WEBVTT 00:26.250 --> 00:28.110 Welcome to Inquisition Update. 00:28.350 --> 00:31.030 My name is Tom Friess and I'll be your host for the next hour. 00:31.310 --> 00:34.070 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 00:34.170 --> 00:35.590 Thanks for tuning in everybody. 00:36.410 --> 00:39.310 And we'll get right to the business of the program this morning. 00:39.370 --> 00:44.050 Continuing our reading and discussion of the book, A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave 00:44.050 --> 00:44.390 Hunt. 00:44.390 --> 00:50.790 Dave is showing us the unholy alliances that the Vatican has made with the kings 00:50.790 --> 00:51.410 of the earth. 00:51.950 --> 00:54.550 Committing fornication with the kings of the earth. 00:55.610 --> 00:59.610 And when we concluded the program yesterday we were talking specifically 00:59.610 --> 01:03.050 about the 1929 concordat with Mussolini. 01:03.630 --> 01:10.410 So we'll back up a paragraph or two to the middle of the page 218 if you're following 01:10.410 --> 01:12.050 along in your own copy of the book. 01:12.050 --> 01:16.590 Again, the 1929 concordat with Mussolini. 01:17.570 --> 01:23.590 He says, we've already referred to the fact that in 1870 the independence of 01:23.590 --> 01:30.070 Italy was declared and what remained of the Papal States was absorbed by the new 01:30.070 --> 01:31.370 united nation. 01:32.250 --> 01:37.630 We've also noted that the Italian people voted overwhelmingly against the Pope's 01:37.630 --> 01:40.810 rule and for the new independence. 01:40.810 --> 01:44.750 They voted for the new independence. 01:45.570 --> 01:50.450 This was regarded by the Vatican as rebellion, heresy. 01:52.250 --> 01:58.850 The Roman Catholic Church had ruled the Papal States in virtually all of Italy and 01:58.850 --> 02:01.070 the Italians simply got tired of it. 02:01.170 --> 02:04.530 They wanted their own constitution, their own liberties, they wanted to elect 02:04.530 --> 02:08.710 their own governments much as the rest of the nations did at this time. 02:08.710 --> 02:15.030 Now it says, the temporal powers of the Pope were ended including their prestige 02:15.030 --> 02:17.390 and alliances with earthly regimes. 02:18.210 --> 02:25.270 The Pope's civil authority was limited to the Vatican only where they remained in 02:25.270 --> 02:26.930 self-imposed exile. 02:27.110 --> 02:33.970 Where the Pope's remained in self-imposed exile for nearly 60 years until, 02:34.350 --> 02:40.990 in 1929, Mussolini and Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty. 02:42.070 --> 02:48.710 The Papacy had, as it were, suffered a mortal wound and could no longer control 02:48.710 --> 02:54.390 the kings of the earth until Mussolini and the Pope got together and signed their 02:54.390 --> 02:55.290 Lateran Treaty. 02:55.290 --> 03:03.890 It says, this concordat, this treaty between Mussolini and Pope Pius XI made 03:03.890 --> 03:11.150 Roman Catholicism once again, by national law, the sole religion of Italy. 03:12.130 --> 03:16.770 Neither Peter nor Paul, and surely not Christ, would ever have entered into such 03:16.770 --> 03:22.350 an arrangement with any government, let alone with a fascist dictatorship. 03:22.350 --> 03:29.830 The Vatican, which claimed to be the true and only church, the bride of Christ who 03:29.830 --> 03:35.370 said his kingdom was not of this world, was acknowledged once again as a sovereign 03:35.370 --> 03:40.930 state with the status of a secular nation able to send and receive political 03:40.930 --> 03:42.150 ambassadors. 03:43.410 --> 03:49.650 For having seized the Papal territories in 1870, Italy paid to the Holy See, 03:50.450 --> 04:00.110 Mussolini paid to the Holy See 750 million lira in cash and 1 billion lira in state 04:00.110 --> 04:00.810 bonds. 04:01.590 --> 04:06.770 Some of these funds would be used to start the Vatican Bank, now so infamous for its 04:06.770 --> 04:07.290 corruption. 04:08.210 --> 04:13.850 Some would end up in rather strange investments for Holy Mother Church, 04:13.850 --> 04:18.430 such as, quote, an Italian firearms factory. 04:19.410 --> 04:22.690 What would a church of God have to do in building firearms? 04:23.430 --> 04:29.550 And a Canadian pharmaceutical company that manufactured contraceptives. 04:30.550 --> 04:32.530 Hypocrisy of hypocrisies. 04:33.410 --> 04:37.790 The Roman Catholic Church actually financed a pharmaceutical company, 04:37.790 --> 04:43.870 was a major controlling stockholder in a Canadian or a French pharmaceutical 04:43.870 --> 04:47.890 company that manufactured the birth control pill. 04:48.430 --> 04:53.490 As a matter of fact, what is most horrifying about the birth control pill, 04:53.630 --> 04:58.230 of all of us professing Christians who say that life begins at conception, 04:58.890 --> 05:05.050 we discover that the birth control pill does not prevent conception. 05:05.990 --> 05:10.930 It only prevents the conceived ovum from attaching to the uterine wall. 05:11.750 --> 05:14.230 And a life passes every month. 05:14.910 --> 05:19.150 He continues, he says, there is no doubt that the Roman Catholic Church put 05:19.150 --> 05:20.650 Mussolini in power. 05:21.250 --> 05:27.010 In order to obtain the Lateran Treaty, the Pope required Roman Catholics to 05:27.010 --> 05:29.630 withdraw from participation in politics. 05:29.630 --> 05:34.990 Many of them had been socialists, actively opposed to Mussolini and his 05:34.990 --> 05:39.370 fascist party, and gave the Church's backing to Il Duce. 05:40.490 --> 05:45.230 The Pope made public statements so strongly in support of Mussolini, 05:45.330 --> 05:51.610 for instance, quote, Mussolini is the man sent by Providence, capital P, 05:51.930 --> 05:58.690 unquote, that Catholics had no choice but to support the aspiring fascist dictator. 05:58.690 --> 06:05.430 Without that help, Benito Mussolini would not have been voted in, and history might 06:05.430 --> 06:06.650 have been much different. 06:07.630 --> 06:08.790 Quid pro quo. 06:09.710 --> 06:15.190 On his part, after the Concordat was signed, Mussolini declared, quote, 06:15.490 --> 06:20.450 we recognize the preeminent place the Roman Catholic Church holds in the 06:20.450 --> 06:25.450 religious life of Italian people, which is perfectly natural in a Catholic 06:25.450 --> 06:31.370 country such as ours, and under a regime such as fascist, unquote. 06:32.190 --> 06:37.070 All the Cardinals of Rome, in an address to the Pope, hailed Mussolini as, 06:37.410 --> 06:42.770 quote, that eminent statesman who rules Italy by a decree of the Divine 06:42.770 --> 06:47.050 Providence, capital D, capital P, unquote. 