THE GLOBAL RELIGION OF THE BEAST

THE GLOBAL RELIGION OF THE BEAST

                I grew up in a Seventh day Adventist family. My Father was a singing evangelist and we toured the United States and Canada during my early years. My Brother and I and later our younger sister sat on the front rows night after night as Adventist doctrines were taught to the attending crowds. From an early age my brother and I sang trios with Dad and quartets with the added talent of the evangelist. This was our life growing up.

                As were most Adventists back in the 50s 60s and 70s, my Dad was an avid Ellen White follower. She was the prophetic leader of Adventism and we lived by her every word and sought to fulfil her every admonition. We studied her prophecies and especially her outline of end time events as found in her book “The Great Controversy.” These views I believe were largely held by many of the Protestant reformers before the protestant churches began to fall away from solid Biblical faith.

                And although I have not been an Adventist for many years, I am nevertheless well aware of Adventist prophecies that still form part of my understanding of biblical events leading to the return of Christ.

                As for my beliefs about Ellen White, I don’t believe that any extra biblical prophets are infallible and so I follow Paul’s instruction to test all prophecy according to scripture and to hold onto that which is good. But when we find prophecies coming true, then we should respect those prophecies as from God.

                Here’s the thing. Today I see certain of Ellen’s prophecies taking shape in the world with deadly accuracy. Things that I have known all of my life are now coming to pass and I am going to quote a passage by Ellen White that was written in the late 1800s and early 1900s. You can read this and judge for yourself. She said in around 1900:

                “The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of Spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power and under the influence of this threefold union this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.” Great Controversy p. 588

                Ellen also has many statements saying that once these alliances are made, then laws will be passed along with an amendment of the Constitution that will enforce a Sunday Law and as such, religious liberty and freedom of conscience will be lost.

                So as you see the following article that I have extracted from the internet, I believe you will see these very prophecies being fulfilled more than a hundred years later. We see Protestants relinquishing their protest and reuniting with the Pope and we also see from the underlined paragraph that New Age techniques of meditation and so on have helped to bring this about. That would be the (New Age) spiritualism that she talked about. Notice how this article attributes this move towards the Papacy with New Age practices.

                So even though I am not a practicing Adventist I do feel compelled to make people aware of trends in the United States and the world that may soon force us to make decisions concerning things like whether we will stick with protestant denominations that rejoin the Catholic Church, or what we will do if indeed America eventually enforces a Sunday Law.

                Bonnie and I, as Messianic believers, observe the Sabbath in our home since it was established long before the Law was given. It was a part of Creation and it is all about Rest and not about works. I do believe that it forms a picture of our Rest in Christ when we begin to place our faith in His works rather than our own. I don’t believe that Jesus ever intended for it to be a legalistic day such as the Pharisees made it to be.

                We honor the Sabbath because it was blessed time, sanctified and set apart by God Himself. But like many denominations Adventists sidelined the Holy Spirit and His integral work within us and upon us as demonstrated in His gifts. Also, like many denominations, Adventism continued to adhere to the doctrine of replacement theology which Romans chapter 11 clearly refutes and that is one of the reasons why Bonnie and I became Messianic believers. WE are all admonished to move forward with advancing light as God reveals it to us.

                I will say this and I share these things so that others will be aware as well. I will never belong to any denomination that is a member of the National Council of Churches. I will never belong to a denomination that reunites with the Pope of Rome.

                There are so many heartbreaking scenarios taking place in these last days that it is difficult to know where to place one’s faith except in Jesus Christ and His Word alone. And I will say this; that if rightly understood Bible prophecy would lead us to the same conclusions that Ellen White came to. We know that there is a coming global religion and who better to head it up than the Pope?

                As I have shared before, Pope Francis stated his intentions and took up his role as the false prophet in late 2015 at the last blood moon when he stood at the foot of the freedom tower in New York with leaders of all other religions and declared his intentions to unite all religions of the world into one. We can never make Jesus one among equals. He alone is the Creator and Savior of this world. There is salvation in no other name.

                That this might result in an eventual Sunday Law is only logical, since most religions of the world already meet on Sunday and since the Vatican has long laid claim to the authority to change times and laws including the day of worship. It was, after all, the Catholic Church that divorced from the Jews and married the pagans and formed a pagan/Christian religion. They enforced their authority over the world by changing the Calendar, by changing the Sabbath to Sunday and replacing all of God’s appointed times with pagan holidays. That cannot be refuted.

