WEBVTT 00:26.520 --> 00:29.160 Good morning, welcome to Inquisition Update. 00:29.520 --> 00:32.280 My name is Tom Friess and I'll be your host for the next hour. 00:32.540 --> 00:35.520 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 00:35.640 --> 00:36.980 Thanks for tuning in everybody. 00:37.740 --> 00:41.360 Now we're going to get back to our reading and discussion of the book, A Woman Rides 00:41.360 --> 00:42.900 the Beast, by Dave Hunt. 00:43.100 --> 00:47.540 We're in the chapter entitled, An Incredible Metamorphosis. 00:48.220 --> 00:53.560 How did the Christian faith result in what we know today as the Roman Catholic 00:53.560 --> 00:54.080 Church? 00:54.920 --> 00:56.740 Apostasy of apostasies. 00:57.980 --> 01:03.920 We're going to begin by backing up as we customarily do here on the program. 01:04.160 --> 01:07.600 We're going to back up a few paragraphs for continuity purposes, beginning with 01:07.600 --> 01:12.760 the last full paragraph and the quote at the bottom of page 203. 01:12.760 --> 01:19.740 Dave Hunt writes, With the at first reluctant but increasingly enthusiastic 01:19.740 --> 01:28.120 consent and participation of the bishops, the Church entered upon an apostasy which 01:28.120 --> 01:33.120 led to Roman Catholicism and has lasted unto the present time. 01:33.980 --> 01:39.900 In fact, it is now gaining momentum for God's final judgment upon the great whore. 01:39.900 --> 01:45.440 Will Durant, a purely secular historian with no religious ax to grind, 01:46.320 --> 01:52.240 comments upon the marriage of Christianity and paganism that came about through 01:52.240 --> 01:58.520 Constantine's pretended conversion to Christianity and the assumption of 01:58.520 --> 02:00.020 Christian Church leadership. 02:00.900 --> 02:09.000 Quote, Paganism survived in the form of ancient rites and customs condoned or 02:09.000 --> 02:13.680 accepted and transformed by an often indulgent church. 02:14.760 --> 02:20.720 An intimate, trustful worship of saints replaced the cult of pagan gods. 02:21.660 --> 02:25.900 Statues of Isis and Horus were renamed Mary and Jesus. 02:26.680 --> 02:33.620 The Roman Lupercalia and the Feast of Purification of Isis became the Feast of 02:33.620 --> 02:34.400 the Nativity. 02:35.320 --> 02:45.520 The Saturnalia were replaced by Christmas celebrations, an ancient festival of the 02:45.520 --> 02:54.660 dead by All Souls Day, rededicated to Christian heroes, Incense, lights, 02:54.940 --> 02:59.980 flowers, processions, vestments, hymns, which had pleased the people in 02:59.980 --> 03:05.900 older cults, were domesticated and cleansed in the ritual of the Roman 03:05.900 --> 03:06.440 Church. 03:07.300 --> 03:16.200 Soon people and priests would use the sign of the cross as a magic incantation to 03:16.200 --> 03:18.660 expel or drive away demons. 03:19.720 --> 03:26.540 Paganism passed like maternal blood into the new religion and captive Rome captured 03:26.540 --> 03:27.600 her conqueror. 03:28.360 --> 03:31.060 The world converted Christianity. 03:31.500 --> 03:34.480 The world converted Christianity. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.560 That's Roman Catholicism, a worldly church. 03:38.720 --> 03:41.660 It's called Christianity, but it's not Christianity at all. 03:41.760 --> 03:44.320 It mixes the holy with the profane. 03:44.320 --> 03:51.080 That's the same sin that Israel repeatedly committed against God and were judged 03:51.080 --> 03:52.500 repeatedly for it. 03:53.140 --> 03:58.340 Now, beginning where we left off with the subtitle, From Persecuted to Persecutor, 03:59.220 --> 04:04.280 Dave Hunt writes, Referring to developments after Constantine, 04:04.640 --> 04:11.120 Peter Brown writes, Far from being a source of improvement, this alliance with 04:11.120 --> 04:17.480 the state was a source of, that is, the union of the church with the state 04:17.480 --> 04:18.980 government under Constantine. 04:19.560 --> 04:26.340 This alliance with the state was a source of greater danger and temptation than 04:26.340 --> 04:28.220 persecution had been. 04:28.220 --> 04:34.120 The spread of Christianity in Africa, by indiscriminately filling the churches, 04:36.960 --> 04:41.280 had simply washed away the clear moral landmarks that separated the church from 04:41.280 --> 04:41.780 the world. 04:43.160 --> 04:48.160 Political considerations began to subtly influence Christian life and doctrine, 04:48.400 --> 04:49.360 just as today. 04:50.260 --> 04:54.940 Because what was best for the state loomed large in ecclesiastical affairs, 04:54.940 --> 04:58.280 and the emperor was now in charge of both. 04:58.960 --> 05:03.500 With the fall of the Roman Empire, the popes would assume the emperor's role, 05:04.060 --> 05:07.160 and the marriage with the world would be complete. 05:08.040 --> 05:12.360 In its new role as the favored and eventually official religion of the 05:12.360 --> 05:19.640 empire, quote-unquote Christianity became polluted by its avid pursuit of secular 05:19.640 --> 05:20.240 power. 05:20.240 --> 05:26.280 The purity and spiritual power of the early church had been so awesome that 05:26.280 --> 05:28.300 unbelievers dared not join it. 05:28.760 --> 05:31.040 See Acts chapter 5 verse 13. 05:31.900 --> 05:37.940 In contrast, what the church would become after Constantine has been described 05:37.940 --> 05:39.960 eloquently by Peter De Rosa. 05:40.840 --> 05:47.240 Quote, the time is not far off, that is, after Constantine, when Peter's 05:47.240 --> 05:52.720 alleged successors will not be the servants, but the masters of the world. 05:53.380 --> 05:58.140 They will dress in purple like Nero and call themselves Potifex Maximus. 05:58.940 --> 06:03.640 They will refer to the fishermen as, quote, the first pope, unquote, 06:03.900 --> 06:10.160 and appeal not to the authority of love, but the power invested in him to act as 06:10.160 --> 06:11.540 Nero acted. 06:11.540 --> 06:17.640 In defiance of Jesus Christ, Christians will do unto others what was done unto 06:17.640 --> 06:19.520 them, and worse will they do. 06:20.180 --> 06:25.420 The religion that prided itself on triumphing over persecution by suffering 06:25.420 --> 06:29.960 will become the most persecuting faith the world has ever seen. 06:30.740 --> 06:35.440 They will order in Christ's name all those who disagree with them to be tortured, 06:36.040 --> 06:38.220 and sometimes crucified over fire. 06:38.220 --> 06:43.420 They will make an alliance between throne and altar, church and state. 