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Welcome to Inquisition Update.
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And now we'll return where we left off in the book.
A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt, exposing Mystery Babylon.
What does the Bible speak of when it speaks of Mystery Babylon the Great?
Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.
And this portion of the chapter is entitled, Roots of a Modern Delusion.
And Dave Hunt says, Satan's promise to Eve that she could become one of the gods
became the foundation of pagan religion worldwide.
To achieve that goal, man would have to assert himself and labor mightily.
Thus was born the religion of self-effort.
In fact, works instead of grace has always been and still is the religion of which
Roman Catholicism is the prime example.
The rising tower of Babel seemed to give credence to the grandiose delusion,
the grand delusion, that man could reach heaven by his own efforts.
Nimrod was very likely the first emperor to be deified.
And thus was a forerunner of Antichrist.
As a matter of fact, I regard him as the prototype of the papacy today.
The papacy being the modern day Nimrod.
Everything that you found, or everything that you find in Nimrod, you find in
spades in the papacy today.
Now, beginning where we left off, at the top of page 58, if you are
following along in the book, Babel, and the city of Babylon, later constructed
around her ruins, was the cradle of the belief in a, quote-unquote, higher destiny
for all mankind.
Later, that dream would be limited to special races, such as the Aryans,
a claim which Adolf Hitler's Nazism would pursue, to the destruction of six million
Jews.
Echoing the serpent's lie, Hitler would say, quote,
The Jews, however, were not men at all, in Hitler's estimation, but untermenschen,
in other words, sub-humans, who he determined to exterminate for the good of
the Aryan race.
Hitler's theory of the, quote-unquote, purity of blood, which he sought to
maintain through extermination of the Jews, which ran unopposed by the Vatican,
by the way, had its roots in ancient occultism, involving a mythical Nordic
garden of Eden, in the north, known as Hyperborea.
There, an Aryan race of god-men had allegedly been spawned by gods visiting
Earth.
Nietzsche, whose writings heavily influenced Hitler, began his key work,
Antichrist, with the sentence, quote,
We are Hyperboreans all, unquote.
It was the lie of the serpent from the garden of Eden, once again.
Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Peter Weirich, finds the roots of the Nazi
dream of a master race of god-men ruling the world, not only in Hegel and
Nietzsche, but in Wagner, and a host of romantic writers, who all echoed the
serpent's lie to Eve.
The following excerpt is from the 1940 conclusion of Weirich's remarkable book,
Metapolitics, the Roots of the Nazi Mind, an ending which the original publisher
refused to include as being too extreme, but which hindsight now reveals was
amazingly accurate.
Quote, Mein Kampf was a best-seller long before of the German people, voting
uncoerced in the free Reichstag election of September 1930, increased the Nazi
seats from 12 to 107, and made them the biggest party in Germany.
By then, Hitler said in Mein Kampf, to pick a typical thread at random,
quote, if at the start of World War I we had held under poison 12 or 15,000 of
these Hebrew subverters of our people, then the sacrifice of a million Germans at
the front would not have been in vain.
The timely elimination of 12,000 bums.
The German enigma is, just what kind of behavior could those millions of
pro-Hitler voters from 1930 on expect of the monster mentality that composes such
held under threats.
His book is no classified secret document.
Millions of Germans own it.
A few must have browsed in it.
These few must have included some of the cheering public and also some influential
dignitaries with access to press, radio, and other means of warning the
public.
Someday, the same Germans now cheering Hitler's strut into Paris will say,
quote, we did not know what went on, unquote.
And when that day of know-nothing comes, there will be laughter in hell,
unquote.
They said Adolf Hitler was chosen of God.
The Roman Catholic Church said Adolf Hitler was chosen of God.
He says, surely, Mein Kampf must also have been known to many of 30 million Roman
Catholics in Germany as well as to the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church,
both there and in Rome.
Yet the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy praised Hitler, sometimes in the most
extravagant terms.
Pope Pius XI told Vice Chancellor Fritz von Papen, himself a leading Roman
Catholic, quote, how pleased he was that the German government now had at its head
a man uncompromisingly opposed to Communism, unquote.
