WEBVTT 00:00.570 --> 00:08.940 I call this presentation, The Response of the Papacy to the Reformation. 00:09.880 --> 00:16.220 It is part one of two addresses that I will give. 00:17.920 --> 00:24.920 The response was what is called the Counter-Reformation. 00:24.920 --> 00:33.400 It was a very strong movement against all the biblical principles that had come out 00:33.400 --> 00:34.740 at the time of the Reformation. 00:35.960 --> 00:41.640 And it was led principally by Ignatius of Loyola. 00:43.440 --> 00:58.060 He founded the Jesuits in 1530 and was recognized by the Pope, Paul III, 00:58.740 --> 00:59.940 ten years later. 01:01.380 --> 01:06.040 The Jesuits have been uncompromising and militant. 01:06.800 --> 01:13.740 And they have led a movement to restore Roman Catholicism to the position that it 01:13.740 --> 01:16.400 had before the Reformation. 01:18.340 --> 01:26.720 And Ignatius' main effort was to lock both rulers and the ordinary people back into 01:26.720 --> 01:33.900 the Roman system and into full obedience to the Roman Catholic Church. 01:34.920 --> 01:40.460 His primary tactic was through education. 01:41.640 --> 01:47.780 And he had men trained in many different skills and professions. 01:49.340 --> 02:00.840 And the principal aim was to bring the children of Bible believers to a Catholic 02:00.840 --> 02:10.320 education whereby they would accept Catholic interpretation of how things 02:10.320 --> 02:11.520 should be seen. 02:13.000 --> 02:21.480 Many people were won to the Catholic Church as their children went to Catholic 02:21.480 --> 02:25.040 schools and later to Catholic universities. 02:26.260 --> 02:35.380 The intention was always to indoctrinate the population in things Catholic. 02:35.720 --> 02:40.580 It was to interpret things in light of how the Catholic Church saw them. 02:41.400 --> 02:49.080 So they were subtle enough often not to explicitly teach Catholic dogmas but to 02:49.080 --> 02:57.380 give Catholicism in such a way as to turn and twist the minds of men and women. 02:58.300 --> 03:01.620 And this they did right across Europe. 03:05.240 --> 03:11.320 It is really sad when you study histories like Wiley's history and you see how it 03:11.320 --> 03:13.540 was successful in the different nations. 03:13.740 --> 03:19.360 It breaks your heart when I read about Poland, for example, and how far the 03:19.360 --> 03:25.320 Reformation faith had spread and then to see the Jesuit schools grow up and then to 03:25.320 --> 03:33.060 see princes and kings and brought back to the Church through the Roman Catholic 03:33.060 --> 03:36.060 education or so-called education system. 03:36.860 --> 03:41.960 Ignatius also used a book that he had written called The Spiritual Exercises. 03:42.540 --> 03:50.840 This was to teach men and women self-discipline and mastery over self and 03:50.840 --> 03:56.320 mysticism, union with God by experience. 03:57.480 --> 04:02.800 And when you know that people are superstitious by nature, many people like 04:02.800 --> 04:10.860 the trills of mysticism and it has been a successful tool since then. 04:12.160 --> 04:15.080 The Jesuits continue to educate. 04:15.320 --> 04:17.340 I went to a Jesuit college myself. 04:17.620 --> 04:23.840 I was thoroughly educated in things Catholic at a Jesuit college, Belvedere 04:23.840 --> 04:28.360 College, a famous college in Dublin, Ireland, where James Joyce had been 04:28.360 --> 04:30.060 trained at one stage as well. 04:31.080 --> 04:37.320 But it is a tactic that still continues and they still continue their mysticism. 04:39.040 --> 04:44.700 Tony Jones, one of the main youth leaders of the emerging church movement that is 04:44.700 --> 04:50.640 sweeping this nation and many nations of the world, in one of his books, 04:51.440 --> 04:59.620 Lauds, Ignatius' book, The Spiritual Exercises, and he wants people to get into 04:59.620 --> 05:02.780 the mystical ways as taught by Ignatius. 05:04.140 --> 05:11.580 So it was Ignatius and the Jesuit order that was the principal means for the 05:11.580 --> 05:12.780 counter-reformation. 05:14.020 --> 05:20.580 But the church was also going to try and reorganize itself. 05:21.420 --> 05:32.940 And the reorganization was done in different ways and it was principally 05:32.940 --> 05:34.560 under one Pope. 05:35.020 --> 05:41.240 He is usually known in history under the Latin or the Italian Latin name Pio Nono, 05:41.560 --> 05:43.040 Pius IX. 05:43.320 --> 05:47.180 He was famously one of the longest reigning Popes in history. 05:47.840 --> 05:52.940 His rule as Pope was from 1846 to 1878. 05:53.800 --> 05:59.680 He ruled during a time of nationalism that was sweeping Europe and Italy. 06:00.340 --> 06:08.480 Italy actually became a republic in 1849, much against the wishes and the desires 06:08.480 --> 06:10.280 and the efforts of the Pope. 06:11.280 --> 06:16.140 He had neither territory nor civil power. 06:17.780 --> 06:30.060 The reason why is that the Catholic Church had lost their power when in 1798, 06:30.380 --> 06:38.760 Napoleon's army removed the Pope, Pius VI, from his throne. 06:39.420 --> 06:44.620 It was then that it seemed that a mortal wound had hit the Catholic Church. 06:45.120 --> 06:48.380 They no longer had the Vatican States. 06:48.520 --> 06:50.440 They no longer had civil power. 06:50.560 --> 06:52.020 That was 1798. 06:52.680 --> 06:59.980 But now, in the time in the 19th century, we have Pio Nono. 07:00.560 --> 07:07.700 We have Pius IX coming to power and his intent, even though he doesn't have civil 07:07.700 --> 07:13.860 power, to reorganize and centralize the Catholic Church system. 07:14.440 --> 07:21.980 And he does so principally by calling a general council of the Catholic Church, 07:22.680 --> 07:26.480 Vatican Council I, in 1870. 