06:48.270 --> 06:53.550 Looking back, one wonders how men who claimed to be the emissaries of the Holy 06:53.550 --> 06:56.370 Spirit could have been so wrong. 06:57.270 --> 07:00.650 There is, however, a selfish reason for their folly. 07:01.550 --> 07:07.870 It was a quid pro quo that promised much for both parties. 07:08.630 --> 07:12.590 Mussolini needed the Roman Catholic Church to establish his hold on Italy, 07:12.910 --> 07:18.090 and on his part, the Roman Catholic Church was willing to support Mussolini in 07:18.090 --> 07:23.090 exchange for restoration of at least some of its former prestige and power. 07:23.090 --> 07:29.070 With the solid backing of the Roman Catholic Church, Mussolini was established 07:29.070 --> 07:35.490 as dictator, and with the Lateran Treaty, the Roman Pontiff once again achieved the 07:35.490 --> 07:41.010 status of right-hand man to the Emperor, a position which Popes had earlier 07:41.010 --> 07:45.810 enjoyed, beginning with Constantine, and continuing with his successors. 07:46.670 --> 07:53.910 Quote-unquote, fornication with kings, after a brief interruption, had begun 07:53.910 --> 07:54.550 again. 07:55.450 --> 08:01.510 The Roman Catholic Church remained throughout World War II the loyal partner 08:01.510 --> 08:07.190 of an oppressive dictatorship which had been only too happy to give the Pope what 08:07.190 --> 08:10.910 he wanted, the suppression of basic human rights. 08:11.710 --> 08:17.850 With Catholicism now the state religion, religious education was made compulsory in 08:17.850 --> 08:18.490 the schools. 08:19.270 --> 08:23.210 Teachers and textbooks had to be approved by the Roman Catholic Church. 08:24.210 --> 08:28.530 Religious marriage became compulsory, and divorce was forbidden. 08:29.610 --> 08:35.430 Criticism of Roman Catholicism, either oral or in print, was made a penal 08:35.430 --> 08:36.110 offense. 08:36.110 --> 08:41.670 You could go to jail for criticizing the Roman Catholic Church, and likewise 08:41.670 --> 08:44.330 criticizing his fascist dictator in Italy. 08:45.150 --> 08:49.750 As Avro Manhattan points out in his book, The Vatican in World Politics, 08:50.450 --> 08:56.430 quote, thus the Roman Catholic Church became the religious weapon of the fascist 08:56.430 --> 09:02.730 state, while the fascist state became the secular arm of the Roman Catholic Church, 09:03.090 --> 09:03.610 unquote. 09:03.610 --> 09:09.650 No such arrangement with any secular government could be entered into by any 09:09.650 --> 09:15.670 other church, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, or whatever, even if it so 09:15.670 --> 09:16.370 desired. 09:17.290 --> 09:24.610 Only Vatican City is capable of spiritual fornication, and surely its concordats 09:24.610 --> 09:29.230 with Mussolini, and later with Hitler, and with a wide variety of other 09:29.230 --> 09:31.730 governments, are exactly that. 09:32.530 --> 09:36.010 There's simply no mistaking this woman's identity. 09:36.470 --> 09:41.930 Speaking of the woman who rides the beast, the woman representing the Roman Catholic 09:41.930 --> 09:51.750 Church, the scarlet-colored beast representing the persecuting kings of the 09:51.750 --> 09:51.930 earth. 09:52.030 --> 09:56.290 It's called a global church-state union. 09:56.850 --> 09:59.850 That's what is described in Revelation chapter 17. 09:59.850 --> 10:06.730 The woman, the harlot, is the Roman Catholic Church, and the scarlet-colored 10:06.730 --> 10:12.470 beast are the governments of the world over which she rules. 10:13.150 --> 10:18.510 She holds the reins to the governments of the world, and they do what she tells them 10:18.510 --> 10:18.970 to do. 10:19.770 --> 10:27.990 On June 3rd, 1985, the Vatican and Italy signed a new concordat that ended, 10:28.250 --> 10:33.690 quote, a number of privileges the Roman Catholic Church had in Italy, including 10:33.690 --> 10:36.330 its status as the state church. 10:36.970 --> 10:44.070 The new treaty guarantees religious freedom for non-Catholics, and ends Rome's 10:44.070 --> 10:49.750 status as a, quote-unquote, sacred city, but still recognizes the particular 10:49.750 --> 10:54.770 significance of Rome to Roman Catholicism, unquote. 10:55.430 --> 11:00.850 Now, you might say, well, that sounds like progress to me, but you can bet that that 11:00.850 --> 11:03.070 all ended after Vatican Council too. 11:03.910 --> 11:09.950 Now, we're going to talk about the 1933 concordat with another fascist dictator so 11:09.950 --> 11:15.930 renowned in history, the 1933 concordat with Adolf Hitler. 11:16.830 --> 11:22.930 One of the key figures in negotiating the 1929 concordat with Mussolini was 11:22.930 --> 11:30.710 solicitor Francisco Pacelli, brother of Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who later became 11:30.710 --> 11:31.870 Pope Pius XII. 11:32.890 --> 11:39.250 The latter, Eugenio Pacelli, as the Vatican Secretary of State, would play a 11:39.250 --> 11:45.090 key role in negotiating the lucrative 1933 concordat with Hitler. 11:45.610 --> 11:48.430 It was lucrative for the Roman Catholic Church, to be sure. 11:49.090 --> 11:54.230 One of the benefits of the concordat was the hundreds of millions of dollars that 11:54.230 --> 11:59.010 would flow to the Roman Catholic Church through the Kirchenstauer, that is, 11:59.250 --> 12:02.330 the church tax, throughout the entire war. 12:03.170 --> 12:08.230 In return, Pope Pius XII would never excommunicate Hitler from the Catholic 12:08.230 --> 12:13.870 Church, nor would he raise his voice to protest the slaughter of six million Jews, 12:13.870 --> 12:19.210 and I will add, the unrecorded number of Protestants. 12:20.330 --> 12:24.570 Leading Roman Catholic prelates and theologians were ecstatic at the signing 12:24.570 --> 12:26.630 of the 1933 concordat. 12:27.770 --> 12:34.910 Catholic theologian Michael Schmaus wrote in praise of the authoritarianism of the 12:34.910 --> 12:39.730 Nazi regime and compared it to that of the Roman Catholic Church. 12:39.730 --> 12:46.750 The strong emphasis on authority in the new government is something essentially 12:46.750 --> 12:48.430 familiar to Roman Catholics. 12:49.190 --> 12:55.970 It is the counterpart, on the natural level, to the church's authority in the 12:55.970 --> 12:57.170 supernatural sphere. 12:58.230 --> 13:04.310 Nowhere is the value and meaning of authority so conspicuous as in our holy 13:04.310 --> 13:05.750 Roman Catholic Church. 