The Christian Church World Will Produce The Man Of Sin
Jul 26, 2014 22:47:00 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Jul 26, 2014 22:47:00 GMT -5
The Christian Church World Will Produce The Man Of Sin Called “The antiChrist”
It is overwhelming to watch The antiChrist Rising up right out of the once pure Church World.
The Holy Book declares perfectly clear that this final, Demonic figure comes from the very Body that Christ Himself set in order. Listen to the Holy Spirit, “Little children it is the last times: and as you have heard that antiChrist shall come, even now are there many antiChrist, whereby we know that it is the last times. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.” (I John 2:19-20) The prophetic picture in Holy Scripture is absolutely clear. There must be a New World Religion to help present to the world the antiChrist-controlled New World Order. No political entity has ever succeeded without a form of religion to give it inspiration and purpose.
Nazism was a child of eugenics (a system of human improvement by genetic means rooted in evolution) in which Hitler convinced the German people that they were a master race. It became a religion of Satanism ready to destroy six million Jews and six million Christians. They were convinced that they would produce a master race of Germans to control the world by eliminating inferior persons. Only God kept them from succeeding.
Communism was a religion of Karl Marx, another mad man who had rejected Jesus Christ and became possessed by demons. It was only slightly different from Nazism in that the emphasis was on the class struggle. They were committed to the elimination of all forms of capitalism so that the elite communists could then control a world without competition where all men lived equal under totalitarian control except the master controllers at the top. Only the idiot god — named Lucifer — could conceive a plot so barbarous and cruel. During the seventy years of this mindless idea, they murdered an average of 5,000 persons each day.
The Final Words Are In The Bible
The first President Bush chose the United Nations as the primary political entity to head his much heralded New World Order. It is not hard to discover the basic philosophy that underlines this organization. Almost from its inception the rhetoric and action of the U.N. has been anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Israel, and “anti” all the values that lay at the heart of Judeo-Christian traditions. He could not have made a worse choice if he had chosen the KGB of the Soviet Union. The United Nations has been busy promoting religious heathenism in its many forms for decades. It is a New Age organization at best.
New World Religious Order
They Holy Scripture has perfectly foretold of this One World Religious Order that would give credibility and power to the One World Political System. This religious system or its primary leader is called a beast and/or a false prophet. Here is John the Revelator’s first description, “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 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 13:11-18)
Several functions of this religious order are clearly described in the above Scripture. Please note carefully how important these actions are in promoting this New World Political System or New World Order as President Bush called it.
1. The One World Religion has the same power and authority as the New World Political Order and is the authority that requires the people to worship the antiChrist (verse 12).
2. The head of this religious order will resurrect the false Christ after he is slain with a sword. This will be a kind of mimic of the resurrection of Jesus Christ (verse 14).
3. This religious giant will also have power to animate a statue of the false Christ and cause the statue to speak and pronounce judgment (verse 15). (Remember the weeping statue of the Madonna reported in a past edition of our publication.) This statue of the antiChrist is called by Jesus in St. Matthew 25:15, “The Abomination of Desolation.”
4. The New World Religious Order will be the force behind the Mark of the Beast. This will be a religious mark, not just an economic number like our social security identification. To receive this mark requires obedience to the New Religion. A person cannot be identified until they are initiated into the religion of the unholy trinity: Satan (anti-god), First Beast (antiChrist), Second Beast or False Prophet (anti-holy spirit) (verse 16).
Since the Mark of the Beast (666) is a religious mark identifying the person as a worshipper of the new “godhood,” no person can be redeemed or saved after receiving this mark. They are lost forever. “And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Revelation 19:20)
New World Religion Called “The Great Whore”
The description of this false religion becomes even more graphic as the picture unfolds. It is called a beast or false prophet in the previous explanation, but after receiving power from the antiChrist and great acceptance and worship from the world population, this New World Religion becomes a mammoth force. It is now called the Great Whore and is seen on top riding a “scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy…” (Revelation 17:3) Let’s look carefully at John’s description.
“Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” (Revelation 17:1b-6)
Please note her characteristics and vileness.
1. This religious whore is a great fornicator and is guilty of changing, twisting, and debauching the Word of God. God has pronounced judgment on anyone who adds to or subtracts from the Word of God. “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” (Revelation 22:18-19)
2. She is rich, but spends her riches on herself. She is proud and worldly and decks herself with costly jewels. She drank from a golden cup but its contents have become vileness and abomination.
3. She is a mother of harlots and all her offspring are as wicked as herself.
4. Her greatest hatred is for the true believers who hold to the Holy Bible and its infallible truths. She is drunk with the blood of murdered saints.
Nothing is as vile as religion that has lost its way and departed from purity and holiness. There have been dark moments in the past when this has happened. Jesus came in a time when the Jewish religion was a botched form of greed and selfishness. He walked into the temple with a whip and drove out the temple-evangelists. The Reformation came after a thousand years of Madonna-worship, indulgences (buying sin-rights from the priest in advance), and distorted communion called the mass. Again, the Holy Spirit drove out the priest and pope and the Gospel was heard by millions. Very soon, religion will be more vicious and vile than ever before and multitudes will either worship a false god or will be tortured and slain. The Son of God will arrive on schedule to cleanse this earth of the last religious deception and He will be installed as King, Prophet, and Priest.
The Number Of The Beast
This “New World Religion” Is At Hand
We have passed the day of the Old Ecumenicalism — churches working together under the name of Jesus Christ as Lord. The new Ecumenical force is a least two steps removed. The second step of the Ecumenical world included a working relationship between Protestants, Catholics, and Jewish individuals or groups. The new Ecumenical movement has embraced all religious expressions and is clearly setting sights on a return to the Catholic fold. Listen to these expressions:
Dr. Robert Schuller: “It’s time for Protestants to go to the shepherd (the pope) and say ‘what do we have to do to come home?’” (Los Angeles Herald Examiner, September 19, 1987.)
U.S.A. Ministers: “Heads of the American Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches who were meeting with Pope John Paul II on Friday hailed their first, broadly representative discussion as a landmark on the road to greater unity…. The Rev. Donald Jones, a United Methodist and chairman of the University of South Carolina Religious Studies department, termed it, ‘the most important ecumenical meeting of the century’…The Rev. Paul A. Crow, Jr., of Indianapolis, Ecumenical Officer of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), called it a ‘new day in ecumenism’ opening a future in which God ‘is drawing us together.’” (The Montgomery Advertiser, September 12, 1987.)
Angelican Leader: “Angelican leader, Archbishop Robert Runcie, called Saturday for all Christians to accept the Roman Catholic Pope as a common leader ‘presiding in love.’ ‘For the universal church, I renew the plea,’ he said. Could not all Christians come to reconsider the kind of primacy the bishop of Rome (the pope) exercised within the early church?” (The Dallas Morning News, October 1, 1989, Associated Press.)
Baptist & Catholic Theologians: “Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics, the nation’s two largest denominations, generally have been regarded as doctrinally far apart, but their scholars find they basically agree… The 163 page report is seen as the most full-scale, mutual examination of respective positions of the two traditions. Achieving it was an unprecedented experience for Southern Baptists, commonly averse to ecumenical affairs … The talks, sponsored by the Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and the Southern Baptist Department of Interfaith Witness, involved 18 meetings between 1978 and 1988.” (The Bakersfield Californian, August 27, 1989, Associated Press.)
Never before have church leaders been so intent on unifying all varying expressions of religion. It’s like a mad dash into the very spirit of Babylonian confusion. The World Council of Churches met this year in Australia. A leader, Nicholas Lossky, was asked by a television journalist, “How close are we to church unity?” His answer was, “Only God can answer that, we must do whatever we can for unity: but only God can decide to produce the event.” The same article that recounted this exchange stated, “Church unity is listed first among the WCC’s functions and purposes in its constitution.” The same article then mentioned a session on unity which included Deegalle Mahinda, a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka. (Assembly Line, World Council of Churches, Seventh Assembly, Wednesday, February 13, 1991.)