06:43.980 --> 06:49.040 They will insist that the state is the guardian of the church and the guarantor 06:49.040 --> 06:49.660 of faith. 06:50.500 --> 06:55.000 Their idea will be for the throne, the state, to impose the Christian 06:55.000 --> 06:56.700 religion on all its subjects. 06:57.520 --> 07:02.800 It will not trouble them that Peter fought against such an alliance and died because 07:02.800 --> 07:04.000 of it, unquote. 07:04.000 --> 07:11.660 From being persecuted, the church became the chief persecutor, not only of 07:11.660 --> 07:17.180 religious faith, but, as we have seen, of any form of freedom of conscience. 07:18.180 --> 07:24.040 Hassler explains how the metamorphosis occurred, quote, Once Christianity became 07:24.040 --> 07:29.360 the state religion, deviations from orthodoxy threatened both the unity of the 07:29.360 --> 07:31.140 empire and of the church. 07:31.140 --> 07:36.600 And it was the emperor who had the greatest interest in settling doctrinal 07:36.600 --> 07:37.260 disputes. 07:38.080 --> 07:42.120 He convened ecumenical councils and largely dictated their results, 07:42.740 --> 07:43.280 unquote. 07:43.940 --> 07:50.200 The popes, however, had the trump card, the keys to heaven, and used it to 07:50.200 --> 07:55.360 intimidate kings and emperors into becoming the secular arm which did their 07:55.360 --> 08:00.280 bidding, especially the executions during the Inquisitions. 08:00.280 --> 08:09.720 In 1864, Pope Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors condemned, quote, the whole existing view 08:09.720 --> 08:14.040 of the rights of conscience and religious faith and profession, unquote. 08:14.600 --> 08:20.900 The syllabus said it was, quote, a wicked error to admit Protestants to 08:20.900 --> 08:26.400 equal political rights with Catholics or to allow Protestant immigrants the free 08:26.400 --> 08:27.360 use of their worship. 08:27.360 --> 08:34.560 On the contrary, to coerce and suppress them is a sacred duty when it has become 08:34.560 --> 08:35.140 possible. 08:35.960 --> 08:40.080 The church will, of course, act with the greatest prudence in the use of her 08:40.080 --> 08:46.700 temporal and physical power according to altered circumstances, unquote. 08:47.360 --> 08:53.660 The Bible was the most dangerous book in the world and had to be kept from the 08:53.660 --> 08:54.480 common people. 08:54.480 --> 09:01.000 The Roman Catholic clergy would give them selected readings and then tell them what 09:01.000 --> 09:01.480 it meant. 09:02.400 --> 09:07.700 The Protestant view that anyone could read and understand the Bible would destroy 09:07.700 --> 09:08.820 Catholicism. 09:09.520 --> 09:17.580 Pope Clement XI's Constitution Unigenitus, dated 1713, denounced the following 09:17.580 --> 09:25.700 Jansenist propositions presented by Pasquier Castel, quote, Christians are to 09:25.700 --> 09:32.020 sanctify the Lord's Day with reading godly books, more particularly the Holy 09:32.020 --> 09:33.640 Scriptures, unquote. 09:34.440 --> 09:35.420 Clement's judgment? 09:36.240 --> 09:37.000 Condemned. 09:37.720 --> 09:43.460 Another quote, to pull the New Testament out of the hands of Christians is to shut 09:43.460 --> 09:45.580 the mouth of Christ against them. 09:46.180 --> 09:47.040 The conclusion? 09:48.200 --> 09:49.020 Condemned. 09:49.020 --> 09:55.240 Another quote, to forbid Christians the reading of the Holy Scriptures and 09:55.240 --> 10:01.140 especially the Gospels is to forbid the use of the light by the children of light 10:01.140 --> 10:05.100 and to punish them with a kind of excommunication. 10:05.980 --> 10:10.620 That, too, was condemned by the Roman Catholic Church. 10:11.200 --> 10:14.100 Now, what is freedom according to Rome? 10:14.100 --> 10:19.760 The Vatican can't enforce its edicts today in the totalitarian manner it once 10:19.760 --> 10:24.960 employed, and I differ a bit with the author on this count, but nonetheless, 10:25.320 --> 10:31.500 he says, the Vatican cannot enforce its edicts today in the totalitarian manner it 10:31.500 --> 10:32.300 once employed. 10:32.840 --> 10:38.140 So it professes to stand for freedom of religion and conscience, because it wants 10:38.140 --> 10:42.420 such rights for its own people, where Catholics are in the minority. 10:42.420 --> 10:48.840 Vatican Council, too, has an entire section entitled Declaration on Religious 10:48.840 --> 10:55.900 Liberty, which contains such statements as, quote, the human person has a right to 10:55.900 --> 10:57.660 religious freedom, unquote. 10:58.360 --> 11:05.800 What it promotes, however, is freedom from government interference or discrimination 11:05.800 --> 11:07.200 in religion. 11:07.200 --> 11:12.280 The dishonest impression is given that Rome advocates full religious freedom. 11:13.180 --> 11:17.840 There is no mention of, much less repentance for, the millions of people who 11:17.840 --> 11:23.700 were martyred and massacred century after century simply because they would not 11:23.700 --> 11:26.280 accept the Roman Catholic interpretation of the Bible. 11:27.080 --> 11:31.080 Nor does Vatican Council, too, concede genuine freedom of conscience. 11:31.740 --> 11:37.840 Yes, it says everyone is free to pursue truth, but it declares that truth exists 11:37.840 --> 11:40.120 only within the Roman Catholic Church. 11:40.800 --> 11:46.300 Nor does the Council point to the Bible, God's word as the source of truth, 11:46.840 --> 11:48.840 to be read and understood by all. 11:49.640 --> 11:54.580 As in the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church alone can interpret the Bible. 11:55.540 --> 12:00.280 She alone has the sacraments and is the means of salvation. 12:00.280 --> 12:07.300 The Church possesses the truth and its guardian, the sole dispenser for all time. 12:08.040 --> 12:10.900 That's Rome's attitude about religious freedom. 12:11.260 --> 12:12.980 It's not what it appears to be. 12:13.900 --> 12:15.880 You are free to be Roman Catholic. 12:16.600 --> 12:20.220 That's how Rome defines religious freedom. 