07:26.960 --> 07:35.160 And the purpose was explicitly to bring in a dogma that Catholics would have to 07:35.160 --> 07:38.680 accept on the pain of mortal sin. 07:39.640 --> 07:43.320 If they didn't accept it, that was papal infallibility. 07:44.140 --> 07:53.260 This was done even though it was an absurd dogma, it was nonetheless, it was passed 07:53.260 --> 07:58.220 as official dogma of the Catholic Church in 1870. 07:58.700 --> 08:11.460 We had famous historians like Dollinger and Hassler write against this. 08:12.420 --> 08:25.060 How the Pope Became Infallible was a book by a German Hassler and it was to show 08:25.060 --> 08:29.600 that this was not only not scriptural, it was not even in tradition and there 08:29.600 --> 08:33.680 were heretical popes in the course of Catholic history. 08:34.080 --> 08:36.700 So how could you claim that the Pope was infallible? 08:37.340 --> 08:47.660 Nonetheless, it went through and it became one of the major dogmas to centralize 08:47.660 --> 08:53.580 because the Catholics now have a man sitting in the temple of God calling 08:53.580 --> 08:54.840 himself infallible. 08:55.100 --> 08:56.600 It's an attribute of God. 08:57.760 --> 09:04.980 So it's a dogma that has become a central theme of Catholicism. 09:06.320 --> 09:14.760 A major part of the Catholics reorganizing was also by the one who followed Pius IX, 09:14.960 --> 09:15.660 Pius X. 09:16.060 --> 09:22.900 He reorganized the Catholic Church by its canon law. 09:23.140 --> 09:27.800 The code of canon law was for the first time drawn up in 1917. 09:28.920 --> 09:32.140 This was generally for every single nation. 09:32.840 --> 09:36.520 Before this, different nations had different laws for different nations. 09:36.660 --> 09:43.600 Now, the Catholic Church centralized itself and became the power in the hands 09:43.600 --> 09:49.300 of one man, the Pope and his courier, those agents that he has around him. 09:49.920 --> 09:58.240 So this was a major step towards the Catholic Church reorganizing itself 09:58.240 --> 10:00.100 internally. 10:01.020 --> 10:08.840 A huge historical event occurred in 1929. 10:10.180 --> 10:20.960 It was the dictator Mussolini with a deal with the Pope at the time, Pope Pius XI, 10:22.160 --> 10:25.480 signed the Lateran Treaty. 10:26.720 --> 10:35.900 It gave territory, Vatican Hill and other parts of Rome, as territory to the 10:35.900 --> 10:37.020 Catholic Church. 10:37.020 --> 10:42.200 The Catholic Church again became a civil state. 10:42.940 --> 10:45.200 It now was a civil power. 10:49.560 --> 10:54.160 The famous description in the book of Revelation, you are the woman rides the 10:54.160 --> 10:54.600 beast. 10:55.700 --> 11:01.420 The spiritual power rides the civil power. 11:01.420 --> 11:03.360 The two things are knitted together. 11:03.520 --> 11:08.540 What the reformers and many others had seen throughout the centuries was again 11:08.540 --> 11:09.420 fulfilled. 11:10.140 --> 11:13.720 The Vatican again was back as a civil power. 11:14.640 --> 11:19.640 This together with the fact that we have Catholics in most nations who fear for 11:19.640 --> 11:25.680 their salvation, look to Mother Church and they are willing to work together with the 11:25.680 --> 11:26.760 civil powers. 11:26.760 --> 11:33.700 Just like in the United States of America, it's not only the Supreme Court that has 11:33.700 --> 11:41.340 so many justices that are Catholic, but it is in Congress and in the Senate. 11:42.500 --> 11:47.520 We have Catholics who are willing to work together with the Vatican as a civil 11:47.520 --> 11:48.140 power. 11:48.140 --> 11:51.560 We will see more of this as we progress. 11:52.580 --> 11:58.300 But the Catholic Church made this deal and there will be many more concordas as we 11:58.300 --> 12:00.960 will see as we go on. 12:02.020 --> 12:07.760 Then there came a deal in England. 12:08.180 --> 12:14.360 This was part of the Catholic Church trying to bring down the nation of 12:14.360 --> 12:14.700 England. 12:15.480 --> 12:23.260 It had been a Protestant nation where the crown was Protestant and like Ireland and 12:23.260 --> 12:28.180 it had held fairly strong to Biblical faith at the time of the Reformation. 12:29.940 --> 12:33.840 The civil powers had outlawed the Jesuits. 12:34.140 --> 12:37.160 They had to remove their colleges and universities. 12:37.400 --> 12:39.460 They were no longer allowed civilly. 12:40.280 --> 12:43.000 But then there came a turnabout civilly. 12:43.780 --> 12:51.760 The Catholic Act of Emancipation in 1829 allowed the Jesuits back into the UK. 12:51.760 --> 12:56.880 And this was quickly acted upon. 12:58.300 --> 13:04.440 One of the evil fruits of that was the Oxford Movement and its main leader John 13:04.440 --> 13:05.580 Henry Newman. 13:06.420 --> 13:13.340 John Henry Newman, an Anglican, had as his main purpose to make 13:13.340 --> 13:19.220 Anglicanism like onto Roman Catholicism. 13:19.220 --> 13:22.020 He produced many tracts. 13:23.000 --> 13:29.020 The Tractarian Movement came from the Oxford Movement and they were twisting 13:29.020 --> 13:35.520 Scripture to try and show Ritualism instead of the Gospel. 13:35.520 --> 13:43.000 And trying to show that the historical interpretation of the Antichrist that had 13:43.000 --> 13:48.680 been through all the Reformers and that the historical interpretation that had 13:48.680 --> 13:52.660 been held right through the Reformation was not correct. 13:53.020 --> 14:00.840 Looking to a future Antichrist to come and twisting Scripture and dislodging it from 14:00.840 --> 14:01.460 history. 14:01.460 --> 14:07.680 This was Newman and the Oxford Movement. 14:08.480 --> 14:15.100 It was one of the evil fruits of the Catholic Emancipation Act. 14:15.930 --> 14:24.680 The Catholic Church was now gaining because of this because the 14:24.680 --> 14:30.200 Anglo-Catholics, as they were called, became more and more like onto 14:30.200 --> 14:31.480 Catholicism. 