13:06.730 --> 13:08.850 Of course, that was true. 13:08.850 --> 13:15.170 The papacy had for centuries worked in close partnership with autocratic kings 13:15.170 --> 13:19.710 and emperors in the suppression of basic human rights. 13:20.350 --> 13:26.910 Today's Roman Catholics need to face the fact that the totalitarianism of their 13:26.910 --> 13:32.890 church was a major factor in preparing German Catholics to embrace the Nazi 13:32.890 --> 13:33.550 regime. 13:34.350 --> 13:40.890 Catholic professor of church history Joseph Lortz said, quote, never tired of 13:40.890 --> 13:46.370 speaking, quote, the fundamental kinship between National Socialism and 13:46.370 --> 13:51.970 Catholicism, a kinship which runs amazingly deep, close quotes. 13:52.530 --> 13:59.410 In the same year, 1933, a well-known prelate from Cologne, Robert Groschy, 13:59.410 --> 14:08.950 wrote in Die Schildgenossen, quote, when papal infallibility was defined in 14:08.950 --> 14:13.690 the year 1870 at the First Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church was 14:13.690 --> 14:18.990 anticipated on a higher level the historical decision which has now been 14:18.990 --> 14:24.730 made on the political level, a decision for authority and against discussion, 14:24.730 --> 14:32.250 for the pope and against the sovereignty of the council, for the Führer against the 14:32.250 --> 14:34.010 parliament, unquote. 14:34.530 --> 14:43.070 You see how papal infallibility played a role in the rise of the fascist regimes 14:43.070 --> 14:45.770 and the Second World War? 14:47.170 --> 14:51.930 It says, drawing upon years of study of secret documents in the Vatican archives, 14:51.930 --> 14:59.870 its curator of some years, August Bernard Hassler noted, quote, both in Italy and in 14:59.870 --> 15:06.250 Germany, the Roman Catholic Curia took the opportunity to secure from a dictatorial 15:06.250 --> 15:11.490 regime what seemed impossible under parliamentary government, namely, 15:12.030 --> 15:13.890 a concordat, unquote. 15:13.890 --> 15:21.070 He then quotes German Catholic leader Ludwig Cas, quote, the authoritarian state 15:21.070 --> 15:26.330 necessarily understood the basic principles of the authoritarian church 15:26.330 --> 15:29.770 better than others had, unquote. 15:30.730 --> 15:37.090 Indeed, they were partners who were made for each other. 15:37.890 --> 15:42.650 Hitler received the following warm note of congratulations from Cardinal Michael 15:42.650 --> 15:49.430 Fulhaber six months after he came to power, quote, what the old parliaments and 15:49.430 --> 15:55.210 parties failed to achieve in 60 years, your broad state's visions has made a 15:55.210 --> 15:58.370 reality of world history in six months. 15:59.310 --> 16:03.710 This hand clasped with the papacy, the greatest moral force in the history of 16:03.710 --> 16:10.050 the world, signifies a mighty deed full of immense blessing and an increase in German 16:10.050 --> 16:15.610 prestige, east and west, in sight of the entire world, unquote. 16:16.210 --> 16:20.770 Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Tolan points out that the leaders of the 16:20.770 --> 16:24.170 Roman Catholic Church were eager to curry Hitler's favor. 16:25.150 --> 16:29.670 After an audience with Pope Pius XI, even though Hitler had just outlawed the 16:29.670 --> 16:35.450 Roman Catholic Party, its leader, Monsignor Ludwig Cas, in words obviously 16:35.450 --> 16:40.770 intended to impress the Fuhrer, told the press, quote, Hitler knows how to 16:40.770 --> 16:41.590 guide the ship. 16:42.290 --> 16:47.110 Even before he became chancellor, I met him frequently and was greatly 16:47.110 --> 16:52.070 impressed by his clear thinking, by his way of facing realities while 16:52.070 --> 16:55.990 upholding his ideals, which are noble, unquote. 16:56.990 --> 17:02.270 Tolan goes on to explain, quote, The Vatican was so appreciative of being 17:02.270 --> 17:07.170 recognized as a full partner that it asked God to bless the Reich. 17:08.090 --> 17:12.770 On a more practical level, it ordered German bishops to swear allegiance to the 17:12.770 --> 17:14.410 National Socialist regime. 17:15.390 --> 17:19.830 The new oath concluded with these significant words, quote, In the 17:19.830 --> 17:25.250 performance of my spiritual office and in my solicitude for the welfare and the 17:25.250 --> 17:30.250 interest of the German Reich, I will endeavor to avoid all detrimental acts 17:30.250 --> 17:32.990 which might endanger it, unquote. 17:33.870 --> 17:35.450 Dawn into the maelstrom. 17:36.370 --> 17:41.690 When Hitler, over the objections of Mussolini, announced that Germany was 17:41.690 --> 17:47.950 withdrawing from the League of Nations, a telegram came quickly from Catholic 17:47.950 --> 17:50.730 Action, pledging its support. 17:51.790 --> 17:55.890 Shrewdly, Adolf Hitler made his move subject to the vote of the people. 17:55.890 --> 17:59.990 Then put pressure upon the people to back him. 18:01.110 --> 18:05.370 The Catholic Church gave him its enthusiastic support and made it clear to 18:05.370 --> 18:09.150 Catholics that they were to vote in favor of Hitler's decision. 18:10.150 --> 18:15.990 Cardinal Fallhaber, with the approval of every bishop in Bavaria, declared that by 18:15.990 --> 18:21.690 voting yes, Roman Catholics would, quote, profess anew their loyalty to 18:21.690 --> 18:27.090 people and fatherland and their agreement with the far-sighted and forceful efforts 18:27.090 --> 18:33.630 of the Fuhrer to spare the German people the terrors of war and the horrors of 18:33.630 --> 18:39.190 Bolshevism to secure public order and create work for the unemployed, 18:39.850 --> 18:40.310 unquote. 18:41.150 --> 18:46.250 When Hitler moved his troops into Austria, after the usual promises that he wouldn't, 18:46.910 --> 18:53.030 he was astonished at the enthusiasm of the crowds of Austrians, almost all Roman 18:53.030 --> 18:54.910 Catholics, who greeted him. 18:55.670 --> 19:03.550 After addressing a crowd of some 200,000 in the Heldenplatz, he led a parade past 19:03.550 --> 19:07.590 the Winter Palace with Austrian generals joining on horseback. 19:08.690 --> 19:14.790 Later, Cardinal Initzer greeted Hitler with, quote, the sign of the cross and 19:14.790 --> 19:20.450 gave assurance that so long as the Roman Catholic Church retained its liberties, 19:21.210 --> 19:26.730 Austrian Roman Catholics would become, quote, the truest sons of the Great Reich 19:26.730 --> 19:31.950 into whose arms they had been brought back on this momentous day, close quotes. 19:33.430 --> 19:38.190 Der Fuhrer shook the Cardinal's hand warmly and promised him everything. 