Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
In this day and age "and all the world wondered after the beast" is being fulfilled. Never before has there been a time when the world is absolutely falling head over heels with the beast.
"Pope Francis: the man who won over the world in five minutes"
"Five minutes. That's all it took to make papal history."
History was made, in five minutes.
"Never has a leader of the Roman Catholic Church become as popular in as short a time as Pope Francis did when he humbly asked the crowd gathered in St Peter's Square on March 13 last year to pray for him."
""We have never seen a pope become so popular in just a couple of minutes," said Odon Vallet, a French historian and an expert on religion."
"Over the past year, Francis has won accolades and plaudits for powerful gestures such as washing the feet of young Muslim inmates, embracing the handicapped and asking that gay people not be judged."
"In France, where only three percent of Catholics are identified as practising their religion, priests say there has been an increase in church attendance since Pope Francis' election.
"Before it was 'uncool' to be Catholic, now it's 'in'," said Vallet."
(https://news.yahoo.com/pope-francis-man-won-over-world-five-minutes-023049004.html)
So, how Popular is this Pope? Another article says, "No one can dispute the fact that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has had an extraordinary year since being elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church last March. Every gesture, from his choice of the name Francis to his penchant for cold-calling parishioners, has endeared him with a most unusual fanclub, including atheists and gays. He has been on the cover of the Advocate and Rolling Stone and he was voted Time’s Man of the Year. He also attracts tens of thousands of Catholics and curious onlookers to his weekly Sunday blessings and Wednesday audiences in St. Peter’s square—something that hasn’t been seen in Rome since the early days of John Paul II. He even has his own fanzine and smartphone app."
(https://news.yahoo.com/secret-pope-francis-haters-094500393--politics.html)
Since Francis' election, there has been an increase (at least in France) in church attendance. Not only that, but this Pope was named Time's Man of the Year. Gays and even atheists love this man. He appeared on the cover of the Advocate and Rolling Stone. He attracts "tens of thousands of Catholics and curious onlookers to his weekly Sunday blessings and Wednesday audiences in St. Peter's square-something that hasn't been seen in Rome since the early days of John Paul II." He even has popularity that rivals that of John Paul II. He has his own fanzine, and smartphone app.
So, he has great popularity. He is the third Pope to ever be Time's Man of the Year, and his popularity seems to rival that of John Paul II. But it's the other things surrounding this Pope that make things all the more dangerous, and show that indeed, all the world is wondering after the beast.
"Muslims are “our brothers” and Christians must cultivate “mutual respect” with them. These were the words of Pope Francis yesterday during the Angelus, a message which could signal a turnaround in the relationship between the Catholic Church and Islam. This changing tide can even be seen in the words used in addressing Muslims. This is the first Pope to have referred to Muslims in such direct and explicit terms as “our brothers”. This would have been practically unthinkable even up until the recent past."
(http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/news/detail/articolo/papa-pope-el-papa-27115/)
I will have to disagree with the Pope here. Muslims are not our brothers. They certainly do not serve the same God that I serve. Yet that doesn't stop Pope Francis from declaring that Muslims, Christians, and even Jews have the same Father.
"Pope Francis to Jewish, Muslim and Catholic group: We have the same Father"
"Pope Francis welcomed an inter-religious group from Argentina made up of 15 Jews, 15 Muslims and 15 Christians. They were on their way back from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land."
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBUjiydjsxU&feature=em-uploademail)
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Their works will speak to us about who is their father. While we cannot judge, it is by their fruits that we shall know them.
Matthew 7:16-20 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
What about the World Council of Churches meeting with the Pope?
"WCC general secretary shares with pope aspirations for unity, justice and peace"
"Tveit stressed the significance of Christian unity."
"The WCC general secretary, who represents a fellowship of 345 member churches in more than 110 countries, expressed these views on 7 March during his visit to Rome hosted by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity of the Roman Catholic Church."
