WEBVTT 00:25.940 --> 00:27.060 Good morning. 00:27.220 --> 00:29.020 Welcome to Inquisition Update. 00:29.420 --> 00:32.360 My name is Tom Friess and I'll be your host for the next hour. 00:32.700 --> 00:35.340 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 00:35.460 --> 00:36.800 Thanks for tuning in, everybody. 00:37.680 --> 00:41.680 I'm going to resume now reading and discussing the book, A Woman Rides the 00:41.680 --> 00:43.020 Beast, by Dave Hunt. 00:43.800 --> 00:50.400 Yesterday we concluded on page 194, but we're going to back up this morning as 00:50.400 --> 00:57.120 usual for continuity purposes and begin the last portion on page 193 under the 00:57.120 --> 00:59.800 subtitle, The Catholic-Protestant Wars. 01:00.940 --> 01:05.440 That's right, after the Protestant Reformation, Europe was in turmoil. 01:05.660 --> 01:10.520 People were leaving the Roman Catholic Church and states were deciding whether 01:10.520 --> 01:13.460 they would be Protestant or Catholic. 01:14.300 --> 01:16.260 And that resulted in wars. 01:17.440 --> 01:21.160 And both sides participated in those wars. 01:21.340 --> 01:22.880 It wasn't just the papacy. 01:23.420 --> 01:27.520 It was a time of great bloodshed. 01:28.460 --> 01:34.280 Now it says, not satisfied with damning the Protestants theologically, 01:35.140 --> 01:41.460 which the canons and the decrees of the Council of Trent accomplished, 01:42.480 --> 01:49.800 wherein 100 anathemas were issued against the Protestant beliefs, Pope Paul III 01:49.800 --> 01:51.840 wanted to destroy them physically. 01:52.800 --> 01:59.000 The Council of Trent was not just a call to condemn the Protestants for their 01:59.000 --> 02:04.960 theological beliefs, their beliefs in the Bible, but the Pope wanted to destroy them 02:04.960 --> 02:05.560 physically. 02:06.370 --> 02:11.700 And it says, he offered the Holy Roman Emperor at the time, Charles V of Spain, 02:12.520 --> 02:22.020 1,100,000 ducats, 12,000 infantry, and 500 horses, if he would turn his full 02:22.020 --> 02:25.680 force, his military force, against the heretics. 02:26.220 --> 02:32.260 The Catholic Emperor was only too happy to have a reason to bring the rival 02:32.260 --> 02:39.100 Protestant princes of Germany into subjection, and quote, to crush 02:39.100 --> 02:44.520 Protestantism and give to his realm a united Catholic faith that would, 02:44.600 --> 02:49.460 he thought, strengthen and facilitate his own government, unquote. 02:50.380 --> 02:53.340 Nearly ten years of war across Europe ensued. 02:54.320 --> 03:00.720 Pope Paul III, quote, issued a bull excommunicating all who should resist 03:00.720 --> 03:07.580 Charles V, and offering liberal indulgences, that is, forgiveness of sins, 03:08.480 --> 03:15.180 to all who would aid him, Charles V, in annihilating the Protestants. 03:15.660 --> 03:20.860 Now, after heavy losses on both sides and much treachery among the rival rulers, 03:21.600 --> 03:25.840 the Protestants remained strong enough to force the Emperor into a compromise. 03:26.960 --> 03:30.120 Compromise with the Emperor and compromise with the Pope. 03:30.240 --> 03:34.100 It says, Will Durant explains the settlement that created the state 03:34.100 --> 03:39.500 churches, the state churches which still exist in Europe today. 03:40.440 --> 03:47.640 Quote, in order to permit peace among and within the states, each prince was to 03:47.640 --> 03:51.580 choose between Roman Catholicism or Lutheranism. 03:51.580 --> 03:58.380 All of his subjects were to accept, quote, his religion, whose realm it was, 03:58.700 --> 03:59.160 unquote. 03:59.340 --> 04:05.600 In other words, whatever religion the prince chose, you were to be of that 04:05.600 --> 04:06.140 religion. 04:07.120 --> 04:09.800 And those who did not like it were to emigrate. 04:10.660 --> 04:13.800 So people, mass emigration, back and forth between countries. 04:15.000 --> 04:19.120 Protestants moving to Protestant countries, Catholics moving to Catholic 04:19.120 --> 04:19.640 countries. 04:20.240 --> 04:24.120 Continuing with the quote, it says, there was no pretense on either side to 04:24.120 --> 04:25.020 toleration. 04:25.720 --> 04:30.120 The principle which the Reformation had upheld in the youth of its rebellion, 04:30.680 --> 04:34.820 the right of private judgment, was as completely rejected by the 04:34.820 --> 04:38.280 Protestant leaders as by the Catholics, unquote. 04:39.060 --> 04:46.480 Quoting further, it says, the Protestants now agreed with Charles and the Popes that 04:46.480 --> 04:51.080 unity of religious belief was indispensable to social order and peace. 04:52.000 --> 04:55.620 The princes were to banish dissenters instead of burning them. 04:56.540 --> 05:00.720 The real victor was not freedom of worship, but the freedom of the princes. 05:02.000 --> 05:07.800 Each became, just like Henry VIII of England, the supreme head of the church, 05:07.920 --> 05:12.780 whether Catholic or Protestant, in his territory, with the exclusive right 05:12.780 --> 05:17.260 to appoint the clergy and the men who should define the obligatory faith. 05:18.180 --> 05:24.180 The Erastian principle, that the state should rule the church, was definitely 05:24.180 --> 05:25.000 established. 05:25.880 --> 05:30.760 It was the princes, not the theologians, who had led Protestantism to its triumph. 05:31.600 --> 05:37.340 They naturally assumed the fruits of victory, their territorial supremacy over 05:37.340 --> 05:41.360 the emperor, their ecclesiastical supremacy over the church. 05:41.840 --> 05:48.660 In effect, the Holy Roman Empire died not in 1806, but 1555. 05:49.440 --> 05:55.380 So both sides held to religious intolerance, and the states governed the 05:55.380 --> 05:55.800 church. 05:56.680 --> 06:03.080 This is a part of history that I have somewhat neglected in my research, 06:03.480 --> 06:06.700 and it's to be understood. 06:07.340 --> 06:11.560 Now, it says, the story of the Reformation has been told elsewhere. 