I wrote this before the last election...

[brakelite]

In Revelation 13 we read of two beasts (political powers), the first an historic entity inheriting pagan characteristics from its ancestral Babylonian/Persian/Greek/Roman genesis, such as church/state union, a penchant for global influence and power, both civil and religious, a proclivity for persecution against God's people, and blasphemy. (All of which can be readily seen from the text of revelation, so this is not me adding to scripture). This beast, as were its ancestors, (the lion, bear, leopard and Dragon) is predatory, dictatorial, territorial, and jealous of its power and control demanding submission from everybody to all its laws and decrees.
Not wanting to promote itself to world dominion, in a politically-correct environment now not so conducive to its former predatory practice, seeks to gain power by deceit, so this entity deceives another beast into doing its work for him. Notice how this second beast establishes the first beast's laws...14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
It is the people themselves, the they (above) who are brought to a place where they demand, (no doubt by popular vote) global power being offered to the first beast.
This is fascinating. First, they must not be aware of who they are actually voting for. They do not make the connection between the historical narrative and the entity responsible for past persecutions and this modern entity who appears to them to be of a different character. Yet the beast hasn't changed, it simply appears to have done so. Despite that, this power must still be a church/state union of some sort, so for the people to vote unanimously for such an entity and not the usual secular powers of recent history, is a giant leap away from tradition. What could bring about such a scenario, where people willingly plead for a global union of church and state to take dominion over all the earth? And what union of church and state is there today who could possibly have the standing to take on such a role? And what entity having those characteristics is currently positioning itself to accept such an offer?
Are you ready for this? Do you really understand the history and the character of the candidates on offer? Americans have a choice to make soon between two candidates, possibly Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. Much has been said about both of them, their respective pasts been dug up and stewed over and debated incessantly on all manner of forums and FB pages. If what we read is anything to go by, Americans should be running away from both of them in droves. Not really much of a choice is it? Yet the time is coming soon when the people of the world will deliberately vote for a criminal organization guilty up to its neck of innocent blood going back many centuries, to rule the world, presumably to usher in an era of 'peace and safety'! What terrible crisis could possibly induce the world to do this? What kind of sense of self-preservation would provide incentive for everyone to willingly submit to a religious tyranny that kills everyone who opposes her? The answer to that is found in the current campaigns being run in the US. Media lies...publicity campaigns designed to deceive...and a public willing to believe anything and anyone who offers them even the slightest hope of relief.
Now then is the time to discover what is truth. Before the crisis gets worse, before the media campaign hots up, before the deception gets fully established, before the truth is forever shut away from the public view.Now is the time to discern the true character of the candidate now running for global office, before such information is unavailable, or so twisted and obfuscated that reality becomes impossible to understand. And especially before your personal situation is such that a clear perception is confused or dulled by the conflicts and fears of others raging about you.
Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 ¶ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

The decision soon to be made will be similar to that made when Elijah stood upon Mt Carmel calling to the people...how long will you procrastinate between two opinions...if the Lord be God, then worship Him, but if Baal be God, then worship him.
The question is, will you recognize Baal when he is offered to you, or will you believe him to be the true Lord and choose him in error?

 

[brakelite]

Like a leech or a parasite, the Catholic Church is only strong in direct relation to its connectedness to political powers. In medieval times she was closely connected to the kings and queens of Europe, and through them ruled the lives of millions. The Vatican's goal is a global version of that tyranny with which she ruled Europe during the dark ages, but it is only recently that her power is returning through diplomatic and more intimate relations with various governments throughout the world, particularly the United States. You see, in 1798 she lost all contact with civil authority when the Pope was taken into captive exile by Napoleon's general Berthier. The civil authority of Rome began to re-emerge when Mussolini reinstated Vatican authority in 1929 through the Lateran Treaty, and that civil influence has been growing exponentially ever since.
Many believe that the promotion of the NWO is Zionist, or a banking cartel enterprise, but this is incorrect. The NWO has been the ambition of Vatican insiders for centuries, and has advanced this ambition in secret through secret societies and the Jesuits, and only recently has she emerged publicly as a contender for the role of leadership in this goal, as she has gained in influential power in international politics. She has accomplished this by adorning herself with a mask which mimics that of society...a concern for family, poverty, and climate change. To accomplish her goal, she has four main principles by which she means to gain power.
These 4 principles can be found in the following quote from the former Pope Benedict, in his encyclical Caritas in Veritas, par.67. But notice particularly his desire to ensure that these principles are backed up with force. Those four are the concept of 'common good'...sharing of resources (socialism)....subsidiarity (where personal rights are in submission to the majority)....and international cooperation.

A little reminder. When the Vatican speaks of force, it means it. Bloodshed, suffering, and persecution has always been the result.

67. In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth. One also senses the urgent need to find innovative ways of implementing the principle of the responsibility to protect[146] and of giving poorer nations an effective voice in shared decision-making. This seems necessary in order to arrive at a political, juridical and economic order which can increase and give direction to international cooperation for the development of all peoples in solidarity. To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago. Such an authority would need to be regulated by law, to observe consistently the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, to seek to establish the common good[147], and to make a commitment to securing authentic integral human development inspired by the values of charity in truth. Furthermore, such an authority would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights[148]. Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties, and also with the coordinated measures adopted in various international forums. Without this, despite the great progress accomplished in various sectors, international law would risk being conditioned by the balance of power among the strongest nations. The integral development of peoples and international cooperation require the establishment of a greater degree of international ordering, marked by subsidiarity, for the management of globalization[149]. They also require the construction of a social order that at last conforms to the moral order, to the interconnection between moral and social spheres, and to the link between politics and the economic and civil spheres, as envisaged by the Charter of the United Nations.

 

[brakelite]

Is the current phenomenal love affair with Donald Trump by the evangelicals setting America up for becoming the image to the beast...a political and religious union... Church state union similar to that which ruled Europe during the dark ages? Is the current administration and it's relationship with Protestant America and the protestants' relationship with Rome, introducing an era where religious freedom is under greater threat now than could possibly be from the democrats?

 

[Bobby Jo]

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But that's what happens when you don't follow Scripture and History!

Bobby Jo