No word of reproof against the evil that Hitler had loosed upon Germany.
What was the Third Reich?
What was Adolf Hitler?
What was the Nazi Party?
What was the Second World War?
A Roman Catholic, Holy Roman Crusade against Jews and Protestants and other
non-Roman Catholic sects like the Orthodox Serbs in Yugoslavia.
And it was all, quote, as a war against Communism.
Now, Bishop Burning published a book stressing the link between Catholicism and
Patriotism and sent a copy to Hitler, quote, as a token of my devotion,
unquote.
Monsignor Hartz praised Hitler for having saved Germany from, quote, the poison of
liberalism and the pest of Communism, unquote.
Now, I'll remind my listeners what liberalism is.
Liberalism is a nondescript term that secretly means Roman Catholics who do not
obey the Pope and who love Protestant liberties and want just to live and let
live.
They're not interested in following Roman Catholic canon law.
They may go to the Roman Catholic Church.
They may participate in the Mass and the other sacraments, so-called, of the Roman
Catholic Church.
But they're not true Catholics according to the papacy.
And, of course, the word liberalism also applies in even greater terms to
Protestantism, which has rejected both the spiritual and temporal power of the Pope
and labeled him, as does the Bible and all of history, Antichrist.
But it was all cloaked as a war against Communism.
Now, Catholic publicist Franz Titchener praised, quote, the Führer, gifted with
genius, unquote, and declared that he had, quote, been sent by Providence,
capital P, in order to achieve the fulfillment of Catholic social ideas,
unquote.
What do you suppose Catholic social ideas is?
Catholic social idealism is the unity of church and state.
The Roman Catholic Church becomes the state-sponsored church, and no other
religion is tolerated.
That's what Catholic social ideas means.
Most German Catholics were in a state of euphoria after the 1933 concordat between
Hitler and the Vatican was signed.
Catholic young men were ordered, quote, to raise their right arm in salute
and to display the swastika flag.
The Catholic youth organization, Neudeutsche Jugend, called for the full
and close cooperation between the totalitarian state and the totalitarian
church, unquote.
Now, what was the totalitarian state?
Roman Catholic Nazi Germany.
And what was the totalitarian church?
The same one it's always been, the Roman Catholic Church.
The German bishops together pledged their solidarity with national socialism.
Addressing a gathering of Catholic youth at the Cathedral of Trier, Bishop
Bornwasser declared, quote, With raised heads and firm step, we have entered the
new Reich, and we are prepared to serve it with all the might of our body and soul,
unquote.
What is the Third Reich?
An attempt to restore the Holy Roman Empire that had fallen around its papal
foundations after the Protestant Reformation.
So what must be destroyed?
Much talk about the Jews, but it was to destroy Protestantism.
And I'm telling you, the persecution against the Jews was simply to set the
stage for a mass emigration of Jews to Israel.
And to kill off any Jew that demanded that a modern nation state of Israel was not
God's will.
Two things were happening at the same time, through Nazi Germany and World War
II.
Preparing a mass exodus of Jewish Europeans to go to Israel, to flee to
Israel for protection.
An attempt to kill off every Jew that said it was not God's will for there to be a
modern nation state of Israel.
And to kill as many Protestants as possible.
And a close examination of the history of World War II will make this apparent to
anyone with an open mind.
Now Bishop Vogt-Achen, in a congratulatory telegram, promised Hitler that,
quote, Diocese and Bishop will gladly participate in the building of the new
Reich.
Unquote.
Alright?
Diocese and Bishop.
Who is that?
The Roman Catholic people, led by the bishops, will gladly participate in
building the new Reich.
Makes it pretty obvious that this establishment of the Third Reich was a
primary objective of the Roman Catholic Church.
Now Cardinal Fallhaber, in a handwritten note to Hitler, expressed the wish,
quote, Coming from the bottom of our heart, may God preserve the Reich
Chancellor for our people.
Unquote.
A picture appeared in a German-American paper showing Vicar General Steinmann
leading Catholic youth organizations in a parade past Hitler and returning to
Fuhrer's raised arms salute.