14:32.000 --> 14:36.560 And this is what Newman himself was desiring. 14:36.800 --> 14:42.940 He actually became a Roman Catholic and was made a Cardinal. 14:42.940 --> 14:44.660 He is on his way now. 14:44.820 --> 14:48.660 They are trying to make him into a Blessed and then into a Saint at the moment. 14:49.640 --> 14:51.880 It has been announced recently. 14:52.380 --> 15:01.180 So it is a whole downward trend where Anglo-Catholicism has become so much like 15:01.180 --> 15:02.840 Roman Catholicism. 15:04.540 --> 15:13.220 Another huge turnaround was the advance of the Jesuit ideas that had come about in 15:13.220 --> 15:14.160 their schools. 15:15.520 --> 15:21.040 The Jesuits had built on Francisco Ribera and Robert Bellarmine's teaching of a 15:21.040 --> 15:23.320 future coming of the Antichrist. 15:24.120 --> 15:34.900 And a famous Jesuit in Chile, Manuel Lacunza, wrote about the coming of the 15:34.900 --> 15:39.420 Messiah in Majesty and Glory. 15:39.520 --> 15:41.640 I have a copy of it at home. 15:41.640 --> 15:45.420 It is over 600 pages long. 15:46.440 --> 15:53.180 But this book was written not under his own name, Manuel Lacunza, but he wrote 15:53.180 --> 15:59.500 under the name Ben Yosefat Ezra, born again Jew. 15:59.500 --> 16:02.720 He pretended that he was a born again Jew. 16:03.740 --> 16:08.500 And this book was to have sinister effects. 16:09.500 --> 16:15.000 It looks to be one of the major things that influenced the Brethren. 16:15.000 --> 16:20.400 The Brethren movement was founded principally by John Nelson Darby, 16:20.520 --> 16:21.560 a former Catholic. 16:22.460 --> 16:30.360 And they had prophetic meetings south of Dublin in a castle called Powerscourt 16:30.360 --> 16:30.920 Castle. 16:30.920 --> 16:38.180 And they were trying to see just who the Antichrist was and the man of sin of 2 16:38.180 --> 16:39.600 Thessalonians 2. 16:40.160 --> 16:46.900 And they were using, it seems, the book by Manuel Lacunza. 16:47.520 --> 16:55.000 Because there are such similarities between Manuel Lacunza's book and what is 16:55.000 --> 16:57.760 the futurism of the Brethren. 16:57.760 --> 17:05.200 And so the efforts of the Jesuits now began to have fruit as the Brethren began 17:05.200 --> 17:14.360 to give out many tracts and publish books and produce their theses about a future 17:14.360 --> 17:16.400 Antichrist to come. 17:17.280 --> 17:25.140 And this was one of the main ways that Catholicism increased because people were 17:25.140 --> 17:31.220 no longer looking at her as the woman rides the beast, as the man of sin, 17:31.440 --> 17:34.180 the son of perdition of 2 Thessalonians 2. 17:34.180 --> 17:38.200 They no longer looked at her color scarlet and purple. 17:38.580 --> 17:44.820 They no longer looked upon her as the one who drank the blood of the saints for 605 17:44.820 --> 17:46.120 years of the Inquisition. 17:47.080 --> 17:53.020 They were looking to a future Antichrist to come and so Rome was in the clear. 17:54.620 --> 18:01.700 And the Brethren were really one of the main ways in which Catholicism was able to 18:01.700 --> 18:02.080 grow. 18:02.080 --> 18:08.240 Another huge thing took place here in the United States and it was the founding of 18:08.240 --> 18:14.680 Dallas Theological Seminary by Louis Barry Schaeffer and the introduction of a system 18:14.680 --> 18:17.240 of theology called Dispensationalism. 18:17.880 --> 18:23.320 Because Dispensationalism when it comes to understanding the Antichrist again is 18:23.320 --> 18:24.040 futuristic. 18:24.040 --> 18:29.000 It puts it way in the future where you cannot verify it. 18:29.120 --> 18:34.460 It's unlocked from history the way all the Reformers had seen the Antichrist. 18:35.260 --> 18:41.760 There's no accountability whatsoever for Rome's drinking the blood of the saints. 18:43.500 --> 18:50.340 And Louis Barry Schaeffer and Dallas has had influence right across the United 18:50.340 --> 18:51.500 States of America. 18:51.500 --> 19:00.740 Europe is not affected as much by Futurism as the United States but this has had a 19:00.740 --> 19:01.940 huge effect. 19:02.280 --> 19:08.800 Another major factor in Rome's growing and increasing because eyes were offered was 19:08.800 --> 19:10.400 the Scofield Bible. 19:11.160 --> 19:15.640 This became part and parcel of most of the fundamentalist churches. 19:16.820 --> 19:20.340 They had their Scofield Bible and their Scofield notes. 19:20.340 --> 19:29.380 It was first published in 1909 and then 1917 and it has become a source book for 19:29.380 --> 19:31.980 many fundamentalist churches. 19:32.580 --> 19:37.020 The notes in the Scofield Bible were taking like they were the Bible text 19:37.020 --> 19:37.680 itself. 19:38.340 --> 19:43.520 If the Scofield Bible said that there was an Antichrist to come and gave you charts 19:43.520 --> 19:46.060 and diagrams and everything how things were to happen. 19:46.440 --> 19:47.580 That's what you believed. 19:47.700 --> 19:49.700 It was like that was God's word. 19:49.700 --> 20:02.140 And so these movements inside what was Evangelicalism had a major factor, 20:02.320 --> 20:07.060 were major factors in letting the Roman Catholic Church increase. 20:07.480 --> 20:12.500 And particularly here in the United States but across Europe as well. 20:13.160 --> 20:20.440 The Catholic Church was also increasing as it brought in a lot of drama and a lot of 20:20.440 --> 20:26.180 adoration for Mary and a lot of worship towards her. 20:27.080 --> 20:35.660 Before papal infallibility had been portrayed as a dogma in 1870, in 1854 20:35.660 --> 20:40.840 there was a famous dogma portrayed by the Catholic Church, the Immaculate 20:40.840 --> 20:41.580 Conception. 20:41.580 --> 20:49.020 It claimed that Mary was full of grace from the moment of her conception. 20:49.800 --> 20:53.160 The Immaculate Conception is not dealing with the virgin birth. 