06:12.600 --> 06:17.000 There were evils perpetrated on both sides, which we lack the space to recount, 06:17.200 --> 06:17.900 says Davon. 06:18.480 --> 06:22.380 We are pursuing one objective primarily in this book. 06:23.080 --> 06:27.520 To identify the woman riding the beast in Revelation chapter 17. 06:28.520 --> 06:33.920 In this chapter, we're demonstrating the fact that, quote, mother of abominations, 06:34.280 --> 06:37.620 unquote, was inscribed on her forehead. 06:38.560 --> 06:41.140 Let us now move from the past to the present. 06:42.120 --> 06:46.580 Quote, unquote, abomination is a spiritual term. 06:47.460 --> 06:52.080 There's no greater abomination than rejecting the sacrifice that Jesus Christ 06:52.080 --> 06:57.100 made on the cross for our sins, unless it's leading others astray also. 06:57.850 --> 07:02.860 That abomination in varying forms continues in Roman Catholicism to this 07:02.860 --> 07:03.220 day. 07:04.000 --> 07:08.800 Another of Rome's great deceptions relates to marriage and divorce. 07:09.460 --> 07:14.080 Now, before I even read the next section, I'll remind the listeners that according 07:14.080 --> 07:22.620 to Roman Catholic Church dogma, marriage or matrimony is a sacrament of 07:22.620 --> 07:23.680 the Roman Catholic Church. 07:23.680 --> 07:32.980 That means that Roman Catholicism claims sole jurisdiction over marriage. 07:33.920 --> 07:40.780 And that a marriage made outside of the Roman Catholic Church is not valid. 07:41.820 --> 07:47.840 Okay, now with that, I'll continue under the subtitle, Divorce by Another Name. 07:48.180 --> 07:52.940 The Roman Catholic Church is known for its adamant stand against divorce. 07:52.940 --> 08:00.220 Yet, at the same time, she is a veritable and unique divorce mill, hiding this fact 08:00.220 --> 08:02.980 by deceitfully calling it by another name. 08:03.720 --> 08:10.120 The Roman Catholic Church in the United States grants, alone, alone, the Roman 08:10.120 --> 08:15.280 Catholic Church in the United States grants annulments by the tens of thousands 08:15.280 --> 08:15.980 each year. 08:16.640 --> 08:17.660 Did you realize that? 08:17.660 --> 08:24.540 That the Roman Catholic Church grants, just in the United States, ten thousand 08:24.540 --> 08:29.500 annulments, the equivalent of a divorce each year. 08:30.320 --> 08:33.180 And yet she stands publicly in defense of marriage. 08:34.240 --> 08:35.520 That divorce is sinful. 08:36.460 --> 08:40.500 And she simply is the greatest divorce mill in the country. 08:41.300 --> 08:42.940 She just calls it an annulment. 08:42.940 --> 08:48.740 Now it says, her use of psychology is particularly perverse. 08:49.800 --> 08:54.140 Many annulments are granted for quote-unquote psychological reasons, 08:54.920 --> 08:59.660 such as being raised in a quote-unquote dysfunctional family, or being quote 08:59.660 --> 09:05.640 psychologically unprepared, unquote, for a marriage that occurred decades 09:05.640 --> 09:07.640 before and produced numerous children. 09:08.520 --> 09:11.540 It is the ultimate in hypocrisy and cynicism. 09:11.540 --> 09:15.960 Another of the abominations Rome has birthed. 09:16.020 --> 09:23.160 There is an exception, here is an excerpt from a typical letter from a Roman 09:23.160 --> 09:29.340 Catholic diocese justifying to a distraught woman an annulment granted to 09:29.340 --> 09:31.340 her husband of thirty years. 09:32.420 --> 09:35.280 Five children, husband and wife, are both Catholics. 09:35.400 --> 09:36.400 Listen to what it says. 09:37.080 --> 09:38.880 This is from the Roman Catholic Church. 09:38.880 --> 09:44.200 This investigation by a court of the Catholic Church determines whether an 09:44.200 --> 09:50.940 essential element of the sacrament of matrimony was missing at the time the 09:50.940 --> 09:51.880 marriage was entered. 09:52.780 --> 09:57.140 If a careful investigation should determine that such an element as 09:57.140 --> 10:03.560 perceived by the Church was lacking, then your marriage does not bind you or 10:03.560 --> 10:07.860 Mr. So-and-so, so far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned. 10:07.860 --> 10:15.200 This decision does not have civil implications and does not make your 10:15.200 --> 10:23.040 children illegitimate." Of course, there are no quote-unquote civil 10:23.040 --> 10:23.980 implications. 10:24.760 --> 10:31.580 As unjust as the courts may be at times, civil judges are not yet ready to pretend 10:31.580 --> 10:36.660 a marriage didn't actually occur because one of the parties now claims that he or 10:36.660 --> 10:43.120 she was not psychologically prepared at the time or held some mental reservations 10:43.120 --> 10:45.760 as to whether it would work out. 10:46.320 --> 10:52.800 Sadly enough, some Catholics now file secret letters with their attorneys at the 10:52.800 --> 11:00.300 time of their marriage expressing doubts, just in case they want an annulment later 11:00.300 --> 11:00.760 on. 11:00.760 --> 11:05.860 Common sense would say that if there are doubts, then the vows should not be taken. 11:06.740 --> 11:10.640 And once the promise is made to be quote-unquote faithful for better or for 11:10.640 --> 11:13.200 worse, unquote, it should be kept. 11:13.780 --> 11:19.060 If couples can make solemn vows of fidelity and later break them without 11:19.060 --> 11:23.800 penalty and with the blessings of the Church, then all interpersonal 11:23.800 --> 11:27.720 relationships break down, whether business or private. 11:28.280 --> 11:32.160 No one can be trusted anymore to keep any promise. 11:32.900 --> 11:36.020 And isn't that the state of affairs today in the world? 11:36.960 --> 11:43.720 And this inability or unwillingness to keep any promise is just as much prevalent 11:43.720 --> 11:47.860 in the so-called Protestant churches as it is in the Roman Catholic Church. 