The Pope Is A Jesuit. What Does That Mean?

Pope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio)
with Adolfo Nicolás Pachón,
Superior General (the Black Pope)
of the Society of Jesus - the Jesuits

The Pope is a JESUIT. Learn what a Jesuit is.
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Ignatius de Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus (1541) - the JESUITS - held a vision that was beyond grandiose:

“Ought we not to conclude that we are called to win to God [the Pope], not only a single nation, a single country, but all nations, all the kingdoms of the world?” [Andrew Steinmetz, History of the Jesuits, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lea and Blanchard, 1848), Vol. I, p. 141.]

This would not prove to be evangelistic fervor for the saving of sinful souls, but instead, it would show itself to be a demon-possessed, Luciferic scheme for absolute, dictatorial, world dominion of the secular, political sort - to make the Pope sovereign King of the World. The true Christ was nowhere in the picture.

But Loyola’s vision for the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church was nothing less than preternatural - a theological term used to distinguish marvels or deceptive trickery, often attributed to witchcraft or demons.

Loyola’s ambitions were decidedly Luciferic, spawned in the pit of Hell.

Loyola envisioned the Roman Church as a global monarchy. He meant to make the Roman Church a universal kingdom. The Pope would not only be the triple-tiaraed King of the Holy Roman Empire, but also of the entire world. He intended to make the Pope the King of ALL Kings. Why would the Pope not love him?

Loyola taught his charges, “ …we must seriously inculcate in the minds of all, that the state of the church …now changed into a monarchy …cannot maintain its ground against mighty enemies, unless supported by great authority and power, and that it is that little stone which was foretold by the prophet [Daniel 2:44, 45] …and afterwards rises into a vast mountain.” [W. C. Brownlee, Secret Instructions of the Jesuits, (New York: American and Foreign Christian Union, 1857), pp. 81, 83.

In Loyola’s view, Daniel prophesied a global Papal Kingdom! But that is NOT what Daniel prophesied. That prophecy most assuredly spoke of the future Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ; not of a pope.

Loyola’s vision was to give the Pope the prophesied Kingdom of Christ! The Pontifex Maximus of the Roman Catholic Church would be the Caesar of the whole world when Loyola’s army was finished. He would have uncontested authority and power in the world. The Pope would answer to no man - except the Superior General - the Jesuit God on earth.

Until you wake up and realize that since the days of Loyola, the Roman Catholic Church has not been simply a religion, but it has been a global STATE - a stealth, secular, shadow government behind all governments, you will never understand what is going on in the world. Never! The Roman Catholic Church rules the world, this very day, via the Jesuits.

Loyola’s obsession with the task was diabolical. Nary a man has ever been more demon-possessed. Under the tutelage of their first Superior General Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises, Section 353.1, Jesuits were instructed, “We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things …the hierarchical Church.”

365.13 adds, “We must hold fast to the following principle: What seems to be white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.”

Jesuit co-founder, Francis Xavier said, “I would not even believe in the Gospels were the Holy Church to forbid it.”

The Pope was so elated with the Jesuits’ propositions that he is said to have cried out, “This is the finger-stroke of God!” and quickly issued the Papal Bull, “Regimini militantis ecclesiae,”(“On the Supremacy of the Church Militant”), ordaining the Jesuits into the Roman Catholic Church.

The Pope now had a militia; a kamikaze hit-squad! A “Church Militant!”

Loyola’s creeds and the subsequent highly-secret Jesuit oaths were supremely diabolical pillars of blind obedience to Satan’s minions - the princes of the Roman Catholic Church. Theirs were not vows to God, His Word, His Truth, or His Will, but vows to the anti-Christ Pope, his Primates, the “Virgin Mary,” the Harlot Church, and the abominable, idolatrous demons of Mystery Babylon.

One element of the JESUIT OATH OF INDUCTION is the Latin acrostic, INRI. “When a Jesuit of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted into the Chapel of the Convent of the Order, where there are only three others present; the principal or Superior standing in front of the altar. On either side stands a monk, one of whom holds a banner of yellow and white, which are the Papal colors, and the other a black banner with a dagger and red cross above a skull and crossbones, with the word INRI, and below them the words IUSTUM, NECAR, REGES, IMPIOUS,” or…

“It is JUST to EXTERMINATE or annihilate IMPIOUS or heretical KINGS, Governments, or Rulers.” [Charles Didier, Subterranean Rome, translated from French, 1843, containing the text of the Congressional Record of the U.S.A. (House Bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pp. 3215-3216)]

One section alone of The Extreme Oath of the Jesuits says:

“I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants’ heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.

That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard [dagger] or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.” (ibid, previous reference)

Why was this atrocious, murderous oath not viciously condemned by the Pope? Because since the days of Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085), Catholic Canon Law had stated,

“…it is no murder to kill a heretic.”

The Constitutions of the Jesuits pledged them as mindless servants of an evil Pope, and an even more evil Superior General. For 500 years since, the Society of Jesus has conducted Inquisitions, and persecuted and murdered multiplied millions of “heretics” and “infidels,” despite the fact that they are themselves the most nauseous bastion of anti-Christ heretics on earth.

The Jesuits eventually devised a draconian agenda to conquer the world. Loyola’s personal friend, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V came to his assistance by engaging his European armies in the Jesuit war of Counter-Reformation, a grandiose attempt to totally destroy all Protestants.

Loyola’s spiritualism was demonic. It came as much from mystical, pagan, Babylonian, Gnostic, and Illuminati thought as from Roman Catholicism. Little more than few portions of his imagery have any true Biblical accuracy.

Consequently, the birth of the Jesuits was one of Satan’s grandest accomplishments in the history of the world. The symbiotic relationship that quickly developed between Loyola’s Jesuits and the Pope clearly demonstrates that Roman Catholicism and the Babylonian Mysteries embedded deep inside Jesuitism are fully compatible, and powerfully intertwined. They were made for each other! Both are Luciferic. Both are supremely evil at the core.

The Church Militant?

Jesuits soon heralded themselves as soldiers of the “Church Militant.” But this was no esoteric, spiritual war they were engaging. Their mission statement specified real flesh and blood warfare. Alarmingly, there is no such “Church Militant” of any scriptural precedence or legitimacy. Jesus never recruited hit squads or suggested organizing military offensives. He never ordained bloodshed or armed conflicts to build His Church; He clearly forbade it. But the Pope’s new army would kill anyone on demand.