20:53.980 --> 20:58.720 Some bi-believers say, well we all believe in the Immaculate Conception, thinking 20:58.720 --> 21:01.400 that this is talking about the virgin birth. 21:01.760 --> 21:04.730 This is not talking about birth, it's talking about conception. 21:05.860 --> 21:08.940 It's Mary's conception in the womb of her mother. 21:08.940 --> 21:16.000 And to say that she was without stain of sin from the first moment. 21:16.300 --> 21:22.900 Reading from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 491. 21:23.600 --> 21:30.220 This is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses as Pius IX portrayed 21:30.220 --> 21:31.800 in 1854. 21:31.800 --> 21:36.640 The Most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, 21:37.160 --> 21:41.620 by a singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, and by virtue of the mercy 21:41.620 --> 21:47.600 of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of 21:47.600 --> 21:49.280 original sin. 21:50.180 --> 21:53.040 And then paragraph 493. 21:53.600 --> 21:59.380 By the grace of God, Mary remained free from every personal sin her whole life 21:59.380 --> 21:59.840 long. 21:59.840 --> 22:05.180 And so we have somebody who was without original sin. 22:06.400 --> 22:12.000 And this became one of the main bases for many other dogmas that have come since 22:12.000 --> 22:12.600 then. 22:13.020 --> 22:17.620 It is the principal dogma that the Catholic Church falls back on. 22:18.280 --> 22:20.160 Of course, there's nothing in Scripture. 22:20.360 --> 22:23.800 Scripture says all of sin falls short of the glory of God. 22:23.800 --> 22:30.000 Nonetheless, the Catholic Church has this as one of its main dogmas. 22:31.320 --> 22:42.160 It has been reinforced by a dogma that was actually based on it in 1950. 22:42.420 --> 22:47.780 I remember at Jesuit school, 1950 was called the Marian year, the whole year. 22:47.780 --> 22:51.100 I remember the date that this was produced. 22:51.980 --> 22:53.820 It was drama in the highest. 22:54.160 --> 22:59.040 Mary is proclaimed to be assumed into heaven. 22:59.300 --> 23:00.920 Christ was ascended. 23:01.160 --> 23:02.400 Mary was assumed. 23:02.820 --> 23:04.420 Christ is King of Kings. 23:04.620 --> 23:06.900 Mary is Queen of Heaven. 23:06.900 --> 23:15.520 And so they paralleled Jesus' life, his ascension, with Mary's assumption. 23:16.320 --> 23:19.000 And now he is King and she is Queen. 23:20.340 --> 23:24.580 So this became a main dogma in the Catholic Church. 23:24.800 --> 23:33.200 And it has been ever since one of the main dogmas of the Catholic Church turns back 23:33.200 --> 23:33.680 to. 23:34.440 --> 23:40.320 I read the official words from the Caddys of the Catholic Church, paragraph 966. 23:40.880 --> 23:46.440 Finally, the Immaculate Virgin preserved free from all stain of original sin, 23:46.740 --> 23:51.120 when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up, body and soul, 23:51.300 --> 23:58.880 into heavenly glory, exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she 23:58.880 --> 24:03.480 might be more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of Lords, the conqueror of sin 24:03.480 --> 24:04.020 and death. 24:04.620 --> 24:10.500 The assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's 24:10.500 --> 24:14.560 resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians. 24:15.860 --> 24:19.140 And then it finishes with a prayer to Mary herself. 24:20.360 --> 24:28.560 And so she is exalted in this way in the Catholic Church. 24:29.400 --> 24:34.100 It is not only important to understand these dogmas, but to understand how they 24:34.100 --> 24:36.300 are lived in Roman Catholicism. 24:36.940 --> 24:39.180 How do Catholics live these? 24:39.540 --> 24:43.480 How do they see them? 24:43.560 --> 24:50.440 They see them principally through the drama of the apparitions, Mary appearing 24:50.440 --> 24:52.600 in nations right across the world. 24:52.880 --> 24:56.380 Because she appears as the Queen of Heaven. 24:56.380 --> 25:02.560 She appears as the Immaculate Conception, like she did at Lourdes and Fatima. 25:02.940 --> 25:07.880 She appears as the one who tells you that you have to suffer for your sins. 25:08.940 --> 25:14.680 I memorized when I was doing my sacrifices in the seminary, I memorized what Mary was 25:14.680 --> 25:20.840 supposed to have said at Fatima, that many souls go to hell because there 25:20.840 --> 25:23.280 is nobody to pray or do penance for them. 25:23.280 --> 25:28.660 I was a devout Catholic and because of that I took cold showers in the dead of 25:28.660 --> 25:33.440 winter and I flagellated myself, I beat myself with a little whip to feel 25:33.440 --> 25:39.940 pain, to pray that souls could get out of purgatory and that people would be good 25:39.940 --> 25:46.300 enough to die in the internal state of righteousness, what we call sanctifying 25:46.300 --> 25:46.880 grace. 25:47.920 --> 25:51.640 So this is how these dogmas are lived out. 25:51.640 --> 25:59.800 And these apparitions are big DVDs, videos and presentations in Catholic 25:59.800 --> 26:02.360 churches about what is happening. 26:03.160 --> 26:06.880 We have here in the States many apparition sites. 26:07.120 --> 26:16.040 Some of the most famous are Denver, Colorado, Conyers, Atlanta, just outside 26:16.040 --> 26:23.800 Atlanta in Conyers, Georgia and Phoenix, Arizona are some of the more famous sites 26:23.800 --> 26:35.240 where Mary appears and continues to teach people to suffer for their sins so that 26:35.240 --> 26:37.060 they may reach God. 26:37.720 --> 26:42.380 The Catholic Church continues also in its adulation of Mary. 26:42.640 --> 26:50.400 It has reached a point in the New Catechism whereby they proclaim her as the 26:50.400 --> 26:51.860 All-Holy One. 26:52.480 --> 26:58.000 Now this is really horrendous and it's quite unbelievable that any church calling 26:58.000 --> 27:02.520 itself Christian could say this, but this is the exact words. 