19:38.810 --> 19:46.330 On Hitler's birthday, on his 50th birthday, quote, special votive masses 19:46.330 --> 19:51.930 were celebrated in every Roman Catholic Church to implore God's blessing upon 19:51.930 --> 19:53.750 Fuhrer and people. 19:54.470 --> 19:59.110 The Bishop of Mainz called upon Roman Catholics in his diocese to pray 19:59.110 --> 20:04.250 specifically for the Fuhrer and Chancellor, the inspirer, enlarger, 20:04.570 --> 20:06.190 and protector of the Reich. 20:07.030 --> 20:10.710 Nor did the Pope fail to send his congratulations as well. 20:10.710 --> 20:16.610 The Catholic press throughout Germany almost unanimously declared that Adolf 20:16.610 --> 20:21.810 Hitler's narrow escape from 1939 attempt upon his life was the miraculous 20:21.810 --> 20:23.210 protection of God. 20:24.210 --> 20:29.230 Cardinal Fallhaber instructed that today-ems be sung in the Cathedral of 20:29.230 --> 20:36.250 Munich, quote, to thank divine providence in the name of the Archdiocese for the 20:36.250 --> 20:38.890 Fuhrer's fortunate escape, unquote. 20:38.890 --> 20:44.890 Having failed to condemn Germany's liquidation of Poland, the Pope did not 20:44.890 --> 20:49.770 neglect to send his special personal congratulations to Hitler for his 20:49.770 --> 20:53.450 miraculous survival of the assassination attempt. 20:54.030 --> 20:59.870 Even when Hitler's evil had been fully revealed, the Roman Catholic Church 20:59.870 --> 21:01.530 continued to support him. 21:02.290 --> 21:06.510 When German troops launched their offensive against the Soviet Union, 21:06.510 --> 21:11.710 the Pope again, quote, made it clear that he backed the Nazi fight against 21:11.710 --> 21:18.590 Bolshevism, describing it as high-minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of 21:18.590 --> 21:20.410 Christian culture, unquote. 21:21.210 --> 21:26.390 A number of German bishops predictably openly supported the attack. 21:27.070 --> 21:33.330 One called it a European crusade, a mission similar to that of the Teutonic 21:33.330 --> 21:33.910 Knights. 21:33.910 --> 21:40.410 The Pope exhorted all Roman Catholics to fight for, quote, a victory that would 21:40.410 --> 21:46.350 allow Europe to breathe freely again, and will promise all nations a new future, 21:47.010 --> 21:47.810 close quotes. 21:48.970 --> 21:52.990 We could go on and on with page after page of documentation. 21:53.910 --> 21:59.050 However, this should be enough to establish the fact that from the Pope and 21:59.050 --> 22:05.030 the bishops right on down to Roman Catholics kept a kinship with Adolf Hitler 22:05.030 --> 22:10.990 and backed him, even after his ruthless expansionist ambitions and crimes against 22:10.990 --> 22:13.070 humanity were well known. 22:13.970 --> 22:15.210 Unholy alliance? 22:16.250 --> 22:17.550 Spiritual fornication? 22:18.350 --> 22:19.690 There can be no doubt. 22:20.590 --> 22:23.850 What about today's continued alliances with the kings of the earth? 22:23.850 --> 22:30.270 The cover of Time magazine on February 24th, 1992, carried the pictures of former 22:30.270 --> 22:37.110 President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II together with this startling caption. 22:38.050 --> 22:39.570 Holy alliance. 22:40.410 --> 22:45.950 How Reagan and the Pope conspired to assist Poland's solidarity movement and 22:45.950 --> 22:48.070 hasten the demise of communism. 22:48.690 --> 22:54.050 The lead story told how Reagan, quote, had believed fervently in both the 22:54.050 --> 22:58.370 benefits and the practical applications of Washington's relationship with the 22:58.370 --> 22:58.770 Vatican. 22:59.470 --> 23:04.370 One of his earliest goals, as President Ronald Reagan says, was to recognize the 23:04.370 --> 23:09.090 Vatican as a state and make them an ally, unquote. 23:10.050 --> 23:14.510 And allies they became in one of the most amazing exploits in history. 23:15.370 --> 23:20.030 It brought down the Berlin Wall, ended the Cold War, and completely 23:20.030 --> 23:22.150 unraveled Soviet communism. 23:22.870 --> 23:28.650 It was a story of intrigue and cooperation between the CIA and the apparently even 23:28.650 --> 23:30.790 more effective agents of the Vatican. 23:31.870 --> 23:35.990 Reagan and John Paul II, both survivors of assassination attempts, shared, 23:36.170 --> 23:42.910 quote, a unity of spiritual view and unity of vision on the Soviet Empire that right 23:42.910 --> 23:48.470 or correctness would ultimately prevail in the divine plan, unquote. 23:49.330 --> 23:53.470 We'll return with the reading of the book, A Woman Rides a Beast, by Dave Hunt. 23:53.590 --> 23:57.010 When we return from the break, you're listening to Inquisition Update on 23:57.010 --> 23:58.170 First Amendment Radio. 24:29.300 --> 24:37.460 Hear it first on firstamendmentradio.com and firstamendmentradio.net The book of 24:37.460 --> 24:43.000 Revelation says the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus Christ. 24:43.460 --> 24:46.700 This is at the very heart of firstamendmentradio.com. 24:47.360 --> 24:52.600 In that spirit, we have created the Prophecy Reality News app for all of your 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support Inquisition Update by supporting First Amendment Radio, 27:29.350 --> 27:30.650 who sponsors the program. 27:31.190 --> 27:37.230 At a program note, as many of you may or may not be aware, I've become a regular 27:37.230 --> 27:41.270 guest on Laurie's Talk News Radio on Thursdays. 27:41.790 --> 27:46.630 And this evening, beginning at 9 o'clock p .m. 27:47.090 --> 27:53.610 Central Standard Time, I will begin a discussion of the book, Vietnam, 27:53.990 --> 27:54.870 Why Did We Go? 27:55.750 --> 28:01.590 Another Unholy Alliance Between the United States Government and the Vatican to 28:01.590 --> 28:06.910 Overthrow a Legitimate Government and to Make That Nation Roman Catholic. 28:07.470 --> 28:09.030 It's a startling reality. 28:09.670 --> 28:13.630 It's my pleasure and privilege and blessing to get to share that information 28:13.630 --> 28:15.510 with Laurie's listeners. 28:15.510 --> 28:22.730 And if you know how to get to Laurie's Talk News Radio, join us tonight at 9 o 28:22.730 --> 28:25.110 'clock Central Time. 28:25.730 --> 28:30.150 Now, continuing where we left off before the break, it says, A five-part strategy 28:30.150 --> 28:32.830 emerged during the first half of 1982. 28:32.990 --> 28:37.570 We're still talking about the Reagan administration and its unholy alliance 28:37.570 --> 28:40.510 with the Vatican against the Soviet Union. 