And now it's appropriate to mention that the typical Hitler salute is simply a
recreation of the old Roman salute.
It's identical in every way, and now you know why.
Continuing, he says, replying to the criticism from outraged American
Catholics, Steinmann declared that, quote, German Catholics did indeed regard
the government of Adolf Hitler as a God-given authority, and that someday the
world would, quote, gratefully acknowledge that Germany erected a bulwark against
Bolshevism.
Unquote.
What of Mein Kampf and the evil of Nazism?
University of Massachusetts Associate Professor of Government, Gunther Levy,
fled his native Germany as a boy of 15 in 1939.
He returned in 1960 to spend years researching official files.
Levy writes in the Catholic Church of Nazi Germany, quote, Pius XI in 1933 called the
Chancellor of the German Reich, that is, Hitler, the first statesman who,
together with the Pope, had clearly recognized the Bolshevik danger.
Bishop Ladersdorfer praised the, quote, harmonious collaboration of church
and state, that is, the Roman Catholic Church and the Nazi state, though the
Nazis had already imprisoned many Roman Catholic priests and nuns for political
reasons, unquote.
Now, why did the Nazis exterminate so many Roman Catholic priests and nuns?
Clearly, because they were liberal.
They wanted peace with Protestantism.
They either secretly or outwardly opposed Nazism and opposed the Pope's Fuhrer,
Adolf Hitler.
They opposed the concentration camps.
They opposed the persecution of Jews and unchristian-like behavior, both by the
church and the state.
Rome simply killed her own people for opposing the church and for opposing
Hitler and for opposing the Nazis.
On March 29, 1936, this is still a quote, 45,453,691 Germans, or 99% of those
entitled to vote, went to the polls.
Of these, 44,461,278, or 98.8% of those voting, voiced their approval of Hitler's
leadership.
And within the quote, in brackets, it says, the Catholic vote approving
Hitler was virtually unanimous.
So there you have an example of the Roman Catholic Church's power in politics.
Every Roman Catholic voted according to the dictates of the bishops and the
priests.
Continuing the quote, it says, A joint pastoral letter from all the
German bishops was read from the pulpits on January 3, 1937, stating that,
quote,
Now what are all those powers?
What are all those means?
That are always at the disposal of the Roman Catholic Church?
Force.
That's openly stated in Roman Catholic papal encyclicals and bulls.
That Rome has the divine right to use force to coerce cooperation with the
church, and with the state, when the state is subservient to the church.
Force.
Bloodshed.
War.
Torture.
Inquisition.
Interrogation.
Persecution.
Denial of basic civil rights.
Imprisonment.
Confiscation of property.
Excommunication.
Eternal damnation.
And even the denial of a Christian burial.
Those are just some of the means by which the church, means that the church always
has at its disposal, to mobilize spiritual, that is religious, and moral,
that is state forces, of the church in order to strengthen the confidence of the
Führer.
To read this quote without understanding anything about papal encyclicals or papal
definitions for words, it may seem wicked enough, but when you understand what is
really written here, it makes the hair stand on the back of your head.
Now he says, By this time no one could have been ignorant of Adolf Hitler's
ruthlessness or of his real goals.
Yet Catholic leaders, like most Protestant clergy in Germany, continued to heap
praise upon their fellow Catholic.
Two books on Reich and Kirche, that is church and state, published with
ecclesiastical permission, that is by the permission of the Roman Catholic Church,
called, quote, Deepening the understanding of the great work of German renewal,
which the Führer has summoned us, the biggest spiritual task of contemporary
German Catholicism, unquote.
Carl Adam, world-renowned Catholic theologian, argued that National Socialism
and Communism, or excuse me, National Socialism and Catholicism, far from being
in conflict, quote, belong together as nature and grace, unquote.
And that Adolf Hitler's Germany had found at last, quote, a true people's
chancellor, unquote.
So who were the true people of Germany?
The Roman Catholics.
The rest were not true people.
They were animals.
Okay?
That's how Rome has always viewed non-Catholics.
That's how Rome has always viewed those that she even describes as liberals.