12:21.100 --> 12:26.660 He says, therefore, for all the talk about freedom of religion and conscience in this 12:26.660 --> 12:32.520 section of Vatican Council, too, there is no true freedom because this same 12:32.520 --> 12:38.580 document makes it clear that the truth can only be known and the soul saved by 12:38.580 --> 12:41.260 complete and blind submission to Rome. 12:42.020 --> 12:44.940 Consider the following from this section on religious liberty. 12:45.380 --> 12:51.380 Quote, we believe that this one true religion continues to exist in the Roman 12:51.380 --> 12:57.320 Catholic Church, to which the Lord Jesus Christ entrusted the task of spreading it 12:57.320 --> 12:58.240 among all men. 12:59.020 --> 13:04.920 So while the religious freedom which men demand in fulfilling their obligation to 13:04.920 --> 13:10.900 worship God has to do with freedom from coercion in civil society, it leaves 13:10.900 --> 13:17.680 intact the traditional Roman Catholic teaching on the moral duty of individuals 13:17.680 --> 13:23.400 and societies toward the true religion and the one Church of Christ. 13:24.360 --> 13:29.680 Throughout the ages she, that is the Roman Catholic Church, has preserved and handled 13:29.680 --> 13:33.500 on the doctrine which she has received from her Master and Apostles. 13:34.200 --> 13:39.220 In forming their consciences, the faithful must pay careful attention to the sacred 13:39.220 --> 13:42.260 and certain teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. 13:42.260 --> 13:48.460 For the Roman Catholic Church is by the will of Christ the teacher of truth. 13:48.940 --> 13:55.100 It is her duty, and her duty alone I will add, to proclaim and teach with authority 13:55.100 --> 14:00.940 the truth which Christ and at the same time to declare and confirm by her 14:00.940 --> 14:05.300 authority the principles of the moral order which spring from human nature 14:05.300 --> 14:05.840 itself. 14:06.660 --> 14:07.140 Unquote. 14:07.240 --> 14:11.560 So you can clearly see what Rome's attitude is about religious freedom. 14:11.560 --> 14:17.940 It is freedom to be Roman Catholic, and it is to be imposed by the secular 14:17.940 --> 14:18.680 government. 14:19.640 --> 14:24.660 That's Vatican Council too, and that's exactly what was affirmed at the Council 14:24.660 --> 14:28.560 of Trent in the early 1500s. 14:29.860 --> 14:35.220 Now it says, so while in theory there is freedom of conscience, in fact there is 14:35.220 --> 14:35.580 not. 14:36.240 --> 14:42.700 One is free to pursue truth, but truth exists not in the Bible in a form which 14:42.700 --> 14:48.640 the conscience can recognize and is available to all mankind, but resides only 14:48.640 --> 14:54.240 within the Roman Catholic Church, and her prelates alone can recognize it 14:54.240 --> 14:55.400 and dispense it. 14:55.400 --> 15:02.520 No one may judge her, quote-unquote, truth by conscience or God's word, 15:03.000 --> 15:09.140 but her dogmas must be accepted blindly, because she is the one true church founded 15:09.140 --> 15:14.540 by Christ upon Peter, and her popes are Peter's successors. 15:15.420 --> 15:21.780 Antichrist will himself acknowledge this fantastic claim, the woman will ride the 15:21.780 --> 15:26.520 beast, but with no more sincerity than did Constantine. 15:27.200 --> 15:33.560 It will be a ploy to use the church to his own ends, until finally he puts his image 15:33.560 --> 15:38.360 in the temple and demands that all people worship him as God. 15:39.140 --> 15:43.520 At that point, the beast will turn upon the woman and devour her. 15:43.520 --> 15:49.280 See Revelation chapter 17 verse 16. 15:50.120 --> 15:54.700 Shepherds deceiving the sheep is the subtitle of this next portion. 15:55.340 --> 16:00.840 Dave Hunt says, remember, it was the totalitarian papal system which, 16:01.160 --> 16:07.480 first of all, destroyed those men who became part of it, and then through them 16:07.480 --> 16:08.980 destroyed the church. 16:08.980 --> 16:14.860 The shepherds became corrupted with the lust for power, and then corrupted all the 16:14.860 --> 16:17.720 clergy, who in turn corrupted the people. 16:18.660 --> 16:27.060 Cardinal Satellet said of Pope Clement VII, whom he knew intimately, that before 16:27.060 --> 16:33.480 his election to Pope, he studied the Bible constantly, but afterward, his character 16:33.480 --> 16:42.960 deteriorated, and his pontificate was a series of mistakes, a perpetual dodging to 16:42.960 --> 16:45.600 evade the counsel, which he hated and feared. 16:46.640 --> 16:53.840 Before he became Pope, Pope Paul IV favored church reformation, but afterward, 16:53.960 --> 16:58.400 he avidly pursued his own selfish interests and the advancement and 16:58.400 --> 17:00.200 enrichment of his nephews. 17:01.080 --> 17:06.720 A contemporary described Pope Paul IV before his pontificate as, humane, 17:07.120 --> 17:14.540 tolerant, beneficent, gentle, and unselfish, but just the reverse as Pope. 17:14.940 --> 17:21.220 He, quote, abandoned himself to vulgar sensuality and lusts, ate and drank 17:21.220 --> 17:27.560 immoderately, became imperious and crafty, unquote, and even stopped attending, 17:27.720 --> 17:31.840 quote, divine service in the chapel, unquote. 17:32.260 --> 17:37.900 So it was with Innocent X, Alexander VII, and a host of others. 17:38.600 --> 17:44.100 With his usual clarity, Peter de Rosa provides further insight, quote, 17:44.820 --> 17:49.900 in the 10th century, for all its adolescent, adulterous, and murderous 17:49.900 --> 17:53.100 Popes, the papacy was a local phenomenon. 17:53.920 --> 17:58.340 The head of a powerful Roman family put his cherished teenage son on the throne. 17:59.200 --> 18:05.380 The lad made hay for a few frantic months or years and was ambushed by members of a 18:05.380 --> 18:08.200 rival family whose hour had come. 18:08.940 --> 18:13.840 But since the 11th century, Gregory VII had put his stamp upon the papacy. 18:14.460 --> 18:16.780 It had grown in stature and prestige. 18:17.440 --> 18:22.820 It was able to control the entire church from the simplest country curate to the 18:22.820 --> 18:24.240 most powerful archbishop. 18:24.540 --> 18:30.320 What emerged was the most appalling corruption that Christianity has ever seen 18:30.320 --> 18:31.600 or is likely to see. 18:32.120 --> 18:34.460 It began at the top. 18:34.920 --> 18:40.100 The papacy was auctioned off in conclave to the highest bidder, irrespective of a 18:40.100 --> 18:41.980 candidate's worth, unquote. 