Pope Francis came to America and the Nation stopped, People fell over themselves to kiss his ring others stood in line for hours to catch a glimpse of the Pontiff.
Francis’ first visit to America came after the American President Barack Obama paid him a visit at the seat of Catholicism at theVatican city.
No single event in my lifetime has generated such excitement neither has any event, other than the September 11th 2001 Terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC received such wall to wall television coverage. This, even as more and more evidence surfaces of countless cases of Priests sexually abusing little boys for decades, maybe more.
The United States Census Bureau Records give some startling statistics, backed up by denominational reports and the Assemblies of God U.S. Missions: Every year more than 4000 churches close their doors compared to just over 1000 new church starts!
That’s a 75% annual decline in the number of churches in the United States.
Every year, 2.7 million church members fall into inactivity. This translates into the realization that people are leaving the church. Research found that they are leaving as hurting and wounded victims-of some kind of abuse, disillusionment, or just plain neglect!
Nevertheless Americans and many more around the world are excited about Pope Francis.
What is behind this phenomenon ?
Many refer to him as a Liberal, others say he is transforming the Church into a more era sensitive Institution.
As such many are clamoring to be seen supporting his views.
Of course many of Francis’ views though sounding reasonably like Biblical teachings, tend to have a permissive slant all of his own.
The level of excitement generated and the media language is almost cloying in its effervescence over the Pontiff.
Religious and nonreligious alike claim him as their Pope. Round-table panelists gush flowery praise for Jorge Mario Bergoglio who seem to say and do all the right things.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer anchoring one leg of the wall to wall coverage stopped the conversation to point out to the Nation “he just stopped , and blessed that little girl right there, he just blessed that little girl”.
But does Jorge Mario Bergoglio have the power to bless anyone ?
When asked about Homosexuality prior to his American visit Jorge Mario Bergoglio asked Journalists “who am I to judge”?
Exactly what the world wants to hear !!!
Romans 1:26 – 28
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. 28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Leviticus 18:22 — Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
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.
It’s perfectly Christ-like not to judge , but if one is a follower of Christ it is imperative that Christians do not compromise on sin but tell the world “thus sayeth the Lord”. For we are commanded to love the sinner but hate the sin.Claiming “who am I to judge is false teaching in that context.
Of course it is up to God to judge , but identifying sin is not judging. It is imperative that we are able to discern all sin and seek to avoid wilful sin. We must eschew and shun sin, for even though we sin we cannot be comfortable in sin. God is righteous, if we are comfortable in sin how can we hope to have a relationship with him?
God’s righteousness and sin cannot co-exist together, sin separates us from our creator.
Those who refuse to call sin what it is by telling us they cannot judge are changing the word of God to fool the world into believing we can come as we are and remain as we are.
Jesus’ Disciples did preach the unmitigated , unvarnished truth of his Gospel. According to the Bible they were all Martyred save for one. John the Baptist preached the truth of his coming he was executed before Jesus died. I am in no way suggesting that Christians should go out seeking Martyrdom but what kind of children of God are we if we fail to use our voices to lift up the lord?
What kind of Christians are we if we are afraid to speak the true word of God because we are concerned with what man may do to us.
I am more concerned about what will happen if I fail to tell those people within my sphere of influence of the Tribulation to come.
The Pontiff never bothered to mention what the Bible teaches on the subject. Merely saying “who am I to judge’. Coming from him that statement automatically gets construed and spun to mean the Pope agrees it’s okay.
Was he cognisant of that fact when he failed to reference the word of God choosing to merely inject his own views without Biblical authority?
He challenges Nations to be kind and compassionate to the poor , exactly the kind of language which will bring people to his side.
- According to the World Bank’s most recent estimates, in 2011, 17 percent of people in the developing world lived at or below $1.25 a day. That’s down from 43 percent in 1990 and 52 percent in 1981.
- This means that, in 2011, just over one billion people lived on less than $1.25 a day, compared with 1.91 billion in 1990, and 1.93 billion in 1981.
- Progress has been slower at higher poverty lines. In all, 2.2 billion people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2011, the average poverty line in developing countries and another common measurement of deep deprivation. That is only a slight decline from 2.59 billion in 1981.