28:40.510 --> 28:48.030 A five-part strategy emerged during the first half of 1982, quote, that was aimed 28:48.030 --> 28:53.450 at bringing about the collapse of the Soviet economy, fraying the ties that 28:53.450 --> 28:59.490 bound the Soviet Union to its client states in the Warsaw Pact, and forcing 28:59.490 --> 29:02.810 reform inside the Soviet Empire, unquote. 29:03.830 --> 29:08.230 In the outworking of the plan, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, 29:08.310 --> 29:13.550 a Knight of Malta, acknowledged that, quote, the Vatican's information was 29:13.550 --> 29:18.410 absolutely better and quicker than ours in every respect. 29:19.270 --> 29:25.450 The Vatican liaison to the White House, Archbishop Pio Laghi, kept reminding 29:25.450 --> 29:29.550 American officials, quote, Listen to the Holy Father. 29:30.230 --> 29:34.230 We have 2,000 years of experience of this, unquote. 29:34.230 --> 29:40.530 That the Pope played a key role, both Reagan and later Gorbachev frankly 29:40.530 --> 29:41.310 admitted. 29:42.390 --> 29:47.070 A major newspaper article coming out three weeks after the Times story reported, 29:47.550 --> 29:53.390 quote, Pope John Paul II played a major political role in the collapse of 29:53.390 --> 29:58.430 Communism in Eastern Europe, said Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet 29:58.430 --> 29:58.930 Union. 30:00.010 --> 30:05.110 Gorbachev predicted that the Pope will continue to play, will continue to play, 30:05.470 --> 30:10.290 quote, a great political role, unquote, in the current, quote, 30:10.490 --> 30:14.270 very delicate transition, unquote, taking place in Europe. 30:14.790 --> 30:20.010 The events in Eastern Europe, quote, might not have been possible without the 30:20.010 --> 30:25.150 presence of this Pope, without the great role, including the political role, 30:25.470 --> 30:30.430 which he knew how to play on the world scene, said Gorbachev. 30:30.850 --> 30:32.270 Close all quotes. 30:32.770 --> 30:36.910 At this point, we will leave it to the reader to consider the Vatican's 30:36.910 --> 30:40.670 motivation in such heavy political intervention. 30:41.390 --> 30:46.650 The fact remains that such a role in the world scene, with its unholy alliances, 30:46.950 --> 30:54.130 political intrigues, and earthly goals would be anathema to Jesus Christ and his 30:54.130 --> 30:55.110 true bride. 30:56.070 --> 31:01.170 The Vatican has long been involved in clandestine activities and self-serving 31:01.170 --> 31:03.230 partnerships with many nations. 31:04.110 --> 31:08.930 According to the Knights of Columbus magazine, quote, the history of diplomatic 31:08.930 --> 31:14.790 ties between the United States and the Holy See goes back nearly 200 years, 31:15.910 --> 31:16.470 unquote. 31:17.410 --> 31:22.010 Why, that's nearly back to the Revolutionary War, isn't it? 31:22.730 --> 31:28.230 The article pictures the then American ambassador to the Vatican, Thomas Malady 31:28.230 --> 31:33.230 and his wife Margaret, with the Pope, and quoted Malady as saying, quote, 31:33.910 --> 31:37.930 Pope John Paul II is at the high point of respect as a world leader. 31:38.390 --> 31:42.010 Our government is cooperating as one government to another government, 31:42.250 --> 31:43.910 the government of the Holy See. 31:43.910 --> 31:49.310 It is a great honor for me to be there, representing our government to the Holy 31:49.310 --> 31:53.870 See at this significant time in world history, unquote. 31:54.890 --> 31:59.890 Apparently, Christ, whose kingdom at the beginning, at the beginning at least, 32:00.390 --> 32:01.650 was not of this world. 32:02.610 --> 32:04.430 Jesus must have changed his mind. 32:05.150 --> 32:11.370 He who commissioned disciples to call converts out of the world to heavenly 32:11.370 --> 32:18.110 citizenship with his gospel of redemptive grace, has apparently decided to work with 32:18.110 --> 32:23.430 the nations of this world to create a paradise down here. 32:24.290 --> 32:29.530 The Knights of Columbus article went on to exalt the fact that, quote, Diplomatic 32:29.530 --> 32:33.870 relations between the United States and the Holy See began in the 18th century, 32:34.330 --> 32:38.750 when the Papal States, before their absorption by Italy, agreed to open 32:38.750 --> 32:40.930 several Mediterranean ports to U.S. 32:41.010 --> 32:41.330 shipping. 32:42.750 --> 32:44.830 In 1797, John B. 32:44.910 --> 32:47.850 Satori, an Italian, was named U.S. 32:48.010 --> 32:48.490 Consul. 32:48.490 --> 32:52.950 In 1847, a request of President James K. 32:53.110 --> 32:57.630 Polk, the United States Senate established a diplomatic post in the Papal States, 32:57.930 --> 33:03.190 until 1867, when anti-Catholic elements in the United States... 33:03.190 --> 33:06.450 You mean there were anti-Catholic elements in this country? 33:07.330 --> 33:11.270 They succeeded in getting the diplomatic mission eliminated. 33:11.890 --> 33:12.250 Why? 33:12.570 --> 33:14.650 Because it's unconstitutional! 33:16.010 --> 33:21.810 It's unconstitutional for our government to establish religion, to have diplomatic 33:21.810 --> 33:23.510 ties with a religion. 33:24.070 --> 33:29.230 But you wouldn't hear a protest about an alliance, an unholy alliance, a diabolical 33:29.230 --> 33:32.910 alliance between the government of the United States and a church in Rome. 33:33.370 --> 33:39.290 Today, post-Vatican Council 2, continuing with the quote, it says, 33:39.290 --> 33:44.950 His informal relations resumed in 1939, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 33:45.990 --> 33:50.310 a 33rd degree Freemason, appointed Myron C. 33:50.470 --> 33:54.990 Taylor as his quote, unquote, personal envoy to the Holy See. 33:55.910 --> 34:00.250 In 1981, President Ronald Reagan named William A. 34:00.330 --> 34:03.350 Wilson, a Roman Catholic, to the post. 34:04.350 --> 34:09.970 Wilson served until 1984, when the Vatican and the United States began full 34:09.970 --> 34:14.770 diplomatic relations, and Wilson was made the first U.S. 34:15.010 --> 34:16.750 ambassador to the Holy See. 34:17.410 --> 34:20.770 There's your spiritual fornication in the United States of America. 34:20.770 --> 34:32.730 That whore that rides and controls the bloody beast, her most cherished partner 34:32.730 --> 34:37.070 in fornication today is the United States government. 34:37.930 --> 34:40.690 And that spells nothing but doom for this country. 34:41.550 --> 34:46.050 Consider the following from a recent brochure advertising, quote, the Catholic 34:46.050 --> 34:47.810 event of the year, unquote. 