I understand finding common ground in a discussion. But I do not condone getting together with the Pope and trying to promote unity with the Roman Catholic Church.
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
I especially cannot condone this worldly unity. Did not Jesus say He came not to send peace, but a sword?
Matthew 10:34-36 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Even houses will be, and are divided, because of the truth. Yet it's okay to come together and promote unity between religious bodies, and share in this worldly group hug that the Pope is doing? Absolutely not! And don't get me wrong. I am not saying let's go out and start wars. Christians are peacemakers. But the fact of the matter is, you do not join together with those teaching heresy. We are commanded specifically not to yoke with unbelievers. And though they claim to believe in Christ Jesus, if they are rejecting the truth for this time, they are unbelievers. I am not saying you cannot be nice to them. I am saying, you are not to gather together under one roof with unbelievers.
Were you aware that the Pope is invited to address a joint meeting of Congress?
"House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, extended a formal and open invitation Thursday to Pope Francis to address a joint meeting of Congress."
Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
"If the pontiff accepts, it would be unprecedented. No pope or religious leader that serves as a head of state has ever addressed Congress, according to the U.S. House Historian's office."
Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
This is something that has never been done in history. Do you understand what's going on? There has never been a Pope with this much popularity, that have done the things that he has done. And he's only been in office for about one year.
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also a Catholic, said she joined welcoming Pope Francis to address Congress. Pelosi attended his inauguration at the Vatican and praised him as "a moral force.""
(http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/13/boehner-pope-francis/6373779/)
This next one may be shocking for anyone who is unaware.
"“The Catholic and Charismatic Renewal is the hope of the Church,” exclaims Anglican Episcopal Bishop Tony Palmer, before a group of cheering followers at the Kenneth Copeland Ministries. Palmer said those words are from the Vatican. Before playing the video message from Pope Francis to Kenneth Copeland, Palmer told the crowd, “When my wife saw that she could be Catholic, and Charismatic, and Evangelical, and Pentecostal, and it was absolutely accepted in the Catholic Church, she said that she would like to reconnect her roots with the Catholic culture. So she did.”
The crowd cheered, as he continued, “Brothers and sisters, Luther’s protest is over. Is yours?”
Even Kenneth Copeland finds this development incredible: Said Copeland, “Heaven is thrilled over this…You know what is so thrilling to me? When we went into the ministry 47 years ago, this was impossible.”"
(http://standupforthetruth.com/2014/02/pope-to-copeland-catholics-and-charismatics-must-spiritually-unite/)
Tony Palmer actually said that Luther's protest is over. He also went on to make statements like maybe we're all Catholic now. I am not kidding. He asks, if there is no more protest, how can there be a Protestant Church?
You know what makes this even more amazing? Those cheering followers that that article quoted was not just followers. They were religious leaders cheering.
"The message was for a conference of leaders from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, a Pentecostal mega-church ministry"
(http://ecumenism.net/2014/02/pope-records-iphone-video-greeting-to-pentecostal-leadership-conference.htm)
These aren't just duped followers cheering this stuff along. These are leaders that are cheering this along. Leaders! Does anyone see how bad this is getting? How fast are we going to rush into a one world religion? How fast?
"A non-denominational megachurch pastor reportedly stunned his congregation this weekend when he announced that he and his wife are converting to Catholicism."
"“We have seen a great love for Jesus and a sound theology, founded on the Bible and classic dogma.”"
"The announcement comes after Ekman, who founded Word of Life about 30 years ago, announced his retirement in March 2013 as senior pastor at the church. Word of Life has around 3,300 members."
(http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/10/non-denominational-megapastor-stuns-congregation-with-personal-theological-revelation/)
No man's an island. Where one goes, there will certainly be others that follow.