Today, Jesuits are innocuously called the Pope’s “missionaries.” But in reality, the Society of Jesus is an intelligence and banking operation. The Jesuits are a top-secret hit squad, holy mafia, and priesthood of goons, who will do anything and everything they are told to do without a single question or objection, including assassinations, wars, revolutions, overthrowing governments, and other evils that defy imagination.

Are Jesuits still in business today?

In a word? They rule the world.

Yes, they really do.

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Pope Francis at the U.N. - What Did He Say?

Pope Francis speaking to the United Nations

I am writing this on Saturday, September 26, 2015. Pope Francis has been in America all week. He spoke at the White House, at the Capitol to a Joint Session of Congress and to the entire world, at the United Nations to the General Assembly, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, at Madison Square Gardens, in Philadelphia at Congress Hall, and in several other venues. At 78 years old, his stamina was utterly remarkable.

I had anticipated writing a summary article of the Popes speeches while he was here. But the Pope has evermore put me to the task. His speeches were no run-of-the-mill speeches. They are not easily commented on. Virtually every one of his speeches were loaded for bear hunting. I had anticipated that his speeches would shake the world, but I never dreamed he would be so aggressive, so in-your-face, so iron-fisted, so revolutionary.

I am aware that many who read this will disagree on that point, possibly to the point of fury. Nevertheless, I will make my case.

The crowds have swooned to this Pope like other crowds have swooned to Michael Jackson, and before him, Elvis Presley. Pope Francis could have said ANYTHING and the crowds would have cheered him. He could have sold their souls to the devil, and they would have kissed his feet.

Tragically, that is just about exactly what he did, and they didn't even know it.

Unfortunately, I cannot summarize his speeches right here and right now. Again, I say, "The Pope has put me to the task." His speeches remind me of U.S. military tactics of the Vietnam War: carpet bombing! The Pope carpet bombed America. He dropped a blanket of bombs with such a fast and furious pace that few people really knew what hit them. We have been rendered speechless.

Maybe you didn't hear them, but I did. I have been studying the Roman Catholic Church for decades, as well as the World Government, the New World Order, the Jesuits, and this whole push toward a One World Government. Because of that, I am keen to hear and discern a lot of things that the average man on the street is not likely to hear. And therein lies the problem. I cannot comment briefly on this week. It is going to take some time.

Therefore, I am going to take the next few days to download the full text of all his speeches, and comb carefully through each of them. Then I will organize his major talking points and analyze them in the light of Bible prophecies and all things scriptural and godly. When I am done, I will have produced, as it were, a mini-encyclical, much on the pattern of the Pope's own treatments of major subjects, only in less words.

MEANWHILE, to prepare you for what I will be saying, I have extracted a few critical pages from my book, THE DANIEL PROPHECIES - GOD'S PLAN FOR THE LAST DAYS, for you to consider.

Before I can effectively show you the powerful and dangerous things that Pope Francis has said to us this week, it is imperative that you get a better understanding of exactly who and what the Roman Catholic Church is, and its correlation with the United Nations, the United States, and the soon-to-come One World Government.

Therefore, I submit to you here several pages of rich-content observations. I pray that you will take the time both to read, to study, and to contemplate these few pages. I suppose that many of you will never be the same after you come to the knowledge of what I will show you here.

Within the next few days, I will publish another article, more direct and hard-hitting on the subject of all the Pope had to say to the United States and to the world this week. Until then, I ask you to prayerfully consider these excerpts from THE DANIEL PROPHECIES.
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HERE ARE SOME THINGS FOR YOU TO CONSIDER BEFORE I POST an analysis of Pope Francis' speech at the UN and other U.S. venues.

This is from THE DANIEL PROPHECIES:
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In world politics, the Vatican has the most sophisticated diplomatic corps in the world, with a field staff of Papal envoys (Nuncios, or Vatican ambassadors) operating in almost every country on earth.

Catholics-Jesuits in the United Nations

Not the least of Rome’s powerful diplomatic venues is that of Permanent Observer to the United Nations, where the Pope and his delegates speak frequently to premium audiences of kings and presidents in the U.N. podium - the only global religious figure with such access to the plenary sessions of the U.N. General Assembly.

Joseph S. Rossi, a Jesuit, wrote two books, American Catholics and the Formation of the United Nations, and Uncharted Territory: The American Catholic Church at the United Nations, in which he documents the early, powerful roles of Catholics in the formation and day-to-day operations of the United Nations.

In the pre-U.N. Charter days of April, 1945, Archbishop John J. Mitty organized three services in the San Francisco Civic Center in which 40,000 people heard Fulton Sheen, the priest of TV and radio fame, speak on The Moral Basis of Peace. Sheen’s sermon was picked up by the national media. Days later, 15,000 U.N. celebrants attended a Solemn Pontifical Mass to hear a 1,000-voice children’s choir, and Archbishop Mitty “declare that by the providence of God the United Nations charter conference was being held ‘in the city of St. Francis… the saint of universal love.’” (Joseph Samuel Rossi, American Catholics and the Formation of the United Nations, University Press, 1993, p. 76.)

Catholics LOVE the U.N.

Mitty closely monitored and schmoozed with hundreds of Catholics who were delegates from nations all over the world.

Rossi documented the role of Catherine Schaeffer, Director of the National Catholic Welfare Office, in the early days of the U.N. She worked tirelessly to penetrate the U.N. organizational structure, especially the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), literally convincing U.N. officials to allow Non-Governmental Organizations-NGOs to gain observer status.

Subsequently, she skillfully established many Catholic NGOs inside the ECOSOC and other U.N. agencies. Schaeffer’s Catholic efforts at the U.N. in those early years set many precedents for future Catholic roles in the U.N. Schaeffer worked “to increase international Catholic leverage at the United Nations,” and “to oppose NGO status for organizations whose tenets were contrary to the teachings and principals of the Roman Catholic Church and the directives of the pope.” (Joseph Samuel Rossi, Unchartered Territory: The American Catholic Church at the United Nations, 1946-1972, CUA Press, 2006, p. 12.)

That was more than 60 years ago. Have no doubt that at the international level, i.e., inside the United Nations, Catholic-Jesuits are still very hard at work, exerting the maximum influence in every venue of any significance. In 1982, U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller reported that no less than twenty-four powerful Catholic NGOs operated inside the U.N. (Robert Muller, New Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality, 1982, Chapter 6.)

Today, there are 87 Catholic NGOs in the U.N., and many more coming. (Kevin Ahern, The Role of International Catholic Organizations in Promoting the Gospel in the “Community of Nations,” International Movement of Catholic Students, p. 5.)

