelist who calls himself a theological watchdog for Christians worldwide has been chastised for his ministry’s financial practices.

Officials with the national Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability conducted an audit that has resulted in what they called a “significant reimbursement” in June to the Christian Research Institute, a ministry run by Christian author and radio personality Hank Hanegraaff.

Neither the council nor Hanegraaff, known on the radio as the “Bible Answer Man,” would say how much money was paid back to the institute or by whom. Council officials said the ministry cooperated fully with the audit.

But a group of former employees called the audit a whitewash and made its complaints public by taking the story to the magazine Christianity Today. ~ Audit’s Lesson Was “Painful” for Evangelist, William Lobdell, LA Times, 17 August 2003

After this clean bill of health, perhaps we can call Hanegraaff the Teflon Don of Christian media!

Some accusations against Hanegraaff never make it to the forefront thanks to Christians who do try to live by what Scripture says about such things but that never stopped Hank from attacking them anyway…even when they mentored him like the late Dr. D. James Kennedy—

Hank Hanegraaff is president of the Christian Research Institute, an organization located in southern California that specializes in reviewing the major doctrines of various “cults” that profess an identity with “Christianity.”  Hanegraaff is the host of a radio program, called The Bible Answer Man.  The program is broadcast daily throughout the United States and Canada.

Currently, however, the “Answer Man” is under pressure for some “answers” relative to his own ethics.  And this is not the first time the gentleman has been in legal trouble.  See: “CRI – Hank Hanegraaff Lawsuit”.

Dr. James Kennedy is “Pastor” for the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Kennedy is widely known for his own radio and television ministry, during which he enunciates strong positions relative to certain moral and social issues.  For example, he vigorously opposes abortion, and he courageously exposes the fallacies of the theory of evolution.

For some years Kennedy and Hanegraaff were associates and close friends.  It seems that Kennedy was significantly responsible for training the “Answer Man” for the position the latter now holds with the Research Institute.  Currently, though, the two are at serious odds.

Recently, Hanegraaff, via his radio broadcast, rebuked Kennedy for some statements the minister had made relative to “astrology.”  On the other hand, Dr. Kennedy is charging that Hanegraaff has flagrantly plagiarized his writings.  Supposedly, the offense is so serious that a lawsuit would be a viable recourse were it not for Kennedy’s scruples against such a drastic action. ~ Hank Hanegraaff and the “Christian Research Institute”, Wayne Jackson, the Christian Courier

And, despite being a lightning-rod for controversy (or perhaps because of it) Hanegraaff sure seems to have some high-powered friends.

JESUIT CHLOROFORM

Since the beginning of Christianity, Believers have understood Rome to be the 4^th and Final Beast of Daniel, the Dragon of Revelation.  As I noted in my book, this was something the Pope’s Special Forces—the Jesuits—worked overtime to fix:

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 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. ~ Illuminati Unmasked, pp. 185, 186

If that weren’t enough, the Jesuits contrived a Pre-Tribulation Rapture to insure any Christian who had second thoughts would rest assured that they would be beamed out before any trouble started.

Sadly, Scripture proves that is not the case.

Every single mainstream sect of “Protestant” Christianity teaches these Jesuit doctrines as if they’ve always existed with the exception of some stalwart Seventh Day Adventists.  A little digging shows that Jesuit-influenced Protestant preachers re-wrote 1800 years of eschatology, erasing Rome from our understanding.

One of the reasons they walk in lockstep is the culture created by wealthy fiction writers like Tim LaHaye.  His Futurist/Dispensationalist Rapture series “Left Behind” is so big it now has talent like Nicolas Cage starring in the latest batch of movies.

Can you remember the last time you saw a movie depicting the Vatican as secretly ruling the entire world through the banks, militaries and intelligence agencies?  How about a movie that showed any controversy regarding Rome?

Well we already know why; just ask Daryl Zanuck.

But the Jesuits never leave good people without a false outlet.  In fact, channeling anger and frustration is what they count on; part of the Hegelian Dialectic of thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

And they take great pleasure in using the good names and resources of their enemies to do it.  Let’s return to Jean Joseph Amiot again—I’m sorry…I mean “Sun Tzu”:

II Waging War

… a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy.  One cartload of the enemy’s provisions is equivalent to twenty of one’s own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one’s own store.

One of the great Protestant martyrs was an Englishman named William Tyndale.  Tyndale bravely spoke out against Papal injustices and the crowning glory of his efforts were the breaking of the restrictions of the Council of Trent (which forbade the printing of Scripture unless expressly approved by a Vatican official) and the printing of Bibles in English.  For that, Tyndale was condemned to be burned at the stake.  In an unusual show of “mercy”, he was strangled first.  Foxe’s Book of Martyrs has volumes on Protestants who didn’t receive the same “mercy”.

Who is it that publishes Tim LaHaye’s Jesuit Chloroform?  “Tyndale House”.

Sensing a glaring monotony in their Futurist fare, “Tyndale” brought in a “true Protestant” to offer Christians a different point of view.  Opposite LaHaye’s Pre-Tribulation Jesuit Futurism, Tyndale published Jesuit Preterist fiction written by our very own Hank Hanegraaff.