Were you aware of this that happened earlier this year:
"U.S. Roman Catholic Church And Protestant Denominations Agree To Recognize Each Other's Baptisms"
"In 2002, concerns over certain practices (such as baptism by sprinkling) and spoken formulas (such as baptism in the name of the Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier) used by some Christians led the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity to urge national bishops’ conferences to study their mutual understanding of baptism with other Christians. These questions were examined and resolved by Round Seven of the Reformed-Roman Catholic Dialogue-USA, which produced the Common Agreement, as well as a study entitled “These Living Waters.”"
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/catholic-protestant-baptism-recognize_n_2575915.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false)
Unbelievable. Where are our Protestant principles upon which our forefathers established? Why is everything going out the window? Virgins! WAKE UP! Trim your lamps! Now is the time to arise, now is the time to wake up. Now is the time to get spiritually ready for the coming of the bridegroom.
Now some may say that Protestants and Catholics really aren't that different. It is because of the spiritual truths given up in the past. This is why Protestants and Catholics are becoming more and more alike.
Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
The nations are drunk with her doctrine, the Protestants are drunk with her doctrine. To the question is my protest over, I say, No! There is more wrong with the Catholic Church than the main reason that is so often stated. Does anyone here know that Protestant Reformers Luther and Tyndale did not believe in the immortality of the soul, as is so believed in this day and age? Yet this is something Protestant Churches have accepted as true doctrine, yet it is false.
""However, I permit the Pope to establish articles of faith for himself and for his own faithful—such are: That the bread and wine are transubstantiated in the sacrament; that the essence of God neither generates nor is generated; that the soul is the substantial form of the human body that he [the pope] is emperor of the world and king of heaven, and earthly god; that the soul is immortal; and all these endless monstrosities in the Roman dunghill of decretals—in order that such as his faith is, such may be his gospel, such also his faithful, and such his church, and that the lips may have suitable lettuce and the lid may be worthy of the dish.—Martin Luther, Assertio Omnium Articulorum M. Lutheri per Bullam Leonis X. Novissimam Damnatorum (Assertion of all the articles of M. Luther condemned by the latest Bull of Leo X), article 27, Weimar edition of Luther's Works, vol. 7, pp. 131, 132 (a point-by-point exposition of his position, written Dec. 1, 1520, in response to requests for a fuller treatment than that given in his Adversus execrabilem Antichristi Bullam, and Wider die Bulle des Endchrists)."
“Another place proving that the dead have no ... feeling. There is, saith he, no duty, no science, no knowledge, no wisdom there. Solomon judgeth that the dead are asleep, and feel nothing at all. For the dead lie there, accounting neither days nor years, but when they are awaked, they shall seem to have slept scarce one minute.”—Martin Luther, Exposition of Solomon’s Booke Called Ecclesiastes, page 152.
And ye, in putting them [the departed souls] in heaven, hell, and purgatory, destroy the arguments wherewith Christ and Paul prove the resurrection.... And again, if the souls be in heaven, tell me why they be not in as good case as the angels be? And then what cause is there of the resurrection?—William Tyndale, An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue (Parker's 1850 reprint), bk. 4, ch. 4, pp. 180, 181.
The true faith putteth [setteth forth] the resurrection, which we be warned to look for every hour. The heathen philosophers, denying that, did put [set forth] that the souls did ever live. And the pope joineth the spiritual doctrine of Christ and the fleshly doctrine of philosophers together; things so contrary that they cannot agree, no more than the Spirit and the flesh do in a Christian man. And because the fleshly-minded pope consenteth unto heathen doctrine, therefore he corrupteth the Scripture to stablish it.—lbid., p. 180.
(see also my signature for more about Martin Luther)
What happens when we die? We sleep in the dirt, until the resurrection, as the Scriptures truly do put forth.
Psalms 146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah 38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Psalms 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Job 34:14-15 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Job 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Acts 2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
And for those that deem, absent from the body, present with the Lord means we are with Him at the moment of death - Paul tells us exactly when we shall be present with the Lord. And it is NOT the moment of death.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
It is at the resurrection. Why do most today believe that when we die we go directly to heaven or hell? It is because of the doctrine of Babylon. She has made this world to drink of her doctrine, they are drunk with it. And this drunkenness the world needs to awake from.