Of course people are going to be drawn to a message of helping the poor.….…
Two beasts are described in chapter 13, one from the sea (vs. 1) and one from the land (vs. 11). With the beast out of the sea, we come to that one who, regardless of his claims as the white horse rider or peace maker, comes as a great source of darkness into the world. He comes not to save the world, but to damn the world. In essence, what we have in this chapter in the rise of the beast and the false prophet is nothing short of the ‘trinity from hell’ in that both are the product of the machinations of that old serpent, the devil or Satan.19. The Beast and the False Prophet (Rev 13:1 – 18)19. The Beast and the False Prophet (Rev 13:1 – 18)
THE FALSE PROPHET AND IMAGE OF THE BEAST OF REVELATION Bible.net has this to say . The beast, as I have shown previously, is the Papacy or Roman Catholic Church. Revelation 19:20 is the key to identifying who the false prophet is. Here it associates the false prophet with miracles performed for the beast. This is a link to Rev 13:11 – 14 where the same miracles are performed by a second beast with two horns like a lamb, that speaks like a dragon. So this second lamb-like beast is also the false prophet.
Verse 12 is saying that the United States will combine Church and State and strictly enforce apostate Catholic religious doctrine, just like the Roman Catholic church did in the middle ages! Yes! The current effort on the part of evangelical Christians to “take back America” will succeed!
In Verse 13 it shows us that this revival of Church and State in the U.S. will be accompanied by great wonders (miracles). The fire coming down from heaven is a deceiving miracle, a false wonder, that may well refer to a counterfeit outpouring of the Holy Spirit! Already today a false manifestation of tongues, holy laughter etc. is sweeping churches in North America!
In verse 14 the lamb-like beast (the United States) promotes an image to the first beast (the Roman Catholic Church). When it says “an image to the (first) beast”, it means that the apostate Protestant movement in the United States will encourage the establishment of Church/State power, and legislate it’s religious agenda on everyone. It will be the mirror “image” of the satanic practices, policies and persecutions of the Roman Catholic Church of the Middle Ages.
So using false miracles as proof of it’s authority, the apostate Protestant church in the United States will take control of the government and pass religious legislation to enforce it’s agenda, and it will promote false Catholic doctrines. What false doctrines, you might ask?
1. When you are dead, you are not dead. Your conscious self or spirit waits at some bus stop (purgatory) between here and heaven. Here you are free to listen to the prayers of the living and forward these petitions for grace to Mary or Jesus.
- They cannot accept that the wages of sin is death. Death includes the loss of any consciousness of the mind. Those who are dead hear nothing and can do nothing, for themselves or anyone else.
2. Salvation is obtained through ministers or priests of the church. They have a bank account with Jesus and can dispense grace or forgiveness to those they favor. Conversely, they can cut off your source of forgiveness if you do not accept their unscriptural traditions.
- No church can dispense or withhold forgiveness, forgiveness is yours from God through faith.
3. They worship on a day chosen by a pagan emperor of Rome, Sunday, although there is absolutely NO scriptural evidence that Jesus commanded such a change in the Ten Commandments.
- The Sabbath is Saturday without question. It is a memorial to Jesus the Creator, who worked six days and rested on the seventh. To worship on any other day is to reject the Creator, reject God, reject Jesus. Whom do you worship if you reject the 10 commandments of God?
4. We are saved by good works. God is keeping track of everything we do and the sum total of our good works better add up to a bigger number than our sins. Even “good” people who have rejected Jesus, will by this logic, have a chance so long as their good works total is high enough.
- Your works amount to nothing without faith. By the same token, faith without works is a dead faith.
So the False Prophet is in fact, apostate Protestantism based in the United States. How do you recognize apostate religion? Try the following additional indicators, note that they are accompanied by a serious lack of meaningful scriptural study.
A. Theology that preaches that God is a loving God and most people will be saved if only they will just be good people. You will see a lot of country and western style gospel singers, a lot of praising Jesus and binding Satan, collecting the tithe, but precious little scripture study, and what little there is, is very shallow.