11:48.680 --> 11:50.540 See what example Rome sets? 11:51.480 --> 11:55.700 And it should have been wise of the Protestants to reject this and openly 11:55.700 --> 11:56.760 condemn it. 11:56.760 --> 12:03.640 Now it says, the primetime television show of January 6, 1994 dealt with the issue of 12:03.640 --> 12:04.760 Catholic annulments. 12:05.640 --> 12:10.200 A Roman Catholic priest remembered hearing a church canon lawyer tell him, 12:10.620 --> 12:15.140 quote, Charlie, there isn't a Catholic marriage in the United States that we 12:15.140 --> 12:16.840 couldn't annul, unquote. 12:17.430 --> 12:23.660 A number of women guests told of their ex-husbands after a divorce seeking 12:23.660 --> 12:26.860 annulments so that they could remarry in the church. 12:27.720 --> 12:31.660 Barbara Zimmerman married 27 years and mother of five children. 12:32.220 --> 12:34.800 Pat Cadigan married 23 years. 12:35.600 --> 12:39.960 Sheila Roush Kennedy married to Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, 12:40.240 --> 12:45.820 Bobby Kennedy's eldest son, for 12 years and mother of his twin sons. 12:45.820 --> 12:51.220 A Catholic priest on the program, Father Patrick Cogan, explained that 12:51.220 --> 12:55.080 annulments are granted even though the church doesn't believe in divorce because, 12:55.500 --> 13:00.680 quote, the Catholic Church believes that it must hold on to a higher principle, 13:01.380 --> 13:01.740 unquote. 13:02.280 --> 13:03.000 Really? 13:03.880 --> 13:11.120 He explained that an annulment means, quote, there was never a marriage from the 13:11.120 --> 13:12.680 very beginning, unquote. 13:12.680 --> 13:18.520 Mrs. Kennedy responded angrily, quote, to say that a marriage that lasts 13:18.520 --> 13:24.700 close to 13 years that took place after a nine-year courtship and a marriage that 13:24.700 --> 13:28.940 created two wonderful children never happened is, to me, outrageous, 13:29.480 --> 13:29.920 unquote. 13:30.700 --> 13:37.360 Joseph Kennedy had explained to her, quote, but you have to understand that 13:37.360 --> 13:39.060 nobody believes this anyway. 13:39.060 --> 13:41.860 It's just Catholic gobbledegook. 13:42.240 --> 13:47.980 It's the way the church requires that you say these things, so don't take it so 13:47.980 --> 13:49.520 seriously, unquote. 13:50.280 --> 13:55.320 While claiming to stand for holiness, Rome corrupts her followers. 13:56.440 --> 14:02.180 On prime time, Barbara Zimmerman declared, quote, for my church to say, quote, 14:02.580 --> 14:08.580 well, you know, you can't get a divorce, but we'll annul it, and that'll take care 14:08.580 --> 14:09.740 of it, unquote. 14:10.460 --> 14:11.880 It's slimy. 14:12.780 --> 14:13.760 It's sleazy. 14:13.900 --> 14:14.940 It's dishonest. 14:15.580 --> 14:21.200 It's saying, quote, we'll get around our own rules, close all quotes. 14:21.880 --> 14:25.620 The implications for eternity are solemn indeed. 14:26.460 --> 14:30.320 If the Roman Catholic Church can't be trusted to tell the truth about marriage 14:30.320 --> 14:34.500 and divorce, then how can it be trusted when it comes to salvation? 14:35.480 --> 14:42.040 To be cheated in this life is costly enough, but to be cheated for eternity is 14:42.040 --> 14:44.760 a loss from which there is no recovery. 14:45.640 --> 14:50.500 The golden chalice held by the woman riding the beast in Revelation chapter 17 14:50.500 --> 14:56.200 was filled with, quote, the abominations and filthiness of her fornication. 14:56.360 --> 14:58.560 See Revelation 17 verse 4. 14:58.560 --> 15:07.780 There is not and never has been a city on earth except, quote, unquote, Christian 15:07.780 --> 15:11.480 Rome, which perfectly fits that description. 15:12.380 --> 15:19.020 She has been the seducer of souls, leading multitudes in the abominations of 15:19.020 --> 15:25.580 idolatry, sexual immorality, the denial of the sufficiency of Christ's redemptive 15:25.580 --> 15:31.360 work upon the cross, and the sale of counterfeit salvation in its place, 15:31.760 --> 15:39.500 and has done it while posing as the one true church acting in the name of Christ. 15:40.420 --> 15:42.280 That concludes chapter 13. 15:42.560 --> 15:48.020 We'll continue now with chapter 14, entitled An Incredible Metamorphosis. 15:48.020 --> 15:49.540 This is an important chapter. 15:49.660 --> 15:51.260 It begins with a couple of quotes. 15:51.420 --> 15:58.440 The first from Revelation chapter 17 verse 6, quote, And I saw the woman, 15:58.660 --> 16:02.460 and when I saw her I wondered with great admiration. 16:03.320 --> 16:10.060 And this quote from St. Augustine, quote, The man who enters a fourth century 16:10.060 --> 16:17.080 church is bound to see drunkards, misers, tricksters, gamblers, adulterers, 16:17.240 --> 16:23.280 fornicators, people wearing amulets, assiduous clients of sorcerers, 16:23.860 --> 16:24.920 astrologers. 16:25.590 --> 16:31.160 He must be warned that the same crowds that press into the churches on Christian 16:31.160 --> 16:36.160 festivals also fill the theaters on pagan holidays. 16:37.120 --> 16:37.580 Unquote. 16:38.460 --> 16:42.760 Again chapter 14 is entitled An Incredible Metamorphosis. 16:43.680 --> 16:48.700 That a gorgeously clad woman should be holding the reins astride such a 16:48.700 --> 16:54.060 terrifying world devouring beast was just cause for astonishment. 16:54.060 --> 17:00.500 The apostle John appears, however, to have been dumbfounded by more than that 17:00.500 --> 17:01.080 fact. 17:01.420 --> 17:09.700 Indeed, by the woman herself, quote, When I saw her I wondered with great 17:09.700 --> 17:11.780 admiration, or amazement. 17:12.180 --> 17:12.560 Unquote. 17:12.920 --> 17:13.340 Why? 17:14.240 --> 17:16.880 Was it because the woman was a religious figure? 17:17.580 --> 17:18.400 Hardly. 17:19.180 --> 17:24.560 That religion should wield great authority was a universal fact of John's day. 17:25.580 --> 17:30.760 Church and state were united as one with religion playing the dominant role. 17:31.500 --> 17:36.800 If the woman merely represented pagan world religion, John would hardly have 17:36.800 --> 17:37.640 been surprised. 