Revelation 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Revelation 18:1-4 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 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.
Babylon is fallen, is fallen! Fallen, once for the Catholic Church, the beast, and another time for the Protestant Church, the false prophet, fallen because of the errors taught within the churches! Wherefore, the voice of God cometh down to the earth and says to all His children, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues". Come out of the Catholic Church, come out the the Protestant Churches. Come out is the call given to God's church. We must come out, for we are not received by God for staying within these fallen churches.
2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Last comments: You know, this article - https://news.yahoo.com/secret-pope-francis-haters-094500393--politics.html - did say this:
"Francis’s comments about showing mercy to divorced couples, not judging gay priests and even toying with further examination of civil unions outside the church have proven to be tough for conservative Catholics to swallow. John Vennari, noted Catholic observer and editor of “The Catholic Family News,” has been pounding a steady drumbeat on the danger of Francis’s widespread populist appeal since his election a year ago. “He seems to have a good heart and some good Catholic instincts, but theologically he is a train wreck—remarkably sloppy,” Vennari wrote in a recent blog post. “Though this might shock some readers, I must say that I would never allow Pope Francis to teach religion to my children.”
In an NBC news piece titled “Not Everyone Loves Francis,” Boston College theology professor Thomas Groome pondered whether or not true Catholic conservatives would be able to keep supporting the Pope’s new approach towards acceptance and mercy and still keep their faith. “I think it will be a real test for conservative Catholics,” he told NBC. “They have always pointed the finger, quoting the Pope for the last 35 years. Suddenly, will they stop quoting the Pope? It’ll be a good test of whether or not they’re really Catholics.”"
To all the Catholics out there who are on the fence about this Pope, and all that is going on, I urge you, I know God calls to you, come out of this church.
In this day and age "and all the world wondered after the beast" is being fulfilled. Never before has there been a time when the world is absolutely falling head over heels with the beast.
"Pope Francis: the man who won over the world in five minutes"
"Five minutes. That's all it took to make papal history."
History was made, in five minutes.
"Never has a leader of the Roman Catholic Church become as popular in as short a time as Pope Francis did when he humbly asked the crowd gathered in St Peter's Square on March 13 last year to pray for him."
""We have never seen a pope become so popular in just a couple of minutes," said Odon Vallet, a French historian and an expert on religion."
"Over the past year, Francis has won accolades and plaudits for powerful gestures such as washing the feet of young Muslim inmates, embracing the handicapped and asking that gay people not be judged."
"In France, where only three percent of Catholics are identified as practising their religion, priests say there has been an increase in church attendance since Pope Francis' election.
"Before it was 'uncool' to be Catholic, now it's 'in'," said Vallet."
(https://news.yahoo.com/pope-francis-man-won-over-world-five-minutes-023049004.html)
So, how Popular is this Pope? Another article says, "No one can dispute the fact that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has had an extraordinary year since being elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church last March. Every gesture, from his choice of the name Francis to his penchant for cold-calling parishioners, has endeared him with a most unusual fanclub, including atheists and gays. He has been on the cover of the Advocate and Rolling Stone and he was voted Time’s Man of the Year. He also attracts tens of thousands of Catholics and curious onlookers to his weekly Sunday blessings and Wednesday audiences in St. Peter’s square—something that hasn’t been seen in Rome since the early days of John Paul II. He even has his own fanzine and smartphone app."
(https://news.yahoo.com/secret-pope-francis-haters-094500393--politics.html)
Since Francis' election, there has been an increase (at least in France) in church attendance. Not only that, but this Pope was named Time's Man of the Year. Gays and even atheists love this man. He appeared on the cover of the Advocate and Rolling Stone. He attracts "tens of thousands of Catholics and curious onlookers to his weekly Sunday blessings and Wednesday audiences in St. Peter's square-something that hasn't been seen in Rome since the early days of John Paul II." He even has popularity that rivals that of John Paul II. He has his own fanzine, and smartphone app.
