The Coming Persecution Of The Christian Church.

Rome — In the Church’s mes­sage on the occa­sion of the World Day of Peace, Pope Benedict XVI stat­ed that “There is a need to acknowl­edge and pro­mote the nat­ur­al struc­ture of mar­riage as the union of a man and a woman in the face of attempts to make it juridi­cal­ly equiv­a­lent to rad­i­cal­ly dif­fer­ent types of union… …since this con­sti­tutes an offence against the truth of the human per­son, with seri­ous harm to jus­tice and peace.”

Co-Founder of the Everyone group Italy Roberto Malini wrote a scathing Article on the Website http://​www​.tol​er​ance​.ca/.

Titled : Pope Benedict XVI pro­motes hatred towards Gays.

A few days before, the pon­tiff had received with full hon­ours at St. Peter’s, the President of the Ugandan Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, the pro­mot­er of the law against homo­sex­u­al­i­ty in Uganda, which pro­vides for the repres­sion of homo­sex­u­al­i­ty and penal­ties rang­ing from heavy prison sen­tences up to life impris­on­ment, and even cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment for gays.

This is an atti­tude marked by hatred and con­trary to the Holy Gospel, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. EveryOne Group, Gays Without Borders and civ­il soci­ety are now launch­ing a com­plaint against this incite­ment to dis­crim­i­na­tion and hatred. It is also impor­tant to ask the bish­ops to dis­so­ci­ate them­selves from this dis­crim­i­na­to­ry position.

The Catholic Church has returned to the Middle Ages. Below is a brief his­to­ry, with some inci­dents of homo­pho­bic per­se­cu­tion. The Emperor Justinian, the pro­tec­tor of the Catholic Church, estab­lished the death penal­ty for homo­sex­u­als and pur­sued them along­side the Gentiles and the Jews.

The Monk Pier Damiani led a cru­sade against homo­sex­u­al­i­ty, the foun­da­tions of which are con­tained in the Liber Gomorrhianus, writ­ten in 1049.

One of the statutes of Bologna in 1257, on the Societas Sancte Marie, estab­lished the death penal­ty, by burn­ing at the stake, for homo­sex­u­als and for those who host­ed them in their homes. There were more fires in Switzerland for the vici­um sog­domiticum, in the thir­teenth century.

At Clermont, in France, gays and heretics both per­ished on the stake. In the 14^th Century the city of Rome burned homo­sex­u­als, while Florence pre­ferred to cas­trate them. Gays and les­bians were burned in Padua from 1329 and lat­er all over Italy, where peo­ple watched the tor­ture of inno­cent peo­ple as though it were pub­lic enter­tain­ment. Punishment was no dif­fer­ent in Rimini under the “enlight­ened” Malatestas. Identical per­se­cu­tion occurred wher­ev­er the author­i­ties and the papal guards dis­cov­ered rela­tions between per­sons of the same sex.

The Florence of the Medici was a lit­tle less severe: author­i­ties issued fines for the first three homo­sex­u­al rela­tion­ships dis­cov­ered, while for the fourth, they decreed the death of the “repro­bate”. Francesco Sforza in Milan reward­ed with a cash prize the cit­i­zens who denounced gays and les­bians, who were then burnt at the stake.

It has been a ter­ri­ble per­se­cu­tion that has stained civ­i­liza­tion and influ­enced cul­ture, tra­di­tions and reli­gious wor­ship through­out the cen­turies, pre­vent­ing artists, poets and thinkers rep­re­sent­ing homo­sex­u­al­i­ty as a nat­ur­al expres­sion of pas­sion and love, and count­less human beings from liv­ing their nat­ur­al incli­na­tions in peace, with­out fear of pub­lic humil­i­a­tion, tor­ture and death.

The his­to­ry books that chil­dren read in schools fail to men­tion this per­se­cu­tion of homo­sex­u­als through­out his­to­ry: this too is homo­pho­bia. The Church’s hands are stained with the blood of so many inno­cent homo­sex­u­als and it is unac­cept­able that it still aims to be the cham­pi­on of one of the most hor­rif­ic atroc­i­ties in human history.

EveryOne Group and Gays Without Borders are call­ing on the UN and the Council of Europe to pub­licly con­demn the inap­pro­pri­ate words spo­ken by the Pope, to invite the Catholic Church to under­take a path of respect for the LGBT com­mu­ni­ty, and to stop their sup­port for pro­mot­ers of a crim­i­nal law.

Pope Benedict XVI announced on Monday February 11^th 2013^th that he will resign the Papacy, effec­tive February 28^th, cit­ing his declin­ing health. “I have had to rec­og­nize my inca­pac­i­ty to ade­quate­ly ful­fill the min­istry entrust­ed to me,” Benedict wrote in a state­ment. He is the first pope since 1415 to resign the Papacy. 

On on 13 March 2013 Jorge Bergoglio an Argentine Cardinal with Vatican Citizenship was elect­ed Pope. Borgoglio chose the Title Francis XVI . See http://​en​.wikipedia​.org/​w​i​k​i​/​P​o​p​e​_​F​r​a​nci

June 26^th 2014: The Vatican issued this state­ment in a 75 page Document a work­ing paper of Catholic Bishops.

The Roman Catholic Church must be less judgmental of homosexuals and, while still opposing gay marriage, should welcome children of gay couples into the faith with equal dignity, a Vatican document said.