Neither should you have any doubt that at the national, state and local levels, Catholic-Jesuits are also hard at work in every single venue of any significance, both in and outside of governments, in the U.S. and in every nation on earth. You would be AGHAST if you knew how much.

Why are these secular, historical facts Biblically significant?

Because the events I have described to you [in previous chapters of THE DANIEL PROPHECIES] chronicle the activities of the four prevailing spirits of this age - The Four Horsemen of Zechariah 6 and Revelation 6: Catholicism, Communism, Capitalism and Islam. ALL FOUR of those spirits are under the command of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus.

The Black Pope, sitting at the highest echelon of power on earth, is ruled by the ancient, evil Spirit of Rome, who is ruled by Lucifer.

These are the spirits that will precipitate forty-two months of Hell-on-earth that Jesus and the Hebrew prophets warned us about thousands of years ago. These spirits will be the perpetrators of the Final Solution, the Grand Inquisition, or otherwise known as the Great Tribulation that will come upon the whole earth, spoken of by Jesus Christ in Matthew 24.

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AND HERE IS MORE:

In September of 2005, I attended the United Nations World Summit, which was the largest conclave of kings, presidents, prime ministers, sheikhs, princes, and other heads of state IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD! 153 heads of state gathered for most of a week at the UN headquarters. Naturally, many things could be said about such an event, but ONE notable feature of that Summit was the extremely high security.

I stayed at the giant Ramada Inn at JFK airport in New York (which has since been razed), and took the subway to the UN each day. That hotel was also the headquarters for over 200 Secret Service agents who were in town for the event. (I felt very safe that week!) Outside, a giant parking lot, the size of a typical Walmart parking lot, was FULL of black suburbans and limos with dark glass, and outfitted with the highest-tech security and communications devices. And that was only the Secret Service. For at least ten blocks around the UN, thousands of police were stationed every few feet. Giant dump trucks filled with sand were parked at intersections, blocking access to forbidden streets, surrounded by police cruisers and dozens of cops on foot. Security blimps and balloons hovered in the skies above the UN Headquarters, and armored Coast Guard cutters cruised up and down the East River, carefully watching over the vast complex.

Long lines of journalists were required to have UN "passports" which had been approved months in advance, and upon arrival, marched slowly through a big-top tent that was set up outside, and filled with every kind of scanner and security device imaginable to screen every person who entered. Police dogs sniffed every package and bags going through the line, and purses and pockets were emptied for police inspection.

Upon entering the building, additional checkpoints were set up for additional screening at every security level. If I remember correctly, there were reportedly 4,000 police stationed in the immediate vicinity of the UN headquarters as the motorcades of heads of state from around the world entered the compound and deposited their powerful passengers..
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BUT - that was nothing!!
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POPE FRANCIS is coming to Washington DC and New York City in a few days, and the press (NBC) is reporting that HIS SECURITY detail will be larger than anything ever seen in the United States. "Dan Bongino, who worked with the Secret Service for over two decades, acknowledged the task ahead of them. [He said] 'It is the largest security operation that I think we are ever going to see.'"

The POPE demands more security than all the kings and presidents in the world COMBINED!

http://www.inquisitr.com/…/pope-francis-visit-to-bring-abo…/

Think about that. Big Brother is coming out of the closet. Those mystics who are adept at the Luciferic mysteries (such as Madam Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley) would have seen this as "The Externalization of the Hierarchy." It is the unveiling and revealing of Satan's long-held-secret master of Hell's treacherous, diabolical world government.

Don't forget that as far back as 800 AD, the Popes, wearing their Triple Tiara crowns, crowned the Emperors of Europe (the "Holy Roman Empire") for a thousand years. The Popes have established themselves for many centuries now as the King of Kings!

An article published just days ago by a high-ranking Catholic cleric posited that Pope Francis would be appearing before the UN General Assembly as "the Father and Pastor of the World."

But I am going to best the cleric by saying that Pope Francis is coming to town as representative of the office of the very prophesied FALSE PROPHET of Revelation 13.

Is Francis the FALSE PROPHET of Revelation 13? I cannot say for sure. He will be 79 in December. He has one lung and a bad back. He has said that if his health begins to fail, he will resign and allow another to take his office. And in light of Daniel's prophecies concerning "Daniel's Seventieth Week," the real False Prophet will be in power when Jesus returns to destroy him at Armageddon. That means that Francis would have to stay in power until he is AT LEAST 86 years old to fulfill that prophecy. Therefore, I must allow for the possibility that there may yet be another pope.

Nevertheless, the PAPAL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH is the Second Beast of Revelation 13, and it is HE who gives power to the FIRST BEAST - the European-based world government. When all the facts are out, and all the cards are on the table, we will be forced to realize that the Roman Catholic Church rules the world today.

And that is a pill that most people refuse to swallow.

But ready or not, every single one of us are going to have to swallow that pill.

As the Master of Mystery Babylon of Revelation 16-18, the Pope is the highest ranking evil man on earth. They call him "The Holy FATHER," an appellation that Almighty God explicitly reserved for Himself - in writing.

"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven," Matthew 23:9. In fact, Jesus Himself is the rightful owner of that title, as it was ascribed to Him by the prophet Isaiah. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, THE EVERLASTING FATHER..." Isaiah 9:6. Jesus is the bodily incarnation of the Everlasting Father.

Pope Francis will revel in the world's attention for the next few days, and in the next few years, he will enjoy an explosion of power and influence among men and nations. And tragically, hundreds of millions of gullible, vulnerable, Biblically-ignorant "believers" will venerate him as the Vicar "stand-in" for Christ. But he is not Christ's stand-in. He is Satan's stand-in. And not long after the Pope has administered the long-prophesied Mark of the Beast - but too late to do anything about it - the world will realize that it has been sold into the inescapable damnation and torments of eternal fire and brimstone.

"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six," Revelation 13:15-18.

"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name," Revelation 14:9-11.

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THIS ARTICLE IS A PRELUDE TO AN UPCOMING ARTICLE WHICH WILL BE AN PROPHECY ANALYSIS OF ALL POPE FRANCIS' SPEECHES IN THE U.S. IN SEPTEMBER 2015.

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What the POPE said to Barack Obama

Pope Francis with President Obama
at the White House

On Wednesday morning, September 23, Pope Francis delivered a historic address on the White House lawn in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama and the Pope exchanged messages with each other while the world looked on.

Several of the Pope's remarks are noteworthy in the light of Bible prophecy and the New World Order agenda.

