Pope Francis Identifies The Antichrist
Steven Ben-DeNoon: Is it possible that Pope Francis has identified the Antichrist in an indirect way. Well the answer may very well prove to be shocking even for himself. The man that claims to be the Vicar of Christ the Vicarius Filii Dei. Pope Francis is not alone many other Popes to have actually identified this man this Antichrist though unbeknownst to them.
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I wont even look at the video, but I can tell you that the antichrist is your baseless religion, what ever dude, as much as you want this to happen it wont, nothing will, no antichrist no savior. Ony you can save your self.
Peace be with you friends
Aramaic Bible
Revelation chapter 17
1. And there came one of those seven angels, the ones who have the seven chalices, and spoke with me as he said, “Come, let me show you the judgment* of that great prostitute, who sits over great waters,
2. “With whom fornicated the kings of the earth, and from whose wine of prostitution became drunk the dwellers of the earth.”
3. And he took me [back] to the wilderness spiritually*, and I saw the woman as she sat on a red demon*, that was full of blasphemous names, that has seven heads and ten horns.
4. And that woman was dressed in purple and scarlet and adorned* with gold, precious stones and pearls, who has a golden cup in her hand which is filled with the filth and uncleanness of her prostitution on earth.
5. And between her eyes,* the disposition that is written: Babylon the Great, mother of prostitution and earthly satisfactions.
6. And I saw the woman that was drunk with the blood of the Saints and the witnesses of Eashoa/Jesus, and I was amazed as I saw the great wonder.
7. And the angel told me, “Are you amazed because of this? I will tell you about the disposition of the woman and the demon who bears her, the one who has the seven heads and the ten horns.
8. “The demon* that you saw was going to be and he was destined to rise out of the abyss and go to oblivion, the dwellers of the earth will be amazed, those whose name is not written in the book of Life from the foundation of the universe, as they see that demon who was going to be and he was not going to be, (and) [as] he fought.
9. “This is where the mind that has wisdom [manifests itself.]* These seven heads are seven mountains, over which that woman sits.
10. “And the kings are seven, five of which have fallen, one of them is, and the last one is yet to come, and when he comes he will have little desire to rule.*
11. “And the demon who was going to be and was not going to be, and this one is the eight, but* comes from the seven and is a destroyer*.
12. “And the ten horns that you saw, are ten kings, those people* who have not yet been crowned*, except authority as kings is given* to them [for] one hour with that demon.*
13. “They [only] have one desire and their power and authority they give to that demon.
14. “These will fight with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall be Victorious over them, for he is the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings, and those with him [are] the Called and the Chosen and the Faithful.”
15. And he told me, “The waters that you saw, where that prostitute sits, they are the nations and peoples, and motherlands and tongues.
16. “And the ten horns that you saw and that demon, they hate that prostitute, and they will lay* her to waste and [leave her] naked, and they will eat her flesh and set her aflame.*
17. “For Allaha has put* it in their hearts to do His will only,* and give their kingship to that demon, until these words of Allaha are fulfilled.
18. “And the woman that you saw, is that great city* which rules* the kings of the world.*
http://www.v-a.com/bible/revelation_17.html
Whether You know it or Not…You’re Movies are telling You a Story…Open You’re Eyes!
Who ever is Crowned “King” at Vatican City by the Pope…will be Satan.
LOTR: Return of the King
https://youtu.be/cHjt9Q00sp4
STOP:
0:26 – ten horns.
1:02 – seven heads
1:35 – Elessar’s Oath
“Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, Unto the Ending of the World.”
4:48
Look at Ariel Views of Vatican City, You Will Find They Are – One In The Same!
5. And between her eyes,* the disposition that is written: Babylon the Great, mother of prostitution and earthly satisfactions.
6. And I saw the woman that was drunk with the Blood of the Saints and the witnesses of Eashoa/Jesus, and I was amazed as I saw the great wonder.
Queen Elizabeth Found Guilty in Missing Children Case — Whistle Blowers Incarcerated, While She is Free
http://humansarefree.com/2014/05/queen-elizabeth-found-guilty-in-missing.html
This dunce who keeps writing these kinds of articles has no knowledge of scripture or Revelation. He keeps pushing his Zionist Freemasonic crap w/ their numerology and astrology. Substituting CABALAH witchcraft and lies for reality. He also seems totally ignorant that there is no such thing as ‘Hebrew’. Pharisees plagiarized Royal Imperial Aramaic, and called it their own.
The Pope is NOT of the Tribe of DAN, nor is he a POLITICAL as well as a religious leader, as required by Revelations.
If he wants to sell Pope as the AC’s False Prophet? Give him a listen. But Pope as AC himself? Bull.
John Ale needs to drop his Freemasonic Rothschild Scofield Dispensationalist garbage and get some spiritual discernment. His fronting for the atheist, Luciferian jews is repugnant. He needs to study the TALMUD and what it says about Christ. Because that is what False Israel follows, not the Torah. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/292703#.VYvgVptRGtU
Ironically the Israelis like John Ale are contemptuously denigrated by jews themselves as “Useful Idiots” and pagans. Which is better than I would chracaterize him- He is a Judas Goat, who should be identified and shunned as an apostate shark
Jesus Christ swore that He would never allow any of His Pontiffs to be Antichrist, nor the “false prophet.”
However, after the Vatican gets overrun (which prophecies say it will), a false pope may be installed in the Vatican by international banker communists.
The false anti-pope could be the “false prophet,” and probably will be due to the prestige associated with the papal office.
Read numerous Antichrist prophecies from the Lord Jesus Christ at http://revelation12.ca
The prophet Daniel says he will be the leader of a very powerful and diverse nation that breaks in pieces many other nations. Daniel also says he will think to change times and laws and that he will have no desire of women….
Oh good grief. Here, let me help you out.
Jn 2:22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist–denying the Father and the Son.
There you go. Mystery solved. No more tortured Greek translation sessions. It’s been 500 years. What say we give it a rest?