27:02.520 --> 27:10.040 Paragraph 2677 By asking Mary to pray for us we acknowledge ourselves to be poor 27:10.040 --> 27:15.120 sinners and we address ourselves to the Mother of Mercy, the All-Holy One. 27:16.020 --> 27:23.700 She's not only said to be the All-Holy One in paragraph 2030, she's declared to be 27:23.700 --> 27:27.560 the model and source of holiness. 27:27.560 --> 27:32.880 From the church he, the Catholic, learns the example of holiness and 27:32.880 --> 27:37.460 recognizes model and source in the All-Holy Virgin Mary. 27:38.280 --> 27:44.600 So Mary is the source of a person's justification, sanctification and finally 27:44.600 --> 27:45.560 glorification. 27:46.300 --> 27:49.000 That is the source of how God shares holiness. 27:49.720 --> 27:52.620 In Scripture, of course, it's God so loved the world. 27:52.740 --> 27:56.800 There's no human creature as source of holiness. 27:57.620 --> 28:03.280 But this is why in Catholicism Mary is prayed to more than anybody else. 28:03.980 --> 28:08.060 Why we have the rosary, why the rosary finishes with the Hail Holy Queen, 28:08.120 --> 28:10.860 Mother of Mercy, Hail Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope. 28:11.720 --> 28:16.360 The prayer that never does she refuse prayer, God may refuse prayer. 28:16.360 --> 28:21.300 We had a prayer, the memoriary, that she never refuses to answer prayer. 28:22.540 --> 28:31.420 And so Mary is exalted and the apparitions become part and parcel of everyday life as 28:31.420 --> 28:33.240 Catholicism is lived out. 28:34.640 --> 28:39.880 The Catholic Church had some territory going back to 1929. 28:40.820 --> 28:45.920 But before that they were still dealing with Mussolini in Italy. 28:45.920 --> 28:54.120 From 1922 actually to 1943 they were in agreement with and actually made a 28:54.120 --> 28:57.180 concordat with Adolf Hitler in Germany. 28:58.880 --> 29:09.300 And his reign from 1933 to 1945 with Francisco, with Franco in Spain. 29:09.300 --> 29:15.500 Where Spain became so Roman Catholic with the influence of the Catholic Church and 29:15.500 --> 29:16.620 the dictator there. 29:17.360 --> 29:25.280 With Antonio Salazar in Portugal, finally wiping out Biblical faith in 29:25.280 --> 29:25.720 Portugal. 29:26.520 --> 29:37.120 And in a similar way in Austria with Edelbert Dolfus and Kurt von Schichnik 29:37.120 --> 29:41.180 from 1932 to 1934. 29:41.840 --> 29:46.820 With Juan Peron in Argentina from 1946 to 1955. 29:47.540 --> 29:55.320 And possibly the most infamous and brutal of all was with Anton Pavelic in Croatia 29:55.320 --> 29:57.520 from 1941 to 1945. 29:58.100 --> 30:03.760 This shows you how the Catholic Church deals civilly and with dictators. 30:04.800 --> 30:11.420 And it has been a huge success from the Catholic point of view. 30:12.420 --> 30:18.940 The money that still comes from the agreement made with Hitler to the Catholic 30:18.940 --> 30:21.900 Church directly from the state continues. 30:22.120 --> 30:27.360 The concordat that was made with Adolf Hitler continues. 30:27.920 --> 30:32.080 When I was building a church in Trinidad we got money from Germany. 30:32.080 --> 30:39.120 It was part of the agreement made under Hitler of the percentage that goes 30:39.120 --> 30:43.680 directly to the Catholic Church from the government. 30:44.780 --> 30:56.360 But Hitler was recognized by the Pope and it was Pius XI and he was the first head 30:56.360 --> 31:01.490 of state Pius XI to recognize the Nazi regime in 1933. 31:01.490 --> 31:06.890 Hitler himself of course was Roman Catholic until the day of his suicide. 31:08.390 --> 31:17.870 It is really horrific to see these dictators and how they have to establish 31:17.870 --> 31:27.670 further across Europe the work of the Jesuits but now by civil authority. 31:28.670 --> 31:36.310 The worst of all was Anton Pavelic, head of the new national state of Croatia 31:36.310 --> 31:40.050 carved out of Yugoslavia during the Second World War. 31:41.390 --> 31:54.550 He had relationship with, in his effort to wipe out the bi-believers in Croatia or to 31:54.550 --> 32:00.770 wipe out the orthodox however genuine they were as bi-believers, the Catholic sodom 32:00.770 --> 32:01.370 as evil. 32:01.370 --> 32:09.870 That was Archbishop Alois Stepanik and the policy was convert or die. 32:10.610 --> 32:14.470 200,000 actually converted under fear of death. 32:15.310 --> 32:17.690 700,000 choose to die. 32:17.830 --> 32:23.430 They were tortured, burnt, buried alive, shot, often digging their own graves. 32:23.430 --> 32:28.350 There are pictures of some of this on the internet and it is quite horrific. 32:28.870 --> 32:34.610 The Ustashe, worse than even the IRA in my own Ireland were one of the main 32:34.610 --> 32:37.610 instruments that the Catholic Church used. 32:38.170 --> 32:43.610 But it was unlike the Inquisition where the Catholic Church used civil authorities 32:43.610 --> 32:46.130 and the burning of the stake and the tortures. 32:47.490 --> 32:53.110 Here it was the friars, the priests and the monks with dagger and hatchet. 32:53.110 --> 33:01.290 That they came against the orthodox in particular but there were also others who 33:01.290 --> 33:06.190 they tortured and then sometimes even buried alive. 33:06.830 --> 33:18.410 The horrific years under Anton Pavelic are still one of the most graphic and brutal 33:18.410 --> 33:21.310 part of the Second World War. 33:22.310 --> 33:33.570 Now what many people don't realize is that the 605 years of people Inquisition has 33:33.570 --> 33:34.310 stopped. 33:34.310 --> 33:44.690 But that the Catholic Church continues with her policy to civilly bring in 33:44.690 --> 33:51.310 Catholic laws into nations and to bring them under the heel of Roman Catholicism. 