We
are almost three weeks beyond the Vatican’s prayed-for year of mercy. What will
happen now? What kind of upheaval will the world experience? Wild fires
exponentially increasing, all started by the Vatican behind-the-scenes
soldiers? More aviation fatalities by their soldiers? More shootings by their
soldiers?
How will it all converge
after this next Halloween? When the Lutheran Church signs off on all the
treaties of reconciliation with the Roman Church this October 31st,
how aggressively will Rome work to have all the remaining denominations
surrender their Protestantism, their Bible, their God? What kind of crises will
Rome bring upon America to encourage the Protestant denominations to sign up
for the Vatican’s millennium of peace for Gaia? How soon will the Reformation
give up the ghost and do Mass with those ghostly priests of paganism?
The Vatican soldiers’ Spiritual
Exercises is making haste to spread throughout all the Protestant churches,
leavening them all to talk to “God” without the sinner ever having been soundly
convicted, conscience “scourged” (Heb. 12:6), and heart humbled by the Law of
God. The question needs to be raised, “Why would a holy God, who has always
required His Son to be our humbling Mediator, the “Stone of stumbling”, and
“Rock of offense” (1 Pet. 2:8); how could the Holy One ever speak to sinners
still proud and unconvicted of sin, without their first weeping at the feet of
the Lord Jesus for their sins like Peter did in Gethsemane? Has God changed
since the fall of Adam and Eve, and since the denial of Peter? Neither Father
or Son have changed an iota.
“…the Father of lights, with
whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” (Jas. 1:17).
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Heb. 13:8).
“For I am the LORD, I change
not.” (Mal. 3:6).
“He that turneth away his ear
from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” (Prov. 28:9).
If Christ can’t be a humbling Saviour from sin and shame, then He will be no Saviour at all. This is the offense of the cross and of righteousness by faith. The refusal to be stricken in the heart is what drove Cain to cover his sins with sugar and spice and everything nice, then to murder and to begin a rebellion in the land of Nod for a world of murderers and violence. Christ must do for the sinners what they cannot do for themselves; He must put down pride and self-sufficiency or He must leave them to the dogs of hell, who they chose.
If Christ can’t be a humbling Saviour from sin and shame, then He will be no Saviour at all. This is the offense of the cross and of righteousness by faith. The refusal to be stricken in the heart is what drove Cain to cover his sins with sugar and spice and everything nice, then to murder and to begin a rebellion in the land of Nod for a world of murderers and violence. Christ must do for the sinners what they cannot do for themselves; He must put down pride and self-sufficiency or He must leave them to the dogs of hell, who they chose.
“What man of you, having an
hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in
the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?... I say
unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,
more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.” (Luke
15:4,7).
“The publican, standing afar
off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his
breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down
to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth
himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” (Luke
18:13,14).
Mount Zion doesn’t move. The
sinner must move.
“Thus saith the LORD, The
heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool: where is the house that ye
build unto Me? and where is the place of My rest? For all those things hath
Mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man
will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth
at My word.” (Isa. 66:1,2).
“For thus saith the high and
lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and
holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive
the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” (Isa.
57:15).
An unrepentant, un-contrite,
sinner without a Saviour finds no accord with the holy Father; therefore he
finds accord with other sinners. The only “God”who the Spiritual Formation
votives hear speak to them is another God beside the Father or the Son. It’s
the God who will lead them to kill all who insist on keeping the commandments
of the written word, the holy scriptures.
“They
shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever
killeth you will think that he doeth God service.” (John 16:2). During the Dark
Ages, the same “God”ordered the martyrdom of tens of millions of Christians in
the name of Christianity. That “God” still speaks for Jehovah by eclipsing
Jehovah. He has never stopped being the father of lies.
“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.” (John 8:44).
“He who smote the people in
wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger,... How art
thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down
to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the
north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most
High.” (Isa. 14:6,12-14).
“And he shall speak great
words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High,
and think to change times and laws: and they [the saints] shall be given into
his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” (Dan. 7:25).
“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.
And they worshipped the
dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying,
Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
And there was given unto him
a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to
continue forty and two months.
And he opened his mouth in
blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that
dwell in heaven.
And it was given unto him to
make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over
all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” (Rev. 13:3-7).
“Forty and two months”
equals“a time and times and the dividing of time”, which is the same as “a
time, and times, and half a time” (Rev. 12:14), and which equals “a thousand
two hundred and threescore days” (Rev. 12:6). The prophecies of Daniel 7,
Revelation 12, and Revelation 13 speak of the same power denouncing the
blasphemy upon God in heaven, and killing His children on earth. That 3 ½ year,
42 month, 1,260 day period of prophetic time equals the same quantity in
literal years, i.e. 1,260 years. It speaks of the European Dark Ages under
Roman Catholicism from 538 AD to 1798. The encouragement to patiently endure
and the only hope to lighten that dark era was God’s promise to resurrect the
righteous by faith in Jesus, and His retribution on the wicked. The saints
patiently and bravely clung to the promise of justice that came from Jeremiah
30:16.
“He that leadeth into
captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be
killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” (Rev.
13:10).
But, in Revelation 13 there
comes a second persecuting power. Verse 11 begins with a beast with lamb-like
horns coming up out of a peaceful, stable place, “the earth” (verse 11). This
is in contrast with the unstable, dangerous, stormy “sea” (verse 1) like the
first beast came from.