And that's why she's just as happy to kill her own, as she is to kill a Protestant,
or a Jew, or an Orthodox, or anyone else who won't bow down and obey every single
word the Pope utters.
It says, a minority of brave men, both Catholics and Protestants,
opposed Hitler, some openly, others in secret plots.
A few voices were raised in public protest.
One belonged to a priest, a Father Muckerman, who dared to express his
amazement and consternation that, quote, despite the inhuman brutalities
perpetrated in the concentration camps, despite the personal insults against
individual princes of the Church, against the Holy Father and the entire
Church, the bishops find words of appreciation for what, next to Bolshevism,
is their worst enemy.
Unquote.
To answer an enigma.
The enigma of Germany remains the enigma of Russia.
China, Vietnam, Cuba, Haiti, Yugoslavia, South Africa, and the entire world of our
day.
On the other hand, it's not an enigma at all if one accepts the testimony of
Scripture.
We find the answer in Babel.
A tower which has never ceased to be under construction.
Only the location and outward form change from time to time.
But the perverted ambition, impossible dream that it is, remains steadfast.
The end result, the judgment of God that will come upon mankind, is foretold
clearly in biblical prophecy.
Make no mistake, we are hastening to that day.
In the meantime, the woman who rides the beast, whose name is Mystery Babylon,
has a key role to play.
As a result, she will taste God's judgment before the rest of the world knows its
full and awesome power as well.
Unquote.
Dave Hunt's telling it like it is.
None of us should be unaware of what Mystery Babylon is.
History drips with it.
The Bible does likewise.
And we need to call it what it is.
Renounce it and walk away from it.
Come out of her, my people.
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You know, the angel told John the Revelator, he said, come with me and I
will show you the judgment of the great whore.
The judgment of the Roman Catholic Church and this global antichrist system that
Rome has erected for the glory of the antichrist, the Pope of Rome.
What will be the end result?
Dave Hunt says, the end result, the judgment of God will come upon
mankind.
It is foretold clearly in biblical prophecy.
Make no mistake, we are hastening to that day.
In the meantime, the woman who rides the beast, whose name is Mystery Babylon the
Great, has a key role to play.
As a result, she will taste God's judgment before the rest of the world even knows
its full and awesome power as well.
I want my listeners to know who this woman is and how her power dictates virtually
every aspect of our lives today.
I don't want any of my listeners to be unaware.
Now, Dave Hunt continues, he says, in his important analysis in 1940,
Weyrich warned that Nazism was a religion that had infected Germany's youth.
It was pagan worship of nature, yet its claim to be Christian deceived
millions, as is happening in the United States today by the same means.
That perversion surfaced in the twisted thinking of Nazi minister of propaganda,
Joseph Goebbels, who admired Christ, quote, as one of a long line of Aryan
heroes, ranging from Wotan and Siegfried to Wagner and Hitler, unquote.
The, quote, shell game switch, unquote, was echoed by Dr. Lee,
head of the Nazi labor front, quote, Our faith is National Socialism,
unquote.
Hans Curl, Nazi minister of church affairs, furthered the lie that was
embraced by the majority of both Catholics and Protestants, quote, True Christianity
is represented by the party.
The Fuhrer is the herald of a new revelation, unquote.
New?
Weirich called Nazism a new propaganda, excuse me, a new paganism, and that it
was.
Actually, only the veneer was new, but underneath it was still Babel.
John's vision of the woman on the beast makes that fact abundantly clear.
Now he subtitles this next portion, Religion of Self-Effort.
And I will just add the words, as opposed to the free grace, the grace of
Jesus Christ.
Okay, this is the counterfeit.
Religion of Self-Effort.
God confounded the language of Babel's builders into numerous tongues,
so they couldn't understand one another, and thus were scattered.
But the proud religion of self-effort leading to deification of a master race
persisted, evidenced by the ruins of similar towers called ziggurats found
throughout that area of the world.
None of the towers, however, attained great height with that day's primitive
technology.
Heaven was still beyond man's reach, so the ziggurats became occultic altars of
every perversion.
On their pinnacles, astrology began, with the worship of heavenly bodies,
believed to have mystical power to control the destinies of men.