Excuse me…isn’t that like saying the kettle calling the pot black? Has he forgotten the number of pedophiles in his prestigious community, so many children such little time.
The pope is the false prophet not the anti christ. Research Malachi Martin’s ‘last Pontiff’ prophecy.
the antichrist ANTICRISTO is the DEVILS SUBSTITUTE for CHRIST. NOT THE FRIGGIN POPE.
According to scripture the spurious messiah, is accompanied by an individual called the ‘false prophet’. Apparently both occupied by the satanic spirit.
….why not?
The pope is a pretender like many before him.
“Every Reformer, without exception, spoke of the papacy as Antichrist” -R. Allen Anderson, Unfolding the Revelation, p.137
“The man that claims to be the Vicar of Christ the Vicarius Filii Dei.” In other words the POPE.
“Vicarius Filii Dei”
Has a numerical value of 666 doesn’t it?
So does Martin Luther.
Interesting, did Martin Luther also make blasphemous claims of being mediator between God and man? Did he reside on 7 hills? Was he also adorned in gold and scarlet? How many children did his organization violate?
There is only one mediator between God and man and that is Jesus. And Catholics do not believe the Pope is Jesus and no Pope does either.
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“There is only one mediator between God and man and that is Jesus. And Catholics do not believe the Pope is Jesus and no Pope does either.”
No pope does either??
“The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.”
Pope Pius V
” The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, He is Jesus Christ himself, hidden under the veil of flesh.”
Catholic National July 1895
“We hold upon this earth the place of Almighty God”
Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter of June 20,1894.
Catholicism has made Jesus irrelevant.
The Pope is a steward and as steward he has limited “divine” power. Power given to him by Christ:
Matthew 16:18-19 “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. AND I WILL GIVE TO THEE THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. AND WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT BIND ON EARTH, IT SHALL BE BOUND ALSO IN HEAVEN: AND WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT LOOSE ON EARTH, IT SHALL BE LOOSED ALSO IN HEAVEN.”
Again, the Pope holds THE PLACE of Christ(for His return,) not IN PLACE of.
Martin Luther lead a satanic assault against Christ’s bride, because he fell in lust with a nun. His diabolical assault weakened the One True Faith enough, through the years, to let satan transform the earth into the hell hole that is the modern world. A hell hole that God will have to soon purge with fire.
ctrent33
First of all, there is no need to yell
“The Pope is a steward and as steward he has limited “divine” power. Power given to him by Christ:”
The pope is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Take away the archaic costume, and what are we left with? A flesh and blood man (I assume). A man who represents a history of oppression, deception and murder. A man who represents an organization which has preserved Babylonian satanism, with their ancient pagan symbols, festivals, rituals and the worship of all kinds of relics and idols. This is the man that you believe hold the place of Christ? What happened to “call no man your father upon the earth? You mention his “limited ‘divine’ power”, but the quotes I listed in the comment above show nothing of the pope suggesting his “divine” power is at all limited, or that he is just a steward.
Peter :”Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.”
Jesus: “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church,”
He does not say “thou art Peter; and upon ‘you’ I will build my church.
He says thou art Peter; and upon “this rock”, meaning that his church would be built on the foundation that he was “the Christ, the son of the living God.” Just as Peter said he was, not that his church would be built upon Peter.
You reference the modern world as “A hell hole that God will have to soon purge with fire.”
Before this day, when the veil is lifted and the Catholic Church is naked, you might be surprised that what you’ve been told is the bride of Christ, is actually “that great whore with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication”. Who “was arrayed in purple and scarlet and decked with stones and precious pearls having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications.”
This institution which you are defending might end up being amongst the first to be purged.
Thoth, I was pointing out the most important parts with the caps.
The name Peter means “rock.” St. Peter’s name was originally Simon. Christ changed his name to Peter(that is why Popes change their name.) So, what Christ really said is this: “And I say to thee: That thou art rock; and upon this rock I will build my church,..”
The Church is the Bride of Christ. Her ONLY goal is the salvation of souls. She has never oppressed, deceived, nor murdered anyone.
We Catholics worship the Blessed Trinity and nothing else.
Priests are called Father because they are connected with Christ. Sharing in His Priesthood. 1 Corinthians 4:14-15 “I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children. For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.”
F.Y.I, Masons at the second vatican council made(yet another) false religion and passed it off as Catholicism. Catholic doctrine (Scripture and Tradition) cannot change. Most “Catholics” now follow this false religion. The conciliar church is the whore, not the Catholic Church.
P.S. I know all protestants love to assault Tradition, so I’ll head you off at the pass.
John 14: 26 “But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you.”
John 16:12-13 “I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now. But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself; but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak; and the things that are to come, he shall shew you.”
Acts 2:42 “And they were persevering in the DOCTRINE OF THE APOSTLES, and in the communication of the breaking of the bread, and in prayers.”
Doctrine of the Apostles = Catholic Tradition.
“P.S. I know all protestants love to assault Tradition, so I’ll head you off at the pass.”
Are you assuming I am a Protestant because I disagree with Catholicism? Well I am not. I do not buy into the one vs. the other, opposing camps paradigm. Just because I don’t like republicans, doesn’t make me a democrat. Just because I don’t like liberals, it doesn’t mean I’m a conservative. I refuse these petty labels which were invented by men to organize people into opposing camps, so eventually fight would fight one another. They are all just two sides of the same coin. I am not any of these things.
The thing is, I don’t need anyone to tell me what the Catholic Church is, or isn’t. Nor do I need a man in a costume to act as a mediator between God and myself, or to forgive me of my sins. No man on earth can absolve another of his sins, the idea that the pope, or a priest can do this is blasphemy.
I didn’t just wake up one day and feel this way. I’ve come to my stance through tireless research, followed by meditating on that which I have learned. You’re entitled to your belief, as I am to mine and it seems we will have to agree to disagree.
Correction: So eventually ‘they’ would fight one another.
John 20:22-23 “When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.”
See ya.
God will not let anything happen to Israel.
you mean Palestine, don’t you nancy? no such thing as Israel.