“And I stood upon the sand of
the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten
horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of
blasphemy.” “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had
two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.” (Rev. 13:1, cf Dan. 7:2; Rev.
13:11).
That second beast changes drastically
from representing a peaceful government and a righteous seat of authority to
speaking like the dragon, the same which gave the blasphemous first beast “his
power, and his seat, and great authority” (Rev. 13:2). The dragon is the
ancient “serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world.” (Rev. 12:9).
Satan deceives the lamb-like
horned second beast, which came up after the first beast was mortally wounded
by the Bible sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12), and went into
captivity. The only world power coming up in 1798, then dominating the
planet, was Protestant America, which rose up from the wilderness of the
New World. Protestant America as a nation was born nursing on the Bible. But,
its Constitution has been wholly Protestant with freedoms for the people and
separation of religion and state, and a constant sore to the slowly returning
Papal power. The papacy could never regain its power and wealth while
Protestant Americans stood in its way, soaking up all the prosperity that
Jehovah rained upon them, on the obedient and the disobedient. Protestant
America had the blessing of heaven, so long as the children of the Reformation
remained faithful to the covenant vows their Reformation forefathers made with
Jehovah. If their hearts would remain stayed upon the fatherly discipline and
affection of their God, He would continue to protect and provide for them.
But, if they would confide in
other gods and pour their hearts out to them, then Jehovah would eventually cut
them off from His dowry. And has Protestantism left the God of their fathers?
Aren’t they returning to the gods of paganism when they sign all the treaties
with Rome? When the Protestant Americans bow low before the “God” of Spiritual
Formation, and he steals their hearts away from their heavenly Father of Law
and grace, as delineated by the Reformation, will the Reformation God of the
Bible let their infidelity pass without a protest? He never has in the past.
“But thou didst trust in
thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst
out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
And of thy garments thou
didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the
harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
Thou hast also taken thy fair
jewels of My gold and of My silver, which I had given thee, and madest to
thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
And tookest thy broidered
garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set Mine oil and Mine incense
before them.
My meat also which I gave
thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set
it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
Moreover thou hast taken thy
sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto Me, and these hast thou
sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
That thou hast slain My
children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?”
(Eze. 16:15-21).
Jehovah, the only true God,
the God of Protestantism, will not stand aside and let Satan take over His
children without His execution of justice. When the churches are fully involved
with the Mass and Spiritual Formation, when their unabased pride is petted and
excused by the familiar spirits of Spiritual Formation speaking in the name of
God, then we will see how angry Jehovah can get. Wars, natural catastrophes,
deception and delusion on an order that has never been permitted to be so
freely practiced on humanity will Jehovah bring to bear on the apostate, no
longer protesting prophet, which during the 16th and 17th
centuries had originally protested against the raging first Beast. Both
Protestant false prophet and then the revived papal first Beast will be burned
with the tormenting wrath of God.
“Thou hast also committed
fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast
increased thy whoredoms, to provoke Me to anger.
Behold, therefore I have stretched
out My hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered
thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines,
which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Thou hast played the whore
also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played
the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
Thou hast moreover multiplied
thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not
satisfied herewith.
How weak is thine heart, saith
the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious
whorish woman.” (Eze. 16:26-30).
“Wherefore, O harlot, hear
the word of the LORD:
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy
whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by
the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
Behold, therefore I will
gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou
hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round
about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may
see all thy nakedness.
And I will judge thee, as
women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood
in fury and jealousy.
And I will also give thee
into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break
down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take
thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
They shall also bring up a
company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee
through with their swords.
And they shall burn thine
houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women:
and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt
give no hire any more.” (Eze. 16:35-41).
“And the ten horns which thou
sawest upon the Beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate
and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.” (Rev. 17:16).
“For the LORD’s portion is
His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.
He found him in a desert
land, and in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about, He instructed him,
He kept him as the apple of His eye.
As an eagle stirreth up her
nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her wings:
So the LORD alone did lead
him, and there was no strange god with him.
He made him ride on the high
places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and He made
him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Butter of kine, and milk of
sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the
fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.”
“But Jeshurun waxed fat, and
kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with
fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of
his salvation.
They provoked Him to jealousy
with strange gods, with abominations provoked they Him to anger.
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they
knew not, to new gods that came newly up,
whom your fathers feared not.
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and
hast forgotten God that formed thee.
And when the LORD saw it, He
abhorred them, because of the provoking of His sons, and of His daughters.
And He said, I will hide My
face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward
generation, children in whom is no faith.
They have moved Me to
jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked Me to anger with their
vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I
will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
For a fire is kindled in Mine
anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with
her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
I will heap mischiefs upon
them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them.
They shall be burnt with
hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will
also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the
dust.
The sword without, and terror
within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with
the man of gray hairs.” (Deut. 32:9-25).
“Thine heart was lifted up
because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy
brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that
they may behold thee.
Thou hast defiled thy
sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy
traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall
devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all
them that behold thee.
And never shalt thou be any
more.” (Eze. 28:17-19).
“And the Beast was taken, and
with him the false prophet [second beast (Rev. 13:12-15)] that wrought miracles
before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the
beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a
lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Rev. 19:20).