18:43.280 --> 18:46.800 Von Dollinger extended the blame to the papal curia. 18:46.920 --> 18:47.860 Here's what he said. 18:48.620 --> 18:53.280 When the cardinals said in the letter they addressed to their Pope, Gregory VII, 18:53.540 --> 18:59.080 or excuse me, Gregory XII in 1408, that there was no soundness in the church 18:59.080 --> 19:03.160 from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head, they should have added, 19:03.660 --> 19:10.040 if they wished to tell the whole truth, it is we, our colleagues, and your 19:10.040 --> 19:16.340 predecessors, it is the curia who have gone on saturating the body of the church 19:16.340 --> 19:23.640 with moral poison, and therefore is it now sorely diseased, unquote. 19:24.460 --> 19:30.220 St. Bonaventure declared that in Rome, quote, church dignities were bought and 19:30.220 --> 19:30.800 sold. 19:31.460 --> 19:36.580 There did the princes and the rulers of the church assemble, dishonoring God by 19:36.580 --> 19:43.300 their incontinence, adherents of Satan, and plunderers of the flock of Christ. 19:44.060 --> 19:48.920 The prelates, corrupted by Rome, infect the clergy with their vices, 19:49.560 --> 19:56.240 and the clergy, by their evil example of avarice and profligacy, poison and lead 19:56.240 --> 19:59.820 into perdition the whole Christian people, unquote. 20:00.720 --> 20:05.540 Others, quote, called the curia the utterly corrupt carnal church, 20:05.820 --> 20:06.280 unquote. 20:07.100 --> 20:10.460 Those who still had some hope for a reformation of the church, writes 20:10.460 --> 20:15.880 Bonaventure, quote, predicted a great renewal and purification through a holy 20:15.880 --> 20:23.340 pope, the Papa Angelicus, long looked for but never willing to appear, unquote. 20:24.140 --> 20:28.740 Petrarch, close observer for many years of the Roman curia, came to the conclusion 20:28.740 --> 20:33.300 that Rome was the fulfillment of John's vision of Revelation chapter 17. 20:34.380 --> 20:40.860 She was, quote, the apocalyptic woman, drunken with blood, the seducer of 20:40.860 --> 20:44.500 Christians and plague of the human race, unquote. 20:45.360 --> 20:49.920 Von Dollinger says that Petrarch's description of the papacy and the curia 20:49.920 --> 20:56.080 are, quote, so frightful that one would suppose them the exaggerations of hatred 20:56.080 --> 21:00.160 were they not confirmed by all his contemporaries. 21:00.860 --> 21:06.520 Augustinian monk of Florence, Luigi Marsigli, said, the papal court no longer 21:06.520 --> 21:13.140 ruled through hypocrisy, so openly did it flaunt its vices, but only through the 21:13.140 --> 21:19.700 dread inspired by its interdicts and excommunications, unquote. 21:19.700 --> 21:26.800 The popes had loaded St. Bonaventure with honors. 21:27.720 --> 21:32.840 As a cardinal and general of his order, he was bound by the closest ties to Rome. 21:33.620 --> 21:37.940 Yet in his commentary on the apocalypse, he declares that Rome was, quote, 21:38.420 --> 21:43.200 the harlot who makes kings and nations drunk with the wine of her whoredoms, 21:43.520 --> 21:44.040 unquote. 21:44.780 --> 21:49.960 Dante, too, applied to the popes the apocalyptic prophecy of the harlot on the 21:49.960 --> 21:55.520 seven hills who is drunk with the blood of men and seduces princes and peoples. 21:56.480 --> 22:01.580 It was a metamorphosis that John found hard to believe could ever occur, 22:02.460 --> 22:06.660 but it has been fulfilled exactly as Christ revealed it. 22:07.340 --> 22:08.900 Some contrasts to ponder. 22:09.620 --> 22:14.120 The church holds a position for the average Catholic that is entirely 22:14.120 --> 22:19.400 different from the relationship between an evangelical and whatever denomination to 22:19.400 --> 22:20.680 which he or she belongs. 22:21.100 --> 22:25.940 For the evangelical, Christianity involves a personal relationship between the 22:25.940 --> 22:28.100 believer and God and Jesus Christ. 22:28.980 --> 22:33.540 Many Protestants lack that personal relationship, and thus are not real 22:33.540 --> 22:34.020 Christians. 22:34.660 --> 22:39.420 The lack of that personal relationship, however, is not because they have been 22:39.420 --> 22:44.480 taught to look to a Baptist or a Methodist or a Presbyterian or some other 22:44.480 --> 22:46.540 denominational church for salvation. 22:47.460 --> 22:51.200 At least, that's not generally the teaching of any Protestant church. 22:52.080 --> 22:57.080 In contrast, a Mormon is taught that salvation comes by belonging to and 22:57.080 --> 23:01.140 remaining in good standing with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 23:01.140 --> 23:07.300 The same is true of a Jehovah's Witness, a Christian scientist, or a member of most 23:07.300 --> 23:10.820 other cults, whether Christian or Hindu or Buddhist. 23:11.980 --> 23:18.480 Rome, too, decrees that the individual can only receive, quote, the merits and graces 23:18.480 --> 23:23.280 of Christ, unquote, through the Church, the Roman Catholic Church. 23:23.920 --> 23:28.040 The essential personal relationship with Christ, apart from any institution, 23:28.040 --> 23:33.600 and the accompanying assurance of being with Him the moment one dies, is denied to 23:33.600 --> 23:34.820 individual Catholics. 23:35.720 --> 23:37.220 Their hope is in the Church. 23:37.900 --> 23:41.920 They hope that its continued efforts, even after their death, will eventually 23:41.920 --> 23:43.060 bring them to Heaven. 23:43.940 --> 23:46.620 All their faith is in the Church, not in Christ. 23:47.440 --> 23:48.940 That is apostasy. 23:49.400 --> 23:51.180 And we'll be back right after this. 24:14.890 --> 24:17.950 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 24:18.190 --> 24:20.170 Worldwide, freedom is never free. 24:20.330 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25:04.570 Is that really what the Bible teaches? 25:05.130 --> 25:08.190 Have we searched the Scriptures and found this to be true? 25:08.190 --> 25:12.510 Why is it so important for a re-established Israel to build a Third 25:12.510 --> 25:13.350 Temple in Jerusalem? 25:14.070 --> 25:18.590 Is it necessary to build a Temple on the same location already occupied by the Dome 25:18.590 --> 25:19.030 of the Rock? 25:19.530 --> 25:23.610 Is it necessary for sacrifices to take place in the Temple on Temple Mount? 