Jews are not Israel, they Jews even if they were not impostors have no right to use the name “ISRAEL” that name was passed by Jacob-Israel to the House of Joseph, (Ephraim and Manasseh).
True Judah and Israel in belief are symbolically represented by joined sticks in Yahshua’s hand.
Amen
Go back and re-read your book of stories.
Exodus
34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
Nancy636=BS
Matthew 21:43 “Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.”
Mark 15:38 “And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom.”
Matthew 27:25 “And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and our children.”
Israel of the new law/covenant is Christ’s Church. That is to say, the Catholic Church. Not the many false “Christian” churches/religions.
3rd times the charm.
…Nancy You do mean “the House of Israel”…right?
You people are crazy. I didn’t watch the video I just wanted to impart some TRUTH on this site. That’s what you shills are looking for right?
The antichrist by definition is Anti Christ ~ Anyone who opposes Christ. We Christians are Peaceful. We are being persecuted.
Time to pay attention. I have my orders from above.
Not the Creator of Universe, in Genesis 2:1-3,-but the Catholic Church can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven days.”-S. C. Mosna, Storia della Domenica, 1969, pp. 366-367.
“The Pope is of great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine laws… The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth.” -Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Ribliotheca, “Papa,” art. 2, translated.
“The Pope has the power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ.” “The Pope has the authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ.” Decretal, de Tranlatic Episcop. Cap. (The Pope can modify divine law.) Ferraris’ Ecclesiastical Dictionary.
They “dispense with the command of Christ???” When the Catholic church is asked…”Why do you feel you have the power, authority and ability to change Scripture to match your traditions?” They answer…
“Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; –she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.” -Rev. Stephan Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism, “On the Obedience Due to the Church,” chap. 2, p. 174. (Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, archbishop of New York.)
“The authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed…the Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own authority.” Canon and Tradition, p. 263
“Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” -James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp. 72, 73.
“The Catholic church,” declared Cardinal Gibbons, “by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday.” Catholic Mirror Sept. 23 1983. (Official organ of Cardinal Gibbons)
Question – Which is the Sabbath day?
Answer – Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Question – Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
Answer – We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd ed.
“The Bible says, Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic church says, No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep the first day of the week. And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic church!” Father Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, Mo., History of the Sabbath, p. 802
“There is no word, no hint in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. The observance of Ash Wednesday, or Lent, stands exactly on the same footing as the observance of Sunday. Into the rest of Sunday no divine law entered”–Canon Eyton, The Ten Commandments [Presbyterian].
“The Adventists are the only body of Christians with the Bible as their teacher, who could find no warrant in its pages for the change of day from the seventh to the first. Hence their appellation,” Seventh-day Adventists. “They’re cardinal principle consists in setting apart Saturday for the exclusive worship of God, in conformity with the positive command of God Himself, repeatedly reiterated in the sacred books of the Old and New testaments, literally kept by the children of Israel for thousands of years to this day, and endorsed by the teaching and practice of the Son of God while on earth.” -Rome’s Challenge, page two
“Is not yet too late for Protestants to redeem themselves. Will they do it?… will they indeed take the written word only, the Scripture alone, as their sole authority and their sole standard? Or will they still hold the indefensible, self contradictory, and suicidal doctrine and practice of following the authority of the Catholic church and wear the SIGN of her authority? Will they keep the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day, according to Scripture? Or will they keep the Sunday according to the tradition of the Catholic church, -Ibid, page 31
The Sabbath, the most glorious day in the law, has been changed into the Lord’s day. (…) These and other similar matters have not ceased by virtue of Christ’s teaching (for He says He has come to fulfill the law, not to destroy it), but they have been changed by the authority of the church.» (Archbishop Gaspare de Fosso, Sacrorum Conciliorum nova amplissima Collectio, 1902, vol. 33, pp. 529,530.)
“Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the [Roman Catholic] Church, has no good reason for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath.”-John Gilmary Shea, in the American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.
“It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.”-Priest Brady, in an address, reported in the Elizabeth, N.J. News of March 18, 1903.
“God simply gave His [Catholic] Church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy Days. The Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days, as holy days.”-Vincent J. Kelly, Forbidden Sunday and Feast-Day Occupations, p. 2.
“Protestants . . accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change . . But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible, in observing the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope.”-Our Sunday Visitor, February 5, 1950.
“We Catholics, then, have precisely the same authority for keeping Sunday holy instead of Saturday as we have for every other article of our creed, namely, the authority of the Church . . whereas you who are Protestants have really no authority for it whatever; for there is no authority for it [Sunday sacredness] in the Bible, and you will not allow that there can be authority for it anywhere else.”-The Brotherhood of St. Paul, “The Clifton tracts,” Volume 4, tract 4, p. 15
http://www.remnantofgod.org/beastword.htm
The sabbath is part of the old law/covenant. Since Christ’s Sacrifice we are under the New law/covenant. Which is Christianity. Our Lords day was switch from the sabbath to Sunday by God Himself. Both His resurrection and Pentecost occurred on that day.
ANTI:
to stand in place of
a subtle imposter
wolf in sheep’s clothing
not a violent opposer
a gentle confuser
The Roman Catholic church committed ADULTERY in her relationship with the HUSBANDMAN Christ Jesus. She became ANTIChrist when she stepped against Him.
The Roman Catholic church has always ‘claimed’ to be walking “with” Christ. Just as Judas “kissed” Christ, so has Rome “kissed” His Truth. They “softly and gently” send their wolves forward wearing the clothing of a little lamb so as to gentle draw the masses away from Christ. They betray Christ as soft as the kiss of JUDAS!
Arnulf Bishop of Orleans (Roman Catholic)
“deplored the roman popes as “monsters of guilt” and declared in a council called by the King of France in 991ad that the pontiff, clad in purple and gold, was, “Antichrist, sitting in the temple of God, and showing himself as God” -Phillip Schaff, History of the Christian church, 8 vols., reprint of the 3d (1910)ed. (Grand Rapids Mich.: Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing Co., n.d.)