Pagans At World Council of Churches Assembly – 1991
The World Council of Churches chose to open its seventh assembly with a ceremonial welcome from pagans of Australia. Aboriginal witch doctors (front page) performed animalistic ceremonies to welcome the Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical Lutherans, and American Baptists, etc. to this event. The religion of these pagans is animalistic and does not differ at all from African heathenism. Not only did they perform, but also all the worshippers at the Assembly opening session were forced — if they attended — to enter the Assembly Hall through a pagan cleansing ritual. Here is the description of that ritual from their publication. “The worship began with an Australian Aboriginal ritual. Participants entered the tent through the smoke of burning branches, a traditional aboriginal cleansing ritual.” (Assembly Line, World Council of Churches, Thursday, February 7, 1991, No. 1, P. 1.) The blood of Jesus Christ was blasphemed as they dared claim cleansing through a pagan and heathen ceremony.
It’s hard to believe such mindless activities could be tolerated by an organization claiming to represent the major Christian churches of the world, much less force all who attend to blaspheme God. You cannot call this action anything but a direct act of pagan worship in defiance of the first commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:3)
An article in the same edition listed above described the religious belief of the Aborigines. Note how carefully the speakers blended paganism with Christianity. “The spirituality of the Aboriginal women keeps them going. ‘The power of the Spirit enables each person to have strength,’ said Agnes Palmer of Alice Springs. ‘This is the power we have through our Dreaming and the power of Jesus, who came not to destroy our culture (pagan) but to fulfill it.’ She used water as an example of the oneness between Aboriginal spirituality and Christian faith. ‘In our spirituality, water is a sign of life, a source of life, just as, in Christianity, baptism with water gives new life.’” (Assembly Line, Friday, February 8, 1991.)
A number of American churches hold membership in the World Council of Churches. Time could be spent in showing the millions of dollars spent to support guerilla organizations that kill missionaries and wreak havoc in numerous countries.
“New World Religion” Fads
The Islamic Faith. Every religious entity of significance seems to have some form of expectancy toward a New World Religious Order. The Islamic (Moslems or Muslims) faith is promoting a World Constitution that is rooted in the Quran theology. They are probably the fastest growing religion in the world and now claim over one billion adherents. The very spirit of Islam is especially similar to the stated actions and attitude of the antiChrist in Scripture.
Grace Is Our Ark Of Safety
Charismatics/Pentecostals. A large portion of the Charismatic/Pentecostal world is going crazy over Kingdom Dominion theology. This is best described as a revived form of post-millennialism, although differing on many major theological points. The bottom line is that we are to become an army of saints (called Joel’s Army) to beat back all forces and to establish the Kingdom of Christ on earth. It will be, to those who buy this deception, a world ruled by the church and ready to bring Christ back to earth.
The Catholic Church. The Catholic Church authorities have worked toward and have expected a New World Religious System for many years. They expect to be at the helm to rule this new temporal religious kingdom. Note these two quotes of 50 and 114 years ago, respectively.
“They (Protestants) conveniently forget that they separated from us, not us from them; and that it is for them to return to unity on Catholic terms, not for us to seek union with them, or to accept it, on their terms. Protestantism is rebellion against the authority of Christ vested in His Church. It neither possesses authority, or has any desire to submit to authority. …Protestantism has really proved to be the ally of paganism… All forms of Protestantism are unjustified. They should not exist.” (American (Catholic periodical), January 4, 1941.)
