HIDDEN DANGERS

HIDDEN DANGERS

                Steven DeNune of Israeli News Live in Israel has been warning us for some time of the Vatican’s involvement in Israeli affairs. The Vatican has a great deal more power and influence in world politics than most people are aware of. In fact, it is my conviction that the Vatican is none other than the right arm of the Beast of Revelation 13 called the False Prophet who will cause all people great and small to worship the Beast and His image. The Vatican is in fact a part of that beast of Revelation 13 beginning at verse 11 that looks like a lamb, but speaks like a dragon.

                What comes as a surprise to many is that many Evangelical leaders are cozying up to the Pope these days and people do not realize that as a part of the coming deception and falling away, large portions of the protestant world will side with the Beast. They will join with the global religion and will actually take part in persecuting those who refuse to go along with the Beast’s agenda. But how could this be?

                But in case this seems impossible to you I invite you to google Tony Palmer and immediately a group of videos will pop up involving Toney Palmer, Kenneth Copeland and Pope Francis, in a meeting with about 500 Evangelical leaders, under the leadership of Kenneth Copeland. Together they greeted Pope Francis on Skype and declared allegiance to the Him. Everyone clapped and raised their hands in greeting and it was a warm and friendly meeting where everyone agreed that the Protestant Protest was over and that Christians everywhere can now unite in a common cause.

                To me this is incredible on many counts. First of all Pope Francis has been making blasphemous statements left and right that even faithful Catholics cannot swallow. He has embraced things that the Bible calls an abomination to God and he has begun to peel back fundamental truths of the Bible including the return of Christ and the efficacy of the cross and the blood of Jesus. Not only that but his announcement to unite all religions in equal unity should raise huge red flags. He has even embraced the idea of aliens saying that he would baptize them and befriend them. The coming alien thing promises to be one of those great delusions that will sweep the world and parts of the church off their feet as new paradigms of evolution and alien involvement will appear to be undeniable.

                There are things like this that I even hate to write about because they go deep into main stream Christianity and I don’t like name calling, but as a watchman I must warn fellow Christians that the growing division between the remnant people of God and those who wonder after the beast is going to become heart-wrenching. It will divide families. It will divide churches. It will divide Christianity into two groups… namely those who will go along with the globalist agenda and the coming global religion and those who will come out of it even at the risk of their lives in order to be faithful to the Lord and to His Word.

                Today the church is in greater danger than ever before. For instance; having decided that Donald Trump is repeating the role of King Cyrus and has been set up by God to make America strong and independent of the globalist regime, (As I tend to believe) we then let down our guard.

                We don’t see the whole picture, namely that Donald Trump is surrounded by evangelical and other Christian leaders, many of whom have sworn allegiance to the Pope, or relinquished their Protestant stand, and they are now declaring allegiance to our government with no qualms. Faith in God is thusly transferred to faith in politics and the Gospel of the Kingdom traded for peace through political and religious unity.

                A part of this allegiance involves the clergy response teams that have been set up in which Pastors will have a role in calming people down when martial law comes…of encouraging Christians to cooperate with relocation programs and interment in FEMA camps and in the confiscation of guns in times of disaster as with hurricane Katrina.

                All of this the pastors will do in compliance with Romans 13 where it says: “Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God. Therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same.” Romans 13:1-3

                So Pastors will use this text to help enforce disobedience to God and His Word for the sake of peace and safety.

                On one hand Romans 13 is absolutely true in that we should be law abiding citizens with respect for legitimate authority, but there are limits to our obedience to Government and that limit is when we are being forced to join the globalist religion of the Beast and to deny Jesus Christ as our Lord.

                If Paul intended absolute obedience to government in every situation, then we would have to ask why he himself was in prison for not cooperating with Rome when it came to his faith. We would have to question why Elijah confronted King Ahab, or why Daniel defied the king’s orders not to pray to any other god but the king. We would have to question the legitimacy of Moses in confronting Pharaoh with the word of the Lord, or the three Hebrews who faced the fiery furnace.

                I would have had a hard time believing that Kenneth Copeland would do such a thing or that     the Evangelical leaders of America would go along with such a thing if I had not seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. Copeland was one of my favorite Bible teachers in the past. He brought the Word to life and I learned a great deal from his teaching. But the prosperity message got hold of him and deflected him from the Gospel and blinded him to the real issues

                The problem has been in the church’s refusal to study Bible prophecy. Not only that, but in recent years all suspicion has been deflected away from the Pope. The Vatican has always operated incognito, working behind the scenes enlisting others like Muslims or NATO to fight their wars for them and Jewish Bankers like the Rothschilds to conceal their wealth and power.

                But in 2015 I saw Pope Francis arrive in America   and for the first time in history a Pope addressed Congress and then the United Nations and then stood at the foot of the Freedom Tower with 12 other leaders of the world’s religions and declared the formation of a global religion which would embrace all religions as equals. Friends, you can’t put Jesus Christ the Creator and Savior of the world on equal footing with the other gods of this world. It is blasphemous from start to finish.