17:38.480 --> 17:41.600 What could there have been about this woman that astonished John? 17:42.200 --> 17:47.040 Had he known her before and was shocked by the unbelievable transformation? 17:48.360 --> 17:54.160 Beneath the luxurious attire, the pricely jewelry, the heavy cosmetics, and the 17:54.160 --> 18:00.500 shamelessly impudent stare, there was a haunting familiarity. 18:01.500 --> 18:03.060 It couldn't be possible. 18:03.960 --> 18:08.320 How had Christ's chaste bride become this brazen whore? 18:08.320 --> 18:17.440 What a diabolical mutation had transformed that small, despised flock of humble 18:17.440 --> 18:23.580 followers of the Lamb into this notorious prostitute, toasting Satan with the blood 18:23.580 --> 18:25.640 of the martyrs in a golden chalice. 18:26.500 --> 18:32.440 How could the church, hated and persecuted by the world as Christ had said she would 18:32.440 --> 18:39.140 be, how could she have become this powerful worldwide institution that 18:39.140 --> 18:40.800 reigned over the kings of the earth? 18:41.600 --> 18:43.340 John was staggered. 18:43.540 --> 18:45.980 What he was being shown seemed impossible. 18:46.560 --> 18:51.100 That those who belonged to Christ would find themselves in a false church, 18:51.600 --> 18:52.240 a whore. 18:52.240 --> 18:56.340 There would be no possibility of reforming her from within. 18:57.280 --> 19:00.340 The cry would come from the Lord himself in heaven. 19:00.520 --> 19:06.340 Quote, come out of her, my people, that she be not partakers of her sins. 19:06.920 --> 19:11.760 Revelation 18.4 History authenticates John's vision. 19:12.380 --> 19:18.620 It has become quite clear that the world religion under Antichrist will not be 19:18.620 --> 19:23.680 atheism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, or even the New Age. 19:24.280 --> 19:29.040 It will be Christianity, but in a paganized form. 19:29.540 --> 19:34.640 Exactly what it became under the leadership of the Emperor Constantine and 19:34.640 --> 19:36.920 his successors, the Popes. 19:37.670 --> 19:41.560 The coming world religion will have its headquarters in Rome. 19:42.280 --> 19:47.540 Now under the subtitle, The Persecuted Early Church, Dave writes, For more than 19:47.540 --> 19:52.820 two centuries, as Tertullian said, the blood of the martyrs was the seed of a 19:52.820 --> 19:55.560 heavenly-minded church without earthly ambition. 19:56.300 --> 20:00.640 A church whose members had increased to about 10% of the Roman Empire. 20:01.360 --> 20:05.700 The church that Christ had established seemed to thrive under persecution. 20:06.640 --> 20:12.100 Mistreatment by the world kept her pure, detached from earthly desires, 20:12.300 --> 20:14.360 and longing to be with Christ in heaven. 20:15.240 --> 20:17.880 Christians were radically different from pagans. 20:18.400 --> 20:24.540 They were misfits, despised and blamed for every disaster because their refusal to 20:24.540 --> 20:29.680 worship the idols had presumably brought down the wrath of the gods. 20:30.420 --> 20:36.340 Early in the 3rd century, Tertullian wrote, If the Tiber reaches the walls, 20:36.800 --> 20:42.640 if the Nile does not rise to the fields, if the sky doesn't move or the earth does, 20:43.280 --> 20:50.240 if there is famine, if there is plague, the cry is at once, quote, the Christians 20:50.240 --> 20:53.140 to the lions, close quotes. 20:54.020 --> 20:59.620 In other words, Christians were blamed for every calamity, simply because they would 20:59.620 --> 21:02.240 not worship the pagan gods of Rome. 21:02.640 --> 21:09.960 A successful Roman lawyer and convert to Christianity from Stoicism, Tertullian was 21:09.960 --> 21:13.800 one of the church's first and most prominent theologians and apologists. 21:14.520 --> 21:18.440 He openly attacked every facet of pagan culture and religion. 21:19.660 --> 21:29.260 Needling the pagans who debated him, Tertullian declared, quote, Day by day 21:29.260 --> 21:32.340 you've grown over the ever increasing number of Christians. 21:33.240 --> 21:38.300 Your constant cries that your state is beset by us, that Christians are 21:38.300 --> 21:39.640 everywhere, unquote. 21:39.640 --> 21:44.140 An early church leader described Christians with these words, quote, 21:44.880 --> 21:49.900 But while they dwell in Greek or barbarian cities, according to each man's lot has 21:49.900 --> 21:55.700 been cast, and follow the customs of the land in clothing and in food and other 21:55.700 --> 22:00.860 matters of daily life, yet the condition of citizenship which they exhibit is 22:00.860 --> 22:03.560 wonderful and admittedly strange. 22:03.560 --> 22:10.260 They live in countries of their own, but simply as sojourners, enduring the lot 22:10.260 --> 22:11.120 of foreigners. 22:12.220 --> 22:15.820 They exist in the flesh, but they live not after the flesh. 22:16.280 --> 22:20.640 They spend their existence upon earth, but their citizenship is in heaven. 22:21.520 --> 22:26.500 They obey the established laws, and in their own lives they surpass the 22:26.500 --> 22:27.020 laws. 22:27.660 --> 22:33.020 They love all men, and are persecuted by all, unquote. 22:33.020 --> 22:39.140 The persecutions of the third century were far more severe than the earlier ones. 22:40.120 --> 22:46.500 Clement reported, quote, Roastings, impalings, and beheadings of Christians in 22:46.500 --> 22:50.840 Alexandria before he fled the city around 203 A.D. 22:51.760 --> 22:56.620 Persecutions came in waves, punctuated by periods of relative tolerance and 22:56.620 --> 22:57.320 tranquility. 22:57.320 --> 23:03.040 The totalitarian system of the Caesars made the pagan view of the emperor as 23:03.040 --> 23:08.240 deity, and he had absolute control over life and death, it was believed, 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unquote, 29:16.860 --> 29:22.320 of Christians in Alexandria before he fled that city around 203 A.D. 29:23.140 --> 29:30.940 Persecutions came in waves, punctuated by periods of relative tolerance and 29:30.940 --> 29:31.740 tranquility. 