“We believe in the triumph of the Catholic Church over infidelity, heresy, schism, revolution, and despotism; over Judaism, Mohammedanism, and heathenism. The restoration of the Pope’s temporal kingdom is necessary to this triumph, and therefore we believe it will be restored.” (The Catholic World, August 1877, Vol. XXV, page 620.)
New Agers. No religious entity is expecting or progressing toward a New World Religion more devotedly than the New Agers. While they represent many strains of thought, they are bound together as a network of loosely connected organizations. There are a few key spokespersons who certainly speak with some degree of unity. Benjamin Crème is one of those key voices. Note his creation of the Great Sign and the description of its meaning. He has continued to suggest since early in the 80’s that the “Christ is Here” and ready to be revealed. His latest claims say that he has appeared on several occasions. His Christ is clearly false prophet.
Bible Believers. True Believers who are willing to endure unto the end will be hated by this religious crowd. If Jesus does not return before this religious order is united, we will be in for dark days of persecution. Faith in the infallible Word of God and the saturation of its wonderful doctrines is imperative. We must know the truth to be free. Don’t fill your mind with any thoughts or ideas except the liberating truths of Scripture. They will prepare you for anything that Satan can cast in your direction.
There will be a New World Religion. It’s ultimate position of power will not be realized until the Rapture of the Bride. It will ride as a “great whore” upon the back of a New World Order. “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” (Revelation 17:3)
While she will reach great heights of world glory and power with the false political systems of antiChrist, when he has used her to gain the hearts of the world population, he will then burn her with fire. “And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.” (Revelation 17:16)
Religion is never more than a tool to the great Political Empires. When President George Bush called Dr. Billy Graham to the White House the night our military forces invaded Iraq, we should have read the handwriting on the wall. I don’t suggest he was being crafty, but I do suggest that Biblical prophecy was being fulfilled. Religious leaders who allow themselves to be tools in building a New World Order are certainly careless in discerning Biblical events.
The most appropriate instruction for this hour is to “Look up, our redemption draweth nigh.” We are waiting in the foyer for the king. Don’t be lazy or slothful. It is an hour for Biblical diligence, fasting and intercession, soul winning and alms giving. It’s time to be holy. The King Is Coming!
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It is overwhelming to watch The antiChrist Rising up right out of the once pure Church World.
The Holy Book declares perfectly clear that this final, Demonic figure comes from the very Body that Christ Himself set in order. Listen to the Holy Spirit, “Little children it is the last times: and as you have heard that antiChrist shall come, even now are there many antiChrist, whereby we know that it is the last times. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.” (I John 2:19-20) The prophetic picture in Holy Scripture is absolutely clear. There must be a New World Religion to help present to the world the antiChrist-controlled New World Order. No political entity has ever succeeded without a form of religion to give it inspiration and purpose.
Nazism was a child of eugenics (a system of human improvement by genetic means rooted in evolution) in which Hitler convinced the German people that they were a master race. It became a religion of Satanism ready to destroy six million Jews and six million Christians. They were convinced that they would produce a master race of Germans to control the world by eliminating inferior persons. Only God kept them from succeeding.
Communism was a religion of Karl Marx, another mad man who had rejected Jesus Christ and became possessed by demons. It was only slightly different from Nazism in that the emphasis was on the class struggle. They were committed to the elimination of all forms of capitalism so that the elite communists could then control a world without competition where all men lived equal under totalitarian control except the master controllers at the top. Only the idiot god — named Lucifer — could conceive a plot so barbarous and cruel. During the seventy years of this mindless idea, they murdered an average of 5,000 persons each day.
The Final Words Are In The Bible
The first President Bush chose the United Nations as the primary political entity to head his much heralded New World Order. It is not hard to discover the basic philosophy that underlines this organization. Almost from its inception the rhetoric and action of the U.N. has been anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Israel, and “anti” all the values that lay at the heart of Judeo-Christian traditions. He could not have made a worse choice if he had chosen the KGB of the Soviet Union. The United Nations has been busy promoting religious heathenism in its many forms for decades. It is a New Age organization at best.