Eberhard II, archbishop of Salzburg (Roman Catholic)
“stated at a synod of bishops held at Regensburg in 1240 (some scholars say 1241) that the people of his day were “accustomed” to calling the pope antichrist.” -LeRoy Edwin Froom, The Prophetic Faith of our Fathers, 4 vols. (Wash DC: Review and Herald publishing assc, 1950-1954)
John Wycliffe
“When the western church was divided for about 40 years between two rival popes, one in Rome and the other in Avigon, France, each pope called the other pope antichrist – and John Wycliffe is reputed to have regarded them as both being right: “two halves of Antichrist, making up the perfect Man of Sin between them.” -Ibid
Martin Luther (Lutheran)
“We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist…personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.” (Aug. 18, 1520) Taken from The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Vol. 2., pg. 121 by Froom. (In response to a papal bull [official decree]): “I despise and attack it, as impious, false… It is Christ Himself who is condemned therein… I rejoice in having to bear such ills for the best of causes. Already I feel greater liberty in my heart; for at last I know that the pope is antichrist, and that his throne is that of Satan himself.” –D’Aubigné, b.6, ch. 9.
Cotton Mather (Congregational Theologian)
“The oracles of God foretold the rising of an Antichrist in the Christian Church: and in the Pope of Rome, all the characteristics of that Antichrist are so marvelously answered that if any who read the Scriptures do not see it, there is a marvelous blindness upon them.” Taken from The Fall of Babylon by Cotton Mather in Froom’s book, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Vol. 3, pg. 113.
John Wesley (Methodist)
Speaking of the Papacy he said, “He is in an emphatical sense, the Man of Sin, as he increases all manner of sin above measure. And he is, too, properly styled the Son of Perdition, as he has caused the death of numberless multitudes, both of his opposers and followers… He it is…that exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped…claiming the highest power, and highest honour…claiming the prerogatives which belong to God alone.” Taken from Antichrist and His Ten Kingdoms by John Wesley, pg. 110.
Ellen G. White: Seven Day Adventists
“This compromise between paganism and Christianity resulted in the development of “the man of sin” foretold in prophecy as opposing and exalting himself above God. That gigantic system of false religion is a masterpiece of Satan’s power–a monument of his efforts to seat himself upon the throne to rule the earth according to his will.
Thomas Cranmer (Anglican)
“Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.” (Referring to prophecies in Revelation and Daniel.) Taken from Works by Cranmer, Vol. 1, pp. 6-7.
Roger Williams (First Baptist Pastor in America)
He spoke of the Pope as “the pretended Vicar of Christ on earth, who sits as God over the Temple of God, exalting himself not only above all that is called God, but over the souls and consciences of all his vassals, yea over the Spirit of Christ, over the Holy Spirit, yea, and God himself…speaking against the God of heaven, thinking to change times and laws; but he is the son of perdition (II Thess. 2).” Taken from The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers by Froom, Vol. 3, pg. 52.
1689 London Baptist Confession
Chapter 26: Of the Church. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Head of the church, in whom, by the appointment of the Father, all power for the calling, institution, order or government of the church, is invested in a supreme and sovereign manner; neither can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof, but is that antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the church against Christ, and all that is called God; whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. ( Colossians 1:18; Matthew 28:18-20; Ephesians 4:11, 12; 2 Thessalonians 2:2-9 )
John Knox (Scotch Presbyterian)
Knox wrote to abolish “that tyranny which the pope himself has for so many ages exercised over the church” and that the pope should be recognized as “the very antichrist, and son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks.” Taken from The Zurich Letters, pg. 199 by John Knox.
John Calvin (Presbyterian)
“Some persons think us too severe and censorious when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist. But those who are of this opinion do not consider that they bring the same charge of presumption against Paul himself, after whom we speak and whose language we adopt… I shall briefly show that (Paul’s words in II Thess. 2) are not capable of any other interpretation than that which applies them to the Papacy.” Taken from Institutes by John Calvin
http://www.remnantofgod.org/4fathers.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LugAHGENAXw
All of John Ale’s posts should be stamped with an “idiotic content” warning.
There is a lot of bad and scary news out there and many “Watchmen” have been faithful to report all of it; but be encouraged with some VERY GOOD NEWS that shows that God is faithful and JUST too: It appears that some of the “religious” predators are being found out and dealt with.
Here is some good news for a change:
***fair use***
https://www.fbi.gov/minneapolis/press-releases/2010/mp082410.htm
Trevor Cook Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Swindling 923 Investors out of $158 Million
U.S. Attorney’s Office
August 24, 2010
“Following today’s sentencing hearing, United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, B. Todd Jones, said, “Affinity fraud is a horrible crime. Victims are swindled not only of their money, but of their trust. Cook preyed upon those with whom he made connections through church or in the community. Today he atoned for his crimes.””
***fair use*** https://www.fbi.gov/minneapolis/press-releases/2010/mp082410.htm
The pope is not the antichrist! I could believe the false prophet. He is the pope of the third secret, and he will be forced out of rome and killed, when he is replaced by the antichrist.
How typical of Jews to claim the Catholic Pope has identified the antichrist and it just happens to be Jewish enemies, Muslim Syria, Iraq and Iran. The only thing proven here is the religious so deserve each other. It isn’t spirituality, it’s nothing but political slander and rabble rousing. Next they’ll be wondering why people are disgusted by them.
Antichrist, antichrist, antichrist. For 500 years protestants have been harping that the Pope is the antichrist. Do you even know where in the Bible the antichrist is actually talked about and identified?
1 Jn 4:3-4. “Testing the Spirits
…3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 4You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.5They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.…”
2 John 1:7 – For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
1Jn 2:18-22
Warning Against Antichrists
18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. 21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist–he denies the Father and the Son.
That last verse should make every Protestant a little nervous. Be careful that you are not the one who is being deceived. Do you know what attributing to satan that which comes from God? It’s called blaspheming the Holy Spirit and we know from scripture how well that generally works out.
Protestant, catholic, who cares? Just two more opposing camps, designed to get people to fight each other.