Far from dying out, Babel's religion of self-effort was institutionalized in
Babylon and throughout its vast empire.
This is paganism, the perennial world religion that persists to this day.
It lives on, not only among primitive peoples who worship nature spirits,
but flourishes among university professors who attribute similar intelligence to
nature's quote-unquote forces.
Paganism has been characterized worldwide throughout the centuries by mysterious
rituals celebrated around ornately carved and decorated altars atop structures such
as pyramids that one finds from Egypt to Central and South America.
Though warned of God through the prophets against this evil, Israel also succumbed
to pagan seduction.
This corruption of the truth he had taught them eventually brought God's judgment
upon his chosen people.
The Old Testament has many references to quote-unquote high places that were
constructed in Israel.
Violating the prohibition against quote, going up by steps, unquote, to God's
altar, they became the centers of Jewish idolatry.
See Leviticus chapter 26 verse 30, Numbers chapter 22 verse 41, etc.
At times of repentance and revival, these so-called high places with their
idols were destroyed by godly kings and priests.
But Israel never rid itself of this evil.
Both Orthodox and Catholics and even some Protestants have embraced the same
corruption by their stately structures elevated and gilded altars and ornate
vestments and intricate liturgies which presumably pleased God and helped open the
doors to heaven.
The bricks and mortar which were involved remind us that Babel was not only a
religious and political enterprise, but that it engaged the most advanced
technology or science of its day.
Today's science still represents an attempt to elevate man to godhood by
conquering space, the atom, disease, and eventually death itself.
Now this portion is entitled, Babel, Babylon is still alive and well.
At Babel, God scattered mankind and confounded their language so that they
could not communicate their evil designs to one another.
On Mars Hill in Athens, the Apostle Paul declared that God separates races and
nations so that they could concentrate upon him.
See Acts chapter 17 verse 26 and 27.
The consensus of opinion today is that we need just the opposite.
The solution to mankind's ills will come about through unscrambling the languages
and uniting all nations in scientific enterprises, which will ultimately turn
planet Earth into a paradise once again.
Such was the declaration of a recent Lockheed Corporation ad in the Scientific
American, featuring an illustration of the ancient tower of Babel.
Touting Lockheed's technological accomplishments, the ad boasted that its
scientific advancements were, quote, undoing the Babel effect, unquote,
by bringing mankind together and making it possible for all to speak one language.
In other words, Lockheed was countering God, the one responsible for what it
called the Babel effect.
The tower of Babel fills the official poster of the 12-nation united Europe,
whose new currency even depicts a woman riding a beast.
Circling above the unfinished tower are 12 stars.
Unlike those on the American flag, however, these stars are upside down,
thus forming the pentagram of classic occultism.
The pentagram, with its two horns pointing upward and its beard downward,
is also known as the goat of Mendes, or bafflement, a symbol of Satan.
International business machines, IBM, has also used the artist's depiction
of the tower of Babel in some of its ads, with modern high-rise buildings protruding
from the half-finished structure.
Why this nostalgic return to what most people today dismiss as a myth?
There seems to be an innate sympathy with Babel, a recognition that modern man is
carrying on where Babel left off, and is pursuing the same ambition of
achieving immortality by human effort.
God scattered the builders of Babel, but today's determination is the opposite.
To unite all nations into a new world order, God confounded the language.
But today's technology is aimed at breaking down every language barrier.
Soon there will be phones on the market which will allow English-speaking...
English spoken into the receiver in Los Angeles to come out the other end,
in Tokyo, as Japanese.
Dare we suggest that something is wrong?
Why not encourage and enjoy what intellect and talent can accomplish?
Even God acknowledged the limitless bounds of human capabilities when he said,
Whatever they imagine they will be able to do.
Whatever they imagine they will be able to perform.
God, however, had already declared that the imagination of man's heart is evil
from his youth.
See Genesis chapter 8 verse 21.
Thus human ingenuity, as God foresaw, would create ever increasingly evil until
the very survival of mankind would hang in the balance.
Surely today's threats to survival have all come from scientific genius.