29:32.410 --> 29:39.460 The totalitarian system of the Caesars made the pagan view of the emperor as 29:39.460 --> 29:42.420 deity all the more credible. 29:42.960 --> 29:50.800 That's right, the Caesars were pagans, and they were called Pontifex Maximus. 29:50.900 --> 29:53.040 They were both the church and the state. 29:53.040 --> 29:55.760 The Caesars were god-men. 29:56.580 --> 29:56.740 Okay? 29:57.380 --> 29:59.340 They were regarded as deity. 30:00.420 --> 30:06.600 They were even ascribed absolute control over life and death, says the author. 30:07.360 --> 30:15.120 It says loyalty to the traditional pagan cults headed by the emperor as Pontifex 30:15.120 --> 30:18.060 Maximus was a form of patriotism. 30:18.060 --> 30:24.660 Okay, if you didn't worship the pagan gods and make sacrifices to the pagan gods, 30:24.940 --> 30:33.500 if you didn't, well, find favor with the god-king, the Caesar, you were listed as 30:33.500 --> 30:36.860 unpatriotic, a domestic terrorist. 30:37.580 --> 30:38.360 Right? 30:39.240 --> 30:43.480 That's how true Bible-believing Christians were viewed in the pagan nation, 30:44.360 --> 30:45.740 in the Roman Empire. 30:45.740 --> 30:50.720 That's why Rome so brutally persecuted the Christians. 30:51.780 --> 30:57.460 They would not come to the temples and worship and make sacrifices to the pagan 30:57.460 --> 30:58.080 gods. 30:58.340 --> 31:01.620 They were loyal to Christ, the god of gods. 31:01.620 --> 31:09.140 Now, the Christian rejection of the pagan gods and emperor worship was seen as 31:09.140 --> 31:17.120 treason and fueled popular hatred against this, quote-unquote, unpatriotic minority. 31:17.960 --> 31:19.960 Now, I'll stop right there and just describe. 31:20.160 --> 31:26.440 If you've been paying attention to the latest decrees from Antichrist Pope 31:26.440 --> 31:35.880 Francis I, he has openly declared to the outrage of many, many Catholics that the 31:35.880 --> 31:41.160 Roman Catholic Church embraces all religions, that all religions are viable 31:41.160 --> 31:42.440 pathways to God. 31:42.560 --> 31:49.460 This is clearly against Roman Catholic canon law and canonical teaching of the 31:49.460 --> 31:50.440 Roman Catholic Church. 31:51.200 --> 31:56.880 All these religions that were once regarded as heretical by the Roman 31:56.880 --> 32:01.620 Catholic Church, crusades were launched against them. 32:01.800 --> 32:08.140 Inquisitions were put in place to destroy them and to extirpate them and to 32:08.140 --> 32:12.280 persecute them and to confiscate their properties. 32:12.280 --> 32:20.360 World wars that were staged to overthrow these pagan religions and to replace them 32:20.360 --> 32:26.020 with Roman Catholicism have now been embraced by this Jesuit Pope. 32:26.620 --> 32:36.160 And, of course, the whole world now, listening to this aberration in Rome, 32:37.080 --> 32:40.520 Pope Francis I, just think he's wonderful. 32:40.520 --> 32:43.580 All religions are now acceptable. 32:44.240 --> 32:46.260 Now let me point out something to you. 32:46.600 --> 32:47.940 Our Bible makes it clear. 32:48.740 --> 32:51.660 The infallible Word of Almighty God makes it clear. 32:52.280 --> 32:53.540 It's indisputable. 32:53.680 --> 32:59.540 The Bible says that the Popes, that great city, Rome, the Vatican, 33:00.420 --> 33:02.020 rules over the kings of the earth. 33:02.800 --> 33:08.280 And for years we've been covering here on Inquisition Update just how the Popes did 33:08.280 --> 33:10.940 rule over the kings of the earth. 33:11.760 --> 33:15.840 It's been a love-hate relationship between the papacy and the kings of the earth. 33:15.980 --> 33:22.660 But eventually, all the kings eventually came crawling on their knees to the Pope 33:22.660 --> 33:28.520 and accepted their crown from him and obeyed him or suffered the consequences. 33:28.520 --> 33:35.040 If the king refused to obey the Pope, the Pope would issue excommunications and 33:35.040 --> 33:41.640 interdicts upon the whole nation to make a whole nation suffer because their king 33:41.640 --> 33:43.100 would not submit to the Pope. 33:43.520 --> 33:50.140 He would overthrow governments by raising the people against the king to unseat him 33:50.140 --> 33:54.240 from his throne and to put a papist on the throne in his place. 33:54.240 --> 34:00.120 So the kings of the earth have always served the papacy. 34:00.680 --> 34:03.480 They've always been a friend of the papacy. 34:04.220 --> 34:07.680 It was the people who raised up against the papacy. 34:08.340 --> 34:16.800 It was the people who were always enslaved and tormented and kept ignorant and kept 34:16.800 --> 34:23.460 unquestionably subservient to this union of church and state. 34:23.460 --> 34:25.980 The union of the popes with the kings of the earth. 34:26.900 --> 34:29.780 So Rome had some opposition with the people. 34:29.900 --> 34:34.780 The people always occasionally rising up and demanding liberty. 34:35.300 --> 34:36.660 Liberty of conscience. 34:36.880 --> 34:37.840 Liberty of religion. 34:38.660 --> 34:43.300 And for Protestants, freedom to worship God according to the written word of God. 34:44.160 --> 34:49.600 So Rome constantly had opposition cropping up here and there and especially after the 34:49.600 --> 34:50.600 Protestant Reformation. 34:50.600 --> 34:55.360 The Protestant Reformation kept the papacy, the biblical, historical and 34:55.360 --> 34:57.120 prophetic Antichrist in check. 34:57.840 --> 35:02.000 And at one time after the Protestant Reformation nearly destroyed the papacy 35:02.600 --> 35:06.200 because people were flooding out of the Roman Catholic Church with the 35:06.200 --> 35:11.680 acknowledgement that the papacy and only the papacy fulfilled all the Bible 35:11.680 --> 35:15.360 prophecies regarding Antichrist, the man of sin, the son of perdition. 