IMMIGRATION:
"As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in this country, which was largely built by such families." The Pope wasted no time getting to the subject of immigration. The SECOND sentence. Certainly, his was an oblique - even faint - reference. But when you are the Pope of 1.2 billion Catholics, even an oblique reference can nail like a sledge hammer.

Nobody has more power or INFLUENCE over global migration patterns than the Roman Catholic Church. Via a network of more than 400,000 consecrated, celibate priests operating in about 2,800 Dioceses owning 177 MILLION ACRES of land around the world, the Roman Pontiff and his "church" have the ability to INFLUENCE virtually anybody anywhere to do anything or go anywhere.

The Roman Catholic Church is the largest non-governmental provider of education and health-care services in the world. It operates the largest non-governmental Parochial (private primary and secondary) school system in the world, and controls more than 600 Jesuit-run colleges, and 180 Jesuit-run universities around the world. That translates into staggering, unimaginable INFLUENCE.

The R.C.C. profoundly INFLUENCES kings, presidents, prime ministers and every other kind of head-of-state via its Papal Nuncios (Ambassadors) and Papal Nunciatures (Embassies) in almost every nation on earth, with the exception of about two dozen hardcore Islamic or Communist countries. And we must not forget that the Vatican holds Permanent Observer Status at the United Nations with one Nuncio in New York and another Nuncio in Geneva, and those Nuncios are Titular Bishops of the R.C.C. As of this week, the Vatican flag now flies at the U.N. Headquarters. And I have not yet mentioned that Rome has forty-jillion well-staffed N.G.O.s (Non-Governmental Organizations) working feverishly, if not stealthily inside the U.N. (as well as the U.S. Government, and most other governments around the world). Those countless N.G.O.s are obsessed with having maximum and profound Catholic influence on every conceivable international, national, state, and local policy and matter.

I am talking about INFLUENCE; INFLUENCE on IMMIGRATION in particular.

It is utterly foolish, even inconceivable, and dangerously naive, to pretend that Rome has had no MAJOR role in the FLOODING of American soil with millions and millions of Mexican immigrants. Roman Catholic Mexicans comprise an increasingly ENORMOUS power base to vote for Roman Catholic agendas, and give voice and legs to Roman Catholic causes in America. Immigration, as we are now witnessing, is as much as anything else, the Catholicization of the United States. Mexico is home to the second largest Catholic population in the world. (Brazil holds first place.) 

So, it should come as no surprise that the first thing out of the Pope's mouth in the presence of the President of the United States was the veneration of immigration, since the hotly-debated immigration crisis in America has the potential of teetering Roman Catholic influence in America FAR to the better, or FAR to the worse. It pays big dividends for the Pope to plead in favor of immigration.

Roman Catholic Mexicans will eventually become a very large component of Roman Catholic influence in the United States. Don't kid yourself. The Pope had a very clear and deliberate motive for painting a pro-immigration point-of-view in his opening statement at the White House.

MARRIAGE:
The Pope said, "I will also travel to Philadelphia for the Eighth World Meeting of Families, to celebrate and support the institutions of marriage and the family at this, a critical moment in the history of our civilization." Keywords: families, institution of marriage.

What was he saying? In a phrase? "I support marriage and family." Keep in mind that this speech was less than ten minutes long. 1,072 words. There was no time for long lecturing or any elaboration. But to "celebrate and support" marriage and family is nevertheless purely non-committal, in light of the fact that he had only days earlier radically softened long-standing Catholic policies governing marriage annulments and divorces, encouraged absolving the sins of those who had abortions, and making conciliation toward gays. And in this very speech, he tackles the hot potato of...

TOLERANCE:
"American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination." While claiming to support marriage and family, the Pope is presently tearing down walls between traditional, historical definitions of marriage, and gay-lesbian-bisexual-transvestite lifestyles. TOLERANCE. INCLUSION.

Again, the Pope is obliquely redefining near-eternal standards for sexuality and morality. But why should we be surprised? The Roman Catholic clergy is world-renowned for sexual perversions, pedophilia, homosexuality among priests, and lesbianism among nuns. Why should we be surprised when sexual morality is sacrificed on the altar of tolerance and inclusion?

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
"...they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty. That freedom remains one of America’s most precious possessions. And, as my brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it."

The Catholic Church is a champion for religious freedom, but not exactly how you might expect. Ever since Archbishop John Carrol played an epic role in the founding of the United States of America, and also in the founding of Georgetown University (a Jesuit institution) in Washington D.C. in 1789, Roman Catholics have been obsessed with Catholicizing America. But in 1700 years of Catholic history around the world, they were not so tolerant of other religions that disagreed with or opposed Rome. Ask the nearly 100 million innocent victims of Catholic atrocities during the Inquisitions, Crusades, and various other actions against non-Catholic and anti-Catholic populaces who were hated, ostracized, tortured, imprisoned, mutilated, and mercilessly murdered by blood-thirsty popes, cardinals, archbishops, bishops and their operatives. So much for religious freedom.

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Pope Francis told President Obama, "I find it encouraging that you are proposing an initiative for reducing air pollution. Accepting the urgency, it seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care of our “common home," we are living at a critical moment of history. We still have time to make the changes needed to bring about “a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change. ...we wish to commit ourselves to the conscious and responsible care of our common home."

It came as no surprise. All the pundits and commentators predicted that the Pope would plea for "climate change." But it is NOT the climate the Pope is worried about.

In 1954, JESUIT priest Joseph Retinger, and a former Nazi SS officer and Knight of Malta, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands founded a secretive group of powerful and elite global leaders who came to be called, "The Bilderbergers” (named after the hotel in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, where they first met). They have continued highly-secretive annual meetings to this day. The same Retinger is also called the founder of the European Movement which led to the founding of the European Union. He was commonly known to be a liaison between the Pope and the Superior General of the Jesuits. Anyone who studies the New World Order can tell you that Bilderbergers are supremely powerful king-makers and globalist change agents. Author Daniel Estulin spent fourteen years investigating Bilderberg, and concluded that it is “a shadow world government.” “They threaten to take away our right to direct our own destinies."

High on the list of world-changing priorities adopted by the "Bilderbergers," and forwarded by such powerful elites as Mikhail Gorbacheve and (U.N. operative) Maurice Strong at the United Nations "Earth Summit" at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, is what is called the Earth Charter, and Agenda 21. At that has to do with equalizing the nations and redistributing the wealth. And that is known as...

SOCIALISM:
JESUITS of the Roman Catholic Church have played principal, if not leading roles in the creation of virtually all these goals that ultimately force a global socialist redistribution of wealth. Catholics slyly call it "Liberation Theology," and its popularity among Catholic priests is pervasive.  