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While Vatican offi­cials have stressed that Church teach­ings against homo­sex­u­al activ­i­ty would not change under pres­sure of pub­lic opin­ion, the doc­u­ment said “many respons­es” called for “the­o­log­i­cal study in dia­logue with the human sci­ences to devel­op a mul­ti-faceted look at the phe­nom­e­non of homosexuality”.The bish­ops will dis­cuss the paper in October and could make rec­om­men­da­tions on changes to Church teach­ings, on which the Pope would decide.

Gay rights groups were esta­t­ic on Monday October 13^th 2014, in a draft doc­u­ment from a group of bish­ops and priests sug­gest­ed the church could be more wel­com­ing to the gay com­mu­ni­ty. “Homosexuals have gifts and qual­i­ties to offer to the Christian com­mu­ni­ty,” they wrote. “Are we capa­ble of wel­com­ing these peo­ple, guar­an­tee­ing to them a fra­ter­nal space in our communities?

CNN Snarled, quote: The Catholic church can’t have it both ways on gay rights.

Either it must take steps to accept gay and les­bian peo­ple as part of its flock — includ­ing them as full mem­bers, embrac­ing their unions, decry­ing Catholic schools that fire gay and les­bian teach­ers and call­ing for the full pro­tec­tion of LGBT peo­ple around the world. Or it can go back to empha­siz­ing its con­dem­na­tion of homo­sex­u­al acts as “intrin­si­cal­ly dis­or­dered,” as it does in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The cur­rent mid­dle ground — with church lead­ers say­ing “homo­sex­u­als have gifts and qual­i­ties to offer the Christian com­mu­ni­ty,” but not ful­ly embrac­ing them as equal humans in the church and under the law — is unsus­tain­able and dangerous.

What does the Bible say about Homosexuality?

Romans 1−26−28.

For this rea­son God gave them up to dis­hon­or­able pas­sions. For their women exchanged nat­ur­al rela­tions for those that are con­trary to nature; ²⁷ and the men like­wise gave up nat­ur­al rela­tions with women and were con­sumed with pas­sion for one another,men com­mit­ting shame­less acts with men and receiv­ing in them­selves the due penal­ty for their error.28 And since they did not see fit to acknowl­edge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

1 Corinthians 6:9 – 10 — “Do you not know that the wicked will not inher­it the king­dom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sex­u­al­ly immoral nor idol­aters nor adul­ter­ers nor male pros­ti­tutes nor homo­sex­u­al offend­ers nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunk­ards nor slan­der­ers nor swindlers will inher­it the king­dom of God.”

1 Corinthians 6:11 — “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanc­ti­fied, you were jus­ti­fied in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

1 Timothy 1:10 – 11– The sex­u­al­ly immoral, men who prac­tice homo­sex­u­al­i­ty, enslavers, liars, per­jur­ers, and what­ev­er else is con­trary to sound doc­trine, in accor­dance with the gospel of the glo­ry of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

1 Corinthians 7:2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Jude 1:4 . For there are cer­tain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this con­dem­na­tion, ungod­ly men, turn­ing the grace of our God into las­civ­i­ous­ness, and deny­ing the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:7 . Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like man­ner, giv­ing them­selves over to for­ni­ca­tion, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an exam­ple, suf­fer­ing the vengeance of eter­nal fire.

Jude speaks par­tic­u­lar­ly harsh about Homosexuality . Jude select­ed strong lan­guage to con­vey the seri­ous­ness of the charge fac­ing the church. Allowing Homosexuals into Christian fel­low­ship with­out apply­ing the same stan­dards of admis­sion , with com­plete Repentance , and an acknowl­edge­ment that the prac­tice of Homosexuality is an abhor­rent sin, as is the stan­dard applied to oth­er sin­ners, will be the spir­i­tu­al death knell for the church. Repentance is the major action a sin­ner must take to be accept­ed into the fam­i­ly of God.

On May 9^th 2012 President Barack Obama announced he was in sup­port of Homosexual mar­riage. Mr. Obama was the first sit­ting U.S. pres­i­dent to pub­licly sup­port gay marriage.His pre­de­ces­sor George W Bush affir­ma­tive­ly stat­ed that mar­riage was between a man and a woman. Obama’s Vice President Joe Biden had pre­empt­ed his boss by announc­ing his sup­port ear­li­er for gay marriage.

This leads us to ask, why did Pope Benedict sud­den­ly decide to step aside? What does this mean as it relates to Biblical Prophesy? The answers are in the Scriptures. Romans 1:26 – 28 For this rea­son God gave them up to dis­hon­or­able pas­sions. For their women exchanged nat­ur­al rela­tions for those that are con­trary to nature; ²⁷ and the men like­wise gave up nat­ur­al rela­tions with women and were con­sumed with pas­sion for one another,men com­mit­ting shame­less acts with men and receiv­ing in them­selves the due penal­ty for their error.28 And since they did not see fit to acknowl­edge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

We are in the end time, already busi­ness-peo­ple are being per­se­cut­ed for their prin­ci­pled stance against Homosexuality. Coming soon they will begin the process of tak­ing away tax exemp­tion from Churches whose lead­ers refuse to mar­ry Homosexuals.

Then they will begin to make Criminals of Pastors who refus­es to mar­ry Gays. It will be shroud­ed under the guise of human Rights. What it will be is per­se­cu­tion of the Christian Church in sup­port of the hedo­nis­tic , las­civ­i­ous and demon­ic prac­tice of Homosexuality.

The day is fast approach­ing when Christians will not be able to stand against the sin of homo­sex­u­al­i­ty with­out risk­ing Imprisonment or death. When we see these things how­ev­er we know that our redemp­tion draweth nigh . Thus sayeth the Lord.