Exactly there at least 30,000 different denominations or flavors of the same religion stories. But the New World Order Party always wins- everything and Every ‘election’ guaranteed.
And, as the WORLD burned, the judeo-christo-CREEPS argued on!
Forever, and ever!
Till THE END!
Abeda, abeda, abeda, THAT’S ALL, FOLKS!
…In the meantime, are you not the least bit curious as to what the discussion is really all about? Really. You like unconscious or what?
I did NOT read maxy’s comment at all!
maxxy 
maxy 
is amongst you!
THE DEMONIC LIAR! 
Why would anyone read the derision and False garbage of little, itty, bitty maxy?
Do NOT read the words of the EVIL
For the DEMON
For maxxy is a LUNATIC and Defender of the white-skinned mangod FABLE!
Which means, that maxy is a christo-COWARD who suffers from a common christo-affliction called christo-diarrhea of the MOUTH!
And, BOY, do the words of maxy, the christo-GNAT stink up BIN, every post!
A RABID Fundie gone amok!
And BIN lets him spread his little verbal christo-TURDS all over every post!
The POPE says Jesus is NOT the Messiah. He’s a Usurper.
The Antichrist is a human creation not Gods creation
That’s correct… So are all religions created by man… for the purpose to divide and control man… God had nothing to do with all the religious wars they are a cover that once concealed the demonic money changers greed and cruelty.
All of the characters and occurances in the great book of Revelation, are of a purely ‘spiritual’ nature. It really has NOTHING with the earthly realm at all. Remember, when it says “seas”…. that’s the people. I would bet if you tried reading it like that, you’d be pleasantly surprised.
All souls belong to the Lord. He created all. Antichrist is created by the devil himself….who thinks he is God.
Well, we know he’s not going to be from the United States or Russia simply because neither of these countries existed at the time of Revelations. I mean, if Revelations were to be referring to the USA, which didn’t exist at that time, they’d have to use a workaround, like “a huge country about 7000 miles west from here.”
That’s the reason why I don’t think 666 or the city of seven hills refers to Rome, simply because Rome existed at that time, and nothing could have been easier for John to write down than simply “Rome” instead of using all these cryptic metaphors. And I’m pretty sure that if you really check around, you might find that there are many other cities that have 7 hills. Sydney? Just the eastern suburbs has 3 hills I can think of right off the bat.
The list of cities built on seven hills includes: Jerusalem, Babylon, MOSCOW, Mecca, Lisbon, Tehran and Amman — plus at least nineteen cities in the US are built on seven hills.
The tribe of Dan — from which tradition says Antichrist will derive — settled in the area now known as Russia and also in the British Isles. The name London means “city of Dan.”
Christ revealed that the beast will be born in northern Israel. It is therefore most likely that Antichrist will be a northern Israeli of Russian Jewish extraction. Russian Bolshevik Jews are noted for their unsurpassed barbarity.
Where is that fruitcake of Shambhala? He hasn’t been around commenting all these articles for over 7 days – a stint in rehab perhaps or a séjour in a padded celle??
Shhh, Dog, It’s been a nice week here…..
Shopping for a new donkey?
mr ben ze doon, or whatever your demonic Talmudic name is. The jews will accept the anti-Christ. not the catholics(true Christians). the anti-Christ will have jewish ethnicity. stop with your Zionist-piggy propaganda!
Well you know the messiah or christ named jesus had a jewish ethnicity as well, just like moses and all of the disciples and their god who is the self-proclaimed ‘God of Israel’. So jesus was a jew and you are saying the so called anti-messiah (christ) will be too? Very interesting. Perhaps you like many skip over these parts of the bible, lol.
Exodus:34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God
34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
And don’t forget, that this god loves you- but he would love you more if you were a jew cause he likes them better than everyone else and they are his ‘chosen people’ so he places the Above everyone else on the earth. Nothing like a jealous, Insecure supposed ‘ Almighty god’ that Discriminates- What / don’t believe it then behold: Deuteronomy
7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
NWO…The “chosen” people are NOT the “Jews.” the covenant was broken, do to idolatry.
You know the Judeans (JEWS) are but one tribe of the Hebrews, right? There are few ‘blooded’ Hebrews in Israel today….The Inheritors of the promises is the “House” of Israel. The ten so called ‘lost tribes”, who were taken north by the Assyrians 400 years before the birth of Christ, and eventually migrated over the Caucusus mountains and settled in western Europe, called ‘Caucasians.’ And, they, were dispersed across the globe…as “numerous as the stars”. Look up the “diaspora”. The end-times prophecy, has little to do with modern Israel, but the hosting of the son of perdition in Jerusalem.
You really should take your bible studies a bit deeper. A believer can get by with faulty study….. a “critic” like yourself, needs to be very accurate. Step it up, son.
When you see the hex flag behind him you know this moron has nothing to say even before you hear and see anything else. If they don’t believe in christ how could they possibly believe in an antichrist. Or is that beyond this guy’s intelligence too. How to make a dufus of yourself. there are two ways.
!. Put out this video. or
@. Make a serious comment about it. Judging by the number of comments….hmmm…
The pope wears a Yarmulke, they are controlled by the Jews. Catholics eat the body and drink the blood of their supposed Messiah every Sun worship day as a mocking of Jesus Christ. Pedophile priests are protected, moved from church to church. Think it might be just a little Satanic? Catholicism & Christianity are tools to separate the Jews from the non-Jews, while bankrolling the whole thing. The Jews want, and are , controlling this whole charade called life. You either get it, or you don’t.
You left out the part about the Pope having his own astronomical/space observatory with a huge space
telescope named LUCIFER, lol.
Oh yeah… that too. lol Thanks.
While the pope could be a False Prophet, I think evidence points to someone else as the Antichrist:
Antichrist 2016-2019: Mystery Babylon, Barack Obama & the Islamic Caliphate
I just watched Chuck Missler’s “The Assyrian Antichrist”( an alternate theory)….And he makes the case for The “Mahdi” pretty strongly. Missler is good with the history and the tracing of the Hebrews….his analysis of the book of Joshua is enthralling.