35:15.360 --> 35:22.500 But now this pope, this Jesuit pope has embraced all peoples, all religions. 35:23.640 --> 35:26.400 And I was talking to a Roman Catholic last night. 35:26.900 --> 35:32.980 A long time friend of mine who I hadn't seen or talked to for many, many years had 35:32.980 --> 35:36.200 an opportunity to talk with him on Skype last night. 35:36.460 --> 35:38.440 And I asked him what he thought of Pope Francis. 35:39.260 --> 35:40.780 He said, I kind of like the guy. 35:40.900 --> 35:43.460 He says, I'm surprised however that somebody hasn't killed him. 35:43.460 --> 35:48.300 I said, yes, if you're a traditional Roman Catholic it is surprising that someone 35:48.300 --> 35:49.980 hasn't attempted to take his life. 35:50.540 --> 35:54.500 Because for all intents and purposes to a traditional Roman Catholic it appears that 35:54.500 --> 35:58.720 he's destroying the Roman Catholic Church by embracing every religion. 35:59.600 --> 36:03.600 But he said he kind of likes this pope because he's for the people. 36:04.560 --> 36:10.780 Now what this means is that the kings of the earth are not only in bed with the 36:10.780 --> 36:15.540 whore of Rome but now the people are clamoring. 36:16.240 --> 36:26.420 The Vatican has perpetrated a very, very successful campaign to embrace all. 36:27.340 --> 36:34.740 And do you know who's not going to be welcome at this global ecumenical peace 36:34.740 --> 36:37.040 party that they're going to present to the world? 36:37.040 --> 36:38.580 This global religion? 36:39.440 --> 36:41.100 Bible-believing Christians. 36:41.280 --> 36:49.360 The ones who will never bow down to a man or to an image or come to the pagan temple 36:49.360 --> 36:50.640 and make sacrifice. 36:52.040 --> 36:56.720 They are blood-thought holdouts for Christ. 36:57.680 --> 37:01.740 They believe as the Bible teaches, there's no other name under heaven given 37:01.740 --> 37:03.980 among men whereby you must be saved. 37:03.980 --> 37:08.320 And they're going to be called unpatriotic. 37:09.120 --> 37:12.980 Not just here in the United States, but all over the world. 37:13.920 --> 37:22.080 The pope has strategically gathered up everyone on his side except true 37:22.080 --> 37:23.760 Bible-believing Christians. 37:24.520 --> 37:30.400 So the stage is set for the battle predicted in Revelation chapter 17. 37:31.220 --> 37:34.800 And he makes war against the Lamb of God. 37:35.160 --> 37:38.100 How does he make war against the Lamb of God? 37:38.460 --> 37:41.160 By making war with his people. 37:42.180 --> 37:44.800 And that's what's coming for God's people today. 37:45.000 --> 37:47.020 And we must be prepared. 37:47.620 --> 37:50.100 We must be prepared spiritually. 37:50.990 --> 37:58.340 Because there's no physical or worldly power that we are ever going to wield that 37:58.340 --> 38:03.220 is going to conquer this last great hurrah of Satan. 38:03.860 --> 38:07.980 This global religion in this new world order. 38:08.880 --> 38:12.640 If Christ doesn't intervene, we're going to be killed. 38:13.480 --> 38:16.680 And they're going to think they're doing God's service when they do it. 38:16.680 --> 38:20.380 History is about to be repeated once again. 38:21.060 --> 38:22.980 That's the way it was in pagan Rome. 38:23.840 --> 38:27.440 The emperor was both the god and the king. 38:27.760 --> 38:29.260 Church and state were united. 38:29.980 --> 38:31.680 They worshipped him as a god. 38:32.500 --> 38:34.000 He passed all the laws. 38:34.940 --> 38:39.740 He made true Bible Christianity an enemy. 38:40.820 --> 38:45.520 And true Bible-believing Christians were denounced as criminals. 38:46.420 --> 38:47.100 Treasonous. 38:47.860 --> 38:48.540 Unpatriotic. 38:49.180 --> 38:52.040 And they were slaughtered mercilessly. 38:52.520 --> 38:54.000 That's real history. 38:54.460 --> 38:56.000 That's researchable history. 38:56.420 --> 39:00.880 That is history that has been forgotten in this country today and around the world. 39:01.700 --> 39:04.940 But it's taking shape once again right before our very eyes. 39:05.740 --> 39:12.060 This pope has embraced every pagan religion in the world, including atheism. 39:13.300 --> 39:14.740 Including atheism. 39:15.320 --> 39:20.720 So once again, God's people, God's true people are the odd man out. 39:20.960 --> 39:23.100 And everything is shaping up. 39:23.460 --> 39:27.760 Just the way we predicted here on Inquisition Update from the very beginning 39:27.760 --> 39:28.520 of this program. 39:29.480 --> 39:30.400 But we have hope. 39:31.160 --> 39:32.700 We have the only hope. 39:32.700 --> 39:34.780 Our hope is in Christ. 39:35.400 --> 39:41.060 And whether I live or I die, I'll never bow down to a man or an image. 39:41.660 --> 39:44.400 I will hold out for Christ in my last breath. 39:44.920 --> 39:46.980 And I'm preparing myself spiritually. 39:47.920 --> 39:54.160 I don't hold out any hope for a physical rebellion against what's coming upon us. 39:55.000 --> 40:01.200 I only want to survive with the sword of the spirit in my hand, the word of God. 40:01.740 --> 40:03.400 And then die the martyr. 40:04.300 --> 40:08.360 I hope my listeners are comprehending what I'm telling you. 40:09.020 --> 40:10.240 Now I'll continue with the book. 40:11.120 --> 40:15.540 Aroused by the fact that, quote, the heathen temples began to be forsaken. 40:16.360 --> 40:19.860 And the Christian churches thronged, unquote. 40:20.600 --> 40:28.560 The emperor, Decius, around 250 AD, martyred thousands of people. 40:29.200 --> 40:34.360 Including the bishops of Rome, Antioch, Jerusalem, as well as a number of 40:34.360 --> 40:38.660 the emperor's own soldiers who refused to sacrifice to idols. 40:39.500 --> 40:44.380 Quote, not a town, not a village of the empire escaped. 40:44.900 --> 40:45.340 Unquote. 