POPE FRANCIS ENGAGES IN BLASPHEMY

Again, another day of "ranting" emerges, as things have just "stuck in my craw," as my grandmother would say. Being this "rant" speaks about the Pope of the Catholic Church, I composed this one carefully.

Many government leaders see the man as not only "head" of the Catholic Church but as someone who has an insight into Christians as a whole. They count on the Pope to "sway" and "keep in line" the millions of Catholics worldwide to varying states of government. Pope Francis I does his job well.
Being a protestant Christian, the understanding of the structure of the leadership of the Catholic Church escapes me. One man stands above all others in matters of the Word of God and the church doctrine in Catholicism. This requires the man be of unquestionable faith, steadfast in his beliefs, a practitioner of the Word of God, pure in heart and character, just, and beyond reproach in every way. Daresay no man on this earth meets those requirements. The only man on earth who met those requirements received crucifixion so that others receive salvation.

Upon hearing the Pope of the Catholic Church has "pontificated" on climate change, my curiosity peaked. What would a "man of God" say regarding the false narrative of this environmental oppression of any people? Surely, a true man of God would hold to God's word when speaking about falsehoods -- Not this Pope. He took the opportunity to indulge in "incredible stupid" and show his less than "holy" nature.
Pope Francis I issued an encyclical that interpreted the Bible rather loosely to support a falsehood, sanction government theft in the guise of redistribution, give credence to secular philosophy, and used guilt against those who see the truth in science, while quoting an Islamic poet. The Pope's encyclical parroted "half-truths" of science regarding climate change. A half-truth remains a partial lie.

The Pope implied that individuals rejecting the "climate change" science as "indifferent to the poor's suffering, against the protection and enhancement of the poor and underprivileged," and trying to mask problems through ignoring efforts to mitigate it. In other words, the Pope supports more governmental theft through wealth redistribution under the falsehood of climate change. He ignores one of God's commandments, "Thou shalt not steal."

Why doesn't the Pope order the allocation of vast Vatican resources to the "poor and underprivileged" since he supports theft by government upon others? It is better to give than to receive after all. The Pope should practice what he's trying to sell to others in regards to the poor and underprivileged if that is what he truly believes. The real question is "what does this Pope truly believe?" His numerous comments and this encyclical touching on climate change suggest his belief isn't in God or God's word. Pope Francis I supports the lies coming from the "world government wannabe" -- the United Nations.

Some would accuse those scientists advocating against climate change as paid "shills" for the Koch brothers or some other group; however, the UN IPCC and scientists advocating in favor of climate change are definitely paid by government and those who hold an "interest" in controlling vast numbers of people. These climate change-supporting scientists at the UN IPCC admitted manipulating their data predictions making the outcomes a falsehood.

But, what does this have to do with the Pope? It appears the Pope is aligning himself with the "political" fad of the time against aligning himself with God and God's Word. He chooses to advocate falsehoods instead of exposing them; he promotes a lie in the name of God. His sin and blasphemy is on full display. One could say Pope Francis I is the "Joel Osteen" of the Catholic faith.

According to Dr. Wei-Hock Soon, "the church knows that many of the predicted catastrophic disasters from the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide are highly exaggerated if not downright fraudulent. Yet Laudato Si' gives credence and praise to these predictions by relying on climate models scenarios that have been proven to be false."

Instead of questioning the science by the UN IPCC, since they admitted falsifying models, and denouncing the falsehood, the Pope encourages compliance with falsehoods. Who can take this man seriously as a devout man of God much less as the head of the Catholic Church? An elementary school age child knows plants require carbon dioxide for growth and sustainment. Evidently, Pope Francis I missed that day in school.

This Pope chastised the journalists at Charlie Hebdo claiming they should know the "limit of free speech" regarding blasphemy. Blasphemy? No journalist there committed "blasphemy"; at least, no definition of blasphemy any Christian knows by doing or saying things against the Lord Our God or Our Savior, Jesus Christ. Did this Pope sanction murder because these journalists cartooned Mohammed? Where was this Pope in calling "blasphemy" against the depiction of a crucifix in a jar of urine or the painting of Mary, the mother of Jesus, covered in dung? Silent as the night Pope Francis I remained. According to this Pope, it's only blasphemy when criticism of Islam and Mohammed, may camel dung be upon him, occur. He justified his position by saying that if "someone cursed his mother, they would have to expect to get punched."
There is a big difference between defending the character of someone "with a punch" and committing murder because of a "cartoon." It's amazing the man even compared the two. He said freedom of speech has limits when dealing with Islam. In other words, the Pope backs sharia law, the law of Mohammed, may camel dung be upon him, instead of God's law.