The papacy is the Antichrist, the same thing as the little horn of Daniel, the first Beast in Revelation.
What nine characteristics help us to identify the little horn power?
Location: out of the 4th beast and among the ten horns (v.8) – The Papacy arose out of Rome among the ten tribal divisions of Rome
Timing: after the ten were established (v.8) – the Papacy became a political power by decree of the Roman emperor Justinian in AD 538 which was after the emergence of the ten tribal divisions that emerged as the Roman Empire fell apart in AD 476.
Uprooted three of the ten horns (v.8) – As the Papacy came to prominence, it influenced Pagan Roman armies to destroy three of the tribes which opposed its Christian doctrines. These three were the Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Heruli. The last of these was destroyed in AD 538 when Justinian’s decree went into effect.
Eyes and mouth of a man (v.8) – the Papacy has a man as its visible head.
Persecutes the saints (v.21, 25) – Ever hear of the Papal persecution during the dark ages – Inquisition, etc. More than 50 million Protestant Christians tortured and killed by the Catholic Church.
Different from the other ten horns (v.24) – the Papacy was a religio-political entity different from the kingdoms before it.
Speak out against God (v.8, 11, 20, 25) – Verse 8 says it will utter boastful or blasphemous things. One quote of many like it from Prompta Bibliothea Canonica Juridicia Moralis Theologica appearing in the Catholic Encyclopedia Volume VI, pp. 25-29, “The Pope is of so great dignity, and so exalted, that he is not a mere man, but as it were, God and the Vicar of God. The Pope is, as it were, God on earth, chief king of kings, having plentitude of power.”
Little Horn attempts to change God’s times and laws (v.25) – The Papacy deleted the second Commandment of the Decalogue on idolatry, changed the Sabbath to Sunday in favour of sun worship and divided the tenth Commandment on coveting into two parts to get back to Ten Commandments.
Have power for a time, times, and half a time (or three and a half years, forty two months, or 1260 days – see Revelation 12:6, 14) (v.25) – Applying the prophetic day for a year principle established in Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6 that equals 1260 years. The Papacy lasted in primary power from AD 538 to 1798 in which year Napoleon’s general Berthier marched into Rome, deposed the Pope, and carried him into exile where he died.
Revelation 13:1-10 These six points reveal that the Antichrist leopard like beast represents the Roman Church:
1. Revelation 13:1—Antichrist rises from the sea (from a populated area. Revelation 17:15).
2. Revelation 13:2—Antichrist receives the SEAT of its government from pagan Rome.
3. Revelation 13:5—Antichrist blasphemously claims the POWER of God (Luke 5:20-21).
4. Revelation 13:7—Antichrist PERSECUTES the saints (believers).
5. Revelation 13:5—Antichrist reigns supreme for 42 months = 1,260 prophetic days or 1260 literal years (from 538 to 1798).
6. Revelation 13:18—Antichrist is identified with the mysterious number 666.
http://www.the-antichrist.org/
http://www.godssabbathtruth.com/charts.html
Are you catholic?? I guess not – so what is it to you if the papacy is some sort of antichrist??
….big dog…all of the “analysts” are wont to get advanced knowledge of these identities….it is a sort of ‘sport’ lately…..There are some who keep a ‘scorecard’.
We may all be amazed at who fills the position.
The old prophets wished they could see the times, we experience today.
There is a great deal of interest in these questions.
My concept of antichrist is someone (who supported by followers) will use the power given to them to wipe out either: opposition to their regimes or entire races. Nuts like: Stalin, Hitler, the Khmer rouge, Papa doc duvalier (Haiti), Tutsi (in the Rwandan genocides).
I do not see Francis gathering up an army of followers to wipe some other faith off the &&&& planet.
So you PEOPLE can rest assured.
….Ammi….The “papacy” is an institution…..anti- christian, for sure, but the antichrist is an individual, who accepts the spirit of darkness into his soul, and assumes the title of “son of perdition”. I’ve been thinking of the papacy as falling into the false prophet category….but that depends on who really emerges as the holder of the title “antichrist”, who, at this point in time is NOT determinable, with any degree of fact.
If the son of perdition turns out to be the Muslim-Mahdi…..The papacy could end up consolidating the Religious aspect…..as the false prophet. Which, at this point looks to be what’s happening….but we’ll know for sure …..soon.
If you don’t think that is right, please describe, as only you can, the false prophet, and his prophesied advent. thanks in advance
Many Christians today are also asking who is the False Prophet described in the book of Revelation. It is in fact the same power or what is also known as Apostate Protestantism or the second beast of Revelation 13 in the role of America in making an image to the beast etc.
We are not going to go into major detail here but here are some scriptures that make this apparent. Parentheses are added for clarity.
Revelation 13:11-15 “And I beheld another [SECOND] beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. 12 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. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 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 [FIRST] beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the [FIRST] beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the [FIRST] beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the [FIRST] beast should be killed.”
Note in the above passage that the second beast is said to perform “great wonders” that deceives “by the means of the miracles” that it did “in the sight of the [first] beast.” Now take note in the scripture below that the false prophet that deceived them by her miracles as described in the above verse, being the second beast (America), is the same entity. So the false prophet is the second beast that did “miracles before him” or in other words, did miracles “in the sight of the [first] beast” as described in the passage above.
Revelation 19:20 “And the [FIRST] 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.”
http://www.the-antichrist.org/
The image is made to the first or leopard-like beast, which is the one brought to view in the third angel’s message. By this first beast is represented the Roman Church, an ecclesiastical body clothed with civil power, having authority to punish all dissenters. The image to the beast represents another religious body clothed with similar power. The formation of this image is the work of that beast whose peaceful rise and mild professions render it so striking a symbol of the United States. Here is to be found an image of the papacy. When the churches of our land, uniting upon such points of faith as are held by them in common, shall influence the State to enforce their decrees and sustain their institutions, then will Protestant America have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy.” -Spirit of Prophecy Volume 4, page 278
http://www.remnantofgod.org/usa-in-prophecy.htm
Excellent stuff Ammi…Thanx I needed that…got a lot out of it….felt for a long while that the imagery in Revelation mirrored what I see with my own eyes, right in front of me. Everything in Revelation, has to be understood in a purely spiritual context to make any sense. I can see that looking for the “antichrist”…out there, somewhere.. neglects the spiritual context of the book of Revelation……we are farther along…. than we can imagine.