I don't have time or space to treat this subject here, but suffice it to say that Agenda 21 has now been upgraded at the U.N. to the 2030 Agenda, and it is all about SOCIALISM. And V.I. Lenin infamously said, "All socialism leads to communism."

In 1969, Peruvian Dominican Priest Gustavo Gutierrez coined the term, “Liberation Theology.” In 1971, he wrote A Theology of Liberation, a watershed treatise which ignited the love affair between Catholic Jesuits and Marxist Communism.

By 1979, a cadre of Marxist Jesuits took up arms in Latin America, and began depicting Jesus Christ Himself as a Marxist Revolutionary. An epic conflict unfolded as Marxist Catholic Jesuit “Sandinistas” declared war on the government of Nicaragua, and established a socialist revolutionary government in its place. Under President Ronald Reagan, Marine Colonel Oliver North infamously waged a counter-revolution, but his “Contras” failed to stop the Sandinistas. As I write this, more than thirty years later, Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista champion, is still in power as the President of Nicaragua.

The Catholic versions of Socialism and Communism are now spreading globally like wildfire in a windstorm. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu spawned left-wing revolutions in Africa, as Jesuit Liberation Theologians of the Roman Catholic Church spread their “Christian” version of Socialism throughout Central and South Americas, and ultimately into every nation and continent where the Catholic Church has beachheads.

The shocking, hard-to-swallow fact is that Jesuits of the Roman Catholic Church, in espousing their Liberation Theology, are the WORLD’S CHAMPIONS of Communist expansionism. KGB agents from Moscow are not the major proponents of Communism! JESUITS are!

I remind you that Pope Francis (a.k.a. Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina) is a life-long Jesuit. As such, he is a master of all Jesuit agendas. And Bergoglio was personally endeared to Liberation Theology priest and creator, Gustavo Gutierrez. One of Francis' first notable invitations to the Vatican following his election was to have Gustavo Gutierrez visit him there. Immediately thereafter, Gutierrez was widely acclaimed and his teachings widely espoused and published throughout the Catholic world.

And don't forget that ON HIS WAY TO AMERICA, the Pope spent DAYS in Cuba where he met privately with legendary Communist revolutionary, Fidel Castro, and his brother, President Raul Castro. In Cuba, Francis adeptly engaged his socialist "brothers" in his Catholic agenda.

Therefore, when at the White House Wednesday, Pope Francis' short message was long on implications. Profound implications.

The Pope said, "I would like all men and women of good will in this great nation to support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world and to stimulate integral and inclusive models of development, so that our brothers and sisters everywhere may know the blessings of peace and prosperity which God wills for all his children."

The Pope was subtly, and cryptically calling the world to embrace and implement Socialism.

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THE DANIEL PROPHECIES - GOD'S PLAN FOR THE LAST DAYS.

Want more?
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH


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"Christian" gooses laying golden eggs

In pursuit of more golden eggs.

Oneness Apostolic Pentecostals are turning en masse to non-Apostolics for advice and leadership on how to build bigger and better churches. They think they have found the goose that lays golden eggs. They are growing faster than ever, and without all the old constraints of doctrines and holiness. But in their greed, money-lust, and vain pursuit of "MORE!", they have actually killed the goose, and as time goes by, TRUE RICHES - the eternal wealth of right-standing with God, Truth, Righteousness, and Holiness have been forever lost, sacrificed to a highly animated, yet godless imposter of the New Testament Church.

Church in the Kettle

There is another allegory that is also appropriate: The frog in the kettle. Hell has enticed the modern church like a frog into a kettle, and has turned on the heat. But because they have become cold-blooded, as Hell's fires lap around them, they are not even aware of it, adapting perfectly and comfortably to every deadly change, never even sensing that spiritual death is already underway.

"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart, Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness," Ephesians 4:17-19.

"Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, ...and I am profaned among them," Ezekiel 22:26.

"Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth," Deuteronomy 6:14-15.

"And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?" Judges 2:2.

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The POPE and the MAN OF SIN

Most prophecy pundits fail to understand exactly what the Bible says about the coming ANTICHRIST. Many people call the POPE the Antichrist. Some people refer to the FIRST BEAST of Revelation 13 as the Antichrist. And many apply "The Antichrist" to the Man of Sin (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4), the Son of Perdition, the Little Horn, the King of the North, "that wicked one," and other titles. 

There is a MAJOR, MAJOR problem in identifying "the Antichrist" while confusing these THREE DIFFERENT characters. 

1. The Beast (a European-based, 10-horned, world government of the last days)

2. The False Prophet (the Papal Roman Catholic Church, based in Rome)

3. The Assyrian Man of Sin (based in Jerusalem, committing the Abomination of Desolation).

The Bible NEVER ONCE calls any particular character "THE ANTICHRIST." That phrase never once appears in the Bible. In fact, ALL THREE of these characters are very much ANTICHRISTS.

The BEAST and the FALSE PROPHET will rule the world at the time of Jesus' return. The MAN OF SIN will play a pivotal role IN ISRAEL - but he will NOT be a world ruler. The role of the Man of Sin is to commit the Abomination of Desolation in the Third Temple on the Holy Mount in Jerusalem. See: Daniel Chapter 11 - Where the Man of Sin will come from. 

THEREFORE...

It is ENORMOUSLY significant that the POPE of the Roman Catholic Church is making OVERTURES to the most powerful Islamic figures in the world today. Pay close attention:
 

Pope with Mufti in the Blue Mosque
in Istanbul. He prayed toward Mecca.

In December, 2014, Pope Francis attended the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, one of the world's largest Islamic mosques. Accompanied by the powerful Muslim Mufti, who quoted verses from the Koran to him, the pope removed his shoes and spent two minutes in prayer facing Mecca, home of Islam and the so-called "Prophet" Muhammad.

Francis followed the example of Pope Benedict XVI who did the same thing in November, 2006. What's the deal? WHY are the POPES of the Roman Catholic Church praying toward MECCA?????

Let's start with the fact that the Roman Catholic Church is the GREAT WHORE of Revelation 16-18. She fornicates with all the kings and great men of the earth (Revelation 17:2-4; 18:3-9). She is the Mother of Abominations in the earth (17:5). Obviously, the Popes feel their need to fornicate with Islam in order to appease them - to ameliorate the relationship between Islam and Catholicism.

Pope Francis with Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Dec. 2014

Francis' first order of business on his visit to Ankara and Istanbul was to meet with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and express his solidarity with Islam. He said, “Fanaticism and fundamentalism, as well as irrational fears which foster misunderstanding and discrimination, need to be countered by the solidarity of all believers.”