B. The happy Christian, it is O.K. to be rich, send us your seed money today and you will get it back 1000 fold, kind of religion. A primary focus on God rewarding his followers with earthly riches. If only you will send in your love gift, God will reward you financially. And by the way, we have some neat things to send you if you contribute today- (mostly tapes, books, plaques, glasses, sculptures, lifetime memberships, get your name engraved on the churches top givers plaque, etc.) You could almost call it the Christian Shopping Network. Did Jesus sell *anything* during His ministry? No- what He offered was not for sale, it was FREE!
C. A focus on miracle healing of the sick, prayer requests and again endless pleas for donations, just to stay on the air.
D. A mission of building a TV or Radio station empire, from which there is little or no bible study, just more pleas for cash during long telethons, and praising Jesus. Usually broadcast from multi-million dollar lavish studios with lots of expensive decorations.
Am I saying Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the Beast of Revelation ? I will allow Bible Prophesy and your spirit of discernment to decide. Some who seek the Lord have gone further than I am prepared to go. What I do know is what the Scriptures says.
Never before have we seen the Catholic Church seek to unify all religions . In an apparent effort to unify all faiths under one world religion Pope Francis took unprecedented steps by hosting a series of interfaith gatherings at the Vatican which saw Muslim prayers given from the pulpit for the first time in its history.
The website Beginningandend.com The Coming One World Religion – Pope Francis Hosts Muslim Prayers At Vatican makes the case that the Pontiff’s actions is all prophesied in Scriptures as the coming one World Religionof the Anti Christ.
Quote :“The Pope’s efforts while seemingly noble, are in complete contradiction to Bible Scripture. But as Biblical Christianity is being abandoned in the contemporary church, public displays of “spiritual unity” will become more common. It is all prophesied in Scripture as the world moves closer to the coming one world religion of the Antichrist”.
Pope Francis waded into Middle East peace-making this evening by welcoming both the Israeli and Palestinian presidents to the Vatican for an evening of prayers.
Israeli President Shimon Peres was the first to arrive at the Vatican hotel where Pope Francis lives, followed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Francis warmly greeted both and met privately with each one before heading out to the Vatican garden for the service.
It took place in the Vatican gardens in the shadow of St. Peter’s Basilica, the most religiously neutral place in the tiny city-state. It incorporated Jewish, Christian and Muslim prayers – delivered in Hebrew, English, Arabic and Italian.
The prayers focused on three themes common to each of the religions: thanking God for creation, seeking forgiveness for past wrongdoing and praying to God to bring peace to the region.
Francis, Peres and Abbas were expected to deliver brief remarks, shake hands and plant an olive tree together in a sign of peace. The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians was also present to give a united Christian front.
Beginningandend.com went on to say.
While the desire for peace in the Middle East is a noble cause, no Bible believing Christian should ever confuse political goals with the spiritual commands of God. While Christians can socialize, work with and conduct political negotiations with people of all faiths, religious activity is to be exclusively done in a Biblical manner. From the first commandment God gave to Moses, The Lord’s stance on joining in the worship of any of other god is clear:
And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; – Exodus 20:1 – 5.
Francis coming to America represents the coming together of Church and State in a one World Religion. It is an apostate which will remove God Almighty as the head of the Church replacing him with the Devil and his representatives here on earth.
The Evangelical christian Church is blind to this phenomenon many Preachers and Teachers of the Gospel are too busy teaching prosperity and happiness theology.
The Church misses a terrific opportunity to use Biblical prophecy to bring souls to Christ Jesus.
The Christian faith is the only faith which has prophetic words which tells us with immaculate accuracy how events will unfold.
Yet many Preachers of the Gospel are doing nothing to warn the flock.
Jeremiah 51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.
Babylon is not a city as some of us Christians are led to believe . The Babylon spoken of here is the fallen Church . Christians will have to come out of the fallen Church. The Church which is preoccupied with telling Parishioners how to attain wealth and happiness is lost . It is a Satanic doctrine which is not borne out in the teachings of Christ . Therefor as Jeremiah 51: 6 says, we must, all of us , “deliver every man his soul”.