OH WOE IS POOR LITTLE US! ITS A PRISON PLANET SURE ENOUGH SURE ENOUGH…..
I’m GOING INTO the light!!!
[BANG]
There is no “vicar of Christ” and there is no single antichrist. The term refers to all who oppose Jesus and his Father and their teachings. It applies to anyone preaching the pagan trinity, who is part of any man made religion (they all are) and anyone who openly worships Satan and loves his system of the world, since he currently rules it until the final battle.
“The number of his name… count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man… and his number is 666.” Revelation 13:17,18
Absolutely every single great and small prophecy that has ever been uttered regarding ANTICHRIST has been fulfilled in complete accuracy by all the Popes of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH over the course of it’s VERY documented history! Not only did this church fulfill each and every one of these prophecies, it also did so IN THE EXACT YEARS the Bible declared for fulfillment! And then we have seen this beast attack the Bible and it’s readers so as to hide the TRUTH that is revealed within the prophetic and 100% accurate Word of God.
Keep in mind people, the Bible also states that the wound administered to this beast in the exact prophetic year of 1798ad by Napoleon’s General, WILL be HEALED in the very last days! (see Revelation 13:12)
Revelation 13:12, “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.”
THIS IS EASILY SEEN AS TODAY PEOPLE! The Roman Catholic Church is back in power just as before! HEED THE WARNING WHILE YOU STILL CAN! “…Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4
Prophecy also states one more undeniable fact here…
Revelation 13:3, “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.”
Prophecy tell us that not long after the Beast is wounded and then healed, prophecy declares that, “all the world wondered after the beast.”
http://www.remnantofgod.org/mark.htm
pope identifies an anti-christ while looking in a mirror….
What? Hmm did he look into a mirror? A Gnostic mirror that is.
All Protestants knew who the Antichrist was several hundred years ago. Antichrist is the head of Babylon. Babylon was a city-state. Vatican is a city-state. Its colors are red and purple, and those are the colors of Catholic cardinals and bishops. They are also adorned with gold and precious stones, and we all know how gaudy Catholic clergy is. I was born and raised Catholic, until I read the Bible for myself. As soon as I read certain parts, it became clear who the Antichrist is. Catholic Popes have changed laws (Sunday worship, idolatry etc), just like our Scripture warns us. Antichrist presides over Babylon, and every Pope is Antichrist.
This guy is full of crap. Catholics do not believe the Pope is the replacement of Christ on earth. And he has all his Latin screwed up too. He is no authority on anything and it shows. I am a cradle Catholic and know my faith inside and out. Not only that, I am a student of world religions and know many other faiths in depth as well for some 35+ years now. Catholics believe the Pope is the successor to St. Peter who was appointed as the ROCK on which Christ built His Church, BY CHRIST’S WORDS IN THE BIBLE. He said that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it as well. We all know that after Christ ascended into heaven, Peter was left to run the Church, AS A MAN, not as God, and he was to do the best he could do following in Christ’s footsteps. That is the function of every Pope after him. It is always so typical that a non-Catholic (who is also anti-Catholic) lies their way through these videos making it all up as they go along, dictating to the reader all sorts of garbage sounding like an authoritative figure, and the ignorant reader will buy it…..The Antichrist is Obama. The False Prophet is Pope Francis (or a spirit of him.) Jesus said “When a robber enters a house, does he not take down the strongman first? Then the rest are of no contest.” Obama leads the political strongman, the USA. Francis leads the religious strongman, the Catholic Church. Freemasonry is Satanism, and has infiltrated the highest levels all over the globe to takedown Christ’s Church and implement a NWO under Lucifer. Evil prospers in all churches and in all govts. because the people are sinful and horrid, and the Lord allows our oppressors to overtake us when we stray from Him Who created us. This is our punishment. Pray, fast, repent and convert before it is too late. The end of the age is right here, right now.
Peter Says That JESUS IS THE ROCK OF AGES!!
The Roman god JuPITER: His statue was renamed St. Peter and the worshippers continued to kiss his big toe.
Chief pagan gods were called PETERS.
Satan took advantage of the similarity of the names JuPITER and Peter to substitute JuPITER for St. Peter.
Satan NEVER substitutes the good for the bad. He ALWAYS substitutes the BAD for the good or the counterfeit for the real thing. JuPITER was the name of the chief god of Rome and Venus was his wife. They answered to Horus and Isis in Egypt or Baal and Astheroth in the Middle East.
St. Peter was NEVER in Rome and had no connections with that city. St. Paul was the one who was taken prisoner to Rome and founded the Christian CONGREGATION there about 67 A.D.
St. Paul said:
“For I long to see you (Roman Christians) that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be ESTABLISHED” (Romans. 1:11).
Established means: a. To set up; FOUND, b. To make firm or secure.
The entire stupendous Papal system is built on ONE verse of Scripture. Remove that ONE pillar and the whole system will collapse. That one verse is found in Matthew chapter 16:18. This is called pyramid building—upside down. Any living thing with two heads is a monster!!
Rome takes ONE verse of Scripture and builds her “church” upon a foundation of sand. Jesus said to Satan:
“Man shall not live by bread alone but by EVERY Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Luke 4:4).
In other words we look at ALL the verses in the Bible to get the whole TRUTH about any subject.
When Jesus first saw Peter this is what happened:
“He (Andrew) brought him to Jesus and when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A Stone” (St. John 1: 42).
Halfway through the ministry of Jesus, in Matthew 16, Jesus asked his disciples what people were saying about Him: Peter answered that question correctly when he said:
“Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
Peter’s CONFESSION OF FAITH IN CHRIST is the ROCK upon which the true church is built – not Peter the STONE.