25:24.350 --> 25:27.430 Is there really a rapture followed by seven years of tribulation? 25:28.210 --> 25:29.690 What is the New Testament Temple? 25:30.510 --> 25:32.650 Can we identify history and prophecy? 25:33.510 --> 25:36.430 Who is the first beast in Revelation Chapter 13? 25:36.430 --> 25:39.690 Who are the seven kings in Revelation 17? 25:40.470 --> 25:44.010 I have asked all these questions and I have found Nicholas Arthur's new book, 25:44.510 --> 25:48.850 When the 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returning to the book, A Woman Rides a Beast by Dave Hunt, having already told 27:39.600 --> 27:46.220 us that cults are defined by having full faith and trust in their churches, 27:46.680 --> 27:48.020 and not in Christ. 27:48.020 --> 27:54.560 He explains that while the Bible teaches submission to church leaders, it also 27:54.560 --> 28:00.040 insists that this submission go only as far as the leaders are followers of Christ 28:00.040 --> 28:00.560 himself. 28:01.220 --> 28:07.560 The Apostle Paul wrote, quote, Follow me as I follow Christ. 28:08.080 --> 28:10.500 See 1 Corinthians 11, verse 1. 28:11.300 --> 28:17.000 He did not suggest that all Christians must follow him because of his high 28:17.000 --> 28:22.060 office, but only as he was true to Christ and to his word. 28:22.880 --> 28:27.320 Obviously, to make that judgment, the individual must know Christ and his 28:27.320 --> 28:28.660 word for himself. 28:29.440 --> 28:36.420 Paul says that each believer, and not just a special clergy class, as is propounded 28:36.420 --> 28:46.260 by another host on First Amendment Radio, not just a clergy class, is free to 28:46.260 --> 28:48.520 present God's truth to the church. 28:49.380 --> 28:54.700 And that when leaders speak to the church, those who hear them are to judge for 28:54.700 --> 28:57.660 themselves the validity of what he says. 28:57.660 --> 29:02.060 See 1 Corinthians, chapter 14, verse 29 and 32. 29:03.060 --> 29:12.040 In contrast, Catholicism's code of canon law says, quote, The first C, that is the 29:12.040 --> 29:15.360 papacy, is judged by no one. 29:15.660 --> 29:16.180 Unquote. 29:17.100 --> 29:22.360 Vatican II declares that pronouncements by the Pope on faith and morals are 29:22.360 --> 29:25.540 infallible and irreformable. 29:25.540 --> 29:32.880 Quote, In no way in need of the approval of others, and do not admit of appeal to 29:32.880 --> 29:34.460 any other tribunal. 29:34.920 --> 29:35.320 Unquote. 29:36.040 --> 29:41.680 The same is said of, quote, the body of bishops, when together with Peter's 29:41.680 --> 29:46.920 successor, the Pope, they exercise the supreme teaching office. 29:47.400 --> 29:47.820 Unquote. 29:47.820 --> 29:54.780 John says that all true believers have the anointing of the Holy Spirit and thus must 29:54.780 --> 29:57.080 not follow anyone blindly. 29:57.920 --> 30:00.720 1 John, chapter 2, verse 20-27. 30:01.400 --> 30:07.240 But must discern whether a doctrine is biblical by following the leading of God 30:07.240 --> 30:10.240 through his word and the Holy Spirit. 30:10.240 --> 30:16.240 How else could each of us judge whether those who preach and teach are presenting 30:16.240 --> 30:17.140 God's truth? 30:17.240 --> 30:19.320 As Paul says, we must. 30:20.360 --> 30:27.000 In Catholicism, however, it is explicitly declared that no one may come to his or 30:27.000 --> 30:33.240 her own personal opinion concerning biblical truth, but must accept whatever 30:33.240 --> 30:35.760 the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy teaches. 30:36.420 --> 30:38.780 This is Nicolaitanism, people. 30:38.960 --> 30:43.340 This is the description given to us in the Bible of Antichrist. 30:43.820 --> 30:47.840 The spirit of Nicolaitanism do I hate, he said. 30:48.640 --> 30:51.740 Now, what are the great responsibilities and great privileges? 30:52.760 --> 30:57.600 As we've already seen from the language of Matthew, in chapter 28, verse 19 and 20. 30:58.400 --> 31:03.120 Quote, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. 31:03.320 --> 31:03.820 Unquote. 31:03.820 --> 31:06.980 Several conclusions are inescapable. 31:07.160 --> 31:13.100 Number one, an unbroken chain of command flows from our Lord Jesus Christ through 31:13.100 --> 31:18.840 successive generations of disciples down through history to Christians today. 31:19.760 --> 31:25.480 Number two, every ordinary Christian is to obey every applicable command that Christ 31:25.480 --> 31:30.920 gave his original disciples and to do what he trained and commanded them to do, 31:30.920 --> 31:36.420 including preaching the gospel in all the world and making disciples. 31:37.460 --> 31:42.320 Number three, each Christian has been given by the Lord the same privileges, 31:42.620 --> 31:47.600 the same responsibilities and the same authority and the same power which the 31:47.600 --> 31:49.120 original twelve received. 31:49.900 --> 31:56.400 How else could each generation of new disciples obey every command Christ had 31:56.400 --> 31:58.020 given the original twelve? 31:58.920 --> 32:00.080 Makes sense, doesn't it? 32:00.080 --> 32:03.640 Now, the early Christians followed these instructions. 32:04.760 --> 32:08.340 Not even the knowledge that they would be killed deterred them from it. 32:09.140 --> 32:12.160 After the death of Stephen, the Christians were scattered. 32:13.040 --> 32:16.180 And we're told that everywhere they went, they preached the gospel. 32:16.820 --> 32:18.600 Deacts, chapter 8, verse 4. 32:19.360 --> 32:20.580 We must do the same. 32:21.420 --> 32:25.220 Each individual Christian is a full-fledged successor of the apostles, 32:25.440 --> 32:31.000 called and empowered by the Holy Spirit to carry on the task of representing Christ 32:31.000 --> 32:32.920 and bringing his gospel to the world. 32:33.840 --> 32:37.820 Charged with the great commission to preach the gospel to every creature, 32:38.560 --> 32:43.920 each disciple at every moment in history is a soldier of the cross and an 32:43.920 --> 32:45.640 ambassador of the King of Kings. 32:45.640 --> 32:48.060 What an awesome responsibility. 32:49.260 --> 32:50.480 But what a great privilege. 32:51.520 --> 32:55.020 Unfortunately, many Christians are unwilling to take this responsibility. 