34:47.810 --> 34:54.470 Quote, Pope Leo XIII compared the proper relation between church and state to, 34:54.970 --> 35:00.750 quote, the union of the soul and the body in man, unquote. 35:01.450 --> 35:04.090 Imagine a nation without a soul. 35:04.930 --> 35:10.830 As recent events have confirmed with frightening clarity, America today is such 35:10.830 --> 35:11.330 a nation. 35:12.130 --> 35:16.230 America was discovered by a Roman Catholic, Christopher Columbus, 35:16.590 --> 35:21.250 who claimed for her, excuse me, who claimed her for Christ the King, 35:21.410 --> 35:22.370 that is the Pope. 35:23.310 --> 35:28.590 If America is to be rediscovered and claimed for our King, if she is to find 35:28.590 --> 35:34.210 her missing soul, it is Catholics who must act and act now, he said. 35:34.830 --> 35:36.530 Rome has not changed. 35:37.030 --> 35:39.850 Her ambitions remain very much of this world. 35:39.850 --> 35:45.570 Of course, it is in the name of Christ that she wants to establish her, 35:45.850 --> 35:49.190 quote, reign over the kings of the earth, unquote. 35:49.730 --> 35:55.230 It is, quote, for the good of mankind and the glory of Christ, unquote. 35:55.910 --> 36:01.210 As she perceives it, that the Roman Catholic Church ceaselessly and 36:01.210 --> 36:08.450 efficaciously seeks for the return of all humanity and all its goods, unquote. 36:08.450 --> 36:16.530 Return of all humanity and all its goods back under her control. 36:17.650 --> 36:21.970 And Vatican Council, too, couldn't be clearer on this point. 36:22.670 --> 36:29.210 The greatest betrayal of the body of Christ in this country was Vatican 36:29.210 --> 36:30.250 Council, too. 36:32.470 --> 36:36.770 That concludes, and I'm getting some noise from the station. 36:36.930 --> 36:40.530 I don't know if there's an open mic or not, but we'll continue as best we can 36:40.530 --> 36:43.230 until that interference is cleared up. 36:43.390 --> 36:46.250 But we've concluded chapter 15. 36:46.390 --> 36:48.250 We'll go on now to chapter 16. 36:48.570 --> 36:54.430 It's entitled Dominion over Kings, continuing on the same subject of the 36:54.430 --> 36:57.390 spiritual fornication with the kings of the earth. 36:57.390 --> 37:00.630 It begins, as usual, with some quotes. 37:00.750 --> 37:07.910 This one from a diabolical pope, Pope Nicholas I, who reigned from 858 to 37:07.910 --> 37:09.750 867 BC. 37:10.050 --> 37:16.550 He says, quote, Fear, then, our wrath and the thunder of our vengeance. 37:17.310 --> 37:22.610 For Jesus Christ has appointed us, the popes, with his own mouth, 37:23.370 --> 37:25.550 absolute judges of all men. 37:26.270 --> 37:31.570 And kings themselves are submitted to our authority, unquote. 37:32.470 --> 37:38.790 Here, a quote from Padua Provost and Professor Carerio, dated 1626 AD. 37:39.650 --> 37:45.450 The Italians are exalted above all nations by the special grace of God, who gives 37:45.450 --> 37:51.390 them, in the pope, a spiritual monarch, who has put down from their thrones great 37:51.390 --> 37:56.750 kings and yet mightier emperors, and set others in their place, 37:56.930 --> 38:03.030 to whom the greatest kingdoms have long paid tribute, as they do to no other, 38:03.650 --> 38:09.810 and who dispenses such riches in his courtiers that no king or emperor has ever 38:09.810 --> 38:12.430 had so much to give, unquote. 38:13.170 --> 38:21.410 And lastly, a quote from the historian Ignaz von Dolinger, quote, It is the 38:21.410 --> 38:27.610 office of the papacy to tread underfoot kings and emperors, unquote. 38:28.230 --> 38:34.430 Now, Dave Hunt writes, The last identifying characteristic that John was 38:34.430 --> 38:39.050 given concerning the woman astride the beast was that she was a city, 38:39.870 --> 38:43.610 quote, which reigneth over the kings of the earth, unquote. 38:43.770 --> 38:45.370 Revelation 17, 18. 38:46.370 --> 38:50.470 Could there be a city that actually reigns over the governments of the world? 38:51.410 --> 38:56.690 History bears witness that there was indeed such a city, and only one. 38:57.470 --> 39:02.250 That city was, of course, Rome, after its bishops began to call themselves 39:02.250 --> 39:08.230 popes, and claiming to be the successors of the Caesars, they took upon themselves 39:08.230 --> 39:11.270 the imperial powers of worldwide sovereignty. 39:12.230 --> 39:17.970 Consider, for example, the arrogant imperialism of Pope Alexander III, 39:18.570 --> 39:24.850 who reigned from 1159 to 1181, declaring that, quote, the power of the 39:24.850 --> 39:27.790 popes is superior to that of princes, unquote. 39:28.410 --> 39:35.790 Alexander excommunicated Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany and 39:35.790 --> 39:36.170 Italy. 39:37.170 --> 39:42.450 Attempting to chastise the pope, Frederick's forces were defeated by the 39:42.450 --> 39:43.110 pope's army. 39:44.110 --> 39:48.470 The chastened emperor came to Venice to beg forgiveness and absolution, 39:48.470 --> 39:54.150 promising to, quote, submit always to the Roman Catholic Church, unquote. 39:54.890 --> 39:59.570 Imagine, a church ruling the world by military might. 40:00.630 --> 40:05.350 Fortunatus Ulmus, a Roman Catholic historian, enthusiastically described the 40:05.350 --> 40:05.710 scene. 40:06.330 --> 40:12.410 Quote, when the emperor arrived in the presence of the pope, he laid aside his 40:12.410 --> 40:18.350 imperial mantle and knelt on both knees with his breast on the earth. 40:19.430 --> 40:26.210 Alexander advanced and placed his foot on his neck, while the cardinals thundered 40:26.210 --> 40:33.030 forth in loud tones, quote, thou shalt tread upon the cockatrice and crush the 40:33.030 --> 40:35.490 lion and the dragon, unquote. 40:36.230 --> 40:42.850 The next day, Frederick Barbarossa kissed the feet of Alexander and on foot led his 40:42.850 --> 40:48.210 horse by the bridle as he returned from solemn mass to the pontifical palace. 40:49.250 --> 40:54.050 The papacy had now risen to a height of grandeur and power which it had never 40:54.050 --> 40:55.170 reached before. 40:56.030 --> 41:01.130 The sword of Peter had conquered the sword of Caesar, unquote. 41:01.990 --> 41:06.810 As a swordsman, Peter had been signally inept. 41:07.810 --> 41:12.090 Aiming to cut off a head, he had instead severed an ear. 41:13.070 --> 41:18.670 Christ rebuked his erring disciple, healing the ear, and then allowed the 41:18.670 --> 41:22.170 armed band to lead him captive on his way to the cross. 41:22.910 --> 41:28.770 The early church knew full well that Christians did not wield the sword nor the 41:28.770 --> 41:31.070 spear in defense of Christ. 