                So what are we to do about these things? In the end we will either join the global religion of the Beast and take the Mark, or we will come out of it to become the Remnant people of God who keep the Commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus. In the end the Remnant people of God will probably not be a denomination at all, but a called out people who simply take God at His Word and refuse to compromise on any point.

                One thing we can know for certain: We will be persecuted. In fact, anyone who refuses to go along with the coming global religion will be persecuted. IF you don’t believe this, then look at the various groups of believers in heaven as listed in the book of Revelation.

Revelation chapter 7: A great crowd which no man can number having come out of the great tribulation.

Rev. 6:9: Souls that have been slain for the Word of God asking when their deaths will be avenged, to which God replies that they should wait until the full number of martyrs has been made up.

Rev. 15:2 A great crowd standing on the Sea of Glass having gained the victory over the Beast and his image.

Rev. 20:4: speaks of the resurrection of the souls that have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and they have not worshipped the beast or his image or taken the Mark.

                So I have to ask the question: Where is that huge crowd of the redeemed people who were caught up in a pre-tribulation rapture? In Rev. 14 we see one group of 144,000 saints that were caught up as first fruits. These are the only group not said to have come out of the Tribulation.

                I am not seeking to stir up trouble or to cause anyone to doubt or lose faith, but we need to study the Bible carefully. It is not enough to believe something just because it is popular. In fact our eternal lives may depend upon our taking a stand upon the Word of God even if it means being killed or even beheaded for our faith. Isn’t it just a bit interesting that the ancient practice of beheading has been restored in our day?

                In connection with FEMA camps 30,000 guillotines have been placed in storage and millions of coffin-like containers have been staged. So, either they are planning for a massive disaster or war, or they are planning for a massive slaughter of those who will not conform to the global kingdom of the antichrist. Either way, as stated in the Georgia Guide Stones, they intend to reduce the global population to 500 million… down from 7.6 billion on our planet today.

                In other words, prophesied end time events are taking place all around us with breathtaking speed and yet the church at large sleeps on, because they have abandoned the study of Bible prophecy. Adventism is simply one of those denominations that continued to teach what Protestants used to teach and while some of it needs to be changed and updated, we must indeed understand why Protestants came out of the Papacy. They had very sound biblical reasons for departing from pagan Christianity.

                The church has lost a great deal of information over the years in a studied dumbing down of protestant religion along with a massive Jesuit infiltration into Protestant Seminaries, schools and politics. We are being swept into the great global government of the Beast and we don’t even know it, because we no longer study Bible Prophecy.

                It is also important to know that it is illegal to say anything against the Catholic religion if you are a 501C3 tax exempt organization. This may explain Protestant silence on the subject even as the Vatican takes over both Israel and the United States and the world. People simply do not understand what is going on nor do they understand the global scope and power and wealth of the Vatican, or the control they have over the world financial institutions.

                Furthermore, people don’t understand the emerging unity of secret societies such as the Free Masons, the Jesuits, the Political Zionists, Islam and the Military industrial complex as they are forming into a great cabal to rule the world on a global scale… nor do they seem to comprehend that a vast number of protestant religions are going back to Papal Rome. OF this great cabal the Pope is the religious arm who controls the woman who rides the Beast found in Revelation 17. I suspect that this Woman will, in the end, comprise not only the Vatican, but all of those apostate Protestants that join her to enforce the Mark of the Beast.

                I do not like to talk about these things, but friends, I would fail to be a watchman if I remain silent about things that I know. I will leave it up to you to study these things out and to see if what I say is the truth. I am not speaking for one denomination or the other. Many denominations have truths that will help to form the Remnant people, but in the end, we may have to come out of all of them. Many of them also have traditions that they cling to for which there is no biblical foundation.

                In the end, we must simply become faithful to God and to His Word. We must be made alive by His Holy Spirit. We must be born again and we must have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, contrary to what the Vatican claims. Our salvation is in Christ alone and can never be mediated by anyone but Jesus Christ who is our High Priest and our Mediator between God and man.