Honesty would also force us to admit that the rise of urbanization, even in ancient
times, has contributed to the escalating tide of evil that threatens to engulf our
world today.
John's vision indicates that Babel, Babylon, will be very much alive in the
last days.
Emblazoned across the forehead of the woman riding the beast are the words,
Mystery Babylon.
That she represents revived paganism is clear.
Most interesting of all, however, is the fact that she embodies paganized
Christianity.
The woman represents a worldwide religious system which is based in Rome and claims
to be Christian, but which has its roots in Babel and Babylon.
That conclusion will become unassailable as we examine further the vision John
received.
Chapter 6 of this book is entitled, A City on Seven Hills, and it begins with
a quote from Revelation.
Chapter 17, verse 18 and 9.
The woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the
earth.
Here is the mind which hath wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth.
A city on seven hills.
A woman rides the beast, and that woman is a city built on seven hills that reigns
over the kings of the earth.
Was ever in all of history such a statement made?
John immediately equates the reader's acceptance of this revelation with wisdom.
We dare not pass over such a disclosure casually.
It merits our careful and prayerful attention.
Here is no mystical or allegorical language, but an unambiguous statement in
plain words.
Quote, the woman is that great city.
Unquote.
There's no justification for seeking some other hidden meaning.
Yet books have been written and sermons preached insisting that quote,
unquote, mystery Babylon is the United States.
That's clearly not the case, for the United States is a country, not a city.
One might justifiably refer to the United States as Sodom, considering the honor now
given to homosexuals, or rather, Sodomites, correctly speaking.
But it is definitely not the Babylon that John sees in this vision.
The woman is a city.
Furthermore, she is a city built on seven hills.
That specification eliminates ancient Babylon.
Only one city for more than 2,000 years has been known as the city on seven hills.
That city is Rome, Italy.
The Catholic encyclopedia states, this is from Rome's own encyclopedia,
quote, It is within the city of Rome, called the city of seven hills,
that the entire area of Vatican State proper is now confined.
Unquote.
There are, of course, other cities, such as Rio de Janeiro, that were also
built on seven hills.
Therefore, John provides at least seven more characteristics to limit the
identification to Rome alone.
We'll examine each one in detail in subsequent chapters.
However, as a preview of where we are going, we will list them now and discuss
each one briefly.
As we shall see, there is only one city on the earth, which in both historical and
contemporary perspective, passes every test John gives, including its
identification as mystery Babylon.
That city is Rome, and more specifically, Vatican City.
Even Catholic apologist Carl Keating admits that Rome has long been known as
Babylon.
Keating claims that Peter's statement, quote, The church here in Babylon sends
you her greeting, unquote, from 1 Peter, chapter 5, verse 13, proves that Peter was
writing from Rome.
He explains further, quote, Babylon is code word for Rome.
It is used that way six times in the last book of the Bible.
Four of the six are in chapters 17 and 18, and in extra-biblical works, such as
Sibling Oracles, The Apocalypse of Baruch, and Four Esdras.
Eusebius Pamphilius, writing about 303 AD, noted that, quote, It is said that Peter's
first epistle was composed at Rome itself, and that he himself indicates this,
referring to the city figuratively, as Babylon, unquote.
As for the word mystery, that name imprinted on the woman's forehead is
perfect designation for Vatican City.
Mystery is the very heart of Roman Catholicism, from the words magisterium
fide, pronounced at the alleged transformation of the bread and wine into
the literal body and blood and soul and divinity of Christ, to the enigmatic
apparitions of Mary around the world.
Every sacrament, from baptism to extreme unction, manifests the mysterious power
which the faithful must believe, they must believe, that the priest wields,
but for which there is no visible evidence.
Rome's new catechism explains that liturgy, quote, aims to initiate souls
into the mystery of Christ, it's mystagogy, unquote, and that all of the
church liturgy is, quote, unquote, mystery.
It's the mystery religion.
It calls itself the mystery religion.
Shall we argue with what Rome clearly admits?
Who is the whore of Revelation chapter 17?
The first thing we are told about the woman is that she is a whore, the
Revelation 17 one, that earthly kings, quote, have committed fornication,
unquote, with her.
