Catholicism: The most pernicious system of error ever known
Sept 1, 2014 23:33:26 GMT -5
Post by Berean on Sept 1, 2014 23:33:26 GMT -5
.Monday, September 1, 2014
Catholicism: "the most pernicious system of error the world has ever known"; last days church forming quickly before our eyes
INTRODUCTION
This is long. Settle in.
I have come to a conclusion based on both what the bible says about the last of the last days, and on the evidence I've seen and gathered over the last few years. Though this essay is based on the bible, the conclusion I am coming to is speculation. It is opinion. I cannot be dogmatic about it. And neither can you.
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It is crystal clear to me that the Tribulation church is forming before our eyes. The Tribulation Church in my opinion may be mainly Catholic in some form. All false religions will be part of the final, Babylon church. But the most recognizable portion, the foundation, will likely be Catholic. Allow me to lay out why I believe this. This will be in three sections. First, let's get an introductory understanding of that the final church is.
In Revelation 17 we read of a whore, the Whore of Babylon.
And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. (Rev 17:3-6)
That tremendous chapter describes the fall of the final religion, the Tribulation 'church' of which I speak. Here is John MacArthur:
Since the fall of man recorded back in the third chapter of Genesis when he rebelled against God, God cursed man. And because man was cursed, because he is now by nature sinful, his nature has been perverted and so that innate longing to know God has been twisted. Man still reaches out for the supernatural but no longer does he long for the true God. In fact the Bible says no man seeks after God. His residual religiosity makes him long for some deity, but it's usually a deity that accommodates somehow his sinfulness.
Satan, as you well know, has spawned all the false religions. They're really one and the same, they just have different names and a few different rites and ceremonies, but they're basically all the same. They fit in and out of varying cultures for varying purposes and reasons in Satan's enterprise, but ultimately they are all the same. They are systems that attach themself to non-existent deities, systems that teach that man can save himself by his own works and his own achievement and his own self-righteousness, that the way to God is through ceremony, ritual, rite, things like that. It's all the same. And it will come together in one great world final form of religion in the very end.
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As the 2000's have seen the rise in power of the Muslim religion, many people have said that they believe the last days church will be Muslim. They make a connection between the future beheadings prophetically reported in Revelation 20:4 and the Muslim's favorite method of execution. They tie Islam's rise in power and terror to the antichrist, and speculate the antichrist will be from Islam.
The Muslim end times eschatology is eerily similar to the Christians', except the opposite. Their Jesus is our false prophet. Their Mahdi is our antichrist. Their outcome is that Islam will win, and of course, God has already won, through His Son. Christianity will prevail in the end, and all Christians already have prevailed.
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Catholicism: "the most pernicious system of error the world has ever known"; last days church forming quickly before our eyes
INTRODUCTION
This is long. Settle in.
I have come to a conclusion based on both what the bible says about the last of the last days, and on the evidence I've seen and gathered over the last few years. Though this essay is based on the bible, the conclusion I am coming to is speculation. It is opinion. I cannot be dogmatic about it. And neither can you.
Source
It is crystal clear to me that the Tribulation church is forming before our eyes. The Tribulation Church in my opinion may be mainly Catholic in some form. All false religions will be part of the final, Babylon church. But the most recognizable portion, the foundation, will likely be Catholic. Allow me to lay out why I believe this. This will be in three sections. First, let's get an introductory understanding of that the final church is.
In Revelation 17 we read of a whore, the Whore of Babylon.
And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. (Rev 17:3-6)
That tremendous chapter describes the fall of the final religion, the Tribulation 'church' of which I speak. Here is John MacArthur:
Since the fall of man recorded back in the third chapter of Genesis when he rebelled against God, God cursed man. And because man was cursed, because he is now by nature sinful, his nature has been perverted and so that innate longing to know God has been twisted. Man still reaches out for the supernatural but no longer does he long for the true God. In fact the Bible says no man seeks after God. His residual religiosity makes him long for some deity, but it's usually a deity that accommodates somehow his sinfulness.
Satan, as you well know, has spawned all the false religions. They're really one and the same, they just have different names and a few different rites and ceremonies, but they're basically all the same. They fit in and out of varying cultures for varying purposes and reasons in Satan's enterprise, but ultimately they are all the same. They are systems that attach themself to non-existent deities, systems that teach that man can save himself by his own works and his own achievement and his own self-righteousness, that the way to God is through ceremony, ritual, rite, things like that. It's all the same. And it will come together in one great world final form of religion in the very end.
Source
As the 2000's have seen the rise in power of the Muslim religion, many people have said that they believe the last days church will be Muslim. They make a connection between the future beheadings prophetically reported in Revelation 20:4 and the Muslim's favorite method of execution. They tie Islam's rise in power and terror to the antichrist, and speculate the antichrist will be from Islam.
The Muslim end times eschatology is eerily similar to the Christians', except the opposite. Their Jesus is our false prophet. Their Mahdi is our antichrist. Their outcome is that Islam will win, and of course, God has already won, through His Son. Christianity will prevail in the end, and all Christians already have prevailed.
Article continues at link