Pope Francis I denied the God-given right of freedom of speech to everyone, reserving it only for heathen cultists, and now thrown Romans 13 under the bus. He supports a lie while denying truth. Upturning God's Word, the "leader" of the Catholic Church validates government's right to theft based on a lie under the guise of government being ordained of God. God only ordains government that does good works and fights evil. Once government becomes evil and wicked, it ceases to be ordained by God meaning the people should resist its wickedness and evilness. In supporting the perversion of Romans 13, Pope Francis I figuratively condemns those who would stand against such wickedness and violation of God's Word. This is a man of God? This is who Bishops, Cardinals or whoever selected to be the leader of the Catholic Church? It appears the united States is not alone in experiencing "leadership" problems.

In an incredible, unbelievable section of the encyclical, Pope Francis I quoted an Islamic poet. Seriously? The leader of the Catholic Church quoted a poet who follows the teachings of Mohammed, may camel dung be upon him, which encourage murder, pedophilia, rape, kidnapping, necrophilia, female genital mutilation, slavery, misogyny, and oppression.
And, yet again, this "Pope" declared those who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons cannot call themselves Christian. Pope Francis I missed the memo that machetes, used by ISIS to behead "infidels," are weapons. He forgot that his own Swiss Guard does what... carry weapons. One thing the Pope got right was saying, "duplicity is the currency of today ... they say one thing and do another." Hello? Pope Francis I. Snow White's stepmother called and asked for her mirror back. This Pope knows about duplicity since he's been practicing it.

The Pope suffers some type of memory difficulty or either he's "all there" and chooses to go against God. God endowed every individual with the inherent right of survival -- the "right to life." People possess the innate instinct to defend themselves and their loved ones against harm. The Pope missed that with his "curse my mother and you'll get punched" comment. I suggest he cease calling himself a Christian since he promotes falsehoods and compliance with government wickedness, supports sharia law of "blasphemy," basically committed blasphemy, and shows irreverence through his own duplicity.

The "bat guano crazy" fruit tree resides at the Vatican and the Pope partakes and shares of its fruit.
When religious "leaders" succumb to the desires of political yearnings and driven by social motivations instead of upholding God's Word and Law, these men, who call themselves men of God, cease to be credible and a servant of God. They deserve to be removed from positions to minister God's word to others. In the case they cannot, faithful followers of Christ should denounce them refusing to give heed to their ministry. Man cannot serve both God and government, when government goes against God and His Laws. Pope Francis I made his choice and it appears it was not God.

What is the Pope getting or expect to get in return for his commission of sacrilege, his violation of God's word and law, and his sell-out of Catholic Christians and Christians in general? Instead of preparing himself a place in heaven, this Pope secures himself a place in this earthly world in hopes of receiving worldly treasures from governments with whom he aligns. Pope Francis I secures his place among the most corrupt and irreverent Popes in history with his "devotion" to secularism, communism, blasphemy, duplicity and the violating of God's word.

MYSTERY BABYLON, MOTHER OF HARLOTS

by Jack Kinsella

 

Pretty much every time I publish a column in which I note that the Bible is silent insofar as any mention of a fifth, overarching superpower resembling America, I get a flood of emails telling me where I went wrong.

 

Invariably, they identify the entity called Mystery Babylon, Mother of Harlots as the United States of America. One reader emailed yesterday, saying;

 

"O come on!! America is talked about in the Bible, New York city gets nuked (Revelation 17 &18). How else did you think the anti-christ takes over the world economy,w/ his new system..the mark of the beast to buy & sell.

 

One key to this (there are many) is Rev: 18 verse 11 &12. The seventh and eighth have not risen to power but in Revelation 13 it explains a little about them and the mark of the beast. Please open your eyes it's all so plain to see!"

 

The problem here is one of wishful thinking. I would very much like to find evidence of America in the Scriptures for the last days, since I am in America and these ARE the last days. If America plays no role in the Tribulation, and we can see the Tribulation just over the horizon, then logic dictates something happens to America before it begins.

 

Since, on this side of the Tribulation, America is the world's undisputed superpower, making it 'go away' (as the Bible indicates that it must) suggests that 'somethng' is ALSO sitting just over the horizon, somewhere before the kickoff to the Tribulation Period. And it must be pretty bad.

 

For that reason, I wish my correspondent was right; I wish it was, 'all so plain to see' America in the end times scenario.

 

What IS plain to see is that America ISN'T Babylon the Great.