                Below then is one of many documents that can be found on the internet. Also I recommend the YouTube ministry called “Israeli News Live” for they are exposing the invasion of Israel by the Vatican that will end up in making Jerusalem the Capital of the coming kingdom of the Antichrist. And yes, both our current president and Israel’s president are complicit in these global plans that will come upon the world as the greatest of all deceptions that Jesus warned us about in Matthew 24 and elsewhere.

                We need to take a good hard look at which denominations are currently lining up to take part in the global religion of the beast and we must warn our people that in the near future, decisions may have to be made by all of us. Meanwhile I will do my best to compile lists of those involved, but you can do your own research as well just by asking the internet the right questions.

                Below is one of many articles on the subject:

Kenneth Copeland Carries on Tony Palmer’s Crusade to End the Protestant Church

June 2, 2018 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

Tony Palmer with Kenneth Copeland (2-second video clip from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtXiOzp43Yw; used in accordance with the U.S. Fair Use Act

As many readers may remember, in 2014 Word of Faith preacher Kenneth Copeland invited the Anglican priest Tony Palmer to speak to his congregation.* Palmer, who died in a motorcycle accident a few months later, was an “evangelist” for Pope Francis to convince leaders in the Protestant church that the reformation was over and that there was no longer any need for division between the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant church. During that particular meeting at Copeland’s church, Palmer played a video clip from Pope Francis who greeted Copeland’s congregation and encouraged them to unite. Incidentally, Palmer also shared a similar message of unity on James Robison’s T.V. show during that same time period.

Fast forward to the fall of 2017 where Kenneth Copeland  reiterated what Palmer and the Pope were conveying. In this video, Copeland is clearly carrying on Tony Palmer’s message that there is no longer a need for the Protestant church to be separated from the Catholic Church.

As Ray Yungen points out in his book, Simple Answers, many evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren and Beth Moore, are doing their part to convince Christians that the Catholic Church is part of the true church. If this is accurate, then Jesus Christ can be found in a wafer (the Eucharist), and all Christians who are not Catholics do not have the life of Christ in them because according to Catholic doctrine, that can only be accomplished through the Eucharist (the focal point of Catholicism). Also keep in mind that from the Catholic perspective, the Catholic Church is the one true church and all Protestants are the “lost brethren,” so the only way we could unify with Catholicism is for Protestants to become Catholic. Some may think that such a unification could never happen, but as Yungen points out in A Time of Departing, global spiritual unification is happening in the mystical realm (e.g., contemplative prayer, centering prayer, mindfulness meditation, etc). For countless Christians (including many leaders), who at one time would have never considered uniting with the Catholic Church, they now see this as a viable path as they embrace contemplative prayer and have allowed doctrine to be superseded by mystical experiences. Now is a perfect “opportunity” for this to happen as the current pope has shown his New Spirituality/New Age affinities—such as proposing a new beatitude that believes God is in everyone.

*Start at 11-minute mark to watch Tony Palmer talking to Copeland’s congregation in 2014.

Related Information:

Protestants Who Don’t Unite With Catholics are Guilty of “Spiritual Racism”   End of quote.

                These things should be shocking to any Protestant believer. The very reasons why thousands of Protestant believers were willing to give up their lives even by being burned at the stake are now being minimized and marginalized. Catholicism is fundamentally pagan in its religion and not truly Christian at all. In fact, when we divorce ourselves from our Judeo/Christian roots and when we unseat ourselves from the foundations of the Gospel that were formed by God in types and shadows, we become vulnerable to “deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons.” 1 Tim. 4:1

                The Feast Days of Israel, better called the “Appointed times of the Lord.” form the DNA of the Gospel. In them we can find out which parts of our New Birth have been eroded away by tradition and carelessness. The Lord is now calling us into the fullness of the truth for when we have the complete picture then we will be “conformed to the image of His Son that He might be the first born among many brethren…” Romans 8:29. YOU don’t get that way by conforming to the requirements of an earthly priest or organization, but by a direct relationship with Jesus Christ Himself who has become our faithful High Priest after the order of Melchizedek.

                Revelation 13: 8 warns us saying: “And all who dwell on the earth will worship him (the beast), everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of the Lamb who has been slain.” It is therefore up to each one of us to make our calling and election sure. Selah.