40:45.340 --> 40:47.940 Historian Phillips Hughes informs us. 40:48.480 --> 40:55.620 Then adds significantly, quote, but the emperor's intention was not so 40:55.620 --> 41:02.160 much the massacre of Christians as their conversion to the old religion through 41:02.160 --> 41:04.540 long drawn out trials. 41:05.620 --> 41:11.280 That's the concentration camps, the reorientation centers that we see 41:11.280 --> 41:12.940 propping up all over. 41:12.940 --> 41:18.820 The emperor's intention was not so much to massacre the Christians as their 41:18.820 --> 41:23.420 conversion to the old religion through long drawn out trials. 41:23.980 --> 41:30.800 Repeated interrogations and the extensive use of torture in the hope of gradually 41:30.800 --> 41:33.000 breaking down the resistance. 41:34.160 --> 41:36.640 The Bible calls it wearing out the saints. 41:37.920 --> 41:43.440 Chadwick further explains, quote, Decius required that everyone should 41:43.440 --> 41:50.660 possess a certificate, a libelist they called it, that he had sacrificed to the 41:50.660 --> 41:52.660 God before special commissioners. 41:52.740 --> 41:54.600 In other words, you're going to have to prove your paganism. 41:55.280 --> 41:56.720 You know what that's going to be in our case? 41:56.880 --> 41:58.100 You've got to come to mass. 41:58.520 --> 42:00.100 You've got to eat the Jesus cookie. 42:00.620 --> 42:03.640 And you've got to have a certificate signed by a priest. 42:03.640 --> 42:10.580 Decius required that everyone should possess a certificate called a libelist 42:10.580 --> 42:15.780 that he had sacrificed to the God before special commissioners. 42:17.380 --> 42:23.380 And they, the certificates, were a deliberate attempt to catch people and 42:23.380 --> 42:26.800 were the gravest attack ever to suffered by the church. 42:27.580 --> 42:32.040 Especially among property owners, the number of apostates, those denying 42:32.040 --> 42:36.420 their faith to save their lives and possessions was immense. 42:37.180 --> 42:42.520 There's a lot of people that in an attempt to save their lives, to save their 42:42.520 --> 42:49.020 property, will come to mass and eat the Jesus cookie and get their certificate 42:49.020 --> 42:55.420 signed so that they can continue to buy and sell and travel and carry on. 42:55.420 --> 43:02.740 But how will they deal with the guilt of having rejected Christ for Antichrist just 43:02.740 --> 43:03.840 to save their lives? 43:04.160 --> 43:06.780 And what kind of a life will they live? 43:07.420 --> 43:13.340 It sounds like a foretaste of what it will be like when the Roman Empire is revived 43:13.340 --> 43:14.840 under Antichrist. 43:14.880 --> 43:23.860 Let me tell you, the Roman Empire began its rebirth right after 1929. 43:24.500 --> 43:27.040 That Roman Empire is already in place. 43:27.180 --> 43:28.140 It's been in place. 43:28.660 --> 43:32.060 The Antichrist rules over the Roman Catholic Church. 43:33.140 --> 43:34.540 It is the Antichrist. 43:34.680 --> 43:37.240 It's been in place ever since 1929. 43:39.080 --> 43:44.000 And we shouldn't view this as a foretaste of something that is yet to come. 43:44.460 --> 43:45.580 It's already here. 43:45.580 --> 43:50.940 He says, following a brief respite, the persecution directed by Emperor 43:50.940 --> 43:58.480 Valerian, who reigned from 253 to 260, forbade all Christian worship and 43:58.480 --> 44:02.580 specifically focused on the execution of church leaders. 44:03.640 --> 44:07.660 Among ordinary Christians as well, the mark innumerable. 44:08.360 --> 44:10.740 The worst, however, was yet to come. 44:10.740 --> 44:15.800 The Great Persecution, as it came to be called, began in 303 A.D. 44:15.880 --> 44:19.740 under the Emperor Diocletian and his co-emperor Galerius. 44:21.220 --> 44:23.980 All Bibles had to be surrendered to the authorities. 44:24.300 --> 44:26.240 All churches were to be destroyed. 44:26.780 --> 44:28.940 All Christian worship was forbidden. 44:29.480 --> 44:31.420 All clergy were to be imprisoned. 44:31.920 --> 44:38.320 And all citizens of the Empire were to sacrifice to the pagan gods on pain of 44:38.320 --> 44:38.840 death. 44:38.840 --> 44:42.780 In many places, it was a bloodbath. 44:43.460 --> 44:49.240 For example, in Phrygia, quote, where the whole population was Christian, 44:50.020 --> 44:52.240 a whole town was wiped out. 44:53.120 --> 44:53.580 Unquote. 44:54.300 --> 44:56.620 Setting the stage for apostasy. 44:57.460 --> 45:01.440 At the height of the most devastating persecution, deliverance came from an 45:01.440 --> 45:08.060 astonishing direction in the form of a new emperor, Constantine, a brilliant military 45:08.060 --> 45:08.660 commander. 45:08.900 --> 45:14.980 He took control of the Empire in the West, whilst his ally, Licinius, conquered the 45:14.980 --> 45:15.460 East. 45:16.400 --> 45:22.580 Together, they signed the Edict of Milan in 313, restoring the Christians to full 45:22.580 --> 45:23.640 rights as citizens. 45:24.460 --> 45:28.740 Freedom at last from persecution seemed like a gift from God. 45:28.740 --> 45:35.420 But, unfortunately, it set the stage for an apostasy that would envelop Christendom 45:35.420 --> 45:37.040 for more than a millennium. 45:37.820 --> 45:42.000 Christ's bride had been wedded to paganism. 45:42.840 --> 45:45.060 No wonder John was shocked. 45:45.860 --> 45:51.820 The only Christianity John knew was the quote, unquote, little flock of Luke 45:51.820 --> 45:57.380 chapter 12, verse 32, of those who, hated by the world, were following in 45:57.380 --> 46:00.640 Christ's path of rejection and suffering. 46:01.240 --> 46:07.140 The Lord had promised, quote, If ye were of the world, the world would love his 46:07.140 --> 46:07.460 own. 46:08.240 --> 46:13.040 But because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, 46:13.040 --> 46:15.880 therefore the world hateth you. 46:16.300 --> 46:21.440 If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. 46:21.980 --> 46:24.720 John chapter 15, verse 19 and 20. 46:25.320 --> 46:26.480 And so it happened. 