So, he has great popularity. He is the third Pope to ever be Time's Man of the Year, and his popularity seems to rival that of John Paul II. But it's the other things surrounding this Pope that make things all the more dangerous, and show that indeed, all the world is wondering after the beast.
"Muslims are “our brothers” and Christians must cultivate “mutual respect” with them. These were the words of Pope Francis yesterday during the Angelus, a message which could signal a turnaround in the relationship between the Catholic Church and Islam. This changing tide can even be seen in the words used in addressing Muslims. This is the first Pope to have referred to Muslims in such direct and explicit terms as “our brothers”. This would have been practically unthinkable even up until the recent past."
(http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/news/detail/articolo/papa-pope-el-papa-27115/)
I will have to disagree with the Pope here. Muslims are not our brothers. They certainly do not serve the same God that I serve. Yet that doesn't stop Pope Francis from declaring that Muslims, Christians, and even Jews have the same Father.
"Pope Francis to Jewish, Muslim and Catholic group: We have the same Father"
"Pope Francis welcomed an inter-religious group from Argentina made up of 15 Jews, 15 Muslims and 15 Christians. They were on their way back from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land."
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBUjiydjsxU&feature=em-uploademail)
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Their works will speak to us about who is their father. While we cannot judge, it is by their fruits that we shall know them.
Matthew 7:16-20 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
What about the World Council of Churches meeting with the Pope?
"WCC general secretary shares with pope aspirations for unity, justice and peace"
"Tveit stressed the significance of Christian unity."
"The WCC general secretary, who represents a fellowship of 345 member churches in more than 110 countries, expressed these views on 7 March during his visit to Rome hosted by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity of the Roman Catholic Church."
I understand finding common ground in a discussion. But I do not condone getting together with the Pope and trying to promote unity with the Roman Catholic Church.
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
I especially cannot condone this worldly unity. Did not Jesus say He came not to send peace, but a sword?
Matthew 10:34-36 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Even houses will be, and are divided, because of the truth. Yet it's okay to come together and promote unity between religious bodies, and share in this worldly group hug that the Pope is doing? Absolutely not! And don't get me wrong. I am not saying let's go out and start wars. Christians are peacemakers. But the fact of the matter is, you do not join together with those teaching heresy. We are commanded specifically not to yoke with unbelievers. And though they claim to believe in Christ Jesus, if they are rejecting the truth for this time, they are unbelievers. I am not saying you cannot be nice to them. I am saying, you are not to gather together under one roof with unbelievers.
Were you aware that the Pope is invited to address a joint meeting of Congress?
"House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, extended a formal and open invitation Thursday to Pope Francis to address a joint meeting of Congress."
Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
"If the pontiff accepts, it would be unprecedented. No pope or religious leader that serves as a head of state has ever addressed Congress, according to the U.S. House Historian's office."
Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
This is something that has never been done in history. Do you understand what's going on? There has never been a Pope with this much popularity, that have done the things that he has done. And he's only been in office for about one year.
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also a Catholic, said she joined welcoming Pope Francis to address Congress. Pelosi attended his inauguration at the Vatican and praised him as "a moral force.""
(http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/13/boehner-pope-francis/6373779/)
This next one may be shocking for anyone who is unaware.
"“The Catholic and Charismatic Renewal is the hope of the Church,” exclaims Anglican Episcopal Bishop Tony Palmer, before a group of cheering followers at the Kenneth Copeland Ministries. Palmer said those words are from the Vatican. Before playing the video message from Pope Francis to Kenneth Copeland, Palmer told the crowd, “When my wife saw that she could be Catholic, and Charismatic, and Evangelical, and Pentecostal, and it was absolutely accepted in the Catholic Church, she said that she would like to reconnect her roots with the Catholic culture. So she did.”