The New Testament was written in Greek, the language of the 3rd universal Empire. The meaning is even clearer in that great language. It says that Jesus said to Peter:
“Thou art PETROS, and upon this PETRA I will build my CONGREGATION, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matt. (16:18)
In the very same chapter Jesus turns to Peter and calls him Satan because Peter had tried to turn Jesus away from going to the Cross to die for sinners:
“But he turned and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men” (Matt. 16:23).
At the last Supper, just before Jesus went to the Cross, the disciples were arguing among themselves as to who should be the greatest (Luke 22:24). If Jesus had made Peter the head, why didn’t the other disciples know about it. Some secret. Peter had a BIG mouth….He never told the others about his supremacy? All Peter had to do to end the argument was to remind them that Jesus had made him the head and the leader.
Let us hear from St. Peter himself as he clears up the whole matter:
“Behold I lay in Zion a CHIEF CORNER STONE, elect, precious, and he that believeth on HIM shall not be confounded . . .YE ALSO as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood . . .”
(I St. Peter 2: 5-6).
ALL who make a right confession of faith like St. Peter, become living stones in the CONGREGATION built upon
“the foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himself, being the CHIEF CORNER STONE” (Ephesians 2:20).
Not ONE early congregation father, in their writings, ever even hint that Jesus made Peter the head of the church…..Such silence is deafening. The first person to propose such an outrageous idea was a Bishop of Rome in the 4th century. Over 300 years after Christ.!!!
St. Peter, far from claiming supremacy for himself said that the Emperor was supreme.
“Submit yourself to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme (I St. Peter 2:13).
Around 60 A.D., the Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the congregation at Rome. He addressed 25 Christians there and never mentions St. Peter. If Peter was bishop there for 25 years why was St. Paul writing to them and instructing them in basic Christian doctrine? St. Peter was a very competent writer. He wrote 2 Epistles himself.
Paul even mentions a British lady named Claudia, but not a word about Peter. Truth is that Peter was never at Rome . . . he was the Apostle to the circumcision . . . to the Jews.
Paul also told the Christians there to submit to the lawful government unless they compel you to do something contrary to Scripture. Governments were instituted by God for the welfare of man and EVERY person is under the authority of the government in which they live—just like every driver must obey the traffic laws in his country or he will soon end up dead. . . .There are no exceptions. No one is ABOVE the government except Jesus Christ the King of kings:
“Let EVERY soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves DAMNATION. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil……” (St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 16:1-2).
The Pope at Rome refuses to submit to the lawful Italian government. Vatican City State is a State with a State. God says that you will receive damnation if you rebel against His ordinance of human government.
As for the keys that Jesus gave to St. Peter, he used them on the Day of Pentecost to open the kingdom of God—the true church—to the Jews. He preached the first Christian sermon and urged the Jews to repent and believe in the Risen Christ:
“Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning every one of you from his iniquities” (Acts 3:26).
A while later St. Peter used these same keys to open the kingdom of God to the Gentiles when he preached the first sermon to them in the house of an Italian soldier named Cornelius:
“Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in EVERY nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him” (Acts 10:34-35).
After that task was accomplished, Peter had no further need of the keys and he fades from history to be replaced by the Apostle Paul. Nobody knows for sure where he is buried . . . but God knows . . . and he will be raised on the Last Day.
St. Peter returned the keys to their rightful owner because around 90 A.D., Jesus said:
“. . . He that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth” (Rev. 3:7).
Moses said this 3500 years ago:
“For their rock is not as our Rock” (Deut. 32:31).
“For who is God save the Lord? or who is a ROCK save our God” (PS. 18:31).
Editor’s Notes
According to Roman doctrine, St. Peter would not qualify to be bishop of any church, let alone the congregation at Rome, because Simon Peter was a MARRIED man and had a wife and mother-in-law:
“But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her” (Mark 1:30).
St. Paul said:
“Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?” (I Cor. 8:5).
In the first great church council held in Jerusalem to determine if the Gentiles should keep the law of Moses, Peter spoke and gave his opinion but James had the final word:
“And after they (elders, apostles) had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me” (Acts 15:13).
When St. Paul met the Risen Christ on the Damascus road and had his great conversion experience; did he look up Peter and get his instructions from him? Of course not!! He didn’t meet Peter until 3 years later and then only spent 15 days with him.
“Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him 15 days” (Galatians 1:18).
Why didn’t Peter tell Paul to stay away from Rome as he was destined to be its first Bishop and Pope? The silence is deafening.
Paul did not see Peter again for another 14 years, about 50 A.D. Peter was still in Jerusalem. Obviously he felt no urgency to visit his flock at Rome . . . and be crowned Pope there!!
“Then fourteen years after I went up to Jerusalem . . . And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we should go to the heathen, and they unto the circumcision (Jews)” (Gal. 2:1-9).
And finally, the great Book of Revelation, the final Word of God to the world was given to the apostle John not Simon Peter!
I don’t know where any of you people get the idea of some replacement theology. There was no mass of Christian’s who raced in and re-established the homeland of Israel 1948 just as prophesied. Jewish men and women live in Israel. It was prophesied that the nation would be reborn in a single day and was by UN decree just as prophesied. The rebirth would a single united nation no more Judah and Israel and it is just as it was prophesied. The Ethiopian Jews have returned to Israel beginning in 1990 just as prophesied. The Sanhedrin would be re-established in the new nation and this was fulfilled in 2004 just as it was prophesied. Once the Jews were re-established in the homeland the desolate land would bloom and Israel would actually export food to the rest of the world last year alone Israel exported 1 billion dollars in fruits,vegetables even flowers just as it was prophesied. The shekel would once again be the currency in the re-established nation of Israel just as prophesied. All surrounding nations would be against Israel and that is most certainly a fact. None of these prophecy’s fit any place but Israel and the Jewish people. We don’t use shekels in the USA. We get along fine with Canada. See the pattern here???