New World Religious Order
They Holy Scripture has perfectly foretold of this One World Religious Order that would give credibility and power to the One World Political System. This religious system or its primary leader is called a beast and/or a false prophet. Here is John the Revelator’s first description, “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 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 13:11-18)
Several functions of this religious order are clearly described in the above Scripture. Please note carefully how important these actions are in promoting this New World Political System or New World Order as President Bush called it.
1. The One World Religion has the same power and authority as the New World Political Order and is the authority that requires the people to worship the antiChrist (verse 12).
2. The head of this religious order will resurrect the false Christ after he is slain with a sword. This will be a kind of mimic of the resurrection of Jesus Christ (verse 14).
3. This religious giant will also have power to animate a statue of the false Christ and cause the statue to speak and pronounce judgment (verse 15). (Remember the weeping statue of the Madonna reported in a past edition of our publication.) This statue of the antiChrist is called by Jesus in St. Matthew 25:15, “The Abomination of Desolation.”
4. The New World Religious Order will be the force behind the Mark of the Beast. This will be a religious mark, not just an economic number like our social security identification. To receive this mark requires obedience to the New Religion. A person cannot be identified until they are initiated into the religion of the unholy trinity: Satan (anti-god), First Beast (antiChrist), Second Beast or False Prophet (anti-holy spirit) (verse 16).
Since the Mark of the Beast (666) is a religious mark identifying the person as a worshipper of the new “godhood,” no person can be redeemed or saved after receiving this mark. They are lost forever. “And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Revelation 19:20)
New World Religion Called “The Great Whore”
The description of this false religion becomes even more graphic as the picture unfolds. It is called a beast or false prophet in the previous explanation, but after receiving power from the antiChrist and great acceptance and worship from the world population, this New World Religion becomes a mammoth force. It is now called the Great Whore and is seen on top riding a “scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy…” (Revelation 17:3) Let’s look carefully at John’s description.
“Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” (Revelation 17:1b-6)
Please note her characteristics and vileness.
1. This religious whore is a great fornicator and is guilty of changing, twisting, and debauching the Word of God. God has pronounced judgment on anyone who adds to or subtracts from the Word of God. “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” (Revelation 22:18-19)
2. She is rich, but spends her riches on herself. She is proud and worldly and decks herself with costly jewels. She drank from a golden cup but its contents have become vileness and abomination.
3. She is a mother of harlots and all her offspring are as wicked as herself.
4. Her greatest hatred is for the true believers who hold to the Holy Bible and its infallible truths. She is drunk with the blood of murdered saints.
Nothing is as vile as religion that has lost its way and departed from purity and holiness. There have been dark moments in the past when this has happened. Jesus came in a time when the Jewish religion was a botched form of greed and selfishness. He walked into the temple with a whip and drove out the temple-evangelists. The Reformation came after a thousand years of Madonna-worship, indulgences (buying sin-rights from the priest in advance), and distorted communion called the mass. Again, the Holy Spirit drove out the priest and pope and the Gospel was heard by millions. Very soon, religion will be more vicious and vile than ever before and multitudes will either worship a false god or will be tortured and slain. The Son of God will arrive on schedule to cleanse this earth of the last religious deception and He will be installed as King, Prophet, and Priest.
The Number Of The Beast
This “New World Religion” Is At Hand
We have passed the day of the Old Ecumenicalism — churches working together under the name of Jesus Christ as Lord. The new Ecumenical force is a least two steps removed. The second step of the Ecumenical world included a working relationship between Protestants, Catholics, and Jewish individuals or groups. The new Ecumenical movement has embraced all religious expressions and is clearly setting sights on a return to the Catholic fold. Listen to these expressions:
Dr. Robert Schuller: “It’s time for Protestants to go to the shepherd (the pope) and say ‘what do we have to do to come home?’” (Los Angeles Herald Examiner, September 19, 1987.)