46:27.280 --> 46:31.460 That this despised little band, persecuted by the world for its holiness 46:31.460 --> 46:36.340 and fidelity to Christ, could ever metamorphose into an evil institution, 46:36.880 --> 46:42.660 sitting astride the very seat of world power, and ruling over earthly kings and 46:42.660 --> 46:45.600 kingdoms, seemed impossible to John. 46:46.420 --> 46:49.420 But there she was in that vision of the future. 46:50.260 --> 46:55.260 With the, at first reluctant, but increasingly enthusiastic consent and 46:55.260 --> 47:01.360 participation of the bishops, the church entered upon an apostasy which led to 47:01.360 --> 47:05.880 Roman Catholicism, and has lasted until the present time. 47:05.880 --> 47:12.660 In fact, it is now gaining momentum for God's final judgment upon the great whore. 47:13.700 --> 47:18.160 Will Durant, a purely secular historian with no religious acts to grind, 47:19.000 --> 47:23.480 comments upon the marriage of Christianity and paganism that came about through 47:23.480 --> 47:29.100 Constantine's pretended so-called conversion and assumption of church 47:29.100 --> 47:29.640 leadership. 47:29.960 --> 47:31.000 Listen to what he says. 47:32.000 --> 47:37.500 Paganism survived in the form of ancient rites and customs condoned, or accepted 47:37.500 --> 47:41.060 and transformed by an often indulgent church. 47:41.920 --> 47:47.540 An ultimate and trustful worship of saints replaced the cult of pagan gods. 47:48.560 --> 47:53.660 Statues of Isis and Horus were renamed Mary and Joseph. 47:54.310 --> 48:01.980 The Roman Lupercalia and the Feast of Purification of Isis became the Feast of 48:01.980 --> 48:02.840 the Nativity. 48:03.780 --> 48:08.380 The Saturnalia were replaced by Christmas celebrations. 48:09.440 --> 48:16.480 An ancient festival of the dead by All Souls Day, rededicated to Christian heroes 48:16.480 --> 48:23.000 incense, lights, flowers, processions, vestments, hymns, which had pleased the 48:23.000 --> 48:29.100 people in older cults, were domesticated and cleansed in the ritual of the church. 48:30.020 --> 48:37.120 Soon people and priests would use the sign of the cross as a magic incantation to 48:37.120 --> 48:39.340 expel or drive away demons. 48:40.420 --> 48:46.400 Paganism passed like material blood into the new religion, and captive Rome 48:46.400 --> 48:47.960 captured her conqueror. 48:47.960 --> 48:51.060 The world converted to Christianity. 48:51.660 --> 48:58.760 Now you know why God describes the Christianity as represented by the Roman 48:58.760 --> 49:03.900 Catholic Church as a whore, a filthy whore. 49:04.720 --> 49:07.520 She's unfaithful to her spouse. 49:08.580 --> 49:10.880 She'll lay down for just about anybody. 49:11.760 --> 49:17.000 And according to Pope Francis I, she'll lay down even for atheists. 49:17.680 --> 49:22.420 What do you think of your ecumenical, evangelical church now? 49:23.260 --> 49:29.620 What do you think about peace and unity with the whore of Revelation 17 now? 49:30.560 --> 49:32.720 Will you repent of ecumenism? 49:32.860 --> 49:35.880 Will you come out of your church as God commands us? 49:36.340 --> 49:39.120 In Revelation chapter 18 verse 4 and 5. 49:39.780 --> 49:43.400 Come out of her, my people, that you partake not of her sins, and that you 49:43.400 --> 49:45.320 receive not also of her plagues. 49:46.160 --> 49:47.360 I'll see you tomorrow. 51:55.260 --> 52:00.180 The program you are listening to is 100% sponsored by you, the listener, 52:00.380 --> 52:02.480 on this First Amendment Rights Media channel. 52:03.080 --> 52:06.480 You will notice that there are few commercials on this radio network. 52:07.120 --> 52:08.640 There's a good reason for that. 52:09.160 --> 52:13.540 Corporate advertising dollars come with strings that limit program content. 52:13.540 --> 52:18.720 So without your 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will 53:57.660 --> 53:58.460 begin to be built. 53:58.460 --> 54:03.980 The plans are drawn, the Jewish people are eager, most Evangelical Christians today 54:03.980 --> 54:07.000 believe that the rapture will happen before the Third Temple is built. 54:07.320 --> 54:08.960 Hi, I'm Michael Eugene. 54:09.500 --> 54:12.140 I was taught that Daniel's 70th week was in the future. 54:12.760 --> 54:14.400 Is that really what the Bible teaches? 54:15.040 --> 54:18.000 Have we searched the Scriptures and found this to be true? 54:18.720 --> 54:22.340 Why is it so important for a re-established Israel to build a Third 54:22.340 --> 54:23.200 Temple in Jerusalem? 54:23.200 --> 54:28.440 Is it necessary to build a Temple on the same location already occupied by the Dome 54:28.440 --> 54:28.900 of the Rock? 54:29.360 --> 54:33.480 Is it necessary for sacrifices to take place in the Temple on Temple Mount? 54:34.020 --> 54:37.260 Is there really a rapture followed by seven years of tribulation? 54:38.100 --> 54:39.540 What is the New Testament Temple? 54:40.400 --> 54:42.500 Can we identify history and prophecy? 54:43.540 --> 54:46.280 Who is the first beast in Revelation Chapter 13? 54:46.840 --> 54:49.500 Who are the seven kings in Revelation 17? 54:49.500 --> 54:53.880 I have asked all these questions and I have found Nicholas Arthur's new book, 54:54.440 --> 54:58.720 When the Third Temple is Built, answers all these questions and more using 54:58.720 --> 55:00.300 Scripture to interpret Scripture. 55:00.980 --> 55:04.440 The Bible says that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private 55:04.440 --> 55:05.160 interpretation. 55:05.980 --> 55:08.860 Nicholas shows us in his new book, When the Third Temple is Built, 55:09.300 --> 55:13.500 how the Bible interprets prophecy and not man's private interpretation. 55:14.500 --> 55:23.620 Visit crosstheborder.org to get your print, e-pub, or PDF version of Nicholas 55:23.620 --> 55:26.860 Arthur's new book titled, When the Third 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