Verse two, and that, quote, all the inhabitants of the earth have been made
drunk with the wine of her fornication, unquote.
See verse three.
Why would a city be called a whore and be accused of having committed fornication
with kings?
Such an indictment would never be made of London or Moscow or Paris or any other
ordinary city.
It wouldn't make sense.
Fornication and adultery are used in the Bible in both the physical and the
spiritual sense.
Of Jerusalem, God said, how is the faithful city become a harlot?
See Isaiah chapter one, verse 21.
Israel, whom God had set apart from all other peoples to be holy for his purposes,
had entered into unholy adulterous alliances with the idol-worshipping
nations around about her.
She had, quote, committed adultery with stones and with stocks, unquote,
meaning idols.
See Jeremiah chapter three, verse nine.
And, quote, with her idols they had committed adultery, unquote.
See Ezekiel chapter 23, verse 37.
The entire chapter of Ezekiel 16 explains Israel's spiritual adultery in detail,
both with heathen nations and with their gods, as do many other passages in the
Bible.
There's no way that a city could engage in literal fleshly fornication.
Thus, we can only conclude that John, like the prophets of the Old Testament,
is using the term in its spiritual sense.
The city, therefore, must claim a spiritual relationship with God.
Otherwise, such an allegation would be meaningless.
Though it is built on seven hills, there would be no reason to accuse Rio de
Janeiro of spiritual fornication.
It makes no claim of having a special relationship with God.
And though Jerusalem has that relationship, it cannot be the woman
riding on the beast, for it is not built on seven hills.
Nor does it meet the other criteria by which this woman is to be identified.
Against only one other city in history could a charge of fornication be leveled.
That city is Rome, and more specifically, Vatican City.
She claims to have been the worldwide headquarters of Christianity since its
beginning, and maintains that claim to this day.
Her Pope enthroned in Rome claims to be the exclusive representative of God,
the Vicar of Christ.
Rome is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, and in that too she is
unique.
Numerous churches, of course, are headquartered in cities, but only one city
is the headquarters of a church.
The Mormon Church, for example, is headquartered in Salt Lake City.
But there is so much more to Salt Lake City than the Mormon Church.
Not so with Vatican City.
It is the heartbeat of the Roman Catholic Church, and nothing else.
She is a spiritual entity that could very well be accused of spiritual fornication
if she did not remain true to Christ.
Now, what about this fornication with the kings of the earth?
This portion is entitled, Embed with the Rulers.
You are going to find out why the government of the United States is so
corrupt.
That they don't seem to care about the will of the people.
A government that was created of, by, and for the people is now of,
by, and for somebody else.
Not only does Rome's Pope call himself the Vicar of Christ, but the church he heads
claims to be the one true church and the Bride of Christ.
Christ's Bride, whose hope is to join her Bridegroom in Heaven, is to have no
earthly ambitions.
Yet the Vatican is obsessed with earthly enterprise, as history proves.
And in furtherance of these goals it has been, exactly as John foresaw in his
vision, engaged in adulterous relationships with the kings of the earth.
That fact is acknowledged even by Roman Catholic historians.
Christ said to his disciples, quote, If ye were of the world, the world would
love his own.
But because ye are not of the world, because I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you.
See John, chapter 15, verse 19.
The Catholic Church, however, is very much of this world.
Her Popes have built an unrivaled worldwide empire of property, wealth,
and influence.
Nor is empire building an abandoned feature of the past.
We've already seen that Vatican Council 2 clearly states that the Roman Catholic
Church today still ceaselessly seeks to bring under its control all mankind and
all their goods.
And that's exactly what they're doing.
Popes have long claimed dominion over the world and its peoples.
Pope Gregory XI's papal bull of 1372, In Sena Domini, claimed papal dominion
over the entire Christian world, secular and religious, and excommunicated
all who failed to obey the popes and pay them taxes.
In Sena was confirmed by subsequent popes, and in 1568, Pope Pius V swore that it was
to remain an eternal law.
The God of Rome has spoken, and the whole world wanders after this beast.
We must swear off Roman Catholicism and ecumenism, and return to Christ and Him
only.
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