U.S.A. Ministers: “Heads of the American Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches who were meeting with Pope John Paul II on Friday hailed their first, broadly representative discussion as a landmark on the road to greater unity…. The Rev. Donald Jones, a United Methodist and chairman of the University of South Carolina Religious Studies department, termed it, ‘the most important ecumenical meeting of the century’…The Rev. Paul A. Crow, Jr., of Indianapolis, Ecumenical Officer of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), called it a ‘new day in ecumenism’ opening a future in which God ‘is drawing us together.’” (The Montgomery Advertiser, September 12, 1987.)
Angelican Leader: “Angelican leader, Archbishop Robert Runcie, called Saturday for all Christians to accept the Roman Catholic Pope as a common leader ‘presiding in love.’ ‘For the universal church, I renew the plea,’ he said. Could not all Christians come to reconsider the kind of primacy the bishop of Rome (the pope) exercised within the early church?” (The Dallas Morning News, October 1, 1989, Associated Press.)
Baptist & Catholic Theologians: “Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics, the nation’s two largest denominations, generally have been regarded as doctrinally far apart, but their scholars find they basically agree… The 163 page report is seen as the most full-scale, mutual examination of respective positions of the two traditions. Achieving it was an unprecedented experience for Southern Baptists, commonly averse to ecumenical affairs … The talks, sponsored by the Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and the Southern Baptist Department of Interfaith Witness, involved 18 meetings between 1978 and 1988.” (The Bakersfield Californian, August 27, 1989, Associated Press.)
Never before have church leaders been so intent on unifying all varying expressions of religion. It’s like a mad dash into the very spirit of Babylonian confusion. The World Council of Churches met this year in Australia. A leader, Nicholas Lossky, was asked by a television journalist, “How close are we to church unity?” His answer was, “Only God can answer that, we must do whatever we can for unity: but only God can decide to produce the event.” The same article that recounted this exchange stated, “Church unity is listed first among the WCC’s functions and purposes in its constitution.” The same article then mentioned a session on unity which included Deegalle Mahinda, a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka. (Assembly Line, World Council of Churches, Seventh Assembly, Wednesday, February 13, 1991.)
Pagans At World Council of Churches Assembly – 1991
The World Council of Churches chose to open its seventh assembly with a ceremonial welcome from pagans of Australia. Aboriginal witch doctors (front page) performed animalistic ceremonies to welcome the Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical Lutherans, and American Baptists, etc. to this event. The religion of these pagans is animalistic and does not differ at all from African heathenism. Not only did they perform, but also all the worshippers at the Assembly opening session were forced — if they attended — to enter the Assembly Hall through a pagan cleansing ritual. Here is the description of that ritual from their publication. “The worship began with an Australian Aboriginal ritual. Participants entered the tent through the smoke of burning branches, a traditional aboriginal cleansing ritual.” (Assembly Line, World Council of Churches, Thursday, February 7, 1991, No. 1, P. 1.) The blood of Jesus Christ was blasphemed as they dared claim cleansing through a pagan and heathen ceremony.
It’s hard to believe such mindless activities could be tolerated by an organization claiming to represent the major Christian churches of the world, much less force all who attend to blaspheme God. You cannot call this action anything but a direct act of pagan worship in defiance of the first commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:3)
An article in the same edition listed above described the religious belief of the Aborigines. Note how carefully the speakers blended paganism with Christianity. “The spirituality of the Aboriginal women keeps them going. ‘The power of the Spirit enables each person to have strength,’ said Agnes Palmer of Alice Springs. ‘This is the power we have through our Dreaming and the power of Jesus, who came not to destroy our culture (pagan) but to fulfill it.’ She used water as an example of the oneness between Aboriginal spirituality and Christian faith. ‘In our spirituality, water is a sign of life, a source of life, just as, in Christianity, baptism with water gives new life.’” (Assembly Line, Friday, February 8, 1991.)