33:52.150 --> 33:59.390 The woman continues to ride the beast and the Vatican as a civil power continues to 33:59.390 --> 34:02.930 have huge effect on nations of the world. 34:02.930 --> 34:06.650 Bible believers for the most part are totally ignorant of this. 34:06.830 --> 34:09.290 They do not even know the word Concordat. 34:11.730 --> 34:16.710 Put it into Google search engine and you will see some of the Concordats that have 34:16.710 --> 34:21.850 been established and the definition of Concordat. 34:21.850 --> 34:30.470 Concordat is an international contract binding a nation with the Vatican nation 34:30.470 --> 34:34.510 called the Holy See, the official name for it. 34:35.150 --> 34:43.410 It defines the right of the Catholic Church to define doctrine, education in 34:43.410 --> 34:49.910 many instances from a Catholic point of view as it touches Catholicism. 34:49.910 --> 34:56.810 Education as it touches economics and the Catholics are quite socialistic in their 34:56.810 --> 35:05.030 trends and very vocal about property belonging to everybody and denying private 35:05.030 --> 35:05.690 property. 35:06.610 --> 35:13.830 They negotiate the appointment of bishops and laws about marriage so that they take 35:13.830 --> 35:19.770 control over the marriage bed and how marriages are to be performed and what 35:19.770 --> 35:21.990 makes a marriage valid or invalid. 35:22.390 --> 35:25.250 This becomes part of civil law. 35:25.910 --> 35:35.070 Prior to 1989 the Holy See as the Vatican is called as a civil power had these legal 35:35.070 --> 35:39.910 agreements principally with Latin American and European nations. 35:40.910 --> 35:49.730 But from 1950 to 1999 there were 128 Concordats between Rome and other civil 35:49.730 --> 35:50.410 states. 35:51.430 --> 35:57.030 And then in the course of nine years we had 43 Concordats with nations. 35:57.890 --> 36:02.990 Even nations in the Middle East, Asia and Africa have entered into civil 36:02.990 --> 36:05.370 agreements with Rome. 36:08.250 --> 36:18.890 At the moment the Vatican has 174 nations where she has at least the recognition as 36:18.890 --> 36:23.210 a civil power with ambassadors sent back and forth. 36:23.490 --> 36:27.150 That's the beginning before a Concordat is established. 36:27.990 --> 36:34.350 It is quite sad that it was President Reagan here in the United States on 36:34.350 --> 36:42.470 January the 10th 1984 who reestablished the legal relationship between the Vatican 36:42.470 --> 36:44.550 as a civil power and the U.S. 36:44.710 --> 36:45.110 government. 36:45.990 --> 36:54.390 Before it had been broken off in 1865 because the Vatican during the Civil War 36:54.390 --> 36:56.310 had supported the Confederacy. 36:56.310 --> 37:00.050 And the U.S. 37:00.230 --> 37:05.730 Congress decided that no longer will we have Vatican ambassadors coming. 37:06.130 --> 37:14.290 But Reagan in 1984, it was quite sad at that time one congressman spoke against 37:14.290 --> 37:14.610 it. 37:18.690 --> 37:26.410 If it went further, if there was to be a Concordat whereby in more detail some 37:26.410 --> 37:31.190 civil laws are already accepted which the Catholics will tell you about under canon 37:31.190 --> 37:31.690 law. 37:32.790 --> 37:39.890 If a Concordat was to be established, I'm sure that nobody, not one congressman 37:39.890 --> 37:41.370 would bat an eyelid. 37:41.370 --> 37:45.450 It would not be on Fox News or on any of the newscasts. 37:45.550 --> 37:49.250 It would just pass unnoticed for the most part. 37:49.350 --> 37:55.410 It is really sad that people do not see how the Catholic Church is increasing in 37:55.410 --> 38:00.210 leaps and in bounds because of her agreements. 38:00.710 --> 38:06.590 And because of the way in which she instigates these things and maintains 38:06.590 --> 38:07.070 them. 38:07.070 --> 38:14.870 The Vatican desiring to maintain official diplomatic intercourse with all nations 38:14.870 --> 38:21.990 woos Iran with Iran's threats on Israel while she maintains diplomatic 38:21.990 --> 38:23.690 relationships with Israel. 38:24.490 --> 38:31.350 She has uninterrupted intercourse civilly with Cuba which she boasts. 38:31.970 --> 38:36.110 She has great difficulties with China, Korea and Vietnam. 38:36.110 --> 38:43.070 And Islamic nations are now signing on. 38:43.210 --> 38:57.190 There was a huge turnaround on October 11, 2007 when 138 Grand Muftis from each 38:57.190 --> 39:05.190 different branch of Islam, the Sunnis, the Shiites and the Sufis when they 39:05.190 --> 39:10.910 pronounced a call for peace between Islam and Christianity. 39:11.470 --> 39:13.370 This was a radical change. 39:13.930 --> 39:17.970 Islam was now reaching out to Christians. 39:17.970 --> 39:25.170 It is really sad to see Yale University here in the States and the professors from 39:25.170 --> 39:33.010 the Divinity sign on to this and apologize for the brutality done to Islam 39:33.010 --> 39:33.890 officially. 39:34.610 --> 39:40.470 And to see all the so-called evangelicals who have endorsed Yale's letter. 39:41.430 --> 39:43.930 It is quite horrific. 39:43.930 --> 39:52.630 If you want to read details of that and the 67 to date so-called Christians who 39:52.630 --> 39:59.750 have endorsed this agreement between the Vatican and the Vatican is now part of 39:59.750 --> 40:00.090 this. 40:00.710 --> 40:04.270 The Vatican, Islam and reaching out to other Christians. 40:04.270 --> 40:09.030 If you want to see that, it is acommonword .com is the webpage. 40:09.910 --> 40:14.230 And you will see the amount of so-called Christians. 40:14.470 --> 40:20.270 It is not just the Rick Warrens of the world, but there are many others that you 40:20.270 --> 40:25.990 would not expect who are agreeing that we should work together with Islam. 40:27.070 --> 40:37.010 The Vatican made a formal agreement with Islam on March 5, 2008 where they agreed 40:37.010 --> 40:41.310 to a New World Muslim Catholic Forum. 