At the Blue Mosque, Francis said, "It is essential that all citizens – Muslim, Jewish and Christian – both in the provision and practice of the law, enjoy the same rights and respect the same duties... They will then find it easier to see each other AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS who are travelling THE SAME PATH," (emphasis mine). Lest we forget - ISLAM is NOT traveling the same path as either Jews or Christians. Jews and Christians are descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob. Islam claims its roots in ISHMAEL. God said, "In ISAAC shall thy seed be called," Genesis 21:21.

The PROPHETIC SIGNIFICANCE of Francis' endeavors is potentially breath-taking. The scriptures clearly teaches than an ASSYRIAN MAN OF SIN will stand in the Temple Mount some day soon, and he will eventually be crushed by Jesus Christ when He comes (Isaiah 14:24-27, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-5.

I believe that the Roman Catholic Church will finally install the Assyrian Man of Sin in Jerusalem as a Catholic-compliant Muslim, there to rule Jerusalem in behalf of the international community. Is it possible that someone like Erdogan might be the Pope's choice?? Don't forget what I have said. Whether of not it is Erdogan, there WILL be an Assyrian (from the region of Turkey, Syrian, Iran) on the Temple Mount soon. 

See also:

Do They Have Armageddon In Mind?
Turkey and Russia Strengthen Alliances

And... 
Antichrist Rising? Will a powerful Islamist
become the next U.N. Secretary General?

And...

ISLAM Demands a seat on the U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL

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Fasting and Prayer

FASTING and PRAYER

by Ken Raggio

This is Chapter 17 from my book:

PRAYING ON PURPOSE,
PRAYING FOR RESULTS
HOW MEN PREVAIL WITH GOD.

A distraught father came to Jesus because his young son had frequent, life-threatening seizures causing him at times to fall into water and even into a fire. The man had already taken the boy to Jesus’ disciples, but they could not cure him.

Jesus was sorely displeased with their failure and openly expressed His displeasure. Then He rebuked the devil in the boy, and the devil immediately departed from him. The child was instantly cured.
The disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why could not we cast him out?”

His answer was straightforward. “Because of your unbelief.”

He lectured them briefly, telling them that faith – if only as small as a grain of mustard seed - could move a mountain.

But unbelief prevents miracles. Unbelief is the product of the carnal mind.

The carnal mind is enmity (hostility) against the mind of God (Romans 8:7). The Spirit of God says, “All things are possible,” but the carnal mind says, “It cannot be done.” The mind of God says one thing, but the carnal mind contradicts it.

When Jesus told the Pharisees, “Ye are of your father the devil”(John 8:44), He was speaking of their carnal minds.

Satan is the father of carnal thinking. Satan perverted the pure minds of Adam and Eve in the Garden by planting thoughts into their heads that were lies - contrary to the mind of God. Before Satan did that, Adam had never had a thought contrary to the mind of God.

In that instant, Satan became the father of the carnal mind. Since that time, men have continued to think contrary to the mind of God.

All carnality is hostile to faith.

“It is the Spirit that quickeneth [gives life]; the flesh profiteth nothing.” John 6:63

Therefore, if you want to see the will of God accomplished, you must absolutely SUBDUE your carnal mind. Your carnal thoughts MUST be totally overruled if you want to see the glory of God.

You cannot think according to the carnal mind and see the glory of God. It is impossible. The flesh profiteth NOTHING.

Your flesh can ONLY doubt God.

“They that are in the flesh CANNOT please God.” Romans 8:8

“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Romans 8:12-14

We must MORTIFY the deeds of the body in order to see the life of God working freely in our lives.
MORTIFY means to put to death, kill.

That is what FASTING is all about. Fasting is about crucifying the flesh. Fasting is ONE of the many ways that we go about crucifying the flesh. Fasting is one of the CURES for unbelief.

Consider this. The ORIGINAL SIN committed by Adam and Eve was an out-of-control appetite. God had clearly commanded Adam not to eat the forbidden fruit. Naturally, THAT was the one single thing that Satan desperately wanted them to do.

Satan appealed to the appetites of their flesh, and won. As a result, sin came into the world. That is the most ominous five words that can be uttered – “Sin came into the world.” Think about it.
Sin came into the world because Adam and Eve did not control their appetites.

Like it or not, your fleshly appetites are the most hostile enemies against God. If we did not so freely yield to the desires of our flesh, we could do the will of God. But therein lies the problem.

SIN occurs when our carnal appetites overrule the will of God.

We do not restrain the flesh as we should, so it characteristically betrays God. Satan has made it his permanent business to tempt and tease all your carnal appetites until the day you die.

Now, let’s get back to the story of the demon-possessed boy.

After telling them that their UNBELIEF had prevented the boy from having a miracle, Jesus told the disciples:

“Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.” Matthew 17:21
You cannot cast out devils with the carnal mind. The carnal mind is allied with the Devil. It descends from its father the Devil. Your carnal mind is itself the child of the Devil.

You must always distinguish between the carnal mind and the mind of the Spirit. Every thought and every act you ever commit will fall into one of those two categories. It will either be carnal or spiritual.

The difference between that which is carnal and that which is spiritual is determined by its obedience or conformity to the Word and will of God.

If your lifestyle conforms to the image of the Son, by being mindful and obedient to the will of God, then you are walking in the Spirit. Paul said,

“Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16

As long as your thinking and living does not contradict the mind of God, you are on safe ground. Anytime your behavior contradicts the Word, you are on carnal, sinful ground.

“The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: these are contrary to one another.” Galatians 5:17

Therefore, if we are to do the will of God, we must conquer our flesh. We must attain to the mastery of our flesh. That does not suggest that the flesh can be permanently subdued. Paul said, “I die daily,”1 Corinthians 15:31.

It is a perpetual, ongoing effort. Every morning that you wake up, you must face another day of warfare with your carnal mind. Every day, you must master that devilish contrary will.

That is where FASTING comes in. Fasting is at the top of the list of weapons we can and must use to subdue the lusts of the flesh.

Fasting addresses the problem of proud flesh. When we deprive our bodies of food for a time, it naturally weakens the flesh. When we accompany our fast with PRAYER, our spiritual man is strengthened.

Fasting puts down the flesh. Prayer lifts up the Spirit.
But there is more to fasting than meets the eye. Any Christian who has any real experience with fasting and prayer can tell you that there is something very supernatural about fasting and prayer. Fasting indeed has a supernatural effect on your life. Fasting breaks yokes.