 

Assessment:

 

Insofar as Mystery Babylon is concerned, the Scriptures identify it as Rome. An examination of relevant passages lend themselves to no other defensible conclusion:

 

"And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. " (Revelation 17:7)

 

That is the political 'beast' first described by the Prophet Daniel and identified in Daniel 9:26 as the 'prince of the [Roman] people' who destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70.

 

Political Rome collapsed in the 5th century, but its political influence remained, carried on through the papal church headquartered in Rome. That isn't 'anti-Catholic bashing' it is secular history.

 

During the height of its power, no European king could take his throne without Papal approval. Those who dared defy the Pope's power faced the Pope's armies.

 

The power of the papacy waned, but continued to directly influence European politics until the mid-part of the 20th century, when that power began to shift away from religious Rome and back toward the political center, codified by the 1957 treaty of Rome.

 

As a continuous power, one could argue that Rome was, then wasn't, yet is.

 

But one could NOT argue credibly that Rome's influence ever ceased to be felt throughout the history of the Church Age.

 

"The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is."

 

The modern city of Rome is famed throughout the world as the 'City on the Seven Hills'.

 

Of 'Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and the abominations of the earth', the revealing angel tells us this:

 

"And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth." (Revelation 17:7-10)

 

Speaking of the antichrist, he is identified with Rome in the next verse as,

 

"And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition."

 

Speaking of the Mother of Harlots situated on 'seven mountains' the angel says;

 

"the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." (Revelation 17:18)

 

In John's day, and in the centuries that have passed since, no other city could have been said to have reigned over the kings of the earth EXCEPT Rome.

 

Revelation Chapter 13 makes it clear that the government of the antichrist is both political, and religious. There are two beasts of Revelation 13 -- the first is the political beast, the one we call the antichrist, who appears in 13:1 and a second beast, called the False Prophet, who makes his appearance in verse 11.

 

The Babylon depicted in Revelation 17 is the religious system of antichrist, which is headquartered on the 'city on the seven mountains' The Babylon of Revelation 18 encompasses both the religious and political systems, as embodied by the literal city.

 

Revelation 18:3 refers to the religious Rome that existed between the fall of the Roman Empire and the mid 20th century. That is a reference to the religious, rather than secular, is confirmed by the next verse, which says, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." (4)

 

If this is a reference to America, or any political entity, what sense does THAT make? How does one 'come out of America'? Move? Where? The Bible doesn't say, so why bring it up?

 

Because one CAN 'come out' of a religion, and since God frames it by saying, "that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues," the context makes it clear He is referring to a religious system, not a political city.

 

Those who equate Babylon to America point to Revelation 18:9;

 

"And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning," arguing this must be New York City because "all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!"

 

It MUST be New York City, because it is a 'great city' whose burning can be witnessed from sea, they argue. It MUST be America because America is the great whore who produces most of the porn, consumes most of the cocaine, and is the richest country the world has ever known.

 

America has existed 226 years. It has been a superpower for 45 years and the world's premiere superpower for 15 years. Rome's power has continued to influence global politics and religion without interruption for the last two thousand years.

 

In additon, Mystery Babylon is called a 'mystery' to denote the spiritual nature of the political system. It is a reincarnation of the Babylonish counterfeit system of Nimrod, Semiramus and Tammuz -- essentially a goddess cult with a father god figure and a child god figure. America acknowledges only a generic 'God'.

 

The city 'Babylon' that is destroyed in Revelation 18 gives another important proof that Babylon can't be America.

 

The Roman coliseums were filled with captives from the known world fighting as gladiators. When the gladiator games ended, then the slaughter of the Christians would begin. The Apostle Paul was martyred in Rome.

 

"And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." (18:24)

 

One can argue America is no less blood-soaked, but one can hardly characterize America's 'victims' as 'prophets' or 'saints'. (Mostly they were Indians, Mexicans and African blacks taken as slaves)

 

The Bible says there are four spheres of world power in the last days. Gog-Magog, the revived Roman Empire of antichrist, the Kings of the East and the Kings of the South. Since there is no reference to America, one person's guess is as good as another's as to where she might have gone.

 

Rome played a central role in the history of civilization from John's day until this very moment. It is about twelve miles from Rome to the coast of the Meditterranean Sea.

 

Occam's razor is a logical principle attributed to the mediaeval philosopher William of Occam (or Ockham). His principle of logic states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed.

 

Put more simply, Occam's Razor dictates the most obvious answer to a given question is usually the correct one. America doesn't sit on seven hills. It hasn't exerted continuous global influence throughout Church history.

 

And America isn't drunken with the blood of the martyrs. One can't say the same about Rome in either its secular political or religious incarnations.

 

I wish it WERE so simple.