41:32.110 --> 41:38.610 His kingdom, which is not of this world, must first be established in the hearts of 41:38.610 --> 41:42.750 those who believe in him as Savior, who died for their sins. 41:43.650 --> 41:49.930 These true disciples follow in his path of rejection, suffering, and death. 41:49.930 --> 41:57.110 How then did those who called themselves vicars of Christ reach such a worldly 41:57.110 --> 42:02.230 pinnacle whereby they could command emperors, defeat their armies with the 42:02.230 --> 42:06.350 sword, and place a foot upon the neck of a vanquished sovereign? 42:07.710 --> 42:09.710 The path to earthly glory. 42:10.090 --> 42:11.610 To earthly glory. 42:12.570 --> 42:17.270 Some years after Constantine had moved the imperial headquarters to the east, 42:17.270 --> 42:20.390 the Roman Empire in the west broke up. 42:21.290 --> 42:26.610 The vacuum created by the absence of a central authority in Rome was filled by 42:26.610 --> 42:31.830 the Roman Catholic Church, the only Roman institution capable of doing so. 42:32.670 --> 42:37.630 The Roman Catholic Church played the major role in education and charity. 42:38.590 --> 42:42.630 Gradually, however, the popes took over the civil government of Rome and its 42:42.630 --> 42:48.430 surroundings, and then by fraud, as we have seen, they added the large 42:48.430 --> 42:51.170 territories of the papal states to their dominion. 42:51.970 --> 42:56.790 As their ambitions grew, the new Roman pontiffs took upon themselves the titles 42:56.790 --> 43:00.690 and much of the flavor and function of emperor. 43:01.710 --> 43:07.950 The popes, some of whom were exceptionally capable military leaders, had armies and 43:07.950 --> 43:12.370 navies at their command to extend and to hold their territories. 43:12.370 --> 43:17.710 They wielded, however, a greater power than the force of arms. 43:18.630 --> 43:20.950 The keys of heaven were theirs. 43:21.990 --> 43:27.410 Temporal rulers were compelled, no matter how unwillingly, to bow the knee 43:27.410 --> 43:28.350 to the popes. 43:29.230 --> 43:34.590 Only the quote-unquote heretics, the true Christians, doubted that the 43:34.590 --> 43:39.490 church determined who entered heaven and could bar its gates to any who opposed 43:39.490 --> 43:39.710 her. 43:39.710 --> 43:44.710 The most powerful civil rulers trembled when threatened with excommunication, 43:45.670 --> 43:50.290 for it was almost universally believed that outside the Roman Catholic Church 43:50.290 --> 43:51.970 there was no salvation. 43:52.790 --> 43:57.710 Historian Walter James writes, quote, The papacy controlled the gateway 43:57.710 --> 44:04.290 to heaven, which all the faithful, including their rulers, hoped earnestly to 44:04.290 --> 44:04.630 enter. 44:05.610 --> 44:10.150 Few in those days doubted the truth of this, and it gave the popes a moral 44:10.150 --> 44:13.050 authority which has never been wielded since. 44:13.650 --> 44:14.150 Unquote. 44:15.010 --> 44:19.590 The fraudulent donation of Constantine mentioned earlier was followed by a 44:19.590 --> 44:22.510 veritable library of forged documents. 44:23.350 --> 44:27.870 It was these false decretals that traced papal authority back to the early popes of 44:27.870 --> 44:30.250 Rome and through them to Peter. 44:31.240 --> 44:36.250 Even Thomas Aquinas, the Roman Catholic Church's greatest theologian, was deceived 44:36.250 --> 44:41.010 by these fraudulent assertions into believing that, quote, there's no 44:41.010 --> 44:43.350 difference between Christ and the pope. 44:43.550 --> 44:43.930 Unquote. 44:44.770 --> 44:49.870 So blinded was Thomas Aquinas by the pomp and the power of the popes that he, 44:50.250 --> 44:55.410 quote, made the fathers say that in fact the rulers of the world obey the pope as 44:55.410 --> 44:56.790 though he were Christ. 44:57.250 --> 44:57.650 Unquote. 44:57.650 --> 45:04.550 On the contrary, Christ had nothing to do with the rulers of this world and far from 45:04.550 --> 45:10.710 obeying him, quote, the princes of this world crucified the Lord of Glory. 45:11.450 --> 45:13.910 See 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 8. 45:14.790 --> 45:19.830 Yet the Roman Catholic heresy stuck and became the central principle of the popes 45:19.830 --> 45:25.510 in fulfilling John's vision by literally ruling over the kings of the earth. 45:25.510 --> 45:28.970 Now what was the papal dominion over England and Ireland? 45:29.730 --> 45:34.370 During the Middle Ages, the awesome power which the popes wielded over the kings of 45:34.370 --> 45:35.790 the earth continued to grow. 45:36.850 --> 45:42.410 Gregory VI, who reigned from 1054 to 1056, had declared that the pope commanded blind 45:42.410 --> 45:46.550 obedience to his every word, even from sovereigns. 45:47.370 --> 45:53.090 Alexander II, who reigned from 1061 to 1073, with the counsel of the great 45:53.090 --> 45:59.490 Hildebrand, the late Gregory VII, issued a decree declaring Harold the 45:59.490 --> 46:05.610 lawful king of England a usurper and excommunicated his followers. 46:06.850 --> 46:11.190 The pope declared that William, Duke of Normandy, was the lawful claimant 46:11.190 --> 46:12.270 to the English crown. 46:12.270 --> 46:17.030 With the pope's blessing, William the Conqueror killed Harold in battle, 46:17.550 --> 46:22.510 took England, and was crowned in London on Christmas Day 1066. 46:23.690 --> 46:29.070 William accepted the crown, quote, in the name of the Holy See of Rome, 46:29.370 --> 46:29.830 unquote. 46:30.730 --> 46:36.570 It was another triumph for the papacy and greatly increased Roman Catholic influence 46:36.570 --> 46:37.170 in England. 46:37.930 --> 46:42.970 Freeman, in the Norman Conquest, elaborates on the arrangement, 46:43.490 --> 46:48.790 quote, William was authorized by the pope to go forth as an avenger of heaven. 46:49.510 --> 46:54.910 He was required to teach the English people due obedience to Christ's vicar. 46:55.850 --> 47:02.450 And what the papacy never forgets, quote, to secure a more punctual payment 47:02.450 --> 47:06.510 of the temporal dues of his apostle, unquote. 47:07.110 --> 47:13.790 In 1155 AD, Pope Adrian IV gave the crown of Ireland to the king of England. 47:14.660 --> 47:25.370 Thus, by his authority as vicar of Christ, he subjugated Ireland to English rule and 47:25.370 --> 47:31.010 consigned Ireland's, quote, peaceful and Christian people to the merciless 47:31.010 --> 47:36.050 cruelties of Henry II, upon the ground that it was a portion of the, quote, 47:36.130 --> 47:41.670 unquote, patrimony of St. Peter in the Holy Roman Church, close quotes. 47:42.730 --> 47:45.510 Subsequent popes affirmed this decree. 