40:41.570 --> 40:42.750 That is what they call it. 40:43.190 --> 40:46.810 And the Catholics are now working together with Islam. 40:46.810 --> 40:52.010 I have done on search engines, I have looked up different cities like 40:52.010 --> 40:58.070 Chicago, New York and some of the main cities in the United States and seen how 40:58.070 --> 41:01.850 this is being lived out now on a local level. 41:01.850 --> 41:09.990 Whereby we have Muftis meeting together with priests and bishops and they are 41:09.990 --> 41:16.730 studying how to, on local level, bring further dialogue between the 41:16.730 --> 41:19.390 Catholic Church and Islam. 41:21.390 --> 41:26.270 When we are talking of Islam, we are talking about 1 billion people. 41:27.390 --> 41:31.390 Quite similar to Catholicism, 1 billion plus. 41:33.670 --> 41:37.550 This is 2 billion people worldwide. 41:38.310 --> 41:45.330 And even if the union is just beginning to cement together, it is a frightening 41:45.330 --> 41:46.050 union. 41:46.050 --> 41:52.770 It is frightening too when the Catholic Church, like it does with other nations, 41:53.350 --> 41:55.790 cements it with civil agreements. 41:56.310 --> 42:02.510 When it becomes part of civil law, what your economic thought is, 42:02.710 --> 42:08.750 how marriages are to be performed, what property rights people are to have, 42:09.190 --> 42:11.650 how things are to be instigated civilly. 42:13.150 --> 42:15.170 It is quite sad. 42:15.170 --> 42:21.270 When you look at the nations of the world, it breaks your heart to see nations where 42:21.270 --> 42:25.550 the civil agreements have been instigated for years. 42:26.770 --> 42:29.550 I lived in Trinidad for 21 years. 42:29.770 --> 42:33.290 I could look out from one of my parish houses and see Venezuela. 42:34.290 --> 42:37.350 Venezuela, thoroughly Catholic. 42:38.110 --> 42:40.270 1% Evangelical. 42:41.230 --> 42:47.690 Because Venezuela has for years and years had civil relationships with the Vatican. 42:48.250 --> 42:54.390 Whereby education from a Christian point of view is forbidden. 42:55.030 --> 43:00.550 Whereby Christian radio stations and other things cannot be established. 43:00.550 --> 43:03.350 It is the same in Spain and in Portugal. 43:04.610 --> 43:11.250 Where you see civil law is now Catholic laws come into civil law. 43:12.450 --> 43:17.390 It was quite frightening for me when I was in Slovakia in the year 2000. 43:18.350 --> 43:23.710 I was with many Bible-believing pastors in small churches. 43:24.450 --> 43:29.350 Most of them had left Lutheranism, or they had left Roman Catholicism, 43:29.850 --> 43:31.430 or the Orthodox Church. 43:31.890 --> 43:34.470 And these pastors were sold out to the Lord. 43:35.050 --> 43:42.530 But in that year 2000, as I spoke to some of these pastors, as we met together in a 43:42.530 --> 43:50.590 particular resort, that they told me that on that year the Vatican had a concordat 43:50.590 --> 43:52.110 with Slovakia. 43:52.970 --> 43:59.110 They said, now will be the time, from this time onwards, it will not be 43:59.110 --> 44:04.850 that the Catholics are protesting at our churches, but that it is the police will 44:04.850 --> 44:06.390 be coming to shut us down. 44:07.950 --> 44:10.950 People have no understanding of these things. 44:11.590 --> 44:15.310 It nearly broke my heart to hear from pastors in Slovakia. 44:16.030 --> 44:21.270 As they understood, they had been following concordats in other nations. 44:21.270 --> 44:27.570 They had been following how the Catholic Church increases by civil power. 44:28.750 --> 44:35.930 I have a DVD, a video online called the Vatican Controls Through Civil Power. 44:36.550 --> 44:37.810 It needs to be updated. 44:38.350 --> 44:39.730 It was made some years ago. 44:39.850 --> 44:47.770 But it does show you in more detail how the Catholic Church has increased in leaps 44:47.770 --> 44:52.750 and in bounds because of her civil agreements. 44:54.110 --> 44:59.510 The Catholic Church is indeed what it says in Revelation. 45:00.790 --> 45:06.070 The woman which thou sawest is that great city which ruleth over the kings of the 45:06.070 --> 45:06.450 earth. 45:07.350 --> 45:12.910 The city that rules over the kings of the earth, whose colors are scarlet and 45:12.910 --> 45:13.330 purple. 45:14.150 --> 45:18.970 I remember as a priest at Vatican II, I went out to the square. 45:19.190 --> 45:23.930 I saw the square flood with the cardinals coming out and the bishops. 45:24.830 --> 45:25.850 I was watching. 45:26.350 --> 45:28.090 This was not Hollywood. 45:28.350 --> 45:30.390 This was real before my eyes. 45:30.930 --> 45:34.430 And I was frightened because it was scarlet and purple. 45:35.150 --> 45:43.510 And I at least knew my Bible well enough to know that this was the colors portrayed 45:43.510 --> 45:45.290 in Revelation 17. 45:46.030 --> 45:50.190 At that stage, because I had been indoctrinated in Catholic history, 45:50.730 --> 45:55.310 I did not know how she had drank the blood of the saints. 45:56.310 --> 46:03.270 How she had been responsible for torture of over 50 million people right through 46:03.270 --> 46:05.330 the 605 years. 46:06.490 --> 46:10.730 How many of those bi-believers were actually burnt at the stake. 46:11.710 --> 46:16.410 Her blood, the blood on her hands for all those many years. 46:17.510 --> 46:23.790 If you haven't seen our DVD on the Inquisition, it is quite professional and 46:23.790 --> 46:25.330 it is quite graphic. 46:25.850 --> 46:30.250 We show you the pictures of torture, the actual pictures as they are today. 46:31.010 --> 46:37.490 We give some dramatization from Bob Jones University of how some of these tortures 46:37.490 --> 46:40.770 were instigated and the actual burning at the stake. 46:41.770 --> 46:43.690 But it is history. 46:44.930 --> 46:47.290 Rome has drunk the blood of the saints. 