32:55.900 --> 33:01.360 They want to leave it to a special class of professionals, many of whom are only 33:01.360 --> 33:03.960 too eager to lord it over the flock. 33:04.850 --> 33:09.280 Every Christian has the authority to resist the devil and to see him flee, 33:09.760 --> 33:14.780 to bind and to loose as Christ empowered his first apostles, and to be his 33:14.780 --> 33:16.380 ambassador to mankind. 33:17.280 --> 33:22.380 In the metamorphosis in the centuries following Constantine, the Roman hierarchy 33:22.380 --> 33:28.640 claimed for itself the exclusive right to do what Christ had intended to be the task 33:28.640 --> 33:30.280 of all his disciples. 33:30.920 --> 33:32.360 Some vital distinctions. 33:32.360 --> 33:36.740 Christ made a clear distinction between Caesar and God. 33:37.540 --> 33:43.620 Quote, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that 33:43.620 --> 33:44.400 are God's. 33:44.920 --> 33:46.800 Mark chapter 12 verse 17. 33:47.720 --> 33:48.800 This is foundational. 33:49.820 --> 33:52.680 The Roman Catholic Church wedded God to Caesar. 33:53.620 --> 33:59.400 Church and state became one, with the church in control and the state doing its 33:59.400 --> 33:59.720 bidding. 33:59.720 --> 34:04.500 That situation is still much the same in Roman Catholic countries today. 34:05.360 --> 34:08.460 Roman Catholic countries like the United States of America. 34:09.580 --> 34:15.140 Christ made a clear distinction between his kingdom, which is not of this world, 34:15.460 --> 34:17.960 and the kingdoms of this world. 34:18.280 --> 34:20.740 See John chapter 18 verse 36. 34:21.600 --> 34:27.160 In disobedience to Christ, whom they claim to represent, the popes have built a 34:27.160 --> 34:29.820 kingdom which is very much of this world. 34:30.600 --> 34:32.860 Yet they claim it is God's kingdom. 34:33.740 --> 34:38.980 And they have done it in unholy alliance with secular rulers. 34:39.740 --> 34:43.460 Many of them the most wicked personalities in history. 34:44.360 --> 34:48.520 Many of them as wicked as the popes themselves. 34:49.700 --> 34:54.460 Christ made a clear distinction between his church, which he called out of the 34:54.460 --> 34:57.040 world, and the world itself. 34:57.500 --> 35:00.720 See John 17 verses 18 through 20. 35:01.560 --> 35:06.920 John declared, quote, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. 35:07.720 --> 35:12.460 If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 35:13.080 --> 35:13.680 Unquote. 35:14.440 --> 35:16.920 First John chapter 2 verse 15. 35:16.920 --> 35:23.280 The distinctions that Christ made must be adhered to by those who belong to him. 35:24.080 --> 35:27.680 Quote, if a man love me, he will keep my words. 35:28.520 --> 35:32.120 He that loveth me not, keepeth not my sayings. 35:32.580 --> 35:33.020 Unquote. 35:33.580 --> 35:36.420 John chapter 14 verse 23 and 24. 35:37.120 --> 35:42.660 Quote, why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say? 35:43.420 --> 35:45.460 Luke chapter 6 verse 46. 35:46.280 --> 35:48.300 That concludes chapter 14. 35:48.620 --> 35:52.440 We will continue now with chapter 15 entitled, Unholy Alliances. 35:53.520 --> 35:54.920 It begins with two quotes. 35:55.060 --> 35:58.460 This first one from Revelation chapter 17 verse 1 and 2. 35:59.300 --> 36:04.700 Come hither, I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth 36:04.700 --> 36:09.540 upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, 36:09.540 --> 36:15.480 and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her 36:15.480 --> 36:16.240 fornication. 36:17.080 --> 36:23.200 And this is a quote from Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian patriot, dated 1863. 36:23.880 --> 36:31.400 You, in reference to Pope Pius IX, you have stooped to unite in political 36:31.400 --> 36:37.800 fornication with the civil government of any and all despotic countries. 36:37.800 --> 36:43.440 You have prostituted the cross, the symbol of sacrifice and salvation, 36:43.960 --> 36:47.020 into the symbol of tyranny and ruin. 36:48.000 --> 36:54.400 Those who call themselves the vicars of God on earth have become the vicars of the 36:54.400 --> 36:56.020 genius of evil. 36:56.900 --> 36:59.380 And what is the genius of evil? 37:00.040 --> 37:01.260 Dayton himself. 37:02.180 --> 37:03.820 Giuseppe Mazzini was right. 37:03.820 --> 37:08.080 Despite all else that he was wrong about, he was right about this. 37:08.840 --> 37:11.020 The popes are not the vicars of God. 37:11.160 --> 37:14.000 They are the vicars of Satan himself. 37:15.060 --> 37:16.980 That is the protestant truth. 37:17.720 --> 37:19.720 That is the biblical truth. 37:20.200 --> 37:22.580 That is the historical truth. 37:23.240 --> 37:24.980 It is the prophetic truth. 37:25.760 --> 37:30.800 And if we ever, in any count, depart from that truth, we have been deceived. 37:31.800 --> 37:34.420 Chapter 15, Unholy Alliances. 37:35.500 --> 37:41.740 A city built on seven hills is accused of committing fornication with the kings of 37:41.740 --> 37:42.080 the earth. 37:42.860 --> 37:48.680 We've noted that the term, quote-unquote, fornication, is used often in the Bible in 37:48.680 --> 37:51.820 a spiritual sense, signifying unfaithfulness to God. 37:52.620 --> 37:58.120 Ezekiel chapter 16 is devoted entirely to denouncing Jerusalem for her 37:58.120 --> 38:04.720 unfaithfulness to God, liking her to a, quote, wife that committeth adultery, 38:05.400 --> 38:08.600 which taketh strangers instead of her husband. 38:09.160 --> 38:09.760 Unquote. 38:09.900 --> 38:10.920 See verse 32. 38:11.940 --> 38:17.800 Jerusalem had violated her spiritual relationship to God through idolatry and 38:17.800 --> 38:19.760 alliances with pagan nations. 38:20.700 --> 38:24.000 That meaning is clear from many passages of scripture. 38:24.880 --> 38:31.100 Jerusalem, however, cannot be this woman, because, as we have seen, she isn't built 38:31.100 --> 38:34.960 on seven hills, and doesn't meet any of the other criteria. 38:35.940 --> 38:41.600 Obviously, then, the city with which this woman represents must claim a faithful 38:41.600 --> 38:44.720 relationship to God similar to Jerusalem's. 38:45.500 --> 38:49.600 In fact, Rome claims to have replaced Jerusalem in God's affection. 