Although LaHaye is making hay about his “betrayal”, he still receives the lion’s share of attention…and money.

Tim LaHaye, coauthor (with Jerry Jenkins) of the Left Behind series, is publicly airing his displeasure with his publisher.  Tyndale House is selling The Last Disciple, a novel with a distinctly different take on the Book of Revelation than that of the Left Behind series.  LaHaye says he feels betrayed and told The Dallas Morning News, “They are going to take the money we made for them and promote this nonsense.”

The Last Disciple was coauthored by Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer, and teaches that most prophecies in Revelation have already been fulfilled.  The Left Behind series, however, is grounded in a premillennial, dispensationalist view of the end times, which includes a pre-Tribulation Rapture.  “I guess you would say I am disappointed, perplexed, and confused,” LaHaye told Christianity Today.

Ron Beers, Tyndale’s senior vice president and publisher, said his company wants to promote healthy dialogue on eschatology.  Beers said, “We haven’t come up with a consensus on end-times issues.”

LaHaye is continuing the Left Behind series with Tyndale, having agreed with Jenkins to produce three more books. LaHaye also signed a lucrative deal with Bantam Dell, a division of Random House, to write a four-book biblical adventure series, with Babylon Rising being the first installment.  LaHaye said press reports that the deal was worth $45 million were exaggerated.  “It is less than 60 percent of that amount,” LaHaye told CT. ~ LaHaye’s Tribulation, Jim Jones, Christianity Today, 20 January 2005

Don’t worry, LaHaye’s Babylon Rising series steers well clear of connecting the dots between Rome and the first rebellion empire of Babylon…but that’s why you have me.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Perhaps the most disturbing of all are the rotten fruits of Hanegraaff’s work: Protestants doing the exact opposite of what Christ told them.

And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. ~ Revelation 18:4

I have been a Catholic now for 4 years.  I was raised in the Nazarene Church.  I wouldn’t say our family was overtly anti-Catholic but I always heard comparisons between our Church and the Catholic Church and how Catholics were wrong…

My long discovery started when I met my future wife in college.  Before I married her I went to church with her and quickly realized that Catholics did not worship Mary.  While their service (the mass) was alien, I didn’t feel that uncomfortable going to church with her.  In college, I had already moved away from the fundamentalist Nazarene faith and adopted more of a generic “mere” Christianity approach to faith (i.e. CS Lewis).  Regardless, when I got married, I told her I would never become Catholic and my wife told me she would never become Protestant.  We just agreed to disagree. (My wife proved to me that practicing Catholics were indeed Christians. Prior to meeting her most Catholics I knew didn’t really live their faith.)  We considered each other to be Christians and that was good enough.  I agreed to get married in the Catholic Church. After we were married we went to the Catholic Church most of the time.  In fact, I went with my wife for 22 years and never had any motivation to become Catholic. …

When my daughter received her first communion in 1999, I started to think about investigating the church.  Protestants cannot receive communion and thought it would be good to receive communion as a family.  Unfortunately my schedule made it impossible to research the church at that time.  Later I heard Protestant Hank Hanegraaff (The Bible Answer Man) on the radio say that the Catholic Church was a true church but a church with “issues”.  I decided that I would investigate what the Church taught and if the Church was a “true church” I would consider joining… ~ 12 Reasons I Joined the Catholic Church, Tim Cooper, Triumph of Truth, 29 July 2007

For a “Protestant” “Bible Answer Man”, Hank Hanegraaff sure is doing great work for the Beast that crucified Christ and burned alive tens of thousands of His devoted Believers.

UPDATE 31 May 2016, 10:11 AM, EST:

Catholic Crystal Cathedral: the Papal Insurgency of Robert Schuller

UPDATE 12 April 2017, 10:13 AM, EST:

Hanegraaff has made it official.

Three days ago (9 April, 2017) on “Palm Sunday”, Hanegraaff publicly submitted himself to the pagan rite of “Chrismation” at Saint Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“What astounding news,” said Rod Dreher, an Orthodox Christian and author of the New York Times best-selling book The Benedict Option, in an interview with The Christian Post Monday.

“Many evangelicals seek the early church; well here it is, in Orthodoxy,” he continued.

“I am sure some will be scandalized by Hannegraaf’s [sic] conversion but I hope at least some will wonder how someone as knowledgeable about the Bible as Hank could convert to Orthodoxy, and go to a Divine Liturgy to taste and see what it’s like.” ~ The Christian Post

Actually, it’s just the opposite: Hanegraaff was chosen from the beginning as an agent of disinformation who could twist and abuse Scripture to serve the Great Whore drunk on the blood of the Saints—but Dreher (and the “Christian Post”) would certain know about such agendas.  Dreher’s just-published book is a siren’s call for right-minded Christians to believe they are served by joining themselves to the very entity who tortured them horrendously not 500 years ago.

Johnny’s soon-to-be-released book will show you how these outrages never ended, they just went underground.