A number of American churches hold membership in the World Council of Churches. Time could be spent in showing the millions of dollars spent to support guerilla organizations that kill missionaries and wreak havoc in numerous countries.
“New World Religion” Fads
The Islamic Faith. Every religious entity of significance seems to have some form of expectancy toward a New World Religious Order. The Islamic (Moslems or Muslims) faith is promoting a World Constitution that is rooted in the Quran theology. They are probably the fastest growing religion in the world and now claim over one billion adherents. The very spirit of Islam is especially similar to the stated actions and attitude of the antiChrist in Scripture.
Grace Is Our Ark Of Safety
Charismatics/Pentecostals. A large portion of the Charismatic/Pentecostal world is going crazy over Kingdom Dominion theology. This is best described as a revived form of post-millennialism, although differing on many major theological points. The bottom line is that we are to become an army of saints (called Joel’s Army) to beat back all forces and to establish the Kingdom of Christ on earth. It will be, to those who buy this deception, a world ruled by the church and ready to bring Christ back to earth.
The Catholic Church. The Catholic Church authorities have worked toward and have expected a New World Religious System for many years. They expect to be at the helm to rule this new temporal religious kingdom. Note these two quotes of 50 and 114 years ago, respectively.
“They (Protestants) conveniently forget that they separated from us, not us from them; and that it is for them to return to unity on Catholic terms, not for us to seek union with them, or to accept it, on their terms. Protestantism is rebellion against the authority of Christ vested in His Church. It neither possesses authority, or has any desire to submit to authority. …Protestantism has really proved to be the ally of paganism… All forms of Protestantism are unjustified. They should not exist.” (American (Catholic periodical), January 4, 1941.)
“We believe in the triumph of the Catholic Church over infidelity, heresy, schism, revolution, and despotism; over Judaism, Mohammedanism, and heathenism. The restoration of the Pope’s temporal kingdom is necessary to this triumph, and therefore we believe it will be restored.” (The Catholic World, August 1877, Vol. XXV, page 620.)
New Agers. No religious entity is expecting or progressing toward a New World Religion more devotedly than the New Agers. While they represent many strains of thought, they are bound together as a network of loosely connected organizations. There are a few key spokespersons who certainly speak with some degree of unity. Benjamin Crème is one of those key voices. Note his creation of the Great Sign and the description of its meaning. He has continued to suggest since early in the 80’s that the “Christ is Here” and ready to be revealed. His latest claims say that he has appeared on several occasions. His Christ is clearly false prophet.
Bible Believers. True Believers who are willing to endure unto the end will be hated by this religious crowd. If Jesus does not return before this religious order is united, we will be in for dark days of persecution. Faith in the infallible Word of God and the saturation of its wonderful doctrines is imperative. We must know the truth to be free. Don’t fill your mind with any thoughts or ideas except the liberating truths of Scripture. They will prepare you for anything that Satan can cast in your direction.
There will be a New World Religion. It’s ultimate position of power will not be realized until the Rapture of the Bride. It will ride as a “great whore” upon the back of a New World Order. “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” (Revelation 17:3)
While she will reach great heights of world glory and power with the false political systems of antiChrist, when he has used her to gain the hearts of the world population, he will then burn her with fire. “And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.” (Revelation 17:16)
Religion is never more than a tool to the great Political Empires. When President George Bush called Dr. Billy Graham to the White House the night our military forces invaded Iraq, we should have read the handwriting on the wall. I don’t suggest he was being crafty, but I do suggest that Biblical prophecy was being fulfilled. Religious leaders who allow themselves to be tools in building a New World Order are certainly careless in discerning Biblical events.
The most appropriate instruction for this hour is to “Look up, our redemption draweth nigh.” We are waiting in the foyer for the king. Don’t be lazy or slothful. It is an hour for Biblical diligence, fasting and intercession, soul winning and alms giving. It’s time to be holy. The King Is Coming!
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