38:49.600 --> 38:54.060 This is where we get the doctrine of replacement theology. 38:55.640 --> 39:00.180 Right here, the holy city is no longer Jerusalem, it's Rome. 39:00.660 --> 39:03.040 Wherever the Pope rules, that's the holy city. 39:03.160 --> 39:04.560 That's replacement theology. 39:05.460 --> 39:09.580 That the Jews who brought us the oracles of God have been replaced by Roman 39:09.580 --> 39:12.420 Catholicism who brought us Roman Catholic canon law. 39:14.080 --> 39:18.980 In fact, Rome claims to have replaced Jerusalem in God's affection. 39:18.980 --> 39:24.920 And she has violated that relationship by entering into unholy alliances with 39:24.920 --> 39:26.900 godless earthly kings. 39:27.940 --> 39:33.560 Rome alone meets this and many other criteria that John sets forth in his 39:33.560 --> 39:33.940 vision. 39:34.840 --> 39:39.720 History is replete with the record of unholy alliances between the Vatican and 39:39.720 --> 39:40.940 secular governments. 39:41.460 --> 39:45.360 Much of the evidence remains today in Rome's churches and monuments. 39:45.360 --> 39:50.540 For example, the Vatican Museum is filled with priceless ancient paintings, 39:50.820 --> 39:57.760 sculptures, tapestries, gold and jewels once worn or treasured by despotic rulers. 39:58.600 --> 40:04.240 Most were given to popes by kings, queens, emperors or governments in token 40:04.240 --> 40:07.720 of papal partnerships with these worldly figures. 40:08.520 --> 40:14.280 Relationships which the Bible condemns and which would be unthinkable for the true 40:14.280 --> 40:15.400 bride of Christ. 40:16.320 --> 40:18.880 Now we are going to talk about the witness of history. 40:19.800 --> 40:26.320 Driven from Rome by a popular uprising against his oppressive reign, Pope Leo III 40:26.320 --> 40:31.680 fled to the Frankish court of Charlemagne to enlist his help in recovering those 40:31.680 --> 40:33.900 territories over which the popes reigned. 40:33.900 --> 40:39.500 That bloodthirsty warrior's enemies recaptured Rome and, in the name of 40:39.500 --> 40:42.260 Christ, restored Leo to the papal throne. 40:43.100 --> 40:49.500 While Charlemagne knelt at mass in St. Peter's on Christmas Day of AD 800, 40:50.140 --> 40:55.840 the Pope placed a crown on his head and proclaimed him Emperor of the West. 40:55.840 --> 41:01.880 The title was eventually recognized by both the Eastern Emperor in Constantinople 41:01.880 --> 41:04.440 and the Caliph of Baghdad. 41:05.220 --> 41:10.380 As Maurice Keenwright reminds us, quote, The restoration of the worldwide 41:10.380 --> 41:16.780 dominion of Rome was the dream not only of medieval popes and emperors, but also of 41:16.780 --> 41:19.100 many of their subjects and servants, unquote. 41:19.760 --> 41:24.640 This dream will be fully achieved at last under Antichrist. 41:24.640 --> 41:27.700 The Pope's move was a shrewd one. 41:28.660 --> 41:32.620 Charlemagne's power had threatened to overshadow the authority of the papacy. 41:33.520 --> 41:38.060 After his coronation by the Pope in St. Peter's, however, Charlemagne, 41:38.380 --> 41:44.500 in solid partnership with the papacy, quote, worked for some forty years to 41:44.500 --> 41:49.800 create a Christian commonwealth such as St. Augustine had earlier outlined, 41:50.140 --> 41:50.660 unquote. 41:50.660 --> 41:56.600 The Emperor's brutal military campaigns in northern Europe were accompanied by the 41:56.600 --> 41:58.780 forcible conversions of the heathen. 41:59.720 --> 42:05.200 Charlemagne was the Pope's secular arm that Christianized the pagans with the 42:05.200 --> 42:10.420 sword, and thereby enlarged the Roman Catholic domain as the Spanish 42:10.420 --> 42:12.820 conquistadors would later do in America. 42:13.720 --> 42:19.100 Charlemagne's father, Pepin, as we have previously noted, on the basis of a 42:19.100 --> 42:23.260 fraudulent document entitled the Donation of Constantine, which we've talked about 42:23.260 --> 42:28.320 voluminously here on the program, had subdued and turned over the Pope's the 42:28.320 --> 42:34.220 huge territories thereafter known as the Papal States and ruled by the papacy. 42:35.200 --> 42:38.180 Charlemagne, too, was deceived by this fraud. 42:38.180 --> 42:44.560 Based upon this fraudulent Donation of Constantine, he formally drew up a charter 42:44.560 --> 42:49.880 which acknowledged the papacy as both spiritual and temporal ruler over, 42:50.460 --> 42:55.120 quote, all the regions of Italy and the West, unquote. 42:56.080 --> 43:00.940 Thereafter, Charlemagne acted as the Pope's protector and partner, much as 43:00.940 --> 43:05.460 Constantine had at the very beginning of the developing coalition between church 43:05.460 --> 43:06.080 and state. 43:06.080 --> 43:11.840 Such an arrangement, totally contrary to the teachings of Christ, is only one 43:11.840 --> 43:17.120 example of the spiritual fornication which this woman, the Roman Catholic Church, 43:17.620 --> 43:23.080 would be involved in, exactly as John foresaw it in his vision. 43:23.880 --> 43:31.500 Eventually, the church and the state became so closely allied that there was 43:31.500 --> 43:33.960 scarcely any distinction between them. 43:34.820 --> 43:39.980 Emperors convened and presided over the great councils of the church and looked 43:39.980 --> 43:44.860 upon the Popes and the rest of the church hierarchy as their partners in governing 43:44.860 --> 43:45.760 the masses. 43:46.480 --> 43:52.880 Such unholy papal alliances, soon to become commonplace, would have been 43:52.880 --> 43:54.960 anathema to the early church. 43:55.800 --> 44:00.060 They made a mockery of Christ's rejection and crucifixion by the world. 44:00.060 --> 44:05.780 Consider another example from the shamelessly flattering speech by Eusebius, 44:05.840 --> 44:10.960 a different portion of which we quoted earlier, in praise of Constantine. 44:11.720 --> 44:16.800 He attributes to the pagan Emperor Constantine the very spiritual qualities 44:16.800 --> 44:21.220 and ecclesiastical authority and functions now claimed by the Popes. 44:22.420 --> 44:31.200 Our Emperor, that is, Christ's friend, acting as interpreter to the word of God, 44:32.020 --> 44:41.840 aims at recalling the whole human race to the knowledge of God, proclaiming clearly 44:41.840 --> 44:46.280 in the ears of all, and declaring with powerful voice the laws of truth and 44:46.280 --> 44:49.020 godliness to all who dwell on the earth. 