The crowd cheered, as he continued, “Brothers and sisters, Luther’s protest is over. Is yours?”
Even Kenneth Copeland finds this development incredible: Said Copeland, “Heaven is thrilled over this…You know what is so thrilling to me? When we went into the ministry 47 years ago, this was impossible.”"
(http://standupforthetruth.com/2014/02/pope-to-copeland-catholics-and-charismatics-must-spiritually-unite/)
Tony Palmer actually said that Luther's protest is over. He also went on to make statements like maybe we're all Catholic now. I am not kidding. He asks, if there is no more protest, how can there be a Protestant Church?
You know what makes this even more amazing? Those cheering followers that that article quoted was not just followers. They were religious leaders cheering.
"The message was for a conference of leaders from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, a Pentecostal mega-church ministry"
(http://ecumenism.net/2014/02/pope-records-iphone-video-greeting-to-pentecostal-leadership-conference.htm)
These aren't just duped followers cheering this stuff along. These are leaders that are cheering this along. Leaders! Does anyone see how bad this is getting? How fast are we going to rush into a one world religion? How fast?
"A non-denominational megachurch pastor reportedly stunned his congregation this weekend when he announced that he and his wife are converting to Catholicism."
"“We have seen a great love for Jesus and a sound theology, founded on the Bible and classic dogma.”"
"The announcement comes after Ekman, who founded Word of Life about 30 years ago, announced his retirement in March 2013 as senior pastor at the church. Word of Life has around 3,300 members."
(http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/10/non-denominational-megapastor-stuns-congregation-with-personal-theological-revelation/)
No man's an island. Where one goes, there will certainly be others that follow.
Were you aware of this that happened earlier this year:
"U.S. Roman Catholic Church And Protestant Denominations Agree To Recognize Each Other's Baptisms"
"In 2002, concerns over certain practices (such as baptism by sprinkling) and spoken formulas (such as baptism in the name of the Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier) used by some Christians led the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity to urge national bishops’ conferences to study their mutual understanding of baptism with other Christians. These questions were examined and resolved by Round Seven of the Reformed-Roman Catholic Dialogue-USA, which produced the Common Agreement, as well as a study entitled “These Living Waters.”"
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/catholic-protestant-baptism-recognize_n_2575915.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false)
Unbelievable. Where are our Protestant principles upon which our forefathers established? Why is everything going out the window? Virgins! WAKE UP! Trim your lamps! Now is the time to arise, now is the time to wake up. Now is the time to get spiritually ready for the coming of the bridegroom.
Now some may say that Protestants and Catholics really aren't that different. It is because of the spiritual truths given up in the past. This is why Protestants and Catholics are becoming more and more alike.
Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
The nations are drunk with her doctrine, the Protestants are drunk with her doctrine. To the question is my protest over, I say, No! There is more wrong with the Catholic Church than the main reason that is so often stated. Does anyone here know that Protestant Reformers Luther and Tyndale did not believe in the immortality of the soul, as is so believed in this day and age? Yet this is something Protestant Churches have accepted as true doctrine, yet it is false.
""However, I permit the Pope to establish articles of faith for himself and for his own faithful—such are: That the bread and wine are transubstantiated in the sacrament; that the essence of God neither generates nor is generated; that the soul is the substantial form of the human body that he [the pope] is emperor of the world and king of heaven, and earthly god; that the soul is immortal; and all these endless monstrosities in the Roman dunghill of decretals—in order that such as his faith is, such may be his gospel, such also his faithful, and such his church, and that the lips may have suitable lettuce and the lid may be worthy of the dish.—Martin Luther, Assertio Omnium Articulorum M. Lutheri per Bullam Leonis X. Novissimam Damnatorum (Assertion of all the articles of M. Luther condemned by the latest Bull of Leo X), article 27, Weimar edition of Luther's Works, vol. 7, pp. 131, 132 (a point-by-point exposition of his position, written Dec. 1, 1520, in response to requests for a fuller treatment than that given in his Adversus execrabilem Antichristi Bullam, and Wider die Bulle des Endchrists)."