47:46.510 --> 47:50.590 So long as England remained Roman Catholic, the arrangement was tolerable. 47:51.390 --> 47:57.170 But when England turned Protestant, its continued control of Catholic Ireland 47:57.170 --> 48:01.850 and Protestant persecution of Catholics planted the seeds of a problem that 48:01.850 --> 48:03.270 continues to this day. 48:04.150 --> 48:09.790 While Roman Catholic Ireland has many legitimate grievances too complex to 48:09.790 --> 48:16.210 relate here, she needs to remember that it was, after all, the Roman Catholic popes 48:16.210 --> 48:19.490 who gave Ireland to England in the first place. 48:20.310 --> 48:27.630 In fact, the popes were to blame for many of England's trials and tribulations as 48:27.630 --> 48:27.910 well. 48:28.510 --> 48:34.310 The Roman pontiffs treated, quote, its kings as their vassals, and its people 48:34.310 --> 48:39.050 as having no rights of any value whatsoever when they came in conflict with 48:39.050 --> 48:40.530 the demands of the papacy. 48:41.530 --> 48:47.270 The Catholic clergy, as the pope's emissaries, ran England, disregarding the 48:47.270 --> 48:51.190 laws of the land as though the popes were the sovereigns of the country. 48:52.130 --> 48:55.330 Civil courts had no jurisdiction over the priests. 48:56.250 --> 48:58.310 Thompson elaborates on this point. 48:58.450 --> 49:06.090 He says, quote, It would be impossible to enumerate the outrages and the enormities 49:06.090 --> 49:12.630 practiced in England during this gloomy period by kings and popes who considered 49:12.630 --> 49:18.030 the assertion of any single popular right as a crime which God had appointed them to 49:18.030 --> 49:18.510 punish. 49:19.210 --> 49:24.150 More than a hundred murders were committed by ecclesiastics during the reign of Henry 49:24.150 --> 49:27.910 II in which the parties were not even punished. 49:28.990 --> 49:34.170 The clergy had absolute power over their own body, and no appeal was allowed for 49:34.170 --> 49:35.170 their decisions. 49:36.130 --> 49:42.070 A layman forfeited his life by the crime of murder, but an ecclesiastic went 49:42.070 --> 49:43.070 unpunished. 49:43.970 --> 49:48.310 This was called one of the immunities of the clergy. 49:49.190 --> 49:54.910 When the king tried to change the law to deal with the clergy, the pope refused his 49:54.910 --> 50:00.930 sanction and denounced it as, quote, prejudicial to the church and destructive 50:00.930 --> 50:03.230 of her privileges, unquote. 50:04.130 --> 50:05.130 Yes, that's right. 50:05.210 --> 50:12.890 The vicar of Christ demands by divine right to be able to take your life, 50:13.390 --> 50:16.610 even through the use of his ecclesiastics. 50:17.480 --> 50:21.150 And they're not subject to any law but the pope's. 50:21.650 --> 50:26.670 Looking back from today's perspective, such overt papal dominion over sovereign 50:26.670 --> 50:32.410 seems inconceivable, but it was in fact the norm of that day. 50:33.370 --> 50:41.770 The pope's literally ruled the entire known world for centuries, exactly as 50:41.770 --> 50:43.310 John's vision foretold. 50:43.310 --> 50:51.070 And I know it's going to be hard for those who are not familiar with history and not 50:51.070 --> 50:56.570 familiar with the Vatican and particularly the Jesuits' influence in Washington, 50:56.770 --> 51:01.790 D.C., to comprehend that the pope is no less powerful over the kings of the earth 51:01.790 --> 51:06.150 today, particularly the government of the United States as he ever was throughout 51:06.150 --> 51:06.610 history. 51:07.690 --> 51:09.830 But that is the truth. 51:10.810 --> 51:16.030 And the same persecutions that the pope's launched against God's true people in the 51:16.030 --> 51:22.450 dark ages with her unholy alliances with the kings of the earth to do their bidding 51:22.450 --> 51:28.010 for them is going to be experienced right here in what once was known as Protestant 51:28.010 --> 51:28.650 America. 51:29.510 --> 51:31.690 See how important history is? 51:32.370 --> 51:34.630 See how important the Bible is? 51:35.150 --> 51:40.730 You can't understand the Bible unless you have history to show the fulfillment of 51:40.730 --> 51:41.590 Bible prophecy. 51:42.210 --> 51:48.030 We have to unite the Bible and history to comprehend what's going on in our face 51:48.030 --> 51:48.530 today. 52:28.440 --> 52:33.420 The program you are listening to is 100% sponsored by you, the listener, 52:33.600 --> 52:35.700 on this First Amendment Rights 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Temple is 54:19.860 --> 54:20.180 Built. 54:20.560 --> 54:22.160 That's crosstheborder.org. 54:22.560 --> 54:26.240 When it comes to prophecy today, much of the evangelical Christian world 54:26.240 --> 54:30.820 has their eyes on Israel, waiting and watching to see when the Third Temple will 54:30.820 --> 54:31.640 begin to be built. 54:31.640 --> 54:34.880 The plans are drawn, the Jewish people are eager. 54:35.460 --> 54:39.180 Most evangelical Christians today believe that the rapture will happen before the 54:39.180 --> 54:40.160 Third Temple is built. 54:40.440 --> 54:42.120 Hi, I'm Michael Eugene. 54:42.680 --> 54:45.300 I was taught that Daniel's 70th week was in the future. 54:45.920 --> 54:47.560 Is that really what the Bible teaches? 54:48.200 --> 54:51.160 Have we searched the scriptures and found this to be true? 54:51.880 --> 54:55.500 Why is it so important for a re-established Israel to build a Third 54:55.500 --> 54:56.360 Temple in Jerusalem? 54:56.360 --> 55:01.600 Is it necessary to build a temple on the same location already occupied by the Dome 55:01.600 --> 55:02.060 of the Rock? 55:02.760 --> 55:06.640 Is it necessary for sacrifices to take place in the temple on Temple Mount? 55:07.180 --> 55:10.420 Is there really a rapture followed by seven years of tribulation? 55:11.220 --> 55:12.700 What is the New Testament Temple? 55:13.540 --> 55:15.660 Can we identify history and prophecy? 55:16.720 --> 55:19.440 Who is the first beast in Revelation chapter 13? 55:20.020 --> 55:22.680 Who are the seven kings in Revelation 17? 55:22.680 --> 55:27.020 I have asked all these questions and I have found Nicholas Arthur's new book, 55:27.660 --> 55:31.860 When the Third Temple is Built, answers all these questions and more using 55:31.860 --> 55:33.480 scripture to interpret scripture. 55:34.160 --> 55:37.600 The Bible says that no prophecy of scripture is of any private 55:37.600 --> 55:38.320 interpretation. 55:39.160 --> 55:42.020 Nicholas shows us in 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