44:49.020 --> 44:55.320 Invested as he is with a semblance of heavenly sovereignty, he frames his 44:55.320 --> 44:59.220 earthly government according to the pattern of the divine original, 44:59.940 --> 45:07.360 the monarchy of God." There can be no doubt as to the amazing accuracy of the 45:07.360 --> 45:13.320 Apostle John's vision of a city that claims to belong to Christ, yet 45:13.320 --> 45:15.760 prostitutes herself to the kings of the earth. 45:15.760 --> 45:22.560 To have pagan rulers enforcing Christianity by military power upon an 45:22.560 --> 45:28.640 ever-widening papal empire was a blasphemous travesty of the truth that 45:28.640 --> 45:29.660 Christ proclaimed. 45:30.480 --> 45:35.540 It was such a gross misrepresentation of the gospel, and such a confusing 45:35.540 --> 45:40.580 identification of the state with the church, that eventually Christ was 45:40.580 --> 45:43.980 considered the true ruler of Byzantium. 45:43.980 --> 45:52.540 Coins depicting him wearing the imperial crown and icons represented him clothed in 45:52.540 --> 45:54.220 the vestments of the emperor. 45:55.180 --> 46:01.060 The emperor's own throne sat next to another one, empty except for a copy of 46:01.060 --> 46:06.900 the gospels, indicating that Christ was the co-emperor of Byzantium. 46:07.680 --> 46:11.780 Such was the spirit of the times that prevailed in the west as well. 46:11.780 --> 46:16.960 Eventually, as we've already noted, Pope Innocent III abolished the Roman 46:16.960 --> 46:21.960 Senate and placed the administration of Rome directly under his control with a 46:21.960 --> 46:24.280 single senator as his deputy. 46:25.000 --> 46:33.600 In 1266, Clement IV gave this function to Charles of Anjou, who founded the 46:33.600 --> 46:34.740 University of Rome. 46:34.740 --> 46:40.480 The papacy continued to be at the heart of almost every political intrigue, 46:40.540 --> 46:46.300 and its armies were allied with the forces of many a king in the continual wars that 46:46.300 --> 46:47.080 plagued Europe. 46:47.640 --> 46:52.980 In the New World, the church was the partner of the Spanish conquistadors and 46:52.980 --> 46:56.020 the Portuguese of Africa. 46:57.020 --> 47:04.740 Recently, Native American activists called on Pope John Paul II to formally revoke a 47:04.740 --> 47:12.360 papal bull entitled Inter Satira, issued in 1493, which declared that, 47:12.400 --> 47:18.240 quote, barbarous nations discovered and yet to be discovered should be subjected 47:18.240 --> 47:22.200 to the Catholic faith in order to propagate the Christian empire, 47:22.620 --> 47:23.100 unquote. 47:23.940 --> 47:30.440 Examples of, quote, fornication with the kings of the earth, unquote, from ancient 47:30.440 --> 47:32.280 history could be multiplied. 47:33.180 --> 47:35.860 But we need to move on to modern times. 47:36.600 --> 47:39.360 Now we're going to move to 1929. 47:40.220 --> 47:46.180 That precipitous date, 1929, and the Concordat with Mussolini. 47:46.860 --> 47:51.880 We've already referred to the fact that in 1870, the independence of Italy was 47:51.880 --> 47:57.400 declared, and what remained of the papal states was absorbed by the new united 47:57.400 --> 47:57.880 nation. 47:58.720 --> 48:04.100 We've also noted that the Italian people voted overwhelmingly against the Pope's 48:04.100 --> 48:06.980 rule and for the new independence. 48:06.980 --> 48:12.400 The temporal powers of the Popes were ended, including their prestige and 48:12.400 --> 48:14.280 alliances with earthly regimes. 48:15.280 --> 48:20.100 The Pope's civil authority was limited to the Vatican, where they remained in 48:20.100 --> 48:29.060 self-imposed exile for nearly 60 years, until in 1929, Benito Mussolini and the 48:29.060 --> 48:32.980 Pope, Pope Pius XI, signed the Lateran Treaty. 48:32.980 --> 48:40.860 This Concordat made Roman Catholicism, once again, by national law, quote, 48:41.360 --> 48:44.560 the sole religion, unquote, of Italy. 48:45.380 --> 48:51.700 Neither Peter nor Paul, and surely not Christ, would have ever entered into such 48:51.700 --> 48:56.620 an arrangement with any government, let alone with a fascist dictatorship. 48:56.620 --> 49:02.180 The Vatican, which claimed to be the true and only church, the bride of Christ, 49:02.260 --> 49:07.540 who said his kingdom was not of this world, was acknowledged once again as a 49:07.540 --> 49:12.660 sovereign state, with the status of a secular nation able to send and receive 49:12.660 --> 49:13.940 political ambassadors. 49:14.860 --> 49:21.600 For having seized the papal territories in 1870, Italy paid to the Holy See 750 49:21.600 --> 49:28.480 million lira in cash, and 1 billion lira in state bonds. 49:29.360 --> 49:34.760 Some of these funds would be used to start the Vatican Bank, now infamous for its 49:34.760 --> 49:35.280 corruption. 49:36.000 --> 49:41.740 Some would end up in rather strange investments for her holy mother church, 49:42.380 --> 49:49.200 such as, quote, an Italian firearms factory and a Canadian pharmaceutical 49:49.200 --> 49:52.400 company that manufactured contraceptives. 49:52.820 --> 49:58.040 That's right, Rome invested where she could most multiply her wealth, 49:58.340 --> 50:04.660 that is, in killing people through arms and killing people through contraceptives. 50:04.660 --> 50:10.500 That's right, it's the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican, the papacy, 50:10.780 --> 50:15.780 the biblical, historical, and prophetic antichrist, that through a French company 50:15.780 --> 50:23.760 positioned in Canada, a pharmaceutical company, gave us the birth control pill. 50:24.640 --> 50:30.660 Rome presents herself as being against abortion, but the birth control pill does 50:30.660 --> 50:33.140 not prevent conception. 50:33.140 --> 50:41.680 The birth control pill just prevents that conceived life from attaching to the womb, 50:42.120 --> 50:45.820 and it passes out of the body, dead. 50:46.560 --> 50:48.060 That's Roman Catholicism. 50:48.760 --> 50:53.840 It stands piously before the world, condemning contraception, but it financed 50:53.840 --> 51:00.940 the most lethal killing machine ever devised upon mankind, the birth control 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