“Another place proving that the dead have no ... feeling. There is, saith he, no duty, no science, no knowledge, no wisdom there. Solomon judgeth that the dead are asleep, and feel nothing at all. For the dead lie there, accounting neither days nor years, but when they are awaked, they shall seem to have slept scarce one minute.”—Martin Luther, Exposition of Solomon’s Booke Called Ecclesiastes, page 152.
And ye, in putting them [the departed souls] in heaven, hell, and purgatory, destroy the arguments wherewith Christ and Paul prove the resurrection.... And again, if the souls be in heaven, tell me why they be not in as good case as the angels be? And then what cause is there of the resurrection?—William Tyndale, An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue (Parker's 1850 reprint), bk. 4, ch. 4, pp. 180, 181.
The true faith putteth [setteth forth] the resurrection, which we be warned to look for every hour. The heathen philosophers, denying that, did put [set forth] that the souls did ever live. And the pope joineth the spiritual doctrine of Christ and the fleshly doctrine of philosophers together; things so contrary that they cannot agree, no more than the Spirit and the flesh do in a Christian man. And because the fleshly-minded pope consenteth unto heathen doctrine, therefore he corrupteth the Scripture to stablish it.—lbid., p. 180.
(see also my signature for more about Martin Luther)
What happens when we die? We sleep in the dirt, until the resurrection, as the Scriptures truly do put forth.
Psalms 146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah 38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Psalms 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Job 34:14-15 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Job 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Acts 2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
And for those that deem, absent from the body, present with the Lord means we are with Him at the moment of death - Paul tells us exactly when we shall be present with the Lord. And it is NOT the moment of death.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
It is at the resurrection. Why do most today believe that when we die we go directly to heaven or hell? It is because of the doctrine of Babylon. She has made this world to drink of her doctrine, they are drunk with it. And this drunkenness the world needs to awake from.
Revelation 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Revelation 18:1-4 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 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.
Babylon is fallen, is fallen! Fallen, once for the Catholic Church, the beast, and another time for the Protestant Church, the false prophet, fallen because of the errors taught within the churches! Wherefore, the voice of God cometh down to the earth and says to all His children, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues". Come out of the Catholic Church, come out the the Protestant Churches. Come out is the call given to God's church. We must come out, for we are not received by God for staying within these fallen churches.
2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Last comments: You know, this article - https://news.yahoo.com/secret-pope-francis-haters-094500393--politics.html - did say this:
"Francis’s comments about showing mercy to divorced couples, not judging gay priests and even toying with further examination of civil unions outside the church have proven to be tough for conservative Catholics to swallow. John Vennari, noted Catholic observer and editor of “The Catholic Family News,” has been pounding a steady drumbeat on the danger of Francis’s widespread populist appeal since his election a year ago. “He seems to have a good heart and some good Catholic instincts, but theologically he is a train wreck—remarkably sloppy,” Vennari wrote in a recent blog post. “Though this might shock some readers, I must say that I would never allow Pope Francis to teach religion to my children.”
In an NBC news piece titled “Not Everyone Loves Francis,” Boston College theology professor Thomas Groome pondered whether or not true Catholic conservatives would be able to keep supporting the Pope’s new approach towards acceptance and mercy and still keep their faith. “I think it will be a real test for conservative Catholics,” he told NBC. “They have always pointed the finger, quoting the Pope for the last 35 years. Suddenly, will they stop quoting the Pope? It’ll be a good test of whether or not they’re really Catholics.”"
To all the Catholics out there who are on the fence about this Pope, and all that is going on, I urge you, I know God calls to you, come out of this church.