46:47.290 --> 46:53.670 She still sits in the temple of God calling herself God. 46:55.690 --> 46:59.530 Who is it that calls himself the Holy Father? 47:01.330 --> 47:04.970 The words that Christ Jesus used in John 17. 47:05.610 --> 47:11.150 It is the Pope of Rome calls himself the Holy Father, the Holy One. 47:12.910 --> 47:16.370 When you address him, you are supposed to call him His Holiness. 47:16.370 --> 47:19.670 He calls himself the Holy Father. 47:20.090 --> 47:24.230 He portrays that he is infallible, an attribute of God. 47:27.240 --> 47:37.370 It is quite horrendous that the movement such as the Schofield Bible, Darwin's 47:37.370 --> 47:44.970 evolution of course comes in a spiritual sense with mysticism has helped with the 47:44.970 --> 47:51.170 spiritual evolution, has helped further the whole emerging church movement. 47:51.630 --> 47:57.610 But the whole movement in the futurism of the Schofield Bible, Dallas Theological 47:57.610 --> 48:05.310 College, that these things have and the brethren have really shaped American Bible 48:05.310 --> 48:06.330 believing churches. 48:07.050 --> 48:13.290 So that people do not see Rome as the Bible believer's thought of old. 48:13.830 --> 48:22.090 History has been forgotten and Roman Catholicism is free just to be another 48:22.090 --> 48:23.070 denomination. 48:23.070 --> 48:30.450 This is how we see things because Rome has increased. 48:31.570 --> 48:38.290 She has through Ignatius from early on right up through the centuries. 48:38.930 --> 48:45.290 She has increased and she has in the 20th century and in the 21st century continued 48:45.290 --> 48:46.190 to increase. 48:46.190 --> 48:52.590 Bible believers have to get back to the Bible and see what the scriptures actually 48:52.590 --> 48:53.310 say. 48:54.230 --> 48:59.990 The woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the 48:59.990 --> 49:00.370 earth. 49:01.730 --> 49:08.990 We will in the second part of this presentation next week deal with the 49:08.990 --> 49:12.370 papacy and the European Union. 49:12.370 --> 49:21.370 This has been a big part of the history of how the Catholic Church is having 49:21.370 --> 49:27.490 influence on the Catholic nations of Europe through the European Union. 49:28.150 --> 49:35.810 We will deal with the false ecumenism of Vatican Council II, more successful even 49:35.810 --> 49:41.670 than Vatican Council I from 1962 to 1965. 49:41.670 --> 49:48.130 We will deal with the critique called, the document called Evangelicals and 49:48.130 --> 49:53.670 Catholics Together I and II endorsed by such as J.I. 49:54.130 --> 49:54.910 Packer. 49:55.610 --> 50:03.370 It has had a horrendous effect in pulling down denominations and changing the face 50:03.370 --> 50:07.630 of what had been Bible believing churches in the United States. 50:07.630 --> 50:09.850 We will deal with that next week. 50:10.490 --> 50:20.830 We will deal with the 1999, the 31st of October Lutheran Catholic Accord whereby 50:20.830 --> 50:29.050 the Catholic Church officially in a decree after 30 years of trying to work together 50:29.050 --> 50:33.150 with the Lutherans finally brought the Lutherans to heel. 50:33.150 --> 50:38.490 These are other parts of the advance of Roman Catholicism. 50:39.410 --> 50:46.250 Finally, next week we will give an analysis of how we really face and deal 50:46.250 --> 50:51.670 with this movement of the advance of Catholicism from the time of the 50:51.670 --> 50:52.230 Reformation. 50:53.030 --> 50:56.670 Thank you for this time to be able to address you on this. 50:56.890 --> 51:05.530 I ask not only that you study these things, but that we have a history section 51:05.530 --> 51:11.570 on our webpage where you can study about details of some, not only of the early 51:11.570 --> 51:14.170 churches, but the Inquisition and things like this. 51:14.730 --> 51:18.790 But that you pray about it because this is a serious matter. 51:19.550 --> 51:21.650 People's eyes have to be open. 51:22.230 --> 51:28.530 We have to see the Vatican as a civil power, not just as a spiritual power. 51:28.930 --> 51:35.370 And we have to be able to deal with Catholicism as it is, which so few people 51:35.370 --> 51:36.210 understand. 51:36.210 --> 51:40.570 And that we will, as Bible believers, give a correct response. 51:41.110 --> 51:46.810 And that in our personal life and prayer and in our churches, we will see that the 51:46.810 --> 51:49.330 Word of God stands. 51:49.550 --> 51:51.490 And the prophetic Word of God stands. 51:51.830 --> 51:57.350 And the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to all who believe. 51:57.810 --> 51:59.230 May the Lord be praised. 52:00.210 --> 52:09.210 Father, we pray that as we have dealt with this very difficult response of 52:09.210 --> 52:17.030 Catholicism to the Reformation and seeing the advance of Catholicism, we pray that 52:17.030 --> 52:23.070 you would give us the wisdom how to deal with this as did the Bible believers, 52:23.350 --> 52:28.930 the Vaudois before the Reformation, the Albigensians, the Paulinists, 52:29.270 --> 52:31.590 all those at the time of the Reformation. 52:32.170 --> 52:34.670 That you would give us wisdom from on high. 52:35.150 --> 52:40.250 And that you would give us a love for the Gospel and a love for prophetic truths in 52:40.250 --> 52:46.390 the Scriptures so that we are equipped to deal with the woman who rides the beast. 52:47.070 --> 52:52.570 Father, empower us, we pray, and give us a love and a compassion for those who are 52:52.570 --> 52:59.930 trapped in this system, that we may reach out in the truth and in the love of Christ 52:59.930 --> 53:02.470 Jesus himself with the power of the Gospel. 53:03.110 --> 53:05.990 And we praise you, worship you, and thank you. 53:06.430 --> 53:08.090 In Jesus' glorious name. 53:09.050 --> 53:09.430 Amen. 53:13.770 --> 53:14.130 Amen.