I began the practice of fasting and prayer when I was a teenager. In the past forty-five years or so, I have spent countless days in fasting and prayer. And I have seen miraculous results again and again and again.

From my school days, I learned that any time I faced a major decision or a crisis of some kind, it was time to fast and pray. It was following fasting and prayer that some of the first ministry opportunities opened up to me. It was following fasting and prayer that I received direction to attend Bible college.
While at Bible college, I committed to a three-day fasting and prayer vigil during which I received an answer from God about my specific calling. I
could write another book simply about my own experiences in fasting and prayer.

After Bible college, I took a permanent position on the staff of a large Church. Every Tuesday and Thursday was a designated fast day for the entire Church. Everyone was called to fast until 3 PM every Tuesday and Thursday. Then, every year, the entire Church was called to a 30-day fast during the month of October. The Pastor, myself, and many of the other members of the congregation joined in that 30-day fast. During that time, we ate no solid foods. We only drank liquids like water, tea, coffee, orange juice, or other low-calorie drinks.

The results were measurable. We saw countless miracles, signs and wonders, as well as large numbers of people receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

One notable miracle which I will never forget occurred in 1972, in a special Sunday service following a time of Church-wide fasting and prayer.

An elderly lady came for prayer. Her vision was failing. She had lost an eyeball many years earlier to a disease. The doctors had removed the eyeball from its socket. She only had one eye to see with, and vision in that eye was beginning to fail. She came for prayer and a miracle.

I was sitting at the grand piano when she came across the platform to be prayed for. I was no more than fifteen feet away from her as she stood for prayer. Suddenly, she began to worship loudly. She declared that she could see.

At first, nobody realized what was happening. Then she explained, “I can see out of my right eye!!” That was preposterous. She had no eyeball in her right socket. But she reached down and took a Bible off the pulpit. She opened it up and began reading it aloud. It didn’t make any sense.

The Pastor asked her, “Are you seeing out of your socket?” She said, “Yes!” He placed his hand completely across her left eye, and about 600 people witnessed this lady reading about a dozen verses from the Bible with an empty eye socket!

I know it sounds incredulous, but I saw it with my own eyes.

If I tell you that I believe in miracles - believe me.

Fasting breaks yokes. Jesus said, “This kind goeth not out but by fasting and prayer.”

Fasting has a supernatural effect in the spirit world. Demons are dealt a crippling blow when we fast.

I have two theories which I cannot prove, but I believe they are true.

1. Fasting precipitates divine retribution.

I believe that because Adam and Eve sinned by yielding to their physical appetite (eating the forbidden fruit), as an act of retribution, God honors the man or the woman who FASTS. God responds to fasting and prayer by manifesting His supernatural power.

In other words, since the ORIGINAL SIN was OUT-OF-CONTROL EATING, God appears to show respect to the person who DENIES HIS APPETITE to do the will of God, by granting supernatural power against his adversaries. Fasting inspires God to miraculously intervene in behalf of the one who fasts and prays.

2. Fasting reduces Satan’s access to our carnal desires.

Satan leads us into sin by appealing to our physical appetites (lusts). But when we fast (deny or mortify our flesh) those temptations fail. Unclean spirits cannot accomplish their evil schemes. God miraculously intervenes when a believer sacrifices his appetite to the will and purpose of God.
Unclean spirits are frustrated and defeated.

That makes sense to me. And I think it is true.

For that reason, I continue to practice fasting and prayer. I have seen supernatural things happen at the end of the first day of a fast. At other times, I have fasted three days, ten days, 21 days, 30-days, and once, I even fasted 40 days. You can say whatever you want, but I have seen God intervene in the most amazing ways as a result of fasting and prayer.

Consider these Biblical examples of fasting:

When Moses fasted forty days, he came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments.
When rebel enemies rose up against him, God opened the earth and swallowed them alive.

Again, Moses fasted forty days, and prevailed with God not to destroy Israel for worshiping the golden calf.

Elijah fasted for forty days after his grueling ordeal with Ahab, Jezebel, and hundreds of false prophets. Afterward, the still, small voice of God spoke to him and told him to go to Damascus and anoint Hazael as the next King of Syria, anoint Jehu as the next King of Israel, and Elisha as the prophet in his room - quite an outcome for a forty-day fast. Two kings and a prophet came from that fast.

Daniel fasted and prayed twenty-one days, after which the angel Gabriel visited him and showed him epic prophecies pertaining to the Last Days.

Jesus fasted forty days in the wilderness. He overcame Satan himself in a great victory, and that launched the greatest ministry ever known.

Cornelius was the first Gentile upon which the Holy Ghost fell. An angel of the Lord appeared to him WHILE HE WAS FASTING AND PRAYING, and instructed him to call for Simon Peter, who came and showed him the way of salvation. Cornelius’ fast opened the door to the Gentile Church.

After the Church at Antioch engaged in a period of fasting and prayer, God ordered them to lay hands and Barnabas and Saul and send them into the missionary work. Paul’s great ministry began at the conclusion of a corporate fast.

You cannot imagine how God will respond when you commit yourself to a season of fasting and prayer.

There is nothing complicated about a fast. Just do it, and see what God will do. One day. Three days. Ten days. Whatever. Just obey your heart, and God will honor it.

“Prayer is reaching out after the unseen;
fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal.
Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that
we are ready to sacrifice anything,
even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.”
Andrew Murray 1828-1917

“When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth;
when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word
and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.”

Smith Wigglesworth 1859-1947

This is Chapter 17 from my book:

PRAYING ON PURPOSE,
PRAYING FOR RESULTS
HOW MEN PREVAIL WITH GOD.

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It is IMPOSSIBLE to RENEW them unto REPENTANCE!

These verses cause a lot of people to be troubled.

Hebrews 6:4-11

"For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 

[9] But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end."

These verses are hard-hitting warnings against falling away. In fact, they are frightening!

Paul (if he was in fact the author of Hebrews), says that it is IMPOSSIBLE for someone who FALLS AWAY to be RENEWED AGAIN UNTO REPENTANCE.

It is very, very important that you understand two things: 1. What is said. 2. What is NOT said.

1. WHAT IS SAID:

You cannot be RENEWED UNTO REPENTANCE if you fall away.