                Daniel 7 describes this beast kingdom as being ruled over by ten kings (ten horns, relation to the ten toes of Daniel 2) and these ten kings would have a ruler over them, another horn that would rise up among them : “And he will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One and he will intend to make alterations in times and in laws and they will be given into his hand for a time, times and half a time.” (3 ½ years) We have seen this beast system in its existence throughout church history. It was ,after all the Vatican that emerged from the Roman Empire, divorcing Christians from their Judeo/Christian roots and marrying them to the pagan gods, thus transferring the church from the Jewish Calendar that contained all of God’s appointed times and replacing it with a pagan calendar, thus replacing all Jewish Feast days with Pagan holidays and Sabbaths. There can be no doubt as to their identity… but it didn’t end in the ancient past.

                It comes right down to our time and the upcoming 3 ½ years of the tribulation when this same beast will rule over the kings of the earth. (And for ignorance much of the church is going right along with it) This same power is identified in Revelation 17 as the woman that rides the beast. In other words, it is a church that looks like a lamb but speaks like a dragon that will ride the global beast kingdom of the antichrist and we saw Pope Francis in 2015 taking on his public role as the False Prophet who will unite the religions of the world to worship the Beast and his image.

                The great reformers of the Reformation came out from under Vatican control because they had positively identified the Papal system as an antichrist system and the Vatican proved them right by burning thousands of non-compliant Christians at the stake, torturing, imprisoning and slaughtering whole villages of non-Catholic Christians. And they persecuted Jews with equal ferocity. The inquisitions were brutal and it was for freedom from persecution that the Jew Christopher Columbus set out from Spain to find a land of freedom for Jews and many Christians fled Europe for religious freedom as well.

                But the Vatican has been slowly and stealthily regaining its world dominance and because Protestants have stopped studying Bible Prophecy and because the church has itself, in many cases, begun to compromise fundamental biblical truths for the sake of unity; we are now entering into a time of hidden danger unprecedented in history.

                The whole world is being set up for the coming global kingdom of the beast and in spite of the fact that I believe God set Donald Trump in office to buy Christians a little more time to repent and to prepare, I also fear that Christians have been lulled to sleep thinking that all is well.

                Our most desperate need as God’s aspiring Remnant people, is to study Bible Prophecy, to stand against the compromises that are drawing us into the camp of eth Beast, to stand upon the pure word of God and if necessary, take a stand against our own government if and when they try to force a choice between allegiance to God and allegiance to the kingdom of the antichrist.

                This is what the Mark of the Beast is all about. It is a forced declaration of allegiance to one power or the other… to Christ or to Satan and the issues are unfortunately much more subtle than we realize. People are being drawn to the Beast system thinking that they are doing a good thing.

                I think the truth about Donald Trump is that God has put him in place, yes to buy us a little more time, but also to become a fulcrum point between those who will put their faith in politics and join the great falling away, or who will remain staunchly faithful to the word no matter what, and be filled with the Holy Spirit no matter what and be faithful to Jesus Christ no matter what. And no matter how unpopular it may become or how hated by the world, fundamental Christianity must rule our lives.

                So, what do fundamental Christians believe? There are five main things listed:

1.       The virgin birth of Christ

2.       The satisfaction of His atoning sacrifice

3.       Bodily resurrection

4.       The miracles of Jesus

5.       The unerring Word of God

                And of course, under the heading of the unerring word of God would come many things including Jesus statements that we must be born again if we want to see His kingdom and that we must be filled with the Holy Spirit for as Paul says, those who are not being led by the Spirit don’t even belong to Jesus. Denying self and taking up our cross and following Jesus is also a requisite for being His disciple and bearing the fruit of the Spirit and keeping His commandments are included.

                In other words we accept the whole Bible as God’s unerring Word and therefore live by its principles, being born again and empowered by His Holy Spirit we are growing into His image and likeness from glory to glory.

                To those of us who believe and live by these truths, they do not seem extreme at all. But to the rest of the world including a growing number of Christians, these fundamentals are radical and hateful and unacceptable to the point where we will soon be isolated from society and deemed a danger to society. Never mind that America was made the into greatest nation on earth by people and even presidents who believed God’s Word and adhered to its principles… or that our constitution was framed in part by biblical concepts of freedom and governance.

                It is highly important that we as Christians understand the issues that we are now facing. If we don’t then we will just roll with the flow thinking that everything is alright and that God has got America on a train to political and religious glory.

                These issues are being so shaped and formed in the world right now that their implementation will come upon us as a thief in the night and the day of the Lord will be upon us and we won’t know what is going on, simply because we thought it unimportant to study Bible Prophecy.

                As I have often said, Bible Prophecy isn’t so much about charts and graphs as it is about understanding the flow of God’s purposes through time and understanding Satan’s opposition to them. It is a matter of understanding the seed line of faith and what it is that God is actually doing in and for His people. It is in understanding the full Gospel and not just the happy sound bites to which it has been reduced these days. It is about understanding the issues we face in the world and where they are tending. It is about making sure we understand the fullness of being born again and Spirit filled and Spirit empowered to bring in the harvest. It is about understanding the appointed feasts of the Lord and how they frame God’s end time prophecies. It is about preparing our lives to be true to God no matter what the world thinks or does. It means preparing for the coming of the Lord and for whatever we have to go through before He gets here. It is to understand that the Holy Spirit is here for more than just a good feeling. He is here to guide us into all truth and to empower us to be His witnesses in a world gone mad.

                Well, that’s about it for now. I hope and pray that you will take these things to heart so that you will be among the wise virgins who are ready for the marriage feast… and it isn’t just a matter of knowing the facts either… it was and is all about our intimate relationship with the Lord through His Holy Spirit and His Word. Selah