2. WHAT IS NOT SAID:

        A. You cannot REPENT if you fall away.

        B. You cannot be FORGIVEN if you fall away.

Having been a preacher now for over 50 years, I can tell you that I have met a LOT of people that I was NOT ABLE to renew them to repentance. I have dealt with hard hearts, cold hearts, rebellious hearts, carnal and worldy hearts, and most of the time, I was not able to renew them to repentance.  And it wasn't my bad preaching. No other preacher could get them to repent either. They were trapped in their backsliding heart. Even if God DID deal with them, they were not listening, and if they were listening, they were ignoring Him.

But when people tell me that they fear for their eternal souls because they have fallen away or backslid, I do not consider them to be the person that these verses are talking about.

If you are worried that God will not receive you again because you fell away or backslid, I can only tell you that you are NOT the person these verses are talking about!

If you are feeling contrite in your soul, and if you desire to make things right with God, THAT is REPENTANCE working in you! If REPENTANCE is in your heart, YOU are NOT the person this verse speaks of. 

The UNPARDONABLE SIN is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. It is committed by speaking evil of the Holy Ghost. It is a deliberate and intentional sin. Very few people ever rail on God in such a manner. Generally speaking, the one who has committed the unpardonable sin is not concerned about his standing with God. He is not seeking repentance. He is not seeking forgiveness. Because he was blasphemous, you are not likely to see that person in Church. You are not likely to find anyone like that having a cordial conversation about God. SENSITIVE hearts do not commit the unpardonable sin. People who love God and who still have convictions and a desire to have right standing with him are not the kind of people who have committed an unpardonable sin 

If you jump to the last line, you will see the writer admonishing us to "shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end." These verses are a warning to be diligent. They warn us of the dangers of falling away. The admonish us to continue in our former faithfulness.

The PURPOSE and INTENT of these verses is NOT to make you feel that it is impossible to be saved, but to warn you that if you harden your heart, neither God nor the preacher may be able to help you. At that point, the only way you can be helped is to COME TO YOUR SENSES - in much the same way that the PRODIGAL SON did when he found himself eating swill in the hog trough.

If and when you reaize that you are in a backslidden and fallen away state, you must take FULL RESPONSIBILITY to stir your own soul, and return to GOD in humility, in a broken and contrite spirit, and make full repentance.

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness," 1 John 1:9.

The bottom line is that IF YOU CAN REPENT, GOD WILL FORGIVE. No ifs, ands, or buts.

You must believe that.

"But without faith it is impossible to please him : for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him," Hebrews 11:6.

Stop telling yourself that you have committed the unpardonable sin. Stop telling yourself that God will never forgive you. Stop telling yourself that you cannot be saved. It is a lie. 

I will say it again, you should should memorize it if you have to: "IF YOU CAN REPENT, GOD WILL FORGIVE!"

Enough said.

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Will ISRAEL get 7 Years to Vacate WEST BANK?

SEVEN YEARS to
Evacuate the West bank

Here is what I think: 

Israel will be given seven years to vacate the West Bank.

I am talking about the possible terms of an upcoming U.N. Security Council Resolution declaring the birth of the State of Palestine.

The prophet Daniel declared,

"And he shall confirm the covenant with many for ONE WEEK: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate," Daniel 9:27.

Serious Bible students know what this verse is talking about, but most other people do not have a clue.

The prophet prophesied a COVENANT pertaining to Israel, that the PRINCE OF ROME - the Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church - will CONFIRM "with many for ONE WEEK."

Prophecy students understand this "WEEK" is a week of years - or SEVEN YEARS.

I will make this short.

I believe that we will soon see a United Nations Security Council Resolution declaring the State of Palestine. I believe that it is very likely to contain a clause in it somewhere that will call for the withdrawal of ISRAEL from the WEST BANK within SEVEN YEARS.

How do I know?? I don't know for sure. But I am playing an extremely strong hunch.

Whenever and wherever the prophecy of Daniel 9:27 is finally fulfilled, it will involve two things:
1. The Pope will confirm it "with many," and
2. He will confirm it for seven years ("one week").

Therefore, I have been searching the horizon for a significant seven-year treaty. At this particular juncture, it seems extremely possible that the U.N.S.C. will pass that resolution soon. I also expect the POPE to ENDORSE that resolution. Without a seven-year clause, that covenant will be almost completely MEANINGLESS, prophetically speaking.

But WITH a seven-year clause, it will become the one chance-in-a-million possibility of plunging the world into the FINAL SEVEN YEARS of Daniel's Seventy Weeks prophecies.

According to the Buenos Aires Herald  (1-28-14), "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas proposed that Israel carry out a gradual three-year withdrawal from the occupied West Bank as part of any future peace deal."

Abbas added, "I am saying that clearly: whoever proposes 10 or 15 years for a transition period does not want to withdraw," Abbas said. "We say that a transitional period not exceed three years, during which Israel can withdraw gradually."

Al Arabiya News quoted the New York Times one week later (2-3-14), saying that Abbas "would support a five-year Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank provided a NATO force is deployed to ensure security."


So, there you have it. A THREE-year withdrawal? A FIVE-year withdrawal?

Why not a SEVEN-year withdrawal?

Will a SEVEN-year Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank finally show up in a written contract soon?


Will the upcoming United Nations Security Council Resolution specifically stipulate or call for a seven-year clause, perhaps for Israel to withdraw the West Bank, or some other similar deadline?

Time will tell.
IF IT DOES, I told you so.
If it does not, something else that WILL certainly fulfill Daniel's prophecy will soon appear.
It is written.
Daniel 9:27.

Pope Francis will be in Washington D.C. on September 24, 2015 giving a speech to the U.S. Congress. The next day, he will speak to the United Nations General Assembly at their 70th Anniversary. Most people expect to see the "State of Palestine" flag flying at the U.N. this year. I won't be surprised if the Vatican flag will be flying there, too.

But most importantly, many in-the-know people are expecting a U.N. Resolution declaring the State of Palestine ANY DAY NOW. If it has a seven-year clause, and if the POPE heavily endorses it; hang on to your hat. We are going for the wildest, seven-year ride in the history of mankind.

Daniel's Seventieth Week.

"...and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate," Daniel 9:27.

Three and a half years after the Pope confirms such a covenant, the Mark of the Beast will go into force. Jews will hastily evacuate the West Bank. The 42-month Great Tribulation will begin. The Sixth Trumpet War will kill 1/3 of mankind.

At the END of that seven years, JESUS WILL COME. The dead in Christ will rise, and born-again saints who are alive and remain will be caught up to meet Jesus in the clouds (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). We will go to Jerusalem and watch Jesus win the battle of Armageddon, take Jerusalem, and rule and reign over the entire WORLD for 1,000 years; the Millennial Kingdom of Christ.


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